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VOL. XLIV. MIFFLINTOWiN , JUNIATA COUNTY. PdENNA.. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 26, 1S90. NO. 49.
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This Thresh YTb Wise.
There i) much more intellect in blrdt
than people upioe, aa a recent inci
ceut prow. A thrush, not twin of
thetM sn.ivepropertiesof gunpowder,
tboupU proper to build her neat oq
the rnK'tf of a quarry, in the very
crutre at which they were constantly
"Llasting rock. At first, she was very
much discomposed by the fragment
tyiuil ia all direction, but still she
would not quit hr chosen locality,
fche soon eberved that a bell rang
whenever a train was about to Us fired,
and that at the notice the workmen
retired to ssfe positions. In a few
days, when she heard the bell, she
c, ua:ed her exposed situation, and flew
&.WO to where the workmen sheltered
sheui selves, dropping clone to their feet.
There die would remain until the ex
plosion tad taken place, and then re
turn to her nest. The workmen ob
served this, narrated it to their employ.
r. aud it n also told to visitor who
came to view the quarry. The visitors
naturally expressed a wUh to witness
ao curious a specimen of intellect; but
as the rock could not be always blasted
wheu visitors came, the bell was rung
instead, aud for a few times answered
t!.s same purpose. The thrush flew
down doe to where they stood, but
he perceived that she was trilled with,
and it interfered with the process of
in. libation ; the consequence was. that,
afterward when the bell rang, she
would peep over the ledge to ascertain
if the workmen did is; reat, and if they
d. i not, she would remain where she
was.
Ke-Utance of Pain.
The following anecdote is related in
the tiaytU of a missionary in South
Afrit'- Oa one occasion, while the
Qu-..o!..ti ies were at dinner in their
own tent, some of the native chiefs
aiiJ rh-i r wive being present, one of
the in ' mg a missionary help himself
toaii't'.e Cayenne pepper, its color
;trctd his attention, and he asked
for of it. On getting the Cay-c-.r.'.
he in-fantlv threw a quantity of
tor. tongue, but, on feeling its
,u- . j'T. he shut his eyes, clapped
.ii- it.! upon his mouth, and, hold-,a-
d .i his l.'-id, endeavored man
r'v, i conceal the pain. When ha
ks av- t . look up. he slyly touched
the w'. i "f.Mry with his foot, to .tU
msfe ti nt he should say nothing, but)
jive t! ! - d ,ie to the others pre
eut. Another chief next got some,
Tv k'-.i ii - -liily felt its powers, but
ur.u . -.'u the joke, as soon as he
(ti- ' -H.ik. he asked for some
.'o.' '.. -s v. f.-. ;ml thus it wed round,
to ii . ' i' diversion of all after
war .i 1 ': -u :h the pungent condi-ni-ut
cs.-' 1 ii.e big tears to roll down
their i-V. "... tary scorned to show
thai t f-i . mi. until it had gone
roi;n '. r'i they smiled at each
Ouier .vitii t ..;uru gravity.
M'" -Original and Extended.
Original id.-as may be so enlarged
upon and v ed through such di det
ent . 'i.ii;.. ot' thought that the result
aiT.vi' 1 .i; t Oen robbed of nearly
!! en::.ia-;. . of the original idea; and
ihu i; i-i th.i we are too apt to look
opon nieu who :'.re mere extenders of
laeaj as th-n-rU they were original
thinkers the very fountains from
which spring the germs of original
tiiti";, v I-", in truth, they are orig
u '. : i -he secondary Tjews
ii ' .i of established ideas.
.' ..i.i' ficui a pear tree is
grs:,.,, . ii .nb of an apple tree,
this trun. h w ui j ield pears. Is it to
b aruue-l fimu this that the tame sap
which prod i c apples on tha other
tranche of tV tree does not produce)
tart on t'.. hi .inch? Ju-t as the aap
ef tht a;" ie tree nourishes the pears
through the medium of the branch of
the pear trie, so th original idea
fesds the mind of the inventor of sec
ondary Melts', and the mental fruit
takes on the characteristics of his
!Lii.J.
High Enjoyment.
0:.e ef the highest aud best enjoy
ment come tSuujU wlijt is done for
other. This i-t beuevetl iu theoretic
ally, but eldom practically. If a wan
tai money, hi imagines that the way
to tn ov it is either to keep and ace u
tnaiaie it or spend it on personal grati
fication : yet he mi-scs the Very tinest
sf it delight vhn he refuses to share
it or itj benertts with others. So with
our time, our talents, and our thoughts:
kept to ourselves, or used simply foe
our own delectation, they do not give
us a tithe of the real enjoyment that
they atioi'd when we Use them liber
ally for the benefit of the family, or
friend, or the community. .No one
who has otice tasted the sweets of niin-s
isteriug nur. esf ully to the happiness
of others will ever asaiu relapse into a
puieiy tei,h use oi hi advantages.
Carious Law Books.
Anion j the curiosities to be found in
the Minnesota State Law Library are
two volumes of the colouial laws of
MsMachusetts, 1760 to 1772. They
sre. of course, reprints, but "ye olden
ie" has been faithfully reproduced.
Ihe coiie of law iu vogue in those
provincial days was truly very crude.
It m then that the whipping post was
"sorted to as a mode of punishment,
but it is (itipnUfed that "no man shall
besten wi'h above forty stripes, nor
hall any tri'e jrentleman, nor any man
iuil to a rcnt!einn, be punished by
whipping utiles his crime be very
hsmet'iii and his course of life vicious
nd pro:!ii'ute." Atfain the code says:
"If man hall Blaspheme the name
f ?od. ihe father, Sonne or Holy
hot, w ith direct, expresse, presumpt
sou or l,i-h hauded blasphemie, or
h!l I'm- (;0,j jn the like manner, he
taube put to death."
Mus-achuM-Ms Marriages.
A. raiiiinsr (,, an official repori Just
'MUM f t, 3..(473 people whose-arria-e
were registered in Massa-:hi-ett,
it ye:ir, 6'J3 were men and
w.ui .i, had reached their
"nieth . .!, ; l'l mon aud 6 women
erMn.,. v,.iity-five j ears of age,
'i ' ir.. ii :ni . women were over
'"('. ti. t.,tal number of males
nler twi-ntv v. ars of age wa. 368.
'"aof f.., ,;.,!,. 3 21g Two femnie.
ero tw.-ive. UPrc thirteen, 13 were
lntteeti and ;.i were fifteen years of
One mnip was fifteen, and tier
ws none under that age.
AFTER DEATH, WHAT!
TOR A HOSSE IT MEANS MANY
Ee U as Useful After Death as Before.
Says the Wa-Kinton Star it was a
ery melancholly-looWing old horse
with a consumptive aspect prwraiablv
engendered by long pcricc ta lui
starvation, and when it ftil dead sud
denly in the shaft of an ash wtun
opposite the IVteut HrKce. the colored
man who drove the cart did uot evince
any marked surprise. A policeman
who was pasing stopped for a moment
to inspect the corpse, and then went
into a shop on the corner to riii up a
telephone. Ten minute, flew bv. ai.d
a wan with a businesslike air and a
large wart on his nose made his wav
through the little crowd that
surrounded the dead animal. The
ash man he addressx-d briefly
in a whisper and preseiitly
handett him five silver dollars. After
eyeing the money for a few seconds
with the air of one consoled for a mis
fortune the aah man put it in hi pocket
and walked off, probably to borrow
another horse for the purpose of drag
ging his wagon home. As the crowd
broke up a philanthropic pedestrian re
marked, with a si'h, to the person
with a wart on his nose, that the
poor beast was to be congratulated
upon having finished his career of use
fulness in this world. The man with
the wart grinned and replied that thn
unfortunate creature's usefulness, fur
from being finished, had otily begun.
Tha philanthropic citizen did not
understand the meaning of this re
sponse; but he would have compre
hended it better if he had waited a
minute or so more, at the end of which
a heavy dray was driven up alongside
the pavement and two men with an
inclined plane of boards and rope
tackle pulled the dead horse upon the
Tehicle and drove away with it. The
bystanders noticed that the dray was
marked in big letters with the name of
such-and-such a firm, "manufacturer
of superior fertilizers."
This, then, was to be the destiny of
the deceased quadruped. L'nlike tho
egg that chirps at breakfast, it had
not survived the period of its useful
ness. It would live again iu the fruits
and flowers and waving grain, to
which it might contribute the elements
of growth.
After awile the dray came to a st.-p
in front of an ugly-looking buildinir
on the Potomac bank at the other end
of Georgetown. The men did not hold
their noses, but that was beosuse they
were used to the vt-ry unpleasant
smells which thicken the atmosphere of
the locality. The carcass was unloaded,
and, having been conveyed into the
building, was hoisted to the second
floor. There an expert operator set to
work upon it with a keen knife and
quickly removed the entire skin, the
portiou covering the h ad and tail in
cluded. The flayed animal wx- tl. u
cut up into six parts, which were
thrown into a big iron kettle with a
steam jacket and boiled f..nr h.-ur-. At
the end of this time tho bir l."iie-,
loosened from the flesh by oohinr.
were separated from the mas of im at
with rakes for subsequent ciinditi'.' up
into bone fertilizer, which is very ex
pensive, but contains elements th:.t re
store the nutritive power to the s.il in
a wonderful manner. For win-tens
fertilizers made of flesh produce a good
effect that is merely temporary, th"
ground bone supplies the appetite of
the hungry loam in a way that really
lasts. Nitrogen, carbon and lime,
which it so largely contains, are mar
velous growth producers.
But, as was about to be said, the
flesh and little bones, after the big
bones had been taken out, were put
under a powerful press, big enough to
accommodate half a ton, and squeezed
until nearly every particle of water
and grease bad been forced out of the
tissue. Then the mti was placed in
a steam dryer with two jacket, be
tween which steam was continually
flowing around, and after a while it
came out dry as a chip. "ot a bit of
grease or moisture, in which the ele
ments of decomposition are propagated
remained, and the residue, after being
grouud up tine in a sort of mill, re
sembled Ixne Jack tobacco more than
anything else. It had no offensive
smell, and the Star reporter was in
formed that it would last indefinitely
without exhibiting a sign of decay or
usiange. Iu this form, put up iu ba,
it was ready for the farmer an e.vcl
leut fertilizer, though by no means
equal to ground bone. It is much
"heaDer, however.
And now, presumably, jow are
Under the impression that you know
all about the postmortem history of a
horse. By no means. You Lure riot
Vet been "told that his skia goc to
Philadelphia or New York, and U
made into base ball covers. Nothing
so tough as a horscliide. and, there
fore, so well adapted to that purpose,
has yet been discovered. The; hair ot
Ihe mane and tail is the best possibl-i
material for a curled-hair uiatire-s.
The hoofs are ground up into ll I
finest gardeners' fertilizer known, a-i I
the most cotly of all fertilizers, owin
to the difficulty of grinding them.
The result is called "hoof meal." an 1
i Talue from the gardener's point oI
view, is largely owing to the prescnci
In it of a great percentage of ammoni::.
Verr likelv, however, the hooH
mav be utiJi'zed in the manufacture f t
an excellent quality of glu, or it in: y
be that the chemist will adapt them to
the various uses of his own, atnor
others to the making of that exquisite
color of Persian blue. Besides, the
hair mar be used for hair cloth and
fish line's, and the bones for animal
:harcoal and buttons.
The mule is useful after death f"
rery much the same purposes as the
horse The fertilizer-maker finds hin
equally available. Xor does the manu
facturer of fertilizer disdain the hog.
nd cows that die a natural deatlu
Offal from the slaughter-houses he de
pends upon largely for his supplies of
material, which is all prepared in the
. - it..a ami feet and othei
waste portion, of .nimals
.laughter-houses are serviceable to him,
is are also the trimmings that come ic
bag, from tha chipped-beef atones
Uach damaged meat, too, comes frors
'Ac for thebfever, tjeir horns are mailt
intm lariies conits f4 shin bones,
which are of extra bs-r and fine mate
rial, into knife and razor handles.
That's a very pretty cat of yours,
remarked the Star reporter to the f er
kilizer man who gave him some of tb
above information.
Yes, indeed, that's my especia
pet," was the reply. And he added
Contemplatively: "It is very sad tc
think that some day poor pussy musl
le turned into fertilizer, too. Every
thin? goes, in this business, into th
pot."
COLIMBIS AD ISABELLA,
A CJreat Woman Share la the Clorj
of America' OlM overy.
Between Genoa and Nice, in that in
comparably lovely curve of olive ami
palm-crowned laud known as the
Kivcira, that bends with infinite beauty
into the blue of the sea, there stands in
dingy, somewhat bedraggled street a
stone and stuccoed homse, now a shop
frequented by the kiiuple peasant folk.
The low n is Cogoleto, and this house
is it one show place or treasure, fot
ou the mildewed, saffron wall an in
scription states that Christopher Co
lumbus was born there.
It is not of much moment whet he.
re was brn in this small town or iu
the grand city of palaces, then not so
graud, however, fifteen miles away.
The iutere-t and beauty of Columbus'
life are fadeless. Fired with scientilic
zeal and the adventuresome spirit of
the real navigator, one sees him as he
was, across the centuries, crowding
into the court of a king, waiting wiih
Lis charts in ante-rooms for audiences,
repelled, cheated, put aside, penniless
but patient, rich in the hero stuff,
pushing on and certain under his un
certainty that some day the sun would
shine for him and his plaus.
AVTien we understand a philosophy
thrill to an epic, it is because the Mine
iine qualities that wrought them are iu
some shape in ourselves. It takes a
diamond to cut a diamond. Being cut
aud exquisitely fashioned, the com
monest mind may admire. A poor,
feeble creature cannot have much in
fluence for good. A little nature never
Inspires us. Many a man and many
a woman die dumb and inglorious be
cause there was no diamond-like influ
ence to illuminate his or her nature,
no chiseling force to sculpture out all
the possible facets, free the imbedded
crystal and give it the divesting power
that should show it off iu all its many
tided beauty.
Christopher Columbus would not bo
ttie pedestaled great man, iniperisha
bly great, that he is today had it not
been for the large-brained comprehen
sion, the sympathy, the intuition au.l
the fiii'.h in him of a womau. 1
took a woman to discover the man whu
was to discover a new world. There
are some who may say that what a wo
man does not discover is not worth
knowing, and woman like that fine,
enterprisiug, brave-natured Isabella oi
J-pain who was behind the door of tin
great fume of Columbus proves this
true in so noble a sense that at hct
name every fez and turban, every
stovepipe hat should be removed ia
honor of her.
Great men have almost always been
backed up in their most notable an.
adventuresome enterprises by soms
gret woman. Every Columbus has
h. I his Isabella. Men might jeer and
deride, might suspect and ridicule, bu
she was rocklike in her belief; her in
tuition marked out uuerringly the path,
bis genius would take, her heart au
her hope shot ahead of him like a star
lighting the night of his sky. New
Orleans Picayune.
HISTORICAL.
Assvria was overthrown by (he
Medes' 625 B. C.
Greece was a name almost unknown
by the people whom we call Greeks,
and was never used by them to de
scribe their country. It was first
adopted by the Romans, from whom it
has desceuded to us.
Between the second war with Eng
land and the Missouri Compromise,
live new states were admitted to the
L'nitcd States of America: Indiana,
1916; Mississippi, 1317 ; Illinois, 1(513;
Alabama, 1319; Maine, 1820.
The first railway in the United
States was but two miles long and was
jsed only for hauling stone. The cars
were drawn by horses. The first pas
senger train in America was run on
the Baltimore Ohio Railroad ia
16o'J.
The fuchsia was first known in Eng
land 100 years ago. The first plant il
said to have been brought home to
Wappi&g by a young sailor from South
America, w ho gave it to his mother
from whom it was bought by a uur
servmaa and soon disseminated.
How to Grow Hjsclnths.
An English grower gives the follow
ing directions for growing hyacinthi
in glasses: "Fill youi glass with watei
throwing in a small piece of charcoal,
and let the lower part of the bulb jusl
touch the water. Put them into a cool
but not a damp, place away from the
lirht and leave them till the glasses are
filled with roots and the leaves have
b"gun to develop, then give them as
much sun aud light as you can, add
ing, if necessary, occasionally a little
water. Unless the water becomes
muddv never change it, aud don't put
the pots and glasses into a cellar where
the atmosphere is damp, or into a cup
board where there is no atmosphere at
all. A spare room where, there is no
fire and plenty of air is best.'
X Curious Career.
Congressman Louis E. Atkinson of
the Eighteenth Pennsylvania District
has had a curious experience. At the
age of 21 he entered the army as a sur
geon and served through the war. He
was one of the few members of tha
medical department of the army who
were permanently disabled by terries
during the rebellion. At tha end oi
the war he found that his lamenesi
would prevent him from practicing as
a physician, so be studied law, went
into politics and in 1888 was elected to
Jus fourth consecutive term ia the Na
tional House of Representatives.
Queen Victoria's pet dog it a York
shire terrier that weighs two a$dtbxo
sjTirtr pound tod vott f 7 - -
AVoat the Ganxt i:nrtrt Seek ; This
sea to.
The quail crop on Long Islttnd is
not likely to be an abundant one
A correspondent at Stony Creek,
Connecticut, writes that quaii and rab
bits were never w abundant in the
vicinity of that place as during this
autnmn.
Sow is the day of the gunner. For
the angler the season is about over,
and as the leaves begin to fall the de
votee of powder aud shot turns to Lis
favorite sport.
A great many prairie chickens are
being killed in Montgomery
County, 111. Quail are also very
abundant. The chickens a.e now
mostly in the corn, and are difficult t
tch.
On Sunday morning Miss Travis
Ah, Johnny, I've caught you with a
fish pole over your shoulder. 1 shall
go and tell your father. Where is he?
Johnny Down at the foot of the
garden diggin the bait.
A fine four-year-old buck: was
brought into Bangor, Me., from Auro
ra, where George Butler shot it in his
dooryard the day before. The deer
was exploring Mr. Butler's property,
and fell a prey to his rifle, lie weigh
ed two hundred aud four pounds.
Mr. Newell Moreland, who was
camping out on the York (Pa.) hills
saw (as he supposed) a wild beast
moving about in the bushes, aud fired
at it. The moving object was Oscar
Schmeidel, aged twelve years, and he
was fatally injured.
Lest the young gunner may be too
elated by success, it is not out of place
to state that sportsmen are coming to
realize that moderation is helping game
to increase, and it is bad form now for
a sportsman to boast of the great
slaughter he has accomplished.
Besides birds and squirrel, the legal
period for deer hunting is now pro
gressing in Maine and Xew Hamp
shire. In Vermont the antlered quarry
is protected by law until 1690, and in
Massachusetts he is protected indefi
nitely. Bears and wolves may be shot
at any time in any place, thanks to
their savage propensities.
An association with a membership
of five hundred has been formed in
California for the purpose of influenc
ing legislation to restrain the acquire
ment by individuals and clubs of vast
tracts of land for shooting and fishing
purposes. It maintains that this is a
curtailment of the privileges of citizens
which all should share alike.
A word about caribou, the Ameru
can representative of the reindeer
family. They are so migratory, not;
so say restless, in their habits, as to ba
located only with extreme difficulty,
but wherever moose arc found caribou
may be looked for, and higb.-ela.-s
sportsmen do not shrink from travel
ing all the way to Newfoundland.'
where the worst steamboats iu the
world are found, in 6carch of this
elusive animal.
The moose is the beau ideal of game,
and he has been the subject of much
discussion of late. He was protected,
in the Province of Quebec, as mo't
sportsmen believed, until 1SD0, but it
has just been learned that the law was
amended last month on the suggestion
of the Canadian Minister of Agricul
ture, and it is now lawful to shoot
moose in Quebec. In Maine, where
the seasou for moose is from October
1 to January I, they are believed to be
more plentiful than in the Provinces.
It is generally supposed that themooso
is so rare it is hardly worth while for
sportsmen to hunt for them.
As an illustration of the cbundanca
of deer, an instance is cited of a farm
er in New Hampshire, who during last
summer, was annoyed by a doe aud
fawn coming regularly to Lis field of
oats. At first they were shy and van
ished at the farmer's approach, but
after a time they became so bold he
was forced to drive them away by hurl
ing sticks and stones at them. Finally,
in despair, he wrote to Commissioner
Hodge, in charge of the deer of the
State, that if he didn't come and take
care of his deer they would be shot in
spite of the law. Similar cases have
been roorted to Commissioner Still
wcll, of Maine.
"Pick."
When we of the cavalry were falling
ack before Lee as he was headed f Of
handily and Bull Run, a squadron of
is which hail been detailed to bring a
sounded officer away from a house
hich would soon be in possession of
lie advancing confederates, fouud our
lves shut iu front aud rear. We
umbered about thirty men, and had a
-wo-horse ambulance in which tha
rounded man had been made as ccio
iortable as possible. We had, indeed,
idvanccd about a quarter of a mile be
fore we discovered the box we were
di. The confederates who had come
m beldnd us were cavalry, and owing
to a turn in the road aud a bit of woods
aad not seen us. The lieutenant Li
:omtuund consulted with the nmjor
whom we were bringing away, aud
explained the situation.
"Prepare me as well as you can foi
ihe ride, give me a revolver, and then,
form your men by fours and ride right
town on the rebs and cut your way
through," was the order of the majar.
I was in the advance set of fours, and
the man on my right was next to the
highway ditch. All of a sudden, just
ss we were waiting the order to ad
runcfc, a little negro boy, not over 3
years old, and as black as the blackest
tar ever made, npi'eared ia the ditch
alongside of Parker. He seemed to
have been hiding in the weeds, and
I think he must have fallen out of a
enrt or got parted from the family as
they were hurrjing into the uuion
lines before Lee's advance. At any
rate he was there and alone, and as wr
saw him. Parker said:
"Good lands I but here's a nigger
baby right under foot and all alone!
What shall we do with him?"
At that moment we got the word tc
go ahead, and Parker leaned over,
picked the child up and placed him in
front on the saddle. Two or three of
us called to him to drop the boy, but
he didn't do it. As we moved forward
"Pick" was there and hanging c for
dear life, Ids eyes as white as raw
onions and every tooth plain to be
counted. We were right on the tWi
before they saw ns, and it was bill !
bang I slash! and we opened a lane
and went through, every horse on tfce
keen run aud the wounded major filing:
w7 wheneTerha found ajtaret for
I bis bullets. Whea wa fiually got
thronq-h " Pick" was with us aaa all
; ri?ht, and he had seen his first battle
-i the war. One would have said that
j he liked it, for his grin was broader
i than before, and he did not seem a bit
' scared,
t
During the bidy days that follow
ed the little fellow was with a company
wagon, and 1 did not see him for a
week. Then Parker took him down
to Alexandria and left him with a
colored woman, but a few mouths
later, being made company commissary
and having the use of a wagon, he
brought "Pick" back to the army, got
a tailor to make him a suit of clothes,
aud then the boy was a fixture with us.
He took to army life, and every oue
of the company took to him ; had anyone
misused "Pick" it would have gone
hard with him. He was with us to the
very last, and I saw him munching a
hardtack and looking on while Lee's
ragged old veterans laid down their
arms at Appomattox. He clung to
Parker above all others, and although
the trooper was a rough fellow and un
married, the offer of $100 for "his
little nigger," which was made over
and over, was no temptation.
When the war closed "Pick" was
taken north to Ohio, sent to school and
then pat to a trade, and it was only a
month ago that I walked in on him in
a Ciucinnati cooper shop and found
him a lusty big fellow with a home and
a wife and two children. He had
never been back to Virginia, and al
though he had made many efforts to
find his father and mother, not a trao"
if them had ever been secured.
"I reckon I Jist dun got losted in da
hurry," he explained, "an de family
had so many odder ch'U'en dat dey
didn't fink it worf while to stop at
look fur me." Detroit Free Press.
t Intelligent Polar Bears.
The female Polar bear is taught tj
a wonderful iustinct to shelter het
young under the snow. In December,
she retreats to the side of a rock, where
by dint of scraping and letting the
snow fall upon her, she forms a cell
in which to live during the winter.
There is no fear that she should be
Hilled for want of air, for the warmth
of her breath always keeps a small pas
sage open. Within this strange nnr
jsery she produces her young, and re
uiains with them beneath the snow
Xill March, when she comes out into
the open air with her baby bears. At
the only use of the snow burrow is to
shelter the young, the male bears dq
not hibernate like the females, but roam
freely about during the winter months.
Before retiring under the suow the
bear eats enormously, so that she be
comes very fat, thus laying in an inter
nal store of food, which enables ber
U'.t only to support ber own life, but
to nourish her young during her long
seclusion. By an admirable provision
of nature the young Polar bears are
extremely small at birth, and grow
slowly so long as they are in their crys
tal nursery, thus needing little food
and space. When they emerge from
their shelter the mother bear is ex
tremely thin and very fierce.
A Good Dog Story.
An interesting dog story was related
by General Joe Bartlett to some friends
in Washington not many days ago.
The canine was named Budge, and he
followed the Army of the Potomac
during the early years of the war.
Budge had a habit of chasing cannon
balls, and while thus engaged during
battle he lost one of his legs. He was
left on the field, the men being too
busy to care for him, but some dayi
afterward be limped into camp. "A
surgeon of the Twenty-seventh New
York fixed up the stump, and in the
course of time It healed. Budge was
all through the Peninsula campaign,
aud during the advance and retreat he
hobbled along, and during engage
menu he followed his favorite pastime,
chasing cannon balls and shells. Noth
ing could abate his zeal in that direc
tion. Budge followed the troops back
to Washington, took part in the second
battle of Boll Run, the Battle of South
Mountain, and then hobbled along
until he reached Antietam. In the
battle of the second day Budge chose
to take part in the conflict, and the
next day he was found among the
dead."
Old Age.
' A medical man compares an old man
' to an old wagon; with light loading
tud careful usage it will last for years,
j jbut one heavy load or sudden strain
t will break it aud ruin it forever.
' Many people reach the age of fifty or
' sixty or seventy measurably free from
' most of the pains and infirmities
j of aze, cheery of heart and sound in
! health, ripe in wisdom and experience;
with sympathies mellowed by age, and
I with reasonable prospects and oppor-
tunities for continued usefulness iu the
! kvorld for a considerable time. Let
j jsuch persons be thankful ; but let them
j ulso be careful. An old constitution
J9 like an old bone, broken with ease,
j .mended with difficulty. A young tree
I bends to the gale, an old one snaps and
ifalls before the blast. A single hard
llift, an hour of heating work, an even
, Sing of exposure to rain or damp, a
! severe chill, an excess of food, the un
usual indulgence of an appetite or pas
iou, a sudden fit of auger, an im
proper dose of mediciue any of these
sr other similar things may cut off a
valuable life in an hour, and leave the
fair hopes of usefulness and enjoyment
but a shapeless wreck.
Channcey m Stoker.
With great gusto Chauncey M. De-
few related a short story to a New
York Morning Journal reporter:
i "A couple of years ago," be said,
"soon after I was made president of
the New York Central railroad, I was
at Poughkeepsie one night on my way
to New York, when I got on board an
accommodation train. There was
some delay in starting and I went for
ward to see what caused it.
"1 found that the fireman bad be
come very ill aud would be unable to
proceed further. There was nobody
to take his place, and for the fun of
the thing I agreed to help the engineer
out. I put on a pair of blue overalls,
f rahbed a shovel, and began firing.
Ten minutes of the work almost
laid me up, but the engineer insisted
upon keeping it up until we reached
Tarry town, where we got a new fire
man. My bauds were sore for a week
after. I understand the engineer tells
the story as s good Joke on me,"
THE OLD FOLKS LONGING.
Dont eo to the theatre, lectors or ball,
- Bat stay In your room to-niKbt ;
Deny yourself to toe friends that salt.
And a good, long letter write
Write to ttae sad old folks at noma,
Wlio sit. wheu the day 1$ done.
With folded hands and downcast eyes.
And think ot the absent one.
Oont setnshty scribble, "Excuse my taste,
I've scarcely the time to write."
Lest their brooding thoughts go wandering
back
To many a bygone night.
When they lost their needed sleep and rest.
And erery breaih was a prayer
That God would letve their little babe
Zo their tender love and care.
Don't let them feel that you've no more need
Of their love and counsel wise.
For the heart grows strongly sensitive
When age has ulimut-d tue eyes.
It might be utrll to let them believe
You never forget them quite
That you deem it a pleasure when far fWay
Long letters borne to wilt.
Don't thtnk that the young and giddy friends,
Who make your pastime gar,
Bave half the snxloui thoughts for you
That the ol 1 folks have to-day.
The duty of writing do not put oil;
Let sleep or pleaute wait.
Lest the letter for which they waited and
longed
Be a day or an hour too late.
For the sad old folks at home.
With locks fast turning white.
Are longing to hear of the absent oae,
So write them a letter to-night.
COALS OF FIRE.
BT FLOBBMCB B. HsXLiOWBLIk
Betty was washing dishes at the
kitchen sink, her sleeves rolled up
above her elbows, and a big gingham
apron covering the front of her dress,
hue was singing at the top of her shrill
little voice, and looked very happy.
Hha had a sweet face in spite of dis
figuring freckles and a liberal allowance
of sunburn; and a sweet disposition,
too, though no one had ever told her so.
For she had been brought up in the
poor-house, and was now "bound out"
to Mrs. Armory until ahe should have
attained the age of eighteen.
"I wish you'd stop that everlasting
singing," said Ella Armory, who sat in
the kitchen doorway, looking very
cross, "I'm sick and tired of it."
Betty stopped at once. iShe knew
Ella was cross because her mother
wouldn't take her to the county fair,
and the little bound girl was sorry for
her.
She knew Ella had been counting for
weeks on going to tire fair, and didn't
wonder she was cross over h.-r disap
pointment. As a usual thiDg she kept
her temper under good coutrol.
"Don't you think you'd better go up
stairs and put your room to rights,
Ella?" asked Betty, very gently, alter
sileuce had reiued in the kitchen for
some time. "You know your mother
said "
"No matter what my mother said,"
interrupted Ella, "it's no concern of
yours. Just attend to your own affairs,
please, ami let miue alone."
Betty looked hurt; but, before she
could s:iy anything in reply, the door
of the buck utaircuse opened aDd Mrs.
Armory appeared. She had on her
bonnet, and was drawing on a pair of
cotton gloves, for she was going out to
tee a sick neignbor.
"Ella," she said. "If I've told you
once, I told von a dozen times, that you
must attend to your room the first
thing after breakfast. It does seem so
hard to teach you habits of order and
neatness. Here it is after nine o'clock,
and your bed not made yet. If I find
this so a -.-a in I will punish you re
member that." And she walked out,
looking very mnch annoyed.
Ella's face flushed angrily. She dis
liked exceedingly to be rebuked ia the
presence of Betty. It humbled her
pride, particularly as Betty was neat
and orderly to the last degree. And
wheu she looked around, the saw that
Betty was laughing.
"How dare you laugh at me? 1 hate
vou for it!" she cried, "You're happy,
I suppose, because mother has scolded
me.
"I was laughing at the way R .ver
scattered the chickens which were eating
some crumbs I threw out of the win
dow," said Betty. "I wasn't thinking
of you at alL"
"X don't believe you." rejoined Ella;
"you're just glad to hear me found
fault with; but of course I ought not
to expect anything better from a poor
house pauper."
And out she rushed to the carriage
in the shed, and, climbing, into it,
slammed to the door, and had a good
crv a'.l to herself.
NVheu she calmed down, and her tears
were dried, she felt very much ashamed
of herself. She was sorry she had said
that to Betty about the poor-house.
Of course Betty couldn't help having
no relatives to take care of her. She
wasn't to blame for leing poor.
"But I shan't tell her I'm sorry,"
thought Ella. "I can't humble myself
to ber like that."
She wondered how long she had been
ont in the carriage, and if Betty knew
where she was, and she thought she
wonld like to spend the whole morning
there if she only had a book.
She was thinking of going into
the house to get one when she beard
the sound of voices, and, looking out,
saw her mother aud her Uncle Prank
coming .around the side of the house.
Ella was very fond of her unole, and
:e sprang out of the carriage at once,
and ran to meet him.
"Ah, here eheisl" cried Uncle Frank
"Ella, I have come to take you to the
fair. Hasten now, and get ready as
soon as you can, for these colts of
mine are very impatient if I le tve them
hitched very long. They may pull
awav and be ofl without us, if we don't
hurry."
"I can go, can't I, mamma?' asked
Ella, her face beaming.
All her ill-temper had flown and her
troubles were foi gotten.
"Yes, you can fro that is, if your
room is in proper order. I will look
at that before I give a decided answer."
Ella's heart sunk like lead. She was
nnable to utter a word, and followed
her niotner anl uncle through the
kitchen and upstairs with slow
lagging ftepa.
hhe knew how she had left
room her dresses on the chairs,
bed unmade, the wash-stand and
and
her
, the
bu-
reau in disorder, a damp towel lying on
the floor by the window, the closet
door open, and the centre table littered
with odds and ends of every descrip
tion. "I fancy you'll find everything all
right," said Uncle Frank, cheerily.
"I am sure Ella understands that order
is heaven's first law."
"I oi e everything is in order, I'm
s-irc," said M;. Armory; "but though
Ella may understand that law well
suough, bhc sometimes disregards it
very tlagra-itly."
And sb.i threw wide the door of
Ella's bed-room as she spoke.
Ella, ww had lingered at the bead of
:be stairs, expected an exclamation of
liKniav trots Uncle Frank when b
tiioulj see the inside of the room,
ind kept her eyes on the floor. Oh,
iiT.il "Tii
hene earnestly ebe wished she had pat
that room in order instead of going out
to the carriage to cry 1
Bnt it was too late new sad ske must
lose her only chance of going to too
fair. She was ready to burst into tears
again at the thought.
But there was no exclamation from
Uncle Frank. Id stead of that, came a
cheery laugh that made Ella look iu
amazement.
Didn't I tell vou so?" he said to his
sister. "Everything in spick and spaa
order. Come on Ella, get your dress
changed, aud let's be off, or those colts
will kick the buggy to pieces."
Ella, feeling a little dazed, went into
the neatly-swept and nicely-arranged
room and took a pretty cambric dress
from the cloaet, while her mother and
uncle went down stairs.
She knew very well who had put the
room in order, and her cheeks burned
as she remembered that disagreeable
speech she had made to Betty. She
felt the coals of fire on her head very
hot indeed. She no longer thought it
impossible to tell Betty she was sorry.
When she went down stairs, soon
after, she found that her mother was
out at the gate with Uncle frauk,
Betty was alone in the kitchen, sitting
by a window, peeling potatoes for
dinner,
Ella ran np to her and threw her
arms around her neck.
"Betty," she said, "I'm awfully sorry
I spoke to you the way I did. It was
dreadfully mean. Please forgive me!"'
Betty was so surprised that she lot
the potato-knife full from her hand to
the floor; bnt she had no time to ay a
word in reply, for L'ncle Frank ap
peared suddenly in the dooway.
"Betty," he suid, "Mrs. Armory says
you can go with us. if you waut to.
Never mind the potatoes, Hurry up and
get ready. Ella and 1 will wait out ut
l the gate for you. It'll do you good to
nave a day of fun. i on ve never been
to a fair, I dare say?'
"No, sir; never!" said poor litlle
Bettv, looking greatly bewildered.
"Well, get ready as quick aa you
can," said Uncle Frank, who never en
joyed himself more than wheu he wai
giving pleasure to other people. "Tho
sooner we're off the better."
Betty rushed up stairs, and, as tho
door closed behind her, Ella caught her
uncle's hand and gave it a good
squeeze.
"Oh. Uncle, I'm no glad you atked
Betty I" she said.
And then she told him that it was
Betty who put the room in order.
"She's almost an angel," -he said in
conclusion; "aud I don't care if i-he ef'
como from the poor-house. She's the
nicest girl I know."
And when they all drove off together,
ten minutes later, it would have been
difficult to tell which of the three wore
the happiest expression.
And Ella never again reminded Betty
that she had been a pauper; im-.l, from
the day she went to the fair, her luotl.t-r
noticed a decided increase ia the
respect she paid to Heaven's firot law.
A Danger Signal.
In these days, when women may
choose from almost as many occupa
tions as their brothers, there "is danger
that the bread winning occupations will
receive undue attention in compurison
with that given the old-time occupation
of the home-making. It is poj.iilir
now lor parents to give the girls a trad.-,
and it is gomg to become more popular
year after year, unless it becomes a
cause of too great a neglect of the prin
ciples of home-making, for there k lew
parents who do not want their daugh
ters to be independent, whatever por
tion they may assume in the abstract
discussion of the subject.
This is especially trie of mothers
who have been obliged to feci their de-
Eendencc, and have been far from
appy in consequence. Men who have
so much to say against the advancement
of women would be surprised and
chagrined if they could know bow
much they were doing, by their offen
sive attempts to assert their euer:ori y,
to make women strive still harder for
advancement
These mothers are apt to betoma
over-confident, and carried away by tuu
ODe idea that the daughter is to have a
business education, aud be made inde
pendent of the duties which they ha.
found so irksome
"My daughter will not be likely to
marry," said a lady a few days ago,
because she is abundantly ablo to t ike
care of herself. I have not neglected
to show her something of the life which
a married woman is compelled to lend,
and to compare it w.th the lreedom an 1
independence of the woman who takes
care of herself."
That may be all very well, bat there
is something of at leiist equal impor
tance which this compla-tnt mother
has neglected, and that is the perso-t-enee
shown by Mother Nature in the
carrying out of her plans. Girls do
not marry so early in life when given the
means of independence, and a larg pro
portion of thm do not marry at all;
but tae fact remains that most of them
do marry, and no mother has any
rirfbt to delude herself with the hope
that her girl will not be one nf them,
and therefore wid need none of the edu
cation which will f.t her to be a true,
home-maker. The adoption of tbat-oonrsc-virtua'ly
places her ia oposition to the
true principles of independence, oy
weakening the influence of the home,
and renders it lesi possible for the girls
of the future to a'tain that independ
ence which she craves for her own.
She should remember that womm ue
held in highest respect in those cuu
tries where the home ia most sa'.red.
The principles of horue niskinc;
should lie considered of the greatest
importance in the education of every
woman without regard to aiy anticipa
ted future station in life. The woman
who is given a bnsmess education will
come nearest to being an ideal wn'o and
mother if her home training has not
been neglected; bnt it is a fact that too
many mothers of the present day are
made ao blind by the unpleasantness of
their own lives, that they are really un
fit to train their daughters in any but a
one-sided way, and the greatest hope
for the homes of the next generation
lies in the amount of outside influence
which can be bronght to bear upon onr
semi-independent girls by those who
are broad-minded enough to see both
ides of the question, and to realize and
point oat the dangers which arise from
a too close adherence to either side.
Peect, who had just o. .me out of
skirts, was one dsy strutting around m
his first suit of jacket and trousers,
when a lady remarked, "Hello! 1
guess some one has new clothea" With
crushing force came the reply. "The-m
ain't clothes them's pants." Leu-inton
Journal.
Man proposes aDd then goLonifs
wondering bow be njannged to make
such a fool of himself over It,
T 1 r-rT'L "P1 " Ti T
KEW3 IN BRIEF.
There are 13,000 kinds of postage
stamps.
There are over T.CW.QOO pores in tho
bumau body.
There are alwavs 3, 50 , 000 people on
the seas of the world.
The word boss comes from the low
Dutch, and has the same meaning aa In
English.
Th St. Gothard tunnsl. In the Alps,
Is twice as long as th3 liooac over
bine miles.
The Inventor and founder of the uni
versal language Yolapuk la Kev. lr.
Johanu Maitiu Schlcyer.
Gold can be ponded 1210 times thinner
than printing paper. One ouL.ce of It
will cover 140 square feot.
A chair 120 years old Is la uce In an
office iu Spring City, Tenn., aud It is
said to be just as good as when it was
bought.
The material Known to Americans as
cautou fiaunel is in England called
swan's down, and American muslin ia
known iu Engl :uJ as calico.
A duck with four feet Is a curlosi'y
owned by James Stewa t, ot the York
Ko.id, cpposite Gui fold, Md. When
swimming It uses one of ils legs as a
rudder.
Merino sheep were introduced Into
England by George III. in 17So, but
they neer becnuie poi ular there. The
demand in thatcouuiry for mutton was
too great.
When a steamer passes over the Port
Iluron (Mich.) tunnel th! noise of the
wheel can be readily heard lti the hole,
which is at least forty tett under the
wat-r.
A six-pound bunch of grapes was
picked from a viue ut Stockton, CaL,
recently.
A Mipsouri peach has been found
that measured el-ven and out '..alf inch-
, es and weightd thirteen and oue-q.ia:ter
ounces.
A fir tree was cut in Washington
State that scaled twenty thousand Uve
hundred feet. The top lo was not
counted.
The old leaves on ;i horse chestnut
at HarriBburg bave disapieared and
new blossona have appealed.
Into a peach tree on h!s p!ace at
Napa, Citl., Itev. Richard Wylie has
grafted different arletles of stone
fruit until now he gathers from it al
monds, plums aud three kinds of
ea-he.
The longest dv of this year has
nineteen lioursof daylight at St. Pete s,
burg, seventeen boats at Hamburg, lof
at London, filieeu hours at New York,
and 2 tuoutLs at Spi;.7.b;?rgeii.
At one time General Culler tamed
a tiny field tnot.s'. mid kept It lua large
empty Inkstand on 1.1s desk, it Brew
very fond of him, nl ran over his
'l ea 1 and shoulders u:id even through
his hair.
The fastest time from New York
to S.iii Francisco was male In ISTti,
when Jariett ot I'a nifi s special train,
can Ing their "Jictiiy V."' con pany,
rai' from Jersey C ity to Oakland iu S3
hours B'J iniuiited aui Id socou .7.3.
During the limo of the old Hotnau
Einplte the tha i bodies of ail except
tulcide-i weie burnt 1. The Greeks
SOtnet lines buried their dead iu the
giound but mure geneni'ly cremated
them in imitation of ll.e Romans.
A new materi.d called iubb-r vel
vet is made bv sprin' ling jiowoered felt
of any color over ri.bber cloth while the
latter is hot and oft. The rei-ult. .ooks
like felt clolh, but elaa'.ic, waterproof
and exceedli.siy liht.
There is as jet no satisfactory
ir.a':h!D foi cutting corm-tika iu the
field. Sflfl-in Im ie.i rj aie used in
son.e locali ies to c l the smaller var
ieties of Corn but for laive, 1 udy matur
ed s.rts these do i.ot work we 1.
In some ninety sicies of plants
growing both on the coast, and iu the
interior of France, Pierre Lesae has
found that proxim.ty to ttie sea causes
a thickening of the le ives. Artitlciall)'
Balu-d sod produces Iho same result.
Several doctors have sptit by the
Russian Governme nt to Asia Minor to
test by x i:iueii: th tr.nt nent of
cho'era w ilh the F rbubi.i Sutnbul a
plant grow ing In 1 urkes'au m,d ios-B-Sstng
anti spasmodic properties.
Eiiii.e .t, it is announc"!, ate
leing coudiiciel in th- channel near
Fo'ke stone, England, for the puipo e
of testing thi lieologlcnt structure of
that l ortion .f the tn led mon which
j it has been proposed toe. iijlrut a bridgo
across the etraita.
A young woman at IT cles!tr, Can
ada, HSIoiildies stiai 'eis by l'. .- wealth
and luxuriance oi hei r.i veil has r. sue is
live feet two inches high, but het tresses
are seven feet six liicbes lon. "-he. Pays
her hair gives her no troul.le and she
doesn't know what head t :!itj is.
In the dnys of Coiuir bns. learntd
men boldly ass-rted that if a fluji shouid
reach India she would i ever g -t back
pgaia, because tli r tun day ol t he globe
would present a kind of mountain, up
which It would be Impos-iiiee, .o sail
with the most favorable wind.
There are two cha acter.st ci of the
atls ocratic toliet. Ea-sy titihu gloves
aud iong shoes with sensible h- el-. )u'y
the raw element of society .-ijo -t z s her
hands in patent fastened g:oe-s and
pinches her feet la narrow so es'.ooleep
e heels.
Elizabeth Comstock, the Quaker
preacher, now si-d and inflrin, nvlug
lit Union Springs. N". Y.t has in her l.fe
time visited 122,' 0 i prisoners. l!i.",0XJ
Mck and wounded fo!.l.e:. Ho.tKj In
mates of pool houses and hlu.hhoUtcS on
both sides ot the water
A young Turkish woman, ten years
an inmate of a fce.ugn j savs: 'Of our
old customs, as we.l as of our old faith,
very little remains, and it Is only In the
lower order or the most secluded harems
that some vestige of them can be found.
At Constantinople women hardiy hide
their faces."
The preservation of rails in use Is not
the result of vibratory motion, or of an
(electnc action due t. the, passage ot the
trains, but the formation of magnetic
oxide, produced bv the compression of
the rust on the metal. The rails are
thusprotfcted a3a.i1Sl.the action of moist,
air in the same manner as is irou oxi
dize 1 by fire.
Glte from whale refus! is a new a
tide of commerce iu Russia.
'1 o mend a very lari e hole in socks
or woven underwe r, tack a piece of
strong Set over the apeiture aud drn
over it. Thus mended the garment will
be stronger than wt.eu new aud look
far neater than if daauud in. the ordi
nary way.
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