BW?Mit V 'r" B, F. SOHWEIER, THE OONSTITUTION-THE UNION-AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS Editor and Proprltrtor. VOL. XL 7. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENN A.. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 1,1891. NO. 15. jPHE TAJ 31AIIAL BY BIOOS LIGHT. PAGET TOYXBEB. got purest narble from Carrara hewn Or Faroe, not the everlasting mows On Himalaya's primal peaks, nor those About the cone of Pirjl-yama strewn By April ttorins, not summer clouds at noun That drift across the blue, or In repose Lie banked at even like aerial floes, Glisten more white than thou beueatli the moon ! fay peany dome, and spires, aud fretted walls, Cpborne upon the terraced uiarble, geein fo full the malo flood of moonlight falls To haDg more lUrhtly than the gossamer That flouts at daybreak from the dreaming tir, tlf-poicd iu ether o'er a crystal stream ! Spectator, IDelialafc Ltok you here, Glory I the moon Is full, and that always makes him madder. I have to keep him short of food, and strap his shoulders, or he would tear the walls down in his fury." 'Ia-1 me attend to him," asked Me halah. You'd be afraid of hlni." 'I should pity him,' said the girl. He and 1 arc both wretched, both your victims, both prisoners, wearing jour chains.' "You hae no chains round you, Wlory." Have I not ?" I have, invisible, may be, but firmer, colder, more given to ru-t into and rub the flesh than those carried by that poor captive. I have tried to break away, but I cannot. You draw me back." I told you I could. I have threads to every nuger. I cu.u move you as I will. I can bring you into uiv anus." "That never. You may boast of your power over me. You have a power over me, but that power has its limits. I submit now, but only for my mother's sake. "Were she not de pendent wholly on tne, were she dead, I would defy you and be free, free as the gull yonder." Elijah put his hand inside his door, drew out his gun, and in a moment the gull was seen to fall. "She is not dead." said Mehalah. with a gleam of triumph in her sad race. "Xo, but winged. The wretch will Butter along disabled. She will try to rise, and each effort will cive her mortal agony, and grind the splintered tones together and make the blood bleed away. She will skim a little while above the water, but at length will rail into the waves and be washed ' whore dead. ""Will you let ma attend to your protnerf" "Xo, I will not." The shutter was dashed olf its hinges, flung out into the yard, and the two ghastly hands were agaiu seen trained through the bars. Again there rang out in the gathering night the pioous cry, "(jloryl Wory! Glorv;' "By God! you hound," yelled Eii ah, and he raised his whip to bring it Sown on the white wrists. "I cannot bear it. I will not endure It!" cried Mehalah, and she'arrested the blow, she caught the whip and renched it out of the hand of Rebow before he could recover from his sur prise, and flung it into the dyke that jncircled the yard. "Y"ou are civil," sneered Elijah. ""What are you in this house ? A ser rant ? Then speak and act as one." A hard expression settled on Me ialah's brow. "Do what you will with that brother f yours. I am indifferent to him and his fate. Everything in the world s all one to me now. If you had let me think for the poor creature and feed "urn, and attend to him, I might have become reconciled to being here; I :ould at least have comforted my soul ivith the thought that I was minister ing to the welfare of one unhappy wretch and lightening his lot. But aow," she shrugged her shoulders. Xow everything is all one to me. I am laugh," she did so, harshly. 'There is nothing in the world that I :are for now, except my mother, and i do not know that I care very much "or her now. I feel as if I bad no ieart, or that mine were frozen in my osom." "You do not care now for your mother !" exclaimed Eebow. "Then ave her here to my tender mercy, and 0 out Into the world and seek your fortune. Go on the tramp like your rypsy ancestry." Leave my mother to your mercy I" tchoed Mehala. "To the mercy of rou, who could cut your poor crazed rother over the fingers with a great lorsewhip I To you, who have stung md stabbed at my self-respect till it is itupefled ; who have treated me, whom rou profess to love, as I would not reat a marsh briar. Xever. Though ny heart may be stunned or dead, yet I have sufficient instinct to stand by md protect her who brought me into he world and nursed me, when I was lelpless. As for you, I do not hate rou any more than I love you. You ire nothing to me but a coarse, ill-con-iitioned dog. She walked moodily away and re rained her room. She went to the .vindow, the window that looked to ward the Hay, and drawing the cor pus beliind her, remained there, ber lead sunk, but her eyes never waver rog from the point where her home lad been when she was happy, her aeart free, and her self-respect un nangled. So passed hour after hour. There was a full moon, but the sky ras covered with clouds white as curd, tcudding before a north-west wind. The moon was dulled but hardly ob jured every now and then, and next noment glared out In naked brilliancy. Everything in the house was hushed. Elijah had gone to bed. Mehalah had ieard bis heavy treud on the stair, and :he oang ci the dcor as he shut it; it lad roused her, she turned her head, nd her face grew harder in the cold noonlight. Then she looked back toward the Ray. There yonder on the marsh was lomething verv white like paper, flap ping and flashing in the moonlight, "hat could it be? It moved a little ray, then blew up and fell and flapped sjaiu. "Was it a sheet of paper? Ii to hw came it not to be swept away Uu raahiaa wind. 2o- Hwa atf sheet of paper. Mehalah's curiosity was roused. Sho opened the window and looked out. At the saiue moment it rose, fluttered nearer, eddied up, and fell again. A cloud drifted over the moon and made the marsh gray, and in the shadow the restless object was lost, the flash of white was blotted over. When the moon gleamed out again, she saw it once more. It did not move. The wind tore by, and shook the casement in her hand, but did not lift and blow away that white object. Then there was a lull. The air was still for a moment. At that moment the white object moved again, rose once more and fluttered up, it was flying, it was uearing, it fell on the roof of the bakehouse uuder the window. Now Mehalah saw what tliis was. It was the wounded gull, the bird Rebow had shot. The miserable creature was strug gling with a broken wing, and with distilling blood, to escape to sea, to die, and drop into the dark, tossing, foaming waves, to lose itself in inflnitv. It could not expire on the land, "it must 6eek its native element, the un tamed, unconfined sea; it could not give forth iu soul on the earth. "Was it not so with Glory? Could her free soul rest where she now was? She who had lived, free as a bird, to be blown here and there by every im pulse, when every impulse was fresh and pure as the unpolluted breath of God that rushes' over the ocean. ' Wa9 she not wounded by the same hand that brought down the white mew? There she wa9 fluttering, rising a little, again falling, her heart dim with tears, her life's vigor bleeding away, the white of her bosom smeared with 6oil that adhered, as she draggled in the mire, into which he had cast her. Whither was she tending? She turned her face out to sea it lay before her iuk-black. Red Hall and its marshes were to her a prison ; freedom beyond its seawall. She was startled by a sound as of bricks falling. She listened without curiosity. The sound recurred attain, and was followed after awhile by a grating noise, and then a rattle as cf iron thrown down. She heard nothing further for a few minutes, and sank back into her dull dream, and watch ing of the poor mew, that now beat its wings on the roof, and then 6lid off and disappeared. Was it dead now? It did not matter. Mehalah could not care greatly for a bird. But preseutlv fi-oni out of the shadow of the bake house floated a few white feathers. The gull was still wending its way on, with unerring instinct, toward the rolling sea. J ust then Mehalah heard a thud, as though some heavy body had fallen, accompanied by a short clank of metal. She would have paid it no f urther attention had she not been roused by seeing the madman striding and then jumping, with the chain wonnd round one arm. He looked up at the moon, his matted hair was over his face, and Mehalah could not dis tinguish the features. lie ran across the yard, and then leaped the dvke and went off at long bounds, like a kan garoo, over toward the sea wall. Mehalah drew back. "What should she do? Should she rouse Elijah, and tell him that his brother had wrenched off the grating of his window and worked his way out, and was now at large in the glare of the moon on the marshes, leaping and rejoicing in hi 3 freedom t yo, she would not. Let the poor creature taste of liberty, inhale the fresh, pure air, caper and race about under no canopy but but that of God's making, making. She would not curtail his freedom by an hour. He would suf fer severely for his evasion on the morrow, when Elijah would call out iiis men, and they would hunt the poor wretch down like a wild beast. She could see Bebow stand over him with his great dog-whip, and strike him without mercy, She rouse Rebow? ihe reconsign the wild maniac to his dark dungeon, with its dank floor and stifling atmosphere? The gull was forgotten now; its little strivings overlooked in anxiety for the mightier strivings of the human sufferer. Yet all these three were bound together by a common tie I tacn was straining for the infinite, and for escape from thraldom; oue with a broken wing, one with a broken brain, one with a broken heart. There was the wounded bird flapping and edging its way out ward to the salt sea. There was the dazed brain driving the wretched man in mad gambols along the wall to the open water. There was the bruised soul of the miserable girl yearning for omethinar. she knew not what, wide, deep, eternal, unlimited, as the all-embracing ocean. In that the bird, the man- :he maid sought freedom, rest, recov. ery. one could not go to oea ana ieav- 'he poor manlao tnus wanaenug un matched, She would go out and fol low him, and see that no harm came lo him She took off hei" shoes, shut the win low. Her mother was sleeping souudly ihe undid the door and descended the stairs. Tbey creaked beneath her stops mt Eebow, who had slept tnrougn tne noise made by his brother in eflecting ids escape, was not awakened. As she passed the bakehouse sho lit u the bird. In a spasm cf sympathy -he bent and took it up. It nade a frantic effort to escape, md uttered its wild, harsh screams; nit she folded her hand3 over the wings and held the bird to her bosom and went on. The blood from the rokcn bone and torn flesh wet her iand, and dried on it like glue. She leeded it not, but walKCd lorwara. 3v the raw moonlight she 6aw the nadman on the wail, ac nau mrown iown his chain. He heeded it not , . . jTCl A. 1 now. mere naa oeen sumcieni in dulgence or cunning in his brain to oid him aoaaen its cian. wueu scaping from the house. He sprang into the air and waved lis arms; his wild hair blew about in lie wind, it looked like seaweed angles. Then he sat down. Mehalah lid not venture on the wall, but crept iloug on the marsh. He had got a tone, and was beating at bis chain ,vith it upon the stone casing of the IT. 1 J - ivau on tne sea iace. xab wuiacu t patiently for an hour and at last roke one of the links. He wared the .hain above his head with a shout, and lung it behind him into the marsh. He ran on. Mehalah stole after mm. He never looked back, always forward or upward. Sometimes he danced and shouted and sang snatches to the moon whea it flared out from behind a clood. Once, whan at a band of the wall, his shadow he cowtirei buck from it, jabbering, and putting bis hands supplicating! y toward it; then he slippod down the bank, laughed, and ran across the marsh, with his shadow behind him, and thought in his bewildered brain that he had cunningly eluded and escaped the figure that stood before Lim to stop him. He reached the mill that worked the puiup. He must have remembered it : it was mixed up some how with the confused recollections in his brain, for it did not seem to startle or frighten him. He scarcely noticed it, but, uttering a howl, a wild, trium phant shout, sprang upon a duck punt hauled up on the" wall. It was Elijah's puut, left there occasionally, quite as often 89 at the lauding near the house, a small, flat-bottomed boat, painted white, with a pair of white, muffled oars. In a moment, before Mehalah had considered what to do, or whether she could do anything, he had run the punt down into the water, and had seated himself in it, and taken the oars and struck out to sea, out toward the open, toward the unbounded horizon. He rowed a little way, not very far, and then stood up. He could not ap parently endure to face the land, the place of long confinement, he must look out to sea. Mehalah stood on the sea wall. The waves were lapping at her feet. The tide had turned. It flowed at midnight. She had forgotten the gull she bore, in her alarm for the man. She opened her arms, and the bird fluttered dowu and fell into the water. The moon was now swimming in a clear space of sky free of cloud-floes. In that great light the man was dis tinctly visible, standing, waving his arms in tne wnite punt, drifting, not rapidly, but steadily onward. In that great light went out also, on the same cold, dark water, the dying bird, that now stirred not a wing. Mehalah watched motionless with yearning in her heart that she could not understand, her arms extended toward that boundless expanse toward which the man and the bird were being borne, and into which they were fad ing. He was singing 1 Some old, childish lays of days that were happy, before the shadow' fell. There stood Glory, looking, indis tinctly longing, till her eyes were filled with tears. She looked on through the watery vail, but saw nothing. "When she wiped it away she saw noth ing. She watched till the day broke, but she saw nothing more. From Mehalah," a story of the English Salt Marhe9. The Canal of Joseph. How many of the engineering works jt the nineteenth century, remarks Engineering, will there be in existence in the year 6000? Very few, we fear, and still less those that will continue in the far-off age to serve a useful pur pose. Y'et there is at least one great undertaking conceived and executed by an engineer which during the space of four thousand years has never ceased its ofllce, on which the life of a fertile pioviuce absolutely depends today. We refer to the Bahr Joussuf the canal of Joseph built, accord ing to tradition, by the son of Jacob, and which constitutes not the least of the many blessings he couferred on Egypt during the years of his prosper ous rule. This canal took its rise from the Nile at Asiut, and ran nearly parallel with it for nearly two hun dred and fifty miles, creeping along under the western cliffs of the Xile valley, with many a beud and winding until at length it gained an eminence, as compared with the river bed which enabled it to turn westward through a narrow pass and enter a district which was otherwise shut off from the fer tilizing floods on which all vegetation iu Egypt depends. The northern end stood seventeen feet above low Nile, while at the south ern end it was au equal elevation with the river. Through this cut ran a perennial stream, which watered a province named the Fayoum, endow ing it with fertility and supporting a large population. Iu the time of the annual flood a great part of the canal was under water, and then the river's current would rush iu a more direct course into the pa3s, carrying with it the rich silt which takes the place of manure and keeps the soil in a state of constant productiveness. All this, with the exception of the tradition that Joseph built it, can be vcriiied today, and it is not mere sup position or rumor. Until eight years ago it was firmly believed that the de sign has always been limited to an irri gation scheme, larger no doubt, than that now in operation, as shown by the traces of abandoned canals and by the slow aggregation of waste water which had accumulated in the Buket el Querun, but still essentially the same character. Many accounts have been written by Greek and Roman historians, such as Herodotus, Strabo, Mutianus, and Pliny, and repeated in monkish legends or portrayed in the maps of the middle ages, which agreed with the folk lore of the distinct. These tales explained that the canal dug by the ancient Is raelites served to carry the surplus waters of the Kile into an extensive lake lying south, and so large that it not only modified the climate, temper ing the arid winds of the desert and con verting them into the balmy airs which nourished the vines and the olives into a fullness and fragrauce unknown in any part of tho country, but also added lo the food supply of the land such im mense quantities of fish that the royal prerogative of the right of piscary at the great weir was valued at $250,000 annually. This lake was said to be 4o0 miles round, and to be navigated by a fleet of vessels, while the whole circumference was the scene of indus try and prosperity. Superstitions About Old Garden Herbs. Borage, from since the days of Ly curgus, has been supposed to give courage, or, in the language of Lord Bacon, "repress the fuliginous vapors of dusky melancholy." Thrift, the old garden plant, was in variably planted before a new house in Old Connecticut days" to bring n omy and wealth. Xo one, in far away days, dared to pull or dig the root of the mandrake, because, though it was grown in the herb-bed for use of the leaves In mod icine, it was deemed murdaroua to touch th root. CATECHISX ET ELECTRICITY, 1. How strong a current is used tc lend a message over an Atlantic cablet A.. Thirty cells of battery only, equal to thirty volts. 2. What is the longest distanco ovei which conversation by telephone if daily maintained? A. About 75C miles, from Portland, Maine, to Buf falo, 2few York. 9. "What is the fastest time made b; an electric railway? A. Ainileamin ate, by a small experimental car. Twenty miles an hour on street railwaj lysteni. 4. How many miles of oubmarin sable are there in operation? A. Ovei 100,000 miles, or enough to girdle th earth four times. 6. What is the maximum powei generated by an electric motor? A. Seventy-five horse-power. Experi ments indicate that 100 horse-powei will soon be reached. 6. How is a bieak in a submarim cable located? A. By measuring tht electricity needed to charge th z maining unbroken part. 7. How many miles of telf-jrapl wire in operation in the Uuited Staves 1 A. Over a million, or enough to en circle the globa forty times. 8. How many messages can be trans mitted over a wire at one time? A. Four, by the quadrup'.ex system, in dally use. 9. How is telegraphing from a mrr icg train accomplished? A. Through i circuit from ihe car roof, inducing s current in the wire on poles along the rrack. 10. What are the most widely eepa,'lon t0 Quercus pseudo-eoccifera, I raiea points between which U is pos- uble to send a telegram? A. British Columbia and New Zealand, via America and Europe. 11. How many miles of telephone ire in operation in the United States? a.. More than 170,000, over which 1,055,000 messages are sent daily. 12. What is the greatest caudle lower of arc light used lu a lig'-it-iouse? A. Two million, in the light louee at Houstbolin, Denmark. 18. How many persons in the Cnited States are engaged in business Impending solelv on electricity? A. Estimated 250,000. 14. How long does it take to traus jort a message from San Francisco to Hong Kong? A. About fifteen min ltes, via Xew York, Canso, Penzance, Aden, Bombay, Madras, Penang, aud Singapore. 15. What is the fastest time made ij an operator sending messages by :he Morse system? A. About forty :wo words a minute. 16. How many telephones a' e in use ji ihe Uuited States? A. About 300,000. 17. What war vessel has the most :cmp?ete electrical plant? A. United states man-of-war Chicago. 18. What is the average cost per nlle of a trans-atlantio submarine sable? A. About $1,000 19 How miny miles of electric rail - ray are there in operation iu the Uni :ed States? A. About 400 miles, and nuch more under construction. 20 What strength of current is langerous to humun life? A. Five lundred volt, but depending largely u ph) icA conditions. Told By Old Sol's Face. The most pronounced effects ov olar disturbance are felt as it appears by the sun's rotation cn its axis aud at the disturbance crosses the sun's mer idian. The six and a half days be tween appearance by rotation and mer idian passage are marked by storms, luroras, heat or earthquakes. Aftei meridian pa-sage the storm influence )f a solar disturbance appears to cease. la this use of the word storm all the Dtlier phenomena are included. All ire kindred. When solar disturbances follow each other in rapid eucccs ion the fctorm period is prolonged. The fleets of solar distarbanccs which break out on the sun's hemisphere Urned towards ns produce sudden and powerful effects in our atmosphere. 3torms known as cloud bursts have been most frequently noted in connec tion with these sudden outbursts on the nn's face. As a rule the marks of tolar disturbance cannot be seen until the storms on the earth cease. The spots form after the storm-producing m uptions. Tornadoes arc more numerous dnr j g periods of violent solar agitation, fee number and violence of tornadoes nro directly proportioned to the num- r aud violence of solar disturbances. Observations made during the past winter and spring show that solar dis turbances are in some cases not marked oy spots until a month or two after the eruptions begin. Fifty-two days if tar the great storm of Jan. 9 and 10, 1839, spots appeared by the sun's rota don. Spots also appeared by rotation If ty-two days after the great Samoan burrican of March 15 and 16, 1888, which wrecked several men-of-war in the harbor of Apia. This disturbance jn the sun was followed upon reap pearance on May 29 and 80 by the Soods which wrecked Johnstown, Pa., ind drowned'Williamsport, Pa. - When solar disturbances become ob cure, their storm action can be traced by counting the twenty-tlx day period. The solar disturbances which caused ievere and widespread storms during :he first eight months of 1889 are now Jbscure, pots being rarely seen. But :here is evidence of some activity at Jie seat of the disturbances. When jver violent action is resumed, our itmosphere will be vexed iu propor ion to the violance on the sun. Too Hasty. There are some things which mn lo from excellent motives, but for the loing of which they afterward find it lard to forgive themselves. Such a jaradoxical experience is rela'ed by a Rhode Island soldier among bis rerain acences of the war. The incident ccurred at the Battle of Pegram's Farm, when the Union Line broke, ind It looked for a time as though t ie nemy would force a pasage through. indeavored to rally the men fleeicg to iie roar, and of course reads u? of ny sabre when a man refused to stop. ! f hit one man a pretty heavy Mow. i He storped Immediately, and, think- ng he meaut to d schar0'e his pVce at ne, I was preparing to strike again, a hen tbe expression of his face, up aimed towards me, disarmed me o vv suspicions. I "Colonel," he said. "I'm . not a Mvrard and I'm not running because t am afraid. I wflt stand as long- at y on or any other man, but I am badlj wounded." He turned his head and showed me a fearful bullet wonnd aorosa the aid! it his neck. I remember the expression of hli faoe as w ell as if I had seen It yester day. Js'o fear, no animosity, no any thing but a look of indignation that he should have been suspected of toward ioe. I made the best apo'ogy I could nnder the circumstances, and after that I did not strike any man till I had made sure he was running from fear Abraham's Oak. The old oak at Mamre in Syria, or, as it is known everywhere, Abra ham's Oak," is one of the mosl famous and venerable trees in th world. It is reverenced alike by Jew. Christian and Mahometan, for it ii supposed to mark the spot where thi patriarch pitched his tent in the desert There Is a superstition in Jerusalem, and in all the country aboat, that who ever thall cut or Injure this tree will lose his first-born son. So for cen turies it has been allowed to toss iti gnarled and contorted limbs in the gales which sweep from the Mediter ranean over the Syrian plains. This tree was visited by Sir Joseph Hooker in the autumn of I860; and lo his paper upon Syrian Oaks, read th following year before the Linnsean Society (Transactions, xxiil.), he ga7 a description of it and a portrait drawr by his own hand. Abraham's Oak was found to be wtiicn, to quote rroin sir Josepn s pa per, '4s by far the most abundant tree throughout Syria, covering the rocky hills, of Palestine especially, with a den'e brushwood of trees eight to twelve feet high, branching from the base, thickly coveted with small ever green riyid leaves, and bearing acorns copiously. On Mount Carmel it forms nine tenths of the shrubbery vegetation, and it is almost equally abuudant on the west banks of the Au ilebanon aud many slopes and valleys of Lebanon. Owing to the Indiscriminate destruction of the forests In Syria, this oak rarely attains its full s'ce." The circumfer ence of the t-r.nk of "Abraham's Oak" is given as twenty-three feet, and the diameter of the spread of the brancbef as ninety feet. Quercus pseudo-cocoifera is an ever green species with the general appear ance of the Ilex of Southern Europe, and clo;el .- related, botanically, to Q. cocoifera, a common and widely dis tributed scrub oak of Southern Europ: and of Algeria; indeed, Hooker wai of the opinion that the two phnts wen merely geographical varietk of th tme species. Ganlen and Forest. ilacauley's Picture of Queen Elizabeth. 'Elizabeth was now in her twenty- I fifth vonr. PArantiAllv- aha haA tnncl 'of i.er mother's beauty; her flgnrt was commanding, her fact) long, but queenly and intelligent; tier eyei quick and fine. She had grown up, amidat the liberal culture of Henry 'i Court, a bold horsewoman, a good shot, a graceful dancer, a skilled mu sician, aud an accomplished sobolar. She read every morning a portion ol Demosthenes, and could 'Tub up hei rusty Greek" at need to bandy pedantry with a vice-chancellor. But she wai far from being a mere pedant. The new liter iture which was springing up around her found constant welcome io her court. She spoke Italian aud French as fluenty as her mothei tongue. She was familiar with Ariosto and Ta-so. In spite of the affectation of her style, and ber taste fo anagrams and puerilities, she listened wi.h delight to the "Faery Queen," and found a smile for Master-Spenser" when he appeared in the presence. Her moral temper recalled In its strange contrasts the mixed blood within her veins. She was at once the daughter of Henry and oi Ann Boleyn. From her father she In herited her frank and hearty address, her love of popularity and of free inter course with the people, her dauntless courage, and her amazing self-confidence. Her harsh, manlike voice, her impetuous will, her pride, hei furious outbursts of anger, came to ber with her Tudor blood. She rated nobles as if they were school-boys; she met the insolence of Essex with a box on the ear; she would break now and then into the gravest deliberations to swear at her ministers like a fish wife.' Tho Match I Off. The details of a decidedly romantie aSair, which culminated last season, have just leaked out through the friends of the young people therein concerned. The young lady is the daugtiter of a wealthy official of tb last administration during whieh be successively he'd two cabinet positions a d a handsome foreigner as gener ously endowed In the matter of a for tune as with good looks. In addition to his other attractions, the young for eigner possessed a magnificent voice, on account of which be was courted and leted in a manner sufficient to have tuined the head of many an older and wiser man. Notwithstanding his manifold attractions and devotion to the ex-secre ary's daug ter, his suit at the last appear.-, to have met with dis favor, for when the young lady left the dty with her parents after the in ru?uraiIon the diplomat suddenly ap plied for orders detailing him to duty in Paris, where according to tho latest advices, he Is devoting himself heart and soul to his musical studies. Wash ington Letter. A. Boyal Lnnatle. The poor demented king of Bavan. had a narrow escape the other day. The enormous chandelier in the dining r om at the castle of Furstenried, whore the unhappy monarch is con fined, suddenly fell, smashing the table lat which his majesty was sitting and quence a commission of architects was sent to examine the state of the castle, win tho result that the whole building h" been declared in a state of collapse, BI" " u" n consiaerea necessary to cloe all the principal roum, except turn, which aro occupied by his majeiy. hi all probability, therefore. King Otto will shortly be removed to some other castle, probably Berg, one of U. famoas architectural residence (eft hf the lai9 King LuJ wig- te 1 Uttt l UAJ & L 4.1,1 AJI . A li'.itle Georgia Woman VTho Give Home Remarkable Exhibition, ol Strength. Georgia has produced another lady who is as full of electricity, or sorao ,thing very like it, as was the wouder f ul Lulu Hurst, of the same State, who used to throw big men around without much trouble. This lady, who gave a private exhibition, last night, at Fords to a few spectators, is Mrs. Annie Ab bott of Milledgeville, a petite body ol only ninety-eight pounds. She is a blonde of twenty-three years, and of pleasing appearance. When seven years old she went up to her father's chair, one day, and astonished him by saying she could lift him up. He laughed at the childish remark, but she put her hands on the chair and it came up from the floor. From that day it was apparent that sho had morr than muscular power. : She showed her peculiar power in her own State at charitable entertain ments' but never thought of appearing in public until last February, when she was travelling in Florida with her husband, for her health, when the managers of the sub-tropical exhibit ion at Jacksonville prevailed upon her to show what she could do. Since that time she has appeared several times in public in Georgia and South Carolina, and will do so again to-morrow evening, and the remaining even ings of the week, at Ford's. Last night there were half a dozen or so pretty heavy and strong men on the stage, but she was more than a match for any or all. A man sat on an or dinary chair, leaued back on its rear legs and when Mrs. Abbott simply put her hands under his ears the chair and man jumped up about three inches. Five meu were then piled up on the cttfdr the heaviest 216 pounds, and all the others over 160 and when she laid her hands on the big man's ears the chair jumped up again. She stood on one foot and let a bil liard cue rest in ber hands without grasping it, and oue, two and three men could not push her over. The combined weight of the three men, exerting all their muscular power, was over 400 pounds. She pushed them all about the stage. Heavy men sat in a rocking chair and with her fingers just touohiug the back, they could not rock. The fil6-pounder and others put their hands under her elbows and tried with might and main to lift the ninety-eight pounds, but in vain. In none of the trials could the men do anything with her. Several years ago ihe was at the Hot Springs in Arkan sas, when she was matched against John L. Sullivan, but the brute slug ger could do nothing with her. When she has her hands on the chair or on any wooden substance, she waits for about a minute, and suddenly the power comes, but the muscles do not become rigid. She sava the feats never tire her, but Just before a trial she feels nervous and weary. She sleeps well sifter throwing strong people about. She must stand on wood and operate with wooden chairs and sticks. When in contact with carpet and iron she can do nothing, Recently, when ex hibiting iu the South, somebody con nected a wire with her body and grounded it, and immediatelv she was I powerless. When oue pushes against ber the impression is that of the resist ance of a wall. She looks quite del icate. She is a quiet lady, aud verv modest. Very Literal Obedience. 'People are always making fun of as Russians for taking things so liter ally," said a Russian major in whose company Mr. David Her was ascend ing the Dnieper; "and not without some reason, I must admit. You re member that story you told me the other day about a mau who had a china cup given to him as the model for a complete set, and finding that it had been cracked and mended turned out the whole set cracked and mended in the very same way? Well, I could find you half a dozen men in any Russian town you like who would do tbe same thing themselves." "Very likely," said his companion, "though I doubt whether they would carry their literal obedience quite so far as did the American printer who was told to 'follow his copy,' and when the copy flew out of the window Jumped after it and broke his leg." "Well, I cau match even that," la no-bed the maior. much amused. "Did you ever hear how the telegraph one oetween at. .retersourg and et erhoff was left unoffloerod? Well, you know, before the electrio wires were laid, we used to telegraph in the old fashion, by signals, and all along the Peterhoff road there were signal sta tions, planted just within siht of each other, and at each station a olerk, with strict orders to repeat exactly any sig nal made by his right-hand or left hand neighbor. One day the first cleric on the line, in a fit of despair at having lost all his money, banged himself on the nearest telegraph post. His next neighbor, teeing this, took it for a sig nal, and instantly strung himself up in like manner, and the end of it was that all the clerks on the line hanged them telves in regular rotation." "Well," remarked hir companion, "that's no worse than the story of the jrder sent from Peking to the authori ses of a great Chinese town, command ing that a certain native merchant mould be 'hung up In his counting louse;' and then, after his execution wmebody discovered that the words mould have beeu translated 'suspended in his office.' - Strange Death of an Artist. A curious accident, which, unhappily las since proved fatal, befel M. Boutet, in artist, residing In the Avenue Vlc r Hugo, on Saturday morning. M. Bontet was worktnir in hi. .tnriln v-uvu, luwu'vunuvm uj uua Dim, lit, isked his bo-jie to go on the roof and pass a light linen covering over the rlasa. As the won an was a-ngtug :hls awning she slipped ai.a xaUing iirough the glass, alighted on the table it which hex master was sealed. Dddly enough, she sustained no injury worth mentioning. M. Boutet, how iver, waa not so fortunate. A piece )f the broken glass struck him on the leek, severing an artery. Ba tried to ttanch the blood, and failing, ran out rt the house in the direction of a ieighborinsc druggist's shop; but be !ell down fainting ere hs reached tbe place, and two hours, afterward he tnaUtad his last Xofwfon Time OOWX BY THE GATE. Tlur is a dew on the gru and the tkrostls b still, But the crickets are pipiag above on the hillj The fireflies are lighting; their lanterns, an4 eel there's tbe smile of the moon through th bought of tbe tree. And I catch the perfume of the rose as I wait For the sound of Ught feet tripping down to tilt gate. "TTul the come! Will ht comer srlei a hope in my heart, Till the stir of a leaf make me tremble mi start; And I peer through the duk till my eyes an a-blur With a warm mist of iove that is only for bet . O, the minutes drag by Hke tbe slow feet of fate As I listen and look for ber down by tbe gate I There's a step on tbe path, there's a glimmer of white. And tbe darkness around me grows sudden ly bright And there's no one to see, save myett and tbe moon, . This fairest of all of the roses of June. With a soft hand in youn would not you Uuger late For another "good night" o'er tbe bars of tbe gate? Jfumey' Wetkiy. FO. The language of the deaf mute goes without saying. Boston Post. An electric spark making love b telegraph. Washington Capitol. Backus is the patron divinity of race-horses. Merchant Traveller. The blacksmith welds iron with seal ing whacks. Washington Capitol. The shoe dealer will do work which is beneath other people. Youkers Statesman. The note of the prima donna is ne gotiable only when indorsed by the public. Life. Every fat man has a theory on how to dispose of the surplus. New Or leans Picayune. There is music in the air when the bill conies in for au accordion skirt. New York Morning Journal. Iu spita of their proverbial slowness, telegraph messengers go about with a jood deal of dispatch. Boston Post. Truth is mighty, but she is ignomiu lously worsted when she encounters a fishlDg excursion. Merchant Traveler. The bad small boy, when his mother calls, is like the echo. He answers, but he dosn't come. Sonierville Jour nal. "What a distinguished air that little man has I He's almost a dwarf, too." "Yes, he has a compressed air" Time. The destruction of the peach crop has commenced again ; and this time it is a real ruiu. Pittsburg Courier-Telegraph. It Is a little singular, to say the least, that after a man has been painting the town red he usually feels blue. Bos ton Courier. The prohibitionists are out gunning for those prophets who promised a dry summer. Thus far every state uaa gone "wet." Puck. When a man affirms that "there's iota of money in leather," don't dis pute him purses are made of leathei Shoe and Leather Reporter. A financier Dorothy, I think you are dreadfully extravagant to buy al' those things." "But, my dear Ruf u, I had them charged. ""-I Me. A pocketbook uvide of rattlesnake tilde, which is so repulsive to ladies that they won't touch it, Is having qaite a sale among married men. Pittsburg Dispatch. Old Lady I hope, my boy, you don't sell newspapers Sunday?1' Small newsboy (sadly) "So, mum. I ain't big enough to carry a Sunday editioi yet." Harper's Bazar. "Well, Mr. Assessor, what are you going to make out of your boy?" "I think he will do for a policeman, be cause I can never find him when I want him." Fllegende Blatter. There are two great needs of our present civilization a flannel shirt that will not shrink and a white vest that cau be washed without losing its re spectability. Baltimore American, The doctors are doing their best to convince the public that ice water is dangerous. Perhaps it is, but then, so are whiskey, and toy pistols, and ma trimony, and lots of things. Wast Ington Critic. The average girl is not afraid of danger, and the reporti of exploding soda water fountains and poisonous Ice cream do not interrupt the delight ful placidity of her appetite. Balti more American. Enter Seedy, with manuscript, Good morning, sir. Want any jokes? My forte is the absurd and rldioulons. Got a place for anything like that? Editor Certainly. Take a seat Phil adelphia Press. Inventor1 " I would like to get yon interested in my improved fly-paper." Capitalist " What makes you think it will be successful?" Inventor "Be cause its gotten up In imitation of a bald head." Life. In a St. Louis hospital a man recent ly had a dream which covered six month's time and 10,000 miles oi travel. There is a great deal of sight seeing embraced In a drink of St Louis whiskey. Chicago Herald. Wife " I'll take the t20 yon gavi me and buy my bonnet this morning, dear, as you want wbat'a left to gel your hat." Husband "All right, dearest. I'll go down at once and order a sixty cent hot for myself." New York 6un. Old schoolmate meets Thompson, whom he has not seen for several years Old Friend By the way, old man, how did your scheme of marrying so you could have some one to talk to pan out I Thompson Not so well. Yon see, that's what she married for, too. Terre Haute Express. When the rich man worketh the poor man saith he ought to be ashamed of himself for that he crowdeth the poor man out of a job. When the rinL. man worketh not the poor nan saith ho ought to be ashamed of himself for. he ccntnmeth while he vrodnceth not. Verily, the lot of the rich man, though It be worth 91,000 a foot front, ia r ird- Bingham WftRrVublicaa. IrtI 'i d's exiles are 70,033 a year. LuiiUuu l as more IrisU than Dub-' in. , A. Iccomotive "to ran on ice" Is lew. t FilbeiU orlgliially came from Greece. ( Koch's lym;h, is a clear, xeddlsh xown Hul l. It Is said tlidt a Ch:naman never goescazy. t Thomas Jt Her sou invented the hill tide plow. , Maryland's Stute Museum bas at pel r lied oyster. The L'nited Stales has more mllea )f rxllrod than all Lurcpe. . Sivannah, Ga., iol Icemen wettS :heir revolvers in their be ts. . I An oys'er eleven Inches long hat been fuuud oil the Connecticut aiiortv Beavers and otters are still trapped in Northern 2iewr York Ij. laige num bers. A lawyer of Ca'ifornia has Jnst re vived 95,000 for five jeais' work oa Jue case. Tn 1744 the war between England ind France, Known as "King George,! War," began. Cincinnati (Ohio) physicians pro-' pose the enlargement of tbe head aa m sure for idiocy. Queens College, Oxford. Eastland, ha3 just celetT.ited the 650th annlver iory of lu foundation. Farthings are legal tender in Eng land ud to one shlllinic.but are freq'ient ly refused if offered tor even a penny. An Oregon man ploughed bia field with a st am engine, turning over the soil at the rate of sixteen acres a lay. A society for the prevention of cruelty and nex'ect of pet birds and snlmals has been started in London, England, under toyal patronage, Tbe class of buildings struck most frequently by lightning are, first dwel lugs; second, barns and granar ies; third, oil tanKs aud oil works. Two years ao forty sacks of seed ling oysters were plants 1 lu an arm of the Ban Diego vCal.)bay; to:day the beds extend over twelve hundred acres. A. series of stalactite caverns, aur patlng any plrai ar ones In Europe, have been disioveied in German Ease Africa, Millions of bata frequent them. The Loudon Veeer'arian Sooiety ra pirts a membership of Ml, but the movement is taid to have spread throughout England, Europe and the oolonlts. A collection of wild flowers is said lo be in preparation from the State of California, for tbe World's Fatr atChi razo. 111., by the school children of that Stale. A pair of Texas cattle horns were found in Scott Bluffs County, Nebras ka, the other day tint measured five feet nine inches from tip to "P. Millionaire Crocker, of California, Is said to have four diamonds In the crown of his teeth. The stones are valued at $lo00. Therke'eton of Tonti, the famous French explorer, has iwn unearthed as Starved B ck, on tiie Illinois hiver. It waa identified by tl e lion band. In Yorkshire the English peasant if lie happens to tee the new moon without h'lvmg a piece of silver money in Ms pocket immediately turns heels over head to change bis luck. A curiositv In the borne of Nichol as Levisler, of Bal.imore, Maryland, la a wooden model of a couulry rt-aidence which he made with a penknife after thirteen rears of work. A goose at Tarrtown. N. Y., baa leached Hie aue of twenty-two years and is still s uind iu mind and body, and aiit arently cood for live years mora. She hits furnished enough feathets in ber 1 fe to make three leathei-beds. Frobably the most unique and ex pressive annuul puss tor loOl is that seLt out by rnaiUei't John Uoey, of the Adams r-xpres-i Company. On the face, del cately eugiaved, is a skull. and aboue it in fine letters is the word "deadhead." For many years It was believed that the atmosphere l a 1 a gre.U de d to do with thread-making, and that good thread could only be made in SojtUnd. It is now known tint it is all In the twist aud nothing In the atmosphere. One of the old sights la Chicago. recently was the movh g of a stately elm tree through the streets fiom Grose Po'nt lo Oiaceland Cemeterr. Tbe tree was lifted ea It grew and transported, upright. In a crate, giv ing the iin,reSiioQ of a travelling tree. The only foreigner In the aervlc of the Emperor of China la Frederick A. Bee, a tall mn, xutx close-o ooped. muiton-ohop whiskers and stiresT jrrar eyel r jws. Mr. Bee Is a Consul in His Mongolian Majesty's service, and bas been honored with several title. Tie bas received 'hese honors as a result of his services at the time of the Kear ney band Lot riots at San Francisco. Cal. -D. O. Pltner, of TJklah, Cal., is preparing an li cubatoi on a laree scale. Ills bot house is to be converted lata one. The lionte contains two rooms, each twenty-four feet tqua.e, with a capacity ol 10,100 epgs. He will be gin by trying ,000 ec-gs In one of the rooms. In the palmy davs of Rome tbe number cf hens brought from Africa avera:ed 400 per year for nine years, and with thes leopard', tigers, hyenas, elephants, tuff aloes, and serpents al most without number. Por several years th- re were WX0 men employed In Africa in trapping wl d animals to make sport for the people of Borne. A Remarkable Canal. The most remarkable canal In the orld is one between Worslcy and St. Helen's, in the north of England. It is sixteen miles long and under ground from end to end. In Lancashire the soai mines are very extensive, half tbe aountry being undermined; many years ago the Duke of Bridgewater's mana gers thought they could save money by transporting the coal under ground in stead of on the surface. So the canal was constructed and tho mines con nected and drained at the same time. Ordinary canal boats are used, but th power is furnished by men. On tho roof of the tunnel-arch are cross-pieces, and the men who do the work of pro pulsion lie on their backs on the coal Ind push with their feet against th Wvsa-ban on the roof, -
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