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Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XXXVI.
MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 21. 18S2.
NO. 24.
ONLY.
Only a ImUij,
kissed c&reseed.
Gently held to mothers breast.
Ouly a child,
Totldiiiifr along.
Brightening now lis nappy home.
Only a twv,
Truljriue to school.
Governed now by sterner rule.
Only a youth.
Living in dreams
Full of promise life now seenu.
Ouly a man,
. Hauling with life,
Shared in now by loving wife.
only a father,
liur-ltued with rare,
silver threads in dark brown hair.
Ooly a pray bean).
Toddling again.
Growing old and full of pain.
only aniouiKl,
O'ersrown with grass,
Uri aui unrealized rest at last.
A M.VrFY MOVE.
Viva, dear, it's getting near tlio first
of May!"
And gentle Mrs. Eayiier laid down
the cont that was perpetually lieconiing
clliowiets, and looked across the laiup
lit table with anxious eyes.
'Yes, luiiiutua, I know," a triile wear
ily. Viva, a slender, pretty girl, with dark
brown hair gathered loosely lehiud
shell-pink ears, and lips red as a rose,
wet her mother's gaze with eyes bright
with wistfid thoughtfiiluesH.
"And we must move, of course, "cried
a shri'l young voiee from the sofa,
wh'.re sat Jessie, a volatile, overgrown
schoolgirl, "liecanse the front gate's off
i's hinges, and the roof leaks, and '
"Yes Jessie, we all know the reasons
fur moving, 1 nit give mamma an oppor
tunity to suggest where."
"There's hardly much choice aliout
that," the pale-faced little woman said
eadly.
"Some place where the rent would be
moderate; l.ttt" a Midden look of long
ing shining out of the pain-worn face
"I would give all the world der, to
see the country again."
A gleaui of quick determination came
into Viva's velvety brown eyes.
'And so you shall, mamma! she said
emphatically.
'My dar'.iug, how?" said her mother,
in mild turpi iw.
"Well" Viva puckered up her low,
white brow, and tried to look wise and
business-like
"You see we conld get a cottage a
little way out of town for half what a
city Louse would cost. Besides, every
thing is so lunch cheaper in the cotuitry
and we could return to the city the com
ing winter. There!"
But your pupils, Viva?"
"I could manage to give all the les
sons in three days of the week, taking
the train tip, you know, is almost as
cheap, and do work for Crumley the in
terven'ug days. Now, mamma!" trium
phantly. "It looks plausible at first, my pet,
but I'm almost afraid to hope. Dear,
dear! how the boy does wear out his
clothing," she said.
Viva came over and clasped two ma
roon clad arms around the invalid figure
before her.
"Hope as much 41 you like, mamma
darling," she cried daily; "for well
watch the papers till we see a treasure
advert issd 'cheap' in italics, you know
and then "
The rest was too clonon to describe.
Three days later Viva danced in. out
of an April shower, w ith rose-red cheeks
and starry eyes.
Here it is mamma," she cried, en
igmatically, with a hearty kiss and a
laugh that almost demolished the small
figure in the arm-chair.
"Now listen."
And from the oien paper of that
morning she red aloud
TO BE LET In suburban village,
twenty minutes ride from the city, an
eight-rooni cottage, with garden attach
ed. Cti ip, to good tenant Apply to
Clifford Chandos, Room 12, Blank St,
City.
"I'm sure this will suit 'cheap in
itslics, as I said mamma. You will have
your happy countryfied summer after
all," w ith an exultant little langli.
"Xow, for awhile, good-bye."
Where are you going, dear?"
"To see about th's, mamma. Les
sons are over "
"Yes but I do not quite like your go
ing alone, Viva,"
"What! An old-maid music-teacher
m-a T almost have the dignity of
age, in this voluminous waterproof and
nveiL Green! Just thin 01 in
I might as wvll have red hair and
upectacles. My nervous old darling.
Til buck liefore vou know Tm gone,"
And with this decidedly sweeping but
scarcely possible tssertion, she was out
; n.w t.lii driftine April sky, and
.v.; oitww-nrJ as fast as the omnibus
sb " J
...,l.l (,! Ii. r
Tn n. fiiickest. busiest portion of the
city, up two flights of dingy stairs went
Viva.
A timid knock at room 12.
vvu'i' ....
She turned the handle, and witn the
v-;i xi t.U down, went in.
tv. n.r, rreutlemen. writing at
baize-covered desks, looked up le!r
lyas she entered, and went on) witn
their work.
A gentleman enveloped in clouds of
cigar smoke, with feet considerably ele
rated above the level ol his head, glan--0.1
.1--.1.i n. door, as the graceful
figure in the threadbare waterproof
came timidly in the room.
Down came the feet, out went the
cigar, and Clifford Chandos, pushing a
chair forward, bowed gravely, queat
ioniDgly, to the lady before him.
"I I called to inquire abont a cot
tage advertised.
"The cottage? Oh yes. to be sure.
Will you pleaae be seated, and I will
give you the particulars?"
And Viva, taking the proffered seat
:stened while the grave man, with
straight black brows, and keen kindly
eyes explained the terms with pleasant
courtesy.
And when she lifted the obnoxious
green ve;l a moment, to conclude some
necessary arrangement Clifford Chan
dos started ever so slightly as he saw
the pretty girlish face lefore him, as
serene and dignified iu it grave business-like
composure, as though its own
er were eight and nfty, instead of eight
and ten.
"When will we look at the place, Miss
"Bayner," supplemented Viva.
"Miss Kayner. Shall we say to-mor-
tow at one?"
"At two, if it is convenient"
"Certainly; two, if preferable."
Then he held the door open as cour
teously as thongh she wore sealskin
and diamonds, while, with a quiet grace
she bowed slightly, and passed from
the room.
And Clifford Chandos went back to
his chair, a softer-light in his keen gray
eyes, and actually, for once iu his life,
forgot to relight his cigar.
The day came at last when, from the
stuffy city house, the Bayners moved to
the pretty roomy cottage, where honey
suckle and wild roses straggled at tlieir
own sweet will over roof and porch .
And Viva, coming borne from the
dusky city three evenings in the week,
pale and tired, brightened and laughed
her own low happy laugh at the sight
of her mother's face growing young
again at the window, at the sound of
Dick and Jessie's boisterous laughter.
It was curious all the repairing that
cottage needed after they moved in.
It was more curious that their quiet,
handsome landlord should insist on su
pervising it all himself.
He grew into their simple lives iu
those days.
Mrs. Bayner came to think the chee
ry voices better than medicine, the
children to shout lustily at sight of him
and Viva to listen for the sound of his
firm foot-steps on the garden path.
One evening, the soft May wind was
swaying the "lady fingers," as the chil
dren call them, over the door.
Viva snatched up her hat and strolled
down to the pretty rustic gate.
Just a little more tired than usual,
after a desperate struggle to teach an
irritable obtuse pupil the mysteries of
crochets, and quavers, and demi-scra-iquavers.
She stood there, a fair, gitlish figure,
in her soft white dress, a great bunch
of blue meadow-violets at her slender
throat and waist
The scented wind gently loosened
the dark-browu hair, and blew a fitfid
drift of rose-bloom into the pure pale
face.
Very pretty?
Well, Clifford Chandos thought so r.t
all events, as he came along the uneven
country road with his light firm foot
fall.
"Good evening. Miss. Bayner!"
She turned suddenly, the faint flush
deepening to carnation.
"Good evening, Mr. Chandos!"
I think a person can give one a very
tolerable shake hands without holding
one's fingers quite a minute.
But apparently Mr. Chandos thought
differently.
"Miss Bayner, will you come for a
walk just a little way down the road?
"There is a place there I would like
you to see.
He asked ileadingly, hungrily, as
though fearful of a refusal.
"Is it far?"
"'So" eagerly; "quite near. Besides
Miss Viva, I have something to tell you
or rather, ask yon."
They were already strolling 011.
She paused, and looked up iu vagne
alarm.
"To ask me, Mr. Chandos?"
"Yes. Viva, I want to ask yon to
leave Rose Cottage,"
Was he mad?
"To leave Bose Cottage, she repea
ted blankly.
She stopped short, and looked up at
him with brown bewildered eyes.
Are you not satisfied with us as ten
ants? What will mamma say?"
"I did not ask your mother to leave
Tf.a rv.ri!re" and his voice was
trembling and low "I ask you."
"Me? Whv. Mr. Chandos "
She broke off abruptly as she saw the
look in the eyes of the man regarding
her.
Such a look as would make more suc
cessful wooers in the world to-dav a
look of passionate love and resolute Ue
termination to have her in spite of her
...If "Viva, my darling my darling," he
cried, all the mischief in his voice swept
away in his fiery earnestness, "won't
inn nnderstand?
"I love you very dearly, , Viva, and I
want you to for my w le.
"Yes I understand," she said snuply.
T am not a very rich man, dear, but
I would give my life to make you hap-
si. looked up at him with bright
out shining eyes, and thongh her cheeks
flamed hotly, she said, in her gentle
straight-forwrd girlish way
"I would be honored to be your wife
were you penniless, Mr. Chandos.
sternlv. "Little
:r .v 'Clifford.'"
And, her hand in his, she said it, sim
ply:
irMjflr.w.'lt"
In a short time they paused before.
massive entrance-gate and pretty Gothic
lodge.
"This is the great place of the neigh-
oorhooa, iVa. Shall we go up and
have a look at it?"
They paused at the great stone steps
of
au meal country seat, stretching
verandahed, porticoed, with huge stone
Hons on guard at the door.
Unie in, .dear!" holding out his
hand, with a cunous smile.
"But the owner?"
"I goith his permission."
Then passing the servant at the door,
he
leu lier thrutith rooms where the
mighty touch f Midas was softened
and made perfect by the mightier touch
; taste.
Through a cot servatorv where birds
and flowers were drowsily fulling asleep,
ami marble statues cleaned palely forth
from tropical dusky nooks.
'Its a handsome place, dear. isn.t
it?" he asked, when once again they
itoou beneath the darkening sky.
"Handsome? Oh Clifford!" with an
ecstatic long-drawn breath.
I hardly know how much rent I
night to charge you. little woman. ' he
cried quizzically, drawing her closer to
him; "but III be moderate. SupiKwe
e say one thousand kisses per an
num.
"Yours!" she gasped. "You said
iu were not rich."
"Well, I am not Rothschild, love.
but." with a sudden elmnm. .f .no
'richer than all the world, sweetheart,
in you.
So, after all. Viva traces a home
worthy of her.
And Jessie t-eutentiotisly rt-marks
" Twas well we moved."
And Viva nods and smiles, as she
si
lips her little sparkling hand into her
husband s loving clasp.
Texan Joke.
The crowd gathered together 011 mill
day at Sau Gabriel, Tex., were natives
of many differ eut states, and told jokes
at the expense of Arkansans. "tar
heels" and others. One Xor.h Caroli
nian got after the half dozen Arkansans
hot and heavy. With other yarns he
told the following: An emigrant
pic-acher went into the Boston mountain
region on a prospecting tour. Coming
to a four -cere corn-patch, he fought his
way through a dczen of more hounds
and curs to a windowiess cabin in its
centre, and entering he commenced a
conversation with the lady of the house
by inquiring into the state of society
therealoutd. The woman did wt seem
to understand his general mqniries, so
he began to particularize: "What re
ligion is most common around here ?"
Still the did not seem to understand.
"Are there many Presbyterians around
here ?" he asked. ' "I don't know," she
said. My man John has hunted around
here right smart for nigh oa to sixteen
yea- s, and I don't reckon he's killed ary
one." Ah, madam !" said the good
man, "I am afraid you live in darkness
here." "Ye," she replied, glancing at
the unbroken log walls, "yes, but John
allows to cut out a winder next week."
This was received with applause, aud a
true-blue Arkansan had the floor for re
ply. "I was traveling once the old
North State," he began, "and as I was
riding across an opening like I saw a
man some little distance ahead of me,
pointing, as I thought a long gun at
something up in a persimmon tree. I
reigned up my horse to wait for him to
fire. After waiting some time and no
finng done I noticed the man did not
seem to be taking any sight, but ap
peared to le shifting his piece from time
to time, so I hsiled him and asked him
what he was up to. 'Baising pork for
market, answered he, without turn
ing to me. I rode rip, and that tar
heel had a little spetted shoat tied to a
ple, holding it up to eat persimmons."
The Loi wf North Anierloa.
Th nr Immv fonn&tion of the
FTiiti states, is found in the States of
Ohio, Indiana, Michiiran, Iowa, Kansas,
Nebraska, Illinois, lennessee, Aiauama,
Mississippi, Lousiana. Arkansa, Missouri,
the Inilinn Territorv - but
in every instance is apparently confined to
the higher lanus aiong tne larger sirctuur.
Its superficial extent is greatest in Nebras
ka, where, according to Aughey, its area
! three fourths that 01 tne oiaie, or
c nix cmiarA mile In Iowa its super
ficial area is estimated by White at 6,000
square miles, but his calculations included
only those sections along the Missouri,
inmmiHh afl he was evidently unacquain
ted with its existence in Central Iowa, and
in the eastern portion 01 me ouue. lie
area arpears to be next greater in Mis
souri, which is, indeed, but the southern
extension of tne Iowa and Nebrtska
deposit In most of the other stales
here it occurs lis area is cooipanuiTOj
small. It is not found outside of the cen
tral basin. Its material is exceeuiDSiy
fino vorv m'irinns as proven bv numerous
analyses, ashy color with sliebt yellowish
tiDge normally : and otten hilt jly calcer
eous. In all these respects it agrees entire-
with published acscnpuuus 01 joreigu
loess. In situ it presents a remarkably
homegeneous structure, usually appearing
in niiuflive walls without or with but
faint UmeUation, the latter feature being
purely local, bo perfect is the homogen
eity that very careful examinations of
nf soil fmm the Missouri valley
and the valleys of the Des Moines tnd
Iowa rivers tailed to reveal even Biiguuy
marked physical differences.
A life Savins Intttution.
The British National Lifeboat Institution
. . .... . . . ,001
f,,.t tjri nr the annual reoon iur 1001.
contributed last year to the saying ot 1,121
lives from various wrecas, wnue me uoaru
ot Trade and the Coastguard, by means of
the rocket apparatus, rescued upwards of
500 lives. Last year eleven new lifeboats
were placed at various stations. On four
rKinn dunns the Tear the lifeboats up
set and four hves were lost The number
of lifeboats now under the management 01
the institntion is 27L The number et lives
.h Hiinnir the fifty eicht vears from the
esUbtishment of the institution to the end
of
the year loot, eitner oj nsiueuow ur
by 1
edi
special exertions ior wmcn u naa graut
rewaras. is 28,74.
Tha Cuban untlmsii.
He appears to you at first a man all
hair, eyes, teeth and shirt collar. It is
not precisely the correct view, but such
is apt to be the impression conveyed to a
conservative and doubting mind. After
better acquaintance he gives you the idea
ot a man who is at least tui generin, with
a unique form of body and a hitherto un
classified type of mimL After a year or
two he begins to seem to you to be a
rather clever fellow, with traits that aie
seldom observed to exist in a character
otherwise excellent hut an agreeable man
m many respects. 1o a countenance al
ways expressive of a certain refinement.
often of great beauty, and almost never
coarse, angular or hard, he Joiim a phy
sique the thinnest and must attenuated
ever found compatible with locomotion
and the general control of a muscular
system. His legs are spindles, his arms
much like natteneil sticks somewhat en
lsrired at the articulatious. Of stomach
he usually has about as much as birds of
the crane species are remarkable for, and
is seldom disposed to undue enlargement
in the region of the waistbond. His
shoulders are thin and sharp, and if he
stoops slightly, it need not necessarily be
regarded a an indication either ot
scholarship or disease of the lungs. IIU
complexion is seldom fair, and generally
of a not unhandsome swarthincss, though
sometimes approaching a hue that, by
the present opinion of prejudiced mankind,
is not exactly a society color. But 1 have
never seen a Cuban with what we call a
"dumb' face or an unintelligent eye.
This man is the born dandy. lie wears
jewelry like a woman and like a woman's.
lie pinches feet that arj small enough
naturally into agonizine shoes., lie wears
collars monstrous in siza or ridiculous in
snialhiess, with shirts of dazzling colors
and cut so very decollete that you may
observe the sharp ends of his collar-bones
and the very bottom of his thin throat.
At the date of this writing he goes about
the streets with pantaloons that hang upon
his litlie legs like bags, and Map and yaw
In the Ireeze His coat seems to have
been made for a tal'er man, whereas a
year ago it had a tendency to creep up
ward toward the back of his neck, llut
the centerpiece and glory ot his costume
is his hat. Where such fashions in head
gear as be delights himself with really
have their origin 1 know not. As the
climate is warm, and seemingly 'for that
reason, the bat is narrow, black, heavy
aud shaped like an inverted stove-kettle.
This man sometimes attends a ball in a
biack dress suit, a white necktie and a
green shirt. A Cuban town is full of such
figures, and few of them arc, by any
chence, at work at anything. Born in a
slave country, the presumptive, probable
or actual heir to a share in some sutrar
plantation, or if not, living by his wits or
upon bis relations, the young Cuban
imagines that his destiny is to ornament
the tropics ; to be a thing ot beauty, and
kill time while he is thus elegantly oc
cupied. Tl:e Actlre Monument.
At last the Andre monument at. Tap
pan, New York, has toppled over. The
sido on which there is no inscription,
bnt which was begrimmed by the recent
attempt to shatter it with nitro-glyce
tine, lies on the ground with its apex to
the east. Of the base nothing is left
but some large and irregular masses,
the smallest not weighing less than 200
pounds. All the smaller pieces have
been carried away by relic-hunters.
Some enthusiastic collector has gone so
far as to break off acd remove one of
the upright bars of the iron fence from
the north side of the inclosure, and
through this opening visitors -can
squeeze through, despite the fact that
the gate is still carefully locked.
Mr. Storms, w hose house is close by
the fallen monument, said to a reporter
that the shaft fell over some time ago:
"I was reading the morning papers,"
said Mr. Storms, "when my wife came
from down celler and asked me if I
heard the thunder. I said "No" and
went to look if there was a storm com
ing up. Then I saw that the blamed
thing had tipped over.
"Was anyone there at the time?"
asked the reporter.
"Not a sonL There had lieen several
people there in the morning, but it
hadn't been out of my sight five min
ntes. The last person there was a
photographer taking views of it, aud he
couldn't have more ihan get to the foot
ot the hill before she went over."
"How do you account for its falling?"
"Oh.it Lad to go over sooner or later.
The visitors had been digging at it and
carting off all the pieces ever sinco the
explosion. ' I had propped it up several
times, bnt it was like a man trying to
stand on one leg. It couldn't keep it
up. I bad noticed that the fragments
which kept it standing were "check
ing" every day. and the parts where
the nitro-glycerine got in its work
were so rotten that the weather wore it
away. No sir, "I don't think its fall
wai the result of intention or malice.
They undermined it for relics till there
was nothing left to hold it up, They
can't do anything more except to bury
it."
"Why didn't you sell the pieces as
relics, instead of letting overyone help
himself?"
"I might have done that, and I could
have taken in $200 for pieces of the
stone; bnt it didn't belong to ine, and 1
had nothing to do about it"
Mr. Sterms says the monument is
ntterly worthless as an attraction, and
that the explosion has frightened away
the people who had engaged rooms with
him for the summer. The villiagers
generally appear to have lost all interest
in the subject.
Sandwtche.
These articles of food in Cincinnati
are four inches thick each side, and
lined with apparent traces of ham. The
assay also shows up some indications of
butter of the Queen Anne period, but
not in paying quantities.' They can be
reduced by strong acids or intense heat,
but cannot be crushed by friction. As
food they are not nutritious, bnt are
perfectly harmless. Prof, Doremus
who has subjected them to a careful
analysis, says there is not enough ham
in 2,000,000.000 of them to endanger a
two-year-old baby from trichina.
Storm Science.
All atmospheric conditions, and no
tably storms, are controlled by unvary
ing laws that are easily comprehended
and susceptible of application by any
iute'liient observer, who, noting the
conditions that exist, may reason there
from to the conditions that must ensue.
In other words, by nn lerstanding the
laws of meteorology and considering the
observations da ly reported in the news
papers, one may make his own forecasts
one, two eveu three days in advance,
the value of which will depend only on
the carefulness of hi predictions. It
must be understood, in the first -place,
that a storm is not of local origin. For
instance, a storm does not form at one
point at the same time another is form
ing at Cairo, Omaha, Buffalo or Duluth.
This is a popular error, and the cause
cf mrny delusions. On the contrary,
ninety-nine out of every hundred storms
in the United States originate on the
arid plains eat of the Rocky Mountain,
and from there move eastward. The
process of the origin of a storm, now
well understood, consists of the forma
tion of a "storm center," or area of low
barometer, terms which are practically
synouomous.
Xhe atmosphere is a varying deios-
itory of snn-heat acquired directly from
the sun's rays and fiom the heated sur
face of the earth. On the barren and sandy
plains this acquisition of heat is aug
mented by the more powerful reflection
of the sand, aud presently a body of air.
many miles in circumference, will be
come super-charged with heat, which
induces a greater absorption of moisture
from the earth's surface and surround
ing atmosphere. This heated body of
air, true to that law which causes the
lighter heated atmosphere to ascend
(nowhere better demonstrated than at
the ordinary chimney.) commences te
rise; other air rushes in In-low, which,
encountering the same heating surface
is in turn heated, rises, ard gives place
continuously to other air. This is a
storm center and the country ovtr
which this operation is going is au area
of low barometer (and high thermom
eter,) called so from the fact that the
atmosphere, having an aseensive mo
tion, counteracts iu a measure its down
ward presnre, and for other minor rea
sons not necessary to detail. This ris
ing IxkIv of air, highly charged with va
por (another name for mowture) ascends
until it passes the dew-point, which is
the point where the moisture 111 the at
mosphere will begin to resolve itself
a;aiu into water and descend in rain.
This operation of the condensation of
moisture from vsqor is noticeable on the
outside of a pitcher cf ice-water, on the
water-pijd'S in houses, or on any metalic
surface in a damp house where there is
no tire.
The ascending lxnly of atmosphere at
each point of its ascent encounters col
der air, and the latent heat, released by
the condensation of vajxir augmenting
its temperature, its progress upward is
increased instead of diminished, nntd
finally reaching the higher strata of air,
it spreads outward, on top as it were,
piling up, if the expression may le used
and so deepening at the circumference
of the storm, which, togother with the
fact that the atmowpliere has a slightly
onward motion at the same point, creates
a circle of high barometer, or great air
pre-tsure outside the storm.
The operation of condensation of
moisture manifests itself to the eyj by
the formation of clouds which is au in
termediate stage between vapor and
water, and which, with the significance
of their varied formations in relation to
future weather, will lie treated below.
The atmospheric disturbance outlined
is a storm, and no sooner is it formed
than it begins to move eastward. All
well-deslojitedstornis in the United States
move from west to east, deflecting
slightly to the north. This northward
direction is more noticeable in winter,
almost disappearnig in summer. Occa
sionally storms depart from their east
ward course and move directly north,
but as these are freaks, and of rare occur
rence, they cannot be siud to le niore
than equivalent to a railway train get
ting off the track owing to some nnna
turid condition of, or oltrnction on, the
track, and can rarely be predicted, but
must be taken into consideration as
ossible contingencies. Storms vary in
circumference aud shape. In Europe
they are more nearly round than in
America, where they are of a more
rregidar, oval form. In size they vary
from a diameter of a few miles to those
that reach from the Gulf to beyond the
lakes.
Keeping III lHrtliday..
As little Mrs. Bhfkins was gettiag sup
per the other night, she was startled by
the abrupt and unexpected entrance of ber
neighbor over the way, Miss rarrot, who
was evidently charged with ill news.
"How loDg since you have seen air.
Ulilkins ?" she asked, breathlessly.
Little Mrs. bhfkins dropped the tea-pot
she was just about to fill, and screamed
convulsively and loudly.
"Be composed, ejaculated Miss 1 ar-
nt, taking off her hat and fanning her
heated face with it. "Try and bear up ;
it's dreadful, but other women have suf
fered and lived. I may as well tell it and
not keep you in suspense. Mr. Bhfkins is
dead " 'Oh-oh-oh-oh gracious mercy!
shrieked Mrs. Bhfkins throwing herself
into Miss Parrot's arms. "What have I
done to deserve thus and it was UiS birth
day too, poor, dear David ; you can't mean
it, and we are so happy.''
"1 es, I do mean it, said Miss Parrot
firmly, "it is a cruel truth. I said I'll go
and tell bis poor wife, f-r she must know
it sooner or later, he was found lying
dead "
"Oh-oh-oh-ob, sobbed the little wife,
"and 1 had such a nice supper all ready
-for him, too! O, its dreadful and I can't
believe it. Who saw him, poor, dear
David?"
"I saw him," said Miss Parrot, with a
grimace of disgust. " iVe all saw him!
He wasn't the only one, either ; there were
a dozen of 'em and they were all hopelessly
dead drunk.
Thin little Mrs. Blifkins turned on Mirs
Parro. like a small fury. "You're a nasty,
prying old maid,' she said vindictively,
"and I'd thank you to go horre and attend
to your own affairs. My David, indeed I
It's a pity a man can't keep his own birth
day to suit himself, but prying folks must
make such a fuss abont it, coming here to
frighten me out of my senses and spoil
my supper 1" And Miss Parrot heard the
djor slam as she skimmd through it on
her way out to inform the neighborhood.
There were 75,000 people turned
out of their homes in Ireland because
they either would not cr could not pay
J their rents during the first quarter of
, the present year.
- In Candelaria, Nev., the water com
pany sells water at 5 cents a gallou,
The Lay Torpeilo.
i As excellent as the Lay torpedo un
doubted is, it still has the same defect
as others, namely, want of sufficient
speed ; this, however, does not seem to
be an insuperable obstacle, and with
each successive construction a greater
speed is obtained. The boat is always
under the control of the oerator. who
can stop or start it, steer it either on
one side or the other, or fire the charge
whenever he pleases. All these things
are of course extremely advantageous,
and greatly enhance the value of the
weapon. The motive power is carbouic
acid gas. This gas (as is well known)
becomes liquefied under a pressure of
forty atmospheres, aud iu this state it is
stored in a flask in the boat. When the
valve closing the flask is open, vaporiza
tion ensues, and the gas is taken to
the engine, first passing an automatical
ly acting reducing valve, so that the
pres-ure will not be too great. As the
liquid expands, great cold is produced,
and tronblc is experienced from its use
as a motor ; this, however, is not a seri
ous difficulty, aud some remedy will
doubtless be found. The explosive
chamber containing 300 pounds of ma
terial, is at the bow.aud is so construct
ed that on contact with a vessel it is
disengaged from its resting place, and
drops several feet, the idea being that
an explosion in that position will do
more damage than at the water-line.
In oue compartment of the boat is a
drum, from which is paid out the cable
through which the electric cumnt
passes. A suitable arrangement of
magnets opens a valve which alllows
gas to enter a cylinder, the piston
in which causes the helm to be put in
the desired direction ; and a similar ar
rangement causes the throttle of the en
gine to open and close. The explosion
is caused ou contact if it is desired, or
it reay always be kept under the opera
tor s control. Some of these b ats have
but one wire in the cabje.over which the
various functions are caused to operate ;
others have a multiple cable, w it'i a
wire for each thing required to be done.
Over a mile aud a half of wire is cairied,
so that the effective range becomes very
much greater than that of any of its
rivals. Mr. Lay is constantly at work
introducing improvements, all of which
are protected by numerous patents.
His system has been definitely adopted
by Russia after aatisfaetory trial of
ten of the boats built for her. A factory
has been established, and it is propos
ed to use them very extensively in any
future war
Taraiait Wine.
At last it would appear that the diffi
culty of one of the "powers" has turned
out the Turk's opportunity. Legion is
the name of the foreign trespassers who
have made sad havoc in the Sick Man's
territory, but a visitation of the phgl
lujrcra vantatrix he has yet been spared,
and he now seems seriously to be turn
ing his attention to develop a trade in
Turkuh wines. It ia, indeed, some
time since people in Turkey became
impressed with the large industrial
field that viticulture held out to them,
but the first move was naturally to sup
ply the wants of the local markets. To
this intent a wine factory was started
some dozen years ago in the neighbor
hood of Tyzichus, on the coast of the
sea of Mamora, and later still, vine
plants imported from France were laid
down at Erenkenl, and did welL Then
the famine occurred in the Medoc dis
trict, and the "unspeakable" one con
ceived the bold and ingenious idea of
avenging "occupation," European
"concert" and diplomatic snubbLig by
a lilieral exportation of his itit bh u.
With care and diligence a market for
Turkish wines was soon formed with
France, the returns of the Turkish cus-tom-houre
showing that in the year
1879-80 one shipper alone exported as
many as 00,000 hectolitres, or 4,000,000
okes of Turkish wines to Cette and
Bordeaux. The unexpected success of
the novel enterprise enlisted Frenchmen
as well as Turks in the cause of Turkish
viticulture; and a French company,
hailing from Perpignan, has now pur
chased a large estate at Heracli, on the
Marmora coast, in order to plant vines
and produce wine for the French mar
ket. The vineyards of Rodoeto, Ganos,
Myriofito, and Peristassis, in the same
neighborhood, have also been found to
give a wine which takes divinely to a
Bordenx education. These are strong,
coarse wines, but they are of good
color, and can be exported at a price
that leaves the grower a handsome profit
Fit Culture.
The United States imported 40,000
tons of figs last year. It is held that
figs as good as the Smyrna variety can
be grown in nearly all our foothill re
gion with but a trifle of care and on
smaller capital than any other earth
growth requires. "We already cultiva
ted successfully cucumbers, tomatoes
and other semi-tropicals. General
Worthington, cf Ohio, who has cultiva
ted the fig in the open air for more than
fifty years, says that he grows more of
this fruit on th same space of ground
than he can of potatoes or tomatoes.
The great thing iu growing trees, etc.,
is to be able to ripen the wood. Un
ripe wood causes the death of the peach
and other trees. Fig wood can be
ripened as well as can the wood of other
trees. Of course, if we cannot have
fruits without winter protection, we
will want to cultivate all the same. At
the far north grape wines, raspberry
bushes, peach trees, etc.; have to be
protected, and it pays, for the people
must have fruit. So, then, if our fig
tree i laid down and nicely covered, no
matter how cold, it is not disturbed
more than any other sleeper.
Street SnnJwie a Men.
Many a sad sight is to be seen iu Lou
don, but few are more melan
choly than tk-i spectacle of these poor,
broken-down creatures who are hired to
saunter in the gutter of our great me
tropolis with advertisement boards on
their backs. Their hopeless, famished
faces, their listless gait, their tattered
garments often drenched with rain, and
the thought of the precious pittance
which a hungry .child or two may be
waiting at home to share, are '00 much
for sober contemplation; and more dis
tressing than all, perhaps, is the look
of shame abont these poor wretches.
Of course they are glad enough to earn
a shilling in this way ; and yet especi
ally on a cold, raw, rainy day it does
seem an outrage, almost, for oue man
to put another to such uses. But when
these poor wretches are forced to wear
ridicclous costumes, then we have no
doubt about the outrage at alL Here,
too, the "sandwich man" has no choice ;
he has to conform to the demands and
illustrate the humorous inv.ution of his
employers, if he dot not wish to starve
and does not like to ttcal. In this case
also he is glad enough to earn a shilling;
but thongh there can be no doubt about
that, yet should we be delighted to see
the man admonished who adds to the
humiliatiorjs of failure, friendlesHiiess,
and poverty by making "guys" of these
poor strollers. It is done, howevtr.
H re we see a roy of them, with tall ex
tinguisher cajw on their heads ; there
another, rigged with pigtails, ' like Chi
namen ; and all looking so piteonsly
ashamed. An for that, however, we all
know where the shame, the disgrace of
the thing really lies, and a deep dis
grace it is.
A ltnnl in Her Traluluc.
According to Mr. Ira S. Parke, of Ne
vada, every man ought to meet the fu
ture wife of his bosom when she is
young and take a hand in her trailing.
That was Mr. Parke's theory. "Why,"
he argued, "mere love is folly ; mar
riage is bt-siness all the time." Mr.
Parke lived in Six-mile c&nyou, and
near hiiu dwelt a poor man with a pret
ty little daughter away down in the
teens. In talking with the neighlor
one day the theorist proposed that he
should take the neighbor's daughter
partly in hand, send her to scool aud
theu marry her.for, thought Mr. Tarke,
"as the twig is lient the tree's inclined."
The neighbor agreed, partly because he
knew that his friend was a trustworthy
man and partly liecause he of his own
means would not lie able to give his
daughter proper schooling. The pro
cess of teaching the young idea how to
shoot went swimmingly on for a few years
nntil a mouth or so a go. A visit to her
home theu revealed in the object of the
experiment a lovely maiden mixlest,
well informed and, as Mr. Parke no
doubt rapturously whispered to him
self, iu every way fit to make a man
happy. Such was the condition of af
fairs when the snows of the Sierras le
gan to give way before the warmth of
coming summer. Mr. Parke seized the
opportunity of the visit to tell his pro
tege of the delightful arrangement. To
his surprise such of the girl's smiles as
she gave with which to punctnate his
recitation were accompanied by shoul
der shrugs, uplifting eyebrows aud pro
testing little puckers. To bring the
matter to au end with its climax the
girl ran away with her real lover that
night, and now Mr. Parke is selling at
auction a lot of costly furniture with
which he had stocked his bride's nest.
Predictions are made in England that
ivory will soon become so scarce that
its nse for piano keys, knife handles
and fans will lie reserved for the rich
alone. Of late there have been rapid
advances in the London market price of
this artcle, the latest advance having
been from $13 par hundred-weight to
20, while another is talked of. Ouly
81 tons were offered at the last quarter
ly sale, against the 122 tons in April of
last year. Of Cape ivory there has
been a continued scarcity, while of the
west coast of Africa supply there is now
much less in hand than formerlr.
Stores in the London docks now amount
to only 1-13 tons, compared with 2 3
tons for last year. Oue dealer has just
had invoiced to him no fewer than 522
tusks, all of which he expected a fort
night ago to dispose of by this time
These tusks represent 176 elephants.
Facts like these are leading to a renew
al of the old predictions that the ele
phant will lefore many years belong to
the list of of extinct animals.
Ilia Aged Wife.
Make the bed easy,said old uncle Abe
to the undertaker, who was preparing
the coffin for his aged wife. "Make the
bed easy,for her old bones are tender and
soft, and a hard bed will hurt them."
He forgot for a moment that old gray-
haired man that she was dead ; that
the old bones had doue aching forever.
Sixty-four years ! Just think of it in
this age of divorce. Sixty four years
had thev dwelt under the samo sorrows
of life ; together mourned over the cof
fin of their first born ; together rejoiced
in the prosperity of their sons and
daughters, and now she had left him
alone. No wonder he f org- it. Her lov
ing bauds had so long cared for him,
for he had been the feebler of the two,
"Uutd death do as part," said the mar
riage service that had united them so
many years ago. Death had parted
tbem, bnt the love still survived. Ten
derly had he cared for her all these
years, and how tenderly di 1 he watch
the making of the last bed of his still
loved wife. He had bravely breasted
the storm of life with her by his
aide, but now that she was gone he
could not live, and in a few days they
laid him by her side.
NEWS IN IiKIKF
Teias received 2o0,000 immigrant
last vear.
In the music of the Hindoo tln ro
are quarter tone.
Opium kills a!out lM.OOO Persons
annually iu China.
CyprLin locusfs are again being
slaughtered to protect the crops.
The cororattou of the Czar will take
place at iloseow ou September 6.
Farmers in the Ciiuderlar.l Valley
are importing horses from Canadx
The German Government has pro
hibited boys under sixteen from using
tobacco.
In Java an inferior must walk with
his hamls on his heels till his superior
is out of sight,
Oat of 7,001) pictures "sent iu" to
the Paris Salon this spring nea rly 4,,"i00
were rejected.
TLo petitions sent to the President
asking for Mason's pardon contuu near
ly 5o0,000 names.
It is said that tha barb wire trado
of the United States amounts to $10,
000.000 per aunuui.
A -lvie s from Missouri. Nebraska and
Iudiaiia are v ry encouraging as to the
w heat prospects for ls2.
The English (Quakers are going to
try to adapt tlieniselres and their cus
toms to modern exigencies.
Two thousand human beings and
over 50,600 head of cattle aro annually
lulled by snake bi es in India.
The wild horses pasturing in the
pampas of the Argentine Republic S. A.
are est niati-d to uumUr 2,500.000.
The oyster fishing anil packing in
dustries of Maryland and Virginia give
employment t 4D,tVJl hands, who re
ceive wages to the amount of $;,!),V,4H
yearly. The amount invested in thu
Lnsiness is $9,C0fi,97u.
Tiie Chinese in California, as a rule,
dress better than white workiugmen,
It is estimated that the nople of
the District of Columbia squander $50,
IMX) every mouth in lottery tickets.
The Pension Appropriation bill has
been complete,!. The sum to be ap
propriated is, in round numliers, 100,
t00,000. Mrs. Polk, the widow of James K.
Polk, is sitting for a portrait for tlio
White House. Mr. Drury, of Kuoxville,
is the artist.
Near Vardo, Norway, is the most
northerly fort in the world. It was once
the terror of the Muscovites. They now
joke aliout it.
There are 9,000 salm.-j - in New
York. If placed side by si.lo in a direct
line they would extend a distance of
forty-rive miles.
The first elephant ever seen in Eng
land was given to the king by the king
of France in 1255, but only lived to bo
twelve years old.
In the May proceedings at New
castle, Engl uid, appeared a blind min
ing pony ai;ed 22, w hich had never till
then Ix-eu above ground.
The largest increase of Baptists
since 1870 has been in the fifteen South
ern States, w hcra the gam is 701,413,
mostly amo:ir the colored people.
There are less than oue hundred
thousand Chinese in California. The
assertion is m:ide that they send homo
annually 40,000,000 to $l5,000,0tl0.
M. Outrey, the former French
Minister, left in his wine cellar at Wash
ington, to be sold at auction, aiioiit fifty
dozen bottles tf Madeair of the vintage
of 17M.
The estimated total length of all tho
submarine telegraph cables iu the world
is sixty-two thousand one hundred mile,
ami their money value w comouted al
5200,000,000.
Father Browning, who has been a
Methodist minister for sixty-five years
preached a "powerful sermon" in St
Louis the other night. Mr. Browning
is nearly muety.
Grandmother Tlatt. the oldest in
habitant of Niles, Mich., has been a
reader of a Pittsfield, Mass., weekly
pajer for eighty-two years and never
has missed a number.
A memorial window is to be placed
in Hugheiiden Church. England, by
Sir Samuel Wdson, t commemorate the
Queen's happy escae from assassination
by the lunatic Mac Lean.
Bussia has 2 1,7 if noble with an
average income of $19,001) per annum;
li.S.OlMi merchants with a yearly lucom
of $1,500 each; and 10,254.000 jHasauU
with au annual average of $IU0.
A Bntterrly hunter in Florida Rets
an average of five cents apiece for his
captures, though some rare sjiecimen
b: mg much more. One very rare sjieci
men sells as high as $15 per pair.
In Brooklyn, N.Y. ascordiiig to
Superintendent Patterson's annual reiiort
there are til,2H9 chddreu on the public
schooljrolls au increase, of 2,758 dur
ing the past year with 1.29 teachers.
Edward" Stabler of S imlv Sprinirs.
Md , claims to be the oldest Postmaster
in the country. He was apxiuted to
the office he now holds by Iresident
.lackson, oO years ago, under the first
Post matter General who was a Cabinet
officer.
The average yield of wheat per acre
in 1-S-sl was ouly 10 bushels, against
13J busheLs for 1850. This of itself
would lie equivalent to a falling off of
100.000,000 bushels ia the total wheat
crop of 1881.
General D. iL Hill's proixjsed re
tirement from the presidency of the
Arkansas Industrial School is a matter
of so mt.'ch regret iu that State that he
very likely will reconsider the case. He
has made the chool successful and id
popular at Littlj lUx-k.
James C. Huestou, the general
agent of the Associated Press, has re
ceived from the German Government
the "mshd for saving from imminent
danger," having rescued Therese Enke
from death by drowning on Jane 18,
1881, while he was at Ems, Germany.
A prominent English physician ex
plains Hanlau's wonderful success at
the oars on three grounds, namely that
he has brains and carefully studies his
work; thut ho never goes through the
absurdities of so-called training, and
that he never takes exercise so excessive
as to cause exhaustion.
The work of widening the framed
Magdalen Bridge at Oxford England is
al-eady in progress. The extent of the
enlargement will be aliout twenty feet
on what is kuown as the Botanical-Gardens
side, so that the side facing south
west, in w hich lira the chief beauty of
the structure will remain uninjured.