SlWfMlf. ITT fllrTiM' fit brv.v Av. ' 111 CS 55t: o f, rri fVI I IK P. SCHWEIER, tee ooisnnrnoi the mnoi aid tee xxfokoexeit or tee lays. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXXVII. MIFFLINTOAYN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 13. 1SS3. NO. 21. : - B. XKI a , . I ,,: , Every day hi m fresh beKiiininis Every morn is the world made new i ou who fre wr?T7 of oorrow and sinnin H ere is a beautiful hope for you A hop for m and a hope for you. A" tbe Pf1 ,hin,g are past and over, . jrarenuy cover, lesterday s wounds, whi. ). .o-.J ounda, which smarted and bled. Are 'i111 tLe healinS which night Yesterday now is a part of forever- tight IW 8l,eaf' hich hoUs With glad days and sad davs, and bad dava which never Shall visit us. more with their bloom and their blight, Their fullness of sunshine or sorrowful mghu Let them go, since we cannot re-live them I annot undo and cannot an me- ' God in Ida mercy receive and forgive them; Only the new days are our own, To-day is ouis aud to-day alone. Here are the skies all burnished brightly Here is the spent earth all re-boru, ' Here are the tired limbs springing lightly To face the stun aud to share with the morn, In the chnsm of dew and the eool of dawn. Every day is a fresh Ix-ginninp; Listen, my soul, to the glad refrain; And sjite of old sorrow and older simtin, And puzzles forecasted aud piblepain, Take heart with the day, and begin again. HORSE AGAINST LION. "How 1 came to lie sitting, m very good conntaiiy, one glorious Septemlier even ing in the littJe moonlighted garden of the hotel at Algiers is neither here nor there." The story-teller w as a good-looking man of 30, with leard grayer than his head, and a merry twinkle in his eye. What he said I shall n-ieat, for the sake of clearness, in the first person, just as he told the story himself: "The adventure of which I am going to tell you, gentlemen, hapeiied to me a good many years ago. It was my first serious interview with a lion. Like most serious things, it had a comic side, too. "I was a young man then, and had leen some half dozen years in Constau tine, farming in artnershlp with a friend, an old colonist, whose acquain tance I made on board ship coming out from Marseilles 'Our business was corn and cattle raising, and we did very well together until my partner died of a fever, and after that I took a dislike to the place. I thought I would shift my ground into this province, Algiers, push toward the frontier, and get a grant of government land and make a farm of it. So, getting a neighbor to give an eye to things in my absence, I started on my prospecting ex-liedit-ion. I sty I, but I should say we. for there were t hree of us, sworn comrades as ever were. "First there was your humble servant; secoudlv there was my horse Marengo, and a U'tter never looked through a bridle. He was bred between a Barb sire and an English mare belonging to the Colonel of chasseurs, of whom 1 Itought him in town when his regiment was going home. He stood alout tif teen hands two, carried the Barb head, and the rest of his Iwdy was all bone and muscle. His temier was as good as las courage was high; me lie would follow silKut like a dog; but he had one failing, and that was an msuierable object ion to the close proximity of anything, except one thing, that stod on lour legs. W e all have our peculiarities, and this was his. Biieds were all very well, but multiply the legs by two, and he let fly immediately, and never missed his aim. "Such was Marengo. "Thirdlv, there was Cognac, the aitu fulest, the most honest, the oddest, and the wickedest little dog the world ever saw He vas lnore like a temer 1 anything else, with a short yellow coat, S's head, very hmp ears, and a very short tail The shrillness of his bark S jour ears like a knife, but the a vf Ss of his howl-he always howl ed if left alone-ballk-s description During the fourteen years I had him he seldom left me day or nig ht On a journey he would run beside me, aud . i .t and s t in mv wallet. TlureoVhislifewastoeal illLTpeV and secretly bite their le"i;y some mysterious affinity he and Marengo were friends from Uiefirst. Thv now sleep under the san.e tree. " Were started, and after going over a TkhI deal of ground I .ought a location, and turned m J .l.u.i.l&,i Jill m7faToine--ard. My director was w Alma, to strike the great road ti t rL Mulder the Atlas eastward into ton atantine. .,.. .....niinff. "It was aooui c o .-- . . .. i h-i.i lieen some two hours m me b i It T ciuerged from a narrow It alHUt ft O ciociv ui. -r. OUS 1J " ... 1 . .- ti -1 T IITJ'I KM Ult V"""-- The next minute "' ".'"'iTS 3 5.T recovering J""'1 "vj. u t alood by the among a grove of trees mat wayside. y 011 the horse that Repaid no attention w m defence WW U)e olwA, "Crawun -" whom i ve up Le pursued .:,, the lithe lor lost-for bis " .med houelea brute among me flave it, "However. a "v - d(Weu the, ano,nse abou yard across, Lu me llJ3tal Mawngtf took to bead turned him. . .. . :il except for the "He stood flVJSf"taudlifting rfWht shifting of hisl ma i lt of his quarters, w'ue.. uiisehWrf. ii.ir thought so too. "The lion l'Vlo trr and take hto for he keptdodgms to try But opponent by a e, and pivot tte old 17 brought his rtov;ru&euif- ".Soon "lined out both spring, but f8ducbde1ceUentjudg ieels together, ?cethat, catchmg ,nentoftime and dieked bim him full In the rAetebeUj U of a heap to the ground, . "loi-lOIIieSS. J 1 1111 a-Ul. - neigh of he iriiiorlirti nourlsn of his heels away f,D ..V : ' Y""usu me grove out on to wic irtiu ana was safe. tJA li0.U lay 80 stfll that 1 thought ennTldea,i T U rate "Ors de combat and was just running to pick up the bridle and follow Marengo, w-hen he sat up on his haunches. This made me stop. "As he sat there with his head loosely wagging from side to side, and mouth idiotic1'1' looked quite vacant and "Suddenly his head stopped wagging he pricked his ears, and by the flash of ins eye aud changed expression, 1 knew he had seen me. r -V"ly """S was to be done, and l did it. The outermost tree was large and low-branched. To it I ran aud up it I scrambled, and had just perched in a fork about fifteen feet above terra tirma, as the lion arrived at the bottom. "Looking up at me with two red-hot coals for eyes, his long nervous tail lash ing his sides, every hair on his body turned to wire, and his great paws pro truded, he chattered at me as a cat chat ters to a bird out of reach. His jaws snapjied like a steel trap, and his look was perfectly diabolical. When he was tired of chattering he stood and growled. "Catching sight of the bridle, he! walked to it, swelled it, patted it, and then came back and lay down aud glared at me. "My carbine confound it! wan I slung at my saddle. My only weajion, besides my hanger, was a pocket-pistol, dojble-liarreied, aud what in those davs we called a breech-loader, that is, the barrel unscrewed to load, aud then screwed on again. "It would have been a handy weaion against a man at close quarters, for it threw a good ball but for a lion! Be sides, the beast was too far off. "Then the thought fl;slied into my mind, where was Cognac? 'I supposed he had run away and hid den somewhere. If the lion got sight of him it would, I knew, lie soon all over with the poor little fellow. "All at once there arose, close at hand, an awful aud familiar yell. It had a strange, mullled tone, but there was no mistaking Cognac's voice. "Again it came, resonant, long-drawn, and sepulchral. It seemed to come from inside the tree. Where the deuce was he? "The lion apjieared utterly astonished, and turned his ears so far back tolisteu that they were almost inside out, when from some hole among the roots of the tree there popped a small yellow head with long ears. " 'Down, down, Cognac!' I cried in my agony; go back, sir! "A cry of delight, cut short by a piteous whine, was his reply, as he spied me, and then, dashing fully a yard toward the lion, he barked defiantly. "With a low growl and nulling mane the lieast charged at the little dog. "Back went Cognac into his cave as quick as a rabbit, and stormed at him trom inside. "Thrusting his great paw right down the hole, the lion tried to claw him out. Oh, how I trembled for Cognac! "But he kept up such a ceaseless fire of snapping and snarling that it was plain he was either well round a corner or that the hole was deep enough for his safetv. "All the same, to see the great cow ardly beast dinging away at my ioor little dog like that was more than I could stand. Cocking my pistol, 1 shouted, and as he looked up I fired at his blood shot eye. He shook his head, and I gave him the Other barrel. "With a scream of rage he bounded back. "Cognac immediately shot forth his head and insulted him with jeering barks. "But he was not to be drawn again, and after a bit he lay down further off and pretended to go to sleep. Cognac barked at him till he was tired, and then retired into his castle. "lieloading, I found I had only three bullets left, anil concluded to reserve them for a crisis. "It was now iast noon. To beguile the time I smoked a piie or two, sang a song, and cut my name, Cognac's, and Marengo's ou the tree leaving a space for the lion's, which I determined should be Wellington. I wished he would go away. Having some milk in my bottle I took a drink, and should nave iikeu to have given some to Cognac. . "The Uou began 10 juiiu, uu uim thornv tongue hanging a foot out of his mouth. He was as niangy and disrepu table a looking brute as 1 ever saw. "Bv and bv he got up and snuffed the air all round him, and then, without as much as looking at me, waiiveu ou auu went delilxrately down the road. ..i;.ni,KT to the irround. I caught up Coznac. who had crept out directly , aud, after lookuigcareiuii icuuu cm,.i h..innr me wnn caretca. juc lion was turning toward a bushy clump ; o l.oilnw about two hundred yards . Ti.ut lialit trreen loliaire willows, water! Had uie cunnmg omic smuw lt ""hvi.mv it was a relief to stretch one-s legs after sitting six mortal hours on a branch. The lion d-ared round the bushes. I strained my eyes the nlain. but could see nothing ' ..: 'i-in I cave Cotmac a drink of milk and a few bitsof breadake, for r.i. h was venr grateful. Of course it was no use beginning a race against a ion with only AW yards' start many at miles. The tree was better .i Kot . ai the "same, he was a long time; perhaps he was really gone for good r4..,. onw his usrlv head around e come7 agTin, making straight for us:.-,... i.0 wns nrettT near I kissed Co and threw a bit more cake into h?5hoL Then I climbed again to my SrcJ Cognac retired growling into his .i the beast of a hon mounted SZZol and comfort- able and tod Evidently had a good drink, he got ui I, u .itIlout uttering a 'S"1' alllt,. yard short, but I was ance. ,... foiled, he lay down -1I13 COUP "i was or couch- KeadnKwsasiftohidehis morutottw. &t came into my :dAll SSUil ad drop back? I dismissed it a- nOicu, lotis, came again. As we have ' all, including our English friend here, been boys, you know what I mean not a fallen angel, but the gun-powder uevu. "Good! Well, it seemed feasible I would try it, - "I had plenty of powder in my little flask, so pouring some into my hand, I moistened it well with spittle and knead ed aw,y nntil it came out a tiny Vesu Tins of black paste. Then I formed the little crater, which I filled with a few grains of jiowder, and set it carefully on me branch. 'My hand shook witit excitement; I could hardly hold the flint and steel, but I struck and struck the tinder ignited now esuvius! "Whiff, whizzl The lion looked up directly, but I dropjied it plumb on the DacK of his neck, i or an instant he did not seem to know what had hapjiened; then with an angry growl up he juinjied and tore savagely at the big liery flea on his back, which sent a shower of sparks into uis mouth and nose. ''Again and again he tried, and then raved wildly about, using the most hor rible leonine language, and no wonder, for the devil had worKed well down among his greasy hair, and must have stung him like a hundred hornets. ll;s back hair and mane burst into a flame. and he shrieked with rage and terror. "Then he went stark, staving mad. elapiMHl his tail between his legs, laid back ins ears, and ruslied out of the grove at twenty miles an hour, and dis- Pleared up the ravine. 'Almost as mad as the lion with joy. and feeling sure he was gone for good, I umbled down the treeand ran off along the road as hard as I could with Cognac barking at my heels. By and by I had to pull up, for the sun was still very hot, but 1 walked as fast as I ctmld, looking out all the time for Marengo, who would not, 1 knew, go very far from his master. Presently I spied him in a hollow. A whistle, and whinnying with delight, he trotted up and laid his head on my shonlder. 'In my hurry I had forgotten the bri dle, but with uiy lx lt and handkerchief I extemorized a halter, tied one end round his nose, and, catching up Cognac, mounted and galloiied off, defying all the lions in Africa to catch me. 'There were still two hours before sunset to reach the next village, and by hard ruling 1 did it, lhat we all three of us enjoyed our supjers goes without saying. And that, gentlemen, is my storv." We agreed it was wonderful. m m. m Conjurer' Trick. Mechanical pistols, not jerniittingex- iiinmation, in which the projectile drops into a secret chamlier bv the action of wrings on the pulling of the trigger. will be lieneath the consideration of the true artist, as well as Ijeing dangerous in the highest degree. The mode of jier fonning this surprising trick at the pres ent dav is as follows: Oiie nieinl)er of the audience places in the pistol or ritle an ordinary one a charge of real lowder; a second is asked to choose and privately mark a real bullet from a Ikx f such, which he himself droi into the larrel, and a third rams the whole tight ly down w ith a ramrod, either retaining )ossession of the weapon from that moment, or jwssiiig it to some one else. But in the act of moving from No. 1 to "o. 2 that is to say, let ween the intro duction of the jiowder aud the ball the Ierformer, while calling general atten tion to, and laving great stress uiion the circumstance that three or four people take part in loading, and not one only, who might lie a couiederate, sluts into the barrel a little tube alout an inch in length, which slides down tothecharge. andjafterwards receives the bullet. This tube, closed at one end, is of just such a size, shape, and color as to fit on the end of the ramrod, and be brought awav with it without being noticeable. It is disengaged by the wizard, and the kill secured as he walks back to the stage. and is put inside the lips in readiness iu the very act of showuig that the mouth is empty. Ihe great dimeulty which occurs m the execution of this feat is to induce the casual siectator to take deliberate aim at one's face; so impressed is he, as a rule, that the weajNtu he holds is genuinely loaded, that he hesitates to let llv at the performer, and will rather let fly in the air. luis, ot course, spoils tneenect altogether, t::i!'. ss the conjurer has pres ence of mind enough to pretend tocatch the bullet as it falls. Houdin, who was pre-eminent for neatness and finish, used to conclude this trick by making a long palaver about the mysterious proierties of lead in ex tracting vital essences from the hotly; then firing the bullet himself at a white washed wall, and producing thereon a splash of red, the kill having been ex changed this time tor a hollow shell of black wax filled with a blood-colored liquid. Only a short time ago a son of the famous Houdin executed in Paris a very pretty little trick. Coining forward on the stage as the curtain rose, he made an amusing introductory speech, with niiK-h characteristic gesticulation, hand extended and shoulders shrugged up to his ears; then lie breathed on his gloves, and presto! they vanished. The gloves I got it from him afterwards had no backs to them, and were secured only bv the tnw of the fingers, which barely covered the nails; a piece of strong elastic ran in a hem round the margin of each and kept them in position, the end pass ing up the sleeve, to be attached to the liack of the vest. A slight flexure of the lingers, therefore, freed them, and caused them to fly away with lightning rapidity; but everything depended ou the palms being alone exposed, French manlike, all the time. Address is more than half the battle which the magician has to fight single handed with the army of watchful eves which encompass him. A good story was going the rounds of the papers some months ago to tue enect that nermann, wnue on me mver x'laia, was giving a private representation UC1U1C 11IC A UIMKUIW . I'.'U 1 11. , though exerting his wonderful abilities to the utmost, was somewhat annoyed at the stoldity, aud apitarent lack of surprise with which they received the marvels displayed, Showers of gold and nacks of cards were made to fall from thir ears and noses, dozens of eggs from their pockets, and live canaries from their hair, aud still they sat on undis mayed. At last, after the entertainment was over, it was discovered that one of them had abstracted a valuable gold watch from the Professor's pocket while the latter was disengaging a miraculous fowl from the savage breast; and that the untutored mind of another had led him to improve the occasion by annex ing a handkerchief and pencil case. Whatever makes men happier makes theft) better. The Wealth of I'ora. The population of Peru fa a curious mixture. In the interior the best type of Indians predominates. In all settled places along the coast we find half-breed $Ianiards, mixtures of negroes, Chinese and white people a people having the vices of every nationality aud the vir tues of hardly any. The Incas or In dians still preserve their simple habits, but are steeiied in the deepest ignorance and kept down in every way. They are engaged mostly in agriculture anil munng. They form but an insignia cant factor among the people on the sugar plantations along the coast. Chi nese laborers are chiefly employed, be ing cheaper and more reliable. Manv have been thrown out of employment. the haciendas having been destroyed by the Chilians. In guano alone the re venue for twenty-five vears was $1,000, 000,000. All the country has to show for this immense wealth is a few lines of railway one toward the mines of Cerro del Pasco, which, for want of funds, is left unfinished to within sixty miles of the mines. Another line runs from Yolleudo to Puuo, on Lake Titi- caca, and Is the most direct route to .La Paz, Bolivia, the road going by way of ArequqKi. I here ara two or three other short lines. All these are govern ment property. There are also two or three short hues of rail owned by pri vate parties. The tlebt on the government railways is nearly $-200,000,000. Much of this money lias enriched foreign merchants, but most of it could be found in the pockets of runaway presidents and other Peruvian notables. Peculation in otlicial circles has ruled in Peru to such extent that a man who, after oc cupying otlice, came out without a for tune, was called tin leso (half-witted.) Industries hardly exist in Peru. Com merce is iu the hands of foreigners. First quality of rice (chiclayo) and large quantities of sugarcane are growu almost without labor. Much Peruvian Uirk aud some caoutchoue are found in the interior, some being sent abroad by way of Guayaquil, but most of it finding a market by way of the Ama zon river. The immense mineral wealth of the country is almost undeveloped and until a difierent race of eopie takes holdot things the mines will not rise to the imiortauce they should. Of late years immense deiosits of nitrate of soda have been discovered along the coast of southern 1'eru, extending to the Loliviau and north coast of Chile. They have proved a large source of re venue. These deposits have been the chief cause of the war. From the nit rates large quantities of iodine are ob tained to such au extent that this metal has liecome a drug in the market. Many experiments have lieen made to discover a mordant to iodine for dyeing purposes, but so far without any prac tical result. Like Ecuador, the east ern slope of the Andes iu Peru contains immense forests of valuable woods, but owing to the lack of communication they are almost unattainable. Iu the interior, near lea, the celebrated liquor1 called pisco is made. Some is made from rice and some from grapes. The , liquor is put in large conical earthen jars, holding about six gallons each. lo give it age it is buried iu the sand and in time becomes mellow. Much wool is shipiicd from several ports of Peru, going by the strait's steamers to England. With few exceptions from Pavta, the extreme northern iort of Peru, to Cal dera, in Chile, the coiuitry on Uie sea board is destitute of vegetation noth ing but barren sand-hills, with an oc casional oasis of vegetation. In tiiues past, through volcanic action, the sea receded some miles, leaving a wide strip of sand exiiosed. Our steamer remain ing at Pay la all day, I went ashore to take a look at the place. A couple of mouths before the Chileans had lauded aud destroyed the railway shops and depot. The town looked desolate. AU who could had left. .Nearly all the houses were empty. I took lour Mexi can dollars ashore with me. We had a bottle of bear, which cost 5, and 1 re turned with $31. The explanation is that the silver was exchanged for Fe ruvian currency, 'J in paper money beuig equal to one Mexican dollar. This might iass as an adaptation of the miracle of the "loaves aud fishes." So much for the credit of poor Peru. My companion invited me to take some c-hicha. Here it is made from maize. It is a fermented beverage! We en tered an adobe building without floor. An old woman handed us a muddy looking liquid in an old teapot. One gulp was suificient. lt tasted like vine gar bitters. The natives said it was chicha. Tainbo de Moro is au excep tional Peruvian port. It is a green spot in the desert. The finest oranges on the west coast are grown here; aiso, fruit of all kinds. The pulta, a fruit tasting like fresh butter, is much grown here and prized by the eopie of the coast. Here Uie vegckitiou is very rich, showing that many places m Peru could be made productive if the (teople would lake the trouble to irrigate the land, as is done in Chile. e.t to Callao the most important Peruvian port is at present Iquique. It is near the frontier of Bolivia, but only in name, Chile having gobbled the whole territory, for the time at least. I Ins port lias acquired its importance through the large salt deposits in its imiueuiate viciuiiy. Iquique is the ca pital of the province of Xarupaca. Its importance may he undersrood when it is know n thai its average monthly re ceipts at the custom house are over j4U0,0U0. There is a railway leading to the salt fields some sixty miles dist ant. The road, until lately, was owned by Moutero, a Peruvian notable, who turned it over to an English company, but has lately been actually sold to par lies in England connected with the Pe ruvian bonds. A year ago an opposi tion road was started by this company. Three leading firms, uniting, built and equipjed a wagon-road and now get then: salt by carts. Still the railway is kept busy all day. They do not run at night. Iquiqueput me more in mind of a California mining town than any other place I have seen since leaving that country, lt has the most go-ahead sort of people on the coast. Burnt down twice, shaken down by an earth quake once, it is now rebuilt on a more substantial basis than ever. Most all nationalities are represented here. This accounts fur the cosmopolitan cha racter of the place. English capital controls the salt deposits in the north, although, two or three German houses have heavy inter; ests. Americans are nowhere in fact there are hut few on the coast. Much lumber is received from Puget sound. the market for it is controlled by the Bremen house of Gildemeister & Co Three of that firm have retired with large fortunes and the house is now managed by juniors. Gradually the business of the place is being concen trated in few hands, as it requires large capital now to handle salt mines, aim as a rule, the people of South America do not understand much about co-oper ative societies. It is also the usual story of the big fish swallowing the little fish. Iquique is built on flat projec tions of land extending out from the hills. The anchorage Ls fair. The place is protected from tidal waves by an island running from southeast in northwesterly direction. The rocks render .landing, especially in rough weather, dangerous and at times im- Itossible. Earthquakes are often felt. The bulk of the town is built of wood. Water being scarce, distilled water is mostly used. A fire once started is dif ficult to check, lt hardly ever rains along this part of the coast, but when a shower does come it is fun to watch the people scrambling out with canvas. carjiets, etc., to protect the interiors of their houses, t or want of yard space poultry is kept on the roofs of the houses. The roofs are all flat and any thing but water tight. Most goods are purcliased cheaper in Iquiuue than in Vahtaraiso, as the hulk of merchandise is imported direct from Luroie. Iquique is now the coaling station for American men-of-war. The streets are wide and well kept. Taken altogether, Iquique is the most cosmo- IKJhtan town on the whole west coast, but such a hard set I never met since the palmy days of Virginia City. One morning I asked an acquaintance lie- fore breakfast to take a cocktail. He refused. Astonished, for it was the first time such a thing had hapiiened to me, I asked him, "What's the mattery Oh, nothing," said he, "only I liave already had five." This is not an ex treme case, either. Thus it goes on all night. At night they tajer off on Ger man beer. English beer is not much liked, being too heavy. Jirge quan tities of Chilean lieer are consumed here, is well as at all intuits south ot Cali;io. Much American hardware is used, such as shovels, locks and notions; still, not near so much as there should be. .Man chester and Birmingham goods, as well as German imitations, take the lead, American houses having no one to re present them permanently. The best institutions in Iquique are the baths. One may have hot or cold baths, salt or fresh water swimming baths. Brala in Uoaftekaeping. Another convenience at Aunt Jane's is the two dustpans and the chamlier broom hung in the liack entry upstairs. l ou know when one has been cutting out work in her room there will be lit ter, or when the boys are not careful to use the door-mat, tiiev will leave traces of mud on the carpet, and what a trouble it is to run dowu stairs after broom and dustpan. Aunt Jane said she never could afford to carry her one hundred ind forty iKtunds of weight up and down stairs every tune a room needed extra sweeping, when a new broom costs thirty-live cents and second dustpan ten. hue she was alxmt it, she would have a dust -bin too, and if you lift the cover of that huge box in brown linen and red trimming in the corner of the pas sage uistairs, you will find it an old tin cracker-liox, to receive sweepings from the liedrooms. 1 hey are all swept thoroughly once a week of course, but between wlules all transient sweepings go into this box, which ls implied at convenience. Auut Jane counts that this second broom and pan which cost 40 cents in all, have saved her going up and down stairs at least five times a week for the last five vears, or thirteen hundred times, and allowing that inte rest on the first investment might make the price of her broom and things 75 cents; 1 cent fare saves her from going up and down seventeen times, and she considers it cheap. I know a family who went without a new dustpan ten years after they needed it, and made the old one do, because they never felt they could afford to pay half a dollar- country price just for a convenience. But the mistress said when she had to get a new one finally, and thought of all the backaches and vexations about sweeping up she might have saved by getting it before, she felt too big a fool to stay in the family. 1 he boys' bed stands in a corner ot their room, away from the windows, iind inconvenient to reach for making. You know how unwholesome it is for any one who sleeps at the back of a bed in such a position where no fresh air reaches it. Vet how tiresome it is to pull the bedstead out every night, and push it out of the way in the morning, the room being too small to allow its standing out. The casters are too small. Get a larger size or broad woo den wheels, and you can push the bed stead back and forth easier than you can move a chair. The boys can pull it out at night into the best air in the room, and shove it back to give them room for dressing. You can move it about as you like to tuck in the clothes when makuig the bed, and leave it out to air when no one is in the room; a touch will put it in place any time, aud the broad tires will not wear the earitet like small iron ones. It is a trifle to see that the furniture in a house has easy castors, but the difference in ease of moving and keeping it neat will sur prise yon. It'sthe principle of having two tea-kettles 'over attain that com forts are always cheap. I'oUee Order. Among other curious police orders issued at Moscow in view ot the corona tion is one prohibiting the exhibition or sale of busts or pictures ot their wier- lal Majesties among the populace, which decree is dictated by the desire to pre vent the distribution of false represen tations of the Imperial features. All householders and proprietors of apart ments in the streets through which the state entry into Moscow will be made have also been obliged to give guarantees to the police that they will not let out their windows and balconies, or allow anybody to be on the roofs of their houses, during the passage ot the pro cession; besides which they will be held responsible for all persons within their doors on that occasion. A primeval red wood forest has been discovered in San Louis Obsipolgjje heard the whistle of an approaching county, CaL, near the head waters of , train. Then, instantly realizing that he tue ttio Bisquoe. Also a magnmcem, waterfall, where the waters ot me ais- quoe pour over a precipice six or seven hundred feet in height. : sight, she ran to where he 1-ty and suc- Reports up to date show 250 persons ceeded in rolling him into the ditch al to have been killed by tornadoes in this most from under the wheels of the loco country since January 1. During 1881, motive. It was not until the danger 187 persons thus lost their lives, and in was past that she discovered that she 1882, 309. I had saved her husband. A Chine Funeral. It is the general custom in China. when a man is about to die, for the eld est son to remove him from the bed to the floor of the principal room of the house, where be is laid with his feet to the door. The inhabitants of the province of Fuhkem are m the habit of placing a small piece of silver in the mouth of the dymg person with which he mav pay his fare into the next world and care fully stopping up his nose and ears. In certain cases they make a hole in the roof, to facilitate the exit of the spirits proceeding from his body; their belief biting that each person jiossesses seven animal senses, which die with him; and three souls one of which enters Ely sium and receives judgment; another resides with the tablet which Is prepared to commemorate the deceased; and the third dwells in his tomb. The intelligence of the death of Uie head of a family is communicated as speedily as possible to all his relatives, and the household is dressed in white the mourning of China. Priests and women hired to mourn are sent for at the same time; and on their arrival a table is set out with meats, fruits, light ed candles and joss-sticks, for the delec tation of the souls of the deceased; and the wailing and weeping of the mourn ing-women is relieved at intervals by the intoned prayers of the priest or the dis cordant "toni-tomming"of "musicians" who have also lieen called to assist in the ceremonies. Ihe women weep and la ment with an energy and dolt-fulness which, if genuine, would be highly com mendable;but ungenerous "barltarians' of extensive acquaintance with the Chinese assert that this apparently over whelming grief is, at least m the major ity of cases, mere sham. In regard to the nearest relatives of the deceased, it would be uncharitable to presume there is not a considerable amount of real grief beneath all this weeping and wail ing; but hired mourners, w ho are usually the most demonstrative on these occa sions, can hard I v be exiected to launch every other day into convulsive lamen tations of a genuine nature over the death of individuals they hardly know by name. As it is, the priest usually directs these emotional demonstrations much in the same way as a conductor controls the iierformance of a band of musicians: now there are a few irregu lar wails, then a burst of them, relieved in turn by a few nasal notes from the priest, the intervals being filled up by the "tom-toms." and an occasional tit ter from the latest comers. Xobodv in course of transportation from one part of China to another for the purjiose of interment is allowed to pass through any wa'led town. Xo corpse, either, is ever allowed to be carried across a landing-place or to pas9 through a gateway which can in any way be construed as pertaining to the Em peror. The Chinese are, indeed, so superstitious in regard to death, as sel dom to mention that word itself, pre ferring to take refuge in a circumlocu tion such, for instance, as "having be come immortal." After the body of the deceased is washed, it is dressed in the best clothes which belonged to the man in his life time, a hat being placed on tils head, a fan in his hand, and shoes on his feet. the idea lieing that he will be clothed iu these habiliments in Elysium, and con sequently that he must apiear there as a respectable and superior member of society. At intervals during these and subse quent ceremonies, gilt ami silver iaier in the shape of coins and sycee bars is bunied, in the belief that it will also pass into the invisible world, w here u will lie recoiued into solid cash; and clothes, sedan-chairs, furniture, buffa loes and horses, made of pater, are transferred on the same principle to the ' better land " for the beneht of the dead. Among the poor the bodies are put in the cemeteries, but it is the practice with the richer Chinese to keep the coffined bodies of their relatives m their houses for long periods sometimes for years. Mexican Eipreia Kunners. AH through the interior of the coun try at almost every towii and village, are to be found "runners," usually In dians, whose business it Is to carry small packages upon their shoulders from place to place. Knowing all the moun tain paths and short cuts, aud possess ing a vast amount of strength and stay ing power? these "runners" make long journeys in a prodigiously short lime. To cite a case that illustrates both the custom of gift sending and the manner of sending gifts. One of my friends here in Monterey, being then on his way home from the City of Mexico, stopped for a night with his carriage, horses and servants at a hospitable raucho, where he was admirably well entertained. On the evening of the next day he came to a town famous tor its delicious flsh, and as an acknowl edgement of the hospitality tendered him, he sent a "runner' with a basket of fish to his host of the night before. The distance, allowing for short cuts, was forty miles across a mountainous country; yet tue "runner" made it in side of ten hours leaving at 7 o'clock at night, and arriving at the rancha (as my friend subsequently was lntorniedl at 5 o'clock the next morning. Taking into consideration the time lost betweeu collection and shipment, and between receipt at the terminal iioiut and actual delivery to consignee, the best regulated express company in the world could not have made this shipment more ex peditiously. Moreover, as these "run ners" are absolutely trustworthy there are cases on record of their dying in defeuce of their freight the express facilities which they afford in a small way scarcely can be improved upon. Too Much Liquor. A voung man of Caie Ann who occa sionally drinks more liquor than is good for him, failed to return home one day not long ago at his nsual hour, and his wife. knowing his weakness, went to look for him. On the radroad track not far from her, house she saw a man lying across the rails; but me uanger oi ms position did not immediately occur to her and she i u-as about to kiss bv at a distance when must inevitably be run over unless sue saved him, for the traiu was coming .round a curve, and no cue else was in A ATalanche in May. In the early part of May, three min ers, named William Downing, Arthur Hastings and Edward Hughes, left Leadville, Colorado. They are three old-timers in Colorado and started for Kokomo. The men decided to work an old claim known to Hastings on Fletcher Mountain. Alxtut half-past eleven o'clock on the 13th of May, Hastings declared his intention of going to the tent and preparing dinner. Downing and Hughes continued to work and thought nothing more of Hastings' absence. He had been gone atout a quarter of an hour, and the n'en were about to quit work, when st an-re, rumbling noise, like distant thunder, was heard. Downing turned lale r.'ith alarm, as he had heard that strance sound before. He turned to Hughes and exclaimed, in a voice that betraved his great agitation: "Do vo. hear that sound? It is a .sno7-.;lide." At ti.st Downing was in doubt as to wheihec it would be better to stay in the hole or go out. Hughes declared tlu't he would go out and see what had beco-jie of HastT.yt. Dooming then said that he would acconijany him. On getting out the men were terrified to see the snow coming down the little gulch in which their ter-i was piti'icl The place where they dtood overlooked the gulch and they cor Id see the ira ine'tse rocks being driven a'onr by the srow. On, on it came, and tliev srw thai everything in and around tbeir tent would I destroyed, lhev shouted as lo.id as thev could for the tarpose of attracting Hastings' attention, but it was of no use. He was too busily oc cupied withia the tent to hcartheshotits of Ins friends. The snow-slide came down with a swoop and lifting the tent as though it had been a piece of paper it hurled it on down the gulch. lktwniugand Hughes ran as fast as they could and thev were glad to see the tent lodged on a shelving rock. They hurried to the spot ami found Hastings lialf buried in the snow. They pulled him out, but he was unable to move. lie groaned loudly and told his two jmrtners he was going to die. They licked him up and with as much care as they possibly could carried him a little wav down the mountain to a miner's hut. He was laid on the rude couch aud preparations were made for his removal to Kokomo. These were all unnecessary, however. In about an hour after Hastings had been laid in bed he expired. Stealing Melom. The stealing ot melons is something thai, will trv the patience of even a Quaker. A farmer may Jose his wheat crop by bugs, his corn by smut or cattle, and his jiotatoes bv rot or bugs, and he will go right along whistling "lankee Doodle" and put another mortgage on the farm, and 1 cheerful. His cattle may the or be stolen. Ins horses follow off a t ami) with a halter, ami his chick ens disappear, and he will not get mad, but if anybody steals a melon he will load up a shot-gun aid lav in an adja cent corn-field five nights in the week to get a chance to shoot somelmdy. A lightning-rod ieddler or a fellow selling a patent corn cultivator may lieat him out of hundreds of dollars by getting him to sign a receipt which turns out to le a note, and he will sigh or go to law, tin! act as though he hated to hurt the feelings of persons who bilked him, but if lie lias a melon patch that is not worth 4, and he hears that a greeu melon has been plugged by a melon thief, he will lioisou all Ids melons to get a chance to murder somebody, or fire his old blunder buss at a erowd of bovs with murder in his heart. Therfe is something queer about this, and we would like to have soiikImmIv explain why it is that a sensi ble man, a deacon in a church, will get so boiling over with rage at the loss of a few melons, and stand up and smile at losses a thousand tunes greater. Of course it is wrong to steal melons, and we do not defend the practice, but, since we have picked so many bird-shot and dog's teeth out of an otherwise immacu late person, we have felt that there was it good deal more fuss made alxtut a few melons than the iiniHirtance of tliat agricultural product seemed to warrant. The May Pole. The 1st of May was the chief festival in ancient ami modern times. Chaucer and other writers tell us that in Eng land, during the middle ages, it was customary for all, even the court itself, to join in this carnival, and the fairest maid m the village was crowned with flowers and seated in an arbor, covered with hawthorn, where she sat in state and received the youthful courtiers who danced and sang around her after the fashion of worshipping the Goddess Flora. Dicing the reign of Henry the Eighth, the heads of the contrition of Ixndon went out iu toe high grounds of Kent to gather the May, the king and Queen Kathenue of Araiion coming from their palace of Greenwich to meet them. ii every town and village was erected a .May po'e, uinu which each season was suspended wreaths of flowers, and the village. danced in pretty rings the whole dav through. This custom. abolished by the Puritans, was revived during the Restoration, and held its ground for a long tune. May lxtles are yet to be st en in some portions of France and Germany, and ihe festive sports are still observed. Aa Emperor's Fortablo Altar. A traveling-altar may certainly be counted among the most singular re quisites; one such has, however, long lieen m use in the imperial house ot Austria. On all long journeys the ein tieror takes with him not only a court chaplain but also his travenng-altar. To this latter attiiciies a history, it dates from the time of Emperor Ru dolph II.; at it prayed Ferdinand II.; it accon:paniel Lnqeror Joseph 11. in his Turkish camiiaigns, aud in more re cent days the emjieror's brother, Ferdi nand Max, took it with him to .Mexico. The altar consists of an oblong wooden U).x, strongly fastened with iron, on the inside of the cover of which, when ojiened, an ancient painting, represent ing the Holy Supper, may beseen. The two side-pieces, hinged, are turned up to give more leugth; four wooden legs, nicely folding into the body of the box, can be let down to raise the altar to a projier heiglu; the consecrated altar stone is taken from the box and placed on the niensa, and the three cloths put on together with the cross and cand.es. Kmrwrnr Vi-aiicis JiMenh earned the altar with him to Palestine in ISO!, I also to the opening of the Suez canal ; the then chaplain, Dr. Dudik, read mass on it at sea. NEWS LN BRIEF Twenty hotels are now building in the City of Mexico. A son of the late Charles Kingsley is employed in the office of the City En gineer of Buffalo. -Scarlet is still the favorite color for sunshades in London. Louisiana is cheered by the pros pect of big orange and sugar crops. General Grant's income is said to be about SOOO a year Gridley, CaL, is to add a frog farm to its industries. Representative Hazleton, of Wis consin, is so ill that his recovery is not expected. Bowie, Texas, has raised a capital of 133,000 for the purpose of establishing a national bank. General I laze n has lieen visiting Chicamauga battle-field where he com manded a brigade. P. T. Barn ii m has given $23,000 worth of land for jiark purposes to Bridgeport, Conn. Ex-Governor Long, of Massachu setts, will be the commencement orator at Colby University. It Is said that the grandfather of Arch-bishop lienson. of Canterbury, was a Wesleyau Methodist. General E. P. Alexander is said to have been offered the presidency of the Mexican Central Road. Therv are now 191 cotton factories in the southern States, and most of them are making nionev. Oyster culture was commenced iu Norway in 177, and at kist thev are having a good yield of spirt. J. Q. Ward, the sculptor, has been given thecontract for the Garfield statue to lie erected in Washington. The first metal found in the ruins of the Tuileries was coined into a medal and presented to Victor Hugo. There are in Boston sixty-nine women taxed over ?lo0,(Hi0. five over $300,000 and two over Sl.000,000. The Hon. IlaimiUtl Hamlin has just given a valuable collection of books to the Mechanics' Library of Bangor, Me. In Paris a fashion anmngthe voune men is the wearing of four studs on the shirt front instead of the former single stud. Louis Blanc's will has just been proved in London. The value of the personal estate in England exceeded AU0U0. Ex-Vice President AVheeier is rap idly recovering from the illness with which he has for some time post been atllicted. President Grevy's salary is 524O.00O a year. Louis aioleoii, when Ei leror, received a yearly allowance of S3.- 000,0U0. Prof. Abel, who hits conducted the Government dynamite investigation in r.ngland. has been knighted. "It's an ill wind," etc. A prominent young man named Al len was on trial at Delphi, Indiana, a few days ago upon the charge of having married his cousin. The Museum of Comparative Zo ology at Cambridge, Mass., Is to be open to the public every Sunday afternoon untu November I. silver minelhas lieen discovered near Hartford, Ark. Old Instruments used by the savages for smelting pur poses led to the discovery. The average of land devoted to the cultivation of wheut in the United States has within the List ten vears extended from l'J,0O0.0OO toiiiorehan3j,000,Hc0. Ihe King of liavaiia has made a niece of Wagner "Royal Professor of the School of Music," the first apniut ment of the kind conferred on a woman. lt is estimated that the British workmen and women spend more than a fifth of their wages, or 4:73,OOO.UOO out of 330,000,000 for beer and other strong drinks. The Wesleyaus of Great Britain have sent a petition to Parliament for the closing of public houses on Sunday, on a roll of pajier two and three-iuarter miles long, containing oUO.&U names. Mrs. Augusta Evans Wilson, the novelist, of Alaliama, Juts a very tine lairy, in which she takes much pride. Her Jersey cows take prizes. She per sonally attends to the making 'of jams and jellies, and her guests at Mobile praise her excellent home-made pies. Enterprising citizens of ."ew Or leans, La., have already taken measures to attract to that city next wuitera por tion of the Northern travel which has recently been directed to Florida and South Carolina, and some capitalists have contracted for the building of a winter hotel at l'ass Christian. Nearly 100 applications are said to lave been made for the post of Keeper of the British Crowu Jewels since the Ieath, a month ago, of the late keetier. The place is worth in salary only $1300, but the keeper has the use of ajiartments in the lower, ihe appointment is not made by the military authorities, but by the Queen herself. Rev. J. t . uoiicher, of Baltunore, a month ago gave $7000 to purchase twenty-three acresof ground for mission buildings in Japan, the property ls very near the otlicial iilaee of the Mika do or Euiieror. Letters patent have been secured from the Government of Japan, guaranteeing forever the title to the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. .Nebraska lias increased its popula tion 1,4:0 per cent in twer.ty years, and its taxable proierty 1,120 ir cent. Its per cent of illiteracy Is less than any other State or Territory. Flotow left a number of important works in MS., which have just been dis covered among his effects by his execu tors. They comprise "Sacountala," a grand operainfiveaets;"LesMusiciens " a comic ojiera, and two orettas. '"Le Ieserteur" and "La Vengeance des Fleurs." There are also some songs, two concertos and a mass. They will b published at once. In July next an Educational Con gress will meet in Rio Janeiro, under a call from Uie Brazilian Government. The Government of the United States has been requested to furnish the best speci mens of work done in the public schools of this country. Horse railways are profitable to the city of Berlin. It Ls deriving a hanttsome profit from the chief coniany's lines, which pay it five per cent, of their grosa receipts. Over a total length of track of 140,338 meters List year 57,300,000 passengers were carried, the gross re ceipts being 7,1'JO. 1 1 1 marks. 1 he city. therefor, derived from the road a sum , of 339,160 marks, in addition to which were also paid 103,113 mark for road, I x. jt WW
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