g jpi fill. . II . 'SCH i B. F. BCHWEIER, TEE OOIBT1TUTI0I-THE TJHOI-AJD TEE EWOXODCEIT Of TEE LAVS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL: XXXVI. MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. MAKCII 15. 1S82. NO. 10. A CENEBATIOIT BACK. We are apt to think of the present timet As tadlj out of Joint, To tick, and then toward agM past The reverend linger paint I Of model husbands, model wires, 9u we there ni ao lack Of BiaBnera, moral pride and worth, A feneration back ! The girli were modest, neat and fair. The oojh were brave and true t Titer labored on from sun to aon. With Joja and pleasorea few 1 The children went to bed at dark. And seemed to hare the knack Of being aeon and never heard, A generatien back And thas it U from age to age, And thus twill evei be ; The ecenee enacted long ago. With partial eree we see. Our offspring In the jean to come. Will tread the beaten track. And praise the conduct of tielr aires A generation back. KECDLE AND THREAD. "An old bachelor?" said Honors May wood. "That's what he told me, in just so many woraa," sail Mrs. Pennypacker, who stood on the threshold of her best room, with her head tied lip in a pocket handkerchief, and a hair-broom in her hand, wherewith she gesticulated, after a tragic fashion, as she talked, while Miss May rood tall and slender as a wild hly. stood in the hall, with a roll of music under her arms and her slight figure wrapped in a shabby black bhawL "And he's willing to pay my price, cash, every Sunday night. Sever at tempted to beat me down a penny, if yonH believe it, my dear." "Why should he ?" said Honors. "Most people do, my dear," said Mrs. Pennypacker. " A wrinkled' old widow woman like me, who has her living to warn is mostly fair game for everybody. But he never objected to my terms. A real gentleman, my dear every inch of him. Bat he's a little particular I'm afraid. "I suppose most old bachelors are," said Miss May wood, smiling. "Yes, my dear yes!" nodded Mrs. Pennypacker. "but this gentleman is beyond the average, I think." "And if he is?" ".Nothing," said Mrs. Pennypacker, making a dab with her broom-handle at a stray moth-miller which was fluttering blindly against the garnet damask win dow curtain; "nothing except that one don't quite know where to have him. He driaks only English breakfast tea, and he wants his pie-crust made with the best Alderney butter, instead of lard, as is good enough for other people; and he must have ventilators to all the windows and an open grate, instead of the base burning stove; and I hope youll not feel offended, my dear bat he particu larly dislikes a piano. "Dislikes a piano!" said the little music teacher, reddening in spite of her self. "And he says, says he: 'I hope, Mr. Pennypacker, that there is no piano in the house. A piano, says he, 'plays the denoe with my nervous system, with its everlasting turn, turn!" Theso were his words, my dear. So I courtesys, and says I: Toull not be troubled with one here, sir. And so, my dear, 111 be grateful if you wont mind doing your practicLi' until he's out for his daily walk from 1 to 3, just as regular as the clock." Miss Maywood looked piteously up in the landlady's face. "I will do anything to oblige yon, Mrs. Pennypacker," she said earnestly. "Ihavea't forgot how much I am in debted to yun, both in actual money, and in kindness, which money can never repay." A.r-d her soft blue eyes filled with tears as she spoke. "My dear don't say a word," said Mrs. Pennypacker, hastily. "You've been sick, and you've got a lit le behindhand and ita quite natural you should be a little lowspirited now and then. But you musn't get discouraged. Things will look np after awhile. And you're quite welcome to stay on here, until you're able to settle up your little ac count." Honora Maywood sighed as she thought how often her little advertise ment had been inserted in the daily newspaper, without attracting the least notice from the world of patrons and pupils. There were so many "capable music teachers, willing to give lewous at moderate prices," nowadays, and how was any one to know how sorely she needed the money? And as the time crept on and no pu pils came, Honora began to ask herself seriously whether she should go out in seme menial capacity, or. stay ger-teelly at home and starve. "Clothes, ma'am." Honora started from her reverie as the washerwoman's stumpy little girl banged herself like a human battering ram, up against the door with a prepos terousiy large basket on her arm. Yes," said Honora, coloring. Put thorn down, Sally. But I I'm afraid isn't convenient to pay your mother to-day." "Mother didn't say nothin 'bout the pay," said Sally, wiping her forehead with a whisk of her feet, sniffing herself nearly off her feet "I was to leave the clothes, with her 'um.le duty, and she oped they'd suit; but it was that damp on Mondav and Tuc-sday as starch wouldn't stick. And she 'opes you'll excuse all mistakes, as they will be done "better next time." . - "I dare say they are quite right,' .o,.l TTnnnr with a little sigh, as she marveled at this unexpected access o' mnriMTon the Bart of her Milesian Bat when Sally had stumped oft down stairs, her flapping slippers beating sort of tatoo as she want, and Miss aiay covered that basket of clothes, she gave a little start "Shirts," said Honora, and socks, and turn over collars No. 16, and great big pocket-handkerchiefs, like the sails of a ship, and white vesta, and good ness me, what does it all mean? Mrs, Mulvay has sent me some gentleman's wardrobe by mistake. I must send these things back at once." Bnt then Miss Maywood looked down at the articles in grave consideration. 1 never had a brother, mused Miss Maywood; "and I can't remember my father; bnt of this I am quite certain if I had either one or the other, I should thank any girl to niend.their dilapidated wardrobes, if they looked like this. And Mrs. Mulvey can't send before night and unfortunately I've nothing to da, so IH just meud this poor young fellow's clothes whoever he may be. A half starved theological student, perhaps, training for the Polynesian Islands; or perhaps a newspaper reporter, or a pale clerk, under the dazzling skylight of some dry goods palace. At all events he's worse off than I am, for he can't mend his own clothes, and I ean." And the smile dimpled around Hon ora Maywood's little rosebud of a mouth as she sat down to darn holes, sew on tapes, and insert patches. "HoU never know who did it," said Honora to herself: "bnt I dare say, he'll be thankful; and if oue can get a chance to do some little good in this world, one ought not to grudge one's time and trouble." And as Honora stitched away, she mused sadly whether or not she ought to accept a position which had offered itself of assistant matron in an orphan asylum, where the work would be almost unendurable, and the pay next to noth ing, with no Sunday's nor holidays, and a ladies committee, consisting of three starched old maids, to 4 -sit" upon her the first Friday of every month. "I almost think Td rather starve," said Honora. But dear me! starving is a serious business, when one comes to consider it face to face." Sally Mulvey came back puffing and blowing like a haman whale, in about two hours. "Mother says she's sent the wrong basket" said she breathlessly. "I thought it very probable, Sally," said Miss Maywood. "And mother's compliments," added Sally, "and she can't undertake your things no longer, Miss Maywood, 'cause she does a cash business, and there ain't nothincr been paid on your account since last June." Honora felt herself turning scarlet '! am very sorry, Sally," said she. "Tell your mother I will settle my bill as soon as I possibly can." Sally flounced ont of the room red and indignant, like an overcharged thundercloud, and poor liitle Honora, dropping her head on her hands, burst into tears. Pretty girl that very pretty," said Mr. Broderick, the old bachelor, to his landlady. "Do you mean " "I mean the young lady boarder of yours that I see on the stairs now and then," said Mr, Boderick. "Nice figure big, soft eyer, like a gazelle. Didn't some one tell me she was a music tea cher?" That's her profession," said Mrs. Pennypacker. Bnt there ain t many pnpils as wants tuition, and poor little dear, she has but a hard time of it "Humph!" grunted Mr. Broderick. "What fools women are not to have a regular profession! If I had a daughter I'd briBg her up a self-supnorting insti tution." And Mr. Boderick disappeared into his room, in the midst whereof stood a girl with flapping slippers, a portentous shawl and a bonnet which had originally been manufactured for a woman twice her size. "Who are you?' demanded Mr. Bro derick. "Please, sir, I'm Sally the washer woman's Sally!" was the response. "And what do you want here?" said Mr. Broderick. Please, sir, I've come to bring your things," said Sally, chattering off her lesson like a parrot "And, please, sir. her "umble duty, and she 'opes theyTl suit but it was that damp and muggy Monday and Tuesday as starch would not stick; and she 'opes you'll excuse all mistakes, as they shall be done better next time, air please, sir." "Who mended em," demanded Mr, Broderick, whose hawk eye had already caught sight of the dainty needle work npon his garments. "Nobody mended em, said baliy. "And mother she says it's easy to see as the new gent is a bachelor.on account of the holes in his heels and toes, and strings off hisd "I can tell you who mended em, said Mrs. Pennypacker, "for I see he at it the pretty dear Miss Maywood 1 And says she, 'I don't know whose they are. Mrs, Pennypacker; but' ays le. , - i they need luemimj ana a umkuuu never comes amiss, more ii aoes, sir, Lord bless her!" "Humph! said air. tfrcdencx; -sue s right no more it does. And ahes regular scientist at the needle, is Miss Maywood. Just look at that patch, Mrs Pennypacker! Euelid's Geometry couldn't produce a straighter line or truer angles. See the toe of that stock ingl 'It's like a piece of Gobelin tapes try. That's the way I like to see things done!" An, Mr. Broderick never rested until he had been formally introduced to Ho nora Maywood, and had thanked hex with equal formality for the good offices he had unwittingly rendered nun. It was a golden October evening that Honora came down into tne auwmeu where Mrs. Pennypacker was baking piea for her eccentric boarder, with the crusts mide of the best Alderney butter instead of lard. "Oh. dear! oh, dear!" said Mrs. Pen nypacker; "what a thing it is to be an old bachelor. 'Ho won't be a bachelor much long. er," said Honora, laughing and coloring as she laid her cheek on the good land lady s cushioning shoulder. "What do you mean?" said Mrs. Pen nypacker. "He has asked me to marry him.' said Honora, "after only two week's acquaintance. He says that a girl who can mend stockings as I do needs no other test And he says he loves me; and and "Well?" "I almost think I love him!" whis pered Miss Maywood. And so the problem of Honora's soli tary life was solved, all through the magic influence of "Needles and Thread." An Eternal Tootk. Dunng the latter half of the thirteetb century after Christ the foundations of tbe Dalada Malagawa (Temple of the Tooth) were laid, and that edifice on completion became the depository of that tooth which U the sacred relic of Budhism and palla dium of Ceylon. It still contains, in a costly shrine, the tooth before which hun dreds of devotees bow down and make of ferings daily. Buddha died li. C. 643 years, and when his body was being cre mated a priest snatched one of his canine teeth from the flames, lie conveyed it in accordance with an ancient prophecy, to what is now known as Calingapatam, on the northwest coast ot the Bay of Ben gal, where for several centuries it was re garded with great veneration. But, fi nally, a prince of the province became in different to the relic ann neglected to make the usual offerings. Unbelievers immediately cast it into a pit cf burning cliarcoal. To the astonish ment and chagrin of its enemies, any the Buddhists, the tooth resisted the flames and remained unscratched, emitting In the meantime rays of light which ascended to the skies, illuminating the whole universe. Being then buried deeply in tbe earth and trodden down by elephants, it mocked such futile efforts and released itst It itself by springing from the soil in the centre of a lotus flower, which circumstance is now commemorated by its forming the centre of a gold lotus blossom in the temple of Kandy. Being placed on an anvil and a ponderous hammer raised for its destruc tion, the relic sank into the iron and re mained Sbfeiy preserved from the effects ot the blow. The demons then declared that the tooth must be one of their own gods', as a relic from any other source could not pos sibly work such miracles, and the King therefore directed them to prevail on the god to whom it belonged to remove it from its close imbedment in the anviL This, after various incantations, they fail ed to do, whereupon the relic was handed over to the Buddhists, to prove the truth of their faith in tts connection, a feat which they accomplished in a trice by making an offering to Uantama Buddna, who not only relieved his much persecuted member from tbe iron, but caused it to spread such effulgence about the place that all tbe unbelievers present were con verted. The Portuguese are said to have destroyed the tooth in 15C0, and the story goes that the present cuspid is an artifi cial one, but tbe Buddhists have firm faith in it Major Forbes relates that the relic is a piece of discolored ivory nearly two inches long, slightly curved, and one Inch in dia meter at the base, tapering off to a blunt end, and if not a pure artificial productiou it probably is the canine tooth of same car niverous animaL it is kept ra a square, hermetically closed apartment near the centre of the temple, the doors being se cured by heavy padi:cked bars. It rests inside of six silver gilt caskets, one out side of the other in succession, on a silver table, surrounded by rich silk hangings. Ton feet It Was. Whan it was bulletined on the board that tbe great prizefight had come off then: was a atrwgg e to get nearer and read tne Darticulars. Just at this time a well-known city pastor happened along, and seeing the crowd he began inquiring what naa hap pened. "Ryan is laid out, they say," answered one of the persons appealed to. "Rean? Ryan? Who is Mr. Ryan, and what was he running fori" softly queried the good man of himself. "And there was only nine rounds, con tinued the other as he turned from the bulletin. "I tell you that Sullivan is a brick!' "Sullivan? Sullivan? I don t remember reading antbin of Mr. Sullivan.' .No one paid any attention to bis runner questions until he dropped back and said to a newsboy who had both fists doubled up and was breathing hard in his excite ment: "Boy, what is it?" .f, "All about the mill," was the answer. Has any mill blown up or been burned down!" The boy stepped back and looked his questioner over with withering contempt and then cned out: "You Infernal idiot don't you know anything? I tell you Sullivan knocked Ryan out of time on the eighth round, and I lost $1.50 by it and if you dont know what that means, you'd better go to school and study 'rithmetic! "Bless me, but it must hare been a prize fight!" "You bet it was! Did you 'spoie them bruisers went clear down to New Orleans on a skating -match! You'd better crowd in there and post up if you don't want to give yourself dead away to ail the boys!" But the good man crowded down the street with such speed that he nearly upset everybody he met on the first block. Bow to Msk. Loas XolM. Rubber cushions under the legs of the work bench. In a certain factory the hammering of fifty coppersmiths was scarcely audible in tbe room below, tbeir benches having under each leg a ruDoer cushion. Kegs of sand or saw dust ap tilled in the same way. A few incha of ssnd or saw dust are first poured into each kee: on this is laid a board or block upon which the legs rest and around the leg and blocs: is poured fine dry sand or saw dust Not only all noise, but all vibration and shock are pi evented; and an ordinary an vil, K mounted, may be used in a dwelling bouse without annoying tne lnnaoitania. to anutuera, whose workshops are usually looted In dwelling houses, this device af fords a cheap and simple releif from great annoyance. Tb. Bin. Domino. A low, vino-clad cottage with green creepers shading the doorway. A young girl peered from the tangled foliage ont into the darkness; the young face wo. an anxious look, and the eyes were sad with sorrow. The bright golden curls were thrown back, and a little white hand was lifted to the ear, as if to catch the first echo of a footstep. The light from the room flashed over the sunny tresses that sbooe in the glare hke a golden crown. Suddenly the report of a pistol rent the air, and a man stag gered and fell at her feet The noise of the street had long died out. The busy city was sunk to rest; the wild fever that had burned along its arteries had ceased; in that secluded spot no sound was heard, save the pistol shot and the death-rattle as the victim's pallid face was raised appeal ingly. These were the facta as they were re lated to my assistant and myself an hour afterward. The head of the dead man was pil lowed on his daughter's lap, and to the stiffened lips she pressed her own re peatedly. But friends interposed, and the man was carried into the house. "Have yon any idea who did it?" I asked of the young lady. She hesitated for a moment Not even her overwhelming sort ow had pow er to suppress the blush that stained neck and face with a burning glow. "I have none!" she said, faltering. I did not believe her. Whoever the asrassin was she knew him. I was sa tisfied of Udi, although some reason, for which I oould not then account kept her silent This was all the public learned from the daily pipers, and for a while it passed from men's thoughts. But you know what others forget we remember. . Tbe detective's work is never done. The clew lost must be regained. But in this instance the mystery seemed impenetrable. Still the belief that the girl knew by whom the fatal shot was fired, kept her constantly in my mind. I watched her incessantly. I searched out her history learned of her loves her courtships and all the secrets that young ladies guard so secretly. I as certained from them that she had been addressed by a young man of dissolute habits, and a wild, wayward character. She was an heiress in her own right. ut her fortune depended on her mar rying with her father's consent This could not be obtained. I now settled in my own mind whe was the murderer. But I had no proof. Since the night of the trasedy he had not come near her. But something assured me that an in terview would yet take place. To this end I waited impatiently. It was Mardi-Oras night the night of the carnival The brilliently lighted city.was wild with excitement The population was en masque. Tbe sound of music the sound of echoing feet reached the street from many a palatial home and public building a night of revelry. I stood in the centre of a room thronged with dancers, my eyes never straying from a blue domino. I had traced it here. I knew the lady who wore it; I had seen the milliner who had fashioned ij; had seen it fitted to the beautiful face. I had not lost sigh", of her from early dawn. She was standing underneath the chandelier when a man approached br dressed as a harlequin. Instinct would have told me who he was had I not recognized the sound of his voice the simple word. "Mary!" The girl trembled violently, but I heard the reply. "Murderer!" "It was for love of you!" "It was for love of my money go! I have not and will not betray you. But I will never willingly look on your face again." You will desert me, then?" "Would you have me marry the man who killed my parent?" "Mary, what else could I do?" I did not wait for the reply. I had proof enough now. I whispered in his ear anl he followed me from the room. You are my prisoner!" 'For what he inquired haughtily. for murder!" 1 replied looking him steadily in the eye. He bore the look unflinchingly for a moment, and then broke down utterly. "Mary has betrayed me!" he said. "Not so! but I heard your conversa tion!" "No matter, I will confess it!" And he did. It is useless to repeat the re cital. It was such as a wild impetuous nature inured to crime wou'd be likely to make. A great effort waa made by his friends to save him, but in vain, The crime he perpetrated was too cruel the deed too heartless. He is in mid dle age, but his hair is white, and his face is wrinkled with care an old man, whom remorse has cheated of youth. The girl yet lives in the city unmarried. She has a strangs heart, and mind warped by affection. She refused to testify even at the trial Re-VaociamUoa. Dr. Henry Tompkins, an English Physi clan, says the most striking proof of the efficiency of vaccination comes from the small-pox hospital. During forty years experience at Highgate no nurse or servant who had been re-vaccinated was ever at tacked. Tbe students who attended the hospital clinical instruction were favored with a like immunity from the disease. Texas has 4,600,000 sheep, valued at $13,800,000. The silver half- dime of 1802 is the scarcest of all American coins An American company has effered $500,000 for the Great Eastern. Vice Admiral Janres has been ap pointed Freneh Ambassador to Russia. ArtUtlc DraooriM. 1 he draping ot curtains has become a very high branch of art, and there are persons whose sole business it is to grace fully fold and arrange the duperies now so lavishly used in a well furnished house. Banisters are also covered with plush or satin, stuffed, tufted and finished on either side witn fringe. Portieres are used to all doors, mounted on brass poles, very high, and made to draw, in the French system. There are exquisite styles in Evgptain and Turkish designs, many of them with both sides alike. These styles are used for halls libraries, and dining rooms, while those for parlors and drawing rooms are of silk plush In varieus colors and combinations with or without silk embroidery, as the taste may suggest, ilsnd embroidery or applique work is equally fashionable, and esthetic embroidery is used for fringe and dado on plush, it is not an unusual thing to pay $600 for one portiere. Window hangings are ot the same material as fur niture coverings; handsome silk velour for which one can pay from $20 to $100 per yard is used, f Ilk plush or satin, plain, embossed or embroiden d brings fabulous prices. A very rich imported ftb.nc is of heavy satin in pale ecru tint with raised velvet flowers in pink, blue, scarlet and other natural colors, with sprays of leaves in ah their changing hues. This also can only be enjoyed by the wealthy, as the price of a suit of furniture with this covering is fa bulous. America? silk tapestries are being largely brought forward for upholstery purposes very effectively. The patterns are much the same as in the imported goods, introducing the tinsel three ds and the same effect can be produced in the hands of an artist at a very much less price. Portieres, table and piano covers and win dow hanging are also much used in tuii class of goods. lhe high art style in lace curtains is of Cluny, Colbert and Brussels point and some of these are $600 per window. Lam brequins are not fashionable; curtains are hung on poles of brass or cornices of wood to correspond with the trimmings of the room. 1 be present style of window fur nishing is considered much handsomer than when lambrequins were used. The rich curtains furnish the room more ele gantly, and the drawing of the curtains give all the lights necessary. In lute goods there are portieres, and for furniture covering there is jute material in stripes and floral designs, and patterns in jute and tinsel that are veiy rich. Another handsome style of window cur tain is in printed mummy cloth. These are quite moderate in price, being only about $22 a window. Jute velour is also sold by the yard for furniture covering and decorative purposes. i ine cretonnes show rich colorings and artistic workmanship, and many of the designs arc exquisite. These are used tor furniture covering, window curtains and wall hanginirs in bedrooms. Uue very rich pattern shows Faust and Marguerite in a bower of roses, and the medallion is large enough for seat or back of an arm chair. It is said that ladies Lny these medallions and work them over in (ilk and chenille, matching toe colors as near as possible, but after all that trouble is taken tbe beauty of the picture is not enhanced, as tbe colonngs are as deep and clear as if painted by the finest artist Tbe only thing that embroidery can do to make it more beautiful la to raise the figures. The watteau crspe goods are also used for decorative purposes, and the grasshopper pattern is quite novel in its anangemenL Window shades are in ean Holland or linen embroidered in aesthetic designs. The Coat f Royalty. It a ay be worth tbe labor of inquiry and research to see what is the cost of personal government in some civilized countries, not of the actual government, indeed, but of pecuniary and other compensation to the ruler of each state, whatever his title may be, whether em peror cr czar, queen or president Perhaps this may be done in alphabeti cal order. It will not be easy to sepa rate the personal allowance from the ex pense of carrying on the government in each instance. The amounts vary. For example, the president of the Swiss republic, whose tenure of office is limited to a twelve month, has a salary of $3,000 a year, while the emperor of Russia draws a net annual revenue of $10,000,000. Yet the little Swiss re public is comparatively better governed and more prosperous than the immense empire of the czar. Francis Joseph I., emperor of Austria and king of Hun gary, boru in 1830, never was heir-apparent, but became emperor iu 1818, on the abdication of his nncle, Ferdi nand L, and the renunciation of the crown by his father. The annual pay ment to the Emperor Francis amounts to $4,650,000, contributed in equal parts by Austria and by Hungary. In the budget of these two countries, which form one great realm, expenditures are massed under the general head of "Im perial household." One-half of it how ever, or $2,325,000 a year, is generally set down as the Austrian emperor's in come from the state. In addition his majesty, as well as his numerous kin. male and female, possesses immense landed estates, woods and mines. They also occupy magnificent palaces, with superb gardens and rich demesnes, in various parts of the empire, and one and all hold important and lucrative offices under the sceptre of tbe imperial head of the family. The house of Hapsburg has ruled in Austria, beginning with Rudolph L, since 1273, with few breaks in the succession. Leopold 1L. eldast son of Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and the Princess Louise, daughter of King Louis , Philippe of France, is the first cousin of Queen Victoria and also of the late Prince Al bert Bom in 1835, Leopold succeeded to the crown on the death of his father In 1853. Until October, 1830, when Belgium declared itself to be an inde pendent state, it was part of the king' dom of the Netherlands. In June, 1831, Leopold of Saxe-Coburg was elected king of the Belgians, and took his place among European sovereigns in the fol lowing month, though it was not until ApriL 1839, after the signing of the treaty of London, which established peace between Leopold L and Wilhelm L of the Netherlands, that all the Eu ropean states recognized the kingdom of Belgium, which now and for a long time past has been truly regarded to be one of the most industrious and proa- peroas countries in Europe. It has a I population of 460 per square mile, a larger population than any other soun try in the world. In 1830, whan it be came a nation, the population was scarcely 1,00,000; it is now more than five times that number. One fourth is engaged in agriculture, and another fourth in trades and manufactures, chief ly the staple industries, the iron and cool trades. In Belgium the state is the great railroad proprietor, the state raiLoadism being one of the largest sources of the public revenue. Tbe na tional debt, which is in gradual process of reduction, amounts to $160,000,000, the annual interest on which is $7,000,- 000. The debt was created, most of it, by the construction of railroads and other remunerative public works. King Leopold IT. (who succeeded to the con siderable property accumnlated by his father, who, it was said, always looked at a franc nine times before he paid it away) has an allowance from the state of (660,000 a year a.:d the occupancy of handsome palaces in and near Brus sels. Ha confirmed his personal and political stability by marrying an Aus trian archduchess, and his second daughter is betrothed to the Archduke Rudolph, heir apparent to the crown of Austria, being the only son of the Em peror Francis Joseph, Christian IX., who succeeded to the sovereignty of Denmark in November, 1S63, on the death of Frederick VIL without legitimate issue, had little mora than an extended pedigree and a long title (Pnuce of Schleswig Hokteia-Son-derbnrg-G'ucksburg), his estate, real and personal, being very small indeed. His annua allowance, voted him by the Danish rigsraad or parliament, is $277,- 775, and hia eldest son, married to the crown princess of Sweden and Norway, has been allowed $33,330 since 1S6S. It is worthy of notice how wonderfully two of the smallest of the European states, Coburg and Denmark, have thriven by marriage since the fall of Napolcou. Leopo:d of Coburg. a younger son of a princely German house, which was poor and insignificant at that time, married, in 181G, Charlotte, the heiress-apparent to the British crown. On her death, in the following year, his allowance from England was $250,- 000 a year for life, with a palace in Lon don and the country-seat of Claremout After that he married a French prin cess, iiy his adroit management his widowed sister marriea the duke of Kent, the issue of such union being Victoria, queen empress or empress queen, of whom his nephew, Albert, became the husband in 1810. By these and other politic alliances, the house of Coburg became connected with the reigning families of England, France, Portugal, Brazil, Austria and Bavaria. New Football Rule.. The grounds must be three hundred and thirty feet in length, and one hundred and sixty feet in width. For absolute safety tbe playeis should be stationed at least a mile apart. The riot shall last an hour and a half. with intervals at every half hour, of ten minutes each, for drinks. If at the end ot the game any of the players shall be uninjured, innings of fifteen minutes each shall be played until he is either killed or entirely disabled. A match shall be decided on by the number of bones broken. One dead man shall count according to his bones. Two teeth knocked out shall count as one bone, and shall count for the side not owning the teeth. The referee shall promptly disqualify men with false teeth. If one of your opponents has possession of the ball, knock tun down and take the ball away from him. This shall be called a safety knock-down. Four safety knock downs shall be equiv alent to one funeral, or dead man, which will count as one goal. Tnppmg up ahsll not be allowed in this game, it is not a sumcienliy paintul way cf upsetting your man. A drop kick is made by kicking one of your opponents after he has dropped. 1 he captains of the respective sides shall wrestle before the commencement of the match. The winner shall have the option of kicking, or being kicked. The former, by experts, is considered preferable. A funeral may be obtained by any kind of a kick; to avoid unpleasant complica tions it is better for the kicker to be larger than the kicked' When a funeral shall have been obtained the side which owns tbe corpse (hall set up the bier. A fan- catch is a catch made direct from a kick or a knock, by one of the opposite side only, provided the catcher has a mark of the heel on the spot where he has been caught. Tbe bail U dead when the player carry ing it shad be knocked down. In some instances this rule may also apply to the player. A player may get np and bawl whenever ke has been lolled or pounded in a scrimmage. It is lawful tor any player who bawls to run away, and, if he does so, it is called a run. A tackle is where the holder of the ball is jumped on by tbe whoie of the opposite team. A maul in goal is when the holder of the ball is tackled inside the goal line, or is being tackled immediately outside, is stepped on and is dragged through the mud and spun on bis bead until he or the opposition succeed in touching the ball down. A man who it "on side" cannot be "off side." The same rule applies to the "off A man to be off side must be on the side that is off. A safety touch-down shall consist of lav ing the other fellow out in order to keep yourself in good condition. Largo Cow la lb World. Probably tbe largest cow in the world is owned by Martin S. Stakes, of Grawille, White county. 111. She is seven years old and weighs 3,000 pounds, 17 hands high. 10 feet long from the end of the nose to the buttock, IS from the nose to tbe end of the tail. 0 feet 9 inches around the girth. 20 Inches around the forearm, and 31 inches across the hips. She has been ex bibited in four States Illinois, Indiana. Miasccri and Tennessee. 8b is wn.te and red, mostly the latter, well formed, and a perfect beauty. "Sort Taanelm, A St Louis paper chronicles with genial particularity the recent aimulta- neons marriage of the three daughters of Dr. Bang, of that city. As a first-class, bang-up bit of "society news" this re port seems to "appropriate the muffin. Dr. Charles Bang, the father, "has for many years kept a drug store on the corner of Fifteenth street and Franklin avenue," and the bridegrooms are re spectively a candy manufacturer, bank teller, and a dentist They are describ ed as being "every way worthy the for tunate matrimouial prizes they have drawn." The wedding went off cheer fully. When Mr. Bang having signed an affidavit for one daughter, was called upon to sign a second one, he ex claimed: "What, must 1 sign again!" "Certainly," repled the clerk; "this isn't a job lot. You have to sign for each one." When the applications were all made ont, the clerk said to Dr. Bang: "You ought to feel happy to get so many daughters off your hands at once" The doctor replied: They took all 1 had; that breaks up the family." "les, said Jlr, Wetzel; "that was a regular wholesale business; we made a clean sweep." When the clerk was asking for the names that went together in the li censes, Lr. Herman exclaimed: "Don't you make any mistake, now, and give me the wrong girl; I want tbe one that belongs to me." When everything waa concluded ex cept paying fees, Dr. Baug said: "The next thing is" "The next thing is,"' interrupted Mr. Wetzel, one of the prospective hus baiid i, "to go ont and get some beer." 'But the licenses are not paid for yet" 'No matter, we can pay for them in the morning when we get them." The party then filed out gleefully. and no doubt had the beer. The triple marriage recalls an anecdote related of an eccentric minister a number of years ago, who was called upon to marry three couples at once. The parties were stand ing around promiscuously, waiting for the arrival of the minister, and when he came in he marched np to them, ex- cl timing; "Sort yourselves!" Khlnaif. The large number of buildings, the roofs of which the farmer is compelled to keep tight, makes it a question of importance as to how he can best pre serve the shingle and do it at a cost that will make it advisable. The split and shaved shingle of a hun dred years ago, that came from the old growth of pine, was quite a different article from the sawed pine shingle from the sapling pines of to-day. While the former would keep a roof tight thirty or forty years, the latter wouid keep one tight not much more than one- quarter of that period. Various methods ha7e been devised to make the shingle of the present day more lasting. Dipping them in hot lime water, or coal tar is practiced by some, and is found to be very beneficial; but it is very disagreeable work to lay them, and carpenters are are not inclined to encourage the practice. Some lime the roofs after the shingles have been laid a year or two. No doubt this is very bene ficial to that portion of the shingle that it touches. It is now the practice of some to paint the roofs, as well as the other portions of the buildings, A great variety of paints are used. While soma use white lead and linseed oil, others use various kinds of mineral paints with cheap fish eiL Soma of these are good, while others are almost worth less. About thirteen years ago there was a paint made of ground slate, mixed with coal tar, and probably some other sab stance, which, when properly pot on, proved to be not only fire-proof, but a great preserver of the shingles, keeping them without any perceptible change for more than ten years; but this soon went out of style, if not out of rise, pro bably because it was so much trouble to put on properly that the work was im properly dene. To do the work well, it was necessary to apply this preparation so hot that it wonld penetrate the shin gles, and make a surface as hard as slate stone. Probably the time will come when sMngles will be dipped in some material that will not be disagreeable to the carpenters, and yet preserve them from decay." When this can be done at the mill where the shingles are sawed, and they can go to market all prepared, it will be a step of progress in the right direction, and will meet a want that at present is felt by all owners of buildings. Tb. f.talo. Nolxxly knows where the potato came from originally. It has been found, ap parently indigenous, in many parts of the world. Mr. Darwin, for instance, found it wild in the Chonos Archipela go. Sir. W. J. Hooker says that it is common at Valparaiso, where it grows abundantly on the sand hills near the sea. In Peru and other parte of South America it appears to be at home; and it is a note worthy fact that Mr. Darwin should nave noticed it both in the for esta of the Chonos Archipelago and among the central ChUlian mountains, where sometimes rain does not fall fox six months at a stretch. It was to the colonists whom Sir Walter Raleigh sent ont in Elizabeth's reign that England is inlebted for potatoes. Harriot, who came out with these colonists, and wrote an account of his I ravels, makes what may, perhaps, be regarded as the earl iest mention of this vegetable. What riles tbe country postmistress to have a postal card coiue to tho office written in French. NEWS IS BRIEF The reports of the last United States census will occupy 20,000 print ed pages. Dr. T. Sterry Hunt has received the honorary degree of doctor of lawa from Cambridge University, England. The Cambria Iron Company is erecting a large vitriol manufactory at Johnstown, Penna. A church adjoining that of the "Holy Stars," at Kome, is usd by the Italian Government as a stable. Mr. F. Wise, of Ireland, has given $100,000 toward the restoration of the Cathedral in Cork. A Philadelphia magistrate has been fined $50 for making an excessive charge of 35 cents in a fee. The population of the city of Rjme. Italy, and suburbs is 300,292, an in crease since 1871 of 55,803. A narrow gang road of three feet coeta iu construction about five-eighths as much as a broad gauge. Nearly 3,000 tona of wrapping paper were made in one month, by fifty one mills, in the United States. General Tom Thumb celebrated the nineteenth anniversary of his mairiaga by a dinner in St Louis recently. rha favorite maxinm of Philip LL of Spain was: "It is better not to reign at all than to reisa over heretics." The Basque costumes near Bayonne and th villages in the Pyrenees are be ginning to be replaced by Paris fatth- lona. Toward the end ae eicrhth cen tury the sale of slaves beyond their na tive provinces was in most countries for bidden. The American cousul-sreaeral at Shanghai has lately sent twenty boxes of bamloo cuttings for transplanting in Oregon. The attempts to light the streets of Liverpool by electricity have not proved successful.aud the project is to be aban doned. A colossal piue which was lately uprooted by an inundation in Oulais, Finland, was found to have 1029 annual rings. At the beginning of the fourteenth century the church for the first time gave permission for the dissection of hu man bodies. It is estimated that there are in Philadelphia between 27,000 and 28.000 children who are not attending any schools. Toole, the English comedian, a favorite of the Prince of Wals, is build ing a theatre for his own performances in London. In Switzerland no child who aannot present a certificate of vaccination is permitted to attend a public or private school. Twenty years ago nearly 35,000 men in the British army were returned, who could neither write nor read. The number has now been reduced to a little oyer 7000. Since 1840 the Atlantic steamers have increased their average speed from 8.3 knots to 15.6 knots, or nearly double while the consumption of fuel per hnrse power has been diminished about sixty per cent Ex-King Amadens was recently robled by one his servants in his palace ft Turin, of 100,000 francs' worth of jewels and silver. Agriculture is taught in 27.000 of the 34,000 schools of France, which have gardens attached in which practical instruction can be given. Patti, Lucca, Albani and Minnie Hank are the only bearers of the title of "Kammer Saengerin" to the Impe rial Court of Germany. The commission appointed in Ger many to revise Luther's translatien of the Bible, has held its last sitting and brought its work to a close. It is estimated that the total length of submarine telegraph cables in the world is 62,000 miles, having a money value of about $200,000,000. President Arthur has rented the cottage on Cedar avenue. Long Branch, opposite the lodge of Hollywood Park. The cottage is nearly completed. In Europe a copy of the first edition of the Decameron has been sold for over $11,000, and one of the Gutenburg Bibles on vellum for $17,000. In the year 630 A. U. C, Caiua Gracchus caused a law to be made sup plying the poor with corn at a price that was little more than nominal. Massachusetts has 3,148 miles of railroad track representing with rolling stock $122,155,614. Last year 184 per sona were killed and 1 lo injured. Two Mormon colonies in Arizona pay no territorial or county taxes. iliey are so isolated that the cost of col lection is much more than the taxes. It is understood that the projected ship canal across Cape Cod has been abandoned. Recent surveys show it will cost a nr.Uion more than expocted. The city of Boston boasts that the cobt of its public schools during the past ten months has been $2-j,000 less than for the corresponding period last year. The designs for the Expiatory Cha pel, mhieh is to be erected on the site of Alexander Ill's assassination, have tieen exhibited at the St Petersburg Hotel da Vdle. Nevada used to send out wealth; now it-is taking it in. All the mines in the state yielded during 1881 about $4, 500,000 less than enough to pay the cost of operatin gthem. -The silver coins of the United States and of France are made of dim parts of silver and one part of copper. Less copper is used in making the silver of Great Britain. -A life-size bronze statue of General Mosqnera, President of the Colombian Republic, has just been successfully ctwt at Munich. It u intended for the Colombian capital, Bogota, -The women teachers of the Junior Divisions of the Toronto schools have applied to the School Board for increas ed salaries, arguing that at $27 a month they canot support themselves. The coronation ol Alexander Hi. if ever it takes place, will cost the pretty little sum of twenty-one million roubles. The coronation of the Czar Nicolas jost six million of roubles, and that Alexan der II, seventeen millions. An amethyst has been found in Georgia bearing a drop of water in a cavity near the centre of the stone. This is no uncommon occurrence in the ease of quartz crystals, but a cavity ia ameiavst is said to be unique. wood took off the fringed towel that
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