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VOL. XXXVII. MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 21. 1SS3. NO. S.
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llKrAMIU IN THE 1 RENCHE9.
I incture her there in tbe qoaint ol.l room.
Where the fading Bre-light Harts ami fails;
Alone In the twilight's tender gloom.
ita the hiir that danue on the dim-lit
walls.
Alone ; whi'e those faces ! silently down
From their antique fraiuea in a grim reimse
Slight, scholarly Ralph in his Oxlonl gown.
And suuneh Hir Al'sn, who died fur Mmitiwe.
There are pal aiitn ray in rrlmwin and piM ;
There are smdiug beauties with powilert-d hair;
lint 8!ie sits there, farer a thuusaml fold.
Leaning dreamdy back in her low arm-chair.
And the roseate shallows of fa lini lig"it.
Softly clear, steal o'er the fair young face
Where a woman's tenderness ItiemU ttsuiKht
Witn tlie guileless ri !e of her kn glitlv race.
Her small hands lie cl.tped in a listkss way
un the old romance, which she holds on her
knee,
of "Trirtani,lhe bravest of knights in the fray.
And "Iseu:t," who wait by the sounding sea.
And the proud, dart eyes wear a softened look.
As she wat jhes the dying embers fall ;
rcrhis she dreams of tbe kuighTs in the loot.
I'erhaps of the pictures that bui:le oh i he wall 1
What fancies I wonder, arc thronging her brain,
tor her cheeks flush warm a tth a crimson glow;
Perhaps ah! lue, how foolish and rain :
l;ut I'd give my life to believe it go.
Well, whether I ever march home apiiii.
To oiler my love and a stainless name.
Or whether i die at the head of my men,
I'll be true to the end all theiaiiiel
CITID-S JCDG.HK.T.
Dear old grandma Wellington looked
over her gold-rimmed glasses at Jack,
with a world of loving anxiety in her
blue eyes sweet tranquil old eyes that
were as bine as when she was a girl of
sweet sixteen.
"Are you sure you have considered
the matter well thoroughly, my boy?
Her voice was sweet and quiet, and
she herself was the daintiest imaginable
ideal of a darling old grandma: slim,
trim, always dressed in black silk and a
white Spanish laoe half-handkerchief id
winter-time, and qnecn's grey silk and
a dotted Swiss half-handkerchief iu
summer, with puds of grey hair, on
whicii lay a tiny little cap, and a string
of solid gold beads around her neck.
And Jack, lounging on the sofa at the
oppot-ite side of the to m, was her
6eciai pet handsome, happy Jack,
who never failed to make grandma do
exactly what he wished her to da
And just at the present moment the
highest object of his ambition was to
reconcile grandma Wellington to his
engagement with Viva Morris, and in
return for his lover-like enthusiasm on
the subject, grandma Lad laid down the
sacque hhe was knitting for little Fiorie,
the latest grand-baby, and looked over
her glasses and put the question:
"Are you sure you have considered
the matter well thoroughly, my boy?"
Jack laughed.
"I have never cont-idered it at all,
when it somes to that," he said.
"I have a firm conviction that such
thiegs are settled by a destiny too high
for poor mortality to consider."
"lint ioor mortality' is expected to
sutler if experience proves 'destiny"
made a mistake," she said, with a little
laughing twinkle iu her eyes.
Then a grave troubled look spread all
over her face.
She shook her head.
"It would break my heart. Jack, if
you didn't marry a wife every way
worthy of you." '
"And you mean you consider my little
Viva is unworthy.
"What do you call then a 'good wife,
grandma?
"I mean one good enocgh for me,
you know a first-class A 1, no mistake."
His splendid blonde head laey lasily
on his folded arms, and he looked witn
a mischievous glauce at the old lady,
who resumed her knitting serenely.
"I mean a sweet pretty good-tempered
girl, who will be content in her hus
band's love, and w ho cuu se.tt.e down
restfuil-y to a quiet country life, and not
pine herself away, and torment her
husband for the lollies of city dissipa
tion; a girl who is sensible, ecouomieid,
not ashamed to do her own work.
"If needs bo, w ho will save what you
earn, and think herself happy, because
she is crowned with your love."
"And you do not believe Viva pos
sesses those qualifications?''
"How could she, unless jon take
exception to the first essentials?
'She is sweet at:d pretty; but what':,
that by itself?
'She is her mother's own fluid, and
Grace Moore the girl, and Grace Mor
ris, the woman, was vaiu, extravagant,
idle, and a spendthrift.
"lake parent like fluid, if they look
alike as much as Viva and her mother.
"If you must get iuarricu, why don't
you marry li..-th?
'She's the stay and support of the
Morrises, and as :ond as old.
Jack could not restrain a little sign of
disgust.
"Marry Retta Storms?"
"Not if she were au angel! .
"I don't like her; grandma.
No ma'am; love goes where it is
Beat, and it's little bluck-eye 1 Viva or
nobodv, and I don't think it'll be no
body." Grandma laid her knitting down again,
and looked anxiously, thoughtfully, out
of the window at the gorgeous clusters
of wisteria blooms, twining around the
piazza trellis.
"I am sorry, Jack soory even if the
Morrises are your poor dear grandpa's
relatives."
"I am afraid you are prejudiced,
Jack Baid gently, in las irresistible
pleading way.
Viva is as industrious as a little bee,
grandma,
"She gives music -lessons, and teaches
in the night-school at odd moments.
"And spends every halfpenny she
earns on dress, and makes poor Eetta
work over the ironing table to laundry
her Swiss suits and lawn wrappers.
I've no patience with her."
You are prejudiced, grandma," he
reiterated convincingly.
'I know Viva wears out all the old
garments there, and because she is tasty
and stylish you accuse her of extrava
gance. "She'd wear anything respectable to
save a shilling, and 1 iiunor ner lor u.
"And it's more than lietta would do;
she'd stay at home forever first."
Grandmother smiled a bright sud
den smile.
"You've put a brilliant idea in my old
head. Jack.
"I shall make it my business to prove
the assertion yon have made.
"You say Viva would do one thing,
"I sav sha wouldn't.
You say lietta would do one thing; I
am an in tlia win f Tarx-
I'll send them each a dress respect-J
able, sensible dresses, old fashioned and
pretty that I wore fifteen yeajs ago.
"They can be remaae, and although
not in the fashion of to-day, no girl with
good sense would refuse to wear either
to the lawn-party at the rectory to which
Viva and Ilc-tta are invited.
"You'll see who is right, Jack or Lis
old grandmother.
She nodded her head sagely, and Jack
tang nea, ins lace flushing warmly.
"I'll stake my life on Viva,
"I'll go further.
"I'll concede all you had said, in case
l am not right, he declared positively.
x "Well, we'll see," grandma Welling
ton said wisely.
"Only think of it!
"Was there ever- such lnck. mamma
Ketta?
"Actually a dress apiece for us from
papa s people.
"Jsn t it superb?
"And in time for the lawn party.
too."
Viva Morris certainly was sweet and
pretty enough to have won Jack Well
ington s heart.
She was petite, with lovely dark eves.
and luxurious brown hair, and a rare
pale complexion, like a roseleaf, with
no bint of color on its pure pallor, and
a little passionate mouth, as red and
luscious as ripe strawberries.
Mrs. Morris, in the easiest chair the
little cottage afforded, laid her novel
down and looked at iva interestedly.
"A new dress apiece?"
lietta Storms, tail, aris tocratic-looking
arranging her fair, massive braids more
to her notion before the sitting-room
glass, turned languidly around.
"Do not make such a sensation over
an express parcel, Viva.
"Undo it, and we will see the con
tents."
Viva hastily brought the scibsors and
snipped the thick string, while lietta
read the letter accompanying it aloud,
"My dear great granduieces," it said,
I take the liberty and pleasure of send
mg you each a dress for the reciory lawn
party, hoping yov will be pleased with
uieni and wear them.
It was signed in full:
"Mary Augusta Wellington.
Just as Viva reached the inner tissue
parier Ketta said enthusiastically:
"Oh, I do hope mine's a summer silk
changeable blue and gold!"
if mine only is a delicious rey!
Viva said.
And then the inner paper was remov
ed, aud Mrs Morris gave a shriek of
horror that would have done justice to
the occasion if the parcel had contained
human bones.
"Her old worn-out dresses!" she
ga.-ped hj stencallj.
"Second-hand, horrid old things that
a beggar wouldn't wear!" Ketta cr.ed, in
vexation.
While Viva, keen disappointment on
her pietty face, lifted np the quaint
garments, so full and voluminous, and
bhook them out.
'They are old-fashioned as the hills,
but they're pretty, anyhow," she said,
the dismay in her voice almost conceal
ed by her brave determination to make
the l)C8t of it.
"lleallv, if there was to be a nias quer
ade, this funny plaid silk wouldn't be
so bad." remarked Kutta.
"But there is to be no masquerade;
and old Mrs. Wellington needn't think
I'd make a guy of myself by wearing
the cast-off clothes.
"I'd rather do up your suits all the
week, at the dollar apiece you pay me,
than be disgraced by such a toilet as
that would make!"
lietta was bitterly indignant, and Mrs.
Morris scarcely less so.
"It's old grandmother Wellington
over again," she said, with what she
supposed was hue ceutempt.
"liich and stingy!
"I wouldn't marry into that family
again no, not for all they're worth.
"And you'll be sorry for it, some day.
when Jack develops the family mean
ness." "I'll risk all Juck's meanness" said
Viva coolly; "and in the meantime I
think I see a very pretty dress for my
self iu this lovely pink and silver-thread
ed barege.
"It s so awfully old-fashioned, I shall
make believe it's new just out.
"I'll rip it up and make it over, and
put some link satin bows upon it, and
trim my rustic straw gipsy with a wreath
of wild brier to match in color."
lietta elevated her nose haughtily.
"And be au old-fashioned looking
thiug, after I.1L
'Mrs. Judge Mivart and old Miss
Siencer are sure to be at the lawn party,
and they'll recognise the dress, for the
old lady Wellington and they were girls
together.
"Fancy Algernon Mivart hearing his
grandmother say I was in one of her
cast-off dresses.
"1'il sell the horrid old thing to the
second-hand woman, and buy enough lace
bunting for new polonaise."
Viva helc her little dusky head on one
side, like a reflective bird, and scanned
the objectionable silk.
"1 wouldn't if I were you, lietta.
"Let me fix it up for you, when I do
mine.
"A little of the lovely lace on mam
ma's black shk, and a new blue sash
"Don't talk such nonsense!
"I tell you I wouldn't have Al Mivart
know itDor all the world."
Now would she be persuaded.
The very same day she sent for the
only "on'y clothes" woman in the place,
and drove the sharpest bargain possible,
receiving enough to buy cheap showy
cream lace buntiug, while Viva set to
work, ripping and spomnng and press
ing the old-tashioueu pink barege, with
the lustrous silver thread criss crossing
al through its soft fabric
And at length, on the afternoon of the
famous lawn-party in the rectory grounds
Viva outshone lietta and every one else
in the pure, sweet, girlish simplicity
and becoming loveliness of her toilet,
that brought out to its highest perfeo
tion the rich, creamy tint of her skin,
and the dusky shadows in her eyes and
hair.
"How do you like ray new dress?" she
asked Jack, alter he had escaped from
duty to grandma Wellington, the aristo
cratic guest of the occasion.
"I like it better than anything else
in the world." he said, looking straight
in her eyes with a look that made hex
heart thrill with delight.
While grandma Wellington, and state
lr old Mrs. Judge Mivart and Ms
Spencer, sitting in state in the red-aud.
blue stripped marquee, near the foun
tain, talked the little matter of Mrs.
Wellington's scheme gravely over, Mr.
Algernon Mivart was an accidentia!
listener.
'I admit I was altogether wrong, and
' I shall leave Jack and Viva fifteen hun
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little brown eye! girl has displayed
such good sense."
I .really quite envy Jack Lis Rood
luck; eopeeially on little Miss Viva's
account." Mr. Mivart drawled languidly-
"I never took mnch fancy to the other
one don't like the style too washed
out, you know."
"And I've heard, on good authority,
that Miss Storms actually charges Miss
Morris for irani g for her, and that, too,
when Miss Morris supports the family
entirely. But, dear me, what a set of
old gossips we are. Go, bring ns ices,
Algie, a lemou and an orange and a
pine apple."
Tbe Sin re nii.ujr.
The table in the State diniug-roeni iu
the White House will seat, by cl'e
crowding, thirtv-six people. This, then,
is the number invited, and usually there
are not less than thirtv on these occas
ions. here ic is convenient to do so,
as many ladies as gentlemen are invited,
though at diplomatic dinuers, when all
the loreign Ministers here are to be
present, it is found lmiiossible to seat
as many at the table as this plan would
require, so that the rule is not always
followed. The table is usually very
handsomely ornamented with flowers, a
huge floral design of some sort apjiear-
ing as a center piece, and smaller ones
near the ends. Two large golden can
delabra, or branching candlesticks.
holding perhaps a dozen caudles apiece
occupy places on the table, one at ei
ther end of the floral centrepiece. These
contain the finest of wax candles, which
are lighted just before the dinner be
gins, ear tne ends of the table are
smaller candelabra, with perhaps a Half
dozen candies apiece, each having a
little pink lined shade at the top sup
ported by a silver rod which clasps the
candle near the bottom. The plates
are placed "right side up with care"
about thirty inches apart around the
table. On each plate the napkin is laid,
and on the napkin a bouquet, for the
ladies a flat corsage ltouqnet of rose
buds and sometimes lillies of the valley;
for the gentlemen usually a tingle half-
opened ros6 bud. .besides these Li laid
a card, one on each plate, and on it the
name of the person s ho is to sit at this
place. The head of the table, on these
occasions, is not at the eu-1. but in the
middle. The seat occupied by the
President is half way up the side of the
table, at the side next the door at which
the guests enter. Tue lady whom he
escorts to dinner sits at his right ; and
the honored guest on the occasion sits
directly oppobite the I'resideut, with
his lady on his riht. Those who ar
range the table and the order iu which
the guests sit, of course arrange bj that
gentleman and wife do not sil hide by
side under any circumstances.
hen the arrai-gement for sea ting is
completed, and each pemn has been
assigned to his place, a card is prepared
for each gentleman and placed in au en
velope bearing his name. On one side
of this card is a plan of the table with
each seat numbered. Ou the ether side
is the name of the lac'y w hom he is to
escort to the table and the numbers of
the seats they are to ocenpy. These
envelopes ore handed to the gentlemen
as they enter by a gentlemanly usher
named Allen, and as soou as the gentle
man has ''shed" his outer garments he
examines his card, curses or blesses tbe
fates which have consigned him to an
uncongeunu partner fcr the evening,
and hies him to the East lioom, when,
atter paying his respects to the Presi
dent, he hunts up his lady and prepares
tor liie evening. Meantime, the famous
Marine Hand has taken its place in the
vestibule. After a half hour spent in
conversation in the Jb ut liooni, the
President gives the signal to an attend
ant, who parses it ou to the baud, which
strike up some appropriate selection,
and the President, giving his right arm
to tne lady whom he is to escort to din
ner, leads the way to the uining-rooni.
The others follow, each gentleman giv
ing his arm to the lady designated by
his card. The President usually takes
to the table the w ile of the Secretary
of State. The promenade down the
Ions' hail to the dining-room is verv
slow, and is a striking and beau Ui ill
spectacle, lhe ladies, of course, are
in evening costume, the handsomest
that money and ingenuity can provide,
and the gentlemeu in dress suits.
the lights brilliant, the hall lined witli
dowers and tropical plants, and the
music entrancing. Arriving at the
table, the guests are seated in their or
der, and the dinner, which is usually in
tweive or fourteen courses, with a hall
dozen different wines, occupies fully
three hours, and, it may be added, is
good.
Resurrection ul t relilstorlc Race.
About ten miles from Cincinnati, along
the Little Miami nver. is a lccaJitv
which has long been known to the coun
try people as the ''Pottery Field." The
ground was strewed with fragments of
pottery, bones, arrow-points, and other
remains of like character, and the place
was generally considered to be the site
of an ancient workshop. Tne primitive
forest still occupies the locality, and is
made np of oak, beech, elm, maple,
walnut, etc. All around are fouud nu
merous mounds of tumuli, most of them
small. A few of these were opened by
Florian Gianque, in 187G, and some in
teresting tfiings found. But in 1878,
Dr. Charles Metz and other gentlemen
interested in archaeology commenced a
systematic exploration of the country
thereabout, and so much has been found
tk it we are enabl i o form some id. of
the habits, and get a glimpse into the
life, of tne people who once lived in
the immediate vicinity of the city oi
Cincinnati. During the four years that
the excavations have been carried on,
between Cot) and 700 skeletons have
been brought to light. Many of the m
are in advanced state of decay, aud
crumble to pieces on the slightest touch,
while others, again, are in a very good
state of preservation. It can, therefore.
hardly be inferred that, because some
of tlie skeletons are much decayed, they
art necsearily very old ; for though we
have well-preserved remains of bone a
from liabylou, Nineveh and Egypt,
which are certainly 2,50J or 3,000 years
old, still the coses are exceptional in
winch they are found in good condition
after the lapse of many years. Different
kinds of soil and difference in climate
have much to do with the matter ; for.
in a dry and equable climate, bones may
resist lor a long time the influence
which would cause their decay, wliile,
in a moist climate, acdwith sudden and
extreme changes of temperature, suoh
as we have here, any bone, unless buried
in peat, or subject constantly to Heavy
pressure, so as to become partially fos
silized, is liable to soon decay.
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An Actor's Tragedy.
Mr. Arthur E. Miller, the well-known
theatrical agent, was in the city last
right, and as he wns iu the ill-fated
Newhall House, and intimately acquain
ted with Gilbert, the act'ir, a reporter
had a talk with him abont the tragedy.
The story of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert's
married life, as he narrated it. is a touch
ing one, made more so from the remarka
ble devotion tney unsplayed for each
other. "I have known Gilbert long
and intimately," Mr. Miller said, "and
if I were to five a thousand years I
would never forget the occurrence of
that dreadful night in connection with
him. He was "forniely a minstrel man,
and was with Stanly's Allied Shows. He
had only been a member of the Minnie
Palmer Troupe a few weeks but in that
time had fully mastered his part, and
was a remarkably, clever actor. His
wife was not on the stage, as many sup
pose, but lived with her parents at
iilood Station, X. York. Gilbert had
met her a couple of years before, aud
had been her sweetheart for a long time,
they having been engaged several
mouths, although he never breathed a
word of it to any one. The week be-!
fore the fire the company was playing
in Chicago, and by a strauge coincidence
she happeued to be visiting some of her
relations there at the same time. It
was during that week that the young
couple agreed to be married quietly.
and it was arranged that she should ac
company the troupe to Mdwaukee, re
main during the week and then return
to her home, until they could be once
more united. The day before they left
for Milwaukee the marriage took place,
and he never mentioned it until uf ter
the ceremony, when he told the rest of
the company. The night of the fire
the Palmer company played at the
Grand Opera House, aud dunnx the
performance I walked carelessly into
the theatie and took a seat in the dress
ircle.
"I naturally looked all around, aud
soon observed a ludy sitting several
rews across from me whose appearance
I was at once attracted by. There was
no one sitting close beside her, so I
could get a good look at her face and
figure, aud 1 rarely ever saw a more
beautiful woman.
"She was dressed in black silk, aud
her round, well-made features were sha
ded by a broad-riuiuied scarlet hat with
a long feather which drooped down low
over her shoulder. Her hair which
peeped out on cither side of it was
black as jet, and when she partially
turned her face I saw that her eyes were
of the same beautiiul color. In a few
moments Gilbert came on the stage.
and she immediately was all attention.
She leaued forward, and resting her el
bow on the seat in front of her, placed
her hand against her neck, aud remain
ed in that position until he made his
exit, her eyes fallowing his every mo
tion.
"As soou as the curtaiu fell on the
act 1 walked behind the scenes, and met
Gilbert standing near the entrance. As
soon as the curtain rose he took me
around to the second v ing and said
'I want to show you something.' He
led me close to the edge, bo we could
look out upou the audience, and, point
ing to the beautiiul woman I had so
much admired, said : That is her my
wile.'
"She had been watching closely, as
if to catch a glinips ot him,- and soon
her eye rested ou the spot where we
stood, and I could see that he was rec
ognized by the slight nod which he
gave his head. Wncnever he was oil
thebtage he took his stand there aud
watched her idniobt continually. When
the curtain fell on the closeii.g scene
we walked out together, aud sue wa.
waiting for him at the door.
"They talked for some time in tlie of
fice with seveiol friends, dwelling par
ticularly cn. the splendid time they
would have in Europe, as he intended
to accompany Miss Palmer. About
11,3(1 o'clock they entered their loom
in the hotel, aud at i.'id o'clock she
was lying dead in the Morgue.
"Her body was fouud, bruisel aud
crushed, on the pavement, while he
was parthdly in the gutter, half sub
merged in ice and witter, crushed, burnt
and nearly frozen. I watched by his
bedside for several days, and he gave
no signs of returning consciouSnei-s,
except for a moment the day alter. His
tuoUier came up to see him, and wheu
she leaned over the bed he raised him
self ou his elbow with a groan of pain
and threw his left arm arouud her m-ck.
On the fourth day after the file he was
conscious for a snort while, and the
first words that passed his hps was an
inquiry for his wile. He was assured
that bue was safe, and with a satisfied
fir he fell asiecp.
"He has improved considerably since
then, but has not yet heard that his
wife is deail. When the news is broken
to him, and it will be done gently by
his mother, the critical moment will
have arrived, and if he survives the
shock he will recover. Although he is
a man of strong will-power, I confident
ly believe that his mind will be com
pletely It bt when the full sense of his
desolation breaks upon him. I have
thought over that scene in the theatre
a thousand Units since, aud it will never
pass from my mind."
A Wopgei ful Party at Wtnd-or castle.
The following good story comes from
a quarter where we are assured "its cor
rectness can be vouched for." Many
yeart ago, at the time of a great cere
mony, indsor Cattle was honored with
the presence of three sovereigns. After
breakfast the three potentates walked
and talked on the celebrated "Slopes."
and were, of course, iu mufti." Tney
were delighted with the grounds, and
presently entered intoconversatiou'with
a gardener, who evidently took them
for a party of "gentlemen's gentlemen"
out for a stroll. Af.er some little affable
talk he could not resist the query :
"Now who may you gents be?" "Well,"
said the spokesman, "this gentleman
here happens to be the King of Prussia;
that one standi ug by your side is tne
Eniperor of Austria ; and as for myself,
I am the Emperor of liussia." Thii was
carving the joke too far, thought the
gardener. 1 ve seen lot of queer fur
riu gents here lately, but this beats me:'
so he burst out in a rather rude guffiw.
"Wtll, my friend," said the Enperor
Nicholas, '-you seem amused : perhaps
vou will tell us who tou are," "Oh,
certainly; so taking up the skirt of his
coat witn the action of a great eagle
spreading cut his wings, and spinning
round ou his heels, be raid : ' If you
are all what you say you are w?iy lam
Ite Great Mogul .'" The three majes
ties roared with laughter, and, return
ing to the castle, told the story at the
luncheon-table to the immense amuse-
I ment of t'te Quj"n and Priaoe Albert.
Bear la m Ldlac House.
Two Italian brothers, with red scarfs
round their necks, encamped one night,
recently, in a boarding house of their
nationality on Spofford street, Fhiladcl
phia. The names of the men were
Lorenzo and Michael Pepitto aud they
looked as if they bad not recently in
dulged in a shave. A conple of brown
bears, who could dance a polka for a
biscuit or on the presentation of a coin
elevate themselves unto a waltz, togeth
er with the brothers, made up the trav
eling firm. Mrs. Luccariui grew very
angry when told that she would have
to tike Brain as boarders. Alter
great deal of talk she was inveigled iuto
believing that by aecommo 1ating them
she was performing a patriotic duty.
She put them in a woodshed bock of the
house.
Next morning not being very early
risers, the brothers sauntered out at
about ten o'clock with others o their
kiu, with whom the neighborhood is
fairly stocked. They somewhat cruelly
left their shaggy companions in the
uninteresting woodshed to shift for
themselves. These commenced doing
tbe latter thing by getting loose in the
outhouse and chewing coal and licking
logs. Evening came on and they did
not get more substantial nourishment,
nor did then owners come bock. A
trifle before eight o'clock Mrs. iiuccar-
iui took a shovel and weut to get some
coaL She opened the shed door noise
lessly and began I cooping the darkness
with the metal implement. It struck
bearsteak. In oue minute Mrs, Luccar-
iui was clasped in imuetuous arms and
yelling for dear life. The bear held ou
aud she yelled on till a horde of men
appeared in the yard. In a short while,
however, she was rescued, but the
knights forgot to shut the door.
A roar, a flourish of bear claws and
paws, a fierce bound and the animals
had possession of the field. The terri
tied boarders rushed out of the house
into the street aud listened in groups
on the sidewalk. Every now and than
an awful bellow echoed from the desert
ed place and the Italians, shuddered
as they distinctly heard the smacking of
lips and the grinding of teeth through
soft flesh. "lio-a, liosa, where is my
Rosa?" cried a miserable woman; "they
are eating her." She grew frantic as
she looked around for bcr child and
would have thrown herself against the
door had she not been prevented. The
munching of meat grew more distinct,
until the crashing in of a window frame
and the appearance of two large hairy
arms caused a general scatter. The
bears were trying to get out. Just Jien
the Pepitto brothers were sighted in the
crowd, enjoying the fun. They went
into the house, captured their pets and
replaced them in the shed. It was found
that they had eaten a whole pile of cold
meat Kosi was all right and Mrs. Luc-
carini was furious.
IiiteriMtrrlcesef Diseases.
A diease, like tbe individual in whom
it is localized, has a genealogy. It has
an ancestry of "morbid conditions" all
commingled, and transmitted from suf
ferer to sufferer, until "by inherited
dispositions, accumulating and com
bining in definite proportions," altering
for good or evil according to the soil
on which it grows, a new one is pro
duced. This, in a few words, stripped
of its technicalities, and deprived, un
fortunately, also, of the wealth of
illustration with which it is accom
panied, is Sir James Paget's ingenious
theory. Its attractions are undeniable,
its plausibility great, and though the
author, in addressing a professional
audience, forbore deducing a moral,
the lei ions which it irresistibly sug
gests are too patent to escape notice.
That children inherit the courage,
cowardice, prodigality, frugality, face.
figure, complexion, tone of voice, and
talents of the parents is, of course, a
truism. It is equally certain that dis -eased
parents bequeath their fraiities
to thiir offspring. Scroftda, cancer,
consumption, epilepsy, rheumatism,
gout, insanity, cretinism and albinism
are among the most familiar of the dis -eases
or defects which "run iu families."
A craving for alcohol is a recognized
"morbus," handsd down from father
to son, while listlessness, sloth, im
practicability are as really transmitted
as a capacity for work and a clear brain
from one generation to another. A
prudent person hesitates to marry a
consumptive, or a member of family
in which insanity has appeared, thus
acknowledging the soundness of the
data mentioned. Consanguinity is be
lieved, and justly so to intensify the
risks of transmission, though only be
cause there is a chance of near relatives,
such as cousins, being tainted with the
same family trouble. Yet little care is
taken to avoid dangerous "intermar
ri'ges of diseases," to use the phrase
which Dr. Benjamin Richardson has
so happily coined. If both parents
have a tendency to the same malady,
the children can scarcely escape. But
if caioer and consumption wed, there
is hardly a hope of the offspring escap
ing early death or prolonged misery
from cancer, lupus, comsumption.
tuberculosis of the brain, epilepsy,
diabetes from nervous injury, or some
variation or combination of the throe
The intermarriage of rheumatism and
consumption is productive of hydro
cephalus, and diseases of the bony
frame-work of the body, such as the
hip-joint disease so common among
weakly children. The State does not
in modern times as in a more heroic
age exercise a control over marriage.
It is, therefore, all the more imperative
in those who are swayed by some re
gard lor posterity not to neglect in niar
risge every consideration save those of
affection, wealth, position or social
fitness, when their own future sorrow
and that of another eneration are in
volved in their neglect of the laws of
natui.
Warming Hearts And Hiuids.
Some time since, a beautiful youag
girl made her first appearecce on the
stsge in one of the minor theaters of
Paris. Her grace aud loveliness attracted
admiration, which her rising talent
promised to secure. She concln led
long engagement witn the manager.
giving her services for a moderate rem
uneration, but which saQiovl for her
wants and those of an invalid mother,
who was totidly dependent upon her
exertions. According to the usual
custom a clause in the contract stipula
ted that a forfeit of 10,000 francs should
be paid in case of its non-fulfillment by
either party.
Oue day the young actress entered
the manager's room, aud announced to
him that she wished to leave
How!" he cried. "You are the last
person -from whom I would have expect
ed such caprice."
"Indeed, sir, it is not caprice."
"It is, then, the offer of another en
gagement?"
"It is, sir, and oae which I cannot
refuse. It is from an excellent yonnp
man, who wishes to marry me.
"My dear girl, 1 shall waut you also
to study your part in a new afterpiece
which I have just received.
"Then, sir you refuse to set me free?"
"I must think about it. At all events
you have it in your power to break the
agreement by paying the forfeit
"Ten thousand francs! tis very dear."
"It was very dear when you signed
your name; bnt now your services are
worth more than that.
'Alas, it will prevent our marriage!,
said the unhappy girl, in a voice choked
with tears; and with a despairing heart
she ltft the room.
Two days afterward the manager was
seated close to the grate in his apart
ment, tryipg with all his skill to kindle
a fire.
xue casuier entered witn a yisajre
woefully elongated. The affairs of the
heater were iu a critical state; the
receipts had diminished; and the pay
day at tbe end of the month approach-
d.
"Yes," said the manager, "our sit
uation is embarrassing. And this plaguy
fire that won't light!"
Astonished that he could be so in
different under the circumstances, the
cashier retired. As ho was leaving the
room the young actress entered.
'Ah! is it yon?" said the manager;
you are coming from rehearsal?"
"No, sir, I have come to return the
part you gave me to study."
So it seems you think of quitting
the stage?"
"I have brought you the f f sit."
"The ten thousand francs?"
"Here they are "
"And how have you procured this
large sum?"
"My intended hnsbaud gave it to
me.
"Is he, then, so rich?"
"These ten thousand f r incs are near
ly all he possessed. 'Rut,' he s;dd,
"what does it signify? We shall only
have to defer setting np in business,
or peraaps I may succeed in borrowing
the money." j
"Going in deb;! ITiat's a fine prospect
for young housekeepers! So the dowry
you mean to bring your husband is
want and ruin; you take from him the
hard-earned fruits of his industry, and
you oblidge him to renounce the pros
pect of honorable independence!"
"Pray, sir pray, dont't speak so
cruelly!" sobbed the young RirL
"Have you considered that such a
union cannot fail to be unhappy! Listen
to reason take back this money and
return it to him who gave it to you; and
if you are alisolutely resolved to leave
the theatre, I'll show yon a simple way
of doing it that won't cost yon any
thing. Take this piece of paper and
have the kindness to put it in the grate."
So saying he handed her a sheet of
paper careful'y folded, which she threw
in among the smouldering sticks.
The manager watched it as the lan
guid flame gradually curled round it,
and theu shot np in a bright flamo,
"Do you know, said he "wuat that
paper was? It was your signed agree
ment. And now I have no longer any
claims on yourservlces, and consequent
ly can demand no forfeit Go, my girl,
and enjoy your little capital well, and
be happy."
Deeply affected by this generous
deed, this yoang actress expressed her
gratitude as fervently as her tears per
mitted. A Land Slide.
The cable not long ago reported that
there had been a great land slide in
Switz-jrland, but gave no particulars
regarding the harm done. It appears
that the circumstances were peculiar.
The disasters occurred near Fort de
'Eclusc, where the Rhone flows through
a narrow, rocky gorge, bounded on one
side by a lofty spur of the Jura aud on
the other by the precipice of Mt.
Vuache. Along a ledge just above the
stream rurs a railway, which tunnels
several jutting spurs that rise abruptly
from the water's brink. One morning
early this month a great mass of earth
fell from the mountain directly over a
tunnel, while later the tunnel itself
caved in. The consequence was a com
plete damming of the narrow defile. ' A
great volume of water gathered lLind
the obstruction. For several hours a
panic prevailed among the people below,
but they had time to escape the flood,
and when finally the barrier gave way.
the lake drained off gradually and no
treat harm was done. If the dam had
held few hours longer, the entire val
ley s far down as Lyons would have
been inundated.
Honey, atter it is clarified, Herr Klly
hus has discovered, can be kept from fer
menting or losing tt flavor by adding to it
about 1 per cent, of formic acid.
.labt and Air fur House Plants.
Plants will not grow without light,
aud will not thrive w:thont fret-h and
pure air. But some plants require less
light than others, and some will do per
fectly well without anv sunshine. A
knowledge of varieties of the habits and
requirements cf plants, is essential to
the success of tlie window garden. Go
to nature for this knowledge. Nature
never makes a mistake. Her hint?
may lie trusted implicitly. Find out in
what relations to sunshine and moisture
plants grow in their native conditions,
The primrose, nestling nnder hedges
where ils leaves re sheltered from the
sun and protected from the dew, where
its roots dip into the moisture of ditches,
tells ns that we must not let our prim
rose pots stand too fully in the sun,
nor drench the leaves, nor let the roots
dry np. The cactus, growing in hot
sand plains, in climates where the rain
falls one half the year, and the sun
shines fierce'y the other half, has a
lesson on its own leaves for those who
would be successful in the treatment of
cactL Most of the palms crow in
forest jungles in the tropics, and mani
festly heat, moisture, and shade are
the requirements for palms, with fibrous
earth full of decaying vegetable matter
for their roots. So with all plauts; one
must know them intimately to entice
them to their best expression in the
window garden. AU plants do not need
sunshine; so if jou have no sunny
windows, do ni-t ' despair of having
pretty plants. Finis, many of the
alni8, tradescantia or 'wandering
Jew," ivies, aud IjcoiXKhnm do not
need the sun. Fuchsias, begonias, lily
cf the valley, need but little tun, and
many of our loveliest wild flowers grow
best when partially shaded. Bat all
lants require fresh, pure air. Most
lants thrive best in moist air. Gas is
fatal to plants. These facts should be
kept ui mind. Many a drooping plant
is crying out for air, and not for the
deluge of water that you pour about its
roots. Leaves drink as well as riiots.
And if leaves drink they ninst not only
have good moist air to drink, but they
must be kept clean, so that their mouth-
jiores may be able to take it in. A
growing plant needs as much washing
a growing baby. Smooth-leaved
lants need more washing thall those
that have rough leaves. The ro:t"li-
leaved plants have their pores protected
from the dust by little forests of minute
hairs, many of them need no wetting.
tu tue dust should be fretmentlv
blown from them with the bellows or
he breath. Plants that are growing
neett much -more air and water than
lants that are resting. Most flower
ing plants exbanst themselves in bloom
ing. fien the last blossom has fallen
the pot may be taken from the window
and set in an out tf-the-way coruer.
ncre it will rest for a while. Then it
ill have a period of root urowth. and
by and by new shoots ana leaves will
apjiear, which is a sign that it is ready
lor blooming ajrain. and it may be
placed once more in the full lijht of
indow.
Tlie ivaftuintun tateier.
He is a character. He is utually a
colored gentleman, and he supplies
amilies and single boarders with nigals
at so much per month. Twenty dollars
month per person is the average
price, and for Unit turn he will bring to
your rooms your breakfast and dinner
ui a square tin box every morning and
evening for thirty days. This box is
about two feet square with shelves in
side of it of grated iron like 'hose of a
bake-oven in a cooking stove. It opens
at the end, and the victual are placed
smoking on their shelv s, aud the liox
is then closed ready for carrying. It is
not the most pleaiant way to live.
Sometimes the food gets cold, the coffee
pot tips into the breakfast, and the
salt and pepper are mixed with the
preserves and the sugar. Sometimes a
knife is furgotten, and others a napkin
fails to make an appearance. After
trying it a week or so, the boadr often
becomes disgusted and goes back to
the boarding-house table of geaip, or
takes his meals at one cf the numerous
restaurants to be found in every quar
ters of the city. Thousands of people
live at restaurants in Washington.
Many members of Congress eat nowhere
ehe. A meal can be gotten for from
twenty-five cents up as high as you
wish to go. The twenty-five cent
meals are not to be praised, and thirty
five or fifty cents fct the least for which
one cau get a passable breakfast or
dinner. There are some restaurants
where for eighteen or twenty dollars a
month yon can get two meals a day,
but those of the letter class cost more,
and the best range from one dollar a
day upwards. Two meals a day is all
that is included in lioard, and the
greater number of people in Washing
ton eat no more, though many take
lunches at noon. The rule is a good
breakfast at 8 or 9 o'clock, a cup of
cofiee at 1, and a dinner, supposed to
be a big meal, at 4 or 5 iu the after
noon. Karens ud MhM9i.
A Scotch grazier says during Etne diys,
two ravens kilied n fewer than thirty
gtronn lull grown sheep. Their mode ot
action was discovered t Le as follows :
Tbe mother-bird would fly on to the sheep's
face, fixing her claws below the eyes, and
seizing the top of the bead with her bil!,
would flat) with I er wiues and screams
frightfully, lier mate, ever near, wouid,
when the sheep was so fixed, get on her
back and dig a bole through to the kid
neys. The sheep, districted and blinded,
would sometimes run over the clill, some
times into a ditcb, and sometimes fail
down exhausted In no case were the ra
vens known to leave their victims until
life was extinct, snapping the windpipe to
that end, when other means failed ; and
in no case were they known to feed on tbe
sheep's carcass. The I ss of ' their young
ones which had been killed, excited them
to madness, and the sheep seemed to be
the only living thing on which they could
vent th.ir lage.
NEWS IN DEIEfT
There are no servicsit the grav .
in Scotland.
Denver, Col., is to have an
ai t tx-
bibition in the spring.
An International Exposition is bo
ing arranged for Rome.
British statistics lately compile 1
prove that the danger of trivel by se i
is increasing.
Atlanta claims to have a young hulv
with the finest and prettiest hair in fie
United States.
"Less choir music and nioro c j:i-
gregatioual singing 1" cries a Western
religious newspaper.
Seveial hih-reioniLiir Harvard stu
dents have provide! tuom-elves with
ropes for a case of tire.
The population of Svna and Pales
tine w estimated at S.OTbVWl. Of these
only 60tK) are Protestants.
Miss Mary Dickens, eldest rra:id
child of Chatles Dickens. a.je nineteen
is about to become au actress.
The new regulation snare dm
adopted for the use of the United Stah
Army is to lie lri inches in diameter and
8 inches long.
The total exports of bralsimr
from the United States during the year
lfeea amounted in value toSls.Clvjy.
;iunsi 5l,lii.0.j during 1S1.
From observations mad i i tl.
Zoological Gardens, Loudou, it seems
probable that the extreme lease of lite
f the hippopotamus is tiiirtv v..rv
Silk production is taid to bo in tie
follow ing proportions : Italy, :ii er
cent. ; China, 3; ; France, 8 ; Hi tat In
dia ( Bengal), 1 ; Japaa, i ; Tersia and
the Levant, 4.
Factory ojieratives in New England
are unitedly atkiug for weekly payment
of their wages, while their employers
areas unanimously iu favor of "tilt
monthly system.
The rag business iu New York
amounts to SW.OOU.OW jer auuu,.
1'here are 0,000 rag-pickers in the citv.
Last year there was over $10 (X'O worth
ot raji imported.
Of the 11.000 eraiu mills i. IT
land, 10.000 are driven by wind. The
limit ,.t . I : 7 ,
uefc meal is consume! tv tlie
public without passing through" any
flour-iiresnig majluue.
Beef cows are Dow selling at S-'i
iud three-year-old steers ut ;." to
at Austin, Texad. Stock raisers ar,
happy aud consumers of beef cires
pouuiUly miserable.
The sogarcropof Louisiana prove
to be much larger than had boeu autiei
pateiL It is alleged that of the portion
of the crop received at Morg-iu Citv
two-thirds of it go to Texas.
The English Postmaster-General is
totidiy blind, und Mr. George liiebar.l-
sou, who has just been aiiuiiinni.l ir..
ceiveraud Aix-ountatit-Geucrai to tue
robt umre, is totally deaf.
The old mansion budfc bv (li
Philip Schuyler in 7'i ttpoa Cli.t.iii
street, Albany, is i-flered for sale in the
expectation that it will be replaced by a
Uuidiug for business purposes,
lhe American Peace Sxiietv Las
now invested funds to tbe amount i.r
about $00,0UO, having lately come iuto
pot-session of a legacy of 4J,0i;0 from
ue iate Kov. Vt. Ueorge C. Rookwith.
Recent tests of yarn made from
different hemps gave the following re
lative average strengths : Manila, 21
Italian, 21 ; New Zealand. 11:1 : Rul
shui, 1M. Manila is evidently the yarn
to be hanged with.
Near Piclou, Outurio, is a remarka
ble frek of nature. Two elm trees
ataud abont twenty feet apart, aud one,
at the height of tweuty.five feet, bends
over and joins the other, forming a per
fect and magnificent tree. It is theu
perfectly round, and extends upward
about twenty-five feet.
During the past year 1171 new
companies were registered in L iu.l.m
under the limited liability aits, with au
apyregate capital of jEJ15,001,9JO ; in
l!Bl the number was i:5-H,3, with a capi
tal of i:io7,fc'j2,aii.
England pays Lord Lyons, her Am
bassador to France,S-jO,0O J a j ear, aud
makes no fuss about it. If the salary
of the Presideut of the United States
were fixed according to English notions,
it would be a niil'ion a year, at least.
An Australian Torn Tuumb hai
beeuou exhibition iu EngbuuL Hls
real name is David John Armstrong.
He was born in 1851. He is 3 feet 2
inches in height, aud weighs 70 pounds.
IRs limbs are in perfect proporttou.
He is very intelligent.
The annual report of the Supervis
ing Inspector General of U. S. showj
that the number of accidents to steam
vessels during the year past was forty
one, involving a loss of Z'm liyes, beiuf;
an average of one life lout to each 1,
727,172 passengers carried.
Hamburg Lake, near Like City,
Fla.. a sheet of water of about forty
acres, is being drained by an under
ground outiet. The water rises again
in a stream six miles from the lake.
Another lake near by ran dry in li52,
bnt has since filled up aaiu.
A Japanese newspaper states that
according to a recent census there are
in the Empire of Japan 11:1 newspapers,
one of which has a circulation of 1'J,
000 daily. The laws require that tue
publisher be Japanese, and thut the
thi- f editor be held pecuniarily respon
se's for slanderous publications.
The ice bridge at Niagara Fails is
commonly sapiioscd, by those who have
not seen it, to add mnch to the beaity
cf the whiter scenes there. Butit does
not. Instead of a great arch of glitter
ing crystal spanning the stream above
the falls, it is an expanse of rough ice
across the river at their foot.
Ail the Prussian Baron, on or be
rore the 1st d ly of April next, will be
required, says a German newspaper, to
vim ilea te their right to their tides, for
the reason that within the past two ceii
tHres many abuses havj grown up. It
is said to have been proved that, in a
unmbr of Cases, second, and even
younger sous and daughters of baronial
titlus, have assumed the titles when it
belonged only to a father or a brother.
Herman F. Staus, the brave Mil
waukee fireman who rescued several
lives at the burning of the Newhall
Hou.se. was presented witn a gold watch
by the Chamber of Commerce of tha
city, and recently was married to Mia
Amelia Schneider, of Milwaukee. He
has declined a proposed tertimouial
from admiring citizens cf Dubuque,
maiuanimoubly wnti.g : "If you do
anytiiing, do it for the poor unfortunates
especially the servant girls who lost
th ir all in that tire."
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