r .... , B. F. SCKWEIER, THE 0053TITUTI0I-THE TTSTOlf AiTD THE ETfTOEGEtfEIT OP THE LAT3. Kditor and Proprietor. VOL. XXXVII. MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 21. 1SS3. NO. 12. . MITLE PDILOWrBEB. The days are ttiort and me nigtiu are long. And the lnl Is nipping cold ; The taaki are hard and the snnii are wrong. And the teachrrs often acold. lint Johnny MctYee, On, what cares be. As he whistles along the war - It will all come right B? to-morrow nigat," Sjjs Johnnj McCrre lo-dar. Tie lOunis are tew and the oake is plaia. The shoes are out at the te ; For money 70a look la the parse In rain It whs a'l spent long ago. Hot Johnny MeCree, th, what carrs he. As he whis les along the street? w ould you navo the blues For a pa;r of shoes v hue you have a pair of feet ? The slow is deep, there are paths to break, Lut the ltttttarm is strong. And work is p'.ay if you'll only take Your work with a hit of song. And Johnny McCree, h, what cares he. As he whu-t es along the road? He wtU do his best, An 1 will leave the rest To the care of his Father, God. The mother's face Is often std. She scarce knows what to do; But at Johnny's ki-s she is bright and glad sue loves him, and wouldn't yon? For Johnny McCree, Oh, what can s he. As he wb.stlts along the way? 1 he trouble will g. And I told you so," Our brave litt.e John wi.l say. T II AT KIT DAT. Nobody gees to church ou later Day without a new suit in the very latest fashion!" said Mrs. Clairville. "Certainly not!" said Alicia, lier eld est daughter. "Airs. Telharu Las written to Paris for a tew bonnet, to my certain know ledge." "And, cf course," added Emily, the yenugest section of tiie bouse of Clair ville, "As you are spending the winter with cs, Madeline, yon will be expected not to disgrace us,' Madeline Moray looked from one to the other of the speakers with a troubled look cf countenanca. '"But, aunt Clairville," said she, "mamma writes me that our old cousin Zephaniah and his wife have come from Maine, very poor, and that we must economize as much as possible. "They are vtTy old, and they need a great many little luxuries, ar.d whatever Mrs. Ciairvilk's face darkened visi bly. ""Made-line," said she, "will you never forget thai yon belong to a farmer's fam ily down east? "Your cousin Zephauialis are nothing tome. "Of course, while you are my guest, I shall expect you to dress as becomes your station as my niece." .Madeline aniuea uer picnj sore perplexity after aunt Clairvijie had rustled out, leaving a strong odor of patchouli behind her. She Lad a some back-notes yet left of the store which they had scraped to gether at Lome, wLen they sent her to spend a winter in Boston with aunt Clairville, and she took it from her purse and smoothed it out upon her de-k. Twenty five dollars! She Lad hoped to save it all for cousin Zt-ptianiuh. H -r pretty shot silk, with the darnasse front, was very fresh and rretty still she Lad only worn it soe half-dozen tiuies and her neat little split-straw Lat would lock very nice, if she bought new ribbon for it and re-arrat'ged the flowers. At least that was the mental conclu sion at which she had arrived, when Mrs. ClaiivCle issued her commands, biuoing as an imperial ukase, that a new Easter suit was among the necessi- Madeliue kucw very well that she waa pretty. She never locked into the glass with out pereeiviug the diffurenoe between her Ircsh apple blossom of a face, and the enamelled and rouged complex ions of her city cousins. She knew th?t her hair was like burn ished coils of gold, her long-lashed eyes like stars, and she would Lave liked a new Ea-ster suit as well as any one and the bonnets in Madame Printemp's window looked infinitely beautiful in her eyes, with their French roses and perfectly simulated violets; but there was Tbe'old man and his enfeebled wife to remember the ancient relics of a Lygone gene-ation, who Lad out-lived the sympathy of almost all the world. "Ho," said Madehne to herself. "I must not spend this money, Easter suit or no Easter suit.' So she sat herself down, in the rainy March afternoon, to rip up the short silk dress and alter it over so that even Alicia and Emily should not know it for the same. But, with U her skill in amateur dress- nuking, the folds would not hang stylishly, the old creases would obtrude themselves ou the eye, and the costume proclaimed, in its every Itlisten and puff "Made over, made overl" Emily Claimlle shook her head. . "Madeline," said she, "it is of no "You never can wear that dress! An your hat, too! "A plain spiit-straw, without so much as French flower." Madeline burst into tears. "Very well, Botfly,'' she said. "Then 1 will remain at home. "You need not fear that I will uis grace the congregation of St. Etheldreda on ISaster Sunday." . -rf.vved And this pledge evidently reheved the mind of Miss Clairville. And the two elegant sUters did not tike the trouble, when Captain Braba zin dropped in to five o'clock tea, to send up word to Madeline that there was company in the parlor. "I suppose she don't care to see me, the captain thought, with a sinking heart, when at last Le went away, after having lingered as long as politeuess would admit. "I suppose he never asked for me -uueieiina said to Lemelf as, from her window, she saw his retreating figure sauuier siowlj down the street. W,. n 1 . . " " matters less man ever now about the Easter suit. "Nobody will know whether I Lave one or not." But when Easter Eve came, and Mad. eline was crying softly in her own room, to mink of the radiant spring sunset mat was flooding all the world at home, me waiter came grinning up to the up door. Please, Miss Maddy,' "hyar's a basket o'lavlocks. ' he said. Ileal spnugy-smellin', I do declare! "Wid de cappen's card Cappen irabazan, miss! Madeline uttered an exclamation of delight. Oh, the lovely purple things! Clusters of hlae fragrance. Delicious reminders of the springtide at home. Oh, how kind it was of Captain Brab- azan to remember that she was a coun try girl, exiled here among brick walls, id j - . miuame ressonae a young women sat up until twelve o clock that night, to mush the three elegant costumes which Mrs. Clairville and her daughters ordeied. The three bonnets did not come Lome until Sunday morning. But Madeline watched them sail forth to church, to the glitter of golden sun beams and the clanging of melodious bells, like three fashion-plates. And then she put ou her plain little "made-over dress" and, taking a fresh cluster of lilacs from the vase of water. pinned it across the split-straw hat. "There," she thought as she tied the strings under her chin, "no Paris exotic ever looked half so sweet as thut! "And 1 am sure Heaveu will incline its ear 110 less favorably to my prayers than if I went to St. Erheldreda's in Worth's newest design." And she crept to the little church in the ad lining street, which had long been out of fashion, and where the spectacled old clergyman practiced all the austeri ties of the early fathers, through dire necessity. Easter Sunday! She sal there, listening to the anthems. and thinking of the dear ones at home, and wondering if cousin Zphauuh and his poor old wife would ever Know tiiut she, Madeline Moray, had caxt her mite to relieve their sore necessities, and recalling vaguely the poor widow whose offering had once been so precious in the holiest of eyes. Hers was not much now, but she also had given it from a free and willing heart As she moved quietly, and with re verent, downcast eyes, out cf the church, some one stepped to her side. "You have dropped sometldng, Miss Moray," said Captain Bra be son. And he held up the cluster of lilacs, drooping now, and a little faded. She put her hand tip to her bonnet with a scarlet blnsh. "Your lilacs, Captain Brabazr.n," she said. His face brightened. "1 am proud that yon deemed them worthy of your wearing. . "Yonr cousin to'd n e that you was such an mchorite that you did not care for flowers, or books, or society that you were not even going to church on Easter Sunday." "I?" cried Madeline. "Oh, Captain Brabazm, I like all three! "1 cried over your flowers when tney cams last night. "They seemed to me like dear friends from home. - 4And 1 wore them in my bonnet be cause because I could not afford ard fical blossoms. - "TLere! now you know just how poor I am." Aud she laughed, even while the roseate tinge suffused her cheek. 'I do not know whether you are poor or not," said he; "but I do snow that I think you the nearest to perfection of any girl whom I ever saw." "May I tell you all about it?" she aske 1 hurriedly, "for I do not want you to think me avaricious or semi-barbarian, as my cousins somet'mes pronounce me. And then you shall tell me whether ytu think I am right or wrong. They walked slowly Lome from church in the soft, bland sunlight of that Easter Day, and when they reached the brown stone mansion in Silverston street. Cap tain Brabazan went in and formally asked Mrs. Clairvilies permission to address her ni ce with a view to mar- liage. That was Madeline Moray's Easter gift. A mas's true and loyal heart the dawn or a Rreat happiness, over a life which up to this hour had been but chill and solitary. There was no denying thatiixs. iwair- ville was much disappointed. Emily and Alicia had been in focieiy ihKA seasons now, wuuouu u.uiS ceived any eligible offer; and it did seem strange that this pale, quiet little girl from the back-woods, as jirs. w,!l contemptuously expressedit, should ave carried off such a glittering prize as Captain Brabazan; for it never occur red to them that Madeline's sweet unselfishness and quiet self denial could possibly have had anything to do with the matter. And so long as old cousin Zephaniah , 1.:- wif lived. Captain Brabazan HIJtl AlaJD ' - , sA aJlowance wnicn made uiem amnle for their simple wants. Daring the past fliteen years 3,500 churches have neen imui Fenic'uoa Cuura;a ot lite Afjrbm. A correspondent contributes some "RemiuisceuoTO of the War in Afghan, istan." Referring to the fighting qual ities of the Afghan soldiery, Le says: An Afghan never thinks of asking for quarter, bat fights with the ferocity of a tiger and clings to life until his eyes glaze and his hands refuse to pull a pistol-trigger or use a kmfo in a dying effort to maim or kill bis enemy. The stern realities of war were more pro nounced on the battle-fields in Afghan istan than perhaps tiiey nava ever been in India, if we except the retributive days of the mutiny. Xo spare a wonnd ed man fur a minute was probably to cause the death of tUo next soldier who unsuspiciously wa ked past him. One thing our men certainly learned in Afghanistan, aud that wa to keep their wits about them when pursuw an enemy or passingover a hard-won field. There might be danger lurking in each seemingly inanimate form studding the ground, and nale-s care and caution were exercised the wounded Afghan would steep his soul in bliss by killing a Kaffir just when lifts was at its last ebb. This stubborn way of fighting ti extremis is prompted doubtless by fanaticism, and we saw so much of it that our mei at close quarters always drove their bayonets well home, so that t'oere should be no mistake as to the deauliness of t'ue wound. The phy. sical courage which distinguished the untrained mobs who fought so resolutely against us was worthy of all admiration; the tenacity with which men, badly armed aud lacking skilled leaders, clung to theirpositions was remarkable, to say nothing of the sullen dogged ness they often showed when retiring. But when the tide of the fight set in fully against them and they saw that further resistance would involve them more deeply, there was so sudden a! hange always apparent that one could scarcely believe the fugitives hurrying over the hills were the same men who had resisted so desperately but a few minutes before. They acted wisely; they knew their powers in scaling steep hills, or in making their escape by fteetness of fool; and the host generally dissolved with a rapidly which no one but an eye-witness can appreciate. If cavalry overtook them, they turned Lke wolves aud fought with desperation, selling their lives as dearly as men ever sold them; but there was no rally in the true sensj of the word, and but ;tint atU'm;ts at aiding eaclt other. Their regular troops were but little amenable to discipline by reason of deficient training, and they resorted to the tacties they had pursued as tribes men, when once they were forced to retire." Bailway Accominodattoas, In these days when it is fashionable to complain of corporations as purely selfish, it is ereatly to the credit ot the Pennsylva nia Iiiilroad Company, that if, is coi stsnt ly furnishing increased facilities for the accommodation of the traveling public Recently they have commenced running a through Pullman Klespin; Coach from Washington and Baltimore to Cnicaeo on their Pacific Express, which leaves Wash ing every day in the year at 9 50 p. m., and Baltimore 11.15 p. m. The arriving time at Chicago is 8 00 o'clock the second morning. The portion of the trun which starts from Washington joins at liarris burg with tbe section from New York and Philadelphia on which there is a kite) car. This arrangement gif es passengers from Baltimore and Washington just the same eating; facilities as enjoyed by those from New York, as the firtt meal en route is breakfast on the first morning, after the two sections have become one train. On their West Jersey connection, also, they arranged for placing, since February llth, a through p&stenger car between New York and Jersey City as follows: Leave Brooklyn 12:30 noon; New York, 1:00 p. m., and arrive at Atlantic City f via Trenton and Camden) 6:47 p. m. iieave Atlantic City at 7:25 a. m., arrive at New York, 11:40 noon; Brooslyn 12:30 noon. Tbe car will not be ruu in either direction on Sundays. The latter will furnish not only deniable facilities for the citizens ot New York and northern New Jersey, but will enable sum mer visitors to New York city on business to take a ruu down to the "City by the 1m" conveniently and in a few hours. Ongjiq of tlta Cerl GrAim Wheat ranks by origin as a dsgoucr- erate and degraded lily. Sach in brief is the propositioa which this paper sets out to prove, and which the whole course of evolutionary botany tends every day more and more fully to con firm. By thus from the very outset placing clearly be'fore our eyes the goal of our argument, we shall be able the better to understand as we go whither each item of the cumulative evidence is really tending. We must endeavor to start with the simplest forms of the great group of plants to which the ce reals and the other grasses belong, and we must try to see by what steps this primitive type gave birth, first to the brilliantly colored hlius, next to the degraded rushes and sedges, and then to the still more degenerate grasses, from nne or other of whose richer grains man has finally developed his wheat, his rice. Lis millet, and Lis barley. We shall thus trace throughout the whole pedigree of wheat from the time when its ancestors first diverged from the common stock of the lilies and the water-plantations, to the time when sav age man found it growing wild among the unfilled plains of prehistoric Ashi, and took it under Lis special protection in the little garden-plots around his wattled but, whence it has gradually altered under Lis constant selection in to the golden grain that now covers half the lowland tilth of Europe aril America, There is no page in botanical history more full of genuine romance than this, and there is no page In which the evidence is dearer or more convin cing for those who will take the easy trouble to read it aright. Tl-e TbrsMteoetf Paml'ira. By tiie propositiou to expel from French territory all the members of families which have reigned in France, if it should be adopted, no less than thirty-one persons are affected. Of the elder branch of the house of Bourbon, only two the Conite and Comtesse de Chambord, resident in Australia, but at present free to live in France if they please would suffer. There are Bour bons of Spain, of the two Sicilies, and of Parma dwelling in France; but they are foreign princes, and would not be included in this sweeping banishment, Ou the other band, upwards of 23 mem bers of the Orleans family which, by the way, has been remarkable for its peculiarly quiet attitude might be IP rued "bag aud baggage" out of the country. These art the Comte and Coin tease de Paris, living at the Chateau d'Ea in Normandy, but now at Canue for the season, and their children, the Due d'Orleass, who is studying st the College Stanislas, the Princesse Helene who made her debut in society about three months ago. and two little prin cesses. Then come the duo de Char tre?, younger brother of the comte de Paris, now stationed at Boneu as colo nel of the 12th chasseurs, the Duchesse de Chartres, and their children. Prince Robert, Henri and Jean, aud Princesses Marie and Marguerite, all of whom are with their parents. The Duo de Xe moors, general of division, who is re siding in the avenue da F-ois de Bou logne in Paris, follows with his chil dren, the Due u'AIennon, captain in an artillery regiment, and Lis wife, the ducheas, who with their little sou and daughter. Prince Emmanuel and Princess Louise, are now sojourning at Yincennes, and Princess Elauche Orleans. The Comte d'Eu and the Princess Ma-guerite Lave become foreign subjects, the former through bis marriage wiih a princess of Brazil, now Lis adopted country ; the latter by her marriage with Prince Lad is Lea Czarterpski. Next comes the Prince do Joiuville, vice-admiral, with Lis prin cess, both of whom reside in the 11 ae de Berri in Paris, and their children, the dnc de Peuthievre, a lieutenant in the French navy, and Princess Fran coise, married to the due do Chartres. Lastly, the due d'Aumale, general of division and a member of the Academic Francaise. The duo de Montpensier and Princess Clencutine, brother anil sister of the due de Nemours, would not be included in the decree of expul sion as the former Las become a Span iard through his marriage with the In fante Louise, sister of Queen Isabella, while the latter is the wife of the duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, The rccmbers of the Bonaparte family who would Le directly affected by the adoption of the Fioqnet proposition are Prince Na poleou and his wite the Princess Clc tilde, with their two sous lriuce Vic tor, who is at Orleans with Lis regi ment, the 32d artillery, and Prince Louise, now studying at tbe Lycee Charlemagne, and their daughter, the Princess Marie, who is with Ler mother at Moucaiieri, and the Princess Matl.il- de. The other members of the Bona parte family, children of the late Princo Pierre aud Prince Murat, would hardly be included in the proscription. Motloe of the Haltaburga. The celebration of the foundation of the Habsburg monarchy lias suggested to a writer in one of the Vienna journals the compilation of the mottoes adopted by the Emperors who Lave succeM-ive-ly occupied the throne. The founder cf the dynasty, whose motto was "Fes tina lente" before Lis accession, after ward adopted that of "Melius bene iu.perare qnani imperium ainpliare." Albert I, with "Fugam victoria nescit," and Frederick III, with "Beata morte nihil beatus," were succeeded by Albert II and Frederick IV, whose mottoes were "Amicus optima vit possessio," and "Amor electis, injustis ordinal ni ter." Charles V, had two mottoes, "Nonduui" and "Pius ultra." while the motto of Ferdinand L the founder of the German line of Habsburgs. was Fiat justiiia, pereat mundna." "Deus providebit" was the pious motto of Maximilian II ; and, passing over those of Budolph II and two or three other sovereigns, that of Charles VI, the author of the Pragmatic Sanction, pos sesses peculiar interest, as he was the last male descendant of the House of Habsburg. His high temper and force of character are embodied in the moito, "Constantia et lortitudine ;" while Lis daughter, Maria Theresa, who founded the Louse of Habsburg-Lorraine, chose as Ler motto, "Justitia et ehmeutia." Tha motto of Ler husband, Francis I, was '"Pro Deoet imperio," while Joseph II took for Lis device, Virtute exem- plo," and Lis brother, "Leopold IL Opes regain corda subditoram. ' He was succeeded by Francis II, with the mottoes, "Lege et fide" and "Justitia regnornm fundamentuio." The late Emperor Ferdinand's motto was, "Bee ta tuen," while that of the reigning sovereign is, appropriately enougn, Viribus nuitis," for there is more strength and unity in the dual empire than when he came to the throne It must be borne in miud that our do mestic animals are kept in an artificial state, and their wants are different from those that are wild. They may have in ordinate desires, caused by tbe manner of keeping, and it those desires are f uuy grat ified dam age may result. Too much water to a horse when he is very warm is injuri ous, as all know, and animals ofieu eat food that causes sickness among them. What is that which lives in winter, dies in summer, and always grows with its root upward? An icyela. AiHli lean Ctopla. German explorers have thrown so much Iigbt on tbe immense tract of country situa Cd between 18 degrees and 20 de crees East of Greenwich and 1 oVgree and 8 degrees, S. L. to tbe touth of tbe great bend of tbe Congo, tbat it may interest your readers to bear a Uirrt account what baa been done by them. If yon take the western half of Stanley's Map Equatorial Africa to hand, you will per ceive tour large tributaries of toe Congo doited down the mouths of which Stan ley discovered and a "reported' large lake, "popularly Lake Lincoln of Living stone, to tbe west of which "nil jus and most murderous dwarfs" named Watwa are surpost to exist. Now if Pogge and Wiseniann bad done nothing but confirm tbe existence of these pigmies, wbom tbev call Batua, and reduce tbe Lake Mukamba to very modest proportions, besides placing it further to tbe southeast, under 5 deg. 46 sun. 2-i) sec S. L, tbev would merit praise. But we ewe lar more to them. 1 hey unveil to us the existence or an LtoDia, wbera ttranrers are gratuitous! v supplied with food, and they reveal that the Bassonge, sul jects of King Kauhitsh, strong and handsome race in a densely populated country teeming with natural produce, excel in artistic manufacture of workmanship of various kinds, in wood. clay, copper and iron, weaving stuff out of tbe Mabcle plant and showing skill in basket making. Wissmann declares that no foreign influence has ever touched them. Tbe Utopia has received tha honorary epithet of bubuKu, . ., "1 friendship," but lis real name is Casselange ; its inha bitants are called 'i'usselange, and their principal chief, Makenge, resides not far trom the confluence of tbe Luiua and tbe Kassai. Pogge tells us tbat tbe inhabi tauts of ona village, or sometimes of several villages, can be locked upon as a family, for each inhabitant is treated by the rest as a relation, and one member ot tbe community stands by another, "for better and for worse." Tbe king's hospi - tality went so lar that he accompanied his guests a distance about as great as lrom Berlin to Dan'zic not having received any present except a brass chain, supple mented by the promise of a musical tox in case Dr. Pogge should reach the Lual aba, and return thence in safely. Tbe discovery of tbe amiable tribe cf Tussel ange, and of the accomplished Bassonge, toot place m tbe iuliowmg manner: a be "Afrikauische Gccelltcbaf t" had charged Dr. Paul I'ocge and Lieutenant Wismnn to establish a station at Musstimba (i deg 24 minutes 10 seconds 3. Li tbe capital of tbe kingdom of Lunda, over which one of the strangest among swarthy potentates. be mightv Jtlwata lanvo, reiens. Both Pot-fte, 111 187t and Dr. .Max Bucbner, in ISTil to lb0, bad found it impossible, though they otherwise met with very kindly treatment, to penetrate to tbe eist, north or south of Mwata Yauvo's domin ions. The latter was thoroughly convinced tbat tbe European travelers could have no other object Ifcan tbat of buying elsewhere ivory and ottnch fia'l.ers cheaper than from him, and so be thwarted ail their eudeavora to penetrate further. On arriv ing, there I ore, on July 20, 1SS1, from Loauda, tn tbe west coast tt Kimbandu (between 10 and 20 degrees t?. L. and 19 and 20 degrees E.) they were hardly sorry to hear tbat both roads thence lo Mussmn ba were impassable, on account of some Kiokos bavins quarreled with Mwata Yanvo. They at once determined to pujh on to Jlakcnue, and thence to tbe Lualaba or Upper Congo, and for forty-four yards of calico per head they found three porters willing to accompany them as far as the Land ot Friendship. Following the west ern bank cf the Chigapa up to its connu enee with the Kafsau and then of the latter river np to Kikatsa, in tbe Peade 0 'Untry, they traversed this deep stream, about 1,000 feet broad, fnd there met a 1 Uiselar.ge chief of tbe name ef Kingenge, who insisted upon taking Lieut. Wissmann borne with him as his guest. Thus, after sixty-two days' journey from Kimbundu, I'ov.ge arrived alooe, on October i), lsl, 1 1 Jloki-nge's place of residence, situated ne'er 6 dig. 10 niin. & L-, rather more ttsn 20 degc E. of Greenwich. He des f iibeg the Tus&elange as capital tanners. Everywhere around he saw broad fields of fine niandiocv, maize, millet, earth-nuts or beans. Tobacco and bemp are bota grown for smoking. Their country is a fertile and well-irrigated, undulating plain between tbe rivers Kassai and liulua, Covered in a large measure by large forests, in tbe n.uist of which are prairies, which the inhabitants cultivate, and where they built their villages The climate, though warm, is salubrious. Trade chietly con sists in female slaves and Iudia rubber, and humiliating as it may sound to the ears of our lacy readers, the average price for a full-grown female is a musket, four pounds cf gunpowder 01 eighteen yards of calico. In the first nays of December Pogge and Wissmann met again, and about the middle of the month they reached the Lake Mukamba. On Januaty 5:h, lb80, tbey reached tbe Lubi, a fi le tributary of the Lbilasb, and in the midst of a splendid tropical vegetation tbey saw villages arise, "where in clean and roomy dwellings, with gardens neatly hedged in, forming streets straight as an airow, the Bassonge live under the shidow ot palm trie and bananas." Thus epeaks Lieutenant Wissmann in a letter from Cairo of a country where, ac cord ng to tbe newest map published, cannibals have hitherto been believed to reside. On January 29, 1SS2, under 6 deg- 13 mm. 8. L , the two German ex plorers traversed a river 4j feet broad, the Lubdash, which soon turned out to be the same as the Saukura, one denomination being used oa the western and another on the eastern bank. Alone wel'-watered grass meadows and through villages ten miles long, here and there coming across cannibals, the travelers reached the Litnani under 5 deg, 42 mm., and proceeding again across the inundated districts and swamps, and through plains the grass ot which was so Knotted together as to be almost impassable, tbey came upon tbe Lafubu on April 2. Nine days later tbey descended this river into the Kasiku, and entered the Lualaba on the lSih. In Nyangwe the Arabs gave them goods on credit, and on May i Poggq started back for Alukengn, while VV issmann with some difficulty succeeded in makimr his way to the List Coast, lie says : "From the Lubi as tar as Lake Tanganyika 1 met with remains of the Batua, who seems to be the real aborigines. In tiny and ill constructed straw but-s despised by the Baiuba tribes, these small, ill-shapen, attenuated, dirty and wild-looking people live. They do not grow anything, nor do they keep pigs er goats, but only a fe v fowls, hving for the rest upon wild fruits and the game tbey kill. They have a peculiar language, and their weapons and instruments are of a very inferior kind. Iron arrow points are however, sometimes found in their possession, and they train a kind ot graynound for hunting," Wiss mann formed a very good opinion of the warlike King Mirambo, whom he visited in August, alter a pleasant stay with the Itav. Griffith at Ruanda, near Tan ganyika, and who treated htm to two bot tles of champague. After a vi it to tbe French missionaries at Tabora, and to Dr. Bohm and Dr. Beicbatdt at Gonda, he enjoyed good shooting, and 00 No vember 17, 1SS2, he embarked for Suez at 2inzibtr. Of Dr. Pogge's safe return to King Mu kenge w hive heard nothing as yet, bu! tbe Berlin Geographical Sxiely is in hopes that he has founded a station there, and that we may any day hear of his arrival at Loanda on bis way home wa'd. W issmann arrived at Cairo on New Year's Day, on the very same day as Mr. Joseph Thomp son, who has proceeded to Z inzioar at the reque -t of tbe LandonGeographical 8 iciety, A vanctns Tbalr Father. These is a romantic storv related of an affair which occurred iu Yeddo, China, and connected with the life of C-i. historic character who was executed for conspiracy. hen he first appeared in leddo he gave leosoiis in sword exercise, One day two young giris came to him tuey were sisters wishing to be in structed in the uso of tbe sword and halberd. Curious to know why they desired 10 iCHture a knowledge of the use of arms, he inquired ot them the reason. When they informed him Le approved their de'ternaination aud taught them with all the care and attention he could bestow. These sisters were the daughters and only children of a farmer of Shiraishi, Sendau One day it hap pened, as they were in the fields with tneir father, a youni and uav retainer of the Prince of Sdudai passed near them, and in passing a splash of mud acciden tally fell upon his garments . lie was great rage, and thoncU the father aud Lis daughters besought and im plored LU pardon for the unintentional act, he drew his sword and cut the father in pie- es, leaviuo; the disconso late girls to care for his remains us tbey coul.l. They, by the hide of the dead. took au oath to be revenged on the young murderer of their parent Nobu and Kiyo wera the names of these two sisters. After the sepulture of their father they walked to 1'eddo and made their wishes known to U-L It is said they studied under his tuition for a hole year, L-l standinir their fnend in every way when assistance was needed. Upon their riturn to their home he furnished thein with approved weapons with which to Exht thu slayer of tueir father. Then, and unt.l a few years past, it was deemed praiseworthy to slay an enemy iu revenge for insults or wrongs indicted. As C-1 kuew these girls were to challenge their enemy to deadly com bat, he sent with them, to act as a sec ond, one of his best swordsmen. As soon as they arrived at their home a chalierge was sent to their foe to meet ! tueni at a given day at Shiraishi. This singular duel was to tike place iu a stockade made of bamboo, aud thou- i sands gathered to wituess the combat. he Japanese loved to witness feats of arms and wee accustomed to attend such meetings as the fighting propensi ties 01 tue people gave rise to, that they migut see lair play accorded to all par ties. The chronicles of the event tell of the breathless interest mauifustei by the assembled thousands gathered to wituess these heroic sifters meet in deadly combat the trained swordsman of the potent I'n'uce oi Seudai, and how the blood was stirred in the hearts of the vast concotrse as the combatants rushed from their places to do battle to the death. How the sympathy weut out from the multitude iu behali of the young girls; ot the partial victory of the man, as he sorely wounded, one after the other, both 01 them, and of the wail of griel that resounded over the place when it appeared as if he was 10 prove the victor. For awhile it seemed that the sisters would be slain, but fortune favored the fair and brave at lust, and the head of their toe was carried away by them and offered at the grave of their father. Tb-ir parent hud been avenged. How to Hold s Teaapoon. The Hon. Grantley Berkeley tells tbe following amusing story of old Lady Clermont, who used to be a constant guest at the Brighton Pavilion in the aays when that singular edifice was the abode of royalty aud roystttrers. Her pbysicnu Lad recommendod a moderate use of stimulants to supply that energy which was deficient in her system, and brandy had been suggested in a pre scribed quantity to be mixed with her tea. "1 remember well, says Grantley Berkeley, who was a child at the t.me, 'Having my curiosity excited by this to mo, novel form of taking mediciue, aud holding ou by tha back of a chair to watch the niodus operandi. Very much to my astouishment the patient held a liquor bottle over a cup of tea and be gan to pour out its contents, with a peculiar purblind look, upou the back of a te-aspoon. Presently she seemed suddenly to become aware of what she was about, turned np tue spoon the right way acd carefully measured and added the quantity to whic'i shu had been restnete "t. The tea so btrongly 'laced' sbe then drank with apparent gusto. What seemed inexplicable to mv ingenuous mind was tho unvarying recurrence of tbe same mistake of pre senting the back of the spoon instead of the front. The gravity with which she noticed her apparent mistake with out attempting to conceal it, and her Lttle exclamation of surprise so invari ably uttered, amu ted mi so much tbat when she quitted the Pavilion the best part of the day's entertainment seemed to have departed with her. Slie la null lima. Madam. A funny story is told of tha wifo of one of me most noted admirals 01 tue country. Ihe lady is a leading society woman here, and she prides herself on her remembrance of people. She always endeavors to make herself very agree able, and is as p eas-ant to strangers as though she had known them for years. A year ago, taeeting Commodore Blank at a dinner table, she said, "Why, my dear commodore, I am so glad to see you! How is your wife?'' "she is dead uaduai, was the blunt reply. Of course tue admiral a wile apolo gized for not knowing what should have been a well-known lact and a fact which Bhe had in reality heard but had forgotten. ihe other day this same lady met this same e-mmodore at a party. She was apparently delighted to see him, and at the outstart of their conversation she said: "Now, commodore, I want you to tell me how is your darling wife?' She was thrown nto snrprise and aon sternation by the reply, "Madam, she ia still dead!" Old C yeuak Puuuher. The other morning, while the nil nine manager cf Woodward's Gardens was smoking a-fonr-bit cigar, and medita tively listening to the ninlH d wa:ls of a tomcat that Lad just been swallowed alive by the anaconda, a tall, thin, sc:en- tific-looklng man, with a gouke and bine glasses, entered the gate and re marked in an insinnating manner! Of course, you pass the scientific frat.-rmty? 'Of course, we do not!" said the showman, emphatically. "n hat, not the servauta, not the pic- neers in the great march of the mind into the hitherland of the infinate ls yond?" returned the professor, with great surprise. i will not deceive vou, sarcastically replied the proprietor of the only sala mander; ' ve pas nothing but the quills on the fretful porcupines 1 mean the press. You can't see the ost idges unless yon come down and put up.' JJear me, dear me! sighed the sci entist, refliectively. "To think that a professor of ccemograpbio conchology should bi denied aelmittauce to a third- class Zoo ! Has the Skamgatibus been fed yet?" "Skam i which?" asked the tiger importer. "Why, the Skaingatibus; you've got ofle, haveu't you?" "le-e-s-s; 1 believe wove a small femala somewheres," sai l the grizzly's friend, doubtfully. W ay, I never tuijy a firat- class ol- lection to have less than two pail's," said the professor, contemptuously; "how do yonr Azimuths stand this cold weather, eh!" "Azimuths?" asked the Napoleon ag gregator of curiosities; "what's them?" Some kind . rf bird you don't mean ostri- -?'' "Ostndges 15 hanged?'' said the successor of Darwin; "ostridges are nothing. I've shot more ostndges with quail shot thau yon've get hairs on your head. You dont actnally mean to sit there and tell me you haven't got a single Azimuth to your back?" "Don't believe I have," admitted the alligator breeder, mortiSeJ; what are they like?" "Oil theyVe of the order Spii.a:L, alKiut eight feet high. Fur peeN off in tue spring, you know the Siberian species. I mean, I suppose you've got one of those llectangnlar African j Fdpgoohlies that reached New York the ' L I 1 A. other day? "No," said the much agitated show man; "here I've been keeping an sgent in New York on a big salary to look out for attractions and he doesn't catch on to tbe first blamed thing, Spends ail our money ou second-hand panthers and kangaroos with the rheumatics. Ill bounce him by telegraph !" "Haven't even got a Flipgoohly, eh?" mused the scientist, ia a tone of great pity. "And I shouldn't be surprised if you didn't have a Gulden Crested uus- pidor in your whole show." "Neither 1 have neuuer I bave,; re plied the wretched promote of pelicans iu a tone of great bitterness. Spoae you pist stt-p in, sir, and look round; niebbe there is something eise you could say " "N-n-o, I guess not," said the tall man. "It would hardly pay me to spend so much valuable scientific time in a fourth-class show like this. Not even an Azimuth, eh? I should think you'd be afraid of being actually mobbed some time. I'm sorry for you, my good man; sorry for yon. I've no doubt you mean well, but not a soli tary Skamgatibui Great Scott t" And as the dL-ciple of Audulxm passed into a saloon across the street and swapped a lead nickle for a glass of beer the bar-keeper heard him chuckle something to the effect thut he had got even on that old hyena puncher, and don't you forget it. Lead Puimdiuk in trMiiia&er. L-ad poisoning is often produced iu an unsuspected manner, The occupa tion of dressmaking might be regarded as one likely to be exempt from it ; yet a dressmaker past admitted into the Leeds Dispensary, England, was found to have a distinct blue line on her gums. with simultaneous symptoms, such as a fnned tongue, nitl animation ef the lips, aud gineial debility all signs pointing to the probability of poisouing by lead. The physician in attendance for some time failed to discover the source of tbe lead poisoning, and was beginniug to think the blue Lne had been caused in some other way. when he accidentally learned from a merchant that silken thread, being sold by weight, and not by length, is sometime adul terated with sugar of lead. Hi than questioned the patient, and she inform ed him that it had been a common practice with her, when at work, to hold silk as wed as other kinds of thread in her mouth, and that she Lad done this the more readily with silk, inas much as it often bad a sweet ta Ux. This is a sure indication of the presence of lead and all thread pnesessmg it should either be rejected or used with caution. It will be found that the silk thread of the best makers is tasteless, whereas some interior threads are sweet. Egypt is to have a barge polioa f rce. composed mainly of Europeans. Ac tive recruiting for t:.is body has beta going on in Switzjiland, Gormaiy and Belgium, Natives f those countries are deemed equally elig'bld. French aud Italians are, for political reasons, excluded. The recruits are not to be under twenty, nor ovar forty years of age. They are to get from $30 to jJ a month, from which about $3 a motth is to be deducted for the coat of rations. The Egyptian Government is to pay the expense of conveyance to Egypt, and there is a special agreement with the Swiss recruits thit, in case their coun try should be jome involved m war, they are to have tha privilege of returning immediately to their homes, at tU4 ex pense of the Egypti" treasurTi f m;v: 1 In Great Britain 37,",00) perm-i work under ground. California lat-t yar pav;i d C ,fX coses of canned fruits. American patent mi vi.-inos are i.i great demand in Belgium . Tha M-tsaachu'etts Sjaat- has u.is- sed a resolution for bieuuial sessions. Berlin with over l.lt',0.0 10 i-oiml i- non, nas only lony live piiivol wor ship. A Post of the Grand Army of the Re public Las been established la Hono lulu. A cbib of climbers will leave B j 'oi for the White Mountains during this month. Oue CLicago pawu shi p has loaned money on 220u revolvers duri'ig tha past year. A lady, Mise S. Ciark, has l-ei; ap pointed Treasurer of a savings bank in Exeter, N 1L The Lower House of the Mi.--.soi.ri Legislature contains forty att-re ys and fourteen editors. California white wiues are txporW to Germany in considerable ouautities. and find n.nch fu or there. Cash irirls iu New York stores are paid SI 60 a week, and st-ine of t.'iera $2 after years of experience. A Londu lecturer declares tLct England has tpent during- the la;st tea years 1,410,000,000 lor liquor. We use 21,000,1)00 s.dj of thread a year, and three or four thousand cr.N of wood in the nuking of spools. New York wdl raise by taxation, to defray the expenses of its city govemment, about ,000,00d in IS!. Au agent has gone to South Ai'ri.u to secure onstriches to stick a far:u t. be established in San Bernardino, C ti. A thoughtful citizen of Kai,s.isCity, Mo., Las presented eiicu of the letter carriers iu the city with a puir of ice ereepers. During the rost year Mxty-oii Congregatioualist ministers Lave i'i--d in this country, at au average ue of sixty- four years. The total number of cases of shoos ship! from Lynn, .Mass.. iu lS!i is 310,52j. This shows a caiu of niorj thau 20,000 over I&5I. Women Stenographers of the high est class command and receive ?i.I.iries of S1000 a year and upwards, wl.e'a em ployed in Lugo esrabiL-huieut... The Bev. Osborne Ingfo, an Epis copal clergyman ot Frederick, Md., has lot his wile aud seven chiinreu, mostly by diphtheria, withia a brief year. Iu a corn-raising contest near K-.mo, Ga five young men took part. The winner ol the pnzi raised thirty-se veu bushels aud seven ounces on a hall acre-, A boy in Mobile, Ala., burned down two buildings to win two bets aggrega ting $4 tbat there would be two lirts hi the city before certain 8ft-e;i:ied elate-'. A slow watch caused the loss o? five lives and the wounding of two men, besides the destruction of co:iaide:a'iic property on the Chcsapeak Jt Ohio B.ui wayj The Duke of Sutherland, by Lin recent purchase of land in Florida, lie- conies, it is said, a larger real estate owner in the United States thaa iu England. Imnrtrratiou to the United States is lessening iu volume, i'or the fiv. mouths ended Nov. 30, the arrivals ag gregated 214,611, as conioiired with J01.320 in 1SS1. Bussia's debt has almost doubled since 1S?2, the annual deficit iu her finances averaging S120,0uy,00'.. A 1 mu receutly negotiated brings the debt ur n - Tit", ruu) mm Tha Texas cattle drive f.r the com ing spring is estimated at 2J-),U0i head. Of these not more than 120,1)00 will reach the open market. The rest w ill be reserved for ranch purposes. The gold product of California from the discovery ot tl'e precious me tal b v Janies W. Marshall m the tail-race oi Sutter's Mill, Jan. 10, 1S48. to JuneGu, tsai, amounted to $l,170,000,tiOJ. The product of the Leiwlviile (Colo rado) mines for the past three mouti a is as follows : Pounds of lead. 17.0i.- 228 ; ounces of silver, 1,337.218 ; ounces of gold. 921, Total currency vai.ic. The memorial library building which the sous of the Hte lt-rae-l Wat-h-burn are to erect at the homestead iu Livermore, Me., is to be of granite, and is to be ready for uso during the coin ing summer. Hunnewell, Kansas, sLipped dui intr the last season 4,000 car loala of cattle. averaging twenty-two head to the cjr. The cattie brought $35 ih t head it mar ket making over $3,000,000 worth ship ped from this oue pouit. Some Maiue officers atempted to seize a car load of beer in Portland the other day, but a locomotive came along and carried beer and oflicer to Ports- month, N. H., 50 miloa awny when it is not unlawful to hold beoi lor sale. During the five years ending De cember 31, 1SSI, there werdl,70at;l3 burned 111 the tinted States aud i'r) iu Canada. During the montii of Novem ber, 1SS1. there were thirty-i Lieburue 1 in the United S ates aud six iu Canada, more thau one foi every day of tu month. The aggregate value of tbe elev 1 tors belonging to the Northern Paei 1 railroad is 3o0,00U. Tney do ai auau t grain trad of from S2,0o0.e'UJ to t. 000,000, and in their merchandise iij partuient they did a business laI veai of 100,000. The best compliment paid tho ful lio schools of Washington by a foreijc uer, qualified to judge, is th fact that the chUdren of the Swiss il In liter at tend public school in the Peabody build ing, aud Gen. Frey, as is well know j, presided over the educational depart ment of his native State for a number of years. General Booth, of the Salvation Army in England, in his report tor 1HS 1, says that in that year 60'J 01 his sohiiers, including 274 women, were knocked down, kicked or brutally assaulted otherwise, aud that M buildings iu which they were holding service were attaekc and badly broken o p -it doors said windows. 1 J . L. Shirley, of Dallas county, lexas, went hunting with 0 in cur rency in his pocket, and used paper f r wadding. He was linding trom tho wrong pocket, however, and bid shot away over 30 of Lis money before he discovered his mistake. i
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