THE OOISTITUTI01-THE U5IOH-AJD THE EjTOBOIMEIT OP THE LI VS. Editor and Proprietor. B. F. SCHWEIER, TOL. XXXVII." MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA., WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 7.1SS3. NO. (. A GOLDEN WEDDING. There u a time beneath New England Bkits Wben the late autumn, as 11 loth to go, linger? along the hills with sanllt eyes. And outstretched hands over the vaica below. A gulden haze floats round her lite a oust. The air la soft and balmy whrre the arrays. And lo ! aj her lam, richest partlnK gift, Mie brings the glorious Indian summer days. So in theae lives of ours there comes a time. After liDjf suite with care, aid .-elf anl sin. When tne suul nw-a by a power sublime, Aud to Uod'a rest and sunshine enters lu ; Where calm and quiet, and the peace ot Uod, And love divine, atier loo, patient years. Sit Jubilant upon the radiant irow. And' hie has no more place for griefs or fears. To these, lore-crowned bj fifty happy years, Thair goMcn wedding brings still rarer gifts Than Mesaed the glad, br.ght data ot long ago. For now Gud'a smile their suuis to heaven nn 11ft s. And in life's blissful Indian summer time, 60 rich in heartfelt Jot, liicy can await. With reverent trust, ttieir Heavenly Father's will. Till axle He leads them through tne golden gate. NUT VFKT AXUKV. Grandma Hams was -wrapping up the deli lions golden balls of her own make of butter in fragrant snowy linen cloths, anil meutallv cilculatiug what the butter and cott sjre cream, and the ! four pair of fat chickens, and the half dozen pumpkins, and the fonr barrels of apples ought to bring in the market when grand-father went to town in the big wagon the next day. And just as tUe had - about decided that, with good luck, they ought to be able to buy the piano for Bessie by Christmas, there came a step alongside, and she looked up, to see Frank Mem vale, tall, handsome, with his fall over coat wearing a rosebud and a spray of bovardia and Lis soft felt hat pushed off his forehead. 'Oh, it's you, is it, Frank?" grandma Harris said, patting a butter-ball lov ingly as she laid it beside a dozen others in the long shallow- basket. "It is I, grandma. "What arc you doing ? "Give me a taste. "Don't you know 1 used always to help vou get the batter ready for mar ket?" 'I haven't forgotten how to tell if it is salt enough." "Of course you haven't forgotten since you have been such a find city gentleman. "Much you care for anything down here in the country nowadays." hue twinkled him a look from behind her tilvtr-riwnied glares, whose ro guishnens slowly changed to solicitous concern as, for the fitst time since her 'boy" had been home to the farm for a month's visit, she noticed a paler look than she liked to see on his face, and a certain unhappy look in his eyes. "What's the matter Frank ?" she fin ished suudeuly, laying down her las pat of butter, and looking steadily at bitn. He answered her look with a little forced laugh. "The matter with we ? "Why, bless your old soul, grandma, there's nothing whatever the matter with me. "Don't I eat and sleep like a plough man?" "Do yon, Frank? "Honor bright, dear isn't there any thing amiss with you V" "Not physically, at all events," he said gaily. Tnen.as suddenly as gravely, he ad ded "1 don't mind telling you, grandma it's Lulu Carroll ! "Lulu Caroll 1 "Has she been tormenting you, my dear Frank ? "Tell me the whole truth ; now, mind," she said solemnly. "There's not very much to tell," he said, with another constrained little laugh. ''She doesn't care anything whatever abut me, and I cau't help making a fool of myself over her." Grandma Harm covered her butter- rolls oyer cax.;fully, and then went on "She doseu'tcare for you as much as you care for her ? "Js that it ?" "That's exactly it." "Did she tell yoa bo ?" "Not in so many words, but all the same I have been made aware of the fact," . "But, Frank, if " He looked coaxingly at her, but she saw the paleness on his dear face was even more piouounced than before, as he gently interrupted her "Don't let's talK about it, please. "I didn't mean to mention her name to a living soul. "I'd rather endure my sorrow in si lence, since it seems to me that Lulu Carroll has it in her power to wreck my hie for me. I felt sure bhe loved me but sue don't, "And that's all there is of it" And after that, grandma Harris went on counting her eggs in silence, while Frank leaned agaiu.it the shelf and look ed at her. And then after a few minutes he went avwav- and rrandnia took off her specta cles and wiped tbe tears from her dear old eyes lor Frank was the apple of her eve, and his happiness or misery delighted or wounded her to the very core of her motherly heart "I daresay he's no worse than other men " she decided after diUUer that day. "Thev mostly do fall in love with the girl that is likeliest to lead tiieni a pret ty gait , , "I'll put on my brown cashmere and just run over and see how sister Carroll -.,.1 l.wiv T n'ti'u nrr.m- IS geiUUg OlJ, rjiu ijvuvw mu.uh cuke recipe. "Frank's erv fond of that creani- rafcn of lipw." And so when Lulu Carroll came down from her own room into the sunry cosy sitting-room about three o'clock Uiat same afternoon she found her mother and Sirs. Harris enjoying a most com fortable clutt over their bright knitting needles. She was such a pretty ftirl, blender and graceful, with big brown eyes and wavy golden-brown Lair. lm didn't wonder a bit that Frank fnrvd tin much for her. "Oh. it's Mrs. Hairis."she said laugh ing, and showing hex pretty white teeth and her dimples. "Yes, it s rce, sure enougn. "I wanted your cream-cake recipe, dear, and there seemed a good chauc for me to get away for an hour or so, so I thought I'd run over myself after it Frank's very fondjof cream-cake ; he won't get much of it either, poor fel low." "Lulu was copying her recipe, but .Mrs. Harris's keen eyes did not fail to Bee the little flustof color that surged up to the girl's forehead at niention of Frank Meriiv ale's name. "How's that ?" Mrs Carroll inquired, interestedly. "Why, dida't you know he was going back to town next Tuesday ? They don't ever have any such cream-cake there, yon don't suppose ?" Lulu folded the neat bttle paper up and handed it to Mrs. Harris, who put it carefully away in her pocket "Yes, Frank's going back to the city this week, and I don't suppose we shall see much of him after tliiy." Miss Lulu laughed, and shrugged her pretty shoulders. "One would think Mr. Merrivale was going to emigrate to the South Sea Is lands," she answered. "He mi, lit almost as well be going there for ail the nearness to town will do ns." The air of mystery about the old lady was having a most electric effect "Do tell, Mrs. Hams," Mrs. Carroll said, laying her grey yarn stocking down. "If you'll both kttcp it a dead secret, 111 teU y.n. "Frank's going to be married." A momentary silence followed, only broken by the tick-tack of the eipht-day clock in the comer, and the silvery lit tle click ol grandma Harris's needles. Then, although Lnlu felt that her very puises seemed stopping, that for her tne sunlight was for ever to be gloomiebt shade, she managed to utter a strange weird little laugh. "Y3U don't say Frank is going to be married ?. "That is indeed news. "Tell him I congratulate him." Mrs. Han is peeped innocently over her glasses at the sweet pale face. "just so I felt Lulu yon and Frank j had been such good friends and that's wny 1 imuK you ought to ue tola nrsu "Sokes alive ! "It really can't be four o'clock al ready and me with a mile and half to walk, and a short-cake to make for tea." And the little old laday bustled off, while Lulu put on her rod aud brown blanket shawl and her little Derby hat with the scarlet wing and rushed out in to the ensp N ovember air somewhere, anywhere to be all by herself, wherehe could try to realize all the sudden an guish and confusion that had come uxxrn bar. It cannot be ! "Frank Merrivale to be married oh, it can't be true !" And as she walked slowly throngh the apple orchard, rustling the fallen leaves as she trailed through them, the big tears ran thick and fust from her sad eyes. Frank Merrivale lent to her and she loved him so ! She had been so sure of him, so sure by when she condescended to cease her coquetries uKu him she could whistle lain back to her feet To be married I With his handsome face, las pleading voice, his passionate eyes and not to her. With a heatt-breaking little sob she leaned her face on her nanus, aud cried as only a woman can cry when she real ia s tnat her tiue-love is gone for ever, and that all through her own fault. When bhe heard rapid lootsteps com ing up the same narrow path by winch shewusKoing down through the or chard lootsteps she knew so well, that ti'iiiletl her wiJi jealous pain, lor she recognized them belore she had the courage to lift her face, all tear-stained, flush aud wistlul, yet prettier than ever to Frank islerrivale, as he pa-scd her wilti only a smile on his lace as he courteoutly,yet coldly, raised his hat to her and was passing on. For jast one second it seemed to her that her temples, her throat, all her pules would burst, with the concen trated ugony of the moaeut ; should she daw she 'Frai.k !" bhe wid, scarcely above her breath, in a strangely timid pitiful wav. He turned inttantly. "Did vou speak ?" "Frank 1 la it true ?" True ? ' Is what true, Lulu ?" She trembled perceptibly. "Don't hesitate to tell ine don't put off the news I know I duserve to be punished so but you might have known it was l who lovea you ueiier than aDy other girl could. "Oh. Frank 1 know it is dreadful for tie to speak so but I must I shall die it I think you don't know how much 1 love you eeu if yol don t want me.' He looked astonished. I dou't understand you, Lulu." Her lovely eyes Hashed him a piteous, reproachful glai.ee. Frank I Utterly "aou 1 see refuge behind a pretence of ignorance. i know, and you know, what I mean. but," and she began to sob in a wholly uuheroine-like manner, "you might have known how much I loved you. And then, Frank s eyes suddenly be gan to shine with a glad glory that had never been in them before, aud he re membered what grandma Harris Lad said to him when he started off Take my advice, boy, aud if you happen to meet Luiu, don't let her think you re inconsolable." "Jjulu 1 tell me that again say it again you love mo !" 1 do J. do 1 0.0, iiuie, uui. it a too late now, since you re going to be married bo soon. I married, darling T Vi.t that I know of. until you have promised to have me. "vi ui you, uu A ml with hex head on his breast. Lu lu told him all that grandma Hams had kaiiI- "I understand it all plainly enough it was a loving little stratagem to catch nuoiiL Lulu. "Besides, am I not goiug to be. mar ried ? "Sit aren't we? "1 dou't think we're very angry at irraudma Harris, are we ? And Mrs. Frank never makes a cream- cake for her liege lord but that Bue blestea the day his grandmother came tor the recipe. l.noMiKitU Gnus. Tue Armstrong cannon recently made for the Italian man-of-war Italia costs C72 000, while the conespouding gua Vo"be made by Kropp will cost $160, C00 This enormous difference is pkrtiy explained by the different modes of manufacture, and partly by the fact tuat the Bteel bore of the Krupp can non will be all in one piece, while iu the Armstrong cannon it is in two ph.es, a form which has been proved does not in the least weaken the gun. The Italia will oe furnished with three other guns like the one just tried at Spesia, but rather more powerful, the result of recent improvements. VrmUI.Uoa of Mablea. Various suggestions regarding this all important matter are being made in agricultural and other journals, remind ing tbe writer of careful study nf the subject that was forced upon him two years ago. That Winter was very severe, and frost and enow hermetically sealed all the crevices of his cattle barns, so that little air was admitted unless a door or window was opened, and this was at the risk of violent and dangerous drafts, accompanied by sudden aud extreme cnauge of temperature. In Mid-winter the hair on the cattle be came dead, aud was rapidly carded off, very much to their disfiguration. This was very truly attributed to bad air. which, aftdr considerable study, was completely changed by a very simple aud inexpensive arrangement A veu lilator from a warm stable can remove foul air as fast as fresh air is supplied, so when the ordinary vertical air box is made, the remedy is reduced to the simple question of so admitting fresh air as to introduce it freely to all parts of the stable without making a current This was done by the expedient of a box the entire length of the cattle stalls (70 feet), about one foot square int-ide, made of common lumber. ' This opened to the oubiide air in two places; at each a wooden damper was put in to regulate the supply. The bottom of this box was pierced with 3,000 one-haif inch holes, through which air passed readily, but with no effect of draft or chilt The catt e in this stable stood with then heads facing a ceutrtJ alley, and the box was over this, hung to the ceiling, so as the cool air was showered down, the animals had it to breathe before it pas cd under or behind them. As soon as this was in operation a marked change was apareut The cattle freshened up, and iu a few days new hair came where the old had worn off, and never since has there been any sign of dead hair upon tiieni in Winter. This free income of pure air, drawn high above the surface of the groand, coujiled with the use of dry earth as tsn absorbent, has so purified these stables that after a long stay in them, no perceptible odor affect? clothing. Indeed, no stable smell remains, while iio evil effeCa re sult from a constant change of air when introduced as specified. Fresh air is the vital clem ut of health, aud on the lulls of our dairy count ts the supply from November to May is ordinarily ample lor all demands; it is, up to the present writing, not controlled by any combinations, or likely to be locked up by a ring, but in many aud many a stable (and house as well,) it is as care fully economized as if there was a rik of using it all up with no chance of getting any more. A cow cannot give wholesome milk without pure air, as well as pure wattr, but thousands get little of either on farms where free winds blow, aud bright springs bubble, simple becaune no thought is given to ventdatiou, and it la easier to let the herd di ink from a yard pool than to conduct water to them. Shake With Mo. In a btairway on Woodward avenue sat a man who looked the picture ol sadness, and every now and then he pulled out a red handkerchief with many holes aud rents in it and wiped tears from his eyes. By and by a ped estrian halted, aud asked: ''Say, stranger, what ails you?" "Oh, I duuno. I guess I feel sad.". "You shouldn't feel bad on New Year's day. it's the day on which to brace ur aud swear off." "That's just the point!" repliel the man. as he brought out the handker chief, "I haven't anything to swear off from." "Don't you driuk?" "Not a drop." "Nor smoke, nor chew?" "Neither one; nor do 1 ewear, gam ble, bet nor lie." "Well, you must be a pretty good man." "Oh! I am I am! I'm too good. The rest of you can resolve to-day not to rob or steal atrain. You can swear off on wh.sky and tobacco and lay plans for economy, but I've got to phnl right alon? iu the old track." "Can't you think of one single point for reformation?'' "Not a point not a one. I've sat here for a whole hour trying to find on single weakness, but I can't do it Stranger, it makes me sail, and you must excuse these tears. When 1 realize tnat I am ao all-fired good I am half inclined to commit suicide'" "I'll tell you of a point, old man." "Will vou? Thanks! thanks! What is it?" "Why don't you resolve to get your hair cut, wash your face, clean out your nails, and put on a clean slnrtf Why dou't I? I will! Thank Heaven there is a show for me after all! I m not as trood a? I thought I was. Yes. sir. I'll do it Shake with me. You have probably saved my life, and my grati tude is unbounded." And then be cried some more, but they were tears of joy. Storing Ice. The ice should he cut into rectangular lilocWi of tonal size: a convenient siie is 18i24 er 12x18 lueses, according 10 me ihtrkneas and weiirht A cake of the lat ter size eight inches thick, wul contain one cubic foot and weigh aDoui ntty-six tvnniU The larirer siz of the same thickness will weiau nearly iw pouDus. 1 he mass ol ice should be solid ana witn- out any air spaces 111 11 as uie uiuuu . 1 i. are broueht in evenly cut they are ntteo closely but as the cutting cannot be done exactly to rule, there will be Boine f paces here and there Between tne o.ocas. aj the block are built up, norne spare pieces should be broken finely and tbe dust swept with a broom luto the crevices and packed down with the edge of a hroad chisel fitted on 10 the end of a broom handle, fcvery tier should be well packed in this way be lore another is beguu. If this is well done, ice may be kept two or three years in any well-made ice-house, and will waste very little id one season. At least one foot of diy Bawd jsi suould be placed on the floor for the ice to rest upon. The house should be filled in the coldest, clryest weather, and it should be left open a day or two before it is filled. If the weather is very cold, the blck will tree re, and the whole mass bacome very solid if the oackicg is well done. If inside packing is used, this should be put in as the ice is built up and trodden down firmly, and each tr of the ice should be swept clean as it is finished. More then half the fail ures in keeping ico are due to neglect 10 the packing ot it Colonel M. L. Clark, the president of the Louisville Jockey Clab, is urging the organization of a national jockey club. A Xew England Hacking Bee. When the guests have all arrived the boys go to work and pull great arm fids of hay from the mow, which they "spread around the heap of corn. Then each seats himself by his favorite girl, draws a bundle of huks into the hy between them, and the buskiog begins. Work is by no means Buffered, however, to interfere with play. The merry joke goes around; the stolen mitten travels about the circle and back to its owner at last If a eirl happens to pull the husk from a dark-red ear, she must for feit a kiss to the lad nearest or quickest to snatch it As fast as the ears are re moved from the husks they are thrown into separate piles, one for each party, on opposite sides of the heap; aud there is sure to be a deal of pleasant rivalry to see which side will have the larger he p of corn when the husking is done. It is wonderful to see how fast the moun tain of unhusked corn i-. lowered, though the farmer an 1 his boys keep bringing fresh basketfuls and pilling them on the heap. A perfect storm of the golden ears keeps raining on each pile of corn. As the supply of material fails the contest waxfs warmer. The girls throw off their hoods and shawls, and the boys fling aside their overcoats. The warm blood of health rushes to each cheek, and the faster the hands fly the brighter do the faces grow, and the last few cars are scrambled for, by the contending sides, and with shouts of merriment the husking is finished. The victorious side is first served with re freshments. Great palefuls of dough- nuU aud "frittert" and slices of snowy cake, pie cut in generous pieces, cider and apples, nuts and homo-made candy are passed around. The "old folks" come stamping in by twos and threes, anc are immediately assailed with con flicting stories of individual prowess aud associate achievement, and then stuffed with good things to stop their laughing. By 11.30 o'clock the festivities are over and the merry company disperses two and two. The farmer takes down the lanterns, closed the big barn aud retires to the kitchen to emoke bis pipe and calculate, how many bushels of corn he will have when it is ' off the ear. KgypilMH Knitting. The Eifvptians of the present KopU as well as Arabi run about with bare feet The ancient Egyptians, ou th contrary, who are now only to be seen in a dried condition in niuseunip, pos sessed a very good method of knitting stockings as is shown in vhe collection at the Louvre, in Paris. Iu the grave of a mummy there were found a pair of knitted stockings, which gave the sur prising evidence, firstly, that short stockings, resembling socks, were worn by the ancient Egyptians ; and secondly, thai the art of knitting stockings had already attained great perfection in an cient Egypt These curious stoc Kings are knitted in a very clever manner, and the material, fr. wool of slietp, that might once have been white, is now brown with age. The teedles with which the work was done must have been a little th'cker thau we should choose for the same purpose, and the knitting is loose aud elastic. 1'he stock ing ui beguu just as we make the de sign, only in the simplest manner, with single thread ; but in the continuation of the work it is not simply plain, but fanciful. The usual border 01 the stock ing which prevents the rolling up of tne work, is narrow, consisting ol a row of turued loops ; and the circle, the nicely shaped heel, which is a little different from our method, show a very skiliui hand. But iu the point of the stocking there is a charactertftie difference be tween the Egyptian stockings and our modern socks. While ours end iu a rounded point, the Egyptian stockings run out in two long tubes of equal width, like the fingers of a glove. '1 t)s strange shape is made to suit the san dals, which are furnished with, a strap, fastened about the middle of the saudul; and as the strap has to be laid over the stocking the division is needed. A liar Inquiry. A straDflrer leaned over the bar of a M chigan avenue saloon the other day and whisperingly inquired; "Farther, what is the population 01 the United States?" "Har J on to 50,000.000, I believe," was the reply. "It's over 40,000,000 any how? "Oh, yes." "Yonii bet on that" "I'd like nothing better than to put up $10 on it." " ell, you 11 have a chance, mere s a chap down in the shoe store who claims that we haven't got 36,01:0,000 population, and he is blulliag everybody. I'll bring him up if you'll make a bet and take him down a peg." Bring him along." The stranger went away and returned with the bluffer, who had no sooutir eutered the saloon than he called out: "Where's the man who saja this country has over 40,000,000 popula tion?" The saloonist modestly replied that he waa the man, and in lees thau a minute the two ten-dollar bills were put into the hands of the first caller. "There's a new map in the store across the way which has the last census fig ures on it," said tbe saloonist, and all went over to see the mutter settled. The figures showed that the beer seller had won by a large majority, but nothing on that map, nor above, below nor behind it could tell what had be uome of the man who held the stakes. Indeed, it was only after the oue who had lost had also slipped awry that any body realized that tbey were confede rates. Then the victim started out with a club to hunt the world over and reduce the population by one, but his search was in vam. An Ibi Palace. Tbe "winter carniviJ" at Montreal for 1683 attracted large crowds from all parts ot Canada and the United States. It be gan with a parade and a curling match, and continued Curing the week wiih a variety of winter sports. A conspicuous object in Montreal was au ice palace, built in the center of Dominion Square. It was constructed of blocks of ice, and measured nearly 100 feet square. At each of tbe four corners was a toer SO ieet high, and a toer ia the centre 32 feel square rose to a height of 100 feet 'the crystal structure was illuminated at night by electric lights. Dldat Want Advice From stranarer. The atternoon of Thanksgiving day was of that dreary, hazy, nonpareil character when the affluent glories of a cott Italian rain were slowly fading into the autumnal tints or a blue norther that came streaking down from the bald summits of tbe Kxy Al lUQlaina, and cast its chilling shadows on the shingle roof of the City Hotel at Brenliam, Texas. Our scene opens in this famous hostelry. Five solitary drummers were lying around the stove, and in picturesque groups, hut m obedience to I be natural instinct all drummers seem to have to impart a fictitious expansion to the truth. They bad been lyin; so much la a professional capacity that it was a treat to tbeni to have a httle go as you please iymg match with each other on general principles. The subjects under discus sion, or rather under prevarication, were fishing, hunting and field sports gener ally. Tbey told such fearful lies that the very stove turned red, which stove they bad surrcucded as completely as if it was a country merchant who needed ijoods. The youngest commercial emissvy in the delegation was a- youth named Levi Jeottsoa, who was raiding ou 1 Xas in 'he ut crest of a Baltimore house in the boot, shoe and clothing hue. He did not join the convt. real ion, and there was really no reason for him to do so, as the sacred ca'ise of truth wsa suffering abundant mu'Uation as it were, at the hands of the other inquisitors. The reason Levi J&cobson did not volunteer to help was because there were other topics which he con d do better. If they bad talked about the drama, or of female loveliness, he would not have been found without something to say, for was he not a critic and a master of the mshers? Ue prided hiuiM-if on being one of tbe knowing ones; but having lived all his life in cities or ou the road he was some what lost when the talk was of quail, trout deer, and of tbe rival merits of choke liore, centre fife, 10 calibre, etc., etc., etc. Snipe Were mentioned, aud some one made an allusion to that hackneyed old practical joke about catching snipe in a sack, never cupping for a moment that there was any one alive on earth wbo did not know the juke. Jacobson, however, was ignorant as he demonstrated by te niarking that "thfe snipe must be stupid, like thai ottrich wa?, to put their head in a bag." It was nuts to the other drummers to find at last "the most innocent man on the road." A snipe hunt was at once proposed, Mr. Jacobsrtn to take the leading role and carry the sack and the lantern. They went out aViut three miles from town in a back at tt o'clock at night, across creeks, through woods anu swamps, until they canie to wtial the driver said was a Ood snipe ground, Jucabson was placed in a path with a lantern in one hand and tbe sack ia the other. The rest of tbe party were to scatter out for some distance, and then to gradually close ia and return hack to Jacohfion, driving the scipe before them. Tbe leading man in the company was instructed how to kill the snipe when he captured tbe full of the bag, and how to set his trap and wait for more. Then the other druuimers went howung out into the darkness in pursuit of snipe. Mr. Jacobson wailed. Holding the sack made his arais acle. Bullfrogs criakcd. Jacobsou continued to wait Owls hooted. The night grew on space and fou3d Jacohsou still waiting for the snipe to come out of the darkness. It was midnight. Around the same stove four solitary drummers were gathered. Iney were full of mirth and gayety, and they laughed loud and long. suddenly the laugh died away on their lips, the merry Joke was chopped ofl in its utterance and an unripe pun was hastily thrown under tbe stovn by the long legged drummer, for there in the d.w way stood a rigged and mud stained remnant all that was mortal ot Jacob son, the snipe huuter. He said: "My vrends, you thought dot was a good joke, but 1 vas acquainted vith dot joke sefen years ago. 1 stayed out villi dot bag there just to see if you was so mean as to blay d'ise tricks on a stranger, and 1 vants nodiugs more to do with you." He refused all overtures lookluir to warl a reconciliation, and went to bed swearing be would leave the place on the next day's evening train. He stayed in his room all of the next morning. 1 tie joke got cer town. Air. Muses 80I0 usous, a leading merchant of the piece, thought II was decidedly wrong to have treated Jacobsoa so badly, and called to make bis acquaintance and extend his mpathies. W hen be was admitted te Air. J. s mom the latter sud: "Vat you vants? Gu38syou would like to go bear-hunting vuh me and a n.ur sack; or do you vant to liave some fun driving jack-rabbits into a mosquito net ehl" Mr. Solomons explained that he had beard that the boys had treated Mr. Jacob son rather roughly, and tha. he had threat ened to leave the city without showing his samples. He merely called, he said, to ay that the citizens should not be Diauieo, and to advise that Mr. J should change his intention and prosecute his business as it nothing had happened. "I dou't vant any advice from strangers. I vas treated padly in this town, and 1 leaves it right away. There vas no sben Ueinans in this blace.n Mr. Solomons has a great deal of pride in tbe social and flnananciai standing of the people of Brenhain hen Mr. Jacolisoa was dragged fiom under Mr. Solomons it was found naces- sary to adjust bis scattered Abrahainic countenance with about a yatd of court - plaster. He is now traveling in Western Louisiana, aud he tells the merchants with whom he does busiuess that he was run over by a band-car ob the Centra! Railroad. Two Qaarta 1 Cuw, It 11 related that Buffalo man, who bad been in the coffee business for several year, was led to believe that he was a sinner. and to come out on tbe side of religions Tue morning after he had taken this step he reached his factory to Hud business sus pended, and upon demanding an explana tion his sou replied: "Welt father, I didn't know what to da 1 did not suppose after what you said last night that you would mix any more beans with the coffee. I presumed it would make a difference. 'Yes it will make just a little aifftr- ence, calmly observed tne old man. We have heretofore been mixing one barrel of beans to four of coffee, haven't we? "Yes. ' "Well, take out two of the beans two quarts about I gusts. A M onulatn Om Ftre. A correspondent writes, calling at tention to a curious phenomenon which, although well known in the immediate district in which it exists, will he new to many readers. He says, "I hap pened to be makimr a tour a fcw days ago throngh the liiiouJe'a Valley in wales and as I was passing the Cwni Park Mountain I noticed what at a htt!e distance appeared to me to be a small bonfire about half-way up its side. Not seeing any one in the vicinity of the fire, curiosity prompted me to climb the barren hill to see what was being burned. After struggling through' a good deal of mud and over marshy gtouud, 1 reached the fire ; when, to my surprise, 1 found that the flames were not caused by the bunnug of rubbish or any other visible substiuce. The fire flamed up through about three squat e feet of bar ren eaith, which was hot and parched, except where covered with what at first seemed to be boilir.g water. Upon, closer examination I found that only the wa ter near the centre of the fire approached anything like boiling heat, the rest being iu some places lukewarm, and in othurs quite cold. I was sorely puzzled at first to account for this difference ot temperature in the water, tor it all boiled and bubbled witu equal violence. As I happened to have a walking-stick in my hand I drove it into the earth two or three inches away from any spot from which fire issued, when, to my astonishment, flames slot up from this newly-made hole at lean a foot hitfh. 1 repeate 1 the experiment two or three times with tne same result It seemed as though a fierce fire existed under this small patch of ground. The thing that puzzled me most was the nonexis tence of any cracks or holes in the ground except those which I had my self made. The earth lielched forth fire without opening its mouth. I had not been many seconds at this spot be fore I discovered that 1 was to leeward of the fiume, for I was half suffocated by a sulphurous, gassy steneh. which escaped Jroni the Humes. 1 shifted my ground, aud after considerable delibera tion come to the conclusion that this extraordinary phenomenon was caused by the continuous escape of subterran ean gas through a deep figure in the rocks. Subsequent inquiries in the neighborhood proved that my conjec ture was right. The inhabitants of the district say that the gas ascends through a fissure in the rocks from a seam of coal several hundred leet below the surface, and that it was set ou lire many years ago by some unknown person, and has burned continuously ever siuce. I also learned that this is not a unique phenomenon in the district A smaller j -t of gas, I was tuiu, has been burning lor some vears near the head of the Bhondda Valley. I could not, however, spare timo to ascertain the truth of this statement To witness the eartu on fire is, no doubt, astonishing, but it can hardly be compared with the phe nomenon which a fellow-traveller in formed me exists near Aberdure. Near that town the gas from a seam of coal forces itself up through a fissure in the rocks, and through tne surface of the earth aud the waters of a stream. It has been repeatedly lighted, when a large spot ou the water through which the gas bubbled seemed te le on fire, just as the ground appeared to me ou CwniPar!. Mountain. My informant, however, stated that in the former iu stance the discharge of gas was inter mittent, aud that, consequently, the lire went out at intervals, whereas, so far as 1 could learn, the fire on the mountain has been burnirg for some thing like forty or fifty years, and has in that time materially increased iu body and force. Indeed, so strong is it now, that considerable .luhciiliy, 1 should imagine, would be experienced in extinguishing it. It certainly forms notable feature in the landscape at night nl gives a kind of weird aspect to the scene. J. he inhabitants, how ever, seem particularly attached to thejx curious night-light." The UUeoTerjr of tne Mammoth. The banks of that great Northern Si- beriaiw lUver, the Leua, are quite iecn liar. Those on the western side are generally low and marshy, while those on Ihe eastern are often from 00 to 100 feet in bight In the extreme nortb, this high' elevation is cut into numerous pyramidal-shaped mounds, which are formed of layers of earth aud ice some times a clear stratum of the latter many feet in thickness. It was before such a mound that a fisherman shipped, dumb with astonish ment, one Spring morning, many years ago. About 30 feet above him, hall-way up the face of the monud, appeared tue section of a great ice-layer, from whiou the water was flowing ia numberless streams; while protruding irom n, anu Dartlv haucmt; over, was an animal 01 such large proportions that the simple fisherman could naruiy Dent-ve uiseves. Two cieantie horns or tusks w ere visible, and a great woolly body was faintly out line in the.blue, icy mass. In the Fall, he related the story to his comrades up the river, and the coming Spring, with a party of his fellow fishermen, he again visited the spot. A year uau woraeu wonders. The treat mass had tuawtd out suflL-iently to show the nature, and on closer inspection proved to be a well preserved specimen of one of those gi- irautic extinct hairy eiepuauia mat roamed over the northern parts of Eu rope and Amenta in the earner ages of the world. 1 he Oouy was suu 100 nrmi y frozen 1 1 peimit of removal. For four successive years me nsuermen viaiieu it. uutil finally, in March, 1804, hve ' . . . 1 vears alter lis onx'.uai uiswKerr, 11 broke away irom its icy oeu auu came thnnderinir down upon the sands below. The discovereia first detached the tusks that were nine feet six inches in length, and together weighetl300 pounds. The hide, covered with wool and hair, was more than 20 men could lift Part of this, with the tusks, were taken to Ja- kutak and sold for 50 roubles, while tne rest of the animal was left where it fell, and cut up at various times by the Ja koutes, who fed their dogs wiih its flesh. A strange feast, this tru.y meal mat had been frozen solid in the ice hou-eirf Nature perhaps 50,000 years, more or less: but so wall was it preserved that, when the brain was aitet ward compared with a recently killed animal, no differ- ence in the tissues could oe aeiecu-u. Two years after the animal had fallen from the ctnT, the news reactieu sc. Petersburg, and tbe Museum of Natural History sent a sciunti-.t to secure the specimen and purchase it for the Eel peror. He found the massive skeleton entire, with the exception ol one fore le. The tusks were repurchased at Jakutek, and the great frame was taken to St. fetersburg anc" there mounted. Forelga Trade la Bremdatnffa. The report f the foreign trade in breadstuff's for December tends to strengthen the opu-ion that an import ant change is in progress in the method of marketing the wheat crop. We used to export more of the natural grain, but lately the exports of flour have grown astonishingly and promise to soon take first place. Thus, last month the exports of wheat show a decrease (170,000 bushels) compared with the same monta of the previous year. Bat the exports of flour show the notable increase, comparing the same periods, of 627,520 barreLf, or the equivalent of nearly 3,000.000 bushels. The total was 1,031,675 burr.ls, and the value $6, 376, 163, being an increase of about 54.000,000. For the fi-cal year 18(17-8 the export were a little over 2,000,000 barrels. In eight years the trade dou bled, and in five years more it doubled again, being nearly 8,000,000 barrels for the fiscal year 1880-81. For the first five montlid of the current year the average per month was over 700, 000 barrels. For the year a total 01 10,000,000 barrels is a safe estimate, or over 60.000.000 in value. Much ot this increase is due to the excellence ot the p odnct, which in turn is traceable to the superiority of the grain. Very little of the Spring wheat of the North west goes abroad. The Minneapolis millers monopolize it, and, with power as cheap as unfailing water, they grind flour aa high in quality as, compara tively, low in price. The processes, too, have improved. Electricity is used to purify the meal, and the grain is crushed between rollers instead of ground between the o'd-fashioned stones. So, while wheat sells for less than it brought two or three years ago, our flour is worth nearly 50 cents more per barrel on the average. The growth of a direct trade between the interior and foreign countries is another cle ment ia this list. Flour now goes direct from Minneapolis to Liverpool or London. The English dealers buy from American millers. Thus, there ia a saving of two or three commissions. AnJ, though it is strange, it is true that it costs very little more to send such freight across the ocean and halt acrots the Continent than it does to place it at the seaport Other items of breadstuff's show little change. The tot.d value was $17,080,041, against S13.80o.400. showing that but for the increase iu flour there would havo been an unfavorable comparison with lSc'2. The Famiua Ttee of Uuflilha, A few fcteps brought us to the chief temple. Before it stood, currouuded by a railing, the tree concerning which Abbe Uuo tells ns that its leaves bear the natural impress of Buddha's like ness and of the Tibethan alphabet We sought ia vain for such phenomen 1, Neither image nor letters, but a wag gish smile playing aronnd the comer of the mouth of the elderly priest es corting us. Ia answer to our inquiries he informed us that, a long time ago, the tree really produced leaves with Buddha's image, but that at present the miracle was of rare occurrence. A few God favored men alone were privileged to discover such leaves. The last so favored was a pious Mandarin, who risked the monastery seven or eight years ago. Next day Count Szechenyi succeeded in finding a leaf on which a rude likeness of Buddha had been etched, probably with some acid. The llamas allow no one to plnk leaves or blossoms from the tree, and the leaves that fall are caiefully collected and sold to the pilgrims as a specific against affections of the larynx. The tree belongs to the Oleacap, and I believe it to be Syringa L (white lilac), which in all probability reached Europe originally from China. A Little Mlow. "Conductor!" exclaimed an elderly gentleman, looking up from the Bible he had been anxiously pouring over for some minutes, "Conductor, I can't find anything about this train in the Scriptures. Where is it? show it to me!" "What did yon expect to find about it?" growled the conductor. ' isn't there something alxnit it here somewhere?" asked the old man, looking up innocently. "Isu't your time table here either?' and he fumbled over th leaves, and appeared puzzled about the thicg. "Of course it isn't," responded the conductor. "That Bit le all bappeneii eighteen hundred years ago." "And we must have started just be fore it was out?'' mimed the old gentle man, putting the book back in the lack. "Perhaps there's something about it in the revised edition; got a revised edi tion. The Larteat CatheUrnla. Some patient German has collected statistics of the capacity of the world's largest houses of worship. First on his list of course, appears .St Peter's a! Rjme, which is capable of containing 54,000 people. Next cornea Milan cathedral, wit'i 37,0i)0 ; then St Paul's, in Borne, with 32,000 ; Cologne, with 30,000 ; St Paul's, in Loudon, and the Church of St Pttronius, iu Bologna, with 25.000 each ; tbe Sophia mosque. in C jt s'.ahtinople, with 2-3,000 ; St John's luaterau. at lioaie, with 23,000; St, Stej hen's, in Vienna, and the cathedral in Pisa. 12.000 each ; St Doaiinic, in Bologna, 11,400 ; the Fraueckeukirche, in Munich. 11,000 ami San Marco, in Venice. 7.000. St Patrick's Cathedral in New York city is given a capacity of 13.0). A Bridgeport, Conn., man set trap for eats and caught a pole on;. NEWS IN KFAEF There are in Greece no less than 700 kinds of grapes. The people of Iudia t.dk to each ocher in 132 language. Within six months l ii car oou;!o patents have been granted. There are deep complaints of pover ty and distress ia Hungary. Tber are now 28.136 volumes ia the New Jersey State Library. Gambetta's braia weighed a few grains less than forty-six ounces. The reset ve in the treasury at Washington has fallen tolcssthnnSlll, 000,000. The Washington mine at Port Oram is worked out aud has been aban doned. Millionaire VaudorbLt's cheek foj fourteen cents has been framed at Au burn. Mr. Chapin, the Speaker of tbe New York Assembly, Ls only 3i yo iri of age. A fox was recently disc vered asleep in an old crow's nest in a high j-eppr-ldge tre J near Middl. town, C juu. Millionaire Tabor, of Colorado, h is been granted a i!ivorce trom bis wife, whom he gives 8-tiK).Ot0 in hard cash. For the first time, withia living memory the Putomnc is frez u scii.ily across irom Washiugton to the Virginia shore. A rich aud eccentric Califoniim has paid seventeen different Joua Souths in the State 300 eauh to cbjuge their names. Suicide is siid to be increasing iu Prussia, the figures having risen Irom 13 per 100,000 population iu 1',:, to 13 in l8sr. The butter tree was discovered iu the central part of Africa ; from its kernel is produced a nice butter wiiicit will keep a year. There is an 8,0',0-aore ranch in Texas entirely devoted to the breeding of ponies for children. The Duke of Now Castlj is at Jacksonville, Florida, tikiug a root from travel, Twenty-five thousand dolhirs are to be expended this year in improvements to the Oil City. Au almest inexhaustible supply of emery sti ue has beeu discovered hear Seuimersville, Pa. The Erie car works have i i tin ir yards lO.UOJ.OOO feet of pine Iiiuih-,t to be made up into cars. The total cwt of fencing the land in most of our States exceed th.- cost of all the buildings." Two years ago there were bat seven cotton mills in the LHimiuion ; now there are tweLty-one, with, an aggregate cani tal ol 0, 600,000. "The taxes paid by the farmers in New York are 33 csuU "per aero. The annual taxes that fences occa-ioa is $1.12 per acre." The new railroad construction of this year is reported at 10,821 miles, making the total in the United States at the present time 112,631 m les. Bailway President Garrett h.is pre sented the Johns Hopkins Hospital at Ixutimore with a marole bust of .Leula- piu.s, executed by Mr. Keyser iu B uie. - The hiimber of arrests made by the Mayor's police of Philadelphia, during 1S2 was 46.130. The st.-leu property recoverd was valti'-d at Ss8,- io 40, of wiiioh sum $31,817 3o was credited to the Detectives. At a stenographic exhibition m Paris twenty-four uiffureut systems ol short-hand were on view. Among other curiosities there was a poot ear. I coa- taining 41,000 words. The age for marriage of a European prince is from twenty-four to forty ; for a princess, from eighteen to tweaty enxht There are at present thirty-oue marriageable princes, and oidy tweuty tour marriageablo princesses. It is said that Mrs. Frank Leslie. with a number of artists and personal riends, will make a tour of the South. Sue will herself write the descriptions. which the artists will illustrate. Three thousand Lndon policemen followed the remains of one of tlieir uumber to the grave oue day recently. the toui Ion force now consists of 12,- 000 men, not oouutingscial ollijers. Texas has $1,000,000 lyiu? idle lu her treasury, but is unable to apply it to the reduction of her debt, $0,110 ),- 0.K), because her creditors ask $1.4 tor the bonds, aud she is unwilling to pay that premium. The at-sertion is made that from an annual cotton crop of C.eJO.OoO bales seed can be obtained to yi 1J glOO.lJtK), 000 worth of oik It is assumed tint every 4'J0 pound bale gives 12 10 pounds of seed. Grav squirrels are so troublesome in Connecticut that the formers have in vited sport men to exterminate tiieni, and they are being killed in great Hum bert, A party of three rec-ntly bagged lUo squirrels in a day. The Judge in oue of the courts of Vic toria, British Columbia, w hen a Chinese witness was being sworu, said that be had not yet met a Chinamau who could not write, and complimented the w itness on the neatness of his characters. The total exports of petroloum and petroleum products from the L'uitel States during the eleven mouths w:,i.'Ii en, led ou November UO111 lt were 11, 670,160, against $14,415,673 during the corresponding periinl of the preceding year. The report of the Census Bureau shows that men ia ti.e United States spend more money in dress than women. Ihe nitres are fcWs.tiOO.OOO for men and $317,000,000 lor wouieu. The aver age is $45 a year for nicii and $27 tor women. There were 9 tons of rootage stamps, 52 tons of envelop 8, 113 J tons of pos tal cards and 17 tons ot new-pajK r rappers sold at the New York Port otlico in 1382. The sum altogether ue-nv-rd from postage at that office, was $1, 208.575.2X Xweuty-four thousand eggs of the silk-worm weigh li ounces. For 73'J pounds of mulberry leaves, seventy ponuitsof cocoons are obtained Ojo hundred cocoons give 8 pounds of spun iik. Oue pound of cocoons produces a single thread 33.00 J fathoms long. -The foundation stone of tne mag citicent Church of the Saviour at Vieu u'a, which has been under construction for twenty-six yiara, and is the expres sion of a national thanksgiving fur the preservation of a monarch's life, ia a block ol marble, quarried on the Mount ..I Olives, Jerusalem. The church will eost $1,873,000. 7
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