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SCHWEIER,
THE COISHTUTIOI-THE UHOI-AIT THE EHOXOntUT OT THE LAWS.
Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XXXVII.
MIFFJUNTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 19. 1SS3.
NO. 38.
B. F.
A MODEL GARDENER.
agard,mer
bo earned bin daily meat
By toiling Eealously ail dv
llls l was hard to beat
He a iiB,of tender parts.
And thoughtful for bU yL
cut hi onions down
Hu eye, would fill with tears.
Kuw."f " PitifI J1 kind
But though he'd never shock bis friends.
He d otien shock big com. """,
AJe f "Tots oft he'd give
To feed a widow's kine;
Such perns of charity are rare
I nil twenty carats fine.
fcill propped biiu while be grazed; 1 '
He said be d have a betier std
hen his celery was raised.
He'd sometimes cauliflower to him
"en no had done his work
He loved it stewed in buttermilk.
Or boiled with greens and port,
lint Death at last mowed William down,
And they planted him in loam.
And gave him for his epitaph
"He found sweet pease at home !"
STRANGELY MET.
W ell, I am really very sorry!'' sighed
Airs, Evans, looking ruefully at the
small pile of bank-notes in her lap, and
then at her fair daughters, Bell and
Augusta, who were standing near her
examining a wreath of flowers. '
"I'm sorr), too mamma," savs Miss
Bell.
"To be sure Elsie ought to be pro
vided for hex visit, but you know she
is the youngest, and we "
"Why, we cant go out without de
cent dresses:" chimed in Miss Augusta.
"1 won't, for one, I know."
"Never mind mv London visit "said
little Elsie, the plain sister of these
petted girls, as she quietly entered the
room and overheard the roil vr:ir inn
"I would as soon go and spent a week
- . .1 . ....
miLii auni .Laura, ana mat won t lake
much preimration."
"Would you reall?" asked Mrs.
Evans, hesitating between a selfish
wish to please her beauties, and what
was only justice to the young girl be
side her.
"1 really would, ma. I dare say I
should not be at home among those city
neonle- Just let me ea to aunt I au
ra's, and give Gus and Bell all the
nnery."
"Well, that relieves my mind won
derfully!" said Mrs. Evans, with a very
long sigh. 1 didn't know how to ar
range lor you alL Three girls are so
expensive. "You can have my last
winter's cloak, Elsie, for one thing."
" o, she can have mine, mamma,"
eagerly cried BelL "It's a kttly out
of sij fe for me, but it will do very well
for Elsie, and I'll get a new one."
"Well, yours, then," agreed Mrs.
Evans; "a'nd I'll try to save enough
out of the girls' shopping, Elsie, to gel
you a new black c slunere."
"Then I shall be grand!" said easily
contented Elsie. "May 1 go next
weeki"'
"Tea.
"Go to work and get ready. Come
girls. If we want to do any shopping
to-day, we must go immediately."
"And I'll get dinner w hile you are
gone," Elsie consoled tliem by adding.
bo while the mother, tins, and Bell
tossed over the glittering silkson snowy
counters, ittieut Elsie heated herself
in the kitchen where her beautiful
sisters would never go if they could
help it to have dinner all ready for
them. It was waiting when they return
ed, tired, and with good appetites, from
their shopping. Alter it was eaten,
Elsie followed them all into the sitting
room, to see the new purchases com
mented on and uiceiy displayed.
"Well. Where's my black cashmere.'"
she asked, after the last bundle was
unrolled, and not as much as a ueck
nbboil given to her.
"Oh! I am so sorry, but really there
wasn't a shilling left after the girls'
shopping was done, and so -" "And
so 1 got none, like Mother Hubbard s
dog," suggested Elsie, trying to laugh
but feeling inclined to cry. She had
very mucu wished to go to London,
and now she had given that up, she
did think that sue had a right to one
new dress. ,
-Well it does seem too bad." con
fessed Augusta, "but you can be pretty
well dressed out of our things. Let s
see ma. "She might travel in her
. black luster, and have my gray pului
l No' 1 11 travel in the gray iplin,
andsUitasquicklyaslcaur'ihished
yVly reproved Mrs.
EWell, mamma! you know I look
horrid m gray. My n-n' "
cover it up wnen I tra vel, an d .uylack
luster wih do for best, but 1
Lie only finished her f
siirh she would not say , 1 J" ioa
hl got theca,hmere, it rm
iutvVitrbu,uV
itJS- 'her
proposed to the girts that they k.t ner
"ESiSZSg'Z ie cards for
simple prei-aratious ''y Je
She SSeSoiuni
home. But oi ..such
served Elsie coolly. , days, but
-He's XKreomeuack
be Pnee bim, Eisie,"
You j'.tn whout noticmg
declared Mn "' ..nt;'s so haud
Elsie's caustic remark. n
Bome!" , ..Jrr little difference to me
-It makes very litueu
whether "5d maid," re
chocolate. , ,,ist then;
Mr. Eovell was day,
but Elsie, twocrttow tun
wonderea u w if Bhe wouiu
hAudsomcorsoncu, -
ever see him. pleasant thing
Elsie, herself, tuty, as she
ifhwanot l;"y'
f not A v t t
!soTrJ,Xr"!F, ey- f was
winimw t w an1 ner manner so
theni. "f3 were well nlled, and
hot stove'1?,"1 "V ne the
a., 1Vnglng5' and began to
ktli firM fr ,anJ a P-orly-dressed
her mS S Dt f ''"' attractel
luThiSS gold.en onn"e trom her
and -ket Wonlh! "We one's favor
ana tiMe was soon chatting merrily
on her way to live with her grandpa,
because her mamma was too p. wr to
wZ. t 1C? U in the cit?- After a
while the heat grew overpowering, and
Elsie tried to raise her window; but it
was fast. She tugged hard with her
soft hngers-soft and white in spite of
her kitchen work all ia vain, until a
black-sleeved aim was reached over
uers, and a pleasant voice said, 4 -Allow
Die, please. My hands are stronger
tlian yours."
Elsie looked up, and met the gaze of a
une pair of dark eyes, belonging to her
neighbor.
The window was quickly raised, and
Elsie thanked him, as the welcome air
rushed in. They chatted a little now,
politely, as travellers nut tin ami Kliio
decided that he was very pleasant for
a passing acquaintance. I
Before long the giri in the next seat
fell asleep, her little curly head buini-
mg about uneasily. Iu a twinkling
Elsie had uustrapimd her shawl, and.
rising, slipped it under the small brown
head.
"Is she traveling under your care?"
asked the stranger.
"Oh, no! I never saw her before.
'But she is so little to be all alone,
and her head did bump so!
"She can rest easier notf."
The stranger said no more, and as
Elsie was busy folding up her sliawl
strais, she did not see the glance of
earnest admiration which he gave her,
nor know that the outspoken thought
of his heart would have beeu
"You good, kind-hearted little girL"
When they stopped for refreshment,
the stranger helped Elsie out and es
corted her to the room. As they were
leaving their seats, he said to her
"Supiiose we take your little friend
here, too?"
"Oh, yes!" assented Elsie, flashing
him a bright glance of approval.
So they hok the little thing, and
brought her back warmed and led, to
resume her journey. And it was a pity
some good angel could not have wuisi
ered to the anxious mother, who, in
the distant city, feared for her child's
lonely journey, wnat kind of liands the
little one had fcdleu into.
On rattled the train, until, about the
middle of the afternoon, there was a
heavy jar, a hissing, clashing noise,
and the traiu, a pertect wreck, lay over
an embankment, witn its living freight.
At first Elsie was so stunned and start
led she was conscious of nothing, heard
nothing except uioansaud cries mingled
with tne jingle of shattered glass and
the sound of escaping steam. Then her
senses seemed to return, and she was
trying to raise herlf to her feet, when
stroug arms lifted her, an 1 the voice
of her stranger friend said:
"bteadv, now! I think 1 can get you
out safely. Are you hurtV "
No; 1 think not- 1 don't leel any
injury-"
"Are? oh! you are!" as, looking up,
she saw that his forehead was bleed
ing. "Oh, that is nothing! A mere scratch
with a bit of broken glass," he said,
smiling at her horrihed tone.
"1 hoi it w ill prove so," answered
little Elsie.
"Oh! our poor little girl! Where is
she?"
"I don't know.
"Thank you for remembering her.
We will mid her."
"Put me down, please. I can walk
now.
"Let me help you," pleaded Elsie.
He obeyed her, and they found the
little creature lying upon a broken seat,
moaning with pain. The stranger car
ried her out, and laid her uikju a spot
of dry grass, and after a slight exami
nation, told Elsie that her arm was
broken, and one side bruised. There
chanced to be two or three physicians
in the ill-fated train, and they gave
their best skill to the wounded, our
little girl among the rest. Elsie held
her iu her lap while the little arm was
set and bandaged, and then laid her on
the hastily-prepared uea m me station,
nar which the accident hiid happened
and watched over her, assisted by the
stiange gentleman, who seemed now
like an old acquaintance. When the
train which was to carry tlieui on ar
rived, Elsie said:
"i shall not leave this little thing un
til she is with her grandfather, she
h told me where she was going. It is
a little off my route, but 1 am going
with her."
"So am I," added the stranger, with
his pleasant smile, iluimuniy allows
me to do as much as you can, in spite of
conventional rules. "1 appomt myself
to take care o botu ot you, aiiu jou
need not fear to trust me."
"1 do not; and 1 tliank you." res
ponded Elsie, with simple dignity.
So they both waited lor the train on
the other line, and cared tenderly for
the little one, until, late at night, they
left her in the care of her grandfather,
who gave them uis warmest uiuiiks aim
blessings.
"Would you prefer to stop here for
il.A niirht (there's a hotel, I suppose)
or 20 on?" aked Elsie's friend.
.fe .. it n.,! tv unit
will be much aWnied because 1 did not
come to-day. Is there a t ram r
"1 am told one passes in about tweuty
minutes.
-It shall be just as you wish."
"let us go on, then."
"Very well. And now I am going
to let you know whom you are travel
ing with. .
"Xo name" is inconvenient, and I am
willing you should know mine.
! hope you will be as fraim with me."
He gave Elsie a card, bearing the
name "Archie LovelL"
For an instant Elsie was puzzled, then
a light broke over her face. She pro
duced her own card, saying, smilingly
"I have heard that name quiw often
before. And 1 think you know mine.
. lo-jt v.iu know my sister."
f- ivell elanced at her card. "Is
it possible? Are you a sister of the
MuSes Evans who visit my sister."
I am the youngest sister."
"Then 1 declare myself well acquaint--a
-iih tou. And I consider this a
i.irKV meetimr. Elsie."
"And 1 am sure 1 dont know what
1 should have done but for vour kind
ness, Mr. IveU. Isn't that the train?"
"It is. Xow we go. and I shall see you
safe in your aunt's hands before 1 leave
yon, iiiss Elsie."
isie-a one wees at aunt Uiura's
proved to lie three months. Ami whpn
she came home, Gus ami Bell were still
talking about Mr. LovelL "He's been
away ou business," explained Bell,
"but he returned on Monday, and he
going to-nignt."
"les, he told me he would," coiv
fesfed Elsie demurely.
"Told you! Why, you never saw him
in your mei" cried the girls.
And then the whole story came out,
auu tisie nau to explain that already,
on three month's acquaintance, she hail
premised Mr. Ljvell to marry him, if
ner moiner consented, and he was coin
ing to ask for her that very night.
"Well!
"I never!" panted BelL I never
aid!"
"I'm sorry, Bell," said Elsie
de
mureiy suii. "iiut you know you
would make me go to aunt 1 -aura's in
stead of the city, and so I met him,
an i can t neip it now."
"Well, we shall have him in the fa
mily, anynov, ana mat's some com
fort," was Bell's sole consolation
Nature's Urnainents.
If you hive a corner that u too far
avray Iron the centre of the room to
form socuthle pDtition for a seat, get s
large trumpet shaped vase (they may be
bad to the height of six fet, and almost
of any price), and fill it with branches
of horse chestnut. With a few ot the
largest and coarsest of our woodland
terns arranged so as to hang over the
(idea of the vase, and some bullrusnes
stretching their long brown bead9 high
above tbe cbe3tout foliage, your bare
corner will become a th:n of beauty
instead ot an eve-tore, these vases so
filled may also be placed with advan
tage to show above the pretty Japanese
screens that abouid in modern dntwing
rjouw. At this season sll water p'ants
such as yjllow irises (commonly called
fligg), rushes, reed, etc. are in then
prim, and nothing lo'ks better in a
l:irge vase, or more especially a Japan
ese jar, than aoy of these, or a variety
prettily grouped. Taking care 1 arrange
your flowers as much after the fashion of
nature as possible, is the golden rule of all
success! u! fl ral decorations. Thus, sup
posing the above mmed aquitic plants
are used, and, in addition, water lilies,
forge -me-Dols and ragged robins, which
are all low growing flowers, and you are
oiiiK to arrange them in a shallow wooden
tub filled with damp sand place the
water lilies around the edge, and again,
the rigged robins, mixing with them any
of tbe leaves cf about the same heigut
wbicn may be found in abundance in
marshy places; behind these, acain, group
yo'ir irises, with their sword like leaves,
and, as a centre, have a mass of builrusbes
aid reed, wrn coaiinja lushes to give
lightness to Vi; whole, avoiding any stiff
ness in the arrangement by placing a good
many flowering grasses here ani there over
the while, allowing them to top the
f jrget-me no's and water-lilies by as much
as they would do when growing naturally.
For high decorations use tall-growing
fljwers for loir ones such 'as are stunted
in their growth. Growing ivy trained
over a cane scree i has often been recom
mended as a decoration; but owing to tbe
necessary damp earth and the hkenaood
of creeping things (such as earwigs)
accompanying it, I cannot say that it is a
go 3d thing. Long gathered sprays of ivy
look just as well, and can be kept clean a
km line by sponging them every day.
In gathering ferns ( Laii'enhair especially),
cire must be tk ;n o select the old iroods,
and they will last twice as long if part of
the frond as well as the stalk is in the
water; it is also a good tiling to immerse
them every day (over head) in water.
Sucb is often used instead of mere water
to arrange flowers in; and when this is tbe
case it must oe looked at every day, as it
is apt to dry very qaickly. Small baskets
glided with Judson's gold paint (wbicn is
clear and tff-xtive), and with tins made to
fit them, are very pretty, either in the
drawing-room or on a dinner table. The
small round baskets, formed like gypsy
settles, and which can generally be sup
plied with a broken cup or claret glass as
a flower-hold r instead of a shaped tin, are
very effective, when arranged as we so
often used to see them pendant trom
three (Licks, kettle-fashion, tbe whole
being covered with eiivt-r paper, or, betier
still, gilt. Tbe email baskets in which we
Day strawberne are useful lor holding
fijweis, either painted or gilt, and a
gardm saucer does very well to hold the
water, liollle baskets divided into com
partments about six inches tqiare look
well with a small flower pot In tach com
partment and an ivy trail round tbe
handle. Creeping plants are not half
enough uied for house decoration. n
Keiic uf 1M Solo.
A few tears ago, about two miles
east of Tallahassee, was found a pon
derous spur, of unique and curious
workmanship, the like ot which has not
beeu seen in modern times. The burr
was one and a half inches in diameter,
and the bar proiortionately heavy. Ou
either side of the rowel dangled small
pendant bells, that gave forth a tmk-
liug sound in response to each step of
the wearer doubtless some steel-clad
and bonneted warrior of the long ago.
Not many days since, while parties
were plowing near the identical swt, a
solid and shajieless mass was turned up,
which, upon close examination, proved
to be an irou stirrup of ancient pattern,
as heavy and as massive as the spur
sjtokeu of first, and tiruily imbedded in
a thick coating of clay and rust. When
this was removed, the stirrup was found
to be in a remarkable good state of pre
servation. The sides represent two
Ethiopian figures standing upon the
loot-rest, leauing forward facing each
other, while they support with out
stretched arms what forms the top of
the stirrup or that part connected with
the leather. So unlike are both these
relics to anything known to the gener
ations of this day aud time, and, both
being found so near the same place, it
is not unreasonable to ascribe them to
the same era and individual. 'or is
the supposition at all improbable that
one of the knightly followers of JJe
Soto, lured ou tlirough this then un
known region aud wilderness, like that
dauntless son of Spain, by a thirst for
the yellow heaps of gleaming gold that
loomed up ahead of tnem hi vain visions
aud heated fancies, here fell.a victim
to the tomahawk and scalping knife of
the wronged and revengeful red man;
and no doubt, some one of the "Tallahas -see
Tribe," of which "Tiger Tail"
claimed to be descendant, boasted, as
he displayed at his belt a yet bloody
scalp, that he had "killed a pale-face. "
The grand lodge of Indiana, A. Y,
aM., nas reonceu its aoot to io,uuu.
Oar Handkarenlefs.
"Lace banderchiefs," said fashion'
able storekeeper, "We don't sell one in
month. Tnere is no call for them,
and most of the goods are locked np in
the camphor cases. Occasionally some
body will come in for a dnche cr rose
point for a bridal or birthday present,
bat for general use they are out of
style, and as rarely seen in society as a
vinaigrette- You see, a lace handker
chief wants to he worn on a holder,
which fa ont of the question nowadays,
because of tbe glove craza. You can't
understand those thmgs, bnt a pretty
matron is never quite so angelic as when
she cornea down to the dining room in
one of those long, white wrappers, with
lace cap trimmed with a blue bow or
rosebuds. It serves a double purpose
makes her look pretty and hides the nn
signtly curl pgpjrs."
"What do the ladies wear now?" ask
ed the reporter.
"Here you are, if yon want to see
something mca, replied the clerk.
"These goods come from Paris, aud are
embroidered by the French nuns.
Uore'e a beauty. Just look at it. Per
haps you won't believe it, but it's so,
just the same; it took a nua eight
hionths to embroider these flowers, aud
you see the work is just as nice on the
wrong side as it is on the right side.
Take it in your hand it's not too deli
cate to bear examination. The goods
yon see are what we call sneer linen, of
the finest loom, anl the nand-work is
done with a fine needle and a cotton
thread. They don't use linen, because
it fills up in the wash, just a trifle, but
enough to spoU the flowers. Now, see
here, did you ever see snch a natural
looking rose in your life, off a stem?
Why, i tell yon the thine n worth
cabinet. And see the tilling of the
pattern. All of that 'frosting' is
hand work, an I most have cost a deal
of optic nerve. This is an heir-loom,
and no mistake about it. I doubt if
there is a pieca of point lace in the
house with finer work on it.''
And the handkerchief was deserving
of all the praine bestowed. The border
was some six Inches deep and made of
lilies, roses and small field flowers, with
buds and fern leaves for filling, all done
in filigree work, and so skilfully aud ar
tistic tbat it was hard to believe that
they were not apph mod. The eJge was
raw anl iutended to be trimmed with
lace,
"It s worth So), said the salesman.
'Yes, we sell quite a number at the
holidays or wedding season. But they
are always bought by the gentlemen or
old aunls for bride i. There is a clan or
goods similar in design, bnt a little
coarser, that we sell at $10 each. Thev
go Use hot cakes. Everybody bays
them, especially ladies, for they are
quick to admire fine needlewerk."
ine goods in question were imported,
made on fine Iruh linen lawn, with
very deep embroidered borders of color
ed thread. The edge was cut in scol
lops of three petals each, and buttonhole-stitched
with three colors, red,
brown and blue, all hand work it must
be remembered, aud a piece of work,
too, by the way, that the most skillful
needlewoman conld not do in a week
working ten hours a day. It would be
an utter impossibility to make these
goods in America and sell them for 210.
Hat, coming as they do from the Old
World, where labor meets with paltry
remuneration, the case is different. In
side of the petal-lined edge was a fence
border, the lines consisting of a delicate
fern pattern made in colors, with the
bars overrun with climbing vines and
tendrils, as true to nature as paint ould
make them. At times the pattern was
broken for the insertion of a dice or me-
dahon. in which a unit of design was
taken, making a symmetrical compo
sition of the most artistic accuracy. In
tbe corner the work became more intri
cate, and formed a lovely relief for
some little blue birds with red wings
and yellow creets. In this, as in the
plain white, the work was of the most
perfect kind, and not a knot or a stray
end of thread was to be found.
Yea," said the salesman in response
to an inquiry, ' -the colors aro fast, the
goods the best made, and, with such
care as a lady wdl give it will latt a life
time. These are the goods that ladies
wear in the bosom of their dresses and
hanging over the edge of a reticule.
They are not intended for actual use,
and you may be sure nobody ever sub
mits them to the vulgar duties of a 2oj.
handkerchief.
Haven't you something new?" asked
the exasperated interviewer.
"Here s the latest novelty m stock.
and the 'takyeet as we say in tbe trade.
When they are once floated they'll go
like tongne sandwiches at the Board of
Trade on a rainy day. One dollar and
a quarter each; all linen, and warranted
fast colors."
The novelty was a deep cardinal cam
brio with a checker border made by
hemstitching httle blocks of white on
the red border with white cotton. A
block handkerchief had the applique in
red, blue or orange, a delicate pink one
was blocked with maroon, another with
blue, and one of the solid -true blue lawn
formed a most effective background for
blocks of crimson red.
"The reason why we'll sell so many
is because they are the very thing to
warm up a toilet Take a little lady of
petite but trim figure, rig her up in a
black or tailor made suit, put this cardi
nal handkerchief in her corsage and pull
oat tbe border in a shell, so as to sL-cw
the blue checker, and if the effect is
not stunning the girl has no style about
her, that's aiL Thn craze in jewelry for
bugs, spiders, scorpions, beetles and
other blood-curdling, flash-creeping ar
ticulate has been an incentive to print
designers, and here we have choice lawn
and cambno handkerchiefs, and you
have only to same your bng and here
it is.
"I choose butterflies."
"Here yon are, iu every stage of do
Tdlopment, 'cat,' 'chns,' and 'but,' high
colors on a white ground, $18 a doz
en." It was not a bad collection to begin
the study of insectology with. The bat
tel fly napkins had the corner reserved
for gorgeous specimens done m embroi
dery, the fanciful borders were picked
out with field daisies, and tiny, golden-
wings 1 insects, some of which were
posed on clover beads, presumably sip
ping boney, The grasshoppers, legs,
wins, intennffi, and the proverbial 'spit
tobacco' were selected from the healthy,
hardy, well-fed Kansas class, and ar
ranged diagonally across the oorners
were large as life and most effective in
skeleton need ework. ' It would be an
endless task to write np the box. which
included the whole class of insects, from
the tiny fly to the devd's darning need
le. Ine writer remarked that some
chicken-hearted females might have se-
rious objections about touching their
pretty faocs to these horrors, any one of
which would proJuoe hysteria.
"I guess not. Woman will tolerate
more from art than Bhe will from nature,
and though I never saw a girl in my
life on intimate terms with a centipede,
I should not like to risk a refusal of this
box of miscellaneous insect kerchiefs.
The rega'ar go xla are made of various
qualities of goods and run from 25 cents
to go erch. ion can get a pretty nice
napkin for a quarter, with a fancy bor
der stamped in fast colors, good enough
for common wear. Bat nearly every
lady has couple or more of nice ones
tbat cost, say, $2 or 3. They are pet
ted, though, and worn mostly in the
front of the dress. A fine cambric can
not be bought under $ or $2.50: that
is, if it a handmade.
"Don t some of the designs fad to
please the ladies?"
"Oh, yes. Here is a nobby thing.
These goods come in all colors. Tney
were intended to be worn on the rut.
run through the bracelet. But the style
didn't take. No girl is going to pay
$1 50 or S2 for a Anted handkerchief to
hide a 840 bangled bracelet. No sires.
Girls don't get bangles to hide under
cambric. Not while there is such
handy place round as a good-fitting
basque. 1 don t like to see a handker
chief in a girl's bosom. It makes me
envious of the rag. But pretty hand
kerchief gives a touch of the picturesque
to a lady s toilet, it is cheaper than
ribbon or a bouquet, and while it answers
the same purpose I guess they will con
tinue to wear it there. You mast know.
of course, that corsage handkerchief
is used decoralively only. They have
a business napkin in their pocket. Be
sides, it takes three or four buttons to
get the thing in proper shape, and to
pull it out for a sneeze or a piece of soot
would be a regular exposition. Here s
nice yellow mull, bje the beetles!
Bdcognize them, don't you? Now yel
low s tne go; so are beetles, lake a
box for your girL Uive them to you.
treeing yon are in the profession, for
"Have no girl; much obliged for
your facts. Adieu."
A Rrrmctorr Aadlene.
A very sad thing ocurrel at a late
performance given at Liramie City. At
the close ot the last act one of the prin
cipal performers is instantly killed. It
is then the duty of the aadienoe to rise,
pick up its umbrella and walk home.
Sometimes, however, the audience is not
familiar with the play and docs not go
home. It waits for mure death and
carnage before its awful thirst for blood
is clotted.
That was the case at Laramie two
weeks aja The stage hired man, who
hauls the dead off into the dressing
room, waited patiently, bnt the people
would not go. la order to get the fall
value of their dollar tuey desired to see
the post mortem examination. They
could not go home until it had teen set
tled that the villain was f dlly and thor
oughly dead.
There he lay, with his ear against a
kerosene footlight, suffering, at $9 pet
week, and the andienoe absolutely re
fusing to go home and allow the man to
revive or to requietcat in pace. The
curtain, though loaded at the bottom
with a telegraph pole, failed to come
down, and the legs of the avenger and
other members of the tronpe flitted past
the space left by the unruly curtain,
and the dead villain lay on his back,
having yielded up his life four times
that same week, in the same manner,
beside carrying the heavy trunks of the
beautiful actress up two flights of stairs
for her in three different towns.
As there were no programmes people
looked at each other and wondered.
They knew that the man was undoubt
edly dead, bat whether the company
had a fresh one or not was the ques
tion. Finally two adult members of the
troupe came forward and pulled down
the refractory curtain. Then the mana
ger advanced to the front of the stage
and in a voice choked with emotion,
said:
"Ladies and gentlemen, we would be
glad to massacre some more of oar
troupe if we could, but we cannot afford
it. In a one-stuid town one man is
about all that we can yield up to the
cold embrace of death. Our printing is
high, and we have to pay $15 for the
lialL llierefore, we regret to annouuee
that the play ia now over. You
can go home with safety and we
will attend to the remains. We have
every hope that the young man will be
able to draw his salary next week, and
that we may win him back to joy and
health again. He has good constitu
tion, a fair appetite, and we feel like
trusting it all to the future. We regret
to see you go, but a& the janitor is now
blowing out the lights, and it is getting
pretty well along into the shank of the
evening, we most say good-bye to you,
hoping that daring our absence the
Laram'.e Opera House Company will
decide to useas its stockholders, pur
chase some wicks for tbe footlights, put
tbe old piano oat of its misery and stick
another pair of overalls into the brokan
window of the ladies' dressing-room, bo
that the actresses who visit your town
will feel more segregated, as it were,
and separated from the great, vulgar
world."
Teaching l'arrota to Talk.
According to Cuvier, the celebrated
French naturalist, iwrruts may best be
taught to talk by covering the cage at
night, or rather in the evening, and
then relating to them, slowly aud dis
tinctly, the words they are desired to
learn. They should be kept away from
places where they would be likely to
hear disagreeable noises, such as street
cries and the whistling and shouts of
boys at play, or they will imitate them,
aud become too noisy to be tolerated.
Parrots may be fed upon soaked bread
and biscuits, mashed potatoes, aud
raiie seed. They are fond of nuts.
Uii) eune pepper, sprinkled upon a bone,
and given to them occasionally, is said
to be very beneliciah lhey should be
kept very clean, and allowed a bath fre
quently. It would be difficult to point
out modes of treatment of the diseases
of iarrots, but when they become af
fected it is best to keep them warm,
change their food for a time and give
them lukewarm water to bath in.
St. Louis wants a V. S. Mint es
tablished within her confines. There
are four government Mints at present
Philadelphia, New Orleans, San
Francisco and Carson City, Nevada.
The assay offices are five in number
New York, Helena, Montanta; Boise
City, Idaho; Charlotte, N. C and an
uuuv ntfleA rctllttl rhA ITnitwl Srnrj
' Branch Mint at Denver.
LoaoiuoUva and Sand.
At the office of tbe master mechanic
of the Bee line, Cleveland, Ohio, the
following interesting facts regarding
locomotives in general were obtained.
The master mechanio doesn't look at an
engine with the eyes of an artist, bat
with the critical gaze of a mechanic and
statistician. To him the boiler of a lo
comotive is not a glittering body of
Russia iron with brass bands around it.
In tact, the public never sees a locomo
tive boiler It is a rongU, unpolished
mass of steel. Over this is a o mplete
casting of wood, matched like flooring
and over all an ornamental sheath of
thin Russia iron with brass bands,
called a j tcket. The casting is to pro
tect the boiler from the cold blasts of
winter, which, blowing en tbe surface
of the mass of iron, would tend to chill
it and condense the steam. Indeed, it
is much more difficult, even with the
casing of wood and iron, to keep up
steam In an engine on a cold day than
in warm weather. The boiler of
standard locomotive, like those built by
the Lake Shore road, for instance, is
traversed its entire length by 17S tabes
two inches in diameter leading from the
furnace. These lubes are traversed by
the heat and smoke, and around them
in the boiler is the water. At least it
should be around them, and if it isn't.
the engineer had better climb oat for
tall timber and safety. In the engines
on the Uoe ime these tubes terminate
in the extension fronts. The steam
rushing up through the smoke stack
sucks the smoke and cinders through
the tubes with terrific force. Tne
smoke sails out over the city to the in
tense disgust of the smoke inspector
(who, by-the-way has solved a notice
on all the railroads in the city that they
must try anl abate the nuisance in a
measure), bat the greater portion of the
cinders are caught under a slanting
screen in the extension fronts aforemen
tioned. At the end of the trip tn cin
ders are drawn off through an opening
in tne chamber, and not infrequently
ten bashels or more are taken out.
With ten bushels of cinders flying
around a tram drawn by au engine that
doesn't catch its own slobberings, what
wonder that a passenger sometimes
gets an eye fulil Some idea of the im
portance of this matter of cinders can
ue obtained wnen it is known tuat in a
year about nine car-loads of them are
taken from each locomotive at an ex
pense of from J to So a car. Thay are
mainly used as ballast for tue track, al
though the Bee line is making exoon-
nienta to ascertain if they contain any
virtue as faeL In the oidinary loo jmo
tives used on the Lake shore line road
the screen is placed in the dome at the
top of the smoke-stack.
The small boy who draws his picture
of a locomotive knows that the dome
on the boiler midway be.ween the
smoke stack and the cab is a sand-box.
A tube leads from it down in front of
the drive wheels. W hen the rapid aud
spasmodic pulhing of an engine indi
cates that she is slipping, the engineer
pulls a small lever aud a fine stream of
sand is deposited on the track. Tne
small boy aforesaid and the public
doesn't probably realize how machsaud
this dome holds and how much trouble
and expense is occasioned in keeping it
tilled. Ureat care most be exercised in
selecting the sand. It must be fine
and contain no clay, lhe Lake Shore
rol gets its sand from along the lake
shore, the best coming from Lake
Michigan near Chicago, and the Bee
hue from Like Erie or from a sand
bank on the hue of the L and St. L.
road. It costs the latter line from SO
to 60 cents a cubic yard loaded on the
cars, or about $3 a car. It is estimated
that at least 100 car loads of band are
required to run the Bee line engines a
year. Thus the simple item of sand
alone occasions that road an expense of
over $0,2 JO. The sand box on the boiler
of a locomotive holds about 10 bushels,
and is replenished at every trip. It is
a sad fact that while ample provision is
for sanding the track ahead of the drive
wheels of a locomotive, no sand can be
deposited behind them.
This neglect in the construction of a
locomotive once caused the absolute
failure of a Republican convention in
New Jersey. It was to be held at a small
town on a Une of railroad. There was
no turn-table there, and the engme that
pulled the train rai backwards m order
to bring the train back from the conven
tion pilot ahead in fine shape. Alas!
some Democratic wags had soaped the
track a few miles out from the conven
tion town and the sand from the sand
box did no good for it fell
behind the drivers of the reversed en
gine, lhe determined tfcpnblicans left
the cars, caught the sand in their hats
as it ran from the tube aud sprinkled it
along the rails. It was three hours
before the engine was coaxed over the
soaped ttretch of track, and when the
convention was reached it was learned
that the impatient delelegates from the
opposite direction had gone home. The
convention was abandoned.
Another important item is oil, of
which an engine uses a pint to each 17
miles of distance traveled. Tbe base of
this od ia crude petroleum. The Lake
Shoie road gives each month a first
prize of $10 and a second prize of $7 to
the engineers making the best time
with the most economical use of oil as
fueL Two prizes are also distributed to
the firemen. A pound of cotton waste
allowed each engine on each trip for
the use of the fireman in wiping the
jacket and shining steel and brass work
in the cab. lhe machinery proper is
kept clean by men employed at the
round houses and known as hostlers.
The height of a fireman's ambition is to
obtain an engine to run and to the dis
grace of the employes be it said, some
despiauble tricks are resorted to to get an
engme away from a man. A man got
an engine to run on the Nickel plate
shortly after it was opened. He Btarted
out on his first trip with plenty of oil
in the caps and bearings. When he
topped he found to his dismay that the
brasses were cut out. He ran his en
gine on a side track took the cups iu
nis hands and went to the master me
chanic's office where it was found some
wretch had pat emery in the niL
The beginning of hardship is like
the first taste ol bitter food it seems
for a moment unbearable; yet, if there
is nothing else to satisfy our hanger,
we take another bite and find it possi
ble to go ou.
An ex-member of the Tweed ring
is selling patent medicine at SL An
drew's, near Montreal.
Tim German authors will hold
their Fifth Congress at Darmstadt from
the 8th to the 11th of next month.
Early and provident fear is the
motuw; of safety
Chimney Sweep.
It is a good many vears since the
old-fashioned chimney sweep disap
peared. It is so many years that few
but the older class of men cau remem
ber that sooty individual. To the
younger generations he was an almost
forgotten tradition. The advent of the
modern small chimney flues left no
room for the chimney sweep. Within
the past few months, however, the or
der lias .been revived, and genuine
chimney sweeps are oiierating in all
thecitiesand many of the large villages.
Kecently a couple of these knights of
the chimney were interviewed by
Rochester reporter, aud something of
their methods learned. It seems that
the business has latterly assumed such
large proiKirtions that a regular Libor
organization of chimney sweeiis has
been formed, with headquarters in
Chicago. There are four members of
the association at work in Rochester.
and are readily distinguished by their
tall hats and large nickle plated bad
es.
"How do you work to clean a mod
ern chimney with small flues?" was the
first question which troubled the re
porter.
We have peculiar tools, scrapers.
brushes and rubbers, made ou purpose
for the business. We go up on the roof
and scrape the soot down to the bot
torn of the chimney and make it entirely
clean. How do you get the soot out?
Well, when the chimney extends to the
cellar, we have no trouble. Vt hen it
ends ia a mrlor or other furnished
room, we take it out of the stove pqw
Hole, and are obliged to use a good deal
ot care, vt e never leave any soot or
dirt in a room."
Do you often go down a chimney?'
Always, if the flue Ls large enouglu
We elliow our own way down, cleaning
the chimney as we go. We go out
the same wav ; then we bike out the soot
in the way 1 told you. We take chim
neys by the job, so much a chimney.
We clean a great many tall factory
cnimneys. -Most or these nave iron
bars for steps inside, and we climb up
by them and clean down. Sometimes
we have to go up with ladders ou the
outside, and let ourselves down with
ropes. V e get from fc-Jo upwards for
cleaning these large smoke stacks."
"Is the business imhealthful?"
"Yes, it cannot le any other way.
1 ou see we can't help making a great
dust, and we inhale a good deal of it
into the lungs. hen we go inside the
chimney, we cover our mouths with
sponge, but we always catch a good
deal ot tne soot, do tho best we can.
How much does it cost to clean a chim
ney? Well, from 7o cents to for
common chimney!), and it takes from
one to three hours. In the larger fac
tory chimneys, we run a good deal of
risk. In the most of them the mortar
around the top is rotten, acd we have
to look out for loixse bricks falling.
v ery otten a sweep is injured by a
falling brick, and it is almost certain to
be a bad injury."
"Are you doing much business here?"
"Yes, we have cleaned a good many
chimneys, and have orders for many
more. We have orders, too, from
Avon, Dansvilie, Genessee, aud other
Ulages. Make money at it? Well,
es; but we don t last long m this busi
ness, and we have to make money while
e can."
The Snake God off Dahomey
The most powerful fetish is Danligbwe
the tutelary saint of Wydah, and which
is personified by the harmless snake so
named. Its worship was introduced
into Dahomey when the kingdom of
Imlali was conquered and annex. In
W hydah, hidden from eyes profane by
thick grove of tig trees, is the famed
D.inh-hweh, or fetish snake house. It
is, according to Mr. Skertchly, nothing
more than a circular swish hut the
ery model of a Parian inkstand to be
seen in every toy shop. From the room
epended pieces of cotton yarn, and on
the floor, which, in common with the
alls, was whitewashed, were several
pots of water. The pythons, to the
umber of twenty-two, were coiled on
the top of the wall or twined around
the ratters. All those hideous reptiles
are siicred. To slay one, eveu by ac-
iilent for to do so puniosely would
not I dreamt of used to entail instant
sacrifice to the gods, and confiscation
of all the offender's property to the fe
tish priests. Nowadays, his punish
ment is not so severe, but still exemp-
iry enough. The offender, after a
meeting of all the fetishers of the
eighborhood is convened, is seated
w ithin a hut of sticks, thatched with
lry grass and built in the enclosure in
front of the snake limisr. His clothes
mil body are w ell daubed with palm
oil, mixed with the fat of the murdered
snake god. At a given signal, tbe hut
tired and the materials being like
tinder, the unfortunate offender against
the majesty of the fetish is enveloied in
flames. In excruciating torture he
rushes out of the flames his clothes
on tire to the nearest water, pursued
by the infuriated priests, who belabor
hnn with sticks, stones and all sorts of
rubbish. If he reaches the water he Is
free, and if he is fortunate to live, has
expiated his crime. But few are able
to run the gauntlet, and expire liefore
reaching tli- cooling water, clublied to
leath by the fetishtueu the Duiui-
y're-no, or snake mothers, as they are
Hied. As the doorof the snake temple
is always open, the snakes frequently
wander out after nightfalL If any lier-
son meets one, he must prostrate him
self before it, carrying it tenderly in
his arms to the temple, when his hu
manity to the snake god is rewarded
his being fined for meeting the
snake; and if he cannot or will not pay,
lie is imprisoned until the utter-most
cowie is extracted from him.
rear la of Great I'ncr,
A pearl fishery of great value was
some time back reported in the Gulf of
Mexico. During the winter hshermen
prosictors have found some pearls of
great value among not a few smaller
ems. lhe first was taken from the
shell of a pearl oyster in December last,
liySs. It is believed to be the largest
ou record. It weiglis seventy-five kar
ats. Ajeweler offered U,UU0, which
was accepted. Tbe sum is far below its
real value. Another of forty-seven
karats was since found, perfect in form
and finely tinted. It is valued on the
spot at $o,0U0. A third pearl of forty
karats, yet more beautiful, was exhib
ited at Ia Paz, wuere $o7?t) was bid.
This success of the first s -ions explo
ration is justly regarded a -evidence of
extensive deposits of pearl bearing oys
ters, and trreat excitement prevades all
J the fishermen in that gulf.
NEWS LN B&fKF
Colorado has developed coal oil.
New York city has 3.000 teacher
in elocution.
There are "5,000 French ieople in
New York city.
Americans are returning from
Europe early this year.
The first Scotch missionary of the
Reformed Kirk began work inCalcut.
in 1330.
-The Maine hay crop th"i3 year will
equal 153,000 tona one-half more than
last year.
Within a year Savannah, Ga.. has
erected 250 houses, costing an abro
gate of $.'500,000.
San Bernadino count v. California.
does a considerable business in drin
potatoes lor market.
The signal station on Pike's Peak.
11,156 feet high, is the h. sliest buildinz
in the world inhabited the year round.
The first mention of piiDDet shows
in England is found in "Uanumr Gor
ton's Needle," which was written in
1517.
The receipt of the Patent Oifise for
the current year will exceed $1,200,000,
according to the estimates of Commis
sioner Marble.
The immigration for the fiscal year
falls a little short of 000,OJO, against
nearly 80,000 in lsj, and 670,OJ! in
11.
The Kansas crop of castor bjaus
was so poor in 1SS2 that the acreaie
this year was reduced nearly 75 per
cent.
Mr. W. II. Bull wishes he ha I
more pea and bean vines for cows; he
finds that this feed increases the flow of
milk.
The area devot-xl to soriii' wheat
in Kansas has steadily decrease! since
1S7S, this year to the extent of over
50,000 acres.
Mr. Charles Brhrham. Marlboro.
X. Y., is out of pocket" to the extent of
four cows, killed by Parlj green bought
for use ou potatoes.
A new bath sponge so poisoned the
eye of Dr. Corbett, of Montreal, that
nro oi oignb in iue injur i opuc is
feared.
It Is computed that douvie ani
mals to the enormous value of i 12.0 .-
000 are killed annually iti Russia by
wolves.
In Virsrinia thev are mikin r floor
of pea-nuts, and it is praised. It is
cm tumary in Georgia to pou:i 1 the nuts
for a pastry.
Marseilles and Paris are now con
nected by an underground telerraihie
cable laid in a cast-iron nine six feet
below the surface.
Allan P. Morris is named as the
first man who drew a pension under the
Tennessee Law grantim $10 a month to
Confederate soldiers.
Tangier, Africa, still has a slave
market, and recently mulatto girls have
been sold as low as $1. A nero bov
of 8 years brought $:.
Paris h; twenty-three libraries.
hich it is p;oiosed to increase in num
ber to forty. More than one-half of all
the books read are novels.
Oregon. Washinztou and Idaho.
have been spared a visit from even one
f the GOO cvclones reported bv the
Signal Service Department.
The Egyptian census has just been
completed. The total population is
given at 6,79-2$0, of whom 3,:ij:S,'-l j
are males and 3,404,31.2 females.
Roman gates were so doubled as to
make two passages, one for egress the
other for ingress, and were covered bv
heavy lintels resting on the vertical
joints.
The semi-anuual reiwrt of Maine's
savings banks shows that the total de
posits are $ 10,147.70 1.73 an increase
of nearly $l,OO0,t00 since the laststate-
nu nt.
The latest statistics srive the norm.
lation of Mexico at 10.00l.s4. which
is divided as follows: Caucasians, 1.-
K2,5J; American Indians. 3.7i5.05I:
mixed blood, 4,.1,3W.
The immense crematory in Rome
in almost daily use. Cremation is
laily becoming more popular, and bids
fair soon to dispose of more corpses in
the Italian capital than old-f;ishioued
burial.
An Italian manager, Pollini, has
ffpred the widow of Richard Waguer
i50,X)0 for the exclusive right to per
form the opera of "Parsifal," this to
cover all countries. She unhesitatingly
jected the offer.
Prof. Baird, of the Smithsonian
nstitute, and President of the Fish
Commission, can name at sight, and ia
most unproiioiincable terms, any spe-
les ot nsii, but is said to be frequently
at a loss to remember the names of close
Iiersoual acquaintances.
A broken needle, about I of an
inch iu length and perfectly bright, was
t iiken recently from the shoulder of W.
T. Beard, gunsmith, of Kimball block,
Salt I-ake. It had entered at his heel
11 years ago.
Captain Paul Bovton, the a iii.itic
rtist, told a reporter the other day that
he has now about completed a marine
tress in which he will be enabled to
make excursions on the beds of rivers
and kikes.
It appears that Wilmington har
bor, the seaport of Los Angeles, has
never been properly, if at all, surveyed
by the C. S. authorities, and a British
man-of-war is now engaged hi that
work a rather anomalous state of af-
airs.
The imports at New York for Last
week were 10,SO2,374, of which $3,-
74,132 were dry goods and $7,5iS,242
general merchandise. The total im-
lorts since January 1 were 20-,4l,-
10, against $-ll;l,il t for the same
peiod List year.
The present form of the Corinthian
column first appeared about 150 B. C,
the temple of Olympian Zeus in
Athens. It was built under the di
rection of Cossutius, a Roman, and
soon after its completion Sylea carried
the columns away and used them to res
tore the temple ou the R jman Capitol.
The latest estimates by German
scientists of the total population of our
earth are, in round numbers, as follows:
Australia, on 9,000,000 square kilome
tres, 4,000,000 inhabitants; Europe, on
9,500.000 square kilometres, 315,000,000
inhabitants; Africa, on 30,000.01
square kilometres, 05,000,000 inhabi
tants; America, on 43,000,000 square
kilometres, ',000,000 inhabitants;
Asia, on 44,500,000 square kilometres,
30,000,000 uiliabitants.
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stood upon the platform