iiiili 'i I i B. P. SCHWEIER, THE OOISTmmOI-THE UUOI-AID THE ESTOBOEMEIT OT THE LAVS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXXVII. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA -COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 24. 1SS3. NO. 43. ww 'fir I tasiwd in mine her tender hand And side by ude, with loiteringW And panning sometime, face t? fT We wandered .lowly ou U,e nramt"' We left behind a laughing crowd- e telt no ikvxI i-. ...... r tKire. our thoughts, thi Wu thf Ihe clear bine heavens that oVr us bowed. .Made us a perfect solitude Where all with peace ,ud Joy was fill-.! W here jarnng fear, and cie were. d And speech were int-rruption rude? So on we wandered, hand In hand O'erglad to lie to each so near ' So heart-content, so fond and dear Alone uion that pleasant strand. ' And when our footsteps were retraced The comrades we had left behind ' "T1- e". wua-.'s upon mind. your Old boy? What fancies have you chased V bile wandering slowly and alone 1 ou are not sunt to .m.n . What do the wild waves sav to-dav By us un&tnied and unknown?" 1 smiled. They could not see the hand I clasped in mine, the upturned lace Their duller eyes beheld no trace Of little footprints in the sand. But that sweet hour along the sea Will never vanish from my heart Vhd, silent, from all else apart ' 1 walked with unseen company. ' AX AFFAIR Or HOJOl., The ot rays of a July sun -jin. down with uncomfortable intensity upon the glaring white sand of the beach, as a somewhat flashily-attired young man shielded himself with an umureiia, ana wawasa the more active selves in tlie brine, which was tossed rather tumultously by strong southerly breeze. . 1 have been looking for you," she "By gracious!" he muttered at length: "aively, as site gave him her hand. "That girl in the blue-bathing suit bad 311(1 Vr eu?r was vanquished coin better be a little more careful; she'll P'etely as the strong, yet centle clasp of O . . u,a ... J-L. I And he took a few steps nearer to unuras uio.niy iemaies, one oi"""J ix"u'"''oj,,ai.uey sauuiereu w horn, a little distance lrom the rest. a,ong Uie 8:411(1 an1 watched the antics setuieu ueciuexiiy veniuresome, the re- ceding waves forming a dangerous undertow. flinging away his umbrella and dashinir across me narrow strip 01 sand, as a uriLWi tliM litimiw ctrin fit Gun.) no try of alarm rose up from the water, and a blue-clad form disappeared from sight, drawn under by the backward rush tf the waves. lie met the next incoming wave, but succeeded in getting beyond it, as a white face appeared in sight and a pair of plump arms were held despairingly toward him. lie was a strong swimmer, and, spite of bis clothing, which impeded him somewhat, managed to reach and grasp the imperiled maiden ere the saline waters closed over her again. Ilis heart throbbed, as her arms clutched alniut his neck, and it seemed altogether probable tlat they would lerisli together; but he broke from her clinging grasp, in a measHre, and bat tled manlully with the turbulent ele ment, so successfully that the next breaker landed them, breathless and exhausted, uiou the beach in a safe position, if not a graceful one. 'l'ou should keep within the protec tion of the life-lines," enjoined the rescuer, as he assisted the half-strangled damsel to her feet. And a moment after she apieared in a bathing house, leaving him to cast rueful glancw at his ruined clothing, and wonder wbo the pretty girl was whom he had saved. And then he realized that he was bareheaded, his hat having disappeared in the hungry maw of the waters, that rolltd and tumbled, as though seeking more substantial victims. In an incredibly short space of time the door of the little box upened again, and a bewildering vision of lovelihes burst uiwu him, and in place of the tiautic, terror-stricken girl of a few moments before, he beheld a stylislily dresjed young lady, her aniber-brown eyes shining w ith mirth, and her face .lunpliug with.smiles, tripping daintily toward him. "1 am exceedingly grateful," she said, in a clear, low voice, "and feel that 1 must apologize for liug the source of so much inconvenience to ou. 1 bad no thought that the water had such power" aud she drew tip her pretty shoulders with a slight shiver, as she gazed at the iucoming waves. .. -Oh I please don t mention it, summered the young man, who was little used to ladies' society, bowing bis batless head and fumblmg in his vest iwcket, from which he drew a piece of drenched pasteboard upon which she could just decipher: . "P. Filmore, Boston, Mass.-' 4.1 r t. 'ifnh' mvself." she said, laughingly, her white teeth gleam- '. b S il I na: and her lug between net nfr ,i .b . 1 firth tmv card suapeiy uauu .,:.. bitol enameieu uii -1 - the legeud: 'Miss Olive Orrington, viiinfrtnn avenue, lioston. "Peter Filmore's saturated vest gave aq.rob as glanced .t the cam Kved. " "i hope. Miss Orrington, ,eive no ill effects from your immer- urlitwr'jnr 1 1 M 'ill IL T a - ... I assistance. You are the one uu- suffered," and she looked commiser auelfat his drenched att.re and un covered head. . .,..:..,.: "'ever niindtnai, "C'7JT" if. up nis umbrella, which had IJeenroU tag about on Uiesand my defenceless uci j iluJSST Uaye you friendsh "Xot any," she returned, 1 am stances." f-sh it whs the most grananoqu. . -r- s frTeit amply be hA. ever made, but he ten- '"F'j sne rewarueu uii"f r dmelpss boarding-house that evenmg : . i thrill penraaea n had heretofore oeeu - peter It bad been the custom of ieie FUmore for a number ot yeaia 1 siou.7' . , n,. "Don't you Know now And then be stopid conf used ly, as ia Orrington?" he whis- silver laugh rippled f rem her fiiW kned y., thoUgh fearful "Excuse me, but there i WP SaTprying ears might hear him, sp.te of that, as 1 was already m to ware ydu ion of the waters, and her butlfermostdisastmuscoiueuces pttne assured him that his pas- would have eiisued but iorjoux -- - throw aside the duti. least toTkT'nt?d for a ,ew o,ent ta of leisure. I once in at His nage-ironer: but l,J .and car: balmv th. :ya :r ar and ? ou ? e Innilrss back to th. But t L I 1? res,Mte from shivery creeping into his bra n and ii.t),or more commendable had fol went in his heart. ?Z K he bad rescued, and ir ., r . ana ic warm. ? .and itted up his Cel not 3-""8eritoe' 48 he bought ot her nhUvi.7,, a.fJ .r.. . . aua. I1nmt only a hard-handed son of tn was j .uuu-uaiiueu son or t r hid 1... i. . . , . . . ' And h T 8J 1 ouly uelled to augment the heart of this confiding maiden he imght. thereby lift himself above the ZTT i,. amu,8 his bread by the i AH thr?VS"t Hie night these thoughts haunted hiin, and visions of plump white anus, a fair, fright,...,! .,!.' framed in the whirling water of an -"t'J,"amty,inm maiden, with I dewy hps and a misciiiov,..,.. :.. her bright eyes, thronged in upon his ntful slumbers and the next afternoon ne dressed himself carefnllv in i.i. other" best suit, for his ward r not exceedingly ample, and strolled Orrington was there, and greeted him with childlike frankness. o . . - . u'VU iinfc "I shall not venture into the water "lc "i-"eta. .uj nerves were a trifle unstrune yesterday." he did not look in the least dis- 'huore felt tliat be was a doomed ni:in for )ta wpM kiiou: iin,iA .-.i; j uVf uuuvt. viur nary circumstances, his case was as cious, and sweet and smiling she was. 11 i . .. auu now uinereui a creature a city belle was from what he had imagined! Iler laugh had such a wholesome, hearty ring in it, and she was so unaf- fiatfAri in licit ntatinaw n-1 i 1 aai-D ivvtivu 111 uvi aniiii 1 y y 1111 1 ta j 3 she could scarcely, as yet, have exceeded uer iweniieiu. Amin Hint, fiicrlit. Iia tvtt nn Iia AA tlia evening before and wrestled with him self. At one moment her evident pleasure in his company lifted him to the Lightest pinnacle of happiness, and then he would be plunged in the deepest abyss of misery as a dingy blacksmith shop, with its glowing forge and lieavy drudgery rose up before him and seemed to stand between himself ami the smil ing object of his newly awakened adoration. H'tlA iil:l U'liprtt llA ll:lil Hint llW f:lfp was a rather secluded seaside resort in 1vuitm pu' Kncrhmri mill 114 lie joined in the comiauy of Miss Orring ton day after day, he uetermineu to win her, it possible, lei me consequences be w hat they would. lie had developed of late a wonder ful liking for feminine society, and sur prised himself at the ease with which he ghded into the ways of the hitherto channel circle; for though he was an entire novice in such matters, he was fairly well read and above the average 01 mieuigeuce. is nno vpniltr l:ltp. ill .TlliV aS the sea lay like a huge mirror in the soft radiance ot the silver inoniigiii, ue jmn.iul tliA mM which lie 1i:k1 been " 1 "It v plymg with unusual vigor, and allowed the boat to doit over me glassy sur face, unruflled by the slightest symptom of a breeze. His companion was looking dreamily t,,vir,i 1ip slmrp. from which strains ot music and sounds of laughter floated like echoes rrom iairj umu. "tcn't thia delicious." said Miss Orrington, turning her radiant face toward him. "li seems as uiuugu nld live out my life in such a sute of beautitude as this." A strong hand seemea to grasp uie throat of the young man. "It is heaven on earth," he answered, in a low, almost hoarse tone. The strange sound of his voice start led her. "Are you sick?" she said, reacuing her hand toward him from the seat in the stern of the little boat "Your voice seems to sound so straugeij . "Vo 1 am very well, indeed," he returned, with an effort, "but I was thinking how soon uiese iaui ua, must end." , , , The oppressed feeling came suuuemy mmn her. and her rosy cheeks paled in the moonlight, "I had never inougui, ul hum,, faltered, "It seems as though we had known each other a lifetime," And the look in her face made him r- and. at the risk of ti frail craft, he threw liim- setfon his knees before her, and clasped her hand, w hich he aevoureu wnu u kisses; while the rtera of the boat sank Shed m over Uie side, and brought spUished . ; the irauquii naici, n him to his senses somewliat. hour Ia3Sed heed-eT au admou- bkwf rd at them as s.e retired to rest behind the hill-tops, ere they realised the uweness oi "- theyrea h y reter, who envied not the angels, J" and pullea mspicv.., ward , h pfllow, and he and tnrow u ' . - and when morn u u-- , a solution than oeiore, uu " i.a .l iv he conjurea tip a uruig the dy, uej c j r I way oui "l , , ., J honorable, felt way out oi u r--.t , ,ould UD V. . . a crisis. ,t least --"vr v. 8tory of , tt Thai r linon his ...1. 1 ham marrying a girl for whom he had never entertained the slightest affection, and then, as his well-nigh hopeless love added fervor to his words, he urged " marry mm immediately, so that this question mitrht ba arttlmi hevnru! all dispute; and the girl, who" was iieiuuung wan emotion, to his infinite delight consented. Their arrangements were of the sim plest possible character, and twenty four hours afterward tlm iriitwts bled in the hotel parlor to witness the impromptu marriage, though all day lontr a horror of what he. was ilnincr liul been creeping over Peter Filmore. chill ing nis heart and paling his usually i uuuy cueeK. And now, as the hour drew near, auu ue went lo meet the guileless, coa uuuig gin, ne ieit more like a con demned felon going to his execution, man a prospective bridegroom. Ilis eyes devoured her hungrily, lie noted her din) Died shoulders that gleamed like ivory above tne dainty muslin drees she wore, with the knots or iiowers and simple adornments that so enhanced her beauty, for no jewels snone upon her lair person; and then, at me last moment, his manhood as serted itself, and be begeed for a mo ments private conversation with her. A look of horror gleamed in the brown eyes of the girl as thev stood alone in a side-room. She seemed al most fainting, and grasped a chair for supiort as he leaned toward her, with set lips and the impress of death upon his face. "Miss Orrington, I cannot marry you!" came from his pallid lips, low, yet distinct, and then he stopped, while the deceived girl sank into the chair and sobbed piteously. I would have made you a good wife," she moaned, as l'eter gasped for breath and tottered back and forth before her. But I am only a blacksmith and liave nothing but my trade to depend upon. It would take nearly my hist dollar to pay the clergyman," he said, at length, pausing before the weeping girl, "and I cannot wed one so far above me." Miss Orrington sprang to her feet and bounded forward. Her arms were about his neck, her tear-bedewed face was pressed to his, while the words she uttered seemed to come from the deptlis of her tender, girlish heart: "Oh, Peter, Peter! I am so glad! I am nothing but a ladies' maid, and 1 thought I would try to do this summer as my nils tress does; but if we love each other what do we care for money? I thought you were going to cast me off because of my poverty!" Sever a happier bridegroom than Peter Filmere led his blushing bride to the altar, albeit the guests had become somewhat impatient at the delay; and the honest blacksmith is as proud of his tidy home and pretty wife as ever was a prince ot his goigeous palace and bejeweled consort. The KvUoinleM NaKuenny. This river of death of Sagueuay, is bottomless. You might, if possible, drain the St. Lawrence river dry, savs Mr, Ie Moiue, the Canadian authority, and yet this dark, still river would be able to float the Great Eastern and all her majesty's shins of the line. "A bottomless river" sounds strangely new; indeed, were it not so 1 should not trouble you or myself to mention it. i5ut this river is thus far untathomed. It is full of counter currents, swift, lerilous in the extreme. As the vast red moon comes shouldering up out of the St. Lawrence away above toward the sea and stood there a glowing period to a great day, we draw back from Tadousac, where the ancient church sits in the tawnsy sand and scattering grass.and, rounding a granite headland. we slowly steamed up tne sueui nveroi death. It widened a little as we went forward, but even its mile of water looked narrow euougn as we crepi up between the great naked walls of slate and granite that shut out these dark waters from every living thing. On the right hand great, naked and mono tonous capes of slate and toppling granite. On the left hand, granite and slate and granite, and an silent, an new and nude, as if just fallen half finished from God's band. One mile, two miles, twenty miles, and only the weary wall of trranite and slate; only the great massive monotony of nude and uncom pleted earth. Xow the walls would . - . j i ii seem to close in oeiore us anu uar aii nossible advance. Then as we round ed another weary and eternal cape of overhanging granite, in its few fright ened and torn trees, the uarK way would open before us. And ten, twen ty, thirty miles more of silence, gloom, river of death. Xo sound. ' o sign of life is here. Summer or winter, spring time or autumn, all seasons alike, no bird, no beast, not even the smallest in sect, save only a possible housefly that may harbor in ine sieamuoas anu so ue brought with you, is ever seen here. This is literally the river of death. I know no spot like it on the face of this earth. Our deserts with their owls, horn-toads. Drairie dogs, and rattle snakes are populous with life in com parison. And yet this awful absence of all kinds of life con not be aue to me waters. They are famous for hsh ot the lstkind. The air is certainly delicious. Rut all this vast nver's shore is as empty of life as when "darkness was upon the race ot me ueep.- And no man nas setiieu uere. x or nearly 100 miles not a sign of man is seen. 1 ou seem to oea son ol voiuui- bus, as if no man had ever been here lMfore votu Al every lurn ol a great, granite cape these lines rhymed inces santly in my ears: We were the first that ejer burst Upon that silent sea. An hour cast midnight and we near- ed the central object of the journey, Cape Trinity, a granite wall of about 2.000 feet, wmcn in places iiieraiiy overhangs the ship. Our captain laid the vessel closely against tne monomn, and for a moment rested there. Vie seemed so small. The great steamer was as a little top, held out there in the hollow of God's hand. So sound anywhere. Xo sign of life, or light, save the moon, that tilled the canyon with her silver and lit the amber river of death with a tender and an al luring light. Jo lighthouse, no light from the habitations of man far away on the mountains; only the stars that hung above us, locked in the stony hel mets of their everlasting hills. The cultivation in Florida of the camphor tree is suggested. The domestication of buffalo calves is being attempted in Arkansas. Mark Twain's Exercise, Mark Twain went to Eliuira last summer to find a quiet place to write lie became somewhat out of health, and one day recently he was interrupted by the family physician, who called to make a friendly visit. Into his sympa thetic ear was poured the tale of the humorist's woes, and after a moment's consultation he remarked: "Clemens, what you need is cise!" With a look of gentle reproach which soon changed to anxious innocence, the hero of many au experience of rough ing it (in pictures) and tranis at home and abroad (on ler), made reply: "Well, that's all right, but who's go ing to do it for me? You see," he con tinued, "the men on t'-e place are all busy, and the children ain't big enough to accomplish anything and " "You must do it yourself !" was the professional stop put to his demur. "lx it myself ? How in thunder do you expect why, what can I do? There aint a good poker player on this hill, and the hammock broke down yester day, so I can't use that " "o, no," interrupted the doctor, you must have active, exertive exer cise; something that looks like work, you know I You can walk down town, 71 "Hold on, you've struck it," exclaim ed Mark. "I'll chop wood I" :iBest thing you can do." said the doctor, as he took his leave. "It brings into play so many varied muscles, ex pands the chest, deeiens the inspira tion and superinduces a more bountiful oxygenation by the beautiful process of enoosmosis and exosmosis, and hence the red corpuscles " "Here, have a cigar." said Twain. pushing a box before him, "and let up on Aloses." 'You musu't smoke, you know," the doctor said, as he picked out a weed. "Oh ! no, I've stopiied smoking," said Twain, as he carefully placed a sheet of copy paper over the three old stumps and a brier pipe. "I found tliat it disagreed with my family long ago." The doctor departed, and Clemens, with a glow of renewed health already shining iu anticipation on his brow, took one of the farm hands from the harvest field and sent him to town after a new axe. He returned with the tool bright-bladed, sharp-edged. Finally, thinking he had the hang of the thing, Clemens had the man hitch up and drive up the road about a mile to a piece of woods. The members of the family went with him to look for flow ers and ljerries while he chopped. Ar riving at the desired spot, he carefully took out the axe, unwrapped the old coat, and laid the tool down beside the stump of a dead pine. I bo family wandered away, picked one or two flow ers, and then hastened back, as they heard him shout their names. "I've done ei:eugh for to-dav," he said, as they came near. They saw tour blisters on his hands and a piece of new leather shining on one of his boots, but no wood lying around. How ever, they said nothing and went home ; the hired man carrying the ax. Xhat evening, sitting on the piazza, applying arnica to his hands, he said: "It s hard work, but 1 in going to keep it up ! It's splendid exercise, and just see how it has built up other great men I Why, you know, Goeelcy pro longed bis life many years by chopping at ChapiKiqua, and Gladstone is alive yet and making tilings hot in Egypt by reason of the beneficial results of an hour's chopping every day. You wait a month and see me I I'll be able to fight Tug Wilson and row Courtney and out talk Beecher." All this was several days since. Cle mens noticed his new axe lying where he had left it on his return from his in itial trip, its brightness changed to re proachful rust. Conscience smote him. He would resume exercise. He would attack anew the nionarchs of the forest. He would acquire muscle. So he bold ly marched for the same piece of woods and began oierations ou the old pine. But a few minutes had elapsed before six-footer appeared before him and the following colloquy ensued: '.Now, you skin right out ' here young man I These is my woods, and you 11 learn to let folkses proiierty alone after I'm through with ye ! Git, now !" Searching on his forehead for au im aginary bead of sweat. Twain glances dubiously at the enraged bucolic, and said: 'Well, wh what seems to be the matter with you?" "Matter.ril show ye I 1 rynf to'steal my wood I" "liut, my good man, I don t want vour wood I" "Then what are you cutting it for ?" "Whv, for exercise, that's all. The doctor said " "Oh, that's too thin ! Exercise I You look like a man that would do anything for exercise. Xow (with re newed energy), you get right out o' here I liight out," and the farmer made threatening advances. "Uut but look here, my good man. you don't know who I am. You are talking to a " "1 es, 1 do know. 1 ou're that Cle mens. I've heard about your being here about four weeks ago, and I've had my eye on you ever since ! Xow (picking up a pine root), you git," Clemens took up the axe,cast a w ali en ng look on the bucolic, and sadly climbed out of the wood, over the teuce, and out of danger, the voice of the en raged landowner sounding in his ears for some distance down the road. Trap-Shooting and Field-Shooting. A man may excel in trap-shooting and yet never become anything ot a field shot; it is not in him. There are men whom neither trap work nor field work can ever Make crack field shots. We have frequently been out shooting with a friend whose company we value most - highly; he has a large fund of woodcraft, is a close observer, and as fnll f ardor as any sportsman we ever knew. He has followed the dogs day in and day out, woodcock, grouse aud quail; fired no one knows how many thousands of shots at the birds. The total amount of game actually brought to bag by him the last ten years com prises two ruffed grouse and woodcock and there is every reason to believe that the grouse were killed by accident. As a field shot this man is a veritable, incomglble"duffer." But at the traps he can break ten glass balls straight, cr kill the live birds sprung from a trap as often as any other gunner in bis Vicinity. Settled by Wlr. A lady entered the office of a law firm on Montague street aud consulted Mr. P., the junior partner, as to how she should act in a difficulty. She had rented part of her house to Mr. W., who cleared out, owing her $2iK) for rent. He had removed with the inten tion of going to Bridgeport, aud his furniture was on the way to the boat, which was to leave shurtly for the Con necticut town. Mr. P. immediately preiiared the necessary papers and got an attachment. A clerk was despatch ed to Xew Yerk with the directions to put the attachment in the hands of the sheriff at once, and to search the river trout for the furniture. Ihe ladv de- iwrted, and Mr. P. awaited develop ments. An hour later Mr. W. entered the lawyer's office. He wore a non chalant air. He carried his hands in his pockets and a cigar in his mouth. "I understand," said he to Mr. P.. 'that you are trying to seize my prop erty." " l ou are the man. I suppose." Mr. P. answered, "who hired Mrs. Blank's house and quitted without paying the rent, and are removing your furniture to Connecticut r" "That's about the size of it." Mr. W. said, "and I thought I would just stop in and ask whether you had got my property yet?" Then be laughed gaily as one who had made a pleasant joke At that moment there came a nng at the telephone. Mr. P. jumped up and responded with the usual Hello." "Who's that?" came back. "I P.," was the answer, Mr. P. recogniz ing the voice of his clerk who had gone over the river with the attach ment. "We've bunted everywhere." came through the telephone, "and cant hnd the furniture." Mr. P. turned to Mr. W. and said: What are you going to do about it?" In the first place." Mr. W. replied. "I want to know w hether you got my furniture ha ha!'- Tell the sheriff." said Mr. P.. with his lips to the telephone, "to take the furniture off the boat and put it iu the storehouse." Hold, there." Mr. W. exclaimed. his tone of jubilant bauter changed to one of genuine alarm; "I don't want the fnrniture taken off the boat." Well, what shall we do?" Mr. 1. said; "you hear my orders?" Ihe telephone 111 rang violently. Mr. P. put his ear to the funnel aud heard these words delivered with great distinctness and emphasis: "I-tell-you-we-haven't-jiot-the-furuiture-we-can't-fmd-it." "I don't care if the sheriff's fees are $50," Mr. P. shouted in return through the instrument; "the defendant has to foot the bill. Store the furniture at once." "Iok here Mr. P.." the defendant said, in a tone of supplication; "what's the best 1 can do?" The bell rang again furiously. Mr. P. put his ear to the tube aud the speak er at the other end said in tones which Mr. P. recognized as those of a clerk in the sheriff's oflice. "Blank, blank you, what do you mean? Are you crazy? Dou't you hear? We haven't got the blank, blank furniture, and we don't snow where it is." "Just so." replied Mr. 1'. "Do the best you can, aud damage it as little as possible. The defendant will have to itand the expenses." Xow don't be severe." Mr.W. said. almost in despair; "tell me what you demand." "Pay the full amount due." renlied Mr. P., "and we'll throw off the costs and exjienses." 1 he bell again rang with louder tones than before. Mr. P. listened. The voice that answered said: "I'll be blank blanked if I ever came across such stu pidity. Hold on and I'll siell it out to ou." And then carefully, letter by letter. the voice sjielled uut: "We haven't been able to find the furniture." The defendant by this time had got out his pocket-book and was counting out the bills. When he had paid the $200 Mr. 1. went to the telephone and called up the sheriff's office once more. ow. then, stupid, what's the mat ter?" was the reply. "Give the sheriff directions to let the furniture go." Mr. . said. Then he sat down aud wrote a re ceipt. The tell went off again like mail. Mr. P. coolly placed his mouth to the telephone and said: "Say, tell the sheriff to let the furniture go and come to me for his fees." Then Mr. P.. with a smile on his face listened for a reply, "Blank, blank you, you thick-headed ass," came over the wires Into Mr. P.'s ears, "we haven't got the property." 1 lien .Mr. . quitted the othce. Mr. i'. rang up the sherm and received a highly complimentary reply. Then it was Air. P. s turn. "W hue you were bellowing over the wires," he said. the defendant was by my side, and I had to make the proper answer to bring him to terms. Anything stupid or like an ass in that? Send over your bill, the suit's settled." Wanted to b a Pitcher. "Who Is this gentleman that paia calls a daisy.'" 'He is a ball player, my dear." "But papa said he had a 'phenome nal curve,' and that they couldn't hit him." 'Yes, my dear." . "But, mamma, he stood up straight. aud 1 didn't see any one try to hit him." 'Papa meant the ball, my dear." 'Yes, mamma, but I didn't see the ball." "Xeither could the batters, my dear." "But what makes every one talk about him and call him a 'daisy?'" "iiecause he's the new pitcher from Chicago, whom the manager of the club has just secured at $-5,000 a sea son." 'But is he so very smart, mamma?' 'Only as a pitcher." "But can't he really write his own name, mamma?" Sj they say, mv dear." And yet they give him $.',000?" Yes, my dear." When I grow up can't I be a pitcher, M-.t4mma?" Perhaps, my dear. But why?" "Could I get $3,000?" "Perhaps." "And not have to learn to read write?" or Ba&xxy added to pea soup helps to give it an appetizing flavor, and it adds to its nutritive qnaUtie also. The Oyiter'a Trunk. Said Prof. Rice, of Xew York. will show you Uie proboscis of an oys ter, something rarely seen except by scientists exjierimentnig like myself. 1 ou see in this little bowl of water something that looks like a piece of thin scale, with a fragmf mt of substance to it. all the size of a lady's bnger nail: well, that's an infant oyster, about a month old. I will now place it under the microscope, and you will then dis cover the proboscis." In a moment the professor had adjust ed the lens, and the reporter looked. He at once drew back in horror and grasped for the table. The professor smiled. lhrouL'h the tubes of the microscope the reporter gazed again, into a wide sea, wherein lay a hideous monster,aud frounts indescribable body there rose a great serpentine coil which swayed hither and thither as if search ing for a victim. "We are not certain of the functions of the proboscis yet. but think that, like an elephant's trunk, it is made use of to catch and pass the food to the mouth. When the oyster is five montlis old it loses its proboscis; that is, it Is absorbed and becomes part of the hps. I will now " show you the main artery weich helps the oyster's heart to per form its proper functions." Again the glass was adj us ted. "You see tliat dark line which contracts and enlarges continually; tliat is the artery referred to." To the reporter the artery looked to be at least an eighth of a mile in length and as large around as a log. "We will now look at the heart; sometimes it doesn't appear to beat, but I guess this bright morning it will be right, Ahl yes, there it goes beautiful ly." The reporter's eyes had now become quite used to both the ocean and its queer inhabitant, and soon his eyes rested on a throbbing mountain. There was something fascinating about the throbbing of the centre of life. "I have counted the pulsations of the heart," said the Professor, "and it ran from thirty-five to fifty a minute; that of a full-grown oyster does not bit so fast. I will now show you its tenta cles." Again the lens was adjusted and the monster examined, and from its sides stretched away out into the sea were a number of long arms, but without hands or fingers, and the monster kept stretching them out and pulling them in. Making Start. ''I am on my way East and have about three hours in which to see De troit," said a stranger yesterday to a po liceman on Jefferson avenue. "I want to begin right. Xow, then, you of course have the finest Fire 1 Apart ment in the country?" "1 es, sir." 'Ah! Exactly exactly. And the best iiolice force?" "Yes." 'Just as I expected exactly. This Is, of course, one of tne healthiest cities in the world?" "It is." "Ah yes. You have a noble river at your doors?" ' e have, sir." ''Exactly I presumed as much. You have churches and schools for all, of course?" 'Yes, sir." "Exactly of course. Taxes are low, the local government etlii-ient, and law and order prevail in all directions?" "les." "I supposed so yes. The city Is im proving, and is certain to become a great metropolis?" "That's what we think." "Of course of course. You have pure air, good water and freedom from epidemics?" "les, sir." "Exactly exactly just as I suppos ed. They said the same m Butralo, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, Indian apolis and Milwaukee. If you will now have the kindness to direct me to a five- cent barber shop I will enjoy a shave and then see the city. With the4start you have given me 1 can not fail to do you justice." Stranea Happening la an Old Church. Y'ears ago at Yarmouth, Me., one quiet Sabbath while the preacher held forth uiwn the ruin of unbelievers, and the congregation slumbered peacefully in their high-backed pews, a signal gun was heard from the Princes Point Sta tion. Another sharp report followed and still another. The minister did not wait for the "fifthly" in his dis course, but dashed down the pulpit stirs and joined the excited people out side. From their commanding situa tion they saw a strange craft sailing up Casco Bay. It carried no colors. They could see no men ou its deck. After a hurried consultation it was decided to send an armed deputation to Prince's Point to find out the mis sion of the mysterious vessel. The women and children, with a few men for defense, remained on the hill, while the heroic band marched down to the point and waited the arrival of the stranger. An hour passed and they returned. The bark was a schooner from down the coast which had sailed up for timber! The Chronicle tells ouly the bare story, but with a grain of facetiousness as if the humor was evi dent enough without any comments. It does not attempt to account either for the fall of the plastering in the same church at the very moment when the parson, a gloomy man with a sono rous voice and pessimistic views of life, was enlarging on the passage, "Blow ye the trumpet! Babylon sliall fall and become heaps," but simply says that "the people thought the end of the world had come anu did leave the meeting-house in great distraction, in juring a woman senousiy by tramping upon her in their haste to get out ot the door. A Lainp-Extlnculshnr. Two extinguishing plates, hinged under the cap and near the wick-tube, are furnished with arms which project outwards through obliq ue nlots in a case connected with a wire, which expends downward al.g the side of the lamp and its stand. The wire is supplied with a handle or knob, by means of which it may be polled down so as to causa the two extinguishing plates to clcse on the wick-tube and thus pnt out the light. A spring sturroanding part of the wire restores the different part of the apparatus to their normal condi tion. It is estimated that GOO boats are engaged in the fish business at Cedar Key. Suceaaoful Books. Books which are immediately success ful are those which catch and reflect the passi ng tones ot opinion Jill absorb ing while they last, but from their nature, subject to change. The mass of men know little of other times or other ways of thinking .than their own. Their minds are formed by the conditions of the present hour. Their greatest man is he who for the moment expresses most com pletely their own sentiments, and re presents human life to them from their own point of view. The point of view shuts, conditions alter, fashions suc ceed fashions, and opinions; and hav ing ourselves lost the clue, we read the writings which delighted our great grandfathers with wonder at their taste, tacn generation produces its own prophets, and great contemporary fame except in a few extraordinary instances is revenged by an undeserved complete ness of neglect. Very different in gen eral is the reception of the works of true genius. A few persons appreciate them from the first. To the niany they seem flavorless and colorless, deficient in all ttie qualities which for the mo ment are most admired. They pass unnoticed amid the meteors by which they are surrounded and eclipsed. But the meteors pass and they remain, and are seen gradually to be no vanishing coruscations, but new fixed stars, sources of genuine light, shiuely seren ly forever iu the intellectual sky. They link the ages one to another in a com moil humanity. Virgil and Horace lived nearly two thousand years ago, and belonged to a society of which the outward form and fashion have utterly perished. Uut Virgil aud Horace do not grow old, because while society changes men continue, and we recog nize in reading them that the same heart beat under the toga which we feel in our own breasts. In the Roman Emp:re, too, there were contemporary popularities; men who were worshiped as gods, whose lightest word was treasured asa precious jewel on whose breath millions hung expectant, who had temples built in their honor, who in their day were a power in the world. These are gone, while Horace remains gone, dwindled into shadows. They were men, perliaps, of real worth, though of less than then admirers sup posed, and they are now laughed at and moralized over in history as de tected idols. As it was then, so it Is no-, and alwavs will be. More copies of "Pickwick" were sold iu live years than of "Hamlet" in two hundred. Yet "Hamlet" will last as long as the "Iliad;" "Pickwick," delightful as it is to me, will be unreadable to our great-grandchildren. The most genial caricature ceases to interest when the thing caricatured has ceased to be. liiatfrOur Largs ( Uie. The cities of the Union exieiieiice every variety of summer temperature. In lioston aud IK-troit there are a few days of hot weather; the rest are cool, and in ( ctober summer gives place to the copious autumn rains and a chill that is more ieuetrating than the wiuter cold itself. But nothing can 1 more delightful than the teniin-niture of June, July aud August in Michigan and throughout most of Xew England. Ihe summers in Xew 1 ork citv are longer and more disagreeable, but the hot spells last but a few days aud then are relieved by showers aud coolness. The summer temperature of Chicago is much like that of Xew 1 ork, The un fortunate citizen of Cincinnati swelters from June 1 to October 1. The nights bring no relief, being even warmer than the days. The average temperature in St. Louis is excessive, though more reasonable. Xew Orleans enjoys per petual summer, with a degree of heat not intolerable to the native but un bearable to the visitor from theXorth. Mobile, Charleston and Savaunah have similar climatic conditions. Perium the loveliest summer climate in the world is found in the Cumlierlaud mountains, that extend through the western part of the Caroliuas. a portion of Tennessee and the northern coun ties of Georgia and Alabama. Its char acteristics are days whose heat is easily borne and nights whose coolness is balmy and invigorating. But else where at the South, in the West and in many cities of the Xoith the summers are looked forward to with dread, and those who are able escape to the mount ains and woods or seek a refuge in the country boarding-houses, which offer a choice of evils. Those wh live in the city east of the Rocky Mountains go to the country to escajw the het; people in San Francisco for quite a different reason, namely, to get the warmth and dryness not found beside the Pacific. Color-it earlng Popular expressions are olten very significant. "I saw three dozen lights of all colors," or some similar expres sion, may frequently be heard from persons who had received violent blows on the head or face. Under the influ ence of shocks of this kiud, the eye really seems to see infinite numbers of sparks. Shocks of a certain class im pressed upon Uie nervous system seem to have the faculty of producing phe nomena of light. This remark has been suggested by the facts which we are about to relate, which lead us to sup pose tliat sonorous vibrations are sus ceptible in certain cases of provoking luminous sensations. mere are, in fact, iiersons who are endowed with such sensibility that they cannot hear a sound without at the same time per ceiving colors. Each soimd to them has its ieculiar color; this word corres ponds with red, aud that one with green, one note is blue, and another is yellow. This phenomenon, "Color hearing," as the English call it, has been hitherto little observed. Dr. Xussbaumer, of Vienna, apiiears to have been the hrst person who took senous notice ot it. While still a child, when playing one day with his brother, striking a fork against a glass to hear the ringing, he discovered that he saw colors at the same time tliat he perceived the sound; and so well did he discern the color that, when he stopped his ears, he could divine by it how loud a sound the fork has produced. His brother also had similar experiences, Dr. Xussbaumer was afterward able to add to his own observations nearly identical ones made by a medical stu dent in Zurich. To this young man. musical notes were translated by 'cer tain fixed colors. The high notes in duced clear colors, and the low notes dull ones. More recentlVj M. Pedrono, served the same peculiarities in one of his friends. XEWS IX BRIEF. Florida has seventy -one newspa pers. Boston has 100 gallon of water a day for each inhabitant. Some land in the city of London was lately sold at the rate of $ 1,;jo0,00o an acre. John Guy Vassar of Pou-jlikeepsie has made a gift of $2,000 more to Vas sar College. Penitentiary couvicts at Laramie, Wyoming Territory, turn out "J0,0oV bricks a week. Earl Speucer is a first-rate cricke ter as well as horseman. He was a prominent member of the eleven when at Harrow. A South Carolina inventor, named McClain, purposes making wash tubs, buckets, etc., of annealed glass. Street cleaning, repairing and maintenance in Paris, official returns show, cost $1,080,400 a year. A new substance as brilliant an I hard, and withal fireproof, h.ts been invented to supersede celluloid. In the coral fishery, it U reported to the Italian Ministry of Commerce, 4000 men annually find employment. A Club Barber Shop is sustained in Lowell, Mass., and no one else is allowed to use the exclusive chairs iu it. Xew York Schools are attended bv 130,000 pupils. The appropriation to the department for this year is $3,0UO,- 0UO. They have a gold mine at Dalton, Mass.; the yield of the precious metal thus far is said to have netted over ten dollars. One section of the Xational Exhi bition of Architecture opened lately at Brussels, contains the almost priceless drawiigs of Rubens. The'oldest member of the Legion of Honor, Piene Jean, died lately, aged 04. He was in the retreat from Mot- cow and at Waterloo. A grange co-operative store at Meridian, Miss , which started business in IST'J with a capital of $"0, sold last month $orf00 worth of goods. A coin issued by Lord Baltimore was recently dug up in the principal street of Waterville, Maine, thrt-e feet below the surface of the ground. Twenty thousand ptes of tssti- uiouy have been already taken in a mining suit that is before special com missioners in Saa r rancisco. and the ud is not vet. Ou account of its repretcuta'.io tot' a conspiracy, Strauss' operetta, ''Prince Methusalcm, lixs been interdicted! in Russia. Six widows, the oldest Dri and the youngest 78, and with an average age of nearly 'JO years, live within a short distance of each other near Xew Haven, Conn. The registered debt of Berlin is about 17,000,1(00 marks, ou which the surplus profits of the gas works (ays the entire interest. One linn in Gates county, Xorth . Carolina, owns thirty miles of narrow- gauge rulway, connecting five ot its saw-mills. It does the largest lumber business in the State. The first steel rail successfully made in this country, aud which was rolled at Chicago May i", 1;", Is said to have represented over S.j0O,000 in exieiimeiits and outlays. A Cincinnati publication repre sents the total uuuiljer of newspapers tnd magazines now published iu the United States at 1-2,17'., an increase of 102S over the uumlier published last ear. Win. II. Spear, clerk of Chief En gineer Cuyler, of Prospect Park, X. 1 ., has a horse that ha-1 part of its tail shot away by a cannon b ill at Frede ricksburg and winch lost au eye at An- tietam. There are 11,000,000 horses in this country, or about one to every live hu man beings. According to the census of 1SS0, Illinois has most horses (over 1,000,000). ami Pennsylvania comes fourth ou the list, with 5j:J,.jS7. Eli:is Dockey. of Xorth umberland county. Pa., the other day found a turtle on his farm with the date and initials. li7 J. D.," scratched on its shell. The initials are those of Mr. Dockey 's grandfather, who owned the farm at that time. 1 hey are also those ot the words Jokingly Done. Camels have been bred in Italy iur over 200 years, it is stated, and the stud of four Arabian camels seut by King Humbert to Mr. J. W. Garret, of Bal timore, are of native breed, from the Ducal farm ol San Kossore, long a ta vorite country seat of the rulers of Tus cany. A wav to measure the sjeed of trains is to count the number of fish plates passed in 14 seconds iu the case ot ordiuary rails 21 feet long, and in the case of steel rails, which average m length o0 feet, 'JJi seconds the num ber of plates passed in the time stated being equal to the number of miles tra velled per hour. A syndicate in Galveston proposes to build wharves out to deep water in the Gulf of Mexico. To do this they will try to borrow $.,0OO,OOO of the State's surplus, which will exceed $."),000,0UO two years hence, aud will be $10,000,000 within five years, if the Mate sells tne school lands. In St. Petersburg, Russia, the tele phone wasonly introduced a year or so ago, but the most distant parts of the city now connect with the centre, and numerous public stations nave been es tablished at which persons can converse with each other at a distance at the small cost of 2jd. per message. London, it seems, is to give up tlie wood pavement and return to the Ma cadam system. The former, according to a report by Professor Tyndall, be comes saturated with filth, which is given off in a fine dust, under the influ ence of the hot sun, bad alike for the eyes and buigs. There is a man living in Walton county, Georgia, who is 50 years old, and has never ridden in a carriage or railway car, and has never ridden across a bridge in any vehicle. He lives in a house sixteen feet wide aud seventy feet- long, and so low between floors that a full-growu mm cannot stand np right in it. The furniture of the sit ting room consists chiefly of a bed anil barrel of uome-mi-ra syrup. "What influence has the moon on the tide 1" the teachar asked John Henry. And John Henry said it depended on what waa tied; if it was a dog it made hiai howl, and u it was a gate, it untied it, jnst as soon as a cow or a young man came along. It ia such things as this that make school teachers want to lie down and die every day at 4 o'clock. j t; 1 'i
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