Ir ft tot B. P. SCHWEIER, THE O0I3TITOTI0I-THE XT5I0I-A1D THE EVTOBOIKEBT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXXVI. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 27. 1SS2. NO. 30. V 1IY THlC COHSCAMK LATE. Crimson suoact burning O'er tlie trw-frtnted kiln: UoKlen are toe meadows, Kubj Bashed the rilla, O,uiot m the farm house, Home ttis farmer hie ; But nil wife i watching. Shading auxious .yea, W bile eh limp-rn ilh bar pail beside the barn yard irate, Womlering why her Jaiinle and the cowi come home so late ! Jennie, brown-eyed maiden. Wandered down the lane : That waa ere the ilarhfht Had begun to wane. Peeper grow the shalowa ; Circling 8 wallowa cheep ; K atTui.ts are calling : M ists e'er meaduwa creep. Still the mother shades herejea neudethe barn . janl gate, A nd wonder here her Jecnie and the cows can be sa late ! Loving sounds are tailing Homeward now at last, Speckle, Bess and Brindle Through the gate hare passe.1, ' Jennie, sweetlj blushing, Jamie, grave and sby. Takes the palls from mother, W ho sian.ls alient it. 'ot one word is spoken as the mother shuts the gate: Bnt now she knows why Jennie and the cowl cam home o late ! CATT. UESCHAMrS' VISITOR. if my memory is good it was in tlie Tear 1859 that the incredible laet which I am going to relate took place in the good city ot Compiegne, The old in habitants Btill re member the excitement which the incident caused, and people speak of it under their breath. Know then that that evening I was completely filled with melancholy. I had just taken coffee, and it was inex orable. In order to forget that aunoy ance. I had sought amends in the pleasant smoke of a cigar, and that snioke waa acrid. The cold was biting, ennui was entering the house by every pore and I y every door, and was even penetrating through the windows, when a violent ring of the bell resounded in my ear. I went to open the door in a very bad hnmor. "Ah, I find you in !" exclaimed my friend Deschami, spiinging into the room with a vivacity which seemed to me veiy singular, ts he was a person of qnitt "manners, rather tenons than livelv. -'What is the matter ?" I aiked, shut ting the door. Nothing," he replied, ''only I was afraid you might have gone out. and I am glad to meet you again." "Come in, then," 1 replied, "and welcome. 1 must aun.it that you have dropped in providential :y, for I real'y believe 1 was I econimg euktuied, ana if you will grant me the pleasure of your company lor a little while, you will save me from that catastrophe." Gabriel Desebunii. Captain of Dragoons, was of a slightly romantic nature, lie easily persuaded himself that all the women adored hiin, and when he had imbibed too much ab sinthe, which happened quite often that is to say, tveiy day no one was more tender. A jierfect conquert-rl Physically, he would I called a hand tome man, hiviDg high color, thick mustache, red lips, well-shaped nose, and a bright eye. As he entered, ther. wan no visible change in his appear ance, the muscles of his face did not in dicate i-uy disturbance of his mind, but I thought him palo and fatigued. Well," I said, "what news?" "Well, my friend, I have come, just as you now see me, tiom Compiegue," he replied. "From Compiegue?" "From Compiegue, ou horselmck, eighteen leagues, at fuil speed 1 'At lull speed? Then yoo have de serted ?" , "Ah. something else, quite as gotni "Well, what is it then ? You don't know how you excite my curiosity, is there a duel in the case?" "Toere is to 1 no dueL" "What then?" "There, there ; I am afraid you will make fun of me." . "You would not allow that. Caption ? "Who can tell ? Have you not, you scribbleis lor the papers, ways ol ridi culing people which leave them in c?oubt whether to smile or to wring your nose ?" , , the bottle, my dear ivi.tj.in. 'and drink a little glass ofj brandy." . .... "No, ttank you, I will not drink to- Then it is more seiious than 1 thought, 1 declare, I have never be fore seen yon so excited." "It is Jo stvpid for me not to under stand it, and that is why I have come to see vou this eveniug. You, who are a skeptic, perhaps can give me the key f the phenomenon which dn-turbs my mind.' , , ..vi.v n.l I will listen, and be lieve me. my dear Captain, with all due "First, vou must know that the good fortune of possessing have . lady friend "111 Iluui I I suspected that before you i . said it l-vi. -r DM (mine toioke me V .U, 11 tuu .i t) "Thafa all, my dear Captain. Hence foith I am mum. Continue." So, thus resssuted, he began : "Well, then, I have ft charming fiiend with whom 1 aiu quite seriously in love,' I acknowledge. Ihree days ago, be ng at liberty ud not knowing how to kill time, 1 lett the barracks with one of my frieuds-the first bui tenant of my regiment-to take a walk along the river bank, .Night com menced to fall, and ft Uinous og which you cculd have cut with kiute, Tose ever the Oise, and treateued quickly to spread over the city. , "1 sv. Gabiiet" exclaimed my friend Dulanrier, Uigbtly rutHi by IjlOWUlVi. lUo " . four's walking along the river is neces o F..r n.v part. aary tocooi , if TOU S enjoy it veiy mucK like we will go to uie r t - I 1 have i a glass oi puuvu. in faith no, I replied, -I pwfer to go and sea Juhe. f I need not tea you that is my friend's name.) "l Jou come with me? ies, indeed, answered Dulauner "An LouV spent with a pretty woman is alwavs agreeabla' -We proceeded toward theFauWc Burtebize, JL distance was qf Mt the enough to abri.ige iu Unfortunately, -" .u um Kucuiaiiuui.. Julie was out. The strvant told us very indefinitely that madame would probably dine out, and that she in tended to spend tue evening at the thater. " 'By my faith,' exclaimed Daulau rier at this bad news, we are in luck ; and I am going straight to the Cafe Chnpins. " 'Let's go by the avenues. It's as short as the Rue de Pierrefonda. " That is what we did. Scarcely bad we advanced fifteen steps in the cursed avenues, bluck as a coal thanks to the fog, which was thicker than ever, when I lost sight and sound of my friend Dulanrier. I don't know whether he turned to the right and I to the left, or the reverse, but it is certain that we were separated as if by the wall of China. I called him. No reply. Without thinking any more alio tit him, and knowing that I would find him again at the Cafe Chapins, I continued my dangerous walk. All at once I stepped against something strange, which had uo apparent form, aud I stooped to look at it closer. Was it a dog, a stone, or hun au form ? It moved. I examined, it opening my eyes wide. It was a woman. She was seated at the foot of a tree, cowering like a beggar, seeming not to feel the cold, or to fear the soli tude, nor to notice my presence. ' 'What are you doing there, madam?" 1 saui, "Are you Ul ? " " '.No,' she replied in a faut voice, "This is not the weather for sleeping in the open air. 'Here or anywhere else, what does it matter? " 'At night, a woman all alone is ex posed to disagreeable adventuies.' 1 continued, moved, I don't know why, t.y this eccentncitv, and at such a time 'Any time is good for me,' she said. 'Nevertheless, if you will permit me, madame, 1 replicTi with a certain warmth to accompany von home, 1 will oiler you my arm. " Ulingly, she said. "She rose immediately. I offered her my arm, but she did not accept it, aud walked by my side. I admit that this first part of the adventure alrisxly puzzled me somewhat, and instead, ol suliering from the c Ad, which I feared for her, 1 fed, not without astonish ment, several drops of perspiration forming on my forehead. Ia.pres.-eii with the strange encounter, my mind was confused and unsettled. My ideas were foggy as well as the air. What was this woman? Was she really a woman ? If so, would I enjoy an agree able surprise when I should see htr face? Would it not probably be as sweet as her voice? At the end or five minuter she stop ped. I could not tell auything about what street we were in ; but without being uneasy for a minute I approached her. This is my kons,' she said. 'Will it please you to inter ?' Although 1 was far from excepting such a proposition, made in the calmest toue, nevertheless 1 accepted with alacrity, anxious to carry the aflair to the end, no matter what should hap)en, anil, moreover, 1 determined not to leave her before having seen her face. The stranger advanced toward her house. The shrill ringing ot a bell re sounded within and the doors tlewoeu. On tach side of the door stood a ser vant in mourning livery, holding a torch of lighted wax. Haughty as a queen, she enured beiore me and beckoned me to follow iter. Jiy the light of the torches I olscrved that she was completely clothed in blact aud that ft thick ved covered her face. Y'ou know me, my dear friend, and yon know that the devil himself could not frighten me. V ell, 1 confess to you, and with all due humility, th.t I felt a slight shuddtr ruu througn me. But I took courage and entered. The apartment into which I was iutrodused was magnificently furnished. Kugs covered ths inlaid door and prevented the sounds of footsteps from being heard. Casting my eyes on the clock. I uotic d that it was about to strike twelve. At a sign from their mistress, the servants went out as quiet as gh'-sts, alter having lighted several wax candies as large as those of churches, the nick eling and dull name of which, however, sebt forth only a faint light around us. -I was alone with her. lhat was what I was waiting for, and really she did not make me wait long. Alter motioning me to sit down beside her oil the sofa, she raised her veil, I was dazzled at the sight of her face, and all my uneasiness and fears seemed to me imaginary before that brilliant appari tion, scattered in an instant. An angel, a demoj, if yon will, but superb woman. I lost my teases. Xow do you want me to tell yon what passed between us r J. Know uuiiuug aoom it, on my honor ; I only remembered that pressing her hand in mine I felt the aame sensation as iu touching marble, I remember that her eyes, so soft, were fixed and motionless, aud yet she looked at me with an air of iuterest so natural or of pity to profound that I, taking it for love, fell at her feet, I cannot tell vou how long I remained in that posi tion, but I was willing to stay there all the rest of my life, for I felt that I was dying of happiness, and unknown trans ports were wafting me beyond this world. All at once I heard the clock, strike twelve. This sharp noise seemed funereal in silence. 4.r ;-.klv rose without knowing why; turning my eyes toward the tireless -i.: .- T kuot the mirrors be- fj 11 lit 1ICJ f. w .wmi with a black cloth, the hangings being darkened like the mirrors, and the caudles gradually going i. .1 i.r thin nhantasmaicoria. 1 ouu a v - for my unknown companion. Gone! The servants gone ! I sprang forward. The street door opened be on? me and 1 rushed out of that diabol ical den wtthot being able to explain to myself how I entered it, nor why I had FeiuLg lhat I was perspiring pro- t T vui.riHl to Wipe mj i"n"'-, . i L,U not find my handkerchief. -wm... t..-,i. ,r l.aviuir restored me to my senses, and being anxious ete this denouncement, wuieu w 1 ". .. i...n. I drew my sword aSSV5r notch themyrious Souse, which is situated 1 on the ( Kued how much I needed rest and quietness after such an ftdven "At tnrned to my room. The nVxt day, when 1 related this ag- Howtver. he ended by ! aereeu,g to a company me ia my search. i .-oiuuig was easier thau to riiid the house again, as I had maiked it with an inen.iceai)ie bigti. We were greatly as- tuuisiieii at seel g the window shutters tiasteueti light, the rusty hiuges of th , , . .. .... mi. ufuruuces oi a de- t.ie.i uon.. i raug the bell No answer, impatient at this failure rang again so violently that a neigiiiwr vju.Ti. ui. iiiuow aud said ; " 'What do you want?" i he lady who lives m this house, a repueu - She died two years ago,' said the neighbor, 'aud since then the bouse has been empty. . " 'Impossible ! " 'If you have come to buy it, con tinned the neighbor, 'apply t Xo. 12. I here is a gentleman there who will give you the information you want "I thanked the obliging neighbor, who shut bis window again, and I went immediately to No. 12, with the hope that this person to whom I was di rected could help me to unravel the af fair, which seemed to become more puzzling since I had determined on solving it My friend and I presented ourselves at o. in, and M. Ikrardon was wonderfully txiiite to us as soon as I told him I wanted to buy the property iie uau tor saia. It s a good bargain, he said 'and when you have looked at thehouae "I know it,' 1 replied. "'louknow it? said he. turniusr toward me the most astonished look iu the woild. 'Impossible ! It is more thau six months since I mvself have put uiv foot in it, aud as I have the keys of the houso in mv desk Ah ! beg your par- uou. ue quicKiy added, -you were there beiore the owner s death ? I was there yesterday eveuine. I replied, and I stayed there about two hours iu the company of a charming louug lady, " M. lonrdon suddenly looted at my friend, as if to as whether I was insane. I understood his meaning, and without being offended I continued, hoping to make him change his niuid about me. and whJiing to furnish him with the most ami'le details of my viMt 'i know,' said I, in conclusion. that vou place little faith in my words, since I cannot give an exact account of the truth, liul there is an unanswer able way of verifying my assertions. On leaving the hou.ein question I could not fiud my handkerchief, and I think I remember having left it ou the sofa ui the saloon. Will you come with us and prove it ? If we find my haud&ercluef, what will yon say? " 'Mv dear Captain,' said M. Bour don, '1 shall say nothing, but I shall sell you the house at your own price.' I would not have it at any price, 1 said, in a low t jne to Dulauner. M. Uourdon d:d not hesiu te to ac cept my proposition, aud on reachm? the door triumphantly pointed out to me cobwclw in the lock. 'Do you give in?' " Xot yet' " 'JJut this door has not been opened in ix months.' " I tell von I crossed this threshold yesterday moruiug. Wo entered. Jwery thing auoui the mournful aspect of that house ex- pressed desertion, neglect, solitude. the walls were mouldy, a thick oust covered the floor, the ceilings were cracked, and cobwebs overran the stair case. Ou eiiteiiiid the saloon, the fiist object that struck my eye was my hand kerchief lying on the soia. lie paused. After a tune he f-poRe : There's mv story, my dear friend ; what do you think of it V" "Are you not a somnambulist, Cap tain ?" "I don't know. I never was aware of it" "Were vou how shall I say it a little w hen you It ft the barracks with vour friend Dulauner? "Hum! I remember but very little about it" "It is necessary to enlighten me on these two points litfore askiug my opinion of your adventure, otherwise 1 can explain it in this way you went to sleep lying on your back, and had a bail dream. Cautain Desehainps was killed six months afterward in the campaign iu Italy, without having answered the two questions. A I'uiqne festival. An altogether unique festival was recently held at Ireston, England. It was the celebration of the Preston Guild, which takes place eviry twenty yeais. The guild records only extend as far bacn as the fourteenth century, when Henry IL granted them a charier including all the "liberties and free customs" which had not long ueiore been granted to Xiwcastle-nndtr-lyme, including the freedom from passage tolls which its freemen still enjoy. iue first guild of which record was ma.ie was lit Id iu 1328, but the chronicle makes allusion to an antecedent cele bration: the next was iu 1JJ7. the next . ..J . i r . 1 1. :.. 1 ir.Q Tl.tf IU mo auu me iourm - fifth of which any mention has been preserved took place in 1300, and the lxth m U42, siuce wmuu celebration has been new resuiar.j. Some of the records are decidedly curious. Thus in 1602 sundry persons had the freedom of the town granted them free of money payment for ringing the day bell and curlew, lor aeepiuB tk. i..ln.l. radx cl.nn. aud for "bakings of breade and brewngsof beare, while mcst stringent eu&ctmeuts were vaaeu for "the prevention of strangers giveu birth to chddreu in the town." Iu 1702 au order was issued against smua.- imr tobacco in mu urc. there was some iai oi Teuerable custom lapse, sine no new freemen could be created, and the free dom of the old burgesses, which had to be renewed at a guild, was nearly value-1-. nevertheless, the pro-celebration party carried the day, as n .u oe- 1812 and 1862. The festival has now .vin aicri.iticauce. but is kept up as .... : . 1 : n . i ti affording the people a week's amuse- . ,..i it w liulY in the future to mem, - --- . ... be celebratetl with even greaiei o..-- dor, as lurniHhiug very '" laudmaik iu the uisiory oi ".j and ft very flourishing municipality. fire. riie losses by fire in tms osimry thw year are repwted a il,00O,0O0, which is 000, OJO in excess of the loial for the same mouths of last year, and nearly $7 -(K'O 000 a-reater ihsu the average loss for .k.iwMnonilinir period of the tour years ending with lSdl. The Ju y teoord of lasses was hitiher this year than ever 1 c . , -.nt in lfetfo. the vear of the Pult un,! lire, and the August recrd higher than in any recent year, except 1881. A Hundred Hatbands Poisoned. i utkia r-opov, the peasant woman who is bring tried on a charge of aiding and abetting upward of a hundred wo- uieu in poisoning meir nnsuaudr, is a very rcu arl.al.le character destined to ocenpy a position at ouca uniqaa and picturesque iu the annals of crime. She is a gypsy, and is now some 70 years of ago. She lived iu a little vil lage named Meleneze, and it may al most be said tuat murder washer trade. People say she had her sgmts and em issaries, whose business it wan to keep up her "connection, and it must have been a horrid aud gruesome spectacle to see the grizzly hag seated ia her armchair every day, receiving her cus tomers during business hours, and giving them the diabolical advice and aid t.iey sought They were all married women from the neighlioring country sidc, enger, for some reason or another, to get rid of husbands who obstinately refused to die in the ordinary course of nature, but who. by Thekla's friendly offices. might be made amenable to the re sources of art. These wretches paid the old gypsy a f-e of from 50 to 100 florins for each bottle of poison, and were duly instructed by her in the safest methods of its "exhibition." Thckla Popov's clients were, however, not always marriel womtn. Sometimes she had dealings with young girls who quarrelled with their sweethearts, and who, from jealousy or rage, had deter mined to kill them. ' This woman's terrible trade prospered amazingly for two years. She excited no suspicion, because the dings she administered d slowly, though surely, and iu their effects simulated the symptoms of disease. Even now that the bodies of some of her vl'-tims have been exhumed they show no signs of poisoning, thongt the stomachs are eaten away. The first case that set people ou the alert w as that of one Jocza Eukin, a rich peasant who died at Meleueze two months ago. Ugly rumors aliout his death were tpread, and the gossips whispered mysterious hints of foul play. There was in consequence an inquest, but the most careful post-mortem ex amination failed to reveal any traces of poisoning in his case. The whole story was slipping out of the memories of the j Villagers, when suddenly a dreadful j revelation was made. A gypsy girl, the ' daughter of old Thekla Popov, came be- j fore the Court at Gross Bedskerek, aud j horrified it by the tale she had to telL She coLlefsed that she gave the wife of Jocza Knlrin a bottle of some red liquid poison prepared by her mother. She did this bv her mother s instruc tions. Having bail ft quarrel with her resiiected parent over some projerty, I she determined to betray her. IhcVlu Popov's daughter fnrthe r declared that she actually saw Rnkiu's w ife pour this poison into his coffee, and that she told her mother what she knew aud had seen. The gypsy replied : "One day I will pouon you also unless yen hold your ton true." Of course this statement caused Thekla Popov aud the widow of Kukin to 1 arrested. The y, however, denied the charge brought against the m. Od dly en ugh, the Judgp, by acUver ruse not quito in keeping with, tngiisu notions of fair play to accused prisoner, managed to overhear the two women talking the affair over in jail, Auioug other things he overheard what Kukin's widow was saying to her acce.uipliee : Well, 1 am young aud pretty. Ho was old and ugly. Why should he not die?" The Judge after that had little doubt that the prisoners were guilty. They were thoreforj put ou their trial, aud the clew thus unexpectedly placed in the hands of the authorities was actively followed up. Strange discover ies were soon made, showing that, from the woman Thekla Popov as ft centre, vast and complex ramification ot crime extended far and wide throughout the community. The trial has been deferred for several weeks, so that the bodies of men supposed to have been murdered by their wives may be ex humed and examined. Overhead "lr Kipe. 4 correspondent suggests as a fire es cape ft pussway of iron along and above the roofs of houses; passiug hrough the more lofty buildings if need be, or diverciuit to the right or left, so as to bridge over a d connect all the housi s of a block, thus securing an easy ami safe passage from any house to those adjacent as well for the convenience of firemen as for the escape of those who are beset by fire. The construction ol these iron passes, he says, could be fairly compulsory to owners, and they need be by no means of an unsightly n. w a . 1 a appearance, hen wisueii, iney couiu be e'cgautly constructed to couferm to the general architecture of the building by or through which it passes, and this would hold good wi'U regard to me means by which each house was con nected with this proposed pasaway. He is aware that there are disadvantages luch at once crop up apiarent danger from burglars, and so on but there is no good without its modicum of evil, and this weiakness of his plans, he thinks, conld be overcome and guarded against A Brttl MooMtaeh. A Xcvada girl had a very perceptibly moustache, and on the morning of her wedding day she undertook to remove it with s caustic preparation. Her lip was burned to such a black and swollen condition that she refused to show her self to the guests. As the bridegroom would not consent to postponement, the ceremony was performed privately, and the company consoled themselves with ft dinner. The br de started on her honeymoon journey closely veiled, nd nnkissed by her frieuJa. Tb Jabira of iwmes!. This bird belongs to a genu allied to the one containing the miuaboti which is so well known to thoan who frequent zoologies! gardens, a-J to the same family as our storks. It is impossible in examining it not to make the reflection that ftuimaLt possess a physioguoaiy in keeping with then-habits. The marabou a bird of revolting voracionsuess, which shares with the vulture the duty of disposing erf curcasses and various kinds of filth lying around, is fully as repul sive in its aspee-t as the jabiru is at tractive. It is, in fac because the latter eats living prey and has the bold and free step of the hunter, Living in the- vicinity of pon.ls and rivers, it hunts and fishes by turns. It often flies, which is some thing that the niaratxni raroly tines, as the hitter is kept on the ground by its duty ns a si-avengei. The jabiru lives iu pairs, an 1 the male and female of each conp'e never leave one another. Its area of distrPj ition s qnite an extended oue. From the banks of the Wbito Xile, as far s Senegal having for' northern limit the fourteenth degree of latitude, it lives in the whole center and southwest of Africa, although nowhe re abundant It is larger than our stork, and its back, the upper part of its w ings, its head, neck, and tail are of ft brilliant black, while the lower parts of its body are of a beautiful, white, its red and black bill is provided with rwo pcudont wattles that have been likened to a saddle, and that have sometimes given the bird the name of saddled stork. Iu captivity it is a p'.c-aiut companion. It re.ectB ita neighbors, bnt wishes to 1 respected by them. Like Uio rtork, it has great recard for its dignity and does not allow any one to injure it. Accord ing to Bennett, who has made observa tions on Australian jabiru ui captivity, the habits of which are much like those of the Senegal bird, aud accordnig to Dr. Bodiuus, who has had several of the latter in his pceses-sion, they are easy to rear and elo not suffer from changes in temperature. It would perhaps be possible, then, to acclimate them iu onr co.tntry, where they might, while proving au ornament to our mashes, render service by destroying frogs, field mice, and o her vermin. They would swallow here aud there a f-JW fish; but, since Europe will soon witness the death of the lust heron, it would prove a ceitaiti compensation for the friends of animais if they could replace that by a bird of more sociable habits, and wuich by that very fact would bo more effectually protected. The new boarder at the Jardin ties Flants, to jndgo from the pala tints of its plumage, is stills young bird. It does not apiear to ns to eniov very vigorous health. We have sc;:i it often, and it was always seated nnl makiug aplaiufive clacking, and partially opening with ft sickly air its loug biil, whose upper mandible had beea meude 1 with a piecs of tin. RrttUTi Annuities. An interesting list of British annnities aud pensions has just lieon issued. Over and above pay meats of the civil list, members of the royal family receive 1G1,000. For pensions for nav.d and military services the Government pays X38,lCt!; for political and civil service, 20,434; for judicial services iu Great Britain, 11,225; for judicial services in Ireland, Jtl2,4f.7; fordiplotnrticservices. 8173; miscellaneous peusions, !HM)."i; and hereditary pe-nsious, jCtilM 4. Of naval aud military fx-n.-ioiis the "0M of Earl Xelsonnud the 1K0 of the Duke of Marlborough are intended to run to the end of time, like the !84 of the Dike of bchorolergs heirs, the 1200 of the heirs of Captain Garth, j and the 1400 of the heirs of William l'eun. The Duke of Wellington's 2000 ceases after the death of the next holder of the title. Lord Eversley draw 4000; La.ly Elgin, 1000; Lady Mayo, 1000; Mr. Millner Gilwon, 2000; Mr. Spencer Walpole, 2-00; Lord Clar ence Taget, 1950; Mr. Charles Vd liors, 11'50; Earl Cairns, 3000; and six retired judges and ft unmlier e.f ex coiuity court jndgrs elraw various sum-. tin CoRre .0 Uril.fc. Durirg the twenty years ending June 30, 187C, the Uuited Sbites imported ove.'JOO.OOO tons of coffee, less than 100,000 tons or which were re-exported. During the year ending Jnne 30, 1877, we imported 320,000,000 ponuds ef cof fee, three fourths of which came from Brazil. For the twenty years men tioned our consumption of coffee averaged 200,000,000 pounds ft year. During the hist five years c f tlie period it was 300,000,000 pounds Latterly the relative amount brought from Brazil has declined, owing to the greater in crease in the amount imported from other countries. Last year our coffee account with Brjzil exceeded the sum of onr exports thither by more than 828,000,000. 1 lie Gooil V4MMt Haer. The originator of the race meeting at Goodwood was the well known Earl of Egremont who, early in the present cen tury, transferred a hltle meeting which f-r many years Dad been held in Petworth 1'arK to the bvautiful course which is so charmingly pkced, with the Duke of Richmond's palace ou one side and the w idi! expanse of downs on the other. Du ring the first twenty years of its existence the meeting took p ace sometimes in the f priog a.id jme'iim-s in the autumn; it was not until about 1827 that it -ass perma nent y fixed for the last week id July, and It haa since been regarded as the wind up of the London season. The King o Holland sometimes walks all night iu the populous parts of the Hague. When he reaches home he personally supervises the frying of his potatoes, which lid takes with several glasses of beer. Mncnise? has been stionly coimutnded, but is applicible only in certain cares, it is us- fill in ci se of newly planted trees, lul even with nudebiug the surface of the ground shouid be kept tinely pulverise d. Juhaar'a Fat er. "When is your ma coming back?" asked the grocery man of the bad boy, as he found him standing on the side walk when the grocery was opened in tho morning, taking some pieces of brick out of his coat-tail pockets. "Oh, she got back at midnight last night," said the boy, as he ate a few blneborries out of a case. "That's what makes me up so early. Pa has been kicking at these pieces of brick with his bare feet, and when I came away he had his toes iu h hand and was frying to back np stairs on one foot Pa haiu't got no sense." "I am afraid you are a terror," said the grocery man, as he looked at the innocent face of the boy. "You are always making yimr parents some trouble, and it is a great wonder to me that they don't send you to the reform school. What deviltry was you up to last night to get kicked this morning?' "Xo deviltry; jtut a little fun. You see, ma went to Chicago to stay a week, aud she got tired, and telegraphed she woidd be home last night; aud pa was down town, and I forgot to give him the despatch. After he went to bed, me and a chum of mine thought we would have a Fourth of July. You see, my chum has got a big sister, aud we hooked some of her clothes, aud after pa got to snoring we put them in his room. Oil, you'd have luughed. We pnt pair of Xo, 1 slippers with blue stock ings tlowa in front of the rocking chair, lieide Pa's boots, and red corset ou chair, and my chum's sister's best silk dress on another nhtiir, and ft hat with a white feather ou tho bureau, and some frizzes ou the gvs bricket, aud everything we could tiid that be longed to a girl in my ehutn'a sister's room. "Oh, wo got a red pirasol, too. ami left it right iu the middle of tho floor. Well, when I looked at tiio lay-out, and heard pa snoring, I thought should die. Y'ou see, ma is easily excited. My chum slept with me that uight, and when we heard the door-beli ring I stuffed a pillow in my mouth. There was nobody to meet ma at the depot, and she hired a hack au 1 came right up. Nobody hoard the bell but me, and I had to go down and let ma in. She was pretty angry, you bet, a uot being met at the elepot. "Where's your father?" said she, as she begun to look up stairs, I told hsr I guessed pa had goue to sleep by this time; that he had goue to bed an hour ago. Then I slipped np-stairs, and looked over the banister. Ml said something about heavens and earth, aud where is the huzzy, and a lot of tilings I couldn't hoar; and pa swore, and said it's no such tniuy, and the door slammed, and then they talked for two hours. I s'pose they finally laid it to nis, as they always do, aud when he came down stairs he hurt my feelings. I sea they bad my chum's sister's clothes all pin ned up in a newspajier, and I s'pose when I go back I shall have to carry them home again, and then she'll le down on nil toa. I'll tell yon what, I hsvc a gooj notion to take some shoe maker's wax and stick my chum on my l.acK aud travel with a circus as a double-headed boy from Borneo. A fellow conld havo more fun, a id not get kicked all the time," Aud the bjy sampled s!tie strawberries in a cane in front of the store, and weut down the street whistling for Im chum, who was looking out oi an alley to see if the coast was clear. Fnvltsn mil. A San Francisco man hud down package of Uuited States bonds whiie he paid for a magazine, when a well-bred, well dressed gentleman ensaged him in a eliscussion over an article which had attracted his attention iu the magazine. They grew qnite iutereste'd in it, bnt presently the gentleman withdrew. The bondholder put out his hand to pick up his envelope cf lionds. It was gone! The police said "Euglish Bill" was the cove, aud set out to ntiu in n. mil they were quite batned, with the excep tion of one detective w ho hung on. The only cine he had was the fact that "Englisti Bill's pal was seen elriviug in a fashionable quarter and stopping at a well-known boarding-school. The de tective made himselt "solid" with one of the cbaui ermaids, who declared that there was not a man iu the house. But he patiently continued the ac quaintance. One morning she cauie out of the gate in the back yard ami emptied a pad of slops into the gutter. Suddenly he saw a bit of paper floating aloi'g. He picked it up and looked satisfied. A day or two after when "a French girl," w ho had been iu the. in stitution a few days and kept her room ou account of the neuralgia, was aliout driving away in carriage, the detect ive diroled her and showed the aston ished school teacher that she hail becj harboring a man. Most of the Lionets were recovered. The thief hail be-eu detected by shaviug paper. To main tain his feminine character he had been obliged to use; the razor every night when the rest of the house was asleep. Weeks had been employed in perfect ing the ruse aud arranging the matter so as to allay all sup:cion. The cltver rascals had learned all about this school, and in the introductory correspondence had, without appearing to do so, played upon the Lilly's vanity. An uncon sidered trifle had be tr a ved them. An llonr.t Kol.ber. An ingenious scoundrel in Paris has len playing the eiugul ir rolo of an "honest r juocr, aud made a comloct- able living until a meddlesome pol ce tuta aooiled the busiueas. It rm his came to open carriage doors tor ladies, aud as they steped out to ponsess him self of their purses aud accessible lew dry, which he at once deposited at the nearest p lice station, snbseejneQtly ac cepting, with modesty, whatever reward their gratitude suggested. Finally he was caught in the act of taking watch into his temporary ptcsession, and put where his honesty wul go unrewarded. A Pittsburg company is manufac turing glass shingle. Tom Paina GrjYw A correspondent writer: Driving through the village of new Bochelle lately, I ol .served that the Tom Paine monument was very much marred by relic hunters, who have chipped off pieces from every side. Mauy suppose that this monument moik Paiue's grave but this is not the case. He was buried there, but his hour were carried to England ten years after his death (1819) by William Cobliett, who intended to hold ft grand funeral. The plan met no encouragement, and the result was that the box containing the bones was left in a custom house store, and no one knows what became of them. This resurrection inspired Bynn to such a degree as to produce his well known epigram. The history of this monument is as follows: Paine owned ft farm at Xew Itijch- He (the gift of the Government), but passed his days in this city iu a rather miserable couditiou. After his death his remains were couvexed to the farm, where they lay ten years, and were then removed by Cobbett There was a small circle of admirers of Paine in this city, an 1 iu It-33 they erected this monument, placing it over the empty grave. The deception thus practiced has led memorial hunters into an error, since they imagine this to lie the placo ft iiteruient The Tom Paiue clique has given placo to the Iugersoll admirers, but they will even tually prove equally &s evanescent. It may be observed that only oue person on record was ever named after Tom Paine. This was a son of Hubert Treat Paine, signer e.f the Declaration of Independence, loru amid the excite ment of ''the tituo that tried men's souls." His father, out of admiration of the author of the "Crisis" and "Com mon Sense-," called the child Thom:is, thus making him Thomas Paiue, Jr. This did Viry well until the "Age of Reason" appeared, which rendered ils author infamous. '-Thomas Taiue, Jr.," then became disgusted with his titie, ami at his reqmst the Legislature e.f Massachusetts allowed him to tako the name of his father, Robert Treat Puine, Jr., (as he now became) was the author of the favorite song, "Aduois and Lilierty," for which he received $750. Ho inuiried an actress Miss Baker, and liecame an attache of the theatre, bciug the first American of seci.d rank that identified himself with the hlstl ionic profession. New Three ler C'eut lttul. The first of the new three per cent United States Bonds were issued frem the Treasury at Washington, on the 4th. They are five denominations, v z. : 3TK), 8100, STjOO, $JOO0 and $10,000. fliree hundred and fifty million dollars of the bomls have been printed. Each denomination f the new bonds has a distinctive vignette, as follows: $."0, Fessenden; $100, Do Witt Clinton; $o00, Frankliu; $1000. Gat field; $10,- 000 Alexander Hamiltou. They are print ed ou distinctive papt r, with threads running through it similar to the paper used for the national bank notes and greenbacks. Each bond bests a view of the Treasury Department The Cor ner pieces are of scroll work, iu which is interwoven the denomination of the bond. The bonds are called "The three-tier cent, loan of 1.SS2," which egend is printed across the upper part of the face. Ou the right hand iu the border are the words "Act of July 12, 1882. Ou the oppewite bonier are in laid letterings of "three per cent;" near this is an engraved "fasces" en twined with ribbon bearing the motto "EPluribus Unum,' with the mono gram "L . o. ou the centre piece ; ou the right aud left of the portrait is the dfiomiuati'm in ceouietnc lathe work. Iu each of the letters of the ldgeii.l is engraved " I'm'ed States of Auio ic" in while-faeed le-tttrs on a black back ground forming the shank of tho let ters. Iu the title of the liorel " Uuited States of America" is printed iu large scroll lett rs ucr.s the face under the vignette. All are dated Augnst 1, 18M2. The denomination is engraved iu tint to prevent photographing. The numbers oro printed ou scroll-work panels oil each side of the portrait Tho panels and the denominations are printed iu fugitive tints to prevent tho alteration of nunilx-rs. The space for the name of the payee l.s also tiutciL There are three seals ou the bonds tho printed seal of the Se-cret iry's e (lice, an em- bosse I seal aud a printed seal of the Treasury Department The face of the bonds is printed iu black, with five dis- tiuct tints. Tho color of tlie backs u difl". rent in each denomination green ou the $.10, red ou the $."!R), brown on the $I0J0 and black on the $10,000; There arc five different patterns of scroll work on the back of the lx.ii-U. One peculiarity of the new bonds is that they sre printed in such a way that when folded the whole story ol the bond can lie read without otieiiiuir the bond. "Chalking liwn. A Massachusetts man hai invented a new way of "cha!kmg down" the debts due him, Oue of his creditors is ft dea con who dnves the stage, and who, much to his diao lufort, is dolly asked by the passengers to ted them what the sentences mean that they see elh-playeil on the fences as they rule along : "Ly ing lips are an ubomiuation to the Lord ; but they that deal truly are His de light ;" "Do not say that you have paid a debt when yon have not paid the interest on it ;" "Over $1,000 due and uot paid yet ;" aud so forth. The day after the deacon talaed in the prayer meeting about brotherly loye he saw chalked ou the fences Oive us more brotherly love aud pay your debts. 'Let brotherly love prevail but pay your debts. These are black-btairs exercises not included iu the internatio nal Sunday School lessons. NEWS L r,r.iKF Of tho 1,150 convicts i'l the Ohio Peniteutiary but 17 are women. The uncieut el', a measure, was the length of tlie arm of Heny I. Fifty thousand watermelons wre shipped noith from Atlanta, Go., dai!y. Boston's present valuation is $o72, 490.100, a g-in of $';,0:i.",5iH over last year. Mme, Marie Zoze-Map!eou has re turned to Liondou from her vae&tiou in Auvergue. A systeu of graded sc'a.iols leadiug np to the college aud university is con templated for Wales. Albrecht vou Graefe. the eniiupnt opuiualmogoli.st, lias had a statue erected to him iu Berlin. Mrs. Tyler, widow of ex -President Tyler, is staying for her health at Old Point Comfort, Virginia. The earliest known inventiou of an English double Christian name is a deisl of the .'ime of Edward I If. The King f SLiui buys his house hold furniture by the tou at the rate of over a thousand dollars a tun. Greek and French have been d ded as e.ptioud studies to the course of the Indiana o is High School. Barou vou firockdoiff, a ne;.!iw of Moltke, rccvutly Professor of Mudcru Languages m ihe Maryland Agricultu ral Coilege, h is rehigm-d tiiat xsitioii and goue back to tho Germ in araiy. California has a sch'x.l population of 213.522, aud has just distributed among her counties au a;iortioi:m"iit of $:4, .&:, 10. Tlie laws of the Mexican kijg, Montezuma I., related chiefly to tie in tercourse of a:d distinction i- Ki classes. Mr. George Dcit, of Lewi.burg Penua., died worth $2 ,0O J, nil of which he left to the Christiau church e f th it town, e.f whieh he was a member. Baron Wilhehn R ithsehild, of Frankfort, returned his ! iwt rear's in. come a $l.l.7.00i whiie his b .nher Baron Meyer Carl, returned $1,11 1,000. John McCuilenigli, whom father was evicted from a luiall Irish l.irm says A uerica is the best c .m.trv i...t only for actors, but for every Inxiy else. California received an increase of about 2.'l,UKt jits Chinese iH.pulatiou in the first seven mouths of the present year, 27,105 arrived and 4,141 departino for home. Mrs. Fletcher Welter has pre sented to Mr. G. F. Williams, of Bos tou, the arm chair aud table u-d by ber illustrious father-in-law iu his .Marsh iield study. The United States h is one medical wan to every (t0 inhabitants, whilu Canada has e.ul.v one to 1.200 iuhal.i tiuts. Great Britain ouo to l,i!72, aud Germany oue to 3,000. Tl... ..I.: - . iucm.il !lilllllli.'lll Ol 1!1S.S1;U1 troleuin from the oil wells iu province of Baku w;.s sent to Euroie-aa market ou July 21 bv p tliu tlm the .uiii.su steamer Ailresl. Mr. Edwin Booth's da Ijhteraccom-panie-s him ou his tower tiirougli Hol land and Belgium. The re .ire s u'J to ls.o.w loco motive engines iu nsi iu t!ia United States Pennsylvania has tlie( lamest uumlier, 2,700, while in ail Xew Eug land there ara but 1,700. Hcrr Fuchs" report states that 211 earthquakes aro known to have oecur rediiuring the year 1SS1, f waleli Si; were in w inter, til in autumn, 5; iu spring and 41 in summer. Mr. John J. G;Uh tf. of Philadel phia, bos been engaged t take the I.laee of the lata George A. C nlv as basso with the Emma Aid ott (Wra Company for tiio next season. Tlie Austriau military authorities have decided to al.an Ion the fortre. in Konuiggratz, Xortheru Bohemia, clo to which the deci-ivo battle of Sadowa was fought The site and the bmldiiiLn have teeu sold t. the Commune for $150,000. The two Uritish Princes. Al'oert Vie-tor and Georgo of Wales, who hive lieen making the tour o'tlie world, have just been confirmed at Whippingham Church, XewiMirt, Isle of Wight. -Miss Maria C. Benton, a eraiid- uiee-e of the famous Thom is fi. Betiton, was married rtiviit!y iu St. Louis to rieliiamin t . Gable', only son ot P. L. Cable, the Rock Island millionaire. Spain, with a school population of 2,fii)fi,2, has 2S.117 elementary school?, instructing l,410,47ii pupils. Upon the heels of the report that tlie Czar ot Russia now rides out with out an escort comes tlie announcement that the Imperial family will siend the coming wilder iu St Petersburg where Court festivities will ns resumed. Mme. XUsson, afte r her American tour, proposes to live permanently iu f.iglaiiil somewhere near Loudon. Mine. X il-vson s lortune has l-eu con siderably diminished by unfortunate purchases of houses an.l laud iu America end by the (ilsastroim lionise speeuia- tious of her husband, but she still has a oonqietence. It is proiMMed to erect a monument iu Montreal to the meuiorv of the late bon. Thomas D'Arey Mee. The project nwets with great favor with all classe-s and lotli nationalities. Brother Ou. iitmian, of the Chris tian Brotherhood, e.f Hartford, Ct, has been seut to Pans by the Superior of the order to remain for a year, to study the system aud methods of teaching now employee! by Ihe Brother in the r reuch schools. - Of all the Rom m Catholic Clergy men in the United States iu K',i, it is said that the only one new living is tha Rev. rather Hamermaus wno, recently celebratetl the titty-third auuiversary of his ordination and the forty-hr-t ot his preseut pastorate, St M.trv 's, Troy, X. York. The bronze statue of Lafavette on which Mr. J. Q. A. Ward is lit w at work will c iet 25,000, and on its com pletion, iu Septeiulier, will lie presented by J. 1. Howard, of Diiriingtou t., to the Unive rsity of Verm Hit, the corner stone of which institution waa laid by the French patriot in 1S.J5. It is said that tho labors of Bishop Irelaud iu Minnesota ill behalf of total aiHliueuce have been so sii-'c.-ss'nl that it is very rare now to fiu.l a:i Irish a.i-loon-keeper iu St Paul, and the Irish Catholics contribute probably, in pro portion to their numbers, fewer patrons of the hsIoous than any other part of t lit population. i i tatiou blaze of . rt.mfortawe nea" 1
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