y B. F. SCHWEIER, THE 0018T1TUT10I-T-TEB UHOI-UD THE EfTOEOOIEIT OP THE LAVS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXXVII. MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. MAY 9. 1SS3. NO. 10. ItKSKIlTKII. ISritrlit sea, far-fl...!!,... .if ..., fl.p..tl,v .oa.ny ,,.r'T..lou " t uiatcli it," said Medora Thy lullaby, low-murmured to the stranl Sounds like a lover's toue; ' Ami yrt 1 know, elsewhere, Some other shore, as fair Thy waves have kisssed mid leit'it drv and lone. llright sunshine, gleaming ou mv cottage wall, " Tracing the shadows of an ivy sprav How tenderly thy gulden touches fall" ' On common things to-iUiv; Vet, beneath other tikit-a Some land benihieil lies, IKscrted by thy slory, cold and Kray. lilithe l.ird, loud-warbling underneath the An eager love-song passionate and shrill, : My heart is mmhling amid summer leaves M It ll Kwept. resiwnsne thrill; Yet far awav. dear rn..t. Th-re is an empty nest "Which thon hast left forsaken, void and still. sunshine, birds of song Fair sea, bright divine. T ....... i ...,,.. I l too ni; Ti(kt may. their dav; I Yet, though the s.nii may sigh For precious thing pone by, I shall have had my raiiture, wwe what ' ,,lai ' j - LITTLE ROSAIttX. " ''Of course tney Gont want me," said llosaliel Raymond sadlv. "No- body seems to want me. jio home ! seems to lie oien to me anywhere When paiw died he told me that 1'nelo '. Dallas would 1 kind to me. and take his vacant place. And he is kind, after his mid, abrupt fashion. But my Aunt Alicia don't care for me. and the girls look coldly on my shabby dress and iile face. Evidently I am not a cousin to lie proud of. "if I were an heiress things would lie different' Poor little llosulel! The world looked very dark to her as she sat ou the window sill of the third-story back room in the Dallas mansion, w hich had U-en unanimously voted "good enough fr Rosabel Raymond," and watched the dull reds and grays of the Winter s-uiset fading out In-hind the crowded spires of the city. ''Oh, Rosal4, are you here?'' It was her cousin Medora's soft. sweet voice. Hie disliked Medora !,,,,J? j 1"u' i more than either Augusta or although she could not tell whv. "We were thinking, mamma and I," said Medora, "that you must be terri bly dull without anything to do, all these dismal days." "It is rather lonesome," sighed llosaliel, wondering at her cousin's unusual thought fulness. "And so," added Medora, with the sweet smile that Rosabel always mis trusted, "when Miss Arniitage told of the place in the china minting and tlower designing rooms you always were an artist, you know, dear I ex claimed in that silly, impulsive -way of mine; 'The very idea for Rosaliel." And," added Medora, "Miss Arniitage says you can obtain excellent board for four "dollars a week with a widow near the rooms, and that would save you a great deal of time and no end of fares. So, if you conclude to accept the iosi tion, pcrlnqis you had liettercome down into the drawing-room and see Miss Armstage." If there was anvthing which Rosabel Ravmond .loved, it was her pencil. Here, at last, was the much-longed-for opiHirtunity, and she am w ith alacrity and followed Medora Dallas down the stairs. Mrs. Dallas and the Misses Dallas were oienly exultant when Rosabel Ravmond was gone. "So dispiriting to have her round all the time, with her swollen eyelids and 1-ale face," said Miss Augusta. "But w hat are we to say if Mr. Bal lard asks alter her?" blurted out Bell, the most honest and least prolilie of the fainilv. . , "Say? Whv, the truth," declared Medora. "that she has left us." For the secret of Miss Medora Dal- anvintv to ret rid.of her iaie litue ni,.i nioiimiiur was so dis tressingly U-coming to her, was the f....t r Mr MiktIi Ballard's admiration of the white, statuesque face, the deep bine eves, and the features which were aa'iwfect as any m; hsul marked Mr. Ballard for her own prey, and declared war ,..,c. ri inmte pretender who u hi i 1 1 - should come in her way. The very first evening that Mr. Jai 1..-.1 ....iwt be in. mired for MlSS ba 111 1 VI 1. ill IV l , , .,....! Mlon dropl-ed her long lashes. , "Rosalnl had a cold, resened na ture," she said. "She never seemed to become fond of any of us, and she has S "Gone1 where?" Mr. Ballard was in sistent enough to ask- "She said she would write and send us the address," said Medora, drawing on her imagination; "but she lieu did. It quite went to dear mamma s heart. Mamma reganled Rosa bel as a fourth daughter. But Rosabel never was inclined to reciprocate our aflec- 1Um. Tioiiar.1 Quired at Medora with an expression which she could not m- tenwi, mil it .oc. . - u if ,i.; rriri is Ivbig. she is amu& .:..iii.- a iiiiarances are . . ......i i ..w.i-n than the tesu- LlIU It WOUitl Uttvc . .-. make me ue- moiiy ot one ii- " : , i; ;,i,r e..ld or ungrateful. lull in i Vlll' , . These reflections i-ssed through h mind as he was 1-oliiely acceptins : M .... . iiiTimi un nerto j 'alias niMiaiiou .- .,,1W: "Mrs. Whitworth Walkuigham s musi .i.iir cai tea, me iicai .'. , f., i,nh. "It wiU la lww," he lf; "but Mrs. Whitworth A is a genius, and there is sure to be good music there " . and "l..ere was g; jr also aeiicious w"" . -..:,. a tiniest of cuiis, each painted . :i.i !i ... ur-.irl.UIKh of grasses, seirale uu - f(,.lowillg CrthC, ices aiiu c- , ,i M., a .i. lun-rohis and rondollettasa ana Pr.:nPtt-nd on -r ...prrv as a marriage bell, meiij ,...!, nearer until, in turning to pw - M .j. the window for Miss DalLto, Mr. lor JL ' . t ..iini knocKe ard's unfortunate nw .. runs oil tne i" "l "IC, Yr: . . cabinet and uroKe snert or me jaiMm- it into three piece -,raikind.am wUl "Mrs. www "V ' MedJra, cfcWl- comnut suiciae, .V "i,il horror. i,.or her hands with siinul-"eU.m,r otprnal secrecy, "1 swear you i" V- - oabew-aP-said Mr. Ballard, taJpTKet ,d the PI",r,,eUuemafly handkercliief and deiiomted Uiem f vve:ir VOU io handkercliief in his pocket. uYi-M0G York, Brookljn Jje I where tliis precious toy can be matched. " r."':u n ' tt unsearehed." Dallas. And site Proved in rmbt In his desiwir, Hugh Billiard went to ;., aegarreau, who was exactly like everylmdy's fain- grandmother. " hat am I to do?" said he, blankly. Do?" said Mrs. Megarreau, nodding the diamond butterflies on her cap. "WllV. go to the eliill.-l-liuintiiiiT mii.I decorating rooms, of course, in'llnm- .k-isi square, lake vour sample, and they'll duplicate it for von in twenty-four hours. Sav that" Mrs. Megarreau sent vou." Mr. Ballard devoutly thanked the old lady, and olieved w-itliont hiss of .time. Mrs. Baker! the Kunpl-intelidelit wl,o sat at her tlesk, tmik the pieces of Mrs. Whitworth Walkinirhaiirs doomed cup and lookeu eaniestlv at theni w ith her head to one side. I "We have that shape iii our wares," . said she; "and I am guile sure we can reproduce the design blue iris-buds and marsh grasses. Miss Raymond's design Mm tii.ini. ..F 41...... a. -7... r- ' - - , - - -"n. ii n n i , i nil 1 1 1 1 'i i T , P l l t, . t Ana bosabel Raymond, pale and pretty as ever, came unconsciously forward in het brown linen (minting dress, w ith a bow of black ribbon at her throat, and her lovely chestnut brown hair pushed kick from her fate. Mrs. Baker was holding out the bits of fractured china, wliereujioii were I"ainted the blue iris-buds and drooping grasses, but Rosabel never looked at llem. '"Mr. Ballard." she cried, her face brightening w ith a delight which she was too unsophisticated to suppress, "What brought you to this place." "Miss Raymond," he exclaimed, "what are you doing here?" "Earning my own living," said Rosa bel, with quiet dignity. "Does Miss Dallis Medora, I mean know w here you are?" "She ought to know," said Rosalie, 'for it was she who recommended me to come here. For the Dallascs, 1 think, were getting tired of me," she added, w ith a sigh. "But I ought to lie very much obliged to her, for I have acquired a most welcome indejiendeiice, and the work here is exceedingly con genial to my tastes. Is that the pat tern you w ish copied, Mrs. Baker?" she asked, biking a piece of china. "Oh, what an excellent group of buds! yet I am bold enough to think I can imitate it successfully." ''If you can replace that cup," said Mr. Ballard, dramatically, "I am your slave for life." "I think I can promise to replace it without any such condition," said Rosabel, laughing. And Mrs, Whitworth Walkingham never knew that her iris-tiud cup was broken until Hugh Ballard brought back its exact comiieriart. lie came no more to Mrs. Dallas' Tuesday morning receptions and Friday afternoon te;is. Miss Medora vainly wondered why. But one day she met him on Fifth avenue, and prettily re proached him with his recent absen teeism. "I have lieen fortunate enough to discover the abiding place of your cousin, Miss Rosabel Raymond," said he gravely. Medora looked up, w ith a deep color mounting to her cheek. "Indeed?" said she. 'It was very kind of you to secure for her such a congenial position as that," he added. "Medora Dallas hung her head, ana was silent. "But she will not remain there long," he continued, cheerfully. "1 am happv to tell you that I am engaged to her. We are to be married in a few weeks. Of course you will receive 'at home' cards when we are finally set tled." , t Medora niurmured something almut 'congratulations" and "delighted to hear of it." , . But Mr. Billiard suiilcd to himself when she jiassed ou. "La belle cousine is not exactly pleased," lie said to himself. A Cmrtlj Small Book. At an auction sale in ew l oik re the books sold the one creating the most spirited bidding was an almanac for the year 10s;, entitled ..i.-..T...i-.ii-iiiiii l'euusilvaniense; or, ......-,,.. Messenirer." This book contains twenty leaves, not paged and uncut, and this and another lornierly i,r Ueonre Brinley. of Hart- fold, an the only ones know n to be in It. is especially valuable from the fact that it is the tirst work of the fln printer of l'hihulelph.a and New York, W. Bradford of the former citv who, in an address printed in the iHH.k says: "Hereby understand that '.trhanre and trouble I have ?LXt the great art and mystery of printing mto uus io.i.v Kr:.. it ,.,v lie of trreat sen ice to y u,v"" . J. ii.wr.l .u a,Jets." It was sold to Mr.S onefor . The other books dtaMwd of include an almanac for 1.0;J, disl. V.,- iiuiri. which resictively , ri.t SU and 7; "Anecdotes of brought HI. .tTll aw 'Vhe Admiralty, brought; V Z 1 olv Bible, with genealogies preux i i, ted ill 1013 I liuwn iMi'i P teU i" ..wi in thick boards, with of ixmuou, ,w.,7vhased ,ot il corners auu tm, i meHi A copv of the original KerM Rhode lkud College now l row"'8 University, presented at the Aeiubty iu February, l.lo. brought t--" A" Accurate Tlne-lfiec. i..i- on the ubiect of WaV " .i. .!.. wo Ik" ws'ch .1 .mhe Commander of bave seen . Jine of staim the enou2h P f K Z. and who for bis gallant save hfe at tea, anu tember last JjrtoT.d KeyC Wnlth. Watch by with a.O w fKhy;r? united States, on be lne president of the UnH Bjm(L half of the J'Z watch, he Bem?WhenlWt Idou th .watch eny coad faanoon WAS ,oalr three aecond slow, ignore it w' W"-,,,, for . Sui . m wt eiii---. mT perion tue ' Compared it every day with whole t me. i"th oassaeeout, and IQychronometer.onbe Pnd"from it seldom or ever af if not a taem; in fact, ij V-, .hich la a good good WJ.-aU carried about ana deal to aay tor waica London ..bjeet w tchmaker. Jeweler EBJr Ftb. 6. 1833. and iSMf6r"" - XESSn-to' three volumes itoted in 1781 f-r the use of the Royal !x-"f i:t Britain, under the direc- i.. ,mi rnrai in. fe .X 1 V ' -w 1 V i .1 1 I 4IMia Urmodms. Knitting-Work. Tlie noisv old mill doesn't make them so warm, after all. Dies ever the breathless snapping machine stop to teach a bright-eved urchin to knit a straight row on a pair of chicken quilts? The wrinkled old hands, how softly they mtted the cheeks of the romping grandchild, not half so soft in their childish cun es as the touch of grand ma's hands. The stockings grandma knit; how much love went into every stitch; how many prayers were wrought into every round. Somewhere I once read about a nun who bent over her needle work, and as oft as a tear fell from her eyes ujioii the snowy fabric she wrought about it and worked it in with her deft needle, until at last the strange design wrought out a touching story of her loneliness and sorrow. Ami if we could read all the dreams and thoughts and prayers that grand ma wrought with those patient needles we would wear the stockings she knit next to our heart rather than on our feet. For here is a dream of John, and there is a tear for Chris' Robbie, and here is a plan for Will, and here conies creeping in a quivering strain from some old, old hiiui that is hallowed to us not because her lips blessed it so often; see now a prayer quivered all along this round; here the stocking w;is laid down while the old hands turned over the leaves of the Bible that seemed never to be out of her lap; here the old eyes looked out across the iiasture and the mowing lot down to the wooded hills where the birds are answering winds; here the old eyes slept for a few minutes, and here is a knot. Ah, yes, Philie and Annie are home this week, and the house is full of their children. There will be many more knots in the yarn before the stocking is finished. Who is the boy whose fate it is to hold on his extended hands the skein of yarn while graudma winds it oil after the romping youngsters who taunt him w ith shrieks of laughter as they desert him. But never mind, grandma confronts him with splendid stories of Uncle Doc's pranks when he was a boy and went to school at t'armichaellow u, until the boy wishes the skein was live miles long. And then he is rewarded by a great big cooky, sweeter than honey, liecause he was such a good boy. The only thing that took the edge olf this reward was that all the oilier children got just as big cookies as he did, because somehow grandma's rewards lor the good boy ana gin managed to include all the other boys and girls. To grandma, all children were good; some children were better than others, but there were no bad' children. A thousand blessings, a thousand times told, on the dear old face and the silver hair that crowned the placid brow; on the wrinkled hands and the work they wrought; on the dear lil and blessed old hymns they sung; on the dear old book that lay in her lap, and the life that drew so much of love and faith and help from its Images. The "Expert" liusinetM. An eldeilvgentleuianwithbiishy white ;iir and whiskers, rather square and massive features and a lirmly kmt form f medium height, clad lnauexceeiliiig- plam and old-fashioned stut ot clothes, elcomed a reKjrter iu Cleveland the other evening. "Is this Professor I urr' asked the rejioiier. 1'lease call me Mr. nier, juam Jtr. 'iier," w;is the modest request. Phier is an eminent inicroscopist and exiiert, summoned to examine the signa- ures ot a deed conveying certain 1'ros- K-ct street teal estate from Mr. and .Mrs. W. II. Osborne to C. A. Adams, Mrs. Osborne claims that her signatmietothe deed was w ritten at home without pro- ier acknowledgement by the notary, hose signature and that ot her utisiiami was written uowu town aiier uers ad lieen atlixed. And upon this ground she seeks to set aside the deed. Adams, if course, objects to the .setting aside of the deed, since he has advanced Osborne money on the strength oi it, claims mat the instrument was signed in legal form. Fnier brought his misroscope to bear on the signatures and declared that it was an indisputable fact that Mrs. Os borne's signature was not written before that of the other siguers, as she jiositive- ly states, but afterward. 1 he lop of the y iu Mrs. Osborne's Christian name of Mary crosses the II. of her husband's signature, and a jiowerf ul glass showed conclusively. Thier claims, that the lines ot the y were written over the ll. Numerous drawings of the letters niag- uihed many diameters appeared on Fi ller's table, together with iiencils, brushes and finely-giaded rules lor measuruig the smallest traction ot an inch. I'iper. by an ingenious device, threw the sha dows of the signature, magmiieu many diameters, on a sheet of bristol board and then drew them as they apiieared. lie has just returned from Philadel phia, where he was employed over tine hundred davs on one case. Ihat which called Fijier into prominence more than anything else was his connection with the Cadet hitaker case, it will be rememliered that it was claimed that Whitaker himself wrote the note of warning found in his room. Phier en larged the handwriting and declared that it was not Whitaker 's. Subsequent confessions proved that he was correct. I am a hrui believer," said the expert, "in i hitakers innocence." One of the curiosities of Piper's col lection is his wonderful lalioratory of inks, containing samples of almost every variety of ink made, lie has a book tilled with ink tests. A long strip of nair is uiiiited with a certain variety of ink and then the strip is marked olf into squares. In each square a drop of a certain chemical is placed. Oxalic acid, for instance, takes out all the color of the bright-hued aniline inks, but has little effect on Arnold s mk or Stephens', Chloride of lime and iiotash water havi a marked effect on even Arnold's inks. India ink nothing aptiears to effect. At slated intenals Piper writes specimens of certain kinds of ink with a date atlixed and lays them away to show what effect the action of tune has on them. In one case ou whicn lie was employed a matter of 550.0tK) hinged ou his '"ecision. a party swore that certain certihcates ot stock were six years old. It was shown that it was written with a certain variety of ink. and Phier obtained a specimen of writ ing over six years old done with the same kind of ink, which had turned brown, whereas the signatures on the certificates lookea origin ana tresh. Blood has proven as great a field of investigation for the exiiert as ink. was claimed, for instance, by a party arrested out West for iuurder, that the blood on his garments was from a pig which he had earned on his shoulder. In human blood the minute corpuscles are about 32-1 (X0 of an inch in diameter, while those of a pig, as a rule, are but about 1-JO0 in diameter. It was con clusively shown that the blood on the man's garment had larger corpuscles than pig's blx id was ever known to have, and, the fact lieing established that it was not pig's blood but human blond on the garments, went a long way to ward convicting the defendant. In order to obtain samples of blood from various animals for investigation under the glass l'iiier once bled the whole of Fore laugh's menagerie save the monkeys. When the animals ad vanced to" the bars of their cage the doctor struck each on the nose with a spring lance, making a minute little gash from which a drop or two of blood was-obtained. It is needless to say that Piier didn't loaf around the lions' or tigers' cages long after he had stuck his business into their noses, as it were. Strange to remark that while samples of the savage lions' and big lioa con strictor's blood could lie obtained, the keejiers did not dare allow the monkeys to lie bled. It has been learned by ex perience that such undue familiarity with a monkey as lancing it makes it insane and worthless. The blood of the elephant and the whale is a little larger so to sieak, than that of a human liemg. A camel's blood differs from the claret found in human veins in that the cor puscles are oval instead of round. St. l'etersbars in Winter People in America might possibly imagine that tea-making in this country is a very complicated and laliorioiis affair, but it is no more so than any where else, only tieople here are so easy-going and good-natured; time has so little value, and lalior is so cheap, even though it may lie poor, that aliout half a dozen tieople are doing here what one lierson would do witb much more thoroughness in America liecause not stumbling over other jieople's feet. One of the servants m question was washing about half a dozen spoons, saucers and glasses. Men in Russia rink their tea out of glasses, so they an admire the amlier liquid and at the j same time feel its warmth creeping trough their liodies as they hold the lasses 1 iet ween their lingers. The second man brought the tea-canister and sugar-lMiwl, and liemg impressed ith the iiuiNirtance and dignity of his work he moved about with a slowness that was edifying to liehold and gene rated m the siiectator a violent desire to go to lis assistance. The third man was arranging sweet crackers and slic ing lemons to iio used with, the tea, hue the fourth man s attention was entirely absorbed by the samovar. The samovar, as weii as the steam kith, Is a truly national institution. lake away from the Russian these two biects of necessity and luxury, and he will think life has been roblied of half its chai n s. The samovar is an indis jiensable piece of furniture in the houses of the rich and the poor, the high and the low, and not till he is tlie happy owner of such an institution does a oung man set almut in search of a life lartner, willing to share with him the omforts offered by a room somewhere under a staircase. The word sam- :ir" is eomiiosed of the pronoun ''self" or ''itself," and the verb ''to lioil," and literally means "self-boiler." I he saiuo- ar is made of brass, hits the shaiie of an egg, and holds from one to two iails of water. The lower end rests on four feet, the upper is flattened, and it lias a funnel for charcoal iu the centre. The top of the funnel Is finished off by an object rembliiig a crown, and when the water boils ou your tea-table you till your tea-jnit, put it on the crown to draw, and your tea is ready. Ihe four men were attending to their duty m religious silence, the only time they opened their mouths being to in form me that there was to be an extra meeting on some imiiortaiit business, and that it was ou that account they were making the tea. iwv the gentle men who coiniNise those ineetingscome together at 2, leisurely sip their tea, relate the latest news, and go home to their dinners at 4, leaving a kind Provi dence to attend to their affairs, unless, indeed, the question lie one of jKiliticsi political unreliability," as thev call it here. Then these same jovial, easy going gentlemen will instantly be transformed into stern, uullinching judges, working day and night and to the best of their abilities, in their en deavor to please the head of the coun try and thus earn stars and ribbons, or a more exalted 'chin" or rank. The present Fmiieror, in ordering a revision of the laws relating to the Jews, has takeu one step further on the road trodden .by his father. N hen Alexander II. freed the serfs he at the same time tried to better the condition of his Hebrew subjects. Previous to lbt'l no Jew was allowed to remain in Russian town longer than a week, except iu Poland and the South, which were overrun by them, la Poland they were even so numerous and so iHiwerful once tliat a Polish King was on the point of marrying a Jewess. Kussiaas knew only the peddling Jew, by no means the best representative of the race, as the tiersecutious by his Christian brethren had made him un scrupulous and cowardly and had over developed his natural shrewdness. tven w here they were tolerated they did not dare to betray any outward signs of thrift ; they would not King have re mained unmolested if they had, so they remained nigged and dirty, and to-all outward apiiearances iu abject iioveity untu they became a by-word and a reproach, while in reality they held the purse strings ot the country. Ihey carried ou a pitiless and most unre lenting usury, sucking the life-blood of their victims like so many leeches and keeping the jieople, who flattered themselves mat they were their masters, in the most absolute and humiliating dependence. And the two races hated each oilier most thoroughly. Once in a while the Christian slave rebelled and inaugurated a love-feast, similar to those of the Vandals and the (jot lis, but hi resistance only lasted until his long accumulated energy had spent its elf, when everything went on as before. The Sunflower. The sunflower does not turn with the sun, but a recent obsener finds that a majority of the flowers do have a prevailing direction when opening. In the case of one of the perennial sun flowers of sixty-eight flowers, up to one time all had their heads inclined to the soutlieast. Three days after this, with seventy-three flowers ojien, twenty one among the older ones had advanced toward the northeast, their horizontal faces lecoming nearly erect during the journey. Art mt Home. Purchase the Florence knitting silk It comes in all colors. The size of the steel needles used will deenl uioii the line or coarse quality of silk that should be selected. Stocking knitting is easily learned. The majority of old ladies know all about this sort of in dustry, in a plain way, to be sure, since art decorating is of rather recent date, and especially in the manufacture of fancy hosiery. However, the grandmas of to-day are familiar w ith the rules for shaping a stocking, and when this is learned the artistic einliellishiiigs are easily controlled. In personal beautify ing, doubtless a prettily dressed foot is quite as much noticed as any other part of the toilet. And especially is this the case during the summer season when fashion's disciples are rusticating in Kiint lace and diamonds at an ex pensive watering place, where the ex travagance of dress is sometimes extended to the bulling suit, and heavy silk stockings are worn to protect the satiny whiteness of shapely limbs. Knitting silk stockings is a charming industry, a work easily laid down or taken up, and when rusticating, the knitting can be carried about in the dress pocket, ready for use at any n meiit, when the occuiuition may be re sumed with marked effect in displaying valuable jewelry the hands are held up to view, innocent, of course, of any in tention of exciting envy, or seeking admiration for beauty of hands, mani cured nails, and costly gems. There in something very f;iscinatuig iu laney knitting, anil then there is a great satisfaction in an industry so lucrative. A handsome liair of silk host are well worth from iM to the value dt-- lieuding Umn the amount of fancy work with which the hose may lie dec orated. Domestic uiiwle silk half hose for gentlemen gives a pretty and ex ceedingly satisfactory occupation for young girls and misses, who take pleas ure in giving their male relatives pres ents that are handsome and useful, and are also such jKisitive evidences of in dustry and artistic taste. A silk knitted smoking cap can be richly designed, howmg a rainbow ot color effects. Dressy little silk sicques for babies are knitted or crocheted in colored cord forming a very useful and ornamental garment. Faubroidery has liecome so fashiona ble that it is lavishly employed ou some garments. .Now much of this work Is wrought at home, thereby sav ing large sums of money, and still indulging in the preferred dress decora tion of the season. A pocket handker chief embroidered by a young lady only brought out" this Y mter just past could not be bought at one of our large stores for a cent less than S-X). A little schoolgirl of eleven Summers has em broidered in colors within four months' time a lawn tennis apron, a pertect iHicin of dainty conceptions in the in termingling of blossoms, buds, and climbing plants, all so ingeniously exe cuted, and so exautly copied from nature, they apjicar to be only laid on the handkerchief, to be gathered up an put into a vase of water. One ot the nclM-st iiongee costumes that will be seen at AewiKirt this Summer was em broidered during this Spring by a wealthy society lady, noted lor her charitable deeds to the worthy poor, who, however, does not believe in favor- nig both finery anil idleness. For Summer use in a country cottage gray-lined curtains with edge embroid ery are ornamental ami auoru an admirable shade to a room excised to the heat of the noonday sun. A door curtain formed of tarietau in ample folds is picturesque,'iuiiiarting an air of breezy coolness to the rooms. Fdge the curtain with tinted lace and hang a holland shade of corresponding color; to be drawn down when seclusion is required; loop back the tarletan near the centre with ribbon bows. There is another effective style of door cur tain which is easily constructed. Pur chase a few yards of dotted Swiss muslin; between the dots on both sides of the goods sew tiny spangles; edge the curtain with narrow gold lace, and a fairy-like effect is given, especially if two ihii plants or jKits of Bowers ate placed on either side of the door. A showy piano cover may be secured at very little expense. Applique on green serge or maroon tinted camel's hair cloth, a variety of quaint figures, not exactly grotesque, but selected with taste, and presenting in a pointed man nier some sort of suggestion relating to music, both vocal and instrumental. Originality expressed iu designing decorations for a piano cover is sure to awaken great satisfaction if artistically executed, and there must also be given proiier pnqiortioii, breadth and reiiose to the work. The designs wrought on an organ cover should harmonize with tlie general cuaracierisucs oi una in strument. There should be no crow tied details iu needle work, even when the lMttern is large, and the article embel lished presents ample breadth for a decoration of lilieral dimensions. In order to secure a phasing effect iu hand-made home decorations, be care ful that detail is always subordinate to the design; and above all lie sure not to deiKirt from truth when the designs are intended to lie copies from nature every llower should have its own foliage, and the w hole made as peneci as possi ble. Glaring inaccuracies in this direc tion destroy the desired effect of mos skilfully wrought.out productions, and at the same time ll is obvious mat me fair artist is in possession of considera ble ignorance. Cheap fcatlns IU Waaliiugton. The dairy opposite the Treasury is a creat resort, where may lie seen not only many bureau officers and men of con siderable position iu the goverment ser vice, but a great many others who do not want a cheap lunclieon, but a light one. and know that if they once settle into a restaurant chair uie resuu w m oe a snoild amietite by dinner time. !ec retan Chandler is one of the frequent visitors, and often may 1 seen standing in a crowd of Treasury clerks, drinking his mug of milk and munching his two cent biscuit that is it is two cents if he takes a buttered biscuit asd only one cent if it is uubuttered. It will be seen by a slight intellectual effort that? the salary of a Cabinet officer for one year would purchase 800,000 uubuttered bis cuits. The Secretary's future niay ue regarded, therefore, as reasonably se cure. " If the Secretary takes a mug of milk and two uubuttered biscuits the total cost of his luncheon is the maguih ceut sum of seven cents; two buttered biscuits will raise it to nine cents, and if he should take a piece of pie which he proliably would not do as he comes from New England, where pie'-making is a religion and not a sordid pursuit the cost will reach fourteen cents. This is regarded, however, as extravagance only to be just n led ma cabinet otneer. The Art or "Braeing I'p." When Esculapius confidently asserted in the presence of his disciples that there was somewhere in the world an ethca- cious remedy for every iain, he spoke with greater wisdom tlian he knew. I he star reporter, in the course of his peregrinations, recently learned of a lieuevolent and thriving pharmacist who has gained a proud reputation fur his ability to exercise every tytie of inebria tion. He is commonly sjioken of by those frail voting men who bring him the most patronage as "the great Ameri can brace-up," and Is venerated by these as one who loves his fellow-inen ami de serves to be classed among the truly good philanthropists of the earth. The nature of the comiHiund he uses is one of the Dundreary mysteries, which 'no fellah can evah hud out," but so tioteiit is it that a man may enter his establish ment in a state of lieastly intoxication mil leave it half an hour afterward re juvenated, clear-headed, confident and in his right mind. The shrewd druggist's customers are is various and as plentiful as blacklier- ries in the season of flowers and sun- Oiine. The young swells or harmless hides who have been tempted into tak ing mure chamiiagiie than would meet with the approval of their worthy par ents, and who are afraid in consequence to get under the family roof-tree lest their desiierate struggles to climb the staircase and seek the solitude of their quiet room should awaken their slum bering progenitors and involve them selves in diliiculties, turn to the drug gist as naturally as the daisy to the sun. Prosperous clergymen who have liermi ted themselves to hid ulge.some what fie ly in" after dinner beverages which would lie much more ixilitie to eschew uive lieen known more tluui once tocome here evincing as much anxiety to lie soliered mid put in a state to attend an unexinrted call as was ever exhibited bvle Foe in his long search for the elixir of life. Iridic who have siient the afternoon together and find that extra drv" has produced an effect which has put them into a state to pro duce a si ill greater effect uikiii their hus bands should they venture home in such condition enter the drug store and in timate as quickly as nissible that they have a sorrow for the proprietor to heal. Half an hour of rest: with draughts of this mysterious compound at short inter vals, generally restores the fair lilmntees t a proper state of nature, and they go on their way rejoicing and with more appreciation than ever In-fore lor the wonderful invention of man. 'Some of mv customers are very curi ous ones;" said the man who is daily lieneliting his nice to the Mar reporter, is thev mutually watched the exit of a young man, the dark lineslieiieath whose eyes demonstrated that Bacchus had narked him tor his own. "there is m this citv of teiinieraiice a lecturer of mie prominence, and who is in receipt of a large salary from the societies with which he is connected, but he seeks me oftener than he proUtbly realizes him- sell. He came to me last Sunday morn ing now this is a fact in a state not dreamed of in the philosophy of his ad mirers. I restored him to his mental equililirium, and, as sure as you are there, he staggered in again at twoo'clock iu the afternoon, with tears in his eyes, liegging to be once more relieved and saved from ignominy, for he wasengaged to deliver a stirring lecture before a large audience an hour hitter.'' "Do you have many professional tro pic?" w as asked. ''Their name is legion. Physicians who are suddenly called up to a tutient after a social evening with their friends have come here for a 'brace-up' before sit-king the bedside of the sufferer. I-awyers and judges are always fond of conviviality, ami many of them have found that I can snlisequently do them good. Once ill a whileaininisterforgets himself, and then he discovered the same thing. I also have many lady patients, Not longago I was called to the sidew alk, w here 1 found a handsome and elegant ly-dressed lady weeping bitterly in her arriage. Mieconhded to me that she id lunched with lady friends at I)el- monico's aftera shopping tour, had ta keu more chauiagiie than she had lieen i ware of, and dare not return home. A few doses of my medicine dried her tears, :uid she dcimrted with no visible signs ot icr indiscretions save a few dark lines leneath her pretty eyes." Not all the bibulous, however, know f this place of restoration, and so it ranspires that the fame of the "cock- nl" will not siieedily .wane while the lords of creation will still tiermit themselves to indulge in spirstuoiislilia- ions. Apollmaris, gin hzz and seltzer lemonade must continue a necessity, ex cept as the Bacchanalian learns of the wonderful druggist who can give mm kick his reason in one short hour, with a touch as gentle as that of a limner restoring a picture by an old master. Many of the men who look iimn the wine" as it giveth its eolor in the cup have, in their bed-chamliers champagne ncktails in bottles, of which they ir ike as they dress in the morning. Other devotees never start iiniii a journ- y without carrying with them a ilask if this i-ei-uiier.it ing lluid, although the drink can lie obtained at almost any rail road restaurant. Niorting men and boxers are iiarticularlv prone to this weakness, and more than one man, felled istensible by a solt glove, has In-en in reality knocked out bv a chauqiagne cocktail. . I. lie in l.arg fillet. Cities are costly luxuries, and the bigger the city the more exw-nsive the luxiin-. The assessed valuation of pro- iH-rtv in the citv of New 1 orK for the vear 18 ." was S101.liiO.O4ij. and the tax for that vear was $7,44s. In 1.S.T0 the assessed valuation of proiierty was sjo. , 14,470 having doubled in twenty-live vears. The amount oi taxes nan. How ever, increased eight times, 1ing $-"J, .0S.j. In !7.j the assessed val nation had riseu to kSSJ ,iH.i.-H-, wuiie me total amount of taxation had reachc the enormous sum of $;fcJ,3tj,744 hav ing lieen multiplied one Hundred times in fifty years, w hile the state tax charg ed against the city has risen irom -o, so in lij to $S,012,:X in 1S7.J. Iu 1XS0 the assessed value of proiierty was advanced to SU42,.iil,'K0; but the total tax was reduced to iS,'Joi,2i2, due ti the reduction in the State tax levied on the city from ,OOU,UOO to S:V'l,---the city tax remaining the same, Another great grievance under which the Ne York citizens labor and groans is the extravagance and recklessness of thexpeuditure of the moreys raised v taxation. If we may credit the state ments of the journals of that metropolis nearly half the city funds are absolute ly squandered, worse than wasted. The snake-naaee. The following is a traveler's narrative of the snake-dance, among the Moquis Indians, a northwestern tribe: Preiia rations for the dance had lieen in pro gress tor eight days. 1 he snake-priests. torty-two in number, devoted the tirst four days to secret rites. The four suc ceeding days were employed in captur ing the snakes which haunt the sandy plains around the village. With a wand, glinted, and liearing at one end two black eagles' feathers, the priestscaress the heads of the snakes as they coil in the sand. The snake-priests are suji iiosed to have liorrowed this idea from the habits of the eagle, which, when capturing snakes, Is said to charm them to comparative harmlessness by hover ing over and fanning them with a rapid and peculiar motion of its wings. Hav ing secured a sullicient numlier of the reptiles, they are carried iu sicks to the est ufa thecouncilhoiise of the Moquis. 1 his chamber is an excavation in the solid rock from nine to ten feet deep, by eighteen feet wide and twenty feet long, covered with iniles, mud, and stones. Hung on the walls in fantastic groiqis are highly ornamented mocca sins, breech-cloths, waistbands, rattles. and tortoise-shells. On the morning of the dance we were granted admission to the est ufa, and on descending by a ladder from the centre of the roof, we found the snakes, from one hundred and twenty to one hundred and fifty in numlier, contained in large oval earthenware urns. Sum after we had entered a ceremony was gone through by those of the priesthood who were present. Pouring the living mass out of their urns. thev. with their wands, drove thein around the floor of the est ufa from east to west, and their iirotind an altar laid iu the rock floor two feet from the west wall of the building. Ihe priests all wore waistband. breechcloth, and moccasins fringed with red; liesiiles which, their faces were painted, from loit-head to mouth, black, from mouth over the chin, white; their bodies, pink; their arms and legs lived a dark brow n. Around the right leg. below the knee, was attached an orna ment uiadc of tortoise-shell, together with the horny part of a deer's hoof, w hich iu the dancing that followed pro- luceil a sort ot humming rattle resemli- ing the nobe of a rattlesnake iu anger. During their exercises iu thcestuta, the iriests drank treclv tnun a large urn ontaiiiing medicine water. The snake dance itself took place IkuiI four o'clock in the afternoon. A iltouwood grotto had lieen erected on he rock near tlie est ufa. with a single uiialo rolie lied firmly around it, leav ing a small entrance on one side. Vi'oiind this was traced a mystic circle hirtv feet iu diameter. Within the lotto the snakes were now deposited The dancers were twenty-four in liuinlier, the remaining eighteen priests U-ing reserved to receive the snakes fin. ii their hand, and to chant during he progress of ihe dance. The dancers x.it advanced towards the grotto, wauns iu hand. Then wheeling round, they separated twelve a side, and formed in line, representing tiie two sides of a langle, of which the grotto was the ipex. Ihe eighteen followed, dividing pially and facing the dancers, while ill joined in a w ild chant. I he chief- iilcst then advanced to the centre of the grotto, liearing an urn of medicine water from the est ufa, two huge sea shells, and two stone ligures of inouu- iiu lions. Chanting in a monotone, he tiHid for about ten minutes waving the urn in the air. Another dance and li.uit followed; upon the conclusion of which, the nearest priest on tlie right iitered the grotio on hands and knees tuning the w rithing and hideous mass soon le-appearing w ith a large snake in his moutii, lis head and tail twisted tbout his lace. liemg taken by the left arm by a fellow priest next him, he was led around the mystic circle. The snake was then dropped on some sacred corn meal which the squaws had scat tered within Us bounds. Immediately on falling the creature coiled in anger, whereupon one of the eighteen caressed its head with his wand and took it iu his hands. The ceremony was then re lated by the other dancers, who, en tering tlie grotto ou hands and knees, brought out the snakes in their mouths, sometimes two at a time, and danced round the circle on the rocks with them, until the whole had been taken lroiii the grotto and placed iu the hands of the attendant priests. The snakes were then thrown, a writhing ui;iss, into a ule of corn-meal, tuiou w hich the whole priesthood rushed liell-mell to the pile, and seizing them in their hands, divided into four bands, tore w ildly down the ncky slopes, ami liberated their mid lives in the Kinds ou the north, south east and west of the village. c Flower. Among the new plants prominent is heliotroiie named "Purple fiold," which is descriptive of its yellow foliage, that resembles somewhat the ribum line plant golden feather. It promises to be valuable from its rare quality ot golden leaves, that contrast beautifully with its purple llower. It has the same lehcioiis fragrance iiecutiar to ju helio- troiics. It originated in Cleveland Ohio, last season, and is now for tin tirst tune tillered for sale by a .New Jer sey florist. Ranging alongside of the the purple and gold heliotroiie is another entirely distinct variety known as Swanlev Ltiaiit, the flower of win has a carmine shade, a color for the tirst time seen in the heliotroiie. ouplei w ith this valuable quality in tint it ha- a truss ox enormous .-::e, measuiiii from nine to ten inches in diameter. It has also the true heliotroiie fragrance. inong roses a new class known as the polyaiilha, many flowered, apars. These comprise m color pure white blended pink and deep carmine. TI flowers are quite small not much largir than common daisies lnii borne in large clusters, having from titty tosixty flowers iu a cluster. The habit is quite dwarf, not exceeding eighteen inches in height. It flowers so protusely it will render a continuous line of white, pink or carmine during the entire summer mouths. This will lie a new feature in ribbon-line planting, as heretofore roses have hardly ever been used for that pur pose. In the tea-rose class there is but little new, as these roses are out of fashion at present and there has been less attempt at novelties. However, there is one that it seems hardly fair to overlook. This is the etoile de Iyou, which is somewhat like the perle des iardin in habit and style of flowenni but it is entirely different iu color, being a s'l i.lo of canary yellow. NEWS IN BRIEF. There are 18 societies of Shakers in the United States. The dot now placed overtlie i dates from the fourteenth century. Armorica. which is now Brittanv. was conquered by C;esir 50 B. C. The first recorded plasrue in all nai-ts of the world occurred 7ii7 B. C. The celebrated mineral sni-im' at Cheltenham was discovered in 171s. It requires 10.J1N; els and 2.:iViS oil amps to light the streets of Boston. A single grajie vine at Caion. Cali- omia, is said t b.vir live tons ot trait . Paris h:is fiT. lam Lnnu T 1.... , . .. ..i,.,..., Liriiiiiiii 4'i0,0i0 more than Paris, New York and ix-inii coiniiined. The shiplnen's of petroleum and lietroleum products from this country for January were valued at '..O-'it'i '..-:. By the new census there are in Ire land ::.!.M,SS7 Roman Catholics and 1 - l:iS,S42 Protestants of all kinds. The debt of the United States in i,.r o the war was aliout '.m i h m t nmj Th debt of the Australian colonies is al ready fivefold that. It is estimated that the 7lM finest -4 at the Yanderbilt ball represented $s --.,.n,,nn,, nr in nines me total valua- lOU Oi jMIStoll. lames I. of Scotland was munlem.) at the Black Friars' monastery at Perth in 14-'!7. by Robert (iraham aiid the Karl f Athol. Sweet iHitatoes are lien-"- snecesi- fully raised in Mower county, Minne sota. February and January were added the calendar by Nuinii alnutt 71:! Coucho'ogy was first reduced to system in lr.7- bv John Daniel M iv.r f Kiel. 7 The practice of iisins a baldachin ;. hiirches was introduced into ii Ul'.K The French Government intends t.. old a grand international exhibition at aris in lss.. The hyssop of Scripture is the Mimr ree w hich abounds in southern Km-.n.. lower Kgypt and Syria. ' Chicago is s'lid to waste 4o ikhi ikui gallons of water i-r day. and Ciiiciiiimti 1,1 UN I.I KM I. The revenue of the Dominion (im nmieiit for the first nine months of the present fiscal year was f-'i;..l i;s.-,. and he exjieiiditiires SI !Kr' 1 In Western China the mountain Omi, which has a "halo." and u I. in height ll.iHKifeet. isalmost exclusive ly inhabited b- Buddhist monks u the Colorado desert a species of tortoise grows to a weight of twenty live pounds, and the meat of thisiscon- ideiid a great di licacv anion- the I..- 1---i .ti tans. A man recently sold the t?i.,t.,- right on a tract of land in Cambria coun ty, Pennsylvania, for .-,,imk. n,. iMiii'dit the laud and trees :i f.-u- c.. igo for Sl.lHio. Pisistratus founded a public libr ae in Athens Mil R. ('.. and this is the tirst nslitutioi! of its kind of which history fives any account. Ptolemy Philadel phia! founded the second J"", B. C The cost of the Yanderbilt bull w estimated as follows: Costumes atl.V. 7:H; flowers, f 11 ihni- earrintres. 1 mm- hair-dressing, Sl,(0; simper and' eti:i servants, i"i,i.0; making a total of near- Ice men of the Pen bscof river s.iv- that the present season has lieen a succ essful one to them. They have har vested some 1'.I..MN1 tons, and thev I. ..I uliout j . H tons left over from hist ason. It is siid that Stoiiehenge, the iiicient monument on Salisbury Plain was built in accordance with ".Merlin's advice by Aurelius of Auibrosius, iu memory of 4y Britons who were niur- lered by lleilgist. The virtues of Peruvian bark were discovered by a Jesuit iu l VL",. and it was used liy meliiU-rsnf the Society of Jesus fr that time. In bVI'.l it "was inf n . d i iced into France, and Sir Hans Sloane carried it to England in 1700. A contract was entered intoat San Francisco a few days ago by the Texas .inn lacmc uailway Company for the transportation of seveu hundred car loads, lieing almut :H)A) bushels of California wheat to go to Kuroiie byway of New Orleans. The live copiier mines in Michigan which have declared dividends during the imst year, have a paid-up capital of c2,.Mki,ini, and the dividends jaid lllioiliu lo --.'. M H. -j-ue t unnt. and Ilecla, which hasa capital of cl,-Jini,-. aid itsslockholders in the must vear J,! !,( Hi. The Western Union telegraph lines in Texas have increased from .'Joo miles f iMiles and 4.HI0 miles of wire on Jan I, 1SS0, to 4,.'ji miles of poles and near- y v,ooo-miles of w ire on Jan. 1. Is:! thus nearly doubling its facilities within three years and still building. hie of the industries if Australia is the cooking and fanning of ml. I. its which ; ire so pleiititut in some districts that whole croiisaie sometimes destroy ed by them. One firm during the last isoii, which last iil twenty-five weeks. can nii 1 ;7",uii0 of the animals. Iu the Second revenue collection district of Georgia, from iHi-emU-r 1st, 12, to March Jllst, lSKt, there were seized li." illicit distilleries; destroyed, jl; removed for forfeit lire, There were l-"S,lif gallons of beer destroyed and 177H gallons of low-w ines and 307 gallons of w hisky seized. The milling receipts at San Fran cisco for the first six mouths of the vear amounted to -f U'.,'iVi,iniii, of which $:, i HO, 4Jt, was for the mouth of June, of this sum the California sent f l.s-"i r Fureka Consolidated, l,."iy..'ViHI; Con solidated Yirginia, ?l,l'.l,-171; Rich mond,5l,'K)iii, and Ophir, 7i'!.omi. The first annual report of the New Jersey railroad commissioners snvs there are l-iO miles of road in the state;capi- tal invested, l,(Ho,.t'.; cost of road and equipments; .liW,rds,-'!-V; gross earnings in l"!, f !l,s4.",st.i-j; net earn ings, $1 !,.- ..P1 1; interest paid on bonds, etc., .."',;,:!;5S; gross earnings for l"sl, 5'J,OiW,Oi0; net income, after deducting all expenses, l.-j,otx,im. It is well known tliat the wine har vest last vear was scanty in Italy, but conqiared to that of France there is no reason to complain. In r ranee scarcely 3i,;ii.-'o'2 hectolitres were obtained, while m Italy there were -S-J.-iti::,! IS hec tolitres. The hanest iu i ranee was less by 3.-2-V2,.t5 hectolitres tlian that obtained there in lssi, while in Italy it was greater by o,ij:5,7'JU hectolitres, than the average production, though below the production of exceptionally good years. i i I
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