1 A B. F. BOHWEIER, TEX OOXST1TUT10I-TXB XTITCX-AD TKX EfTOlOElfEIT OP TEE LATH. Editor ajad. Iixprietor. VOL. XLTI. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 1, 18SS. NO. 0. 1 ft " " A sool wife front ber bed one morn An I thought willi nrrTuiu dread Of tl! ,'u I"'"1 of elutbea lo b wubol A i'. I the t!i tn ol months to be fed. Tliere- tbe meals to c-t lor the men In tl .. lii-M, Aii'l th-- c: t or-n t. 6x away to acliooL, Aui a I tin- tui.1t to bo akiuitued ami t: rr:.-.t. And a.! to U- done this day." It tad rained In the niut, and ail the wood x. net an It rotild be, Tr wire iMiil-l iiih ami plea to bake Ar,i a tout of cikt for tea. An. I il - Ij wa b.-.t, and her aching head ILn Mfd wearily an he aald: U 11..4..I. na but knew what good wlvea kr- n Tho -l f"l in baste to wed." "Aouf. wl-.jir 'lo you think I told Ted 1. . ''." I'.i . : I il.e farmer from this well Au i a t!.ili crept up to In bronzed brow, A!.'' 1 - rjt hall ba-tiiully fell. "It i- ti.i," anil rtttuhin near, he (railed; lt u a- tl.ia: That ou are the bent Arnl 11.- Ueare-t wile iu tuuru. Tl.e farmer went back to the field, Ai.il it'H wife. In a smiling absent way, it. hen ol tender little aon S -'.l not -un.: In in. my a dav. At. 1 'be p.iiu in ber bra.! was gone, and r i-lo'he V . re .i- white a tli- foam of the sea, A:kI l.er butter a- weet and golden aa it i .ul be. T'.i' iv;1.'' rami down i:.e MiilU-d to herself as tihe m:-I: 'T: weo. to labor for thoe we lore I- : nut !ranj:e that mai.U will weL" v meakfast dish. "And it was the nioa. beautiful stone ttiut I v. r saw iu a tinker ring. None i( ii i' -r- paltry thlugs you can't wear 1:11 c.i: n 1 .- light on account of the yel low there :s in thetu. So white, so clear, so brilliant, pellucid as a water-drop ami j.iirklmir as a st.ir! It was all but h i enioinh. too, to h ive a name of its own, like those 1 hat the royal diamonds have- 'Stir of the Four Points or the lo'Liass.' 'I 'gut of the World to Come,' Ctty of the Middle of the Earth. 'Mm her of the Moon. Why under the sun," cried Mrs. Torrance, tlie pretty creature in a bewitching K-iw u. pouring eotlee for her husband, the I'.'t:-' butler having been dismissed by Mr. Torrance iu fear of the wrath to come, prrh.ips '-Hhouliin't our dia iiiotuls have names as well as those of kine- aii'l qtieen ami " -Vour's ouiflitto have one,"salJ her hu-liatnl, ipletly. lt would lie auit ai ie to f i.' i.otv; it's lu the vocative, you know.' VVi-il, I mint say I don't believe any ruau was ever so undisturbed by the '.--! of sucli a Uiing as that. Arclii laid, that bt.iLie was worth a thousand dollars." T.i-ai'.y, I oiiff!it to be aware of the fact, tirur, if anyone Is. You have ofleied to sell it and procure the sum for my liecissities every time I have been iuid up since we married. And if I have .Mildred arrested for this theft, ai yo i sui:jest. it will ooat an olbri ihui:Mtl uvtote we are done with it; f"r he would certainly be proved innocent, and then a libel suit would be the next thing m order." "Hut, Archy, MiMrei can't be proved innocent. 11 v cau she be. when I know -.lie took it? Aud there was no one else to take It." Aud Mrs. Tor rance pulsed w:t'i suspended cup, her great woiiiler.hu eyes searching space for a reply. "It ever auytlunx lay in a stra i t hue, it :s the evidence agaiust that Kirl," she continued. "The other day wi.eu the ruii; fell on the floor she wat in the r -orn, and she asked Die what a stone l.ke that was worth, aud then cave such a sih that 1 said: 1 siippo-e oii think it's wiong for me to went fl.t'ii) on niv fnwer?' And she sa.il: '1 vtam't thiukmir of the rinij; I was onlv tiiink'.tii that jl.000 can do a treat deal of iiood.' The minx! 'Well, 1 sa.d, i: d. es a (treat deal of good in looking pielty on my hand.' 'Indeed it does KA.k beautiful there," said she she's v. ry particular about her ad verbs; 1 w:sh she was about her cate c li.siu "eut a good deed done by a band is its unst lautiful Jewel, to my tliuikiiiu' Just hear that! To her tnistre-sl Are you through? Why, I've imiy just t-euti." "Mie is o,u:te a missionary,' said Mr. Torrame, picking up his news paper. "Aud the worst of It la, she U r::t." ".Now, Archibald, don't, for mercy's wke, fc to readiu." said bis wife. "I do think the inoitiiiic news might wait for once. It's nothing but dynamiters blown,,; up the British Empire and Arab-) ui.ikuii; mummies of the British aruiy all abstractions; but my ring is souie'lin.jf positive, tangible here at hand." "I wish it were." said Mr. Torrance. "And then 1 could be allowed " But as tie glanced at the lovely creature oplHwite, with her reproachful brown er, in wh ch st. xid two tears as big as the diamond she had lost, her color going and coining with her breath, as you ui'lit say, aud the rose-colored rilbciis of. her luorniiii cap all a Clutter with htr earnestness, he folded Ids pl-er and said: "Well, my dear?" "Well, n.y dear!" mimicked Mrs. Torrance, in der.sion. "I should say Ifs aijLo.nj but well when a man heat Hot a servant insulting actually iiisiiltini;his wife, and s;iys she's iu the ri;:ht." "Now. .1 met, I will submit It to jour own judgment If that's a fair interpretation." "You needn't do anything of the "urt. It isn't fair to suppose I have any judgment, ir what 1 say concern u Mildred perfectly ridiculous co ncuieti. Who ever heard Mildred for servant's inimeT" "Why n,,t Mildred?" "Why not Gwendoline, then, or Fredeitonde, or Thusneldar How 'JUid it steal to l e telling Gladys lo orusk the dun cti" my shoes? And aiidre.1 is just as bad. It I had my wy. a.l the cooks should be Noras and the seemd girls should be Ellens, " if they came from Kngland, then ""J should Klizts and Mary Anns, J' U wouldn't sound as if you were JaK;n1r a liberty w.tn your superiors j1"11 yur owu name is just plain Jane. ouirht p, have been Kosamond my- -'i yOU kllOW. " s:l!.l Mr. T. thiV ur,h"uh,'rilie. or Kloise, or some .., ' ', Lut I am sure I have trouble nouga with these people without l a tfouidedl with their names. And mt fib "'' "VOlllA b DIUU ''T . Mrs. Torrance iun.i ' . . ioirance meni t.,...:."'.""r"'-u u amaze. leve her nnm . tiiUn.i thl; .l b;iev? i ist plain Marl .and she t(Hjlt the MlWreil- lf " Uiy Ulauioinl l .n,,i.i.JH kud Li , ?. '7,uu,"d 's eyes twinkle. he pushed his plate away, with a laugh i. .mm iri'i rsa no lonper. "IT she took your diamond. Well, my darling, I am glad you have arrived at the diamond once more. 1 began to think It had been lost again. But don't tell me about the inconsequence ot a woman's mind. Its workings are labyrinthine, but the thought always comes out at the place it went in. Now, let us be business-like, if we can, Janet. What makes you think this pretty Mildred of outs tonk the dia mond?" "Pretty Mildred! Well, perhaps be cause she is pretty," said Mrs. Tor rance, looking like a satirical sparrow. "Not at all impossible," said her husband, gravely. "You don't mean to imply that I would denounce a person as a thief because you said sue was pretty?" cried Mrs. Torrance, half rising to her feet. "I've as good a mind to leave the table as ever I had to eat. I would, if the buckwheat cake J had come up." "My dear child!" "You treat me exactly as If I were a child," cried the outraged wife. "What do I care whether my maid is pretty or not? liein pretty, apparent ly, doesut keep her bauds fro oi picking and stealing. I know she stole my diamoud just as well as if I had seen her do it." "But what would she do with it?" "What a question! As if that ssrt of person didn't know where to dispose of things easily and take care of the proceeds. 1 wouder if Patricia is never going to send those cakes up" "How iu the world did our cook come to be called Patricia?" "I called her so myself when she came. Her own name was Hannah, a combination of sounds I utterly detest and wasu't going to have ringing in my ears all the lime. And she is so tail and erect she justiUes Patricia. Don't you thluk so?" All right," said Mr. Torrance, thinking it best to make no relet eace to the Noras of a few minutes since. 'But we were speaking of Mildred." I did think very well of Mildred, I will confess, before this," said Mrs. Torrance, with Judicial calmness. "Sue is educating her sister, who has a voice such a voice for a church sineer, when she will have a salary that will be wealth to them, and give some lesions, besides. And sue was wrapped up lu her. Aud I took an interest in them myself, and gave her a silk dress to make over andot a new cloak that I ready didu't need so as to give her my old oue (aud I saw she had tha good taste lo take off some of the trimming), and lots of my old music. Aud out of ber own wages Mildred has to hire a room aud a piano and pay for her lessons, somebody gives ber her board till she cau pay the debt, aud it takes every cent Mildred earns; and, you see. It is quite natural that she should look about to lind where she can turn a peuny "Au fcouest penny," said Mr. Tor ranrat. 'A girl who La duiuit that for another is not -me -inat wo -fldTbe likely lu turn any otner sort ot peuny." "How you ill love to interrupt me, Mr. Torrance! It really seems as if yon couldn't bear the sound of my voice! I was going ou to say, before you took the words out of my muth, that recently this sister of hers has been advised to take lessons of another mas ter, who asks all creation, but is really worth it. And he says lie can make her voice a fortune to her. And they have been dreadfully cast down because they couldn't do it. And now you see where the diamond comes In. If she cau get for that stone anything near its value her sister Mabel can take her lessons. And her voice is delicious just perfectly delicious!" exclaimed Mr?. Torrance, for;ettiug the diamond again; "Mildred had ber come here and sing to me. Aud I can't describe It to you. I never heard a lark nor a night ingale, but a bo bo I nk isn't a whistle to it. A flute, a trumpet well, it was sweet and satisfying aud penetrating as the odor of some dower, and yet as soft as the velvet side of the petals of the flower. An jeis would sing so, maybe, if there are any. Aud 1 was just car ried away. I forgot all about her sister being my maid. 1 cried aud I laughed, and 1 felt as if I had fouud her. And now I will solemniy lell you, Archy, dear " and she bent across the pretty china service, transfixed him with Ler radiant eyes "I looked at my ring, aud I turned it aud turned it, and 1 said to nivself I had had the good of it ever since Grandfather Do l'eysler gave it to m, aud everybody kuew I had it, and my position was preity well established, diamond riugs or uot, and when vou were able to allord a real crown-uo butler you would probably get me plenty; and lf I sold it now. and give this poor dear girl the money to secure ber career, wnat a bless.ng it would be to her, and what a joy l should be givii g to the world iu her, too; for, of course, she wouldn't be confined to a church choir in that case, aud if she were, iu what a heavenly fashion could those tones of heis swim out over a prayerful audience, and just take the prayer ou their silvery strength, and lead it up, up; and any body w ho is the means producing more of them, and so brings aowu the price of prima donna lu the niaiket. is a pub lic benefactor, lo oe uir, "j , 1 was just on the point or saying uiau would speak to you. and it you ap- .,r..ve-l us I knew VOU WOUld. I WOUld have 1.000 or thereabouts for them tJay. when Mrs. Veasey happened in, aud so, as 1 didu't waut Mrs. easey to know anything about it, and lie . . tha wind all out of my sails, 1 Just told Mabel to come again to-day ... .l.tnr. ftll-tll.e III aud 1 wouiu nave soiudluiuh sav to her. &.ndso 1 suam-cneu iu.- Torrauce. taking breath with renewed vigor, "i shall have to tell her that her sister has been arrested for a thier, and she may go sing to her in prison. Tkat'J what I'll tell Uer, the wicked, ungrateful girl!" 1Vo i...i.-jii i lr Torrance. -I don't know how anybody can be so unfeeling cried bis wife; really seema as if you were "rMtoi In t-e troubles of two beggarly glr s base enough to rob your wife than in your wife s troubles. Both! " ... e.it.irv is a very harsh term. Janet, darling, where carelessness nny CSu: My carelessness not th..r d.shones.y. When I went to the washstaud I turned tle , ring on my linger again, aud there was the stone K0.u. V . times have I told you that the careless habit of washing your hand with your rings o w- - eViToHnna of the IfOld till the stones are loosened in the setting. and drop out without your being act! How do you know I wasu't going to take my rings off? You are so ready to una me at lauitl But I thought at first the stone must have washed out" "So it seems you did wash your hands with the ring on?" said the turning worm. "Yes, I did. There! And I sent for the plumber immediately, for I knew if it had washed out that it must have caught in tbe first trap; aud he took up the trap, but it wasn't there. And be said lf he made a real job of It and went down to the main something, he might find it there; but I thought that would cost more than the diamond itself" "Wise woman," groaned Mr. Tor rance. "And so, yon see, I didn't accuse Mildred iu the tirst place. I searched and took every precaution. I didn't think of such a thing till I saw her standing there tuinlug more colors than the lady in the lobster " "Xou don't say that you really Lave accuaed her?" "Well, what if I have? I most lose my diamond that my dear grandfather gave me when I was married, and that 1 treasure I so, and endure It all in silence for fear some little hussy's feel ings will be hurt. My feelings are of no consequence at all. It isn't to bs reckoned to my account that I was ready to give ber tbe diamond and I love diamonds. I don't think there's anything so beautiful iu the whole world. There's no other one thing that holds so much in so little; I don't mean money or money value. It is the con crete essence of sunshine really, ma terially. Once that identical stone of mine, ages before man was made, was nothing but a flood of sunshine, mar ried to the wet air as It reached one spot of the earth, and a wonderful tree sprung from that marriage, and flourished and flowered and fell, a great strong marvel of growth that belongs to those past eous when the earth itself was but half crystallized oat of its gases, and that grows now nowhere. For ihey can't hud any substance now that can quite produce it. Aud that made my diamoud by slow concentra tion. Or else, even if it is not that, it is the very compression of that aucient atmosphere, almost all carbon, which hung over the earth in that Drat mys tery of chaos. And, at any rate, it Is of the purest physical perfection known to-day, and of the simplest chemical composition. So?" "My love, how much you know! You take my breath away. It seems to me wickeder to have stolen your diamond than to steal the Koh-i-noorl'' "It is. Tbe Bible says so. Nathan talked to King David about the ewe lamb. And that was all the diamond thai. It would seem so to you. really, if your head clerk had stolen it, or any body had stolen it but this pretiy Mil dred." "But, Janet, you are always so posi tive." 'How can you say so! What am I ever positive about? You wouldn't aae an slim ma aim in nliiiii ill iiT luj senses. And lf ever 1 saw guilt ou any "There Is nothing more fallible than the evidence of your senses." '-I beg your pardon. I can see as far, and hear as quickly, and taste as keenly as any on 9 alive. And for you to begiu to run down ;my eyes now perhaps' they're not so bright as they have been but I never thought to hear you twitting me of growing old iu this way, all of a sudden" (trying hard to swallow her sobs) "because you're interested iu iu my servant maid " 'For heaven's sake, Janet, think what you're saying!" "I do think what I am saying," she cned then, in a fury; "aud I say, whatever the evidence ot my senses may be. I have every evidence that you care nothing whatever for my reelings, and can see me robbed without lifting your voice, aud and oh, a husband ought to love his wife, and protect her, and take her part." And here Mrs. Janet rose hurriedly and pushed over her chair aud was rushinz from the room. But Mr. Torrance was not to be outdone by any such sleight of toot, and bad caught her in his arms before she reached the door. "And do you mink " he exclaimed, "that I don't love you, you abomiuable little mass of contradictions? Do you suppose I won't protect you with my life itselP Do you fancy for a moment that I won't take your part when you decide what your part Is?" "Let me go! let me go, sirl" she ex claimed; "or else at any rate, let me find my handkerchiefl" And she struggled for her handkerchief, that the kisses her husband gave her might not be too salt, and pulling it from ber pocket, something in a great arc and stream of lustre whirled out with tbe violently wrenched handkerchief, sailed through the air like nothing so much as a flying rainoow, ana ieu mi ner feet. It was the lost diamond. . Mrs. Torrance stopped in the midst of her tears, blushing, disheveled, dla- moud-dropped herself, as pretty a sight as a rosebud in a shower, and held back her skirts with both hands while she looked at the shiutng eye there berore her on the carpet. "The horrid thing!" she said, "the horrid, unwinking, ac cusing thing! It is calling me all sorts of names. I shall never want, to see it acrain. Only think, if I had de nounced that poor gin! I'm so glad I never breathed or it to her. i remem ber I had on this very gown when Mrs. Veasey was in. How stupid of juel Now. I'll take this down to a diamoud broker to-dav. and Mildred's Mabel shall have her Sl.UOO worth of lessons. I dare say she'll sing at our parties oy-and-hy. She'll be our particular prima donna., and by that time I shall have improved Mildred into a companion. Oh I think you would despise such a ridiculous, wicked little wife as 1 am!" she cried, turning to ber husband; "you ought to have married a sa'nt. What a good man yon are, Archy!" -My dear," said Mr. Archy, "life with any other woman who didn't ar rai e these little circuses for my morn iugentertainment would be too stale, flat, and unprofitable to endure. I should run away from the saint and take to the flying trapeze aud you.' MakinjC Dime From 3-Ceat Pieces. A detective at Columbus, O'lio, re cently came into possession ol several 3-cent pieces whioh had been passed as in.nt Dieces. The modus operandi of makine seven ceuta on each piece is to Dlace a dime ou . - v. piece and by squeezing them in a vise, flatten tbe 3-cent piece and leave a dim outline of tbe dime on either side. Tbe coin, after the defacement, very much resembles a 10-cent piece which has seen considerable service. DEPRAVED TITE. APPE- lieasls That Kcat Odd Thtags Stomach or the Elephanr, Qaw - and OHtricb. v;-. "It is truly astoulshlng what curious things are found iu the stomachs of elephants," said Superintendent Oonk lin, of the Central Park menagerie, as he read the story from Bridgeport about tbe finding of an ivory idol and other curiosities in the stomach, of elephants that were killed in the J9 at Barnum's winter quarters. "I doubt very much about tbe idol being found, but as to the knives, pieces ot lead pipe and tha coins, that is quite Com mon, f- "I had an elephant here, and when he died there was a) least f 10 woroh of coins found in his stomach. - Some of tbe coins were English pennies, tfiree penny pieces; some were German "Cuius and others were the coins of various European countries, and Chinese coins were also found. "Another elephant we had here was crazy for hats. The boys had great fun throwing each other's hats into the inclosure. Tbe elephant would just put out his trunk aud in a twink ling the hat was gone. One day a gentleman's silk hat Mew off. The elephant picked it up and disposed of it as quickly as be did of the straw bats ot the children. "It seems that tbe elephant's stom ach will take anything. Anything but metal seems to pas3 away without caus ing the animal any pain, but It apfiears that the gastric juices only tend to oxydize coins and the like, 'and they remain iu the beast's stomach until death. "Cows are the only other animals that have a faucy for disposing of lor el in substance that may pass down the luroat. "I should judge the elephant's tast ing powers are limited, because he gobbles up everything that is offered him. "The ostrich is just about as careless of what he swallows as the elephant. He takes lu anything be can catch, and more curious things Iiave been found in the stomach of the biped than that of the quadruped." Charles Iteiche. the dealer In ani mals, not only corroborated Mr. Conk lin's experiences, but related some of his own experieuces in that lice. "Oice we had au elephant," he said, "mat took iart iu the first Flatt deutsche Volksfest ever held. Out at tbe park we bad the animal on exhibi tion. A lady held out her pocketbeole, and the elephant took it la his trunk, and before the woman could realize what a foolish thing she had done the purse was safely stowed under the ribs of the toig brute. I had to give ber twenty-live cents to go home with. "if a man held out a loaded pistol that elephant would have swallowed t lt. Another time one at the keners sTonrr.s op left his lunch for a secondhand laid his !mnt to the captain of tbe boat, se open jack knirarTrXTli -iurs1 our traporavatlon, and.lliinrl4y emtTCjacTt kmte and everyitio eUa HlV once disappeared down the elcphaut'a throat, and be never seemed: to suf fer from it. Elephauts must have ar mor plated stomaehs, for they take in everything from a lady's hairpin to a wooden image." "Then you believe the sacred ele phant swallowed the idol as reported?" "I certainly do. The sacred elephant would just as soon pick up a stray god as be would a banana or orange." A Wicked Kl.-pliaiit. "During the time I was with Fore paugh's circus," says James Twitchell, Buffalo Bill's late manager of the London "Wild West Show," "I took part in some exibitions that were uot down ou the bills. One in particular 1 shall not be likely to forget. The show disbanded at Chicago; Bamboo, the trick elephant, was leased to the Kl ralfy brothers, who were about to opeu their season in Boston. Bamboo had established a name Tor himself as a savage, treacherous brute, who bad killed and maimed at least a dozen men. He had a keeper woo was in tbe habit of becoming and remaining drunk. I hadn't much idea of the dangerous character of tbe journey until we were perhaps a hundred miles out of Chicago. The bottom of the car was thickly littered with hay, in which Bamboo, the keeper aud myself were to sleep together. Tbe keeper's bottle was one of my earliest discov eries and discouragements. Tbe nov elty of the situation kept me awake pretty much all the first night out. and it was with some dismay that I discovered that the keeper was hope lessly drunk, snoring in the bay. That I would uot have minded had Bamboo only kept quiet. But he didn't and wouldn't, and that first night, before I bad become in the least accustomed to the situation.it was sim ply a night of horrors. In tbe still hours of that night, with the train rush ing along at the rate of thirty miles an hour, 1 would at short intervals hear a muffled snort from the monster at the other end of the car, aud theu feel a gigantic foot shoving against me, or the end ot his trunk i-assing inquisi tively over my face. Then 1 would jump up and yell to the keeper, with energetic kicks to emphasize my re marks. "'Here, you wake up! That in fernal elephant is going te trample us to death!' 'The drunken keeper would get to his feet, swear, give Bamboo an un merciful prodding with bis fork, tbe great brute would lie down and cry, and we would have peace. "This scene, with variations, is what happened all the way from Chi cago to New York. I wasu't trampled to death by the elephant; why I was not 1 do not know. "About daylight we were in tbe vi cinity of Erie, Penna. Here Bamboo took cognizance of his surroundings in a disagreeable way. Elephant cars, be It understood, are specially built and fitted for the transportation of these brutes, and the car in which we firet embarked was not ot this kind.. It was not high enough nor strong enough. When the vicious brute had thoroughly satisfied himself of these facts, he rose up out of the hay, arched his ugly back, and burst the whole top of the car out. 'We stopped at Erie. There was loud swearing and clamor by the rail road men for compensation for tbe damage. I told them tfe bend their bill to the Kiralfys, and, in the mean time, lf they didut waut the elephant on their hands to take care of, they had better help me to get him to Boston as fast as possible. They took a look at Bamboo, observed his vicious eye. and said they guessed that was so. , "We arrived at Buffalo. A necessity ot the trip was a change of cars at this point. The elephant hail been well fed and well watered, and might have had the decency to benave himself. The keeper got him out of the wrecked car iu good sbupe and started him for his new quarters in the waiting train. A great pile ot blackberry crates was near but not at all iu the way. May I be blamed if that devilish brute didn't make for them and destroy twenty-four full crates before the keeper could re strain him. "Well, everyboody knows the law about elephants and other wild beasts, I had to settle for the blackberries on the spot, aud a large hole it made in my J0. "The most dangerous. and laborious Incident of our trip would not have happened but for the fact that when the keeper was sober be would smoke a pipe. His smoking set the hay afire near Syracuse, and before it was dis covered tbe car was filled with smoke, the elephant was -snorting and trum peting, and we couldn't stamp out the fiie. "We had two buckets. I rushed with them through tbe baggage car over the tender, got the fireman in the cab to fill them, and ran back with them to onr car. This feat, half a dozen times repeated, with the train going at express speed, was no small task. The keeper took the pails at the door of our car aud doused the burning hay with the water. Simple business, you would say, to put out such a fire that way. So it would have been but for that elephant. He came near getting us and himself burned up together; for about every second be would swing his trunk around, overset tse pails and spill the water anywhere but on tbe tire. I have heard something of the in telligence of the elephant; this fellow was In a panic until we got that tire out. "One Sunday morning we unloaded at the Grand Central Station in New York, and getting into Broadway, marched triumphantly down. Of my $60 I had left $1.50. Bamboo had eaten up and destroyed more than $-30 worth. The keeper was gloriously drunk, but we bad passed the larger part of the journey, we had but one Btage more, and 1 had high hopes of getting into Boston Tuesday morning, at the furthest. "With much trouble we got the brute quartered in a barn on Crosby street. We slept with him, and ate cold junk for twenty-four hours. Wheu we marched aboard the sound steamer with Bamboo the next day my $1.50 was gone, and tbe keeper and I had left our coats as security for the elephant's board. Yet I presume the crowd on the steamer thought it the correct thing for gentlemen iu care of an elephant to appear in their shirt sleeves. So our dignity was maintained. The name of Klralfy, aided, I be "3 iciegiaui uwu iueuiauaBc- l'4 Bamboo was reserving his master stroke for the fiulsh. Iu the streets of Boston we met a car. Tbe elephant deliberately killed the horse with one blow of his trunk; the car was over turned ; the passengers fainted.screamed and ran; a short parley was held with the police, which resulted iu a final triumphant procession to the Kiralfy barn. First, a very long distance ahead, walked a squad of police; next came Bamboo, his keeper and business manager; next, at a respectful distance in the rear, a dozen reimrters; last, sev eral thousand of the miscellaneous population of Boston anxious to do us honor." Old Son! lirn Homes. A great many of the plantations in different parts of the South, which were once well known for their size, the magnificence of the residences upon them, the hospitality of their owners or on account of tbe prominence of the families which possessed them, are now falling into ruins. The reason of this is, perhaps, that the land has been worked so long without being fertilized that it has become poor, or it may be that those Into whose possession it has passed lack tbe energy and skill which are required to make it pay under the present system ot labor. One of these famous old places, in Liberty County, was lately sold to a colored man for $2,500, only a part ot tbe purchase being required at once. It is known as Laurel View, and is within two miles of the historic town of Sunbury. It was the home of tbe gifted John Elli o't, and a very beautiful home it was. John Elliott represented Georgia in the United States Senate from 1S20 to 1826. The plantation contains 2.S0O acres. It was purchased during the war of secession by Lion Stephens, a brother of Alexander II. Stephens, and was sold to the present owner by his heirs. The district in which tbe plantation is situated was noted, from the first set tlement of tbe State until tbe emanci pation of the slaves, for the Intelligence and wealth of its citizens. It Is now, however, almost wholly abandoned lo the colored people. Its great planta tions have been divided Into small farms, and the superb mausions, once tbe homes of men noted for wealth and culture, and of womeu famous for beauty and refinement, are failing into decay, and are being replaced by cabins and huts, whose chimneys of sticks and mud tell more plainly than words of tbe marvelous change for the worse which has taken place In the once rich and prosperous district. The Anti-Slang Society. A larce number of Chicago girls met one evening last week for tbe purpose ot forming a 'Ladies' Anti-sling Society." The meeting was called to order, and MUs Sadie De lork elected president. Before taking ber seat ahe said in a clear, calm, welt-modulated voice: 'Really, girls, I'm too badly rattled by the honor conferred upon me to give you much ot my guff. It's tbe first time I ever tumbled to any thing of this sort, and I hardly know Just how to catch on. However, I'll try to be sufficiently up to snuff not to let any flies light on me whlledoing the president of this society act. I'm with you in this move, and don't any of you forget it. All over our laud slang words and phrases are multiplying like flies in sorghum time, aud it is out duty to help knock this crying evil as silly as possible. Let our motto be "Shoot the Slanglst." The first boat built especially to sail for the America's cup was the Livonia, owned by Mr. Asbury. Baatea by Columbia and Sappho, in 137L THE BKAl'TV DOCTOR. .fe GIvek Valuable Prescriptions for Pretty Women. An Arab poet tells us that a beauti ful woman should have four things: Black Hair, eyebrows, " eyelashes and pupil. White Skin, teeth and globe ot the eye. Ued Tonzue, lips, gums, cheeks. Bound Head, neck, arms, ankles, waist. Long Back, fingers, arms, limbs. Large Forehead, eyes, lips. Narrow Eyebrows, nose, lips. Plosby Cheeks, limbs. Small Ears, bust, hands, feet. We will cot discuss the taste of this Arab poet, but I may remark that all the white, red, round aud fleshy at tributes required to form his plea of beauty are purely and simply the re flection of physical health. Health alone can give youth, freshness and radiancy to U.e complexion, aud bril liancy to the eyes and an attractive ex pression to the whole face. Ill-health, on the contrary, dries and discolors the skin, produces wrinkles, makes the face yellow and spoils the color of the teeth, hair and nails. Tbe celebrated Dr. von Feucutersleben says that "health is nothing but beauty m the functions ot life." A French author (Ualzic) once called ugliness "a grief which lasted a life time." But he did not often know the all-powerful force of hygiene in the cultivation aud preservation of physical beauty. What is, perhaps, the greatest attribute of beauty is a beautiful skin. The skin should be white, smooth, soft and fresh-colored. A beautiful skm aloue Is often suflicieut to make a wo man beautiful. And here again hygiene steps in, for without health a beautiful skin is impossible. Le Camus, the au thor of that curious old book, "Ab deker," says: "The most regular beauty could never charm me lf fresh ness, purity and brilliancy of com plexion did not enliven it by adding the radiancy of youth aud health." In fact the complexion is to beauty what springtime is to nature what the bloom is to the each what the varied tints are to the wirgs of the butterfly. But as the smallest cloud cau darken a spring morning, as the contact with another object cau remove the bloom of the peach, and a touch can spoil the beauty of a butterfly's wing, so the slightest derangement, either of mind or body, darkens and troubles the com plexion, and without constant care this freshuess and this purity which makes the power of beauty becomes like a faded flower. The preservation and cultivation of a beautiful skin is, there lore, oue of our tirst duties. Let me warn all ladies from wishing to apiear different to what nature has made them; that is, let no lady who has beautiful dark hair attempt to aye it yellow, just because It is yellow hair, and dark-haired ladies are quite as much admired as fair ladies. Nay, shall I tell you a secret, ladles? Slalis Wes tell us that more tlark-ha'red wo- nii marry than ialr-haiodrwomefir Beauty is not molded In one torm, it u varied as the leaves on a tree, and nc two types are exactly alike. A Skipper With a Charmed Lire. There is a eatior on Lake Michigan who seems to bear a charmed Jile. When the fury of the gale is at us highest and the waves are swaying in a way that threatens to engulf every craft uku them, he is in his element. He sails alone iu a little sloop not thirty feet long, trading potatoes and apples between Sturgeon Bay aud Man itowoc. He was out iu the terrible storm that foundered the propeller Vernon, and came into port iu the midst of it. He had been out iu a hun dred storms before, aud he lived through them in his little shell when staunch schooners went to pieces, but he declared that lie bad never been out in such a gale. People who witnessed his coming into the straight-cut at Manitowoc say that the sloop was tossed about like a chip. It would dis appear entirely aud then bob up again, until dropjied from view between the next two waves. The old man he ie seventy years of age was mighty glad to get into port. "I wouldn't have given halt a dollar for my chances of living twenty-four hours,"he said to the throng of curious eople who crowded around him when be reached the dock, just above "the iron bridge." "When that storm broke I grabbed the rudder, held on as hard as I could, aud trusted iu Providence. 1 expected to be washed overboard every minute, I can tell you." Nobody knows who the Old man is. Apparently, he has neither kith nor kin. He lives solitary and alone. He bothers his head about nobody, and no body about him. When an inquisitive person asks his name he replies that it is the same as that of his boat, and when a person looks for it he finds the boat goes without a name. Though three score years and ten, the old man looks a "laiil in health, as he is in stature. His tuddy face and red nose contrast oddly with his gray beard and hair. How luslimtmcn Sleep. The question has often been asked, "When do tugboutmen sleep?" In point of fact, so far as disrobing and lying down lu bed, nothing of that kind ever occurs to their experience; but still they manage to obtain a full and, in fact, liberal allowance of slum ber, because they have trained them selves to lie down at any time and in any shape, where the temperature is hih enough, without any formality of divesting themselves of clotbiug, and at once dropping off to sleep for an hour or as much more as is possible. In this way, it may be confidently asserted, twelve out of each twenty-four hours of a tugboatman's life may be devoted to slumber if he so chooses, and is, in deed, generally spent in this manner. A Curious Combination, in Ya.-ne. "What's In a name?" has been a question suilicieutly unanswered for centuries to still remain a subject for discussion, aud what is in two names should have a double interest. If you don't think so, take two names as well knowu as any in American history and look at them. They are Lincoln and Hamlin. Nothing peculiar about them as they stand, but set them up differ ently and see what they are: For in stance: HAM LIN LIN COLN Head up and down and theu across. There's something In that, isn't there? .now, again: abi;a-hamli n-coln i Cau you find two other names of two other men whose oQicial lives and uhoie moies con) bine as these do? HEAVY GAS BILL. A Case of LonC Meter In the Archie piscopal Palace in Su Louis. "Tha heaviest gas bill ever paid by one private customer, for gas furnished at his residence, "was one paid a short time ago by Archbishop Ken rick. How big do you suppose it was?" I conldnt imagine." "Something over 8780." "For gas used at his house?" "Yes, sir." "How did it happen? Was it illumi nating fcr the President aud Mrs. Cleveland." "No, It was a case of lost meter. You see, each year the records are gone over and brought into a new book, and it sometimes happens, through tbe carelessness of a clerk or for some other reason, that the transfer to the new book is not properly made. Tbe list of meters in each district is made up and given to the Inspectors, and of course, if a house number does not ap peer in tbe Inspectors book he does not go Into the house so investigate. The only thing that there is to go on is the list. He can't go behind tbe returns. Well, as I am telling you, the meter In the Archbishop's house was not prop erly entered, and we knew nothing at all about it uutil one day one of the members of his family came down and lodged complaint about the working of the gts in the house. We looked the matter up, aud it did not appear that his Grace had any gas or was using any meter. There was nothing on the books to show it. We turned back to last year, and there was nothing there: to tbe year before, and there was nothing there; and so the chase was kept up all the way back to 1378, when it was evident what sort of a mistake bad been made. Gas had been burning for ten years In the bouse and we had knowu nothing about it. The meter had ground itself completely out, so that it could give us no consolation whatever. The matter was brought to the Archbishop's attention, and he at once wrote to the office and told us to make out a bill for whatever might be the proper amount. It was rather a difficult bill ta make out, and the only way wo could get at it was to take the average of the monthly bills rendered at the bouse for the last two years of which we bad record and compute the amount due Ui that way. it amoun ted, as I said, to something over $780. His Grace sent in a check the next day, thus having the honor and pleas ure of paying the largest individual gas bill on record. Of course, part of the gas was charged for on the old basis of $2.50, and part on the new." An Infidel's View of Dratli. Mrs. Ida Whiting Knowles, wife ot the Hon. Howard Knowles. late United States collector at Peoria, 111., died In New York ou December 15. She was an estimable woman, and leaves- wide circle of friends to mourn her early death. Before her remains were sent to ti e West Colonel Uobert G. Ingersoll de livered the following tribute to her memory. "My Friends: Again we stand In the shadow of the great mystery a shadow as deep and dark as wheu the tears of the first mother fell upon the pallid face of her lifeless babe a mystery that has never yet been solved. We have met in the presence of the sacred dead to speak a word of praise, of hope, of consolation. Another lile of love is now a blessed memory a lingering strain of music. The loving daughter, ti e pure and consecrated wife, the sincere friend, who with ten der faithfulness discharged the duties of life, has reached her journey's end. "A braver, a more serene, a more chivalric spirit clasping the loved and by them clasped never passed from life to enrich the realm of death. No field of war ever witnessed greater for titude, more perfect, smiling courage than this poor, weak and helpless woman displayed upon the bed of pam and death. Her life was gentle and her death sublime. She loved the good and all the good loved her. But there is this consolation: She can sever suf fer more; she can never feel again the chill of death; never part again from those she loved. Her heart can break no more. She has shed her last fear, and upon her stainless brow has been set the wonderful seal of everlasting peace. "When the angel of death the masked and voiceless enters the door of home. there come with her all the daughters ot eompassiou and of these love and hope remain forever. "You are about to take the dear dust home to the home of her girlhoid, and to the place that was once my home. You will lay her where my father sleeps. "All I can say is: Lay her In the earth. Aud from ber fair aaJ unto:n'el fieiiti Let violet spring. I never knew, I never met a braver spirit than the one that once inhabited the silent form of dreamless clay. ' How a Detroit Kilcbru Iiatty A-i ni. islied a Book Atom. "Madame," he began as the door opened, "I am selling a new book on etiquette and deportment." "Oh, you arel" she responded. "Go down there on the grass and clean the .mud off your feet." "Yes'm. As I was saying, ma'am, I am sel " "Takeoff your hat! Never address a lady at her door without removing your hat." 'Yes'm. Now, then, as I was say ing " ' "Take your bands out of your pockets! No gentleman ever carries bis hands there." "Yes'm. Now, ma'am, this work on eti " "Throw out your cud. If a gentle man uses tobacco, he is careful not to disgust others by the habit." "Yes'm. Now, ma'am, in calling your attention to this valuable " "WaitI Put that dirty handkerchief out of sight and use less grease on your hair. Now you look half decent. You have a book on etiquette and deiort-ment- Very well, 1 dont want it. I am only tbe hired girL You can come in, however, and talk with the lady of the house. She called me a liar this mornlu', aud I think she needs some thing of the kind." While a well was being dug on the farm of Andrew Sisson, near Swan Creek, I1L, the workmen dug up a pet rified orange. It was found over forty feet below the surface. NEWS IN BRIEF. Silk dresses were first worn in 1435. Tbe first copper coin was coined in New Haven in 1067. The eggs of the silk worm were first brought Into Europe in 537. Boston, Mass., was the first city in the country to establish free baths. The Cist paper mill established in New England, was at Milton. Mass., in 1730. A peculiar feature in an oak tree at Vernon, Alabama, is that the upper half is perfectly yellow, and has been so since it sprouted. The first iron boat is said to have been built iu 1777, on the river Foss, iu Yoiksliiie. It was fifteen feet long and made of sheet iron. A vicious wo'.f, which for several yeais had piowled around Branford, Fla., to the teiror of the villagers, was recently killed by a lucky sports man, who received 10 from the town as a reward. Oa Jenny Lind '.s coffin was placed by Mr. Gold:chiiidt a wreath of myrtle n-ade from a tree planted years ago by the great singer liP! ?elf, in the shape of a tiny twig plucked from her wedding wreath. Nobody ever heard of a French or German puyihst. The Germans and French can become good fencers, but when it comes down to fist lighting they have no lieatt, or, as we say in sporting circles, no bottom. Ben l-'ninklin was the tirst to sug pest that ships carry oil to pour ou the louli water, lie also advised ship builders to seiwrate the ship's hold into water tilit compartments. These two simple devices have saved many a Klnp. The inscriptions on the coinage of Belgium have hitherto been in French, the ofliicial language, but on the coins most receutly struck the Flemish lan guage is used. This U held to be an other straw showing the decadence of French supremacy in Europe. L'ntil th? Fifteenth century no Christians were allowed to receive In terest ou money, and Jews were the only usurers, and tnerefore olten ban ished and persecuted. In England, under Edward VI., interest was ior bldden entirely from religious motives. The aggregate number or troops furnished the Federal side for all pe riods of service was 2,853,132. de duced to a uniform three years' stand aid, the whole number enlisted amounted to 2,320,272. The number ou the Conlederate side was, it is said, about 000,000 men.. The French claim to be the Ro mans, and almost everything they undertake to do they refer to a Kom&n precedent. Glory is one of these things. The English dwell upon the Idea of power. The Frenchmau has no partic ular care for power, unless It brings him action, admiration and artistic tribute. One of the largest lumps of coal river mined In the Mouongahela Valley, was taken out of J. S. N eel's Cincinnati mines recently. The block is seven feet eight inches long, three feet five inches liirh and three feet seven inches wide. Atemjiorary track was laitl to the river and the big piece of coal was placed on a boot aud shipped to Cincinnati. In a bundle of old i:ieis discov ered in Porllaud, Me., is au extra Issue by the Eastern Arus, announcing the news of General Jackson's victory at New Orleans. The victory was won on January 8, 1SI5. This bulletin was issued ou February M, It took a Mionth for the news to reach Portland. Another of the new diseases which follow in the wake of civilization has been reported from Berlin, where two telegraph ojierators have been affected. The CnKer nails have fallen out. one after another, though the jiersous have been otherwise in good health. The ziirlous affection is ascribed to th 3oustaut jar and pressure on the fln ifers produced by workli g the Morse sey. Young men clal iu the garments formerly worn by students have been numerous in the streets of Osaka, Ja pan, lately. They lecture iu out of the way comers, aud even in crowded streets when no constable is at hand, upon political subjects, and frequently urge the doctrine that "official salaries are the life-blood of the -ople." A two-headed calf was born in Duluth recenntly. The heads are tier- ftctlly distinct and of ordinary size, and are connected at the ears. It has two ears, lour eyes, and two mouths, ai.d takes nourishment in both mouths. The ralf is perfectly natural in every resect and healthy, but not strong enousu in the neck to 8upxirt '.wo heads. Several silver coins bearing the date of ls ld, have been fouud on the shore at Ipsw'nich Neck, Mass. Soon after an army of tieasure hunters, equipped with spade", hoes and rakes, invaded the spot. The ground was thoioug'ily ovei hauled, but only a few hinges v.jie found. It is told that a Spanish ship wsnt ashore there in 1)145, with a quantity of coiu on board, which tradition 1,2; v.as never recov ered. The Krtipp ku;i estublshment em braces, in addition to the hue concern at Essen, works at Ncuweld and Sage, in Germany, and enormous iron mines at Balboa, Spain. The lirni possesses, moreover, four large aud splendid steamships, twenty-nine locomotive engines, eighty miles of railway, ninety miles of telejrrapb, bl-J railway cars, 430 steam boilers, 450 straui engines, supplying a total of l'J.OiJiJ horse pjwer, and which consumes daily 3,lfij tons of coal and coke. An American prentleman who has recently traveled through Japan, says that tbe Japanese will iu a few years be the greatest railroad builders of the world. As yet there nre only 370 miles of railroad in Japan, but many roads are projected. The Japane.- are good railroad patrons; for even when they have no business to transact they will ride back and forth ou the rail road until they have spent their last cent. And the bepgars in the Iarite towns nearly always epend the money which they get ou a railroad trip. Two small boys of Kowley, Mass., have been making money by catching eels there frosty evenings. Armed with a lantern and a pole tiny sought tbe shallow brooks that cuip. y into the creek there. Oue boy wiin tha X)Ie prodded t'.e si-iea of the brook thoroughly as he moved up-stream. The other boy, w.th the lantern, stand ing some yards above, crouched low over the water and grabbed the eels which, driven out by the pole, swam op toward the light. - r i - I'; -. rr,i t : S t -Ton are always bo wise after the - .-en no uack lu his chair, as j J
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