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B,F. SCHWEIER, ' . THE C0S8TITUTI0I-THE OTIOI-AffD TZE ETTOSOEMEHT OP THE LATB. Editor and Proprietor.
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VOL. XXXVII. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PEXXA.. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 17. 1SS3. NO. 3.
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Ol.n TIM Eh.
There's a neaanful gong on the slumbrous air
Tout clrilli thruuiti the valley of dreams;
It comes fr tio a cilme where the rosea were,
AD'I a itinera: heart, and brijrnt brown hair
Tbat wares In the morning beams.
Soft ejea of azure, an I ejeg of brown.
And saw-whitt foretieacls are ibere.
A glimmering cross anil a guttering crown.
A tDornj bed and a couch of down.
Lost hopes and leaflets of pray r.
A rofrT leaf and a dimpled han't,
A ring a l a p ifrotcd tow ;
Tiiree r!den rings on a broken hand,
A tny track on the t-n iw white eaad,
A tear and sinless brow.
Ttiere'i a tincture of grief In the beautiful snng
That sobs on the su.niner air.
And loneliness fe,t In the fective thronj
Sit Is down in the audi a II trembles ang
from a clinic where the rose-, are.
We heard It Bret at the dawn of dar.
And it minifies with matin cliitiiea;
I'.ut rears hsre itl--tam.l the beautiful lay.
And its luelodr Boweth so swiftly away,
And we call It now "Old Times."
THE lEIFOFIKRiMlH.
It is very Btnuipe, when we come to
tluiik of it, on what small cogs and
piv ts the -wheels of fate ruu, aud what
a slight jnr w ill do towards changing
the whole machinery ami apt it to rim.
liiug in au entirely different direction. I
It was a geranium leaf that altered tl;e
whole course of ray life. But for the
trivial 1 f picked by a yui:g girl iu a
thcopLtliSb mord f bhcu'd not te sit
ting litre to-day in thih pleasant dining
room. w litre the bun cunes in through
the vine-wreathed Trinrfows rnd falls
upon the geianinm pots inside ; and
this littie girl would cot be upon my
knee, i.cr yomhr red-checked midden
cn the veiaielah with young Smithtrs ;
and neither wonld that very handsome
nmtri n who just passed u;to the prxlor
nave been m her present situation.
Ji yon will listen an hour or so,
will tell yon my story. It was past
twenty years ago this summer that I
married Carrie Dean. She was twenty
one and I was twenty-seven both old
econeh to know what we meant and
what we were about at least 1 was.
but Came was such a coquette that I
used to think the had no mind of her
own.
Un, but she wan lovely I All rose
colored and white and brown tressed,
and pearly teethed, with the roundest.
plumpest figure, as gran ful as a fairy
in tvdry movement, ana with beautiful,
shapely hands that were a constant de
light to the eyes.
I was just home from college and she
was on a visit to my stepmother, her
aunt, and my half sister Lilia, and her
cou-in.
I huve f een a good many girls ia my
seven years at college, and some of the
belles of the land ; but I had never yet
had my heart stirred by any woman's
eyes as Carrie Dean stirred it when my
eyes met tiers in greeting ; and the
touch of her f oft fingers completely set
me afloat on tht sea of love.
1 was her slave fioui that hour cot
her clave, either, but her passionate
lover and worship er. And of course
she knew it, and of course, liemg a
finished coquette, she queened it over
me right royally.
Tliere was Fred Town, the country
physician, and Tom D. l:tiu, the hand
some otijff furnier, both as badlv oil
as 1 was ; rud a pietty time we had of it.
Fied and I old ciiunus in forcei
days were at swordj' points now, and
hated each other splendidly for a lew
weel s. And Tom I held in the ntmit
oon tempt, and railed at them both Leu
ever oi ioit unity presented itself, for
Carrie's edification, after the manner
of men, and was repaid by seeing hei
bestotr her sweetest binilea and glances
ui.on them the next tune they met.
Fred drove a splendid t-pau ot bays,
and almost every day they dashed up
the aeuue, ana dashed out a&ain wilh
Miss Carrie's added weight. And Tom
was on hand nearly every evi ning, and
she was just as bwcet to one as the
o'.lier, and just tlio same to me ; and
that, was what maddened me.
I was cot to be satisfied with a
"widow's third" by any means, and 1
told htr so at last, and asked her how
thb matter was to be settled.
"Hove you better than those brain
less fops kr.ow l ovr to love," I said,
hotly ; "and cow decide between us."
Hue liad listened to my love confes
sion with blushing cheeks aud down
cast eyes; but when i eiud this she
turned uehantly on me.
"Ttiey are no more lops than yon
are," sne said, -even if tney have not
sient seveu yeais in college Tuey are
gentlemen and I can't say tuat lor every
man ot my tcfjaaiiitancj."
.nd here she snut tiie door between
us witn a slam and left me to my pleas
ant nieditauons, una half an hour Intel
Iniit her at the gate w ith Fred, going
out lor a ride, liicli was very (grava
twg, 1 must oouIk&s.
i thought over my conduct that night,
and concluded that 1 had been a brute.
Tiie next morning I louud Carrie at the
duong-room winuow alone and bought
her side. tSue had her hand among the
leaves of a sweet-sceuted geranium, anu
just as I approached she plucked a leal
and twined it ami eg her braids, ire
member how bright and green it looked
among the dar. iockn.
Carne," 1 began, "I fear I was very
rude yesterday."
I know you were," sue baid. looking
lcdillcrently out of tue widow.
Tins was a bud beginning, but I went
on :
"Bat, Carrie, I love youso, and when
I see you with that Freu "
But here Miss Carrie turned on her
heel.
"I am not going to listen to you
while jou blander my friends," she
said. "When you can 8ea; respect
fully of llr. Town, 1 will return ;" and
here she lett me again.
1 Kit the h juse then, and did not re
. turn tiil alternoon. As 1 come up the
path 1 met Tom Delano. Poor leiiow,
he looked like the last rot-e of bU miner
after a raiu.
"Ciood-bye," he said, gloomily ; 'Tm
going away. She has sent ine od, and
I con t stay in the place. 1 hop you
are the happy one 1 do, honestly, Ah
bue said her heart was given to another,
and it's either you or Fied. I hoe it
is you, and God bless you !"
ilere Tom dashed away and left me
etaruig alter him ia amazement.
Given her heart to another I" I re
peated, with a pain in my chest some
where, "Well, it is evident that I am
not the other, and that Fred is. Foor
Tom poor me i Tue best thing I can
do is to fo.iow suit aud leave too. 1
can never bee her the wife of another,
and the sooner I am off the better."
go I went moodily up to my room
and packed a satchel, and got all things
in rv ad in ess for a speedy departure.
On my way up I met Carrie jn
emergit g from her room, arrayed in
Iter jaunty rldiug habit, and I could
hear Fred's dep tones shouting "Whoa!'
dowu in the yard below-
I watched her trip down the stairs
and out of sight, thinking that it was
the last time I should see her for years,
perhaps forever.
When I bad strapped the last buckle
on my satel el aud all was in readiness,
I went dowu to say good bye to father,
mother aud Lu'a! LiUn Van not in
doors, aud my parents looked at me in
amazem nt,
"But, Alien, my son," pleaded father,
"I had thought you would enter into
business with me. There is a grand
opening for yon, and I have held the
position in reserve."
"I thank you for all that, bat I want
to travel a year or two before going in
to "onsiues." was all I could answer ;
and iny father gave up iu despair.
iailiawas f-U 1 al-sent ; hut it was
quite dark, and the tram wonld leave
iu halt an hour, bo I kit a "good-by
lor her, and pawed out into the had.
It was a long, narrow hall, reaching
the whole length f the l. crave, and
ith several rooms opening into it ; bat
an yet it was uxilu-htod and as daik as
About haif-way through it I beard
the street door open arid shut, and
! lli'illi.-lit lutuv nil. fnll oi.ki ii.t . .,. r
moment later ran fall against some one
enteimg.
It is liilia," I thi uglit, and reaching
out my arms caught her between thein.
-I it you, Idlla ?" 1 said.
But she did not answer, only twined
her two arms about my neck.
"Why, little sitter," I said softly,
"do you love me o much?"
F. r Ljila was cot demonstrative as a
Usual thing, and I was surprised at her
movement.
"On, better than all the world beside,
Allen 1" she said in a whisper.
Aud then, as I lifted the face to ay
lil, the sweet odor of geranium per
fumed the air, and my heart gave a
great leap.
It was Carrie, not Lilla, whom I held
in my arms 1
bhe was trying to disengage herself
cow, but 1 suddenly caught her liht
form iu my two stout arms, and, open
ing the horary uoor, I carried hr into
tue bril lunuy lighted room. H t face
was hot with blushes cow, and her eyes
lull oi tears.
l"ou are too bad," she sobbed, "and
I hate you !"
But putt then she noticed my travel
ling a Hire aud paused abruptly.
Why, where are you going?" she
asked with interest.
T w as going aay, never to return "
I answered : "Lut since vou said what
you did in the lntli I have changed my
miud.
Crrie pouted.
1 was omy speaking for Lilla."
''Then I shall go, shall L aud leave
you to marry Fred ?"
"1 detest r led, she oriea.
"And you love me better than all the
world r
lea."
So tuat flirt was conquered at last
aud I was the victor.
But how did you know it was not
Billa?" she asbed as we sat together.
"L-j the geranium, leal tbat I saw you
put iu your nair this morumtr."
"Anu out l r that you would have
tone ay and not come back lory eas?"
"Ics, perhaps nt Ver come lmCK, but
for that ted-tale leaf."
Then we whl keep this leaf ajways,"
she said , taking it Horn her hair.
Ana so we .ive. 1 procured a gold
eu box, and lucre it is to day oue ot our
dearest treasures.
OI coutse 1 married Carrie, and of
couioe that bioonuug matron is Che.
Tom Delano did not uie of a broken
heart, but married a lovely girl out
West a lew months alter his departure;
and Fred Twu is our laiuily physiciau
and has a pre.ty wife of Lis own.
An Auurr Iree.
A gentleman of Virginia has a tree
hicli is a species of acacia. It was
grown from a seed brought from Aus
irulia. The tree is now a sappling
Borne eight feet in height, and it is in
ul' foliage, au 1 growing rapidly. It is
leguminous, and very distinctly shows
the characteristics of the mimosa, or
sensitive plant, Rjgu'arly every even'
ing, about the time the "chickens go
to roost," the tree goes to roost. The
leaves fold together, and the ends of
the tender twigs coil themselves np like
the tail of a well-conditioned pig.
After oue of the twigs had been
stroked or handled, the leavts move
uneasily, and are in a sort of mild
commotion for a minute or more. All
this was known about the tree, but it
was only yesterday that it was discov
ered that the tree had in it much more
lile and feeling than it hod erer before
been credited with. The tree being
iu quite a small pot, one which it was
fast outgrowing it wan thought best to
give it oue of much larger size. Yes
terday afternoon the tree was trans
ferred to its new quart jm. It resented
the operation of its removal to the best
of its ability.
Arriving at Lis residence about the
time the tree had been transplanted,
the gentleman fonnd the house in
grand commotion. On asking what was
up he was told that they had trans
planted the tree according to orders,
and the operation tad "made it Very
mad."
Hardly had it been placed in its new
quarters before the leaves began to
stand up in all directions like the hair
on the tail of an angry cat, and soon
the whole plant was in a quiver. This
could have been endured, but at the
sauie time it gave out an odor mot t
pungetit and sickening just such a
smell as is given off by rattlesnakes
and many other kinds of snakes in
summer when teiaed. The odor so
filled the house and was bo sickening
that it was found necessary to open
the doors and windows. It was folly
an hour before the plant calmed down
aud folded its leaves in peace. It wonld
probably not have given np the fight
then La I it not been that iU time for
going to roost had Mmved.
Count Fitz James, of France, a di
rect descendant of Charles It, is keep
ing house in Washington.
Walts RoniMt Ulsser.
Speakiu? ot inm-rious to dinners in
VVashiDirton, Presideut Arthur, whose
dinner parties will begin soon after ew
Year, will uw tue same style of invitation
as last year, which was on a large card
and read :
The President requests the hoior of the
company of , at dinner on u
Thursday was the usually the day of
the week be cbose la-t year for his dinners
wtuch was the day nacbineton preferred
when President. I have before me, says
a writer, copies which I have made from
the original invitations of several ' Fresi
dents.
First, of course, comes oue of General
Washington's. This 1 have copied from
one in the possession of Mr. J. C t.
Kennedy, whose grandfather, Maj'W El
liott, was one of the engineers who laid out
this city. The invittiim reads :
The President ot the United States and
Mrs W astiinTtou leanest tht pleasure of
Cumpaay to d;ue on next at 4
o'clock.
, 17!). An answer is requested.
Mr. FJ.niore, while President, bad one
etyje of luvita'ioo oa mile-paper and an
other on a large ciriL Sometimes Mrs.
Fillmore's name appeared with his and
sometimes not. One style was worded :
The President requests the . faror of
's company at dinner on Thursday
next at 6 o'clock.
An answer is refr-ectfuHy requested.
Another style used by him substituted
the word honor fw favor. One of Mr. tlu
rhannn's, which JiKl;e black's daughter,
(Mrs. Hornsby) has, reads much the same
as Mr. Fillmore's:
The President requests the houor of
-Mi ss Black's company at dinner on Friday
January the 8 h, at t o'clock. An early
answer is reqi-sled.
irencrai urant s runner Invi'ations gen
eral y read ''the President and Mrs. Grant
request the honor of," etc., but when rhey
gave the reception in honor of the ngof
the Sandwich Islands, the invitations were
worded :
lne rresiilent ot tbe uuited Mates re
quests tne compmy of at the recep
tion in honor ot b:s Majesty, the Kim; ot
the Hawaiian lolauc! on Thursday evening
Uecemlier lain at o clock.
This is tbe o.ilv iuvitation of a Prealdent
which I have found, except tbat of Gene
ral Washiiigion, where the form "Presi
dent of the L nited States'' is used. As
Las been mentioned. General Washington
invited gue-U to dinner at four o'clock,
Mr. Fillmore at live o'clock and Mr. Bu
chanan at six o'cl.ick. President Grant's
and those of President Hayes were at 7
o'clock, while for all that P.tsmeut Ar
thur had last winter half past seven was
tbe hour naiued and the dinner usually
tegan at elirnt.
General Washington's invitations were
k-oiuu up in a very flue styie for that era,
out he frequently, as I find from the writ
ings of his contemporaries, extended vT
l.aJ invitations, either in person or through
one of his secretaries, to Vifflcial charact
ers, members of Ombres, strangers or citi
zens ot distinction." John Adams, when
consulted ly a.-lii g-on as to rules ot
etiquette soon after the r inaugura'ion,
recommended this and mud that 'such in
vitations should always be extended with
out fonnality." ievcr heless it was con
sidered during the very fiist vear of Wasi
Ington's admini9tra!iin a mark ot his fa
vor when any oue received an invitation
t ) dine with him and aa intimation thai
i be course of a public man bad excited bis
displeasure when no suca iuvitation was
tendered.
For lHstancp. Senator Maclay wrote De
ceuibcr 16 lTb'J, tliat Mr. Izir.l gave hi;n
"ciear hiuu ot nU lo-s ot character at
court and of tbe direct influence of tbe
Piesident with members ot Congress," in
stanced in exemling invitations to them.
iaciay had lost favor lcaU--e he wanted
votes by l alloi in the Sena'e on Washing
ton's nominations, and Senator Izard told
him that all the other sL-oalors had been to
dine with the treat niaa. A week later.
Washington atieu ied a session of tbe Sen
ale in person, accompanied by General
Knox, the Secielary of War, to advise
with the Senile atiout a treity with In
dians, and tbe day of b.s secjnd visit to
that tK!y Senator Mttclay was called out
by the doorkeeper to speak to Colonel
Humphreys, oue of th3 President's house
hold, and was by the latter verbal ly invi
ted to dinner with the President on the
following Thursday at four o'clock, that
being Monday. Senator Maclay writes :
"1 really was su prised at tbe . invitation,
it will be my d:uy to go; however, I wih
make no inferences whatever. I am con
vinced ail the dinners he can now give or
ever could, wdl make no difference in my
conduct.
"When the dinner occurred the com
pany were President aud Mrs. Adams, the
Govern' and his wife, Mr. Jay (Ubief
Jusiict) and wife, Mr. Dillon and a lady,
perhaps his wife, aud Mr. Smith, Basset
and Maclgy, Leir and Lewis, the Presi
dent awl Mr. Washington sat opposite
each other in the ninldle of '.he table, Thu
custom Has always ueen followed at a
dinner given by a Prlsieent who has s
wife, but 1 presume few know how far
hack the precedent for It goes. Tne two
secretaries, Lear and Lewis, each sat at
one end ot the table. It was a great din
ner and tbe bent of the kind 1 ever sat at.
Tne rixim, however, was disagreeably
warm-
This wus in Angu C President Arthnr
has revolted against following this prece
dent, tbcubt it is the general compiaint
tbat other host or hsleses here do have
their rooms, even in winter, too warm. I
beard President Arthur last win'er when
giving orders, just heiore one ot his din
ners was readv, to open tne windows aud
cool the house, lie added, laughingly,
ti rniua to another lady and myself: "1 here
is an engineer here who has been so ac
cuslon ed to overheating the rooms that,
having reinoustraU d in vain, I feel tempted
to order bim to be slain and his body
thrown in fie river. But a man cannot
do everything he wants, even if he is
President !"
To return to Washington's dinner, the
writer of the description continues: "First
was soup, fish, roa-ied and boiled meats,
cr.mmoD, fowls, etc. This was the dinner.
The middle of the tab!e was garnished in
the usual tasty way wilh small images,
flowers (artiflo.al), etc The desert was
first appie pies, pudding, etc.; then iced
creams, jellies, eir,; thea watermelons,
niufk-meloos, apple, nut?. It was tbe
most solemn dinner ever I sat at," con
tinues Maclay. "Not so health drank,
scarcely a word said, nntil the cloth was
taken away. Then the President, taking
a class ot wine, with great formality drank
tbe health ot every individual by name
'round the table. Everybody hxi'ated
hiui charged glasses, and eucii a butt of
health, fr," and 'heahh, madam,' and
thank you, madam,' never bsd beard he
roic"
"The Indies sat a good while and the
bottle parsed about, but there was a dead
silence almost. Mis. VYasuington at last
withdrew With the ladies. I expected tbe
ipn would bemn. but the same sutin- as
remained. The Presideut told of a New
England clergyman who had lost a hat and
He smiled and everybody else laoghed.
He now and then said a sentence or two
on some common subject, and what he
said was not ssniss. The President kept a
fork m bis band when the cloth was t-ken
away, I thought for the purpose of .pick
ing nuts, tie eat no cuts, but played
with tbe ferfc, striking on the edge of the
table with it. We did not sit long after
tbe ladies retired. Tbe President rose,
went up stairs to drii k coffee tbe com
pany followed. This precedent ws fol
lowed at President Arthur's dinners last
year.
Kancr Artlelaa.
Fancy wares, and tha new and pretty
things in what may be called secondary
jewelry that is small articles in silver
and enameled or filigree wares that take
fancy forms, are almost uniformly pro
duced this season in noma Istiapes of in -J
sect or animal lift. Sporting men and
women find inkstands, table-lamps, can
dle-sticks, pen-racks, paper-weights,
watch-stands, table-bells, and many
other things, all manufactured from
hoofs so finely prepared, and so beau
tifully counted with colored metals
and silver as to be at once artistic and
highly ornamental. One of the hand
somest novelties of this description con
sists of hoofs forming U e centre to a
tripod, the double wax lights of the
lamp burning clear under exquisite
Venetian glass shades. This lamp cost
from $120 to 3200. A new form of pen-
rests is a rustic garden seat aiade in
olive wood, and furnished with ponhol
holders, paper-knife and the like. Scon
ces, or candle brackets, are no longer
backed with mirrors bnt with brass
plaques, chased, or worked in repousse.
Brass ornaments are one of the great
desiderata; a brass clock aud small
candelabra for side-pieces, or portrait
plaques oi Rulieus, or Moliere, or Rem
brandt, or Schiller for the halL The
cost of the first is beyond all but the
rich, a fine brass cloct with side-pieces
being worth from $250 to $500, but the
pLques axe more practicable. Some of
a moderate size may be purchased for
$25, though the average is $50. The
imitations of Benares brass turned out bv
machinery, are of course much cheaper,
but we are speaking now of genuine
hand-wronght articles. Brass burcars,
chandeliers and candle-sticks, bra.-
fenders and crate fixtures, and brass
clocks and plaques revive the burnished
glories of the past, but require an
amount of labor which the peor have
not time to perform, and which the neb
only can afford to pay for; so, naturally,
the nse is somewhat limited.
What is cot brass is plush cow-a-
days, and still fashionable are the pitisb
coyered frames which amateurs have
found so convenient tor exercising their
brushes npou. But even here the new
craze asserts itself. Instead of apple
blossoms, an owl sits in the corner look
ing wise, or a small cockatoo is perched
upon a rastic branch. The sides of the
frames of pictures orsmull beveled mir
rors are cot equal, bnt much broader
at the foot aud off side than upou the
other, and it is upon the eff side that
the bird or other decoration is placed.
The plush bag, or poucr, has become
an institution. The brg is satin-lined
and sometimes leather uiouuted; it is
more uurably finished than the pouch.
and is Carrie i in the hand. The pouch
is auspeudeu from the siii. aud forma
part of the looping of a dress; it may
be of leather, but is often of embroid
ered satin or covered with a network oi
pearls ver silk. Velvet pouches, with
engraved silver clasps aud chute-lame
to suspend it from the Bide, are sold as
jewelry, and are sometimes eet with
precious stones, though nsudly the
mounting is of wrought silver only.
These cest from $35 to $50, and up
ward.
Jewelry, unless it is very rich, is now
almost whooly coufiued to a fancy laee
piu and earrings, to serpen tiue brace
lets, and one or two bangle rings. The
new pins are simple, but odd. lhe
bar is a solid silver pin with enlarged
head, which serves as a perch lor a
snail, a beetle, tiny bird or a small
row of flies, lLcre is a small eonilowcr
brooch which is very pretry, with a
bee upon it; but these designs are easi
ly coarsened and made oommou-louk-mg
by being executed in au inferior
manner and with very cheap mateiials.
A hew fiower series in lace pins has
the charm of especial sentiment at
tached to each one; as woodbine, friend
ship; fern,suicenty; primrose, youthful
affections, and periwinkle, rtnicni
braoco. The novelties in bracelets are the Ile
lene, which is sll-holding, anucofsiats
of a flexible cod which tan tens itself
to the arm; a shopping bracelet with
pennl attached, aud one of woven wire
which also coils around the arm, aud
takes the place of the serpeut bracelet.
Small articles of real ivory, or shell,
make charming presents to persons ol
refinement who cannot afford such pur
chases, and fan never comes amiss to
a lady. The three kinds ot tans most
approved are the rich feather fans
with pearl or tortoise shell, or amber
sucks; the fans of clear point lace, with
gold wrought sticks, on ivory, pearl or
amber; and the fans painted on satin
by rent artists and mounted in accoid-
ancs with their cost.
Slowly Kvcoverius;.
"Sir !" cried a well-dressed man,
whose face was purple with anger, as
he walked up with head erect to another
citizen on C street Virginia City, re
cently. "Sir, I understand yon have
been speaking of me as a fraud and
liar."
"Well," responded the person ad
dressed a man with a yellow sack coat
aud a big tlouch bat, who was leaning
against sn awning post, "that's aa true
as gospel. I think you are a liar and a
fraud if ever there was one.
"Ton do?" cried the other, growing
pale and gritting his teeth, "Tou do,
eh?"
res, I do, and don't yon forget it. '
"In that case," retorted the well
dressed man, speaking with concentra
ted ferocity, "1 must request yoa to
consider yourself no longer on my list
of exchanges, " aud turning upon his
heel he strode away.
The man with the yedow sack-coat
tottered into the nearest saloon, and at
last accounts was slowly recovering.
Hospitality in Ciacho rilnse
For the last two miles our journey led
through dense forest, and it was nec
essary to march in single file so narrow
was the path. We soon, however, no
lioed that wo were approaching a clearing
and no sooner, scarcely, bad this fact
dawned through cur minds, than the
village was presented to our astonished
eyes. It consisted of about two hun
dred huts and around each of the huts
w. re a number of dogs, all of whom
came forward in a body and made such
a horrible din with tneir yelping as would
give one a very fair idea of Paudemo
niuin. Iu the centre of the village stood
hut much larger than the rest, sur
rounded by quite a pretty garden. Dif
fering from its neighbors, the entrance
w large enough for a man to enter
walking erect and was po.-sensed of a
"dtfT. There were several "bull's-eye"
windows, evidently the remains of some
uortnnate vessel, while over the outer
walls of the hut viuea had been trained
and now covered them with a mantle of
the most beautiful gTecu. This was the
residence of the Indian chief. A finely
formed a id mU-lligeut-looking negretrs
opened the door of the bnt for onr ad
mittance, ami in broken Englis bado us
welcome. The interior of the dwelling
appeared almost as strange as the ex
terior snrronndings, and its equipment
was a sort of cross between a ship's
cabin aud a native hut, It was sepa- I
rated into to apartments, a palm-leaf
matting separating the two rooms. On
the walls were hung a cumber of articles
peculiar to the country, snch as antelope
heats and quaint carvings the product
of Dative ingenuity while upon arough
lookipg table were displayed the tnsks
of elephant and rhiuoccrcs, a few well
used volumes, a sh;p's chart and several
trinkets, both of native and European
manufacture. We hade been but & few
minute's in tue nut when we were
aroused by a great noise outsido, and
uioa goiug to the door we found that
the natives were making preparations
for a great barb -cue in our honor.
Immense quantities of yams, cocoanuts,
dates and a variety of other fruit had
been gathered, while a number of
mountain goats and antelopes had been
slain aud their carcasses lay upon the
sward where onr dusky friends were en
gaged Li removing their skins and other
wise getting them ready for the feast.
From every tree on the borders of the
village large crowds of monkeys looked
down and performed gymnastic evolu
tions from bough to bongh, evidently
overjoyed at the prospect of obtaining
a siiare of the gool things thtt. sho nld
remaiu after the people of the hamlet
had retired to rest. By and bv tbe din
A a large horde of jackals, who had
leen attracted to the vicinity of the vd
lage by the savory smell of the roast
ing viands, was added to the songs of
the natives, the discordant notes of the
birds and the chattering of monkeys,
and the whole com '-ined to make oue of
the most in for nil seriets of sounds that
had ever grated npon the human ear.
The use of brick as a minding material.
both burnt and unburnt, dates from a very
early period. Burnt brick is recorded in
tbe Bible to have hen used in the erection
of the Tower of Babel. We have the tes
timony of tierodotiis to the effect tbat
burnt brizks were made from tbe city
thrown cut of the trenches surrounding
Babylon, Statcmen's of travelers show
that the Babylonian brick is very much
like a tile, being from 12 to 13 inches
squat e, and 3 J inches thick. M.ist of
them bear tbe name inscrioed in cunei
form tf Mcbuchaduezzir, whose buildings
no doubt replaced those of an earlier age.
I hey were sometimes glazed and enatn
eled in various colors. S-mira-nus is said
by Diodorus to have overlaid some of tier
towers with surfaces of enameled bricks.
Sun-dried bricks ere exclusively used in
aucient times, especially ia Egvpt, where
the mnnufart'ire was considered a most
degrading employ men, and as such formed
the principal part of tbe occupation of the
Israelites during their bondage, alter the
death of Juseph. These Egyptian sun
dried bricks were made of clsy mixed
with chopped straw, which was lurnisbed
to the children of Israel by tbeir Egyptian
taskmasters, before the application of
Moses to Pharaoh in their behalf. After
tnis the obligation was put upon them to
furnish their own straw, which appears to
have been Ike tbe last straw upon the
camel's back too much to be borne.
It appears from the details given that
the Israelites worked in gangs under the
superintendence of one of their own na
tion, who was provided with all the nec
essary tools, and then held personally res
ponsible for the labors of his men. Some
Egyptian bricks were made without straw,
anc are now found as perfect as on the
day when they were put up, in Die regi m
of Amonopohs and Tnotnies, whose names
they bear. When made of iiile mud they
needed straw to keep tbein together, but
when formed ot clsy taken from tbe tur
rent beds on the edge of the desert tht y
held together without aid. Among the
paintings at Thebes, ene on tbe tomb of
R'ksbata. an officer of the cwurt of I'hot
mcs HI (ii. C. 1400) represents the en
forced labors of captives, who are distin
guished from the natives by the colors
with which they are drawn.
Watching over tbe laborers are the
"taskmasters," who armed with sticks,
are receiving the "tile of bricks' and
urging on tbe work. The process of dig-gins-
out the clay, of moulding and of
arransjug, are alt duly represented. The
process oi manufacture in Egypt was very
similar to that adopted at the present time
in that country, l he clay was brought in
baskets from the 3 tie, thrown into a heap,
thoroughly saturated with water, and
worked to a proper temper by the leet of
the laborers. This apiars to have been
done entirely by the (light-colored) cap
tives, tbe (5ed) Egyptian shunning tte
work which must have been oppressive
and unwholesome as possible in tbat cli
mate. The clay when tempered was cut
by an instrument res mbing very much
an agricultural hoe and molded in an oo
long trough. The bricks were then dried
ia tbe sun.
tturut bricks were used in Eypt for
river walls and hydraulic works, but not
to any great extent. Ejclosut es of garden
or granaries, sacred circuits encompw sing
the courts of temples, walls ot foctiflca-
. lions and towns, dwelling bouses aai
i tomb; in short, all but tbe temples thpin
. ! in K. i. . ,1 ... . I
selves were of crude bnck. i nd so ere a'
was tbe demand that the Egyptian Gov
ernment, observine tbe profh which wo ild
accrue from a monopoly of them, under
took to supply the pubic at a reduced
price, thus preventing unauthorized per
sons from engaging in tbe manufacture.
Tbe Jews learned the art of brick niakin
in Egypt, and that tbey used ii greatlv is
proved by the complaint of Isaiah tha!
the people built altars of brick instead of
unhewn stone, as the law directed. Tbe
Romans used bricks both burnt and un-
burnt, in crest profusion, leaving their
suu-oruvd bricks in the air for four or five
years to harden. All the great existing
- 1 ruins of Rome are of this material. At
the decline of the R m.an empire the art
of brick making fell into disuse, but was
revived in Italy after tbe lapse of a ft
centuries, lhe medisvaL ecclesiastical
and palatial architecture of Italy exhibits
many fine specimens of brickwork and
ornamental deiigns in terra cotta. In
Ho land and tbe Netherlands the scarcity
oftone necessitated a sujstitute, aud leu,
ut an early period, to the extensive u it
brick, not only for domestic but for eccles
iasttcal buildings. Tbee countries abound
in fine specimens of brick work, otte-o
done in two colors combined, with great
taste, and producing a very rich result,
a3 it is to be seen in the celebrated exam
p es at Leenwanlta, in Fiiesland. It is
worthy of remark tbat in the fens of Lin
coinsb le -and Norfolk, wti-ire we would
naturally expect the same n-.aterial to be
used, the chu'ehes, many of which are
exceedingly fine specimens of architec
ture, are limit of wmall stones, and I? have
been brought a great distai.ee upon pack
horses. Iu modern times nowhere do we
find greater perfect inn in the art of brick
making and laying than in Holland, where
most of tbe floors ot the houses aud the
treet8 are paved with bricks.
M'nlern bricks are made f different
material?; clay, sand and ashes make ex
cellent bricks, while good brick-earth is
found in some localities. Loam and aiari
in Eugland are considered the beat ingred
ients Upon the materials employed de
pend the quality of tbe bricks and tbe pur
poses for wbich they miy be used. Tiiey
are pressed ana dried by machinery to a
great extent now, though vards are often
started in the country where suitable clay
is iouna, ana Ducks made by manual
labor. The finishing and ornamentation,
of which so muc1! is doue, is of course
accomplished iu larger pieces, where ex-
peni-nced workmen are employed. De
tails in the plans of buiMins are oftea
delayed untd it is known wbat kind of
brick is to be used. 'I bis being the rase
oi course omy in places woere only a
certain cumber of whole bricks can be
placed, as between window ledges, sills,
caps or stone quoins. The util ty of biii k
as a slang word is not to be d. nie L To
call a man a brick is to compliment him
exceedingly. In one word you tell h.m
be is useful, upright, absorbent, reteutive,
that his family history cin be traced
fanner than that of most men, and, above
a!', that he is not msde of "commm
clay."
Cttal by Cujoles.
Major P. Ru-sell, the sheep man, savs
that coyotes do not bother sheep much
in Montana. They will, however, keep
around tbe sheep at a distance aud howl
in the early morning and at night. The
shepherd dogs he considers a great pr--
tection, as they will rnn the coyotes off,
although they canuot whip them. Re
cently, however, the order of things was
reversed, and a band oicoyotascoiTaled
a valuable shepherd dog and ran him off
through the hilLs. The absence cf the
dog was afterwards, fortunately, soon
discovered, and herders, mounted on
fleet aud snre-footcd horses, followed
in search. The uo was at length seen
at a distance, completely surrounded by
about ten of the cunning coyotes, w ho
were successfully driving the poor faith
ful creature away from the camp. At
intervals the dg would attempt to break
his cprdon of wild herders and return
to his charge, but the fierce animuls.
anticipating the movement, would close
their ranks and ptescnt a snarling un
broken row of shining ivory. At the ap
proach of the horsemen the cowardly
coyot-S at once dropped their fails and
disappeared almost aa suddenly as if the
earth had opened im and swallowed
them.
K-bbit Mioortns.
Rabbit shooting is alays good fun,
in woods, in gorse, in Hedgerows, iu
rough grass, whatever the kind of
cover, there is no more nveiy spt rt.
In low wood, where you can se-.; to shoot
them as they get np iu front of you,
it li", perhaps, at its best, capital
sport is also to be had outside, after
the covers have been well beaten, espe
cially if the holes Lave been stopped;
the rabbits then lie iu the hedgerows.
in the stubble, in the grass, wherever
thej can find anything to hide them,
but mostly in the hedges, and a couple
of men, one on each side, with a span
iel or terrier to find them, may have a
days shooting ss good as almost any
kind of sport which the gun affords,
Rabbits forced out of a hedgerow by
dogs go at their best paee, and any one
who can kill them well may call himself
good shot, whatever his practice
at other kinds of game may be. The
chances are, however, that a good rabbit-shot
is a good al -round shot,
though tue converse by no means holds
good, for many men can kill pheasants
and partridges very well who miss live
rabbits out of six. .
The ihwuMl Iuhl
In spite of the recent opposition to
the channel tunnel on the English b'de,
the work seems to be poshed rapidly
forward from the French end of it. Iu
fact, according to English journals of
Sovember 25, nnu.n a ly good progress,
had recently been made. Starting from
Smdgate, tad French company had
l lied to a distance of 4G7 yards, au d
was making a fair ave-rage daily advance
ment. Li the .early part ol the work
they experienced difficulty from the
water they encountered while boring
thorough the gault, but they had now
got to the gray chalk, and the temped
rary dislocation had been overcome.
Thus their greatest engineering dilffculty
war, therefore, now a thing of the past.
At the English end the work is practi
ally abandoned.
I ha Ta -- -) in vruea rncjeiiot
Some riders clioese to take no regular
meals at all during their journey, pre
ferring to carry with them some plain
aud simple food ami drink, like a meat
biscuit and a bottle of cold tea or muk,
and to partake of a little very frequent
ly as tbey go along not even caring U
dismount for the partaking of the re-
treshment. We nndersU&d that thi
t ......
plan answers very well indeed when a
long distance has to be m-tde and there
is little or no time for rest. It is better.
nevertheless, to dismount take a light
meal of mixed food, Test for a good long
time to let digestion have full spring,
aud then on agidn, gently at first, brisk
ly afterward. Such a p!ur gives good
digestion of the foeid, quick and excel
lent distribution of it over the body for
nutritive purposes, aud a healthy and
sharp appetite for the tneal.tli.tt is next
to come. The diet itself cau scarcely
be too simple. Animal food sh. nl J be
fresh, not salted, and well cooked; light
auimnl foods like fish an 1 fowl and mut
ton are very good tc work on: erjS and
milk are very good. A couple of esgs
beaten well up in a cup, mixed with
hot water, sweetened moderately with
sugar, antl treated with a small quantitv
of milk so as to make from half a pint
to three-quarters of a pint, is wi;h
utile biscuit, an excellent snstaining
meal for ttusu to whom eggs are easily
digestible. To those who can digest it
oatmeal porri Ige is very good to break
fast on; and to all who cau digest niiik.
milk is lightly thickened with wheat
meal ia most substaining. Bread bhould
be taken in moderate quantitv, and
fresh vegetables and fresh fruit ore al
ways iu chiracter when not token in
excess, some fruits which lor a mo
ment seem extremely refreshing while
on the travel become a cause of thirst
if the day is very warm. I notice this
particulary in regard to orange., the
most tempting perhaps and the most
easily obtained of all fruits.
Of drinking during tricycle exercise
I must sneak with some care. It is cot
yery difficult to leuru tricvele without
desire for too much drink of any kind.
But if the beginner does not leara to
breathe through the no.se, if he ac-
qiure the habit of bres thing throngb
tne month, he u sure to acquire also
the desire to take liquids far too freely
lie will become so dry in the month he
will feel he cannot get on unless ha has
something to quench his thirst, aud
that is an evil habit even thongh the
think be as innocent as the purest water
itself. The first point, therefore, u to
drink as little as possible; to drink as
niucu as win nil np tue loss that is
made by evoporatm of the water from
the body and not any more.
What the character of the drink sljall
be is not very diffieu't to answer, and
what it should not be is answered with
iess diihealty, for co'tandy of all things
aaiu it should not be an alcoholic stim
ulant. Ou this hist named point we
wlO are advocates fr tolaJ abstinence
from all alcoholic beverages haye se
cured, beyond any mistake, a fine score
from trieyeliug experiences. Those who
are to some degree in optiosition to us
on the general question, I mean those
who stilt hold that alcoholic drinks are
in their right place as luxuries and
should not be denied as luxuries, are
with us if they are practised trieyclists,
iu expressing that alcoholic stimulation
is fatal to good sure, and siat dued
work.
Sun OIyel an liupui .
Fifteen years ago me daughter of a nch
and prosperous mail, living in fine style
oo Fifth Avenue, Sew York, went out in
a carriage ostensibly on a shopping expe
dition. At Stewart a t'ore she left the
CHrci'ure.iiiid her coachman waited for over
two hours, uutil finally, becoming anxious.
be made inquiries. The young lady had
disappeared, and though a great deal of
money was s(Hnt and much effott made to
discover htr, there was no trace. Tue
j ears passed and the detective who bad
worked on the case very faithfully aud
auxijusly, roe by degree s to the rank of
police captain. One cold night, i'lsl after
Curisinias, four or five of his officers tn-
leted the station with eight or ten intrxi-
cated women in their custody. Oue or
two were crying over their arrest, and the
prospect ot a prison; ot beis were fierce in
their oatbs at the mie ference of the police
with their orgie, while others aaiu were
sulky. ? lauding a little apart from tbe
group of prisoners the Captain noticed a
tall woman about thtr y. and be saw that
she bad once been beauii'ul, though now
h r face wai disfigured by a btu sc oa t: e
cheek and a black welt under the eye.
1'nere was, however, an air of refinement
snout the woman that attracted the police
captain, and be eyed her curiously while
the serueaut recorded the names of the
prisoners. Suddenly the woman bockoued
10 hint.
"Captain do you know me?" was her
question .
"So."
Didn't you once try to find 3Iia Urice
?"
"Yes."
"Well, I'm her. 1 ran away just out of
pure devUlry, and I've nad my full Share
of it.
G xkI heavens! Why did you do it?"
"On, I don't know. The notion ca:ue
into my Lead, aud 1 obeyed the iui
pulie.
:And where have you been all this
time'"
' Right here in the ward, under your
very nose. You never suspected me though
1 siw vou often enough.
- "ndhave you not repe .ted of the
step?"
-rtepenteoi" tnd the words thrilled in
the captain's ear like the wail ot a lo3t
so-iL U-'penteJ: On, God, yes! Bat it was
joo Ute."
It's never too late."
"Y es it is. But it's not too late ts
die." And befoie the Captain could pre
vent she bal drawn a small pistol and
shot herself. The poor creature lived
tor two days, and wnen she d e J it was
-o the arms of her father. The mother
had died a lew years before of arief. This
is a true story and shows now much stran
ger real hie is than fiction.
A Sew Enghuidcr pat an owl in his
cellar to eaten rats, and the rata ate the
4
SEWS IS BR
Twenty-seven women wo- kin? ui a
chain gang weie a sail sight at Atlanta.
Enroim must buy T'J.O1)!) tons of
meat, and 3i5.0M),m.iO bmshels of grain
abroad this year.
The potato crop of Europe is re
ported forty per evnt. be le'W tiiat of last
season.
Out of the 618.000 i eoplo of West
Virginia thtra are eS.WO who cannot
write.
Baltimore is endeavoring to take
the school commission out tf the el
niam of ward poiitn-s.
The Washington ni mutuant tT'ew
9t) feet dtirinj; this year. A lother
quarter of a million ia asked for to
uontiuiie the work.
Among the new drnirs in use are
lieor seeds, corn silk, eleoii nit's foot.
aud chewstick, in thu form of liuid ex
tracts, Two vars ao Wesson. Mis. . was
only a pine f nvst. It has now a cotton
irnJl employing l,:iu hands, and nearly
3,000 iuna itatits.
The vount'est imvi tor on the re
cords in Waliimrtoii is Walter Sevegold.
a lad 15 years i ue, of Bristol. Pa.,
who has pite-iiteil important linprove
meLts iu ruliiii mill machinery.
"That want of g--ur-ai curtesy and
universal grae-iut sn- .-.s, which is a very
raal want among t'e Linyl sh mid.lieclas
ses," is a viiriis t.:!c:i ir..ui London
The exports ;' p-i.visarua from the
United State's UitHt'g ti -3 ,-!iYi"i months
which ended ea Soven.br ;i'ih last,
amon-iti-d in VLil.ieto i-t.Si-J.li'jaaiust
f 120,315,1 ;.! d.iri.!g t.io ce re-txuding
period of 1-vd.
Two ninety-foot lathes, said to
among the l.u;i t in the world, have
been mad by tin S-mtti lW tou Iron
Works. E.ie-h lathj co:. talus Ii 10,00')
pounds of iron. l't,cv s-.c to l e us-d
to byre out cans' u.
Manufacture ct linked caka m
the north of Franco tire aliened to ad
ulterate their products ftl.tii spent m aze
from distiile-ries, and tii.it, of course,
the usual p; reehtae of oily matter ia
not preset.
Suit was brought by the city of San
Francisco a'uiu-t d. C. Fioenl to re
cover taxes on t'iDO.OOO worth oi min
ing stock in Se-vaaa. He proved that
the mines are oiiai.ted in California and
won the suit.
A diver, at f00 yards' distance from
the persons communicating w;:h him.
can conver-e with ease with jH-rsous
above water by means of the telephone,
aa was recently proved by Mr. Ware-, of
tbe Iiver .Ueare Commissioners.
Tue heod-urii-es of the lathes' iu
1776 were remarkable for their enor
mous height. The ctii'are of a bello
ol fashion was described as "amoiuitaiu
of wool, hair, powder, lawn, muolin,
net, lace, gauze, liobou, flowers.
featbcjra.anel wire."
Among the trees which crow iu
Alaska is ooe called the yellow cedar.
which has a fragrance somewhat like
at of sainl.il w ood and near I v as
marked. It is a griinle-s wood, of
straw color, aud the Russians formerly
built many ships of it, for w hich pur
pose it is admirably adapted.
Sew Jersey has 313.520 children of
school ae. lhe average art u-iauce
upou the public schools is 113,012 ; 41,
5li0childreu are in the private scUoois.
Tue school receipts of tae State during
the past year were $iH ),701 M. Oi
the 3,504 teachers i.a'Jl are women.
Tue value of Sew Jersey's school pro
perty is $'6,270,778.
In the year 175 1 eight bales of cot
ton grown hi the United States were
sent to England, wht ie, upon arrival, it
was seized and condemned by order of
the Privy Couueil, ou the fcrouud that
so large au amount of cot tou c m J not
possibly have beeu raiseil in America.
This year the cott ju crop of the United
States w ill be not f ir froji 7,100,000
bales.
Mark Twain failed to auswera letter
written to him by Seij-;:mt B.dl;uitiu..
Alter waiting a reasoiialdo time the lat
ter wus so exasperated at not receiving
an answer that he mailed Twaiu a sheet
of paper and a )otitagu stamp as a geu
tle reminder. Mr. C. emeus wrote back
ou apobtal : "P.t;.-raudst.t!i,.p received;
please seud au envelope.'
A Uridlev ;('al. i farmer hunts gee se
with a cow. It is stated that he has
trained the anim ii to walk out to wilele
atl ickof ge-eae have settled down ou
the graiu, I'rowsing all tiie way uiou.
he walking aioucsitii ou tlio off aide
from the geese, an. I wneu Uwar enough
he cow lies d wu and ho snoots into
lita flock.
Ex-O ivernor Horatio Seymour
has uiven to the Citutoit colhtettou of
MSS. in the Sew Yon; bu.e L.br.iry a
manuscript deed oi l.iaatio-a "leorge
Washington and (ieorge Cunto'i, ot tUo
City ol Se Yori, E-rfiuires," to Sa
thaniel (Jriiliu, of Whilestuwn, Mont
gomery couufy. i: boars date of July
At Rome a bron.e- vodve Uani, three
feet high, has beeu iound with the
names of four ioas genUemeu, tn wit :
S. Tettins, T. .V;inius, L. la'tius and
P. Tw-tlieuus. it is shaped like a cornu
copia, with thee wicks, is n ited, and
has a large hole ou top f t pouring in
the perfenied oj. The tiiurp caj of
the cornucopia tits into a kind of scab
bard, to which :t is Listened with a
movable locket.
Qaeen Victoria has at length eoii-scnteatoadm-.ttii.it
"she is groniu
old," for the new Egyptian, medal tbat
she recently distriuuCed reprove jts her
face of 1&)'2, and not of )9l2, us it has
appeared on tiie stamp, coins and
medals. In her own time she has dis
tributed medals for six lmuaj cam
paigns, three for South African afiairs,
and one each for the Crimean, Cniuuse,
Abvs-sioian and Ashtutoe coiijicts.
Tlu Big Wood.
The Big Woed ef Minnesota are
rightly named, for they cover 5000
square miles, or 3,200,000 acres of sur
face. These woods contain only hard
wood growths, including white aud black
oak, maple, hickory, basswood, elm,
cotton-wood, lomaiack, an3 enongh
other varieties to make an aggregate of
over thirty (Efferent kiuds. This hard
wood tract extends iu a belt across tho
middle of the Stale, and arrontKlmg
its north-eastern corner is an immenstf
pine region covering 21.0CK) sqaar
miles, or 13,440,000 square acre?.