t. . 5 ' ft. At t; V 1 B. 7. SOHWEIEE, THE O0IHT1TUTI0I-THE HMOS AID TEE EIF0K0E1CEIT OF TEE LAVS. Editor and Proprietor. I f i VOL. XXXVI. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. MAY 0. 1882. NO. 8. I 1 s. . i. ! liiiafi Mil II TBI LAST OOD BIGBT. y4 u'.g at, my 1ot: Tae waj Is tark For tkee and mas e)alj a ami !e sup beroad Can auaer m. Oar Detas diverge nay, do aot weee, ttud kuewets beat ; tki ae good a: (HI aid let me t-lp, I long to r a.11 werlds are Hla who caraa for u; 'Twara sweat, daar leva. To go lof tl'irr froia thia koma To lost above. But all oar BaTee!y rathar'i ways are aural rtthl: In Ufa or dn:k, wa il trust la Bin. So. love, io-d aifbt. Still I am taine and tnou art mrne In kraraa aa Here; MetalnU me veil will not be tfcick Between at, dear. Taos will come soot.: Work wkile 8a day. And aenre tne rigst; Remembet that I wait for tnee Dfar lore, rood mrkt, IDOlMia fiords IFHODI. I am an old nuud, ami lire iu a sec ond rata boarding-house, and probably the world at large would agree with my mere Elinor when she says: "Such a dreadful life, auntie! How can you boar the monotony, to say notliing of the annoyance?" Elinor has always eaten cream from a silver spoon, so to apeak, and baring just married, and being consequently surrounded by a deeper rose-colored atmosphere than usual, it is baldly to be wondered at that she cannot appre ciate the advantage of my situation. "Ble8 you, child." I say to her, "it ian't so Terr bad after one gets accus tomed to boarding-house steaks and mnddy coffee; and I've had more experiences in these twelve years than vou in the whole twenty -tour of your lie." It is trne, there have been such fanny incidents at number twelve, Blank street, that I ceuld have given Dickens points for a dozen tales better than Pickwick. I must say, however, tbat two years ago this very month something hapiened which more nearly demoralized the tranquil course of affairs at number twelve thau anything else. Brother WilliAni and I had been there fer year?, and were as nearly domesti cated as it is possible to be in a boardiug-bnnse. William is somewhere in the tlurties, and always so staid and quiet that he has the credit of ten additional years. He comes heme at night he is a clerk on a moderate salary and after tea drops into my rxm with the evening paper to read, while I knit or darn his socks. We are either of us brilliant conversationalists, so that after we have talked half an hour or so he fays goodnight and goes off to his own room. It is a trifle humdrum, perhaps, but we've never lieen used to gyeties, and on the whole rather enjoy vegt taring. Sometimes William suggests that a pipe or a cigar would add to his happiness, judging from the comfort other meu derive from smoking, but I say to him: "No, William, you haven't one bad habit, and why should you cultivate one sow? When a man is growing bald he is too old to Itesrin smokinc." To begin my story. One night a carnage drove up to uujiber twelve, a large trunk was lifted off; and a girlish lgure came up tbe steps. 1 was in tlie bare parlor waiting for tea and saw tlie arrival. In boarding-house there are so few occurrences that one cannot help fostering a little curiosity, and I waited with some impatience for the new comer's appearance. But she did not come and as William did and tlie tea bell rang I proceeded to tlie dining room. The long tablo was nearly filled and tea was half over when a girl appeared in the doorway, and no one noticing her fo an instant said in a bright and charming voice: "Will you give me a seat?" Tiiea the little maid servant whom ahe address jd tamed and placed her opposite me. I cannot begia by any description to tell how pretty she was. She had that plump, peach blossom beauty which reminds ome so irresistibly of summer bloom and brightness. Her eyes were large, brown and appealing, her hair Inli el little curly knots anl rings, and when she looked down tre long lashes rested on her eheeks. and mad her prettier than ever. I could see tha-. the eyes of the gentleman were furtively directed toward her, and knew they were tilled with admiration, but no one spoke, and I believe she did not leok at any of us. To cut the story of several days short, we did not succeed for that length of tin.n in makinzr her acquaintance, I learned from Maggie, tlie chambermaid, tbat her name was Miss Archibald, and that she bad come to the city for a visit, choosing number twelve as a stopping place because her father had known Mrs. Ford, the landlady before she moved to Boston. For several days, as I said, she came to breakfast, dinner and tea, and gave none of us the chance evem of saying -nvi-uiorimif? " until it happened that her eyes met mine by chance, and I a&id it boldlv. Then the ice wa Drosen. That noon wlien William came to dinner he lingered in my room before going down, and said Dually: "Smith says you were lueky this moniinlT " Smuii is the bank cashier, who sits at the end of the table. "Wbv? ' asked I curtly, breaking my thread, although 1 knew well euougn what he meant. ltuoimn von have had the first chance of speaking to Miss Archibald.' Small honor!" sail I, ourtly. "Well. I don't know." said William "It depends on what you consider an honor." and by that I knew he was as much in teres tea in luiss aiuuimii the others. All our gentlemen are of that uncer tain age at whicn, if the follies of youth erop out, they are mueh more apparent than at aa earlier period. William, however, seemed to be the one a.nong them most iavorsd by fortune. We were at dinner, an! Miss Arehibald, neariv opposite, was screened from us by a" tall glate oi eelery. William, ostensibly ie help himself to that vegetable, but as I still think, to remove it from his range of vision, put his hand out, and instead ot lifting the glass, nerveusly overturned it in Miss Archibald's plate. For the first time since we had known her, hn face relaxed into a most charming smile. William was too much confused to do anything beyond asking incoherently te be exo-aed. at the same time growing snore an4 more scarlet; and Miss At JiiWaid said laugbiagly: "I thank you for helping me so bouatiiuily." William made an extravagant bow and ami ling v answered: "If I had had the pleasure of help ing you I should not have done it in so awkward a manner. After that there was no more cere mony. Miss Archibald soon went into the parlor after tea, played a little on the cracked piano, euag some simple oauads in a irecli young voice, and fiLally it was the usual thing to see V llliaai standing, rapt I y atientive, at one side of the piano. Smith behind her. Morrison, the newspaper reporter, in a lounging chair wheeled so that he could watch her face, and Timmins, the hardware dealer, turning her music. To be sure, he did not know one note from another, and she was obliged to stop her song and say. 'Now!" a a signal at every page. 1 found that the gentlemen regarded vtiliiaui with a certain coolness, as. owing to tbe affair of the celery, he was ou a more familiar tootuiz with her thau any of them. As for me I liked Miss Archibald very much. She seemed a sensible little tmsg, am1, beyond that, wa so ex travagantly pretty that one could but admire her. She invited!me to go on shopping ex peditions, and I found she was laving a number of elaborate uressesjnade, about wjiich my aavioe was asked, and of course, tbat deference to my opinion in the matter of dry goods had a mollify ing eflect on me William became more and more in fatuated, aa did the others, and I grew provoked. As it men of their age ought not to tare something better to think of than being at the beck and call of a ehild in her teens! One night I went into the parlor to wait for Mrs. Jerrolds, who had invited me to a W-ture, and in the darkness for Mrs. Ford was too economical to eucourage the lighting of more than one gas jet saw Miss Archibald on the piano stool with her hands resting en the keys, while William was standing beside her. looking eagerly io her face. ''Tea, Miss Bessie," he was saying," friendship is such a noble, sach an ele vating thing! How it lifts us above petty conimonpiaees to know there is one heart will be true to us!" "Charming indeed!" said L, dryly. "Yes, William, as yon say, there is nothing like friendship." It was wicked of. me, i know, but I was abundantly repaid by the start he save and the expression I could imagine but could not see on his countenance. Miss Arehibald was undisturbed and be gan playing softly as I went out. Weil, things went on in the same ratio until I used to see William coming in with little white parcels, unmistaka bly from the florist's, and Miss Archi bald wore violet aad dairies at her throat. One morning we came down to break fast and her seat was vacant Timmins lingered over Lis breakfast, but she did cot appear; Smith was silent and preoc cupied, Morrison real the morning paper nervously, and William played with his biscuit. At noon she did not come, and the four lunatics became still more agitated. In tha meanwhile I had ascertained that she went to Dorchester the previous afternoon and had apent the night there, but my opinio, was not asked and of course I did not volunteer in formation. After dinner, Williarx, instead of going out as usual, waited for me in the hall and said: "Deborah, won't you go upstairs and e if Miss Archibald is ill?" "No, I m sure I shan't, "said 1, eoolly. Not even to oblige you." 'Deborah, how unkind you are!" cried he dramatically. "Is this all the sympathy one woman has for another? hv. a person might die in a Doardiug- house without a soul near," "William," said I, impressively, take my word for it. you're making a decided simpleton of yourself." But William had shut the door forcibly and was goue. In the middle of the atternoon .uiss Archibald came to my room, fresh and rosy. "Such a mce time, deal Miss Eraser, slie said. "And now my I tell you a secret?" "To be sure, my dear, said I, strok . , i . 1 . 1 , . ing ner solt cueea as sue aneii uesme me, for I couldn't help liking her. "Well, all my shopping is done, aad I act going home to-night unexpectedly at six. liarrv lia eome lor me and insist tuat I shall go back with him He raid papa gnve him full liberty to take me whether 1 was wunng or uoi. "And who is Harry?" "That's the eecre', Miss Fraser, though after i am goue you may tell it. He is Harry Starr, and we are to be married in three Weeks. "So that was why you had so much shopping to do," said 1. "Well, my i1fr. 1 hooe you'll be very happy." vl helped her pak. was introduced to Harry when he called for her a handsome, broad-shouldered fellow and said good bye with a blessing. That night at tea I felt that I had a mission to perforin. All were early, aud tha ovuitlcnien as they eame in glanced on ckiv at Miss Archibald's seat only to . w . . i 1 . find It vaeaui. A genera giwm over the table. Finally Timmins could ber it no longer aud said to me: "T TtfiHS Archibald ill?" nti no." said I coolly. "She has rather suddenly. The gen tlemen to whom she is engaged was in town, and thought it would be pleasant for her to go down on the same train with him T nut a irlance round the table. mith and Morrison were eating rapidly, William pushed back his ehair and left the room, but only Timmins oould not Vwi antiMned. "Tim o-entleman to whom she is .nnrn.ir' h reneated feebly. "Yes," said I, helping myself to bit- ter wita uie uimoov ciaxuuu" I. tr. mnrriod in three weeks." William never mentioned the name of Miss Archibald, and I noticed that the four gentlemen settled back immedi at ly into their former staid and sober ways, and gave up cmui"fb - r vnfrh My brother has been quite hnmble since the occurrence, aud I am sure has more respect forhis sister's eommon than before. I only enjoyed the situation, especially as he took me to the onera that week, eviaeuuj tacit bribe to restrain me from saying, "1 told you so." But I am not above accepting a bribe, even though I an . - " t il.s svl.a 4itr tolerably wall convinoou eU were purchased for Bessie Archl bald. hat la tha atreat. One of the keenest aaamoet merciless f Parisian usurers some fifty year ago was one Guibert, who not only lent money at extortionate prioea and com pelled his victims to take part of the .loan in bad pictures and worthless goods but had engaged in absolute swindling. He waa convicted and sentenced to im prisonment, but through powerful influ ence and the nse of money he avoided this punishment, to the intense disgust of the commuuity at large, but especially of the many people he had swindled or "blod." He had been assaulted several times, and so never spnearad on the streets alone. November 27. 1838, as he was passing along the Hue Lonis-le- Grand, Guibert was shot in the arm but as no one had seen the the assailant and as he made ho complaint, the theory that the pistol had been discharged by a jeilons or cast-off woman was set afloat and accepted. Eleven days later, as Guibert and his brother-in-law, Feruc, were passing No. 10 Rae Neuve St. Augustin, the former was shot dead. A hackman, jnmpiug from his coach, collared a young man as the murderer, but the man shook off his grasp with a laugh and the exclamation, "What do you mean? while severs, other men bustled around them, saying, This is a mistake," "That isn't the man," and so on, till the confused coachman re leased his prisoner, who walked away unconcernedly. The police made some twenty arrests and put a watch on every one of Guibert s debtors.bnt the usurer's murderer never was found. Just two years before that, to a day, a still more mysterious crime had been committed inside of the Bank of France. As M. Bouroa, a sub-cashier, was pausing along a dusky corridor leading from the central safe to his desk, having under his arm a package containing more than $200,000 in bank notes, one man throt'led him while another seized the monev. Bouron powerful man, shook them off and shouted "Murder!" when the clerks and watchman ran to his aid. One of the robbers lowered his head and made a dash for the street; he buttered two or three men over, but was finally over powered. His accomplice leisurely ad justed his hat and cuffe aud walked calmly out of the place, no one know ing as yet that two meu hid been con cerned in the attempt The prisoner, a handsome and well-dressed man. was taken to the Police OfGie.bnt as he was asked his nam? drew a pistol and blew out his bruiLS Thouga one hundred thoui-aad erson8 inspected his elEgyat the niorgue, and the bank effered a great reward, no one ever identified the dead man, nor was his companion ever heard of. A Cradsfnc Bleslaa;. A sleek and oily man. smoothly shaven, clad in black broadcloth, with a single-breasted, narrow-collared coat of sacerdotal cut. and a hich silk hat. rang the bed of a house ia East Eighty- fourth street New lor k. 1 he ring was answed by the cook. She did not rec ognize the priest, who teemed to know her perfectly well, and accosted her by her name, whioh may be indicated as Maggie. "I have come to see you Margaret, he remarked, "on an errand from our ohurch." "Our church" is St Monicas, in East Seventy-eighth street, where there are several priests. Maggie thereupon invited him to a seat in the kitchen. "Thank you, Mar garet, but J am very tired and I think I w ill sit in your parlor for a few mm utes." Macsrie explained that there was a prejudice on the part of her employ ers against the entertainment of her guests in the parlor wheu the family were in town. "Ah. well." siilied the holy man, as he drew up tbe crucllyhard-bottomed ehair to the kitchen stove, "this will have to do. I have eome to get your subscription, which I know you will es teem it a privilege to make, to the mon ument we are about to erect in Calvary to the deceased members of our churoh sisterhood. Remember, my good girl," and hero he stroked her paternally 'remember that without eharity you are nothing, and that to deserve your priest's blessing you must give liberal- Now "Marcaret" combined rreat rev erence for the priesthood witli consider able prudence. She had a ten-dollar bill in her bedroom, but, as she alter wanla rinlaiued. it "kern across" her that she might as well keep that fact to herself. So she went to her mistress to borrow fifty ceuts. which the pnest consented to receive after vain efforts to increase it by showing his subscription list, where a Protestant lady in Eighty- fifth street was down for $5, and several of Margaret's associates for $1 each. He gave her a rather grudging blessing and inquired where "Mary" was. Mol lis ii the nurse, and her engagements prevented her from appearing, but not from sending the pnest ner mite oi a quarter. He was eqully familiar wita the names ef the servants next aoor, T-hom ho announced his intention of visiting, and departed scrutinizing the locks and bolts as be went out witn a care which struck Margaret as rather unpriestly. Next door he was even more sucmsw ful.and left it some three dollars richer. In the evening "Margaret" went to see her aunt, to whom she related this incident. "Why, Maggie, " said her aunt, "if vou had been at church last Sunday you would nave heard Father Conroy warn us against aa impostor dressed like a priest who is going about aad soliciting money for the church. Father C3nroy said that many of his Ttariahioners had been victimized by thia raaa and that he had repeatedly warned them against him from the pal- A Pirate's Old Be treat. The extension of a new braneu of the Erie railroad through Weehawken and Hoboken, New Jersey, has rendered it necessary for the company to acquire the possession of the well known old rookery known as 'The Firata's Re treat." This rookery ia situated ea land which ia now called "The Benson farm," from the fact that its recent own ers were family of that name. Of late years the place has borne a f ood repu tation, it being occupied by au honest Teuton, who earned a living for himself and family of a wife and eight children by working from early morning until night in one of the blaestone quarries back of Weehawken. The old house was the resort of river thieves and des perate characters even in ante revola tionary times. It was the property of an old Holland Dutchman named John Finkle who kept it as a sort of a road side tavern. The house was called "'The Jersey Inn," which fact was made known to the stranger by the lettering on a swinging signboard, snpported by a tall post in front of the door. A trough for wateiing horses and a shed to shelter the animals while the drivers were par taking of liquid refreshments at the bar of tlie tavern, occupied a prominent place across the road from the building. The water to supply the trough was brought in wooden pipes,' made of hollow logs, from the spring twenty rods away. Ostensibly the inn was merely the resort of northern New Jer sey farmers, whose habit it was to stop there a while on their way to Jersey City with their loads of OJtintry produce. John Finkle, however, had a double purpose in keeping the house. In ad dition to being a farmer's resort, it was the meeting place of a gang of outlaws who made their living by robbery. There was a story to the effect that a peddler, who was on h's way back to the city with the money for whioh he had sold his goods in a trip up in the coun try, stopped at the pirate's headquarters to rest one night, and was never after wards seen by his friends. Tuero is a tradition that he was robbed, murdered and his body interred in the cellar. The old quarryman wno related the story to a reporter, said : "Now, I don't know whether the peddler was really killed or not ; but one thing I do know, and that u that in the year 1825 two men who were digging to enlarge and deepen the cellar, excavated some bones that resem bled those of a human being. Maybe the bones once belonged to the peddler. Scores of people believed that they did; but a doctor who examined them said the skeleton was that of a woman ins'ead of a n. It was said that a firmer up near Nyack bought a lot of goods from the peddler, who paid for them iu old-fashioned English two-shilling pieces the kiad of coin that had two pillars on one side and the lion and unicorn on the other and that soon after the disap pearance of the peddler two-shillling pieces were extremely plentiful in the till in the barroom of the old tavern." As near as ran be ascertained, the bnild irg was erected about the year 1720. It was what was considered in those primitive days a very fine edifice. Prob ably it was not then excelled by more than a dozea houses in all New Jersey. Up to within fifteen or twenty years of the date of the breaking out of the rev olutionary war it was used as a private residence, after which it was changed into a hotel. It has passed through a succession of ownerships, and among tbe lessees of the property have been at lest a score or more of landlords, good, bad and indifferent, One of the lessees was a Tory in the revolutionary war. He was hunted by a party of New Jer sey patriots, and to escape their ven geance was compelled to nide between two feather beds. Another landlord weut to California at the time of the outbreak of the gold fever in 1818-9 and was murdered by his associates in a mini- g camp. The new branch of the Lne railroad will run directly across the site of the "Pirate's retreat " "I ana Oolaeta Lick Too.' Not long ago a man from Park City came into the Clift house Salt Lake City, considerably exoited and inquired if a certain person was stopping there. He explained that the man had "done him dirt,' and he was anxious to lick him. Finding tbat the man had just left the house, he rushed out after him, and finding him on Tribune avenne, walked up to him and announced that he had come all the way from Park City to lick him, and accordingly started in, In a few mioutes he had blackened the man's eyes, walked all over hin, and reduced him to a general wreck. When he had finished the job, he stood the man up against the wall of Walker's bank, and remarked : "Now, you d d contemptible, lop- eared , I want yon to understand that I consider yon the most infamous whelp I ever saw, You dirty little cur, I" "Hold on !" said the man who had just been licked, taking off his coat think that after threshing a man youv'e got no right to abuse him. I can stand a licking, but I won't stand abnse from aay living man, no matter how much he weighs. Now I am going to lick you.-' He waa as good as his word, and started ia with the most business-like air imaginable and knocked his late via tor into the gutter. Every time he got up he was knocked down with, "Blast me, I can't stand abuse." When he got tl trough with the Park City man the crowd thought he was a pile of ngs and mud. "Now. look here, my friend " said the last victor ; "next time you lick man, let well enough alone. Don't abuse him. You handled yourself well enough while you were licking me, bat yen overdid the abuse. W Canoes The." senator Test, of Missouri, m asked it he had ever met the James boys.aad he replied he had onee, and under circum stances calculated to impress themselves upou his memory. Charging his hear ers not ta repeat the story, whieh in junction one of the group, a popular young Missouri Congressman, faded to bear in mind the Senator related his experience somewhat as follows: Old Joe Shelby, the Confederate General, who, at the close of the war, did not surrender, but marched bis men to Mexico and offered his services to Maximilian, is an old fnend of mine, and he had been urgiug me for a long time to come down to his splendid place ia Lafayette eounty and spend a few days hunting and fishing. It was short ly, a few days perhaps, after the Gads Hill Robbery on the Iron Mountain Railroad, that, completely worn out by eioae attention to business in the Seda lia courts, I determined to run down to the farm and rest for a few days. 1 took the night train on the Lexington branch of the Missouri Pacific, and got eff at the little station near the Shelby place, called Page City. It waa a beau tiful moonlight night, and as the house was but a little over a mile distant, I shouldered my doublo barreled shot gun which J had taken along for some sport, and trudged over to the white lane leading to the homestead. The old home was surrounded by some tall forest trees, and 1 had just emerged from their shadow into the moonlight, twenty steps from the home, when a clear, ringing voice cried out "Halt!" and at the same instant I saw. shining in the moonlight a polished rifle barrel protruding from a partially raised open window. I intuitively felt that the man at the other end of the rifle had a bead drawn ou me, and I baited. I beoinie a statue. My blood seemed to chill. In a moment, it seemed hoars to me, I heard old Joe's voice ring out, "Who are you?" "Q g george Vest, come down to see yon. 1 replied, my lips trembling in spite of me. "Wait a minute." was the reply. 1 waited five minutes and then there was a rattling of bars and chains and the front door was opened cautionsly. and I was bidden to lay down my gun and approach, I did so until I came close to the d-wr, when Shelby's voice said, "it's all right, boys; I will vouch for him." I then entered and looked about me. The cosy little sitting room had been converted into a fortress. The windows were barricaded securely, and furniture was moved up against the door, while on a table ia the centre of the room lay a collection of revolvers and repeating rifles that would have excited the admiration of a pirate. There were five men in the room whom I did not know. They sat around and did not talk. The gentlemen also wore their small arms. "These are some friends of mine,'' said Shelby, and I war. not introduced farther. I immediately knew that the visitors were the two James boys and the three Younger brothers. Shelby and 1 indulged in a conversation for some time, which the others showed no disposition to enter into and at last I was shown to bed, where I tossed uutil daylight in a troubled sleep. When I came down to breakfast the curtains were drawn; old Joe sat in an easy chair ea!my smoking his pipe and playing witn a couple of youngsters, ! The traveling arsenals of the night be fore had departed so quietly as not to break my l'glit sleephours before. Shelby did not refer to the visitors of the night before, nor did T. I did not knew, however, whether they would return that night, and so I pleaded pressure of business, and limited my stay to ono day. And that is the only time I met the Missouri bandits. That was nearly nine years ago, when the gang quartered themselves on their friends ia Missouri on the strength of the mem ries of the war, still fresh in the minds of those who lived on the border. Tba Kent Gymnasium far Girl. 1 be exercise that is best adapted to de velop all puts of the body, in a naturtl. neallby manner, is domestic labor, ft is always at hand; it can Be taken regularly every aay, and there is such variety tbat -tlmost every muscle can be exercised. Ur-use-work should never be considered menial or degrading; it is nature's labora tory, in wbicb the girl may obtain not only the best physical development, but most valuable knowledge that will fit her for the practical duties of life. This training may be supplemented by other kinds of exercise, sucl as walking aud out-door sports. Tbe very general Introduction of foreign help into domestic service has proved most unfortunate for tbe health of American women. Closely connected with thia neglect of physical training at home, is an evil of great magnitude tbat is, supreme devo tion to brain work. The practice pursued vi ij generally at tbe present day, of con fining tbe gin in school or seminary for a series of years, consecutively, if attended with tbe most serious evils. In the lan- qusge of a popular writer. "It is educa ting our girls to death." While we would not discard education in all Its various de partments, extending to tbe highest culture we maintain tbat it is no advantage or blessing, if it is to be obtained at the ex pense of tbe physical system. There are other parts of tbe body besides the brain, tbat need faithful training. Tbe highest accompbsbments and mental acquisition will not compensate for impaired eonstitu lon and poor health. In New York there are 23,271 more females than males: in Philadelphia, 36,780; In Brooklyn, 23,872; in Boston, 18,422; in BaTimere, 18,631; in Wash ington, 10,673; in New Orleans, 17,806; in Louisville. 5,794; iu St, Louis, 8,622; in Kansas City, 8,213; in Denver, 7,440. Over 2,100 sues ia Utah have more than oae wife a soaoa. A New Jersey paper boasts that it has beea raaa ia one family IS years. It tha Laad of the Mog-yar.. The following is from 'Magyar Land': It waa a pretty soene; the rapid move ments of he d sneers in the gay costu- aaea, the picturesque background of low sheds covered with the large roand leavee of the melon, its tendrils hang ing in graceful festoons, and its golden fruit resting ou the thatch. We might have been witnessing a bpanisn sara band. The Hungarians donee for their very lives. To them the pi-aetice of the terpsichorean art is no more lang uid and graceful undnla ion of the f)g u re, but a perfect wild abandon of mirth and they whirl, and spin, and gyrate with the velocity of dervishes until their long black locks stand out straight aid their facer are ablaze with beat and ex citement Watch them as they perform the czardas their national dance to the strange wild harmony of the eeiga- nok! Watch them aa they balance themselves backward and forward while adapting their sub'le movements to the measure of the animating strains! The csardas ii essentially pantomimic and describes by mute action the unqmet 'course of trne love." The musio is at first slow, and the couple-) walk up and down the room together in a stately manner, then, affecting to have made each other's acquaintance and fallen victims to the teuder pa sion, tbe mu sic grows more lively; and, "the court ship" begin m earnest The lover advances towards his inamorata, she coyly responds, au-J they spin round together for a few s- conds, when, as if thinking she had given him too much encouragement, the maiden retires pou ting, whereupon he again approaches, but thi time nht turns her baok on him and dances off in a contrary direction, Following, her, however, he overtakes and seizes her round the waist, and away they go again whirling deliciously until suo manages to extricate herself from his grasp. Shy and friendly by turns, now enoonr.iing her partner and now retreating with offended dignity, the lover at length becomes chagrined at her caprices, turns his baok upon her and they dance dot a do for a while, with indignant gestures, till the maid, with signs of repentance, se.ks reeonci hation. The music grows faster and faster, the lovers, in the ecstasy of re union, whirl and twirl madly, nor do they stop until both are qnite giddy and out of breath, when, retiring from the scene, another conplo ta ke their places and the performrnce begins again. The csardaf, of course, varies slightly in each instance, according to the locality and spirit of the d.weers.but the subject remains the same love, jourtship. jealousy, disappointment, reunion, Mid happiness "ever after." Sometimes in the closing scene, it winds up by the lover throwing himself ou his knees before Lis mistross while she dances around him in token of h r complete triumph Several eouples are always occupied at vlie same time in this dance in one phase or another of the would be courtship, while tlie men's hats deco rated with fresh flowers, the women got up in the moat coquettish and pictur esque cestomes imaginable, the tramp ing of feet, clashing of spurs, and wildly exciting strains of the gypsies as they saw away madly at their violins, all combine in rendering the csardas a most interesting and animating spectacle. Nor is it danced only by the peasants. It is seen in the ball-room of the nobles, even at the capital, where a gypsy band is always summoned to accompany it. Congenital Colr-IUladMe, It is my belief that a large s umber, perhaps a majority, of the cases ef cen renilal color blindness have not tbe.r seat in the retina at all, but are cerebral in their character. In other words I believe that in these cases tbe brain-centre of vision has not tbe power to differentiate tbe various impressions it receives. This opinion will seem tbe more plausible when we remember tbat tbe sense ot sight is a developed or educated one. Taough we have received from our ancestors the po tentiality of viaioD, every child tbat is born must learn to see for itself. With out here entering into a discussion of lb q'leslioD of tbe uevelopmeut of the color seose, which bss received much attention at the bands of Mr. Gladstone, Mwuus and others, it is safe to assume, with our knowledge of analogous matters, that the differentiation ot colors is a power partly inhenud and partly developed in the indi vidual; and, moreiv. r, we sh tuld expect to find this power, which is undoubtedly cerebral in its character, most s.rongiy de veloped where the faculty was most used. And so we do find it Womsi, who are much more concerned than men in tha selection aad comparison ot colors, are rarely affected wi h colur-blindnes.; aud we ail know how much quicker the fern ioin? eye is in detecting Might d-fferences in shades of color thau it that of men who are not color-blind. In tbose cases of color-blindness which, for the sake of dis tinction, we shall call central, we believe tbat the brain-centre of vision bat not beea developed to its f ml, or, at least, to us orditiarv power lor dirmminaliag between the ljipressiang corresponding to the differ ent colors. The retina may be capable of properly responding to tcee various im- preasiocs, and the optic nerve may carry them as separate impressions to the brain- centre; but this has not the piwer of con verting them into individual senauon. Ope a Gralee. In the open and garnished grates left empty of wood or coals by the spring house cleaning, place larje furling fans of gilt paper, a yaid or more rroe, f; r fire screens, instead of the Japanese parasol, which DM become rather tire Kue. There aie tome ferns that will grow in these fire-places, but tbe fans are more convenient for the half empty houses on their summer fcoticg. Tbe pretty new rolling 'hades of fine bamboo are, of all things, desirable far summer wit dew curtains. Peacock blue malting comet for the centre of the floor or to make a cool cado round the walL Some new wall papers imitate the malting color aad textnre to pa lection. They give a cool effect to tbe " Dalton, Ot.. ilia iiie only axe han dle factory ia the Mouth. I Tbe Baaa Craaa. Ic consequence ot tne extraordinary prices obtained for rosebuds during tbe past two er three years, not only have the regular O-msts uses! their large profits in extending their greenhouse structures for tbat purpose, but tbe fabulous reports of the proflta of rose-growing nave excited tbe cupidity ot many capitalists ia tbe vicinity of New Tork, Boston and Chxago ana in all probability ia tbe other large cities of tbe Union. These men have an abundance ot means, and begin on a scale usually at which the ordinary florist, who had to cnn.D bis way up. ends; so that we have already in tbe vrinity of New Tork at least a dosen establishments for tbe forcing of rosebud ia winter, owned by ni'-n who count their capital by millions. These gentlemen, of comae, know no hing practically about tbe bu lnesa, relying altogether upon the r gardeners for success for who ever beard of a millionaire florist? ft is curious wiih what interest tbe had or fall of a tew tents in the rose market is regarded even by them, and it is said tbat there is as much interest manifested by taem in the technical slang or tbe Dower shopj. 'tnks," "Jacks," "if-rmeu" and Pedes" are quoted ia Broadway 'ith as much interest as is evinced in Wall street ia "Waeasn,' "Lke Shore," ' Erie" or "Central." It is true that one, at least, cf these gentle men gives all tbe proflta tbat accrue from bis roses to charitable purposes. All ex penence shows that in tbe perishable com modities of fruits, flowers or vegetables. whenever an over supply floods the market and brings down the prices below a pay ing level, less is told than when they Dnng a nir price, iwo years ago. in June, striwberries and cabbage in the New lork markets got so low as not to pay even the cost of marketing. The re suit was that hundreds of loads bad to be taken back and dumped in the manure yards, as they could not be disposed of at any price. The present excitement in rose growing is no doubt largely due to the unpreceden ted prices realized this winter, which have been caused ia a great measure by the un usual heat and drouth of last autumn, which weakened in rrany cases, and in others entirely destroyed, the plants that would have been used te produce the crop of flowers. This, together with a brim demand, bat resulted in profits which, it is unreasonable to expect, can ever be long .-ontinued in any legitimate business. Recover! Hla Sigbt. Madame Blank was a woman remark able for her social and tout a-fait indus trial assiduity. She utilised every mo ment of her rime in such a way as was best suited to herself. AnioDg her many admirers and visitors she numbered one old friend who waa totally blind, and whom she always entertained ia her own boudoir. Oftener than not, when her pressing duties demand a rapi-l change of attire, she would call in that services of her maid and proceed with her toilet, the while conversing with her blind friend, who, it is needless to say, waa all unconscious of the mysterious wonders being transacted in Lie preaenee. Upon one occasion when he called he inquired whether he would he received upstairs, and sent a messenge to tbe mistreat, stating that he had a piece of good news for her. ''Lead Moraieur, aa usual, to my boudoir," waa the lady's order, which eraer was immediately complied with . She was not en toilettt for visitors, to be sure, bat he oould not see and the maid was busy enough repairing the ravages of tice for the benefit of those who could see. "Ah. say dear madam," exclaimed the gentleman aa he entered, "I have aad a stroke of good fortune," and he waa hastening to tell her in what way wlen she interrupted him with soiae social jottings cf her own, and kept ap such a stream of conversation, and was so occupied with the gleam of her wh te arms in the mirror, that she neither ob served her friend's evident confusion nor gave him an opportunity to speak. Finally an interval eame; ahe turned to him, expectantly, and said: "Now, my friend, for your good news."' He lower ed his head and a wired her it was nothing. "Nothing !" she exclaimed, at the same tiste noting his perturbed Banner. "Nothing," he answered, ''ex cept that, my dear madam, I have re covered my sight" afechaalea.1 Mail. The Black Forest is famous for these mechanical organs orchestrions, as they are called and in tome instances they are brought to great perfection. There it a ajop close to tbe exhibition, bearing the name ot Lamy Sonne, full of clocks and iinging birds and orchestrions, where you may pat half aa hour in a fairyland of surprise! and all kinds of mechanical music. Use morning I west in with an old lady and gentleman the latter a grave dignitary of tbe Church of England. 'A very linug place, said the old lady, "all up and dowa hill; tbe only fault 1 find with tbe Black f orest. Coulda't tbey level i'., my dia l' to her husband "or build viaducts or something! Or at the very least, couldn't they organise pony chaises all over tne country like those. you know, that we found so useful at Bournemouth last year?" "Take a chair my love," said the old gentleman, sympa thetically, without comniit'Jng himself to an opinion. And he placed one for her, while the young man in tbe shop (wbote jolly, good-natured face and broad grin delighted one te behold) wound up tbe or chestrion. The old Inly sat down some what heavily frem sheer exbaustioa, and immediately the chair struck up the lively air of "The Watch ou the Rhine," with a decidedly martial influence upon lis occu pant, ahe sprang from her seat as if it bad beeu a giidiroo, and asked her hus band reproachfully if be was amusing him self t her expense, and wheUer her ace was not sufficient to secure her from prac tical k:ng. ''Dear mcl" cried he, in amazement, looking at the offending chair as though he expected it to walk away of U owa accord. "W hat a musical nation these Black Foresters are! It's music everywhere! Tbe very chairs you ait down upon are full ot it" At this mo- j - j --1 ment tlie orchestrion ttruck up a telectioa ubicspo mful of alum in a qu ut eC warm from ' D n Giovanni," and the old lady waterj ud wben Mir ia M mucn fl w recovered her amiability in listening to a ' M W! niske it as thick at cream mix really spleadtd instrument 1 left them j flour w m .eparate cup to that it will Kill enjoying it marveling at all the birdt bi ,B ump3a. Add a much powaered and boxes, and thinking each one more w,, M wiu Ue o a dime; and throw ia wonderful than another. j , clovei lo A p-gant do,. The best people need aflactiona for trial of their virtue. How eaa we ex ercise tha grace of aontentmeat if all things succeed well; of that e lorgiv asas, if we have no enemies NEWS LN BRIEF. The finger rings of Ara-rica are worth 58,000,000. Tbe decrease iu New York oity's debt during ta i past vear was $5,337, 000. Jefferson Davis is said to hays re ceived $21,000 from the sale ef his book. Aa approprition of $200,000 is to be made for tlie education of Indian chil dren. The conger ell is the king ell: the word ia from the Icelandiah kunyr, a ki"g. Ants are said to have a marvelloue power of resisting heat, cold and dro wa in g. The St. Louis Grand Jury recota- mend that saloons he limited to one ta each block. The telephone, it ia aaid. will aot work in the Nevada mines because the magnets rmt Acct rdiug to a statu of Edward L eottage is a homo without land, be longing to it. Texas used to feed her peacans te the hogs. Now she set's the crop far 82.000,00. The troops ia Russia are ntilit! te protect the crops aud liye stock front wild animals. The London gowips are now marry ing off I'nncess Beatrice to the vounr Earl of Fife. The Ftvnch aovlerav of science has appointed a committo to investigate the Gulf Stream. Taxation for education provides leas than $1 for each pupil of the publie schools of Georgia. The p' eduction of tea ia Japia is steadily increa-siug. nnd now reaches oter 90,000,000 pounds. An English journal d.-fines the British sparrow as a bird that whips all the small American bird creation. The relation between the aze of a tree and its annual riuga was first noticed and applied by Montaigne in 1581. During a week of fo in London the mortality increased from tlie usual rate of 22 per 100J to 3o.3 ier 1000. Mr. Cross, it is rumored, bus aiaa. doned the idea of wniing a biography of his late wife, Marian Evans, or George taioi. The French Goverment has decided to erect in the park of St. Cloud a build ing resomblinfr the Crystal Palace ia Loudon. A tract of laud containing 10.009 acres on the Tuckerton (N. J.) railroaa has been sold to a Dauish colony for $150,000. Such an array of regular troops aa those of Louis XIV. had not been aeea iu Europe since the downfall ot the Ro man Empire. Cork trees are beiusr successfully raised in Georgia. The cork on some specimens planted there ia already thick enough for use. Byron and Shelly were related, hav ing lineally dascauded from William Sydney, the great gTeat grandfather of Sir Philip Sidney. Now a report comes from St raters- burg that an old dead-letter law forbid ding Jews to kep drug-stores in Ruaaia has been revived. Queen Victoria will be presented on her next birthday anniversary with a congratulatory address, sigued by 50, 000 women of Cans la. The estimated cost of sustaining the English army for ihe eoniiug year is 15,500,000. or over $75,000,0LU The force consists of 130.000 men. Mr. Longfellow wrote "The Golden Legend" in four weeks, not counting the Sundays; then he spent six mouths ia correcting and cutting it down. inert is in New Orleans a colored sisterhood of the catholic Church, who are devoting themselves to the education of young girls of their own race. The Italian Government are con sidering a scheme for a submarine tua- nel between Italy nd Sieily,V cost 64,000,000 lire (about $12,000,000). in tne uinerent backing establish ments of Maine, 750,000 caka of mack eial.1,500,000 cans of lobsters and 250,- uuti cans oi eiams are put up annually. Members of the Union Clob of New York intended to construct the largest and finest apartment house in that city, on a plat near Madison Square, 200x150 feet, It requires about 5,000 young fish to stock a pond of one acre in extent Of fi-h weighing from from one to two pounds 1,000 to the acre is a libera! es timate. A psper watch hss been exhibited by a Dresden watchmaker. The paper is prepared in such a manner as to ren der the watch as serviceable asthose ia general use. Christine Nilsson is said te have announced in an iaterview with a Pane journalist that she will retire from the stage after a tour of three years in Eu rope and Amerioa. In 1777 coniiderable interest waa manifested m an annoancmeut that six stoves had been completed in Philalel phia. The product of the stove found ries in that city is now valued at $1,000, 000, and the indu-ttry supports about 12,000 people. The Museum of the Polytehnis So ciety of Louisville, Kv., has been en riched by the addition of the first gaa Dauiel Boone brought into the 8tate, with his shot-pouch and horn, and other relics prized by kentnekians. The box in which the Duchess of Madrid, the wife of Don Carles, seat te the Pope a magniflseBt cope, embroid ered by herself, was found to be filled with rags when it reached the Vaticaa, the treasure having be?n abstracted ea the way. Postmaster General Howe has re moved from an employment lu the money-order bureau at Washington airs. Wilcox, a daughter of Andrew Jacksom Donelson.and a grandniece of Preaiaaat Jackson, Che was bom in the White House while her father was the Presi dent's private secretary. Faid. ,hat wiukcn a vear. Dissolve " Put a twun rtf hnilin? watar. into a tin dish, and pour in the flour mixture. Boil fr fllteea minutes; if cooked in another p ace to bo ling, it will be le?s bke.y te) bam. Le". it dry away, and when seeded eiasolre a piece in a little boiling water. a5 (
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