Seiltirf r-v II 5 Ii K. SCHWEIER, TEE OOtloTITTJTIOI-THE U1TI0I-1ID THE EITOBOEMEIT OP THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXXVIII. MIFFUNTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. APIilE lb 1SS1. NO. lti. torn vol' know rot DO. . out- tep come up tb walk v ..- rti.vn take on a r-wier hue, ,i;.h no other lifers Lis knock. An' it may I very wrong. ,jinie ignored fcy you. v. I. r Jam Tour V.u cunuittg tiling you know you do! L.j n In- 'alks of other gir's, ,.' I K.ite and Jennie, U, V ; at hmi your auourn curw, ius thing you know you do ! V-.u.i li. ! TV :-!; i!e p and look aft aid, tnu iett alone with you, nr ,v s te!l thi-re ne'er was maid. ivu'.d W wooed you know you do ! Y -: i. r :it some one 'neath your curls, ,'u;:. with love you burn him through, Ar. i n.ake l.im hate all other girls In a ve lor you you know you do ! -a hi n his arm ste-ils round your chair .ki 'ive a smothered scream or two, j. h'm ii did'iit want it there, iiit .', you do jou know you do ! y,.a V: him kiss your blushing cheeks, soii:-h. your lips meet his hps too, v'-i r, t'ipi Ir.ui. rii.y thing, to sjeak, V, u u-kl tiirt you know you do I .V iRl.iti he timidly doth press li:. h '' make a wile of you, Yi:!i L.ipi-y heart you answer yes, .u ii.iriini yir! you kuow you do I A I'AVINO I'LIKTATION'. "No. Herbert, I can't do it. You will 1 ave to get out of tins difficulty lv v.mre".f. It is useless my going to viufr f.nher any more ; lie said the last time he would never again cripple him self 1'V i injr your debts. Ills mind is 1:1 i V up about it ; and even if it wa.-u't, 1 know he has bot got the nil :i-y. As for lue, you kuow 1 have not." "Then wlu-.t on earth aui I to do ?" ir.i'uiied the lion. Herbert Farnhain. "Ti.e Jews will do no more forme. Tin -broke.' and that's the truth. They n:v tneiesa baronet working down at the JiK.ks '!ad v( three shillings a day wi.en lie c an uet it. I suppose I shall cou;e to that !" Liidy Ccttwynd looked at her favor ite son ai.J suiil?d a little. It was a fuiiLV picture that of this grand crea ture. rv.-p'ieiicVut with the beauties o( nature appropriate to a "Daasher," and ado;;. .-I by clothes perfectly built, woikiti at a:;ytinng but the' obtaining as u.;ii-it auiusement as possible out of l;fe. T:.e Miille was but transient on Lady Ci.etwynd's handsome face ; it d;rdaway soon, and she fell into pro fod! il thought, l'resently she said very eraveiy. There is your Aunt Margate-." -W'l at of her ?" inquired the lion. Ilt'U'.;. lotiking up from his admirable I'jiKs. wiiich lie l.ad been studying at tentively, jtosMbly wondering whether tie Mini Irt-tl well-cut pairs that stood in his iltt s,sii;g room would be of any ue to wear out when he was a dock lal'c n r, t whether it might become Ltccssary to Lave a sale of his pei-soual W.'t.iijsrs. -W eli I know she is iu England. Siie urnte and told me so, in fact. And it Las occurred to me, once or twice, to wonder whom she will leave all her money to."' 'Has she no one ?" inquired the lion. Herbert quickly. "No one at all, I believe ; absolutely no oi.p. he was an only child, and with no n'-ar relatives, when she mar ried your uncle George. That is how she came to 1 sole heiress to such an ei..;ini;.- fortune." Made out of sausages wasn't it?" '( !;, no ; nothing worse than pickles ai.l jam. I'd have forgiven her the solute of l.er money, lor, her father 1-iiig dead when she married, it might ali havt been forgotten ; but I tound it d.iii : 1 1 i t to f oi g i ve Ler for being herself. " What's the matter with her 5"' ask ed ti.e lion. Herbert. -Wed" said Lady Chetwynd, he itaiii.,' a little, "she's vulgar and rather ll:ghty. She never seemed to be o l enough for George." "Why did he marry Ltr then ?" '"Oh, as for that," answered Lady (.lit ml, her color rising slightly, 'I Ifheve he married her for her Honey. I can imagine no other rea son." "Ah I"' said her son ; "then she's te;i married twice for the same rea- soh. I fcl.pl-ose V" "Ve," observed Lady Chetwynd, '"that second marriage made me more a:igiy with lier than ever. Now her second husband is dead, 1 really wish she would call herself Mrs. ltolleston again, instead of going about as the I'ruice.-s Uioguca." "Never mind," said the Hon. Her bert; "its the Trince cleared out with out s'li.andering her money at cards I'll forfjne him his sins aud-ven Epeak re s;cU uliy of his memory. 2s ow tell me wheie to tind my Aunt Margaret, the 1'iinci ss Dioguca, Surely I must have iiiaii.t-U some of those fascinating pours jou and Uncle George seem to hue I'o.-sesstd iu common; I will try them on her. I will be humble, du tuul, the most exemplary of nephews. I wul carry her prayer-book to church and nil e her poodle. Most elderly la tl.es have some monomania or other. I will uUcover hers and feed it. You ni l anily know me if you should see e at her side, so full of humility and diCorum shall I be." Lady Chetwynd smiled and sighed at ci.i e. "1 have no idea what she is like L"Ki" she said, "it is a long time since I Lave not seen her many a long year ht-er since George died, in fact. She v. a.i i.i a pious then; perhaps she is now. loj i;l tind her at the Clairville at fcei-atc." "i've heard of that establishment," aid the Hon. lieibert thoughtfully; "a quttr rlace for an elderly lady. IinWtvtr, 1 dare say she knows no bet ter. Give me a line of introduction to Ltr, and I'll run down at once. I shan't mind going to Seagate just now; II superb weather, and lots of people there.'' Lady Chetwynd, looking thoughtfnl as si.e U,d so, w rote a very brief note ail handed it to her son, who started oil imuied lately. He was in such an '-e,dint;ly -tight place" just now that be wou.d have gone a much longer jour bey, at iqually short notice, if thereby "e m.ght ttiscover an tlderly aunt with binne. Stellate was looking glorious; and U't gayety of the place and people, the freshness tf tue air, and the brdliant coloimg t.f the sea and sky, made the Hon. Herbert feel "very young and de LgutiuL'' He resolved to lunch at a itstauivnt, take a turn on the prome jide, and smoke a cigar on the pier be lore going to Clairville. He fancied Jhat Le would then be refreshed, and so Uer able to enter thoroughly into tn role of dutiful nephew which he pro posed to play. He lunched well, lit his cigar and started in search of half an hour's re creation. He did not go far before he found what be was in search of; he met with a lady so surprising to look at that the mere sight of her recreated him. He proceeded to stare steadily at her and to take note of all her "points" carefully. She was a little creature, well formed, with pretty feet and hands; the feet clad in wondrous high-heeled boots that were very high, but did not meet at all in front; the lacing displayed crimson open-worked silk stockings. The little figure wasp-waLsted, was dressed in the most extravagant of French checks the sort of costume de vised by the Parisian intellect for Eng lishwomen who are "fond of dress." A mass of blondes and frizzled hair en circled a small face which was admirably well-painted; only the usual mistake was made the thing was overdone, and thus the possibility of deception destroy ed. The lady's hat and parasol each de serve a page of description, they were so surprising. The whole thing aston ished and delighted the Hon. Herbert. This young gentleman had a good deal of the "knight of the pavement" in him; if a pretty girl gave him a glance of eucouragemeut he was capable of walking after her quite a mile in the hope of adventure. The lady he now saw before him had "encouragement" writ in large characters all over her, thanks to her costume, and her plaintive blue eyes repeated the word. She stood quite alone by the rail at the edge of the sea walk, looking at the passers by. She soon became as much interested in Herbert as he was in her. She slowly walked towards the pier and went on to it. The Hon. Herbert followed her, passed and repassed her. At the end of the pier there were some sheltered secluded seats. The lady walk ed on to these slowly for no one could walk fast in such boots as hers chose one with much deliberation, sat down, and straightway dropped her parasol. Of course Herbert was at hand to pick it up. Then he sat down by her, and for half an hour they looked at the blue sea and talked. She amused, him very much. She never smiled, but said the most spicy and piquant things In a small, high-pitched voice, looking straight at him the while. Herbert knew very well how to look admiration, and he found that she understood the look perfectly, but also that she appreciated a little more oien natteiy. This made it very plain sailing, and Herbert found himself much less bored than usual during a flirtation. The little lady being so ex pressively pronounced it was difficult to feel bored until one bad seen all her ex travagances. At last he rose. "I must go,"' he said; "it is hard, but I must. Do you come on the pier in the evening?" "Yes," she answered immediately, "about ten o'clock." "I hen I shall stay m Seagate till to moirow," said Herbert gallantly, and left her. Then, assuming a business-like manner, he walked off to the Clairville, meditating all the way on the mode in which he should address his aunt. After turning the maiter over and over in his mind he resolved to trust to the inspiration of the moment, and to follow her lead very carefully till he knew how to humor her. On his way a hired carriage passed him; in it sat the little lady whom he fully intended to meet upon the pier to night. She gave him a glance from under her wonderful parasol; such a look seductive, full or invitation. "I believe she is as old as the hills," reflected Herbert; but she is marvel lously made up, and very funny. What a catastrophe if she should live at Uie Clairville!" He arrived at the hotel a fine house, standing in pretty grounds, and ten anted principally by people who lived en pension; people w ho seemed to havo no home of their own anywhere; whe were exceedingly sociable and very merry. On the broad ten ace upou which the front door opened, a number of people were talking and laughing; the hour of afternoon tea had brought them to the house. Iu the midst of a small crowd of gentlemen stood the little lady; evidently she was a favorite. Herbert quickly passed the group, look ing the other way the while. He en tered the hall, and, finding a waiter, asked for the 1'rincess Hroguca. He w as shown into a small drawing room. Two minutes later the little lady came in and looked at him with some surprise: "You have asked for me '(" she said; "you know my name!" The awful truth flaihed upon him. For one wild moment he thought of sinking his identity of escapinir with out telliig her who he was. Hut he had not time to think it out he was confused, stammered something and then in despair handed her his mother's note. She opened it deliberately, read it at a glance, and threw it carelessly on a tab e. He fancied his doom waj sealed; took uu his hat and prepared to go. Hut he felt he owed it to himself to apologize; he did so, profusely. Sue interrupted him w ith her slight shrill voice, looking straight at him with those plaintive blue eyes, which were so full of candid hunger for admiration. " What are you apologizing so much for?" she said. "It is the first compli ment your family has ever paid me. Come into the other room; I must have some tea." She put her band on his arm and led him away, i or the first time in his life Herbert was at a loss what to say or what to do. But at last he succeed ed in taking her cue; it seemed funny to flirt w ith one's aunt, but he did it. And she paid his debts. Probably she will leave him her money. Old AC rvi.i ar ia nart of the life history of the organism. There is that in the child at birth which determines very nearly when old age shall appear. Seni lity is a failuie of nutrition. We can only delay its appearance by living a life w hich puts no undue strain on the organism and by furnishing it with the easiest means of working. We cannot tn accomDlish this end simply by cutting off certain deleterious supplies. If one would live long lei mm especially take care of his "master tissues," the muscle and nerve, w hen young. This means rational exercise of body and a well-balanced cultivation of mind. Ttrain.wnrkpra live lone: .brain and muscle workers longer still. To one has yet given better aavice ior me re tarding of old age than did Christopher iinfoisinit a centnrr airo. Let those who wish old age study him and put no trust in auuiiea water. A Walk on lb. Iw. "Talk about Paul ttfvere's midnight ride," said Mrs Xixon, complacMitly gating around the small circle of ad miring nephews and nieces who had gathered at her hospitable house for the holidays, "Midnight ride, indeed! 1 wonder if Paul ltevere ever walked across the frozen Hudson under tie circumstances that I did?" Now, all knew that Mrs. Nixon dearly loved to tell a story, and as her tales were usually interesting, they never failed to indulge her hobby. Aud this occasion was no exception, "Tell us all alwut it," criud a chorus of voices, and the whole arty clustered closer arouud the old lady. "Well," said Aunt Nixon, folding her withered hands in her lip, and smiling amiably ou the eager, upturned faces. "It is just thirty years ago to night that Uncle Nixon and I had a most startling adventure. He was at that time one of the directors of the IS Hank, and when there was u large sum of money alxut $10,000 to Iks collected in New York City, a hun dred and fifty miles away, who but he should be sent to fetch it. It was ar ranged that he should go down on Mon day and return on ?aturday, and as the sum was large, George Doldrum, an employe of the lank, was to meet him m the city on r riday nigut ana accom pany him back. "Wen, when L ucle ixon told me about it, I somehow felt that I must go with him. As you all know, 1 was something of a beauty in those days, and a week's shopping in New York with theatre-going and sight-seeing was a grand thing for me. "So I begged and teased, and as Un cle Nixon could never say 'no' to me, I packed up my trunk and started with hiai, bright and early on Monday morn ing. The week passed pleasantly enough and by Friday night all my shopping was finished, Uncle Nixon's business was concluded, and the $10,000 was safely packed in a little black leather hand-bag. Hut no George Doldrum ap peared. "Perhaps he's been delayed,' said uncle to me, 'we will have to wait and take a train to-morrow morning. "Hut the next morning he did not come either, and as the money had to be iu the bauk that night, we were obliged to start on the afternoon train without him. I could see uucle was anxious about this matter, for thirty years ago $10,000 was considered a big sum, aud we would not reach L , where we had to take the ferry to cross the river to our town, until late that nigh "The weather, which had been un usually mild in the early part of the week, had grown bitterly cold on Thursday, and if the river was frozen and the terry stopped, we should be forced to diive across the ice. This was an unpleasant prospect, considering the money we had on our persons, and the fact that L was not noted for the honesty of its inhabitants. "Its station-master, among others, had a most unsavory reputation, and was known to be an arrant knave. "Before we left New York we tele graphed to our coachman to meet us at the depot, and this was the only precau tionary measure we could take. We had tried to keep the fact of our having the money as quiet as possible, but it seemed, nevertheless, to have leaked out, for I had noticed two rough-looking men dogging us all rsaturday morning, aud taking seats right back of us on the train. "Uncle noticed this too, hut he put a bold faee on the matter, so as to reas sure me, and laughed and joked all the way as merrily as you please. Yet he kept his eyes on those men for all that. "Well, it was about eight o'clock when we readied L , and as we had anticiiKited. the river lay liefore us a glittering sheet of ice. The moon was up lull and bright and the loot-path on the mirror-like surface sparkled like a huge silver snake. But no horse track was visible and our cutter was not there. Uncle beckoned to the station-mas ter, who was talking in a low tone on the edge of the platform to those two suspicious-looking men. " 'Silas,' said he, 'have you seeu my cutter?' " 'Xo sir,' answered the station mas ter. 'I don't think Tom would venture over the river. The Ice is all very well for footers, but It ain't strong enough to bear a sleigh. Maybe if you're cros sing, you'll leave your luggage' with another grin 'you'll find it rather in convenient when you'ie picking your way, for it's mighty rough.' " 'Walking is safe, you say,' was all uncle replied to him. Then turning to me he said: "'Do you think you can manage it, Fannie?' '"Oh. yes. I answered cheerfully. and we started without more ado, uucle carrying the leather bag under his arm. When we had gotten on a little way and could see those two men skulking off from the shore after us, uncle said to me in a low voice: " 'I don't think there's a bit of dan ger. It's a Drignc moonngut mguu x am sure those men would not dare at tack us on the ice. However, I have both my pistols with me." "And sure enough in his right nana I was clinging to his left arm under which he earned the bag 1 saw tue glittering barrels. "'Are you afraid, Fannie?" he asked. 'Oh, no,' I responded bravely, al though I was shaKing with terror. And. John, u you win give me one oi them, I will take care ot it until you need it. "He banded it to mo without a word and we walked on rapidly in silence. After a while he bade me watch the men while he picked our way along. It was bitterly cold, and I was half frozen in spite of my furs and my wrappings. The fellows still kept a good distance in our rear, neither gaining on U3 or losing, and I had almost begun to think we had wrongly suspected them, when as we neared the shore an exclamation from uncle caused me to look up. "I understand their tactics, the villains.' he muttered and folio wmg his eves. I saw too. The path which , we had taken, instead or leading to me vuiage mo unum uauy a iuaceu in a lauding at D , ou accouui of the trough, into which there trickles a con ice being thin and broken there, made constant stream of water. This tailing a detour for nearly a mile, and reached j upon the vertex of theciauium induces the shore at a point where the woods sleep. Children lie in their troughs for were thick and unbroken. A footpath i wound circuitously through them which I knew was three-quarters of a mile in length before striking the main street. It would be a very easy matter to over- take and murder us amia those large sombre trees where neither the light or ray of the moon ever penetrated. 1 1 was faint and sick with terror, and as westepifd on firm crouml I looked back involuntarily. The men were quicken ing their pace-. Uncle glanced at the pruning of hw pistol. " 'My God!' be grained, a second later, paling terribly, 'they are unloaded and 1 havenoamniunition.' Hut retrain nig his composure, he said, hurriedly, 'Fannie, this is a matter of life and death. I was mad to put you in tins danger, but there is no time for regrets. e ve got to put our trust in Provi dence and our heels. We must run there, take the bag, hide it under yotu cloak and if it come.) to the worst, go on without me. ion understand me Now, quick!' 'We tiVw onward as fast as our legs couid carry us. I had always been ac counted light of toe, and hail taken pride in my pretty, small feet, but I never knew their value liefore. '"On, on we flew. We had a good start and we kept our advantage at tirst. Once my breath nearly failed me, but uncle's strong arm was about my waist and he almost carried me along. Hut soon we could hear the pursuing footsteps more and more distinctly. Suddenly the opening on the main street came in view and with a terrible effort we reached it. Ah we aid so several laUrers came along the highway and at their sight our pursuers who were out a lew yards behind, and were brandishing knives, fell lack with hor rible curses among the trees. 1 was carried to the bank greatly exhausted and was afterward carried home. "The bank directors were much amazed at our arrival, for George IKjI- drum bad received a dispatch signed with my husband's name, saying that we could not leave Xew York City until Monday, while Tom had never got our telegram at ail. A close investigation wits immediately set on foot, and by the aid of able de tectives, it was discovered that a num ber of evil doers with Silas, t-e station master, at their head had conspired to murder uncle and myself ami steal those S10,lH.iO. To this end they had forged one telegram and had suppressed another. 111 it been a dam night those two malefactors would certainly hare murdered us, and as it was, we should probably have met our fate in the woods but' for my liglituess of foot." And here Auntie Nixon quite inno cently exposed her fur-bordered slipper. '"Well, I was much complimented for my courage: in fact," said the old lady flushed and excited by her spirited narra tive, "the whole town was full of my praises; but, dear me," she concluded, subsiding again, "that was thirty years ago and I doii t suppose one of you here have ever heard before this evening of my midnight walk ou the ice." Kler II be I III. A Berlin letter describing the Em peror's apjiearauce at the court ball, held last mouth says. The loyal lier linese were enabled once more to see the Ktnperor lead the court polonaise and to see how he bore his four-score yeaM and six or seven. It was a bril liant festival. The Emperor led the Princess Christian, the daughter of (ueeu Victoria, whom she resembles in a most striking degree. The Kaiser! How alteied! It gave one quite a shock to see the once strong noble-looking man now an aged, feeble old man, walking with some, difficulty, his head bent forward as you see in the pictures of old Fritz. It was the first time I had noticed the Emperor as looking old aud woru and apparently breaking down. A kind of sorrowful smile lingered aliout the old Kuiperor's lips as he passed aion through the lane of humanity that of ned before him, as if he seemed to say, "Ah, yes, kin der, you see I'm growing old and weak. I am eighty-seven, remember, aud one must begin to feci the teeth of time sometime er other." He bravely walked all around the large 0era house and then returned to the raised portion leading to the lobby. There he had a few steps to get over, aud his leg seemed to give way a little, for he put his Land down to his knee to give it assistance, smiling as he looked round, and laugh ing a little to himself at the idea of his limbs at List refusing to do their accus tomed service. Then he went to the royal box where ne sat with the mem bers of liis family and later went round to see the Baroness Couicel, the wife of the French Ambassador, wi".h whom he chatted at least for half an hour. It was a sign to all that he washed the relations of Germany aud France to be considered as being on most friendly footing. Ihre Cent I'ronu Will Kieth is a very clever drug clerk who couiouuds cross-bone prescrip tions for a leading drug house on Wash ington street, Boston. He is a very genial young man, and some of his aiany friends often call upon him at his place of business. Last week while en tertaining three or four Y. M. C. A. boys a man entered with a prescription which was promptly compounded, ana with an air of "see-my-modus-operandi" he threw the package before the custo mer with: "Twenty-five cents please." The man who was almost deaf threw out five cents and started away. Twenty-live cents, sir," said W. K. in a louder tone, "There is your five cents, "said the d. m., pointing to the nickel and walking toward the door. -I say twenty-five cents," at the top of his voice. "1 say their is your five cents," said deafy, as he passed through the door way. Our affable d. c. allowed a bewildered expression to hover over his handsome feature for but a moment when it was dispelled by a bland smile as he re marked: "Oh, well, let him go; there's three cents profit anyway." Steeping Troughs. Sir Joseph Fayrer, President of the London Medical Society, has come for ward with an infallible receipt for 9oothini? fretful children to sleeo. He 1 mi'ii'ii-l J tli.it in T..'ii"t. cvurr T 1 1 1 i !-. i OUJjVM lllt.L 111 111 Ul 1 J V I I.I J 11IUJII.JOU nours, asleep, wmie tneir motners go about their work. An app:e tree in Mercer county, Ky.. has borne fruit for sixty seasons without failing. Five feet from the ground its trunk is ten leet and nine inches in circumference. Uimcult to Uellaia. "Here, conductor, this young man's fainted." The words were uttered in a tone of great excitement by a stout woman of about forty years of age last evening in a Columbia avenuo car. and as she spoke a slim youth who was seated lie side her in a corner of the car fell for ward and dropid in a heap upon the straw. With the assistance of a gentleman the conductor lifted the senseless youth on to the seat, and two miflutes later. as the car passed a drug store, pulled the bell-strap, and, followed by half a dozen interested passengers, live of whom were women, carried him into the store, where lie was placed on a lounge in a back room. A doctor was hurriedly summoned, and after a disappearance of about ten minutes the yonug man and physician came out of the room, which had been kept closed, arm in arm. The young man's face was still pale, and he walked with a very perceptible tremor. After a few moments rest the young man got on another carand went away, and the doctor (aid: "That is the fourth case this month I have seen of the deadly effects of wearing tight trousers; aud had that young man not beeu attended to promptly he might have been in great danger," "Tight trousers?" queried a by stander, incredulously "Yes, sir; tight trousers! Why, you cannot imagine how often we doctors have to treat cases of illness brought on by no other cause. Take that young man, for instance; his trousers were at least four sizes too small for him; not too short, of course, but too tight, anil for hours and hours he had beeu walk ing about with a pressure of at least 275 pounds to the square inch on his olexii vivistctori arteries, which are sit uated in the calves of the human leg. This tremendous pressure forces the bliHxl into channels not able to carry it without undue straining, and although the victim feels no pain he is liable at any moment to topple over in a swoon, and unless relief is promptly given a long and serious illness is likely to fol low. It is a similar trouble to that ex perienced when it was the fashion for ladies to wear very tight sleeves, except that iu the case of tight trousers the material is heavier, the arteries larger, and the result apt to be more danger ous and difficult to relieve." Jspmnesa XoTeltie. A recent traveler in Japan writes; in his trip to Nikko we observed upon the road, in the several villages and posting stations, many curious things. Women seem to perform the most of the out door work, ditching and laboring in the rice swamps, with lrfants lashed to their backs. When they were met tak ing articles to market, upon the lit tle country ponies, they rode astride, iiitui fashion. Hens were seen with hair instead of feathers, hens as small akoriPstic pilous, liens with plumes on their heads like militia captains, and hens with bare crowns like shaved priests. There were also green pigeons and speckled crows tame as domestic fowls, among which was seen that anomaly, a white crow. At the tea house where we stopped for the night. our passports, specially granted, were taken by the local officials and returned to us in the morning. The passport was rather a curious document, and disclaimed all responsibility ou the part of the mikado and his Government should the holder be murdered by the way, from whatever cause. In short, we were erniitted to travel inland, but at our own peril- It is still looked upon by many as somewhat risky to travel away from the populous centres, but we met with no special trouble. Hie natives upon the route were in clined to be a little curious as to the ladies' bonnets and dresses, nor were they quite satisfied, without using some familiarity, about the gentlemens' at tire; but they seemed to be of a soft and pliant mould, easily managed by exer cising a little unes.se. It was curious , to observe how eutirely opiwwite to our own methods were many of their. At the post stations the horses were placed and tied in their stalls with their heads to the passage wav. and their tails where we place their heads. Thus tliey are fed and kept. I n place of iron shoes the Japanese pony is shod with close braided rice straw. Carjienters in us ing the fore-plane, draw it toward them iustead of pushing it from them. It is the same in using the saw, the teeth of which are set accordingly. So the tai lor sews from him, not towards his body. and holds the thread with his toes. They have no chimneys to the bouses, the smoke finding its way out at the doors and windows, though brasiersare used Instead of brtplac.es, and in the hot weather are placed outside the dwelling for cooking purposes. The men shave then beads just where the Chinese do not, making a bald spot on the top; and so we might go on specify- mg peculiarities, showing that tue Jap anese are our antipodes not only geo graphically but also in manners and customs. Library Fiction. It is said by literary men that books drawn from the Cleveland public li brary over 50 per cent, are works of fic tion. This is a lower percentage how ever, than any other city. Cincinnati heads the list with 0 per cent,, while Chicago, Boston, and other large cities take between 00 and 0 per cent, or no tion in their library banquets. "The reason the percentage is kept down in Cleveland," remarked Librarian Beards- ley, is because the board have ostracised a certain class of books, which are very popular and in great demand, but which, tney claim, contain love stones ot ti e sickly, sentimental, 'nauiby pamby' kind, and other reading which is not only not instructive but liable to give young folks wrong ideas and false im pressions. A young boy who made his debut in police court, a few weeks ago, for making a walking arsenal of him self and attempting to leave his home by the freight train route, with the firm determination to seek the land beyond the setting sun and wipe the noble red man from the face of the earth, con fessed that he got his ideas from Oliver Optic, Mrs. Southworth'a books have been dropped from the list, as have also the works of Mrs. Ann S. Stevens, Mis. Mary J. Holmes and Louisa de la name, the latter author being better known as "Ouwa." The old board rrowned upon Marion Harland, but the present direc tors have again purchased a set of her books. It is not claimed that these books are radically bad, but they are very sensational, and serve no good purpose. NaiMileuu't Lov Letters. Just tipiminted coinmander-in chief f the army of Italy, the bridegroom of forty-eight hours must take leave of his lielovcd Josephine aud the little hotel of the Hue Chautereine, where his hap piness has I fen vivid and transient as the lightning's flash. I he first letter written live (lavs alter his marriage, ends thus: "May my good genius, which has always protected me iu my gie itest danger, guard and shield you now ! 1 care not for myself. He not giy, but a little sad. He- member what our good Ossian said. I send a thousand and one kisses from your truest and most loving friend." Mine, de Uemusat says in her me moirs: "I should speak of the heart of Bon aparte. Hut if it were iiossible to be lieve that any human being could be deprived of that (art of our organism that makes no need to love and be loved, 1 should say that at the moment of his creation his la art must have bteu f oi gotten, or perhaps he succeeded in completely suppressing it," Yet in another letter we find: "Oh, my adorable wife! 1 Know not what fate awaits o.e; but if 1 must be away from you I cannot bear it. I am not strong euouuh for that. There was a time when 1 was proud of my courage, and sometimes, anticipating what fate mi0'ht have in store for me, or what 1 might suffer at the hands of men, I contemplated the most unheard-of mis- lortuues without dismay or astonish ment. Hut now the idea that my Jose phine may suffer; the idea that she may be ill, or worse than all, the cruel, deadly thought that she may love me less, blights my soul, curdles my blood, makes me dejected aud miserable, with no heart for auger or despair. I used to say to myself, 'Men have no power over him who dies without regret.' Now, to die without the assurance of your love is hell itself is nothing less than annihilation. I feel as if I should sullocale. My only one, my companion in life's toilsome journey, the day that you love me no longer. Nature loses every charm. I stop, sweet friend; my soul is sad, my body weary; men are lnsuflerab e. I can but hate them; they come between me and you." Later, he writes: "henl exact from you a love like mine I am wrong. hy ask that lace should outweigh gold' When I sacrifice to you all my wishes, all my thoughts, every instant of my life, 1 yield to tht ascendency that jour charms, your character and your a bole person have acquired over my unfortunate heart. It is my fault if iialuie has not given me the power to captivate you. but what I do deserve troiu Josephine is esteem aud regard, for I love Ler passionately, devotedly. Adieu, adorable wife! Adieu, my Jo- htphinel May fate coucentrate iu my heart all the grief there is to bear, and grant to my Josephine all the prosperity and happiuess. Who deserves it more than she does.' V Len it is evident that she can love uie no more I will hide my b.tter gnt-f and will try and be satisfied with being kind aud useful to her in some way. 1 open my letter again to send you a kiss. Ah! Josephine, Jose phine.!" At this tune Napoleon seems more in love than she does. Indeed, she reads irt of his letters aloud to others aud finds his jealous transports amusing. The question arh-es whether he found the responsive tenderness he claimed, and w hether Muie. de Hemusat is right, when, in another mood, she says, "Per haps he would have been 1ft ter if he had been more truly loved." After all it is not 'imiiossible that Josephine s coldness may have beeu stimulated. She had to de with a conquerer, and love is like war; more tender and more resjionsive, she might have had less poer over Bonaparte. lltr share in the dangers and glories of that wonderful Italian campaign was then described her social victories at home aud abroad. Then came ti e Egiitiau exifditiou, when she was left behind with her children and her hus band's family. On the lCiu of October, 1W Napo leon, just landed from Egypt, allighted at his hotel rue Chautereine, ouly to tind it deserted. Josephine had gone to meet him, but, taking different roads they had missed each other. He bad I tea tortured during his absence by reiMirts atiout his wife, conveyed by Junot and others, and now his brothers, jealous of Josephine's ictlucnce, availed themselves of this unlooked-for occasion to make the most of his impa tience aud suspicious. They succeeded so weli that, two tiays after, when Jose phine at last arrived and eagerly ran up slaiis to her husband's room, she found tbu door locked aud could obtain no admission. From behind the bolts no tuswer to her entreaties but this: "The door will never be reopened to you." She pleaded in vain. Her sobs were heard all over the house, and she passed the whole night in agonizing and fruit less application. At last, worn out by fatigue aud distress, she was going away, when one of her ladies suggested sending for the children. Eugene and IIoi tense came. Ihey Joined their voiees to Josephine's "Do notabandon our mother; it will kill her." At last the door opened. Bonaparte's face was stern, his reproaches bitter. Josephine trembled at his words. Then he turned to Lugene. "As for you, you shall not sutler lor your mother's fauit. You shall always be my son. 1 snail Keep you near me." "No. General," answered Eugene, I must share my mother's sad fate and bid you farewell." Bouaiwrte began to relent, lie pressed Eugene to his heart and granted forgiveness to Josephine, who had fallen on her knees with Hortense by her side. His eyes radiaut with joy. he li- tened to bis wife's justification of herself, and the reconciliation was com plete. Among other anecdotes, the lonowing is related by Arnault: Josephine bad a little lap-dog named "Fortune." At the time of her imprisonment, during the "Terror," she was separated from herhusbaud, the V iscouut Beauharnais, also a prisoner. 1 he children were al lowed to visit their parents, accompa nied by tteir governess, who took the lap-dog with her, and by means ot notes slipped under the col ar of the little animal, the husbaud and wife commu nicated with each other. After her re lease on the 9th Thenuidore, Fortune and his mistress became inseparable. One day at Montebello, during the Italian campaign, the dog was lying on the same couch with his mistress. "Do you,see that gentleman?" said Napoleon, pointing him out to Arnault; "he is my rivaL" Arrogant and intrusive, like most fa vorites. Fortune had great faults; he was very noisy, and bit everybody. Na poleon included. One day at Monte hello, he was si imprudent as to attack a great dug belonging to the cook, a fierce mastiff who laid bun low with one bite. Joseuhine was in despair, and the cook thought it was all over with him. "What are you running away for?" "After what my dog did. general, I was afraid that my presence might be disagreeable." " Where is your dog? Have you sent him awayr" "No, general, but he never comes in the garden any moie, especially since madame has another dog," "Oh, let him run about; perhaps I shall get rid of this one also." The gentlest, most indolent of Creoles controlled the most self-willed and im perious of men. Bonaparte could win victories, accomplish miracles, create or destroy governments, but he could not turn a dog out of doors. The Cap and the Lip. One of the early Italian novelists has left us an anecdote of a pleasant old Florentine, Scolaio Franchi by name, which, if the proverb hail not beeu as old as the Greeks, or probably as phi losophy itself, might be supposed to have originated the famous admonition atiout 'the cup and the lip." Signor Scolaio, the story gres, was entertaining some friends at a tavern, and the wine bad been flowing for some time, and the company very merry, when the old gentleman, who had the spirits of a young one ami who was gifted with a corresponding flow ot words, wound r.p a panegyric which he had been making on the juice of the grape with the following jieroration: "So much, geiitlemen, for the glories of wine iu genei al ; and now for a sample of them in particular, and that, too, iu connection with my own glory, and in the shape of this particular glass of wine which I hold in my Laud, and which 1 am about to bav the honor aud felicity of drinking, "Gentlemtn, it is a very remarkable circumstance, and worthy, if you reflect on it, of your deepest consideration, that this particular glass of wme look at it, if you please, and Observe it well, as a thing contemplated in the decrees of fate was destined from all eternity to be drunk by me, simple as I staud here, Niolaio Franchi. Moot as you will the point; bolt the matter to the bran; sift, with all the inquiries on such subjects, Aristotle to St. Austin, every particle ol evideuce left in the respec tive sieves of your subtleties out of the whole griuding and trituration of the great question of fate, free-will, fore knowledge, liberty, necessity, and uua voidabinty; and you will hud nothing iu the whole rounds ot certainty more certain than the drinking and imbibition of this particular glass ot wine by me, Scolaio Franchi. All the follies that could be written on the other side all the armies that could be brought against me to hinder me, though tuey were bigger thau Charlemagne's or t aau Agricau's all the eclips-s, comets and eai thquakesathered together if that were possible from ail time or what soever else might turn, terrify and an nihilate a man troiu his purpose, 'f it were not absolutely decreed as iu this instance, could turn, terrify or in the least degrea interfere with or ob struct the passage ot this particular preordinated glass of wme into the Uiroat and stomach of Scolaio Fran chi." The orator had no sooner uttered these words than the friend who sat on his right, and who had beeu nicely calcula ting the mode of doing it, snatched the glass out of his hand, aud swallowed the wine himself. A I'Mful Kitten. A short time ago the occupants of a boarding-house at No. 138 Eldridge street, New York, were awakened by dense volumes of smoke rolling into their sleeping apartments. The house is occupied by Mr. Witpan, his wife, Henry Hummel, Lizzie A liters, Minnie Hayes and Andreas Bauer, who board with the Witpans. The house is of two stories and an attic, abutting iu the rear on a stable, the roof of which is about two feet below the second story windows of the bouse. Lizzie Altters occupied a rear room ou the second floor. Recently she took a kitten to bed with her, and it awoke her by scratching her face. Her room was then full of smoke, and she opened the door aud rushed into the passage-way crying "Fuel fire!" and awakened the otlier occupants of the building. With out stopping to dress, they rusned into the hallway and looked for avenues ot escaie. 1 he girl Altfers rushed back into her room and jumped to the root of the stable, but alighted ou a skylight and was precipitated to tue floor brio. hile there she heard the othar win dows open and a moment later Henry Hummel fell with a dull thud beside her, where he lay with a broken leg. From one of the attic windows huuu Bauer, his feet nearly touching the root of the stable, but he was too much frightened to realize that fact, and he hung taere until forced by the smoke to let go, when be too fell into the stable, in the meanwhi'e au equally exciting episode had taken place on the front ot tue building. Mrs. it pan had, in her eagerness to escape the flames, sought to leave the building by the window of her bed room, and she hung from the window sill over the side walk until her uusband pulled her in and guided her to the rear, where she stepped from the window into another sky-light and received severe cuts and bruises. Then Mr. Witpan stepped to the roof with his infant child. He thereupon rescued the others from the stable below and soon all were on the stable roof, in costumes not at all fitted to protect tnem from the chill air of early morning. Although they were all more or less bruised, bt two were severely i-jured. Thtse were Hummel and Mrs. Witpan. Hummel was removed in an auibulauce to the Chambers Street Hospital, and Mrs. W itpan and Lizzie Altfers, who was Buffering from contusions ou the head, were cared for by neighbors. Ihe girl Minnie Hayes was uuiujuied. The fire which had originated in the basement, was extinguished before reaching the upper floors. The Society of the Cincinnati, com posed of the officers in the American Revolutionary army, was formed in 178.1. but the objections to it were so strong in Connecticut. Delaware, Vir ginia, Georgia, New Hampshire and Khode Island, that it was abolished in those States )nl304. furel.a C'reuoftttirlrs. A correspondent w riting al out the in creasing p'pulan'y of cremation in Kugland aud elsewhere, says: Uu tlm etth of last month I was iu U iue, aud visited the Caiiixi Santo theie, the thief cemetery of the city, MiljuiLin the Church of San Lorenz , where tue last Pope is buried. There, iu .his public cemetery, a crematorium Las teen en cted. and one of the attendants told me that in tLe previous: four months forty bodies had been burnt there. The building resembles a small cottage. There is no high chimney, aud the furnace is a very simple oveu of fiie brick. The fuel used is wood only and at the cost of six francs an adult tody is burned in about two hours. No vLsible smoke and nothing offensive es capes from the chimney, as it is all con sumed in a small coke lire al the lower part of the chimney, just as in the more perfect apparatus built for the Crema tion Society ot England. The attendant told me that at first the feeling was strongly against the new practice, or rather against, the recent revival of the old practice, but that now be hud others employed in the Catnio Santo who had expressed the desire that their own bodies should rather be burned than buried. He said that the feeling in Home against cre mation would probably be less strong than in other places because the niodeiu Homans were so familiax witu the columbaria aud urns containing the chaned remains of the old ltouiaus, aud that these were far less repulsive thau the decaying reuiuauLs in a burial ground, or iu the wailed-u;; ceils of one ot the corridors iu tho Cauipo sanuj. In all the cemeteries in Italy which I have visited Genoa, Pisa, Florence, Bologna, Koine, Naples the system ot burial is the same. Ihe poor are simply interred in the earth in the quadrang x- lar spaces, surrouuded by coioniuuies aud chapels. The rich are covered up in vaults in chapels, or beneath tue stone flooring of the arcades, or in niches along the walls, oue aoove the other from floor to ceiling, in ali cases going through a process, more or less rapid, of putrefactive deo:ay. So.l and aspect affect the rapidity ot the piocess; but L was assured that about teu years is the period which must elapse bciore a body can be regarded as luoffsusive or not injurious to the lviug. Compare this with the two hours required ny Uie practice of cremation, and compare the Italiau cemeteries with our own over crowded hot-beds of corruutlou. In this metropolitan district, in the li years (ISo'J $&), the deaths registered number l'J.oH. Of course tue dead have beeu buried, and with scarcely an exception iu and arouud Loudon. Grant that iu ten years a body may become harmless although 1 do not at all be lieve that it does so within 'M years in our sod and climate can any ima 0';ua tiou conceive the enormous maas or de caying animal maiter by whicu we are surrouuded? Mesiema DeepermJoe. The desjieradoes In Mexico en?age iu many desperate and somet i mei roniant ic encounters. One named Celo Hico, a man of magnificent physique and fine education, who seaks all modern lan guages, is a perfect scholar and good lawyer, but wfco loves liquor too much, is employed on the Matamoras and Monterey railroad. On last pay-day he was gambling with some of the sharks which follow in the track of the pay-car on the Mexican railroads, and getting in some dispute one of the fellows drew his dagger and made a lunge at Kico. The latter grasped the hand that held the weapon as it descended, and exert ing his giant strength, turned the iioiut and pushed it with ease twice against the breast of bis foe, cheeking it each time before a wound was inflicted, and then wrestiug the knife from the man's grasp, threw it away. (Juoth Kico: "Now, who is the braver man you or nier" "i ou, sir," was the reply. "Go and get your knu'e," returned Rico, and then when the man ap proached, grasped his own collar-baud with either hand, near the button, and presenting it, said: "Cut me thus," and tlinched not as the steel in the bauds of the man whtf sought his life severed the cloth and grazed his naked throat, leav- lug it unharmed. A few days ago a man named Felix Garsia, living at the Capote ranch, left one woman and went to live with another. The discarded love became mad with jealousy, and fixing up a dose of j urn pun weed gave it to Felix, the effect being to diive him insane. He went to a wood camp, about ten miles ironi the city, aud took an axe and walked eff with it. The owner followed and succeeded with difficulty in getting the weapon from the insane man, who. on losing it, ran howling into the woods. He is now wandering about the raucu in a complete state of insanity. Belief la Lack. "I have seen men who wouldn't sit down to a game when all the chairs but one were full, and then again I've seen some who wouldn't take the first seat. Some old cranks wouldn't bet acent on anything unless they had a stone with a hole in it in their pockets. Then I've seen men who wanted a cat iu the room, and some who wouldn't play with a dog near at hand, and they firmly believed it would be bad luck for them to do it. I've seen men sit down in a game and buy a stack of chips, and the next niinu&n get them ca lied ag iiu they would sudden y see a'man wl h a li ger on his left hand missing aud that would settle that game for tliem. One night I remember there was a big game of poker in progress in a certain piace, and several thousand uoliars had changed hands. One man was about f-S,000 ahead and was betting pietty heavy. Ti e game had been in progress all night and, as the forenoon advanced the players became hungry. I oe porter was called and sent over to the restau rant to order breakfast. Well, when it was ready one of the waiters brought it up to (he rooms, and the moment he entered, the winner, who was an old man, threw down his cards. lbu waiter was cross-eyed, and the old man was superstitious. This time it seemed as if there was some power in it. His luck changed and he lost everything he had before he got out of the game. In my opinion, however, it was simply a scare. He saw the cross-eyed man, gave up for lost, played recklessly aud did lose, of course. Attrition is to the stone what good influences are to the man; both poiisU while they reveal hidden teauties.
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