-A Smite getitiiel iillte grgitlgiE B. P. SCHWEIEB, THE OOBSTITOTIOJ THE UHOI AID THE EJT0S0I1CTT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXXVII. MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 2S. 1SS3. NO. 9. ODD SATIXCS. As blunt u a beetle. As sharp a a lance. As crave as preacaing. As raj as a danoe, As late as the gloanua'. As like as tiro peas. As crook'd as a ram s liorn, As round as a cheew. As Bat as a flounder. As stick j as gum. As wide as a common. As tight as a arum. As white as a miller. As black as a crow. As lean as a greyhound. As bent as a bow. As trail as a bandbox. As stent as an oak. As queer as a Quaker, As game as a cock, As cute as a lawjer. As square as a die. As keen as a razor. As warm as a pie. As drunk as a piper. As sober as a )ulge. As clean as a sharing. As 11 1th j as smndgo. As swift as an arrow. As slow as a snail. As blithe as a l.nnet. As right as the mau SATED IX SLEEP. A clear, sweet voice was singing a senseless ditty, with many mocking variations, sua operatic trills. A young man swinging indolently in a hammock', underneath tne open win dow, laid aside Lis book and tossed away his unfinished cigar, as he listen ed; to the merry trills and quavers. lie has come down to posterity a model of wisdom; the core was as suc cessful and complete as it was unique. "J," said he, '-will arise and Jo like wise." He arose slowly; the voice and its lovely owner had uprooted settled pre jndices, and overthrown firm convictions. Moreover, cn underlying fear that he was about to commit the second great folly of his life caused his heart to trem ble and his feet to lag. Nevertheless, straight as the needle to the pole, tended his steps towards that, ripper room, and he musical dis turber of his peace. She was minding Mrs. Latrobe's baby, as usual. Mrs. Latrobe was a presumably young widow, somewhat wan and faded as to beauty, which must once have been re markable somewhat scrimped as to worldly possessions, yet strongly bent upon making the tnoet of her second chance in life. In pursuance of which design she displayed the vigor and tirelessness of sixteen leaving her infant, meanwhile. either locked up in the profound slum ber born of soothing syrups, or to the tender mercies of some obliging fellow boarder. It may have been the latent mother linens in her nature, or something she saw in the pitiful dreg-darkened eyes of tne child, which male Marie Devoll often care for the neglected little one during the absence of its mother, Harry Kaymond was not the man, having made up his mind, to brook any unnecessary delay. He went straight to the side of the surprised singer, who had supposed him a dozen miles distant, and the, baby being somewhat in his way, caught it from the arms of its surprised foster- mother, and. with a dexterous fling, sent it dying through the air ii-to the very middle of a great, soft rersiau rug, lying before the window. Miss Devoll uttered a startled cry of protest. The child, contrary to all precedent, alighted from his airy flight, shrieking with laughter, and lay clutching at the sunbeams, a jewel of a baby in a golden setting. "Miss Devoll," said Harry earnestly, "you know, as do all my friends, tne story of my early folly. "leant ago, 1 loved an unworthy object, and ever since I have walked the earth blind to all womanly goodness, purity and truth "Through a beautiful woman I lost my sight ; "through a beautilul woman I found it again. "Tell sue, Marie," his voice trem bling with earnestness, "if this love is to be tf-e crown and glory of my life, or its second folly? "1 wish that I might bring yon clean hands and a pure heart. I can only offer you an unworthy one. but full of a love that is true and abiding that shall last for ever." There was no need of words; he read his answer in her sweet, downcast face, and tender eyes; he sealed it on her quivering crimson lips, and was con tent. . , ' The baby laughed, and with a great crash of wheels, and flutter of silks, the baby's mo'her returned. So these two, as needs must, came back to an everyday wcrld, that looked all the brighter and better to them for their brief journey into the beautiful land of love. Marie Devoll settled her face in un breakable calm, and Harry lounged about with even more than his usual nonchalance. Nevertheless, the widow, who was wise ia her day snd generation, saw more than they supposed, and picking up ,Wt1 on-soring, left tne room. with a sigh for the dreams of , lost She had returned from her drive be trothed but instead of the raptures and radiance of first love, her soul was filled with vague doubts an uncertainty as to whether she might not, by longer waiting, have done even better for her- ''buI no" such doubts disturbed the youthful lovers. . im. Their days passed as a happy oream, tie course of true love ran smoothly towards the deUghtful consummation of an early marriage in the fall. One night Harry, grown strong m hM new love, determined to destroy every reminder of that first mad r f his youth, so letters burning with ar dent devotion, costly keepsakes and. trinkets were ruthlessly destroyed. Having once belonged to that false wo man; the were unworthy, and Incu rable could not save them. With a pleasant consciousness of weU-doing, he slept the sleep of the just and wakened in time lor a fcng early walk with his betrothed, from Xch they returned, .dZ ing as the dawn, yet truth to telL some what damp and draggled. In the doorway they met . a new arrival, gjonouslj woman, not an everyday pretty woman, bTiiUving, breathing dream of per- t1!t&t of Let Harry stopped, nd 4-X, grew white to the very lips, then quickly recovering himself, greeted her with jnanly dignity, presenting at the same time hia companion. "I must be a fond of sympathy be tween you two," said he, with a sudden dash of bravado, "for this," with a courtly bow towards the fair wonderful woman, "is one of my earliest friends, and this is my betrothed." It would have been perfect, only he rather overdid the thin?. However, the beauty flushed with vexation. She was not used to having her vic tims flaunt their freedom in her face, and to make it worse, Marie, who was only a woman, although an exceedingly wee one, could not help laughing a little as she sped away, and her laugh had in it more of malice thau she was in any wise aware of. The dajs passed on. " The beautirul woman, who, besides her natural chaims. had the added grace of widowhood, trailed her sombre splen dor all over the great country house, making other women look faded and common place by companion. Mrs. Latrobe and her unpleasant baby were well-nigh annihilated. Even pretty Marie Devoll seemed like a wan field flower beside this gorgeous Eastern lily. Harry, to do him ju.tice, shut his eyes persistently. He was blind and deaf: when Marie was indisposed, the widow captured mm. It was in the great garden. ine moonlight was entrancing, and the red-hearted roses huntr heavv with dew. Perfume, and nitrht. and the wnnnW- ful woman held him spellbound, while the perfect hps told him a secret; a httle story a something that changed me current 01 nis Deing. lhe mad love of his youth foncht against, dead, buried, was in that hour revived into a sudden and vigorous life. The woman he had loved and hated stood before him tearful spotless, a victim of uncontrollable circumstances. A sufferer like himself like himself. wronged, deceived, betrayed. For his sake she had borne uncom plainly the burden of unloving wife- nooo. Reconciliation had been the dream of her widowhood, and he had met her with scorn almost insult The man cried out against fata in that hour. This woman, who had been all the world to him in the old days of his honest youth, was more than that now. In the flood of that terrible reaction he would have sacrificed honor, truth, life itself, for her, but she would have naught of him. She had suffered, and in her heart and life suffering had wrought its perfect work of patience and contentment. Now that she stood clean in his eyes her desire was accomplished. No other woman's heart should bleed as hers had done no other woman's life through her be blighted. Beautiful dissembler! Perhaps te sight of Marie might have been a safeguard to him in those days, but she was quite ill, confined to her room, and with the perversity of fate, steadily refused to see him, and meanwhile the evil love grew and flour ished. One evening he and the widow were alone in the room that opened out of a tiny conservatory. He tLrew honor to the winds, and the woman, whether she would or no, was forced to near burning words of passion and mad love, and in the midst of the resistless torrent of his woe the door opened and a mau entered. He was tall, massive, and grandly bearded a Saxon giant, of herculean mould. He took in the scene in a moment, and laughed. "Oh Lura, Lura! " Will you never have done with your follj?" A great light named into her lace. A suduen beauty flashed over it, A smile like that might pave the way to death for any man, and he walk glad ly in it Oh, ltoy, ttoyi ' sue cried, ana rusu- mg to tne stranger, nung ner penect arms about his neck. This is my husband, she cried, "mv dear husband!" She loved this man. You could not look in her radiant face and doubt it Mr. Raymond, said she. "I was only redressing old wrongs, anu opening blinded eyes. "Never think again to ngnt a woman with her own weapons. My husband and I will leave you , .-.i. now, to make your peace wiui jour betrothed. ' She is in the conservatory. "I made sure of that before I played this httle farce." The stranger struck off the clinging arms of his wife, and stepped to the side of the dajed unhappy man. "I will not offttr you my hand, said he "because 1 know that you had much rather throttle me thau grasp it. 'I cannot ask you to forgive my wife, for I know that she must have done you a great wrong. "It is not the first time, it will most likely not be the last, and yet I love her. "Suffer as you may, young man, you do not suffer alone." Then he was gone, and nis lair iaise wife followed. Mechanically Harry stepped through the half-open door into the conservatory. A bowed, crushed figure leaned agains a half-opened window. A drooping golden ueaa, a cuci That was the woman he had promised to love and cherish until death. He could not spear. Softly, and as though he touched the dead, he stooped, and kissed her bngnt hair and so he left her. . . vUriv in the morning the married widow and her husband went way. He breathed more ireeiy. she was no longer unuer u. During the forenoon no "vu. -message from Mrs. Devoll. Mane deeirea to w """ Like a culpnt he went to the meeting. He had bo hope of a reconciliation. Manewaa toomnch of a woman to Aiane w hnmiliation into ever overiooa. m which he W tollm. SKT. 'her"cruusonosed vZjTjZ a7d swoUen-faoed, as she appeared. mrninr that it wasAn duTto s-Tou," muffled tones. u- what a hideous being even a slight cold will make of me. "I went downstairs last night, think ing to give you a pleasant surprise. "I went into the conservatory, and the heat and perfume so overpowered me, that I opened a window, and like a careless girl, tell fust asleep beside it "Liook at me. Ham ! Look at me welL "Do you think that yonr love could survive many such attacksr Marie had been asleep, actually asleep, A great flood of gratitude rolled over his soul, as, with a rapturous cry of "My darling!" he caught her in his arms. He eovered her swollen face with pas sionate kisses of thankfulness and af fection. "What devotion" sighed Mrs. Devoll. whose own manned lile had been some thing of a mistake. "Was ever girl so blessed?" thought Marie, little dreaming what that sleep had saved her, little knowing that the cold which she deplored was a blessiug in disguise, for Harry, grateful and repent ant, yet believed -w here ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise. Tne Youth Crom Tale- Was there ever; asks a writer a more remarkable creature than the young man of to-day? He is a study. I do not wonder at him when be wears hats so low as to be almost fiat and shoes so sharp as to be simplv tragic, but it is when he talks that 1 find myself most amazed. I had the pleasure of sitting in a car on the west side elevated road in New York, recently, when a youth from kale strode in and discovered an acquaintance in the person of a young New Yorker who sat opposite me, "Well, for charity's sake!" yelled the youth from Yale, "when d' you blow in?" He was tall, was the youth from Yale, with a sharp nos;-, very tight trousers, a microscopic mustache, a' very short coat, and an English hat "fcomo one's left the door open," he continued, looking around with a broad and com prehensive smile at the passengers, "and this curiosity has blown in." This brilliant sally was received by the New York young man with a grin of delight He retorted with epigramma tic bnlliancy: "Ah, go chase yourself around your feet!" Upon this they shook hands warmly, made furtiye blows at each other's ribs and sat down together. They both stared at the passengers far some time, expecting thtm to go into transports of memmeut, but somehow the passengers did not look jovful, but gaaed at each other sadly ana with apprehension. Oh, you coy darling! piped the New Yorker in a voice supposes to mim ic femininity. "Why have you not written mc' Morn, noon, and eve have 1 longed tor a word from thee, gentle Joe." "Yas, an' you got left Orlando." "When d' yu cum down?-' "Last eve. Got on an awful bat with the boys, and went to bed at 14 o clock A. SI., with a bead the size of a balloon jib on a nobleman's yacht When I tell out of bed for breakfast this morn ing w hat do you s'pose I got? ' "Got left" "No, no deal son; I got a note Iron? a gay deceiver asking me to call around an' take her an' her niamuia to the polo ground to see the foot-ball mutch." "D' you take her?" "Bet cher sweet life I didn't Sent note savin' 'I'm no hog, 1 11 take you, but I draw the line at the old woman." "Nothin'meau about you, if you are beautiful. "Well, she must think I'm a bloom- in chump to lug the entire domestic establishment to the game. By the way. Kjealind, get onto this hat, will you A Uesperate Gambler. An occurence his lftcly transpired at Nice, t ranee, wbich is near Alonaca, the great gambling centre of Europe. A notorious habitue of the Casino who had made his money principally there, had set up an Engiih vehicle, a pair of horses "tiger" and all, and cut uuite a swell driving through the neighborhood. One day he was ridirg in the environs of town upon the fine roads, his serv ant sitting npr n the raised (box behind, who has been feeling somewhat uneasy at not receiving his wages for some time, seeing his master quite alone ventured to ask him througn the back window if he would not make it conve nient to pay him. The master was in a good humor, and asked, "How much is it, La Fleur?" "One hundred and twenty fivelivres, may it please you, monsieur." ' ''Very well, here it i. said the mas ter, spreading the sum in paper curren cy upon the seat of tne vehicle. "Now, La Fleur, have you a pack of cards with you?" "Certainly," answergd the obsequi ous lackey, "I always carry them, mon sieur," producing the cards at once. "Tliat is well- Now I will be banker and you shall play against me. I will take the front seat, the back one shall serve for our table, you can look through this back window. The lackey assented to this, amused at his master's condescension. Luck was rather on thv master's side, but both men became quite eager in the game thinking of that and that only. Little by httle the footman's money was going until all that was left of his wages was five hvres. He began to feel anxious when luck turned and he won the whole sum back with every sou his master had about him. Piqued at his loss the master wagered a horse, which the lackey won, then its mate next the harness, and lastly the carriage itself. Luck ran all one way, and the servant. La Fleur, won every thing. The master took out his watch and put it down against a given sum. The cards were shuffled, the lackey won. I have nothing more, La Fleur; you have cleaned me out, said the luCf- desperate gambler. The servant was in high spirits at his strange run of lock. "Here are a hundred nvres, monsieur, I stake them against your position, if you win they are yours. If yoa lose i . 4- n we cuaugo wcmio. "Agreed." Then the cards were shuffled and La Fleor won. The vehicle returned to Nice with his former master sitting in the servants box behind, La Fleur in side. Though not much of conversation alist, a mute might get along very nice ly in a spoke factory. 1'rotectloa f r the Hands. It is exceedingly disagreeable to have the hands rough, swollen and sore, es pecially if one wisbes to write or sew jet I never could wear gloves success fully about my Louse-work, as many house-keepers do. Even when doing cold, rough work in wbich mittens or gloves seem indipensable, I often find myself casting them impatiently aside as I murmur to myself tbe time-worn proverb about a cat in gloves. They seem clumsy and in the way. Neither can I spare my bands by use of the 'dish mop" so lauded by an occassional pen. It may possibly be owing to the force of loLg-continued habit that can not wash my dishes satisfactorily with otber thau a linen or other soft, easily-wrung and easily-kept clean dish- clot a. There are a few tasks in which I find mittens or gloves a veritable iiecessity. and one of these is the blacking of stoves. Not only is tne blacking itself difficult to remove, but it actually seems to poison the flesh. Old, cast-off gloves will not answer, as they are alwavs more or less out at the finger-ends, as well as short in the wrist Gloves or mittens about as good as any for this purposed may be made of coarse, thick cotton cloth ; or canton nannel may be used, but this does not wash so t asily, They should be made to fit the hands comfortably, with long wrists, to coe well up over the sleeves. Thus pre pared, with a big apron from top to toe, thick turban over your hair, a brush for putting on the blacking, and another long-handled one for polishing, the blacking of stoves is not the most disa greeable work in the world. Still, it is better to turn it over to the men of your household if 3 ou can. They will doit in half the time, and, the proba bilities are, with more satisfactory re sults. Another thing for which mittens or gloves are inqxMrtant is the hanging out of clothes in cold or frosty weather. They will save much aching of fingers, if not indeed, some colds and sore throats also. A parr should be kept ex clusively for this purpose, for if allowed to be used in other ways they are sure when wanted to be so soiled as to spot 'and blacken the clothes. If you can knit or crochet, gloves or mittens of fine white yarn are very desirable, though a pair made either of fine canton or real flannel will answer every pur pose. The seams should be stitched on the machine ; then pressed open, and "cat-stitched" down by hind. But most important of all are gloves or mittens for handling wood and keep- lug wiu tor tirts, and especially when stoves are used for burning chunks or big wood, which often has to go in at the top. if the hands are at all deli cate or sensitive they will, unless pro tected, be continually rough and sore, not only from contact with the rough wood, but also from the action of the undue heat upon the flesh. Mittens of yarn, or any woolen material, scorch too easily and not suitable. Mittens of stout canton flannel will answer, though a pair of snail-sized men's gloves of some soft stout leather, with deep gauntlet wrists, are best The ex pense is not great, and they will more than pay for themselves in one season, if you have many fires to build, in the greater comfortableness and smooth ness of vour hauds. A Calrene Brule. On alighting from our carriage, rays a correspondent who is writing of a visit to Cairo, we were hastily con ducted across a large covered court, in which tables were spread and hired mu sicians were performing, and were shown up to the women's apartments, passing Ibroueh a numher of narrow, winding pas sages it was, I was told, a real old-fashioned Turkish interior and traversing a number ot rooms furnished with a curious mixture of the splendid and the tawdry. until we came to the room where the bnde sat to receive the final compliments of her her friends. She was small-framed, deli cate-looking person, with fairly regular features and beautiful eyes and teeth, but the former, notwithstanding that her face was thickly psiuted white, showed traces of tears, and she looked and evidently was tired to death. "She has been crying all day," whispered tbe French governess to us confidentially; "she has never seen him, of course, and has got an idea that she shan't like him; the fact is, she did not want to be mamed at all.bul of course her family would ret refuse Pasha's alliance." The new bride's apartments have been refurnished in her honor, and were bestrewn w th yellow satin chairs and fautcuils, which must of the women carefully avoided, prefering to sit com fortably on the carpet or on tbe lowest foot-stool they could find. Tbe bnde sat like a little image on a chair raised on two steps in one corner of tbe room; ber hands, incased in tight white kid gloves, were crossed en her lap, and she never moved at all, except that she acknowledged our courtesies, as strangers, with a slight grave inclination of tbe head. The other women kept up a pretense that it was all very delightful, and occasionally stroked ber dress smilsng in passing, or rearranzed the heavy gold fringes of tbe veil, bbe had put off a magnificent bridal areas of white satin on entering the house of this husband whom she "had never seen," and was now arrayed in pink satin heavily em broidered with gold, having on her head a veil of tulle and gold ornamented with Sowers and diamonds, while large diamond brooches and bracelets glittered on ber dress and wrists. The long train of her dress s made in European fashion, was spread ostentatiously halt across the floor. Tbo6e of ber relations who had come with ber were also very smart and very modern, tier sister, in addition to a pair of high- heeled shoes, had advanced to the civilized length of wearing tijtht stays. A t.tttia More.; One of the stockholders of a new Wes tern railroad was a fanner who had ac cumulated bis money by bard toil, and when he had put in appearance at the meeting to elect a Soard of Directors he felt it his duty to remark : 'Gentlemen, as I understand this thug we elect the Board and tbe Board elects the officers." Some one said be was right and he con- jinucd: "I don t go a cent on high salaries, and I want that understood, I am in favor of paying our President a good livicg salary. and no more." 'How much do you call a good living salary I " asked one of the crowd. "Well, a day is the going wages, but " Here the meeting began to roar, and it was two or threeoninutes before the orator had a chance to conclude: "But of course we want a man who can run an engine, switch a train, handle freight keep books and lick anybody who want pay fare, and so I snail not object to a day." at laalted I pou all Privileges. The other dav a lank youne man from the country, accompanied by a tood-look- insr juuag woman, arrived in the ci'y and stopped at our largest hotel. "1 want you to do the best you ken for us, said tbe young man to the clerk. "We've just got married, and want to splurge a little. Down in my country I m the boss. I ken lift agin any man in the community, and 1 ken fplit more rails in a day than any body sepenter knock-keed Bill, the old Guinea nigger what works on tbe Lige Sandeis place. Tell us where our room is, please. But I reckon well take tbe ran re ot tbe big room whar all them big lookin' glasses is a shimn'." "Do you mean the parlor?" asked tte clerk, twisting one of his diamond shirt studs. "Yes, the periur." "Certainly, sir." The young man and his wife followed a griming negro and ascended to tbe parlor. snortly afterward tbe clerk, while passing the parlor door, saw Rube throw his arms around his bnde and kiss her. Here,' said the official, none of that If you stay in this room you've ot to be have yourselves." 'Ain't I got a ngbt to kiss ber I asked the young man. "les, but not here." "I've got a richt to kiss her here or any whar else. She's mine, ain't vou Jule ?" "Yes, Robe." ''Didn't the Justice of the Peace say that you must cling to me?" Tea, Rube." And you are goin' to clinir. ain't you?" "louknow 1 am Rube." "That settles it Put her thar," and puckering up his mouth he received a loud resounding smack. "The law ot Arkan- saw says you can put her thar, and put her thar agin, Jule. Now mister man " but the clerk had vanished, and Rube, turnins to his wife, sort: "Arter a while you'll find out that lm a bcro and a !j4s. I'ut ber tuar agin, Jule." How Apples Ar ild io atoglansl. There are five auctioneers in the busi ness in Liverpool, and all the apples re ceived are soia oy menu ibe sale is held in a large amphitheatre, in the centre of which is a large table, on which a barrel of each mark is poured out as a sample. Each auctioneer sells for three-quarters of an hour at a time, and the sales continue, if necessary, till 10 o'clock at night Ar-Dles are sold in lots of twenty barrels each. The un derstanding ia that the apples shall be perfectly light in the barrel, when such bring j shillings per barrel : "shakers," or these not tightly packed, will bring 4 shillings less. The next grade is "wet and wasted," which brings onlv half the price of the best The Baldwin is the on'y vanety sold to any amount ; it is the only one which can be obtained in sufficient quality to sell by the thousand barrels. Retiil lots and odds and ends are not wanted. Sides are held three days in a week. The trade dates from about ten years ago. When it became apparent that New England could raise apples enough for its own consumption, the New York growers began to snip. In packing, a basket of high-colored and medium-sized speci mens are placed in the bottom of the bane! as close as possible, with the steins all down, and the barrel is shaken as often as a basketful is put in. It is filled hidf an inch above the chimes. the head is pressed in by means of a screw, and the barrel is then turned over and marked on the face head, so that when opened it shos an even ana uniform surface. Apples thus faced will briug from twenty-five to fifty cents more than those not faced. There is very httle demand for sweet apples. Apples are sometimes shipped success fully in warm weather, when later ship ments, m cooler weather, will decay. Facta Worth Knowing-. A book account can be assigned so that tbe assignee can sue thereon in his own nane. A master may recover the value of the apprentice's service for the unex pired term from one who abducts him. The owner of lands is responsible for damages arising from an are unpro tected opening into a public footway. Tearing off the seals of a mortgage or even its entire destruction, by an unauthorized person will not cancel it. An assignment of rent after it is due will not convey any right of suit to the assignee, nor divest the less jr of his rL;ht Lntying and removing a burse from a public hitching post when done by any one without authority amounts to trespass if a person intoxicated fell asleep in bis wagon and his horse ran away, he would be liable to ail damages arising thtrelrotn. it is a debatable iioint of law, whether striking a horse attached to a carnage in which a person is sitting is an assault on the person. . A female cannot be arrested in a civil suit in this State for fraud, but she may be attached for contempt for non-payment of costs. A person whose goods are unlawfully distrained for rent does not forfeit or waive any legal ngbt by not claiming the goods when the distress is made. The owner of a hteain boiler, which he has in use on his own property, is not re sponsible in the absence of negligence for the damage done by its bursting. A bank is not liable for loss by the bur glary of valuables deposited in the vault of the baak, and no compensation paid therefor, whea the effects of tbe bank are kept m tbe same vault. Eniucualtd Turklh W. mm One result of the British occupation of Cyprus, according to an American observer, has been to revolutionize the status ol Turkish women in the island. The emancipated Turkish woman, he says, is not only to be found in Cyprus, but she has been emancipated so rapidly that, in his opinion, the harem system will not long survive in Egypt or any other country where a British garrison is stationed. In Cyprus, according to his account the Moslem woman "has openly thrown off the yoke and claimed her independence, and with a vengeance too. Turaish husbands, fathers, brothers and friends are frantic with despair at the torn affairs have taken, and should a Turk come here from any other part of Island he would not be lieve hia own eyes." The women go about unveiled, walk arm-in-arm with the infidel, give coffee parties to Eng lishmen, attend cufee chan tints, and in some case have even taken to drinking. The Woman's Suffrage Society should lose no time in starting a branch in Cy prus, for if drunkenness and the can cel) are the first fruits of female eman cipation in the island, there is certaiu to be a severe reaction before long, in which the Tarkish husband is likely to come to hia own again unless due pre cautions are taken by the liberators of the other sex. Irish BalU. We do not now allude to the stock broking financier or the farmyard steer, but to the "apparent congruity and real incongruity" of ideas popularly snp- posed to be characteristic of the Irish mind. In 1SVZ there was published, by Richard and Maria Edgeworth, an "Esuay on Irish Bulls," which was handled by Sydney amith lu the Edin burgh Review. The object of this re markable work was to prove that the practice of "making bulls" is not more imputable to the Irish than to any other people ; and the manner in which the authors set alout it was to quote ex amples of bulls produced in other conn ixies. A singular way of reasoning the question ! r or, as the racy reviewer re marks, "there are goitres out of the Valois, extortioners wno do not worship Moses, oatcakes south of the Tweed. and balm beyond the precincts of Gi- lead. If nothi lg can be said to exist pre-eminently and ea phatically in our countrv which exists at all in another. then Frenchmen are not gay nor Span iards grave ; or the gentlemen ot the Milesian race remarkable for their dis interested contempt of wealth in their connnbial relations." We have said that to accredit the Irish with this te- culiarly embarrasing talent is the re sult of nothing more than popular sup position ; but it is, of course, probable that there is some foundation lor a character so nationally maintained, how ever much it may be enlarged bv fame. Sydney Smith is the author of the above definition of a "bull," and he points cnt, with some show of reason, tnat a bull is the very reverse of wit For as wit discovers real relations that are not apparent, the bull admits appareut re lations that are not real. Tbe pleasure arising from wit proceeds from our sur prise at suddenly discovering two tilings to be similar in which wn susiected no similanty. The pleasure arising from a bull proceeds from our discovering two things to bo dissimilar in which a resemblance might have been suspected. IjOius A.IV , being extremely harassed by the repeated solicitations of a vet eran oflice-r for promotion, said, one day, loud enough to be heard by the 8Ubjectof his unintentional compliment "That gentleman is the most trouble some officer I have in my service." "That is precisely the charge," said the veteran, "which yonr Majesty's enemies bring against me." An Euglish gentle man, says Mr. Edgeworth in a story cited from Joe Miller, was writing a let ter in a coffee-house, aud perceiving that an Irishman, stationed behind hun, was taking that liberty which Paimenio used with his friend Alexander, in stead of putting his seal upon the hps of the curious imiertinent, the Ejglish gentleman thought proper to reprove the Hibernian, if not with delicacy, at least with justice. He concluded writ ing his letter with these words : "I would say more, but a blackguard Irish man is reading ovei my shoulder every word that I am writing." "You ho. you sconndrel 1" roared the self-convicted culprit Now, with some force of logi cal acumen, Sydney Smith points out that the pleasure derived from the first of these stoiies proceeds from the dis covery of the relation that subsists be tween tbe object he had in view aud the assent of the officer to an observation so unfriendly to that end. In the first rapid glance wluch the mind throws upon his words, he apears, by his ac quiescence, to be pleading against hlui self. There seems to be no relation be tween what he siys aad what he wisiie to effect by spctkiui'. In the second story the pleasure is directly the reverse. The lie given was apparently the readiest means of prov ing his innocence and re ail v the most effectual way of establishing his guilt. I here seems for a moment to be a strong relation between the means and the ob ject ; while, in point of fact, no infla tion can be so complete. What connec tion is there between pelting monkeys with stone's an i gathering cocoanuts from lofty trees ? Apparently, none. But monkeys sit U)xu lofty cocoa-nut trees, and monkeys are imitative ani mals. Wherefore, if you shy up peb bles at the monkey, the observant mon key will heave the cocoanuts at you. This scheme of gathering cocoanuts is as witty as the method of procuring Australian parrots by slowely walking round and round the base of the trees in which they are perched till they top ple down with sheer giddiness in trying to keep you in their eye. Both these would be still more witty if they did not also appear very useful ; fur, as Sydney Smith observes very truly, '-the idea of utility is ever iuimical to the idea of wit There appears, on the contrary, to be some relation between the revenge of the Irish labels against a banker, and the means which they took to gratify it by burning all the notes ot his bank which they could lay hands on; whereas, of course, they could hardly have rendered him a more signal service, In these cases of bulls. practical and verbal, there is an appar ient congruity and a real incongruity of ideas. In these cases of wit there is an apparent incongruity and a real rela tion. Woaa1erful lee Caves. One of the greatest natural wonders of Europe is the Hungarian ice cave. At the foot of the highest group of the Carpathian chain lies the Co mi tar of Goniar, a Uistnct of singular beauty and variety, in which are mountains on whose summit grows the Arctio lichen and the pine, while at their base tobac co, Indian coru and meions flourish. It i in this country, within a few miles of the town of Dobshain that the newly discovered ice caverns are situated. The existence of thexe extraordinary caves was well known, but althocgU situated at the low elevation of three thousand five hundred feet where snow rests on ly in winter, it was left to a youth named KuDiuy to explore these secrt re cesses of the earth. Having provided himself with everything that eouJd be imagined necessary for such an expedi tion, he entered the chasm, and work ing his way over blocks ot ice and a chaos of debris, wbich in the course or agus had accumulated there, he became lost for a time in tbe darkness of a new world. With infioite difficulty he reach ed what appear ea to him a frozen lake, and returned to his point of departure. Uis com pax kins now joined him, ai.d penetrated still further into these icy solitudes. Not alone do these caves contain pillars and' waterfalls of ice, but three walls are studded "with thous ands of ice structures, hexangular in form, from a half to one inch in diame ter, which, clustered together, resem bled anemones and other flowers scin tillating like diamonds in the magne sium light" Palotlps; lroa soi faces. Of the varieties ot lacquers and paints used it is needless to speak at length, as the all-important point is the actual state of tne iron surface when the first coa". is laid on. If that is not in proper condition, no subsequent application, however good in itseir, has any chance of being perma nently preservative, and I thick that that proper state is found when there has been formed upon the whole first or black oxide, which has been, while hot, thoroughly permeated by and incorporated witb a resinous or tarry coveiing. Once formed. everything goes well. Additional coats of paint may be applied from time to time to renew the thickness of tbe orurinal cov ering, but the iron underneath remains un attacked. If, on tbe contrary; a film of hydrate oxide (ordinvy rust from expo sure,) be once allowed to form, tbe success ive coats 01 pamts an thrown on sooner or later, and, in the meantime, the rust has spread under the paint. A striking instance of this may be generally seen after out-door n feted-work has been in place for some time. As a rule, all the riveting is done before the final painting is commenced, and each rivit head has in tbe meantime been exoosed to a damp at mo phere; tbe paint invariably commences to peel off tbe nvet-beads lon before it leaves the adjacent plates, and when this has once taken place nothing but a thorough scraping off of tbe surface will t,ive 1 he paint any chance of adhering. So slight are the differences of manipulation which determine whetber a given piece ot work shall or shall not rust away, that I think they may all be found in tbe different me thods of manbfacture pursued now and formerly. Taking tbe case of a piece of ornamental iron-work, which in so many instances has come down to us in unim paired beauty and condition, it would be now probably forged in deiad in one part of a factory, drilled, tiled and fitte.l in another, and when completely finished be painted "in three coats of best oil paint." Formerly trw smith who forged the work punched the necessary holes at the same time, fitted his various pieces together as ; he went on, completing euch piece as he j proceeded, doing all tbe work with bis hammer, and, to quote au old book of di rections to good smiths, "brusbing bis work over with linseed oil and suspending it for some time over a strongly-euukhig wood fire." This will give at once a sort of elastic enamel coat, perfectly adherent. and calcu'a'.ed to presve tbe hoi to the utmost The Cattle riacie't Cost. Until recent y little has been postivefy known of the origin or true diagnosis of tbe cattle plague, which is necessary to its successful treatment and eradication. It appears from the records of the Agricul tural Department that attention was first called to the existence of this disease in a danger jus or epidemic form during IStitf, and that during that year the dinger to be apprehended from its spread from conta gion was recognized and measures adopted 10 meet the contingency. By references to tbe reports of the Commissioner of Agriculture it is found that an appropria tion was recommended by the Commis sioner, and adopted by Congress, for the expenditure of a sum that seemed adequate fix tbe occasion, aud a commission, whose duty it was to report upon its nature and extent was appointed to investigate the caue and recommend measures for its treatment. During that and the succeed ing years of 1S70 and 1671 the sum of $12.UV5 60 was expended in a careful manner in these investigations with re sults that are of great importance when viewed in connection witb the vast inter est involved in its consideration. A recent estimate places the losses occurring an nually from the cattle plague at from two to three millions ot dollars at the present time, which, if esttmatea at five per cent. niLkes a total of from i l'),0w,0oo to 1 60,000,000, which U imperiled by the consequences, with a prospective iueteac of many millions. Elsnt Follies. To think that the more a man eats the fatter and stronger he will be come. To believe that the more hours chil dren study at school tbe faster they will learn. To conclude that if exercise is health ful, the more violent and exhaustive it is the more good is done. To imagine that every bonr taken from sleep is aa hour gained. lo act on the presumption that the smallest room in the house la large enough to sleep in. lo argue that whatever remedy makes you feel immediately better is good for the system, without regard to ultenor effects. To commit an act which is felt in itself to be prejudical hoping that some bow or other it may be done in your case with impunity. To eat a hearty supper for the pleas ure experienced during the brief time it is passing down tne throat, at the expense of a whole night of disturbed sleep and a weary waking in the morn ing How Mew Orleans was Captnred. The late Admiral Baily, who was dined at the Astor House after the capture of New Orleans, 'explained'' tnat battle as follows : "Mr. President and gentlemen hem. thank ye." And tnen, after a long pause : "Well, I suppose you want to hear about that New Orieans affiir?" "Yet! yes 1" echoed through the haJL "Well, d'ye see ; tbis was the way of it" lesumed tbe orator, hitching up his trousers. "We were lying down the river below the forts, and Farraut, he he signaled ns to go in and take 'em. Being as we were already hove short, it didu't take much time to get under way ; so that wasn't s much of a j ib as you seem to think ; and then the engineers they run tbe ships ; to all we had to do was to biaza tway when we got up to the forts, and take 'em according to orders. That's j ist all there was about it!' And the concise narrator, feeling that he had accomplished everything de -manded of him, sat down in the midst of thunders of applause. The isroi'so Ace. During tue excav&Uou in Ihu l iazia Vittorio Emanueh. in Borne, the work men have found a sepulchre of the bronze age. It is a hole dug in the tufa and lined with rougb stones, the whole being six feet long and three feet wide. No ashes were found, and the other remain proved it to belong to the transition period between the a tone age and the bronze age. The whole space between the YU Morulana and the railway station ia covered with similar graves lying deep under the ancient Eaquilum. Considering the number of remains discovered curing the last twelve years, and those recorded by old writers, it is probable tnat a town was founded on the site in the bronze e. NEWS IN LRLEF. Ohio claims to have of Honor. 7, CCO Knights Russsians. in roasting their c-.gje, add a clove of garlic. There are said to be in Orwn r. less than 700 kinds of grapes. Italian wines will be good, abund ant and cheap the coming season. Large numbers of Iirvuti are ordered to the Soudan desert -The Duke of Arevll ed all his woods with wild turkevs. Her husband and babv trav.1,1 with Madame Albani. Miseonn ia send to Europe to improve the forests. A negro who it alleged to 1 yearsjold lives ia Warren county, Mis3. The salaries of tte officials of nil the bonanza mines have been reduced. Nearly 46.000 immitrrants cam t the United SUtes in the month of Oc tober Fenir Ying Wane was the namx t the person who introduced uriutiu'r-m- to China. The total cost of the new catdtnl of the state of New York to date h.is been $14,222,903. The number of small pox patients under treatment at Baltimore is -ItvJ, iu 1 population 01 40U,0W. Wra. F. Cody, better knowu as Buffalo BUI " is sufferinc from Ei ua- monia at Newburg. N. Y. The Young Men's Chrisii .n Associa tion of New J.rse-y gained 222ti new members during the p.ist year. There are 69,000tlored Baptists in Tennessee, with 10 churches. There have been 2,4 H) divorces decreed in Maine during live years, making a ratio of oue separatum in teu marriages. Mr. Stephen A, Dong'as, sou of the "Little Giant," has be-ju an invalid in Chicago several mouths, but 13 now able to ride out Lieutenant Colonel McDongull. of Guelph, has been selected to command the Canadian artillery team at Shoebury . ness duriag the coming season. - British architects appear to concede that plumbing and other sanitary ar rangements of American houses are far better than those of tuo Euglisle. Mrs. Johu Jacob Astor is s:ii.l to be the only lady in New York, or any other city, whose earthly p-jewessi jus include a dinner service of solid gol.L One of the passengers on the trial trip of Fulton's steamboat, Mry. S.iUv Smith, died Lot long since at Ed'ar town, Massachusetts, aged liiuety-to. Out of nearly 37,000,000 of people in the United States above ten years of age, 5,000,000 are reported unable to read, and over 6,000,000 unable to write. A Marine ai;d Mechanical Exhibi tion will be opened in Loudon next July, and it will contain practical ex amples of gas, hydraulic and electric engineering. The Princess Louise has sent to liideau fiall, Ottawa, a larce number of Indian and Chinese curositics imr- chased by her during her tour tnrouh uritisb Columbia. Professor Robinson, whote alle!T.Hl heresies made such commotion in tat ecclesiastical circles of Scotland, has accepted the professorship of Arabic iu Cambridge, Eiigiitnl. The yield of wheat for the vear 1871), 1S81 and ls2 m the United States ia given as follows : 1S7'J, i.yj, 47'J, 50-i bushels ; lSSl, 3S0, 2), 000 bushels ; lVSi, 512, 7'JS, tJ0 bushels. A bonfire, which has communicated witb a bed of coal beneath, is said to be still burning on a hill near Troy, New York, having been lighted to ceh-l brute General Garfield's election. Nancy llcComb, a very ased col ored woman, who died, a week or two since, in Milledgeyihe, Georgia, was the cook who prepared Geueral Lafa yette s dinner when ha visited that city. Louis Blanc left 20,000 francs to Parisian children who have leen deser ted by their parents. The deserving of each year are to receive savings bank books with 100 francs set down to their credit In the Khoyra district, India, which comprises a considerable portion of the Sunderbnnds, more than titty people tiinber-cultiug and collecting in the jingle-were killed by tigers during the last official year. Water for domestic uses is so Bcarce in Augusta, Me., that many families are having ice iu large blocks hauled from the nver to their doors aud melt ing the ice for drinking, wa-ihiug and culinary purposes. The London Fire Brig vlo has but fifty steam engines aud 500 firemen, i'he estimated valus of the property to be protected is SO.000,000,000, aud Londoners pay an insurance premium of 120th part of 1 per cent, John G. Whitiier recently received from a Chicago lady 2 K) engraved visi ting cards witu a request to writo bis illustrious name on each of tticin, a? ihe writer was to give a reeeptiou tj her friends and desired to present them with some memento of the event The bright yellow tint of many Japanese vases has never been succss fully imitated by European artisans. Its popularity in Japan is no douot owing lo the fact that from time immemorial saSrou tint has been considered lucky. A piece of Plymouth Rock, eiht inches long, three inches wiae and four thick, has been forwarded to tue ii -v. Henry Alion, of Mission Chattel, Isling ton, Lojdou, to be built into the front of tbe chapel pulpit, by the I'ligrLa Society of Plymouth, Massachusetts. Accenting to the J-juriutl de Fab ricanU Ue Sucre, the production of beet-root sugar in Europe this year amounts t 1,920,000 tons, an increase of 137,500 tons over la-t year. Germany is stiil the greatest producer, heading the list witn 675,000 tons ; Austrian Hungary ranks next with 45O,0O'J to: is ; France third, with 410.000 tons; Po i,h Busttia fourtu, 275,000 tons. Krupp's works, at Essen, now em ploy some 433 steam boilers : 45(1 steam engines, with an aggregate horse power of 18,5oO; 89 steam hammers, varying in weight from 2J0 pounds to 50 tons ; 21 rolling mills ; machines for mkiug tools, 1,622 ; furnaces, 1,556. of whiju fourteen are high furnaces; 25 locomo tives, and five propellers, with a tonnage of about 8,000. Annual production, 300,000 tons steel and 26,000 tons iroo. "You must Know
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