1 1 t III . Mil i V B. F. SCHWEIER, THE GOISTITUTIOI-THE UHOI-AIB THE ESTOBOElfEIT OP THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXXVII. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. FENNA.. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 10.1SS3. NO. -II. S i j SU(i. Few are the idyls the poets sing I uder the shadow of gold- Pill the poet's brow Is cold. ISiit oh ! what dreams to his heart still elm- Karth s archives have never told, r or the M us -s eve r their children guard And the poets sons is its own reward. ' The cot hath echoed Immortal strains W huh shed their jov an the morn ' Aud royal thoughts that could brouk no chains Beside the plow have been lmrti. Carry your wealth where glory reigns iive the liard his meed of worn J'.ut the Muses sliall aye their children guard, Aud the poet's song be its owu reward. How many Homers in lowly guLse Have tattled life's counict through" For this, hath song ever ceased to rise Or the harpers been untrue? Neer; inspiration never dies. For all that the world can do. And ever the Muses their own shall guard And ever shall song be its own reward. ' Not here aloue is the triumph time For the minstrel's glowing heart. There w aits new life and a sphere sublime For the poet's gentle art. Nobler heights for his soul to climb, Where time's grosMiess halh no part. Oh, favored the souls whom the Muses guard. And bles.ed the ng with its owu reward. Bl-.SSIfS ItKTKOTHKD. A low, irregular line of houses strag gled somehow- into the square, with here aiil there a jutting gable frowning forward, as if resenting the attempt at regularity. nave nau an equal part in tins slran; lnllV llf 1illililintv U-tiiTu Qd if n. to th's chaos of construction, the Hec tor's house looked down upou the group rrom tue 11111 above, and brought your minds at once to the forward frets of the great queen. Strange how the mind of a ieop!e will stamp itself upon even sticks and stones! This square, which was mildly frowned noon bv the llwlnr's Ihuidk was the abode of some fifty gentle women '"the wives of clergymen, i eiug of good repute, whom ye Count ess of Glencower hath minded herself to do God's service, by affording them sneiier, anu ioou, anu raiment, umu it shall please the Almighty to take them unto himself.'" In the valley below, there stretched from the hill-side a waving mass of 1 . . . I . 1 . 1 . 1 : tit 1 1 ii dim juiic. duu iuruiii ?uuuuir, folding in their emerald embrace the dais tells and white-frothed coursing of a nimble rivulet. As you turned this winding road to the right, up the hill towards the rec tory, the old church, with its ruined architecture, raised its spires before you, calling to mind the time when Canute lifted the banner of Christ against the black ltaven of the North. It was an ancient, sleepy village, which had scarce changed in all the rolling j ears; and one might even have supiHised the worm-eaten gate leading to the church-yard coeval with the times afore gone, since post and mil seemed to have long gone past their office. Leaning against the rail was a maiden of some eighteen years of age, her bright, piquant face half turned against the setting sun. A light, du'd gray cashmere gown, fitting closely to her figure, was relieved only by a faint pale rose-bud at her throat. Most women are pretty in the eyes of men, aud all can captivate if they but rely on that softness which is their naturej and not seek to win a tawdry apiearance by aping the masculine. Man yields his admiration to this for a moment, and resents it in his heart much as a woman resents it in the stern sex any approach to effeminacy. Bessie Lee" was a woman and a child, she scarce knew her own heart, hardly comprehended for what else the Su preme Being had formed her, save to 1 dainty in all her ways, and drink in each dav the sweet homage of man. She loved for woman's nature is to love, and the excess of that divine pas sion, as yet unfulfilled within her, out poured itself upon everyone wiih whom she came in contact. She could not help loving. It was her instinct, aud she obeyed it. The aged gentlewomen of the home, full of bye-gone years, and bitterness for the present, felt their gall turned to honey as she ministered to their wants; and the lalwrer ceased to think or thedeadly toil which hungry mouths caused him, if .Bessie Lee came but near to warm him into better manhood. This was her instinct, her lietter nature. She could not help doing .'ood; but books had taught her other things, and bevond all tliat she had conceived an Idea of love from the frothv dreams of romancers. . Life is not made of romance, Bessie had woven her future of roses and sunshiue. , Tr Thus much for her character. Her form and face were perfect. Hie was the daughter of one of the inhabitants of the refuge. By her side stood a tall, grave man of some seven or eight-and-twenty, sneaking in a low, earnest voice upon some theme to which the girl seemed to pay but petulant attention. -Life has roniace enough in it for all of us, dear Bessie," he said, If we but gild each morning with the sunshiue of an honest leavor "1 know I know, dear," she re plied; "but life cannot be all bread and cheTse, and solemn word and solemn mode. Oh, llalphi. I should d e if I couldn't have exci ement, and ou have drawn such a gloomy picturt. Gng h help; honestly endears to do his duty. 1 not pamt the life glowing eclors, Bessie. " be untrue to you "O'11,' , d- -You are try'S lue c v .ii.li slie said, turning her lace !,3 v, tl might not see the angry 'a'hcfullyand ea5 y, $$& releasing ;e Ime he bid placed upon her tmy hand bth Could he ever make eUeulltiu aU understand him, and be to him understaiid luui.M ru the kSmS only moan 1""rpr -I love ber-I lave herl Yet, as stern stun m his he could not show it to uer earnestness ana u"r"rt ,iad n0 nxm ltalph Brajbrook s heart n itflhte,! tun, aw f . i Z" ----a iJW.IClJ WJ 1UI MIU1 Tt t?L ,niI"bIrned youth, when, as it the load of hia sombre shadow taken off her, she could lainrh with tut rest. He could have cried then in very bitterness, 'Tray thee, weep, May Lil ian, for this constant "gaiety without eclipse;" but he was not a man to wear ins heart on his sleeve, aud many a time had he turned away murmuring, ' 1 oor child, she is so young! soyoungl" lie had known her from childhood w ith that brotherly intimacy so danger ous ior a man, so latal to a wouiam's love. She had for years past regarded Kalph in the light of her protector, who wouia in process of time become her uusoanu. He was her mother's friend, almost the only being whom she could lean on in the world; and so, when in his grave, quiet way Italph had proposed, it hardly cost her a flutter of the heart to say "Yes," and the rich blood scarce crimsoned her bright young face. She had ah! fatal words "grewn so used to him." lie came down to the quiet village to see them but rarely, for it was a loor, crowded neighlorliood where he had his practice, and the poor are ex acting; but he always talked hopefullv and cheerfully in his own grave way of the little home to which he hoped to bring his bride. Of late he had noticed a strange apathy about her which alarmed him even more than her childish ietulance, and it was his trying to seek the cau.se of it which led to the conversation alKve. "Trying you hard!"' he said, "I do not understand. Bessie, dear, I try to understand you, but I cannot." "Xo; it is that you cannot," she said, "and sooae men are like that, I supiose, playing with women's feelings as they would with a little baby, hurt ing it to death nearly with their un conscious brute-playfulness. "You dont understand me you never will understand me, and it is better that you should cease trying." Had some unseen hand plunged a dagger into his bosom he could not have turned so deadly pale. "Bessie! Bessie!"' he moaned, "dont say that." Ti e cry was the short, quick cry of agony, and she turned her averted head to him, and would have sprung to his arms, but ere she could frame an ex cuse for her words, his pride leaped to relieve his bitter anguish. He drew himself up coldly, while droi of ice-cold perspiration stood u;rii his forehead. "Be it as you wish then, Bessie," he said. "I am not one to comiel a gen tlewoman to an alliat-ce against her wish." Ere she could realize it he was gone, aud she was lett stunned and stuiietted at the effect of her own wopJs. Gone, her protector gone! her girl hood's companion parted from her for ever! It could not be! "He never loved me!'' she said bit terly; "and now I know well he never loved me!" "What, Miss Lee! and sitting like Dido?" cried a voice; "am I iut a propos. or may I act the role of com- torter.-' ' She looked up, and saw the hand some, sunny face of Lord Ellesmere looking down upon her. Give me leave to speak, Miss Lee," he said, dropping his voice to a low, impassioned tone, "I would not jar tiuon vour feelinirs for the world. I see you are in grief; let me synqiathize with you believe me, your griei roos me of all joy." She suffered him to place her hand upon his arm and lead her away, suf fered him perhaiw. because syuqwUiy is most dear to us all; aud he had come to her m her hour of we;ikness. She knew Lord Ellesmere as liand- some, gay, and wity, but a man against receiving the attentions of whom Italph liad often warned her. "I will show lialpu," she mused, as she suffered the young nobleman to lead her along toward the wood, "that he is not altogether so indisiensab!e to me as he imagines!" And in this way she made an euori to arouse herself from her sauness, until presently she had forgotten Kalph altogether, and was listening, breath less with interest, to accounts ot me great world and its line ladies. "What a change this must 1 from the life of a ioor doctor's drudge in a crowded East-end practice. Von must be very happy with so much gaiet, Lord Ellesmere," she said with a sigh. Who can be uaM'j wnnout tue one thing alone which constitutes tiue happiness? Ahl Miss Je uessie let me call you uessier it jou w um know how, sick of all this gaiety, I have vearned for ou! Xight alter night have I slipped away from my gay com panions, that I might see your shadow; love vou. madly, devotedly! Come w ith me; be my w ife; and you shall outshine them all weann, taieui, birtn, shall bow before you, for you will be my queen!" And she, poor tool, imiiKing ol uvi revenge, and intoxicated with her tri tint fm ai-cented him. and suffered her self to be drawn towards the flame, as many a silly moth had been before. It was night ere she reached home, accompanied by her new lover, mtoxi cated with praise and tnumplu "He was a lover j" sue fccinejeaiuiS t herself, "noble and witty, aud pas sionately devoted. "Did not love uasii out um mi blue eves, and did he not show her a thousand little attentions, of which Italph had never thought?" So she twisted the great diamond engagement ring, which Lord Ellis- mere nau giveu un, o ? aud dreamed her dream. . He had asked her to keep their en enient secret until he could obtain hi? father's consent, and she had pro- m'cnlierwise what pleasure ihe would have had in saying, "Kalph Braybrook chose to leave me, and I accepted Lord "Bessie" cried her mother; "in the name of everything you love, child, what have you suffered to come be t en vou aud Ralph ?" "We" have quarrelled, mother, and the match is broken off," said Bessie," setting her lips defiantly. Oh my child, my child!" cried her ...other- "do not play fast and loose wUh IS honest affection Uke his. He is almost broken-hearted Kemember, men are not to be treated like toys; they have feelings which must be re- SPAnd so have women, mother," said nienomore. I have i with Kalph." But for all that nercouseience. smote. and once or twice she had almost re solved to-write to Italph, and make it up. In the morning, however, came a splendid bouquet aud a passionate note from his lordship; so she allowed herself io nun wun tne current. A mouth passed. Bessie was haggard and pale, and yet iersuaded herself that she was desiierately in love with Lord Elles mere. ''One afternoon she received a note from her lover, urging her to meet him by the ixwcher's oak in Ellesmere Tark. It was their usual trvstinsr-nlaee. It was pouring with rain when she started, and showed every indication oi a stormy attemoon. But something unusual about the note seemed to demand her attendance on the spot. When she arrived there she found him pacing up and down in the nnst agitated manner. ''All is discovered, Bessie, my darl ing!" he said, rushing to embrace her; "you must aid me or I am lost." "How?" she cried, terrified. "You must away to London with me at once. I hare got a Secial license; once married I fear nothirg; the estate is entailed, and I will soon persuade my father to forget his anger. "Oh, Keginald!" she cried, "alone." "Certainly, darling," he said "now mis mstantl i have no time to wait, for even now my father is iosting down from Iondon." "I dare not, lieginald," she said, clinging close to him, for the storm had now burst with such violence that it terrified her; "I am afraid;" and then suddenly she released herself, aud drew kick, looking at him with a new-born fear. "Afraid of what?" he said . "I call God to witness that I mean to be true to you; if not, may this lightning strike me dead." Then there came a blinding glare of light, a horrid crashing of branches. Lord Ellesmere lay at her feet, and a man dashing through the trees caught the shrieking girl in his arms and bore her away. It was Italph, who had sought refuge from the storm in the woods, aud wit nessed the mee ting. Months passed ere Bessie recovered that fearful shock, and, if it took some of the joyousuess and giddiness out of her life, it made her a utter companion for her first bethrothed. ParalyKls, or ralsy. By this we nndersttud a condition in which there is lots of muscular power from the arrest of nervous influence: and in which the mosclds themselves continue numpaired, bnt wholly or partially cease to be strong and movl ty the nervous energv. Tua paralysis oi the whole system, or what is gener al y calle.l. Milay, seems never to occur in the borae; and the paraiyis of the whole of one side, or what U called hemiplegia, seems to be comp natively rare; but the paralysis of both -sides of the hinder extremity, or what is called paraplegia, is somewhat frequent, and occasionally viv stubborn and severe. When hemiplegia occurs it is compara tively mild; but, if not cured, it usually passes mto paraplegia. A palsy -btruck horse is commonly affected first in one or both inndlegs, walks on his fetlocks, is scarcely able t j move forward, stag gers t every step, and eventually falls. His disease is essentially milammatory, and mar generally be traced to a fall, to over-working, to exposure to cold and wot while covered with prespira- tion, to some injury iu the Lead, or to the effects or mismanagement of stag' gers. The remedies are blistering or mustard poulticing, warm clothing, mash diet, frequent injections, and tue administration of sedatives or tonics: according to circumstances and the canse or causes. A numbness of the limbs sometimes arises from ordiuaty prolonged exposure to cold, wet weath er, but this mast not be confounded with palsy, and needs no special treat ment, but it will soon go off in the stable or other comparatively snux situation. Paralysis of the sphincter muscle or neck of the bladder is some tunea induced by riding a horse hard and not giving him time to stale; and this causes constant dribbling of the urine, and is often styled, with refer ence to the mere effect, to the exclusion of reference to the came, incontinence of urine. ralsy iu cattle is sometimes vety com mon, aud at times may assume the ap pearance of in epizootic, and has been known to attack numbers of animals in certain districts. It generally has the form of paraplegia, but occasionally at -tacks the fore legs as well as the hind ones, and is usually slow in its progress beginning in mere debility, increas ing into stiffness and awkwardness of motion, and terminating in total loss of the power of limb. The moet frequent causes of it are turning cattle out too early in the year to grass, depasturing on low, marshy, ooij situations, urmng out hard-driven cows to search for food during cold nights, and stewmg up cat tle in damp, ill-ventilated, ill-kept, filthy barns and sheds. The chief rem edies for it are comfortable housing, profusion of clean litter, loosening med- ernes in combination witn cordials, and, in bad cases, the free external use of stimulating linuaent, and perha'W tbe internal administration of nux vomica and strychnine, in small and repeated dose. Palsy in sheep and Iambs sometimes affects every limb, and sometimes af fects only the loins, It moet frequently attacks lambs, but alto attacks sheep of all ages and parturition ewes that have aborted or have had tedious and difficult particulars. Some young lambs, when attacked by it, die the very night of the attack, aud others lose all power in their hind legs; and sclJom recover sufficiently from the effects of it to be come large and vigorous sheep. The principal causes of it ate severe weather, excessive nutriment, sudden change of food, and pressure on the brain from the presence of hydatids. The cure for it in all cases, except when it arises from hydatid pressure, is strictly similar t the cure lor it in cattle; and any possi bility of cure in hydatids! cases must necessarily be contingent on the previ ous redaction of the exciting cause the removal of the tape-worm cyst if its location is such that it can be reached with proper intruments. Numbness or rheumatism arising from exposure to severe frost has no necessary connec tion with palsy, and may generally be removed by very simple and obvious remedies. It is estimated that about 800,000 freight cars are in use in this country ABOUT UtXDOX. Bt CHARLES EARL HELUNG3. Loudon is the largest and grandest city in the world. However, it is not pleasant city for an American to reside in for auy leuirtb. of time; owing to the gloomy character of the weather. Only now aud then the genial rays of the glo rious sun are reflected o'er the great citv. which is generally overshadowed by dark, lowering clonda.and you know not nhat momeLt the flood-gates of heaven may be o(ened upon you. It is not cafe to go ont without an umbrella, unless you are dcirous of receiving a good dreuchii.g Many Americans la bor under the delusion that umbrellas can be purchased in London at low fig ures. The silk umbrella offered for thirty shillings ($7.50) can be purchased in America for five dollars. Clothing is much cheaper iu England than in the United Stutes. When I wss returning from my recent trip to London, an American gentleman showed me an over coat which he purchased a few days prior to his departure for a trifle over eight dollars. The same coat in the State) would have cot twenty dollars. I examined it closely and fonnd it to be of good material and well made. I re marked to my friend th&t 1 liked it much better than the one I had on, which cost twenty five dollars in Philadel phia. In regard to couveuienccs.the London hotels are far surpassed by the A men -can hotels. The elevator n almost un known, and gas is only used in a tew of the most prominent hotels. Candles are used almost universally. There is so much form and ceremony altout eve rything. You fay so much for lodging; extra for the use of the parlor or sitting room; so mncli for attendance, although you are expected to fee the servants lio erally. You are not "compelled to get your meals st the hotel, unless it is breakfast, which you cannot secure ua -til near nme o'clock. After you have given your order yon are compelled to wait for about half an hour. You al ways have to ask for a napkin, or a glass of water. The waiters move around in a mechanical manner. They do not seem to be possessed of any animation what ever. Thev ere slow and deliberate in all their movements. English iieople are great drinkers. In some streets almost every other place of business is a drinking saloon. W e can safely sav very little water is used to queii i-h thirst in London. Beer is nsed by ail classes of people. Children learn to drink it us sojn as they are able to walk. Yon can get a large mug of beer for tup pence (tour cents). It takes 11,0"0 policemen to govern the city which contains 25,000 known cnimnals. If a man is well educated, and lu gool physical condition, he can get on the police lorce without any po litical influence. The men present a flue apucirauce. and treat those who ask for information courtecnsiy, which is more than can be said of New York or Philadelphia policemen. It seems to be a pleasure lor them to answer inquiries. They never use un necessary violence in handling their prisoners. The hre department of tue city is very primitive, when put in comparison with the New York or Philadelphia fire de partments. The method of rapid transit by the underground railway deserves much rommendution. Trains run about every five minutes, to all prominent parts of the city, from stations along the lins. The fares are very reasonable, aud tens of thousands of persons daily avail them seles of this method cf transit. Ten thousand cabs and two thousand omni buses do a flourishing business. The steamboats are always crowdej. You can nde for several miles for a few pence, and obtain a magnificent view of the river front. Somerset t House pre sents a grand appearance from the deck of a steamer. The current cf the Thames id very stio.ig, and the steamers dash along at a high rate of speed. The Thames embankment extends north and south for several miles. Cleopatra's Needle attracts much attention. I adtnire the manner in which the streets are pa7ed,with asphalt or square blocks of ooi. Cobble stones are aot used. The leading thoroughfares are kept very clean. The street known as Itotten Bow is only used by the Qieen, or members of the Royal family. It runs through Hyde Park, which contains 338 acres. The famous Albert Memorial commands a prominent position in the park. The Zoological Garden occupies a portion of Begent's Hark, which contains 472 acres. The grounds are laid out artistically, and the bndoings are spa cious. Everything is arranged in the most systematic style. The animals on exhibition present a fine appearance, aud the cages are kept veryclean. The garden was openel in the year lS12.The Botamcil Gardens are alto situated in Begent's Park. The American exchange is a great re sort for Americans in London. It is located on tbe Strand, near Trafalgar Sqaare, which is about the centre of the city. All the prominent American papers are kept on file. Members of the Exchange pay five shillings ($1.25) a month. Among the prominent London news papers 1 can mention The Times, Daily Teli graph, Standard, rail Mall Ga zette and Ht. James Gazette. Tue above named journals are the moulders of public opinion. They devote little space to American l.es. Six cents is the price of single copies of the Time. In my opinio a the New York Herald is a much better newspaper, and it is sold at oae-half the price. The Herald office is situated on Fleet stieet. It is visited by many Americans. I inscribed my name in the registering book and seenred a copy of the paper. The Detroit tree Jfts is published in Londoa. at two cents a copy. 1 was much impressed with the ma- jestio grandeur of Windsor Castle. I had no difficulty in tearing a pass to enter the castle, I was allowed to in spect ten State apartments. I lingered lor some time in the throne loom. I wondered how tbe Qieen looked when seated on the beautiful throne.surroan- ded by all the pomp aud vanity ot the occasion. Ihe wails of many of the apartments are embellished with magni ficent specimens of Gobelin tapestry. In the grand vestibule I viewed grand statue of the Qaeen, with her favorite dog "Sharp," executed in fine statuary marble by Bojhm. The ceiling of the State ante-room is painted by Yerrio, and represents a banquet of the Gods. The Znccarelli room contains nine large paintings by that mvster. The "Meet ing of Isaac and Bebeoca," and the Finding of Mo3es, are truly magnifi cent specimens. It was on the reputa tion of the first-named p'cture that Znccarelli rested his fame. The grand reception room is ornamented in the style of Louis XtV. The walls are em - bellished with specimens of Gobelin ta pestry, representing the story of Jason and Medea. The guard chamber con tains a splendid collection of arms and armour. I was conducted through tbe royal stables and coach booses, and viewed the beautiful grey and bay car riage and saddle horses used by Her Majetty and the royal family. The names of some of the horses: 1'iogteas, Foxglove, Faust, Folly. Diuorah, Fair fax. Fairplay. Fan tee, Bule, Fraulein, uluebell. Profit, Busouit, Cloister, Jes sie and Cracknel!. Thro' Blazing Wood. Through Idaho and down toe mighty Columbia is a journey worth a pilgrimage around the world. We nave seen its wun deis, but ran a gauntlet of fire t its portal, where, in an hour, nature's labor of hundred years was being (wallowed up in smoke and flames. Yesterday tbe sir was blue with smoke. Tbe mountains looked dim or drew their jagged peaks clean out of sight. For a day or two it bad been hazy toward the west, and we had heard stories ot the forest nrei. To day, how ever, the smoke grew thicker and rolled upon the westerly winds in deuse clouds. We bad a glimpse of tbe Inferno. We had left Montana to cross Idaho, when about 9 o clock tbe train came to a stop without a moment's warning in the midst ot a wilderness. We hastened to the platform and looked forward. There was spread out a panorama such as seldom greets the eye ot man. The forest was one mass of seething flime. The engine panted a tune or two, and then, gathering courage, crept nearer. A few hundred yards, and it again came to a standstill. It was impossible to pass. Tbe heat mide the paint on tbe cars crack. Tbe glass of ths windows grew feverish under the heated breath from the fire. There was. amid all the glare, the roar of an approach ing tomato, crackling and popping like a giant's whin. This was accompanied by a hissing like the sound of trying salt, as tne green foliage of the living pines was con sumed with a while flash. Tuis roaring and crackling aud snapping, terrible as it was, only set off the grand accompaniment of falling trees. Every five seconds a giant, with the strength of a score ot centuries, measured his two bun drcd feet across the fiery bed to which he had been felled, lie stood still, seared to the core, and his hoary top was crowned with lire. As he yielded the mountains rolled back the booming of cannon trotn one height to tiie other. We held our breath and gaze at the sky, overcast with leaden smoke, tinted here ana there with a rosy hue. The crashing of the fallen giants is still for a moment. The hre breaks through the gloom of the forest iutneo place. The flames go racing like demons up tall trees and qu ver in their top like ruddy lantreus for a moment. The foliage lu' lts away with the first hot breath, and then tbe crashing ard booming goes on agum. For the moment the rush and crackle is drowned and the very crags of the mountain side seem to be rolling on us from their seals above our beads. We a.-k tue conductor when we can go on. lie says two hour?. Long piles cf wood atl about the track have bauht tire, aud scores or Uninaraen, with loug poles in their hands are hurrying up from the nearest station to save the track from ruin. Two hours pass, and still the infernal pan demoniuin of hissing, roaring, ciackmg, booming, crashing devastation goes on. The conductor and engineer are afraid to go on. They fear tbe heat will fire our train. Should it yield to the first spark it would melt away like tinder in a furnace. Fur over two hours we watched tbe scourge till it drew away from us and let us go ou. Fancy Cane. The deal ir took down several canes from a rack against the wall, and taking a very light-cclored stick bom among them studded with silver uaiis, said: "Con you tell me what this is and where it comes from?" The cane was drab in color and very slim at the bottom, tke hendle being composed ot a natural root. ".nglish ash? ventured the repor ter. "That's it, exactl v, and not one in a hundred can tell this wood when thev see it, either. It is a very peculiar wood being sometimes very pbable and then again very brittle, iliey are used a great deal by those who dress for eflect only. They cost from 25 cents to $4, according to their quality. "What are the fancy woods? "Black and white bamboo have had the foremost position for some time past," was the reply, "but are gradnally going ont before the pretty ash. A black bamboo with sUver mounting makes a handsome cane without a doubt, but then you see, people don't want pretty things as much as they do odd patterns. Ebony is an odd wood, bnt is still nsed a great deal because it s reliable." "Do slims' often buy heavy canes?" "Slims,' what are they?'' asked the clerk in surprise. "Sum is a new name for dudes. "On, I see. Well, no, bnt they often bay the Holly Hock, which is a very barge can, but not as heavy as a willow switch. It gives tne impression that it is very heavy." "llua, he said in conclusion, "is also a nice wood, being very pliable. Can yon guess what it i1 Well, it's snake wood, and when mounted insuver makes a splendid stick." There are several varieties of heads and handles to canes the Opera, Polo, Mascot, Zulu, Rustic and Sickle being amonz those most soughtafter. Armu Leaves. To preserve the brilliant colors of autumn leaves, their stems should be dipped in melted yel low beeswax. The leaves should be well dried. By piercing the leaf near the stem with thread wire they can be woven on coarser wire, or on large cord, into any description of garland or de sign, it is ot the lust importance to select the most beautiful and brightly- tinted leaves, inoee with odd, bright spots and nnnitnral marks ara consid ered the choicest. Those leive1, too. which are touched with ripeness and delicately shaded in color from the up per and broader port to the point, are very desirable to intersperse with the gaudier ones. Being well dried and pressed, they can be perfectly prepared for adorning a room by quickly ironing each leaf with a moderately heated smoothing iron drawn quickly oyer a piece of beeswax. Ferns are best gath ered in September and October. TJte skeleton of the carion crow weighs when dry only twenty-three grains. Wa-lir t.am -. The most popular game that the Chinese gamblers play in various cities ' throughout the United States is called ' t t.n ttL.n 'T.... V) ft 1.1 .l.ll llIC 4 tll X.1U. At lt3 4 1IK7 tltltCU with a pile of small Chinese copper coins, some three or four hundred of them at a time. The dealer sits at the end of a long table, usually about four feet high, and immediately before lihn is the pile of the aforesaid coins, and iu the centre of the table is placed a square piece of bright tin about twelve inches square. Lpou this tin are placed chqis representing various denonuna tious in money, and around it are numbers 1, '2, 3, 4. Wheti everything was in readiness the dealer gnosis a handful of the copier coins before him and places them in a separate pile from the hundreds of others, ile covers the pile quickly with au oval tin cover, which is the signal for the betters to begin their work. When the bets are all on or when the betters have all taken their hands off from their stakes the dealer immediately uncov ers the pile of coins, and then proceeds to slowly take away the coins, tour at a time, with a little slender stick, with rolled-up sleeves. The last nuniljers of the coins, either one. two. three or four, settles the fates of fortunes of the betters. If you have your il placed squarely on No. 1 when the last pulling of the coins is only one, then you get S3 plus your f 1 and the dealer gets 7 per cent, of what you win, and if you have placed your dollar on No. 1 towards No. 2. when it comes out one coin for the last pull, you will then win but $2 plus your capital aud less the winner's commis sion, nut when you bet between and 2, cither one of the two utiuiliers come out, you will win, but only il and your capital. Y'ou cannot bet N'os. 1 aud 4, nor 2 and 3, for you are not allowed to bet across the plate contain ing the chips, and the chip always accompanies the cash you place iqon the numbers, for then it indicates the exact amount you wish to bet. The uncovering of the pile of coins always creates great excitement among all the gamblers present, and even the dealer is frequently so excited that his hands actually tremble while he is slowly re moving the copper coins from the much-watched pile before him, for even he himself cannot tell the exact num ber that is to come out. Indeed, he is only told by the rest the nuniler long before he could see it himself, as he has to attentively w.i tli that he takes away the right number of coins at each pull, or he is made liable to luy the stakes at all the numbers when a suigle mistake is detected bv the ex cited gamblers at the table, Another favorite game is tne "Boch Ka Puui," or ioiicy-playuig. This consists of a square piece of white pa per containing eighty Chinese charac ters, every one diiferent. Out cf this eighty letters or characters you are al lowed to buy ten, sometimes titteem You can pay as much as you like for this privilege; for instance, if you juy fifty cents you can then select anv ten characters you wish out of the eighty on the KiH't and mark them, lou pocket the duplicate of the one you marked. L"ioii the drawing hour the dealer rolls up his sleeves before the purclmsers ot these pnveleges. b ion the wall immediately in his rear is a large black board, on which is plainly but lightly stuck eighty large letters the exact counterpart of those pruned up.-n the square piece ot paier on which you have marked your chosen letters. 1- rom this board he slowlv with outstretched hand, pulls off one letter at a time, and, showing it to the audience each time, he folds it, and are always four before him upon a coiuiter to be seen by any one, that there 1 no cheating done. Each of these bowls is to coutai.i twenty of the aforesaid eighty letters well mixed. Then four little pieces of tuiier; each with a number written on it to corres pond with the numbers marked upon the bowls, namely: 1, 2, 3, aud 4. These are likewise held up before the audi ence one at a time, and folded and twisted tightly are then thrown into a shallow diyh. One of these is to be taken out by any one individual of the audience, which is then oined and read aloud aud shown, announcing the number it contained. The bowl that bore that number with the twenty letters will be the ones to l used as the lucky letters that would bring fortunes to those who hold tickets piovidiug they have hit enough letters among the ten they bought. These twenty letters are then one by one oieiied by the dealer through the same process as before, only now backward, and every letter thus oieued is called off aloud before it is Mated back upon the board, while at the same time a clerk is employed in marking on the square piece ot palter that contained the eighty letters as each of the entire twenty has been called off. When you only hit one or two letters of the ten you bought you get nothing; when you get four of these lucky letters you only get your capital back, but five letters (if you have paid $1 tor your ten) will bring you 57; six letters, $75; seven letters; 4J0: eight letters, 51,000; nine letters, $.,0U0;teu letters ci2 000. Odd Mongolian Hatnts. The Mongol is humane, almost to ex cess, toward me meanest creatures. An almost incredible instance of that humanity is recorded by au author, whose camel-driver, being as bald as Nero, had been maddened one evening by a cloud of mosquitoes. In the night came a fsost, and in the morning the insects were beniiuibeiL Ou dear, oh dear, the mosquitoes are frozen:'' said the camel-driver, compassionately. V Christian would have talleu tition them with a slipier and spared neither age nor sex. Mongols, it seems, have no equivalent for "good-bye;" at any rate, if they have they seldom or never use it, and so avoid a distressing phrase. A bow and a smile, it appears, suffice for nearly all occasions unless, per haps, between lovers and intimate re lations. The way a Mongol eats meat at least among the tribes of which our author had exjierience can not be recommended on grounds either of sa fety or elegance. He takes a large piece of meat in his left hand, having a knife in his right, fastens his teeth hi the meat, and with a sudden flash of steel cuts off a piece close to his liis. It is evident that a prominent nose is a great disad vantage at a meal thus eaten and it is said that the sight of a table ful of guests performing after this fashion is enough to appal the stoutest heart. The Mongol does not yield to the Furotiean in abuse of strong drink; and one of the Mongol's favorite dis eases is that which is supjosed rightly or wrongly, to be especially prevalent in the laud of "whasky. Why People Tak Median. It is to be ieared that to most people medicine is not an erudite science or learaed art, but is little more than the commonplace administration of physic Tbey cannot understand medicine without drugs, and its virtue and power are poou- lvly measured by the violence ot its oper ations. Its very name is in ordinary parlance synonimous with physic Take from it its pU's aud potions, and for them vou take away its whole art an I mystery, Tuev do not believe In a scheme of treat ment, however deep laid ail sktiltul. which does not include a certain statutory dosage. So that, as a rule, medical men are practically compelled to give their patients a visible object of f titu :a some form of physic, which may be at most designed to eSfect some vejy subordinate purpose. And it is remarks') e bow strongly even among the educated classes this fecheg prevails. Cure by the administration of mixtures and boluses is so fixed and ancient a tradition that it is only very slowly that the world will give it up. The anxiety of the friends of tbe patient w ints to do more than fol'ow the simple directions of "nursiug, whicb have been so carefu'lr inculcated and possesses apparently s httle remedial power. There is nothing of the unknown about them in which a fluttering hope ot great advantage can nestle. Thus it is necessary to educate the world into a beam in medicine apart from drug?, which finds its power of curing in adaptations nf the common conditions of life and applications of physiological facts a medicine which takes into its haads the whole life, and orders and fashions its every detail with scientific deuniteness. 1. is found in every day practice that th'.s popular misunder standing of the modern spirit of medicine constantly checks tha little tentative advances of a more sciectinc treatment, and it is necessary that it should be gener ally understood how powerful the various piocesses of the ico wuiy may be affected by the manipulations ot the conditions ot common life. A Touchlns Inrl.lent In a liottery laciory at OhiciuuaUi there is a workman w ho had one small invalid child at home. He wrought at his trade with exemplary fidelity, being always in the shop with the openiug of the dav. Ile managed, however, to bear each evening to the bedside of his wee lad." as he called him, a tlower, a bit of riblMin, or a fragment of crimson glass indeed, anything that would lie out on the wi ite counterpane and give a color to the room. He was a quiet, uuseiitime tal man, but never went home at night without something that would make the wan face light up with y at his return, ile never said to a living soul that he loved that boy so niucli. Still he went on patiently lov ing him. Aud by and by he moved tliat whole shop into positively real but unconscious fellowship with him. The workmem made curious little jars and cups iqioii their wheels, and painted liuiinutive pictures down their sides before thev stuck theiuintiie comers f the kiln at burning time. One brought some fruit in the bulge of his apron, aiidanothereiigravins ma rude scrap book. Not one of them whis pered a word, for this solemu thing was not to be talked alnmt. i hey put them in the old man's hat, where he found them he understood all about it, and, believe it or not, cynics, as you will but it is a fact, that the entire iottery full of men, of rather coarse fibre by nature, grew quiet as the months drifted, liecoiuing geulle an 1 kind, and some dropied swearing as the weary look on the patient fellow-worker's face told them beyond mistake that the inevitable shadow was drawing nearer. bvery dav now some one did a piece of work for him and put it on the sanded hiuk todry so that hecould come later :tnd go earlier. Sj, wheu the bell t' died, and the little cotlin came out of the lowly door right around the corner, out of sight, there stood 100 stalwart work- lugnien from the pottery with then lean clothes on, most of whom gave a half day's time tor the privilege of akmg part in the simple procession, aud following to the grave that small bunion of a child which probably not one had ever seen. Whisky lilven .tow y Electrisily, 'Give it a shoojk." A young man from Chicago stood before one of the most elegant bars in Cleveland and gave the above order to the bartender, who stood waiting for a citizen to disuse of rather a big drink of pure whisky. A what, sali?-' asked the chemist, leaning over the bar to catch the cus tomer's remark. "Why a shock. Haven't you im ported au electrical machine here yet? They're getting popular out West." The young man raised the glass to his lips and drank its contents at one draught. "It is nothing but a cheap method of purifying whisky," said he. "age and purity are almost synonymous iu speaking of liquor. By this process every saloon can have a little niachiue turned by hand and every person can be iersoualIy convinced that his whisky is electrically pure. All that Is neces sary is to have two blocks of,earlon, which are inserted in tlia liquor to be purified. These carbons are connected with the positive and negative jioics of au ordinary electrical machine and are wrapped about with flannel. The chemical action iqxiu the liquor is such that all the impuritie are attached thereto. The excess of fusil oil also finds lodgment in the flannel, and when the latter is removed it loo'ks as if it had been steeped iu brine. Dealers will no longer need to use the antiqua ted prevarication that wine has been sent ou a sea voyage, ihe necessary age can be attached to it by a dynamo- electric machine in a very few inm ates. ' Some l'ulnto of Ktlaiuette. Wbea a lady senia out r .cent ion cards and e'je receives ouly cards in itturn, there tbe social interchange terminates until it is taken up aain by the persons who thus accept her hospitalities. Perhaps they are uniDle to caiL and in this case it is their privilege to explain if they d sire to do so. When a bride returns calls during tne first year, sbe sends up a card wun "Mr. and Mrs." upon it, aiu.-il she is vidting alone. Sb-J also leaves b:r biubands individual cord fr the gentleuvin or gentlemen of the house. The combined card is lor the lady only. At table the lathes are curved first always. Ths head of the family waits npon a lady guest or a lady resident before he serves any gen Jjinm, her age having nothing to do with it- The late Count Ciiarabord, accord ing to the Paris (VumW, was kept alive for several weeks by a preparation of pepsin. NEWS IN BRIEF. In Savannah, tia., an income over S0O per annum is subject toacitytax. Gladstone has written altogether nearly 3t)0 book-t, tr.i'i-la"i jus an 1 n nographs. The anti-bilious American tomato are shipped largely to London for the use of her clulw. Baptist statistics show an average of somewhat over 17.s baptized in the United States on each Sunday. In Italy and Japan water from hot springs is used extensively in gardens for the production of early crops. Assays of the nickel ore discovered in Churchill county, Nev.. are said to have yielded 30 percent, of pure ur.-tal. The oar Is mightier than the saw. Ilaulau has rowed $V!,0 X together in six years, while Courtney saw no such chance. Copiier is recommended bv the American architect as a material great ly smerior to tin, m point of economy, as a roofing material. -Eight of the graduating class of the University of Virginia this year have been called to professorships in other colleges of the South. The Marquis of Lome and Stuart Cumberland, the mind render, are said to resemble each other in iiersoual ap pearance to a remarkable degree. A steady decrease in the im-xrt.i- tion of foreign wines and whiskies and a corresponding increase in the impor tation of foreign beer is noticeable. Professor Goode savs that there are 1.400 kinds of fish in the waters of the United States, and 30J of these are useful either as to-xl or in some other wav. The mold iu which the b ills weigh ing 2 lbs eacu were cast for tli? or I John Brown cannon is n v in i)sses- sion of the Iowa State Historical Soci ety in Iowa City. According to the E'oers piovrus. which was written at the latest in the sixteenth century B. C, the Egyptians knew that the heart was the centre of the circulatory system. In the Cassa del Labrador, or la borer's cottage, the little palace erected by Charles 1 V. of Spam, at Araujue. nearly all the ornaments are of gold. qut some are ot platiua. According to the latefcotisus of Japan, taken the first of the present year, the population of the em;iM is 30,700,110, of whom lS.-V.y.W are mules aud 1.s,1l2,112 females. There must be some pretty larg,' apiaries m t londa. Olat Olesm, ot New Smyrna, is said to have extracted forty barrels of honey, when he had to susjiend operations t wait for mure barrels. Glass s'abs, aluut IS inches sniaie by an iucii an I a half iu tliickn ss, are coming into extensive use for ll oriug in Palis business houses. They are roughened on the surface an I are laid in iron frames. Glasgow has .'!.-.,siit houses of oa.' room each, ."i2,000 of two rooms, 17,70 of three rooms, 0;jO of four romis aa I 02oof five rooms or over. 'lvo-th'.rds of the eople live in hotisesot" not in re than two apartments. Iu Philadelphia, which pr.hlu -es one-fourth the total supply of ho.ieiy aud worsted goxls made in this coun try, America i m.icl inery is used. English machines are used in other worsted and hosiery mills. There are in the United States in the neighborhood of 1OJ.000 uatives ot" Bohemia, Wisconsin has the greatest nuuilier; next in nuuilter Illinois, Iowa, New York, Minnesota, Ohio, Kansas, Texas and Pennsylvania. Erie, Pa., has started a "National Longevity Union,'' the lneuibcas of which are to be instructed in the prin ciples of sanitary science anil to have medical attendance tree of other char ges than dues, which are f I kt mouth for man and wife and 10 cents for ea -h child. The Tobacco See 1 is smaller even than that of the mustard, but it rivals the acorn in a certain kind of expan siveness and growth. List year tend ing June 30th l, the revenue received by the Federal Government from the pro duct of the seed amounted to 12,101, 34!. It is estimated that tha yearly cut ting of pme will, if carried on about ten years longer at the rate that has been maintained in recant years, ex haust the supply, except trie short leaf and "loblolly" pine, which will then, it Ls calculated, be worth more than the best pine of to-day. The total estimated cost of the building operations iu New York citv during the first eight moid Its of the present year was U72. '-!'. The es timated cost of new buildings during the first six months of the year was 31,702,SOo, against 27,lKJ,.,:!ob for the first six inonttiS of lss-j. A juvenile prodigy, the five-year-ol gipsy cymbal player, joska Balough.i creating quite a seusation in lenna lie has repeatedly played before, th Archduchess Marie Valerie, also ii high aristocratic circles, and the Arch bishop Haynalil has presented him with a silver medal. The Free Public Library of Sa:i Francisco, according to its recently published annual report, circulated its 47,000 volumes among 320,000 takers during the lustyear, about three-fifths being for home reading an. I tue remain der circulating iu the library rooms. The apple crop of Kansas is so large this season that it is exiiected to yield more bttshels of that fruit than ever before, despite the destruction caused by wind aud hail storms. On a single twig, aU.ut uine inches long, re cently, nineteen apples . were counted. A bust of Voltaire, discovered among the old models of the roval manufactory of porcelain, has been added to the special collections of Vol- tairean relics at the chateau ot Sans Souci. It is believed to have been presented to Voltaire by Frederick II. New York has, according to the United Suites census of ldo, l,2d,.'77 inhabitants, of whom O'.iO ,702 are males and Olo.Slo females. New York h is a floating population of about :iO,0JO. This includes sojourners at hotels. boarding and lodging houses, and emigrants temporarily stopping in town. A destructive insect with the alarming fam ly nuue of DomesthUc, and which is said to be able to chew up more carpets and woolleu things in a given time, than almost any numberof moths, is increasing his apiiearauce iu this sectiou, it is reported. The Do mestida: comes originally from Euroe, via California, and is afraid of nothing but benzine, among the insecticides. . 91 . 1 i
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