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VOL. XXXVI.
MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 26. 1S82.
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IKIiH SOXG.
Oh ! tbs fipr.Bf 's dl!f tit
Is a eowslip bright.
As she laag-ns to to warMta' linnet ;
And a walulin' tknuk
tn a white May tait,
And an out in Us nest wlaia rt.
Summer sill shows
Her rote, her rose 1
And ob I all tne happy nigst long
Tne nlgittlnirale won her;
At daws the Urk sues her,
Wid the crystal surprise ui his song.
King Autumn's crown
la the barley brown,
sted OTer wid rosy fruit;
And the yellow trees,
As Uiej tig In tb hreez.
Are tbe strings of this solemn luu.
Void Winter's breath
la conld as Death,
Wirra ! lonesome he's left the earth ;
Yet the thrash he slugs
And tbe rose ahe springs
From the Same of his fairy hearth.
AX ELIGIBLE BOARDING PLACE.
"No hotel? said Mr. Percival Payne.
"Nothing in the shape of one," an
swered Lis friend, Lucius Warden, with
tb subdued triumph of one who an
nounces a startling fact.
"I never heard of each a thing in my
life!" aaid Payne.
"Nor I, nither," serenely remarked
Warden.
Eut how do yon account for it?"
demanded the would-be t jurist, smiting
his forehead in despair.
"I don't account for it at all, said
Mr. Wnrden, surveying the uaiis which
he cad just been carefully trimming
with Lis pen-knife, "except that nobody
knows anything aliout the place as yet.
There's factorv wall paper, I be
lieve, or some' Ling of that sort and a
cifrar shop, and a beer shop and two
thread and needle stores, and a postof
fice where the mails come twice a week;
and there's the Magalloway River, all
carpeted ever with water lilies, and
half a dozen glorious little trout streams
rnnning into it, and the finest bit of
scenery yon ever saw. But there's no
hotel!"
'Bat Where's a fellow to stay!" help
lessly demanded Payne.
"Get an outfit and camp out,as I did'
said Warden, cheerfully. "A blanket,
a canvas tent, with pegs and loops ; a
little smudge of bran, or pine needles,
to keep the mosquitoes off at night,
and "
"But I don't ecjoy camping out.
vehemently remonstrated Payne "It
is all very "well for those who like it. but
I'm not one of that sort.I like four good
walls, a feather pillow, and regular
meals served three times a day.
"Wall, then.look here." said Warden
"Go to the Widow Buck's. She takes
boarders now and then."
Who the Widow Buck?" asked
"That I do not know," replied his
mend.
"And where does she live?"
Tliera von havo me attain."
"Man alive! u-sTon crazv?" dopnair-
inclv Questioned Payne. "How am I to
find her?"
"Tumira Mlmlv rAKnnnlpd Afr
Warden, as' he shut up his knife aid
replaced it in his vest pocket. "Go to
Mailzia Ford 11 a in. train stage
eoach through in one day. Ask for
the Widow Buck's ! Bless ray heart
nothing in the wide world could be
easier. I always heard that people got
cnnJ fore there and comfortable beds.
And Mailzie Ford is a perfect little
Paradise, when once you get there 1
"Well" said Payne, dejectedly, "it
seems a wild goose ehase, I've a mind
tn trv iL A man can but come back
nam "
It Has rather earlv in the season for
the conventional operation known to
the American public as "summering,"
but Percival Payne being a bachelor of
independent fortune ana cuii-vaieu
tub, flt tiit hAmmld do as he pleased.
And it was rather a luxury to anticipate
the first mad rush of travel, wneii au
.otj mro, Atirraoo'i the cozt corners
taken and the most desirable points of
observation usurped.
So he packed his valise, did np his
fishing tackle, laid ia a great store of
crayons and sketching paier, and start
ed for the far northern wilderness of
Mailzie Ford.
Of course, the train was late trains
always are late and it was 4 o'clock in
the afternoon when Mr. Payne found
Limself perched up in an open box wa
gon alongside of two trunks, a package
of salt codfish, a mail bag, and a pretty
girl, with eyes aa soft as black pools of
water, and one of those odd, f ringy hats
of black straw, all covered with loops
and ribbon, that make people look bo
picturesque.
Where do we meet the stage?" said
Mr. Payne, as he settled himself so as
to inconvmience his pietty neighbor as
little as possible.
The driver stared at Lira.
"This Wt the stage!" said he. "Git
np.Sorrel!"
Mr. Payne stared.
"But stages have tops," said lie.
"This Vre stage don't," said the
driver.
It was rather a trying situation steep
up hill part of the way, and steep down
Lill the rest, with the codfish and the
mail bag alternately tumbling into Mr.
Payne's lap, and the pretty girl laugh
ing in her sleeve at his embarrassment
"I'm very rude, I know," said she;
"but if you'd just tie tLat codfish to
the back of the wagon with your fish
ing line it wouldn't trouble you bo
much." , . , ,
"A good idea!" said Payne, briskly.
"Thanks, very much, for suggesting
it!"
"Tve traveled over this road before,
said the pretty girl, laughing.
"Are vou going to Mailzie Ford? said
Mr. Payne, with a sudden gleam of ani
mation. "Xo," said the pretty girL "ToCat
ley's Dam.
"Perhaps you know something about
Mailzie Ford"?" Lazrded our hero.
"Oh, yes!" said the nymph with the
dark eves. "It's a lovely place! I
used to live there before 1 went into the
faetory at Catley's."
"Do you know the Widow Buck?
asked Payne with interest.
'Very well," noddel the pretty girL
"I'm going there to look for board,
aaid Mr. Payne. ...
"I hope you'll be suited," said the
girL' "
And then they began to talk about
the tall, bine crested mountains, which
were beginning to close la around
them. . . ,
Longfellow; she knew all about Thoreau J nulla, but stay and help her mother with
she was even "up" L. Kuakin. and she the housework; and when the autumn
expressed herself with grace and spirit, came she was engaged to Mr. Perci
wnich set Mr. Payne to wondering ii all val Payne.
the Maine girls were equally cutUvated
and beautiful.
And then tne codfish tumbled down
again and had to be tightened anew.
and by that time they had come to a
house in the midst of a lonely belt of
wood, which the driver said was 'Cat-
ley's Dam," upon which the pretty girl
disappeared into the purple twilight,
and Mr, l'ayne and the codisb went on,
sorrowful, much jolted and alone.
A glimpse of the beautiful Magallo
way Kiver by moonlight; the cry of a
wild bird in tko woods; the noise of the
hidden cascades; a blur of lighted win
dows, which the driver said was the
factory; down a blind lane, and check
ing the tired horses at a one stoned stone
house behind a wall of cedar trees, and
then tlio Jehu cried ont:
"Now, then! H.re we be! Widow
Buck's!"
Mr. Payne got stiffly out and helped
to unload the various paraphernalia ot
travel which belonged to him all of
them by this time considerably Havered
with codhsh.
'Perhaps you Lad better wait," said
he, as the driver turned around and
chirruped to his horse.
"What for?" demanded the man.
"In case Mrs. Buck should not be
able to accommodate me, or "
"Oh, it's all right!" said the driver.
She'll take you in. Naomi would have
told you ehe.
And away he drove, leaving our hero
alone in the spectral moonlight, with
a pile of luggage at his feet, and a gaunt
dog smelling at the skirts of his coat
"Who's Naomi?" said Mr. Payne, ad
dressing the moon. "And what would
she have told me?"
Be raised an old-fashioned brass knok
cr that hung at the door, and rattled it
briskly. The gaunt dog aroused to a
sense of his duty, left off suufling; and
began to bark. Presently, a tail, thin
woman, with a red pocket handkerchief
tied on her head, with a kerosene lamp,
in her hand, opened the door.
"Oh," said she, peering sharply at
him, 'you're the young man from the
city, are you?"
With the initiative thus taken out of
his hands. Mr. Payne could only incline
his Lead.
"All them traps your'n?" demanded
the Widow Buck, abruptly.
"Yes, madam," Mr. Fayno admitted.
"Humph!" said the widow, "Pears
to me it's purty tolerable cheeky of yon
mister, to take it for granted jou'd be
asked to stay!"
"I thought, madam "
"I'm a-talkin' now," said the widow,
sharply. -'To begin right straight at
the beginning, we don't know anything
about you. You may be a banc burg
lar or a counterfeiter for all we know!"
"My references, madam "
"Yes, I know," said the widow.
'And them very references is most like
ly forged, But I'm willin' to be reason
able. How old are you?"
And Mr. Payne secretly wondering if
this was the way they managed thing in
Maine, answered meekly.
"Two and thirty?"
"Ever been married before?" sharply
questioned the widow.
"Certainly not madam! I am a single
man!" answered Mr. Payne, with a very
justifiable spark of indignation in his
mapper.
"Any business?" went on his cate
chist "Nose madam,"
"Well, I like that!' said the widow
with a scornful sniff. "Like your im
pudence, to come here and own to such
a disgrace as that Expect to live on
me, hey?" I
"Madam! gasped poor Mr. Payne,
"How d'ye suppose you're ever going
to keep my .Naomi, even if 1 allowed
you to marry her?" sharply went on the
woman, "which I shant do, and don't
you think it! She don't care for you
anyway! When she heard you was
coming, she made up her mind to stop
off ar Catley's Dam, just to get rid of
the sight of you. 1 here! So just pick
up your traps and go back again the
way you come! Yoa won't never be a
son-in-law of mine!"
But' while Widow Buck was volubly
uttering these last glib sentenees,a faint
liikt began to dawn on Air. l'ayne s semi-
obhcured brain.
I think. Mrs, Buck." said he, "that
you must be laboring under a little mis
apprehension. My name is Percival
Payne. 1 a at Iroin .Boston 1 was re
commended here, as an eligible board
ing place, by Mr. Warren, of 15 Pep
permint Place."
Mrs. Buck nearly dropped ner lamp
in her consternation.
WelL I never!" s.id she, instantly
flinging the door wide open. "Please
to walk in. sir. I'll send the boy ont
after your trunks and things in half a
minute. I beg your pardon, 1 m sure,
for mistaking you for Peleg Dnggs.from
LowelL as was oomin here after my
daughter Naomi! She works in the
Lowell mills, Kaomi does. To thin!
however I could have made such a blun
der! Do walk in, sir."
And Mr. Payne was promptly intro
duced to a delightful little "interior" of
red carpet round table spread lor tea,
shaded lampliKht and a fire ot logs,
burning on an open hearth, to keep out
the damp of the summer evening.
After ten o'clock, when the weary
traveler was in bed, in a pretty Lttle
room, where there was an eight day
clock in a cherrywood case, and a carpet
made of woven rags, he heard the open
ing and shutting of the doors below.the
clear sound of a familiar voice the
voice of Lis black-eyed travelling com
panion. "Well, mother, aid no
ask ad. .
"Peleg didn t come, aaii the laow
Buck. "But a young gentleman rrom
thC city came. And don t yoa o iieve.
Naomi, I took him for Pegt 1
peppered away at him well!"
"Oh mother, what will he think.
cried the softer young voice.
"I asked his pardon, ol course, saiu
the old lady. "And he took it all aa a
And when i-eieg x8B
next day, put in an appearance he was
summarily dismissed, While Mr. Per
cival Payne and the lair jnauuu
itting by trout pool laiuu now.
below; for Naomi knew ail aoou
haunts and nooks of the neighborhood,
and handled a fishing pole moat skill
fully, t i mnA
Mr. Payne lucea juuw
,tjed there il summer. And as were
were several boarder in the old stone
house. Miss Naomi concluded not to
return to faitory life in the Lowell
Payne.
"The sweetest wild flower in all the
Northern woods," he wrote, enthusias
tically, to his friend Warden.
Warden went up to Mailzie Ford. He
was introduced to Miss Naomi. He
agieed with his friend.
"She's a jewel," said he. "You're a
lucky fellow, Payne. But I didn't know
when you wrote me that you were so
well suited with the accommodations
here"
"That I was suiting myself for life!"
interrupted Payne. But you see that
such was the fact"
Btrmnnw Mrrlago Customs.
The recent discoveries of M. Revillout
the Egyptologist are not so fresh but that
they are referred to in the Encyclopaedia
uniuiinics, unaer inc Dead ot raniilv."
t'hey were made, not ia caverns of the
hills, but in one Demotic DSDvn of the
French and other national collection.
1 be Demotic writing, as most neoDle
unw, is an aooreviaiea lorra of the hiera
tic, which, again, is a cursive form of the
hieroglyphic Tbe Demotic hand it thus
much the most modern form of old Eiya.
tian. Documents in those texts ofteu be
long to the time of tbe Ptolemies, when
holy Egypt had lone been invaded by all
manner of Western and Asiatic peoples
and ideas. The' lexts deciphered by M.
Kevillout are just like these which would
be lound in the cabinet of any French
notary. Old establithd Anns in France
still preserve contracts and similar docu
ments of very considerable age ; they are
the happy hunting-ground of French biog.
ispuers, and from dusty garrets M. Soulie,
tor example, retoued the precious Inven
tories that minutely describe the dnnics:is
interior of Moliere. M. Kevil lout's dis
coveries in the same way enabled him to
reconstruct the domestic life of the Egyp
tians of late dynaslies. W propose now
to glance at the holy state of matrimony
as it was in Eypt and to elucidate, il
possible, a very singular feature of Eiyp
t an law. We refer to the predomiuacce
insured by tbe mast stringent of marriage
settlements. Thus, in the thirty-third
year ot Ptolemy Philadelphus, we find
that the Pastophoras of Amen Api, son of
Pob.slkb.OD8, whose mother is Tahret,
(aith unto the woman, Tarreteus, daugh
ter of lielon, whose mother is Tarreteus,
1 have accepted thee for my wife.
Note here, first the naming of the motbers
of both contracting psrtibs a fact which
in itself demonstrates the importance of
the woman in tbe family, and a survival
of a time when (as among so niaBy sav
age races, among the Lycians, and the
pre historic Athenians) family names were
derived, not from the father, but liom the
mother. First the man says, "I have
accepted thee," and, later, adds, "I will
make thee my wife." Ihe preliminary
acceptance was a mariiace for a year
of probation, like the "hand-lastenmg"
for a year, mm power at the end of the
year to break the contract which used to
prevail among the Highlanders in Scot
land. Certain German usages, and some
other customs of the same dubious sort
are perhaps relici of the same o!d practice.
After accepting and establishing the
woman as his wife, the man makes her a
nuptial gift a promise of an annual al
lowance for dress, a declaration that the
eldest son of both shall inherit all his pro
perty, a piomise to pay certain damagrs
if he takes another wife, and, last, a
guarantee in the form of a mortgage upoa
all his property. Another example is
quoted iu which one Petonpa" assigns to
wife, Tteshorpehrat "not only bis
house and all his landed property, present
and future, but htewise his silver and
copper money, his lurniture, and au tne
title deeds and documents concern tog the
propei ty.
He leaves himself absolutely nothing.
and the only clause hi his favor is that his
wife shall provide for bim while he livss,
and pay lor his funeral liturgies, and lor
embalming his body when be dies. And
this U not a singular instance. Still more
remarkable, the Egyptian bridegroom too
nis wife's name, and Egyptian sons, " In
stead of being called after their fathers,
were designated by the names of deir
mothers."
Lssurainc FaraaUa;.
It is generally understood that to be
a mechanic a man must serve an ap
prenticeship at the trade. The mechan
cal principles, as well as the applica
tion of them, must be learned.
If merchantile pursuits are to be en
gaged in, a course of education in a
commercial and business college is es
sential ; and then the practical details
of the business must be learned under
the eye ol one experienced in the busi
ness. AO man expects to enter on
successful career in any of these with
out years of etudy and preparation.
And no one would think of employing
any one professionally who Lad not
qualified himself for his calling by this
course of thorough preparation.
This being the case in regard to me
other callings in life, it would seem but
reasonable that the farmer, who for the
highest success in nis vocation requires
a more general and varied knowledge
than is necessary for any ether busi
ness, should seek for that previous
training which alone can qualify, hint
for such success.
But such is not usually the case, it
seems to be the prevailing opinion among
men and especially among farmers
that anybody can farm, whether ne nas
had any previous knowledge of the bus
iness or preparat.on for it, or not
There is, happily, a change in the
public mind on this subject ; and the
time is doubtless near when a man will
no more think of entrairimr in agricul
tural pursuits without an agricultural
education than he would now engage in
professional life without a suitable edu
cation. The young man who intends to
engage in farming should serve a
thorouzh apprentioeship under the eye
of? first-class practical farm"
Tb FoUr Kicht,
It is s mistake to suppose that the Arc
tic winter, in ine nignw isusuucs, u
loi.g, dreary one of opaque darkness, i ne
highest latitude yet tcached by man is 82
deg., 30 min.. 20 sec, and there twilight
lasts four hours and iony-iwo minutes uu
Oec 2 2d, the shortest day or the northern
year. Man will have to go seme 225 miles
further north than he has yet gone if he is
to reach the region of absolute darkness.
The pole itself is in the dark but seventy
seven days from Nov. 12th to Jan. 29:b.
There ia a period of about four days in the
year during which the sun shines on both
poles at tbe same time. This is due to the
tact that the sun it larger than tbe earth,
and that bis rays are bent by tbe earth's
stmcspnere In such a way as to converge
upoa his own surfaos
A Pwtlfwl Oli-l.
On the 23d of December, 178s, the floor
oi ine called states sen ale chamber it
Annapolis was filled to overflowing by
stateiy dames and gentle maidens who
had flocked to the capitol as if tbe weight
of state questions bad been for this one
hour intrusted to their w be deliberations
Washington, the mighty yet unambitious
hero of tbe time, while still the idol of the
public heart, was on ibis day to lay down
bis laurels by resigniug to Congress his
cotnniiMlon as commander-in-chief of tbe
brave little army, whoe triumphs he had
directed and whose sufferings he had
shared.
Accompanied by his aides, Colonel
ffeojimia Walker and Cjlooel David
Humphreys and the officers appointed as
efcort, Washington entered the hall where
the assembled congress awat ed him, every
manly voice among the spectators cheer
ing, and every feminine kerchief waving
an enthusiasm of approval and welcome;
but the cheers were hushed into breathless
silence by the first wards of tbe great
hero's dignified address, to which General
il.filin, as President of the senate, made
an eloquent and appropriate reply.
On Washington's left stood the valient
soldier Colonel John Eager Uoward of
Maryland, and facing Colonel Howard,
conspicuous among the foremost group ot
senators, was General Kead of eSoulh Caro
lina, the hero of this short legend of a
br-gone love. How little did either of
these young men, strangers to one another,
dream of the day to come when a son and
daughter of each were to become husband
and wife to the daughter and son of the
other !
Many were the men whose names were
already distinguished or to become historic
who were present either as members of
coneress or spectators of the impressive
scene. Msdisoo, Jefferson, Monroe; Lee
of Virginia, Osgood of Massachusetts,
Morris of Pennsylvania, McCoinb of Dela
ware and Geo. Otbo Williams, Gens,
buiilh and Swan of Maryland. The well
known Charles Carroll of Carrol itoa was
accompanied by Lis two daughters, one of
whom was afterward, aa Mis. Cston,
mother of the celebratad trio of American
beauties who became respectively Ladv
Stafford, the Marchioness of Wellealey,
and the Ducbeas of Leeds.
But aosorbingas was the attention given
to Washington by the august assemblage
of heroes and patriots, who recognized in
him the greatest hero and patriot of any.
the youmt Carolinian's eyes, wandered up
to tne gallery above, where Mrs. Washing
ton, with her young grandchildren at her
knee was sealed in all the dignity and
legitimate pride of the wife who crowns
herself with ber husband s glory.
Grouped around her chair were the
three Calvert sisters, Maryland's blood
royal, tbe family ot Lord Baltimore; and
never was the fame of Maryland beauty
better maintained than by the contrasting
loveliness of the youngest Miss Ariaoa
Calveit, with the more brilliant charms of
her elder sisters, who had been espoused
during all the perils of the war, both on
the same evening, the one ty Washing
ton's step-son, Parke Curt!s, aud the other
by Mr. George Stuart, of Maryland.
It is told of these gentlemen that each
received the announcement of the birth of
a son born on the same day, a year after
the marriages while on the baitle-fleld.
But it was not tbe rich bloom or dark
eyes of the beautiful youag matrons
which so riveted the attention of the young
southerner that even the sublime presence
of Washington was for a while lorgottcn.
To his eyes tbe youngest sister was much
tbe faiut and he gazed up at the uncon
scious young girl until the friend at his
e how, Mr. James Monroe too thorough
a Virginian not to recognise the phen
omena of a love at first sigat whispered
ber name in his ear, and the offer to pre
sent him before the lady quitted Anna
polis town for her borne in the country.
The offer was gratefully accepted, and ere
the winter was half over Miss Calvert was
athsnced to her eager and enraptured
young lover; but not alas! with the entire
consent and approbation of her family and
friends, and thence arose the cloud which
darkened the horizon of this love
legend. .
As usual, that passion youth defies, age
coldly ignoreX The Carolinian was weal
thy, ot prominent position and good birth,
and of distiujiiihee education ; bu. the
lady was threatened with decline. She
was also tbe youngest darling of the
household; her sisters had married so well,
yet remained in their midst; and her fam
ily grew more and more reluctant that this
comparative stranger should bear away
tbsir tender and fragile flower to his far
off southern home, to pine away, and die,
perhaps, out ot sight and bearing of those
who loved her from her cradle; and the
angered lover saw the feeble health of his
lady-love give way under the conflict of
duty Kith tecling, until she became indeed
seriously ilL
But tbe passionate southerner was not
to have the woman of his heart granted
to his wishes. The sensiouity which
could doom the gentle Ariana Calvert to
an early death cou'd not perxit her to
sacrifice family affection to her own and
lover's happiness. What bitter tears and
faltering words were exchanged in their
parting none can tell ; but the mi matures,
given once aa the tair tokens of union,
each still retained, to be sorrowful conso
lation and reminder of a life-long separa
tion. Problem iu Adthoistic.
A merchant nought tour carrels ot su
gar, seven barrels of molasses, and two
barrels of meal. Find what per cent, of
beans he mixed with bis coffee
A beggar met two boys; one gave him
seven cents and the other gave bim eight
cents. Find out tbe name of the third
boy who hit him in tbe ear with a snow
ball. If one insect has six legs and another
insect has seven, how man) hornets does
it take to lift a boy out of tbe eld man
Sabin's orchard?
In one field there are eight sheep; in
another field there are seven horses. How
many men will it take to properly conduct
a village dog fight f
A county officer on a salary of $300 per
year purchased two horses for $600, a car
nage for iwu, a set or silver tor liw,
four silk dresses for his wife at $30 each,
and played poker to tbe tune of $180,
how much did he save ont of his year's
salary, and what is the county going to do
about it I
If a young man owns a a little cane, a
rat-and-tan dog, a pair of lavender pants,
three flash cixkties, a frail moustache and
a flirtation handkerchief, what will it cost
to board six id;ols at a first-class hotel for
a year?
A bureau weighing sixty-eight pounds is
to be carried np a flight of stairs twelve
feet high. What lilting power must be
exerted to the square foot to get it half
way np I
A bureau weighing sixty-eight pounds
bss been tugged half way up a flight of
stairs twelve feet high. How fast must
the old man travel to get to the foot or the
stairs and get bis boots off before the in
fernal old thing smaslies him f
Among the players in a poker room are
three merchants two aldermen, four clerks,
two lawyers, one butcher, and one grocer.
A raid is made by the police and all are
captured, rind how many ol tnem
'dropped in to see aoout selling tbe poker
man a horse."
A plumber ia called on to asend a leak In
a water pipe. He seeds an employe who
surveys tbe leak; another who courts the
servant girl; a third who has forgotten
his accordeon; a fourth to look after the
other three, lie sends a bid for ft 13.
At this rate bow long will it tike the
plumber to secure a mortgage on the City
lialL.
A asks B for a loan of $5 until Satur
day. Six months later B reminds A that
be has not returned that "V yet. A
denies that be ever borrowed a red cent of
B, and offer to punch his head for Insult
ing him. Find what B loses.
A tramp gets tn e kicks at one house.
cold pancake at another and a bite from a
dog at a third. How long will it take
him to get into the workhouse for sixty
daytl
Thirteen Mexicans cross the Rio Grande
into the United btates on a pleasure ex
cursion. Ihey conclnded to invest in
drove of Texas cattle. Tbree-firths cf the
nuinbei meet with accidents and remain.
permanently on this side, while another
fifth feel hurt about something. What is
the exact number of those who got borne
without feeling anything in particular ?
St. Aawwa.
Outside one of the gates of Rome
the resort of Sunday and hobday-keep-
mg Romans, and, precisely. Porta Pia.
through which Viator Emmanuel and
his army entered in 1870 there stands,
halfway between two wayside eating
and drinking bouses, a little church, de
dicated to St Agnes, a young virgin
martyr, who suffered death rather than
to be married to the son of the Gover
nor of Borne, who was dying of love for
her. She was only thirteen years of age;
but girls of that age are women in Italy.
So she answered bis protestations of
love by saying: "I am affianced to him
whom angels serve, and whom the sun
and moon adcre."
She was then threatened says her
biographer with being publicly dis
honored in an infamous place, and then
to be killed in a most cruel way. "My
Divine Spouse." she answered "tbe
God of purity, whom I serve will de
liver me from your impious designs V
She was then thrown on a burning pile;
but.laughing and singing praise to God,
she defied the flames, which could not
be made to bnrn her.
She was then made to walk naked
through tbe streets of Rome, and was
also exposed in a place of bad repute
the Agonal Circus. There her hair grew
miraculously long and covered ber like
a cloak, and the Governor's son was
struck with blindness. At last she was
beheaded. The place of bad repute
where she was exposed was after
wards transformed into a chapel,
and over it was built one of the most
beautiful churches in Borne. It is not
there, however, that she was burled.
The Christians of that day took her
her body and burkd it in a catacomb
outside of Rome. The catacomb bears
her name, and over her tomb was built
a splendid church during Constantino's
reign, and this church was restored by
Paul ITL in the sixteenth century, and
still later by Pius IX. It is in this little
church that on every anniversary of her
death are brought on cushions two little
lambs decorated with flowers and rib
bons. They are blessed, and then they
are taken to the Pope, who sends them
to the Convent of St Cecilia, were they
are shorn of wool, which is afterwards
woven into the pallium worn by the
Pope and Cardinals and some of the
Archbishops. The Church of St Agnes,
outside the walls, is known by the image
of the lamb, which is outside the door.
All visitors to Rome make a point of
going to see it
Life of Children.
It has been calculated by a recent
writer on vital statistics, that of ten
children born in Norway a little over
seven reach their twentieth year; that in
England and the United States of Ame
rica somewhat less than seven reach that
age; that is France only five reach it
and in Ireland less than five. He tells
as that in Norway, out of 10,000 born
rather mere than one out of three rea
ches the age of seventy; in England one
out of four; in the United States,!! both
sexes be computed, less tnaa one out of
four; in France less than one out of
eight and in Ireland less than one ont
of eleven, and he adds this significant
computation, based on what may be
called the commercial view of the vital
question. In producing dead machine
ry the cost of all that is broken in the
making is charged to the cost of that
which ia completed. If we estimate by
this same rule the cost of rearing child
ren to manhood, if we calculate up the
number of years lived by those who fell
with the years of those who passed suc
cessfully to manhood, there would be
found between the two extremes pres
ented in Norway and Ireland both, be
it observed unnatural a loss of 120 per
eent greater in the first year of life, 72
per cent greater in the first four years
of life, and 120 per oent greater in the
years between the fifth and the twentieth
in Ireland than in Norway. In Norway
the average length of life of the effective
population is 39 and rather more than a
half years, in England 35 years, in
France not onite 33 years, and in Ire
land not quite 29 years. Thus again
comparing the best with the worst of a
scale of vitality, in which both are bad,
in Norway the preprrtien of the popu
lation that reaches 20 survives nearly
40 years, or four-fifths of the effective
period, to contribute to the wealth of the
community; while in Ireland the same
proportion survive less than 29, or con
siderably under three-fifths of the ef
fective period.
North Carolina sent 124, 009 men to
the ooafederate army.
Over 2,600 man ia Utah have more
than one wife a piece-
TrylaK to Farm Terr pia.
Senator Gardner, of Atlantic City,
New Jersey, an ardent and industrious
sportsman Las ust developed a new
hobby. He is now diving deep into
the subject of terrapin-hatching and
has prepared a farm in the meadows
not far from the Inlet, where he is
going to try to raise them. It is simply
a canal dug down to low-water mark,
about twenty feet wide, and extending
straight from a small pond into Abseoon
Inlet by which means it ia kept sup-'
plied with ocean water when the tide
rises. The farm or pond comprises
aa urea of about two acres of water.
His experiment is original in that the
farming is done right in the native mud
of the diamond-back, instead of uncon
genial soil, where artificial means must
be employed to make it adaptable to
the terrapin. The Senator says that
he has never yet seen a farm where the
terrapins were hatched, the so-called
farms being merely places to keep and
fatten thesu for market He purposes
to try to raise the Native Egg Harbor
terrapin, or diamond-back, directly
from the egg. He says he and Dr.
Reed, who is a partner in the under
taking. Lave experimented a great deal
with them, and they feel quite familiar
with their needs and modea of life.
The Terrapin feeds on bay cabbage,
small mussels or minnows, bnt his great
delicacy is soft-shell crabs. Next to the
soft-shell, he will call for a dead hard
shell crab, a little dried beef, clams or
oysters. The Senator says he nsed to
let them get very hungry and lean and
then experiment upon them with vari
ous kinds of food, with the above-men
tioned results. But they are terribly
afraid of a live hard-shell crab and if
one is placed in the water near them
they will toddle away as fast as their
feet can carry them. In about October
they go into the mud at high water
mark, and it is sail Ly some weather
prophets that according to the depth
they go into the ground the severity of
the winter may be presaged. The usu
al depth is about two feet They re
main in a torpid Btate until May, when
they emerge from their holes and begin
to make preparations for a summer res
idence.
About the 1st of June they lay their
eggs, which are a little larger than an
ordinary marble, and are usually in
strings of from fifteen to forty to each
string, the older cows laying the most
The eggs are buried in the sand by the
cows, and Senator Gardner asserts that
he believes he has made the discovery
that the principal cause for the small
percentage of eggs that are hatched is
due to the depredations made upon
them by the crows. He says he has
watched the crows, and he is convinc
ed that they can instantly detect
where the eggs are concealed. He pur
poses hatching the eggs of the farm in
sand-boxes placed indoors. He states
that the hatching process requires no
particular attention. He recites an in
stance where he once placed some eggs
in the pocket of an old coat, and forget
ting to remove them on his return
home, the coat hung unused from June
until September, when small terrapins
were discovered in the pocket
But the most discouraging is the
slow growth of the terrapin. They are
of no use for market until they have at
tained a length of six inches on their
under shell, an J it takes them from
eight to ten years to acquire this size.
But the Senator wants to see just Low
much of that time may be shortened by
careful treatment and his fattening pro
cesses. He says tin undertaking is
purely a scientific labor, as it will cost
more to raise the terrapin for the first
eight years than they will sell for, but
he is ambitious to see the attempt suc
cessful. It is well known that tbe scar
city of divnond backs has led to mnch
adulteration in terrapin dishes, and it is
said that fully three-fourths of the ter
rapins served as diamond-backs are
fresh water terrapins caught in the
mountains and known as "yellow bel
lies." The form is now well stocked
and everything is in readiness for the
terrapins to wake np.
lMsraelt and Prince Albert.
Some of the papers have been quite
hysterical about the Queen's long
friendship for Lord Beaootisfield and
her keen appreciation of Lis talents.
The real fact is that the Queen had
scarcely ever seen Lord Beaconsfield
when Le became Prime Minister in
1S68. He had managed to offend her
majesty and Prince AIlert in the days
when Le was leading the protectionists ;
and it is a fact that until Mr. Dis
raeli was Chancellor ot the Exchequer,
he was never once invited to a State
entertainment These functions were
then more frequent and more brilliant
than they are now, and a formal protest
against the exclusion was secretly sent
to the palace by several of Mr. Disraeli's
followers, it being pointed out that it
was an unprecedented thing for the
leader of the opposition in the House of
Commons to be thus neglected; but
Prince Albert was not fond of Mr. Dia
raelie, and if he Lad lived it is quite
certain that Lord Beaconsfield would
never have been a court favorite. It is
rather an odd fact, by the way, conaid
ering the high-flown en'ogies of which
the Prince Consort has ever been the
subject, that the three statesmen whom
he most disliked, and whom he did Lis
best to thwart and put aside, were Lord
Palmers ton, Mr. Disraeli, and Mr.
Gladstone. During the nine months
Mr. Disraeli was in office in 18C8, he
managed to ingratiate himself with the
Qneen, who, in the first instance, would
scarcely Lear ol his becoming Prime
Minister, and. the good impression he
then left was rendered permanent dur
ing the first months of his second ten
are of power.
The Ceaapoeltloa ef Glaaa.
Glass is a salt being the result of a
combination of an acid with an alkaline
base that Is, an alkaloid ot organic
nature. In the case of glass the acid is
silioa or silicic acid, and the base a
mixture of an alkaline with an earthy
base, such as lime, or with the ociue of
one of the heavy metals, such as lead.
Silica exists in nature in such minerals
as flint, agate, rock crystal, or quartz.
Its character as an acid was first clearly
established ty Berzelius. This does
not appear until it is at a red heat.when
it sets very powerfully, and, expelling
other acids,combtnes with bases to form
solid compounds or salts called silicates
Glass may be made by substituting bo-
racic acid for silica. It is remarkable
that while the silicates formed by na
ture crystallize, those made by art do
not Potash and soda are the most im
portant ingred'ents, next to silica itself.
in glass. They act as a flux, rendering
the glass easy to melt Lead renders
glass brilliant, clear, and fusible, but in
excess softens it Lime increases the
density, hardness, and luster of glass.
Carbon in the form of charcoal aids the
fusion. Glauber's salt with lime is
sometimes used instead of soda, and
muriate of soda, or common salt, is ex
tensively used as a flux for coarse ware.
A small admixture of the black oxide oM
manganese is essential iu making flint
glass, its property being to clear and
purify the mass from the discoloration
caused by particles of carbon and iron.
For this reason it ia called the "glass
maker's soap." as it appears to wa-sh
away all impurities. In excess, man
ganese causes reddish color. This may
be removed by agitating the glass.
Coarse green glass ia, however, made
white by an excess of maganese. The
purple-pink windows sometimes seen in
the dwelling houses are made no with
maganese. As a general principle, the
glass is less fusible and offers greater
resistance to the action of water and
acids the larger its proportion of silica
and alumina, while the contrary results
from an excess of potash, soda, baryta,
lime, mjgneia,or oxide of lead, Luster
and the refractive power of glass are
produced iu the highest degree by lead
glass, next by baryta, next by potash,
and least by soda glass.
A TraaleTale.
All Lis life, he had toiled and saved
and scraped, and pnlled every string
that had a dollar at the end of it. And
now all his bard-earned wealth was
gone and a great hateful, interest-eating
mortgage spread its black wings over
all that be owned, and loved on earth.
He sank into a choir, and, folding his
arms upon the table before bim bowed
his gray head upon them and groaned
great groans. His heart seemed break
ing. "Did yon mortgage the farm ?" asked
his wife, anxiously, stealing softly to
his side.
"Yes," he growled, 'both farms, and
sold the wood lot over on Big Island."
"And did you have to mortgage the
town house too ?" she asked, with quiv
ering lips and glistening eyes.
"Oh, yes," said the man in hollow
tones, "Oh, yes, and Bold all my stock
in the Northern and hypothecated
what I had in the Sixth street bridge."
"And was It .enough ?" she asked
trembling with eagerness. "Was it
enough ?"
"Not quite," L growled, and then,
as Le saw the ghastly pallor of deathly
disapxintment spread over her face,
he added, "but the milliner let me bare
it on ninety days' time for tlsn balance
at eight per cent'
"And you've brought my new hat
home then," she caroIed,joyously. "Oh,
Phillip, you dear old dnck !"
"Well, no, not nil of it." he ssi.L
"I brought the plumes and one of the
bows down with me in the express, bnt
the hat itself is coming down from
Chicago on a flat-car."
And the next week after that, eleven
dark browed men, who sat behind
Philip's wife at the theatre, waylaid the
wretched man on his wsy home, hauled
him off down Valley street, rolled him
up into a wad. and stopped up the new
sewer with him The hot had come.
teas Dofrs f Anaffriea.
There is in Wilmington, Delaware, the
finest kennel of English setter dogs
owned in the United States. There are
thirty in the kennel. Plantagenet is by
all odds the finest dog in the pack and
is generally conceded to be the champion
living dog. He is two years old,
sired by Dashing Monarch and out oi
PetreL He took first prize in the open
class of the dog show in Pittsburg and
will oompote in the high shows in New
York, and in Boston early in May, ap
pearing in both in the champion chvs.
The only dog that can seriously com
pete with Plantagenet ia Thunder,
owned by Mr. Moore, of Philadel
phia. Thunder ia out of Fairy, a
pure Laverack setter, now owned by Mr
GoodselL Plantagenet is of Llewellyn
stock, which is but an outcross of La
verack. For Plantagenet $1,500 Las
been offered and rt fused. Money will
not buy him.
Another splendid specimen of the
canine race found in Mr. Martin's ken
nel is Fairy one of the last f not the
last surviving of Mr. Laverack's own
breeding in America. Among the other
notables in the kennel are Petrel, bred
by Mr. Llewellyn, though of pure Li
verack stock; Petrel II. by Pride of the
Border, and Petrel HI., by Carlowitz,
who in his old age ia also owned by Mr.
GoodselL Old Petrel took the cham
pionship prize at Birmingham dog show
and was awarded the same honor in the
show at Philadelphia in 1373. Petrel
II, tcok the prize at the great show in
New York last year and Petrel ILL got
second prize in the recent Pittsburg
show.
NEWS IN BRIEF
The recent census of France shows
a population of 33,000,000.
Tr lined nurses readily gat from $15
to 820 a week in New York.
New York has opened a coffee ex
change, with 112 members.
It costa 8300,000 annually to sup
port the poor iu Wisconsin.
A New England manufacturer has
30,000 snow shovels on hand.
In the United States 6,471,787 men
are available for military duty.
The Detroit house cf correction
paid a profit of $36 000 in 1SS1.
St Louis numbers 10,000 native
Eentuckians among her citizens.
The new city directory of Denver
give that city 60,000 inhabitants.
Fifty thousand slate pencils are
made daily, at Castleton. Vermont
There are 273.000 acres lens Inn J
seeded in wheat in Illinois than last
year.
One poiut in the Mississippi river
was sixty miles wide during the late
flood.
At Tirapa. Florida. 10.500 woith
of land was Itousrht and nai.l tnr in
whisky.
Japan is now full of schools ami
the University of Tokio Las over 20fl
students.
San Francisco estimates at SS30.-
460 the necessary school expenditures
for next year.
It is estimated that the Northern
Pacific furnishes employment for 10 tsKl
men iu Montana.
The saviura ban'- s of th Kt-ik rf
New York represent financial reanniwe.
of $143,000,000.
Within one hour over 1.000 peti
tioners at Chicago signed a request that
Mason be liberated.
Boston has 12.806 street lamps.and
7.5S7 of them were broken during the
past twelve months.
The Archbishop of Canterbury had
gone to the South of France, by the ad
vice of his physicians.
Over 2.500.0O0 bors,s are estimat
ed to be running wild oyer the prairies
of the Argentine Republic.
A South Carolina ladv has made
feather fans of the value of $1500 for a
prominent New York firm.
Iu several English provincial towns
butchers who have only American beef
sell all that they can procure.
Texas tells annually 4W,000 bead
of cattle: at SJ0 per head it foots up a
grand aggregate of $3,000,000.
Sixty thousand bushels of seed are
being distributed among the sufferers
by the forest fires in Michigan.
The exchanges at the Boston Clear
ing House during March were $12,000,
000 less than during March, 1SS1.' '
The last day of services by H iniea
at Louisville Kentucky, resulted iu 353
conversions. In all he made 2,473.
Of the 17,001 persons committed to
prison in Massachusetts last year only
about eighteen per cent were women.
A single day's fog recently brought
into the London gascompanvnear$ti(? -000,
the price of 75,900,000 feet of gas.
In June next there will be opened
in Paris an exhibition of plans and
models for school baildin ;s of all kinds.
The Commercial Club of Chicago
proposes to establish a Manual Traini no-
Jyhool in that city at a cost of $100,000.
In Georgia negroes pav taxes on be
tween $6,000,000 and $7000,000. In
Louisiana they pay taxes on S25.00O .
000.
A bell nwl by a Boston ferrv won
csst in South America for a convent iu
1673, and after long use was sold for
old junk
It is estimrtsd that beef shioDeil di
rect from Texas to London marietta
will, when sold at 9 cents a oni:,l ti'i.i
a profit of 2 cents.
Pope Leo XIII. rises at 6 and says
Mass in his private chapel. He break
fasts early, dines at 2 aad anps at 9. At
11 he gees to bed.
It is estimated that the total In.rH,
of submarine telegraph cables in the
world is o.4,luu miles, having a money
yalue ot about $200,000,000.
The alligators of Florida
be doomed. A Fort Ogden man has a
contract to deliver 501)0 alligator hidca
o a ot. ixmis nrm by JUay 1.
The most populous township in the
United States, not incorporated aa a.
city, is Lake, IlL, with 23,000 iuhaU
tantt. It is a suburb of Chicasro.
It is stated that there are now over
200,000 telephones in use in this coun
try. At the le'inninir of 18711 tl.r
were only 12.000; a year later 50.000.
The property of the late Kins-
George of Hauover, which was confisca
ted by the Prussian Government in
18C6, . amounted to over kl 000.000
in the year 1SC3. bearing about I'JO.OOO
interest
In a recent computation maJ bv
the municipal authorities, it was found
that in twenty-four consecutive hours
78,913 passengers and 10.7:13 vehielen
crossed London Bridsre.
The Southern Methodisti are en
gaged in an effort to raise funds for the
erection of a monument over the grave
oi me uue iisup v ightmau, iu Magno
lia Cemetery, Charleston, S. C.
A Mamie bicycle was tested u;ku
the ocean recently by two gentlenien,
who started from alem Neck for Boston.
When ofl Nahant a blinding snow squall
came on, and they put into Lynn.
S. C. Dairymple, one ef the great
wheat farmers of the Northwest, has
sold $80,000 worth of his Dakota land
to George Howe, of Bradford, Pa. He
finds that it is necessary for him to de
crease his acreage.
Iu the viliage of Amsterdam, N. Y
sear'y 1.000,000 brooms are made every
year.
Forty-three pounds of blasting pow
der at the Sandy Hill quarry, near
Troy, X. Y., recently, removed a mass
of stone sixty feet long, sixteen feet
thick and fit teeu feet wide aud weigh
ing nearly 1300 tons.
It will astonish some people to learn
that since 1377 there has been an In
crease in the consumption of tea grown
in India amounting to 20,500,000 pounds
while, at the same time, there bas been
a decrease in the consumption of the
tea grown in China ef about 9,000,000
pounds.
A kingswoman of the Sieur de la
Saile, the explorer, now lives in New
Orleans in the person of Mrs. Blaachard,
in her maidenhood Mile. Hermione da
la Slle, and now the wife of General A,
G. Blanch ard.of the United States army.
She is the great-great-grand-niece of the
dksooverer.
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