Jillkiil
iKfirtiiirt
H, F. BOH WEI ER,
THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS.
Editor And Pi oii totor.
VOL. X .V.
M IFFLINTOWiN , JUNIATA C0UN1T. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 25. 1891.
NO. 10.
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I'frniiili rry tream.
r..rn in Hie .nt w hit arms;
1tn u taiik iUer the aeeui
A u..-l to :-.-u h and to kiss)
L-nc lor 'he mireui'lru'i bllsa
And Uf Mit oothiti(- chartut.
With hi r--re. apart.
An J te tH-.hmiueJ be tears,
Ui f--ei this young worM'a heart
letmr In I'int to our own,
AihI tl art a mie a)uu
In a iron, I of b--e uJ fears.
Tv-.-, M an unre-t wild,
lr n t-j a b-pe unm-en
A I In thought and a child!
t r wonder i'D to the end,
M .:h J ilh a a boom. friend.
And niit ni. dow n bt-tween.
f.'.;iv t'uhl in Chicago Xtvt
ix a i:i:si:iiroiii.
Tl.'u iy yesr ago, jou might liave
tori. tome of the bet society of "ew
V'ikoiitI.e top of the Distributing
Reservoir at Ul street, any fine Octo
ber morning. There were two or three
csni in wailing, and half a dozen
senatorial-looking mothers with young
rhiMrvii pn.-inj the parapet, as we
our-i'lvi , one Jay iu the past genera
tion. bsked there in the sunshine
now at. Ling the pickerel that glided
along the lucid edges of the black pool
within, an.) now looking off upon the
scene of ri.-h and wotidorous variety
that spread along the two broad aud
beau'iful river on each side.
They may talk of Alpheus and
.iretliua." murmured an idling soph
omore, who had found his way thither
during recitation hours, "but the Cro
ton. in passing over an arm of the sea
at Spuyteu-Duyvil, aud bursting to
sight again in this truncated pyramid,
beat it all hollow. By George, too,
the bay yonder looks as blue at) ever
the .-Egean Sea to Dyrou's eye gazing
from the Acropolis! Did you see that
pike break, sir?''
I did not."
His silver tin flushed upon the black
Acheron, like a restless soul that hoped
yet to mount from the pool."
'The place seenn suggestive of fan
cies to you?" we observed in reply to
the rattlepate.
'It is, indeed; for I have done up a
good deal of anxious thinking within
a circle of a few yards where that fish
broke just now. Shall I tell you about
it?"
I'ray do."
"Well, you have seen the notice for
bidding any one to tish in the Reser
voir. Now, when I read that warning,
the spirit of the thing struck me at
once as inferring nothing more than
that one should not sully the temper
ance potations of our citizens by steep
ing bait iu it of any kind; but you
probably know the common- way of
taking pike with a elip-noose of deli
cate wire. I was determined to have
a touch at the fellows with this tackle.
"I chose a moonlight night; aud an
hour before the edifice was closed to
visitors I secreted myself within the
walls, determined to pass the night on
the top. All went as I could wish it.
The night proved cloudy, but it was
only a variable drift of broken clouds
which obscured the moon. I had a
walking-cane rod with me which would
reach to the margin of the water, and
several feet beyond if necessary. To
this was nttached the wire, about fif
teen inches in length.
"I prowled along the parapet for a
considerable time, bnt not a single fish
could I see. The clouds made a flick
ering light aud shade, that wholly foil
ed my steadfast gaze. I was convinced
that should they come up thicker, my
whole night's adventure -would be
thrown away. 'Why should I not de
scend the sloping wall and get nearer
on a level with the fish, for thus alone
can I hope to see one?' The question
had hardly shaped itself in my mind
before I had one leg over the iron rail
ing. 'lf you look around you will see
now that there are some half-dozen
weeds growing here aud there amid
the fissures of the solid masonry. In
one fissures from whence these spring,
I planted a foot and began my descent.
The Reservoir was fuller than it Is now,
and a few strides would have carried
me to the margin of the water. Hold
ing on to the cleft above, I felt round
with one foot for a place to plant if
below me.
' ''In that moment the flap of a pound
pike made me look round, and the
root of the weed upon which I partial
ly depended gave way as I was in the
act of turning. Sir, one's senses are
sharpened in deadly peril : as I live
now, I distinctly heard the bells of
Trinity chiming midnight, as I rose to
the surface the next instant, immersed
in the stone caldron, where I must
swim for my life, heaven only could
tell how long!"'
" I am a capital swimmer; and this
naturally gave me a degree of self-possession.
Falling as I had, I of course
had pitched out some distance from
the sloping parapet. A few strokes
brought me to the edge. I really was
not yet certain but that I could clamber
up the face of the wall anywhere. I
hoped that I eonld.
" I tried the nearest spot. The in
clination of the wall was so vertical
that it did not even rest me to lean
against it, I felt with my hands and
'with my feet. Surely, I thought,
there must be some fissure like those
In which thai ill-omened w eed La
found a place for iu root I
" There was uoue. My fingers be
came sore In busying themselves with
the harsh and inhospitable stoues. My
feet slipped from the smooth and slimy
masoury beneath the water ; and sever
al time my face came in rude contact
with the wall, w here my foothold gave
way on the instant that I seemed to
have found some diminutive rocky
deat upon which I could stay myself.
"Sir, did you ever see a rat drowned
in a half filled hogshead, how he
swims round, and round, and round;
and after vainly trj ing the sides again
and again with his paws, fixes his eyes
upon the upper rim as if he would
look himself out of a watery prison?
"I thought of the miserable vermin,
thought of him as I watched thus his
dying agonies, when a cruel urchin of
eight or ten. Boys are horribly cruel,
sir; boys, women, and savages. All
childlike things are cruel cruel from
want of thought, from perverse in
genuity. I thought then, I say, of the rat
drowning in a half-filled cask of water,
and lifting his gaze out of the vessel
as he grew desperate, and I flung my
self on my back, and, floating thus,
fixed my eyes upon the moon.
"The moon is well enough in her
way, however you may look at her;
but her appearance is, to say the least
of it, peculiar to a man floating on his
back in the centre of a stone tank,
with a dead wall of some fitteeu or
twenty feet rising squarely on every
side of him !" (The young man smiled
bitterly as he said this, aud shuddered
once or twice before he went on
musingly.)
"The last time I had noted the plan
it with any emotion she was ou the
wane. Mary was with me; I had
brought her out here one morning to
look at the view from the top of the
Reservoir. She said little of the scene,
bnt as we talked of our old childish
loves, I saw that its fresh features were
incorporating themselves with tender
memories of the past, and I was con
tent. "There was a rich golden haze upon
the landscape, and as my own spirits
rose amid the voluptuous atmosphere,
she pointed to the waning planet, dis
cernible like a faint gash in the welkin,
and wondered how long it would bo
before the leaves would fall. Strange
girl! did she mean to rebuke my joy
ous mood, as if we had no right to be
happy while Nature, withering iu her
pomp, and the sickly moon wasting iu
the blaze of noontide, were there to
remind us of 'the gone-forever'?
" 'They will all renew themselves,
dear Mary,' said I, 'and there is one
that will ever keep tryst alike with thee
and nature through all seasons, if thou
wilt but be true to one of us, and re
main as now a child of nature.'
"A tear sprang to her eye, and then
searching her pocket for her card-case
she remembered an engagement to be
present at Miss Lawson's opening of
fall bonnets at two o'clock I
"And yet, dear, wild, wayward
Mary, I thought of her now. You
have probably outlived this sort of
thing, sir; but I, looking at the moon
as I floated there upturned to her yel
low light, though of the leved being
whose tears I knew would flow when
she heard of my singular fate, at once
so grotesque, yet melancholy to awful
ness. "And how often we have talked, too
of that Carian shepherd who spent his
damp nights upon the hills, gazing as
I do upon the lustrous planet! Who
will revel with her amid those old su
perstitions! Who, from our own un
legended woods, will evoke their yet
undetected haunting spirits? Who
peer with her in prying scrutiny into
nature's laws, and challenge the whis
pers of poetry from the voiceless throat
of matter? Who laugh merrily over
the stupid guess-work of pedants, that
never mingled with the infinitude of
nature, through love exhanstles and
all-embracing, as we have? Poor girl
she will be companionless.
"Alas! companionless forever save
in the exciting stages of some brisk
flirtation. She will live hereafter by
feeding other hearts with love's lore
she has learned from me, and then,
Pygmalion-like, grow fond of the
images she has herself endowed with
semblance of divinity. How anxious
she will be lest the coroner shall have
discovered any of her notes in my
pocket 1
"I felt chilly as this last reflection
crossed my mind, partly at thought of
the coroner, partly at the idea of
Mary being unwillingly compelled to
wear mourning for me, in case of such
a disclosure of our engagement. It is
a provoking thing for a girl of nine
teen to have to go in mourning for a
deceased lover at the beginning of hoi
second winter in the metropolis.'
"The water, though, with my mo
tionless position, must have had some
thing to do with my chilliness. I see,
sir, you think I tell my story with
great levity ; but indeed I should grow
delirious did I venture to hold steadi
ly to the awfulness of my feelings the
greater part of that night. I think,
indeed. I must have been most the
time hysterical with horror, for the
vibrating emotions I have recapitulated
did pass through my brain, even as I
hve detailed them.
"But as I now became calm in
thought, I summoned up again some
resolution of action.
"1 will begin at that corner (said
I), and swiui around the whole enclos
ure. 1 will swim slowly and again
feel the side of the tank with my feet.
If I die I must, let me perish at least
from well-directed though exhausting
effort, Pot sink from mere bootless
weariness in sustaining myself till the
morning sliall bring relief.
The sides of the place seemed to
grow higher as I now kept my w atery
course beneath them. It was not al
together a dead pull. I had some
variety of emotion in making my cir
cuit. When I swam in the shadow, it
looked to me more cheerful beyond in
the moonlight. When I swam in the
moonlight, I had the hope of making
some discovery when 1 should again
reach th- shadow. I turned several
times on my back to rest just where
those wavy lines woold meet. The
stars looked viciously light to me from
the bottom or that well: there was
such a company of them ; they were
so glad in their lustrous revelry; and
they had such a space to move in ! I
was alone, sad to despair in a strange
element, prisoned, and a solitary gazer
upon their chorus. And yet there was
nothing else with which I could hold
communion!
'I turned upon my breast and struck
out almost frantically once more. The
stars were forgotten; the moon, the
very world of which I as yet
formed a part, my poor Mary herself,
were forgotten. I thought only of
the strong man there perishing; of
me, iu my lusty manhood, in the sharp
vigor of my dawning prime, with
faculities illimitable, with senses all
alert battling there with physical obstac
les which men like myself had brought
together for my undoing. The Etern
al could have willed this thing! I
could not and I would not perish thus.
And I grew strong in insolence of self
trust; and I laughed aloud as I dashed
the sluggish water aside.
"Then came an emotion of pity for
myself, of wild, wild regret; of sor
row, oh, infinite, for a fate so desolate,
a doom so dreary, so heart-sickening!
You may laugh at the contradiction if
you will sir, but I felt that I could sac
rifice my own life on the instant, to
redeem another fellow creature from
such a place of horror, from an end
so piteous. My soul and my vital
spirit seemed In that desperate moment
to be separating ; while one in parting
grieved over the deplorable fate of
the other.
"And then I prayed! I prayed,
why or wherefore I know not. It
was not fear. It could not have been
in hope. The days of miracles are
passed, and there was no natural law
by whose interposition I could be
saved. I did not pray ; it prayed of
itself, my soul within me.
"Was the calmness that I now felt,
torpidity? the torpidity that precedes
dissolution, to the strong swimmer
who sinking from exhaustion, must at
last add a bubble to the wave as he
suffocates beueath the element which
now denied Ids mastery? If it were
so, how fortunate was it that my float
ing rod at that moment attracted my
attention as it dashed through the
water by me. I saw on the instant
that a fish had entangled himself in
the wire noose. The rod quivered,
plunged, came again to the surface,
and rippled the water as it shot in
arrowy flight from side to side of the
tank. At last driven toward the
southeast corner of the Resevoir, the
small end seemed to have got foul
somewhere. The brazen butt, which,
every time the fish sounded, was
thrown to the moon, now sank by its
own weight, showing that the other
end must be fast. But the cornered
fish, evidently anchored somewhere by
that short wire, floundered several
times to the surface, before I thought
of striking out to the spot.
"The water is low now, and toler.
ably clear. You may see the very ledge
there, air, in yonder corner, on which
the small end of my rod rested when
I secured that pike with my hands. I
did not take him from the slip-noose,
however ; but standing upon the ledge,
handled the rod in a workmanlike man
ner, as I flung that pound pickerel
over the iron railing upon the top of
the parapet. The rod, as I have told
you, barely reached from the railing
to the water. It was a heavy, strong
bass rod, and when I discovered that
the fish at the end of the wire made a
strong enough knot to prevent me from
drawing mv tackle away from the
railing around which it twined itself
as I threw, why, as you can at once
see, I had but little difficulty in mak
ing my way up the face of the wall
with such assistance.
"The ladder yon see lashed to the
iron railing, is in the identical spot
where I thus made my escape ; and
for fear of similar accidents, they have
placed another one in the correspond
ing corner of the other compartment
of thestank, ever since my remarkable
night's adventure in the lonesome wat
ers of the Reservoir."
Storf Teller.
According to recent figures, the
people in this country are longer lived
than those of Europe; in this country
eighteen persons out of every thousand
die each year. In England the average Is
twenty, and In Germany, twentyix.
LOVES OFJjREAT MEN.
ALL REMIND I'S WE CAN MAKE
OUK LOVES SI BL1ME.
How Whitney Won His rriend's Sweet
heart. The wife of lion. William C. Whit
ney, recently secretary of the navy, has
proved a veritable mascot to him.
And the manner in which he became a
close ally of Standard Oil is indicative
of the good fortune which attended
this astute politician and financier
throughout his career.
When yonng Whitney was at Yale
he had a chnm in a confiding classmate,
who is now Rev. Leander Chamber
lain, a brother of ex-Governor Cham
berlain. Young Chamberlain, so the story
goes, had won the heart of Miss Payne,
daughter of Henry B. Payne, of Cleve
land, Ohio, and he gave Ids classmate
glowing accounts of the charm of man
ner, conversational powers and other
good qualifications of the young lady
to young Whituey. On one of his
vacations young Chamberlain invited
his chum to go to Cleveland with him
and niake the acquaintance of Mis
Payno.
The future corporation council and
secretary of the navy acceded the in
vitation ; he made the lady's acquain
tance and managed so skillfully to be
stricken by Cupid's oleaginous bow
that ere many moons had passed young
Chamberlain's friend, chum and bosom
companion walked away with the fair
prize.
Owing to the devotion of Colonel
Oliver Payne to his sister she has
proved a boon to Mr. Whitney, and the
splendid house on Fifty-seventh street
and Fifth avenue, and a large gift, said
to be $50,000, when the secretary and
his wife set out to startle Washington
with magnificent entertainments, are
generally sat down among the good
things which young Whitney's chum
lost through the confiding introduc
tion. A romantic story is told about the
first meeting of August Belmont with
the lady who is now his wife. As be
came her brave blood, the daughter of
Commodore Perry, "the hero of Lake
Erie, while still a blooming Baltimore
belle, had an intense admiration for
personal courage.
It was while she was ou a visit to
bome relative in thU city that the ac
tive and sturdy young German banker,
who had at once taken the place in
metropolitan society due the repre
sentative of the powerful house of
Rothschild, became involved in a fam
ous duel.
At the theatre one evening he was
among a group of young men, and be
tween the acts one of the party ex
pressed his admiration of the beauty
of the ladies present in the boxes,
among whom was Miss Perry. A noted
Georgia "fire-eater" standing by, who
was widely feared aud avoided as a
bully and a dead shot, made some re
mark reflecting on the virtue of women
generally.
There was silence for a moment,
when young Belmont, a slight, tioiid
lookiug fellow, to the dismay of his
companions, faced the bully and said
iu distiuct, deliberate tones :
"The dog who could utter such a
sentiment insults the memory of his
own mother and is unfit for the com
pany of decent men!"
White with raee the bully hissed:
"You shall hear from me, sir!"
It was before the war in the good
old times, aud a duel followed, of
course. Belmont's friends gave him
up as a dead man. But when the
smoke from the simultaneous fire of
the two pistols had cleared away it
was found that the bully had a bullet
through his heart and Belmont had t
ball in his left leg below the knee.
He became the hero of the hour, aud
soon after he was able to get about he
proposed to the beautiful Miss Perry
and was accepted. He afterward con
fessed it was her noble face that nerved
him to resent the imputation on ber
sex. To this day he limps painfully,
but his wife is proud of his disfigure
ment. There was a touch of romance in
the wooing and wedding of Major
William A. Pond, the concert aud lec
ture manager. No stranger who sees
the gallant major strolling along Broad
way with a pretty, delicate-looking
young lady on his arm would imagine
that he was accompanied by Mrs.
Pond. They might think his charm
ing companion was a daughter or
neice, or related to him in any way
other than marriage.
Mrs. Pond, before her iimrrinire, was
a typewriter in the mayor's ci!i-e un
der the Everett house. The manager
was struck with her rare beauiy and
modest demeanor the day !ie an
swered his advertisement for a type
writer, and these qualities impressed
him more and more forcibly each
week; that she remained in his cm
ploy. He began to love the blithe
tome girl, who dispelled the dullness
f a musty office, and made the weary
hours of labor brighter thau they ever
were before. She, too, gradually be
came attached to the gray-haired,
kindly employer, and everything
was ripe for the last touch of Cu
pip's Wand, wkea a sad aceidtnt betel
rse idjt
While hurrying to the office alonf
Fourth Avenue one day she passed un
der a line of telegraph poles, when
tome work was going on. A lineuiai
lost his balance aud fell upon her
crushing her to the sidewalk and se
verely injuring her. The young lad)
was hurriedly carried into a drugston
next Mr. Pond's office, and was after
wards conveyed home. She didn't lacl
for attention. Besides the care ol
kindly parents, she was carefullj
watched over by the major. His anx
iety for her welfare betrayed his secret
if it had not already been betrayed be
fore. It was shortly after this incident thai
they became engaged. After this the
courtship was not long. One day, a'
secretly as possible, the major stole
away from his office without telling hii
friends where he was going, and, aftei
arraying himself iu wedding costume,
was driven to the home of his bride'i
parents in Ilobokeu, where he wai
quietly married.
As a young man Grover Clevelani
was extremely fond of children. Ii
the bachelor apartments over his law
offices in Buffalo the walls were cov
ered with photographs of bright and
beautiful babes. He was particularly
interested in the pretty little daughtei
of his partner and closest friend, Oscai
Folsom, and it is said that a portrait ol
the lovely child at five years old, ar
rayed in a wliite dress with a big blue
sash, held the place of honor in hit
collection.
When Osoar Folsom died he mad
Cleveland co-trustee with Mrs. Folsom
of their only child, and true to hii
trust, Cleveland watched over the
rearing and education of the girl with
the tenderest solicitude.
As the child grew to womandood the
bouds of affection drew the girl and hei
guardian closer, and finally strength
ened into the bonds of love.
An old schoolmate of Mis. Cleveland
tells the tale of Cleveland's proposal.
When little Frances was eight years old
she was sitting on "Uncle Grover's" lap
one day entertaining him with childisi
prattle of what she would do when she
grew up into "a big lady" It wai
about the time of Nellie Grant's mar
riage in the white house, which bar
formed a topic of family talk.
"I'm going to have a nico while
s.itiu dress and get married in the white
bouse, too." she lisped.
"But I thought you wero going tc
marry me, and I should wait for you,'
laughingly returned Mr. Cleveland.
"Of courso It will be yon, for yoo
will grow up to be president then
said the child, knowingly.
When Cleveland was elected Mra
Folsom and her daughter were prepar
ing to go to Europe, and on calling to
say good-bye Mr. Cleveland claimed
from Miss Folsom the fulfilment, on
her return, of the promise made when
a child. He had performed bis part of
the bargain, and she had only to futi
hers and become a white house bride.
Something to Think Of.
Whatever you dislike in auothei
person, take care to correct iu yourself
by the gentle reproof. Spratt.
Avoid him who, from mere curiosity
asks three questions running about a
thing that cannot interest him. La
v liter.
Any one may do a casual act of good
nature, but a continuation of them
shows it is a part of the temperament
Sterne.
Affectation is certain deformity; by
forming themselves on fantastic models
the young begin with being ridiculous
and often end in being vicious.
Blair.
Nothing more impairs authority than
a too frequent or indiscreet use of it.
If thunder itself was to be continual it
would excite no more terror than the
noise of a mill. Colton.
Great talents for conversation should
be attended with great politeness. He
who eclipses others owes them great
civilities; and whatever a mistaken
vanity may tell us, it is better to please
in conversation than to shino in it.
Swift.
Cato, being scurrilously treated by
a low and vicious fellow, quietly said
to him : "A contest between us is very
unequal, for thou canst bear ill lan
guage with ease, and return it with
pleasure ; and to me it is unusual to
hear, and disagreeable to speak it."
To be ambitious of true honor, of
the true glory and perfection of our
natures, is the very principle and in
centive of virtue ; but to be ambitious
of titles, of place, of ceremonial res
pects and civil pageantry, is as vain
and little as the things are which wt
court. Sir P. Sidney.
Took Her by Surprise.
"I have sometimes thought "
began Mr. Porridge, whereat Miss
Rashly gave an exclamation of amaze
ment, and then remarked apologeti
cally: "It may be. Of course I
have no knowledge of what you may
have done before I became acquainted
with you." Richmond Dispatch.
Coun'erfelt notes are very rarely tak
en In the banks of Russia. The tellers
are held responsible and therefore exer
cise keen vlgllanoa,
A Ceylon Fa bio.
The Singhalese have great skill In
cookery, aud are able to make curries
not only of any kind of meat, but of
almost any vegetable. One of their
favorite curries is conirosed of a hvig
bean, known as the "drumstick." The
price of this vewtable in the market is
exceedingly small.
As Viilahue Tantaregey Cornelius
Appoo lay stretched upon a mat on the
veranda of his c.ittage one tine morn
ing, his eye rested on the luxuriant
blossoms of the murunga, or drumstick
trea, which stood In his little inclosure
or "compound."
"In a couple of months," thought he
to himself, "I shall have as many
drumsticks on that tree as will realize
one rupee and fifty cents. These 1 will
take to the bazaar, ami, having sold
them, I will lay out the money in eggs,
which I will sell at a profit. With'the
proceeds I will buy cocoanuts, and
after disposing of them also a profit
I will buy fowls. This is sure to be a
lucrative investment. By continuing
to carry fowls to the town, and selling
them to the steamers, along with pine
apples, plantains a id other fruit, I shall
in course of time become a dubash, or
ship chandler, and make large profits.
I will then go Into partnership with
Do Simon Goonetillike, who trades
with India, I will get my daughter
married to his eldest son, and we will
import rice and cotton goods from the
Madras presidency. I will then build a
fine row of shops facing the road, and
there I will store my goods and dispose
of them to passers by."
But here he paused and said to him
self: "Tills murunga tree stands just in
the spot where the shops will have to
come. That will never do." So,
springing up, he seized his little axe,
and in five minutes the murunga tree
lay prostrate under his deft strokes.
"What are you doing?" screamed his
wife, who at this moment came to the
veranda, attracted by the sound.
Her husband with beaming counten
ance begged her not to be disturbed,
telling her that he hoid in a short
time to present her with a set of Rold
hairpins instead of these common silver
ones she was wearing, and a satin cloth
In place of her present cotton print.
He then proceeded to explain at length
by what steps his wealth was to be ac
quired, beginning with the drumsticks
aud ending with the shops.
"But you have cut down the tree
which was to have been the foundation
of our fortune!" she cried. And as
this fact dawned upon Cornelius Appo's
mind he looked blankly, first at his
wife, next at the murunga tree, and
"shed a bitter tear." Hence the pro
verb, "Like the cutting down of the
drumstick tree."
DOGS IX RAVARIA.
How Hydrophobia Has Been Stamped
Oui In That Country.
Bavaria has succeeded in doing what
no other country has yet been able to
accomplish; she has practically stamped
ut hydrophobia. During the last seven
years there have been only three deaths
of human beings from hydrophobia in a
population numbering close upon
B.000,000; and since 1S76. when the pre
sent severe dog laws came in operation,
there never has been more than one
death m a year. Previously to that
time deaths were very frequent. Be
tween 1SG3 and 1ST the death rate
from hydrophobia in Bavaria was
never less than fourteen In a year, and
once it reached the high percentage of
thirty-one. The regulations which have
banished this terrible malady from a
whole kingdom are very minute, and
perhaps some little vexatious; but it is
assuredly worth while to take a little
trouble for so desirable an end. Every
dog In the country is bound, upon pain
of Instant death, to bear upon his collar
a metal tally, upon which Is inscribed
bis number upon the register or his dis
trict. The color and shape of this tally,
which is really the dog's passport, are
changed every year; and the police are
thus able to see at a glance If a dog Is
"in order." Once a month all dogs
have to be examined by a veterinary
surgeon, and ir they are not in good
health they are detained in a kind of
dog's hospital until they recover. If.an
animal changes bands the transfer must
be at once notified to the police; and
any breach of the regula'.lons even a
J delay of a few days In the payment of
the tax is visited by a neavy One.' Tne
tax varies from three shillings a year in
the country districts to fifteen shillings
in the large towDS.
During the French Revolution.
An English witness relates how In
October of 1794 she was one day stand
ing at the door of a shop to which a
beggar came to buy a slice of pumpkin.
The shopkeeper refused to let it go for
less thau the price she had originally
fixed, whereupon the beggar insolently
told her that she was gangrenee d'aris
tocratie. The unhappy shopkeeper
turned pale and cried out, "My civisme
is beyond dispute, but take the pump
kin!" The beggar's reply was, "Ah!
now you are a good republican!" The
muttered comment of the shopkeeper
was, "Yes, yes, 'tis a fine thing to be a
good republican when one has not
bread to eat."
AVhen the threat of a beggar could
make an honest and insignificant person
like this old market woman tremble
and turn pale is not surprising to find
that for many months after the actual
reign of terror was over, people very
generally went about under a continual
sense of apprehension. The Parisians
of those days are said to have habitu
ally worn a "revolutionary aspect."
They bad been at one time the frankest
and most vivacious people in the world
gay. open, cheery and polite. The
terror had made them morose and sus
picious. They walked with their heads
bent on their breasts, and many of them
bad contracted a habit of looking from
under the lids of their half shut eyes
before speaking, especially to strangeTS.
The bolder and more reckless spirits
swaggered about In ultra revolutionary
costume; carmagnole of rough cloth,
leather breeches, top boots and a bon
net rouge with a preposterously large
tricolored cockade at the side.
At the Lincoln autumn meeting
the Lincoln autumn handicap was won
by Mr. T. Valentine's 3 year old bay
flllr SU Helen, with Mr. W. Steven
son's 5 year old chestnut mare Night
cap second. Air. Melville's 3 year old
colt Horton, and Mr. T. J. Ennlng's 9
year old chestnut filly Valentine ran a
dead beat for third place. There were
tune starters.
The Atheist and the Flower.
When Napoleon Bonaparte was em
peror of France, he put a man by th
name of Chantey Into prison. H
thought Charney was an enemy of bit
government, and for that reason de
prived htio of his liberty. Charney wai
a learned and profound man, and as ht
walked to and fro In the sma'.l yard Into
which bis prison opene), he looked v
to the heavens, the work of God's fing
ers, and to the moon and stars which he
ordained, and exclaimed, "All thlngi
come by chance."
One day, while pacing his yard, h
saw a tiny plant Just breaking th
ground near the wall. The slsht of H
caused a pleasant diversion of hit
thoughts. No other green things wa
within his inclosure. lie watched IU
growth every day. "How came it
there? was his natural inqu!ry. As it
grew, other queries were suggested.
"How came these delicate little veins
In Its leaves? What made Its propor
tions so perfect in every part, each new
branch taking its exact place on tne
parent stock, neither too near another,
?or too much on one side. "
In his loneliness the plant became the
prisoner's teacher and his valued friend.
When the flower began to unfold he wai
filled with delight. It was white, pur
ple and rose-eolored, with a fine, silvery
fringe. Charney made a frame to sup
port it, and did what his circumstances
allowed to shelter it from pelting rains
and violent winds.
"All things come by chance," had
been written by him on the wall, just
above where the flower grew. Its gen
tle reproof, as It whispered: "There It
One who made me, so wonderfully
beautifully beautiful, and he it is who
keeps me alive," shamed the proud
man's unbelief. He brushed the lying
words from the wall, while his heart
felt tuat, "He who made all things U
God."
But God bad a further blessing foi
the erring man through the humble
flower. There was an Italian prisonei
in the same yard whose little daughtei
was permitted to visit him. The glr
was much pleased with Charney's love
for bis flower. She related what she
saw to the wife of the jailer, The story
of the prisoner and his flower passed
from one to another, until it reached
the ears of the amiable Empres, Jose
phine. The Empress said:
"The man who so devotedly lovet
and tends a flower cannot be a baJ
man," so she persuaded the Emperor
to set him at liberty.
Charney carried his flower home and
carefully tended It. It taught him of a
God and released him from prison.
The Age of Paper.
This Is the age of paper. It Is the
receptacle and disseminator of
science, the produots of art and
literature, the great means of keep
ing Industries and commerce thriv
ng. It barrels our flour, wraps our
goods, enters into articles of per
sonal wear an! household use, and
when we die sometimes forms oui
coffins. It rolls beneath our railway
cars, and forms our buggy tops. We
eat off it, drink from it, wear it on onr
heads, necks, bosoms and feet, carry it
In our pockets in lieu of hankerchlef,
and tile our bouses, line our carpets
with it, pack up our goods in paper
boxes, and divert our leisure moments
with paper cards. We make 500,000
tons yearly, import largely, and yet,
like Oliver Twist, ask ror more. Rags,
woodpulp, straw, old rope, the bark oi
the cotton plant, and even the mem
branes in the interior of silkworm
cocoons yield It. We would, there
fore, suggest that an exhibition ol
paper objects and manufactures would
fittingly commemorate the bi-centenary
of the first paper mill In this country
next year, to be held at Philadelphia,
the birth-place of the trade.
Collecting a Debt From a Preachee
An amusing anecdote Is related of t
Hawklnsville merchant who sold goods
on a credit to a colored preacher. Th
man of the gospel had made a very root
crop and it was evident to the merchant
that he had a slim chance for his money.
On Saturday he saw the preacher and
said to him: "See here, parson, you 'v
got to pay me your account. I an
going ont to hear you preach to-morrow,
and after the sermon you must
pass around the hat and raise a collec
tion." Sure enough, the merchant wai
on hand and took a front seat. The
old colored divine preached an effective
sermon, commenting on hard-hearted
sinners, and the rich man who would
not forget the world and lay up hu
treasures In heaven. After the sermon
the bat was passed around and the
merchant was the first to put In a con
tribution. He dropped a half dollar io
the bat and the congregation began
throwing In dimes, quarters and halve,
until several dollars were in the hat.
When the preacher retired from tbe
pulpit the merchant followed him and
got the entire contents of tbe hat just
enough to settle the debt.
Tbe First Spinning Frame.
The first spinning frame made In this
tountry, which has been temporarily
Intrusted to the Brown University for
lafe keeping, will soon be sent to the
patent office at Washington. Samuel
Slater, the inventor, introduced It into
the old spinning mill at Pawtucket,
R, L. about the year 1790. It was first
started in a clothier's shop of that
town, together with two other machines
of a somewhat similar pattern. In a
year and a half it Is said that they over
stocked the market, as several thousand
tons of yarn had accumulated In that
time, despite tbe manufacturer's at
tempt to dispose of It. The machine i.
till In excellent o ' considering It
reat age.
NEW IN BRltr
Lunch baskets are comtnc la style
tgalu.
There are over 100 women's cluba
n Kansas.
The Queen of EngUnd Is ageing
erceptibiy.
Gold and silver braid pipings art
ashionabie.
Torchm lace Is very well liked for
rimming underwear.
Cliicka !ees are t'i favotite bird
torn to adorn the heal-lresi.
Petticoats of Medici Ures are fine
inough to be worn for rireies.
Oui'Ia. the noveh?. uss a perfume
n her hair that costs J ! a; ounce.
Th marriage code In India Is to be
imended so that briJes must be at lsa-t
iwclve years old.
The best friend of the Empress of
Russia Is the Counte Oyarna, who Is a
V'assar graduate.
There am nearly one thousand worn
in clerks In the f'en'ral Telgraph Of
Ice at Londou, EiiUud.
The bodice for the slender woman
s the most fashionable which shows the
lewest seams anJ dai'-s.
Tt seems not ur.likely that electrlc
ty will be applied to smeltiug furnaces
n the near future.
Even a bid-ous little gold lizard
TltU ruby eyes Muds admirers among
'hose searching for brooches.
It takes about three seconds for a
message to go from one enl of the At
autic cable to the other.
Pittsburgh claims to have more mil
ionaires iu proportion to ber population,
:han any ether city in the world,
Alaska coat o-ly 7,000,0 Xt, and
the revenue to lh3 national treasury Is
x pec ted to amount 1 1 $'5,000,0 JO a year
tor the next twenty years.
Lranium is now being clissed
among the rare metals on account of
ts electrical resistance Ir, is likely to be
used in electrical insulation.
One hundred and five Americans
visited Burn's birthplace in bcoilaud In
sue day last summer.
The first monument to Hernando
Cortez, the conqueror of Mexico, hat
been unveiled iuh.s native city of Med
iliu.in E3trama'lura, .Spain.
annracturers are beginin? to In
troduce electricity into their factories
as a motive power by subdividing it
into units.
A very extensive domestic industry
In Russia consists of the manufacture
of wooden spoons, which are made to
the extent of 30,0W,onu annually,
mostly of birch.
Tbe average pidein infancy is one
hundred and twenty minute; iu man
hood, eighty; at sixty years, sixty. The
pulse of lemales Is more frequent than
that of males.
The national debt of Germany,
which is mucti smaller than tli.it of any
other great couctry in the world, la, Id
round figures, 102.000,000.
A Georgia postmaster is in trouble.
Through a hole In the roof of his office
the rain poured in one night and stuck
together two hundred dollars' worth o
postage stamps.
The mineral calied turf a, or brazo
Itna, recently discovered In Bahla, fur
nishes an oil akin topetro'eum, a paraf
fin suitable for the manufacture of can
dles, aud a good lubricating oil.
The largest sheep ranch in the world
is in the counties of Webb and Dinnet
In Texas; it contains upward of 400,OOC
seres, and yearly pastures 800,00(
sheep.
The cuttlefish, whichamongst otbei
strange things always waits with it!
head downward, does not chew Its food
at all, bnt masticates with Us gizzard.
The Po-tugese nation Is one of th
least Instructed lu Europe, the Illiterate
inhabitants being officially stated as 8)
per cent, of the total population.
Columbia is the wealthiest of Amer
ican universities, and Harvard comet
next, with property valued at $5,000,
000, and a yearly income amounting t
1303,121.
The Czar according to a recent sta
tistician's calculation, is the largest pri
vate ownt r or land iu the world; the
total is about OO.OOO.OuO acres, about
the size of the wl.ole of France.
The most densely populated square
mile in the world Is in the city of New
York; It is Inhabited by 270,000 people
the larger part of whom are Italians,
who speak only their native language.
In southern California there are
! said to be Indians aged from one hun
dred and fifteen to one hundred and
forty years. They live on acorns, flour,
and water.
Baron Leibig, tho great German
chemist, says that so much flour as cai
lie on the point of a table knire con
talus as much nutritive constituent!
as eight pints of the best and most nu
tritious beer made.
A fiowering-plant has never beer
found within the Anartcite circle- but
in tbe Arctic region there are 702 klndi
of Cowers; their colors, however, are
not so bright or varied as those of
warmer l eg ions,
Perhaps the oldest living Indian li
tho United State it Muddy Water, I
Seminole, residing in Indain Territory
who has just entered his one haiidred
tnd ninth year.
What a Boy Will Do When He Ueu e
Chance.
Newton Tabor was digging a well a
Pilot Point, Tex. To blast out the
rocks ho used dynamite inclosed li
small metallic capsules. In the course
of his operations he deposited an open
box of these dangerous capsules at the
root of a tree, near where he was work
ing. A ladder leaning against the tree
reached up to a mocking-bird's nasi
containing a young brood. His 10 yeai
old son, Dick, with a couple of the cap
sules in his hand, ascended the ladder,
and, discovering the young birds wits
distended mouths, boy-like, dropped
the capsules, one at a time, in one bird 'i
moutd. Tbey forthwith disappeared Is
the bird's craw. This rendered the
bird uncomfortable, and, in a struggle
for relief It fell from tbe nest. Upoi
striking the ground an explosion occur
red which tore up the earth, dumped a
quantity of the loose dirt, and the frag
ments of rock piled around, into the
well, aud came near killing Mr. Tabor
who was working down below. TW
boy fell from the ladder and was hiMf
hurt, inHering the fractur of
boar