r V x: t. A f I ' hi I-J. . "i. B. F. SCHWEIER, THE 00S8TITUTI0I-TEE U5I0I-AID THE ESTOBOEMEJT OP THE LAVS. Editor and "Proprietor., VOL. XXXVI. AIIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. TENNA;i AVJBUNESDA N( VEMliEIt S;1SS. NO. 15 p :gIlK 4 I I MMMER AMI AVTIMK. uurgeous leaves uf wn jiing oou. Homeward couies toe scented fear. O'er the stnbble, sear aad brown, F uni the Autumn flowers pay ; Ah, alas! Summers pass -Like our Joja tbey pirn away. Fanned hj many a lia'.niT lireeae, . In tlie Spring I loved to lie -Seatn the newly tmdiletl trees, t.a mg upward tnihe ktr ; But alas: Time will piss, An.l flowers of Spring must die. oft my maiilen sat wit a nw Listening to the thrusan tone. Warbled forts from every tree Kre the nieadow bay wan aiwn : . But, alas 1 Sumniers pass Now. I wander all alone 1 Uive, like Sumnior time, is tan-. Decked with buds an 1 blossoms guy ; But upon this Autumn air K'.uts a voice, winch went t t?. " love, alas I Also paaa A the summers pass away !" Rr.l.LAS ncu KK. "HeU never marry you, Pass," said Joliu Arclier. Little Bella, Jits grand daughter, looked up, with wistful, star tled eye. "Why not, grandfather ? I think I'm almost sure he like me." Bella 'Archer had neither niotlcr nor sister, and hadbeeu ui thebubit ot mak ing all her maiden confidence" to her grandfather, OKI John took his pipe out of his mouth, and wntched the blue curls of the smoke as thev floated up iuto the air. i My girl," said he, "I think he does like you. But he's in tkbt, my dear. He's terribly tied down with that old mortgage, and the notes his father died and left him to pay on. Ana Hester Morris has a clear 81,000 of hjr own. A man can't afford to push fortune aside when she meets him face to face." "If I tLought so, grandfather Little girl," said John, not without a kindly pity in his voice, "you dou't know the world as well as I dr." Bella silently rose from her seat, and taking a blue-edged china bowl in her hand, went cut to gather curraufcs for tea and to be alone and think. "If Charier Wa'bTs can be as merce nary as that," she thought, with the big drops of crystal starting tohtreyes, "then there is no truth and honesty left in all the world." "Bella !" Through the green wail of tall bushes the gleam of a pair of merry hazel eyes glittered upon her. and the next mo ment Charley Walters was at her side. "I was coming this way ou an errand from the mill," said he, "and thoucht Td lttst look in. But, SO 1 Bella' you are crying ! What for ?" "I I don't kuow!" faltered poor Bella, hanging down her head. "But you must Ull me ! Dear Bella, your tears fall like drops of tire ou my head, for I love you. Bella !" "Oh, Charley !' . "I have loved you this long tunc, dear," he went on, tenderly pressing her hand iu his ; "only I dared not ask vou to ehare my uncertain future. But lome day, Bella, when I have paid off the debts and hove a home to offer you, will yon come and be its little queen ?" And Bella, half, crying, half laughing promised that she would. "But," said she, with a de-jure twiu lle in her blue eyes, "Hester Morrk is much more of au heiress theu I am. Hester Morris has a tbousaud dollars ah of her own, aud I haven't a thousand cents." "1 love you, said Charley, "and I dou't love Hester Morris ! Tuere's where it is, ray little one. Aud although I ean't denv that a thousand dollars would be very acceptable to me, still I don't propose to sele myself for any .noh sum of money as that." Half au hour later Old John Archer was electrified toft el Bella's arms around his neck, her so.'t cheek laid against his stubby heard, and to hear her whh-per- in8 : , rx "Grandfather, he does love me ! Lio has told me so aud has asked me tole his wife." , ., Ti.a .m.t .n,inT mas one ol tnoe brilliant August days wheu the haves scarcely stir iu the goiden r.dn of the sunshine, and the piuplo hills seem out lined liie rrayou sketches against the dizzling blue of the horizon, and John was sunning himself on a woot.cn bench iu front of the house, heu np trotted a party of gay voting equestrians from the Over'.jok House, ten i n-n e tt a tlass of n-uk liles and something to eat here ?" demanded Clay Dallas, the forerunner of the pany, - h. .nr.no from his hirh mettle ! grey v -I o horse, John Archer shook hia he-d gravely Thi not aa inn. sir," said he. "Xotauina? Wliy, there's the sign now!" said the young gentle men, pointing with one finger up toward the warped and dilapidate loard, on which was painted m letters well uigh -..ki nt the legend . "Entertiiumcnt lor man and Beast." "Yes." said John, "there's the si?n. to be sure, just as it hung there in my son's davs. Be kept here, but I don L "How" provoUug !" said one of tut. tAi -And now we sSall have to ride onsixmilesfurther-aiialaniso thirsty, i Xo Deed of that, no need of that 1 alertly interupfcd the old man. "It ain't no inn. to be sure, but my Rrand darter, Bella, wUl be proud to give yon a glas of milk aud some of her home made ginger ale, if you'll " in, walk in !" , , He walked on in advance of them, and - Bella, flushed and pretty, brought out her pitcher of milk and Mown ginger bread at onee. But one of the guests, ! a middle-age "gentleman, quite bald) with shining black eyes, like Leads, walked straight past the table to the chimney piece, where a dark canvas hung. cuvioneu in a cneap frame of painted hpme. "What's this?" said he. "Eh? What's this?" ' . : .. Aud he lilted a pair of gold eye glas ses to his eyes and gazed intently. "That ?" said John Archer, rather depreeatmgly. "Oh. that belongs to our 1 tt!e Bella ! It ain't worth mxh to look at, I know, but she thinks it's bet ter than the blank wall. It's laid np in the garret these twenty years, and she brought it down last spring. "Gran 'ther, says she, 'it'll just cover the stove-pipe hole !' " "Where di-1 you get it?" aske.I the gentleman. "There was an old frmin gentlemen died here when my sou Jake kept tavern died of typhoid fever aul he set a deal of store by it. It vm his wife, uiebbe, or his mother, that there woman with the child in her arms. He had no relations as ever any one heard of. Jake buried him, poor creeler. and there was the end of it. Bat he lay and stared at that picttir to the last, a-mutUriu' his f tirriu' lingo, Mvist likely it wss soma relation of his'n.'" "Xot exactly," said the dark , gentle man, vtitb a curious smile hovering the corners of his lips. "It's a Madon na one of Carlo Sforya's. Do you say it lelongs to this little ffirl ?" ''Yes, sir," said Bella, coloring aud casting down her eyes under the dark ligbtuing of hid. "Father gave it to mc for my playhouse." "What will you take for it !" "Take for it ? Take fr that ugly bit of black canvass that eojle had al most grudged houserom to ?" Hella could hardly lelieve her cars. "I I dou't know sir," she stammer ed "I don't quite know what it's worth. Would ten dollars" "Ti n dollars !" cried out the gentle man. "I'll give you a thousand !" Ik-Ua put her hands resolutely liehind her back. "Sir, that would be cheating yon. It inu't worth so much money." The old virtuoso smiled grimly. "Ch Id," said he. what do yon kuow of art ?" Is it for you to decide what a Cailo Si'orya is worth ? A Inittle of ink, please" toold Johu, as he pulled out a pen case and a nioroco leather paper book from his vest pocket. ne knocked the frame up at once, rolled up the blacK and age-staiued can vas aud carried it off, as old John after- rd remarked, as can fully as if it were ababy,"wlulo Bella, staring at her check for $1 ,00L, could hardly' believe that the whole thing was not a dream. 'But, grandfather, is this money all mine, to do what I like with it ?" "Of coarse it is. child," "Then I'll give it to Charley to pay off the mortgag- with, and we cau le married at once." "A woaan all ovtr," said he. ''Well, my la?, do with it just what will make you happiest. Ch-rley Walters refused to accept the money at first, and theu he said he would take it us a loan. "And yon iuto the bargain, my little good fairy." said he with a smile that was half (dioked by a sob. vou lit A Oica. TLere as someinin,; vt-ry Scoiiu a'out that Imle stream bel). There were the occasional deep pools, the shallows, the little plashing falls and s'ony bed, tbe fern and the heather; and 1 felt inclined, for tbe memory of the days of aulil lane syne, ta fix up a rod and try to delude mjsclf with the idea that I was throwing for trout. There certainly ought have been troAit there. It was a trout stream with the trout omitted, !ike the play of "Ham let" minus the J'tincc "J Ar.nmurK. i hope before long some men of enterorire "who 1 )ve tbe old pastime" w:ll import the ov, SDd reproduce in that part of the colony the good old (port. Some attempt in tins direction was made in the Eastern provinces, hut I believe it resulted in a laild'e, because, owing to the misfortune of there being no one on the spot to meet the steamer, the box containing the ova was left imcured f ir. and the ova were des troyed. It is hoped the next aitempt will meet with the success it deserves. An amusing addition to the scene was a trocp of baboons, who were disp ir-ine themsel ves down below wunin v.ew oi uic nmu mothers with babe inarm?,8ponivcyounK ,h,nL middle aed and elderly monkeys, a l very human,apparentlv enioying them selves in an earnest manner, relieved by an oec siOLal su nmersau'r, or oy au ai teniPl to tie double knots in a neighbor s tail Ouly one took the slightest notice of ur, " He was an a?ed counsellor, of watch (ul men. with au undoubted air of com mand. At a liitle distance apart from the tinm throne and DOisy chatter an t ecoitip he sat ou a piece of rock, graspine the stem ot a small tree in his right hand, .u ..hk-iTO eve turned alt the time on the stranger. "Would you like to see them move t ' said the anvei. and suuine the action to his words h raised Lid panted his whip at them like a gun One snnllcry or whistle Irmn the old vedette, a hurry, a scurry, and in a mo nft there was not a trace of a monkey to be seen. A Utile further on we passed an ofdorHlenth'crtrap, which had appar- .,.1 .irrcDaired for year?. Some time s" "s - wlth- trap by new seu'er a """"r " . . .:..! !,ateristiil Of ClUUOr. out the n;iii" , , his The beast had mate uavut iu"s, havoc among .heep, and accordingly, with a view aeep, " nrpdnlions. bet put be stiin W l ui i"" lai:ed ana set thenar. ' . k.a SSto the siht of U Pl, trtX Ihe zoological gar- - l . iAr BilTf KIHIUU aav. m '."J"...; at in diminutive dens, ue ivi - , .. ,1, Cane titers are rin7 -.si. a cnarge leoparos. r --- it uPn ...rrJu M.orned it from the Ld wnDgtt i the air to dash out it. trap and sw ung u nQW Drains against rock. 1 ever, n nff . Urge por- strength oi we pwo styled t. Kirroo Shoounc. A Hunter in OueenslamL A nut ru I in writes aa follows - Now n daces, some bidden him..1 Kr.i,M others ensconced nohiu:! n ;k... gunnery. Ly icg down, peepinK tlirongh the leaves, the plaiu. far, far awav seems to begin toundulate. It is amob of kangaroos that causes this appearance. As they lraw nearer they remind you of buid ot porpoises at plav. Ostnch Iike, lustiuctively one crouches lower. Close to the ground vou hear a "thud," "thud," "thud," with two or thre seeonds interval between tlie sound of each jump. Now it stops for the r,o!d man kangaroo" has an unpleasant if not a tingling recollection of this sport last year. But the gnus are dowu wind and well hidden. Thud," agiin, nearer and clexrer, and now you catch sight of the mob ; he is close to you. You risa and pour into his hind quarters for, unlike all other game, it i more deadly to shoot thera well behind three and one-quarter drams of powder, one and oue-einUt ounces oi snot lown he goes with a heavy flop aud gruat. Ping goes the other barrel. Oh. for a loader ! You have just time to stuff another cartridge iuio tue nxui-nand ba rel aud send it alter the last of the mob. Your neigh bors, too who in all likelihood "kuo the sound full well." aud have been watching the advance with purhaps less excitable but not less keen interest than you have also arisen and discharged a volley. Down you sink aerain behind your shelter, aud the silence is only bro ken by the expiring grunt and tickle kirk of "old man." who dies so h ird. a nis is uie nrst mob. htuuiess now for 10 minutes or so reign, unless bro ken by au occasional rustle iu the grass. X ou get up and oee a wallaby, with head down, goii2 full lick through the grass ; he presents to you a shot just like a rabbit iu covert. And now every three or four muiutes you hear tlie "distant and random gun" of your fel low-sportsman ; for the marsupials are coming wi ll. You detect the sound of the stock-whip Another Tolley. What unearthly souud is it that you hear now? Is it human ? Darwinians might say "no." But you, ou lookiug, see what at first sight you might take for Pande monium let loose, for, screeching, yell ing, whoopiug, gruutiug like pigs, come the negros, King Billy respleudeutly red and goldly gleam iug, iu tlie midst, bitting upou their horses' necks like monkeys ou a tree, waving their hand kerchiefs and cracking their stock-whips, oue is not surprised that it requires a great orator to make the colonial whites believe that these are really friends aud brothers. The manager, assisted by a few stoek nieu, keeps them iu excellent order. Tlie sport now become fast and iurious. Volley-filing has commenced, aud the distracted marsupial is having a rough tuna of it. Wot as you may, although your cartridii'je do not stick, you cannot load fast enough. At length the drive is over. Yon take out a kuife, and com 2 to the spot where you near me ! ticking, vou administer the finishing stroke. Sometimes a kangaroo with broken Ug will "bale up" and look like fight. But there are plenty of stones aliout, so heave " aif a brick'' at him, or hit him behind the ear with a good thick stick and he is soou finished. Now the guns come up congratulating each other upon the success ot the drive, varied by the usual iuUrehansje of conversation where a lot of strange guns shoot together "I say ! your shot came precious near my head."" But on the whole, at this crive, and at all the other drives we had afterwards, I ouly heard of ouo of the party getting very slightly peppered. The perpetrator was voted dangerous shot, although it wis universally ad mitted he never shot any one eke again; indetd, for my part I do not think he had another chance, for I noticed that every gun during the week that was placed within a quarter of a mile from him to.k good care to let a big tree in tervene between bun aud tuem. inus. the Australians have as wholesome a dread of being peppered as any one ihoukh in other things they nave a com parative disregard for hie. Oneen Carotlue ul Her Uuba.i. The most extraordinary elnnpses we gel of the unhappy married hfe of the Princess Caroline are to be found in tlie diary Kept by Lady Charlotte liury, anu puo hshed anonymously in ISiS. This diary has furnished the chief material for all he works which have been written upon tne times of George IV. On one occasion, says be writer, she dined at Kensington, wnen the Trincess gave a lone detailed account of tcr marriage, and the circumsiancei which brought it about. you snow, was the victim of Mammor; the Prince of Wales' debts irust be paid, and poor Utile l's person was the pretense. Parliament wiuld vote supplies for tbe heir apparent 'g uiarriaiw; ihe Kine would help his. little beip. A Prole3tant princess must be found; ibey fixed upon tbe Prince's cotuin. To tell you Gad's truth a favorite expression I always hated iu but to oblige my fa'.her anvthin. But tbe first m iment I saw my futur and Lady Jersey together I knew how it 11 was, and I said to myself: O very welh' I took my partic and so it would have been if But, oh, mine God !' she added, throwing up ber head. '1 could be the slave of a man I love, but to one whom I loved net. and who did not iimvwsib'.e ff autre choc. One of the civil things his Koyal Hieh ness did just at first w?s to find fault with mv s'loes, and as l was very vu..s lively in those davs I told him to make me a belter pair and brmg them to me. I v. i j. t torn iiYim ail me i uuw Punoesses to him from all the petty court?, in,i 1 tossed them to him and said : ti, liini'a to nrove i m uov u lul tori" On another occasion, ren.-iiiB ..i.ori mnrriain: dav. the Princess - r m ificre what it was to have a drunken wu, - o- . i ..,1 nn nnft a wnjUlUK v- - t,-la. who passed the greater pan oi u nieht nner the grate, where he icii. ami where 1 leu nun. xi "J J " " . :il . ..i nttca vilir lift at dis moment, j- r- j ---overagamorbekaiedl 1 would choose ..eatbtor. you know. . UtU. jwjj- - later wa must an uie, u. w -- ichedcess twice over m, . Pavte Street. Tl,bJlowiiiff is the length cf the seven chief streets, of Pavis in metre: Kaedesryrenees, 3.515; Boulevard anil 3 U3U i -"'to "c """' -t - - - Sayette, '2,789; Bde! rcmre itw-Aveuue des Trocadero 2.U0. Shortest street is situated in the heart of the eity near the Bourse. It Kha Boa Brognari, 23 metres long, with only one house outing upon it With an Herb Itjrtor. A half century aero medicinal roots and leaves played conspicnous pirta in the practice of mediciue. True, hert re still used as much as ever in the manufacture of medieiue, but it is only the extract which enters into the phy sician's prescriptions and not the 'Toot and branches." A Jersey City report' r found on til corner of one of the streets iu the Eighth Ward, a tiny shop where aromatic odors, which streamed foith from the open door, proclaimed h:?rbs of all varieties for sale. The store was rather unique in its way, with its colony orbkek cats, whose baks forms tan gents and angles in a provoking manner wheu aiiy stranger entered on their do mains. Large sheaves of herbs hung peadant from the ceiling, and mysterious rows of tin boxes told of unutterable somethings which should hereafter serve as ponltices or ts draughts. The propri etor, Mr. Charles E. Denuison, was ex tremely affable, and ia answer to nu merous questions gave his expurieuea as an herb doctor about as follows : "My business lias ex ien Jed over a number of years, and were I to tell you all my adventures with herbs, aud with the faithful, i j whom a root is so ue thmg to swear by, I wonll fill yojr newspaper. I obtain Jthe greater part of my stoek from the wooded country around the town of Hancock, Berk shire county. Mass, The herlw are gathered by iersoiis of eousiibtrable botaiucsl knowledge, and are shipped to me iu cases. Among tlie herbs I receive lrom Massaehuselts, are tausy, catnip, wiutergreen, white oak bark, birch bark and elin bark. Wuen they arrive here I dry them, and sometimes weeks elapse before they are in a proper condition to seil. I gathtr a quantity of herbs iu New Jersey, arouud Hobokeu aud Weehawkeit, and reeeivo a few others from ihe Sjnth and West. Last season I sold over a tin of birch bark from which birch beer was brewed. It makes what is called a temperance drink. I sell a large quantity of hops for making hop niliow.s. It is a very old remedy for i..souiuia, and is prescrib ed by every tlderly womau iu the Eastern States. That there is great virtue iu them there cau lie no doubt, as I have tried them when troubled with nervousness aud wakeful nights and they have invariably relieved me. I fancy there is an increase iu the herb business, no; gtueially, but iu the lower part of this city. A base number of colored persoHS hive Settled iu the Eighth Ward, and their demands for herbs are astonishingly largi. A few years ago tlie market was overrun wit h Indiau herb doctors. They have all disappeared now, aud I do not know of one that is ledt to continue the bilsiu. There is aa Indian living iu Macd mga; Street who is oue of my best custoaiers. He will Lot take a prescription from a phys.ciau, but when he feels iiidespuseJ lie comes kore for the particular herb which seems to meet ins wants. Among the herbs that are commonly used as tonics are quassia wood and wild cherry bark, and gentian wood givta thj 1 strength to bitters. Oeutiau wood is used also ai a substitute ior cuewing tobacco. "Suiierotiiion enters to a marked de gree iu the sale of herbs, There is a root knowu as the putiy-rooi to me in itiated, and to the popular mind as Ailam and Eve, whieh, in the minds of beheveis, combines tlie most sti ik ing aptiearauce with powers of good or evd that are marvellous. It grows iu the meadows of the Eastern States, and the origin of the superstition resia among the Southern negrows. It is triangular in shape and has two long rojts reaching out in opposite directions. It is said to bring good fortune to any person who may possess it, I sell them for SI apiece. Before they ore properly prepared, however, their .wonderful virtues remain dormeut. The way iu which the negro completes the charm of A-lam and Eve is very curious. He first obtains a ghss bottle whieh will hold about two- ounces of liquid ; he fills this with gin and then places the root iu the liquor to soak. Alter a short time the superstitions oues claim that Adam, having less evil iu his specific gravity than Eve, will float, and hi less righteous iMttter-Jiail will siuk lusiauier. A colored woman who Uvea iu . Doiui- nick Street called upon me a few da, s ao and tola me iuai bue o by a woan who lived ia Clark Street, aud asked me if I conld not give her something to break the charm. Of mtnniA I told her. Xo ! A mau came iu last night and said bad hick had Ikcu j put upou him, aud lie waniei some tliing to send his ill fortune back to its author. Another man told me imu ue had been to Philadelphia and had car ried a bottle with au Adam aud Eve in his pocket. While he was iu possession of this root he had all the money he Akflll U1UIU i bnt on bis way to this city he accidentally Drone me none, and threw both it aud the root out of the wiudow. Luck deserted him at oucc, aud ne came w uj ui-.. Holders of Adam aud Eve are very care ful to let no other person toueu me bottlj containing it, tor. they explain, luck leaves the bottle whenever it la touched by any person except the owner. A number of other roots have the same attraction to superstitious people. Any herb that is especially peculiar in shape or color is immediately theught to be a taiismau of some power. The blood-root is aiwajs cuoseu be cause of its peculiar color, aud b .de mon's seal because it lias a strange shape. The gold seal is also chosen because it has many curious fibres whi.-h branch out iu every direction. The old belief iu tne four-leaved clover fji.iiliur to vtv person, and is accredited with some very remarkable occntrences. Mai. bed Diamonds Wortn 10,000. "We have ihe largest pair of matched diamonds in the United States, was the answer a jeweler gave a reporter in St Louis regarding what curioeities his house afforded the market "We never exhibited them but once and they are stdl in the West, having created a sen sation at the Denver Exiiosition. They are named Venus and Apollo aud weigh together v'2l carat fl, being of a greenish-yellow shade. They formerly be longed to the Suitan of Turkey and no doubt were disposea oi 10 i-iwi.c peace in the royal harem, in isoo uie Marquis of Hastings brought them from India and hia wife wore them set in ear rings. They were afterwards sold to the Vate Duke of Brunswick. The price placed upon them in London was SI 5, .Vni W value them at 10,000. H they were the pure white or blue-white stoue theeoel wouiu v Tne K ni i til of Kerry. The marriage of Sir Maurice Kitz jera'd, Bart., Knight of Kerry. ruerTT--to His Koyal Highness the Duka of Connaught. K. O.with Miss Lilv Biacboffsheim yonne- er dauehter of Mr. and Mrs. Iiischoff- sheim. took place at Christ lihurch, May- fair. London, in the presence of many relatives and personal friends. Tbe bride erooui, attended hy Major Talbet Crosbie (Ktng.s Koyal it ides) as brat man, came early. On tbe arrival of the bride, at halt-past eleven, she was rcceija oy ner father and fo'ir attendant bridesmaids namely, Mis; Sheila and M:si Eileen Fi'z eerald. sisters of the bridearro-nii. and Miss Louisa Goldschmtdt and Miss KIsa Stern, cousins of the bride. Tne bnde wore a dress of cream white Indian mils in trim med with flounces of old Brussels lace, sprays of orant blossim in her hair and Brussels lane veil The bridesmaids' dres ses were also of white Indian musiii trim med with lace, two of them wearing small wbite bonnets and the others laree plush hats and ostrich feathers. Each wore a eoli clam bracelet, with tlie monogram '.Y1. L,'"in diamonds, hanging lite a bailee, tbe gift of the bridegroom, ihe ceremony was performed by the Rev. Henry Bill, vicar of Maacastet, Cura'ierlinil, the rural dean, the brme bcui given away by her father. As the wediling party quitted the church by the east door a pretty favo', composed of natural white flowers, was presented to eic'a pers m. Afterward the weddine pirty breakfasted at Mr. and Mrs Bischoffshei m's resideuce, Bute House, fSouth Audley street, when among the ?uc-s's were the Eirl and Countess of De-i-art, the Countess Howe, EhzaNjth Cjuu tess of Oosnrt. Yisount and Viscountess LiMuore, Viscountess Maudeville, Lrd Itiwton and Miss Corry, Lady Margaret H'-auaiont and M ssVeylandtI. idy lilaaehe EJwardes. M. de Ueaglemueller ( Austrian Charge d'Affaire,). Hon. Mrs. Oliphant, Diwaer buly C'oithurst and Miss Cj1 lourst, baJy Sykes, Sir tttfnry Meysey Thompson, Coloael aid Mrs. Keith K ri ser, Major Eerton, Mr. Altred oe Roth schild, Mr. Henry CalcraR, Mr. Clayton, Mr. Alfred Montgomery, Mrs. St Joan .Midmay, the Rl-v. lleury Bell, Mr and Mrs. G rtdsehmitlt, Mr. and Mrs. Laneen bach, 5lr. Urins'ey Fi.zjeraid, Mr. Percy DrutnmoR'l, Mr. and Mrs. James otern, ami -Mr. Biederuian. About half past two o'clock Sir Maurice aod the bride started, amid a shower of rice, on their way to Valencia, Sir Maurice's ancestral home tn Ireland, where they intend to pass the early days of the honeymoon. Tbe bride's trove ins; drsss was of drab beie and brown velvet, with hat to match. The wedding presents, which were displayed on several tabus in one of the principal drawiug rooms, wire numerous. The Duke and Duchess of Connaught sent a silver salver, and Prince Leopold (Dake of Albany) a walrus claret piif. Tue Knight o: Kerry's pr-seiits to the bride included a string of pearls, ruby, emeralil, tw dia mond an I turqu itse rinjs ; a pearl pin, a Chatelaine ami bolt, sad a water color pic ture of Valencia. Mrs. BischoflSheiiu pre sented her daughter with, amonc other Drejents. a omolete set of plate, with centre pii.ee and de.-sert stauds. JIajor liu-hanan. Major Bagot, CanUin litthurst Mr, W. Percy Drumiuoud. Mr. C. Hunter and Mr. Wigg Prrser, of the Siitielh lUtlcs, in which regiment Sir Jlaunce for merly serveil, sent him on the occasiou of his inarrias;e a case of silver mounted drink ing cups, knives and forks, Jtj., and the servants at Bute House presented the bride with a handsome silver tea and coffee set. Exactly . Bought a horse fourteen years old for ii'io, aud sold him to an editor for as a six year old stepper. II w much did I make? If it takes eiiibtceu men to do the lifting when a street car horse falls down, how many horses and lifters will it take to put five horses on their feel? Julia bas five beaux and E nily has three while the old maid next door has none. How mauy beaiv in all, aud how many would be left if they should give the old ?uaid half tbe crowd A has tn overcoat for which he paid $13 and his wife trades it off for two red clay busts of Andrew Jackson, worth thirty cents each. How much money will she get from her husband to buy a new fail lionnelt if six men ta'k politics and dispute oa Hibhcal qticsdons can build a wall in live days, how long will it take two men who whistle and llin with thti widow on the next corner to do the su'iie work? In one lot there are four calves, and in another there are two young ru'D with their hsir parted iu the center. How many calves In all? A farmer's wile bad 22 hens. A preac'a- er comes to stay over ounuay anu sue cooks the neck piece of corn betf. How many hens had she left. A bov earns eighty centa a day and tieals the old man out of his biard at $1 per week. How much will he have after ihe first aggregation cf gigantic wonders leaves liie townf An alderman who has an ofll tial salary of fdoj a year, spends $120 t'j be elfted. Ho much wouid he !oe if he dulc t seil his influence to rings and schemers Mary bought a c Jinh tor seven cents and a psper of pios for ten cen's. Sue handed ihe clerk a fifty cent piee with a stove piiie hole throu.;!i the rim How many cents did she receive? A woman bought elevea yards of cloth and paid for it with butter, giving three pounds for a yard. There was a stone wemhine five pounds in the centre oi me crocs, and the dealer cheated her a yard and a half in me murine the cloth. Yt ho WHS ahead on that trade, and bow much? Albert has nine marbles an J Aaron iteals four. How many are leflf Aaron drops a dime out cf hi picket and Aliiert swal lows it, what was Aarm's prohl oa the 7b:Iii business? Tt.c ('nrrrut tif filters. A very slight declivity suffices to give the ruuuinii motion to water. Three inches per mile in a smooth, straight channel gives a velocity of about three miles an hour. The Gauges, whieh gathers the waters of the Himalaya Mouutuus, the loftiest in the world, is at 100 miles from tlie mouth only 300 feet above tbe level of the sea, aud to fall 3X) feet in its long coarse the water requires more than a mouth. The great River Magd 1-iia, iu twain Ami.ni a, rir.iniii'' for 1.00'J pales liciweca two ridges ot the Amies, talis only oM feet. About the distance of 1,000 miles it is seen descending in rapids and cataracts from the mouutaius. The gigantic Rio de la Plata has s j pentle a dtaceut to the ocean that ia Paraguay, 1,500 miles from its mouth, large shis are seen which have sailed against the current ad the way l y the force of the wind alone that is to say which, on the beautifully inclined plane of the steam, have been cradually lifted by the soft wind, aud even against the current, to an elevation creater than our loftiest spires. ' WaMiatin Hws.- Th West end ot Wasiuneton has suiwd a continual improvement during the rist five or sir years. It has been very notice able during the past season, and some of tbe houses that are to be occupied this fall are in every resptet tne fcamlsooiest ihat have ever been erected in the city. The Q'leen Arrnc style of architecture prediion nates, and in almost every case, black mortar has been used m tbe outside walls. Tbe plasterme .has exceeded anything in the way ot effect that bas ever been done here, the cornices: and fnez-s being very heavy.- Hard woods, eeneraMy of a light color, have hem used for oeeriy all inside purpose Tse finishing up ot the fire places with ornaments! mantels aa4 tiles gives the rooms a coziucss and attractive ness that have never been surpassed. In many of these houses antique furniture will oe put' In others a modern furniture of the same general design wilt be used. Beauty and quaint nets are obiecU aimed at in constructing aad furnUhicr. . In many instances, niori money is spent in designing and erecting the nunteis than was in tbe past required to furaUh the en tire ror.n. There is, however,' ia these new houses, less regard shown for outside effects in the way of approache, lawns, etc., than in the past, the most attention beiog devoted to inside attractions. , lux. tenors are very picturesque. Pretty ga bles, verandas, porticos, arcbe I entrances, are to be seen in them all. Cn-ks of all sizes, styles and shapes have been used, in many intsances h iving been made espe cially for the houses in which they are used. Ex-Senator Blaine's new house now hav ing the finishing touches rut on it, excels every house in its neuibljorbood, ami can justly be regarded as a triumph m the building art. It has many visitota and almost as many admirers. I he Man cor respondent was told a little story about this house to day by a builder, whica il lustrates bow much fine modem houses cost. Mr. Blaine was in Xow York re oently and read in ona of the papers Ihcre a finely prepared description of Governor Tilden's new mansion. One liniii: that struck biui particularly was the way the dining-room was finished out. He visited tbe house aad was particularly pleased with it He iinaiediately niade up his miud tbat tbe diniug-rooni f his own bouse should be tilted ou'. like it He ac cordingly telegraphed his builder to meet him in Mew York. The two then visited Mr. Tilden's house. The builder was then asked to prepare an estimate of what it would coel to make tbe Blaine diiiig room like it. Tue bu lder made the m -cessary calculations, talked with Mr. Til den's contractor, and then sat douaud began figuring. In two days he gave .Mr. Blaine his answer. "Wei', how riue'.i will it costi" Mr. Blaine askeL ".My figurine," replied the buildtr, niU it at d2,'Hjo." "I am supposed to be an uu usuaily rich man," remarked Mr. lllaina in reply, "but I'll tell you candidly I cau l gland S'icli a dining-room as that 1 d like it very much, and while Governor Tilden can have such things, I'll have to dismiss the thought Why, my inure house won 1co3t more than id,Ooo $r- 000 for a dinine-room ! We will have to give it up. Governor Tildon is ou top this tune, sure.1 The builder returned, aad Mr. B alae i dining-room will be fitted out according to the original plan. It is elegant, however, as it is, but much of its elegance is in its simplicity of arrangement aud finish. The fine residences oi Senator Pendleton and Xtcpresentattve Robeson, on Sixteenth street, will be occupied this winter. I hey are in central appearance similar, the Robeson uian3iou being the larger. It is also more massive. Gilded sunflowers do duty at the top of the lightning rods. Sixteeuth street, next to Pennsylvania avenue, is the widest street iu the city. It has recently bum repaved, and is des tined to be a very attractive thoroughfare. Colonel Jerome Bonaparte's bouse, on K street, near Sixteenth, which his been in course of erection tor tbe past two years, will soon be completed. It is la the (jueea Anne style, low ceilings and small panes of glass heme the rule ot the first floor. The ceilings of the other floors are higher. The workmanship is perfect. Hard woods showing tae grain J are used in all parts of it Tue mantels are a study in themselves. A lucKy capture oi Spanish uaileoas, la den with choice snuffs lrom Havana, had inaugurated the reign of tj lecn Anne, and been the means of introducing iuto England the Cor.liueutal fashion of snuJ-takiug. Wagon-loatls of the "litlllaliag dust' thus imported being publicnly sold at '-i and 41a pound, Ihe box soon rivaled and at length eclipsed the pipe. Sir Plume, "of amber snuff justly vain," became a char acter, and was kept in countenauee as well by "the lair at the drawin room as the Chairman in tne streets. 10 parody a well-known line, "Snuff ru ed the Court, tlie camp, the grove." Snuff-taking was elevated to the rank of a pa.-won by the was and beaux of scietv. To ellsr a box gracefully lcame an educational require ment, aud a general flourish of snull-'ooxes took nlace. if not "all over the land," as Cowpcr said, at least from Pall Mall lo the 'CLangc. A pinch to conciliate, a pineu to contemn ; a pinch gave pungency to the jest, a relish lo sarcasir, and equally served to cover embarrassment and chag rin. Talleyrand used t'j sav anil he was a iriicur that the snuff-box was essen tial to all great politicians, as nine ior thought in answering awkward questions was gained in tawing, or preleuUmg to take, a pinch. Certainly Piiuee Melter- nich was devoted to the box, and diploma tists generally appeared to have viewed it with favor, as welL indeed, they might, when some .1'ijOOO or i.'!000 were expended in the purchase of boxes for presentation to t.Teign iiinicttrs at the coroustK-n of Gorge IV, MlarlM op Vaadnrbllt Ksllroails. Tbe salaries ot empaiyes on the V an derbilt roads are as follows: Eugiuetrs are paid three cents per mile and fiiemen re ceive just one-half that rate, l'asseneir conductors are paid ISO per month, and, in some instances, $ 10 more. As the en gineer has control of the brakes, the old- fashioned brakemaa is displaced uy "itain rotn," who help ladies to seals and ' to assist them in comine and eoiue. Tat.se mtn receive t-jJ per month, but Ihe mm on the last cur bas ?3 additional, a jio responsibility is greater. In case o( any delay be must be on the tra k to llar ap proaching trams, and may be leu Deuion. B..gagemen are paid JiO. though in smie instances, where the route is ot unusuai length, it is increased to f"0. Station agents are paid J per moniu, and ticket agents, except in cities, . 1 his class is the poorest paid of all railway officials, as they are closely confined and serve long hours, but there are so many women ready to accept such work that women's pay becomes the standard. Tbe track boss is paid Jtj pir month, while switch men and flagmen have only f , and yet this is one of the most responuMe pnaitiuns oa the road. To lreH m v 1b flow. In toe new rage for colored light in rooms, the efli-et may le bad any one of several ways. It mar be by the expen sive stained glass, in regufar designs, set in lead, frames, which frames are not considered to intet fere with the pat tern. Indeed, they are sometimes used to make the pattern against a pe:fectiy plain, one-staia glass, forming a trellis work, or lattice-work, upon the color, and very good iu effect. The plain col ored glass, in small pane.-, in whieh no picture is attempted, but simply gives the varied arr uigeoient of c dor against the light, is also much in favor, and ex tremely cheap.. Upper sashes are be ing removed to make way for the small, lattice-like square panes, which, in tin mselves, give the effect of shade in the vrindow. But (he skilful housekeeper can get at many ol theee effects by her window haingings alone. The pretty colored figured "Madras," suspended across the lower sash, makes as good an effect as of stained glass were used. There Ls a great variety in these patterns, chiefly in the old soft ' colors, old blue, old ronge, ' dull saffrons' and brownish greens, all giving iu their fabric and clear gronud of the material a clear and iKl ' medium for the daylight There are some other prints, rich fur niture prints, cretonnes, or even dress calicoes ami furniture covering, thin and cheap, which Rive the same . effect precisely in a short curtain, only you must choose th.-m by holding faem rq to the light, not by their looks on the counter. Xoiie of these moadinm, either the stoned K,1UiB the Madras or the cotton, have much regard to the outside ot the window. Their effect is for the inside only. When only the outside is looked to, the black grouud curtains of madias or gaiuw, some of them as cheap as thirty oeuts, make veiy effective and beamiful hangings, but they are apt to throw the iuide of the room iuto a funeral tou.?, precisely as a gauze wire soecii does. For effect that is equally good with out and within, the short dnqicries of Florence silk, hung by rings ou a roil or euro, are very beautiful. These may be nsed either across tlie npjier or lower sash, .a white "Madras" sprigged, or clear m'lslin, or short liu"e curtaiu being hung above or U-iow. Sometimes a rose colored it blue Florence, or the wider Marcelliue silk, all thin and dia phonons stuffs, is siuiply swung across tbe lower pane, while all alaive will le lace haiiciiitr in full folds. Or the color may lie draped across the upper sash, jnst suspended on a rod anilier, Xile greeu, honey-color, strawberry or dam sou while a simple fulled-in muslin curtain covers the lower sash. Any material that lets the light through aud tints it is available, nun's veiling as good aa any, if the silk does not give the needed tone. If there be any virtue in colored lights, we are likely to get it this wiuti-r iu many of the newly- fitted house; not blue Rlaas any more. but all the tints of the rainbow or the coal-tar dye, in more variety still are roiue to le cast uikju complexions ami constitutions. The yellow room, the too bine, niuk or brown, can lie experi- m.oitl iiimu. and by the end of the . asoi soiucIkxIv will, like enough, be ready to prove that the blue rooms calms the uervea, the piuk rallies the depressed creature iuto liveliness and excitement, and the yellow keeps up a cheerful family, the brown a sedate and sniier goiujiuspositnBi. Tlie Vnning rare. By means of freezing, parts may be rendered wholly insensible to pain, so that slight surgical oj.eratious may be eas ly preformed. When tlie freezing is long continued, the frozen parts may lose their vitality entirely, which will .v.nsn tin-in to slou'-h away. By this means txere.sceuces, as warts, wens and iiolypi, fibrous a:id sebaceous tnmors, aud even maliguaiit tumors, as canecr.s. luav sometimes 1 cured by repeated aud long coutiuueJ-freezing. Th.'ir growth may certainly be inijieded by this means. A convenient mode of ap plication iu cancer of the breast is to suspend from the nick a tnbber bag filled with powlcrtd ice, allowing it to li.. nfrinst the eaucerous organ. Freez- lnay be accomplished by applying spray of ether, by means of au atomizer, orbva freezing mixture eoniposelof equal parts of pounded ice and salt Mix iiui -kly, put into a gauze bag, am apply to the iirts to be frozen. Iu three to six minutes the ski-i will become whit-; and glistening, then the bag should lie removed. Freezing shoul u..t be coutiLned longer th.m six miuu tes at a time, us the tiasm-s may lie harmed, though usually no harm re- kii!Is fnuu reiieata I frecZiUir. if some care ia used iu thawuig tbe frozen part It should lie kept immersed iu cold water, or covere t with clotlis kept cx by trrqneut wettrng with eold iiutd tue mt ural feeling is restort-l Fe:ous mav tfteii be cured, e in-c:all when thev first b tgm. by freezing two or three lines. Luui'mgo and seiatica. as well as other forma of oenralg a, are snietime almost iiibbintly relieved I friieziug ot ihe skia immediately bIhiv ihe oaiiiful part. We have cure I .me oi l..e most obstiu .te cast.-a of sciatica b) bv this menus, after other rem.; lies ha fi.i td. A lady ia Bucks County Ta.. has cow whieh. aliout four mouths ago, ha. its right front hg cut off below the knee by a railroad train. A veterinary snr geou dressed the won mis and tied np the arteries so skilfully that the cow recovered. She was kept in tlie stable uutd a few days ago. when a neighbor, a cabinet maker, made for he a wooden leg, which was strapped on tlie stump. Tne cow hopried along holding the iu inred lee up for a day or two, but now she has concluded to use the wooden at tachment, and iimpa arouud quite com inrtanlv UDnU it. aud mtj. t- he 111 good heal til. NEWS I.N BK1EF. The Xew York 1 ralr annual bill for white paper is S70t.00t) There are eighty one German duilv papers in the United States. Mississippi has oue insaue i.. rs,i, to every 800 of her population. Dakota has more daily luiivrs than any one of the Southern S.ates. Xo gold has been coined in rnr. land sinee the l:Jth of July, 1SS1. Uncle Sam's incomn for tir -w.r is found to be atioot 150,IX)0,OlH. r Franca eaiht more than 3rt ftln iHlrt fraucs' worth ot a Tee t-meats every year. The profits of the Xew York no ;t office the last fiscal vear were giSsi . ooo. A cocoaunt grove of 25 H) tree at Key West, Fla . is iu a fioorishiu? con dition. The Snffield county. N" Y.. f.irmors have harve.-ted 31 0,0.0,000 pickles thit summer. The property of the Boston and Albany Cmipany in Bostou is valued at i,000,00l, Spurgeon's gout Ls worse than ever. yet he is as active aud earnest as ever in the pulpit Freniitr Gladstone owns a pi;ve of laud at Niagara Falls and refuses to sell it at any price. The sum of 5.17." w.is realized List year by the gold and silver "sweep" at the British Mint The tohd valuation of urnx-rtv iu Texas is now put id jj 101.0)0. 00. iu round numbers. At a recent Wtsldiuj; at Sherman. Texas, the groom was asri-d It', years and tlie bride 14 years." Ten thousand four hundred anJ ntveutv-uine uew hoti.es have been built in Paris siuee l!S7ii. Foiuteeii young women h;ve tius year p.isseil a successful evimiuatioii at the Harvard "Annex." There are now livfng iu the Uaitu.1 States "Jill perse ns who were Imrn at sea under the l ulled States flag; Eighty-eight Sa-iss .oaveuts eou- taiu 01 male and 2,020 femalo inm ates. Ihe aggregate we:dtii is 2.",f0i 0(H franca. The price of loirs lias beeu ad- vaiicetl from fifty eeuts to jfl per thou sand ou the St. Croix. Wis . aud alon- the Mississippi. A Londou luaaf.c fa.ded 21 davs. and theu dif'L wiide fiXnl was Ihiiis; ireed down his thmat, of exeitetneut and exhaiLstiou. Leone Ivi. the statistii-ian. savs that the number of crimes m lrWand 1m alisohlteiy aud relatively less titan in Luglaud aud Wales. The centenary uf Bolivar is to lw elebralesl ou Jnly 21, lt, at C.urao eas, eueiiiela, by the dedu-atioii of a statue of Washington. Joseph G Hester, of W.mhiugtou. has bta-u apiioiu el to take tlie ceiisiis and make a new roll of the Cherokee Indians eat of the .MUsLshippi. There are iu Luckiiow and Cawu- Kre, lu ha, I. pubil.sUliii; hjiisee en gaged pruiciuilly ui issuing auti-Chria- tiau books, tracts and Peru nin-als. Freucii artisaiin art- now makinir smoking pities ol a quality pronounced pute eoiiai to the meerscuauui. from eeilnloi.l obtained lrom KtitJis. The Cambria Irou Comoanv. of Johustowu. l'euna.. paiil last year for ireight charges over Jl,2.".il.(iuC. The same company Kuojiorts oo.lMKI people. Ihe School iioiird of f,iverMH.L after lull discussion, have decided to use novels occasionally instead of ordi nary leiuliiig books in the public schools. beginuiug will be made with soma of Scott's works. Sir Samuel W.lsoa is about to phice a stained gla-ss wiudow lu the uortii aisle of Hugliuiideu I'hureli ia eom memoratiou of the t'ueeu's escape w hen .UeL.eau hreil ast March. Acconliu to a bulletin jnst issued by the ceusns bureau the population of the United States iu 1Hmi classified bv uativity, shoved of native Isiru whites. ,813,2'.1 ; colored, fi,r:l2,51. : foreifti boi u, C,ti7'J.l4.i ; total. 50. l.Vi.Ts.;. . In China there are two dozen mis- siouaricH who are also phvsiciau-s. Eight of these are lathes. At Canton the Presbyterian Uospitd has treated as many as .lO.iNH) outitmr ptitH'iits in a year. The Marquis of Lome asserted In a speech nt Vu'toria, ilritish Columbia, the other day, that the whole hue ot lite Cuuadiau Pacific, from Montreal to the ocean, will Is- tijieued by January I, 187. The estimated f.uni prislucts of Kaiiaus for 1..h2 will aggregate jfl 7i;,- 0mi,INH, or jf-"ll for e:n-.i ol the 200, iHHl families 111 the State. The number of farms iu Kansas is I'KIOOO, which givesl,7tl as the average yield ier lariu. There are li-Stl blast furuaix-s iu this country with au aniiti.d cap.tcity of eight million tons of pig irou. There are '" rolling noiLs, ti l of wlneli make nails. There a e l-ilirt -rli Bessemer steel worss. A marble cenotaph, wit.i inscrip tion and (sirtraii bust, has just been placeil iu Diiufermline Abliey, aa a memorial of Lul.v Cliariotte Looser, slater of the late Earl of Elgin, and wife ol Mr. Frederick Lieker, the poet. It was executed by Miss Mary Grant, of Loudon. Fires have been very destructive this year. . lu the eight mouths of the year now passed the losses have been $;l,000,fMH, being ",IHNl(lX)iJ iu exe.ns of last year's reeord of eight mouths, and about $7,00iVO0 greater than the average for ttie same erioil of the year 1878 to 1861 iuclusive. Tue coldest pl.ice ou the earth i uot as has hitherto beeu lieheyed by meteorologist, Yakutsk, iu Siiieria, but Verkoyausk, iu the same region, lying iu sivty-seven and one-hail degrees uortii latitude, oa the river Yaua. Its lowest mean w inter teuqcrat:irc is forty eight and six-tenths degrees lielow zero Centigrade. Sixtv-throe difloreut Cyprus wiaes are on exhibition at Bordeaux, tue own ers of Cypress vineyards believing that in consequence ot the phylloxera iu France, tue time has come for them b put their products into thj world's mar ket ' Nearly half of the samples are rough, cheap stuff, wilh a flavor of tar from the jars and gtiat skins in which they are transported ; but it does very wed lor mixing with light French wine, and might be greatly improved by clean . r pnveesettot manufacture. The price averic-s 25 cteuts a llou. " IS t'-i
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