B. P. SCHWEIER, THE 00S3TITUTI0I-TEE 115101-151) THE ETTOEOEMEHT OP THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXXYII. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. MAY 20. 1SS3. NO. 22. A SI MMEU SONG. Good morning, O wWt moruiug Kivs me with sun and wimi ' Ami without word of warning Then let xhr heart be taken V lilt many b.ii.v ;, To heirtUes,.!, awaken . ron,' ou' t"e bluebird skv 1 lie robins' silver liuting I. pon the majile tops, The sparrows' pay disputing. In every he.lj.-e or copse; The lark's long, mellow whistle n 2 ',erth''1,U are "" J Woist; Tlie finch upon, the thistle- The w ood dove, echo-voiced; The pha-hesoft!v railing- The warblers' bidden choir W here apple flowers are talli'ii" And darts the oriole's tire " The swallow builds her dwelling t if clay from sunny pooU; The doves their loves are tclllii-r The scolding wren o'errules, " I p starts the golden flicker, And hurls his notes aliotit; The blu. jays tilt and bicker The cuckoo's a sly scout; lint hark: from laM year's still kl- How cheerily pij.es" the quail. And bobolink notes upbubble, J-'rora yonder pr.is.sy swale;' The blackbird free from trouble l'ours out a gossip tale; ' Loud laughs the crow at pillage, On fields of planted corn; ' All drunk with spring's distillate, All mad with joy this mom! Good morning, O sweet morning, Good cheer unto my songs; Come ye in throngiug measure; As spring birds cume in throngs. BAKKV. Miss Al ira il Hurt was a little brown old maid, who lived in a little brown old house with her cat, Debby, and her woman-of all-work, Prudence, sharp of tongue, long of visage browner and oltler than the mistress herself. There was nothing of grace, nor beauty, nor sweetness aliout Miss Abigail's life; everything was dry. and hard, and husky. Indeed, some people were so uncharitable as to say that her heart was like a very much dried-up kernel iu a nut-shell, and would rattle if she were to le shaken hard enough. But I never quite lielieved that. 1 always said there was a soft sjiot in Miss Abigail's heart, to be found when the tinie came to find it. One spring twilight a boy opened Miss Abigail's garden gate and walked up the path between the rows of strag gling lilacs, lie was not a boy who lived about Uaperstowu or he would not nae uaicu wmicir, a am uir, for Prudence's sake, besides havi ving noth ing to venture for. He was an un kempt, starved-Iooking little sieeiuien of humanity. His coat was a world too long and patched at the elbows; and his trousers were a world too short and patched at the kuees. His hat was guiltless of brim, and through a hole in the crown bohWd a little tuft of hair which had once leen brown, but was now wofuily faded. He went straight up to Miss Abigail's porch steps. Miss Abigail was silting on the porch in her high-backed rocking-chair so intent on binding off her stocking-heel that she heard neither the click of the gate-latch nor the footsteps on the hard-trodden path, and she did not look up until the bov's figure interiiosed itself lietween her work and the lading sunset light. lie doffed his tattered hat-crown. 'If you please, ma'am, will you mav I have something to eat?" It was not at all a tramp's manner of asking; there was a manliness in the voice w hich Miss Abigail could not help but notice, Perhaps that was the reason she looked at the boy sharply for a moment liefore she answered. In that moment, Prudence, tall and angular, stood in the door, with a shawl thrown over her head, and her right hand swath ed with soft cotton. "I'll have to git Jonas Barrow s man to do the milkiii'," said she. I can't. I've burned my hand that bad.' The bov looked up quickly. "Can t I could I milk for you?" Vs I have intimated, Prudence did not like bovs; and that she sometimes expressed her dislike in a very forcible manner many of tlie village urchins could testifv. Xow, she surveyed this bor, standing by the porch steps from his" lare brow n feet to bis brown head, not forgetting the faded little tuft, in dumb astonishment. "You might let lum try, Prudcnte ' said Miss Abigail, thinking ratlierdubi ously of the nervous, mouse-colored AJ deruev in the yard. "I choral on a farm all last summer, explained the boy, eagerly, Syncing from mistress to maid "1 want some supper, and Til be glad to do sowethmg to kit for it." . . , " Well, you kin try it,' said rrudence, after a momentary deliberation. It s better'n begging a favor, anyhow. She led the way to the kitchen, and took a shining tin pail from the dresser. "Here's the milk-pai V sue said to the boy, who stood waiting; an be cow's in the yard yonder, layniaj comes w hen the work's done. And rrudence smiled grimly as she went about setting out a lunch of biead and butter ami cold meat. Me felt morally certain that the nighty Aldeiwj l eifer, used only to woman-kind, would be much more likely to spread a pair of l,vine w ings and fly away than allow herself to be milked by a boy. le can't do it " she sa. t .Miss Abigail, w ho presently brought 1'cr knit ting w oik in tlie kitchen. " 1 he heifer 11 "tSSSdtS'be-di-l. Soon he apfared in the d.xn way, his pad br.m- "111 Seated rrudence. ' 4'ou didn't think I could?" sa.d the bov, smiling brightly- Prudence ' 'o I didn't," admitted 1 ru.iu.ee, w'Snt there a bit of cheese left Prudence thought tin re w .u while she was fmV'S lar the boy gave hunse fahealt h n i bmgat the pump, con nS w m JIe rii- and it tastes good. ., To be sure it ui.t. - ;ied thought of a hi tender vears and years before, ere ith. How btrange . crav. this little vagrant, '- '7, lirin!rto ing at her kilch.n who tod so Ler remembrance uuor early put off the mortal for tue i V,sentlv. when tne uoj islied Lis foi-i- . " Kiuie anu uvZ;T . -w 1,Iate a "letluKlical o " ,Wh,luh i I,leaswl MLss Abigail liZ? mla V.1011 lie glanced from Pru- .1 .. V "ial"I'',S WAr I'fr with arms to Jtiss Abigail. r JJ'i1" .i." f,,r "'' s"!1!," said he. May be I'd best le getting along. Y01 Jon t want a t,oy to work, do you?" tm i107-1.?. Wolk!" cclKjeil rrudence. 1 'hi I ever! ' .1 .'M't'sidd Miss Abigail, shortly. And tl,w,;t ...... .?.' ough that sl,e could not help thinking T V. . uu,t Ira" lltl"' ,lf wl h had iif hted 111 the bud so long U-fore. Wtv far are you going?" she asked. 1 uon t know, ma'am. " 'And w here have vou come from?" l'rH eded Miss Abigail. "Treseott, ma'am. Mother died there tha monthsago." There wasautthctic quaver in his voice. And then, with little questioning, he told his simpler story. His name was Larry Olmstead, ami he was twelve years old. He had lived in Treseott a long time he and his mother; thev were very ioor, but they had kept a" little home together. His mother had taken m sew ing, and he had worked for the neighboring farmers summers, and gone to school w inters. And he had leen n.ippj, lor an thev were so poor, until mother died. "Then I stopiied w ith Deacon Staples1 a six'll: he said be Wlllilil to trv mu But they w ere going to bind me "out to him, and so I nm away." 'None to blame, niither," interposed rrudence, with a great deal of emphasis. "I've seen old Staples, down to Treseott. He's that mean he'd skin a mouse for the hide and taller!" "I've leen trying alone for a chance to work," continued the 1hv, smiling faintly. He was very near to "tears now, but he hel.I them back sturdily. "But there don't anyliody seem to want me.' Miss Abigail was moved more than he would have cared to own bv this recital. Even to her. w ho had lived for self so long, there was something inde seriliably pitiful in the thought of this little wanderer Kittling alone w ith the world, buffeted bv fortune, driftimrhere or there, as chance miirht dictate. It had grown dark now the Limits had long since been lighted; and there were mutteriiigs of distant thunder 111 the air. "It's going to niiu." said Miss Abi gail. "You needn't go bt-niglit; you may sleep in the stable loft." Barry thanked her. Tlie storm broke with great violence. And while Miss Abigail listened to the sharp peals of thunder and the pouring of tlie rain against the windows she thought of the lonely little wayfarer in the stable loft with a new, strange throb of pity. Morning came, merrv with bird song and glistening with mvriads of rain drops, rrudence was up bet hues. but, early as it was, she heard the sound of an ax inthe wood-shed; and when she opened the door Barry smiled at her from his post by the chopping-block. I don t think 1 paid enough for my supper I eat such a lot, ' he said, "so I ve split some kindlings, and 1 II milk for vou this morning if vou want me to." l'rudence brought the milk-nail w ith- out a word. But w hen she had prepared Miss Abigail's morning meal, she made ready a good substantial breakfast for Barrv, also. lien he had eaten it he took up his hat crow n. (o out the wav vou came in, 'said rrudence, " 'r else you'll bring b;td luck." Barrv gave a little incredulous laugh. but he went out to the jiorch. Miss Abigail was there taking deep breaths of the fresh air, and she bade him a kind "Good morning" as he went off the step and down the path again le tween the lilacs, exulierant in growth but meager in bloom. "I wonder w hy my lilacs do not (lower more freely." This Miss Abigail said to rrudence, who had followed to the door. "1 dunno," answ ered I rudence. Barry heard and turned. "I guess it's liccause vou leave tlie old blossoms ... 1 .1 on," ne sam, uesiiaiuigij. .uiuim used to say 1 must pieK me uiossoiiison one vear, it 1 wanteu any next." And then he went out of the gate, closing it carefully lehind him, and along the moist, brown highway. "That is a very uncommon boy," said Miss Abigail, looking after him with serious eyes. "Yes." assented rrudence "lies a clever "nough little chap for a Ikiv." To think of his knowing about the lilacs," continued Miss Abigail medita tively. "1 must cut off all the flowers this spring." "An' he got as good a mess o' milk from the heifer as I could ha' done my self with a well hand," l'rudence went "Yes. he would have lieen handy alout milking and getting the wood for you," said Miss Abigail. An' uringui tne letters 110111 inr post-offiee," proceeded rrudence. "Jl s a good piece over to the village iu muddy walkiu'." t.. So it is." said Jliss Ai.igaii. rne "aed reflectively along the road which wound, seriient me, to tne little iianuei a mile away. Barry was cninning tuc hill, a mere, pitilui, lonely sjiecK, m tne distance, as ne was a ineie iiisinmiicoui atom in the great b.tdy of humanity. Miss Abigail s ejes iineu. We might nave Kepi mm, sue sam. Taiu't too late yit!'' put in l'ru dence. , , , . , , The two women iookcu mio cacn others eyes. . If vou could mate mm near, ucg.ui Miss Abigail. For answer rrmience mioou 10 mc road, and sent a long, quaeims c.j after BaiTy. "B o-o-yl" Tint the little figure they were watch ing plodded steadily on. ."Gimme the old tin horn out er the kitchen. Miss Abigail" called rrudence, excitedly, "quick . Miss Auigaii, sutm ' i..n.rl.t .if tbiiifiicr.ius- was, WlUlom a iiio-.p... - ness of the pnx-eeding, ran to the kitchen, snatcneti uie uoiui. ....... r-.in out with it to I'nidence. And Prudence put it to her lips and blew a ,u,ile"r.L, so loud, that it startled thV bird into silence , and set theechoes riuffine from niua5 "He c'n hear that if he c'n hoiii-auy thiiin." she muttered. . a lie did- HestopiL 1'rude.u-e flour . . T .u i,..m iii frantic excitement There was a moment of suspense; and iWence turned to Miss Abigail, f'Wk.-shes.iid AVhen Barry, breathless with the Iiaste . V j " a. hed the ctttage. Miss Aw4awwaitingonthelr:., "We made up our minds to keep you, said she, "so long as you don't give too mucii trouble." "O, thank you, ma'am!"' cried Barry, Indeed, 1 II try to please vou." I am sure he lias succeeded; for the lilacs have been 111 blttom three times since that morning, and he is-with Miss Abigail ;et, growing tall and strong and manly as the years go by. He tills the bit of a farm, which had so long lain unimproved and in winter attends school at the village where he is in ex cellent repute. He is, withal, so faith fill and helpful and kind that rrudence is fain to aiMitheginatie the horn after this fashion: "Ilarnsoine is as harnsoine' does; an you're deserviu' of a lied o' velvet, old horn, for tlie gimd deed vou done that day." A Kemarkalile story. In the Surrogate's Court, of New York, on the th of Mav; much excite ment was created by the development ot a ieciiliar, interest nig and romantic story. 1 lie principal actors are young men of high social standing and wealth 1 he story is as follows : In lstjO, Win. Tilden, a relative of Samuel J. Tilden. died, leaving an es tate valued at J,."hHI,(KNI. He divided it equally between his four sons Wil liaiu, M llano C, Mariuaduke and Bev erle B. lilden aged 2il, 1.,, 1J, and tf years. Josiah M. Fiske, Win. T. Blod- gelt, Ifctvis Hows, Charles Tracy and X. C F.ly were appointed executors. In 1870 the executors employed an Italian iiai not Biaxi as tutor anil manager for the bovs, and they were sent to Kuroin1 In 1'aris they occupied the rooms form erly occupied bv the l'riiice of Wales and other members of the Koyal family of i-.ngland. They then proceeded to Berlin and lived in suinpthous style ex lieiidiiig in sixteen months alioiit ",- IHHI. The eldest of the four, William, pur chased a alace iu Cobiug for ln,(NHJ and with it the title of Baron. While in his jKilace he bei-anie very much in terested in the w ife of the former owner and very soon was under com plete control of her husband, to whom he gave a imwer of attorney and jierniit- til him to purchace-' all the furniture for his palace. In 1S72 the executors discovered the condition of affairs abroad, and by the payment of a very large sum of money, the young man was extricated from his ditliculties. The four then conceived the idea of a kill iu honor of Americans in Germaney. They hired an immense hall at great exieiise, and gave the ball, which was widely commented on. When they returned home the execu tors footed up their expences for two years and tour inojths at 51(v They were sent to Harvard College, but did not remain there. William was made an executor of the estate, and iu 1S77 a partner in the business formerly carried on by his father. This he was compelled to give up owing to his in ability to manage it. Many account ings were had for which large counsel fees were paid. In 1S77 Gustavus G. J. Thekiud was ap'Hiiutcd guardian of Beverie B. Tilil- en. lie received JtlJ.Ai, and afterward it is alleged, was locked up iu Ludlow Street Jail for eleven months for misai propriating jlo.l.xio belonging to another estate for which he was the attorney. From the accounting now in progress before a referee it apu-ars that the two eldest sons have been itaid 5-175,0110 more than their share. It is also charg ed that a mortgage for $100,'.I00 on Jersey City property, with the interest. was collected by the executors, and that one of them dcisited the money to his private account. 1 he estate is 111 a bad condition and will yield but 100,000 to each or the youngest sons. The executors are charg ed with procuring ratifications of their lets bv threats. Beverie B. 1 lldeu now seeks to have the various accountings ojiened on the ground that the expen ditures were foolish and rash, unneces sary and contrary to his father's will. He also claims that the executors should be charged with the unnecessary exenditures. The executors make a general denial, aud declair that they have accounted for every cent they si tent, and that the hoys, when they came of age, ratilied their acts. Nary a Stick, Jir.' "Xo, sir, stranger, I wasn't driv out by the overflow of the river," he an swered as he patched away at the old harness on his rack-riblcd mule. " Land-owner close you out ? " "Xo, sir. You s;e, I didn't exactly I till any sile, and had no crops to fail." j "Been cutting steamboat wood, may- lie?" " Xary a stick, sir." "We looked him over and none of us could make him out. He was tall, gaunt and ragged. His mule was old. IHKtr and discouraged. His cart had been cut out with an axe and dressed down with a hoe. lie halted in front of the old-fashioned Arkansas tavern, and it was the landlord who put the questions: "Maybe ye lost yer lamiiy by swamp fever?" "Xever had a family, sir.'- " Kinder prospectiu' fur walnut, eh !' "Xary a prosiect." "Stranger," said the landlord in a vexed tone, "maybe you've no objec tions to tell this crowd jist how ye cum to be in sich redonced sarcumstances ? You sartinly don't look purty. and I don't believe ye're rich." "Gentlemen," said the stranger as he turned his back on the mule. "I'd jist ;is soon tell ye all about it. I'm a living proof of the fact that old Arkansaw is no place fur a high-toned gentleman or a fust-class mule, and we are on our way into Tennessee. This is a purty good kentry fur a mule with a stiff knee or a man with a scrub eddication, but when it comes down to Greek and I-atin and eat in' with three-tine forks Arkansaw is fifty vears behind the world! Morniu', cents mornin'. in three different lan- gages." ii lores. Gloves have the honor of sharing in the censure of modem medical dictators, who declare that they injure the skin, and bv being worn very tight check the circulation of the blood. There is little fashion can do it tries to prevent the imitation of the vulgar by declaring sometimes for sac gloves which reach tlie shoulder, or with the same length in an innumerable number ot buttons; now that they shall be worn 011 the dress, and now on the bare arm; and now that they shall be ptiuted, then beaded; now tliat they shall have nifties or insertion. Bjonistjenie visit London. Bjonison is soou to l'welry in tcliwrk. Mrs. Mulford, wife of the clerk at the Arlington Hotel, Washington, ha. finished a jiatchwork quilt that is not merely a quilt, but a work of art. it is a iioetu iu patches a symphony in samples of silk and satin. It is seven feet square and is coinimsed of forty- nine different blocks, arranged in rows each row seiarated by a division ribbon of dark red satin, and each block divid ed troni each other bv a ribbon Ihi1 of the same texture and hue. Around the whole is a Itorder of drab brown satin, traversed by seven rows of stitch ing 111 various silks. Die pieces ait' chiefly silk, with many of satin and a few of velvet, lhere are about l.lNio pieces in the quilt, and everv piece has a history, there are in it simples of silk from a wedding dress, made hun dreds of years ago in England, when the looms wove silk as enduring as time. There are iu it sitcciiiicns of the latest styles of gentlemen s cravats. And lietween these; two epochs are hun dreds of pieces of different times and all iMissible shades of color arranged in blocks of a general arabesque pattern. the whole presenting a unity of designs that is marvelouslv symmetrical, and a blending and shading of colors that is artistic in the highest degree. Only an artist, with a him, bold hand, a quick, accurate eve, and a true perception of the harmonics of art, could have made Some of the pieces are mere shreds sie, and none ot them are large.' With these materials are displayed taste and judgment, and the result is not merely a guaiut guilt but an araltcsqiie in art. The blending of the colors is the most iidmirable feature of the whole work. The arrangement of the pieces is equal ly satisfactory. The general result ol- tained is consequently artistic. Two of tiie squares containes a piece of brocade silk, of the- now fashionable olor, crushed strawlierry. It came oin the wedding dress of Mrs. JI11I- ford's great grand-mother, and is llu years old. Another square contains a fragrant of her own wedding dress, Stiil another holds a small section ot her husband's wedding vest, one of those patterns iu light silk which were fashionable before the war and which having gone out of fashion, has lieen replaced by nothing half so elegant either in texture or in style. Again, another block has a piece of wedding dress of Mrs. Mulford '3 bridesmaid. Miss Sherron, with her initials worked in it. This is the only block in the whole quilt which Mrs. Mulford did not woik with her own hands. Hun dreds of these pieces were sent to Mrs. Mulford bv her friends. ' One block is tiled the Beach Block, ltecause the wife of Hon. Lewis Beach, of Xew York contributed most of the pieces in it. Hie predominant colors here are purple, crimson, black, light blue, green and others. In one corner a crescent moon, attended by stars, gleams out f rom a field of blue. Iu the centre a luster of leaves are beautifully worked. Yerv much of the work is difficult needle work, done by Mrs. Mulford. Many of the pieces have various designs painted on them by the same lady, whose abilities as an artist are highly appreciated by her friends. Another block contains a piece of Thos. Jefferson's carriage lining, which despite that 1'resedent's well know de mocracy, was of silk. Tlie Jaianese embassy sent another block. On one of the pieces hi this block is painted the minister's name in the strange, uncouth Japanesecharacters. Mrs. Mahone sent some pieces, which were arranged in a handsome block. Iu this occurs one of the few pieces of velvet in the quilt. One block contains a piece on which is scratched a lifelike sketch of the fox and the stork at the famous dinner where the fox was worsted. The ex pression given to the expectant but dis aiiitointed fox is iierfect. He is sitting on his haunches, licking his chops, while the stork, with his bill deep into the norrow-necked jug, seems to say briskly ind hospitrbly, Help yourself, Brother lievrard! In another square the saga cious starling is dropping into the pitch er the iiebbles that w ill enable him fin ally to take a drink. In one block is a piece of silk from the curtains ot the lute House. Some of the blocks have hi them pieces of silk which are not made in this country. Mr. Lambert the silk manufacturer of 1'aterson, X. J., in linitorting patterns from Lngland has sent samples to Mrs. Mulford to be worked in the quilt. Mr. I-milieri was so struck by the crashed strawlierry silk of 110 years ago that he manufac tured a quantity exactly like it. in one of the squares Little Boy Blue is blow;- ing his horn, in all the glory of the Ken sington stitch, and in another a little girl on a stile seems to be in doubt which side of the fence to come down on. A very elegont block contains a piece of imitorted English silk, in which a iierfect strawberry, with a cap still on appeals to the eye for approval of its perfect shaie. Oue block holds a num ber of elephants. Another has pieces sent by Senator Piatt's son, a part of his cravat, in which little pigs, with a ring in their tails, are ambling along with a larger ring on their backs. But the quilt; to be fully described, would require far more siwce than this article can afford. It has been seen by Minle & Proctor's decorators, who pronounce it the ffliest piece of decorative work they have ever seen. It has been seeu by a favored few at the hotel, who are in raptures over it. It is really a su perb affair. Mr. and Mrs. Mulford left W aslnngton on Saturday for their home in Salem X. J., and took the quilt with them. Oprn Fires. Whether it is of wood or coal, the virtues of an open lire are these: By its peculiar heat aetion it warms the air of a room less than its walls aud less than the occupants of the room, producing a comfortable warmth. It gives the most thorough venti lation, and it is the most cheerful as well as comfortable source of heat. Its faults are its expifsive ness, aud the greater trouble required in taking care of it. Why does an ojien fire give a comfor table heat when the heat from a system of pipes is often oppressive, and "some times stifling? Because of tlie great dif ference ltween the ways in which the fire and the hot pipes disjiense their heat. The heat rays from an ojien fire pass directly through the air with out much heating it; they heat any solid object in their way, whether it be the walls and furniture of the room or the person of the sitter7but they leave the air itself cool until this is heated iu turn by radiation from the walls. The occupant of the room does not have to wait for this secondary radiation; he is impartially and promptly wanned, like any other solid object in the room, by the direct glow of the fire, w hile the air around him may remain comparatively cool. It does not, in point of fact, get to be quite as warm as the walls and lurnitiire, while by choosing a lessor greater distance from the fire, or by the use of screens, you can adjust the heat of direct radiation exactly to your jkt sonal comfort. This is not the case with any other system of heating. Warmed pqes, a stove at anything short of red heat, and .1 hot-air register directly heat the air itself leaving the walls comparatively cool. The room is full of hot air. which you can not tcmier instantly to your comfort as vou can temiierthe radia tion of the open fire, while the walls re main cooler thau the air when these heating appliances are used, and ab stract heat from the oceuuints of the room instead of supplying heat to them. as they do when wanned by the open lire. The cheerfulness of the oik-ii lire re quires no eulogy. But the oK-n flame. whether of wood, soft coal or hard coal, is a costly luxury. Soft coal is with us one of the most exiiensive kinds of fuel; but it is worth remembering that one good lump of it iiniii a hard-coal tire will fill a room with cheerful flame lor hoars. For these reasons the open lire is the most comfortable way of heating. As to its virtue in producing ventilation, 111 oiieu hie is iHtwertul enough to draw into the room all the air it wants. mid forthispuriKisewill useiiidiscriuiiu utelv all oiienings, whether inlets or utlets, if necessary." If, as often hait- liens-, w hen this is cold and the house is not tightly built, thelireiiiayeasilycau.se too much ventilation, so that the feet become chilled, and the temperature of the room does not reach a comfortable degree of warmth. In such a case a register supply ing warmed air from a furnace K-low is a necessary supplement to the open fires; a similar coiucnsi tion is needed iu large buildings where hot pities are used to warm the halls. The oiien lire, indeed, is often, in our climate, a luxury for a single room, rather than a siilhcieut me. lis of heat ing the house; but the oik-ii tire is a great comfort. Other sources of heat mav usefully supplement it; but no tther, at whatever exiiense of niouey anil scientific contrivance, can take the place of it. I have known more than one builder of his own house who has found out that its winter comfort was by no means wholly decided bv the height of the thermometer. Of the heat furnished bv an ordinary oicn coal lire only about one-eighth is utilized m a room, lhis waste has led inventors to contrive various means for retaining a part of the heat thatescaix.-s directly up the chimney. The principle is to warm an ascending current of air in proximity to the tire, but not to an excessive degree, and to disengage the iir near the top of the room. Gallon has devised one of the best of these contrivances, but it is little known in this country. In any fire-place the forms and materials employed make a good deal of difference w ith the amount of heat saved. Brick and tiles are liet ter than iron for the lucking; the grate should project a certain distance into the room, and a projecting chimney piece absorbs and radiates a consider able amount of heat. The fashion, now going out, of concealing the mantel piece with a lioard, suitable trimmed ami decorated, was thus a thrifty as well as a pretty one, the fringes and other coverings of the false mantel piece serving to retain ami distribute the heat of tiie lire beneath. The hob is an attachment that should be found upou the grate of every open lire. Any one can make a good hob in five minutes. Take a piece of stout wire one-fifth of an inch iu diameter and twenty to twenty-four inches long, U-nd it into the shape of a long capital U. five or six inches broad, put the jKiints of this U Lietween the two upier grate bars and bend down tlie loop of it until it stays level, and you will have a convenient movable hob, and quite as good a one as can be bought for money. The hob and kettle are very serviceable for evajKirating water, according to the plan I have recommended for keeit ing the air moist. A hob thus makes the grate fire in the parlor more health ful, while the tea-kettle simmering upon it adds its own element of domes tic comfort. SKrt amoiii; Zuili Children. One day says a writer, I siw some of the children playing at "breaking hor ses," One juvenile demon was leading a band of four or five others, iu the pursuit of a big bristling boar. Lasso in hand, the little fellow watched his chance, and twirling the flexible cord once or w ice rapidly in the air, sent it like lightning toward the head of the boar. The latter made a desierate dash only to run his snout and forefoot into the coil, which, held by the com bined efforts of all, quickly precipitated him, in a succession of entangling somersaults, into the shallow river. Iu an instant another lasso was dexter ously thrown over his hind feet, and his captors, regardless of mud and water, wild' with vociferous glee, be straddled him and held him down. The leader tore off one of the legs of his trousers, aud with this he bandaged the eyes of the squealing animal, wrap 'ping another piece around his snout .so as to smother his cries. Thus equipied, the hog was set at liberty. Two of the little wretches jumiied astride him, while the others prodded him behind and at the sides. Thus g. aded, the poor beast ran uncertainly in all direc tions, into conals, over logs, headlong into deep holes, precipitating his ad venturesome riders; not, however, to their discomfiture, for thev would im lueilsitely . scantier up, drive, push, lead, or haul him out aud mount hiiu again. The List I saw of them was toward evening; they were ruefully re garding the dead carcass of their novel horse A KmMan Kaliuay. '1'lj; liusj a i government litis decided to const-uc-t a r.tilv iroia Petrjlolt, ou tiie CaspUn Sea, to VladiUnvk, in order to shorten the present route from M cw and "ther n.-nuufacturinsc centres to the markets of Persia and Central Asia. The lei-igth of the road will be 50 vcrstK. It u believed that, with '.he am ot this route, Ibiasian manufacturers will be aiile U compete succewf ally with their nvals. The prelim tiiry mirvev are aliedy bcinj$ made and it is Mid thst the entire construction work will be unJert-.kja during the com ing summer. Cincinnati has had seventy-nine urders and one hanging in ten years. Mr. Keene's rlrture. Gossip as to the affairs of James It. Keene, the Wall street ojierator, took the form recently of a rexrtthat lie had mortgaged his Xewpnrt projierty for $7.,i RJO and that he had sold one of his liest pictures, a study of sheep, by Uosi Boiiheiir, to Jay Gould for ' Sbi,iNHl, though the price that he taid for it two yeais ago was j-JI.ObO. u was also as sorted that he had closed his account with his old-time brokers, S. M. Imki cock V Co. Mr. Kerne's friends suggested, that if he had mortgaged his Xewpnrt pro- ierty tor 5i.",(iiK)t he had done a very good stroke of business since he paid only $U,iKin for it when there was a fine cottage iiiHiii it. This cottage was Imnii-il alxiiit a year ago. As to the side of the picture, doubt was oiienlv expressed that Mr. Keene had wittingly sold it to Mr. Gould or parted with it at '4 loss. Mr. Keene dined at IMinonico's recently. Alxiiit Instable was a gather ing of Wall street men. John Pondir. listening attentively and saving little. was vis-a vis to Mr. Keene. Mr. Keene was blandly stirring his coffee when the nqiorts were mentioned to him. "They are unfounded and malicious stories,'" he sid tlacidly. "There is not an atom of truth in them. It would lie licnoath my dignity to characterize them and those who originated them as they ought to lie characterized. Of course. I sold one of inv pictures." "Was it sold to Mr. Gould?" "No. I did not know that it was sold until I heard of it from Mr. Pon dir. The fact is, when I Umght the picture some of my friends did not like it, and I heard some high art criticisms. hie of the gentlemen at the table said that the background was not worked up enough. Mr. Pomlir lNiught my pict ures for me. and he wanted, for satis faction to himself, to buy a call on the picture for a year for Sl.tHio, and I sold it to him. I lielieve that he sold the picture to some friend of Mr. Gould's for himself. As to my reasons for sell ing, I desire to say only that my house was burned, and that I did not wish to store the picture. My family are going abroad 011 the w.'tli, on the Arizona, and they will not return lor at least three years. Tlie object of their visit to Kurope is the education of my child ren. I authorized Mr. l'ondir to dis Hise of the picture, and he did so, and then informed me. He liought tle-ui and knew more abnit them and their value than anyliody else." "Was the price paid for it Sli'i.thiu?" "Yes. The story that I paid cfi'l.tMi for it is made out of whole cloth. The cost was more than $10,ikio less. In deed, one way and another 1 have cleared fully c'i.ihhj upon the picture. But it is rather hard that a man cannot sell a thing that he has no place for without a license from the rumor mon gers." "Something haslH-en said, Mr. Keene, bout the .Nile of one of vour racing atud." Indeed. Well, that's the first I have heard of that. Why, I have a hun dred horses. At this time I have at least a dozen in training at Sheeislicad Bay. Xow, I suppose that if I wanted to weed out four or five that were nei ther goers nor stayers, that would lie fresh material for the rumor mongers. 1 repeat that I havedispocd of nothing except w hat I had 110 use for or no place for, as any man might do whose house was binned, and who intended to go abroad. I intend to go abroad for a w hile and rejoin my family." "Vou have still a large gallery of pictures, have vou not?"' "J have. While we are on this suit- ject I may as well niv that I have twenty-live more pictures that 1 would not mind disiosiiig of as advantageously as I did the Boniieur. I am willing to sell liccause I am looking forward to the greatest financial convulsion that ever shook Wall street and the entire coun try, anil I cxioct to buy back pictures, or anything else that I sell at less than half of w hat 1 sold them for. When I come back from Kuroe 1 shall not lie surprised if I find that the purchaser of the Bonheur is shaken out of his hold ing and willing to let me have it back for a good deal less than he paid for it. The great financial convulsion that 1 have spoken of is not, in my opinion, far off." The Indian Corn 1'ropof 1KS3. The latest reports from the Xorth west represent the agricultural outlook as brighter than it was a month ago. The winter wheat, which, it was then thought, was so damaged that the crop would fall twenty per cent, short of the average, has survived the severe season better than was supiosed possible, ' while the recent weather has la-en favorable enough to enable the Western farmers to finish seeding spring wheat. The apprehension of crop deficit-nces on the l'acilic slope has been allayed by the heavy rains which fell hist month. But, despite the improved wheat crop prosiects for 1SS15, there Ls reason to lielieve the yield will not in any case exceed the average and may fail Ik-Iow it. Iite as it is, it is not too late to point out to farmers over the whole country the inqiortaiiue of getting out of the soil this year the best crop of Indian cwrn they can produce. Where the long run of cold weather has killed the wheat crop there is still time enough to replant the ground with corn, and proluibly 110 grain pays the producer so well as com. The estimated value of last year's corn crop has been put down as over twelve hundred miiliou dollars. But if fed to hogs and cattle it is much more profitable than if sold for exporta tion and distillation. During the last two years disastrous failures have been exjierienced in portions of the largest corn producing States, which might have I ice 11 avoided had due attention been given to the selection of seeds. The great desideratum north of the 4oth parallel is to get the corn crop to ripen liefore the period of autumn frosts, and often a single week of backwardness is fatal to the success of the producer. If seed produced two or three degrees north of the locality to lie planted is selected the crop will "rijien in a week or two less time than native seed." The geographical limit of the profitable cultivation of corn is the August isoth ermal line of 7 degrees, which extends in the northwest to or beyond the 4ith mrallel. Though Dr. Kichardsou and others have shown that "maize riiiens well at the lied Kiver and Carlton House" in the Saskatchewan Valley its cultivation is so precarious lieyond the Upper Missouri that it should only be attempted to select spots little ex posed to early frosts. The farmers in the Central and Southern States, how ever, should this year put forth unusual efforts to produce and secure a largtt crop of this important cereal. The Tl. krt-Itnyer. It is very amusing to watch some la-ople buy oiicra tickets. The other day alioiit four hundred jieople tilled the Academy of Music lobby in Milwaukee, and crowded the stejis and sidewalk in front of the building, eagerly elliowing ami pushing their way toward the ticket window, w here the t reasurer was deal ing out the little bits of pastelioard. An elegantly dressed, refined appearing and very pretty young lady, who lives iu a palatial home in the Seventh ward, worked her way to the window, and. spreading out the diagram, with one hand 011 each side to make sure of it, asked the ticket-seller the price of re served scats. '"The general admission downstairs is fifty cents,' replied the seller, "re served seats seventy live cents. Up stairs twenty live cents admission and reserved seats fifty- cents." "What Ls the qier.i for this after noon ?"' asked the vouiig lady, as she carefully scrutinized the badly disfigur ed diagram, so many of the seats hav ing lieen marked off in advance. "" "lolanthe,' ina"am."' "Oh, I'm so sorry; I thought it was 'Martha,' ' she remarked, and then con tinued: "Well, I want four seats, anyhow. They must all lie together. Let me see. 1 guess 1 w 111 tKe lour 111 this row, iminting to a section of the dress circle where every seat was marked off. 1 hose .seats are sold. ' ''Is that so? 1 am so sorry. We want ed to sit along there. here are some good scats, please?" Bv actual time the young ladv had clutched the diagram for eiht minutes it this laiint. The crowd was swelling and the people were fast In-coining very impatient. 1 he treasurer said: 'ilere are thi'-e very good seats to etherand out; right back of them, that will make vou four." That won't do. We must sit in the .same row, and 1 don t want seats wav low 11 in the parquctte." Then she look the diagram out of the window and holding it 110 In-fore her .111 her eyes over and over it for two minutes. Ihe red, red blood liegan rushing toward the seller's face as he heard people clamoring for tickets. But he uttered not a word. Finally, after asking ten more ques tions of alxiiit the same nature as those mentioned, she ioiiited to four seats and said she would take them, handing him a live dollar lull. In an instant he returned four tickets and one dollar and twenty live cents in change. "This isn't right,' she suid, taking up the money, those seats 1 wanted are only fifty cents, ain't they?" Everything, madam, down stairs. I told you seventeen times, is seventy live cents," was tlie somewhat short reply, aud getting the diagram out of the young lady's hand, he passed it over her shoulders to some ladies w ho had Ueii jiaiieiitly wailing, and the fair opera ticket purchaser reluctantly pass ed from iu trout of the w indow. She stood there tor full fifteen minutes, aud that is an awful long time when three or four hundred a-ople are waiting to be served. There were other instances just as amusing. The most of the y oung .aibes who Iiouglit tickets carried hand-bags, in the depths of which were three or lour small purses containing their money. It would take from one to live minutes for everyone of them to find the right purse U-l'ore they could pay for their tickets. lliey Werent Sautlulelitr. Among the score of us who rushed into a railroad eating house in Missis sippi at the call of "twenty minutes for dinner," was a chap who had his mind up to say something unplcasa it when he came to pay for his meal. He was grow ling when he Went in and he jawed all the while he was eating, and when he slouched up to the desk to pay his seventy-live cents he broke out with: "Them sandwiches arc enough to kill a doe:" "What sandwiches?" "Why, them 011 the table." "But we have no sandwiches 0:1 tl e table, s"ir, arsisted the landlord. "You haven't? Well, I should like to know what you call them roasted brick-bats on that blue platter?" 'You didn't try to eat one of those?" "Yes, I did:" ''Then, my friend, vou had In-tter go for a doctor at once! Those are table ornaments, made of terra-cotta, and were placed there to help fill up the space! 1-uido' catsl but you must have lived in a ane-brake all your life!" The traveler rushed into the car and liegan to suck at a hramly-tlask, and he didn't get over looking pale for three hours. And they were sandwiches after all real good ham sandwiches made that (lav. The landlord had adopted that particular style, instead of usiua club. The Aurora In Miniature. J-alHiratory experiments have fre piently lieen resorted to produce the aurora in miniature, and the resemb lance to the original has lieen extremely close, but an artificial aurora on a large scale and with no electrical lii ichineiy has lately liceii effected by l'rofessor I.eius!roem. He seli-ctcd a station just within the Arctic circle, iu Xorth Fin land, where there were two mountains close together, and having altitudes of 2,'iO0 and :i.tvt n feet. Iu accordance with the well know u f;.-t that electri city gathers njion points, two hills hav ing clearly defined conical summits were selected. He lielieved that aurora was the result of an endeavor 011 the pirt of certain forces to establish an equilibri um, and assumed that electricity was lassing from one hill top to the other. Reasoning that if by any means the in terchange could be hastened the effect would liecouie visible, the summits were connected with their ba-H-s by a network of copjier to serve as a conduc tor. Immediately an archof tlieaurora apjieared, estimated to lie at least '.W feet aliove the top. An examination of the currents produced in the w.res showed them to be positive. The spec troscope clearly revt-a'ed the well known lines of the aurora. Although the dis play was only of short duration, there could be 110 doubt of it3 genuineness or of the sucuess of the experiment. It is estimated that 3J,0U,000 hu man Iteings lie every year, There is a Bible in llellou which was printed in the year 17!s. Land in Hot Springs, Ark., recently brought f 112 iier front foot, 1 One never kuevs a man until he refuses him something and studies the effects of the refusal. One never knows himself until he has denied himself something. - NEWS LN BRIEF Over exercise on roller-skates has killed four ambitious Louisville girls. General pardons were first proclaim ed at coronations bv Kdward III in l.!27. Paraffin was first obtained from coal in 1STJO and from mineral oil in 1S4S. A rich deisit of silver has just lieen liscovered nine miles from Gaiusboro. Tenn. The total estimated supply of red wood thulier in California is lio.S-J.Ytnio- 0oo feet. Alexander Mitchell lias in his house in Milwaukee probably the finest library in the West. The new ly-discovered placers on the Agua Fria, Arizona, are attracting con siderable attention. Sir Charles Dilke has a framed col lection of caricatures of himself clipped from comic p.iiiers. Kiiqieror Louis X.iioleou served as iecial constable in London duriinr the Chartist riots iu lsjs. Hudson's Bay is to lie explored to see whether uiain steamers cannot ! run in the brief summer. At a steno-'ranhic evhibition nr. Paris a mstal card was exhibited which contained 1I,Ikn won Is. M. Patrick rode a quarter of a mile on a snow-slide near tiiincy, Cal., last week, and esca d unhurt. A garfish live feet long, weighing sixteen -Mninds, was caught a lew days ago in the Alabama river. The March fires representing 7, ii0,i n 11 1. This is .I.ixhi.ikio more than the .March record of last year. Wagons are N-ing constructed in Milan to 1 vey Italian gnqics direct to the wine factories of France. A tliirteen-car-o;d Kir in Ieds. Ontario, weighs 17.1 iuiiis and is 20 pounds heavier than her 'father. ilkie Collins is not a very rapid worker, and seldom writes more than ten pages of manuscript a da v. The Hon. Oliver Ames expects to siciid $ tin ,i 11 mi n building hisnew house on Commonwealth avenue. Boston. 'Hie season in Canada promises well for crops, the snow having gra.lually disap'iearcd without destructive floods'. Two expcneii.-etl French jentlemen are l-crfi-cting arrangements to establish an ostrich farm in Medina county, Texas. Seems as if thev did nothing but declare semi-annual dividends in Boston, where they announce a total of ?s UJ -77i for April. " ' ' The California wine production, as measured by receipts at San Francisco, has risen from :!.:i;tii(j7 gallons in ls7'. to 7,iHm)iiiNi m l.ss-2. There are hi, (Ml suiuuu miles of almost unbroken forests iu North Caro lina, comprising nine, chestnut oak, maple, beech ami hickory tiiiila r. Louisa B. Stephens is the first woman to lecmne President of a bank. She succeeds her lale husbxnil in tl, First National Hank of Marion, Iowa. Mr. Baillic of Ilochfiior, one of the largest landed proprietors in Scotland. died at Florence a few day ago. He owned but. 000 acres, principally iu Inverness-shire. Frederick iMiglnssdenics the state nieiitslliat he is worth ?liMl,otm, or $1-10 -000, and declares that both his fortune ami his annual income are very greatly overestimated. The police of .Mui'ie;iMilis, Minn., have ln-eii oidi-red to halt a-destrians found in the streets after midnight and to compel them to give an accurate account of themselves. An Knglislmiaii w ho wears a corset in order to 1 educe his waist, and who laced it six inches tighter than his nat ural size, declares that the sensation is rather pleasant than otherwise. Dr. Ziegler, the eminent Swiss car tographer, whose death has just been announced, was born in lsn, and was a pupil of Carl Bitter, w ho hashecn called the creator of modem geography. Col. Cyrus M. Wheat on, who died at KchoUith, Mass., last week, aged S2 years, had lieen tow n clerk of that place for more than to years, and at the ago of St was a in lx r of the tate Legis lature. A painted advertisement in huge white letters iimii the rocks of Lookout Mountain caused a spirited horse to run away one day last win k, and horse and driver went headlong over a cliff and were killed. A very significant proof of the re duction in coal waste resulting from the efforts of the Anti-smoke Association is seen in the fact that in ls2 there was a decrease of is:",17;' tons in the civil brought into London. Xot more than half the usual supply of maple syrup has U-en made in .Maine this season, ow ing to unfavorable con ditions of frost and snow dining the winter, which prevented a copious Slow of sap at tie' usual time. - Mrs. Fletcher Webster, who has U-en verv seriously ill for manv weeks at a hotel iu Boston, has lat-n removed to her home in Marshiield, Mass. Her illness was partial paralysis, attributed to a draught iu a railroad car. A capitalist offered to erect at St. Paul a i7.H,00 hotel provided the citi zens would subsi-rilie c2i.W,ijoi, to be paid on the completion of tht building. The offer was accepted. Kansas City Ls now looking for a similar offer. Mrs. Craycroft. the sister of Sir John Franktiu, died last week at her house at lin king at the age of W. She speut the greater irt of her fortune ou tlie expeditions which were sent to the Arctic regions in search of the famous explorer. The venerable Archbishop Pureell is again in seriously failing health, and the gravest apprehensions of his friends are aroused. Paralysis has attacked his organs of si-ech, and he can scarcely articulate above a whisier. He Ls living at the Convent of the Ursiilines. St. Martin's, Ohio. . ugelo Mariano, a pilot of Para, Brazil, is the survivor of three wives, by whom he has forty-live children, still living, and through w hich children he is called gminliiaia by IP.) iiersons, great-granditipa by isi,and g.eat-great-gr.indinipa by 2-10 more, his living des cendants niiiiiliering Oort persons. 3s; patents and designs were issued recently to citizens of the United States, Xew York reeei val , Pennsylvania 4 Ohio '!J, Illinois .'to, Massachusetts At, Xew Jersey , Michigan 20, Coiinec ti nt IS, California 17, Missouri and Iu ciana 15, aud WLseonsin 11. Tweuty dve patents were issued to foreigners. ! V L
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