1. Hi B. F. SCHWEIER, THE GOISTITUTIOI-THE UHOI-AID TEE E5T0B0EMEIT 0? THE LAW8. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXXVII. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PfiNNA.. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 3.1SS3. NO. 40. ittfetfet jflkawl Sl'rtfe .,11-.- .1 I -I, I - - I M Tlif valley was bathed iii glory this morn ing. Fur high o'er the mountain topi hunir th bright suu; y g lne The fragrant winds bore the notes of the lit through my casement, in soft liquid runs. Hut i ut in the garden some one was hum ming A plaintive strain of the Miserere: And 1 hid my fa-c in my downy pillow While my heart re-echoed the minor key K"n o'er the heather, where gowans were IK'UUlll;. I walked, while the bells eliinie: rang a musical The harebells blossomed; this world was an fcdeii: The brooklets were purling a musical rhyme, l.tit my wayward heart weut back to the morning. To the quivering voice and the minor kev The wonderful depths of the passionate Anil the wailing cry of the Miserere. I still h-ard the birds with their clear-voiced ni usic. And the warm sun still smiled with radi ant light; The sort blue mists that the mountain en shrouded Like a tleecy veil hid the cliffs from my sight. All the world was as fair as a uream of heaven . And my lite was as sweet as a life could be: lut somehow my wayward heart kept re- Ieating The sorrowful wail of the Miserere. JOBS WAKE'S MUSE. There are two reasons why Joanna Ullght had Iter studio up iii the man sard. In the Drst place, she craved quiet and seclusion, in the second well, .Mrs. Algernon Mowry was very much ashamed of it. Mrs. Mowry was quite content that "her husland's niece" should pay ber board bilL Tlie money was very ac ceptaiile to them in their narrow cir cumstances, lint for the life of her Mrs. Mowry could not see why Joanna preferred to earn ber own living when she had a brother able to supjiort her. This little studio was a very pretty place. The bare floor was patched wit h bright-colored rugs; the walls were tinted a delicate blue, bordered with harmonious bauds of crimson, olive, and gold. There was one w ide window to the front, and near it. at her easel. Joanna at one sweet April morning, finishing a birthday card in water-colors. From time to ime she would pause at her wort, and, leaning back in her chair, she would watch the builders over the way. Some one had bought the corner lot and the two lots adjacent to it on the main aud side streets. Witliin the past six weeks a charming little Cjueen Anne cottage had sprung up there its if by magic. Humor said that it was Icing built for a gentleman from Washington. "He must be a man of taste," Joan na thought as she took in the graceful effect of the building, even in its un liuished state. "How 1 should like to live in a Louse like thatl Tiles and ter ra cotta and low-dow n -grates! That OU" zht to make life worth livuig." Joanna smiled at her own fancies as she took up her brush and palette. AY hen she looked up again the men were hoisting some heavy framework by means of a pulley. "Look out there!" cried a tall, manly fellow on the roof, who towered head and sholders above his companions. lie was a w ell-made man, with a rich, bronze skin, and a full brown beard that had concealed his finely shaped neck. The only parts of his dress visi ble were a blue Cardinal jacket and a lk'iir j.f tiVfrallS- -TLey have got a new workman," Joanna observed idly. "What a splen did fellow is! I wonder what business a carpenter has with a face and figure like that? Sometimes it seems to me that nature blunders sadly." 1 hat stalwart young carienter cisap iared meanwhile, and Joanna left her work. , ,. , f -1 wish the Palette club diia i meet this afternoon," she murmured as she paed into the next room and began to uuplait her long, thick, yellow braids. iler toilette w as simple, but somehow it went lorward slowly. she felt rather dull that day, aud as she smoothed her hair in a leisurely fashion, she hummed lo herself rteUrho! fur the holy! .Musi tneudslitp is leijuiiuj- Moot Iuviuk mere tolo'l So she went on, lucidly pinning up her braids again, and f dimming of what banned s mce she left the window until Mabel came bursting into the room witha Ilc stricken face. . -ii "Joanna," she criedf - jterically, "com? on down sta.rsl One of Uie worsen has fallen off the new house, Malwered with a burst ot tears. u " : -r i'ith a burst ot tears. - -- . nth dirt and blood, and-he just looks w awful!" T . ... f flvina down stairs, aud i., or in the hall. Mrs. Mowrj llld UCI auw . ..rmi n.f hvsteric. was on iuc - ti,w are "Do co in and see what they are , .MV,,g "Good heavens, aomgl sue -- - !. a whoVould have dreamed of such a their muddy boots trampmg over uvy car "Wheie liave they taken hiui?" J.Kinna hfterrtipted. Jshe turned away with ill-dLsguised comem -u "luuieuuraiy. raI1bear " Oh. 1 don't know how jou cai year lo go in: jhj i1 v ut Joanna, pushed erwUh prompt ueiw.--"" - , borror- u,e .w.f - " :in Wue blouses, stncKen group -- . iolu,ce and overalls hovenng aut the lo u g on which the luJU-rTnem. She took nur woikiuan wuo ,inIir previous, .h.iirl on!y an hour P"" 3 kman whose si-'"""' , .vious. . .. nul and ti. !,( lav. wnue, - there bleed in she Have you seiii. - --- said,as-iiedrop,o" side the ive r- worU. " 1 es;m, aus- M We men, w no fjoou right off.".- Bbe asked. "WHO IS Ul ti.ii man. quickly. "W here a. .... j.oo hA live nere ma'am. "Thia man ueici nuiiiio, He is a His name's Joun about hand. We don't toow nothing : ami vf l, j:.mu . j v u,uu 1 seem to know so all fired much eitlier-did he, EU?" Don t you know any of his friends"' Joamm asked. "Where doe he Uvey" I dnTT 1 coulda 1 teU 'e. ma'am. I don t know nothing about him. was at0r cn?' aud Lis vdict r,a,grave?,e- Joanna came out of the hbrary with a pale, resolute face. Auut Margaret." she said, quietly. roiyre goiltotake him up to my . rWhatl! iIrs ilow"ry screamed, in a sjiasm of hysterical horror. "Joanna, are you mad?" He says he has no friends in the city; and, anyhow, the doctor says it might be fatal to move him from the house. The slightest jar makes him suffer uusiieakable agony." "liut, Joanna, it is utterly impossi ble for us to keep him here. Think of the the expense, lie's only a laboring man, and " b "1 will bear whatever expense his being here may entail upon you." "lJut supjiose he dies on your hands? Or he may he here for mouths. For heaven's sake, send him-to the hos pital!" "I cannot think of doing anything so inhuman. He may occupv my room, Aunt Margaret. Do not distress your self about it. I will see that he does not occasion you the slightest annov ance." So John "Ware was installed in the little bedroom back of the studio, and the doctor came aDd went for weeks before it was really known tliat the patient would recover. Joanna nursed him with untiring devotion. "You really think he will get well now?" she said, some das afterwards, with womanly tears in her eyes. The doctor took her hand and pressed it warmly. "Yes," he answered; "thanks to you!" The iiatient had been sleeping, but now he oiiened his eves, and thev shone with a glad welcome as they fell upon tlie pale, sweet face of Joanna. "I was just saying, my youug friend," observed the doctor, releasing Joanna's slim lingers to take up John are s finely shaped hand, which was now as white as marble"! was just saying that you owe your life more to Mi's, lihght than you owe it to me." I he handsome fellow gave her a look so full of gratitude that it was almost admiration. "I shall never forget her!" he said, in a musical voice that promised to be rich and deep when he grew strouger. "1 cannot even estimate what 1 owe her, much less rt?iay her." Joanna did not like to be tuaiiKeu, and she slipped away at the first op portunity; but she carried with her the memory of that handsome head, wiih its crown of chestnut Curls resting softly amoug the pillows. The weeks went on, and John are was convalescent. It was one midsummer morning that he sat at the window of the study in an easy cuair wuue Joanna maue a feint of working a little in oils. But what did it mean, the lender light that shone m John Ware's eyes as tutj rested on her lithe, graceful figure clad in pure w hite? Why did Joanna's hand tremble as it, held the palette? And why was her face "so often suffused with a sweet, conscious blush? Why don't you come over here and talk to me?" he said, with tlie pre sumption of au invalid. "I have something better to do, Mr. Ware," she answered, mischievously. "But you don't know what you are missing. The little cottage must be complete now. llere comes a wagon load of new furniture." Like every woman (and every man), Joanna had some curiosity, and this announcement brought her to tne w m dow without delay. fVrtjiinlv. there was a wagon-load of furniture, and such luruiture! In that wiiicii was uie nrst ol &etu that'eame that day, there was a beauti ful oaken sidclxrard, exquisitely carved; a quaint, lacquered caoinet, euonj bookcases, a handsome brass bedstead, aud dear knows wuai not. "Timi- lire troins to mai.e a vei pretty home out or it, Joun aie "How do vou liKe tne house?" . . , Joanna's eyes sparkled. "O," she cried, clasping her hands l.ll.or "I t 11I1KH, isnerieciiY tuaim- . . , T &. T. -.l.l.l m-ltl UlTlllloll I iut, sue auucu, " " """-j-- gravity, "1 should muih. it woum mi snuuuer to iou. "Oh! no," he answered, with terieci calmness. Then lie auueu, suiui , lit under diiiereui circuuiaiaucc But if I had never nau ukm. hould never tave Known j ou aai. uo ou now." ', , . ... i nut sDeak: but presently Urtaalu vav " ' - . . she felt his firm clasp upon uet till lie did not look, ai uer. .iv,, know what lias been tremu- litis for weeks," he said. "Iwould not ask you to make the .i:il!est sacrifice for me, if you felt it - a .riiice: but I love you, Joanna, and my happiness will never be com pleted unless you are uiy j-1 ..t ..1- i,r ti ttimitv linn: he lie aiu . . . , ; , ; i:a t his suiL lie simply told h-r She might do as she chose. As for him, he knew tuai. a uietc .... social rizht to win such a wo man as she for his wife; but then he i WU.v. . - - . Ann hi HOT. lieil. LCl.ll.K jvu. said, turning towards uer 101 u.o ' nwiwt. mdlev slave may r .. t 4 t:ir and love Uieui. I cau go awa) uiuu - Joanna, Q . f "1 know it!" he cried, triumphantly, ii raucht her in his arm, urn. 1 not so sure tliat your love was I ,,.n..crh to set at deuance uie ridicule o socieij. that you would stoop to marry a car- I:1..- 41... virikPntfr I mean to i.oc.i.l hiding her face on P,a"? ' e "ii is the man." A of comse. 1 n an hyster rt.An m r 31 tin 1 t . waa-'"-i ,wi.lro that. 01 teara bud . tyslnW. and heard it with com nressed ms ana au j y - P Snna," he said, taking her two . I ;.. bis "vou must marry me 10 haudsm bus, j ou , J.T.. 1 .....1 day. I have a Uttie moiie. we ww UMy-jrt ,,rsP but" home 01 uuiuu. TU K .bj ---- ' ,, Slllil- 11 1. w.kVtT II 1 1 1 1 1 I llf. UL W - I don't mind that," she said, f him through a mist of tears. ing at 1. 1 .r I am a uwuiau.o till Resides, I always had a fancy for love 1 burst fT.nna would disgrace the tainiiy, ana S by orderingSter out of the house eu.. v., demanded an account of They were married that very evening. John had a carriage at tlie parsonage waiting to take them away. "What extravagance!" cried Joanna. "This is a bad beginning " "One isn't married everv day "u Rid ! John, laughing. "I am going to take you to the house of my dearest friend, Joanna." The carriage stopped in front of a dwelling that was shrouded iu darkness. John took a key from his pocket and oiH-ned the door himself. ''My friend is away," he said. "I have the entree of his house in his abseuce." Taking a match from his pocket, he lit the gas in the hall and ran lightly up stairs. Joanna followed in amazement. She had expected to enter a humble home, but she found herself in a perfect palace of luxury. John lit the gas up stairs. When she entered the room he had thrown ojien, he stood in the middle of tlie floor with his face all aglow. "You like it?" he queried, as he noted the wonder and delight pictured upon her face. "Joanna, I have de ceived you. This is the Queen Anne cottage opposite your aunt's this is my house your house, darling; our home! I am not tlie poor carpenter you thought me, Joanna. I am J. M. Ware, architect and designer, if you please." Joanna could not say a word. "I wanted to see now things were going on, and so 1 came here m person. But I knew that the men would put their best feet foremost if I came to watch them, so 1 Just appeared on the scene as a new workman, and they never guessed who I was. I did not intend to deceive you. At first I was too ill to explain. Afterwards, Joanna, when I learned to love you and I learned that very soon, dear, I wanted to win you for my own verv self, and so I let you think me nothing but a loor caireiiter, whereas I am rich, my darling, rich in every way, and, please (iod, you will never regret your choice." "It would take a long time to tell what Joanna said, but Mrs. Mowry never said a word. What could she say? John and Joanna are jierfectly happy in their beautiful home. It is love in a cottage, and there's a great deal of love in it. Tbe Cniuese In Mew Torfc. ''How many Chinese are there in Xew York" asked a reporter of an of ficer of the Chinese Consulate recently established here. "We are now engaged in making a list of Chinese in Xew York, which will tell the exact number. At present I can only say that v-e estimate the nuiulier at three thousand." "Are t here any w omen among them?" "1 am told that one Chinese woman lives here, somewhere on Sixth avenue. You know that most if not all of the men come here from San Francisco. This trip, with the ocean voyage to California, is rather expensive to the average Chinaman, and would be more so, of course, if he brought his family. Besides, the larger number expect to return to China." 'What are the upations of these three thousand?" 'Most of them are laundrymen, some cigar-makers and the rest petty mer chants. There is, however, a hrm in Broadway, opposite Astor l'lace, which imiiorts bric-a-brac, xc. There are no Chinese importers of teas that I know of." "Where do they get the names of 'Lee,' 'Sing,' 'Lung,' &c?" pursued the reporter. "Oh those sunply represent certain Chinese sounds. I can give you a curi ous fact or two about their names. One is that, by an old custom in China, man has one name 111 business and another in his private life. The other fact is that their names corres ponding to the English John, Tom, &c,, tollow, not precede the family name. some, however, nave adopted tne English way." llow much intercourse is there be tween the Chinese and Japanese here?" ".None whatever, lou may be interested in learning that though the two nations use the same characters for writing, one cannot understand the spoken langauge of the other. The Japanese here number about four hundred." "Is not the language very dillicult to acquirer' "Extremely so. there being, lor in stance, seven thousand letters, each having four sounds." "Do the Chinese have any religious or joss-houses here?" "There isn't any in this city, but 1 believe there is one in Xew Jersey in connection with a large laundry a case of cleanliness next no godliness,you see.' . Clr Your Wife a Vacation. She needs one. Little cares are hard er to be born than great responsibilities; and she has many more little cares than her bust and, and sometimes as great re- sitonsibilities. W ho needs a vacation if she does not? And she cannot get it at home. The more quiet and restful the home is to you, tlie more evidence that it is a care, if not a burden, to her. If you see no friction, it is because she is so skilful an engineer, it you see no machinery, it is because she makes it run so smoothly. It is true that it is always difficult to make a wife aud mother take a vaca tion. The better the wife aud mother she is. the greater is the dUheulty. hhe thinks that no one can take care of the house as she can. And she is right. She is sure that no man can take her place in the care of the children. Bight again. Nevertheless, she needs her vacation; and she will be a better housekeetier and a better mother for a week's rest. The house will value her more for a week's abdication of her throne. Iler children wdl appreciate her better for a week's laying down of her scenter. Is she sometimes irritable She is tired. Is she sometimes depress ed and gloomy? She is over -worked and over-worried. Send her off. or over-worried, bend her on, take her off, where she can sleep with out one ear open to hear the children uneasily tossing m their sleep; where she can sit down to a table that will present some unexpected dishes to her; where her night will be without cares, Such a vacation will take the tired look out of ber eyes and put the old light back again; it will give tlie rippling merruuent of girlhood to her laugh, I elasticity to her step, color to her cheek. Woman's oowerof recuperation is won- derful, if it has half a chance. Try the experiment. Why not? Grain-Latins Birds. The finches are pre-emiuently a grain' loving species using this expression In its widest aud most general acception but they are never known to do much mischief to cereals. Tbe cardinal gros beak and towhee evince a fondness for rice and corn, but are never so numer ous as to be sources of much alarm to the fanner. Am.mg col imbine birds, to w hich our various doves belong, the wild or migratory pigeon is .sufficiently abundant in certain localities to be of incalculable injury. But then, these birds fraqueut tiuiliered regions and waste fields iu iroximity to running streams rather than thickly jiopulated districts, and have a seeming prefer ence for arD.ireai fruits; ana wnen there is a scarcity of such diet they feed upon the seeds of hist year's growth. Barring the destructive, gram-ioving sparrow of Europe, now weii-esiau-lislied in this country, we have more to dread from the starlings and crows than from all other species combined. The sub-family of orioles, from the smalluess of its grain-eating propen sity, can hardly be considered as an enemy of the agriculturist, and there fore must be passed by without a more extended notice. Of the marsh black birds, the bobolink, swamp blackbird and meadow lark call for a share of at tention. The bobolink has at different seasons of the year a remarkably extended dis tribution. In its migrations it traver ses the whole or the United States east of the high central plains to the Atlan tic seaboard, as far north as the fifty fourth parallel, which is considered as its most northern limit. Its food with us consists of the seed of various weeds and grasses of valueless kinds and grubs of diverse ground beetles, as well as the mature forms themselves, and grasshoppers, crickets, bats and plant-lice. At the South these birds do a vast amount of injury to the young wheat as they are passing northward in the spring, aud upon the rice-plantations, on their return in the fall. Throughout their breeding territory they are not known to molest crops, but confine their food to destructive insects and useless weeds. bout the middle of August or early in September the flocks weiid their way southward. They soon congregate iu arge numbers among the marshes of the Delaware, where they are eargerly hunted by siHjrtsnien under the name of reed birds, their Uesli being a racy and toothsome article of diet. Two weeks ater they swarm among the rice fields of South Carolina. 'lhey are now called rice birds. Southern epicures pursue them with the same tireless en ergy and pleasure, and thousands fall a sacntice. In October they halt again among the West India Islands, where they feed upon the seeds of a certain Secies of grass, which render Uieui exceedingly fat. The sporting frater nity here call them butter birds, and vast numbers are destroyed for the table. They render immense service to the cultivators of Sea Island cotton by destroying the larva; of the obnoxious cotton worm. The swamp blackbird, is being a lover of swamps and low, humid grounds, from which fact the species takes its name, extends throughout the whole of .North America from the At tn tic to the l'acilic northward to the fifty-seventh parallel ot latitude. While these birds may occasionally be seen in the stubble fields in quest of the fallen grains of wheat and rye, we have never observed them to attack these plants wLile standing. With respect to buck wheat we cannot say so much. In some localities they manifest a relish for tbe grain, which they do not hesitate to take from the sown ground as well as from the stalk. But, when all is told to the detriment of the siecies that can be said, a long e xperience has taught us that the millions of insects which these birds annually destroy compen sate, in more than quadruple ratio, the farmer for the losses never enor mous which he sustains. The meadow lark Is resident over large portions of the United States. It ranges from Honda to lexas ou the south, and from IS'ova Scotia to the plains of the .Missouri on the north. It is fond of lowlands, more elevated situations only occasionally being cho sen. W ith us it manifests considerable distrust, shunning rather than court ing the society of man, although in Georgia and South Carolina it consorts with the kill-deer plovers about the yards and outbuildings, showing won derful familiarity. Their food consists of seeds of grasses, blackberries and strawberries the wild kinds aud ground beetles, fern-leaf beetles, grass horniers, crickets, ants, earth-worms. plant-lice, caterpillars, grubs, butter flies and moths. They are mdiscrimi nate feeders. Injuriousand beneficial in sects are alike destroyed. In Uie autumn these birds, young and old, collect in small Docks, aud retire to the south. Thev gather in large numhers in tne rice fields, being passionately fond of this grain, aud also about the buildings where it is deposited. During the wiu ter in Alabama and Western Elorida they visit the salt marshes in flocks of from ten to thirty, where they obtain food and shelter. Although destroying considerable nee, it cannot be reckoned an unmitigated nuisance, but rather a benefactor to man than otherwise. Its Western cousin has a better reputation, however, for it feeds upon seeds and insect3 chiefly, destroying vast num bers of the latter, but is not known to do any damage to the crops. The crow blackbird, sometimes called purple grakle, exhibits three distinct varieties. 1'roiu .North Elorida in the South, to Maine, and from the Atlan tic to the Allegheny Mountains, it is known by the latter name. In the country west of the Allegheuies as far southward as the luo Grande and thence to the Missouri plains on the northwest to tho Saskatchewan, and to Maine and Nova Scotia on the north east, it takes the name ef bronze gra kle. xew species are more condemed than this, notwithstanding the great good which it confers upon man. Its bad reputation is due not so much to its destruction of the cherry asto the damage which it does m the corn field in spring and to the corn whde - ' shocked in the fall Such is their pas- sion for tins staple product that they ! defy all efforts of the husbandman to keep them away. Scarecrows are ot 1 no avail. The gun must be brought mto requisition, and it is only by deci niatiuz their ranks with injwder and ' shot that the grain is at last saved ' from total destruction. The government hires a vault In a safe deposit company in St. Louis lor ' the storage of silver dollars, and has about 11,000,000 ra it. la DalMarlla, Swadea. Passing through the station we open ed the door into a new world. Crowded around the ticket office was a score of people of both sexes, wearing the dis tinctive dresses of a half-dozen Delecar- lian parishes. We had stepped from the auditorium into the wings. Old men in buckskin small-clothes and leather aprons jostled pretty peasant girls in quaint pointed caps and many hued kerchiefs; nioihers with leather sacks full of babies on their backs, and workmen with bundles of tools, all clamored eagerly for tickets, evidently too little familiar with rail way travel. Here and. there flash ed among the drapery the orange yellow aprons of the women, enlivening the color composition 01 the group with a few strong notes, and cheering us with the proof that we had not lost the trad. fortunately it was near midsummer, the vegetation was in its perfection, and the suu shone for nearly twenty hours each day. The people, sun-worshipers iu their way, were preparing for the festivities of Midsummer-day a popu lar holiday, which is celebrated ou the 24th of June, and is perhaps more tha-i any other day the great Dalecarlian festival. Erom the railway line it is about twenty-five miles to Siljan Lake, and the chief means of communication is by steamers on the Dal-Elf, or river Dal, a shallow stream only navigable at intervals. Wagons, by courtesy called diligences, transport the passengers around the rapids and shoaIs,and mater ially add to the discomforts of the journey. The Dal-Elf is so near like the American backwoods stream that it is not remarkable that the Swede who excliauges his small river farm for the extensive woodland tract in Ameri ca rarely experiences the pangs of home sickness, but settles down to a content ed life of diligent toil. The stream ed dies are full of timlier on its way to the saw-mills below. The odor of pines and spruces fills the air, daisies and butter cups sprinkle the fields, pond-lilies dot the surface of the meadow-pools, aud a bright sun ripens the grain waving in the large fields redeemed with difficulty from the stony slopes or from the dense forests tliat cover the hill-sides. Shut your ears to the sound of men's voices, aud you cannot believe you are iu Sweden. That .little,gray log house in the distance, with its shingled roof, the cattle sheds and barns, the well-sweep and curb, the stone walls and post-and-rail fences, might be transported bodly and set down in the backwoods of many a State and never be noticed for the dif ference of a single stick of timber or the fashioning of a single stake. Let the door open and the geography changes j by magic. A little child totters out into ' the sunlight. It is dressed in a single long garment of yellow homespun wool as bright as the petals of the buttercups or the dandelions. Erom under a close fitting cap of vermilion hue straggles out a m;iss of flaxen hair. A stout leather apron tied under the arms and over the shoulders protects the dress from the chin to the toes of the clumsy little shoes, A half-dozen other chil dren dressed exactly the same troop out after it, and following them, the mother, with a curious poke sun-bonnet of bright red rivaling in brilliancy the crimson of her homespun apron, carries pad on each arm to milk the cows lowing at the pasture bars. The fath er comes to the door of the barn to say- word as they pass. But for his leath er aprou shining w ith wear you would take him for a Xew England farmer of Continental times, with his low shoes, knee-breeches, long waistcoat and felt hat. The ever equalizing influences of modern science have i.ot yet reached them, and they live and feel much the same as their great grandfathers did be fore them. Cjre and Ear. Dr. Conner contributes an article with which thus this title to a western paper. concludes : To ram up what we have suggested, in plain propositions, tbe best eyesight and hearing caa be obtained and maiaUiasd by- 1. By acting as if the eyesight and hear ing were of more importance than aDy other thing oa earth. 2. By having eTery cmld eyes and ears carefully examined by an expert be fore it la given specific tasks to perform, calling for the full exercise of healthy eyes. If the eye or ear be found defective, then by grading tbe tasks according to the na ture ot the defect. t. By never using tbe eye or tbe ear when such use causes pain in either organ or In the head. 4. By nerer using the eye when it is imperfectly supplied with good blood, as before breakfast, when utterly exhausted, after a severe illness, itc. 6. By never using tbe eyes for close work m an imperfect light, as in early morning or evening twilight, by a very distant or weak light, far from the window, on a dark diy, etc 6. By utterly avoiding the use of tobacco and alcohol, exo.-pt for medicinal pur poses. 7. By always cherishing a cheerful babit of thought and feeling toward all persons and all events. - 8. By avoiding all such injuries to the ears as result from slapping, paltng, and very loud and sudden noises. V. liy keeping out 01 the external ear all things smaller than the forefinger, or suffer lumi towel or handkerchief. 10. By keeping out ot tbe ear all oils, all joaps, all cod water, and everything else recommended by sympathizing but mistaken friend?; especially never apply a poultice to tbe ear for the relief of pain. Dry beat will do all that moist heat can to relieve, and will be free from the danger of absolutely destroying the membrana tympana. 11. All running ears must be cured at the earliest possible moment, at the peril not onlv of the hearing, but that also of the life. 12. By heeding the warmug given by redness of the eyelids and of tbe white of the eye, by pain in or about the eyes or ears, by the continuance ot indistinct vision for any considerable time, or of imperfect hearing, by the continuance of frontal headache after usual remedies have failed tj relieve it. 13. liy regarding the eyes and ears a simply a part of a very complex system of apparatuses, the beat health of all being absolutely needful for the best health of each. 14. By remembering that we do not see with the eye or hear with the ear, but with tbe brain. Hence, after the brain is ex bausted.it is unpoksible to really see or hear, Hence, the utter absurdity as well as the perniciousness of any endeavor to see or bear after te brain has become exhausted. Especially is this true of young and gro lag brains. Here, too, it la needful to re member that the normal brain continues to grow until about the age of forty, Phenomenal Uoree-Fleeb. The sporting fraternify at Indiana' polls is in a ferment over a new Indiana horse that promises to out- trot auy Iloosier horse-flesh on the track; in fact, has already done so. This new aud valuable animal is a six year old brown stallion, and he comes from XoblesviIIe. His owner. John Martin, is a wagon-smith of that place, and suddenly hi. us himselt in the possession of a fortune. A few davs ago D. 11. Brown, of this city, saw the horse trot and offered hve thousand dol lars cash for him. It was the first time that the owner realized that he had the best horse on the Indiana turf, but he knew a good thing when it was pointed out, and since Brown's offer 7,000, $9,- uuu and now 10,UU0 have been planked down in vain before Martin's eyes. The history and framing or the horse will almost cause a revolution in the jockey business. Six years ago Martin reluct antly accepted an old mare in pay for some woik done. Erom this unpromis ing nag the colt 111 question was foaled. Martin sold the mare for $100, and for several years has been driving the colt to a buggy in his daily business. All this while he stabled the annual in a rickety old shed, and in many ways showed that he did not know what sort of oiled lightning he was stabling. A few turns, privately, on a race track led Martin to believe that he might venture to enter a county fair with some promise of success; but when he applied at Xo blesviIIe and elsewhere he was hooted out. Last week he was admitted to a county fair in northern Indiana, and to everybody's surprise captured the prize ith ease. Last week, there being no body to enter the XoblesviIIe race, Martin was told that if he could beat ,30 with his old brute he might have ie stake. W ithout any preparation he ilrove into the ring and accomplished a mile in 2,2 L Horsemen say this phenomenal horse can make 2,lt without an effort. Ear- ties in this city already have a S-I.OOO bet that he will beat Hare's Mambrino with a 2,lt record at the coming Louisville races. Martin has been us ing the horse carelessly, and he has iust crowed" into what he is. It is doubtful if he ever was sponged or pet ted or jockeyed. When heated he has been tied up in a fence corner and left to cool off, and yet has flourished, and to-day is believed to be the best horse in Indiana. Dr. Brown, learning the his ry of the horse, went up to Xobles- ille, hunted out the old maro which foaled the horse, bought her for S100, and two days later, on the reputation of her son, sold her for 000. Tne Blue-timM Country The blue-glass country Is reached by traversing Central Virginia and ilcu- ucky along the line of the picturesque Chesapeake and Ohio railway, unless, indeed one prefers the swift and solid 'ennsylvaiiia route to Cincinnati, and drops down to it from the north. Ou this particular journey, at auy rate, It was reached past the battle-fields and springs of lrgiuia, and up and down the long sloiies of the Blue Ridge and gorges of the G.eenlrierand Kanawha, In the wilder Alleghanies. It is found to be a little cluster of peculiarly fa ored counties in the centre of the State. Marked out on the map, it is like the kernel, of which Kentucky is the nut; or like one of those "pockets'" of precious metals happened upon by miners in their researches. The soil is of a rich fertility, the surface charm ingly undulating, l'overty seems abol ished. On every hand are evidences of thrift corresixiuding with the genial bounty of nature. A leading crop in times past has been hemp, and land that will grow hemp will grow anything. This is being more and more with drawn in favor of stock raising ex clusively, but the tall stacks of hemp, shape like ulu wigwams, still ilentifully dot the landscape. One drots into horse talk immediate ly on alighting from the train at Lex ington, and does not emerge from it gam till he takes his departure. It is the one subject always in order. Each successive proprietor, as he tucks you into his wagon, if you will go with him and if you will go with him there is no limit to the courtesy he will show ou declares that now, after having seen animals more or less well in their way, he proposes to show you a horse. Eortiinately there are many kinds of perfection, lie may have the best horse or colt of a certain age, the one which has made the best single heat, or fourth heat, or quarter of a mile, or average at all distances, or the best stallion, or broodmare, or tlie one which has done some of these things at priv ate if not public trials. Each one has, at any rate, the colt which is going to be the great horse of the world. This is an amiable vanity easily pardoned, and tlie enthusiasm is rather catching. A man's stock is greatly to his credit and standing in this section while he lives, and when he dies is printed prominently among the list of his virtues. The Trade Dollar. The trade dollar Is an infidel coin -it lias 110 redeemer. It is like a dude because it is lacking in cents. It's like a drunkard because it don't pass at par. It is like a boy when Ins father is thrashing him, because it's below par. It is like a laundry, It belongs to the Chinese trade. It is like a sluggish stream it will not pass current. It is like a canvasser, it tries to ap peal.- honest while it bears a lie on its face. It is like a lawyer's cheek it is not a legal tender. It is bke corner stote deposits, it s base coin. It's like a politlcan's promise only taken at a discount. It is like a julep it needs the mint to make it good. It is like a doctor the less you have do with it the better you are off . Uarefooteit ciaiee. Attention has been called anew in Pans to the order of the Barefooted Clares. There are eighteen of these nuns, and fourteen are under twenty two years of age. They go barefoot on the cold stone u xnxag: they never warm themselves at a fire, even the kitchen fire bjinz placed beyond then: access: they eat meat only on Christmas Day; they sleep on a narrow board; they must spend ten hours every day npou their kceea. and thev are onlv allowed to speak to one another on rare occasions. S!mlDofl Terrible Tow. A curious ftaae Involving all the feat ores of the C rsio4n voadott bis corns to light at Reed's Station, X artli Cum, berland county, Peuna., through the deathbed confession of Alex. Senunoff, a yonng Fole, who died lust week. Eor some time past Saminoff, who was an educated man, but considered morose, misauthropioal and cyuical by his countrymen, was noticed to be in fail ing health, and on Wedaasdav a physi cian was summoueU at im request. Being told that he could not live until daylignt. he desired tbosa present to Iinten t the following confession: In 18-xJ, when he was a bay of about 7 years he resided with his lather m the Polish village of Sutomir, on the Russ ian frontier. His father's sinter, a yonng married woman, lived in the same tonrn. Iler husband was in the army at the time, and she resided with her maids. In the fall of the year a voung man n lined Rmanoff, son of tho prefect of the district, and captain of a regiment of Cossacks, came home on a furlough, aud dnriug his stav became Ultimate with the S jiuiuoils, aud Anally betrayed the woman. Sue, as a result, ended het career at Baden Badou, in a noted resort. Upon hearing the news of her betrayal Sotuinoff took hi) young sou npou his kuee and mado him swear to avenge the wrong by killing the entire Romanoff family, ti jou after, the Til lage prefect was found lyinn dead by the roadside, but iu such a manner as to give the idea that be had committed suicide. Seminoffd lather had shot the Romanoff aud ltij the pistol bv his side. Soon afU-r, yonng Sjmiuoff left Setomir, aud the father enlisted anl weut to the scene of the Crimean war. Two t f the Romanoff were otaver in the Russian army aud one night both were uiscovered murdered in thd.r touts. Xo cine could be found to the murder- eis. boou after the eid .r oeunaoJ de serted and was unheard of for some time. During his absence ui tae Crimea aud elsewhere the son was pursuing a course of study iu tuo Cracow Uaiversi ty. Fji a period of ten ye urs he uever saw his father, till one night the latter appeartd ami srequestod tint he follow linn. The next morniug they started for Italy aud weat to Eioreco. There a brother if B jinanoff was au attache of tho Russian Legation, and the father and sou determiued to slaj hini. Oue mght as t.iey were a'alkmg alon? the Arno the? eapied the object of their search, acompamei by another gentle - man. r olluwiu 111 pursuit thev soon deliberately inardurtd hint in sight of tue companion, wlioni oid sjiuinoll held in his grasp. While they trusted to the masks which they wore, and went bold ly back to the city, old heminoff was subsequently arrested for the crime, and was shortly afterward executed. A few weeks after y. .nag Scminoff escaped ua joined a brignud band which he socu left, aud going back to Total I fouud that all the Romanoff family had lert, some lwing exiled to Siberia. Some had dud from the hardship of that clime, au 1 the rest had gone to Ao-enca. louug Sem n iff then came also. After sca:chiuj a few years he fouud taat they uad gone to the mm nr regions, and that all had died exocptame. This one he fonnd near Rood's. Living alone and disguising huaself, S.iuinoiT tooi quarters aud soon perfect ,-d bis plans. O-ie night Louosky, tue last of ta; R manoff tribe, disappeiired. io notice was taken of it by ms-ueig ibors. sa Iden disappearauces being otniuoa. UuminolT then owiia to Rjed's, hia vengeance satiated. lie becama a gloomy, morose man, and took np quar ters with tae rest 01 his conntrymen. He gave a description of the spot where he had burial Lobosky two years ago, and followmg the account, a party went to tae place a id dug up the a&eletoa of a man, witu a large knife still sticking ia the body. Tue curious stiry haa caused a coo I deal t f excitement, aud thtre is no doubt ol its truthfulness. Ine singular manner of the max. to gether with his remarkable education, proved that he was more tuau an ordi nary laborer. Aupbalt iu Meuoo. It may be of intercut to the American public 10 know that among the natural products of Mexico with which country e may anticipate in tue near future very close commercial relations the ar ticle of asphaltum is evidently destined to hold no inconsiderable rauk. It may be of most imoortacce to Alexicans. however, if it can be utilized as it is said it caa for fuel purposes. There is reported to be exuaustless deposits of this material on the bank of the Tuamesl river ia tue State of Tamauli- pas, about 6) miles a'ove Tampico, con taining an insignificant percentage ol foreigu mutter, and which may be reached by ligut draft boats, and with proper methods of exploitation may be put on beard of vestals that may en ter the port of Tampico at a cost ot from 6 to Sid per ton ot 2.0U1 pounds. In toe State of Vera Cruz, near the village ol ALoloacan, a few leagues distant from the navigable River of Coatzaooaicos. there is an immense deposit of asphal tum, wuicb in some pours is lound pure, and in others more or less mingled with rock salt aud saltpetre. It was visited iu 1311 by a learned German traveler, Dr. Hechler, who thus de scribes 11: 'ihe deposit to whioii I re fer is hot more than a league iu a direct line from Aloioucan, although by the winding real the distance is over three leagues. The 'salt mine,' as it is popu larly called here, is au isolated t-por branching off from the main riJge or coidiliera. The mountain is from 1000 10 1:1 JO feet iu height, and wiih a base of from 3J to 4 miles in ex'ei-t, soaped comcalJy, and cracked by earthqiakes; on its siouoa are fou'-.d a uamber ol pits. some cold and ttilL others seething and bubbling with boise and a stilling odor. These pits would appjar to have cav emous connection with the internal fires of the mountain, which, as indicated by the external heat and frequent subterranean noue. doubtless coutaiua vast niafsee of material in a state of combustion. Tue whole adjacent snr iace consists of asphaltum, partly solid and partly liquid, and more or less mix ed with rock. So extensive are these beds that the snpply may be considered inexhaustible. In some places the seeth ing pits still continue to eject masses of asphaltum in a liquid state. The Indians call it Chapopote. It may be that this mountain will one day sink, and its site be occupied by a lake of asphaltum, like the historic Dead Sea of the Holy Land ." There are also extensive beds of asphal tum in the State ol Chiapas, on the up per waters of the ur jalva river, which his it course through the State of T'- I baseo, and empties luto the Mdxiuau Uulf I I Uulf nar Enntera. NEWS L BRfKF Connecticut has 1,055 clergymen and 1,18'J bar-te iders. Growing crops of hops are being bought at 25c. a iound. There are over 9,000 blind persons in the state of Arkansas. Orange trees are being planted all along the Mississippi coast. Paris has a telephone to every 2,00;) and Loudon one for every 3.0JJ. In London there are now thirty- nine theaters giving perform itices. It is found impossible to ralsj tho Ciuibria wreck. It will be blown up. The Buffalo pub'.ic schools have used the same text books for 21 years. -Some fashionable ladies have unids who can spell to do their letter-writing. A firm ill Xew York sells fo:ir-le.if clovers at $5 each, and has a goo 1 tra lo in them. The total value of all taxable pro- tierty in Xevada for the year Hii was 527,od'J,S'15.o7. Dakota has -21 national and 37 pri vate banks, with an aggregate c i;it.il of over 10,000,001. Xew York'sSunday-scliool scholars of all denominations number 115,SJ5, in 4H Sunday-Schools Kaiser Wilhelm has bestowed a patent of nobility upon Professor H jIiu holz, the celebrated scientist. The new Xorthwest, Aliskta i l Washington territory, promises to bo the charcoal-iroa region of the near fu ture. -On the 1st of next August a 1 in ternational Electric Exhibition will b) opened at Vicuna, anl a tine display is anticipated. In drilling for an artesian well at Chesterfield, Iowa, a stream of milky sulistance was struck, which islielieved to be ningnesm. An English paper says: Oi tho 200,517 owners of laud set down in tho new doomsday book, 110 less than 37, (00 are women. The Galveston Xttcs thinks tho cotton crop in Texas tills year will bo 300,000 bales less tha i last ye r s crop. It estimates the product at 1.0dJ,0iJ bales. The woolen an 1 worsted in l istry hi Germany employs about 2 JJ,0 J) por- sons, that of hnglaii I an I Irela i 1 over 300,000 aud that of tUe Unite I States about biO.OJO. Ismail, the ex-Khedive, is going to live in England. lie has purchased Caen Towers, llighgate, a luxurious mansion, with twelve acres of ground, for $ 150,000. Sumner Shepard has held office iu Windsorville, Conn., for fifty-one vears continuously, is now 01 years old, an 1 is regarded as the oldest postmaster 111 the United States. The recent report of the death of Tamberlik, the famous tenor, is now contradicted. lie is said to bo 011 a starring tour in the south of Spain, and 111 excellent health. The Triucess Louise occupies a large house at Bermuda, pictures piely situated, and an adjoining dwelling was found scarcely large enouga for her baggage thirty-livo trunks. A monkey-faced owl was captured a short time ago by Capt. Pitts in tne I lorida Everglades. Hie plumage is that of the owl family, but the head an I face are those of a baboou, except that the eyes resemble closely those of au otter. Steamship captains report that they can discern the electric light in the new light-hoase at South Head, Macquaire Harbor, a distance of from 35 to 00 miles, according to the state of the weather. Experienced lumbermen say that the supply of walnut is rapidly dimin ishing, and that fully tnree-fourths of the good stock throughout the United States has been consumed within the last ten years. The exhibition of coins, which is to come off in tho Vienna Mint next month, on the occasion of the Third Congress of German numismatists, pro mises to be one ot the huest and most interesting ever held. A catalogue published by the Ger man l'omologicai society enumerates fSo'J kinds of apples, U12 kinds of pears. ii- kinds of cherries, kinds ot plums, 10S kinds ot peaches and 35 kinds of apricots. Xaples has about as many people as Chicago, and Milan rather more than Baltimore, I urm and Palermo would rank with Cincinnati and the eternal City has a population of 300,4o7. Popu lation in Italy increases a little less than 1 per cent per annum. Xew York's organize ! charitable societies disbursed $1,OOVX)0; and 111,- 705 persons were committed by tho Commissioners of Public Caarities an I Correction to the almshouses, prisons, hospitals, nurseries, schools aad asy lums. The only place where jute Is manu factured into graiu bags in California is at the State Prison iu San tuentin. The operatives net a monthly profit of between $1000 and SioOOO. Mocking knitting is the most profitable employ ment g'.ven convicts in the Eastern Penitentiary in Philadelphia. The Normal School, in Columbus, Ohio, is free to pupils intending to be come public school teachers; others ar. charged forty dollars por annum for tuition. Xo preference is given : Soruial School graduates, however, i tilling public school teacherships. Xine hundred cigars and 400 cigar ettes were shaken out of a truuk full of clothes belonging to a passenger by the Havana steamship :?aratoga, at Xew York, some time ago, by a customs in spector who refased to believe they hail been put there to keep moths out of the garments. The owner paid the duties. The combined wealth of the mem bers of the California Semite is about 20,000,000. The Semite is composed of four editors, eight farmers, one mi ner, four capitalists, two merchants five mechanics, one contractor, oue physician, one viticulturist, and four teen lawyers. The value of the poultry consumed in the United States annually is esti mated at 3u0, 000,000, or $0" to each in habitant. The value of eggs coasumed is set at 5240,000,000, or 5t0,000,000 for poultry and eggs together, or about $10 per year to each inhabitant. The number of eggs consumed is estimated to be 9,000,000,000, or 180 eggs to each inhabitant, which would allow oue egg to eacn person every other day. liini. lie v.as kind of a w! tu"
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