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pF.SCPlWEIER,
THE COJfSTITTITIOI-THB UHIOH A5D .THE EUTOBOEMEHT OP THE LAWS.
Editor and Proprietor.
XXXVI.
MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA , WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 20. 1S82.
NO. 51
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swei'' i " r:.Ji- lav.
f ofca !:avf s.inj togettKT,
'Uc iier -irn- the 'sen a,vay.
Tiei.c ; .n tae ju-turo
imU g-.ta-.i' live ';
2e rut .i::.t rt-i a c.ut-n h.in !fu:,
Mussf utrt lle liars.
n - Si? 'j car fr-.sn hit iortb.a.1
' An. .:e I'-'-iiit "P iis wav;
ox litre .s my s iu-t.'iiiH-t, ni'nT?
H-. :i.uk;2; f ice all day.
wn f trie meal.-rr,
iv.r I :i-'ir .- ii- ;B?r-?.
Tfljr-c':., r-i- s iri'tie l!ksoui$
ia ::!( ur f 11 y".w.T hair.
K. I.nK-''l li'S UOM lNiK.
Jlr. Laitv'j r.r v. . j f.;t in hid orcharj,
ptkniig i j'U-s f.r ciiVr-iaiikiiig. Tlie
Cerf n.-re ivti;.!r l tl ..va with turi
t,4VT fn:t;it', alK'Mt t':eir sJnri'y
tusk ti.f r'l.wr, uli ilr i'pktl with pink,
. fubl '-a-iuj i'l pvirIo waves.
Jlr. Lari.?;.;n 's crcliiirj was ample1
prcllfi.-: tiiiJs, postures, gar
r. til tlna.? uri luxuriant, his
x:i:'X? pjf.v.f-unis plentifrj enongh.
XcTrili.cit's, Mr. Ijurtptir, though
p-.-se, s a ur.al thinp, to liear a thank
iikrait fiiul a clivt-rt:il countenauce,
a tt tb:s tin t: lift at nil hriglii of
r-afe cr trT f spirit.
kites Lis lii nil lrom a liaif-bushel
ti?Eet of prirntt aiul-KolJ fruit, he
read M.e, U:ml'D groat, iazily-ieauiug
tree tun:.. !iiil acrtS8 a gra.sy lane,
tjej-rittT l.ir -f a eottnge 'ooloLgiiig to
lis Ltsi.st i r iglil or, Mins Kowena
Kvk turk;.1 in ami.Ut sngar-maj It's
tai L-r-li-avtf.l iH.piars like a brown
fliffiiiiU' i?n .p ia firjpy paptT. AnJ
Kx. Lrt;i.tir, tUiiikiiig of Miss liow
ca, fiiiLnL
Yjkj wtro only xeifc'libors, tow.
Inrre liii i iven a time wheu tiny were
pod frit ii.ls r?niarkally good fneudu.
iiui ;L .; w;n !'ore a ctrtuiii olmoxions
Cif'iiiii SnfgH Lad come to Baxter'
Cn-fsi; ai!-; in'ft.re Mr. Larkspur had
tiid in.ki.i.l ihiiij;s ou Lis account to
iLss l! t iia, and sue Had FaiJ unkind
linr.s t Liu.; before their crowning
bsCic. wi.urcdu he had biitfrly olwerved
thit si e was ratcer more of a eoiruette
titu Ik C: mo Lcr tpuM. aiul nh linl
IfiOltt.i, Will UiiTtT
u a. yeirs wtfe conccrneil,
toAiij not cml a ketJe lilact.
Aid from that point matte; s had stood
et.fi; still until tbe previous Sunday at
cbnrcli from which time air. .Larkspur
litii to think he had some reason for
re-rf'.u g that Miss Rowciia. was repent
fcg of h r fully and obstinacy. He
gi;L-re-.l ti.e nlea from triiles a half
glaive, ouickly withdrawn; a faint,
ptai-ii lliotuy bhish; and, now he came
u tUiuk of it, the had iiitgurtd a little
just ont.-iJe the gate alter nieelinjr,
tt-re h-.- mit'Lt ex-iiy hava joined her,
tesUe, p'.'ihnjis, wLshrd to give him the
ojiiHjrtiiiiity of domg.
He r'.'t'rvtted now thnt he h:vl not
done so, instead of poking oil with Mrs.
bea,a Cotiouvrood, and listening to
tlie uiiere;ii.g liintt rv of the deacon's
fiTe ":,;Ls."
Mr. Larksjur sight: J again as hi-j eye
I'jamtJ it r Miss Kuwena'a j-reity Uo
im'iii and down to htr i.lackbcrry patch
just tht: uiiier .side of tlie Uue a thicket
of tatgi. rl, trailing bushes, with tufta
uf wiui, rank-growing grass waving
hik, liv- i;,;uii; and thf-re it rested,
fur Uiere lie U-ueld Miss 11 wia's piuk-giiig-iiiia
Mi'i oounet just above a felith
m buiii U of gr.L-,, looking like a big
I'ink llov.t r growing there.
It wcul.iu t tie very bard to step across
the late ai. j speak to her. There was
Bon.-e ktvpijg np a foolish quarrel;
suMoi e l.a i to six-'rtk Erst, and
Vith.r.t fivirg iiiaiself time to back
duiru fruia Ins puriose, Mr. Larkspur
wjlert tlie feucj and -rossed the lane.
He was half liiciin d to ran away again
litu Le git r.iLhia siskins: distance;
f -T vrlit if iie had taiiea iresh off ense
t ha h.tvmg ift slip the opportunity of
l-alcng up she had given liiin, and scorn
ids tartly overtures ?
H'jwever, he encouraged himself by
6ckcti!ig a iKs-ition where a flourishing
ild Kr.HH.viue, tlauilK'ring into a hick
wy s.ij.im at the edge of the tiehl,
u.'a s.-r. eu him a little, and break the
fnrceof ."f iri fui looks and sharp words,
Sacuiii en 'ii be his portion.
Eis L.. :u t jolted up and down ner
T,jniy at sight of that luuet, with its
ceepcape and tail trill, and of the light
kieu taeipie Klov.-; evea the well
known .tnped cuheo apron dimly seen
audi rthe ikot ipiiiggr. Psaiid vm.s-sprays.
'i'ue bi.ct ot tae bonnet was toward
"I2', and a tin bucket ftxl cltse be
Je htr, haif-fu'd of the imrjile-ripe
herrles.
"A m e afterntion. Miss Ena," s;ud
Jr. Larkspar, experimeut.iily.
Hut Ml-s lin eua was either too deep
ly absoriuj to hear, or was ut prepar
ed to na et any advancf-a, for the snn
wniitt gave uo sign of turning in his
direction, jjut determined not to be
t"i ea;!y ilitoitrasc' l, now that he had
Hade a lx-0iun:i!g, Mr. Larkspur brave
ly elt vtp'i lus vjiee and proceeded.
' II;.-'! t smart ol blaekixrries this
Jcj. aia t there ?"
Stili no word, and only a tlight nod
cf tae b timet rewarded Lim.
"Sulky," sid lr. L irkspur to him
Wf. Sae's mikl a'out Suaday. Be-i
as 1 Was to idaite then, I'll go ahead.
Iv.M.ssU., r
A yrj l .iut motitm of the bonnet,
e used to be r--o.t friends, di-iu't
e, 11, r b
htlle droop of the boauet,
"Ana there ain't uo.us.e of our f as&ing
U(, is there V"
faiBiovahle grimness on t'ao part of
the bonnet.
"I say, there r persisted Mr. Lark
pnr. Still no response from tli-a bonuet.
"Em," desiierateiv, "s;eak say
thL;g, can't you i if it's only to
scold r
Xo effect whatever on the bonnet.
A wagon came rumbling up the lane.
"I'll not stay here like a fool bo longer!
Som. Animal Storlen.
vowed Mr. Larkspur. "Oood-bT, Miss
Bo and it's for good P
UU one Shi nee at the bonnet, which I - -T . i - : ... -i. ..
t, i, . . , , - ... uv n tut, .i a tones auitui
lie tliontMit rirk.1 l.i. 1 bl. ..1 , tl . . . l . .. : 1 1 r i . . .. ....
umiiri j uLiiuiius anu iniiifrs, said tue old man,
away,
"Lf she wants to stay mad now, she
kin stay mad," he declared. "I've did
all I kin."
"Yon ain't got nary grain of sperrit,
Kowena Davis!" asserted Mrs. Levi
Uavis, a stumpy little weman with a
freckled race and a shrill voice. "Why
don't you take Captain Skag and lie
uoub wun it, i:ey j
"Well,
Iroppiug a Nevada naner and retrirdinir
the excuango editor earnestly. "Soma
of 'ein was quite curi'a and interestin,'
"and he lenuetl back in his chair and
joined his finger til meditatively.
"Animals do seme very strange
things," assented the exchange editor.
'Wiiich reminds me of my roan mare,"
continued tbk old man. "I think tliat
j roan mare know- d more n a hired girl.
8'Ud Miss Kowena. iel:liert... S1k Iim.I a ti"l fl.of r.-o.l.-.l tl.a ,..,.i
I t.T i .... .. c . (,.v
, uou i ior seven reasons, one and you oUjht to see t tint mare catch
oem mat ne aiu t asked me. trout.
"bhucks !" said Mrs. jjevi, vigorously
plunging her darning-needle int a pray
yarn sods belonging to her liege.' "Ion
know hit's only a queshuu of time
might as well make np your mind; vou
know vou like him."
. "res," admitted liiwena, with little
sigh, "I like him well enough, but "
"I believe you're a-piuiu' for that
owdaclous Lirkupur," observed her
s.sier-iu-iaw. Bliarpiy. "1 knowed it
I saved you iiedn't no sperrit I Won't
do you no good noway. He won't nevt r
come ronnd. Kf ho wanttd to mak.i
up, why didn't he make up when he
hed a cliauce ?"
Miss Iloweua turned . lo Hie window
with scarlet cheeks. Why did ho not,
indted?
"He jest showed, a Sunday, he tli-lu't
keer a cent wheMur he seen V(.u or not.'
The color deefeued ia Kjweua's
cheeks. N'otwitltimding htr sister-in-law's
assertion, she did h ive spirit too
much when it got the better of her
principle and heart ; as it wi.uld now
and then; and Mrs. Levi was purposely
taking the surest course to excite it t"
a high pitch.
. "You're jest a tlxin' to he ail old maiii
all your life," continued the little wo
man. "The captain aia't agoiu'tostiek
to yon always, neither, of you don't let
him think ouM hev tiiui. "He'll tinrry
Jinny Tucket yet, efyou ain't keeiful
She's willm' enougn. I reckon Lark
spur must lo goiu' to sec that gal thtt's
a-stayia' at Deacon Cotton wihkI's; that's
why he went home with Mrs. Cotton
wood from church. Anyhow, he couldn't
help seein how you waited for him, aa'
as long's he didn't try to make it np
then, when do you reckon he will ?
Never ! That's wht I say, au' you'll be
left. Captain Skasg-s, he thinks a heap
of you now, but ef "
"Oh," cried Itiwena, desperately,
"do stop, Sophy ! If Captain bksggs
should a&k me to marry hiui before .Ml.
Larkspur tpeaks to me
ttitlnie . r.ar.
'Would j'ou liev hiai !" asked Mrs.
Davis, eagerly.
'I 1 almost believe I would, "Jjlter
ed 11 twena.
"Croose if you didn t !" said Mrs. L.-i,
tersely.
Mr. Larks-pnr st Jodbesi le his mead w
bars, seiitimdntally out t f temper. M s
lio Tena's snubs of the day before had
tilled hi-n witu anger and sorrow. He
frowned and sighed alU raately. liaising
his eyes to the chocolate-drop cottag-,-beyoud
the lane, ho saw Mhs Boweua
among the noil v bocks in the baok yard,
feeding her chickens, with a blue veil
tied over her head ; and ho knew just
how the little flax-brown w ives of her
hair rippled up under its rim in their
own sweet, odd fashion, until her face
seemed set in a blue-aud-gold frame.
The next moment he s.-owled. Tiu
swinging form of Captaiu Skaters s
coming rapidly up the laue. He odd
not appear to see Miss Itowena ; ln
eyes were fixed ou the black-berry patch,
and be was making directly toward it.
Mr. Larkspur's eyes involuntarily fol
lowed, and then he gave asuudeu jump,
and rubbed them, and then he climbed
upou a bar to S"rntinizj theljeny-paich
more closelv.
There was Mh Koweua'spink bounet
stall, the cape rlutterkig in the morning
air; there was her linen scque, aud oe
side her the tin bucket reflecting the
sua in rrleauiins whita ring from its
edge all jiist as it had been yesterday.
He looked across at the tigure aiaong
the hollyhocks. That was Miss Kw-
eua. btyoad a doubt. A sudden im
pulse, aud an equally tuddeu spring,
sent Mr. L-rkspur over the bars, aud
across the lane, aud up the i o clock
bordared walk through -Utis Laweuu s
yard.
It was liowena among tiiei-oiiyaocts;
her gentle, wondering brown eyes were
turned directly toward him, while the
rosMK)lor crept itito the lace iu the blue-and-gold
lruiue.
Ilua," cned .Vr. Larkspur, "it wasn i
you in the blackberries yesterday that
sBiibbed and sulked at me, was it ?"
liowena turnetl her eyes toward the
pink bonnet, for whose benefit Captain
Skaggs appeared to be indulging in
much eloquence of speech and gestura,
while the provoking thing nodded and
drooied as it had when Mr. Larkspur
talked to it, turned them back toward
Mr. Larkspur, and a npple of langht-jr
startled the bees iu Ihe hollyhocks.
"It's only my bonnet anil sacque !"
she said. "Sophy fixed them up there
yesterday, to look like me, so the boys
wouldn't get all the berries while we
were away, and I supitotsa she foigot to
take them away this morning. Sue set
the bucket of berries alongside as an
extra bit of strategy. That's ail."
Captaiu Skaggs soon discovered his
mistake, and started to the house, but
perceiving a pair of radiant, unmistaka
ble lover among the Hollynocks,
changed his mind, and went home.
he
The
n'lootinnr season in the queen s
nrcrrrf was opeued t'T tue 1 mice oi
ales aud Trine Christian, who shot
throngh some ot the covers ia the Cron
bourue portion of Windsor Great Talk.
'I lie rain fell iu torrents throughout thj
dav, but a very large bag was obtained,
as" the whole f tae park is literally
swarming with gime, and it would
well bear a great deal mare shooting
than ever takes place in it, for except on
the days (half a doz n, perhaps, in the
season) when the Prince of "Wales and
the dukes of E liuburgh and Counanght
I ,f Prince Christian has the wnoH
! domain to himself, one of tlie privileges
of the ranger Ix-mg tue enure cuu ii
of the park sporting, while a tother is
the right to pasturage for a very large
number of horsea and cattle, lue
whole of tho game shot here is givjn
away to friends, or to the hospital,
except what is required by the f-ports-meu
for their own us, or what is re
quisitioned by the castle. There is a
loiur list of persons who regularly re
ceive gifts of game in rotation .from .the
nark, and another list of people entitled
lo yeiiisou. Windsor supplies every
thing in this line, as very little shooting
take! place in the excellent covers a
Osborne, which are understood to be at
the disposal of Mr. John Brown.
"How .tid she do it?" asked the
change editor brightening up.
"Well, sir, she'd back up to a stream
aud dip her tad in tho water, and out
t hey'd c me. Sometimes the air would
jesi be full o trout, and the old mare a
tishin' and that tail tlyiu around landin'
the i iggest hsh ever seen. Oh, she
was old Sagacity. Once a man tood
watchiu' her au-i dotlgin' the fish, and
ail oi a Hiitidint he referred to oue as a
speckled beauty. That roan mare just
turned about and kicked his brains out.'
''.Served him right!" commented the
cxt-Lauge editor energetically.
Hut she died," sighed the old man.
"How did that happen?"
"The trout fixed it up on her. One
dsy ab;nt a gross ol tu got hold of her
tail to once hud hauled her in She
made it pretty livjly for Yni and when
bhe went under a good many fish camo
to the surface laughing!"
"That's pretty strong,'" concede 1 the
exchange editor. -
"Speaking of strength reminds me
ef how my old bnndic cat us.d toopen
claaiH. She'd sit around aud howl until
the clam opened his shell to throw au
old boot at her, and then she'd stick in
her claw and tickle tlie sole of his feet
till Le got to sleep, aud then she had
him. Ciam.s is a very sagacious bird,
too. Ever watch One'-1"
"Not until he was cooked," sighed
the exchange editor.
"I had one that was right up ou him
self. 'I he llies and mosquitoes used to
bother him w lieu he opened his shell,
until he caught a spider and made him
weave a web across his month, and then
he was happy. Curi's thing about the
clam. After that he used to open him
self iu the back to feed; opened ou the
hinge end so "a not to disturb the spider
My darter claimed that he was a young
ft male and hooked up behind, but we
all kuoVJ better."
"C m yon show theciain now ?" groan
ed the exchange editor.
"No, sir," replied the old man sol
emnly.
"He came to grief too. You see that
eiain was very foud of rats, and he used
to i-it in front of a rat hole all dny long,
aud smell like cheese. We never could
get on how he did it, but Le did. That
was his sagacity. When the rats came
oat he'd go for 'em, and I've seen him
get eighty to a hundred a day. Ouc
iliiy he nipped a stager, and Urut was
the lost of him." i
"Make it short." muttered the ex-cha-(e
editor. J "
"Yts, sir. Well he got the rat by the
tail, and the rat just climbed over and
tickled him on the other end. He opened
and caught the rat's foot, but of course
he lost his grip oa the taiL The rat
U-giu to scratch him pretty badly un
til the clam opened and took in another
f.wt, Li tide way the rat got all four
feet inside the shell."
"Weil what then? "
"The rest wasn't very hard. The
rat sprawled around until he got his
head and body in. Then he had him?"
"I don't see how," remonstrated the
exchange editor.
"Just ht re; there wasn't room for 'em
both ia the shell, and the clam had to
get out, and out He came."
"Where did he g?" inquired the ex-clia!-g3
editor.
"1 don't know," answered t he old
man, impressively.
Captain Johu M. Bowman and Dr. 33,
L. Laugton, two well-known sportsmen
of Muncy, have just returned from
week's hunting in the wilds of Sallivaa
county, Pa., aud ther relate some
thrilling adventures while iu that region.
They established their headquarters in
the cttrtr.e of Captaiu Bowman, at
Lewis Lake, and cro.iua that body of
ah r to the mountaiu.ou the oth; r side
commenced operation, iue trophies
of the first day resu'ted in tho kiliiog
of oue deer, two foxes aud a jiorcupine.
1 he second day they were nt so lucky,
but thev discovered fresh bear tracks
lea-ling in the direction of the nearest
settlements, and they resolved on cap-
tunug brum,
Judging from the tracks the bear was
of great size, and extreme caution was
necessarr to get near enough for a shot.
The captain carried a. silver-mounted
Uciidngtou that never ruisstd fire, and
the doctor was armed with a double-
lmrrelled shotgun, a hatchet and au
Iudiau pipe, obtained from a Sioux
chief wiieu residuig in Iowa. They
failed to find the bear that day, not
withstanding the most careful search.
On the third day, however, ttuy were
mora fortunate. The doctor h.ul be
come separated from the captain, and
while he was in the act of clamberiug
ovtr tlie trunk ol a fallen hemlock iu a
laurel thicket he was startled by a fierce
growl, and ou pausing to reconnoitre he
discovered the bear aitting on its
hiiuuehes iu the bushes watcing him.
He acknowledges that he was startled
by the mouster, which was of enormous
sizo and evidenty not dispVsed to retreat.
What to do he did not know. He
dared not use his shotguu on the beast
and the captain was not in hailing dis
tance with his rifle. As he stood delil-
e rating the bear made a moveuic :t
toward him, evidently bent on mischief,
its eyes were herv aud it displaved a
double row of savaijc-lookinsr teeth.
The doctor says he ft It like repeating
tho Lord's Prayer right then and the-e.
Hut there was no time for worship in
tlie wilderness, as the bear was moving
upou him in force. He iustiuetively
raised Lis gun and let drive with oue
barrel, the contents of which went
crashing into the bear's ear. This en
raged the brute and, rising on its hind
legs, it rushed upon the doctor, who
emptied the contents of the other barrcL
In a moment the savage beast, smarting
with pain, was close upon him and he
could feel its hot breath on his face as
it grappled him. He clubbed it with
his shotgun, but as the weapon de-
sccuded the bear warded otf the blow
with his right paw and sent the gun spin
ning through the air.
Matters now became desperate. Tlie
loctor found himself in the grasp of the
beast, but he retained sulficieut self
itossessioii of mind to resj've t j sell his !
life dearly. Grasping his hatchet. I
which was heavy r.ud sharp, he rained
blows ou the head of the monster.
Olilo'a Oldact Man.
Sa nuei de Champlain was the "Fattier
of tew France, or Canada, by gaining
ana ko ping a lootuoid near the SU Ltw
reuce and in 1808 ia laying the foundation
of tiitbec. He was followed by ndssioa
aries, one of whose servants ws Jean
Baptists fleveur, who died near Lake
Chamrt'aio about 1655. His great erand-
sod, Peter lieveur, was t-j engineer in
the French forces in Atnenca and of the
tbe party that built the sixty torts from
the mouth of tue Si. biwrecce to that of
tue Mississippi about 1725, and which in
eluded Detroit. The name of Louisiana
was eirly given that vast realm, c'ai'ned
by France, between the Alleghany and
ltocKy 31 (untaias. When the Kin? of
France had domiuion in North America,
all the domain northwest of the river Ohio
was included la the province of Louisiana,
the north boundary of which, by the
treaty of Utrecht, concluded between
France and E iglaud in 1711. was fixed at
tbe forty-ninth parallel of latitude north
ot tho iquator. After the conquest of the
r reucu possessions in America by Great
Britain this tract was ceded bv France to
to the English, by the treaty of Paris, in
:.
Pettr Esveur had a son. Jean IUveur,
wao became a trapper and hunter, and
nismeu in Ik 6 a woman of French
lndiac extraction attached iu domestic
service to the British zarrisoa at Detroit.
Jean was away niitst of the time hunting
and trailing with the Indians, but his wife
remained at her old place at the fort in
which her sou Joseph Rcvcur (now aoirli-
cized into Ilevore) was barn July -1, 1777.
one hundied and six ye org ago. The babe
grew us into a hearty lad and learned the
trade cf a baker frjin the British baker of
the post. By the treaty ot peace signed
at Paris September 3, 17S3, the cliuu of
the Englitu monarch to the northwest
termnrv, lncmdtrg De'roit, ceased. Jos
eph Uevore piled his trade of a baker at
Duiroit aud other covcramcnt military
posts ou the KUes until the outbreak of
ihc war of lili. The Indian allies of
the French did not at once accept the
peace of 17So, aud Poutiac, the great Ot
tawa Chief, iuccLsed at the transfer of his
lauds from one Eurr p iau power to another,
st irred up a great com piracy of the tribes
f toe lakes tor the destruction of all the
British ira-risons. Detrjit endured an
eight months' scige, but was siv-jd by a
liaif-Drecd Ind an girl, the little sister of
J-jseph Kevort's mother, who revealed the
pi it ia time. Peter Keveur, the grand
father of Joseph Kcvore, was a lieutenant
of the French forces under Montcalm and
wes killed wittt hii c ommiader at Q iebec
n lio'J. Jean, the father of Joseph Ke-
venr (or Uevore, as now Epelled), adhered
to trx.- British iu the Ite volution, but ren
dered no special services beyond those of
scout and pilot near the groat lake. He
lied near where Chicago is in lbuj, aced
scveaty yeirs, and was with the Indians
and their British allicj whn defeated by
General Mid Anthony Wayne, at FaUen
Timbers, August 2J, ll'H.
Joseph ii.-vore, in the war of 181:3,
jiii'.d the American foroes and was with
Ui.cral Hull when be ignobly surrendered
-lllcitarl Angtttn uitl Jullnm 11.
l'leadlns Lucy.
One evening waen Lucy s papa had
come h jine from the Office and eaten his
supper he went into tbe parlor and planted
himself on the eofs. After he had been
there a little while he noticed that Lucy
did not come in and make a break at the
piano, as was her custom. This puzzled
the old gentleman greatly, but he was
very ba;py, because the parents of girls
who play the piano usually feel like tak
ing an axe to that Instrument. But pretty
soon Lucy entered the room and began
tel'ing ber papa how much be loved him
and how dark and cheerlet her life would
be in ca-e he should be called above.
Tins sort of talk made her father feel
rather solemn, for he bad been to the races
a good deal and would occasionally go out
with the boys, and when a man gets on
the shady side of fifty he doesn't particu
larly care to have people lug the "sweet
ii and By" into their conversation. But
pretty soon Lucy placed her. hlly-white
haud ou ber papa's brow and began to
smooth bis buir, saying how glad it would
nuke her if she could only smooth the
furrows of care that time had placed
there. Then she anfuliy shifted the sub
ject, ami spoke of how cold the weather
was getting and what lovely sealskin
snques she had seen m the store windows
down town that afternoon.
Then her father sw what she was up
to and dropped on himself. So, by the
time Lucy got around to that pari of her
talk where tc puttier arms around his
neck and kissed hnn and asked htm to buy
her a salkin, he hail neatly arranged his
lie. He told her of how pocr the crops
had liecu, and that trade was In a very
dull state because ot th uncertainty as to
whatotH Ben Batkr would want n .xt,
aad sung such a son that Lucy begin to
think she was lucky to have a place to
sleep in and a pair of heavy shoe for the
winter.
"Nimy child," he said, " I cannot
think of spending $300 fer a stalskin
s-tq-ie whtn "tunes are so bard.' And Lucy
sa d she was sorry she had uientioned the
su'jject, aud wmt away feeling quite sorry
for her pap v.
s?oon after she had left the room her big
bro her came in. " 1 saw that uorse you
were tilking aTout," be said to his papa.
' Did you ?" atk d the old Rent!etuau.
How fast can he go?"
" Two-thirty." replied the big brother,
"and $1,000 wiil buy him,"
Kisiae ouickly from the sofa. Lucy's
nana wrote a check anl handed it to lus
on. 'Hio and close the trade to-night,
he sai'L 'and to-morrow afternoon 1 will
make some of these peop;e 1 1st think they
own trotters look like hired men."
So you see, children, that some papas
think more of beatinir two-forty than they
do of making an on!y daughter happy.
Hurbert EL Bancroft, of San Fran
cisco, the historian of the Pacific coast,
: owe a library of 3i,000 volumes.
If it ior tli. liable.
Giits nude to tho babv, who is vet
too youug to appreciate tokens of af
fectionate regard, are of course wel
comed by tue mother. Simple and in
expensive gifts of this sort are the littlo
bibs of ficece-liued pique. The edges
may be buttonholed iu sc illops. with
white or with the scarlet or blue work
ing cotton, which is warranted not to
fade, aud which really will not do so;
or very pretty ones are made of tines
muslin, two thicknesses, with a thiu
laver of cotton between : titult these iu
small squares or diamonds ; in the cen
tre leave a space large euongh so that if
you choose you can embroider the word
baby, or the initial of a name, or a
flower. The edge may be scalloped Ju
buttonhole stitch, or a durable edgii g
may be sewed ou. The daintiest socks
now made are of silk, knit just as the
little worsted ones are; thev are not so
serviceable for cold weather as the
worsted ones, but lo adoru a babv-bas-
det no pret'ier object can be devised ;
a little very soft cotton shonld be stuf
fed in them, so that they will stand up
right, but do not let it show at the tp,
or above where the tassels are tied. A
lovely blanket is made of soit white
flannel, with a narrow hem, to which is
sewed an edge kiat out of split zephyr.
In each corner of tbe blauket some fig
ure is embroidered in the delicate out
line stitch ; it is a pretty fancy, in two
corners, in solt-blue siik, to work fig
ures of the Kate Greeuaway style and
in the other two put Rprays" of flowers.
Make use of one color only iu the em
broidery and trimming of the blanket.
Coming Oar. -
Dr. Kaughtou. a well-known sago of
Dublin, au enthusiastic lover of utimais
and keenly interested in zological mat
ters there, lately invited a London wit
to breakfast wiiti him ut the Zoological
Gardens in company with a few kinilred
spirits. ' As soon as the wit appeared
he was called on for a happy thought,
and promised that if one occurred to him
he would give it fortn. Dr. Hangnton
was speaking of the difli?ulty of koej
ing up the funds of the society six,
leuce hud been charged at the gates-
and twopence, but it was hard to get
suflicent money in.' "A happy thought I"
cned his guest, "Throw open the doors
and let the peo.de in gratis. Then close
the gates aud open tlie other gates the
doors of the beasts' cages. Finally,
charge the people coming out!
ga'iaat Colonel Lewis Cass break his
swoid. rather than deliver it np to the
Crr.h crmaantler. During Jhi war he
was at Fort Meigs, Maiden and on the
river U lisin. The exploit cf that war in
which this aged veteran takes tbe most
pride was his participation in Harrison's
victory over the alliel British and I-utlians
under Procter and Tccumseh, on the liver
Thames, where not tea feet a '-ray he saw
Colonel Richard M. Johnson shoot Tecum-
Evcry cut went to the skull of the ani- j his army, the Detroit post and ail Michi
mal. and as it reached witu its powerful i !(ari to the British. He witnessed the
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i arms 10 embrace mm ne sunk the wea
pon iu its llish to the hilt. , This seemed
to disconcert the beast for a moment,
but it soon rallied and, grappling the
bold hunter, prepared to give him the
death-hug. Just as it was drawing him
into close quarters Ciptain Bowman,
who had heard the shots, appeared on
the scene, aud, taking in the situation
at glance, sent a bullet crashing through
the head of tiie bear and his comrade
was saved.
Ou releasing himself from tho arms
of the animal the doctor found that he
had sustained but trilling damiige, but
he regarded his escape from a horrible
death as remarkable. Being a dentist
ho said he could not help admiring its
beautiful white teeth as it came at him
with distended ja-vs. His guu was
found twenty feet away, with bent bar
rels, aud his beautiful Iudiau ips was
badly broken. They succeeded in
dressing the animal and getting the
carcass to the cottage, which they found
to weigh three hiiudred and forty
pounds. Captain Bowman says he
considered his fiieud beyond salvation
when he discovered him in tho embrace
of the beast, aud it was only by a lucky
shot that lie saved him irom a horrible
death.
Immediately after this interval of
painting occurred that encounter of two
of the most notable men of their time
which gives a striking and Lnniorous
page to tha history of ari. Julius II,
probebly some years after his accession
to tha Papacy, took the great sca'ptor
whose temper and character were not un
like Lis own, into Lis employment, in
order that he might glorify hiuiseif
with a tomb worthy lus own estimate
of his greatness a most wise precantiou
for all who share the impulse of posthu
mous vaaity. The Pope and the artist
were a fit pair to meet iu that great old
Rome, so full of momorias; and the
warlike narrative, of their friendship
and quarrels, hot oa b.-tu sides, yet on
neither without a mixture of genuine
regard and liking, is fall of iuterest and
character. Its beiriuniujr. however, was
not of an agreeable kin.L Excited by
hopes of a splendid work, "not less
honorable to himself than to Pope
Julius, Michael Aagelo had first to
betake himself for eight dreary proba
tionary montlis to tha marble country
of Carrara to choose the blocks for hi.
statues, and to get thorn painfully con
veyed to the sea, to be s?nt off to Home.
In this exile, dnnug which it is easy to
imagine the eager anticipation of the
great scnlp'or, lielii, as it were, in the
leash, and nuable to get to work, though
with such wealth of v.'rgiu miderial
round I fin. he had hard ado. Vasari
tells us. to keep himielf from striking
out, with those fiery vehement strokes
f his, some hngi? abozzo in the white
rocki of a cave, as a memorial of hi w-
selt and his wary vigil. What pil
grimages we should all have made to
that powdery waste had ho left some
such Viist mysterious image as the un
completed "Day" of San Lorenzo to
keep the world iu mind of the long
days ha passed there among the rouh
mnrole of thosa p-ecious caverns. The
blocks which he seut to Rome half
filled t'ae piaz.i of St. Pictro; and as
soon as the artist was released from the
lalior cf collecting them, he rushed at
his more congenial work con grand'
duhiv). Sach was th j eagerness of both
artist and patrou that a communication,
"a bridje," as Vasari calls it, was ma le
between the Vatic iu an 1 tj -it shed
Lathe piazzi whi-rh In t ojji erected
over the sculptor aa 1 til . marble which
ho attacked ia a sacred fury of creation.
It is not dilli.inlt to iu lerstaud Low the
perpetual intrusion at any moment,
howt-vor critical, of such a visitor as
the fiery tld Pope, with the license
of age added to that of absolute power,
inquiring, criticising, praising and
blaming with more zeal than knowl
edge, moat Lave gone far to drive the
j equally fiery yonug sculptor half fran
i tic bv times, wheu he had tosaspond
his chisel, and subdue hus furia, and
listen to all his Holiness might choose
to say. Terhaps pu impatient word
buratuig from him at some especiaily
A t-elilc Jt.rst.iy.
NEWS IN BlilEF.
sen. At the close of the war he remained i un propitious visn, win au nettled J niius;
in tbe neigkliorhood of Fort Meigs work- j but at all events, when a new arrival of
iugf.r a Mr. Mclutosh iu a tavern and marble, from Carrara made it necessary
then for a Mr Forsyth, who kept a store. f ,r ,le t) t m frjm tbe
i nally he drifted to Pittsburg, where he i T, , ' ,. , s .
married and where he kept a barber shop 1 l,e Uls .n h7 could
and bakery combined. not 800 I'im. This was repeated two
In bis young days he was a famous or three times, at fir to his surprise,
athlete and boxer, and even after be was aud aft, rward to the furious iudiua
fltty years old he could throw any man iu J tioa o Michilel A j b fc;
Pdtshnrg or that region. His tour ctnl-1 , , . ' .
dren having died, he came down the Ohio ! self M re lt anJ "dependent as cither
river with his wife, and alout 150 settled j Prince or Foto. "You dout know who
in Felicity, where fr many years he fol-jit is to whom yourefu.se admittance,"
lowed his trade of a baker. H;re, during , a wonderinar bv-stander said at last in
lue laiu war, 1:1s wiie uieu auu iue oiu
man was lelt without a known relative
in the wide world. Finally time mads its
cruel advances on him, his infirmities in
creased and two or three years ago he
came to the County Infirmary. Here your
reporter found him propped tip in his bed,
and after an interview with htm gleaned
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tue tuiuiLiiji: unto. fin mwu ukh wc- i ' m
vond the ereal river, aad not inauv days house, where he gave his
will ensue ere this aged warrior will have
finished the good fight and gone to retlms
ncRaown.
What the Lortl Counlu'l. Uu,
Lis hearing to the lackey who shut him
oat. "I know him very well, but I am
here to obey my orders," said the man.
Michael Angeio turned away, breathing
fire aud flame, and bidding the lackey
tell the Pops thf.t if Le wanted him he
must send for him, went off to his
house, where he gave his servants
orders to sell evorytiiiag to the Jews,'
and left Rome instantly, riding all
tiirough the night iu hot haste, and
never drawing bridle till he reached
Tuscan soiL As it proved, he had taken
j the only wise conrse; for he had scarcely
reached Poggibonsi, on the Florentine
Here is an old anecdote, very faiaili-tr
many years ago, and old enough to ue
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uew to xuauy oi tins Keueiuttvii, nuitu i , ,
was a retrnlar Thanksgiving night i ..4iitviuiini
stand-by. No gathering about the tire
ever separated without its being tol.l.
It rau somethiug in this way; A new
arrived oue after tha other, with letters
from Julius recalling Lira. But the
sculptor was no less proud than the Poj;
railway had been openeu ttirougu a all the mcssCr-trs could tret from him
bleak aud unsettled section ot country, , - , , . , ., .
and hail been in operation oily a short!"" ? " Puiij in-
time when a heavy snow begau falling I formm.a! . nhucs3 u was im
an.l noon ronmletelv blockaded the PwtWe for him who had been "cftc-
road, stopping tue train with its single
cwrro fieoiiir, un trinto, to go back
again; after which he made his wav to
Florence, settling down in his old quar
ters, it would seam with ail tan ha.igLty
sadness of au injured man.
T-itt l-ixrii- e.
passenger car far from any place ot
habitation. There wire a dozen trav
elers, but as the prosiect of relief within
a few hours was good they were taking
the unpleasant situation calndy,. Among
them was a tall, lank, lav-preacher,
wuubu couuLCliauee was euieiij iemuiia-, T .
ble for a pretcmaturully large mouth. ' I was a young man. said a i
Soon after the train came to a standstill 'a wyer, " spe" several years iu
he ar.e at the forward end of the car, the south, residing for a time at Port
ttnd with his blindest professional I Gibson on the Mississippi river. A
smile began: "Now, brethren and sis- -.TC?t deal of litirration was trom? on
tew, we've got to stay here shut up i , , t tu t; fl .
together for an hour mt two, so let us ; , ' , .
make the best of it. I say brethren "J3 J to obLua. a jury,
and sisters because we are ail brethren One d;-y I was summoned to act injthat
and sisters ain't that so? Of course capacity, and repaired to court to get
we are. Now les have a little txpe- j excused. On my name being called,
rieuce meeting here. Why not? We j nlutwcd Lis honor thejaJge that I
an iuvo Lilt; jLioru, uuu wu 1 1 1? a.t
believe Ho knows best what is
don't we? Of course we do.
les talk about him a littlo. To becin hotel. I presuiu -, said the ridge. "I
with, we all believe there's nothing the j take my me ils there, but have . rooms
Lord couldn't do if he wanted to we nt aether part of the town, where I
au oeneve uiai. uou i wer At tuio
1 We all I
i good for was nc' freehclder, and therefore not
o. Well, (qualified to serve." "You board at the
point a t:reen-looki;!g countryman, who I
lotlg.-." "So you keep bachelor's hall?'
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lin.1 bo at.-hm7 tho rn-i i n? six ftker 'u "'
with close intea-st, startled him by say-, hi that maujer?" - "About six montt-s."
ing: "Wall, now, I dunao 'bout that. "I tlunk you are qnalifiotl." grave y
I thtrk I know oue thing the Lord ; remarked t!7e j idgo, "for I have never
couldn't do." "Oh! do yon?" exclaimed jknowa a man to keep bachelor's had
the preacher with great delight. "Do , fae length of time you name w ho had
you indeed! Wed, let us hear it. cot (jjj-t enough m his room to make
Speak up loud, aud let us all hear what Ejm 4 freeholder. The court does not
it is the Lord couldn't do?" "Wall," j excuse yon."
said the conntrvman, with great delibe- i " . , ,
ration. "He conldu't ha' made you: I ft Ig reported that Mt. Weriiermaii h.is
mouth any bigger onles he'd ha' sot succeeded in dispensing with the vc ium
your ears back!'' That ended the con- j in incandescent elxtric lamps by using
ferenoe meeting. ; crystalline eil:eo 1 iu place ot carooi. la-3
m mm i silicon can t fused into bars wbica tin y
Amass Dy the Pope costs 203:and be beatsd to whiteness ia the air wi'dioal
sometunua more.
undergoing any change.
Far away ia the South Pacifio ocean,
stretching from the coast of Asia for
thousands of miles to the ean. tnere ex
tentis a vast series of archipelagijcs and
island groups, partly, without doubt, the
remains of a fewmer continent now sab
merged beneath the waves.
In the far east, forming, as it were, the
outpost of the Stxila Se gtip, is a soli
tary Vi.'lcauic Island called Easter island
It U l,SuO miles east of Pilcairn, the next
island in the series, and, with the ex
ception of tal a y Oomez, a s.nall rock
without inbaliitants cr vegetation, there
is no land between it and South America,
which lies more than 2,000 mil-s to tin-
east. Eas'.er island is only eleven miles
long by four broad ; yet iu this small
space is crowd-d perhai toe most woo
Uerlul and mysterious collection of re
mains of a pre-hist iric peo,ie to be found
on the earth. At the southwest end are
neariy a huadrtd aousfi, built of stone,
with walls live feet in thickness. Ihe
lu-nle ol the w ills is liued with upright
slabs of stone, pain'ed m black, white and
red, with figures of animals and birds,
and with other designs I he houses are
roofed in w.tn overlapping slabs of stone.
In some of the houses numbers of uuivalvt
shells have been found. Near these won-"
derfal ruins tiie rotks are carved into
fantastic hipes or taccs, most of tue
sculptures btiui now almost overgrown
with 'jiuh and unuerwood. The pteseut
inhabitants kmw n-)th ng whatever o!
these h ues which, exrstiag aa thjy do
in such lanre niiuihcrs, seem to point in
evitably to a former race of natives of tai
higher civilization.
:
We can understand that a foraicr race
raay have erected lh-j houses und curved
the sculptures mentioned ati'ive. wondcifu!
as they are co nparcd with the huts of the
exis'irg natives. W cot follows :s however,
more d.fncuSl of explanation ta nearly
every pruinoutory'aie elected hiute stone I 53
pia.ioris, iacing the sea, ana presenting
a froat sometimes of ncar'y three hundred
feet long and from twen'y to thirty feet
h:i;h. Tue stones cojipjsiug these plat
forms are of;eu six leet long, and are fiited
together with ceiucot. lue top of t'je
platform is .m'utral y about thirty fett
ur iad; and the structures being bunt on
sloping ground, the wall facing the interior
of the isiand is oniV about a yard high.
Another terrace, one hundred feet Lroau,
is levelled huidanls, and ends also iu a
wail of stone. On the immense platform
are greet pedestals of stone, on which once
st-d cigsntic statues, which, however,
are now all thrown down and partially
mutilated, with the exctpttou uf thoee on
the piatform near the crater ot U'.ouli,
which are st.ll er;L Some of these im
ages were thirty-seven fc t high, but iht
average height was a'loai sixteen or
seveHeen feet, other statues being much
smaller. The btaus of these sculptured
iuia;es are tint, and were formerly dppeU
by crowLS of red tufa, a stone that i
lound only at a crater railed Terano Hau.
near which have t-ecn funnd a number ot
crowns ready tor removal to the statues.
I'Le l&t.es are square and are said to be ol
a disdainful expression, the Hps thin, an 1
the eye sotkeis remarkably deep, perhaps
to silmit of the ius -rii u of eye-bails o!
e'bsttiiai', whici i a!s foend on the
island.
, Cap'ain Cook, who during his second
voyage v:siud Easier ls'mtl, reiuarks ;ha
the shade of oue cf tliese statues was
tiitficietit to saeiter ad bis party nearly
thirty persons. He believed tl-em to be
burying p'aces foris rt lin tiibesorfa-nilics''
But whatever may have been the original
mtention of the s-uiptors, the preseu
natives can have h id n-iihiugto do wttii
the tX'-cution of these wouderful moau
menu. They itoeaess, however, small
wooden carved figures, but totally ditltr
tnt in features lioii tl.e st ae imaircs.
W e are forced to t;e conclusion that the
houses, platforms and st itues are all relics
of a reunite ae. Tue ri-iives ha-e a tra
dition that tliey f jiaierly migrated to tlien
jircsent aliode from one of the Lsiand3 in
ihe Low Archip layo; but this tlirws
little light on the su' ject. How, ia any
age, could a j e-iple, lurniihed only with a
alone caisel !ir Polynesians are still in
the stone epocu have c-irved such statues
by hundreds and built such enormous
platforms I Anl the dilneulty is im
mensely increased by the small size and
complete isolation of the island. At
present Lasier island rc:nains the greatest
mystery of the Pacific one . of the great
my9ttr:es of the world.
The ruins of Pouape, however, are
scarcely more eaaly explained than those
we nave been describipg. Pouape is one
of the Carol 'ue Islands, and is about fo tr
ice a miles long by twelve ia width. Oa
ihe bank of a creek iu the Metalanien
harbor stands a massive wall three hundred
feet ia leDgth and aoout thirty live feet
high. It is bidit of basalt, the stones
being ia some cacs twenty five feet long.
Un passing through a gateway in this wall
a court, ent-LtfeJ by walla thir'y feet higa.
is reached. This court is now almost
hiddea iu parts by iuxurnat vegetation ;
but on investigation a terrace eiht feet
high and twelve brood is found to run
ronnl the in?ide of the enclosing wall.
Low wa Is running noslii and south divide
tee Cjurt into three puis, in the centre of
each of win eh is a clo.md chamber roofed
over with basaltic columns.
The labor of building these s'ruetures
must have beeu eno.-mous for taere are no
basaltic rocks witliin ten mile, with an
intervening country thickly woo-.iel and
pTceiri'.ous. Such an exhibit is tviJeutly
entirely out ot the power of the present
savso inba'j.taiita. Tbe theory that the
buildings vcre the wort: of Spanish bucca
nit rs is also untenable. Ta ast history
of the S-Ojth Seas is vetl .d in deep ob
Ecurity. Could wo .but giin au insight
into the remote post of this quarter ot tre
glo'ne, perhaps a picture could be reea"cd
by the side ot which the tales ot OK'nte-
ximaaud the Incas of Peru would s;lU
into indgmrieancj.
Mrs. Garfield s new honse iu Cl.ve
land cost 50.000.
Mrs. L rran has ::oiv::ipa'd--d t!,e
Senator to Washington.
The rve crop wiil probably rea.;h
20,000,006 bushels.
A mountain sheep wiliing o;0
pounds was recently ki'hsd iu Arizona.
Many secoud-ratt! Ger.niu towns
have fina coetious of casts.
The yew ia Tortwort'u cunre'uyor.i.
ttiouce3terslure. i.s sw 1 to d.itu btck to
the time of J alius Ciesar.
For i-oacliiiig horses in England
hnnters ifte now beinc ns.L ttv) t.i
j $700 lteiug paiiL
Iu the year 1SS:) ther4 weri pro
duced m Jaan 2iXo,T.'oii 109 gallons of
alcoholic liquors,
Ohio has 2-125 Itnuir estob'.i-h-mei.ts.
with a capital of .s(0J)l,Wd, aud
mplnyii-g 15.000 hands.
It is calculated that to fewtr t'lau
three hntidrcd and sixty uill'erent dia
lects are spoken in China.
Cougre3.-mau-elect Finerty, of Chi
cago, a year or so rgo was a rep. r:er on
the Tim'x of that city.
Forty eight million poumls uf ti
bacco are sniiually coL'suuetl iu Vir
ginia's 172 tobacco factories.
Nebraska doeti not want the women
to vote, and has jiist said s Ly cioie
than twenty tuousaud m:-.j 'nty.
The fierce lii.-ciLssiou m E-ylantl i.i
regard to cremation has ln-onght forth
a great many advoc;tes of t ie practice.
At a recent Vermont squirrel hunt
by two tennis of iu'hteen ni.-a eat-ii of
tne winners counted Id,1 !) to the ! sirs'
5010.
The actual ctii;ige oi the L". S.
mint during the past ti cal y;ir is tho
largest ou record, havi iglen SlK.Sll,-
Stlv(t the rmbluiu.
X man f.-oui Nor'.h Cillenca, Miss.,
Niu'ht a pi.-ce of wild J.tnd near Like
II ckp'Xshee because of a wonderful natu
ral curiosity which tha land agent pointed
out to him. It was s palmetto log wedged
into the branches of a water oak twenty
reel from the grouniL The purchaser
moved upon tue plicc, r ud sr-ent his lime
betwee.t mea's an 1 irrubldcg riots in won
dering at tLe log in the tree. One day
last week hc.sdved the problem. It
rained as it ranis only in the Everglade',
turning a G xd of water from the saw
grass region down into Lite U'.ckpochee,
aud his neuthbora heard him shouting
three miles away. He hallooed all nuhl
long, aud the next morning they went over
in a boat and brought him cut. Hj wai
sitting in the top ot the tree with his feet
in the water, and, with a long pole, was
keeping o3 Uniting tame to logs that
were enilangerin his s-al by wodging
themselves in among the br&ncheJ, Tae
land agent thinks he cm sell the pi icj for
him at a profit when the water goes dowu,
f the flod does n A ram ti.e cunodty.
Of buckwheat, Peii'isy Ivai.hi pr
dnces nearly one-half the !.;ire cr.-p.
The total yield will be over ll,l'pi'jin
Ushels J
A woman iu I'or'.Iail. O is
suing her divorced lrisbttd fr 55 Jo.)
damages ior all-'ge 1 breach '-f promise
of marrlag-o.
Dacks inf.-st Cos 15 iv ia Oregon
by miilioi'f:, and are kiil.-d and eoptured
in every conce'vable m-i:i;i.T by l.i 'ii,
women aad c'uil Ireu.
a he enormous sum oi )2,0 i-),Oo )
jstd iu the 6iilLaariuf e.i'ol 3 of
the world, supposed to aggregate H,
000 miles la length.
England has thirty tit-cc-ie ligi.t
coiajwuies, with a capital of over SI ),
000,000. Nearly as much money is simi
larly invested La Francs
Cheer. rig news from Egypt has had
am irked betufichd effect upon Lady
Wolseley, who has been staying at
Homburg for her health.
Mr. Holman Hunt has now about
finished hist great picture cf "The
Flight iuto Egypt," which was lognn
at Jerusalem six years aro.
Mr. William Wmthrop, t.f Bo-tou.
long United States Consul, in Malta,
has given 5.1000 as a biu.hng iun i to
the M issaehnseits Lu.toiieai ri-jciety.
The public wealth of Great Britain
has mure than doubled iu the last 40
years, showing at presC-hi aa avcr...,c VT
2i'J per inhabitant, agoiust illoS at
tha begianins of the prt-seut rcigrr.
Au Eugli-.ii company otlVr sl.OiK),
01X) fur the privilege of draining Lake
Leman in Switzerland, provided tnev
j can Lave the lain! thus laid bare. They
propose to drain it into the river Ramie
by means of a canal twenty miles long.
Miss Frances E. Willar.l, of Evans
ton, 111., has been rc-eleete.l I'r- .-ideut
of the Woman's National CLri tian
Temiwrauce Union by acclaeaaiiou.
Tiie potato crop covers r.n area iqi
prcachiag 2,000,0(HJ aeres, wivh a yield
of about 80 bushels )er a-Tc. A short
croji is foreshadowed iu New York State.
More than ouc-hiilf of ail the bar
ley produced in t:-e United States is
j raised iu New York, California and Wis
consin, iue average yield is 2,j.. bushels
per acre, and the total product will
reach 45 000.000 bushels.
The Mississippi and its tributaries
constitute the drainage system f a
basia that covets alio-it two-thirds
f tho whole surface of the United
States, or 2,0tM),"0O squirj miles, ami
including the minor basins of 25: israal
ler rivers.
Taking all tho world, the Unltj.l
States iu 1S7S had tho greatest mileage
of railroad iu pro)xrtiou to the ip'ila
tion, having a littlo ovr 21 miies for
each 10,000 persons. In Euroje, Swe
den led with OJ milc3 to every 1;),00 ) t.f
her population.
Iu continuance of a custom whi :u
dates back 250 years, a sermon is
preached ant-ually in the Church of St,
Katharine Cive aud St. Ja nes, London,
to commemorate the escape from a liou
of latir John Mayer, at one time Lord
Mayor of L -ndon.
The fir.-di large iron works ia Oregon
are to.be established at a plaeo called
Oswego, in that State. Exteu .ire
smelting works and ro ling mills will
lie iu operation perii.q s within a year,
if successful, tnis ehterr.rise w ill lit; the
lieginiung d a very imjiortaiituitl lstrial
movement Ln the great Nortuwcst,
India tea Los increasxl in nse in
Great Britain until, iu pla -t; of seven
teen per cent, of tho nation tl sjpply
coming from that cmatry, tiiir'y per
cent, is now exported from India.
Higher qualities of Indian are, it is si.id,
more easily procured thau in the case
of Chinese teas, as ia tho latter country
the best varieties are used at home.
The total stock of gold m t'uj
world in use as coiu or as banking re
serves in one shae or other is estimate.!
at about 380,0 t0,000, o which total Eoj,
land has 12G,0OO,OOOf Frai.ce S13';,IK'o,
OOO, Germany so, 000,000, andthe Uni
ted SUtes 92,000,000. Other nation
come in for shares varying from .-so(),00 :
iatheet o Ho land," to C0,4 m.h'Ki
Spain's.
During the latter part of September,
Captain J. W. Collia,of the United State i
Fish Commission, renewed, w.trio 1; suc
cess.tlie search for tile fish. But the cruise
was rewuded by the discovery of a nev
food fish which miy take the p'ace of the
vanished tiles. The new fish is tlescri'ied
as very beautifuL with a war.n red l t-tor .
and black aud cream colored mottuas.
The speclmeas, a dozen or in ire in num
ber, weighing from one lo fo ur pounds
ejeh, were brought up iu the lralt fro u
a depth of about 120 fathoms in latitude
40 degrees 2 minutes north, longitude 71
decrees 2 minutes west. ihe tisli was
found to be a new member of the family
acorfxtna first described by Jo-dan in
1SS0. Two specimens were cooked an I
pronounced the most delicious of fish, .t'l.
tlh bei'i? arm and cr.sp, with a dehev j
cr&broy fltvor.
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