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B. T. BCHWEIER,
TEE O0S8TITUTI0I-THE UHOI-AID TEE EITOBOEKEHT OP TEE LATTS.
Editor and Proprlto.
VOL. XXXVI.
MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNT V. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. JULY 12. 1SS2.
NO. 27.
SAD. YET GLtl).
un I IIl on earth, so brlifU ana fur
It was fair to thee
I beat my nanus in wild despair
I am sad (or thee.
W hen I see its sorrows. Us woes anJ pains,
Anl know thou art free,
Deaih was mjf loss, but your great gain
I am g'.ud for thee. -
Memory holds thee so bright and sweet,
sjo loving to me
The ready hands, the willing feet
I am sad for thee.
A woman's life, with its woes and pains,
Is spared to thee ;
H y eyes are Wind with sorrow's rains.
But, Oh ! how glad for thee!
1 miss you I miss you, my own little girl,
That was t vt-r w.lh me !
I loug, how 1 long for my beait's pure pearl !
And am sad for thee 1
'1 lien o.me to my soul the sweetest refrain!
From sorrow, from sorrow all free,"
And I murmur again. In passionate pain,"
Hilad oh ! glad for thee V
hki: l.tssox.
Lily, this tte-ak is splendid. Is the
cook your own cook?" asked Allan
Wheeler helping himself to -a second
slice.
"Xo, I don't trust her with broiling a
steak yet," returned Mrs. Lily, as she
poured him a second cup of fragrant
coffee. "1 cooked it myself, to have it
nice."
'Well I must say it is a success, Lit.
I believe you deserve a new bonnet for
such a nice breakfast,"
"Well, that's jnst what I want," con
fessed Lil hingbing.
"Mine is actually too shabby for an
other Sunday's wear."
"Is it ? Really, I thought that little
concern you had on last night was un
commonly pretty andliecoming,"
"Oh, AL that was only my hat, and t
altered it myself from a last winter's
style."
"Ah, it's the 'style' of the thing, is
it? Well, I suppose you women under
stand such trillcs; Tiu sure I don't
But I reckon I'll have to dance to
th- music, like a little man," taking
out his (ocVet-iHH.k. "How much will
it take?"
'One can't get a nice lmniiet for less
than ten or fifteen dollar
'What ! Why. I never give more
than five for the finest kind of a hat !'
"Oh, but, AL, you know men's hats
are so different, aud require no trim
ming.
"Well, of course I want you look as
nice as any of them. But it strikes me
a little bodv s pretty as my wife
doesu't need much dressing up. There,
I can spare just exactly that to-day.
'Thanks fir the money aud th
compliment too, said Lily, with a
lio.Lt laiSL'h. "I'll make it do the
monev, that is !"
"Guess it will have to. I really can't
spare another quarter for a week or two,
Lil for anv thing. We've got to meet
some heavy bills at the office, and we're
in a Unlit place just now. Be as saving
as von can."
"All right ; I will."
Lily kissed her husband good-bye,
and rang the haud IhH to summon her
girl from the kitchen.
Jnst as he was going out Allan put
his head back inside the door.
"I say, Lil, Mr. Elder gave me tick
ets for the niatiuee this afternoon,
would ycu like to go?"
'I should think I would.
"All right then. Two o'clock's the
TlnrTl have dinner till about
-ii.l I'll como tin iust in time. You
be ready, and we'll have a late,
and go down together." .
"Very well."
dinner
And Allan to -k himself down to Liu-
ley and Wheeler's store, of which
was lunior partner.
he
JrVhi'e Ami did the work downstairs,
Ldlv tidnd the upstairs room, and
iuet ready to dress for her shopping ex
pedition when the door bell rang, ana
i.nently Ann came up ttairs saying
"Mrs. Wheeler, there s a young
Hi you in the sitting-rooom.
Slightly vexed at being hindered.
Lily ran down.
Her caller was Miss Wi'son, a young
eirl who sometimes sewed for her.
i,a.i broncht home a
bnudle of
uuv . .. - . ' .
.1 T.ilv noticed as she took it
and examined it that the girl looked
pale and aud.
.t n ,.rrl.t to uav. her. but
can't te-day, if I get my bonnet,
thought.
Aloud she asked:
n. ,..n.-li do I owe you ?"
She
"Seven dollars altogether," answered
TAiinrr HpnmslrefS.
WelL I'm very sorry I haven t the
money by me to sp:ire to-day. If yon
will call again next week I will have it
and pay you."
'If you coild spare
only part I
need it very much,"
oii-l fultennz.
said the yonii;
"Indeed I haven't a dollar to spare
A.- J.. on it i inn: ossible. I will pay
t -on T aAsnre you. and
it as soon x V -i
..; more wo k." assured LiL
it am rrr " returned Miss Wilson.
But as she went out Lily noticed that
she was very white, and her hps quiv
"she hereelf went upstairs very slowly
to diess. ' ,
"I feel inclined to call her back and
give ,1 to her," Le said thoughtfully.
-Five dollars anyhow. Bat then
cheip bonnet does look so shabby, and
I can't go to the theatre if I don t get
new one. I haven't a thing fit to wear.
Oh. pshaw! I dare say .lie can wait as
well as I could." -Sbe
liunied her dressing, and in a
pretty stilish -treet suit was soon flit
5.. -i " .1.- .nilliners shop, seaxch-
ting about the milliners shop, eacu-
ingfor.Lattosuither taste.
A lovely benuet was iouuu, "
, , .. ii i, .n as she paid we
uougui it, iua- to
monej she thought with little sting
of her toustiei ce of the pale face of the'
young sewing girl whom she had not
paid.
When Allan came homo to dinner,
Lil put the new b nuet on, and he
i pronounced it bewitching.
She had purchased gloves to match
while uptown, and when she was dress
ed for the matinee, Allan declartSl he
didn't believe theie could be anything
prettier in the house than his Lily.
The play was magnificent, and Lily
enjoyed it greatly.
When they cane once more cut of
the gas-lit opera -house into the open
air, the short winter afternoon was
drawing near to its close.
They stepxed into an omnibus to ride
home.
The omnibus was crowded, aud they
did not notice who was near until, as it
topped at a corner to let out a party
of four, a young girl in the end next the
drirer,rose, and Lily saw it was a friend
of her own, Miss Seldon, aud the two
greeted each other cordially.
' Ciirrne has to walk a square alone,
she said to her husband ; it is only a
few steps out of our way let's get out
and Walk down with her."
"Of course, I never refuse to walk
with a good-looking young ladv."
averred Allan, laughingly.
lliey got out, intending to walk home
with Miss S.ldon, and stepped upon the
pavtuunt, just as a group gathered
about some object 1) iug upou the street
fronting a brilliantly-lighted shop.
"Why, it's a woman!" cried Mm.
Wheeler. "What's the natter, I won
der?"
"They stopped, impelled by curiosi
ty, aud looked at the fallen form.
"It's a lady, sir, as is fainted," ex
plained a policeman, raising the sletder
figure np. "Sick or something, I
reckon. Such things happen every
day."
"Oh, my gracious, it's Mary Wil
son !" cried Lily, as soou as she caught
sight of th girl's face.
'The girl who sews for you ? asked
Allan.
Yes. Have her takeu in, Al, and
call a cariiage. and let us take her
home," exhorted Lily who had a kind
heart when it was really reached.
The young girl laid on a sofa in the
druggist shop, soon revived, and opened
her eyes with a look of wonder, but
seemed to know none of them.
"It's a case of starvation in my opin
ion," announced the druggist, who had
given her some wine to revive her "She
looks like one who has dropped from
exhaustion."
"Do yon know her?" asked Lily.
"Only as a sewing girl. J often fee
her pass with a bundle of work. Ko
doubt the poor thing is half starved,
and half paid for what she does do."
Lily turned sick, rem?mbering w hat
she ha J done that morning. But she
spoke kindly to the poor girl, and when
it was evident she could not walk home
again ordered Allan to take Carrie Sel
don to her door and bring a carnage.
for the knew where to take Miss Wil
son.
He did so as soon as he could, and
Lily held the poor girl in her arms
while they rode t the house where she
had a room.
They got her upstairs, with the help
of the kind-hearted landlady, aud laid
her upou her lied.
Lily opened the little cupboard to find
something to give her; it was absolute
ly empty of food, and remenitaring
what the druggist had said. Lily burst
into tears.
"Oh Al, hare you goi any money
about you ?"
"Of course I have some," he answer
"What shall I fret? bat lias
she in there?"
Not a thine. Al. And I owo her
seven dollars."
"Yon, Lily you owe that girl?" he
demanded, in surprise.
Yes. She called this morning at
our house, and I I didu t pay her,
sobbed Li'y, in remorse and grief.
Allan drew a step nearer, and said
lily, did you spend all that money for
a bonnet, and jet owe that poor gu-:
nearly half of it,
"Yes, I did," confessed Lily, "and if
she dies, I shall feel as if I had lulled
her. Don't scold me, Allan, but let us
try to help her now.
I didn t dream she was so needy
this."
Seeing her distress, Allan did forbear
just then, and they both set to work to
do somethir g for the sick grri.
But it was too late.
She had, they afterwards learned, not
tasted food all day,
Ton nr nd to bee. even of her
landlady, who would have helped her,
had she known the girl was without
food or money, she had walked all day
in search of more work, and dropped ex
honsta! at last. Insuffioent living for.s
long time had prepared the way for th
break-down, and the next day poor
MnrwAVilson was delirious with fever,
Like a sister Lily now tended and
surrounded her with comforts, but she
i yl a week or so and then
died.
The doctor said she was too near
iv down to have stood it many
days in any case, but Liiy always felt
that if she had paid tuai seeu
poor Mary's life might have been saveu.
It was a lesson she never iorgow
She could not bear even to wear
. luwuot arain.
the
She sold it to Ann for hs tl.au half
; .t.and a nimh cheaper oueadorned
her pre tty kea.1 for the re of the
win
eLe negkot , Bmau
I debt owed to a poor person, but We
ter.
I it . point of cor science to see u.
i " " i . .n
chums came nn ul
cn"
oTee-rtautlnc
Mr. Arnold has the annexed state
ment in his book called "On the Iudiau
Hills" in relation to coffee-plau ting iu
Southern Iudi. "When I entered
tue great circle of nearly two hundred
men, women, aud children, looking as
solemu us might be, w ith the fatefu
day-book iu mc baud and a huge bag
f copper and silver coits in the other,
having the half-caste clerk at my elbaw
to interpret, I was conscious that all
eyes were upon me, and my smallest
motion was beiug watched iu deep si-
euce by the aH"embled coolies. De
termined to get into practice as soou as
possible, instead i letting the lialf-
caste call over the names, I determined
to do it myself, and, shooting out the
bag of nioiu-y into a glittering heap ou
the rough wooden table iu 'ront cf me.
plunged at once into the long columns
of outlandish names, which filled ten or
twelve folio pases of the dav-lxiok.
When I beirau calling the fearful and
wonderful Tamil and Canarese names,
there was a general titter round tuo cir
cle, aud three or four men answered ui
once, my pronunciation K ing so tli iky
that they coulJ not distinguish whose
name it was However, I suppressed
the giggling, and having obtained 'si
lence iji the court,' forged slowly ahead,
every now and then making some mis
take which set the natives smiling, but
getting slowly into the way of the pro
tttiuciatum, and running up the sums
ant', counting out tue change like a
booking clerk. OJten a coolie would
conclude he hal not got the lhrfit
amount, aud opwied a discussion wl ich
had t cut very short; aud 50 h-t
ceLt. of them thought their rupees
we-rebad, so that from all sidts rose the
sound of money being chinktd upou
the rock to test its ring. Each native
as he came np salaamed aud held out
both hands, ttige to edge, to receive the
ovei flow iag bounty of the saLib. Poor
pec-ple ! the strongest man amongvt
them who had worked iu the rain aud
run ail the week only took six Unit s five
anuas atiout equal to 3s. 4d. and ou
this, of course, unify had to support a
wife and children too ill or weak to tod.
Then, again, the women many of them
mothers, with small brown fragineuis of
humaLity slung upon their backs got
three annas a day, and the most they
could earn was littie more than 2s.
week. Even the littie cLildren
came np, ducked tluir small suaxen
heads iu comical homage to the great
white mlul, and held out very small
brown hands for the price whieh these
same hands were supposed to haveearu
ed, at the rate of a penny a day. Last
of all, the maistriis received pay at the
rate of six or eight annas jer diem, and
the horse-boys, cooks, sweet ers, and
hangers on of all sorts. When these
were satisfied, there wss stiil a small
crowd of non-contents who came up
and complained that their iuouey was
bad would I change it ? which I olwa3
did when psible, as if a Jhx fellow
earned one rupee and chanced to get
paid with a luul, nnchaugablo com,
there was nothing but starvation for him
during the next week. Others thought
there was a mistake somewhere always
to their disadvantage and their namt
had to be hunted for, and the aiuouht
of money given compared with that en
tered in the liook. It was hopelefs to
please them all, but ou going over the
accounts during the course of the next
evening,! was well satisfied to find there
was only an error of a few annas hap
pily too much &iveu out, not too little.
diaries Bales.
Well," queried bis Honor, as Charles
Bates walked out iu Detroit.
"WelL I'm here!"
"I see yon are. You have lost your
hat, rolled into the mud, aud got into a
bad fix."
'I snppose I am charged with drun
kenness?"
"You are; but what have you got to
say abont it?"
The prisoner took a sip of cough
meJeciue, cleared his throat and liegan:
"Hour Honor, I have a story to tell.
Twenty-eight years ago I was
Hold on! Don't go back twenty-eight
to start with. All I have to do with is
the past twenty-four hours.'
'1 must begin at the beginning, as l
was saying, twenty eight years ajo yes
terday I "
"1 can t wait for it. Wtre you uiuug
last niaht?"
1 can't say, your Honor. When you
have heard my sto y yon cau judge for
yourself, Xow I will begin again.
Xo. you needn't lou weie found
lvinar in the alley."
"1 don't deny it, but it you wui give
me au hour in which to explain, I'll
make it all satisfactory as to how I came
into that alley. As I was sayui:
twenty-eight years ago, I was
poor
"(Jan t wait, as X told you Deiore.
"Well, then, IU say fourteen years
ago.
"That's too long."
"Shall I begin a year ago?"
"Xo. sir. Begin ou yesterday and
state your defense."
I have none."
Then that'a all I want to know,
shall send ycu up for thirty days."
"Have you the power?"
"I have."
'Then that settles the case and I'm
done for, though I'll never admit that I
h Hrnnk."
"You don't have to admit anytlung.
Please fall back."
. "Can I tell my story now?
Xo! Wait till after Court, and tell
. Riih "
And will yon sentence) him to hear
"Yas and now stand aside for the next,
Time is passing awif Uy by and there are
Qjjee plain drunks and one bad boy to
hear from.
I
A West Indies "Keff her."
At 11 o'clocK every morning Thomas
comes inio the office with a (Jass f fresh
coco nut water. The windows are all
wide open; the jalousies are all tightly
Closed: the breeze is hlowine faintly through
toe lattices; and the cicalas are chirping
tli tr very loudest on the tn saud-L-ox tree
just out.-itle the door. Cicalas always chirp
most vigorously on the hotte t moiniuirs;
and golden preen liz-trds put their beads
out of boles in the al! to lislea to I hem
and bask in the sun, for lizards dearly love
but two things, music and sunshine.
If you look at them they turn up their eyes
sideways at you, with a sort of knowing
wink, and disappear al a moment's notice
down between the mortar. It is a blazing
hot morniDg, surely, and a gna of coco
nut waUr is a delicious refresher, with the
Ice bobbiag up and dewo in the centre,
and clinking pleasantly as it liobs against
the side of the tumbler. Thomas, too,
looks S) delightfully cool acd summerlikc;
he is a handsome mulatto boy. with clean
white linen jacket snd trousers; and when
he opens the door, salver in hand and white
teeth all showing, his looe attire gives one
a soft ot vicarious sensation of coolness,
wholly impossible in the su! jittive form
to any man doomed to wear the black cloth
coat and lihl-titting waistcoat of British
cmcial respectability. But outd ors the
dust is Hying, tue streets are bakiug, the
very negroes sre skulking down (lie shady
Mile of the road, aud only the little black
pigs and the Utile black babies are basking
together in the sweltering suninht.
Coco-cut water is indeed a magnificent
institution. H doesn't in the least resem
ble that sickly, stn:n-tlavored coco-nut
milk that people in England get out of the
full-growu nul. It is a pur, clear, limpid.
colorless fl iid, not to be distinguished from
water by the eye, aud with hard;y more
than a suspicion or nut'y savor eveu tc
the palate. You buy your green coco-nuts
in the lump once a week, a dozen for three
halfpence three halfpence is the singuUr
unit of value ihieughout all the lirillsh
West Indies and you use iheiu as you
want thcrn. They are kuoefced down from
the palm less than half rife, aud sold husk
and ail tor consumption on the premises.
Wnen you open one, you take a knife anu
slice Ihrougn ihe green fibre, shell inclu
ded, the whole being still tender euougn to
cut clean across will.out dillicuilv. Alter
slicing cS a layer or two from tho top, you
come upon the water, which you turn out
into a tumbler, ai:d throw the rest or tue
nut away. Xew comers of leu eat the pulp
wilb aspion, and it is certainly pleasaul
and delicate enough, forming a mere film
of soft, jelly like lining round t1 e inside
of the shell. lSut coco-nut is ludigcslible
iu any form, though less so when young
than in its ury stale, aud old hands seldom
latte the pulp at ali; for a man must save
his digestion in these low latitudes, if he
wishes to keep any for hs latter days. The
ripe nuts are only fit for making oil. To
the English world, no doubt, it seems
shjckiug waste to cpeu a whoie roc -nul
merely lor the sake of drinking the juice;
but probably the email children hauling
atiout the yard always annex the empty
shells a i their penpiisur, and make a good
meal, too, of the pulp. Xotajdy ever kuows
what becomes of wajte things in a hot cli
male; it is no good trying to keep tlie-iu,
and there are innumerable hangers on iu
the back regions, who cm always find a
satisfactory use for unconsidered trifles.
The water itself, however, is a universal
beverage with all sobei people. Even
when no ice can be had, as on the moun
tains nr in country cstalts, it keeps litli
ctously cool and I rush witinn it- own thick
green covering ot shell and tibie. Tiicu it
is naturally strained and filtered, drawu up
by the roots fiom the malarious surtuce
drainage of the lagoons, but ountied by
parsing through all the vessels an l cells of
tue sleui, so that it makes at last a very
valuable drink in a country where all the
wells are nicne or less hideously iHillutcd
by neighboring sewage, la this yon.-g
stage it contains but little ot the materril
for forming the pulp, and is only very
slightly swcetisn, with a faint and agree
able flavor of the coco-nnt. Hence the
youngest nuts are tie best; as elie fruit
ripens the fibre becomes stringier, t lie shell
grjws Uickcr, the pulp hardens, aud the.
water turns into rainer indigestible wtimsh
milk. Some mistaken people put iu a
uxinfid or two of rum; but this is an er
ror; rum before lunch never did anybody
good iu any climate, aud letst ot all iu 1
where most people die ot yellow lever or
of highly concentrated bilious attacks. The
pure water alone, with a Iu n; of ice iu it,
can do nobody any harm; it contains a
small quantity of lood, and it quenches
thirst better than even cold tea. In fact,
grtea coco nuts are one of ttc very few
real luxuries ot the West indies. The lus
cious fruits aud delicious sweetmeats are.
of course, tbe purest humbug; there are
really no good tropical frut 8 wor h men
tioning, save only those that we have all
known from childhood upwards at Cvent
Garden; but an exception must be made
iu favor oi mangoes and green coco-nuts.
Unfortunately, they don teasily bear trans
portation; to eat them at the r Ix at they
should be opened within a week or ten days
of the time they are plucked irom the tree.
Besides, they would Dot Seem so good, no
doubt, man rther climate. It is their
admirable adaption to the circumstances of
tbe case that makes them so delicious, xou
look up from your bundle of green-tapad
papers on the desk, over which you have
been fumingyourself bodily away in steam,
and you see that glass of co d calural wa
ter standing invitingly before you, w ta its
lump of ice bobbing gaily up an l down in
the tumbler, like a glimpse or Europe out
of place. That is woat gives cocc-nu:
water its peculiar charm. Take it to Lon
don, and offer it to thirsty mortals at a
club, and they would probably much prefer
ApolUnaris. In hot clmia'es, however,
there is only one thing to compete with it,
and that is lemonade made from ltesb
green limes without sugar, about as re
freshing aud cooling a drink as human in
genuity ever luyented. Uuhappily the
colonial world, as a rule, despises these
modest beverages, and mixes itself a large
jug of niainsbeet every morning instead.
Mainshcet is weak rum and water, ready
laid on in a porous earthenware vessel
ea-rporation from tbe surface keeping it
cool, and it secmn to derive it quaintly ex
pressive name from the native habit oi
taking constant fulls at it ail day long, as
a sort of universal si bnulus or general prime
motor power to human action.
SI Kowlaoa IlilL.
The brouz'etatue which is to com me
moiaUi Sir Kowlaud Hili, the outhi r of
the penny postage sy km, will be of
colossal size, the figure being nine feet
high. The statue will stand upon
pedestal of polished red granite, nsiug
i iirht feet aliove the gronnd. It will be
placed ut the back of the Boyal Ex
change. Lcndou, facing Corubill. The
sculptor, E. Onslow ForJ, has repre
sented Sir Rowland in a standing atti
tude, with his arms brought forward; in
one hand he has a pencil and in the
tlr a notebook. The costume ia an
ordinary walkirjg suit.
Eitates of the toknowo.
1 hree men climbed the stairs at 49 iierk
man sireot, Xew York, to the Public Ad
miuistiator's office, one of them beneath a
heavy l.iail of valises and bundle. These
he dumped on the floor in the office.
"Effects of a dead man," he saiit, as he
straightened up.
One of the other men, who proved to
be Mr. Daniels, purser of the steamship
Colon, then explained that there bad come
atxard that vessel at Aspinwall an invalid
named (i. bchneider, tue head of the firm
of Schneider & Martin, proprietors of the
Great International Houl of that city.
and that he died the following day. His
remains were buried al sea, and, after an
inventory of his effects had been taken,
tbey were tied up, sealed, and when the
steamer reached her dock, brought at once
to Uie Public Administrator. The assist
ant in charge of the office was making a
minute of these facts when tbe mau who
brought the eflects interrupted him.
"Uive me a dollar and let me go,"
said be.
"How can I give you a dollar?1'
"Why, there's plenty of money in that
envelope," the messenger replied, pointing
to an envelope that the purser had put on
the desk together with a collar box and a
pocket book. Tbe assistant tore tbe enve
lope open and took from it bills and gold
pieces amounting to $150. He gave the
messenger one d ollar. Then he ticked off
the items in the purser's luventory: One
hundred and fifty dollars, gold watch, gold
chain, ametbyst ring, diamond ring, $1 40
in sols, three shirt studs, pocket-book, va
lises, etc lie gave the purser au itemized
receipt, and the purser said tnat Schneider's
brother lives in 2ew York.
"Sow, what will the Public Adminis
trator do witn those thing-?" tbe atjistant
was askei'.
'First, we will enter all the facts in
what we call our rough book, and next
we will put the valutbles and money in
the safe," said he, "and store the goods in
the back room. When the brother bss
qualified as administrator we will turn the
estate over to hitn. If there hid been no
brother er o.htr relative here we would
have sect tbe jewelry to the safe deposit
vaults, stored the valises in our s:ore-room
in Duane street, and deposited the money
in one of the banks, which, uuder the law,
the Comp'.roller specifies shall be used for
that purpose. After a certain time, if we
bad not heard from the relatives or friends
of the dead man we should have sold bis
effects anil turue 1 th! proceeds aud the
other money over to tbe City Chamberlain,
who would bold it in trust forever for the
next cf kin. We very often go through
this, and our sales, which are by puiilic
auction and are advertised, are attended
each time by about the came men and
women. They a -e dealers in second hand
materials and are cur regular customers,
so to speak.'"
"You bad a right to pay that messenger
for bringing those things here?"
"OU, yes; just as we should have had
a right to bury Schneider and pay for the
funeral if bis body bad been brought here.
If his brother administers ou the estate
we will account to him, but if we aduuu
ister upon it we will act exactly as if we
were a priv.tte party, paying the debts of
the deceased, collecting wuat was due
bun, and selling his proper' y to the best
advantage. A cousin could qualify as
well as a brother, if he was neat cf kin.
Tue law is, first the wife, next tbe chil
dren, third the father, next the mother,
then the brothers or sisters or cousins,
males of the nearest degree of relationship
being preferred to females. The Public
Administrator comes after the relatives,
but ahead of creditors, friends and all
others. We have a hand ihe case of
John D. Crady, who was a receiver of
stolen goods. His fence' was a sort of
jewelry or pawnbroker's shop in Sixth
avenue. He died, leaving relatives, but
they were not able to give security, and a
man named Uaughton, who claims that
Orady had property that bad been stolen
from him, applied h r letters of adminis
tration. We applied also, and tbe Surro
gate appointed us. We hold the estate
aud dispute llaiifbton's claim."
"In the last annual report of (he Public
Administrator are very many names ot
persons classified as 'unknown,' whose es
tates are represented by sums ranging
from down to ten cents. What
about them?'
"They are cases of those who die at
sea often s .ilors, vagrants who die in the
streets and iu the public institutions, per
sous who die in hotels and boarding
houses, and Coroners' cases of all sorts.
The master of every vessel up in which a
death occurs must report aud surrender
the estate of the dead person to us. i-
inut boarding-house and hotel keepers.
i -Is and KaKleftnakes.
A short time ago, as Misses il.itiie and
Corme Hubert, ared fourteen and silicon
years, were going home from Mrs. Young's
in Miss., tbev found themselves suddenly
brought to a standstill by a h ige rattlesnake
which bad taken possession ot toe road.
f he usual thing for girls to do under such
circumstances is to stream and run away.
Wot so with the heroines of this story.
They immediately armed themselves each
with a fedce lad and commenced hostili
ties. The monster made ngbt al nist, oui
anding himself overmatched attempted to
get away, but the girls had got lh?ir dan
der up and followed the reptile into the
woods, bela'xiring him with rails. 1 neie
is no telling what two determined girls
can do (it took oniy one determined lass to
capture us). Miss Mattie and 31iss Lornie
were victorious and succeeded in killing
the snake, which measured over five feet
in length and nine inches in circumfer
ence. It was a brave deed and deserves
ommendation.
Century Plant.
(J uto a number oi ceuiury plants, in
various portions of California are in bloom.
One upou a ranch in Sonoma Valley, on
the west side near the fiicthills, grew six
feet in eight days, or three eighths of an
inch per hour, which is a fair sample ot
the rapidity of flower stem development
in these interesting plants, ax 1'etaiu.na
two plants are a'amt to bloom, and will be
in their prime next week. A mammoth
ceniury plant, which has oeen ior years
on a farm in the 8ao Gabriel Valley, will
blossom soon. The plant spreads over a
circle forty-eight feet in circumference.
The flower item u exptcted to bec-nue
forty or more feet high before it completes
its growth. At Alvarado a large ceniury
plant is now thrusting up its Bower stem.
Eight or ten other cases ar n ported iu
other parts of the State. The century
plant, will, in California, bloom ia eight
or ten years after being planted. The
Mexicans make an intoxicating drink,
pulijue, from the sap, and its manufacture
is said to be very profitable. From the
leaves a hemplike filler is obtained.
W. S. Ladd. a Portland Oregon,
banker, has given $20,000 to build a re
form school in that State, and he wdl
pay all expenses connected with the
school.
Hrltlslt Hannah.
The administration report of British
Burmah shows the progress of the pro
vince to be little short of marvellous
and that despite the iuteuse indolence,
or rather hatred of laUr. characterizing
the Bnrman people. Out or 87,220
square miles of fertile soil barely 5.600
ore cultivated, though most ot the cul
tivable area is withiu easy reach of the
railway and of navigable rivers or the
sea. The population increased 3fl pel
ceut iu the 8 years previons t i the
census of lHMl. As illustrating the
wonderful fertility of the sod, it is poin
ted ont that iu a single orchard the
following trees were iu bearing at the
same time the cocoannt, the areca, the
Corean mango, orange, lime, Mangcs
teon, pineapple, black pepper, plantain
and coffee. The soil is suitable for
sugarcane,, tobacco and cotton. The
hill slopes affored eyery facility for the
production of tea, coffee aud cinchona.
Petroleum abounds, and iron, tin, lead
aud antimony are plentiful, while the
supply of forest trees is infinite aud their
variety inexhaustible. The local demand
for tobacco is prodigious every man,
womau and child smokes. From 40,000
to 80,000 cigars are sent every month to
England, and a large supply is imported
into India. Yet with all these advanta
ges of the soil most of the tobacco is
brought from Madras, so great is the
repugnance of the people to work. Xot
withstanding this apathy, die increase
of prosperity is astounding; 835,338
tons of ricd were exported to Europe in
1830, being an increase of 85,000 tons
over that exported iu the previous year,
although prices fell 20 per cent. If the
export duty on rice were abolished, this
trade would be developed still further
to an amazing extent. As compared
with 1870, lioth imports and exports
have considerably more than doubled.
The total trade in 1870 amounted to
10,203,000; while that of 1880 was
222,222,000. The revenues have in
creased in the stme period from 1,
232,000 to 2,3(50,000, tho local and
municipal revet. uo having more than
trebled. Burnish paid a surplus of
707,000 to the Imperhd Government
in 1880-81. The incidence of tassWiou
on the population of 3.73G.771 is IV.
G 3 annas per head. So little is this felt
that every family in Burmah on the
average spends 12 yearly on jewelry
and imported luxuries. Bullion to the
ex'ent ef a million and a half annually
is absorbed iu the province, ia addition
to the great amonut spent iu charity
and amusements.
Ynuiig Woman lurentor.
The other Jay a patent was r-corjed
to a young woman cf Louisville and
another youig womau of Cincinnati, for
what was ft) led an "ironing pau.'
From the tine of Adam and Eve. woman-folk
hnvd used when honing clothes
a saucer turu- J N.ttoiu side up, a horse
shoe, au oystfr can, or a hundred and
one other contrivances to place the hot
iron uihjii wh.le tinning a gaimeut. nr
when wishinc to lay down tho iron for a
moment. When irouing-boards came
into use han.Vome little stands for the
irou soon followed. But, as many a
housewife knows to her sorrow, these
ironing-boardt cannot be disturbed
without upsetting the irou aud staud,
thereby endangering, among other
things, her toes, and many accidents
have thus liehdlc-n children. These
young ladies hit upon the idea of mak
ing an iron pan, to Ik- sunk into the
board, and thus kept stationary, beiug
of such di pth as to hold the iron in safety
while the irouer twists the lxiard in
whatever direction desired. Models
were made; aid application filed at
Washington, resulting in a patent beiug
iumedittely Issued to them. The idea
of the thing was suggested by having
witnessed several accidents among the
servants. The young Indies are cousins.
Both or; known for their beauty and
accomplishments. They receieved an
offel of S5.000 for their invention the
day tfttr the patent was obtained. This
they refused and concluded an arrange
ment lor the making of the nteusil iron
mould, one inch deep, eight inches
long and five inches wide. There are
tlanges rnt.niii across two sides, so that
one simply has to cut a hole in the iron
iug-boarl, insert the pan and screw i
fast tbroigh the flanges. The bottom
is perforated, so tbat it may not become
over-warm.
The New I.o.-o' Lieutenant.
Earl Spencer, the new Lord Lhutcn-
ant, of Ireland, a fortnight ago, iu re
ceiving several deputations concerning
the Phtenix Park assassinations, read
an extract from a letter he had a fe
days earl'.erfrecived from Lady Frederick
Cavendish, who Li his relative. He
sail that, "although she was bowed
dowu by her irreparable loss" she was
still "animated by a spirit so noble
that he had taken the earliest opportu
nity which arrived for making her letter
known to the Irish nation. "I should
be very glad," Lady Frederick wrote,
"if their can be any means of letting it
be known in Ireland, so is to have some
good eflect, that I would never grudge
the sacrifice of my darling's life if only
it leads to the putting down of the
frightful si d it of evd in the land. He;
I (...-.. t,ii.Iy.1 if if liak JVilll.1
HUUIU I 1.... o - - - ...... ,
nave uopeu mat his oeaiu wouiu
, .i 1 - . .. l 1 f 1
more than his life. There does seem
some hope of this, and yon are doing
all you cau to keep ' down that nim-d
dreadful danger of 'panic aud blind
vengeance.' " Witnesses to the reading
..f 1 1.... w. .i .1 j iliuilnm tltftt T-':1l Ktu.n.
oer was himself "deeply affected," and
, .... , i ,
that at certain times he could scarcely
IIWXU 1UI OIUU'luu, 1U1, xiblJM
was present and "burst into tears, " and
.1 . - Tmu1..h
was not the only one who was overcome
in a like manner.
Jcny Baloy.
"Who is this Jerry Baldy?" asked a
countryman, as he bonght a "Penny
Puier" of boy who was. crying the
death of the eminent Italian lint riot.
'Dunuo. G jess he's . a brother of
Tom," replied the boy eouutiug over his
pennies.
"What Tom?"
"Tom Biddy, of course. Didu't you
never hear of Tom and Jerry? Where' ve
yon leen all summer?"
The rural gentlemui looked more
mystified than ever, and after studying
the paper in a bewildered way for a
spell, he collared a man who was hurry
i"g by. and asked him as a special favor
to inform him who Jerry Baldy was aud
where he died.
"Garibaldi;" replied the man, who
chanced to le one of the smart chaps
who know almost everything and are
pleased with nn opportunity to impart
information never iu too much of a
hurry to show goods;"Garibaldi was one
of the Nihilists that blew up the Czar,"
and he passed on.
But Mr. Rustic was as much iu the
dark as before, at.d soon after he pro
pounded Ids inquiry to a man who was
leaning aguinst the wall having bis boots
blackened.
"Garibaldi?" he lepeated. "Yon
don't know who Garibaldi was? Any
school-boy cau tell you who he was.
he first organized the Irish Land Lea
cue." "Thank you, tnauk you," said the
countryman, but as he never had heard
of the Laud League he was no wiser
than before. He would at least know
where Garibaldi died, and he learned on
inquiry of another man that he was
stablied whde taking au evening walk
in Pheenix Park, Dublin.
n . - - . ...
.a wr It T iaa nAitii hAntu wa-1 T I - n I
5"""
.... ...ti..,. ,.r .. iA nn..t ti. I
. , . .. I
".' j,
counter newsooys who were making the
air vocal with the Dame ot Garibaldi and I
all alnnt" him. It piqued him to find
little six vear old boys who seem til to
know all about the deceased gentleman, I
while he knew little or nothing, and he I
resumed his quest for information with
the most conflicting results. Oue man
told hini Garibaldi budt the Suez canal; I
another that he was an Italian tragedian I
stricken down by death just as he was I
alout to sail for America on a contract
with a manager to receive one hundred
per cent, of the receipts and his expen
ses; auother that he was the lunatic who
fired at the Queen; another that he was
one oi the survivors ot the Jeaniiette ex
editiou, while auother assured him
that Garibaldi was Clara Kelle ill dis-
guise.
Ho was seen footing it in the direction I
of homo that evening, muttering inco- I
he-rently to himself like a sleep walker. I
Yet tht re are multitudesof people whose I
ideas ,f tli- dead Italian are scarcely
I etUr defined.
Tho I'opnlar Looking-ClauM
Very stout persona will buy a mirror
that gives them a more slender appt ar-
auee, and the thin and angular will I
i .. . i. Tt :.. ...l i . 1 1
i-iiut no mu iipixipiir amu. iiriicu
of a man. who was called a joker, that
iu the dressing-room of his stout aud
slight built friends he had mirrors placed
., ,. ....
that would compliment their respective
- l
persons. Some mirrors of the cheaper
kind will make tbe lace broad iu oue I
IHJsitiou and narrow in auother, and the I
person using such a oue has only to turn I
the class to suit his particular fiilluess.
or lack of it. It is oue of the delights
of a shop-keeper's life to obseive the
characteristics of persons who buy mir
rors. Home will not look iu them.
Gibers stare at themselves with great
earnestness. One woman was heard to
remark: 'I should like to know how I
look in this glass with my liest dress on.'
The standard mirror of the day is i
loug.naiTow oue that rests upon its own
base, which stands upon the floor. Tbs
mirror that res's upon a marble slab at
some distance from the floor is not so
near the style as the one mentioned
above. An tfwny frame with gilt orna
mentation is the proper bit, reflecting I
fnmitiirt for ttm I ir nr tli more nrelen-
tious drawing-room. laese are the
latest, aud cjst fifty or seventy-five
lollars. The wide mirrors for mantels
are used, and some prefer them. As
said be fore, the American mirror is not
equal to the foreign make, that is to say,
we cau apply tl e quicksilver, but the
gists must be made abroad for fine mir
rors The 1 irgest house in the conutry
is iu New York. It imports class from
t ranee and Germany, and makes the
mirrors at home. Mirrors are twenty
five per cent cheaper than formerly. A
great many mirrors are sold every year.
Being fragile a spring moving rarely
takes l lace without the destruction of
one r mora
Chilli nc Winds.
The delightful climate of Ca iforuta
hns its disadvantages, and among those
nn -ftli most aerions is the strong
and chilling wind that blow from the
ocean at some points along the coast
What makes this particularly impor-
tuit is the fact that the soil is often
cultivated to the very verge of the
beach, where vegetation, grain, and
fmit that would otherwise flourish lux
uriantly, feel the winds keenly. It is
now proprsed to remedy this evil by
rows ot hardy trees
uo, , ,,
al..nr tbn c au.t to form a barrier aerainst
thewim's. That would also serve the
.,..r..i ..i . h;fHn,
It is more than l.keiy that
course of time the coast of California
wi'.I present the novel spectacle of un
broken w.xKllau.! extending along
11 1 : ' 1 .1. . .. ... 1 l..l..
very eusfe oi ino w mi i"i uuiuicun
" J
s.
i Mr. Robitailie. Lieutenant Gover-
nor 0f the Province of Qnelec, cost the
people there $17,035 last year.
NEWS IN UKlhF
Ne t a single passeiurer was killed
on the Philadelphia and Erie railroad in
1S81.
Long Island has over a hundred
trout farms.
The cotton worm eats $13,000,000
of the cotton crop every year.
California has lately shipp-d 2 J.000
pounds of spring grass butter to New
York.
It is cstini tet that the Pennsylva
nia Railroad has $30,000.1 00 invested
in woiksliops and machinery at Altoo
na. Coinage at the Philadelphia mint in
May. $0,tKS2.40O. which included 436,
C0; eagles, 8 tO.OOO silver dollars.
South Australia has a population of
279,8tU"i. Its debt had grown from $11,
000.000 ui 1873 to neailv $50,000,000 iu
1881.
. Buffalo, N, Y., will lie fiftv years
old on t e 4th of July. Elaborate pre
parations are beiug made to celebrate
the event.
General Sheridan and John McCul-
longh.the tragedian, wdl takes summer
trip together through the Yellowstone
connti v.
Twelve million bushels of coin
were last year made into glucose iu the
Ut ited States alone. Brewers were the
largest cobsnmers.
Three hundred and twenty post-
offices were established and 78 discon
tinued during May. On May 1, 4ri,000
were in operation.
The Ktng of Siam, who has just
built a new palace for Sl.000.000. is
fiiml-hing it with 400 tons of furniture
at a cost of $5t 0.000.
The Rev. F. J. Caskey, of Cincin
nati, is the rector-elect of the new
American Protestant Epi-copal church
iu lresden, Uermany.
Senator Brown, of Georgia, gave
one fourth of the $10,000 recently
nilAI fist Kllilililirr (ft tiolViitirra f.k la
smjim a vaarauaut, iiiu-jimnj-v v
. "
Second UiiptLstChnreh. At anta.
The Earl of Roseberrv has purchased
Mr. Uot-nm s fine stati.u of Cartvle and
j,iai;8 it in the ball of his mansion.
Oalmeuy Castle, near Etiiuburg.
Jeius;dem exuded 700 years before
lme was foiiuded. 300 before the siege
of Troy, m il 500 years before the hang
ing gardens ot bal viou wt-re built.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe had a
grand reeeptiou given lv her friends in
boston ou the seventieth auniversary of
her birthday, Wednesday, Juue 11,
Professor C. V. Riley has deposited
in the National Mnse-um at Washington
Ids colkctiou of insects, comprising
lO-WO specimens and JO.0O0 specie.
The total exports of this country
amounted last year to$N3,955, 917, tho
proiMirtiou produced by agriculture le
iug $729,ttl,lir.. or very nearly SI jer
cent.
Meuiliersof tho British House of
Commons have sought to induce tho
British Museum antiiorities to keep
oieu the Museum at ni,
lit but have
lailtsU
The failing health of Mr. W. W.
Corcoran, the Washington oaiiker and
PU"tu"uropisi, comiuues to excite me
grayest apprehensions of his fricmls and
physicians.
Alexander 1 1 f . has recently pi escu-
ted to the Kniperor of Germany four
horses, two of which are, it Is said, the
very ones that drew the late Czar ' ear-
nage when he was assassinated.
r. . . .
Uard playing is practised in no
country to so great an extent as iu Riis-
sia. All ages aud loth sexes are passio-
ute!y fond of it. The niaunfaetnre of
plaviug cards is a Government mono-
. . .. , , . .
fJeiiv, ami mere is ouiv one i;u?lrv,!roiu
whu.h o , , , 1(acks aire lnuHl ," ,lailVf
or over 7,000.000 a year.
The Priutsess Beatrice is now al
lowed by Queen Victoria to manage the
esiai.iisinueiu al all tue palaces.
She prifeis tli;s with music and paint
ing to marrying a Germaii Priuce.
A Polish Roman Catholic nobleman ,
memlx-r of the Austrian Imperial Par
liament, lately paid off tbe debt (30,000
florins) of a Po'ish svnagoerne iu
Vienna, thus saving it from the hammer
Out of 200,(165 immigrants who
landed at Castle Gardeu from January
l,t to May 31st of 1JG were des
tined for West Virginia as against 10 -
800 for Ohio, and 15,000 for Penusylva
uia.
The Hon. Alexander H. Stephens
has so much work ou band now that he
has to employ constantly two secretar
ies; one to revise proof-sheets of his
his ory, and one to attend to correspou-
I deuce.
Mr. Dwight L. Moodv, the evan
gelist, Will remaiu for some time iu
Glasgow, where his son is at school. Mr.
Sankey is now travelling in Germany
with his sou, for the benefit of the
latter's health.
Four of the eight recently appoin
ted assistant surgeons iu the United
States Army, with the rank of second
lieutenant, are graduates oi tbe medical
-telu.ol of the University of v irginia.
W. E. Hopkins, of California; C. E.
Barrows, of Mississippi: George F.
Wiliou, of Oregon; and Wm, O. Owens,
Jr., of Lynchburg, Ya.
A bust of 1 hackeray at the ago ot
fifteen years has pist been presented to
' 1., v i ii - .11 r i
me .au uai i ortii ea..erjr iu num.uU
It is taken from a cast ma ie by a wan
dering Italian peddler of plaster work.
There were 390 stones in Disraeli a
Star of the Garter, and his executors
nave iiaj them removed from their sett-
I iug, remounted in rings, with au Earl's
I coronet and the word " Beacousfield"
engraved on the inside of each ring.and
have offered them for sale to those ad
mirers of the Premier who are willing
to y something handsome for memen
toes.
The recently published returns of
the Austrian (1880) census shows that
59 per cent, of the people are employed
in agriculture, 4 J in commerce.baiiting,
and transportation, 31 iu liberal profes
sions, 3 1b are landowners and capital-
its, 1 l-o servants, J per ceut eduea-
tiouwts. 2(51 are engaged iu miniLg.and
we occupation u. ! -
I o in ...
unknown.
Z 3
. 1,rnu,i1B1i For lust vear til
- I munlier was 4910, as against 3992 in Ue
the 1 previous year. Uf these works Mo
previous
..f I nu.ru iw.liti.ll
ones published uy txs)
255 pertained to juris
- i
Government,
prudence, 25 to political economy. It
to geography, 2G7 to medicine, 116 to
mathematics, 17 to chemistry, and 20 to
natural history.
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