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B. P. SCHWEIER,
THE G03STTTTJTI03-THE UUIOI-ASL THE ESF0E0IME5T 01 THE LA8.
Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XXXVII.
MIPFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 3I.1SS3.
NO. 5.
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THE TWO FLEETS.
The tun ru bright and the sea wu blan1.
And the tide daaoea la u merrily.
When a tailor poshed hla boat from the sand ;
And the waves kept Ume with hit homely glee.
For the tailor hummed," Two fleet there be:
And one tails over the ton-lit waver.
And one Ilea nnder the sombre sea."
The Ma wag bland and the ton wu bright.
And a favoring wind blew fresh and free-.
And the leaguing sail disappeared from sicbt ;
But the old refrain still remained with me
Which the sailor sane "Two fleets there be :
And one sa Is over the sun-lit waves.
And one l.es un.k-r the sombre tea."1
The tide danced out with the freight it bore ;
Ah, the tide came back soon smilingly.
But the Bailor's boat never touched the shore;
And I slug to my.wlf, for I cannot flee
From the haunting strain, "Two fleets there be:
And one sails over the sun-lit waves
And one Ues under the sombre Be.
So one by one from the shining wor.d
The fleet sails down Uxtbe dixnial lee
To ue fleet where every sal! it farlei ;
And my heart keeps time to lljf mystic key,
Whue I drift and sing, "Two fleets there be :
And one sails over the sun-lit waves.
And one Ues nnder the sombre sea."
So a little while and he who sings
Shall bum no more hut songs to thee ;
So they who watch hit Bun-lit wings
Shall hear, perchance, when they cannot see
The lips win. b sing, "Two fleets there be:
And one sails over the son-lit waves,
Aud one lies under the sombre sea."
SIBIL SAKTOuVy rMKIL
Olio evening (1 think that it was the
first night of the revival of "Romeo
and Juliet" at the Lyceum) Jock Sar-
torys aud his wife occupied a box theie,
which, afttr much difficulty, an he
averred, CoL Dunkirque, of the
'"Heavies," had been fortunate enough
to secure. As a general rule. CoL
Dunkirque was not in the hal.it of pre
senting first-night boxes to his friends
unless he had some object to gain. Peo
ple suggested that it w as a nue on his
part to win Jack s good graces esiieci-
ally the smiles of Jack's wife ; but then
people might have lied they frequent
ly do in such matters and yet for once
thev were right.
Dunkirque was a notorious Lovelace,
as handsome a man as you would see
anywhere a man whose appearance
was hailed with inward tribulation and
groaning by poor devils who had not
the pluck to kick him out of their houses
wheuhis attentions grew too pronounces!
It was rumored, too, that his doings
lately had been very fchady so shady
that his friends (he had many friends)
all predicted that he would speedily
have to bolt from the impeuding clutches
of those ministering fiends, Messrs.
till y lock & Co.
Sibyl Sartorys waa a very handsome
woman dangerously handsome. She
had masses of golden hair, which did
not owe its Bunny tints to some vile
wash, arched red .'ips, sweet blue eyes,
a feoft w hite neck, aud a complexion ol
dazzling lairuess. In aduitiou to these
charms she possessed a kuack of pleas
ing people when he) chose to take the
trouble, and was also very popular lu
her own immediate circle. Jack had
fallen in love with her in his usual im
pulsive, heat'long maimer ; but, for my
own part, I always thought her a trifle
hard and unsympathetic. There was
sometimes a look in her sweet eyes not
entirely acquiescent when Jack had in
tuna ted something of which she disap
proved. Having said what he wanted,
Jack generally let her have her own
way, and so the impending storm al
ways blew over for a time. She de
manded absolute slavery fiom him. and
accepted his devotion as a matter of
course. Club friends, amusements, all
had to give way to this little autociat's
imperious mandates ; and poor Jack
was spoiled for us.
Yet he was very happy. In her sof
ter moments, prejudiced as 1 was, 1
could but admit the charm of her sweet,
low voice, and the winning eyes which
could have lured a babe trom its mother's
amis. But 1 olten imagined that her
thoughtlessness would ore day bring
her to grief, one had such a superb
contempt lor the conventionalities. You
and I, gentle- reader, know better. We
bow down aud worship Jlrs. Urnndy,
as if we liked her ; but do we ? I think
not,
Dunkirque did despise the conven
tionalities and decencies of life nay,
he outraged Iheui persistently. lie
had always some conhdaute to whom he
unbosomed himself ot his troubles with
those freelmccs, the money-lenders.
Dipped as he was, he contrived to get
through as much money as of old. li:s
horses and dinners were the best in
town men eagerly sought to ride the
one and to eat the other. I tnink Sibyl
Sartorys alone knew how soon there
would be neither how quickly the
bubble must burst aud Dunkirque hide
his diminishea head for the rest of his
days in some little fifth-rate continental
town. And yet she fancied that she
loved him. Had he been prosperous,
happy, gay, she would not have done
so ; but ai he was going to the dogs it
seemed to her as it she had no alterna
tive but to accompany him.
Who is it says that women always
wreck themselves with their best im
pulses ?
In person Dunkirque was tall and
well-built, but there was an indefinable
something in his face w hicli betrayed
that he had not long to live. All the
Dunkirques had died of consumption
before their fortieth year, and the colo
nel was thirty-live. With this sword
hanging over hun, it waa impossible
not to leel sorry at least the w omen
thought so for his misspent life. Men
were inclined to believe that he made
the most of the situation, and posed
lor that effect Dut then men are such
unfee'ing beings ; they have none of
the liner sympathies of their wives
their mission is to pay bids and be
generally useful
That evening things seemed to be
approaching a climax a deuced un
pleasant, one too, for poor Jack. When
Capulet said to the maskers,
! have seen the day
That I have worn a vnwr, and could tell
A KhL-penag tale in a Uur Uiiy s ear.
Such as would riease," , . ,
Mrs. Sariorys- eyes met Dunkirque s,
drooped in a L all -shamefaced but still
It was not a look I should
k e to see on the face of my wife, when
talking with another man, though hav
ing provided Jack with his first pony
and piloted him across the country at
th rtv aire of seven. I un looked
not entitled
to express any dir. ct opinion, remaps
mv ideas are rather old-fashioned
wholesomely so.
Jack did not notice what was going
on. He loved his wife too dearly even
to ilnom of nh iufamv. It was a
delightful pimnence to him to listen
to the lialnonv arane." and to follow the
hapless fortunes ol the star-crossed
lovers, although he could not help wish
ing that the Borneo would be a little
less intellectual and a trifle more im
pressive with the lovely Juliet Prac
tically his wile and Dunkirque were
alone ; Jack told me all this lone after
ward without attaching aDy importance
to it, and 1 linked the fragments to
gether. Half an' hour later I stepped in. Jack
whispered to me net to spcrk, and I was
greeted by Mrs. Sartorys with the usual
polite indifference a woman reserves for
her husband. In short, it was not ten
minutes before I had seen enough of
the situation, and concludt d to step
outside for a lounge in the corridor.
The glamour of the scene had not touch
ed my jaded senses. 1 could not help
seeing a grimy stage carpenter up in
the Hies, and this .naturally did away
with all illusion. What nn awful bore
if the man had dropped his old w ide
awake upon the passionate lovers.
The door opened (l was leauing
against the next box) ; out cams Airs.
Sartorys and Dunkirque. she shivering
in that hot atmospheie and a trine
pale, iter eyes wore a frightened look;
and yes. she did seem inclined to cry.
"We shall be just in time for the last
train," she nervously whispered, "I
told Jack that you would see me to my
carriage, and he he is cointr to Ids
club."
So much the better," replied Dun
kirque, hurriedly. " e shall not be
missed until we are across the channel!"
I hate scenes ; bnt it was necessary
to do something. A Utile fellow whom
1 had dandled on my knee, and loved
like a son, must not be duped in this
shameful way.
Dunkirque berried pbt me ; but 1
reached the staircase before Mr?. Sar
torys reappearance, hooded and cloaked.
God knows I never acted so promptly
before in my life, and yet 1 have been
in one or two tight plnees. There was
Hut never mind. Let the "old man
garrulous" continue his story.
When Cot Dunkirque s carriage was
called the coachman drove np with his
fur tippet nearly over his ears. The
night was cold, and Sura. Sartorys
trembled, half turned for moment,
then stepped in. She had crossed the
Kubicon and was lost !
I wonder if she thought at that mo
ment of the little hands that were fol
ded before her night and morn, as the
little sleepy eyes were raised to heis.
and Jack's children lisued out their
usual prayer : God bless papa and
mamma and make us all dood. Amen !"
1 do not believe that she could have
thought of them, or else she never
would have been there.
'Viaduct Statior," called out the
colonel, Singing the fellow one of his
few remaining half crowns it was the
last desperate flight of the butterfly in
the sunshine. Atterwara he would have
lime to repent or to die in a gutU r un-
shriven. Iu the madness of the mo
ment he did not care which.
The horses dashed forward into the
darkness, pulling well up to their col
lars, but they old not go to wuuet
Station 1
Half an hour later, when they drew
up, the colonel jumped out to assist
Mrs. Sartor vs to alight She was
trembling still, and half inclined to re
turn. Already the dark shadows of
the weary years to come were length
ened out before her. And the man
whose lore she was about to betray !
Well, it w as now too lata to recede.
God knows she was sorry most wo
men are when thev are f juud out.
"Sold !" h it-Bed the colonel, in his
rage kicking a poor crossing-Bwceier
w ho had rushed up to open the car
riage door.
'I was only a-openin the door,"
whined the old mendicant
"D n you J" io awed the colonel
"you are always opening doors when
you're not wanted. What the devils
the meaning ot this t ut it is not too
late."
''Sot so fast, Dunkirque," I said,
swinging down from the box, the fur
tippet still upon my shoulders. "Wail
a moment Mrs, Sartorys" for the
benefit of the servants "I have won
my wager, lhe colonel betted l would
never uiive him anywhere with-out his
knowing it Let me take you into the
house."
Mrs. Sartorys took my arm, and I
led her np the steps.
She did not speak, but smiled strange
ly and touched my hand.
Thenl turned to LMiukirque.
"Vou are an infernal scoundrel I" I
said, taking him ou cue side. lf you
choose to make a scene I'll knock you
down, old as I am. No ; I shall not
give vou satis 'action. Before you are
off, let me warn you to beware of Scot
land lard. That bill ot Livingston s
has been placed in their hands, and the
fo.-gery traced to you."
This time ne really went to laduct
Station, caught the last train, and was
seen no more.
Then 1 returned to the house.
"You have acted like a hero," sob
bed Mrs. Sartorys. "I can never re-
There stood jack smiling iu xue uoor-
way. She did not see mm. xio must
never know.
It was oulv a trifling service, and
one which 1 was only too happy to ren
der," 1 said, bowing low. "You over
rate it A drunken servent is always
dangerou'-''
lou have saved my nonor, sue
wai begiuing.
Hush ! ' 1 said, "JtCK must never
know." Then aloud : "lou are hyster
ical ; let me ring for your maid.
Between us we got her out oi toe
room.
"What is it all about, old fellow Tt
asked the irreverent Jack, when Mrs.
Sartorvs had been safely disposed of in
her room.
Jarvis drunk agaiu as usual I
murmured laconically (the lie cost me
500, and a free passage to the colonies
for the irreproachable Jarvis and his
family ; but it was not a dear price to
pay for the happiness oi one s uearesi
friend ). I've discharge the brute for
"AH right," said easy-going tiaca,
"I'll get another."
Aud Door Jarvis was discharged.
I do not think that Mrs. Sartorys
lMt mnch that night Jack told me
tl.it kIia cried a good deal "She seems
to thiuk that she bad a narrow escape,
old fellow" Jack said unsuspiciously.
"Yes. I answered, very.
But he never knew how narrow.
In spite ot statistics showing that
i , i 1545 more failures lu the
i :it suites and Canada during 1H
ii. ,i.,r, ikxi the country is not
lil&ll UUiwe -w f
i., nm.i.mna than it was a year ago.
Perhaps many of the wrecked firms
hi,ve been made wild and extravagant
by prosperity.
ruber Worlrtt tbaa Oars."
The t cent observations made on the
planet Venus during her transit across the
sun appear to col firm the Impression de
rived from the last t raw-it iu 1874, that
ebe has an atn csphere not less dense than
our own, rrti aqueous vepor and cloud
within that atmospheie. This conclusion
would have grieved the late Professor
Whewell, who, in his ingenious etsay to
disprove the plurality of inhabited worlds,
took for granted that we 'Misctrn no traces
of a gaseous or watery atn.ooptiere sur
rounding her (Venus)," and built on this
n eutive evidence onw of bis arguments to
prove that ia the whole universe the earth
is not improbably the only habitable globe,
rrofessor W lit well did his best to show
that the artb held a very singular place
in what might be a very unique solar sys
tem ; that it occupied what he called "the
temperate zone ' of its own suu s system.
and that there is no particular retson to
suppose that any other sun has pianelary
attendants at all In order to make out
the singular position of the earth iu iu
own sun s system, l'rofessor VV heweil wa
cou pellcd to make tne most of the intensi
ty of the litrlit and beat io Mercury and
'Venus and the most apain, of the com par
ative cold of Mare. In point of fact how
ever, it is probable that a very slight mod
ification of our human organization evjn
if any structural modification at all of that
organization were necessary would enable
creatures of the same general structure
and babits as mm to live with ease in
either of the p'anels nearest to the earth.
in either Mars, which should, caferi
variOus. be colder and darker, or in
Venus, which should cacteris paribut
be lighter and hotter than the earth. We
know, to some extent the configuration of
the continents in Mars, aud our astronom
era have at times watched the area of the
polar snows of that planet increasing with
the approach ot winter aud dwi-dling
with the approach of summer. Of Venus
we know much less, the intense brightness
of her reflected light being a very unfavor
able condition for minute observation.
But the apparently clear evidence for au
atmosphere of a good deal ot density, and
for the prtence of cloud aud aqueous vapor
in that atmosphere, disposes completely of
the late Professor TV heweil s assumption
that no c realm e resembling man now has,
or could ever have, his abode there. Tnere
now seems no reason to doubt that in
Venus the conditions of physical exis.ence
are suca that either there now may be
there, or may have been, or may be in
future, a being whose physical existence
might like that of a man and the animal
natures nearest to man, exist under some
thing closely approaching to those ot ter
restrial life. The length of the day in
Venus is nearly the same, the weight of
any given mass is nearly the same, the at
mospheric conditions are probably not
very different from our own; the ouly
material differences being probably the
length of the year, which is not very
much above the half of outs or, say
about seven month instead ot twelve
aud the amount cf light and heat, which
unless mitigated by special atmospheric
conditions, as they easily might be, would
probably be twice as intense as terrestrial
light and heat
We insist on this analogy, however,
only for the sake of those who like the
late Dr. Whewell, made the argument
from analogy so all-important though m
relation to a question on which, as it ap
pears to us, the argument from analogy
has really a very slight bearing indeed.
There is no reason in the world why spir
ilual beings, much more like to us in tbeir
thoughts than it is al all probable that
birds and tortoises are like to us in their
thoughts, should not exist everywhere
in the pure ether, in the hottest tumes of
the sun, id the dimness of the darkest re
cesses of space, in the beat of ihe volcano,
or in the depth of the ocean. - Ignore the
reasoning from analogy and we can hardly
have a less secure basis for reasoning,
where observation is limited as it is in
this case, in one minute corner of the uni -verse,
and we shall find no more reason
why we should confine the Creator's power
to working within conditions closely re
sembling cur own than there is why we
should assume that He will work at all in
reg'ons where we have no evidence of that
work.
Confusion Caused bjr Uidlea' Same.
Why it was done we cannot say, but
quite a number of the streets of Austin
have been named after females. Such
names as tmma, Laura, Isabella slare
at you in large letters from almost every
corner. The Austin people, or eonie of
them at least, have lecome tolerably
fami'iar with Maria, Jane, Susan and
the rest, but strangers are liable to be
come bew ildered by this singular nom
enclature. A gentleman from Dallas, who had
only a few hours to spend in onr city,
wisned to take a look at the new Capitol,
and not knowing where it was he made
inquiry of the first man he met
"Can you teu me how x can nnd me
new temporary Capitol?"
"That s easy enough. Are yon famil
iar witt Emma street?"
"I am not. I have no acquaintance
with any lady of that name. There is a
family by that name in Dallas, but I am
not acquainted with them. Does
Emma Street live near the new Capi
tol?"
The Austiu'mau stared at the stranger
for a moment, and then, pointing down
Magnolia avenue, he said:
"You see where Marin comes into the
avenne?"
The Didlas man looked in the direc
tion pointed out Ul1 perceiving a fat
old negro wom:ui with a big uasKei on
her aim nodded his head iu ascent
"Well, vou must take Maria until you
get to the corner of Elizabeth, and un
til Teggy and fciaran come logeiuer, auu
then you will be all right"
"Look here, my friend, if you think
I am that kind of a man because I oome
from Dallas you are most confoundedly
off. I want you to understand that I
am a gentleman."
"You dog-gasted idiot! retonea tue
the Austin man, "if I was as bad off lor
brains as you are I would bre a hole in
my empty skull and nire a nigger
to pour iu ten cents' worth of cheap
oleomargarine.
The .Dallas man snook his nrsi ai uie
native, and said:
I've always heird that the State
Lunatic Asy.uin was too small to accom
modate all the lunatics, but now I know
it " and he moved off toward Esmeralda,
while the other party leaned up against
the corner of Ann and Matilda and
glared after him as he disappeared in
the direction of Martha.
In the eastern part of Massachu
setts, and with head-quarters in Boston,
are seven nail mills, operating 300 ma
chines, and turning out an average of
10,000 kegs per week, mostly tor the
home trade, but turuisiung suipmenuj
for Cuba and South America,
mdy al .
The men before the mast numbeied
forty-six, and were a motley set, from
nearly every quarter of the globe. As
their names were yet unknown, tna
mates called them out rapidly ia turn,
by some peculiarity they noticed in them.
"Step out here, you fatty!"' "You fel
low with the big jib, come here!' or
the like. Including Captaiu Hammond
and his wife, and three mates, the cot k,
and steward and their assistants, the
carpenter and his mate, and myself,
we cumbered fifty-eight souls on board
destined to "share - and shore" alike
whatever fate might have been in
store for the good ship Three JJroth
cru, while she sailed her solitary course
of eighteen thousand miles. .
A sailing-ship bouud across the seas
will generally contrive to leave port, as
we did, on a Sunday. Sunday is a poor
day in port, as no work can be done iu
loading the vessels; if the cargo is all
in on a Thursday, the ship will be de
tained a day on some pretext or other,
in order to avoid sailing oh the dreaded
Friday. The following Sunday is em
ployed iu cleaning up the decks, and
the crew take an account of stock, as
they did on our first Sunday. All per
formed unusual ablutions, and most of
them dressed for the day aud idled
about in the sun, sleeping, mending
their cloths, or chatting in the desultory
manner in which a score or two of peo
ple who had never known each other
before, gradually find their affinities, and
adjust themselves to the little world in
which they are to live together for a
few months. The reckless, thriftless
character of asai or is the natural result
of the life to which he is doomed. Going
lo sea before he has the remotest idea
of what kiud of a career life in the fore
castle must inevitably be, he learns to
live m the present, and that fact alone
tends to produce recklessness. Every
voyage separates him from those b9
likes and introduces him to a new set of
beings, tossed in a half -hazard fashion
in his path, aLd from viicm in a few weeks
he is destined to seperate, and never to
see them again. Any storm is lively
to be his last; every times he goes sloft
he is likely to fall to his death. Deep
reflection ou the character of his des
tiny or the prosiiects of bettering his
career can only iu suggestions of snicidd
or despair. le is therefore, always
like an overgrown boy hi his mind, of
fering strange alterations cf simplicity
and cunning: now tender as a woman.
now callous and cruel as a tiger a med
ley of astounding contradictions of char
acter, moved more by the impulse of
the moment than by settled convictions
and easily by a mind or a will stronger
than his own.
Making a rMKicer "Git.'
A justice of the peaoa in tha interior
of Michigan bad a case before him some
days ago in which the defendant, who
had been arrested for siispijkms char
acter, and pleaded guilty to vagrancy,
was sent to the Detroit House of Cor
rection for six mouths. A constable
took him in charge to deliver him there,
and as the idaa of securing board anil
lodging for six months, he was not hand
cuffed. As the train was about ready
to go the constable moved across the
aisle to talk politics with a friend, and
pretty soon they were having it hot
and heavy.
When the conductor came in for tick
ets he held his hand ont to the prisoner,
and the latter shook his head and re
plied: "I don't pay fore."
"Aha! You dou't eh? Well, now, you
pay or git!"
"I won't payl"
"Then you'll git'" When we slow np
at the crossing you jump off. If I find
you on the traiu after we pss there I'll
give you a bounce that yon won't for
get!" Jn two minutes the train began to
slow and the prisoner walked to the
door picked a soft spot and dropped
off.
When the train Lad made tine the
mile the conductor held out Irs bund to
the constable and received two tickets.
"Who is the extra one for?" he asked.
"For that prisoner over there."
Why, that fel !"
Then there was raving and gnashing
of teeth and hurrying up and down,
but it was no use.
"Sorrv," said the ooudaetor, as he
passed alonir," but when a passenger
says he won't pay fair on my train I
give him the drop. The ouly tiling that
surprised me was to see how willingly
heobeved orders."
81 IMdu't UkaS f-CcMklng RaVolvera.
It was in the Carolina backwoods, a
country conple and a country parson.
Though a Baptist the minister wore an
old surplice. When he had finished the
ceremony, he said :
"An them una who uod hath oin-
e4"-
"Stop thnr, parson, said the groom;
"don't say tlrMn'una, say these'uns!"
"John, said the parson, "1 tech you
at school, and I say them'uns."
"Tht'seuns shouted the groom,
drawing his pistol.
The parson seeing the movouicnt hred
through his surplice aLd the groom
dropped dead winging the parson as he
went down, l here was a lively iusiiaue
of perhaps thirty shots. Whea the
smoke cleared away half a dozen men
were on the lloor. The bride, peeping
over the pulpit to which she had fled
for refuse, gaz.d mournfully on the
scene and said:
"Them self-cockin' pistols is a play
in the deuce with my prospecksl"
Of course the story is an impossible
one, and yet, said Mr. Smith: "That
ia tue staple story of the south that is
circulated aud believed throughout the
north. While such a thing could hardly
have happened in JSorth Carolina any
more than in Xew York, Uie average
northern man smiles increduously when
you tell him that this performance is
Tba EaKUa Bohemian Bang.
Among the places in London interesting
to tucb as have a penchant lor the haunts
of genius is a sort of tap-room, located In
a cellar under a corner of the Tavistock
Hotel, and dtrxctly opprslte the Convent
Garden Market Little known to the Am
erican tourist aud more seldom visited by
him, there are few. we take it, among the
reusing community of London to whom its
. -tory is not more or less familiar,
ivan's, it is styled, and it stands in the
try midst of numberless scenes wed
known to most of us through the medium
of old as well as more recent British
aulhors.
For the past century and a half if
what we are told be true the choicest
spirits of the English literary and theatri
cal world have been wont, at n gut, to
congregate in this refectory ; then and
thre to abandon themselves to whatever
recreation apptrtains to such an assem
blage. The original Evans, of course, went to
his last home long yesrs aiio, but succeed
ing tapsters have occupied his shoes in
such uninterrupted succession that each
lias taken the thread ot bistoiy where his
predecessor dropped it and so preserved
unbroken the story of the place.
lhe present depository of its annals is a
rubiciiud old fellow, wha possesses an ap
propnately colored nose, but who lacks
somewhat that complete rotundity of per
son which one desiies to see in the host of
a very ancient tap. Though dignified and
little prone to the garrulity which might
be expected from his occupation and sur
roundings, he still is quite ready to recite
his story, whenever be feels that he has an
auditor upon whom his breath will not be
wasted. To the worthy listener, then, he
will point out table after table, at which
have sat various celebrities who frequented
Evans's " before you waa born, sir," and
will nirrate such incidents of their careers
as are the special property cf that institu
tion. But his great boast is of the pictures
that adorn the walls, among which are the
rortraits of Sheridan, Siddons, Kemhle,
and fifty others who within the recollec
tion of Evans, have roused audiences, of
even stirred the nation.
Quaint and cracked as many of these
portraits are, they are much better than
the ordinary run of "likenesses," and not
a few ot them are noticeable for genuine
Hrtistic merit. In our memory to see Peg
oiuiigton now, just as the artist depicted
ber ; a hthe fair creature ; more girl than
woman: simplicity's self, and yet shout
whom there is tnat soinethiug or other,
we know not bow to call it which Charles
Keade brin.' out so cleverly in his novel
bearing ber name. Among the collection
is a picture of Edwin Forrest ; and we
will never forget the pompous flourish
with which the b.ist pointed to it as a
proof of England's appreciation of genius,
no matter what its nationality. A portrait
in the gallery of which he has the ward,
in bis opinion, is akin to sculptured hon
ors in Wes. minster Abbey.
But midnight has c,)ine. The theatres
are over and the crowd is collecting. S
to be regular and to do as others do, let us
choose a table rnd order chops and potatoes
and beer.
By this time, no doubt, the room is filled
with notabilities, and it would be our
greatest pleasure to tell the reader ju-t
how tbey look, and all about them ; but
as we ourselves haven't the (lightest idea
as to who is who, we will presume each
individual to be a marvel in his own par
ticular wny, and turn our attention to the
refection that we see is comiug.
And isn't this a loottsome di.-h? Chops
as delicate as the daintiest palate could
wish for. and potatoes suci as are to be
gotten only where potatoes are a speciality.
11 iw white the hitter open, aud bow
beautifully they crumble as the waiter
presses them from their jackets.
Now, everything is ready. So. with
the best of appetites and an imagination
so strengthened by the situf tin as to be
able to summon whomsoever It will, we
proceed to sup amid a company selected
from a list extending back for ages.
Fancy occupying a table where, a hun
dred aud fitly years ago, Colly Cibbcr
may have discussed chops and potatoes
with boon companions; or from which, in
their rerpeetive periods, OarricK or Wil
son or dear old Thackeray were used to
contribute to the fun and hilarity of this
place.
Does any one who has read "Pendcn
nis" forget lhe "Back Kitchen ?" What a
j'lliy den it was! How every rollicking
disposition gravitated to it naturally 1 Was
ever description more graphic than the
novelist has written of that resort t When
Thackeray penned it be unquestionably
bad in his mind some place that bad fig
ured in his own experience ; and we can
hardly visit Evans's without feelirg that
Foker, or Shandon, or miserable old
drunken Costigan must be somewhere
about or that little Bows may still be
found operating at the p.ano.
Apropos fil the turn our thought has
tcken, how wild fancy runs when once
(tee rein is given it ! Whilst we've been
sitting here it has peopled this old room
with beings whose talk and laughter
ceased generations since, the walls mean
while reverberating the din and clamor of
a living throng. And furthermore, not
only has it rtliabililatei' the dead, it has
brought hither the shadowy creatures of
imagination and invested them also with
substantiality.
Welt the chops and potatoes are gone.
the tankatd is empty, and the crowd Is de
parting. Perforce, then, we must wend
our way.
Having lighted a cigar we sally forth,
and as we homeward stroll this thought
sugests itself, that as we have sat and
mu'sed of men who now five only in the
story of their achievements, so when the
Present shall have retreated to its position
in the Pat the coming wight will occupy
the seat we have ja-t vacated, and therein
will meditate upon soma as yet unknown
but stmiug, and whoee names the Future
will tiud upon the record of tiie great
AoDlvcruriea arl Holiday.
For the year 18b3 days aud dates of
important events, anniversaries and hol
idays will fall as follows: Epiphany,
Saturday, January 6; Septuagesima Sun
day, January 21; Shrove bundaj,
iFastnacht) February 4; Ash Wednes
day, February 7; First Sunday in Lent,
Feoruary 11; St Valeutiue's day Wed
nesday, February 14; Washington's
Birthday, Thursday. Februaiy 2J;
Patrick's Day, Saturday, March 17;
Palm Sunday, March 18; Good Friday,
March 23; E-uUer Sui-day, .March 2j;
Low Sunday, April 1; Rogation Sunday,
April 29; Ascension Day, (Holy Thurs
day,) May 3; Pentecost, ( W hit Sunday,)
May 13; Trinity Sunday, .May 20; Cor-
pns Curisti, Thursday, May 24; Decor
ation Day, Wednesday, May 30; Inde
pendence Day, Wedueiday, July 4;
First Sunday in Advent, December 2;
Chr.stmas. Tuesday, December 2o.
Duriug the mouth of December,
07 HA liul. h uf cotton were thinned to
Europe, from Norfolk, tirginia.
Tliouthta for WintPlY
One of the first rules established for
washing, is to wash white clothes first
and colored clothes afterwards. During
this cold weather, when clothes freeze
almost immediately on being put out
doors, the whole day is scarcely suffici
ent to dry them. Colored clothes are
injured much more than white ones by
remaining damp over Dight so that it is
a good plan to have them reauy to pnt
out first If there is a lauudry in the
house, the result is the same. Another
help in this disagreeable business, in
cold weather, is to place the small artic
les, such as collars and cuffs, etc, upon
the clothes dryer which can lie Bet out
ef doors until the clothes are frozen, and
then brought in and dried. This saves
many cold fiDgers and toes. W earing
mittens when hanging clothes upon the
line, is another saving of fingers.
These are little things, but the little
things are sometimes productive of more
real benefit than the largex ones, whioh
may not be suited to our circamstances
or need, housekeeper can long do
her own work without discovering some
way of saving either labor or money.
W e are apt to think such matters of inte
rest only to ourselves, or that every body
knows them, or that others are not obli
ged to practice sneh little economies.
We are constantly finding that people do
not know as much as we supposed, and
that the most of ns are interested in
anything pertaining to a saving of dol
lars and cents.
Now that the cold weather is here,
there are other matters of interest to be
discussed. How to keep the little ores
amused when tltey must stay in the
house, how to pleasantiv ami profitably
employ the evenings, which are longer
than in the city, where the evening meal
is seldom over before seven o'clock, how
to find time for improving reading, and
what to read, all these are subjects on
which w can all learn something. We
nope that when the hurry of tue holi
days is over, w Inch is doubtless the rea
son why we have not heard from some
of our Inends lately, we shall have the
bentht of some experience in these di
rections. Standard Time.
1 is always of interest to know how
the world jogs by the clock and how the
clock swings by the sun. The primary
standard time-keeper of England is a
sidereal clock kept iu the basement of
the Loval Oliservatorv Greenwich.
This clock is of the best construction.
and is, moreover, provided with the
m st approved apparatus for com pens
tion aud correction. Experience has
shown that the best results are obtained
when the connection between the driv
iug weight and tue jiendtiluni of a clock
is as slight as possible. This has been
accomplished in the Greenwich clock bv
the use of an escapement, the details of
which are very intricate. The secondary
regnl tor of the time of England is the
mean solar standard clock at the Kovul
Observatrv, which waa specially erected
in IS-i. for service in the time signal sys
tem, of which it is now the most import
ant instrument This cluck has a s.-c-onds
pendulum, which closes an electric
circuit as it swings to the right An
electro-magnet in the circuit lilts a small
weight which is discharged upon the
pendulum as it swings to the left aud
gives it an impulse; this being repeated
at each vibratiou is sufficient to keep it
in motion. The pendulum also closes
other galvanic circuifs one as it swings
to the right another as it swings to tue
left which send currents alternately
positive anil negative throngli electro
magnets, alternately attracting and re
pelling bar-magnets fastened to an axis,
which thus receives a reciprocating
motion. An ami projecting from this
axis moves the seconds' wheel oue tooth
forward each second; projer geering
gives motion to the niuiute and hour
wheels. Ihe mean solar standard, be
sides controlling other clocks, drives a
seconds relay, which eonUols a mean
time chronometer. Nearly all the mem
time clocks iu the Eoyal Observatory are
driven by the standard clock, they are,
in fact, simply dials whose hands are
moved in the same way aud by the same
battery as the hands of the standard
itself.
Mary Vrn la tfie srvirc.
At an early hour every morning in
the year, there lnr.y le seen at the rad
roud depot at Fourteenth aud Main
streets, Louisville, Kentucky, a little
old roan, wearing the postal uniform,
busy with the mails. He is seventy-five
years old and bis name is Dr. Charles
C. Green, a local agent for the United
Stab-s mails.
"How long have you be-'n in the mail
service?" a repor er asked Dr. Green.
"Since 1824, when I began carrying
the mails between Mavsvi.le and Lex
ington, bv the way of Winchester, Mt.
Sterling, Onincsville, Sherburn's Mills.
Hiilsboro and t lemingsbtirg. 1 carried
the mails ou horseback, making oue trip
weekly.
'but I may b said to have been in
the mail wivice betore 1821," continued
Dr. Green. "I was eight years old
when the battle of Xew Orleans eceureJ,
iu 184o. We had all heard that a battle
had been fought, but had no particulars.
On a certain bright, clear morning,
when the auow covered the ground as
far as the eyecoulJ reach, we awaited the
c ming of the mail carrier with his
pack-horse. Before he came in sight
the stillness of the air was broken by
cries of 'Good news! good news!" People
were awaiting ail along the road for tue
approach of tne bearer of the news.
There had betn printed at the ollije of
the oi l Lexington Uuzctte a number of
slips of paper containing the details of
the battle and tbe mall carrier was dis
tributing these broadcast 1 waa com
missioned by my father to carry a
number of these to the neighbors living
Around. I had never worn a pair ot
shoes then, and I tramped about the
neighborhood that day lu tbe snow, uy
trou-sers rolled up to the knees, witu
uever a thought of discomfort."
Silk Growing".
Hungary ia becoming quite a silk-
growing country. From stati-tics pub
Imbed a short time ago, it appears that
in 18C1 there were 2976 producers, who
turned out 41,037 kilogrammes cf co-
cools, which realized not less than 41,
816 florins. On the profits th.-re has
been established, with State aid,
model school, which promises to give a
well-directed impetus to the silk grow
ing industry.
This year may be set down as ths
great cotton year in the United sutes
Ihe indications are that the yield wil
reach an aggregate of e.TOO.'H.'O bales
Tu nana Whea Alan.
When the house is alonj by itself, inex
perienced person mav believe that it be
haves just exactly as It dooa when there
are people in it: but that is a delusion, as
yu will discover if you are left alooe in it
at midnight, sitting up for the rest of the
family. At tl is hour it is true disposition
will reveal itself. To catch it at its best,
pretend to retire, put out the gas or lamp,
and go up stairs.' Afterwards come down
softly, light no more than one lamp, go
into the empty parlor, and seat yourself
at a table, with something to read. No
sooner have you done so thaa ycu will
bear chirp, chirp, chirp, along the top of
the room a small sound, but persislenL
It is evidently the wall paper comiig off;
and you decide, after some tribulation, that
it it does come eff you can't he p it and
go on with your reading.
As you sit with your book m your hand
vou begin to be quite sure that some one
is coming down stairs. 6quak suu.ik
squat! What folly! There is nobxly up
there to come Jowb; but there ne! it is
nn the kitchen stairs. Somebody is com
ing up. t'q isk snap! Wtll, if it is a
robber, you might as well face him You
get the poker, and stand with your back
against the wall. Nob.xly comes up. Fin
ally you decide that you are a goose, put
tne poker down, get a magazine and try
lo read.
There, that's the d-jor. Y"ju heard the
lock turn. They are coining home. You
run to the dour, unlock aud unbill itpeep
out Nobody there! But as iou linger.
lhe door Uck gives a click that makes j on
Jump, lif daylight neither lock nor
stairs make any uf those noises unless they
are touched or trodden on. Vou go back
to the parlor in a hurry, with a feeling
that the next thing you know sonie'.tnng
may catch you by the back-bair, and you
try to remember w!ire you left off. Now,
il is tbe table that snaps and cracks as if
all tte spiritualistic knocks were bidden
in its mahogany, l'ou (to not lean on it
heavily without this result; but il fidgets
you, and you take a easy chair chair and
put the book on your hnee. Your eyes
wander up and down tbe page, and vou
grow dreamv, when, apparently, the book
cases fires off a piblol; at least loud.
fierce crack comes from the heart of that
piece of furniture so louj. so fierce, that
you jump to your feet trenibitng.
lou cannot stand the parlor any mere.
1 ou go up stairs. Nosomerdo you get
mere man il seerss lo you somebody is
walking on tbe roof. If the house is a
detached oue, and the thing is impossible.
that makes It all the mote mysterious.
Nothing ever manned in the chimney be
lore, but something moans now. There
is a ghostly step in tbe oath room. Vou
and out afterwards that It la the tap drip
ping, but you do not dare io look at tint
ume. Aud it is evi lent that there is some
thing up the chimney you would not Use
to ask what If you have gas, it bobs up
and down in a phantom dance. It you
have a lamp, it goes out ia ttliie explosion.
If you have a candle, a shroud plainly en
wraps the wick and falls towards you.
Tbe blinds shake as If a hand clutched
them; aid, finally a doleful cat begins to
moin in the ceilar. Y'ou do not keep a
cat, and this finishes you.
iou pretend to rtad no longer, and, sit
ting with a towel overvour head and face,
and heaiiug something rx-low go "Shew I
shew! shew I she!" like a saw, you be
lieve in tbe old ghost stories. Ten minutes
a'terwards the bell ring- the belated ones
comes home; the lights are lit; perhaps
something must be got out to eat People
talk and tell where they have been, and
ask if yoti are lonesome. And not a stair
creaks. No step is heard ou the ro if. No
click at the trout door. No bookcase nor
table cracks. The house ha3 on its com
pany manners only yi u have found out
how il behaves when it is alone.
Pcculjarlt-va Ol Wtminri.
A peculiarity of speech, of mauner or
of
looks, nas often been the making ot
public mau. Georjro Wasiiim-tou's
inagniticeut figure did much for him.
ileury of Navarre's white plume has
caused him to be remrmliered even more
than his valor. John It mdolph's squeak
ing voice first attracted attention to him.
11 art in an Lureu s gold bunlT-box was
the instrument of working him into in
tlnence. General Jackson's habit ol
violent swearing gave him all the repu
tation he ever had. Guncnd Harri. ou
received the Presidency bv living in a
log cabin. TUom.u' II. Benton made his
reputation by sweariug at paper monev.
James Buchanan's good looks kept him
in public hie half a century, and finally
made him President Abraham .Lin
coln's rail splitting experience uiJmu h
to originally raise him to the Presidency.
Allen G. Thurman made a national re
putation by bis use of a red bandana
handkerchief. Tom Och iitree has made
a wide fume by lying. Jn the presnt
Senate George H. Pendleton lives on his
deportment. - Mr. Edmunds flourishes
on his power of satire. Bayard is dia
tingnuhe.1 for his lumily connections.
Dau Vorhtes Lves on the n pntation
made by his violent utterances duriug
the war. Mr. Anthony is conspicuously
knowu as the only Senator who ever
matched Thomas H. Benton iu the
number cf re-elections. Hampton aud
Butler are k lown for their pecniiar ways
of carry inc elections
sprang st.irT .m:ut snu Ansa.
Judge Major, cf Kentucky, relates
tue following story of Sauta Anna, the
Mixtcan Dictator: "Did yon ever hear,"
ha said, ' that he was a Kentncian?" 1
confessed that I never had. "Well that
is believed by many old people altout
Frankfort; I have heard it from bov-
hood. It is said that Santa Anna, af
terward president of the Mexican repub
lic, was an illegitimate son of the Nat
Sanders, of tlti-t country. While a youth,
he went to New Orleans ou It fiat boat,
and was never s forward heard from.
When captured at San Jacinto, in 183C,
he was brought through this place on
bis way to Washington, aud waa rect g
nizetl by the Sanders, who recog
nized him as their illegitimate and long
lost relative. He did uot deny it He
spoke English like a Kentuckiun, and
with Keutucky accent One of the San
ders had determined to kill him on ac
count of the death of a relative in the
massacre of the Alamo, bnt abandoned
his pnrprse wheu he was convinced
that they were blood relations. Th
mother of Eyan E. Settle, of Owenton,
was a Sanders, and he bears a marked
resemblance to the pictures of Santa
Anna. Lark in E. Sanders, re resenti-
live from Carroll county to the present
general assembly, belecgs to the family,
as also did the noted George Sandets,
who figured so proiaimnUy in politics
during the administration of Pierce and
Bnchaoau."
NEWS IN LIUEF.
The arrivals at New York from
foreign porta, during 188o. ni inhered
6476. including 1945 st-anier.
The toWl product ol the Lo.vlviila
Biiues for 18s2 is reported at $H,--i,-8(
3, which is So.OOO, 327 mere than in
1881.
The cane ;rop of M'ssissif pi is this
year largely in excess ef any heretofore
produced, and is yielding a haud.-orne
profit
Thirty thousand dollars is the money
value of the cocounuts sbippea from
the island of Jamaica to the United
State.
Th- United States Government
ouns 43,000,000 acres of laud in C-li -fornia,
and half of it is suitable for good
farn.3.
There are 413 street rail war com
panies in the United States and Canada,
w hich run au aggregate of 18,000 cars
per day.
Two years ago there were bat seven
cotton mills in the Dominion ; now
there are tweutv-oue, with an jregate
capital of 36.600,000.
Tbe Great Di.-mal Swunip iu Vir
ginia is passing away. Much of the
area has been reel -limed and conver?t.t
into good tillage laud.
Tomatoes to the amount of 1,30
000 cases are annually cmned in the
United States, or 6:,0tH),000 pouu.ls.
Valued at $3,300,000.
Pennsylvania ranks iirst anions; tue
United States iu the number of post
offices, having 3,396, more thau uu
ether State iu the Union. -
The population of Ore t Cntain en
joys an income of $.1,0. O.txJO.OuO, oi
which eighty-three jer Cent, is expen
ded for tue necessaries ol li:e.
The receipts of the Patent O lice
during tue year w.reSl.l 09 lsi-i, against
5833,665 during ISMl. Tueutt revenue
of the Office during the year was Sl'.i") -(X)0.
'
Competent judges eatinatethat the
Franeo-Ueruiau war cost Franco tv: .
provinces, a million of lives, ai d
000,000 000. It added Si ink) o,m ii-h
to the debt
Tk ..-.1.:.. t
in? "ursuiji oi ja-nis was intro
duced into Borne by Bouiulus. Natua
Pompilius named the Ur,t mouth of the
year lor him, aud dedicated a covere I
passage near the forum to hiui.
Tne three-cent silv.-r pnee has
leen abolished from the United State
coinage, and they are now being re
deemed at the sulMreaauru s. Sn
three-cent pieces will be maleoi uiekl-.
Treasurer Gilfiiiau, w ho has pur
chased 30jO acres of laud iu Florida,
will have other persons associate wdtl
mm, aim uunug tue comiug year wn
Year wu!
plant uo fewer tuau a lOOO
acres with
orange tr.-es.
Ihe late David GrecCshh.ld-i, 0f
Montreal, beipiea.heti over 1 W) to
various euaritable and puhiio inani
tions. Tue Montreal O n. r;d U .,ital
aud q letu s University, Kintou.' re
ceived 310,000 each.
Lyons was tae centre of tie intel
lectual life of Europe during tiio tir.t
halt of the sixteenth ceuuirv. liry
phe, the great priuter, h id his oihVe
there, and lu 1330 sent out a Latin Bi
ble, remarkable for its freedom
errors.
Id the reiga ul Link wr it...
landholders ol France w-r f,.u,".,.i
their estates immense, a sinH.f n.-r,...,
often being lord of a hundred parishes.
luovmeui -Heniouilie aud his dau-'U-ter,
the Princess of iarent i
parishes.
Two haudred au 1 forty-four ,.-irt!.-
ipiakes. it is statetL are known to have
occured duriug 18S1, of which ei -lity-six
were iu Winter, sixty-one inA.i
tutuu, hfty-six in Sorin ' and f. .,-
in Summer.
A Nevad-t mine hai int or.. i .i
a bar of gold seventeen inches 1oUt
seven inches widendei-'htiuch.-H ti.i,-!T
weighing 450 pouu.Lt. with a v .'
Ol SI 15,000. it is said to b i tile lar'.'.. t
oar ever cast lu the t jited States.
-u.iaga.car is ratuer larger tha i
trance. A belt of almost vir-r,,, r,.r
runs around the island. Ti. no,.,,!-,.
tiou is about four millions, ami tho soil
wul easily support thirtv milli..rw l
dia rubber is a priucipal cx:oit.' Tiio
mineral wealth is enormous.
The detailed proj'x-t for the sul
marine tuunel between Italy and Sici!
has been finished, aud ill soon l. B,u
mated for Government approba'ioi
luo leugih ot tae tuuuel will I... l. ,
i indes. The expense is cidcuhitcd
514,250,000.
lhe infant boy of the ruler of Bur
inau has a cradle w hich cost $1 IJ0J ito.)
it is made of gold and covered witn
precious stones. But ho has the st.tij
les, colic and collywobldes j.ut the sauie
as the baby that tills a erii. ti.t .U.I.;
cost Si 3 J.
There are 1H public scieutiais ob
servatories iu ihe worl,L Tho most
ancient w that of Leyden, founded in
lho- ; then come Copenhagen, founded
in 16J7; Paris, in 1667. ami Greenwich.
m lt, .j. 1'iusaia. now tha ri.di.i
country iu the woild in astronomical
observatories, had none ImM,t ls-r.
The 21.000 Ea-'li-rb. Puritans, who
came over to New Eul:tud before tha
meeting oi ui0 jon Parliament have
uow increased to nearly 13,0011,000.
According to the most careful estimaie",
at least oue-fourtu of the wholo popu
lation of tie United SUtea at tiie'pres
eut moment ia du-couded from tries a
men.
f atherly .tilvlce.
One of the veterans on Wall street
was the other day giving some fatherly
advice to one of his clerks, about to be
married, and in closing his sermou he
said: "Directly after the ceremony
there will be a banquet, of course. Wnen
your wife turns her plate she will fiuili
check for 530.000 nnder it" "Do yon
really thiuk so?" "Oh, I know it; that's
ihe prevailing style now-a-days. Tiio
check will be passed uriuud aud finally
given to yon to pocket." "And next
day I will draw the money on it." Oh,
no, you won't" "Why not?"" "Be
cause there won't be any. Don't make
a dolt of yourself by running to the
bank." "But I thought" "No matter
what you thought. Save the eh' ck to
frame and hang up. Wheu 1 was mar
ried thirty years ago. my wile f und one
under her plute. I've got it yet I
thought too much of her father to mor
tify his feelings, aud I know be has al
ways respected me for it That's ail,
my son. If run you t-hort onyonr bridal
tour, telegraph me."