B. F. BOHWEIEB, THE 00I8TITU7I0I-THZ UH0V-AI9 THE EH0S0I1Q3T OF TEE LAVS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXXVI. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PKNNA.. WEDNESDAY. JULY 19. 1882. NO. 28. AT IIO. ME. The tired one are all at home ; With alow and wearied tread and mien, That tell of tod-full boon between The cheer; morn and this, they're come. All daj the summer. aoogful peace. It. beauty, freshness, all were mine. And broutrM me alaJuesa half dlviuc That with the evening doth not ceaxe. Oh, could I. like a mantle, fold About their weariness my Joy, Xt aoul would know more aweet emptor Than all the happy day hath told. Do ye so wait until we come, O loved one. in the mansion, fair 7 ts fold o'er us the peace ye share. When we, the tired ones, reach home. A M AN THAT MTCEEIKI. " My only daughter, Kir," said Col onel Mouteagle. "And, as I venture to hoi, accomplished in bor way. We are not lunch in tUo way of schools or academies here, but I have been her in structor myself, and she is a thorough mathematician, an excellent musician and a liuguist of no mean capacity. We are studying Hebrew every day, she and I, and she devotes Ler evenings to comprehensive reviews of ker Latin and Greek. She will lie a scholar, if I live to complete her education." Mr. Croftoa looked curiously at the oddly assorted pair the silver-haired, shabbily-attired old gentleman, with his bald forchea4, eagle eye and delicately-white hands; and the dark-browed, sullen-looking girl, with a gypsy skin, untidy frock and patehed lioot.s. Pretty? Yes, she might be pretty under some circumstances. The diamond itself is not an attractive stone before the lapidary's art lists polished its rnde angles into glittering facets of white tire. But she certainly possessed no sweet, feminine graees now. 'How old are you. Miss Mouteagle?' he asked, finding it imperatively ueces sary tosaiy something. And Mary Mouteagle answered iu words, "Seventeen," while her looks replied, plainly, "None of your busi ness!" "Go, my child, and gather some flowers to deck our humble board," said the o'd gcufeman, uiagniloquently, while he conducted the son of his oldest friend into the ruuible-dowu old stone house, where the carpets were moth eaten, the furniture mildewed, and every trace of decayed gentility told the sad story of better days. Mrs. Mouteagle.who haib.cn abeauty once, and had her portrait engraved in a "Gal'ery of American Rosebuds," was sit ing up in state in a battered boudoir, iu a black si k dress that must have been quite a quarter of a century old, with a flower in her silver-sprinkled hair, and, still preserving the girlish at titude in which the engraver's pencil had immortalized her, oddly contrasting with sharpened outlines and haggard abruptness of her sixty-odd years. And this was the way ia which the old conple lived, in the dead past, as it were, Colonel Mouteagle starving con tented on the recollection of hi past grandeur, and his wife fondly fancying that time had stood still since the days iu which she was counted worthy to be one of the "American Rosebuds." Mrs. Mouteagle sweetly welcomed her guest and touched the little hand bell at her side. "We . ill dine, Sarepta," she said to the maid. "Please, ma'am," breatldessly uttered that young iHrson, "there ain't nothiu' for dinner. We eat the lat of the cold beef yesterday, and the dog he tipped over the pau of oysters, and " "lhat will do, Sarepta," said Mrs. Mouteagle, w ith a red spot mounting to each of her che k-Umes, "I said we will dine!" And Sarepta withdrew with a jerk. The Oinuerwas served pre cutly an instance of the magnetic power of will but there was no cold beef, neither were U.re anv ovsters. Fruit, a thin, watery soup of herbs and parsley, a tastefully earnished salad of lettuce ana mayon naise, and a dish of peaches and cream formed that meal "Quite Arcadian!" said Mrs. Mou- .ior1o with a pii?rlc. "And very badly served," secretly commented Mr. Crofton to nimseii. . rt.,t suLlI was nice." ..wi,.. U Marv?" the Colonel "Drinking ia the beauties of the sun set,! presume'" the lady answered airily "The dear child has an artist's soul, and we do not tie her down to any honrs ti. .i,..wl fell asleep in his chau ffer dinner. Mrs. Mouteaale and her Tainted face wi hdrew themselves into the lK.udoir-aud Mr. Ciofton, inwardly bewailing himself that he had promised to stav a week at Mouteagle Manor, saunt ered out upon the heights wuicu oc. As he sto.nl there, a rustliog sounded in the bushes, and the dark-browned gvpsv sprang up the hillside, "You have a fiue place here. Muss Mouteagle," he paid, t,y way of nmking himself agreeable. .t i : i" c;,1 Marv. darkly. ..r .-.., Tvardon!" exclaimed x "eg ir. in amazement. .11 1, wunvu, . . , "I do!" fibbed out the gtrl-"I bate ... . , ;.. ,! 1ia nnritv. and it all ! ine iearuing : r . the grand pretenses,! the miserable shifts." "Rut" Marv Mouteagle. "you All Oaavn, ml - t,,,, it a'L Yon never heard the . , i ,i,.. at the back doors irauesiucu u r. ,. like a pack of howUng wolves; you don t know that the house .... 4.1TAA lonir in arrears. lor Bmo i" " , - ! W ...onl.l VOU.1 HOW ShOUld VOU be aware that the very clothe we wear are our dinner? Papa smokes his segeri and talks abcut the Mexican war; and mamma poses in the great chair, and dreams of embroidery work and ta pestry stitch; and I I am expected to learn Arabic and Sanscrit, and nobody knows w hat else, and ignore our wretch ed poverty. But I can't. Who could?" Mr. Crofton looked pityiugly at the girl's sparkling eyes and pale, excited face. I am very sorry to hear this," said he. -Can nothing be done ?" "Yes," said Miss Mouteagle, brus quely. SomethinjrVan be done and I am doing it, in so far as . can. But papa and mamma must not lte allowed to suspect it. I am learning a trade !" "You !" he echoed. "A trade !" "There's a factory nar by hers," she said, calmly. "The country girls earn a little pocket money there sewing on shirts. I am to have a tuachiae as soon as I have learned to manage it. I go every eveniug, while papa fancies I am at the Greek and .Latin, to Faimer Pelham's whose wife teaches me the use of tiie nachine. I am learning house work too. I made the mayonnaise for your salad to-day, and I baked the bread. Our servant can do nothing of the sort. But it would kill mamma to think that I stooped, as she would cull it. to menial lalor." "You are quite nht," said Mr. Crof ton, "That is what 1 wanted t. know," said Mary, hastily, "lecause, living here all by myself, ia such a strange, unnatural atmosphere, I sometimes get confused, and scarcely know riijht from wrong. "But they will have to know it mhen " "When I really eo into the factory," said Mary. "Yes, I know that. But until then, I would fain spare them the pang. I am to have a dollar a day. Mrs. Pelham says, if I operate the machine skillfully. And a do lar a day will buy mamma many a little luxury, and go far towards paying the grocer and thj baker." "You are a noble t irl," said M. Crofton, warmly; and iu his eyes, at that moment, Mary Mouteagle was glorified with rare beauty, as she stood there, the fresh wind blowing her jetty curls about, the reflection of orange sunset deepening the color on her cheek and the grave, faraway sparkle of her eves half-veiled beneath the long-lashes. And if I could be of any assistance to von iu this task " "You can," said the girl, abruptly. "You can stay here and amuse papa, so that he will not suspect what occupies my time, ou can divert his attention from Sanscrit and Arabic, and all these mvsteries." And, for the first time in Lis exper ience of her, Mary Mouteagle laughed a mellow, bird-like laugh. "I will," said Mr. Crofton, heartily. And so the compact was sealed be tween them. Instead of the week he had pr.unised his father to spend with Colouel Mon teagle, the sojourn was extended to three. At the eud of that period, he gravely addressed himself to the dbrk eyed daughter of the honse. "How is the trade?" said he. "I am to have a macliiue next week," said Mary, with the conscious pride of one who had conquered fate; and then --only think of it, Mr. Crofton I shall earn a dollar a day. Marv, said Mr. Crofton, senoui-ly, "I have been thinking of another plan for you. You tell nie that this farmer's wife has made a first-class housekeeper of you." "1 baked mince-pies yesieruay: saia Mary exultantly; "and I have quilted a quilt and made soft soap, within the weekl" "I don't like the idea of your gomg into a factory, said Mr. Crofton. "blip pose now. by way of variety; you were to marry me?" "But von re not in love witu me.' said Mary, opening her bright black eyes. Uut 1 am, saia Jir. roiiou, wu great gravity. "I have deliberately made up my mind that I can't be hap py without you. And, although I don't profess to be a rich man, I believe I can make you a bettor allowance than six dollars a week, while at the same time you will not be conqelled to work ten hours a day for it That is tne business view of the question. Now on to the more personal one. Don t you think Mary, that you could love me? Because love yon very much mcieea: IoWt know!" whispered Mary. f'l might try!" An.l then she blushed charmingly. So Colonel Monteagle's daughter went to tlie fair Floridian plantation on the kl.ores of the river St, John, ami aston- w ... i Al L. shed every one there witu uer tuoruugn knowlodg i liousestJepiug m details. And the two old people- wiui their burden of insolvency and eare lifted off their lives, dwell quietly on in the ancient tower-like house, and talk to everybody who crosses their path of on, excellent marriage which my i t.i.. irra Ytaa contracted. A thorough scholar," says Colonel Mouteagle, with dignity. "A musician, a lingust, a thorough Hebrew student, proficient in Latin and Greek, I myself was her instructor. It is not singular that a girl of such intellectual power should man y FKf Lionel Mouteagle, honest man never dreamed that it was the sewing machine and soft aoap. the mayonnaise dressing and the vehement struggle to frel from debt, which conquered ,r. r.,fW heart. There are flenty . "t.i-.. nd noetesses in the world but a real womanly woman-is not her price far above rubies? -It is estimated that billioa pounds or tea arc " How the French Tot. The French elections always occur on Suuday, as on that day, it being a holi day, the voters can go to the polls with out loLig time from their work. Vot ing being ranked as to its ceremonial importance, with wedding and funerals, the workiugman goes to the polls dress ed in his best. He pays no poll tax. The only qualifications are that he is a Frenchman, is twenty-one years of age, and has resided six months in the quar ter in which he seeks to vote. Each year, before the election, he inust procure a card bearing his name, address and age, besides the stamp of the authorities of the ward, or arrondis sement, in which he resides. But Frem h officials are accommodating. A careless voter, who has neglected this duty, finds an official behind a table at the entrance of the voting place, who. if no one objects, fills up a blank card and hands it to him. The subsequent proceedings we will Jet Mr. Henry Bacon, an American artist residing in Paris, tell, we condensing his narration. The voting begins at eight o'clock iu the morning and is concluded at six at night, and takes place in the school rooms of the different arrondissemeuts Several sergeants de ville walk back and forth before the entrance. Men with white bands about their hats, on which are printed the candidates' names, stand at the gate distributing tickets. Across the" school room there is a long table made of planks and iu its centre rests the "nru, as the nupahit ed pine balh.-t-box is called. It is fast ened with a padlock, and iu the top is a hole large enough to pass a silver dol lar. Before the voting begins the box is unlocked, and those present examine the interior. The President of the Election Com mittee stands behind the box ; the vot er, with his hat off, bauds iu h;s card. The President calls out the nnmber and name on the card ; one of the assessors finds the number aud name in the vot ing list and repeats both aloud. The voter nods in recognition, the President clips a corner from the card, returns it to the elector, who hands him a ticket so folded that the name is invisible, which the President solemnly dros into the box. The crowd in the room is quiet aud orderly, and no po'iceman appears un less he is called in. Near six o'clock the room fills up, for every elector has a right to assist in ascertaining the re sult of the day's voting. As soon as the polls are closed the President ojiens the box. "Form your tables for counting," says an official, "four, electors at each table." Everybody offers advice, and the noLse is tremendous. Taking up a paper bag on which is printed "Bulletin de o. ," the President asks: "Would any one like to look at this sack?" Several assure themselves that there are no votes stowed away in the corners. An elector hol.Is the sack while the President counts one hundred ballots into it. Then it is closed, pinned np and carried over to the first table. The crowd closes around, some standing on benches, while two electors, with large sheets of ruled paper before them, pre pare to record the vote. Another elec tor opens the sack, takes out a vote, un folds it, reads the name and passes it to a fourth elector, who spreads it out on the table.. Each of the markers makes a mark npou the paper under the name of the candidate whose name has been called. Asa hundred eyes examine each ticket, no trick is possible, and every mark made upon the paper could be sworn to by a score of persons. If two tickets are discovered folded together, there is a noise. P-ut some one reads the law which says that if the names are differ ent, one cancels the other ; if they are the same, one remains valid, the other is cancelled. Thereupon the noise sub sides. After the different committees there are several counting tables in the room have made up their counts then a statement of the returns, signed by th? President and assessors, is sent to the Mayor's office, where, from time to time, the returns are announced. Claanlns up Tilings. Ttonver was infested with ta Vnt Inn a afterward a laree steel jaw trap" was set for the pests, and neatly concealed on top oi a cuoppiug-moea. The siune day a man was hired to "clean ti.inoK" in'tlie bam. He did his work faithfully, and alter a wnue, oeoouimg weary, concluded to taae a re i. ajo-jm8 round, he espied the chooping-block, an inviting seat, and leisurely planted him an ir An it vhen snao weut the trap. ho oi-Iao ami veils of the innocent victim of the surprise party could be heard the length of thestreot "Murder! murder! Take him off!" These and timr fr.icrmentarv sentences brought the honse servant to the scene, but she was powerless, ana luriner neip usa u to release the poor fellow a,lLss.aua - - from the jaws of the imaginary animal which had him. ne was uaii inguieueu on. t t hn services oi a Duvsician were needed to dress the painful wound. "A. avy en Toast.' They must have had a very hilarious time over the lighting of the new Eddy stone lighthouse. At the banquet which followed the ceremony, the Duke of Edinburgh proposed as a toast, "Tha American Navy," and that, too, "in highly complimentary terms." It is bad enoogh to have no navy sufficiently large to be served on toast, without being twitted about it by prince of the blood. But one may be sure that the diners had a good laugh over that toast We did not have much of a Navy in 1812, but it was enough to that of Great Bn- 'tain. The Duke of Edinburgh may ' remember that facl OWCI auu . High An in Copper. The beautiful specimens in copper to be eea in silversmith' shops illustrates the progress lately made in the art of metal coloring and workmanship.' If tbey are d-K to be compared lo size to the lost Got- torp elobe of copper, inside of which ten people couid sit, they are at least as at tract lve as many of them are charming from their quaintness. Many decorative articles, together with those for service, are ffisue of copper in onginul councils, or af ter models before crested in the generally used silver, hardened with a certain pro portion of copper. Curious urns, vases, stands and other antique aud modern shapes are shown, with cane tops or mountings, and trays for cigar sets, plain, polished, in imitation of birch bark, or finished with etchings, attained by fret work, after the application of the appro priate acid. The sets ia these trays con sist of a cigar-stanl, match-safe, ash re ctlver and alcohol lamp, after the fashion of the famous lamp of Aladdin. Ia the etched trays are polished flowers, daisies, pinks and other blossoms, with butter flies bees and every-day insects, while the ves sels are decorated with silver applied in various forms of fishes, lizards, bu.crabs, lobsters, water and pond lilies, lotus blos soms, cranes and many rr.aruie conceit?, as in the Limoges ware. Most noticeable is the coloring of many of these articles, rich maroom, plain, clouded in pinkish red or fret-work surface, with flakes of aeep pure garnet, color attained by carc- ful experimental tests. Some oi the specimens have hammered silver, and ethers are finished in the Japanese figure in copper or silver applique. These ob ject in copper certainly claim quite as much attention as those of Benires brass, tor, although they do not posses the same kind ot attractions as the brass goods, their peculiarity in coloring, and unique designs, render them particularly worthy of consideration. Very handsome, too, are the novelties iu oxidized silver. One set consists of a eoli-lined berry disb,in leaf shapc.curled. overlapped and joined toce'her by a bunch of luscious ripe grapes. The delicate veins of the leaf show through the gold lining and the surface ot the autumnal tinted leaf. Smaller autumn leaves, quite as brightly colored, form cream pitcher and sugar-bowl, which are further decorated with oxidized silver ipiders and flies, ap parently making efforts to reacj the edge of the vessels and lo gain the goals of cream and sugar so temptingly placed be fore them. Beautiful collar and lace pins for ladies are made of this colored silver. Among the newest conceits at Wilson's are be gonia leaves in natural tints, four-leaf clover, a new moon, with face in it, from Florence; a eenuine Indian flint, bound to an arrow by a silver chain; the Patience churn, a parrot's head with large pearl in its curved beak, a dragon fly, and a locust with ouUpread wings, upon which are en graved characters, which might easily be mistaken either for Chinese or Greek sen tences. A Slrmnce Dance. While returning alo.:g the steep bank of Luxor to the Lohengrin we were met by Achmet Effeudi. the son of the Lnglisb consul, Mustapha Agha, who begged us to come to the fantasia held at his father's bouse that evening. This invitation we of course accepted, as it is the customary thing. Accordingly we betook; ourselves at the appointed lime to Mutapba Agba's house, built among the columns of the temple of Luxor, and here, after the usual smoking of cigarets, salutation-mating and coffee drinking, we witnessed much the same curious style of dance as 1 have endeavored to describe when first passing Luxor on the ascent of the river. There were the same eight Ghawazcca clothed in the extravagantly-colored dresses of their class, and decked with tinsel aud ornaments; the same wild music produced by performers who extracted shrill sounds from one-stringed rabalis, and the same waving of arms, snapping oi nmrtrs anil passionate songs, while the dancers danced their Oriental measures. One new feature of the performance struck me as being a display of the manner in which these Gha- wazees can command the umcrcni muscles of their lithe bodies in all the various n e uons of their dancing. A young girl tools a lighted candle, and fixing it in the mouth of an empty champagne bottle, placed this improvised lamp on Her coiu-ueuecKeu head, and forthwith commenced to thrill and quaver in a most surprising fashion. Then, after making these waves of motion run from her head to her feet during which she seemed about to lose conscious ness, so absorbed was the look in her eyes and, after tremulous movements ot her neck, body, ana arms, sue siowiy sana to the floor till perfectly flat on her back, with the bottle and lighted taper still stand ing upright on her head, which was now at right angles to her body. With her arms at her side she now relied across the room from one end to the other and then back again without even compromising the safetv of the balanced bottle and light, though how she contrived to twist her neck at the right moment without dlsloca t.ng it, or to turn her body independently of her head, was a wonder to all, albeit we watched her every movement closely. Althoagh many other strange fea'a of the sort were executed, this elicited the most aurnrue from the visitors stated on the di- vans around the room, anu, as a prooi ot the Ghawasee's si range control over each muscle of her body, was a most curious exhibition. Up! am racked for Smuggling- The box cf epium found on the seabtach near Olema, California, proves to be a double tin box about 18 inches equate, covered with heavy sail duck, perfectly sewed together, then pan ted with white lead, and alter this bad (tried upon the cloth painted black. This could not have been done in San Francisco for the purpose of resphipping to the Sandwich Islands. This perfect water-tight arrangement snows that these boxes were thrown overboard, either in the bay or where they would be washed ashore. It might be at the whart, to be pic ked up under piling, all along the city front, for then there would be no necessity for a windy night, muffled oars, or city policemen. This well covered box contained sixteen balls, abjut the size oi a (Oxm.zx", tf apparently crude opium Bit the peculiarity of it was ttat it was not what it seemed. Ordinary crude opium resembles putty or cheese in texture, and these balls, though covered with peppy leaves and a hardened sheil about one-half inch thick, were filled, as military shell, with ep'.um rady fcr sxokicg. If the opium were crude it pays $1 per pound duty; forsmc.kn?, $6 per pound. But even the crude opium, of the crust spoken of, is prohibited by law from importation, because it does not contain 9 per cent, o! morphine. The profit of smuggliag opium is so gieat that every device is used to get it ashore. . It ia gaid that Alabama has halbut four Governors who are natives of the State, Myrtle's Three-Plj Love. "Myrtle, dear" "Yes, George, what is it?" replied the girl, glancing shyly upward. The raaiaat glory of a summer moon shone down upon the earth this June night, bathing in all its mellow splendor the leafy branches of the sturdy eld oaks that had for centuries shaded the entrance to Castle MrMurtry aud laughed defiance to the fierce gales that every winter came howling down in all their cruel force and fury from the moorlands lying to the west ward of the castle. On the edge of the broad demesne that stretched away to the south stood a large brindle cow, and as the moonlight flecked with silvery lustre her starboard ribs she seemed to Myrtle a per fect picture of sweet content and almost holy calm. "Is it not a beautiful night, dearest?" murmured the girl "See how the moon beams flutter down through the trees, making strange lights and shadows that flit among the shrubs and flowers In such a weird, gbost-like fashion. The dell is indeed clothed in loveliness to-night, sweetheart." 'ies,1 said George W. Simpson, "this is the boss dell" and then, looking down into the pure, innocent lace that was lifted to his, he took in his own broad, third base palm the little hand that erstwhile held up Myrtle's polonaise. As they stood there silently in the bosky glade, George passed his arm silently but firmly around Myrtle's waist. Tne noble girl did not shy. "Do you love me, sweetheart)" he asked iu accents that were tremulous with trem uloisness. Myrtle's head was drooping now, and the rosy blushes of Calumet avenue innocence were chasing each other across her peachy checks. .George drew her more closely to him. If a mosquito bad tried to pass between them then it would have been bad for the nioiq iito. "Can you doubt me, darling?' he whis pereiL "You surely must know ttat I love you with a wild, passionate, whoa Emma love lhat can never die. Do you not love me a little in return?" For an instant the girl did not speak. George beard the whisking of the brindle cow s tail break in nicely upon the solemn stillness of the night, and ever aud anon came the dull thud of the bullfrog as be jumped into a neighboring pond. Pres ently Myrtle placed bcr arms about his neck, a ail with a wistful, baby's-got-the-cranip look in her face, she said to him: "I love you, George, with a deathless de votion that will eventually keep you broke. " And with these fateful words she adjusted her luuipled bang and fearlessly led the way to an ice cream lair. A Confused Metuorjr. There are scores of respectable and reputable heads of families who take re gular lessons in the manly art of relf-dc-fence, and who spend an hour every eve ning in swiDging clubs and otherwise de veloping and hardening the muscle. One of the most enthusiastic of the lot had finished his boxing lesson the other night, when the trainer said : "I am sorry to lose your money and your company, but I feel it my duty to say (bat I can learn you nothing further. You have got the science and muscle to clean out a crowd, and heaven help the man who stands before you P The citizen went home with a con sciousness that only cowards carry re volvers, and he wondered bow a man would look after he bad given him a sock dolairer straight from the shoulder. The next morning as he was leaving bis house alone came a strawberry man whi was yelling his wares at the top ot his voice. 'Do you sell any more berries lor yel ling in that manner t' asked the citizen, as the peddler drew rein. Oh, take in your nose I was the reply, "Some one will take your whole body in some day !" "But it won t be a man with a wart on his chin!" "Ho impudence, sir!" "And none from you, either 1" "You deserve a good thrashing I" "And perhaps you can give it to me !" There was a golden opportunity. The one bad science the other impudence. The one had received thirty eight lessons 'ji boxing the other tairly ached to be pounited. "Don t talk that way to me or 1 11 knock you down," said the finished pupil as he gently threw himself in position to mash a brick wall. HJh, you will, eh ?" Then let's see yen do it !' Even the graduate could not tell ex actly what took place. He remembered of being kicked on the shins, struck on chin and twisted over a horse block after he fell, hut when consciousness returned his wife and children were crying over Dim and the neudlcr was two b'oclts down the street shouting : otraw-bu-nes great big ones red as blood perfect daisies only two shillings for a Leaning big quirt without any thumb in it" The Law of Wills. Some very badly drawn wiHs stand the test of litigation, aud others well drawn are easily broken. Neither bad grammar uor misspelling in the body of a nill viti'des it. If the judges can understand what the paer mears, they will ordirthatto be done. Wills hav ing nearly every important word mi pelled, and nearly destitute of punctua tion, have been accepted. Maine papers say that a court has lately taken proof of a will made iu pantonuue by a man who wa3 deaf and dumb, aud who could neither wiite nor use the manual a'phu bet. But mistakes which olscure the meaning make trouble. It is stated that Mr. Matthew Vassar, when drawing his will, meant to leave cTOOO to stveu churches that is, S10IXI a. iece; but iu copying his rongh dra't ho inadver tently inserted the word "each," thus giving the chtfrches 7000 each, or jfl'J.OOO in all. The general rule as to mistakes is, that if the will is lucid and intelligible, and cap be carried into effect as it reads this must be done. The lanpu'gecauuot be altered because witnesses say that the testator meant something tiifl'erent from that ahich was written. But if what is written cannot performed, the coutts wil take proof of what the testator mant to write. I'oisoiious Hair Hulls. Vario is tcate of poisoning from the use of pcriumcs have been reported in recent Engli h journals. Iu one in stance a little girl had bought some heli- otroie perfume at a bazar, and had ap plied it ou her face. This caused a ves icular eruption, swelling, itching, nd, ia fact, erysispelas, which lasted for tome time. The scent was miade with some of the products of coal tar, aud not with the odorifertus principles of plants, thus acquirii g its irritating pro perties, " I One instance of promiscuous slaughter is remarkable for the high esteem to which it sometimes raised its chief per petrator. In the famous war between the citizens of Ghent and the earl of Flanders there was no worse episode than when the lord of d'Anghien took the town of Grammont by storm one fine Sunday in Juce, and showed no mercy to man, woman or child. Num bers of old people and women were burned in their beds, aud the town, being set on fire in more than 200 places, was reduced to ashes, even the churches included. "Fair son," said the earl of Flanders, greeting his returning rela tive, "you are a valiant warrior, and, if it i leases God, will be a gallant one; you have made a handsome beginning." History cannot but rejoice that the young dnke's first feat of arms was also his last, and that, not many days later, he lost his life in a skirmish. Of course, all persons found within a town taken by assault were by the rules of war liable, and all the a ale adults likely, to be killed. Only by a timely surrender could the besieged cherish any hope for their lives or fortunes; and even the offer of a surrender might be refused, and an unconditional submission be in sisted on instead. There is no darker blot on the character of Edward If L than the savage disposition he displayed when, with respect to t'.ie biave dt fend ers of Calatsjie was only restrained from exercising his strict war l ilit of putting them to death by the representations made to him of the danger he might in cur of aa equally sanguinary retaliation iu the future. There wan iu general a strong feei ng ugaiust making ladies prisouus cf war; uor could the French ever forgiye our countrymen for allow ing the soldiers cf the Black Triuce to take pr-soiur the ducluss tf Bourbon, mother to the king, aud to obtaiu a ran som for her release. To the French ap pears to have beu due whatever ad vance whs made iu the more humane treatment of prisoners. Both the Spaniards abd German were wont to fasten their prisoners witu iron chains; but of the French Froissart says ex pressly: "They neither imprisoned their captives nor put on them shackles and fetters, as the Germans do iu order to obtain a better ransom curses on them for it. They are without pity or honor, aud ough never to receive any quarter. The French entertained their prisoners well and ransomod them cour teously, without lieing too hard with them." In this spirit Bertraud du Guesclin let his English prisoners go at large on their parole for their ransom, a generosity toward their foes which the English on no occasion knew how to requite. Froissart giyes one striking illustration of the greater barbarity of the Spaniards toward their prisoners, which should not be forgotten in en deavoring to form a general estimate of the character of the military type of life in the palmiest days of chivalry. In a war between Castile and Portugal, whenever the Caatilians took any priso ners, they tore ont their eyes, tore off their arms and legs, and iu such a plight sent them back to Lisbon. It i peaks highly for the conduct of tiie Lisboners that they did not retaliate such treat ment, but allowed their prisoners every comfort they could expect in their cir cumstances. An Aretla Trcgedv. With Horn sound begins the interest in Spitzbergen, as the place was the scene of as cruel a tragedy as was ever enacted. The story has in it all the dra matic elements of a thrilling novel of the old schools, and finds a fitting de nouement in the mines of Siberia. On oue of the innermost islands of Horn sound, a fe.w years ago, were found a heap of nine skulls, said to be those of a Russian crew murdered by a party of English whaler?. Iheso murdereia were never discovered, but another and still more remarkable discovery was made in the year 1S3 by a Norwegian sea cap tain, near this place, ana it is oi in is i intend to tclL It is the commonest oc curence for ships that venture np here to lose oue or more men a trip, and so when the other members of the small crews say five or six men return home and report that they have lost comrades, no particular attention is paid to the news bey&ud the little circle widowed by the lost men. It happened somohure alxmt 184!) that the crew of a Russian whaler made their way to Archangel aud reported that they lost their captain and two mou on Spitzlicrgeu through an accid-jat,de- tails of which wero given. The captain and his men were mourned, and in a little while the affair was forgotten. In 18.o3, however, the Norwegtau captain ia question, while out hunting for rein deer, found three human skeletons, and Ihsi Iu them a nun from which the stock was rotting. Oa the barrel of the gun were scratched a number ot inscriptions iu Russian, which the Norwegian was unable to make out. He brought the gun home with him, and sent it to Arch angel, where it vai found to c outaia the history of the captain and the two men, previously reported as having leen killed by accident. The inscription told how the owner of the gun and his two men had been basely deserted by the others cf the crew, for whom they were out procuring food, and left to die of exposure. Those of the crew then alive were at rested and sentenced for life to work in the mines of Siberia. The poor captain and his men must have suffered terribly, for, from dates on the gun the last of which was March 3 it was learn' ed that they had survived a greater part of the winter. Wood air is a cosmetic The finest types of the human form are found in I the Kentucky lores ta. Warfkra In Vnlvnlrons Timo. Elephants Minding the Baby. There ia nothing by any means un common or incredible in the stories which have been reported, says Buck land, about the children of a mahout be ing cared for by the mahout's elephant. It is always expedient to employ a mar ried mahout it you can, with a hard working wife and two or three children. The whole family become, as it were, parasites to the elephant by whom tney earn tneir living, it is only a question of degree to what extent an elephant may be trusted with a baby; but I have seen a baby placed by its mother sys tematically nnder tiie elephant's care, and within reach of its trunk, while the mother weut to fetch water, or to get wood or materials to cook the family dinner. No jackal or wolf would be likely to pick up and carry off a baby who was thus confided to the eare of an elephant; but most people who have lived a lire iu the jungles know how very possible it is for a jackal or a wolf to carry off a baby, even when lying in a hut. wheuthe mother a back is turned. The children thus brought np in the companionship of an elephant become ridiculously familiar without, and take all kinds of liberties with it, which the elephant seems to endure on the princi ple that it does not hurt her, while it amuses the child. You see a little naked black imp abont two feet high standing on the elephant's bare back, and taking it down to the water to bathe, v operat ing all the time in the most uubecoj itig terms of native abusive language. On arriving at the water, the elephant, ostensibly in olMxlience to the imp's command, lies down and enjoys itself, just leaving a part of its body, hke a small island, aMva water, t n which tne small imp stands aud shouts, and shouts all the more if so be that he has several ot upaniocs of his own age, also in charge of their elephant, all wallowing iu the water around hiiu. If the imp slips off hi island, the elephant's truuk piomptly replaces him in safety. Those little urchiLs as they grow up become first mates to maliouU, and eventually arrive at the dignity of being mahonta. The wife of a mahout ia almost always a great favorite with her elephant, and 1 remember a case iu which the wife of a mahout who was killed by his elephant (I believe more by accident than from actual ina'iue) succeeded in quieting the beast, which seemed to understand the poor woman's anguish at the death of her husband, aud endeavored in its elephantine way to make amends for its offense. It is nothing new to say that the elephant is the "most sagacious of animals, and those who have had most t odo with them cannot help liking and admiring them. " Don't Get Danke For It." Hoffenslein was busily engaged scolding Herman for not polishing a lot ot cheap jewelry in the sbow case, when a stooped shouldered countryman entered the store aud inquired : ' Have you go! any good jean pants in here I " ' Certainly, my trent, said Hoffensteit.; "we makes a specialty of goods in dot ne, and we defy competition, tf we sell anydinn und you don't like it, you gets your money back or somcdings else in ex change, you know. V as you a farmer I 'Yes sir, I live up on lied Kiver. Veil, den, you need a pair of bants like dese,' said Iloffensteiu, pulling out a sky-blue pair from a pile of clothing 1 ing on the counter. ' Dey vas der eenervine doe-skin, und dey will last you de whole year round, you know." The countryman Uok the pantaloons to the hgb examined the texture of the cloth, and then shakiug his head knowingly, be said : 'There's loo much cotton in them; they will shrink." ' Of courie, my frent, dey vill shnuk, bu Tail und 1 itclls you sotuediag. If a man vat owns a pank oi keeps a store comes here, 1 dou't sell him dera kind of bants. y ? Because dey vas made eggs pressly for de fanning pisness. Dey vas de dennoineter b&nt?, a blessing to de fannei vat vears derr. Do you know, my frent, dose bants vdl dell you eggsuclly vat the vedder vill be. V en it vas going to be vet und cold dose bants vill begin to shrink up und ven it was going to be dry und warm dey comes rite dowu you know. Dree years ago 1 sell a bair uf dem to a n.an vat vas name Viikins und eller since (lea be makes good crops ven de Oder people don't make noding, because he always knows by his dtrmomeler bants vat der vedder be. Afder a while de neighborhood finds out de segret uf Viikins' success, und at de be ginning of de blanting season, you kn iw. dey comet for dirty miles arouad und if dey see Viikins' bants crawling up his legs dey holds off und vaits for a change, but if his bants vas down dey g' rite back home und put in de crop. Dink uf it, my frent. Mit de dermometer bants you can tell egxactly ven to put in de cab bage Seed, und blant corn twice as better as mit any almanac, und besides ven le vedder gets ft) cold und vet dot de bants goes up under y-ir arms, dea you can sew buttons on de front und vuar dem as a vest." When iioffcustein had finished his yarn concerning the pantaloons, the countryman smiled, and turning abrupjy on his heel left the store. " Did yi a see de vay dot man acted. Herman! " said Uoffenstein angrily Y e, sir, replied the clerk, " Veil, it shust shows dot ds mora you try to help some people along, de more you don't get any dunks for it." Kecelpts of Government. 1 he total receipts oi tne t . a. gov ernment for the fiscal year ending June :i0, were the hirgest since the foundation of the government, except for the years 18C6 aud 1867. in lSob the total re ceipts were, in round numbers, 000,000, and in 1867 84ra,000,(MM For the past ye. r they have amounted to about ilOo.OOO, 000. "furnishing a net surplus of $101,684,350, which has been applied to the extinguishment of tiiLt amount cf the outstanding debt. The various items from which tlis im mense revenue w a derived were as fellows: Customs, SJ19,678,698; inter i alrevenre,S146,147,976,miscellan ei, 337,631,610; total, $4,40,285. The increase of the total revenue over that ot 1881 amounts to 812,677,9r, An exaniaation of the figures of the interest-bearing debt show, a reduction siuce Jnly 1," 1881, of $175,737,350. This, takes in connection with the amounts refunded at a lower rtte of iuterts. reduces the interest charges from $75, 000,000 annually to $57,000,000, a reduction of $.8,000,000. It wou'd seem, that a ve.-y marked rejue'.i m in taxatiou might be safely indulged in. NKWS ! IlIK Two million barrels of salt are an nually exported from Michigan. The flesh of th man itiuor sea cow U used for fo.nl an l reseuilIi-s lieef. Lord RoseWry paid lii.tM-O for the large Vandyck at the Hamilton sale. The fruit exports of America have increased a hundred fold in five years. It has been calculated that a sinlj cat will devour twenty mica iu one d.iyl Of the 1150 convicts in the Ohio Penitentiary, but seventeen are women. The Zaui Indians hive used the sunflower for decorations for centuries. Miss Annie Louise Cary's physiciau tells her that she must not sing again for a year. H.uilun the oarsman, is said to have made $80,000 during his recent trip to England. In Liverpool, the only public eleva tors are those iu the grain docks at Liverpool. Mr. Rnskin is said to le abo.it to dispose of Turner's most celebrated drawings. The standing army of France com prises 499,000 men. with a reserve force of 327,000. The recent census showed that there are 9,945,9 1J families in the United States. In Havana is one sugarcane facto ry capable of producing 125 jnmiihIs of sugar per diem. The presemt Chief Justice or Alaba ma used to set type oa a weekly news paer for S5 a week. Oscar Wilde is reported by Mrs. Grundy to be engaged to a liostoii "literary lady." The Rev. A. C. Dickson has accep ted the presidency of Wake Forrest College at lialeigh. Mrs. Langtry Lad a s j-t-iil train at the cost of .10.'$ between Clagow arid Loudon the other day, Senator Hill's cancer was caused by nicotiue, which got into a Uli-tjr on his tongue while he was smokiug. The destruction of vineyards iu Europe by the phylloxera is estimated at 3,000,Ot)0,lM.X) francs within ton years. A Germau traveler says the scheme of flooding the Sahara is impracticable, as it lies 900 feet above the sea level. The Peterboro N. ILpublie libra ry, numbering 40OII volumes is known as the oldest flee library in the United States. A pendant caibimcle on the neck lace of Mary, (jneeu of Scots, was val ued at 500 crowns, a large price for those days. The oyster trade of the Uuited States employs nearly 53,000 jersons, and the annual product exceeds 22,000, 000 bushels. The nnmWrof persons drowned by the recent flood caused ly the sudden risiug of the river at Virseez, Hungary, was forty-four. The importation of opium from India to China amounted in 17'JS to :i0 tons, iu 1S03 to 3'MiO tons, and siuct) then the increase his Wen still more rapid. During the mouth of May theStato treasnrerof Texas received frt.m the sale of land o5,32i, of which 827,4. was first payments, representing salts of about 500,000 ucros of school hauls. The streets and public phu-es (.f Paris are lighted with 45,815 gas bur ners, sixty-three electric lumps, sixty five vegetable oil lamps and two hun dred and ninety-three mineral oil lamps. According to German statistics crimes and niLsdcnieaners iu Prussia have increased at the enormous rate of 111 percent, siuce 1871. Iu l.HSOalono the nutnln'r of prisoners rose bv nearly 15,000. Our exports of domestic hrvatlstutV during the eleven mouth ending May 31, 1882, amounted in value to $107, G53.532, against $211,955,41:) during the corresponding jieriod of the pre ceding year. The export of petroleum and pe troh um products for April wi re valued at $4,187,000; previous April, $2,750, 000; ten months ending April, $12,391,- 000; same period the preceding year, $31,401,000. The late Ex-Governor Washburn, of Wisconsin, left an estate worth alsmt 4,000,000. He made his first money out of government timber taken up by- hut brothers when they were surveyors. His widow is iu an asylum for the in- raue. It is estimated that there are iu Loudon at the present time no fewer than 24,000 unemployed mechanics. artisans, clerks aud unskilled latxrers, and that throughout the country there is a floating population of oO.lHIO va grants. Major Bellamy, who once was one of Georgia's most prominent slave hol ders, now employs a! out 1000 i.ej;roes on his large plantation, and e:tf-h family has a neat cabiu, a vegetable gardeu and some ft nit trees; a plantation church aud a school maintained at the Major s expense. It apH ars from Parliamentary re turn that 41.41 pel sons were drowned on the coaht aud iu the inlau.l waters of Great Bnt.au during the ye ir 1880. Of tiiis numlx-r, however, 471 committed suicide aud twenty eix were murdered. The nuiulter of persons saved from drowning was 718, of whom 577 wero saved by life Ixjats. June 1st, the third anniversary ot the death of the sou of Napoleou III, was commemorated by the ex-Empress Eugenie, lrince Lucien aud many of their friends by appropriate ceremonies at the tomb a Chiseliiurst. A wreath of immorte lles was sent to be placed ou the tomb by Queen Victoria and the Princess Beatrice. King Oscar and Queen Sophia, of Sweden, respectively fifty -three and forty-seven years old, celebrated their silver wed.l:ng ou Tuesday of last week. Among the gifts received was a magu'ti cent silver clock, from the Grand Duke of Baden, w hose daughter is the Prin cess Royal of Sweden. According to the reports presented to the Old Catholi.j Synod of Switzer land the Church is supported by the State in nine cantons, and has an official existence in 42 paiivhes. It has 57 ec clesiastics. Last year there were 1,428 continuations and 895 baptisms. Count Albert Apponyi, the lender of the Catholic National "party in Aus- ! tria, is in age a mere youth, but preseuU ' a dignified aud commanding presence, high culture and the ability to address bia hearers equally well in tK-rmau, Hungarian, Euglish.French or Latin. year. not paid for, nor tne cowu,
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