B. P. SOHWEIER, THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XLIIJ. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 30, 1SS9. NO. 45. It is reported that the Costa Rlcana Uve withdrawn their opposition to the conai.ruci.ioa 01 tue - icaraguan Uanal, through the efforts of tha Unit! sft 1 Consul. We are glad that the CoeU ' Rlcans are satisfied, but the canal 1 h1.?. v H SteamahiP Co-, . . . . . ,. iMinetiAewlork. would have been constructed regard! of their threat. That sentence of nine years in the New York State Prison for kidnapping men and sending thetn to Mexico to work for their b ird, and in more than one Instance to break down under the terrible strain i laced upon them was a just one. It was a very bail piece of work, and "Liverpool Jack" deserves ti e punishment imposed upon by Judge Cowing. It should prove a warning to others, who, it is believed, are engaged in the some business. t ! I I , I ; Chicago deserves to have the World's Fa r In 1SD2, alt hoi gii not as suitable a place as New York. Her citizens are enthusiastic on the subject, and show a l.teral dts'Kjsition to subscribe money r r the entet prise. The nation will no .loubt help the city that helps itself, ud, unless New York shows the enter l rise and liberality of Chicago, the lat ter may jet carry oS the prize. I I , ' The splendid residence of Clem Stu debaker, of South Bend, Indiana, so carefully built that the owner carried ud.1t a small amount of insurance on it in proportion to its cost, seems to have ' been saorilleed by the carelessness of paint.rs, who left rags saturated with j ; .-i i.i - J I no means common, but they are always liable to occur, aud the greatest care i dotted with the flotilla of the Compag should be exercised in dealinff with me Transatlantique; there are La te or grea-y rags. Such materials I tihv HI never be put away 1 never be cut awav in a closet , )' be put away m a ciosei ght, aud ought. Indeed, to be out in hurued at once, or, if required for ! future where, harm, careful use, be put In metal botes, if limited, they could do no This is the course followed In I establishments, where such waste gathers daily, but the lesson does not seem to have leen learned by the people of less experience in or knowl edge of "spontaneous combustion." The electrical execution law of New York has been declared constitutional, just as another accident with an electric light wire in New York City has again iieroonst rated that the current maybe ttlaleven where efforts are made to l exrnt perfect contact such as can be secured at an execution. Scarcely a week passes in New York without iooi kind of an accident from electric light wires, and deaths are not infre quent. The nuisance has become so great and menacing that Mayor Grant has called upon the companies for sug gestions as to what can be done to wards putting the wires underground. ! They can be buried with less trouble j than telephone or telegraph wires, but ; the usual objections will be made no '. loubt ou account of expense until the authorities take the matter in band f and com nel the burial of the wires. In i the meantime, if the execution of Ken uier should take place, the demand for such action may be increased by the demonstration given of the fatal char acter of the alternating current. And now the guns of the Vesuvius, about which there has been more or less doubt, have more than met contract rripiireruents, and It Is expected that tte vessel will be accepted and at once put Into com mission. Her destructive lower will be euoruious. Each of the 3J shells she is to carry w ill contain 200 pounds or dvuamite, snd It bus been demon strated that she can throw all of them orCOOO pounds of dynaiuite-adistauce of one mile in three-quarters or an hour. Full calibre shells may be made to carry 500 pounds of explosives each, and JO of them may be fired in half an hour. It Is believed that with a little practice the guns of the Vesuvius way be trained more accurately than tunee loaded with powder. The trajectory is determined not by elevating or depress ing the gun, the charge of powder beiuj Oxed. but by regulating the air pres- t a. w us An t. fl iirebacaoi me snu. iu - Vesuvius being fixed in position, ine vessel and 1U armament are entirely novel, and, necessarily, in the nature of an experiment, but it is an experiment that gives much promise of success. The Introduction of leprosy into out own country is traced by Dr. Morrow to four separate and distinct sources. It was carried into Louisiana by the Aeadlaus, Into the North western States by Scandinavians, along the Tackle coast by Chinamen, and emigrants fr..t,. ti - U'Mt Indies brought it to the Nmthern Atlantic coast. Forty-two eLs. .re recently repotted at New Orleans and one hundred at Key v est, while numerous other concealed cases are suspected as existing in differei t parts of the Union. Dr. Morrow there fore regards the extensive spread of leprosy in this country possibility strong enough to require the adoption of legislative measures for the Isolation of every leper, and to prevent the immi gtation from foreign countries of those who have in their systems the seeds of the frightful and so far incurable mal ady. Contrary to the opinion of many - foreien nhvsiclans of eminence. OI tuiiucuvD, personal oblation maintains, from his of 1-nrrwsv in the SanJWICU Islands, that there is "the most abundant and conclusive proof of ita eminent conta giousness." If that is the caae, of course, every leper 1 dangerous, ob serves the New York Sun. Nor is it safe to assume that the susceptibility to leprosy i, extinguished y civmza- tion. As Dr. Morrow says, the spread of l,rn.. in tha Sandwich Islands baa been coincident with an advanced cir- Uiaatioa of the natiyea, Panorama of Havre. One of the Interesting features of the ! We aria exposition is the panorama of the port of Havre, inner, furnisheri h Coropaicnie Generate Transatlan- This wonderful mnurami is nlaced in an appropriately decorated circular pavilion, with a monumental dojrway surmounb d by a brace of huee electric lights, and decorated with marine tro phies, etc. I lie i lea of the nanorama is due to M. Kugene Perelre and the 'execution to M. Follpot the eleven dioramas on the lower floor of the building are painted by Messrs Motte, Hnflbaeur, Montenard and Poilpot. On entering the building and mount- lng tne stairway one aeuis to be on bo trd ship; the malls are paneled with the inevitable varnished vellow wood. the stairway is lighted by the swinging Meamer lamps, ana on either side aie the entrances to the state-rooms noth- ins is wanted but the roll of the vessel aud the smell of oil to make the Illusion complete. A second turn of the stairs brings us "ou deck," in lull view of Havre. We are standing ou lite highest "bridge" of I -a Touraije, soma twenty leet aliow the deck and directly amidships. The deck is covered with passengei - ail portraits of well known personages and we can look dowu on Utem below us and over the bow of the vessel towards Havre and Sr. Adresse, or ! along ;he deck and over the stern I towards the blue hills In the distance ' which shut In the bay at the mouta of I the Seine. The vessel is in the centre of this , vast bay and in the distance one can - see Havre and its houses, churches and Frasoati's Hotel, w til the beach dotted with bathers; on the right is the ilu ita sail-piuS and network of ropes a moat admirable niece of painting and around us BtreU.n tI,a waters of the great lay Bourgogne, La Champagne. La Bre- ""'i - "" J" .fi lfao dbtance UCiir rtxtM..u distinguish the r names, aie such old friends as I .a France. I -a Ville de Pari, La ill de Bordeaux, I e I. . i T - w l 1 rvuill laureiib a no. i-o lawwiui. 1 his panorama is admirably painted and no praise is too (Treat for such an admirable piece of woik. The peculiar grayish, muddy nue of the water near i la vie is wonderfully painted, as are the great purple shadows cast by the . clouds ou Its surface. Steamboats, 1 steam launches, sailing vessels, etc. I ply between the great vessels and (rive : life and movement to the scene. The vouderful illusion of '"distance," the ' clr-arnes of the atmosphere, the water ! effects and the general composition make M. l'oilpot's ianorama one of the linest, most realistic and most original works of the kind ever executed On going "below" aiaia the visitor one is alwavs tempted to aay "the iseQirer" buds one of the state-room .loors onen. and entering, finds himself m one of the cablnes de lux of La Tou raine a most beautiful and luxurious bedroom. Ou the story below are the above-inention?d dioramas, represent ing scenes from life aboard ship; views !f the stut'kiim-rooni, sulle de conver action, salooii. emigrants' quarte. etc., are faithfully repiesented. There are also some views of the company's Mnik at Tenhoet and an admirable luiintinff bv M. Moiitenard. "La Ville le Koine leavice the port of Algiers. The amount of money expended by the fomiwinie Trausatlautiuiie on their exhibit explaius its being one Oi tlie most interesting, complete and oiiuinal of the entire exhibition neiLlier time nor money have been . ..... L.A It nart 1 - i A ClimDse of His Investment at Last: ! I heard the other dav a curious illus tration of the way in which people of a ' i--ulative turn are led to invest I lii.mev in enterprises of which they 1 know hardly more than the name. A Boston man was cam pirn; out in the I wilds of New Hampshire, at a place ! winch he and his party had reached by i a tramp of several days through the i IKithless forest. While enjoying bis rest mound a tire which bad been made ot loirs from a gTeat tree, cut down by one of the guides, a party of men raine I a one and stoiied to have a chat. i After a bttle talk about the weather j an l the fishing, oni of the new comers f said, jocosely: "1X you know you are imhUstoa fine for tresimssing on this woodland, and cutting down tres snl burn inr ud the loz-?" He ad led that i he proierty belongexl to a certain laud the shares of w hich were at one time quoted on the Boston Stock Kxchtnge. As soon as the Bostouiau heard the name of the laud company "Well. I never expected to , cent OMt of tUAt comny, aud this is the first time that I have heard its bul is." The sneaker by chance had camped out on land of roninanv in which he had invested tears before anil hal never even known i location til It was suggested to him at this meeting In the primitive fores. Writer in the liostuu. i'ost. Evading Carman Military Law. A German long resident in London, who left home at twenty years or age. ri,rhv eva llnx service in the army. has sent to the papers a communication ...0.1 fmm the authorities In "the Fatherland" in answer to an appiica- lIon to be permitted to visit his latiier ere be Uie.1 -T-ome oy an j . rv t n. .imifin irNiiuuci was in euecs me ausitm , .n wl I have to pay a fine of six pounds 10 shillings undergo six weeks drilling and spend six mouths In a for tress." This was a bttle too much for the correspondent's filial iustinC. "It would have been a great joy to me 'o have seen my father," he sars, mi . tViMA circumstances we shall meet no more." Poetry the Exception. Jack Roberts tells a funny yaru about the rules of printing offices. It h id been posted on the bulletin boaid . .-..,- Vnrfc morning paper to in- ot a .iw" . .. j . . variably pat the tmi- ofthe d.yjn fig- mity. Jack bad departed from the rule once, and been admonished by the foreman. He said it would never hap pen .gain, ihe next night an editor, n reading over the proof ot an article, thought to improve it by inserting the well known line of poetry: n -Meet e ia tne - - ? 'ad bis iV how it r him correct. , .he Une. love at 9. F. II the oUlce Uf Tlxre was a vacaw-j nsxt day. RHYMES. all Knew Them Qnce, Twaa Long Ago. But Every one we imagine ia familiar to greater or less extent with those rhymes used by children in many of their nmn. uid immnnli i1ninu(l countlng-ont" rhymes. They are used to determine who is to take the turn at being "it" in "hide and seek," "tilind man's buff," and such like Cimes. hen we hear children re peating these seemingly absurd and meaningless rhymes at their play it never fails to carry onr memories back to the happy days when we too could gl.blv rattle off the same or equivalent vt-r es or doggerel. In a work recently published. "1 he Counting-Out Rhymes of Children," by II. C Bolton, the author has sue- ce'ded in gathering together a remark able and interesting collection of rhymes relating to the subject of his volume. Bars Chamber Journal. This collection, along with the compiler's remarks thereon, is worthy of more than mere passiog attention, not on'y for the number of rhymes aud varia tions given, but also for te examples of t-imilar rhymes In d Cerent lang uages. Tne latter is abundant evi dence of the world-wide observance of the custom among children of all na- ton.i Various examples are given of the different modes of "counting out" in different countries. The following method is, however, the one in most freauent and general use among all chU Iren. "A 1-ader. generally ae f appointed, having secured he atleution of the boys aud girls about to jo'u in the prepared game, arranges them in a row, or in a circle around huu, a' lancy mav dictate. He (or she) then repeats a iciiliar-doggerel sometimes with a rani ity which can only be acquired by great familiarity and a dexterous tongue, and pointing wtiu the nana or forefi nirer to each child In succession. not forgetting himself (or herself), al lots to each one word ot the mysterious formula: On-ery, two-err. trktrr Ann. FiUicf. Tml l. y, Nlckoiat, J nn. Qacver. qiuirr. Kol kntrer, auukielnm, auuifceluai, Jericho, back. Ilav ng completed the verse or sen tence the child uio3 whom the last verse falls is said t l "out," an- steps aside. In repeating the above dozeerel the acc-nt fails on the fiist evi able of each polysyllabic woru. a very common ending is: One. two. I tree. Out .ikI lor hey. and the last word is geueral'y said with great emphasis, or shouted. After t be child thus "counted out" has w.lhdiawn the leider repea's the same do gerel with the same formili- ties, ainL. as before, the boy or gul to whom the List w.rd Is allolteJ is "out." and sbtnds aside. The unmeaning doggerel is repeated again and again to a diminishing number oi cuuureu. and the process of elimination is con tinued until ouly two of them rem mu The leader then counts out" once more, and Llii one on whom the magic word lulls Is declared to be "it," aud ui ust take th i objectionable part In the game. hen the youngsters are in a nurry to commence their game they fre quently simplify and shorten the pro ceeiius by repeating something like this: 11 d, white. b!ne. All out bat you! and the child to whom the worJ "you is appropriated is "it." These rhymes, seemingly cotnposeu of senseless words itrung together so as to fo m a musical or alternative J ngle, when subjected to close examination tud aualvsis are in many iustances found to be corruptions of words and phrases which originally have bad a distinct meaninir and reference to leflnite subjects. Both in the Old and New Worlds, as among both savage and civilized Monies, the same cust m obtains in an almost identical form to a creator or less exten'. Keen iu the lonely islands ot me Pacific Ocean we Mud the same prac lice In operation: but in this instance it is not onlv the ch ldren who use the ihymesin their games, but the adults have somewhat similar formulas which thev reueat when engaged in the heathen incantations coun-cted with their idolatrous practices or drunken orgies. Here we nave in an prooaon- ity a c ew to th origin or tnese count mi? out rbvmes. As is well known to stu leuts of both sacred and pnfaue his tory, the custom of deciding disputes or making selections lor numerous pur jose by the "lot" was a prevailing custom among r II nations. In Jewish history we fin I the "lot frequently resorted to when auy dif ficulty arose. Again, among heathen nations the "lot" was a favorite re- sou'ee for determining the selection or a reauirel victim for sacrifice, and also for findinir out the guilty person from a number of suspected individuals, n is more than likely that, in connection with heathen rites articularly. the priests were possessed or mysterious forms of words, which they use on such occasions; and in some instances the mode of selection may nave been prac tically Identical with the harmless met I tod now universally adopted by children for '-counting out." mis however, is a subject requiring more attention than we can at present ue- - - - stow upon it. The now meaningless and unintelligible expressions in chU drm's rhvuies may be the relics of su- norstitioua formulas used by the heathen votaries of bygone days. A great many of these thymes are cvi.'oritlv of common origin, out lnf n course 0f time and change of ue have got so changed and trans- . . . m.MTifiMd as ti be scarcely recogniza ble. One of the most common and widespread examples among English sneaking people is that beginning. i !itv twoerv." of which the follow i g is one of Its most frequent forms: Onerr, tweerv, dlekery, davy.' lUilabooa. crockabooe. teaery. navy, DiMQiB, dandam. merry come tine. Humo.e-iy. dambiedy, twenty-nine. O-t-T. ooU Somewhere about 100 different varia- i ions and versions of this rhyme alone triven. The following is one of ' several versions from Scotland (Aber deen): Eenery, twaerr, tockery, tayren, 11 slab, enwaery tea or eleven. Pern, pan, musky, dan, Vaedeiam. fadelam. twenty-oae. From a work on the gypsies, by iTharloaG. Lavland.we have a specimen nf crviviv nunc suell: it is as rouows Kktert, akain yoa kair-ao. Pll um. faiiisln. Nlcbuiaa, i n; Km, larl, Irunman, uuu. atani. bock. This, on comparison, will be found to be almost identical with the first rxample we have given ot a counting- out rbyme; eKKen, aaain" ueiug ujb eouivalent in Romany for "Onery, twoerv. Another very Xamiliar form Is that -i. ., ,m Jin-' it i FAMILIAR commencing "Eeeny, meeny," e'e j This is a great favorite among Ame i can children, the commonest version being: ny, meenr. mtnv mo, C'.tcfe a niger bt tne ioe; If be noilers let hlte go. Eenej, meeny, minj mo. This example gives evident proof of adaptation to American Ideas; bu". the preliminary and concluding "Keny. meeny, aie of obvious German or Dutch origin: Ene, ten, mone, mt, Km! or. kioe. booe, strei. Ene. moe, kerke, uorke, Wert Wet Wor wT Some of the transmogrifications ol words are very interesting, the "Fastor, lone" of tiermaa rhyme elven above. we find iu Cornwall as "Basca, lore," while in America it is changed into IVs'alony," "Fiaky larry." 'Barce lona," Pennsylvania," "Butler la' her," "Tuscalona," etc One of the most amusing trans. tions is in connec tion with the rhymes: tine is all. two u ail. xicc ia all can. Bobtail, naney-goal, title, mil tan; Uarunuacarnai, Viratn Mary; biutfleum, aAOgleum, J Jliy , on, bock. Nothing sliows ths world-wide pre valence of the fashion of these "counting-out' rhymes so much as the fact that we have them in twenty different lang uages, numbering in all 873 different versions. America, Japan, Italy, France, Syria. Germany, Turkey, Greece and other foreign countries furnish 8iecimens. and many other countries could doubtless add consid erably to the list. Of English rhymes alone, no fewer than 4u4 examples are given, and the list Is undoubtedly very far from complete. The whole forms a very interesting study in folklore; and Mr. Bolton is still prosecuting his inquiries for ad ding to his collection, and any commu nications on the subject addressed to 1 1 i i n at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, U. S. A., will be thank fully received and duly acknowledged. The Sky and Stars. An article appears iu a late number of the (London) Contemporary Review, giving much interesting information ou the magnitude aud distances of the stars, according tj recent observations. The spaces between our earth aud the nearer fixed stars bad been approxi mately ascertained many years ago, by the use of accurate a--.' rouomical in struments used by skilled astronomers. on opposite s des of the earths orbit. thit is. from points or observation one undred aud eighty millions ot miles part. Improvements have bjen made of late years in the instruments, so that more accurate determinations have been made, i n I the list of stars whose parallax has been thui ascertained. Among some of these determined dis lances and magnitudes ara the follow- u;r: Canopus, a bright southern star, can not emit less, aud may emit a great deal m.re. thau fifteeu hundred timet he light of our sun. Sinus has been !iou to be at such a distance mat its i it lit occupies nearly n ue years in reach:u us. Its real brightness is that f sixtv-three suns. borne of these stars, to shine as they do, from tin tlh mable deeths of simca, must bs ohji cU of astounding splendor. The speed of the solar system througi pace is equal to o'JU,000,0J0 of miles annually; aud a collision between our in and the nearest nxed star, it iney were directed toward eacn oiuer cou- t nually, could not take place in less than 5'J.OOO years. Some of the fixed stars are seen by long continued aud accurate 4 observation to be moving through space; aud one known as "lsj Groombrilge" which swees onward at least 2 MJ miles in a second, would re quire over 20J years at this rate to pass apparently a distance equal to the breadth of the mooni uue oi tne star? Iu tha constellation C usiopela, is 40 imes as luminous as our sun, and trav els 3 0 miles a second. But for whole ceuturies there is but a slight displace ment of its position. This enables us to appreciate very faintly its immense distance. A Nezro Who Hind'ea Millions. Few If any persous in this country have handled more money, and checks bonds and other representatives of money than Uncle" Henry Logan, the messenger of the Register of the Treasury. He is a colored man pasl 70. as punctual as the hands or a cloct. and as trustworthy as a burglar-proof safe. His principal function is to carry . . . , i . . .. . i cnecas, wanauis, uumia. ew., w auu from the llegister's office, where they have to be signed. He has been doinj this for twenty-five years, with scarcely a day's absence duriug all that time. He has handled a large part oi the bonds and currency issued by the Gov ernment, and the warrants that have been drawn upon the I reasury. J. ne aggregate in dollars, if it could be fig ured out, would go up uign into tue billions. Express companies are paid a fixed sum per mile for every thousand dollars they transport for the Govern ment, aud if "Uncle Henry? ' had beeu paid at the same rate he would now be tolling in weallu. lie receives a salary of a year, and on this modest in come be has been able to buy a bom and raise a large family. Uncle Henry held bis place all through Mr. Cleveland s administra tion, and bids fair to remain until the inSrmities of ago compel bis retire ment. His black face and white hair are in striking contrast. His pleasant, grandfatherly ways make bim a gen eral favorite in the department. He says he hasn't any politics. He uot the Seat. Will you kinlly allow me to stand?1 asked a gentleman as he got Into a fail i-nr-ira ah rh mrruura almult contained the specified number. Certainly not; sirr exclaimed a passenger occupying a corner seat near the door. "The way these trains are' overcrowded is shamefull" : "Asjou appear to be the only person knni.ii. m mv nmianc " ronlit-d tliA miiitlainan 44I ftti:ill rpmain srlw am t "Then I shall call the guard aud m,i amoved lr " Suitine the action to the word, says iv. fy,.inn murt JnurnnL tha air grieved passenger rose, and putting his head out of the window, yoiciferously summoned the guard. The new-comei saw his opportunity and quietly slipped into the corner seat. "What's ud?" inquired the guard, as i.o ,t t. arri7a drwir 'One over the number." replied the n mii.r Ni'in nnr irl Tii train's going on." and without waiting for furlh-r explanation the -guard TihV.i out the aggrieved passenger Lk. ... Uftwlhll irrstiflll&itn-T nil the .o Jtf n m i-.-.7 r - - i hi -h f .'mill mnun'iirf To a Tired Mother. A little elbow leans upon your knee. I our urea Knee wnicn nas so muc-n to Dear, A child's dear eyes are lookine lovingly From underneath a thareh of tanitled hair ; Perhaps you do not heed the velvet touch ui arm. moist nneers notamg yours so tignr,; Tou do not pnze this blessing overmuch : You almost are too tired to pray to-nltht. But It Is blessedness ! A year ago, I did not see It as I do to-day. We are so dull and thankless, and too slow To catch the sunshine, till it slips away. And now it senis surpassing strange to tue Tuat. while I wore the badge of motherhood, I did not kiss more oft and tenderly Tue little child that brought ui only good. And if. some nipht when you sit down to rest, Vott miss the elbow from your tired knee. The restless curly head from offyour breast. Tee lisping tongue thst chattered constantly ; If from your own itiedimpled hand bad slipped, And ne'er would nestle in your palm again. If the white feet into the grave had tripped. I wonder so that mothers ever fret At little children clinging to their gown : Or that the footprints hen the days are wet Are ever black enough to make a frown. If 1 could find a little muddy boot. Or cap, or jacket, on my chamber floor; If I could kiss a rosy, restless foot. And hear it patter in my home once more. If I could mend a broken cart to-day. To-morrow make a kite to reaeh the sky Tbuffe latin woman in God's world could say hSe was more blissfully content than 1. But, ob! the dainty pillow next mv own is never rumpled with a shining head. Mv singing birdling 'rem Ita t-st has down ; The little boy I ux-Q to kiss is dead ! Unidentified. A MATRIMONIAL SPECULATION "I wouldn't marry the best man that ever lived!" Aud she meant it, or. what answers the same purpose, she thought she meant it. After all, how few of us ever really know what we mean? "I engaged myself once, wh u a girl, and the simpleton motigiii ne owned me. 1 soon took the conceit out ot him, and sent him away about bis business." The voice was now a little sharp. What wonder, with so galling a memory? "No mau shall ever tyran nize over me neverl hat the mis chief do you supi ose is the matter with this sewing-machine" "Annoved at your logic, most likely,' shU my friend, a bright young matron, as she threaded her needle. "My bus- baud is no tyrant, Miss Kent." I am clad you are satisfied." was the laconic answer. It was quite evident by the expres sion of the dressmaker's face that she had formed her own opinion about my friend's husband, and was quite com petent to form and express an opinion on any subject. Miss Kent was a lit.le woman, rair as a girl, and plump as a robin. She wasu't ashamed to own that she was forty years old aud an old maid. She had tamed her own living most of her life and was proud of i'. She was a good nurse, a faithful friend, and a jolly companion; but stroke her the wiong way and you'd wish you Indn't in much shorter time than it takes me to write It. Her views on all subjects were strikingly original, and not to be combated. "What are you going to do when you are old?" persisted the mistress of the establishment." "What other folks do, 1 suppose," "But you can't work forever." "Mut say that 1 want to." . "Now, Miss Kent, a husband with meann, a kind, intelligent man " "1 don't watit any man. 1 tell you. Miss Carlisle, I wouldn't marry the best man living, if he was as rich as Cruesus, nd would die if I didn't have him. Now if you have exhausted the marriage question, 1 should like to try on vour dress." Tcere was something behind all this I knew well. My friend's eyes danced with fun; and as Miss Kent fitted the waist, she threw me a letter from he bureau. "Head that," she said with a know- og look. "It may amuse you." This is what the letter said: "Mv Dear Jexkie: I shall be de lighted to spend a month with you aud vour husband. There must be. how ever, one stipulation about my visit you rnu-it say no more about marriage. I shall never be foolish again. T( euty years ago to-day I wrecked my w hole life." ("Better embark in a new ship, hadn't be?" put In Jennie, sotto voce.', "So unsuitable was this marriage, so utterly and entirely wretched have leen ita consequences, that I am forced to believe the marriage institution a mil-take. So, for the last time, let me assure you that I wouldn't marry the best woman that ever lived, if by so doing I could save her life. Your old cousin, Makk Laxsino." "Rich, isn't be?" raid Jennie, and tnen juted to the chub! y little figure . .... i w hose back happened to be turned. I i-liook my head and laugnea. You'll see," said the Incorrigible. "See what?" inquired Miss Kent, quite unaware of our pantomine. 'That parties which are chemically attracted will unite. Of course an alkali and an acid. Don't you think this sleeve is a little too long. Miss Kent?" 'Not after the seam is off. But what were you saying, Mrs. Carlisle? Th other day, at Frofessor Boynton's, I saw some wonderful experiments." "An! did they succeed?" inquired Jennie, demurely. "Beautifully." "So will mine. I never yet botched a job in my life." I don't think I quite understand you,' replied Miss Kent, perplexed. "So? I always grow scientific when talking about marriage, my dear." "Botherl" was all the little woma.i said, but the tone was much better Matured than I expected. The next week cousin Mark arrived, and 1 liked bim at once. An uuhapp marriage would have been the lait thing thought of in connection wfth that gentleman. He had accepted the .situation like a man, Jennie told me. , and for fifteen years carried a load of miserv mai lew couiu unit cuumeu. I Death came to him at last, and now me or ienow aciuauy ueueveu umiseu an alien from domestic happiness, Singular as it may appear. Cousin Mark was the embodiment of good lualth snd good nature; fifty, perhaps, ihoueti he didn't look it, and as rotund I Mll i as fresh in his way as the little dr. ssmaker was in ber. As I looked at bim 1 defied anybody to see one and i not be reminded of the other. True, he had more of the polish w hich corner - from travel and adaptation to dineieul classes and individuals, but be was not a whit mo-e intelligent by human na- ture tnan me ongm nine womau wuom J. nnie determined he should marry, "I surprised you should think k necessary to caution me about that. iCousin Mark." cooed the plotter, as she stood by bis side, looking out of the i window. "The Idea of my being so ridiculousl" and in the same breath with a wink at me, "Uome. let us go to my sitting-room. We are at work there, but It won't make any difference to V0U, Wltl it?" Of course Cousin Mtrk answered t n'r n' r i f . - ir u-w No," promptly, as innocent as a dove about the trap being laid for him. This is my cousin Mr. Lansing, M Si Kent," and Mr. Lansing bowed politely, and Miss Kent arose, dropped Iter scissors, blushed, and sat down again. Uousin Mark picked up tne refractory implements and then Mr'. Jennie proceeded with rare caution and tact to her labor of love. C msin Mark, at her request, read aloud an article from the Popular Science Montfi'a, draw ng Miss Kent into the discus-noti as defily as was ever fly drawn into the web of the spider. "Who was that lady, Jennier' Coi-s n Mark inquired in the evening. 1 ou mean Mi-s Kent?" said Jennie, looking np from her paper. "Oh, she is a lady I have known for a long time. She is making some dresses for me now. Whv?" "She seemed uncommonly well posted for a woman." Under any other circumstances, Mrs. Carlisle would have resented this, but now she only queried, "Do you think so?" and that ended it. Two or thiee invitations to the sew-lifa-room were quite sullicieut to make Cousin Mark lei fetly at home there, and after a weak be became fain liar enough to say: "If you are not too busy, I should liko to read you this artie'e." "Oh, I am never too busy to be read to," Miss Kent would say. "Sit down by the window in this comfortable chair, and let's bear it." Artr a couple of weeks, when the gentleman came in, hoarse with a sud den cold. Miss Keut bustled about, ber voice full of sympathy, and brewed a dose which he declared he should never f rget to his dying day; but one dose cured. After this occurrence. Miss Kent was a really won lcrf ul woman. Ah, what an arch plo'.terl She let them skirmish about, but not once did she give them a chance to be alone together her plans were not to be de stroyed by prematue confidence untd the very evening preceding Cousin Mark's departure for California. Then Miss Keut was demurely asked to re main aud keep an eye on Master Car lisle, whom the fond mother did not like to leave quite alone with his uu se. "We are compelled to be gone a couple of hours," said she; "but Cousin Mark will read to you won't you, cousin?" "Certainly, if Miss Kent would like it," replied the gentleman. The infant Carlisle, thanks to good management, was never awake in the evening, so the victims of this matri monial speculation would have plenty of time. The b:ck parlar was the room most in use during the evening, and out of this room was a large closet with a large blind ventilator, and out ot this closet a door leading to the back stoop and garden. Imagine my surprise when I was told that Mr. Carlisle was going to the lodge, and that we, alter profuse warnings about the baby, and promises not to be gone too long, were to proceed to this closet overlooking the back parlor, by the way of the back gate and garden. Iu v.un I protested. " hy, you lit le goosie," laughed Jennie, "there'll be fun enough to last a lifetime. John wanted to come aw fully, but I knew he'd make au awful noise and spoil everything, so I wouldn't let him." The wily schemer took the precau tion to lock the closet door from the out sh!e, so there was no fear of detection Ou a high bench, still as two mice, we awaited results. Fiesently, Cousin Mark, as if amus ing from a protracted reverie, asked, "would you like to have me read?" "Oh, I am not paiticular," replied Mi?s Keut. "Here is an excellent article ou elect ive affinities. How would you like that?" Jennie's elbow in my side almost took away my breath. " ho is it by?" she inquired. Jennie exclaimed (clear iu my ear). 'That's to gain time, spq if it ain't." "It's by a prominent t rench writer, I lielieve," answered Cousin Mark. "I don't think 1 care for a transla tion to-night," said Miss Keut. "Nor I; nor reading of any kind." he continued. This is my last evening iu New York, Miss Kent." "I hope you've enjoyed your visit," she returned. Jennie (into my very bead this time): "She's as shy as a three-year-old colt." "1 didn't think I should feel so bad about leaving," Cousin Mark weut on. "He is ttie wreck, you remember, whispered Jennie. A long pause. I think 1 bear the baby," exclaimed Miss Keut. "Oh, no," said Cousin Mark. "You are fond of babies, are you uot, Miss Kent?" No answer from Miss Kent. "I have been a very lonely man. Miss Kent," Cousiu Mark resumed; 'but 1 never realized how lonely the rest of my life must be until I came to this bouse." Oh, how louelyl" echoed Jennie. "Now I must return to my business and my boarding-house boarding- house for a tnan so fond of domestic life as I am, Miss Kent." Just then we very distinctly heard a little kind of a purr, which sounded very like a note of iutense sympathy from Miss Kent. "I have friends in San Francisco of course." said Cousin Mark, ''but no li: eiide I ke this, no one to care for nie if I am ill. nobody to feel very bad it l die." "That'll fetch her," said Jennie. "I wish that I lived in San Fran cisco." said Miss Kent, iu a little quiv ering voice. "You could call upon me at any time, if you needed any thing." Jennie in convulsions. "If you will go to California with me. Miss Keut, I'll wait another wee''. '1 "Why, Mr. Lansing, what do you mean? What would folks say?" said she. 'We don't care for folks," said Mark. If you will go, we will have a bouse as peasant as money can make it. You shall have birds and flowers and horses and all the scientific month lies you want deu:ed if you shan't and you shall never sew another stitch for anybody but me. Will you bs my wife?" Just then Jennie and I stepped up another peg, and there was that li'tle old maid, who wouldn't marry the best man that ever lived, hugged close to the man's breast, who wouldn't marry the best woman that ever lived, not even to save her life. We came away then, but it's my opinion that they re mained In just thit position till we rang the bdl half an hour later. "How did you now?" I asked of Jen nie. 'My dear." she answered "my whole reliance was upon human nature; and let me tell you, dear goosie, whateve r else way fad, that never does.' ,i, r, -M .i jm ;lu.ntnui i if i r mi itialJdiiCC'.Cixai,c. Jw.tiHUHUUiiiirUnUU "Why, Miss Kent, what makes your face so very red?" inquired Jennie, upon entering; "and Cousin Mark how straigely you look I your hair is all mussed up." 'And I hope to have It mussed often." said Cousin Mark, boldly. Miss Kent and I are to be married this week." Jennie laughed till her face was pur ple, and when I went up stairs. Miss Kent was pounding her back. ONE ON THE GENERAL' The Lieutenant Was a Little Bit Too Clever for Him. A vxetieral. w ith plenty or time on his hands, one day stood in the window to watch the people pacing in the street. AVhi'e thus engaged be noticed one of his oflicers w ho was without a sword a grave misdemeanor! "I'll niak him smart for this!" the General exclaimed. "Ten minutes cross-examination and a month's ar rest." The L'eutenant meanwhile approach ed, nil unconscious of the ini) ending storm. When he was within earshot, the General called out: "Sir, come up here; I want ro speak to youl" The officer looked up and perceived his superior; he remembered that he bad left his sword at home, and knew what to expect. Unfortunately there was no means of escape, and he bad to face the difficulty as best he might. The General's face was beaming with delight. He had found an opportunity of enforcing discipline while sniokiug his weed. 1 he Lieutenant stepied in to the house, aud, iu passing through the ante-room, he espied the sword of an orderly hanging ou the wall. "The very thing" he exclaimed, and buck ling the sword, be assumed auair of in noceiice and opened the inner door, saying: "You have done me the honor to call me. General." "Yes I wanted to ask you Iijrel Why, the fellow has a sword," the General muttered to himself, as the smile faded from his countenance. "Whatever was it I was go ng to ak you Ah! I remember now; alnuit your family your father, how is he?" If lie could but know the interest you take lu him he would feel highly flattered; unfortunately he died twenty years ago!" The General started at his unwilling visitor iu s(etchless amazemeut. " Mien there is nothing else you have to say to mt?" "Ma toi, no!" the Gtneral answered. "Only never go out without your sword I should have bjen compelled to place you under arrest If you had left it at home." "l'este! I'll take good care I don't. See here!" aud the young uiau coolly displayed the aim which was daugl.ug from his waist. 'Ye, i see .I'd all right, my friend, you ii ay go." J lie oilicer promptly availed h. msell of the ermissioii. He saluted the Gen eral, and on his way through the an'e- room hung the sword on its peg. He then left the house. the General had resumed bis former u st at the win- do -v. The next minute he calle 1 his wife. "I say look at that young oili er who is walking away from the house," "I see bun distinctly." "Is he wearing a sword?" "No!" 'Tliere you are mistaken. Tie look as if he isn't, and has one ail the time." The wife made no remark. She is in the habit of taking her husband at hi.- word. As for Ihe officer he was never again seen iu public without his saber. I-e ItappeL What Women Can Do. She can do more in a minute than man can in an hour, aud do it In-tLer, Six of them can talk at once and get along first rat", and no two men can do that. She can throw a store with acuive that would be a fortune to a base-b. pitcher. She can shareii a lead-pencil If you give her plenty of time and plenty ol pencils. She can safely slick fifty pins iu her dr'ss while he is getting one under hi- tinimb nail. Sne can but what's the use? A woman can do anything or everything and do it well. She cm appreciate a kiss from 1k-i husbaud seveuty-flve years after the marriage ceremony is performed. She tan come to a conclusion without the slightest trouble of reasoning on it and no sane man can do that. She cau dance all night In a pair of shoes two sizes too small for her, and enjoy every minute of the time. Siie can walk half the night with col cky baby in her arms witlfmit once expresilug the desire of murdering the infant. S! e is as co 1 as a cucumber in half a dozen tight dresses and skirts, w hile a man will sweat and fume and grow in one loose shirt. She can talk as sweet as ieaclies and cream to the woman she hates, while two men would be punching each other's head befo e they had exchanged ten words. Ex-United States Treasurer Hyatt's Scare. "Have I ever had any scares? No excepting the dally scares. Every day has been a scare with me, or at least a urce of anxiety. 1 have been unable to get my mind away from the vaults. from my responsib lity. Occasionally at night it has seemed to me I must get out of bed aud come down to the treas ury and see If thing were all light, and 1 can easily see why Gen. Spinner used to sleep lu bis office, with his key- under his head and a trusty watchman at his door. The old general slept iu this very room for several years, by so doing adding nothing to the security of the treasur but gaining therefrom, no doubt, a good deal ot piece or mind Not for twice the salary of the presi dent of the L nite 1 Sta'es would I agai take on my shoulders the responsibility of the safe keeping of seven hundre: millions of public money." From au Interview In a ashington Letter. Somebody figures out that 3,000, 000 people walk ab mt London's streets daily, and that in so doiug they wear away a ton of leather particles from their boots aud shoes. It is not an unrequited love that we hold for the oyster. "James, you have been fighting. I can ill it by the look In your eve." "Yes, but mother, you should sea the look in the olUuf boy 'a eye." NEWS IX BRIEF. President Lincoln's p.'ivate papers are said to be still ly in; in a vault of the First National Bank, in Blooming ton, 111. Pueblo, CoL, is making prepara tions for building a mineral palace on the same genetal plan as the corn palace at Sioux City. The Koran, the sacred book of the Mahometans, was written by Mahomet about the year 010. It was translated into Latin in 1113. The coming theatre hat, modelled after the Eiffel Tower, will not be so objectionable after a'l. The Kiffel Tower can be seen through. It is built that way. A grandmother at 3). The Savan nah Xac tells of a woman iu Wad ley, Ga., who has bicome a grandmother at the age of 3 I. She married wheu only 14, and her daughter did likewise. The Empress of Germany is said to wear on her shoulder at court fetes a magnificent agrafrce In diamonds which belonged to Napoleon 1. and which was attached to bis hit at Waterloo. The Shah of Persia asserts that the Kohinoor Is an unlucky jewel. He IKiints to the fact that (Jueen Victorl i lost her husband s ion after coming into possession of the famous stone. At Tonawand.i. X. Y., .Tohn Iloacti, an old p -nsionor of the British army, won a wager by drinking a quart of whiskey in "Jj minute, and ai vol unteering to drink an additional pint when be fell dead. It is said that the only thin that has prevented William Waldorf Astot from becoming a great artist is his wealth. And it is often the fact that the only thing that preve its a man from getting wea'thy is his devotion to art. The desire manifested by the fair sex for mini. il lire painting set a- brooches amounts to almost a e.a.e. These paintings are imported, ami leading in. inufaet tirci s claim that they have iilili. nl! y in Humming them fast enough to supply the demand. Five seme nits, three cm -p.iral-t : nd seven patrolmen ol the San 1 raiicsen pjlice force have been retired on -n-sions as a reward for their long am' faithful services. The sergeants are to receive 5'ii.a , the corporals ;"".." I and the patrolmen $u0 a mouth. A "bullet proof spook is spread ing terror among the timid iieoplu ol llelfast, Maine. He has the laculty ol ivcrcoiiiiiig all obstacles, but as he is descrihed as wearing a waterproof and a whitrt mask there is a r asonatl. tloubt of his lieing the "real article." -In Dublin, a small town in Lau rens county, G:i., there lives a blue man. He Is a Caucasian, but instead of lieing white, is a greenish blue, aud is known as "lllue !!:l!v." Ilia whole. skin is blue, his tongue and the roof el his mouth aie blue, ami where Ins eye- should lie whit is seen Ihe same ghast ly gicfiiish-blue color. -A joker on 'Change at Cincinnati was observed to have a white thread on his shoulder. Of course, the first friend he met undertook to brush it off, and. failing, pii ke I it up and pulled. and was astonished to li :d it w ithout in end. The full spool was in his biuast locket. A Maine dentist tells of a man who came Into li i s office and insisted on hiving a sound tooth extracted not because he had neuralgia in his face, but lierause a faith h-aler had told him that it woul 1 in prove his general healill to have a tou'h mil d. "What's iu a name?" People who lielievo that there is something in a name will bo interested to Know that Jack Kipper, mate of an American bark which recently leai he I Ne York has been arrested, charged with assault ing a sailor on 11. e high Mas. The great Im-11 of Huug-wu, which has long lam Ii.ili luirie 1 iu the ground, has at length been lifted by foreign machinery and hung iu a pagoda built of Iron by a foreign linn. According to prophecy, this bell wa never to be lifted until China I. a I entered upon a new career of piospt-nly. Miss Biol iimi i, the daugh'er of th novelist, has jjst, made her debut m opera at 1 aris, ami mat excnann Is wildly raving over her beauty her voice. She is very fair, tall ;ii slender, with a powerful sopran i v. hum and gieat dramatic ta'e.-i'. Me- i not quite 2 , and will d.-vol j two in.ne, years to blu.iy lx.-1'ore l.ecoiiiin; a fixed star. The expression 'Mark horse," now in such general political use. Is said to have lirst occurred in Lord Beacons field's "Younj llul.e,'' iu the following paragraph: "The lirst lavorile was never seen after the distance post, all the teii-'.o-enes weie in the rear, and a dark horse which had never lieen thought of rushed past the giaud stau t in sweeping triumph." Maine's oldest clergymen. It has been claimed that the Kev. Dr. Car ruthers. of Portland, who recently eele brted his 3'Jih birthday, was the oldest clergyman in Maine, but this must 1 a mistake. The Kev. J. T. Hawes, Pastor of the Congregational Chinch, at Litchfield 'timer , rerenlly ce'ebia ted his 91st birthday. The Kev. Mr. Hawes and bis wife join- d the J uveulle Temple recently to plea o then grand children. Clans Spreckles is m San Fran cisco, deep in beet sug.tr making. He complains that his Wat-onville (Cat.) factory cannot be kept ri iiniiig day and night as be expected, because of the poor crop of beets this year. He has rented a lare tract of land near the factory, and exjtcts to grow enough beets next year to kiep the factory run ning for six months. "Me will build next year one factory, the machinery for which is now on its way from Ger many. He declares that the site has not been decided uhjh, but rumor has narrowed It down to Coronado Beach or San Jacinto, in San Dieo county, CaL" A bust of Edison. Herman Schurlg, sculptor and Hirector of the Art School, in OUVnbacb. Germany, lias come to America to conn lete a bust of Thomas A. Edison, which he In-iran while the inventor was ia Eu- ' rope. He became acquainted with Mr. I Ed -non at the Congress of Naturalists ! la Heidelberg .vlng to Mr. Edison's ' early return to America the nculptor I was obliged to accompany him, and worked upon the model during the voy age. A few more sittings ouly are necestary, and these will be. had -at Menlo Park. The bust, when finished, will be run Into bronze at the royal fac tory la MunicU. .-.''!. :-,:"': ,
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