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B, F. BOHWEIER,
THE OON8TITUTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS.
Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XLV.
MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 10. 1S91.
NO. 25.
I
There are 8.750 languages.
A. quare mile contains 640 acr.
Envelopes were first Used in 1839.
Telei'-opes were invented in 1694.
X barrel of rice weighs 600 pounds.
A barrel of Hour weighs 196 pounds.
X barrel of pork weighs 200 pounds,
X firkin of butter weighs 56 pounds,
The first steel pen was made is 1880.
A span 3 vsa aDQ seven-eighth
laches.
A hand (horse measure) is four
Inches.
Watches were first constructed in
A storm moves thirty-six ' miles per
hour.
A hurricane moves eighty miles per
hour.
The first iron steamship was built in
laJa
The first lucifier match was made in
1829.
Gold was discovered in California in
181e.
The rirvt horse railroad was built in
18io-7.
The average human life is thirty
one years.
Coaches were first used in England
in l.V.'t.
Modern needles first came into use
in IMA.
Tim value of a ton of pure gold is
i;iil'.7:'J.-M.
One million dollars gold coin weighs
S,GS-". pounds avoirdupois.
The value of u ton of silver is 37,
7'Jl.M.
One million dollars silver coin
weighs M.9-'9. 9 pounds avoirdupois.
Kerosene was first used for lighting
purposes in 1526.
Tlie tl r-t t newspaper was published
in England in 16S
TId1 first newspaper advertisement
appeared ill lti5"
I'ntil 1776 cotton spinning was per
formed by the hand spinning wheel.
fjlas windows were first introduced
into Kngland in the eighth century.
Albert Purer gave the world a
prophecy of future wood engraving in
1.W7.
Measure 2u9 feet on each side and
you will have a square acre within an
inch.
The first complete sewing machine
was patented by Ellas Howe, Jr., in
m.
The first steam enjrloe on this con
tinent was brought from England in
17M.
The first knives were used in England
and the first wheeled carriage in
France in 1359.
The present
United Status
congress until
national colors of the
were not adooted by
1777.
A JOKE ON THE BISHOP.
Aaleop with the End of a Lightning
Conductor Under His Pillow.
Here is a good story about a Bishop
says the I 'all Mall Curette; indeed, it
would be a good story even about a
dean. Bishop was homeward-bound
from the states, traveling luxuriously
In a double cabin with Mrs. Bishop. It
was a very hot night, thunder ia the
air, and the Atlantic liner slipped
through the wat.tr, doing her eighteen
or nineteen knots an hour, the cabin
lighted up with the lightning flashes.
Mrs. Bishop oould not sleep for the
heat Bishop, appealed to, lumbered
out of his birth and opened the port
hole. Suddenly there bobbed in through
the porthole a wooden ball attached to
a s;ring. Bishop was perplexed, but
he tied it up, coiling the string by a
null in the wall, and then retired to
rrt The ball was an apple of dis
cord in that peaceable cabin, for it
hit against the side of the vessel as
she lurched, and Mrs. Bishop grew
auerulous and disturbed. Up started
te poor Bishop again, and to end
matters, he uncoiled the cord and put
.the bull safe and sound under his
iplllow. There was a heavy thunder
storm, but the Bishop slept soundly
that night. Next morning at break
fast, the captain presiding, he told the
tale with a good deal of Episcopal
solemnity and detail.
The captain laughed immoderately.
Bishop laughed too, thinking his story
a good one. Then the captain told
Dim that the ball was the end of the
lightning conductor. Bishop that night
looked under his pillow before going
to bed and slept with a closed porthole.
TREATISE ONOHOST3.
A Chinese Authority Says Man
Can Escape Becoming One.
The Chinese Recorder of Shanghai
contains a paper on the "Life and
Writings of the God of Literature."
This being, it appears, lived through
seventeen different lives as scholar and
official, although the records of only
nine lives now exist, the remaining
eight never having been preserved.
Ia his own person he completed the
perfection of the three religions of
China. One of his works contains a
chapter on ghosts and men, of which
the following is the substance: "A
ghost is the corrupt part of man, and
man is the pure partof a ghost. A man
van be a chost, and a ghost can be a
man. The man and the ghost are
mutually related; why separate man
and ghost? The ghost becomes a man;
then man must become a ghost. If a
man does not become a ghost he will
surely be able to perfect manhood. It
is difficult for a ghost to become a man,
Vecause it hits fallen to ghosthood,
and because it has lost manhood. A
man is a ghost; a ghost is a man; but
all men are not ghosts, neithor is every
gnost a man."
It appears also that it is possible,
although difficult, for a man to escape
becoming a ghost. This is how it can
be done: Those who can be respectful
without feeling ashamed, who can be
eubmissive without deception, who can
obey to perfection the rule of life, and
are able to preserve their natural
force unabated, secretly cherishing
Crowth, will become buddhas or genii,
ut not ghost."
A I'lwul Bit af laftiraaatlaa. j
Little Brother: "C'an't you walk J
traight, Mr. Mangle?" Mr. Manglei j
"Of course I can. Why do you askr" j
.i.i.ib oromer: on, notliln ; only
(heard sister sav she'd make you wall
Ctraijjht when she married you. And
aa said she'd help hee."
Thr receipts of a street railroad in
New York City wonld fill each day in
year two bushel baskets,
the money is ia five and
fciaos, . -
Moat of
ten-cent
INTERESTING CACT3.
AM BATES' POE TRY.
Marvelous Qenlua of a fhiiarif..
phla Sohool Boy.
I On Friday afternoon, says the Phil
adelphia Times, the teacher told Sam
Bates' class that, as a means of testing
bw much they remembered of the in-
"traction she had given them in poetie
composition, rhyme, measure, etc.
eacn and girl must bring, on Mon-
""J uturaiag, an entirely original verse
no matter h v short it rniarbt be.
Poor Sam trudged home with a heart
heaver than his satchel of books, lie
could ride "muels." kill "mockuson'
snake and shoot "squirls," but he
couldn't write poetry. The thought of
it rode him like a nightmare all Friday
night, and all day Saturday, in his
games with the other boys, he found
himself trying to make the ends of
two lines of verse sound alike.
1 1 Sunday brought no poetry and no
relief. At last he went to his mother
I for help. She sympathized, but re
minded him that the teacher required
. him to make the verse without assist
1 aooo. Late ia the afternoon he strolled
. to the river and sat down upon the
! edge of the wharf, oppressed and mis
( erable enough, almost, to throw him
1 self into the water and so end all his
troubles.
He wished a thousand times that he
mam ko.L f . t . l T I a
I vwm in kilo wjh ii kf J wiLU dim null
the dogs, that he might thus avoid any
further "ejuoation."
I At last a half-sunken Qatboat lying
'near the wharf attracted his attention.
. Inspiration seized him immediately.
I Me whirled over on his all-fours, clear
id away a place with his hand in the
wet sand, and began writing with his
finger. He wrote, thought, rubbed
Out and rewrote several times. Then
J he sprung to his feet and rushed home
jiiae maa, repealing someimug rapidly
! to himself all the way.
I Securing paper and pencil, he, with
jrreat pains, wrote down that some
1 thing, folded the paper and put it in
ne ol his school-books. I be next
morning he sot out for school with
triumphant step, and with a jubilant
(ace handed the folded paper to his
teacher.
She opened it and read:
A flat boat went down into the wortor.
It went down doe per tban it orter.
Sam Hates.
EARLY NORSE TELEGRAPHY. .
The Norwegians Signaled an Ap
proaching Enemy.
Olaf Searle sat in his office yester
lay discussing many interesting topics
In his usual interesting way, says the
9t Paul Globe. A card was lying on
his desk, on whioh appeared the word
"Budstlkkea" as the name of a Scan
ilnavian newspaper. Mr. Searle was
askedwhat the word meant.be repliod:
"It Is a Norwegian word, 1200 years
aid at least In those days when the
Doasts of Norway were ravaged by
pirates, the inhabitant had to resort
u all sorts of device to warn those at
a distance of the approach of these
piratical craft.
"When one was seen on the horizon
t man went up to the top of a mountain
where ha lighted a beacon fire. This
ould be seen for a long distance, and
was known to be a warning. When it
was seen in the distance another fire
was lighted on another hill, until all
ver the country fires blazed from
every hill top and the people prepared
to defend themselves.
"They also had a system of messen
gers. The man who first sighted the
tail would take an arrow and send it
to his neighbors. . From town to town
this arrow was sent until all were
warned. These were rather primitive
ways of telegraphing, but were so
jffectual that in the course of twenty
four hours all Norway knew of the ap
proach of pirates. This system of
ipreading the news was called "bud
itikken," and the name is extensively
ased as a name for newspapers iu the
ld country."
Tk. Aareatral Hon. I. Nebraska.
Professor O. C. Marsh, of Yalo, is
till on the sunny side of 50, and a
rigorous, pushing man. Mr. Marsh
s probably the best known on the
jther side of the water of all ottr geol
)gists. He received great honors
Irora foreign societies and governments
i few years ago on account of his dis
jovery of the ancestry of the horse,
Bringing up his evolution from the
lower order of animals to his present
perfect state. His discovery came
ibout in this wise, says the N. Y.
star : During a vacation one summer
16 took a number of Yale students on
t working frolic to "the bad lands"
in Nebraska, which is regarded as the
est for obtaining all sorts of fossils o'
any territory in the world.
During this trip the professor and
ais party discovered a dried-up swamp
that bad probably been a lake oentu
ries ago. Workingmen were building
t railroad through it, and throwing
ap thousands upon thousands of
itrange bones. These the professor
fathered up in large quantities, and
jefore he had finished his examination
f them he had traced the origin of the
lorse six states back. His discovery
lomplete, he sent its results and full
i peel mens of the bones to different
icienlitic schools, and was greatly
lonored therefor. Probably no disco v
ry of recent times attracted so much
ittention.
A Surarlae Part 7.
An innocent looking old cat played
. vory ungontlemanly trick on a well
mown lady and her daughter a few
lights ago, says the Washington Capi
at. They went to an evening reeep
;ion, and as they got out oi the car
'iage the cat jumped in and settled
jack in a corner with a contented purr.
rtiA nlrier nf IHa lndiea n about to;
lavethe driver come down and dis-
Iodgc it, but her daughter said it was
10 cold and wet, and as they had no
( sat at home, and as the stranger cat
coked so comfortable, "let it be and
lerhaps it will go borne with us, and
:hen we will have a cat" When they
were ready to go home they peeped
anxiously into the carriage, and the
laughter said "nice pussy" in a con
ciliatory way as she looked for the cat
y the glimmer of the carriage lamps.
1 r he cat was still there and so were
lour brand-new kittens.
Chare Csrnlrs aad Comic Opera.
It's nothing strange that the mlnis-
er is often shocked by the acting of
he pretty girls of the choir. The
iholr has become the training-school
or the comic-opera stage. The good
ieacona may not believe it possible,
tut a glance at the history of the most
mniilxr aoubrettes and nrima donnas
howe that thev beiraa bv making the
ninuter miserable. Springfield Be-
nib
A IIAED STRUGGLE.
8avad by an Outlaw From aa Infuriated
Bull
Dodging Bekla Trses to Iieaps tk Ter
rific Charges of tas Had Brats Jolt Bars
Hs Was Doomed ItagnJnoent Exhibitioa
of HorMBEBIBip.
I had ridden out to a ranch says a
Texas correspondent to the Atlanta)
constitution and was returning when I -met
a Mexican with a broken arm hob- J
bllng along the road, who told me that'
a bull had charged him the day before'
and flung htm into a water hole, break
ing his arm and bruising him severely
all over.
The Mexican warned me that the bull
was doubtless still in the neighbor
hood and that It would stand me in
hand to keep a lookout for him. I bad
ridden a mile or two when I aismounl
ed to drink of a little running stream I
had reached and to eat my lunch. My
horse I left standing without taking
the precaution of tying bim, though
without unsaddling him. He was a
young mustang, as nervous as a wo
man, and without any apparent cause
that I could discover threw up his
head all of a sudden and broke down
the valley in a mad gallop, carrying
of course, my saddle, with my belt con
taining my pistols, which I had rather
foolishly removed from my waist an
hour or two before and hung from the
horn of my saddle.
There was nothing for it but to fol
low the horse on foot so off I put in
as bad humor aa you can imagine, for
I was already fatigued by my long
ride, and a tramp of perhaps miles
was anything but inviting. 1 trudged
on for an hour or two, until my feet
were cut and blistered by the sharp
rocks, and had sat down to rest near
a clump of cottonwood trees, one of
great size, and the rest of thorn mere
saplings. At that moment I heard a
loud roar and a crash in a bush be
hind me, and out rushed at a terrific
pace a larce bull, charging straight at
me. I had only just time to throw my
self to one side flat on the ground as
he thundered by me. My next move
was to make for the clump of cotton
woods, which I succeeded in reaching
just as the bull turned again. My
hat had fallen to the earth as I ran,
and this the animal now attacked with
a ferocity and maddened rage that
showed bow little mercy would be
shown the man when his turn came.
Having torn the hat to pieces with
horns and hoofs, and having suietled
me out, he commenced a circuit arouvl
the tree, stamping, pawing and bel
lowing frightfully. With his blood
shot eyes and long, sharp horns he
looked like a demon. 1 was quite un
armed, having by some unlucky chance
neglected to put in my knife in leav
ing home, ana my pistols, as I said
before, being in my saddle, and I was
wearied unto death. The situation
was a desperate one, and my only
chance consisted in dodging the bull
round the tree until he should be
tired out and this was indeed a faint
hope, for the animal seemed fresh and
warranted to outlast the strength of
ten men. The bull charged again and
again, sometimes coining against the
tree with such force that he fell on
his knees, sometimes bending the sap
lings behind which I stood until his
horns almost reached mo. There was
not a branch! the one large tree low
enough for me to seize and climb up,
and I had no time in which to scale it
between the bull's charges.
How long this awful game of "touch
wood" lasted I cannot tell, for after
the flret excitement of self-preservation
passed off weariness again took
possession of me, and it required all
the instinct and love of life in me to
keep me on my feet Several timcc the
hull left me for a few seconds, pacing
suddenly away, bellowing his malig
nant discontent of my refusal to come
forth and be trampled and gored to
death, but before 1 could cross to a
lietter position be always came back at
full speed. My tongue began to cleave
to the roof of my mouth, iny eyes grew
hot and misty, my knees trembled un
der me, while a ringing in my ears
warned me that nature was exhausted,
and I felt it impossible to hold out un
til dark.
At length I grew desperate, aad de
termined to make a run for the oppo
site covert the moment the bull turn
ed from me. I felt sure I was doomed,
and thought of it until I actually be
gan to welcome the idea of its ending
iu any way. The bull seemed to know
I was worn out and grew more rapid
and fierce in his charges.but'just when
I was going to sit down under the
great tree and lot him do his worst, I
heard the rattle of a horse among the
rocks above, aad a shout that sounded
like the voice of an angeL Then came
the barking of a dog and the loud re
ports of a stock whip, but the bull,
with bis devilish eyes fixed on me nev
er moved. Up came a horseman at full
speed, and crack fell the lash on the
bull's black hide, while the blood
spurted out In a long streak-. The an
imal turned savngely and chargod the
horseman, bellowing with astonished
rage and pain, but the horse wheeled
round just enough to ballte him
no more and again the lash descend
ed, cutting like a long flexible razor;
but the infuriated bull was not to be
beaten off with a whip ho charged
again and again. But he had met his
match, for right and left as needed,
the wiry Spani-h mare turned, some
times on her hind, sometimes on ber
fore legs. It was the most magoilicant
exhibition of equestrianism I ever saw,
and I actually forgot my fatigue and
exhaustion as I watched it
My rescuer now shouted something,
leaped from his horse and strode for
ward to meet the oull with an open
knife between his teeth. A", the beast
lowered bis head to charge, he seemed
to catch him by the horns. There
was a struggle, a cloud of dust a
stamping like two strong men wrest
ling. I could not see clearly, but the
next moment the bull wis on his
back, with the blood welling from his
throat and the limbs quivering in
death. The stranger, covered with
dust ?nd blood, came up to me then,
saying, apparently as uncouscious of
triumph as if he had been killing a
calf in a slaughter-house, -He's dead
enough now, sir; he won't troublo
anybody any more."
I walked two or three paces toward
the dead beast when my senses f..iled
me and I fainted. When 1 came to
myself my horse was standing near
me, tied to a bush, and my strange
rescuer had withdrawn a few feet and
was watching me intently. I went up
to him, and thanking him for the ser
vice rendered me inquired the name
of him to whom I owed my life, lie
was an outlaw and a fugitive from
Justice, but he certainly saved me
from a cruel death, and he was th
finest horseman I ever saw.
Hotel walUrs are great reader oi
Character,
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aVKNISll PRATER IN TBI HARRM.
KAMAZAN.
'The great Mnliomednn fast began on
April 24, and throughout Tnrkey there
will be forty days of alti nonce and
forty nights of gormandizing and revel
ry. Among the orthodox Mussulmans,
that is to say, for there are Tnrks ami
Turks; contact with Westerns has led
to laxity in religions observance; and
the KnropeaDiztd Osmanii sneaks away
to enjoy in secret the coffee and tobac
co which are dearer to him than the
noon-day meal. It is the craving for
those, rather than hanger, which trans
forms the bland, affable pasha into a
hnrlish bigot, and the Turk becomes
fanatical Bamazan as naturally as a
Constantinople Greek gets tipsy in
Carnival. The loom of the sunset-gun
uhanges his frame of mind. Tho glow
ing charcoal is put to the narghili or
the cigarette, he curls his legs under
lira on the divan, draws a long caress
ing whifT, and then another, as it tak.
3ng the f nines into the innermoxt rami
jfloations of his system. Slowly the
dense wreaths of smoke cnrl ont of
month and nostrils the ill-humors of
I he day vanish with them and the pa-ha
fs again affable, and ready once more
to be entertained with gossip or stories
flavored to bis taste.
Ramnzan is the ninth month of the
Mahomedan year, and commemorates
the month in which the Prophet was
wont to retire into solitude and silence
and devote himself to prayer and medi
tation. For the rich and idle who can
pass the days in sleep and enjoy the
revels of the nights, Bamazan entails
no sacrifice; bnt for the poorer clasaea,
and these, be it remembered, form the
large majoriy, it means hard self-denial
to work from sunrise to sundown with
out so much as a drop of water for re
freshment. It is Inst these simple,
laboring Moslems who observe it iuont
rigidly, and when thegnns of Toidiaueh
announce the close of tho day's fai t.
and from every minaret the muezzin
calls the Faithful to prayer, one may
see the workman piously poatrate him
self before touching his frngal meat
rrugal, indeed, it is with the Turkish
peasant, for it Consists of a large hunch
of bread, as new as possible, and a
small piece of goat'a-milk cheese, a en
cumber, a water-melon, or anything
else that may be in season to give it
relish. Tho meal is washed down with
copious draughts of water from the
nearest fountain, and crowned with the
beloved eigarette. With tho opulent,
(par, as the meal is called which breaks
the day's fast, is a far more elaborate
affair. It is no longer the custom to
keep open house during the entire
mouth, but there is a great deal of en
tertaining, the Hnltan himself setting
the example, and every night inviting
;ho Miniater, Ambassadors, or other
llstuigtUHhed liersons totaketfr at
she Imperial tulde; and at once, at least,
the whole of the troops forming the
garrison of Constantinople are invited
'jo ijtar at lildiz, when each soldier on
leaving the Taluce receives a present of
money. The social duties of the Grand
Vizier are also heavy in this season, as
jtiqnotte requires that ho should invite
til to his table, from tho highest officer
ind Minister of State to the mere clerk
n tho l'orte. Unless distinguished
Christians nre present, Turks, who or
iinarily affect Western manners, revert
luring RamAZan to the primitive usages
)f the more orthodox, dining from low
ables and eating with their fingers in
rue Unman lie fashion. A low stool is
placed before the gnets, and on this is
a?t a tray containing a number of tiny
dates of Aors d'trui're thin slices of
imoked tongue of beet-ham, olives,
iheese, almonds, pistachios, or caviar
and lemonade. If the family is not
rery strict, a small decanter of rnki
lakes the place of the lemonade. The
ruests nibble and sip until soup is
rought in. When the soup is removed
.here is more nibbling and sipping;
lines or cigarettes are lighted, and con-
rersation Hows on geully till dinner is
JtBMIia.l-APT
served. On ordinary occasions djnnei
is eaten almost in silence. It conld not
wcllle otherwise, for the meal consists ot
innumerable dishes' which are disposed
of with an agility trnly wonderful. A
lamb stuffed with rice, nuta, raains, ami
spices, is replaoed by some rich pastry
which is succeeded by a fried fish; and
so the courses revolve, savory alter
nating with sweet in quick succession
until all have eaten to repletion. Ot
great occasions the dishes, doubled in
number, follow each other in mort
stately sequence, less suggestive ol
npopleiy. Pipe follows dinner and
prayer follows pile, and then the rldei
folk doze on tl esofas or converse in at
intermittent, desultory fashion, while
the young men amuse themselves aftei
their kind. 'Ihe "civilized" youth
spends tho night at whist or in the
eafei chantanfs of Pera, while thl
others hnrry off to enjoy the groterqu
indecencies of the Turkish theatre 01
seek amusement in the streets of Stam
boul. Throughout the night the city i
all bustle and excitement; all the
moanues are illuminated, rows of t-ny
oil lamps encircle the minarets, 01
hang suspended from one minaret tc
the other, and at the chief mosques
lamps are arranged from tower to
tower, to represent the Sultan's tonghra
or some sacred motto. The usually
pilent streets are thronged with Mus
sulmans of both sexes, for it is the only
time in which Turkish women are ac
customed to go into the streets at night,
and they like to avail themselves freely
of the privilege; stalls and bhowa line
the road, the former oontuing all man
ner of refreshment, from roast sheep's
head, or pitau, to rice-milk and lemon
ade. In the by-streets one meets
groups of women,! oarefully muffled up
about the nos), but showing a long ex
panse of nether limbs), escorted by a
eunuch, or a man servant, carrying a
paper lantern, to light them on their
way to a neighboring harem. It is a
great time for paying and receiviua
visits, the ladies spending the night in
smoking and gossiping, or enjoying
ontertainmeuts, whioh are not alwaye
of the most delicate character. Aboul
an hour before dawn men porambnlatc
the i-treeU, beating a drnm and calling
njon the Faithful to take their las!
meal before sunrise. The card partj
breaks up, the shows and theatres close,
here is another heavy feed, followed
by prayer and sleep, uud by the time
the ffiuoiir is abroad, Ktaiuloul has re
sumed its wonted air of picturesque
sVig nation.
A lluiMlas Mnaarrhlsf.
They begin the classes in some ol
the public schools nowadays in the
rudiments of civil government at a
very early ago says the liostou Tran
script And it seems that the young
people get on the whole, a pretty cor
rect idea of the way we are governed.
A teacher who, by the way. Is rath
er fond of English things, was orally
Instructing a class the other day in the
foundations of political science. She
is 11I given her young pupils a very in
teresting lecture about the British sys
tem of government. And then she
asked tho boy at the head of the class:
'And now, Johnny, what are the
men called who govern, or rule over,
us in this country?"'
"Kings!" said Johnny, promptly.
"Oh, no. Tell mo. the next one. bj
whom we are governed?"
'(Jueens!"
"No! Next boy."
Jacks!" said the next boy.
And he was not promoted to the
bead of the class.
Illinois has frog farms.
Buttons are male from potatoes.
The true Bengal tiger Is dying out.
or
TRUST.
Tranrlnttd Cnroi Wtnktrorth from thl
German.
laTe Rnd to onl'r all thy wave.
And hope In htm. wtiaior brtlrte,
Tbou'lt find titia In thr evil dava
Thy all sufficient strength and culds:
Who trusts In Rod's unchanging fova.
Builds on the ruck that nought can move.
Whxt can the." anxlnns eares avail.
These uevpr-erasinn moans and slghsT
What oan It help u. to b-wall
Kch painful niomriit an It Bleat
Our cros. and trials do but press
The heavier f jr our bttterneas.
Only thy restlem heart keep Mill.
And wait Id cheerful hope; content
To takewhate er hl grxclous will,
Hl all-dpieernlnii lore haib aent.
Poabt not our Inmost want are known
Io him who cboie ui for bis own.
He know when Jovrol honrs are best
He sends thein as he tees It meet:
When thon hast borne the fiery t.
And art mad free from all deceit
He comet to thee all unaware.
And makes thee owa his loving care.
Wot in the nest of patn and atrlfe
Think iod bath cast thee off unheard.
And that the m.,a, whose prosperous life
Thou enviest, la ot 1 im preferred.
Time passes and much change doth bring.
And seta a bonnd to everything.
All are alike before his face:
'TIS easy to our Mod most high
To make the rich man poor and base.
To give the poor man wealth and )oy.
True wonders still by him are wrought
Who si tti th up, and brings to nought.
King, prav, and swerve not from his ways.
Hut do thine own part faithfully.
Trust ht. rich promises of grace,
Soshail Ihey be fulfilled to thee;
God never vet fore.Hkk at
Tho soul that trusted him Indeed.
THKYOUyC GIRL.
I do not mean the self-possessed and
self-centered young woman whose equi-
oise equals that of the matron; who
ooks askance at people, places and
things, and who may be the embryonic
angel of some man s heart and home,
bnt most frequently in a Maoohiavelli
in petticoats (or bifurcations); I re
fer to the "girly" girl at the period
midway between twelve aad twenty,
whose school days have just ended, ana
for whom that grimmest of all teachers,
experience, now begins to set harder
tasks than any she ever conned from
books, and whose imprint will be upon
heart and soul as well as upon the
mind.
The sorry spinster and the overbur
dened wife and mother look upon the
blooming creature and eigh for their
halcyon days long gone by; while she,
with unquestioning confidence and the
sweet aud newly-awakened conscious
ness of individuality, rejoices in her
youth, perhaps beauty, and trims her
sails with a light heart
Well, in many respects she is an ob
ject of envy. Life opens before her
eager anticipations flowery vistas of
present gaieties and future blisses, and
what wonder that the coleur de rose
gets into her eyes and so blinds them
that when the skies grow gray above
ber, the scales fall and she aeea exist
ence in its true lights and shadows, she
feels herself stranded upon the cold
ami rock-bound ahors of aotuality I
Unless she belongs to the close of
daily wage-workers, ahe takes little
thought lor the morrow, beyond the
projection of its pleasures. Bne laughs
and sings and danoes in the abandon
of exuberance, decks her pretty person
aud worships her ideal. Too young
yet to indulge, a fad or take up a
''cult," to pretend cordiality ahe does
not feel, or to do homage at the shrine
of other people's pet hobbies, she is
very apt to make enemies of touchy
folks who do not allow for her tender
years or her vagaries; for, strangely, it
is the thoughtless, often unconscious
affront which is hardest to forgive.
Were sh older she would tactfully
slide around all sneh angles; but, be
ing a heedlens young person whose
penetration (not yet suftioiently sharp
ened by varied contacts), fails to pierce
through a stone wall, the mischief is
done and forever past reparation; for
no arts of speech, open or occult, oan
explain away such errors, and enemies
gather around her ont-posfs.
Then we assume that she is not only
well favored bnt magnetic as well, and
attracts many admirers whose palpable
dnlation is unction to her innocent
nature; and her little conquests, be
they for a day, an hour, or an eternity,
are an offense to other girls and other
women. She liecoines a target for the
spite of erst friendly companions; and
being not yet case-hardened begins to
see "through a glass darkly," the arid
sfrelches her tender feet must travel,
atartlingly contradistinct to her cher
ished visions of green fields and fertile
valleys. But she lives more zeatfully,
if possiblo, within the scope of to-day
coquets a little, falls Into tentimental
habits of thought, can
Lore like in.id white the fever's on
And hate like mad wheu the fever's done;
is the joy ot every jonst and looks upon
her beaux as the main-spring of her
life perhaps because they teach her to
know the real lover when he comes.
There are other "penis in Ivytown"
for my virginal heroine. Every old
maid Tvithin her sunny radins delights
in casting her LoroBOoe, sub rosa, and
predicting for her a destiny so horrible,
so tragic, that did she. impressionable
and sensitive to censure, know it, sleep
would be forever banished from her
eyelids! Because she is charming and,
litilo witch! begins to know her
power she is "bobl," "forward," and
everything else popnlarly supposed to
have place in the category ot "awful !"
Her irrepressible love of fun, and high
S ii its, her dimples, her grace, herself
iu sooth, thev wonld, wilh malice fire-p-nHy
auni iillate, if only many and
frequent showers of disparaging rhet
oric conld dash tier into the dark
abysm of everlasting oblivion.
And if she runs her career as straight
as the crow flies, they dodge behind
generalities. tjlte rnuhz rouf The
gentleman in red protects his own!
Yet, the soured and pessimistic "un
appropriateds ' are mildly denunciative
compared to the mothers of unsought
girls who regard her as the arch enemy
of their loverless darlings. They are,
in reality, her greatest traducars. The
tdirnps of a dozen pairs of masculine
shoulders count as naught compared to
the venom of a mortified matron's
tongue; and she so cleverly sweetens
her poison into the remblauce of the
very nectar of good feeling that the
harm she does is all the more deadly.
Thus when the yonng girl enters
upon her momen oas journey through
the world, believing that all women are
angels and all men god-; in the full
hush of maidenly ingenuousness ahe
comes face to face with facts nnaoften
ed by romance, thorns dev. id of roses,
and snares and -pitfalls everywhere!
She is not enviable from all stand
points, is she? She hopes for so much,
she fears so little; rushes into ait na
tions, that, verily, "angels would fear
to trend;" rails against small trials and
,Wul. A- .1.. .11 - - . .1 1
'iwio , 1 n 11 no riio Will ill reiH'l 1
against the most devastat.ng diapenaa-
tions ot Providence in days to cou.e; !
and is altogether a reposeles morUI, !
subject to lnstintaneouselallitions and ,
depressions, and sometimes nnmaaac-.
Lie. When she was a tiuy being iu
arms or rrippii garonnj in short fnks
ami pini fores, she was loved without
atint and ber little waywardnesses over
looked. Then she neither compre
hends i nor appreciated the depth of
devotion aocomed her. But now i
the lime, when she tosses helplessly
upon a broad sea of uncertainties, and
precedent aud principle are undefined,
when untried, nntntored in, and un
spotted from, the world, that she needs
the armor of close affection, tender for
bearance and geutle vigilance, aad an
ounce of kindly remonstrance ia worth
several pounds of harsh eensure, for
her ladyship is impatient of reproof.
Bat shs is pliant as wax in judicious
hands, and is worth every effort made
in ber behalf. Like the babe, she is a
well-spring of pleasure in the house,
and even her little vanities have their
charm. From the cutting speech of
people she should be exempt, and par
ents and friends should remember to
deal gently with her she is "but
lassie yet" Belle Evelyn Cable.
POPULATION OF HELL,
A Genius Figures It Out to be 175.
OOO.OOO.OOO. Certainly an endeavor to arrive at a
correct Idea of the population of hell,
assuming the orthodox idea of it to be
sound, has at least the element ol
povelty to recommend it A recent
writer has computed that in round
numbers the'earth has a population ol
1.300.000.000. of which 300.000.uOij are
professed christians, the other 1,000,
000.000 being Mohammedans, Budd
hist. Jews, pagan, and heathen. The
whole race was condemned to eternal
punishment for the sin of Adam. This
was the fall of man, from which there
iwas and is no redemption save through
jthe death of Christ
. Biblical chronology givos the earth
n period of about 6,000 years. From
fVdam's time to Christ was 4,000 years,
during which period no human souls
iwere saved, line population then may
have averaged 1,000.000,000. Three
f enerations, or 3,000,000. 000 pass away
n each century. Forty centuries,
therefore, consigned 120.0iK.0K),000 of
men to eternal Are, and. for all that ia
known, thoy are there now. In the 1.
(00 years which have elapsed since the
Idrth of Christ 67,000, OOO.OoO more ol
tiuman beings have lived and died. If
all the Christians, nominal and real,
who have ever lived on the face of the
barth have been saved they would not
number more than 18, 000.000. 00U.
iSow. it is deducted the latter number
from the grand total of 177.000,
600,000 there is found 169.000,000.
000 souls who are suffering the tor
ments of hell-Are. against the 1$.000,-
000. 900 who have escaped. But this is
not the whole truth. Nobody beJieves
that more Utan 10 per cent of the pro
fessed Christiana are saved. Calvin
lst themselves say the elect are few.
If that ia a fact heaven contains but
1. HOO.000.000. against a population i
hell of 179,000.000,000.
STEALING A CHILD.
An Intelligent elephant, and What
It Took to Paolfy Her.
A remarkably intelligent elephant
working on a new bridge in Ceylon,
says Murray's Magazine, had a young
ono to whom ahe was perfoctly devot
ed. It died, and she became inconsol
able. Formerly the gentlest of crea
tures, she grew irritable and even
dangerous. One morning she broke
the chain which contiued her and
escaped Into the forest
One night about ten days after her
escape, the officer who had been in
charge of her went out to lay in wait
for bears at a pond in a jungle at some
distance.
As be and his native attendant were
returning, early in the morning, tho
native silently nudged him, and they
saw in the dim gray light an elephant
with her calf making their way toward
the camp. They both sprang behind
trees, and when the elephants had
pad passed, the native insisted that the
older one was their old friend.
When they reached the camp they
found that the truant had indeed re
turned, and had gone from one person
to another, touching each with her
trunk, as if she were exhibiting her
adopted child, which she had evidently
begged, borrowedor stolen during her
absence.
Her good temper and usual docility
returned at once, and the owner bless
ed the good fortune whioh had enabled
her to steal a child.
Cattiag Off Moaey for Can.
A tall, black-whiskered man was
leaning over the desk at the Continen
tal hotel last night conversing with
several friends, says the Philadelphia
Inquirer. Pulling a plethoric wallet
from his breast pocket he took there
from a long sheet of 96 bills, just as
they came from the treasury depart
ment His friend inquired what they
were. "Only advertisements." was
the reply. "They're given away with
tea instead of the usual chromos. " By
this time there was quite a crowd
around the black whiskered roan,
eagerly examining the bills. Soma
thought they were genuine bill, while
others, who bad never seen bills in
this shape before, as there was nearly
a yard of them, really thought thoy
were advertisements and would not
have bought the entire lot for 6 cents.
"You're all just like the fellow out
in St Louis. He was a clerk in a
store where I made a purchase I ask
ed him for a pair of shears and pro
ceeded to cut off a bilL You should
have seen the man's eyes. They stood
out so you could have knocked them
off with a stick. The outcome of the
matter was that he refused to take
-vhem. Just at that minute the pro
prietor came from the office, and, see
lug the status of the case, discharged
the man, but after I had explained the
case we all had a good laugh.
"Why do I carry them in that way?
I guess well I suppose to have a
little fun; that's alL 1 have a friend,
a cashier in a bank, and he lets me
have them. Let's adjourn and have a
B. and S. and see what the barkeeper
has to say.
Ckaae4 Hia T.zt.
A few Sundays ago an Atlanta
preacher had selected as his text for
his morning discourse : "It is easier
for a camel to go through the eye of a
needle than for a rich man to enter
the kingdom of heaven." He intend
ed to "scotch 'era." When he entered
the pulpit he found a note from the
richest member of his congregation
and it read as follows: "When the
collection for foreign missions ia taken
up this morning put me down for
t )." The sermon was preached on
the text: "Take heed that ye do not
your alms before men to be seen of
them," '....
.SiWS LN BUIKF.
Montre il, Canada, has a 24,7v-
pound belt
U ''ere are 12) school trustee ia
New York city.
From 00,0.0 to 120,000 hairs grow
In a human scalp,
The Hungarian novelist Jokal is
said to lie a millions re.
Our sare hours are well named;
they steiL. the shortest of the day.
On July 6, the earth is farther
away from the sun than at any other
time.
The Litest Paris music hall sensa
tion is the donkey which pUys the vio
loncello. Tli?reare st-ll fourteen different
places on this globe where cannibalism
is practiced.
In Germany's public school stutter
ing boys are over twice as numerous as
stuttering girls.
The longest name in the Bible is
Marhar-shnlal-hash-baz. It occurs in
Isaiah vlil, 3,
A man never knows how much he
cn do till he tries or how badly ha
cau do it either.
The thinker must write so that ha
that ttns may read, in order to become
"a Iilu and power."
Farm lands In the United States,
taking the country as a whole, occupy
only acres In every 1,000.
The -Yeio VorA- H'orio! paid out
$184 Ot.0 for one month's collection of
news and publication of the paper.
Pattl is preparing her autobio
graphy, which will lie published simul
taneously In Paris and London.
Have at least two pairs ot shoes of
the Bdtne weight, aud do not wear the
same pair two days In succession.
Twelve of the signers of the Declar
ation of Independence were Irishmen,
or of li isii descent )t is said.
Historian Bancroft rated the
Aniericar. poets In this order. Emer
son, Bryant, Longfellow and WhitMer.
Linen that has become yellow from
being laid away may be whlleued if
Soaked iu buttermilk two or three days.
The Visiting Xurse association of
, Chicago employs and pays four tratn
ied nurses to visit the sick poor free of
Charge.
A white pitch has been discovered
that ran be run into deck seams hot,
and will stand the suu's heat in any
climate.
Twenty-six people named Mahoney
are employed lu various capacities by
the city and county government of
Chicago.
Mrs. Arthur Ie Vahl, or New
York, possesses a necklace of prlceles
pearl ro(es containing H0 pearls of
large size.
The largest reservoir In the world
is the great tank of Dhebar in India,
which covers an area of 21 squre
miles.
The king of all lobsters was caught
recently off Monhegan, Me. Ha was
thirty inches long and weighed fourteen
pound..
! The largest beekeeper In the world
s Mr. Harbison, of California, who baa
,0j0 hives, producing 20.00J pounds of
oney yearly.
The discussion of the affairs of
pnu's neighbors is an evidence of 1 pry-
jing disposition and of a mind oooupled
(with tiifles.
j - The organs of smell in the turkey
, (vulture and carrion crow are so deii
,cate that they can scent their food for
a distance of forty miles.
Mrs. Thlllp H. Armour, the wife
5f the Chicago millionaire, is a notable
iotisekneer, and prides heiself upon
her culinary successes.
Some recently published statistics
show that Canada is the proud pos
sessor of 3,021 lawyers, of whom nearly
one-half belong to Ontario.
Convulsions in children Bliou'd be
treated with cold bandages to the bead
and heat to the body. A tub of warm
water aud mustard la good.
Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth'a
full name is L'mma Dorothy Eliza
Neuette Southwonh. blie i over
seventy-five years of age and very
feeble.
Tennyson was fifty when hU idyls
"Elaine," "Vivien," "Guinevere"
were published, and was about sixty
two when he completed the series with
"Ciareth and Lynette."
United States Senator I'latt esti
mates that there are telegraph wires
enough to reach to the moon and
back and then girdle the earth three
tlme
Mr. T a1 mage prides himself upon
being able to turn out an excellent ser
mon more readily than iuoat men can
write a letter. purgeon Is an equally
quick composer.
Friends of the morbidly irritable
should guard agaiuat increasing the
evil by their own conduct, md gen
erally should take counsel with a phy
sician. ! Water which is drank la not the only
Hcource of danger. Many a widespread
aud fatal epidemic baa be n traced to
milk from dairies where the pans f'ad
been washed in impure water, or the
111 ilk itself adulterated with it
A rec!pe for driving away cock
roaches Is to seal up several of the in
jj -cts in an envelope and drop It in the
a' reel uuaeen. The remaining roaches
will all go to the under of the iarcel.
Tulso, from which the word Tues
day is derived, was one of the most
ancient and popular gods of ancient
Uermmv; the third day ot the week:
was dedicated to his worship.
It Is a practice of the Navajo In
dians to strelcli a lariat of I or-halr
about their tents at niwht, such a bar
rier proving entirely efftctive to keep
out snakes tarantulas, aud centipedes.
An enormous elephant, peagreen in
color, truiiklesH, and white tusks,
branching out like the hoins of a deer.
Is reported to have been capture! by
au African King, who will not part wiltx
the curiosity.
The largest city in the world In area
U10 de Janeiro, Brazil, which coveis
64 1 fcuuare miles.
1 here is a dlffi r nee of only twenty
tw square miles between the area of
Eog'a .d and Iowa.
The ordinary watch ciystal pas a
t'irough the hat. da of thirty-live Vhoik
m n be Tote it is ready for use.
A new railway appliance enables the
conductor t ) signal t the engineer ac
curately and promptly by means of coo
press 1 ' .a
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