1 ... ; . EE ' ' j r 1 if'' 1 ' ' I ( B. F. SOHWEIER, in oonrznmox tsx tnioi ajb xex motaman or m layi. Editor and Proprietor. i - VOL. XLI. MIFFJJNTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 21, 18S7. NO. 52. The IMn and (be Small Boy. Only a pin; T" t caltny lay on tl i tuli-I rtoor in Imlit of day; Aril 1t hiii- seri-nely lair and bright, F.-tl t"uf back the noonday light. Poly a lx-y; jet he nasr that pin, Ar.ii Ins tm asaumrd & nendi.th grin: H, ,t,M p.-.l lor a wbiK with look Intent, "Till be ami ttie pin allies wen boot. Ouly a clia r; hut upon ltn Kit A .-.:-lrnt ln found ial rntrent; or liiul the knt rye iliftct?rnml Ilia: hrait-uwaril it's point was turned. Duly a tu.m: hut he chanced to drop t p'0 Uuit cliair, rnt tizz-bang pop; He irK;l like a cork trotn out a bottle, ud L-i nl witle bis v1t? d. throttle. Pn'v a vll though an Lonest one. It iiu'kt-d tbe e.rinut ot fun; Au l b lMy mul nian, and pia and chair, l'i Miitl cuululo niiulnl there. IWDER A CLUL1). II s;ui a co!u, Cat night in Febra arv. 'li e snow had been lying on the housetops for a fortnight. Xbe trees m tie squares seeuied like frosted skrV-t 'lis. Everywhere overhead the siiuw was still white aud pure. Under l,n,t was a damp, cold, slushy mixture of ne and mud, such as London only can produce, which chills the badly shod wayfarer to the boue. The lamps gave but a ilim light lu the side streeu. an I the few pedttstriaus, marching silently along In the quiet thorough fan s, seemed, with their noiseless foot steps, to le so ui.iuy sorrowful ghosts condemned to a weary pilgrimage ia a .-lin t city of mist and darkness. r'laiik Peutou, however, felt none or these things. At five-aml-twenty one enjoy a walk undeter.ed by fears of colli a:ul rheumatism; Indeed, the driv ing rain or gently-falling snow gives a ze.-t when one. is youug, well-fed, well clothed, and blessed with the knowledge that the simple with the elements can If ended at pleasure. Frank, although lie was not partlcu lur'y favored by fortune, was one of those lucky people. His father had lieen a lmor clergyman, who. struck down by fr-ver. leit his wife and son totally unprovided for. Frank, then sixteen, had lieen placed by one of his father's friends lu a merchant's office. Here l.e had remained, gradually im proving his position, and gaining the confidence of his employers. For the last two years, having had th inisiortuue to lose his mother, he Lad been living alone in London, and being of ipuet and studious habits, had passed most of the evenings in the com pany ot his books. lie was out this evening, al ter a couple cf hours' study, anJ I.. nl been walking briskly along for some t ine, his thoughts busy with a bright, imaginary future. For the last few minutes he had been vaguely aware of a female form Hitting along in front of hun, am! was conscious that, whilst out -ha f of his brain had been busy building cast.es in the air, the other haif had lieen as busy admiring the pretty figure in front of him. Just as Frank was about to pasa her, she seized him by the arm and forced him rudely back two or three puces, and, before he ould recover himself, there was a mu tiled sound of rushing hoofs and rattling of harness, a horse and trap dashed madly over the pot where he would have been, and in another moment the vehicle was caught against the lamp-post at the corner and smashed to pieces. In a minute the solitary street had a decent-sued crowd In it. It Is a marvelous characteristic of London that no aooner does the most trliing accident occur than a crowd seems to grow up at once. WLne thj people come from Is a mys tery. They seeiu to ooze up from the ral, to em. ii. ate in some manner from the very bricks to desceud with the blacks, to tloat in upon the wind. 1'iank, however, took little notice of the crowd, lie was too much occupied with his fair preserver, who, the dan ger ;:ist, had tainted, and would Lave lalleu but tor his promptness In up holding tier. In tw or three minutes the cool nuht air revived her, and they walked on together till tney found them selves m one of London's broad and busy s reets. Here she would have wisi.ed liim good-night, but he insisted on uccmui auying her a little farther, to which, alter a faint resistance, she agreed. The strange manner In which they had lieen introduced to each other; the se.vioe she had rendered him, for which, lie protested, he could never sufficiently thank her; the earuest re jection on her part of any merit in what she had done; cradually launched them Into a lively conversation: so that i:i a short time they were talking as familiarly as though they had known e.icli other for years, lie learned that she was employed at a fashionable milliner's establishment at the West tud, and that she was making her way to her home near Is.inglon. In spite ot her humble position there was a tone ot retiuement about her. and his quick ear told him that her speech was that of a well educated per son. Her face was that ef a charming girl, and her figure was in keeping with bi r race. Too soon the walk came to an end. and i i auk had to say good-night and once more thauk his fair preserver for the service reudered him. Ills lodgings eetnied very lonely and gloomy; and as lie could not settle down to his books he retired to rest, in the hope that he nngiit perhaps be so lucky us to dream oi Ms new acquaintance. Ah the next day her face kept appear ing on the ledger or the letters he was working at, and. perhaps, it was not very remarkable that soon after Jtary Emertou had left Mme. Mi chaud's, she met Frank. the could not refuse to acknowledge his saluta- i on, indeed she had little wish to co for his bright face and winning manner had made a great impression. There had been little romance in her dull, gray existence. -"any an evening did these young people meet, and although some would Diame Mary tor admitting the ac Huaiutance of one who was a total stiaLger to her, it must be remembered that girls who have to work for their daily bread, and are accustomed to struggle in the everyday Cght cf the world, are, as a rule, quite capable of "ting care ot themselves. If Mary did not at ouce inform her parents of this new friendship, it was more out of nyness than for any other reason. 1 ime went on. Frank was anxious to have a home of his own. and felt that his position justified one of his numtile tables m "giving hostages to fortune." ilaiy had long ago told him of her position nd that of her parents. ne anew that her father gained a living as a law-writer; that he had occe been m a Utter position, that he had assited and gulled h'S daughter m ntndlen s that had made her far superior to most of the girls among whom her lot was cast, but that she had never heard from either parent what their former position had been, or by what misfort une it had been lost. Mr. Enaerton was of a very retiring disposition, and never encouraged any one to Intimacy, and this was the reason that Mary for so long objected to Frank's making himself and bis wishes known to her father. Mie feared that this would end her sweet romance, and that the pleas ant walks and happy castle-building they both Indulged in would come to an abrupt conclusion. One Saturday evening, Mary was busy In making preparations for tea of so sumptuous a nature in that humble borne, that 11 was evident "company" was expected. She went about the lit tle room, gaily singing, ber eyes bright, her face lit up with joyful expectation. And this was the cause. Her story had been confided to her mother, by whom It had been, somewhat hesi tatingly., communicated to the father, who had received It more graciously than bad been expected. Mr. L merlon had at once admitted that Frank should be invited to visit them; but said that what might occur in the future must depend on what he thought of the young man, and how he Frank would receive the communication be had to make to him. A knock was beard at the door. Mary ran to open it, and after a longer time than might have been absolutely necessary, she ushered into the little parlor "Mr. Frank Denton." Now did the anxious Frank make the most strenuous exertions to please the old people, and there is no doubt he fully succeeded. Still, Mr. K mer lon's face was clouded during the re past, as though there were some great care or anxiety which would keep ob truding upon his pleasanter thoughts. Frank lost no lime in coming to the great question he had upon his mind, and after explaining his parentage, position and future prospects, he, hold ing out his hands to father and mother, asked them to entrust their daughter to his care. Mr. K merlon arose and walked a few times up and down the room, then re suming his seat; be said: l'ilr. Deutcn. I thank you for the straight-forward manner in which you have dealt with us. and I welcome the thoueht of having audi a protector for my dear girl. 1 am getting old, and her future has often given me much anxiety. I am poor, and if you take her as your wife, you must take her for herself alone. This you know; but 1 have something far more Important to say, and, until you have beard it, I must consider that your offer has cot been made. There is a cloud resting upon my nams and life, which has caused me for years to hold myself aloof from all acquaintanceship or friendship has obliged me to earn a loor livelihood by hard and incessant labor, and has condemned my gill to daily toil. "Fifteen years ago I held a good po sition in a city house. There were only two cle'ks above me, and had things prospered with me, I might by this time have had a share In the business. I knew the work- thoroughly, was shrewd and fortunate in what I under took, was respected, aud, 1 thought, trusted thoroughly. The junior part ner, I always fancied, disliked me, yet 1 cannot say that he ever acted unjustly towards me. or that his feelings ever did more Uian bias his judgment against me. One day there had been a gieat rush of business, and during the morn. lug one of the paitner s bauded me over JL'SUO ;in bank notes that I was to pay into the bank later in the day. I thought at the time that I had opened my desk and pushed them in a corner, but I may have laid them on the desk at the side of a ledger I wai consulting. However. I soon afterwards went out to luncheon, locking my desk carefully, according to my custom, before 1 went. In the afternoon I was preparing to go to the bank, and opening the desk felt for the notes m tha corner where l imagined I bad placed them. I could uot feel them, and opening my desk to Us widest extent, I looked with anxiety in every corner, but, to my horror, in vain. At that moment the junior I-artuer came up and asked me what made me look so wnue. Was I ill? I could hardly gasp out: "The notes! lostl" "He assisted me In the search, but the missing notes were not to be found. "It is very peculiar," 1 said. "It is indeed very peculiar," said Johnson, eyeing me in a strange, searching manner. 'There was much excitement in the office; everyone was questioned and cross-examined, but no information could be obtained. In more than one onvate interview with the partners I was compelled to admit tnai i naa no .... ......... reason to suspect anyone. 1 bad locked my desk lfore going out, and it was certainly very unfortunate that 1 bad left the office between the receiving of the notes and the discovery ot the loss. The Junior partner was very persistent in cross-examlng roe, and probably my anxiety and bewilderment may have given me the air of one who was pre varicating, fcunice it to say mar, my employers, forgetting my faithful ser vice of twenty years, requested me to resign my apioiutmeut. Xo protesta tions of mine were of any avail. They evidently thought that I had given way to temptation, and I retired a broken hearted man. It was useless for me to try for employment in the city with such a grave suspicion resting on my character. I got rid ot my house and furniture, aud took this little cottage. where I have lived ever since. After trying many things, I obtained work as a copyist and have contrived on the mouey thus earned to keep np a shabby respectability, les, sir, l am poor, shabby, old. living In a back street. under an assumed name, but, by Hea ven, an honest man an honest man! Now that you have heard my story, do you ask me to give you my daughter?" "les a thousand times, yesi" Bam Frank, jumping up and takiug the weeping girl in his arms. "I do ask you, and 1 firmly and heartily believe that I am taking the honest daughter of an honorable man." "On. Frank, dear Frank, bless you for vour words." said Mary. The mother came to him, and taking bis hand, kissed it in gratitude for bis faith in one so precious to ber loyal old heart. The two men grasped bands in that cordial firm grip that means true and loval friendship. They had resumed their seats, and were chatting about the city and com merce when Mr. Lxerton said: "I wonder if my old firm Smith, Emmet and Johnson are still flourish in?" 'What!" cried Frank, his eyes wide open with astonishment. "You mean to say that yanr firm was actually Smith, Emmet & Johnson?" 'Yes; do you know it?" "Know it! Why, it's mine. I've been there nine years; tmd oh I what a stupid thick head I must have, that it did not strike me at once. You are Howlands?" - "What! have you beard them speak of me?" "Indeed, yes. Ours, as you know, Mr. Howlands, is an old-fashioned bouse, with many curious nooks and corners. Some three years ago the governors resolved to have the office fitted up in the modern style, We had to crowd a bit, and to use one part of the office while the workmen altered the other, Almost the first thing they did was to pull down what must have been your old desk, and the wainscot ing to which it was affined. One of the part nets was looking on and I heard his loud exclamation ot surprise eoou after the wainscoting was taken from the walL He had stooped to pick up a bundle of papers covered with dust. They must have been between the bricks and liie woodwork for many years. His exclamation was caused by the discovery that this bundle of papers was a packet of bank notes. " "Thank heaven thank heaven! I see it ail," cried the old man. -Then," said Frank, '-we beard all about it. The other partners came in to examine the notes, and bit by bit, in the course of conversation, we heard your f tory. But why didn't you call after the governors advertised for you?" "I saw no advertisement. Men out of the world as I have been seldom look at advertisements, except, when they want work." "What a pity! The old governor said he'd give a thousand pounds to find you." That evening was. perhaps, the hap piest evening these four people had ever spent. The old man was jubilant and could not < still for five minutes at a time. He kept walking about and clapping Frank on the back every now aud then would call him bis dear boy. He would sit down aud laugh, then stand up and laugh, till his old wife began to fear that he was turning crazy. It was a very late hour Indeed before be would part with Frank, who, it was arranged, should the next Mon day morning inform the firm of bis dis covery, leaving them to take their own method of righting the great wronj that hadbeen done. Frank lost no time in obtaining a private interview with his employers, one satisfactory result being that he had an advance in salary before be left the room. It was not long before Smith & Co. had done all they possibly could to compensate their old servant for bis past misfortune. He bad been too long out of the city, and was too much altered, to be of any use in their office, but they gave him a comfortable auuuity, aud he had, through them. more than one opportunity of seeing some of those who had known him ot old, and of making them aware that his good name had been rehabilitated. As to what happened afterwards to Frank and Mary. 1 have little to say. Last summer I spent a day at their suburban villa some few miles from ttroad street." Mis. Denton was a most amiable hostess; her father and mother seemed as happy as old people without a care in the world ought to be. I had the pleasure of riding Master Frank Emmett Henton on uiy knees; aud as for Frank, senior, be confided to me in the garden that since he had been mar ried be was the "laziest beggar out," and hardly ever went anywhere exeep. on business. A Matron Who Oui:- Sure lli-r P.Kkrt llail Iteeu I'ickiiL "I have bad my pocket picked I' ex claimed a middle-aged woman, as she hurriedly entered detective headquar ters a day or two ago. "When did it occur?" was asked. "In a store ou Woodward avenue. and I know it was a youug man who stood near me." How much miney did you have" "1 can't say, sir. You see, it was this way. I came down to do some shopping. I put my portmonnaie in my pocket when I left home. When I went to pay lor the goods in tne store It was gone. I think I bad about eight dollars." "Did anyone have opportunity to pick your pocket?" "I suppose luey aid." "Sure you brought the money down town?" "Oh, yes." "And you are certain you didn't lose It?" "Do you think I'm a fool, slrr she Indignantly exclaimed. "When I say I had my pocket picked I know what I'm talking about!" 'I hope you do, ma'am, but you know " At this moment a boy entered the room with the portmonnaie in bis hand and said. "Here's your money, ma. We found it on the stand alter you left the bouse aud Sarah sent me down to the store after you. The woman and tne sergeant looked fixedly at each other for a few seconds. Then he smiled. Then she got red. Then be said he was glai she bad found her money and she retorted: "I don't believe it! 1 ou just wish I had lost it! I'll never come here for help again, never!" More About Mr, loanstry'a Divorce. There, is a very excellent authority for the report that Mrs. Laugtry's di vorce is only a question or a very snort time. San Francisco is rivaling New port as a divorce colouy for New York malcontents. In the first place it is very easy to obtain, and In the second the law there about recording it, is such that one can ba free for months before the public need necessarily be taken into one's conndence. Airs. Lanctrv resided there the required length of time and declared herself a citizen, and before a great while she will be free of the husband who seems to have remained persistently obscure desoite the notoriety of his wife. It is a curious fact that no one knows much about Mr. Lang try, who or what he is, or bow he regards the present situa tion. The same authority that vouches for the fact of Mrs. Langtry's speedy deliverance from the matrimonial yoke, adds that she will immediately resume it under another name. It does not require any very great amount of acu men to guess what the name engraved on that new yoke will be. The only reason Mrs. Langtr has deferred a divorce for so Ions is that her hus band's surname was too pretty and agreed so well with her own. beside being a very valuable trade mark, as it were, that she hesitated to relinquish the only thing her husband ever gave her that she valued. LilFE IN SIEXICO. The Ijinu of Hospitality An Kven- ins Meat Xo persuasion could indnce our kind host of del Norte to give op his project of accompanying us along our road as far as bis sister's ranch, which was but a little distance ont of our main road, and finally we were obliged ' to accept his courtesy a courtesy which Is never lacking aaaong the best class of Mexi cans and he made ready for his trip by putting on a pair of boots which re quired the most heroic endeavor to pull on. Tbey were so tight that be could scarcely walk, and it was fortunate that be had a horse. All the Mexican men wear their boots so tight that it must be torture, but they are very proud of their small feet. Just before we were ready to start the gentle wife came out with a magnificent new scrape, which she had woven herself, for his feat a, as sbe said modestly; but seeing that he was going to visit his sister she would anticipate bis birth' day and give it to him now to wear. He was so pieased that his eyes spark led like diamonds as be laid his arm around ber plump shoulders and pressed his cheek to hers. And weil they might both be proud, for a finer piece of work of the kind I never saw. A scrape is a wrap made in the form of a blanket with a silt exactly in the mid dle for the h'ad to go'through. The body of it was pure white with bril liant well matched colors arranged in very pretty, intricate pattern as bor der, the whole woven so firmly as to be absolutely waterproof. It had taken this patient, loving woman a whole year to make it. I could not help drawkig comparisons with our own wives, who go to stores end buy presents for their husbands aud order the bills sent to them. The little woman turned red, but for once held her topgue, which surprised me a little, until I happened to remember last Christmas. We left the hospiteble hacienda and began our rough ride again, which was enlivened by the singing of the driver. who seemed to have taken a good deal of enthusiasm or something else just be fore we left, and at noon we persuaded him to halt, when we immediately went to sleep, and In spite till 3 o'clock. In the meantime the little woman and myself amused ourselves and the don by taking his picture, as well as sketches of the scenery, which bad be gun to grow Interesting, the effect of the atraosphere ou the mountains being most wonderfully beautiful. Toward sunset we passed a ruined church, which stood all alone by the wayside, with a little graveyard at the back of it. It was grown over with rank vegetation, a great vine branch ing in every direction over and among the falling walls, laden with beautiful yellow Cowers like golden chalices. Among the graves bushes hung full of scarlet tasseis and white spikes of flow ers, pure and delicate, each of which bold one red drop of liquid at their base, and from which arises the name. sangre de Cbristo (blood ot Christ). 1 his place Inokoa Oeseir-Ml. it is tnw: yet was one ot the most charming and ' picturesque places we had seen. No one knows who built or who de- destroyed that church. Probably there has been near here a small town burned or destroyed by the Indians whose raids have been a constant dan ger for many years. Just as darkness was closing around us and the little women was ready to cry with fatigue, fear and cold (for it grows cold there as soon as the sun goes down), the carriage was surroun ded by numberless barking curs, which were welcome, as they proved we were near the ranch of Signora Carola, who was the widow of an American named Carol, who bad wedded his Mexican bride, and they reared three lovely children when he was gored to death by one of his own cattle. In the darkness we could only see the long, low houe, a mass of somber foliage around and mountains beyond. when the doors opened and we received a cordial and noisy welcome, and with out delay were seated with the family upon the noor with stools placed in front of ia holding dishes full of tamal. which is made of chopped meat, toma toes and chile, stewed and then rolled in a tortilla. L asides this was a dish of fried beans and a delicious cup of cof fee and more tortilla with cheese. The little woman thoroughly enjoyed ber supper, and afterward tried, but with little success, to smoke a cigarette, while I smoked with the men. As we retired she said, sleepily: "Edward, I think 1 could learn, and I don't see why the men should have all the good things of the earth." A Woodland (jueeiu I was rambling idly through the woods one May morning, enjoying the breath of spring and the fragrant grasses, when I suddenly came uion a gypsy encampment balf hidden in a small clearing among the trees. I was intent on watching the move ments of the swarthy people moving about the camp, when a girlish voice startled me, saying: "Cross the gypsy's hand with silver, and have your for tune told." Turning quickly, I saw a young girl coming toward me, whose woudrous beauty sent a thrill through my heart. Her skin, of a dusky olive, snowed In its color the passionate blood flow ing beneath, and ber eyes were black as midnight and flashing with bidden fires. A sweeter mouth or redder lips I had never seen in my rambles. She was a wonderful picturel Her hair, dark and glossy, escaped from the snowy cap she wore and fell in luxuri ance over ber shoulders. A broad leaf hat, a red skirt and a russet bod' ice completed the picturesque costume ot this woodland queen. "Let me tell your fortune, sir." But now came a procession of at least a score of gypsies male and fe male, old and young, sturdy man hood, rich, mature niatrouhood and old age all going, as X guessed, to a neighboring fair; and their lips were full ot furtive mirth as the gypsy halted and held me still by the witchery of ber glorious eyes. One man a strong-built gypsy, a six-footer at least turned upon me with something evil in his glance, in wnicn i read a passion that In the nn known nature of the Romany. I had never dreamed of before. He spoke to ber in a voice half of command, half of entreaty. Prance it, Judith, after the Boms and Juwas," he said, in Bomany dia lect, "ine liusnee blood Is cold, and his cly smaller than his band, and less to bold." I did not understand the jargon. save that it was something depreca tory. The gypsy moved not; ber smile, her exquisite face, was yet bent full upon mine. I took ont half a crown, and, giving it to her. held out my band. "Speak It. Judith," I said. "Read me my future, for It is very dark to me, and I would know it." Sbe followed the lines of life and death, doom and fate. Her look grew grave, and she lingered over her tash with a certain troubled aspect which interested, me. "Strange!" she murmured, for I see myself mixed In this tangle of destiny. There is trouble; there is peril; there is much of evil menace I And yet, stranger, I see it writ here aye, as plain as the stars are written down in the sky that the Romany girl will meet the Busnee again and help him in the moment when life and fate and all his future are quivering in the balance I" "So be it, Judith, I murmured; "so be it. Come what may, only let me meet with thee again I" "I see trouble and reverses, and sor row like to heart-break; I see clouds and darkness, billows and tropic storms, and a far land ; I see a new home, the dawn of another day; and yet oh master of the seal and reader of the dark secret! I see myself there there 1" "Where, Judith where?" I cried impatiently, "llushl" she said; "I may say no more! They call me! Hope, work and wait! The years are as full of promise as the fields of revelations; but it is not the zingarl that can read it! Farewell!" And lifting my hand, as it In hom age, to her lips, she bounded off like a doe, and left me amazed, troubled, en raptured. Did I read her half-hidden revela tion truly? We shall see. A week after I was in a vessel going to seek a home and sources of living here exhausted and hopeless in Aus tralia. A year after I was in the heart of far Australian wilds, working like a man. My heart was light; hope was before me; success certain. At home all had been loss, decay, ruin my father dead, my mother and sisters portionless. Fate pointed eut to me that beyond the heaving ocean my new world lay. It was dawning upon me at last. Then came reverses, illness, sickness next to death. I was all but ruined well-nigh dead. One day a wounded bushranger came crawling to my door. I sheltered, fed, protected him, and at last recog nized the gypsy whose look so men aced me. lie was of the Cooper family and had to fly the country. He became my laborer, my faithful right-hand man true as steel to me; he would never leave me more. "Judith will come," he said, signifi cantly. "But Judith where is Judith?" my yearning heart cried. "Patience, pa tieucel" I said. "We shall meet; it is decreed we shall meet; but how?" 1 was at Port Philip once, seeking for some laborers to hire, for my farm bad increased, my stores multiplied, Ui mr rl Trr vessel had lately 'landed there a rem nant of emigrants, who, stricken down by plague, lay helpless on the beach, in canvas tents, and praying for death. from the tardy help the frightened people dared scarcely bring them. iottering to meet me came a wan. worn figure, with the rich olive of her wasted face almost faded, but the eyes were like glowing opals. I knew her at once. "Judith!" I cried aloud. "It is be!" she half shrieked, and fainted in my arms. A Curiuurt r'iicure. An object of Interest to the general public and one that claims the attention of acbie logists In particular is exhbited by Cain Sc Verner, corner Fifth avenue aud Market street, Pittsburg. The exact purpose, the thingshowu was;de sigued to serve can only be explained by those versed in antiquity. A human bead upon a bird-like body with a fan tail, carved in stone describes the ap pearance of a work that bears all the evidence of prehistoric origin. The face is purely i Egyptian. Across the head is cast something resembling an amice, placed iu such a manner as to reveal the entire forehead, lhe image is formed in such a manner as to be fairly balanced upon a base tapering from the middle of the body. The base is round and hollowed a depth of about two inches, tapering in cone-like form. A raised rim on the top or upper part of the body, hollowed in like man ner and of the same dimensions as the hollow in the base, intersects a hole drilled at right angles with that bored through the upper part of the body. The figure is 12 inches long and 9 inches high. Its weight is 21 pouuds. The figure la perfect of its kind. There is a small fracture in the tail and a cut In the lower left cheek. The propor tions of the face are well preserved. The carving, though rude, is bold, and the effect produced striking, consider ing the simplicity of the design. The material seems to be granite. The manner in which it came into their possession is curious. Some time ago a citizen at Alabama informed the firm that his brother A. Berks' res3or, a farmer residing near Montgomery, Ala., while plowing had turned up a strange image that was regarded as an Egyptian idol. Mr. Cain made further inquiry concerning the matter, and having satisfied himself that the state ments made by the farmer had been verified by the people of Montgomery, secured the figure. All who have ex amined It express the opinion that it is undoubtedly prehistoric. It is said there is but one other figure similar to it, and that is In the Smithsonian In stitute. Manners. Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon these, in a great measure, the laws depend. The law teaches us but hern and there, now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, bar barize or refine us, by constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation like that of the air we breath in. Tbey give their whole form and color to our lives. Ac cording to their quality they aid morals, they supply laws, or they totally de stroy them. Hons. Jansstn, the French astrono mer, has returned to Paris from his recent expedition to Caroline Island to observe the eclipse of the sun. In his report to the academy of Sciences be has expressed the opinion, as the result of his observations, that the region ab tut the sun is filled with material "almost orpuscular" which reflects the sun's light. By this, we suppose he means minute particles of concrete matter. CRUELTY TO AMMAI-S. Birds and Butterflies UmhI to Adorn loatliea' Cotums. A Boston woman lately returned from Europe brought a reception gown that must have two hundred little brown birds fastening a rose-colored crepe upon a skirt of white silk. A circlet of these little feathered crea tures Is intended for the head. "I believe it would be a good dress for a character to wear at a costume ball," said its owner, ''only, 1 wouldn't know what to call it. What would you say for a name?" "Cruelty to animals." replied the friend. Certainly the first thought that crosses one's mind at seeing this dress is one of horror at the slaughter of those poor little creatures, that a gown might be trimmed with their bodies. Almost every year some such costume turns up and fires the inventive genius of many a silly girl. Consternation reigned In old Dr. Catlin's home one night when it was found that the chambermaid had gone to a ball with the doctor's pet collec tion of butterflies and bugs stuck all over a white tarletan frock. His en tomological treasures, rich and rare, were carefully pinned in cases with locked glass doors on them. The doc tor's wife had worn a dress to some festivity ornamented with beaded but terflies and when the occasion arrived for Miss Honora O'Halleran to attend the ball of the McGinnertjv Associ ation with Barney Brannlgan it struck her that the bugs would work in beau tifully. She detached about half of the collection, valued at some thous ands of dollars, and sewed theu by their hind legs to the most prominent portions of her costume. Putting on a waterproof she boarded a car and went off to be the belle of tha ball. The doctor discovered his rifled cases during the evening and wild was the night in his bouse. A. clue was ob tained to their fate froxu the cook, who remembered to have seen Honora with a box of "gold croton bugs'' up in Jier room. Dr. Catlln was up to let the house maid in when at all hours in the morning she waltzed into the base ment, ber bedraggled tarletan skirt covered with the broken wintfs and severed legs of the famous collection". When the storm broke Honora advised the old man not to take on so for a "few ould Insects. " "Shure I'll catch yez glass cupboards full in the back yard before the grass grows again," said she reassuringly. But the doctor, is mourning to-day for his specimen of the longotis ciu chomta and the only Itnown zoometa angepectalis. Scrklnj; a Beautiful Melody. The British museum has purclia.ted from Mrs. Balfe a musical album left by her husband in which are to be found the origlual sketches for the airs, concert pieces, finales and scenes of Vmrinm Icirtflft iplangii(y le rflfTpTV1lt. operas. The sketches that have been turned to account are crossed over with penmarks, and the book is full of ideas and suggestions of which the fer tile composer had made no practical use. Baife worked with great facil ity, but he took trouble with his work all the same, and in the well known "situation" in "The Bohemian Girl." where the favorite tenor song "When Other Lips" occurs lie placed, one after the other, four different airs be fore he could find one that completely satisfied him. These airs, with dif ferent rhymths and different temps, are all set down In tue album, includ ing one which bad been learned by the tenor, W. II. Harrison, aud rehearsed with orchestra when, at the last mo ment constantly urged Ly his wife to think of something better Balfe was suddenly visited by the beautiful mel ody which with her approval, be, finally adopted. Shoemakers' Secrets. An old shoemaker tells of a lrick or two in shoeciaklng which he learned when he was a boy, which uiiear to be still hidden mysteries to a lot of fashionable shoemakers. One of these concerns not only the aiwarance of the shoe but the comfort of the wearer. How many times do you see men's big toes rising In high relief im pressions above the surface of Uie up per? Naturally you feel that the wearer of such a shoe must suffer from the pressure on his big toe, and lie does; if not immediately, at some time in the future. The whole difficulty can be obviated by providing a depression In the sole of the shoe into which the toe will fit. This depression is obtained by fastening a piece on the last and beating the sole around it until it is moulded to it. When the toe is thus cared for there will be no ingrowing toe nails and no unsightly protrusions ot the upper. Another thing that may be interesting to shoe wearers and shoemakers is this: A blistered or sore heel caused by a new shoe may be re lieved by taking a small piece ot com mon newspaper.crushing it in the hand aud placing It under the ailing heel. The bit of paper has the effect of a 'lift," and forcing the foot forward in the shoe leaves the beel entirely free from the counter. " The Oxidation or Zinc The expensive outdoor use of z'nc by builders at the present time has directed attention to the peculiar pro cess of oxidation which this metal undergoes, and which is so important to be considered in all applications in volving exposure. The rusted surface does not rub oft or blow away, but forms a sort of hard crust or enamel upon the surface of the metal, and when laid upon boarding which is or may become damp or exposed to steam or condensation below, it rusts on both sides. The thin zincs first introduced in this way were rusted through, bnt tleness ensuing, and failure being the result. But if the zinc be of sufficient thickness, after a certain time oxida tion ceases, and the result is a body oi solid sound metal. Incased above ana below by a solid coating, thoroughly Impermeable to the accidents of weather or temperature, and which requires nc painting. The various way 3 of spread ing zinc consist mainly in laying it ic a corrugated form without boarding, the trusses of iron or wood of the roof carrying the weight, or in rafters about one foot, more or less, apart, with a corrugation at each rafter only, or upon a general surface of boarding, in the manner of a lead Cat. -CAKXISH." A Chapter of Housekeeping Wisdom for Matrons and Maids. We all know the difference a little taste and care make in the preparation of our food, and how much more palat able is the plainest fare daintily served than the most rtdterche cookery if care lessly or untidily prepared. The same rule hoslds good in the daily life, and no one stiould be more alive to tlie.facts than our iMUsekeeper. It is in most cases owing to this lack of garnish that the majority of the difficulties that beset the nineteenth century buse-rnothers arise. We de spise the -Say of small things, and so fall by litt and little. Little rough nesses passtd unchecked, little courte sies neglected, little meannesses over looked or latighed at, small matters that seemed too trivial to notice at the time, w hich yst will in the eud amount to a total as stautling as it is formid able. We all know thai in our housekeep ing it is not the large sums that are so tiy ing. We coaiut the cost of a large outlay, aud make provision for it; but il is the tiny slims, the pennies and half-pence, that mount up so terribly and so unexpectedly lu our weekly accounts. Well, it is the same in our dally life; the foolish jest, harmless enough possibly to thd elders, but which the childrevi hear with round eye J horror, aud discuss later In nur sery conclave; the hasty, discourteous word to your governess, for which you probably aiologized nicely enough .later, but which the maid, or the bairns, before whom you so thought les&ly uttered it, w ill not forget as soon as you do; the sharp, perhaps unde served, reproof to the servants; these you consider trifles very likely, though how they tell on the well-being of a household few but experienced house keepers realize. At all events, these triiles show a lamentable deficiency in the "garnish" that makes such an im mense difference in the comfort of our dally existence. A good deal of the uncomfortable feeling that undoubtedly exists between mistress and maid owes its origin in grtat measuie to this neglect of small tlii ncs. A lew years ago there was au uubridgeJ guif between up aud down stairs. Servants were expected to "know their place," were looked on as a kind of living automata, utterly un coitocious of the sayings aud doings of the Mijerior beings tney were privi leged to STve. Not being either blind, deaf or dumb, they were nothing of the of the sort, but, on the contrary, un commonly sharp (aud occasionally malicious) critics of their betters, and HUUly revengtd the slight they were quick to see was put upon them. This feeling we have now to combat when trying in some measure to l est ore "the Constant service of the antique world," aud the task is not a light one; "the fathers have eaten sour grapes, avid the children's teeth are set ou edijp." We looked ou our servants as a Ptparate class, with feeling utterly dfu'?reTTt to ours, and lncapabie of un dersxuiiding much less appreciating the lutle garnish we considered ouly the ordinary courtesy of dally life in our station. 'Well, they have frankly accepted the situation, and, very natu rally, insist ou the advantages of the position we have forced them to take up. Treat a man as a human wolf, and if he shows his teeth, aye, aud use them, too, who shall blame him? And do you think that women, with their more highly strung nerves and seuitive feelings, are likely to take the matter more cooly? Hardly. We have de spised the garnish, and have only our selves to thank if the rough edges show. It is the same with our childreu. We allow them to speak disrespectfully to ourselves, roughly to one auother, rudely to the servants. We actually foster their selfishness, aud treat as clever jokes the jietty meanness and the spiteful sieech; and theu we wonder if our lads and lasses grow up rough and uncouth, or, if endowed, with a sur face polish, without oue single thought for anything outside their own com- fort, aud we call heaven and earth to witness that never since the creation were parents so innocently unfortu nate. , If women would ouly realize what a powerful weapon real refinement is,'! they would value it more for them selves and anxiously cultivate It their offspring. It is the same in everything. Give people credit for right feeling and goodj Intentions, and in nine cases out of ten) you wiH do more to produce them than' by the most eloquent admonitions or the most housewifely watchfulness. ThelM-fc at Sunrise. One of the incidents ot the tour is a visit to Thebes at sunrise. The vocal Memuon will uot be heard unless a small Arab is hidden, in advance, in a break in the back of the Colossus, and instructed to pound with a bit of The ban debris uiu a sonorous stone in corporeted between the giant shoul ders. But assuredly a sunrise visit to Thebes Is well worth au effort. It Is four miles from the File to the Haines seum. The ride is across the plain, through dew-covered fields to the colossi, and then a turn is made north ward. The sounds of the morning startle one as though never heard be fore. Something seems to be impend ing. How black and chill the colossi look. Everything, evening the donkey boy, is now quiet. The Kamesseum is reached, and you stand in the great hail of columns, frightened at their stately dignity, scarcely able to make out the careful chiseling on the shoulders and crown of the fallen statue. The inner temples are almost as dark as night, and you shrink from the thought of climbing alone up one of the great stairways which spring from them, to say nothing of going down to the "holy of holies," where the king was accus tomed to consult the deities in closest secrecy. No light enters except from the broken roof and the loopholes in the walls. Suddenly a ray pierces the gloom. The giant columns in unison cast their long shadows toward the necropolis, upon one another and uoa the neighboring walls. Nwtbe morn ing light pervades the place, and the stolid profiles of the Osiride columns, stationed there as if to guard to fallen monolith, are lighted with a rosy lire which accentuates the placid expression of their faces each one "a likeness" of King Barneses II, the great "Pharaoh of the bible." The sun grows stronger and the coloring is gone. But the con trasts of light and shade continue as they have done Tor the long ages past, and will for ages to come. There are ninety persons in Eng land with au income ot over J300.0W. NEWS IN BRIEF- An old German has prophesied that the Emperor William will live to the age of 100. He bases his prophecy ou the handwriting ot the Emperor. The custom of kissing the Pope's foot, or the cross on his slipper, ia al leged to have ben fet by oue ot the Leos, who. it was si d. bad mutilated liis right hand pd was too vain to ex pose the stump. - About 11,000 paaN0ts of the Revo, lution perished on boai1 lne horrible prison-ship Jersey dnrmg Eugllsb occupation of New York. A wrangler, in (English) cJE phrase, is one who has obtained a pli.-'e in the highest mathematical tupos. The first man of this class is termed the senior wrangler; the re3t are rated each according to his lespective merit, hs socond, third, fourth aud so on. Iu the Middle ages college exercises were called disputations, and tuos w ho per formed them were disputants. Hence the idea of wrangling. One of the strangest novelties In the jewelry line that the tmestlietio cowboy ever decorated his person with is now being sold on the street; of ;aii Aulouio. It is nothing less than a necktie made entirely from the skin of a genuine rattlesnake and finished by way of a pin with a rattle from the tail of the venomous seienL. The originality or this conception can hardly be doubted, aud the ingenious venders are being rewarded with large sales. Queen Elizalieth Is said to have had a pair of stockings woven from a spider's web. Now we hear of a Penn sylvania lady owns a picture painted on cobweb. The colors are said to have b-en 'beautifully laid on," and simply perfect as to harmony. The painting cost 1.000, and is probably the mtst precious article of lis weight in the world. The fact that cobweb has been shown to be so valuable per haps explains the delicacy with which the ordinary housemaid is inclined to treat it. A four-foot vein of coal has been struck at the shart of the C'arlyle Coal and Mining company at a W pth of &0 feet. A vein of thirty Inches thickness lies eighteen feet aliove the fotmer vein, aud It is thought by mining exerts that the two veins wiil converge aud make it a seven-foot vein. The coal is unusually free from slate and sulphur, and of suinrior quality. Extensive improvements aie being made about the mine, and the citizens of Carlyle are elated at the prospect of becoming a mining center. The statue of liberty which Adolph Sutro is erecting on Mount Olympus, San Francisco, C'al., is the work of a Belgian artist named Wiertz. It was ou exhibition in Antwerp and received high praise. Adolph Sutro saw the figure and thought that it would be an embellishment to the en tire San Francisco peninsula. The torch in the upstrt-tched arm of the goddess will be of 1G,'JU0 caudle power, and the light will be furnished by the city of Sau Francisco. The torch wiil illumine the bay olid Uolieu Gate pars. Postmaster Hendrlx is happy in the possession of the oldest bosom piu in town. It is a trilobite which curled itself up snugly some 40,000,000 years ago, in the Silurian age, some where in the great limestone strata that begins at Niagara and crops out In the pictured rocks of Lake Superior, and went to sleep to be ietrilied iu all its original sha iellness. The trioollte was the father of all the crabs. He was very small then, but 40,000,0kj years have enlarged his descendants. With diamond eyes and a gold setting he looks well In hii new character. Some or the animals of Japan are quite different lrom the same sjtecies mat are seen in America. The cats, for instance, have the shortest kind of tails, or else none at all. Being de prived of this usual plaything, they are very solemn pussies. An Ameri can once took one of these tailless cats to San Francisco as a curiosity, aud it utterly refused companionship with the long-tailed feline specimens there; hut finding a cat whose tail had been jilt off by accident the two became friendly at once. Japanese dogs are ilmost destitute of noses, having the lostrils set directly lit the head. Tha nnaller the nose the moie valuable the ureed. Peruvian woven tissues, often dyed in brilliant hues, aie unsurpassed by the textile productions of any other tncieut American people. Their jew .lry of gold and silver is remarkable, statuettes iu the precious metals are -veil moie woudertul; they represent monkeys, birds w ith their feathers, fish with scales, etc., modeled in relief or intaglio. Human figures were also cast iu the precious metals, the artists even attempting grouis. ISeads were made of gold, silver, glass and earthen waie. Wool was used to furnish ob jects in daily use, and an example may be seen iu the beautifully ornamented combs that are sometimes found placed leside thtt dead in the huacas. It is well sa'.d that one-half of the world does not know how the other half lives. Here, where pine and pop lar are used for signs, comparatively It w are aware that mahogauy is the Kind of wood largely nee led for that mirpose in Etlaiid. A lumlerman from Bradford, who not long ago vis ited this office, stated that such was the case. When redwood was Intio luced into England this geutleman '.bought at first blush thai the lumber was so clear and wide it would be ex cellent for signs. It was tried, but for fciine reason it did not come up to the Englishman's idea of eternal dura bility, aud mahogany was again re sorted to. Nothing made .Nanking so much celebrated abroad as the Porcelain lower, which wis ons ot the wonders f the world. It stool pre-eminently iieyond all similar buildings for its completeness and elegance and the iiiality tit material of which It was buiit. It cost 51,000,000, and was uinety years in building, being com pleted in A. D. 14U0. The outer face l this unique structure was covered with (-labs of porcelain of various colors, principally green, red, yellow and white. At every one of its nine stoi ies there was a projecting roof cov ered with gteen tiles, and a bell was suspended from each corner. There were 152 bells iu all, which gave sweet sounds when there was a brisk wind. O.ie hundred and twenty-eight lamps were hung on the outside. In the year I Sol it was seriously injured by a storm. "Time tries all things" except leaf lard. The butcher and housewife have to do that. Brass bedsteads grow in favor. '1 - :'
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