1111 iLiE! B. F. SCHWP.TV.T? THE OOIaTlTUTlOI-THE UITOJ-AID THE TSJOTLUEMEKT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. fi VOL. XXXVI. IX EVERY SOUND. In ever? oudJ I tbiuk I hear iter feet And Mill I wend my altered way aiona. And atill I say, "To-morrow we shall meet." I watch the shadow) In the crowded street - Each passing face I follow one oj one In ererj aonnd I think 1 hear her feet. And months go t.j bleat March and May daj neat Harvest Is over winter well nipa dunt And still I say 44 ro-tnorrow we shall meet." Among the city square, when flowera are tweet, A Hi every breath a sigh of her'a seem Mown In every sound I think I hear her feet. Belfry and clock the nneading hours repeat, From twelve to twelve and still ahe comes In none And still I say, "To-morrow we ahall meet." Oh, Ung-4lelayed to-morrow! hearts that beat Meafture the leogth of every minnte gone In every sound I think I hear her feet. Ever the suns rise, tardily or fleet, And light the letters on a churchyard stone And si 01 1 say, "To-morrow we shall meet." And still from out her unknown, far retreat She haunts me with her tender undertone In every sound I think I hear her feet And still I say, "To-morrow we shall meet." AI LS WELL THAT ENDS WELL A cross Jog Rover certainly was not, though he could be provoked and get angry on fitting occasions. Little Harry and Julia were extremely fond of liim, and showed their fondness by taking all sorts of liberties with him, which.had he lteen of anirritable nature, would ce rtainly have resulted in a growl on his part, but he displayed the utmost patience in their hands, and I tliiuk even coniplaivncy and pleasure, lie was a handsome f-il!ow. with hair that cutled all over him in delightful little curls, long ears, and a beautiful ruub nose. Rover was sometimes tied up and sometimes allowed to ruu about loose. He had a snug kennel, and a trough, in which he was given his dinner every day. His trough htooj in the yard near his kvnnel, and any birds that saw him ating his dinner used to f-3el a lively This was a natural feeling on their part, but it was one H.ver could not be expected to share. The eocks and the hens, and even the younger and therefore less reasonable chicktns he soon reduced to order, and kept in good discipline, teaching them very plainly the difference between inetim and to urn, or mine and thine. Bat there were a number of sparrows, who never seemed to see this question of dinner in the sime light that he did. They generally lived a little distance away, and often would come near, and look down on the trough when it was filled with the excellent food, and on the dog who was eating it; and they never could understand why they had not as good a right to eat it as he had. Then they would fly out and about, and sometimes in a body, sometimes only one or two of them, would make a rush at the irongh, and try to get their share of its contents; but Rover knew a trick worth two of that, and he would give such a growl when they did so, and the growl was f ollowed up by such a sharp sudden snap in the air among them, that he never failed to scatter them all in a minnta, and then to be able to thoroughly enjoy his dinner. Once he actually caught in his mouth one of the toes of a sparrow that had been mote daring or less active than the others, and though he only gave the toe a small squeeze and let it off with that, vet even a small squeeze from Rover's teeth was not an aggreeable experience for a pparrjw's toe. and while one sparrow was alittle hurt all of them were very much frightened: and for some time after that occurence Rover ate his dinner in peace. Rut the d.ty came when instead of being allowed to run about as usual, poor Rover was tied up in his kennel; and I will tell you why this was. It was not iu consequence of any fauli of his, or as a punishment; but lecanse Master Harry was ilLaud nothing would keep Rover "fr om going to the door of his bedroom and giving a little friendly bark, which meant, as plainly aa bark could mean, "Do let me in;" and then Master Harry would insist on Rover be ing let in, and if he w.re admitted he excited himself trying to p""ay with him- and if he were not, it made him so sorry that he could not help crying (he was ill, and that makes people less able to be sensible, aad to restrain their tears than when they are well and strong, you know), so Harry's papa sail it was better Rover shoull be tied up out of the way till Hansy was well again. The first day tras nappened, Jem (that was James the the yardman's little toy), was giving Rover his dinner as usual to rut in his trough, and as usual he did it-but he did not know that Rover was chaiued up in his kennel, which was not as usual and so he never thought of getting the trough moved within his reach, but put the dinner down into the trough, which was just out of poor River's reach, and thea ran away. Rover tnedharl to eat his dinner at first, but when he found he could not he went fast asleep, which was all things consider:!, alwut as sensible a tiling as he could do. He slept, and he ws awakened from his sleep and the way iu which he was awakened was by a noise of flapping wings and chattering b aks. He opened his eyes, and he could hardly believe bis senses when he did so. for what did he see but his old ene mies, the sparrows-if any.eatares could be called his enemies, whom till now he had been able to get rid of in a . i., . oriwl and a snap, and uiuuicu . tl.i.l whom he hadiu consequ , always regarded as beneath his notice-. in triumphant possession f his dinner his dinner. Three of them were eating steadily and happily even as be looked. One appeared to be keeping watch over the dinner, and three more, who probably had satisfied their hunger, while he was yet asleep, were perched on the aide of the trough "with their beaks to its contents, laughing at, jeer ing and taunting him. One sparrow, growing reckless with his impudence, foolishly hopped off the trough to Hap Ins wings, and laugh and jeer, a trifle nearer to the defeated priso ner, mating a little rush forward as he did so, and the next instant he found himself in Rover's mouth, and the next sail in His month, whd3 the dog had returned to his kennel. xortne moment Kover saw that the silly creature had placed himself withm his reach he made one bound at him, caught him. and with another bouud was back again at home, bearicg his captive witli him. And the sparrow knew that the dog waa uncommonly hungry, for had not he and his relatives eaten up his din nor? Off fled the rest of the birds in abject terror, leaving the unfortunate captive in the grip of the enemy. Rover gave the sparrow a good shake with his teeth, which produced vertigo on the brain, and very nearly put an end to him at once; and T suppose the next thing thit happened would have been that the hungry dog would have very contentedly made his dinner off the bird, only just then James the yardman appeared on the scene, and discovered that stupid little Jem had put the trough out of the dog's reach. He had come to pay a special visit to the children's favorite, and had brought him the lones of a chicken, which Miss Julia had had for dinner; and she had left some dainty morsels on purpose for Rover, to whom she had sent it by James, with her love. "Here Rover, Rover.poor fellow.good dog," cried James, approachiug him with both trough and chicken, and by no means perceiving that Rover had a sparrow in his month. Rover, sly fellow, put the sparrow, more dead than alive, at the back of the kennel, from which he advanced toward James, looking as mild and in nocent as possible, and wagging bis tail. So he was petted, and petted, and fed. and he Rot his dinner, for Janus brought him nior' than was left in the trough, and gave him water besides, and made as much of him as a man could make of a dog, for Kover was a general favorite, both for his own sake and for that of his little master and mistress. And theu James went away, and Rover returned to his kennel and his prisoner. The sparrow lay in a little ruffled heap just where Rover had flung him, among the straw at the back of the kennel, when he ran out, hearing James' welcome voice. And there Rover, as he was not at all hungry, having just had a remarkably good dinner, left him, curling himself up iu front of him, and going quietly off into a fine sleep. When he awoke he had forgotten what had happened. I mean that in the first moment of walking he did not recollect it, and he was quite startled at the miserable lit tle object he beheld, as he happened to look round, standing behind him in the. kenneL Master sparrow had recovered from his vertigo and his terror sufficiently to stand up, but his feathers were in a pit iable coadition, quite torn about, one wing was hurt" and hung at his side ia a crooked manner, while he was so much frightened, and so ashamed of himself, that he hung his head iu a crooked manner also, and hardly dared look out of his half shut eyes at his captor. When Rover saw him, and remem bered who be was, and all about htm, he could not help laughing. This was a bit of fortuue for the spar row. Dogs do not langh as often aa . T C ,.t l.nnliiiir you do, anu i e,- always put Kiver into me oet 01 gww humors. I say," cried he to the sparrow, "it's bout supper-time, is it not ?" At which terrible words the sparrcw fell down as if fainting. But Rover had not meant mischief. He would have scorned to do such a shabby thing as to eat up this wretched, abject littlo creature, more particularly as he was not hungry. He was only laughing at the sparrow. When bis supper was brought to him heateitcheerfilly, and then he and the sparrow spent the nkht together in the kennel. Towards morning, when twilight be gan, and Master Sparrow jheard the birds singing he tried to make his es cape; but he could not fly because of his wing being hurt, and he could not leave the kennel without waking his coaler's prostrate form. Very softly and timidly, he hopped on to him, and in doing ao awoke him; and as Rover awoke, seeing what was happening, he made a great snap at the birdTwno feU back headlong very much frightened, at which Rover had a good chuckle to himself. ..r vnnr distance, young un, he said;and afterwards tbe'youngWkept ' . yy.rr, himself up into a his distance '"'""o ; , . bill as much as ever he con Rand trying to pretend that he was not there at all. When James brought Rover his breakfast, and the dog bad made a good m2 there was still some of the food Mtin the trough, and while he enjoyed Ws after-breakfast nap. the If nnn3 sparrow ventured forth Terr slowly and stealthily.and then ia an abjoct.humb MIFFLINTOWN, stai tied way began to pick a htt'.e out of the troush for himself. T ui oeen awoe by his move men ts, t hengh he pretended to be asleep and warched him out of one corner of his eye. As long as he was eating he am not disturb luni, for he thought to himself. "Even a sparrow must eat;' out me minute he had what the dog considered enough. Rover with a suddeu unexpected growl and snap, which again very greatly fri;rhtncd him, drove him back to the keuneL And this state of affiirs continued f. three days! On the evening of the third day, Mas ter Harry sat op to Lis tea in the nurse ry in his little-dressing-gown, rather pale after his lhuess; bnt In excellent spirits. vt course Kover was sent for, and there was no need to tell him what to do, or where to go; it seemed almost as if with one bound he was at the door of the nursery.and with auother in Harry's arms. And as soon as be was gone the spar row flew a wo v. But the most curious part of the story is that from that day forth the dog aud the bird bccime the best of good friends, The sparrow paid Rover frequent vis its, and alwajs received a kindly wcl come. Nay. Qover would allow him to perch ou his trough, and eat out of it with him. though it auy of the other spar rows attempted to take the same Iild-rty he drove them off, as ever, with a growl and a snap. i ri i r i V7iu-u auu oitou, wncu liovcr was curled np fast a-sleep.tho sparrow would be seen sitting oti him as comfortably as pos-Jble, aud t here was an under standing between them that lo!h were quite content with their positions. lou can fancy how much; amused Harry and Julia were, when they found out the friendship between Rover and the sparrow, thoujh they neither of them knew iu what enmity and trouble that f iendship had first begun. Tne I-over's Plot. Sir George Mackenzie, who flourished in the last half of the seventeenth cen tury, was one of the most eminent jurists ever known iu Scotland, betiides leing a brilliant man of letters. He-iuherited wealth, and during his busy life he added so much to it that he became one of the wealthiest men of his time. As a politician he was self-willed and stub born, and at times violent. Between himself and t) c yt iing Earl of Bute a strong politiu.d difference existed, which neither showed a disposition to har monize. Yet the Earl had fallen deeply in love with Sir George's daughter, and the love was bv her returned. The lovers knew that the stern old advocate would not consent to their union. In fact, it is doubtful if Sir George would have admitted Bute to the house as a friend. His feelings were deep aud Vitter, and he had been heard to denounce the E irl as little better than a renegade. The lovers put their heads together and consulted. They were eager to be made niau and wife. Of course the young lady could eloj e and be married clandestinely, and the father could not help himself; but ah! he could disinherit his recreant daughter; aud that must not be. The young Earl was not mercenary. The damsel's prospective wealth, as heiress of her nch lather, had given her not a particle of extra attraction for him, yet he did not like the idea f.t having his wife deprived of her just inheritance; and, naturally, he did not care to lose sueh a broad aud grand estate for this daueliter was an only child. At length tlie r-arl lit niou a p.au, aud resolved to act nion it He visited Sir George ia his chambers, while the latter held the ofliee of King s Advocate, and appealed to him for assistance. Now. as man to man. in matters ex business, or in any way not involving brotherly love, Sir George held the young Earl iu high esteem; and there was no man ol his acquaintance wnom he would have more readily assisted legally, i'urthermore, the ad vocate had not the remotest idea that Bute either loved his daughter, or that he was famU- iar with her. "Sir George." said the Earl, when he was ready to open his business, "thore is a young ja,iy in tins cut u a dearly and devotedly love; and she has confessed her love for me. Her father is wealthy. Now sir, 1 cure not for the lady's money; yet it would not be pleasaut to have her father disinherit her. Erom this you can judge that the father is opposed to our union. At all events we fear that such is the case. Xow, my dear Sir George, 1 know that you would not hesitate to avouch for my worthiness," - . . 1,1 . . 1 tie old man nondeu aaaoui pleasantly. "Ann. sir. I think vou would be will ing to exert your influence in my behalf, if i should marry the lady cianuesuueij. Your influence would be effectual, I am sure. .. . . And so the Earl went on until he had brought Sir George not only to promise his assistance toward preventing a disinheritance, but so far h d the keen old lawyer entered into the sp'rit of the thing, that he advised the Earl, by all means, to go anead. "Why. he exelaimed lorcioiy, . , 1 , C 1 .1. WAnll man must be ounu, or a im.i, " reject such an alliance for his daughter cne of the oldest names iu uie reaim; fair share of wealth, and a coronet. Go ahead, my lord, and I will sustain you 11 1 can. And tne r-ari fui ueu. onimr lifl arranged with the lady, and on the following day they were privately married. .... In the evening Sir George nnsseu ma daughter. He had just mquirea ior her when a door was opeueu, " and' the Earl of Bute entered, hand iu hand, and advanced st.-aight to his cha;r, and went down ou their kuees. a ot a word of explaiation was needed. The old advocate caught bis breath, changed from a death-like paleness to a furious flush half a dozen times, aud finally gave in. "Sir George, henceforth I shall taise great pleasure in sustaining my wit s father," said the EarL A hot response was upon the parent hps. but he swallowed it, and gradually a sense of the absurdity of the s.tuauon possessed him, and anon he burst into 4 , children hearty laugu, uu o were forgiven. JUNIATA COUNTY. A General Pcluaa. It is well known to geologists that uuiuiais wuose habitat was in or near the tropical reinoi:s, and dmtant from which they could not survive, have been found imbedded in ice in the Arctic re gions north of Afii. They were well preserved tlirongh the countless ages since thuir hj perborean imptisou uient that their UtsU was consumed by carnivorous animals now lnhabitin: .i i uiose regions wnen a warmer bul melted their encasement, This fact of itself demonstrates that the polar le gions were once approximating the equatorial; for these annuals coald never have wandered so far from the places of meir nativity, it also proves that the change from a high to a low tempera ture was sudden, not leaving time Tor animal decay to commence after the de struction of life, and the formation of ice by which they were preserved. Beds of the most excellent mineral coal are fcupd in Greenland, from which it is quarried and loaded directly on ship board oi txj lonng stoaniers visiting moss high latitudes. It is found out cropping from cliffs at the very margin oi rue sea. Twenty-eight differeut beds of coal superseded one above another, with varymg thickness of intervening rock aud slate, have been opened and worked in Urtat Knta.n. The lowest of these are more than 5000 feet IkIow the pres ent surface of the sea. This tells us. with unerring certainty, that there Lave been twenty-eight epochs, each of in- nmte duration, when those islands were alternately above and below the sea level; periods when the earth was cov ered wit dense verdure; when the surg- icg twean rolled ovor it and covered that verdure with sand and gravel, the ma terial oi which ovenyuig roe-k was formed; when it a;ain emerged; was again adapted to the growth of vegeta tion, and again, after the lapse of count less ages, went down, and so has con tinued untd the present order of things was introduced. What i true of the British Islands in this regard is probably true of every other island and continent ou the glulie. And this oscillating condition of the earth's crust will ever go ou with seas and continents, while the same laws which have governed matter in the pa:t hail continue. To-dav a continent co ered with animal and vegetable life; to-morrow the ocean rolls its turbid waves over the melancholy wreck, leav ing no trace of the toil, anxiety aud un bounded hopes of him who had delved to make it a satisfactory hoije for his ambition. The present revealings on the sur face of Greenland, where a few hun dred years ago were green fields, wav ing forests, flowing rivers, populous and thrifty villages and a contented people, show only mountains of ice, all nature congea'ed, a country of desolation and snow. This change has been gradual, and the temperature is still declining. Iceland, too, is slowly undergoing a stmilir change. At the same rate of de cadence in another hundred years it will cease to be inhabitable. Already such portions of the population as have means are removing to the northern lat itudes of America. The island, like Greenland, will toon be a cold and dreary desolation, so to remain until other changes transpire when it may again, iu a lower latitude, become the home of man; bnt ages of frost and ice must first murk its site; other lands in turn, now nearly tropical, must become frigid; and then it is quest ouable if any traces of man, eyen as insignificant as the stone ax or arrow head, shall remain to excite wonder or curiosity among those who shall delve in its sod. Whi'e we can account for the gradual changing of the polsrity of the earth and the shifting of climates the ghicial period always existing in some parts of the earth we cannot, by the same mode of reasoning, explain why whole conti nents are suddenly submerged, or why the teds of oceans, as suddenly, become continents. Moantains of ice are continually forming within the arctics; the heat of summer cannot reach them; but century after century aad age after age the accu mulation goes on, adding to the polar density. Some disturbing element, as an earthquake shock convulsing the globe, a volcanic eruption and up heaval, or tne addition oi some irag mentary planet or wandering body lost id space, which nas ueen atiracieu irom its orbit by its nearness to our earth, falls upon it, the equipose is lost, and the waters of the ocean, seeking then plane, roll over the rocky bounds, en gulf continents and sweep away every vestige of aspiring man, save the few favorable locations which accident ally escape the general deluge and the sub mergence of continents. The God Old Ttmea." Mutilation was a common form of ancient punishment. There is scarce. a single part of the body that has not been subject to a separate and special torture; the eyes, mouth, tongue, ears, teeth, anna. band.', feet and heart have been so many sources oi sunenng oy nre ana iron. Blindness, resorted to under the nrst two races of French Kings, was inflicted by fripces upon hich personages whose at tacks they feared, but whose lives they dare not take. Blindness was applied to Bernard, King of Italy, grandson of Chaxlemsgne, and the Parliament of Sen lis in 673 ordered that the rebellious son of Charles the Bald should be deprived of bis sight. A red hot iron passed before the eyes until, to use Joinville's expression, they were cooked; a steel point, whfcn was plunged in the center of the organ; the plucking out trem the socket such were the instruments and means resjrted t by justice and revenge, which in barbarous ages were often contour ded. The tongue has in all timet been prac ticed upon by the lay. bouis IX. ordered th. blasphemers should be marked ou the brow, that their lips should be burned, aod their tongue pierced with red hot iron. Far this purpose he invented a round -shaped iron, which the executioner ap plied to the lips of the culprit, after he.it in? it- Louis XIL, the "father of the people," enacted that whoever uttered eight blas phemies should have his tongue torn out, and JVhiib XlV. re-established the law Among the Huguenots burned alive on January 1, 1535, in the presence of the Kine. was a man named Antotne I ode, whose tongue waa pierced and attached to his cheek with an iron pin. me mmcuon usually took place before a church. The amputation of the ear was a common punishment in the middle ages. It was practiced on the serf who displeased his maser. Sanval gives the following ac niunt of It: "The amputation of one ear waa inflicted ou dishonest terrants, and PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. JULY 26. 1SS2. cut purses; a second offense cost them the other ear; death was the penalty of the third effene When the first larceny was considerable it was the left ear which was cropped. - Teeth aiso were within reach of the executiorer. It was the wont to pull the teeth of Jews to make them give up their money, and Louis XL after the death of Jaques d'Armasnac, whom he caused to be skinned alive, ordered that his children should b taken to the Bastile and have their teeth extracted. Amputation of the f ret was common, as well as the hands. They were simply chopped off with sword or axe. and the stump plunged in boiling oil or cauterized with an iron. These pun ishments were frequently inflicted on women. Pouring boiling od on the feet was a common form of torture. Death was caused by pouring boiling oil into the eais, the nostiiis and the throat. Molten lead was applied to the same purpose. One executioner received a liberal reward for inventing a crescent shaped knife, by means of which a criminal's heart might be ripped out so rapidly that be had not time to d-e under the operation. Cases were common in which fie victim had his lips lopped ott one by one, and being ripped open and disemboweled be fore the death stroke was given. it would take a volume to enumerate the tortures the devilish ingenuity of man was father to in those ghastly times. The Parliament oi Pans applied only two kinds water and the boot. In Brittany the! sullerer was tied to an iron chair and bis legs broght by degrees in contact with the nre. At Besancon the horse, which con sisted of mounting the victim on a log garnished with spikes, was in use. tstra pade prevailed at Orleans. At Kouen. the thun.b, lingers and legs were crashed. Ibc boot was an instrument consisting of four pi&nks pierced with holes, through which ropes were passed to hold them to gether. Between the two innermost planks the victim's leg was fitted. The executioner then drove wedges between the outer ones. Ordinary torture included four wedges, but cn extra occasions eight were used. At any rate the leg was re duced to a pulp of riven flesh aud rruscle and splintered bone. 1 ert are Dy water consisted in seating tne cuipni on a stone stool, niter bis sen tence had been read to him. ills wrists were attached behind his back to two iron nngs distant from each other.' All the cords then eutwined round his limbs aud bojy were '.hen pulled as much as possi ble, and when the body of the sufferer could not be stretched any mure a trestle was placed under his back. The quc$ tionaire held a horn in one band, and with the other he poured water in, and obliged the cnmirai to swallow four pints in question ordinaire and eight pints in question extraordinaire. Death was commonly the result of this torment torture comprised several graduated torments inflxtcd upon a prisoner, either con. pel him to confess his crime or to obtain the name of his accomplices. While he was subjected to these sufferings a Judge, standing close to the torturer or questionaire, called upon the accused to say the truth, and wrote down bis decla rations, whence the name of question which was given to this torture. Uuestion was of two sorts, either definite or preliminary. These two categories were subdivided Into question ordinaire and extraordinaire through the hrt it was sought to exact Irom the accused the confession of his guilt; through the accused it was endeav ored to discover the names of the accom plices who had helped him In the perpe tration of his crime. Torment carried to certain limit constituted question ordi naire, it was doubled in . question extra ordinaire, which, as rule, was only in flicted upon culprits previously sentenced to death. Vet there are people who re gret the "grxl old times! " OJuiniua 1' Duru-g the last two or three years a bark containing quinine and quinidine has been imported into England from Columbia in such enormous quantities as to equal or even sometimes exceed the whole of the importations of ciucho na bark from all other countries. The botanical source of this bark, which is known in commerce under the name of Cuprca Cinchona, on account of iu pe culiar coppery tiut, has hitherto been a mvstery. M. I nana, the well known quinologist, has recently succeeded in tracing it out and bai stated that it is de rived in a great measure from two spe cies of the nearly allied genus liemijia, none of the members of which were pre viously known to contain quinine. Seve ral species of YiY)i yia havs leaves re sembling those of the true cinchonas, and of these M. Triana- has determined that R. ;Mrtfcaia.Wedd.,and R. edun citlata, Karston, certainly yield cuprea bark, the tormer being the species which contains the alkaloid cinchona mine, recently discovered by 1L Arnaud, It appears probable that other species also yield the cuprea cinchona of com merce, but definite information on this point is stdl wanting. 1 he value of the bark has led, according to M. Triana, to great devastation of the forests in which the trees gro-v, and has produced financial stagnation, business being neglected in order to follow the more profitable occupation of collecting the bark. Fortunately seeds of the tree have been received and are now in culti vation at Malvern House, Sydenham. The tree is likely to prove valuable for cultivation in countries where malarial fever abounds, since it grows at an elevation of 200 1000 metres above the sea, at which even rxl cinchona bark will not flourish. fnhe&Uhj Milk. Dr. Brush, of Xew York, calls attention to the fact that the sale of diseased and po soned milk is a matter of more serious moment than that of watered or skimmed milk. He suggests as anon' line of an im proved system of mils laws: First, that all city milk dealers should be com pelled to procure a license from the Board of Health; secondly that all milk dealers report to the Bjard the quantity of milk they sell and where it is obtained; third ly, that in the death certificates of all children under two years of age, dying from cer tain specified forms of disease, the name of the milkman who had supplied them be inserted. By some such plan the Boar I would be enabled to detect poisonous milk If a certain form of infsntile trouble as found to exist among Ibc customers of a certain milkman, an inspector could be sent to the source froua which the milk came to ascertain it there-had been an epidemic In tae dairy, or if any ot the cattle were suffering from disease, and if the milk from a cow too soon after calving had been sent to the city. A tew years of observation like this, carried on conscien tiously, he thinks, woul4 enable the Board to propose inteJigent laws regulating the ale ot milk. Of one fact be is thoroughly convinced that the tale of poisonous milk in New York city produces more trouble than if the whole supply was pure, healthy skimmed milk. Ctlllzmtr V FnHuct. There is no better example ef the utilization of what was formerly- re garded as waste material on the farm, than that of cotton seed. Formerly regarded as worthless, and worse than that, because it cost something to cart it away and dump it into the bayou or creek, it now forms no small part of the value of the cotton crop and has added millions to the wealth of the cotton- producing States. In ordinary gtown cotton, there are two pounds of seed for one of lint, and ce thousand pounds of seed makes seventeen gallons of od worth readily forty cents per gallon. The reuniting oil cake is also considered more valuable as food for animals or as fertilizer than the seed was before the oil was removed. Both the oil and the oil cake are iu great demand in France and Italy, and iu many places the refined od is taking the place of the oil of olives. In this place it is taking the place of lard, and only a few days ago, an agent of a Boston firm was in this city taking orders of some of our grocers. It can be furnished cheaer, is a vegetable product aud pure, and for the general pruposes for which lard is used, the punned cotton seed oil is said to be much better besides being c'jcapcr. By a new process, the oil is also solidified and largely used aa a substitute for butter, being a mobt acceptable sutsti t ite, Belling at whelesalo for SI a gal lon, and retailing much higher. The butter made from the seed taken from a bale of cotton is siid to be worth SIC, an almost net addition to the value of the cotton crop. When the seed is first received at the oil mills, it is carefully reginned, aud about ten per cent, of short cotton Hut is saved, which is used for making the finest quality of batting. It then passes to another machine, which takes off the hulls, passing them to the engiu rconi to be nsed for fuel. The kernels are then crushed and pressed the same as flax seed, the resulting oil being barreled, while the hard cake is bagged up in 100 ponnd packages or ground up and sold for cattle feeding purposes, greatly adding both to the value of the lee f aud the manure. A correspondent speaking of the value of this comparatively new Indus try, rays that it adds fully twenty-five per cent, to the cotton industry of the States producing that staple. For the census year lsJ-SO, the crop was re ported to be 5,737,257 bales, averaging 500 pounds each, and worth $"-SC,-862,860, to which this newly developed product will add a stdl further value of 871.713,210, or nearly as much as the entire cnnual product of all the gold and silver mines of the United States put together. A t(c with niifffclo. Mr. Mitthews, of Coleman, Texu-s, who has jast crossed the Staked Plains, from Las Vegas, N. M., says: Awfully grand are the Llano Estacodos. Here the majestic bisou roams, breaths pure air and enjoys freedom; the home of thous ands of fleet-footed antelopes and droves of wild horses. When first the hors;-s scan you they bow their necks majes tically, sniff heaven's pure zephyrs, snort, peform an evolution with the exactness of an expert, then bound away with the velocity of the wind. measuring distance by time, thus bid ding defiance to the fleetest horseman. We discovered a herd of buffalo that morning aud prepared for action, armed with Mr. Cleveland's long-range lifle; soou bring began, making lour snots without effect. The noble beasts halt ed, raised their shaggy manes, took iu a snufl of pure air, theu bounded away, their tramps sounding like distant thunder. But, ah! the chicanery of man overpowers even the buffalo. Orion Allen and Owen Burnham, each with saddles, steeds, arms, well equipped, dashed instantaneously across the roll ing prairie bent on capturing the noble .1 . , i i game, uver tne proau piains weui humping the majestic beasts, mile after mile was measured by Orion and Owen, still roweling their excited steeds in hot pursuit, at every bound lessening the distance between themselves and their game; as the vision grew dim it was seen Oweu brought one beast to the earth. Orion was still in hot pur suit of the herd aud finally cut one out (the great leader of his race) worthy of his Winchester; circle after circle was made, mile after nulo was left behind, dis'ance diminished between pursuer and pursued, till Orion was seen to raise his Winchester; a flash, the leaden mis sive took effoct; a by buffalo was mor tally wounded. Buw aou faopM Dance. Though dancing Is a popular amuse ment the world over, there are compara tively few really graceful dancers. Some men are pitiful sights when they get np to dance. Awkwardness is no name for their clumsy movements. The timid dancer firet looks scared and then gets red-facd and then reckless, and fans the floor with his feet as if he had secreted something in a knot hole and was coveting it with surrounding dirt Sometimes he is alout four bars aheid of the music, and then as far behind. He spasmodically clutch s his partner. ho feels as if she were jammed bt tween two freight cars. He holds his breath till he bursts off his collar button, and then blows off steam with a prolonged gruut. When the dance ia over he stands paralyzed and dizzy for a mo ment, while the room seems to revolve like a turn table. When ha reaches a seat he flops down bike a gob ot nin 1, and turns to swabbing the back of his neck or fumbling with the bottom of his vest, which perhaps has become so displaced by his vio'ent exertions as to expose a white gash of shirt across the abdomen. To be rich," said William L. Maic, at one time Secretary of State, "requirn only a satisfactory condition of mind. One man may be rich with a hnudrr I dollars, while another, in the possession of millions, may tliiuk himself poor, and ' if necessities of Ufa are enjoy d by each it is evitlont that the man who is best satisfied with his possessions is the rich est." To illustrate this idea Mr. Marcy related the following anecdote: "While I was govurtipr of the State of Xew York I was ca'led ou one morning at my office bv a rong h soecimen of a back woodsman, who stalked in and commen ced conversation by inquiring "if this was Mr. Marcy?" I nodded assent. 'Used to live in Southport, didn't ye?' I answered in the affirmative, and be gan to feel a little curious to know who my visit r was and what he waa driving at. 'That's what I told 'em,' cried the backwoodsman, bringing his hand down on his thigh with tremendous force. told 'em yon was the same Bill Marcy who nsed to live in Southport; but they wouldn't believe it, and I promised the next time 1 came to Albany to come and see you and find out for sartiu. Why, you know we don't you, Bill?' I didn't exactly like to ignoie his acquaintance altogether, but for the hie of me couldn't recollect having seen him be fore, and so I replied that he had a familiar countenance, but that I was not idilo to call him by name. 'My name is Jack Smith,' answered the back woodsman, 'and we nsed to go toschool together thirty years ago in the little red school-house in old Soiithort. Well, times have changed since then, and yon have become a great man, and got rich, I suppose.' I shook my head, and was going to contradict that impression. when he broke hi: 'Oh yes you ar-i. 1 know you are rich no nse denying it. You was comptaoller for a long time; aud the next time we heard of yon you was governor, loi must have had a heap of monoy, and I am glad of it glad to see you gt ttmg along so smart. You was always a smart lad at school, and I knew that vou would come to something.' I thanked him for his good wishes and opinion, but b id him that political life did not pay so well as he imaginel. 'I suppose,' said I, 'for tune has smiled upon you since you left Southport?' 'Oh, yes,' said he, 'I hain't got nothing to complain of. I m ist say I have got along right smart. You see, shortly after jou left Southport our whole fanidy moved up into Vermont, and put right into the woods, aud I reckon our family cut down moi e trees and cleared more laud than any other in the whole State." 'And so you have made a good thing of it. How mnch do yon consider yourself worth?T asked, fueling a little curious to know what he considered a fort one, as he seemed to be so well satisfied with his. 'Well, "he replied, 'I don't know exactly how much I am worth; but I think (straight ening hiin3elf np) if all my debts were paid I should be worth three hundred dollars clear cash." He was rich, for he was satisfied. Araibl Itej'a Birth. Abont filty years ago there lived in the Delta of Egypt, near a small hamlet called el-Wijh, a worshiping farmer of some means, whose wife was barren. This farmer, or laud-owner, was a man of some influence among his clan, which was original lv descended from the Bed awin Arabs of the Eastern desert, but bail became "domesticated" and had settled down on the borders of the Delta as tillers of the soil. His friends had often told him that the cause of his wife's barrenness was, of course, known to the Omniscient only; but that is she was an Egyptian of the low lauds and ho was descended from the stock of Abraham and his eldest son Ishmael, God would be much more likely to bless him with offspring were he to take unto himself a wife from among the children of the desert. He accordingly sent eastward to cer tain wandering tribes, and in dne course of time had brought, to him a true Bedawin girl. This girl, knowing that she had leen taken to wife by her hus band only with a view to offspring, had, ou her way to el-Wijh, passed by the resting place of the remains of Our Lady Nafeessah (between Zagazig and Ismadah ), to there pray that she might be blessed w;oa with a male child, that she might find favor with her lord. During the night that this true Arabian girl, who was ou the eve of marriage, spent at the tomb of the soul-giving Nn fees sah she had a dream. A man cloth ed in the robes of the religious order of law doctors appeared to her, saying: Go in peace to thy intended husband, for thou shalt find favor iu his eyes." In the fullness of time she gave birth to a male child, and when the midwife bore the glad tidings to the father he exclaimed: "Ahmad-al-1" Aha!" which means. "I praise God." Wherefore all the women friends, when they heard what the father had said, declared that the boy should be called Ahmad. Ahmad grew up to be a stalwart youth, and was known among Lis fellows by the appellative "el-Urabi," because of his descent from the Aral in coutradistie tiou with the Eptiaua. l.ivmc for Blark Prarla. Diving for b.ack pearls employs a large tnaibor of men and boats off the coast of Lower California. Traders supply the vessels and diving apparatus upon the stipulation that fie pearls that are found are to be told to them at specified rates. These jewels are of much beauty and highly prized. A jeer's prcduc rn is worth on an average irom SoO,000 to 81,000,000. The cat is the great American prim t donna. If bootjacks were boquet. her nine Uvea would be strewn with roses. NO. 30. XEWS IS BRIEF, The invention of keys is ascribed to Theodore of Sam-., 730 K C. Croesus was King of Lydia ia the middle of thi situ century ii. C. Iu Frane $1,810,000 worth if mushrooms are eatou every year. Georgia snnplis ltd own beef low, instead of getting it fr ni tao Xoit'i. St lY'ter-burg was Peter the great in 1703. founded by The gastric jute! is mora ai'id while iligestiou is g ing on than iu th intervals of the process. Northern eru contains mosViil and starch and Southern corn most mineral an 1 albuminous mait- r. The Marouis of L rne and Prinwsa Louise will visit Saa Francises iu Sep tember. Baltimore has more colored Sun day-school scholars than any other city in America. Pr ifessor M.iri- M:t.-he'd. the Vas- sar College astronomer, has been niadd an LL. D. by an Indiana college. Mr. Tennyson, now in his seveutv- second year, is able to read vary little. uis evesigut oeiug s.uiiy unpaired. It is said that there are no ward of 3,0(10 strain-ploughing machines now employed iu England and Scotland. The ontput of cjal frt m the mines of Alabama has increased from M IHH tons iu 1872 to 400.000 tons in 1SS1. Ohio, with over 3.0 (O.PO'J of peo ple has only 3d,0Ot) pauin-rs. who cost the state something over $Si)O,0iJtl veur- v. Sng.ir. aceoriiing to a prominent physician, promotes digestion, and may lo prcscrilied in certain cases of dys pepsia. The colonists of Ireland amour whom Cromwell portioned out the con quered territory are still called Crom- wel bans. The aggregate arres of a couple mar ried at Winchester. Kv.. last week. amounted to 147 vears. The groom is 7 and the bride 7 ). Louis XII. was the most famout King of France spice tiie days of Saint Louis, aud acquired the title of "Fa ther of his people." The locomotives ou soiuj Russian rai'roails are heated with crude naphtha, which is introduced into the tender as it comes from the wells. Professor Josiah Parsons Cooke, of Harvard College, has been honored bv Cambritlgu Uuivcrsitv. England, with the degree of l:ctor of Laws. The oldest brick bnildim.' i:i En?. land, except those built by thu Romans is said to be a castle in Sussex, hnilt bv De Fieuues, treasurer of Henry VI. A contract Lb Wen awarded at Montreal for tunnelling the St. Law rence at a cost of S3,5UJ,ljtli, the work to be completed witt.ia four years. lames Longworth. who gave i0 - 000 toC ueinnnti, as a u eulowmont tor in art school, projxses ti add a tmi.l of 10,()00a year tonar Is the same end. A Sc 'tch womau residing in Salem Mass., not quite 40 yenrs of aire has borne sixteen children in sixteen y.-ars m no case twins. Thirteen are stdl hv- mg. Florida papers are saying that some very large turths are teing caught on the Gulf coast, and instance one recent ly japtnred near Tampa which Weiirhed 500 im mails. Pure bniter at fifteen decrees ban the same speeilic gravity as alcohol of x.i per cent. ;JSh, aud oleomargarine aiconoi oi oo.a per cent, or .1)13 siieciiic gravity. Senator Bayard his written tosoinn friends at Charlotte, X. C., urging that 'an impressive monumental column" ! raised to the memory of the Mecklen burg patriots of 177". The price of irou has fallen in Eiio-- huid as well as in this country sine January 1st. The fall has beeu$l.li) in pig iron, S2.50 in bar iron and nails. aud $3.15 iu hoop iron. Bela Hubbard, a weulthv resdint f Detroit, has presented that citv with life-size statues of Marotiette. .LaSallx Cadillac and Father Richard, to placed in outer niches of the City Hall. A workman in an iron mill in Phm- nixydle, Penna., recently, rolled a round, three-quarter inch bar of iron 18b feet in leugtlu This is claimed to be the longest bar of irou of that size ever rolled. Mrs. Priscilla Goixlwvn. a crand- dangbter of Ex-Ire.sident Tyler, is giv ing very successful re.uliugs hi the Southern States. She is the raiil. daughter on her mother's side of tli actor, Cooper. Ashland, the home of Henrv C'lav. has come biick into the possession of his family, having lieen purchased bv Mi- jor Henry Clay McDowell, who married the daughter of Colduel Henry Clay, of ttuena Vis.'a fame, a granddaughter of the statesman. The Duke of Hamilton is evidently not bankrupt. He has purcuascd the eathurn estate, iu North Lanarkshire for 530O,l0O, in order that he mny work the minerals uuder the pronortv. of hich he is the proprietor. Mr. Coruwallis-West's estate of Llanarmou iu Northern Wales was re cently offered for sale at public auction. out was witnurawu when only g2x'J,()tKI had been bid. It comprise more than 930O acres, including several thousand acres of the finest grouse moors in the kingdom. The Prussian Government has se lected Aikn, S. C, as one of the sta tions for the observation of the transit f Venus iu December next, and the membera of the expedition from the Royal Observatory iu Berlin, are expec ted to arrive there aixmt the eud of October. Miss Mary Anderson visited Mount Auburn Cemetary on Decoration Dav and placed a Iteautif ul wreath of flowers pon the grave of the pet Longfellow, ho was one of her kindest and most valued friends. She also decorated the grave of Charlotte Cushman. Cardinal Newman, iu his earlier years, was a performer of marked ability u I n i he violin, ami now, at the age of eighty-one, he still takes delight in drawing sweet strains of music from the instrument that has been his companion for more than three score years. Captain Paul Boy ton has swum more titan 25,000 miles, etved hundreds of lives, and is cflioiaJly reported by the Uife saviug Service as having rescued scveutv-two e!sons from drowning upon the (O..S s of the United states. or his service he has received forty- two rueluls from European Govern menlM, but not one from this conntrytof which he is a native. - r
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