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B. F. SOHWEIER,
TBI OOISTITUTIOI TEE UHOI-1ID 1KB UTOSOOtEST OF IKS LAVS.
Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XL.
MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 29. 1SS6.
NO. 40.
The Dryad.
A dnJ dwe-lla
kmii tae wind-blown pimpernels;
ftt none Uave seen
Her trip beween
seclirnineriag vistas, silvery green.
Uugli many feel her myslio spells.
jixj it be nilns
gyme morn divine
It see ber fluttering garments ahlne,
And bear tlie boat
Of Harrying feet
ran tbe fern and grasses sweet,
Aod carcli ber laughter, airy tine.
jcr wh J so sees
Amid the trees
Her tons tbat like a phantom flees.
To him ainne
There stall be sbown
nerp secret to no mortal known
Ail naiurs's subtle mysteries:
WLat rushes say
At duk of day
UnpTirct prayer that lilies pray
The ainurou art
To m a ueart
fcioMini rosebuds might Impart
-Where hiJea the wili-o'-ihe wiap-away-
Whj fireflies light
Their ianierns irtght
0u ecn ret.8 midsummer night
The vonl." that float
On every note
Tli&t from out a feathered throat
Vlieie insect armies take their flight.
A'J this, and more,
Shall be his store
Who sees her foot the forest floor;
Tben be it mine
Some morn divine
Id Kitxi ber 'neath a hoary pino
Acd learn the symbols of ber love!
JUST LIKE ARGENTINA.
"Heroines are always eliding and
hiding," Nelly Fairfield thought, laying
down the three volumes or A Dead
llvstery." She had read 'Lady Damp
suck's Doom," and 'Lurid Llgbt-
wrzi'' and "fireen-Gray Eyes," and
Tbe Out-Legged Witch. three vol
umes each, of the most blood curdling
description that the village library
could supply.
Nelly s taste in romance was not of
tbe highest. She liked to have ber
blood curdled. And as tbe four weeks
of her country visit had been inces
santly wet she bad trotted ber young
friend and hostess, Mary Marsh, in the
pony -trap every second day to tbe Til
lage library in search of the weird and
mysier.ous. At tbe end of ber month's
visit to Darkleigh Court, Nelly's fair
and curly little head was bewildered by
three puzzling discoveries tbat Hubert
Marsh. Mary's obliging brother, and
the heir of this grand old place, was
desperately in love with ber insignifi
cant little self; that the country was a
compound of gray sky, ram ana mad,
whatever tbe poets aaid to the contrary
ud the heroines especially Argentina,
the last heroine could cry without
moiling their violet eyes aud tbeir
nrettY little nose, and that they had
.'aba ol gliding 4ud biding. Argentina
often did; and iellv w thinning to
ieei just like Argentina sioo tbe feetr
of Darkleigh Court bad begun to do
ber chivalrous service from morning
till nieht to win a word or a smile.
'Hubert is like Lord Lockwood in
'A Dead Mystery," she told Mary
Mar ah. as they went down arm-in-arm.
ready to see a new guest at dinner a
peat event In a weather-bound coun
try house.
"He has black hair and eyebrows,
ud there the likeness ends," said de
uare Miss Mary, with a smile. "We
don't want Hubert to be a forger, or a
highwayman, or a corsair, or whatever
it was not like Lord Lockwood
(Lack you."
"But I do like a man to have some
thing mysterious something grand as
if he were able to "
"To slay somebody'" kin ted Mary,
"That would be romantic and out of
the common."
"Oh. no." said Nelly helplessly; "but
I cant explain. Hubert looks adven
turous. He might have been a cour
tier in the olden times, and helped in
eret councils, and "
"Planned the smothering of princes,
tnd all that." laughed Mary. "Poor
Hubert 1 I did not know what a bad
opinion you had of him, Nelly."
Nelly drew away ber arm, and tried
desperately to explain, but they bad
reached tbe last step of tbe stairs, and
ue new guest was taking on bis coat
iathehaiL
He was a bis-eved. ble-mustacbed.
burly man, with a sort of cousinly like
ness to a bull-dog. He was afterwards
Introduced as "our friend Gobblecock,
who has come from London to spend a
dy or two with Hubert."
There was also at dinner that day a
neighbor of Darklelgh Court a hand
some young fellow, Sir Harry Clive
who took the world easily. His chief
pastime was twirling the ends of bis
mustache, and bis only troubles in life
vera laying foundation stones and
pacing tbe platform at pu lie meet
BC. His occupations ranged from
lawn-tennis in summer to sleighing in
winter, and driving a four-ln-hand.
Ee called Miss Marsh "Mary." and she
Wiled him "Harry," they bad known
wen other since he painted new com
plexions on her dolls in his Eaton holi
days, and since ber baby bands stltcbed
the calico tbat sailed his ship. Now,
" boys and girls begin as playmates,
joey often only end as friends; new
bees and new ways have some day a
JEjSerious attraction that the too well
awn face had not. Sir Harry Clive
ood by the window that night, curl
fcz bis mustache on bis finger, and
Nojing Nelly's chatter with little
in Marsh, on her theory of Blue
ton! having possibly been the "wicked
jcle" mentioned in the "Babes in tbe
Wood."
""He couldn't hare been their uncle,"
u tbe small bov, "because there were
""wr any babes In reality; and it's all a
tory."
' Oh, yes, there were babes there
re: it is a positive fact," said Nelly,
enough. The little boy looked
Bewildered, and Sir Harry burst Into a
b, and watched the pretty girl as
Readily as little liobiu did.
Hubert Marsh disappeared from the
roup at the window. He was after
ward seen in the garden, kicking the
ffwel and smoking a cigar. Foor 1 1
! There are big boys that sulk In
ttj upside-down world of ours.
'1 on darling little mite! You don't
Jve in Bluebeard, either. Wait till
J" meet him some day!" said Mary,
W'sure and diligent, looking round
""a her lace work.
Master Robin looked straight across
" room at big Mr. Gobblecock. It
4oul l0k 01 inluirT' he had
J-MEily tbe friend from London was
urnea ttat way. He bad made a
"ocsand apologies, saying be would
not ask such i favor except In an old
irienas bouse, ana they bad all cla
mored excuse and assent; and be had
begged for a little table to himself in
an out-or-the-way corner of the draw
ing-ioom, ana spreading newspapers
mere ana a large book all out of his
ruacK leather bag he set to work stu
aiousiy, firing remarks all the while
like stray shots into the conversation
and paying attention to what everyone
was saying.
"I would do it in another room if you
woiuu let me go," ne said; "but as you
will not exile me you are too eood I
shall be free and at your service .ia one
uaii. uuur.
Mr. Marsh carried on the talk about
stories from the point where bis daugh
ter uaa mil it.
"Ahl" said that merry little man
the kindly host, "my Robin is not what
I was long ago. 1 set beans to grow a
suuk like the umous Jack; and even
now, li 1 will read a story I like to be
lieve it. Once in tbe six months, may
be, I get bold of one worth reading,
and then all the men and women I have
met in it live for evermore. What's
the good of a story that a fellow feels
is a hoax and a yarnf Now, there's
that book that everyone Is talkin? of.
'BrlghUey Court; that girl Ruth Moss
is somewhere in tbe world; she is living
like a violet In the wood, and the air is
Detter lor her presence happier and
mat's ail one knows. 'Let us love
much because life Is short; let us do
much because we love much!' Tbat
girl Is alive for me now almost as much
as N elly there and my Mary. She mar
ries no one in the novel; why, there
isnt a fellow I ever met fit to put his
band under her foot to send her up to
the saddle. I beg your pardon. Hurry.
but you don't mind. I don't think you
are food enouzh for Ruth either.
"All right, sir! Shan't break my
heart for that," said Sir Harry. "I'd
rather have a real live girl than
dream, though it is a very true charac
ter very real veryl In fact Ruth
Moss reminded me of somebody I have
met. Have you read Unghtley Court,
Miss Fairfield?"
Nelly had not; Mary had suggested it.
and she had rejected it as too unroman-
tic.
"Ahl you should read that!" cried
both the men in duet alary 's faiLe
and Sir narry Clive.
'Who is it by?" said the voice of Mr.
Gobblecock.
"Hyacinth G.-ev."
Mr. Gobblecock, with a grunt, re
turned to his papers.
A lady, I should think," said the
youBg baronet.
"Ahl I'm sure of it. Whoelse could
have told us about Ruth's dresses and
the color ot ber hair? Vet there's an
amazing amount of knowledge of
horses In that book, and of barrack
lire," said Mr. Marsh, "and Hyacinth
Gr.-y has one novel about London city
life, and another about yachting."
The voice of Gobblecock interrupted.
"In my time at school Hyacinthos was
a Greek boy, but these ladies that write
novels don't trouble their beads about
classical accuracy."
Boon be wrote a long letter, sent it to
the post, folded his newspapers into the
black bag, and came with a thousand
more apologies, and made up for bis
absence by talking with the volubility
of a dozen. His stories made erery-
bodyaugh; bis gentleness with the girls
made up lor bis lacx or good iocxs; nis
talk of foreign cities made them wonder
bow (as our friends beyond the channel
would say) be was most at home when
be was abroad. In a word, Gobble
cock was a pleasant man, good com
pany a success. Even Hubert came
back, heart-aches and all, and joined
the circle. And then the candles
gleamed round the drawing-room, and
Nelly looked ber prettiest, and Mary
Marsh was ber sweetest, and Robin
was his noisiest. Harry Clives was
pleased with himself and all the world;
Hubert was only beard once coverneara
by Nelly) to murmur to bis sister that
he wished Harry was "far enough;"
Mr. Marsh made a happy paterfamilias.
and felt like a boy again when be de
tected Harry Clive waiting on Nelly,
and poor Hubert getting angry. In
short. It was a pleasant family circle,
and Gobblecock bad become a favorite
with everybody, except little Robin,
whose mind bad been disturbed about
Bluebeard.
At Darkleigh Court the ladies bad
always an hour to themselves, wnue
the men finished the late evening in the
smoking-room or at the billiard-table.
To-nlgbt Nelly took up the book that
was the talk of the season, and reaa a
few chapters while Mary worked.
Presently Mr. Marsh came in. "So
glad you are reading that, Nelly 1 It is
beauty and poetry nom cover w cover,
no matter wnat it taias auuui iuo
bunting field, or the camp, or the barrack-yard,
or anything."
Marv did not look up from ber work.
but she said gently, 'Hyacinth Grey's
books are all delightful, hie must w a
man with a noble mind."
Mr. Marsh paced up an! down the
room thinking; his thoughts had darted
off to a subject nearer bis heart.
"I wonder what that Doy or mine uao
on bis mind?" he said. "He stumps
about over my head, up and down, up
and down, till 2 and 3 m the morning.
wish you would nna out wu
troubling him. Mary, roor uuDeni
It worries me to think he may have
some trouble and won't tell me. Find
out. If yoacan."
"He has a liiue siiuag-rwui iw
the west tower, has ne notr xiei.y
asked, when Mr. Marsh was gone.
The light is burning were uu a ej
night. 1 have looked out ana neen iuc
bright window, and wondered."
Tho lio-ht burned in the upper win
dow of the west tower that night till
the clock struck l. Aiterwarus uu
hrt sraiked ud and down in the room
over his father's till half-past.
"He must nave some great trouble
on his mind," thought Nelly, peeping
from under the corner of herwindow
bliud and seeing tbe lonely light.
"He is like that Polar bear In the
zoological gardensl" thought his sleep
less father, listening to the footsteps
for half the nighU . .
On the next evening niuu.
carried off "Brightley conrv w u
snug little sitting-room of ha in the
tower. Mary Marsh asked Nelly to
run up for w uer I JIZI
Eft w and the great Gobblecock were
aUfarawayat blUiards. . . ,
Nelly, in iiuDervs u "V"'"T?
delayel to look round her before she
rr!t'i-vninme from the table.
All at once fwwd Hubert.
" " ... rirr'e th rfrpud Gob-
Sk wen close outside the door.
.l Liiir fear of being found.
.bought of Argentina in the last
!L and. resolved to be a heroine
tor once'ln bir W, she did Just wnat
she should not have done, she stepped
SnTdaacxeen. True, she migUt have
ttspped out at once and made a Joke of
it; out vj nesitation tuat chance was
lost. Should she faint, or should she
cougn, tor the smoke was choking her?
She stopped her ears with a pair of fin
gers, and stood there in an agony of
i ear.
- When she took her fingers out ot her
ears to hear If they were going away
Hubert was sayinc :
"It is absolutely necessary to put the
baronet out of the way. My idea was
poison."
Nelly shuddered and turned cold
"No, not a murder not a murder, if
it can possioie oe avoided. I have
shrunk from that for years always
said Gobblecock.
Nellie could not put her fingers into
ner ears again. Should she scream out
loud? Should she fall down with
bang on the floor?
"it Is rather a horrid idea." said
Hubert, reflecting. "But I shall have
no norrorsi it shall bs poisoning or
drowning, if I could manage taking
uim aoroaa ana doing some boating
pernaps be might be lured into a Medi
terranean falucco."
"Very good," said the other.
"That man is a monster!" thouzht
Nelly. "Hubert is excited, but be is
coia. lie is goading Hubert on, and
pretending to minx iu oi it."
"i mean to put some money la my
pocket, I can tell youl" said Hubert.
"I want you to put me up to the legal
formalities of arranging the will. For
gery is rather worked out, but I don't
see anytning else."
"If 1 were you," said Gobblecock, I
should send tbe old man to a lunatic
asylum, and "
More and more Nellie was like Ar
gentina. She had tried glidinc and
hiding, and had stepped into the middle
oi an entanglement of crime and uys
tery. She knelt dowu, wringing her
nanas.
"I shall make him a lunatic at large,
said Hubert.
"Very well; then stop at that. Over
excitement piling on tbe agony is al
together a mistake. I don't like the
idea of murder, but I shall gladly pro
vide you with all tbe information about
the will. To avoid horrors, I should
get rid of the old man into a lunatic
asylum. I am not sanguine, but 1
wish you luck, my lad; plots cf this
klud have succeeded before now, though
1 ten you it is not to my taste."
There was a pause of smoking and of
choking for Nelly, who had sunk on the
floor. Then that horrible monster Gob
blecock said, "and thelglrl is it to be
Nelly?" she could hear the laugh in his
voice, as if he bad made a shrewd
guess. "What is to become of her?"
Hubert hesitated. "Ought she ever
to know who tbe murderer is?"
By this time the poor heroine, who
was just like Argentina, felt as if tbe
human heart that Argentina had not
were being smashed by a blow and
torn in two. Hubert, the man whom
sle had begun to love and trust, was
loaded with guilty secrets a villain of
tbe deepest dye. It was Gobblecock
that trrfti ruined biin of course. It was
CobhWoek wbo had dona all the mis
chief i Gobblecock was an unmitigated
monster. Nelly screamed out loud a
shrill, piercing scream, tbat rang
through every lamp and glass, and
echoed as if tbe ground itself had
shrieked, till walls and ceilings thrilled
with it.
. m
Nelly came to her senses lying on a
conch In the drawing-room, surrounded
by the whole household. She was afraid
of Gobblecock, who was gently fanning
ber the monster! And she shrank
from Hubert, who was so glad to see
one conscious look in her eyes. Poor
Hubert! She burst into tears at the
sight of him. That villain of the
deepest dyel Hal he not brought our
friend from Lon ion to be a conspira
tor, a plotter of dark deeds.
Nelly wanted to speak to Mary. The
others were all sent away; and to Mary
she told all the escapade; how she bad
slipped Into a thrilling situation lust
like Argentina in "A Dead Mystery,"
and
Mary interrupted her by saying
quietly. "Hubert is writing a story.
His friend Is a writer from London.
You dear little goose, they were only
planning the book. Hubert's friend is
correspondent for a foreign paper. Yon
saw him at his letter last night. And
be has written stories, 'Brightley
Court' is his. He put our borne in that
and even poor little me. You need
not make you eyes bigger, Nelly."
"Ob. Mary! will Hubert ever forgive
me?"
'Toor 'villain of the deepest dye.'
He will ask you never to be the heroine
of a dead mystery again."
"But, Mary, did you say that that
that trig man wrote 'Brightley Court?'
You are Ruth I know it you are
Ruth!"
"He imagines so. He Is Hyacinth
Grey. But you look frightened."
"Ruth will marry iiyacinta ureyi
Nelly gasped.
I do adore him from my nean,
Bald this calculating heroine; "but I
must show you my little pearl ring.
Harry gave it to me to-night."
AlasI let Shakespeare say wnat ue
will, there is something in a name.
Not even Juliet's love would have suf
ficed If she had lived in these days, and
if Romeo's name had been Gobblecock.
General SkobelefTs Lucky Flos-
Vereschagin, the distinguished Rus
sian painter, in the course or some re
miniscences of his friend Skobeleff,
notes that the general was very super
stitious, Skobeleff bad made him a
present of the flag under which he had
gained twenty-two victories, it was
made of red silk, with a yellow cross
embroidered in the middle, and it was
torn by many bullets. On leaving for
bis last Turkestan expedition, bkobel
leff remembered the flag and asked his
friend either to give it back to him or
to send him anouier in exciianse.
VM-Rsehacrin made an elaborate
new flag, which was greatly admired on
his arrival in the camp both by the
general and his men. "But Skobeleff
was just then unsuccessful. ;The enemy
made a sortie from Geok Tepe, took a
number of arms a cannon and a flag.
Skobeleff was in despair. HJIve me the
old flag back; the new one is uniucky.
he wrote to me. i gae
Another sortie, another defeat, and con
siderable losses. Another appeaL-uive
back, give back my lucay nag- "".'"5
a.hu'h has 110 lUCk.' &tUl 1
which has
ai.i riv it back. Finally.
Geok
Teoe was taken, large numbers of the
enemy were killed, and an abundance of
arms and baggage toll Into .the itoun.
Dhant general s nanus, jmj us jt6"
FutaroV. Skobeleff and h Turkomans
wpre never tired of admiring it. To
day this 'lucky' flag rests on the tomo
of "the senerai"
aEAl'TIFL'L BCTTOXS.
A Harlem Woman's Wonderful and
Interesting Collection.
A lady in narlcm lias spent twenty
years in stringing together eight thou
sand beautiful buttons, and no two
alike. Some of them have been brought
half around the earth by sea captains.
Some have come from old wars, and
famous battle-fields; some from the
Orient, and some from the Occident;
some from gold mines and poor-houses,
from snug country houses and from ship
wrecks; some are just from the button
counter, and some are dignified old but
tons, which liave survived from a pre
vious century, and now hold sinecure
positions on Mrs. Harris' button-string.
The buttons are almost infinite in
kind. The lady who collected the 8,000
says that she never goes out shopping
without seeing buttons she had never
seen before. A new button stares at
her from every shop window and meets
her in every bazaar. When she began
to collect them there were people who
thought that there were not more than
tKW different kinds of buttons in the
world, and it was on a wager of this
kind that she began her labori
The more buttons she obtained the
harder it was 3 get a button unlike any
she already possessed. Any new button
she acquired had to be unlike any of the
five thousand buttons she had. She
moved to New York at the end of her
four yeais' button hunt iu Maine, and
in sixteen years of residenco in the me
tropolis she added three thousand new
buttons to her collection.
Tbe marvellous collection of buttons,
which is the largest iu the world, was
brought into tLe parlor of Mrs. H. C
Harris' residence for a rejiorier to won
der at. Many of them were beautiful
in design, and many were brilliant in
color. There were eight strings, one
thousand buttons on a string. They
were eight garlands of buttons.
Mrs. Harris, who knew the niost in
significant button in the eight thousand,
picked up one of tbe strings and Hi:ited
out a button that had been worn by a
soldier of Napoleon's army, perhaiis on
the retreat from Moscow or iu the last
charge at Waterloo. There was a big,
tlat, circular brass button almost as
large as a trade dollar that had beeu
worn by a soldier ot asuingtoii's
army iu the American Revolution;
another was a brass button worn by a
soldier of the War of 1812.
Then there were three Confederate
brass buttons that had leen worn by
three soldiers in different anus of the
Confederate service, A fourth Confed
erate military button had been worn by
a soldier of a South Carolina regiment,
and had on it in bas-relief a palmetto
tree and the coat of arms of South Caro
lina. A fifth Confederate military but-1
ton had been worn by a soldier of a Vir
ginia regiment, and had on it the coat of
inns of V lrgmia, with tlie words: "s,c
Semper Tyrannis."
There was a brass button ot the Aus
trian armv. wVh the Austrian cug.e: a
brass button of tbe English miny, with
a crowu at lhe'topail three cannons,
one above the other, below it, and a
military bras button of the Republic of
Havti, which, pc-rhafs, some great llay-
tian Major-Geiieral had worn.
Tnencamea great many national but
tons, among which was au Irish button
with the Shamrock, and a Scotch but
ton with a Thistle, and an antique Mas
sachusetts button with a pine tree, and
another antique Massachusetts button
made of copper, silver coated, with the
word Commonwealth and an Indian with
a long bow, and a brass button from
Spain, and a button from California,
and buttons from J.n.
There was an insignificant little but
ton, with a bit of blue glass in iu cen
ter, which had been picked up on tlie
Maine coast after a British steamship
went down there some time during our
war, earning sixty people wun ner.
There was a smart little button with the
Prince of Wales' triple white feathers,
and a big plain wooden button that had
been worn by a Massachusetts pauper in
a Massachusetts poor-house.
On one button a chicken was floating
down a river on a wooden shoe under a
blue sky. On another a covy of par
tridges were feeding. A third repre-,
sented a huntsman holding hounds in
leash. Another button represented a
Japanese house and a native Japanese
walking throngh tlie fields under bis
umbrella. A very interesting button of
a bright gold color showed the obelisk,
the spnynx and the pryamids of the Nile.
There was a button of mother-of-pearl
liearinar a fine easle's head in
bronze, a mother-of-pnul button with a
Ierfect bronze sen"', a mother-of-pearl
button that reflected all thecolorsof the
rainbow and a brass button bearing a
crescent and a star.
Besides these there were buttons bear
ing in bas-rener 111c iieaus 01 uurw,
foxes, trrevhounds, bears, wolves, wild
kiars, stags, deers, butterflies, mosqui
toes, flies, and others that bore leaves
and crosses. A big round rubber but
ton bore the simple and handsome de
sign of a sickle and a sheaf.
Manv lanre round medallion buttons
bore classical heads in helmets. Some
had figures that looked Lke pieces of
sculpture. One button showed a castle
with towers, and draw-bridges, and
mountains, and trees, and foliage. An
other large round button was pure white
glass, like the glassin shop-windows, and
it was qnite handsome.
Mrs. Harris has arranged uuy-uvc
buttons of various beautiful and delicate
tints on a card, and they are so beauti
ful to the eve that they would be a val
uable article of bric-a-brac in any house
in the world.
PARIS PKT lOOS.
Sketches of Some of the Most Noted
of French Canines
Even' dog has his day; for pet dogs
this day is a very happy one, at least in
'aris. Every grand lauy s uog is iar
better known by her friends tlian her
children, for the hitter remain m the
nurserv with nurses ana governesses.
drive out and dine alone, are never seen
in the drawing room, while Nero and
inette are ever at their fond mistress'
side; tliey have their privileged corner
or seat in Hie reception rooms; after the
mistress, they are the ones next saluted
bycallcrsand guests; the best tid bits of
a sumptuous table are given to Gyp and
Mopp3; in their best bib and tucker
they are driven in madame's carrriage,
in which the best places are reserved tor
their dogship. At the present day the
aristocracy of dogs is as well defined as
the aristocracy of their mastere, and
dog brain is not so dull as to be obliv
ious to tne great distinction maae in
their favor, the noted pet dog of Paris
knows its rank and looks down on ple
biean currs accordingly.
A chic dog has his fasJuonaule tailor,
and be would think himself degraded if
he did not have his things made at the
renowned aog lauor, ldouble. The
irousseau ot a uog vanes according to
the race to which he belongs; it is com
posed of shirts, vests, coats, artistic
collars and the variety of ornaments to
be put on them, bracelets, leashes and
flower boutonniere?. Their livery cor
responds with that of the house. Their
articles of toilet comprise a whole col
lection of combs, brushes, scissors, and
shears; some whose paws are delicate
iiave rubber boots. The wife of Gen
Turr had a hood made for Niniche, a
Havana pup, whose ears are so delicate
that it makes the thing nervous to have
rain drops fall on them when caught in
a storm.
These dogs have their sjiecial profes
sional men, sucn as bathers, hairdressers,
sliearers and doctors, who daily come
to attend to their wants. I really think
it necessary for an English philologist
to coin a name for such fine animals; I
feel as if I were insulting them to call
them dogs. The poodle is of the kind
which demandi the most care. The
Marquise Belhoeuf, Duke de Morney's
sister, has a passion for poodles. Not
finding a shearer to suit her in France,
she induced an p.rtbt, a s(iecialist in tlie
shearer business, to leave Sjiain. his
native country, to attend to her many
poodles. To be specially adored the
dog must be gigantic or lilliputian, it
does not matter so much as to iu kind;
however the favorite ones are the
Danish, the black and white poodles,
tlie griffou and the terrier; the bull dog
lias been taken into favor since tbe
princess of Orleans have adopted him.
Nero is one of the nuwt noted dogs in
the capital; he belonged to tbe Czar
Alexander II, aud is now under the
care of that emperor's morganatic wife,
the Princess Jouriewsky. He drives at
tbe Bois every day with his mistress,
his long, silky, black hair is admired by
every one who takes lime to notice dogs,
lit- refuses to sleep anywhere but in his
mistress' bedroom. Don Francois
d'Assisi's favorite dog is a white fox
terrier. AVhen he desires to iay a par
ticular favor to one of his lady friends
of noble birth, he sends her a young
terrier accompanied with its "whole
trousseau; at first, he takes it to a fash
ionable tailor to have an extensive out
fit made, after which he orders a dog
house, which, in its sumptuousness of
rich, satin upholstery, lace, gold and
silver ornamentations, deserves the
name of ilace. He thus presented the
lufanta Eulalie with a white Danish
dug of untold value, whose collar was
of silver, set in real iearls.
Mine. Maurice Ephrussi, nee Roths
child, tlie day of her marriage, had her
favorite terrier dressed in white satin,
with garlands of orange blossoms. The
whole of the Rothschild family are pos
rci,l of the pass 011 for dogs. Uie
baron and barouess had two different
houses built for their canine specimens,
wbo seemed to have declared war with
eacli other. The baroness has a whole
family of marvellous terriers. Rhialo
is tlio gentleman, Beauty the lady; the
R tlio gentleman, Beai
i'S posse. seV the go
.jr t- the detrii
Uand; s!ic travels witi
good graces 01 her
.nieulof her hits-
tli her, ber trous-
n-.iua ere made of finer materials, and
afterward the gentleman dog's jealousy
I is excited by .being deprived of the much
coveted Rothschild coat of arms, which
his wife wears embroidered in relief in
one of the corners of her coat. The
Bironess Nathaniel Kothschild has all
of her dogs wear tbe white and yellow
colors of her livery. AVhen tbe wife of
Gen. Turr takes her dogs out on a
yachting expedition they wear dark, bine
.coats with marine collars, anchors em
broidered in the corners and paraphed
with tbe mistress' name.
The rarest of all Paris dogs is proba
bly the one Mme. Tbeo brought bark
from America. PNtache was given to
its niisstress in a bouquet of roses, at
ber last perfoniiancc in Mexico. It be
longs to a race of dogs which is almost
extinct, the Chiwawas; they can only he
found on tbe summit of a mountain in
Mexico, on the day of public markets.
One of her great admirers scaled the
mountain to bring the dog-loving act
ress that marvel among dogs. It is to
be hoied American women are far too
sensible to imitate the Frenchwoman in
her inordinate love for dogs. I have
heard strange stories of American wo
men's passion for pets, tliat turtles, liz
zards, chameleons were taken to the
opera by their admirii g mistresses. I
consider that a vile, calumniating false
hood, for I deem the American woman
as the one having the most good sense
of her race, capable only of occupying
her time in useful work, instead of kill- f
ing it by caressing things that are too
beastly to return her affection.
The Eruption of .Etna.
Mouto Rosso, which is threatened by
the lava of Mount -Etna, is a very
pretty town, with a population of
three or four thousand. A hill with
a double head, about five hundred feet
high and more than two miles in cir
cumference, .protects one-half of the
town. This double-headed hill is called
tlie Red Hill and from it tlie town de
rives its name. About two hundred
years ago an eruption and an earthquake
combined in forming this small moun
tain and partially destroyed old Catania,
the largest town at the foot of Mount
.ACtna. (ienerally speaking, the lava
does not lie any deeper than thirty r
fory feet, for while hot and fluid it
spreads over the surface until it gets
cold, when it forms a cement or crust;
but on tlutt occasion only the refined
sulphur remained on tliat hill and it
gives a reddish ap,earance. When the
smoke slackens suddenly and slight
shocks of earthquakes are felt an emo
tion is at hand, for these are the infalli
ble precursors of the internal disturb
ance in the mountain. In 1S74 these
signs were noticed for eight days liefore
tbe emiption occurred. Sometimes the
mountain stops smoking and fiery stones
are seen issuing from the crater.
Grace Darling's Sister.
Grace Darling's only sister died re
cently in her little home under the
shadow of Bamborough castle, within
sound of the wild waves that beat
against Holy Island and the rock that
wrecked the Forfarshire, The simple
aud pious old lady to the last, like the
heroine herself, could not understand
why so much has been said about the
plain act of duty which made the
family name immortal. She has been
laid lit the seaside churchyard, close to
the sister who died so young forty years
ago, and whose marble effigy lies in the
sea wind and sun, with ber oar upon her
folded arm.
He who has a good wife can bear an)
evU.
THE PnODrcnov OF ftniSTLES.
Interesting Statistics Concerning the
Trade The German and Rus
sian Hog.
While the American hog can produce
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labor hog, of Europe, he can not com
pete with the latter animal in the pro
duction of bristles. The American hog
is grown for his meat and is confined in
a pen and scientifically fatted up. A
long course of breeding for this purpose
has caused the American hog to grow
fat mainly and to neglect the growth of
bristles. The European hog, on the con
trary, or more particularly the German
and Russian hog, is not confined in a
pen and fed for fatness, but either
roams round through the streets of the
villages, seeking what he can devour,
or in large droves through the fields and
forests, feeding on nuts and roots under
the care of swineherds. The German,
Polish, and Russian hog lias thus plenty
of exercise and is thin and muscular.
These hogs are almost entirely without
fat and are not killed when young as
here. Their bristles grow long, stiff
aud elastic, and of good color. The
American bristles are soft, have a ten
dency to become kinky, aud very few
are over four inches in length, and 75
per cent, are not over two and three
quarters inches. Eighty-five ir cent,
of them are gray, the most undesirable
color, the other 15 per cent being white.
German and Russian bristles run from
four to seven inches in length, and
some of the latter ruu up to fourteen
inches.
The largest bristles are not by any
means the best. Excellent lengths are
five to six and a half inches, and tbe
value of a bristle dcpeiuL?as much um
its color aud elasticity as upon its
length. The German and Russian are
of the following colors, placing them in
the order of their value : white, yellow,
black, and gray. The French bristles
are the best for fine varnish aud artistic
brashes. They are usually only three
or four iuches in length, but are the
whitest and best dressed of all the bris
tles. They are imported in a dressed
state and not rough as are the German
and Russian. The well-dressed French
bristles are usually as white as chalk,
with very soft ends, and are strong and
elastic, springing up under the touch
no matter how thickly charged with
color. They are used in the finest brush
tools, embracing varnish brushes, fresco
brushes, the best sash brushes, the best
quality of shaving brashes, and the
largot brushes used by artists are made
of them. Hair aud toilet brushes are
also made from tbein.
St. Petersburg, Russia, and Leipsic.
Germany, are tbe great bristle markets
of the world, the former being the
largest. The English get most of their
bristles from St. Petersburg, where
only Itussian bristles are sold. The
Americans get most of theirs from
Leipsic, where both German and Rus
sian are sold, though the bulk is Hi's
sianv Tbe Russian bristles sold iu Lein-
are these obtained frcnt Poland.
The bristles are pulled out of the hogs
and brought to market. They are
brought prineipally in the spring of ths
year, the eastern fairs being tlio time
when most of them are brought to mar
ket and disposed of. The bristles are
dirty, aud there is a shrinkage of 15 to
L'5 per cent, in weight to the consumer
after they have leen thorougly washed
and cleaned. Russian and German
bristles are packed in casks, the quan
tity ranging from 250 to 500 pounds,
the casks not being of the same caic
ity. Generally a cask contains bristles
of equal length, but many times of dif
ferent quality and color. Each quality
aud color is put up in a separate bundle
and brush manufacturers sort them
out. These Genuan, Polish and Rus
sian bristles sold in Germany run very
irregular and require the greatest cau
tion and best judgement in buying.
They are in a great variety of colors
and qualities.
A Northern Summer Resort.
There Is so much m a name that tbe
only wonder is that people, in the hot
mouths of the year, do not take their
holiday in a country which combines all
the cool qualities of iced water with the
solid advantages of terra firma. Char
ity is not usually a distinguishing mark
of the British "tripper."' He does not
say to himse'f: "In what country can I
spend i'50 w.th the most advantage to
the natives.-1" Still, there are some
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um.1. tuuiu mix. j otijr wmi mcj iirv
their money in tbe most philanthropic
manner.
Such an opportunity for kindly tour
ists Iceland offers this year. That coun
try is in a bad way. The fisheries for
the last three years liave been very un
productive, and great distress has leen
the consequence. Besides, the price of
dried coil one of tbe princ jal sources
of revenue, has fallen from thirty to
forty kroners per skippurna, a lower
price than has been known for the last
forty years. In many parts of the ishunl
the inhabitants have no food but fish
no coffee, no bread, no vegetables and
many of them are suffering from scurvy.
Obviously, to a country thus situated,
an influx of visitors would be a real
blessing.
But how few people ever go to Iceland.
Yet it is not so far away. It can even
be conveniently reached. Its natural
curiosities are grand, and of a kind
novel to the ordinary excursionist. The
people are kindly, living is cheap, ami
the tour is one of the few not absolutely
hackneyed. It may also le interesting
to note that English Is taught in all the
schools in Iceland; aud as some' of Shake
speare's plays have been translated into
Icelandic, there i3 no reason why ti e
Englishman should uot feel himself
thoroughly at home there.
Qnecn Victoria's Daughter In Law.
If reports be true, tlie Princess of
Wales is an eminently clever miliner
and gives fini-hing touches to all her
own bonnets and hats and judging from
the individuality of her taste in that
direction, it is quite likely rumor may
be safely credited. A very pretty story
has long been current as to the royal
lady's gift of art. Not a member of the
royal family, not a person intimately
attached to the court, could venture to
suggest that after long years the queen's
mourning might with advantage be les
sened, whereupon the Princess of Wales
gently took the matter in hand.
Without a word to anybody she re
modeled the Queen's somber bonnet le
moving the "weeds," and with artistic
touches, relieved her majisty's head
covering of its mournful aspect. Silently
the queen submitted to the change, but
all the court knew she did so for her
daughter-in-law's sweet sake.
SOME FAMOUS rPHEAVFXS.
Lisbon's Visitation in 1733, Antioch's
Misfortune, and the Javanese
Horror of 1883.
Eminent geologists and historians
uaim that 13.U00,0uO people have been
killed by earthquakes. In Southern
Italy and Sicily no century has elapsed
since the earliest periods of history that
has not been distinguished by severe if
not frequent earthquakes. - From 1..3
to the end of 1770 this region was
almost constantly disturbed. The great
earthquake of 178-3, in Calabria, killed
iu.uuo ersons. In Central Italy, among
the earliest of the recorded earthquakes,
is tbat of the vear A. D. C3. which re
sulted in the partial destruction of Her-
culaneum and Pompeii, sixteen vears
previous to the time when those cities
were buried under the ashes and lava
accompanying an eruption of Vesuvius.
The most memorable earthquake re
corded in history is the one which visit
ed Lisbon on the morning of November
1, 1755. The rumbling soumls that
precede most earthquakes was immedi
ately followed by the great shock, which
threw down the pruiciial portion of the
city. The sea retired, leaving the bar
dry, and returned in a minute as a great
wave or breaker, fifty feet or more in
height. It It believed that 60,000 peo
ple were destroyed in less than six min
utes. The part of the city that was
permanently ingulfed beneath the waters
of the bav was covered to the depth of
000 feet. The portion of the earth that
was shaken by this earthquake was
estimated by Humltoldt as equal to four
times tbe extent of Europe. The earth
quake that devastated Judea at tbe time
of tbe battle of Actiiim, 31 B. C,
caused the death of 10,000 civilians and
soldiers. That which occurred at the
Crucifixion was ai-companied by a dark
ness very similar to that recorded Jan.
22, 1S35 in Central America on the
occasion of the eruption of the Volcano
Coseguina and the attendant earth
quake. The ancient rity of A lit inch
has been peculiarly visited from time
immemorial. It was also destroyed A.
D. 115, at the time of the visit of tbe
Emperor Trojan, who was himself hurt.
In 520 ati earthquake swallowed up 250,
000 of Antioch's people, and sixty years
later :i0,0UO more met a similar fate.
On March 1S73 San Salvador was
utterly destuyed by an earthquake.
Tbe los3 of life was comparatively small
asjtbe people had been forewarned by
previous noises. In 1S72 an eruption of
Papandayang, one of the loftiest volca
noes of Java, an area of one hundred
square miles was overwhelmed with
ashes, destroying forty villages and
3,000 people.
The mast disastrous earthquakes of
the present century occurred on the
Island of Ischia. Italy, on July 25, lss3,
and on the Island of Java on Aug. 20
of the same year. By the first upheaval
the towns of Cosamecciola, Lacco, and
Korio were completely destroyed, kill
ing nearly forir thousand persons and
dastro' eil proitrtv valneo at manv nut
lions. " It is estimated tliat M',iMJ Ja
vanese were slaiu by the shocks and
tidal waves of Aug. 20. One island
disappeared in a mass of boiling lava
aud tbe city of liatavia was swept off
the earth.
"I ho Vine in Bessarabia.
Although both climate and soil in
Bessarbia are highly favorable to most
kinds of cultivation, tbe inhabitants
have hitherto devoted themselves almost
exclusively to cereal farming of an ex
tremely primitive tye, whereby the
land is Uroming mined and exhausted.
A total change of method and means is
the sole remedy for this state ot things
in agriculture. It is well known that
the vine and all orchard trees will flour
ish in tbe province if cultivated with
moderate care and skill, but these are
sadly larking. An improvement can
only be looked for from a rational de
velopment of scientific methods of cul
tivation and the introduction of a letter
system of making wine. These meas
ures are the more desirable since France,
which used to supply tbe wine markets
of tbe world, has been obliged by the
ravages of the phylloxera to diiuii.lsh
her exportation at the same time that
she produces an inferior article fabrica
ted from foreign grapes. The measures
most evidently necessary to enable Bes
sarabia to enter into competition in the
wine trade are the introduction of the
choicer qualities of vine and the con
struction of storage vaults. This would
require capital, which is either not ex
istent or very sluggish in the country.
As there is only a siqierticies of "o.OoO
acres of vineyard, which produce from
C.000,0i) to 10,0011.000 vedros of wine.
Some of this is sold at 5 rubles the ve
dro, but the ordinary quality is sold
throughout the province at 1 ruble the
vedro. Foreign fabricators have already
discovered its utility for the purpose,
and large purchases were made last
year by wine merchants who supply the
London market. A vedro equals three
and a quarter gallons.
Couldn't Scare A. J. Cassatt.
"Talking about fast running," said
an old railroader, "reminds me of a
little story of A. J. Cassatt, formerly of
the Pennsylvania road. By the way
Cassatt is one of tbe greatest railroad
men this country ever produced, and I
predict that when George Roberts dies
be will be called to tbe management of
the Pennsylvania. Well, Cassatt was
on the line between New York and
Philadelphia one day a few years ago,
and at Jersey City got up Into the loco
motive with which Jim Sanford was
starting for Philadelphia with No. 13,
the flying train, which then, as now,
made the ninety mile run in 112 min
utes. When he got along down by
Menlo Park Jim thought he would have
some fun with Cassatt, and so he let
her out. When she struck an easy
grade two or three miles were covered
at the rate of forty-seven seconds to tbe
mile, which Is frightful running near
ly seventy-seven miles an hour. Jim
kept looking over to Cassatt, hoping
the vice president would show some
signs of fear. But Cassatt kept look
ing out of the window of tbe snaking,
plunging, careening engine without a
change of color or expression on his
face. Finally he turned to Jim and in
quired: " 'Say, Is that the best she can do?
Can't she go faster than this?'
"That was the last time Jim Sanford
tried to scare A. J. Cassatt. 'Why,
says Jim, when he tells the story, as he
pretty often does, 'I was a leetle scairt
myself, not beln' sartln if the machine
would hang together at that frightful
pace, and when Cassatt up and wanted
to go faster I gave up in despair. Never
aw such man ia my life."
NEWS IX BRIEF
A Delaware paper relates how two
s:arrow3 whipped a cat flown there re
cently. The Krupp gun company are going
to start a cannon foundry at Nikolalofl,
Russia.
Shakspeare's plays have been trans
lated into Icelandic and played by na
tive actors.
An Irish settler at Moncton, Can
ada, has been known to travel 40 miles
in three hours.
The Paris Graud opera house will
be lighted by ab ut 0,000 incandescent
electric lights.
The peosiou rolls show the names
of only 10 persons who have lost a leg
at tbe hip joint.
In the whole world there are 291,
522 miles of railroad; in the United
States 123,11).
A Montana man entered a bear's
den during iu absence and discovered
a rich vein or silver.
Twenty-three Chinamen lately re
turned to Caina from Havana carrying
with them $200,000.
Baliinger, in Runnels county, Tex.
Is said to be only one month old, with
a population of 2,000.
The use of asphaltum as a protec
tion against dampness is largely on the
increase in building.
Carp piaced In the Hartford reser
voirs have completely cleaned them of
all vegetable growths.
A Boston negro has two sets of
ribs and two hearts, and can entirely
suspend animation at wilL
About three-fourths of the celestial
globe has been mapped out by the new
system of photography.
A mouse went into an Aroostook
Sunday school and tbe superintendent
tinea mm witn tbe uibie.
The Erie canal in New York is
damaged annually by muskrats to the
extent of J50.000 and over.
About 140.0ii0.000 toothpicks were
shlpiied from Fond du Lac, Wis., to
St. Louis one week receutlr.
-There are more Republican mem
bers of the Alabama Legislature than
of any similar body since 1S74.
The creditor of an Atlanta. Ga..
undertaker levied on a second hand
coffin the latter had in stock.
Charts of the Pleiades shows as
visible to the direct eye C25 st trs while
the photograph reveals 142L
A Mexican miller must pay 32 sep
arate taxes on his wheat in getting it
from the field to the market.
A New Jersey factory makes bed
clothing out of double sheets of manilla
paper strengthened with twine.
Chilian dentists cccupy a very high
rank in society, living like nabobs in
ralaces and dnving tine equipages.
Kimberly was tlie first city in Af
rica lighted by electricity. Does and
other animals were killed by its use.
'A Vaneeborough (Me.) company
biu shipped a large evnsiirnment of
Churns to Auckland, New Zeaiaiid.
An octoeenariau Holstein shoe
maker has gathered together and clas
sified 2:03 different kinds of beetles.
Boiler incrustations are made to
scale off by passing a current of elec-
trlcitv through tbe metal for two days.
The best mineral coal in tbe world
has lean discovered in New Zealand, it
having 01 per cent of combustible mat
te The tallest swinging derrick in the
world is one in use on tbe Philadelphia
public buildings, which is over 300 feet
high.
Tbe mountainous district of Cali
fornia are covered with snow while nu
merous cases of sunstroke occur in tbe
valleys.
The passage of the Suez canal Is
now made In 10 hours by the aid of
electric lights which makes night travel
possible.
There are more than 3,000,000 col
onies of bees in apiaries having from
six to 1000 or 15C0 hives, in this coun
try to-day.
In Texas there are 187 children
born annually to every 1000 women,
while in New England the rate is 82 in
every 1000.
The fish in the Carson river, Nev.,
will not bite, owing to their having lost
their teeth frcm salivation by mill
chemicals.
A late French doctor made a col
lection of over 5iH) skeletons of deform
ed people, which the heirs are trying to
sell for 10000.
Data carefully collected by a Bos
ton paper point to an increased yield of
bay this season in Maine, New Hamp
shire and Vermont.
The Boston OhM thinks tbat the
curse of tbe present college course Is
the prevailing extravagance, and adds
that rich parents are wholly to blame.
The ley of Tunis has given a lot
of land for a Protestant chapel, and the
150 to 2iJ0 Protestants in ttie city have
raised a building fund of 5,000 francs.
A 3-year-old daughter of W. N.
Wilson, of Attica, N. Y., was nearly
poLsoned to death one day recently by
eating a small piece of wall paper which
contained arsenic.
In Brazil tbe liberated slaves show
au uncontrollable disposition to flock to
the coast cities. Immigration is looked
oa as the only source of supply for ag
ricultural labors.
The whipping to death of a colored
convict in Alabama by one of the con
tractors, has had the effect of rousing
public sentiment somewhat on the sub
ject of convict labor.
During the last year 4,003 foreign
ers have been naturalized In Prussia.
Thirty-eight thousand seven hundred
and eighty-five Prussians emigrated
during the same period, however.
An authority states that to cover
the base balls mado in New York alone
the hides of about 10,000 horses atid
the skins of many times that number
of sheep are required every season.
An Inventory is being taken of the
jewels left by King Ludwig, of Bavaria.
In his chateau at Berg there were found
coffers filled with diamonds, rubies and
pearls, watches and chains amounting
to a fortune.
. M. Ilertt 2Tanqon calls attention to
tbe ease with which tbe Ice-plant can
be cultivated on a largo scale as a source
of potash. According to him, tbe fresh
plant contains about ba'.f cf cne per
cent, of potash.
A novel method Is adopted iu China
to protect carrier pigeons from birds ot
prey. An apparatus made of about ten
small bamboo tubes is attached to the
pigeon's tad in such a way tbat a shrill
whistling sound la produced by the rub
of air across the tubes.
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