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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.
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