llfi IliMttiil j?fe ail M'4WWWVl js&Iilidi WWW B. 7. BO HWEH2R, TEE 00IBT1T U T10I THE TJIIOI-AID THE EI70XOEXEIT 07 THE L1T8. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXXVI. MIFIUNTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 22. 18S2. NO. 11. THX FABXBKt ktAUGIlTEK. gD dwelt withii a.alt home, - model of tne grao, taTiiowB to oaltnre'a highest walks. Or fashion" place. A thuognttul flrt, so aweet and wine. With earnest lace and deep fraj eyes. The tanner' gentle daughter. rrom muni till eve the llul. maid U bui; at bar labor; the weeia and diuu, and feeds tii. hena. And never mind kr neighbor; o goiaip ever luteal to, lA m.nt rare, twe me and you!, Thua live, the fanner' daughter. i taklog day ker tlnjr hand Are ttWul at tb. making; Se bread more light aid aweet than nert Waa ever mxn bj baking, she eharn the butter, golden aweet. And keep the dairy .lean and neat, 1 b farmer bus; daughter. Her garden U an Eden fair. Abloom with pint and rone ; she know Ike name of every Bower, And make aome gorgeou poatea. brow peas, and radisbea, and ere, AnJ cum, and squash, and hero to pre, Tlu farmer' happy daughter. Long may ahe bravely amlle on oa. Our darling hooaehold fairy. The queen of garden, house and lot. And princes of the dairy. To teach o by her pleasant way To love the thing of 'every day," bod tlea the farmer daughter. WINNING AND LOSING. Ha! La! ha!-it11be such a joke!" and Richard S trout gave himself an approving wiuk as he stood before the glass in admiring contemplation of a complicated bow knot, accomplished at the expense of vast mental effort and the crush and rain of half a-dozen cravats. It was the evening of Mrs. Dazzlitt's ball. All Auteqoam at least all the f&khion of it wculd be there, and 3ir. Richard Strout had gotten himself up with special reference to outshining even hit own brilliant self. He was to be the escort of Miss Coryphe Wellmet, tlie tip top beauty of Autequam and only daughter of a rich retired banker, wiio might any dity succumb to a be nignly proTidentiul stroke of apoplexy, In the nice in which the stake was the lady and her fortune, RioUard Sbout was sure he held the inside track. It was plain, to his eyes, that she was deeply smitten how con!d she help it, f ir that matter? wasn't he. the afore said Richard, simply irresistible He hadn't just popped the question yet, but there was plenty of time for that; he would do it in due season and, when he did, te had no misgivings as to what would be the answer. Having the fiu already securely hooked, like a true Waltonian he would enjoy playing it awhile. Rut what was tue joke Mr. Strout was wnteuiilatii.g jointly with the wonder ful Low of his cravat? Let him unfold it to Miss Coryphe himself as they meet .i her father's front parler preparatory to storting to the ball. "See here, Cone," he said, touching her elbow with a finger 'miraculously gloved; -Ive got a littlo job for yon." "What is it, most noble "Pick?" To tame a bear?" Must I begin bow?" she asked, with a roguish look which seemed to intimate that the subject to be operated on might not be a thousand miles away. Ha! ha!" laughed Richard, not qnite heartily "present company, you know, fa excepted. The particular grizzly on which I would exercise your docile powers, la not here, but will be at the ball to-night You've heard me men tion Brace Daudridgo," he began. "The bore and bookworm?" "Yes." "And woman hater?" "Exactly how well you remem ber!" 'A man too bashful to kiss his own mother, I think I've heard you say. Well, what of this dried specimen of yours?" "He'a visiting some friends here in Antwquam and as I said, will be at Mrs. Dazzlit's ball to-night" And he'a your " "Bear," added Richard "you've hit it straight "Now Corie," he continued, ''I ve laid wager with Charley Brace, an old college mate of Bruoe Dandridge's and mine, that if Bruoe can be introduced to you, hell fall in love and propose to you in a fortnight Won't jou help me win?" . "Ton don't want me to court him, do you?" Coryphe replied "you know it isn't leap year." "No; butifyoull let yourself onto play the agreeable, I think 111 stand a chance. I know it is heavy odds, but it proves my confidence in your charms." "Well, trot out your monster and let me see him," said Coryphe, buttoning the dozenth button on her right glr , which completed her preparations for dpnari lire- Mrs. Dazzlitt's spacions parlors were already crammed when the fair Coryphe ntm1 with her beau. The belle of Anttquam never appeared to better ad vantage; and Richard Strout's heart welW with pride at the consuming envy gleaming from the circle of mas culine eyes of whish he and his beauti f nl avm wota the! centre. "I see him now," whispered Rich ard, when they had paid their devoirs the mistress of the mansion; "let me bring him at once, that no time may be lost " "V;M Wollmet Mr. Dandridge, said Richard, returning and presenting a tall and tininilarly handsome gonue mlnivd deeply, but in spit of his confusion, he did and said the right things without a bit of awkard- -VW Richard slipped away and left the two together. A set wan forming for a danoa. Brace Dandridge could do no less than ask the kdy to join him in me an indifferent partner " ha anohv triswl; "should I make mistakes, I must trust to you to set them riaht" He did make several mia takes at first but Coryphe corrected them so pleas antly that his embarrassment was tri fling, and soon quite wore off; and, after a few turns, Lis mathematical tead so completely mastered ths figure that none would have known but he had taken a double first" at Monsieur Caricole's Dancing Academy. The quadrille over, Mr. Dandridire led Coryphe to a seat and engaged her in a conversation in which both seemed deeply interested. "Isn't she doing beautiful! 1" said Dick to himself, looking from a dis tance, and noting the encouraging looks with which Coryphe drew Bruce out. and the brilliant light that shone in the latter's eyes as they met those of his listener. They had another dance and an other talk together I n"er than the first ' By George, it's going ou swim mingly!" Dick mentally ejaculated. "1 must manage to have him see her home. At this rate I shall win far insiie of time!" Approaching and casting a meaning look on Coryphe: "Would you mind if I went home and left you in Mr. Dandridge's care?" he asked. "I I've been taken with a racking headache. I'm sure, I owe Bruce here no apology for affording him a real pleasure." Mr. Strout was excused, and, as it almost seemed to him, with thanks. Next day. when he called to hear Coryphe's report of progress, he was gratified to find that Bruce Dandridge had preceded him. It nearly looked as if his own coming had disturbed a tete-a-tte. Mr. Strout couldn't help rubbing his hands ii silent glee. He made but a brief stay. He was far too shrewd to mar his chances by trenclrng on the rule that "two's company." Isn't she a trump," he cried, as he walked home exultant And day after day, as Richard renew ed his visits, he found Coryphe and Bruce together. It almost seamed as if it were the same tete-a-tete continue i. "Won't Charley Brace and Bruce Dandridge," he chuck'ed, "look like a pair of noodles when the one hears his money jingling in my pocket "d I've married Coryphe under the other's nose?" Business called Ris'aard Strout to the city for a few days. He sent a note to Coryphe telling her to "keep it up lively"- hinting that on his return he should have a secret of his own to dis close, the nature of which she had prob ably long ago surmised. Dick and Charley Brace had agreed that their wager should be left to Cery phe's decision, for reasons of delicacy to be communicated secretly; and Dick went away convinced that good news would await his mora. Three days sufficed for his business in the city; and Dick was taking a part ing stroll down Broadway to kill the hours till train-time. He stopped suddenly. From the door of a hotel a lady and gentleman came out and were about entering a ccniage having a pile of trunks on the top. "Hello! Dick," cried Bruoe Dan dridge; on whose arm hung Coryphe blushing like arose, "Sorry my wife and I didn't see you sooner. "Your wi " Dick couldnt finish the word. "Yes; it was a quiet little affair, you see no cards do f nss and now we are on onr way to the steamer for a quiet little wedding-trip to Europe. But by-by, old fellow time's up." What it was that Die muttered, we won't pretend to say. If it was a con gratulation it stuck in his throat Coryphe wared her hand from the car riage window, and Dick turned away with a mumbled malediction on the sex. He had won his bet, but lost the prize he most coveted. Hueaaa Mtaanni. Durinar the wild-cat days in the West, a Brooklyn man, who died not long in rnninM in a Michigan BliiW, town, and formed a close friendship with ... . I 1 the cashier of one oi tne private uu. One evening the cashier admitted that he i was laying his plans to tod tne oana all its funds and skip into Canada, ... mm- 1 i A l of and his friend permit tea nimseu w ue drawn into the plot They were to skip together and share alike, and a certain date was mentioned lor tne aoairw come off. The Brooklyn man sold out his store at a big sacrifice and went to rwm;t where the cashier was to join with th stolen funds. The hour came and the cashier came, but He naa no sparkle in his eye. "Rn-ted busted all to Usees!" he groaned in explanation. "Didn't you get the money! "Not a cent!" Ffow'a that?" "Why, the president skipped out Sunday night, . the secretary followed him Monday morning, ana iu board of directors disappeared that ... m n ViOT- night tin AuesaaT uiuiumj - wasn't :al AnVar bill left to U1 .a a - steal!" "There wasn't? Jnst think of the mean V - - of the whole board jumping in ana ness i . . V: .tiir blind as a Dai: Steauu Where will human meanneaa euui -Rhubarb grows in China, Turkey Rnasian Tartary. and T intelligent compos.tor lert out w din a paragraph about a beautiful letter actress. A bout Ui. Wmr. It is singular that, notwithstanding the attention whioh has been devoted to the study of the weather for many hun dred years, its laws have not yet been mastered. More than 20 centuries ago. about the time that Euclid formulated the ground work of geometry, upon which has been erected the magnificent structure of modern mathematics, Arabia collected the weather lore of bis day and preserved it for coming times in the lasting mould of Greek verse. His charming poem on the weather etill exists, but unlike the work of his great mathematical contemporary, it has not served as the foundation of a splendid science. It must be confessed that this old Greek was about as aucoessful a weather prophet as any of the present day. Like our signal service his rules and predictions were largely intended for the use of the seamen and the navi gators of his time, by studying the clouds, the appearance of the horns of the moon, and the variations in the light of certain faint star clusters, man aged to keep out of the path of tem pests bout as well as the sailors of our day do by watching the signal flags and red lanterns of the Weather Bureau. The much vaunted forecasts of the sig nal service, in fact we about all their value to the application of the tele graph, which enables us to keep ahead of the storms simply because the elec tric spark can outrun the wind, and not to the mastery of the laws of the weather. There are at least three con spicuous theories of the laws of storms, the advocates of which cannot agree. We find those who adopt one theory telling the seamen to steer for safety in a certain direction when the winds be have in a certain way, while the advo - cates of another theory warn him to steer in just the opposite direction, or he will be lost Not even the ordinary laws of weather changes are thoroughly understood, much less those which pro duce sudden and violent disturbances. It was not to be wondered at that the famous and dreadful storm of 1703, which spread consternation through out Great Britain, where it caused enorm ous loss of property and of life, came entirely unannounced, for nobody then pretended to have mastered the laws of the weather. But within a few months two great storms one of which is said to be the moit destructive and fatal of the present generation, burst upon the coasts of the British Isles, and not only the weather prophets, but the scientific weather theorists, were dumb. It is no disparagement of the labors of those who are honestly trying to discover the laws of the weather that their th .-ories are often found incapable of accounting for the facta or of fortelling them. That is the history of all science, and the cir cumstance that for thousands of years men have remained in comparative ig norance of these laws, is proof of the enormous difficulty of the problem our meterologists have undertaken to solve. Inatinct of Tnrtlea. Audubon, the naturalist stated that at a certain place on the coast of Flor -ida, sea-turtles, those huge solid-looking reptiles on which aldermen are fed at the expense of the tax-payers, pos sess an extraordinary faculty of finding places. Working their way out of the reach oi tide water, with their flippers. quite a deep hole is excavated, in which a batch of eggs are deposited, and then carefully covered np. On reaching the water, they not nnfrequently swim three miles out to sea,foraging for appro priate food. When another batch of eggs are developed, after a lapse of about fourteen days, they will return unerringly in a direct line, even in the darkest night, and visit the buried eggs. Removing the sand, mora are deposited and secured. Away they go again, as before. They know instinc tively the day and hour when the young brood, incubated by solar rays, will break the shell, and are promptly on the spot to liberate them from their prison. As soon as they are fairly out of the hole the mother turtle leads them down to the bank to the waves, and there ends her paternal solicitude and maternal duties. Shying B Most horses will sby when passing dead decomposing bodies. Thus other senses besides the sense of sight is at times a cause of shying. The condi tion of the animal is also a modifying circumstance. Thus high condition favors shying ; while lowness of condi tion, from depressing the powers of life generally, or lessening the nervous en ergy, renders a horse less likely to shy. Again, there is much in association. horse accustomed to be used together with another, will often shy when led alone. Fear, therefore, is very likely hmome a cause of shying. It is also wpll-known that horses will not readily pass a place where an injury has been inflicted on them, and some express a dread at certain object. White -color- nbiects often prove a cause of shy ing, and this more especially in the nighttime, when surrounding objects, oeing indistinctly seen, do not contri bute to give confidence to the animal. Parity of reasoning may be considered cause. But we prefer to reier snying . fear, or the association of ideas aris ing from past occurrences, as the re membrance of injunes.etc But we have sufficiently shown that thera are many causes for this vice or habit and that it not dependent on merely defective IS vision. This poetical license, talked about is never paid, notwithstanding the ceteral sentiment is that no person should be al lowed to make poetry without first pay ing license to the city and State. lutorortlaa Relies. Egyptology has furaished admirable matter for the romanoe maker, but in the lata discoveries near Thebes there is material which might wake np m any one a dormant poetry. Covering the grim mumies,' cured with bitumen, swathed in cerements, hid been placed a wreath of flowers. The white and blue lotus had been gatnered, and mingled with them there was a profusion of small, delicate blossoms, yllow, red and White tinted, all garlanded and inter woven. The d-.-ath'a head peered out from amid the bloom of a past age. Three thousand years had gone since their perfume had robbed death of its terrors, and still these fragile flowers had neither lost color nor shape. Put ting aside the yerses, the sonnets, which these flowers might inspire, modern scieuce steps in and silences for the nonce the sounds of the lyre. What are these flowers? asks the Dryasdust bota nist With magnifying glass eaoh petal, stamen and leaf is examined. Dr. Schweinfurth is studying these tender relics, eaer to discover their kind and species. Never was botanist placed face to face with such treasures. Herbariums are frail, fragile, brittle things. The oldest collections known are only of the seventeenth century, and then tnere are but two or three of them in the world. Here are floial treasures of 3000 B. C, and they are as fresh as if culled but yesterday. Three or four are at once classed, but here is one which has disappeared entirely from the flower-beds of this earth, and there is another found only to-day in farthest Abyssinia. Had Linnaeus ouly been alive, how he would baye revelled as he botanized oyer this field of mummies! There are more material things, too, which have been foand with these mummies. Packed away with the mortal remains of Queen Isimkheb were various kinds sf fruits. That long wait which this lady had to make before a kind of quasi-immortal stage was reach ed (that condition which M. Maspiero designates as the Egyption ka), was to be broken by occasional refreshments. Here are sugared dates, almost as fresh as when plucked from the tree. But more than this, as if Queen Isimkheb had really broken her fast, here are teeth marks in the fruit, and scooping- out evidently made by spoons. Da Foe, in his "Robinson Crusoe," made his hero start with amazement when on the shore of his island he saw for the first time the footprints of another man. When Marietta Bey, in the necropolis of Apis, came across the impressions of toes and heels in the sands, which the last of the old Egyptian priests had left the explorer's emotions were indesenb- ,ble. Here with these Thtban mum mies we bridge over thousands of years; and past eons are at one and the same time both far and near to us. Fraudulent Antique. Ancient bronzes and medallions are now imitated so exactly that it requires a sharp eye to detect the counterfeit Eyen the beautiful "patina," or rust which time alone produces in perfection, can be simulated by chemical means sufficiently well to deceive any save the most experienced actiquary. This trade is, however, a very old one, and has been practised in Rome and Naples for many years. In Birmingham there is still a brisk business done in forging iron crosses, eagles, spurs, sword hilts, and other "relics" to bury en the battle fields of the Continent, where they are in due time dug up and sold to credu lous tourists. The Arabs are already alive to the trick, and, in partnership with Jews and Christians in Jerusalem, are doing a knavish commerce in the sale of sham sheckols, and, as the Ber lip Museum knows to its cost, in the man ufacture of sculptured stones even more esteemed amongst antiquaries. The for gery of manuscripts has long been a distinct branch of the literary art, and after M. Chasles parted so freely with his francs for "letters of Julius Caeaar" and other eminent personages, tne inge nious rogues who ministered to this passion need not despair of still making hauls sufficiently lucrative to counter balance the risk they run of being found out The astounding prices which old china of late years fetched have stimu lated a wholesale forgery of all the fa vorite kinds. Japanese pottery is now so well imitated that the market is full of sham Satzuma, made at the Ota and Sheba factories at Yokohama and Tokio. After a cream ewer of Capo di Monti was sold for twenty-six guineas, a per fect inundation of forgeries arrived from the manufactory of Daccio, near Flor ence. Even flint implements were so kilfully strurk out of the block by "Flint Jack," that to this uay there is scarcely a museum curator in England who can approach his "palaeolithic cases' without blushing from the conscious ness that many of his treasures were chipped, not by the pre-historic man, but by a beer sodden rogue in the tap room of a public house. But it is in the manufacture of "Old Masters" that the finest business of this kind is done. Some of these replicas by unknown hands are so good that every studio has anecdotes regarding painters who have been deceived by facsimilies of their own works. Thel.te John Lin- nell was kept busy toward the close of his life repudiating works advertised as his, and signed with his name; and some of them so well painted that to this day it is a moot question among dealers whether th "Mountain Shepherds," which was the subject of a lawsuit, was or was not by the artist from whese pencil the purchaser supposed it to be. There is scarcely a Gallery brougnt to , the hammer which is not found to be j largely com poeed, either of copies which the owner had bought as originals, or ' pictures the work of obscure men, sign ed with the names of some mora or less celebrated artists. Only recently a large collection, believed by the owner to be genuine when he bequeathed it to the City of Glasgow, was pronounced to be next to worthless; and the many ''duf fers" which were discovered to form the "gems" of the Wynn-Ellis Gallery when it was a Jd in 1876 must still be fresh in the memory of the art world. There is a perfect factory for the manufactory of Old Masters in Rome, and scores of art students in the Continental towns support themselves by makiug eopie s in the public galleries for sale to the dealers, who, in due time, by the aid of a smoky chimney, and other ingenious devices which need not be enlarged on, supply the demand for Rafaels,Rub9us, Vandycks, and Murillos, which comes from America or from quarters near home. Out of one hundred and fifty three pictures submitted to one expert for his opinion, only eleven were found to be genuine. There are hundreds of Linnells" and "Birkct Fosters" in the niarket.on not one of which these artists put a single stroke of the penoiL John Philip was so successfully imitated that when his executor was compiling a oa - talogue of that artist's work he often found a difficulty in deciding as to the authorship of the many works claiming to bo from the deft had of "Philip, of Spain." A copyist after ten years' practice succeeded in producing fac-sim-iles of Turner's drawings with snch fidelity that to prevent these copies be ing sold as the famous artist's own works Mr. Ruskin had to sign the latter; and so undistingTiishable from the original was a copy of one of Landseer's paint ings mat tne master wa mmseii ae cei7ed by it at one of Christie's sales. Pleasure of Jiear-sis'Maaoa.a. Some foolish people have been known to say: 'Oh, how I wish that I were near-sighted so that I might wear eye glasses; they make a person look so in tellectual and distinguished. " We wish those people had to wear a pair of these torturing instruments for a week or so, then they would find that the famed sword of Damocles was a mild kind of torment compared with them. For ex ample, sometimes when you are walk ing qoietly on the street in the evening the cord will break, and down go your aids to vision upon the si lewalk. obliging you to go down there, too, on all fours, and make wild sweeps for them in the dark, until a crowd gathers around you who take yon for some escaped lunatic Sometimes they drop into your oyster stew at a restaurant, and some stupid old bore of a fellow who was dining with you, ever after jocularly remarks when he meets you, "Come let's go and have some stewed spectacles.' You'd like to throttle him, bnt you put on a Bickly smile, swallow your wrath and repress all outward signs of ill-temper. In cold weather the sudden change of temperature on entering a warm room will give your glasses such a coating of steam that for the space of fifteen min utes or so you can't distinguish your beat friend from any inanimate object and you make overtures toward shaking hands with the stove, and have a gener al feeling like an inmate of blind asy lum. It's agreeable to enter a church under these circumstances, trip up on the register in the aisle and make sud den lunge forward as if you were shot out of a catapult When the windows of your soul get transparent again, yon find that you are in the wrong pew, and you are obliged to ignominionsly make your way back to your own seat with the delightful feeling that the eyes of the whole world ai a upon you. In hot per spiring summer days these same treach erous combinations of glass and steel will slide off your nose a dozen times in a minute, and you feel, indeed, that your life is a burden. Sometimes when you go to the theater or the opera, in removing your outside garment the string becomes entangled In a button and off fly your eye-glasses, you know not where. A friend finally spies them in the vicinity of the small of your back, and you discover that they are nearly ground to powder by the combined ac tion of your spinal columu and the back of the seat You spend the entire even ing with no company but your own sweet thoughts, for everything on that stage is such a blur as to resemble nothing but Turner's picture if the "Slave Ship." Besides all these pleas ant little episodes you have to bear the comments and queries of your many dear friends, something like the fol lowing: "Is your eyesight failing that you are obliged to wear glasses?' 'Doesn't that spring hurt voir nose? "They say snch a continual pinching of the nose has been known to cause ean- "How fortunate that yon have such a large nose, so that you can wear eye-glasses. Now, my nose is so small I never could keep them on. "Why don't you put that string behind your ear, or tie it to your buttonhole, in stead of wearing it around your neck?" 1 should think you would wear spec tacles witli bows, they would be so much more convenient," and other idiotic remarks, which rouse you to the boiling point of wrath internally, and make you wince some, too, for you knew in your own secret soul that the reason yon persist in putting eye-glasses as tride your nose, instead of wearing the more sensible spectacles with bows, is because of the demon, pride, which makes you fear you will be considered advanced in years if you adopt any part of the livery of old age. Alas for the pomps and vanities oi this wicked world. Alligator akin is becoming an im portant article of export from Florida. I Edward IL prohibited the use of coal in Liondon by royal proclamation, I There are 134.488 colored persons in Maryland who can neither read nor write. Not Xaau The following is a picture of some noted man as they appeared oa the easion of Ma. Blaine s oration upon President Garfield : An epauletted officer la already standing in the open space before the speaker Admiral Worden. his hair still as brown as when he staggered, blinded, in the turret the Monitor when the doors below swinir onen and the Generals swine; in, starred, yellow-sashed and white-plum ed. Sherman strides along at tne bead and Sheridan trots at his side, his cav alry sabre clanking along over the brass ventilators in the floor. Hancock, thi vary model of a Maior-General ; Meigs looking like a business man, in a new uniform, and Howard. Thev have come to be a fiTav.irrizzled lot our Gen erals. and they sat each after his own fashion Sherman stretched straight in his chair, Sheridan leaning on his sabre Gripped at the middle, and Hancock as if he were having his picture taken and were particular about the set of his shoulders. As the row of Generals sit down. Dr. Bliss, the only one of Presi dent Garfield's medical attendants in a conspicuous place, comes hi a slouch ng man, with boyish side-whiskers and bob-tailed coat with an expane of shirt front The diplomatic corps streamed in close upon the army and navy. It is not possible, in these narrow paisage-ways and iostlinsr crowds, to keep much re semblance of order, and the long line, led by Minister Allen, of the Hawaiian Islands, came in by twos and threes. Thev were seated at last, with some pushing and pointing, by Clarke, the architect of the Capitol, a smooth-faced man of manners. The corps tilled two long lines in the round open space be low. Behind them are the seats wait ing empty for the Senate, in front of the score of empty chairs left for tne President, the Cabinet and Supreme Court The delicate question as to prece dence is settled otherwise at the White House. There the corps takes prece dence, here the co-ordinate branches of the Government Among a swarm of unknown South Americans is Sackville West in the spreading gilt leaves which cover half Her Majesty's diplomatic uniform. The ribbon of Sweden, the yellow and red of Spain, the white-edged sash of the Mejidich, with its great star and swing ing collar, the tiny black and white of the Prussian black cross, tlia Russian military order on a light V-shaped gold frogged shell coat of the guards, here and there lisrht np this row of men, who sit with a solemn, motionless sincerity whioh Americans admire and avoid. But what are they all in dignified quiet by the aide of the Chinamen in their violet robes, soup-dish hats, with the little red. blue and crystal button at the top, and the five-toed imperial dragon sprawling on the embroidered disk worn before? Pol. Bead. Pole roads far logging purposes are. the simplest among the many forms of road whioh lumbermen find convenient and necessary in the prosecution of log ging operations, when snow and ice roads are not available. They can be con structed in a locality where the ground is reasonably level, and ar particularly adapted to such locations as present a sandy or fairly firm soil, They consist of long small peeled poles, the longer the better, from four to five inches in diameter at the top, to eight or ten in ches at the butt end. The more evenly they carry their size from butt to top. tha better the road. The ends of the butt, and as well of the tops, are long scarfed, and pinned togother with suit able hard wood or strong pins, of one and a half to two inches in diameter, according to the size of the timber through which they are to be driven. Tops should be scarfed to tops.and butts to butts, in order to provide a perfect bedding of all parts in the ground. If the scarfing is done so as to cause the poles to lie naturally on the ground when in place, the pins should be long en ough to penetrate the earth to some dis tance. This all the fastening or anchor ing usually provided. The wheels of the car are concave or V-shaped, and as they pass over the rails naturally force them to maintain their proper distances from each other whila preventing them from spreading apart It wilLtake but a few trips of a loaded car over these poles to bed them in the earth, when spreading is practically out of the question. The wheels musi, in their concave surface, be adapted to the general size of the poles to be used, and if larger poles ar i employed, or large butts are used, the ax mrist be used in hewing off enough of the surplus wood to give the wheels a sure bearing. Any kind of timber which carries its size well may be employed, and if a pole gives out it is easily replaced. But compars tively little grading is requisite,althouh it is obvious that the more level the top of the track is kept the leas friction is encountered. To determine the power of a cross tie for this reason it is well to bed the butts enough to bring them lev ml with the bed J 3d tops. No cross-tying is employed, and so solid are those roads, that in many sections, light loco motives are run upon them. With these general points stated, any man who com' prehends the conditions under which concave wheels may be kept from run ning off through mounting the " poles should have no difficulty in building a prle road. If the soil is not sufficiently firm to prevent the poles from becom ing too deeply embed ed, cross ties of poles may be used, but as a rule they are more harm than advantage, as they tend to prevent the self-adjusunent of the track for which the concave wheels would naturally provide. W. W. Waddell. Old Mr. Jones, senior partner of Jones k Son .considered it a good stroke of business when he had a telephone put in his grooery. It took the old gen tleman several days to get the hang of the thing; but it paid to have customers order goods by telephone of him from a distance, when, before he had a tele phone, they would run to tha nearest shop. Mr. Jones was congratulating himself upon this the other morning. when the telephone bell rang. After the usual number of helloes, ha distinctly caught an order for ten pounds of sugar two pounds of so flee, a pound ef crack era, half a bushel of potatoes: a peok of apples and a codfish to be delivered: but he didn't quite catch the name. After several vain trials, he asked the other party to spell it, while his pencil he prepared to write it down oa a sheet of wrapping paper. "Double u " aaid the voice. Jones wrote it down and said, "Yes." "Double u." "I've got that " "Well, put it down again " 'Yes; go ahead." "Double u." Why, I've got that" "Put it down again." "But I have it down twice." "Well, put it down three times." Jones sighed and wrote it again. 'A double d." 'A double d that's add," soliloquiz ed Jones; then he shouted back, "add what?" 'Add nothing. Just put down a touble d." "This is infernal Bonsense!"muttered Jones;bnt he cheerfully called back' "ies go ahead." E double L" "Wha-a-t?" "E double L" Mr. Jones stamped on tha floor and pulled his whiskers savagely; but he put it down and sweetly answered, Yea." "That's alL" "All what?" "All the name." Then Mr. Jones studied his papers carefully a moment, when he had writ ten thus: "U uunuuaddel 1," and remarked to himself. "Why, that's confounded nonsense." He t hen halloed through the telephone in vain, and rang up the central office and inquired in vain who had been talking with him. Then he studied the writing some more. Pretty soon, in came his son, the junior part ner. Mr. Jones showed him the letters and told how he got them. The junior partner studied them hard, read them both ways, looked on the back of the paper, and finally said it was the infer nal est bosh he ever saw. They showed the paper to the bookeeper, and he said it was sheer foolishness. The big clerk said it was absurd. The little clerk thought somebody was crazy. Finally tha errand boy looked at it and was told it was meant for some customer's name; thereupon he aeked Mr. Jones to call off the letters as near as h could remember the same as he had received them by telephone. Mr. Jones did so when the errand boy nearly choked with laughing, and said, "Why, that's perfectly plain; it's W. W. Waddell." Mr. Jones never felt such an immense relief since he wont into business. Eating He lore gleeplna-. The lion roars in the fornest until he has found his prey, and when he has devoured it he sleeps over until he needs another meal. The horse will paw all night in the stable, and tha pig will squeal in the pen, refusing all rest or sleep until they are fed. The ani mals that chew the cud have their own provisions for a late meal just before dropping off to their nightly slumbers. Man can train himself to the habit of sleeping without a preceding meal but only after long years of practice. As he comes into the world, nature is too strong for him, and he must be fed be fore he will sleep, A child's stomach is small, and when perfectly filled, if no sickness disturbs it, sleep follows natu rally and inevitably. As digestion goes on the stomach begins to empty. A single fold in it will make tha little sleeper restless, two will waken it, and if it is hushed again to repose, tha nap is short, and three folds put an end to the slumber. Paregoric or other nar cotic may close its eyes again, but with out food or some stupifying drag.it will not sleep, no matter how healthy it may be. We use the oft-quoted illustration 'sleeping as sweetly as an infant," be cause the slumber of the child follows immediately after its stomach is com pletely filled with wholesome food. The sleep which comes to adults long hours after partaking of food and when tha stomach is nearly or quite empty, Is not after the type of infantile repose. There is all the difference in the world be tween the sleep of refreshment and the sleep of exhaustion. To sleep well.the blood that swells the veins in tha head during our busy hours must flow back, leaving a greatly diminished volume behind the brow that lately throbbed with such vehemence. To digest well, this blood is needed at the stomach, and nearer th fountains of hfe. It is a fact established far beyond the possi bility of contradiction that sleep aids digestion, while the process of digestion la conducive to refreshing sleep. It needs no argument to convince as of this mutual relation. The drowsiness wnicn always loiiows tne well ordered meal is itself testimony of nature to this interdependence. l mcon natiery luoswms use viena- hip, yet there it a great difference in the 'uit- t asniox item: Among the newest things in stockings is the baby's foot XEWS IN BKltF 1'ue flower of the dandelion lives two and a half days. There are several thriving Swedish settlements in Florida. There are 3,630 streets in Paris with a lentrth of 6000 miles The first French guillotine wat made Dy a piano-maker. Marc Antony paid 1600 pounds for a pair of handsome boy alaves. The Spanish Celts raised temple and sang hymns of praise to death. The Laplands suffer more than any other nation from the annoyance of gnats. Some of the ferra-cotta vases found at Herculaneum are thin as the thineat glass. Somebody fismres out th it it -ot $23 a minute to run the House of Repre sentatives. It is estimated that a Quarter of a billion pounds of teas are used every year. . In a single da v. at the dedication of the Colosseum by Titus, 500(1 animals perished. Publio ceremonials will be dispensed with on the occasion of the coronation of the Czar. The school population of Ontario ia 489,924, and the total expense of in struction is $2,822,052 The lanrest ma'oarv arch in tli world is that of the aqueduct which sup pliea Washington with water. At the beginning of th present century the. English laws made 160 crimes punishable by death. One man has fathered lflO.OOO pounds of dried clover blossoms out West for some famous "remedy." lhe numeral characters of tha Per sians and Brahmins are similar to the Arabic characters in use among us. The Prussian Government is tnlmv this year 20,300 tons of iron railroad sleepers at a cost of about $35 a ton. Art classes for mechanics have been established in most of the lartre towns of Germany, and are largely attended. The riding whip of Isabel, wifo ot Edward the IL in 1325, is described as a very short staff with numerous laalies. There have been more eartliqu tkes in Spain tban in all the otner parts of Europe taken together, Italy excepted. The animals of the opposite sides of the Pacific Ocean are entirely unlike, no species Demg common to ootu sides. The emblems of supreme authority among British kings used to be l.racleU of gold about the neck arms and knees. An effort in being made to raise a fund of $3000 for the equipment of an observatory for the Toronto University, Canada. 'Muncakzv's treat picture. "Christ Before Pilate," has been purchased by the French Government for the Luxem bourg. The Ojibways pulled down the house in wiiich any one had died, and chose another place to live as far oil' as possible. In the columns of Berlin papers are frequent notices offering children as presents to whomsoever wishes to adopt hem. It is said that the watermelons may 'be preserved for an indsfinate time by giving them three or four coats of var nish. The Nile, in a course of 1,259 miles. receives no tributary. Megret the friend of Charles XII.. exclaimed at the instant of the king's death: "The play is over, let's go to supper. The new Jesuit College at Canter bury, Eng., will provide residence for 1000 of the youths exiled, with their in structors from France. Marcus Anreleus, by compelling gladiators to fight with blunt swords, rendered the combats for a time com paratively harmless. On th3 Laramio Plains of the Rocky Mountains there are, at an elvvation of 6,000 to 7,000 feet, fresh and abundant patnres, often well watered. The vinevards of Frasno county. CaL, now cover 1,920 acres. This sea son the aggregate will be increased by 2,500 acres, making 4,420 acres. Many Swiss who have settled i:: California have sought the hillsides. where they have made thrifty vineyards and where they make excellent cheese. The first senior class of Colorado University will be graduated this year. It has six member. The whole num ner of stulents now in attendance is 118. In St. Petersburg this year 980 wo men are pursuing the higher courses of education; 610 of these students are of noble origin. Physics and mathematics are studied by 521, and 417 take litera ture. Illinois last year expanded upon her schools the sum of $7,531,941, the teachers of the State receiving $4,587, 015 10. The school population of the State is 1,010,851. A company has been organized in Springfield, Mass., for the manufacture of various articles from clay. The pecu liarity of the association is that it is composed exclusively of negroes. There are about to be established in France live technical schools for cabi net making.building industries, scienti fic instruments, domestic economy for girls and industrial chemistry. The Crown Prince oi ucrmany can boast of 65.534 ancestors, according to a genealogical tree of the House of Pr ussia which has been complied for the Berlin Heraldic Exhibition. it used to cost the city of Boston IT -" 7 TWr TMP trt 1 J , r 1 , t Si. -,,!lu v uintni l( tli(1 thirteen ens liehta then used. i i or a year past the Brush electric lights have been used, and they are to be con tinued another year at an expense of $118625. The collections in London on Hos pital Sunday amounted to $150,735 of which the Church of England gave eleven-fifteenths. All denominations ' Jews, Greeks, Friends, etc. are repre sen ted in the collection. ' According to Herr Richard Andree . tnere are o,iw,uw jews in me woiin. Five-sixths live in Europe. Asia has 185,847. The greater portion is iu Rou mnnift. or twice aa hiffh aa in itiiHKi ( Norway, he suys, contain only 34. The employes of the government printing office get fifty cents per tnou sand ems. Outside printers cet ouli fort v. cents. I tie Uovernment printing now J coat $350,000 over the market rate. Bills i are pending in the house which propose to raise the pay of government printers o sixty cents. ma inivi UJ-s - i"-tr flocked to see her wherever she went I fear, Miss Wellmet, you will find crows
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