T i P. SOHWEIER, THE OONBTITUTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor and. Proprietor. B. VOL. XVLI. WINTER. There l. h dn " climes, all seasons fair ; There l, who knows no restless passion's strife: rontrntment. smiling at each Idle care: Cunltutnu-nt, thankful for the gift of life. One finds I" w Inter many a view to plea e. lbs morning landscape Iiluged with Irost wurU say. Toe sum at wood seen through the leafless tie Tho cIiii clear ether at the close of day. THE UKOW.X-BEARDED STRASfiER. The early Jays of February came suuuy anil smiling; the birds that had passed their northern winter in the warm l anches of the fir and spruce tretm of tlio woods, were hopping lightly from the silvery blossomed lumpy willows to the fringed and tas sclvd ha7.fl and alder shrubs, now and then trilling forth from their tiny throat purest spring-like songs of jy. Adown (ho hazel-bordered country road came two rsy girls clad in navy I, Uie walking suits, wi h here and there in their costumes a dash of red; thitir bright faces and wind-tossed hair crowned with jaunty crimson yarns with dark blue tassels. Their steps were elastic with health and youth's luidoubting hopefulness; they gave tho finishing toueh of life that made the reenj a perfect one to two young men who were sitting un observed by them in a sunny corner whero two walls met, sketching the stretch of grey roadway with it9 shrub befringed edges and fluttering birds. He quick and sketch them, Jaok,it is the one thing needed to make the theme perfect. Tlu-re, they have paus ed, ami how unconsciously graceful they are pausing I Not often do you get such an accidental touch as this, and the picture will be the envy at the Annual Exhibition." Rapidly the sketching went on, and together the girls resumed their steady tramp, keeping perfect step, and pass ing the two young men who looked as innocent as only the guilty can! If they hud not sketched the girls, they naturally would have shown some con sciousness of their approach. Now, it was the girls who gave al most a start of surprise as they sudden ly discovered tho artist And his friend. "What hands jme, stylish young men ! Did you not:cc the moustache of the dark-haired oue? "What a natural wave it Lad, not that horrid waxy curl at the ends that makes you feel that it must have just come fresh from Jie barber's tongs," said Mabel Tink Lam, who Was something of an artist in her taatft as regarded masculine beauty. Being herself a rich bucd blonde, it Was but natural that she rhould have been attracted by the dark style of Roland Holland. "No, I did not notice the dark one as being other than a common-looking man, but the brown-bearded man what a figure he had 1 And a perfect facet" and Mary Peck, with a graceful movement of her arm, put up her hand to her hair, to assure herself that the wind bad not blown it "every which way." "Really, are we blown quite into frights, Mabel t I wonder who those fellows are, and where they came from. One wss sketching anil the other leaning on the wall and look ing; or do you suppose he wa posing? Wouldn't he make a splendid portrait ?" "He? No, he couldn't hold a candle to the dark ono. I wish we could know them, but what is the use in talk ing such nonsense ; you and I shall sever know such as he out in this wil derness 1 I wonder if pa will ever get bis business straightened out, so that we can once more have a comfortable home in tho city I For one, I am heartily tired of living out be e in the country, shut out from all society. I 4on't see why men who know enough to do business on change don't know enough not to get 'fleeced,' as pa calls it. Uli, dear, what made him fail all at once, and 6end us out here to grand father's?" "I don't know, I am sure; buying long and selling short and buying short aud selling long, and being rich a few years, and then suddenly 'as poor as Jtb's tutkey1 is a conundrnin I cannot understand. But I began to feel that when pa and his clique was rich, then somebody tvai fleeced and made poor; we didn't know who it was, that was all, and we just enjoyed It. "Now pa lulks about our being fleeced, and I suppose somebody is flourishing on the fleecing just as we did; and never dveaming that out here in the woods we, tho fleeced, are drag ging along miseraWy, shut out from all the things we used to have. How long have we worn these suits? Mine is actually sprouting a fringe around the bottom, sort oT growing its spring foliage as one might sav. I wonder if we can have sonic new ones this spring?" I "1 don't know. Wc have actually worn them three years; they avere the last we had before we came here two years ago the fourteenth of this month. 1 Don't you remember we were planning 1 such fun for the novel valentine party I Lucy Hoyt had sent out invitation? 'or? Then pa failed, and we arrived here at grandpa's the evening of the ! l"rty. I thought I should die as we ! at that night in the kitchen and watched grandpa popping corn and J grandma cracking walnuts, and actu- j Uy feeling that they were making a ; real good time for us I" j Never fear, I remember it all; it jut horrid. And grandma says' now she don't see what all our 'oppor- 1 tunities' have amounted to when we: cau't do half a much to help ourselves, ) m girls who never had half our chance;" "How provoked Le is because we don't want to teach ; and she is right, I we couldn't do it if we did wish to. I he told me this morning, if I wanted ' new dress 1 ought to find some way to earn it; that it was a shame that pa ad spent tltousands of dollars on out ' -nool bills piano les-ons and French I earners, and after all we couldn't teach even the school in this district I And there's Nancy Farnum, who's never had a dollar spent on her school log and has earned ten dollarj a week lor forty weeks a year, for the last nvo years; has helpod her ma for her board fore and after school, hasdressed well, furnished her ma's parlor up, ana pat money in the savings' bank; ou two jiirls can't even give the wnghbor's children lessons on a melo. . ,n ' h I m sick of hearing it all ; nd the worst of the whole is it is ZVi . ' M much as w lte o! and b,U9Vnd the wy l?ndpa Ue to hep iu v ... e we nowhere "Well, what can't be helped, can't; o wuai, is me use or talkimr? w nay just as well make the beat of it , and come right down and take whal fun there is going; so let's walk on to I Betty I'lummer's and tell her we will accept her invitation for to-inorrow iiigni, ana go right in for a good time with the neighborhood young folks. I said at first I never would do it, bbt theu I did not e inert to here forever; now I begin to think we ' may. But, let's draw the line at mar rying, we will flirt with the boys and , have a good time. 'Twill bo some thing to take up our time. Grandpa , aud grandma will like all but the flirt j ing; they will begin to have hopes of j us and think we are at last growing sensible, and we can keep dark about , our real opinions of folks and things. i nope, tnough, they will not play kissing games. Just think of having grandpa's hired man kiss us I Of course, he is invited." Betty riummer was ouite overrnmn by the sudden cordiality of Mabel Tinkhnm and her adopted sister, Mary I'eck, and for the rest of the day was In quite a flutter of excitement over the event. Jtoland Holland and his friend, Jack Slaples, had chanced upon the Plum mer farm for their halting place in this neighborhood while sketching. When they returned to a late dinnei the voluble, gay-hearted Betty chatter ed of her morning callers, and with country freedom soon had given the young men a full history of neighbor Tinkhain's oldest son who had " years ago left the farm and gone toNew York as a clerk, and lately became what the country people called a stock gambler; had been rolling in money a few years, and married a cityg!rl; later had lived in Europe a few years, and then, just as all gamblers do sud denly he began to lose, and all at once found himself at the bottom of the heap and glad enough to 6end his two girls to bis old home, which had never been good enough for them to visit when they had lots o' money." Sho told the young man that the girlf were real nice, but couldn't do a thing to earn a dollar, and seemed actually proud of it I Then she talked of her valentine party, and the young men bavin? identified Mabel Tinkham and Mary Peck as the two stylish young ladies of the morn ing episode, entered into Betty's plans, and soon hail given the quick-witted country girl some hints about valentine tricks. Betty was always ready for a good-natured joke and readily agreed lo their suggestions. In response to one of these she wenl over to grandpa Tinkhain's on the evening of the thirteenth and told the girls of these tricks. One was for the girls to lake an early morning walk on the fourteenth and the first man they met would surely be their future hus band I Others were to be tried at the house. One of these was to go out into the dark, and standing on the doorstep unwind a ball of twine for a few yards and holding the end of the twine in one band, with the othei throw the ball as far out into the dark ness as possible, then begin to wind up the end in their hand, repeating these lines: "I wind this long line so very fine, Hoping to liml st the other eml, The love I would call my valentine. The man I'd choose for lover ant friend." Then, unless one was a predestined old maid, at the end of the line would stand before the maiden her future husband who would yield the line to her, clasp her in his arms and take hit first kiss and disappear in the dark ness, and when tho gates were propi tious she would meet this very man, perhaps be introduced to him in the most prosaic and orthodox manner; and surely some day he would come to claim the hand of the maiden he had kissed in the dark I "I shall go for a walk before to morrow morning, Mary; will you gc too?" cried Mabel, gleefully. "Indeed I will not. You'll be surt to meet somebody's hired man driving the cows to the spring for water," re plied Mary, scornfully. Then she continued, "I will control my impatience to see my hero until evening. I shall throw the ball of twine from ourbick door-step, and lei it roll down the tlope into the garden, and then gently draw my hero up to give me that sweet betrothal kiss, and as it is hardly ptoper to accept any thing from a stra.iger, I will return it at once," and Mary joined in the gen eral laugh. Betty went home and reported. Early the next morning Mabel wenl out for a walk and for half a mile mel no one, not even a hired man driving cows to water, nor a milkman goinf toward the village. Suddenly, as she turned a corner, she came face to face with the dark, nious- tached stranger she had seen a few mo nings ago posivg so gracefully be side the stone wall as he lifted his ha' and passed around the corner. Mabel was not more romantic than the ordinary girl, yet her heart throbbed more rapidly, and the rich color swayed back and forth in bet shapelv cheeks, at she wondered ii there could be anything in such hap penings, and queried mentally over and over again, "who could he be, where from, and with wlumi was he staying in that neighborhood, and would she maybe sometime reklly meet and speik with him?" But it was time t return for break fast, and, lo! he was returning, and politely lifted his hid once more from the close-cut, da k, carling locks. Evening came, and Mabel and Marj were much entertained by the society into which they were for the first time introduced. ilithertii they had held themselves aloof teoui the young people about them. The remembrance of their New York circle, their wit.tcrs at Washi; g ton, the years spent ia London, Pans, Mentone and Nice had been too fresk in their memories to aJmit of their ac knowledging that they could associate even temporarily wi'h tluwe so far re moved from their set. J Ml I Lilt! 1 1 1 1 1 . 1 1 1; " l ' - ' - some, sort o sociality had conquered their exciu- sivencss at last, or rather the hopeless- ness of ever resuming their old place, had forced them to yield. Th hours ran on in more or res: stupiil games until ten o'clock, when one bv one the betrothed maidem klipped away from the party to trj some ttick. Unobserved they were, not, and it was eaw to ue VM MIFFLINTOWN. ' hoped to be the favored one, as, aftet each girl passed out, some admiring swain was sure soon to follow. None of the country youth dared follow stately Mary l'eck, and the en vious tongues whisered, "She'll nol meet anyone ; she holds her head toe high." On the back door step Mary stood, half shivering with the cold night air half with a superstitious thrill. Slowly she wound the ball after throwing it, softly repeating the rhymes as told by Betty. For awhile the line was slack as if lying along the ground, then it became a bit more taut, and soon she was sure tbere was some unknown attachment at the other end of the line. When she saw a figuio actually com ing toVard her in the darkness, she nearly lost her self-possession; but hei pride came to her aid ; she would nol scream and make herself an object ol ridicule before those youths; she fell so much superior to the in, that it would have been the last thing she could have endured. The light from a window suddenly flashed upon the advancing figure. It was the brown-bearded stranger, who at that moment clasped her in bis arms, kissed her lips raptur ously, released her gently and disap peared like a dream in tie darkness 1 It was some moments ere she had re covered sufficiently to re-enter the house with a calm, undisturbed face, except for a rich, deep flush not at al' an ordinary color with her. Here she had need of all tho 'elf possession years in society had given her, for in her absence two guests bac arrived. Mubel was already clouting freely with Roland Holland "aud Jael Staples! Why prolong the story? The enc was the usual one; the new acquaint ance soon riened into an old; Ihn ac quaintances became friends and in time lovers. Then came the quiet wedding at grandpa's; the short bridal tour, anc the prosaic settling down as house keepers in two small flats in New York, where in domestic contentineni they dwelt ever after, in as great a de gree of continuous harmony as falls tc the average families. i.ranaina made tins domestic peace post-ible, by persistently insisting tl.al both girls should take daily practica' lessons in her kitchen; that the period of courtship should commence in learn lng the art or household economies. The girls sometimes rebelled, fancying that things would manage to go or somehow without all that troub e. But grandma had her way, knowing, that a young man with a moderate in come has double need of a competent home keeper. "Pa" nevor made a second fortune, but drifted from Mabel's to Mary's, and haunted Wall street with olhe ghosts of "better days." THE MULES AND THE ELECTRIC CAR. BY MART 8. MCCOBB. They were mules. Two little fellows, with dainty feet anil funny loug ears. They lived" in the big stable, at the foot of the great bluff. But, though email, they had been accustomed to earn tbeir own living. How? Why, by drawing a street-car in a Western city. Briskly they hud worked, always alert Every night they ate their supper with all tho dig nity and self-respect of other wae earners. When, lo! one fine day came strange news. The mules pricked np their ears. What waa it they heard? Horses and mnles should le set aside? Men wonld "harness the lightning," aud make it drag the cars? "Throw ns out of employment?" cried the mules. "Do they flatter their foolish selves they can do without vxt Not a bit of it. The pnldic demands onr services. The iublic ball have them! Go to!" Ho, what do yon think those plncky follows did? The electric car was ready. The man who was "to drive the light nintc" was in his place. Suddenly "patter patter pntter patter," came the sound of eight spry hoofs. "Here we are!" called the mnles cheerfully. Sure enough, here they were, in their usual place, in front of the car. Fastened to it? Oh, nol Why mind a trifle like that? "Tang! Tang!" went the belL "Patter patter patter patter I" Off scnttled the mules. "Tang!" The mnles came to a standstill. So did the car. "Of conrse. It always stops when we do!" said the mules, and they wagged their tails. "Tang 1 Tang !" Off thev started afresh. .Lively work this 1 What was the stupid driver laughing at ? Was there a stray joke anywnere 7 All along the town, through the streets where business men should at tend to their own affairs, and not stand still to look and langh. "We know what we're about I" de clared the little mules. "Patter patter patter patter !" 1 believe they trotted in front of that electric car to the very end of the route, till they reached the place where the tall chimneys of a factory belcb forth clonds of smke. At last the mnles may rest. "Ah ha I Ah ha ! He haw I He haw I" It waa their time to langh now. "Didn't we tell you the public shonld have onr services ? 'Drive the lightning ?' Fudge I He pulled that carl" And a lady who lives in that very town told me about it. She is a very ve-ra-cions person so that 1 know that this story is true. The Dog and the Bad Egg. Tt seems that there are dog owner who are concerned as to the "friend of man's" felonious consumption of eggs. How to break him of the habit is the question. Here is one suggestion. An egg-eating dog of mine once picked np a duck's egg, which, in a very ad vanced stage of decomposition was floating down the river. As he trotted past me with his prey in his mouth, unbroken, I caught him, and gave him a slap under the jaw with my hand. There seemed to be a full gallon of decomposition in that egg. It went all over both of u. The dog apparently -- o I t j resolved never again to toucn an egg, ' gnd he kept his resolution. I for my j part determined to let dogs cat eggs in future rather than attempt to cure them 1 who snipnureueu louiugcu. AH men learn sometbinz evjryd ly, but the most of them only le.n what great fools they were yesterday. JUNIATA COUNTY. BROKEN SO SOON. "Somewhere In desolate, wind-swept space" (A spot extremely drear,) Two ahostly shapes met face to tace Uu the secoud day o' the year. So freta and blithe on yestermorn They'd been when first devised; Sow boib were broken, bruised and torn, Aud scarce to be recognized. They looked In each other's eves with dread And questmiied -Who were you?" "1 was a Kood resolve,' one said ; Said t'other : '-1 was, too." LI HUNG CHANG, VICEROY- OF CHINA. No living statesman to-day attracts so mnon attention in Enrope as the aged Viceroy of Petchili. There is a consensus of opinion to the effect that we are about to see some great changes in the relations of China to the civilized world. Bnt any change, however small, in the social politic d organiza tion that has for ages held one-fonrth of the human race in law-abiding con tentment, must have a momentous in fluence on the evolution of humanity. It is not surprising, therefore, that the man who is the most powerful person age in the Chinese Empire shonld 1m an object of intense interest to the Western Powers. The success with which the germs of rebellion have been stamped ont in Northern China farther enhances his prestipre, for it gives ns an outward and manifest sign that his slowly-matured policy or quickening and developing the dormant military power of China will yet be fruitful in far-reachins results. From the day when, as one of Gordon's lieutenants, he shared tlie glory won by "the ever victorious Army," Ei Hung Chang has been working steadily to this end. It is for this that he went half-way to meet the foreigner in China. As Mr. I. Bnsscl Young, formerly Minister of the United States at Pekin, has said, Li nnng Chang has opened np a new world for the Empire, and after the close of the last contest with Franoe. ' in which the bearing of the Chinese soiuierjr wan uccuiau if j uiiu UK promising, His excellency told Mr. l'oung quite frankly why he had done it. He was determined, he said, ere he died, to see China, like other nations, able to speak to the enemy at ber gates "with her band on the hilt of her 3 word." Though he ia now in his seventieth year, the venerable Vice roy's patriotism is as ardent as it was in his youth. His stately figure was bent bnt little under the burden of official "hara'sments," His intellect is as keen and subtle as ever, and his tact, dexterity, adroitness, pertinacity, high spirit and kindly conrtesy still extort admiration even from his ene mies. No Chinaman for there is not a drop of Manchu Tartar blood in his veins ever won so much respect and sontidence from Englishmen. No Ch'naman, it must be allowed, under stood ns better or took a more accurate measure of the strength and weakness of onr national character. Li Hang Chang, since the death of the late Prince Knnp, the yonnir Emperor's father, has been the strong est buttress of the throne, t or years, his power and prestige, however, were provincial rather than metropolitan, nd perhaps jealousy of his command ing ability and his success in dealing with foreigners caused him to be ig nored during the Begency, save when be was harassed by frivolons com plaints and official 'nagging' from Pe kin. let during this time he was making Tienstin one of the most powerful centres of political influence in the Empire, and organizing a native Chinese army and navy under his own control, which mast ia any crisis have nven bim a decisive voice in determin ing its issue. There are those who now tiint that Li Hung Chang is growing too powerful for the dynasty, and that jis ambition w ill not be satisfied till be iiaa seated himself on the Dragon 1'brone. Foolish foreign diplomatists have even striven to tempt him into treason. But the lute General Gordon, who knew him better than most men, ilways declared that Li Hung Chang was loyal to the core, that by making himself indispensable in the Inner Council of State he could satisfy all his ambitions, that in these days it would he scarcely possible for bim or any at her unsurper to establish his author ity over fourteen provinces, and pass it on to his son witbin the space of a lifetime. Some writers on this subject vera to forget that two hnndred and fifty years ago, when China was free from risk of foreign intervention, it took the Manchn dynasty, supported by the full strength of Tartar chivalry, fifty years of hard fighting ere it estab lished its power over the Middle Kine- Jom. It is certain that Li Hung Chang made no move as an usurper an the only occasion when he might have been successful, viz: when the late Emperor Tangche died myster iously, and the Imperial Family were quarrelling over the succession. Li Hnng Chang's position as Viceroy of the Metropolitan Province, with his seat of Government at Tientsin, was ilways an important one. Bnt it was not till he became one of the Grand Secretaries of State, and a Member of the Inner Conned, the mysterious body which is superior even to the Tsnng-li-Yamen, or Conncil of Census, who represent the Chinese Government to the whole world, that the chief control it affairs passed into his hands. Even now it is erroneous to describe him as master of China. In nine cases ont of ten his will and ideas probably prevail, but he has a great deal of obstruction to overcome before that comes to pass obstruction which, as in the case of -he delay in issniog the Imperial edict :ondemning the Yangtze rioters, is apt to embroil him with the foreign lega tions. Li Hnng Chang's life ni!t-y be laid to have been spent in minimizing friction between the Pekin Government ind the Treaty Powers. Again and igain has he, by his personal prestige nd dexterity in negotiation, averted she calamity of war from bis country, fet it is to him that China owes all that is most efficient in her modern army ind navy, her troops, ber ironcla Is, her ship-yards, her 'arsenals, and her fortresses. He has leen the mainstay it the Maritime Customs Department, Dn which the Imperial Government iepends for its chief resources. He :ontrivcd the scheme for collecting ilong with Imperial customs the Le kin, or the octroi, an internal import Jury which the provincial governments levied on goods coming within their boundaries, thereby vastly increasing the Imperial revenue, and affording; j China a solid basis for loan-raising id j Europe. The Imperial Governnuiit had ' to af.k him even when he was supposed to be ont of favor at Pekin to un ler take the negotiations with France as to the Tientsin massacre and with England aver the Macqnary mnrder. H. di plomacy won back Kuldja from Russia and sterilized the French conquest of ronquin. But there ia reason to think he has J PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 3. 1S92. tro tblesome times before him, and that he w 11 have to deal with a situation mu u more serious than any that can be created by mere sporadic rioting. It is hard to get at the truth about the recent outbreaks of lawlessness in China, and to decide how far they are fanatical or revolutionary. There is, however, no donbt that the long Kegency of the Dowager-Empressee diminished the personal prestige of the child mperor now seated on the throne. The Manchu dynasty, more over, still represents conquest to the Chinese of the central provinces, not merely by its insistence on Pekin instead of Nankin being made the capital, bnt by the use of the Manchu language in official reports snbmitted to the Emperor, and by the firm hand it keeps on the nucleus of the army at Pekin. But though Prince Knng organized the Pekin Field Force, the still stronger Chinese force of "Black Flags" has been organized by Li Hung Chang himself a chinaman at Tien tsin, and in the great rebellion of the past it has been to the Chinese of Hannan, not to the Ta tars beyond the Wall, that the Government of Pekin have turned for their best fighting men. The Manchu dvnastv is there fore no longer absolutely necessary to me military orgaLization of the Em pire indeed, its strength really lies in tho support of its Chinese officials, ,the saxueitv ud moderation with which it keops peace between jealous provinces and acts as a buffer between natural antipathies to foreigners and the aggressiveness of the representa tives of Foreiirn Powers. But it is a paternal government and is therefore blamed for any calamity that happens. It is the Government that has brought about the floods and famines that have recently devastated China. Ithascaused the failure of the tea girdeus now almost annihilated by Indian competi tion. It has also offended Hannan. This province, which has carried its head high because of the services of its soldiers and the groat talents of its leading families, like that of the late Marquis Tseng, which are now almost extinct, has had recently to give place to Anwhei because, forsooth, Li llaug Chang is himself an Anwhei man. The chiefs of the great Kolao Secret Society, first organized to terrorize the officials into paying the Hnnnanese soldiers honestly and regularly, have had to extend their operations and get more recruits. Hence, finding a gener al auti-foreign feeling growing up, they have fanned the flame of discon tent The presenoe of the Christian missionaries in China also adds to the intestine difficulties. Kecent telegrams respecting the mas sacres in China seem to show that the chief atrocities have taken place about a hnndred miles westward of New chang, the most northerly port of China open to foreign trade. And it is from that district the rebels were said to be marching in the direction ot l ekin. In order to gain Pekin, they would have to cross the southern divis ion of the Great Wall of China, at a point two or three days march from Pekin. Our illustration is from a pho tograph recently taken of the Great Wail which was built by the Emperors of the Ming Dynasty. The gate there in snown is the nearest to Pekin, and not very far from the Ming tombs, and the one for which, therefore, in all probability, the rebels would make. It is to previ-nt the latter from crossing to the south side of the wall, that troops have been sent from Tientsin. Ibis part of the wall was built about 500 years later than the larger and older part, which was constructed about b. c. 2il0. The Great Wall is visible gen erally from a great distance, and one can trace it, running over the highest hills and into the deepest valleys, spanning rivers, being doubled in im portant p isses, and branchod where tbere are several high points of van tage. Moreover, the wall is supplied with towers, two stories high, every hnndred yards. This part of the wall varies from 20 to 40 leet high, with a parapet a little over three feet. On top the wall is about 15 feet wide, and about 25 feet at the base. The parapet is built of bluish bricks, about 15 inches long, 9 inches wide ami 5 inches thick. Below this the wall is built of blojks of stone, near 2 feet long and 1 foot wide. Owing to its height, therefore, it will serve as a useful barrier to impede the rebels, when guarded by a few troops. Tieutsin, to which we have alluded, is really the port of Tekin, from which it is distant about eighty miles. Onr il lustration is from a photograph taken lass winter from the tower of the Town Hall in English concession, and shows in the distance a view of the floods that were prevalent at that time. Nearer the foreground the river may be seen, and it is close to this spot the Euro pean gunboats are anchored every winter. At the present tine there are two gunboats, one British and the American, stationed there. 'Ihe native town, which is very dirty, is about a mile and a hull farther np the river. Jt was here that, on the 21st of June, li70, the infamously notorious massa cre of the French Sisters of Charitv by a Chinese mob took place, and Tien tsin will always be famons as the place where Lord Elgin's treaty known as the "Treaty of Tientsin." was signed in 180a About eiehty miles down the river, guarding the month, mud forts and barracks are situated, and the place known by the name of Taku is con nected with Tieutsin by railroad, the line referred to in recent telegrams. A German Yankee." A full fledged German, bearing the odd name of August H. Y'ankee, ob tained his last naturalization papers from the Clerk of the United States Distriot Court, Boston, the other day, and is now an American citizen. Mr. Yankee's occupation is that of a farm er, and he lives In Dover. Mass. He was born in Wotschihous, Germany, ' in 1863, being now 27 years of age. He oll'e red no explanation as to the origin of his name. The word Y'ankee, as almost every body knows, is said to have originated with the Indians, who used to call the English settler the Yengeese, or Y'an gcesc, as they could not master the correct pronunciation of the word. Whether some of the ancestors of this young man came over to America with the Hessian troops in the time of the Revolution and on their return cdopted the name Yankee is not known. It ia thought, however, that this may have been very possible by more than one of the officers of the court. A copy of the celebrated picture ot "Geese," m the Gli zeh museum, stated by Egyptologists to be the most ancient specimen of painting yet discovered, la now on exhibition at South Kensington Museum, London, England. BULL-FROGS AND BIT AILS. j There are two new additions to the list of profitable products of the farm j which promise to find employment for j many farmers who have the requisite , facilities. These are due to foreign no I tions and tastes imported chiefly from j Fiance and Germany along with the : numerous adopted citizens who hail ! from those European shores. Oue is the grenouille, so called by the French, who esteem it as a choice article foi the exercise of culinary skill. It is now served up at the first hotels and restau rants in the large cities, New York esiwcially, and appears in the markets as a regular article of sale. The ani kual is easily bred and reared, and feeds itselr and thrives most abundantly m marshes. The other is called ex:arjot, aud is used for making stews and soups, but is eaten also boiled and roasted. This animal is also easily reared, and requires no feeding, but does letter when a pasture ia provided for it. Known in common parlance, the fiist as the frog and the other as the snail, these readily acclimated animals have never until now been considered as of any value, but no doubt hereafter will furnish sjiecial business here, as they have done for many years in Euroe, to thousands of farmer-. The French frog farm is much like one of our cranberry meadows a swan p laid out in broad ditches with grassy banks between them. We reniemlier years ago passing one of these farms in the vicinity of a large French city in the early evening, and being drawn to notice it by the deafening music from the thousands of fat fellows sitting in the damp grass and now and then splashing into the ditches aud continu ing to sing their lays as they protruded their snouts just aliove the surface of the water. These frogs were a sjiecial breed, Hena tsruJentu by name, but dif fering very little from our handsome, slender S(eciiiicn found in marshes, and having Wight green and brown sixtted skin. Our common bullfrog is said to be quite as delicate in flavor, and more acceptable in point of meat, than the esculent species of Euroi and as the natural stock of them is fast disapeariiig before the nets of the hunters thousands are now inqiorteil from Canada for the supply of the New York market. Consequently the tune, has come for the skilled culture of them in connection with other agnatic products, as brook trout, carp, bass, and other fish, or water cress, which can be grown conjunctively, aud are very proli table. The esculent snail is of various kinds, jne inhabits damp meadows and is fed upon lettuce. Indeed, there are several varieties of these, judging from the character of their shells, which in habit fresh water, or rather fiie banks of fresh water streams, and the low greasy meadows adjoining. At leat one kind is a denizen of the salt water, and is found in the mud of tidal, estuaries, and as the "periwinkle," is largely consumed by .uroiieans ami even by the English people. Thislatter species is boiled in salt water, and us the small, spiral -shaped animal is drawn from its shell usually by means of a strong pin, the common name of it is the "pmpatch." An tscargerte is quite a well conducted establishment m France, and is always surrounded by a close, safe fence to keep the stock, from wandering abroad and getting lost. It Is commonly sown with clover, lettuce, rape, and other tender herb age, upon which the snails feed, and is laid out with narrow paths for ease in gathering the daily supply which is sent to market. Cooking by Klecirioit j. Resistance cons of platinum or Ger man silver wire have been used for ex perimental cooking. The currents used have been of constant direction, and the coils traversed by the currents must needs be in or in close proximity to Uie substance to becooktyl. Further, the surface exposed by a coil taking up considerable room is small, and the amount of heat radiated aud conducted from the wire if not nearly red hot will not be large. Cooking by electricity b.3 not come into use as yet; the use of alternating currents offers a solution to the problem. A large electro magnet of great self induction Is constantly In circuit. The loss of current through this coll as long as metal is not brought near it is too small to le measured. It being desired to cook flapjacks, an iron spider is placed over the poles of the electro magnet. The rapid reversals of current in the coil induce currents in the Iron spider, which Is thereby heated. For heating liquids, a copier vessel ia preferable where it can be used on account of its greater conduc tivity. The metal in which or on which the cooking is done need not touch the magnet. Indeed, a lessened heating effect is obtained by separating the dish from the electro magnet. A description is given In Engineering of the uew copper zinc alloy just intro duced In London, and which, it Is claimed, possesses proi-ertles as those of bronze are to gun metal. The specific advantages presented by this metal are chiefly great strength and toughuesa, and capacity for being rolled , forged and drawn. It can be made as hard aa steel, and when melted is very liquid, producing sound castings of close fine grain, and the color can be varied from that of yellow brass to rich gun metal, the surface taking a fine polish, and, when exposed to the air, tarnishing less than brass. When cast in sand the metal has a breaking strain of twenty-one to twenty-two tons tier square inc'i; when rolled or forged dot into rods the breaking strain Is found to be forty-three tons per square inch. The fact is now recognized by all architects that the stability of a build ing under the Influence of fire depends largely upon keeping the floors from giving way a matter easily attained when they are of iron and pugging, but requiring special precautions when tbey are made of combustible materials. A practice is now being resorted to, to aconsiderabe extent by French build ers, of protecting floors by placing upon them a half-inch layer asphalt aver an Inch of argillaceous earth, botn at top and bottom. A layer of plaster of Paris, One concrete, cement or clay, three or four millimetres (0.11 to 0. 15 inch) thick, or a paving ot tiles, permits of waiting for assistance, by preventing the air from coming in contact with the wood and thus maintaining combus tion. The purest lard oil is said to be that wbicb Is manufactured by submitting olid leaf lard to great pressure during the coldest period ot winter. Oil ol this quality ia nsed for burning In small mechanical lamps. It gives a bright Aarae and does not lncruot the wick, j TWO LITTLE FEET. LAURJL HARVBT. Oh life. so prodieal of life! Oh Inve anil OVsilnv al strife! Oil rarth. so lull nf busy fwtl Oti winhIs anil hills and all things sweetl Was there no room amidst you all For two more feet, so suit ami small? IMilst envy ni-. where thousands sine, 1 he one lird that made all inr Spriute, My dove, that had so ni:iny ways Of m:iking beautiful life's dast No nom 1 r rat her II may be Karth was tio small t' Imprison thee. Uod only Kni.ws 1 know I miss Thy sweet caress, thy loving kl"S, I he patter of thy dear small feet, 1 hv haml Ii mine through lane and street While all that now remains to uie Is Just a prei-ious memory. Two little leet 'neaih earth's brown soil. Two white wings somewhere safe with Uod. NOT A HAPPY LOT. MART MABKLET. It is said that tall women are ad mired, little women are beloved. The tittle woman knows this to be true, ind is usually quite content to be imalU She wonld not grow an inch if he eonld. There are times, though, when eh feels like a helpless kitten, or a Lili pntian in a land of Gullivers. At such times she fails to appieciate ber ad vantages over her big sister; and the law of compensation docs not compen tate. One of these times is at the theatre, when there happens to be several ex ;ra large people in front of her. The ittle woman leans this way and that, itretches her neck until it aches, and lees, perhaps, a part i f the stage at a :ime never all at once. When the "bit lady" raises her glass, it shows Her first a man's bead and shoulders, then a bonnet still ocupies the fore ground. She moves, and they move 'heu she moves back again and they lo, too. In the meantime the curtain is going do?n, and the little woman at best catches but a glimpse of the icene. She tries to think she is enjoy ing herself, bnt knows better. In church on Easter, Christmas, or sny great day when every pew is jrowded, the little woman cannot see the choir at all; and if she has occa- j iional views of the minister's forehead - ind eyes it is as much as she expects. A marriage in chnrch she witnesses with her oars, rather than with her yes. A t a home wedding she is often Kindly allowi d to stand where she can tee; but if the tall ones are thought- less, she can only imagine how the bride looks during the ceremony. These, however, are only minor trials, compared with others that be set the littlo woman. How would a big man feel, if snd lenly everything were too high for him to reach, too heavy for him to lift, too lurgs or too small for him to wear, if nothing teemed to be in the right place for his convenience, or the right iize for his use? Wonld he think life worth living? Yet this is about the state of things with the little woman. Everything in the home even, seems to be arranged for the comfort of per sons six feet tall. The closets for in itance whit tales of misery they might tell if they could speak Look at this one. It is like all ordinary closets. See how high that sheli is. None too big for you? Well, this is the little woman's own particular closet, and she must mount a small stepladder or a chair when she wants mything from the shelf. If it were only a few inches lower sho could reach it easily. The dress hooks are too high, too. A daughter of the gods might rtnd them just right, but the lit tle woman does not. She wishes to hang up a dress. The shelf and hooks being only a trifle beyond her reach, it has never been wcrth while to pro vide her with a stepladder and a chair is troublesome. So, by holding the dress up at arm's length and piviug a qnick jump, she somsttmes manages to lasso the hook at the first attempt. She goes to the coat-closet in the hall to get a water-proof; and is happy if she gets it down without causing a shower of hats, enps and mnfllers. If, enconrac ed by tins success, she tries to fish an umbrella ont of the corner, an overcoat is sure to give her an embrace of unnecessary warmth. Tho poor lit tle inarlyr, with the patient sigh ol experience, undertakes to replace the heavy coat. Once, twice, she dai-s it at the far-away hook very carefullv: once more, and she is buried under ' the things she has knocked down. Then, indeed, patience is exhausted. 'Ihe email creature bangs the doot upon the wreck and relieves her mine' with a vicious '"dear!" Shopping is anything but a delight to the lit'le woman. If she looks for gloves of a certain color or shade she i;ever finds them in her size. The i-mall feet grow very tired bunting for new shoes; and the small woman growj very tired also, telling the dealer, gently but firmly, that a shoe two or three size-i too large is not what she wants. She tries on rendy-made gar ments, and is lost in them a love of i hat, and it slips down to her ears. In piano playing the dainty bands ol the little woiunn never conqner the difficulty of striking tho octaves and full chords. How heavy the cooking i. tonsils are, when she is unexpectedly railed to take Biddy's place! How high the str:ip when'she is obliged tc stand in a street-car. How deceptive are the inviting looking chairs and divans thnt force the wee body to ed npripht on the edge, or with feel danuling, if she rests against the back. It's all Viry well fcr tho iioet to suj that "A little woman , though a very little thin la sweeter far than sugar, and flowers thai bloom In rpring-," her sweetne s doei not save ber from interva's of feeling that the little wo man's lot is not a happy one. Young Woman's Magazine. The Serpa Piuto flat. Very comical scenes have been en acted in Lisbon, Portugd, over de velopments regarding a popular hat. .V fortnight ago an enterprising but inscrupulous merchant put on the market the Scrpa Pinto hat, which he warranted "made in Portugal. " li became the rage at once, every Portu guese patriot buying one to prove hit patriotism. JCcarly one hnndi ed thous and were so'd within two weeks; then, suddenly, it was discovered that the hats really were made in hated Eng land. A great revulsion of popular feeling ensued, being marked by the most eccentric scenes in the streets. I' was not uncommon to meet band; of men destroying Pinto hats by the wholesale, trampling and spitting on them, ami threatening those still wear ing them. Students were especially demonstrative, going about bareheaded to allow, as they said, the air to purify their heads after wearing the detested British hats. NO. 7. JNEWSIN' BRIEF. A snail has 30,000 teeth. Spiders usually live two or three years. All trees are evergreen in the trap. ICS. Kissing is unknown In the Fat East. Glass has been made In the United States since 1720. A coal black deer was recently leen by a party of hunters in the woods of Maine. White deer, which was once ex tremely rare, are now said to be plenti ful In eastern Maine. Ca'ifornia's wine crop will equal a juart for every man, woman and child hi the United States. The alhesive postage stamp was invented bv a man named Chalmers in Dundee, Gotland, lu 1S34. A Merced (Cal.) jury has decided hat it is not a crime for a man to Jteal a meal when he Is hungry. A prominent Indianapolis (Ind.) ouuTfss man has two cat- that are bet ter retrievers than most dojjs. The first temperance socletv in this sountry was organized in Siratoga :ounty; New Y'ork, in March, 1303. An insane barber In Indianapolis, ind., larhered a customer with coal Ml aud tried t j shave him with scis lors. The annual production of sawed umber in the Uuited Stttes would .oad a train of cars 25,0.0 miles ong. A company of winien Is running ;wo canning and preserving factories n Michigan; Not a man is allowed lo work In either place. A valuable find of skeletons be oncing to the fourth dynasty was re lent ly made in Eypt. This is the sarli-.-st known date ot Egyptian re mains. Clie?3 was playpd by the Chinese 170 fears before the Christian era, and probably long before that, for the an ient Persians are supposed to have inown it. The Hindoos have s cocoanut festi val every year at the end of the mon loon. During the festival athletic con gests take place and w;in lering minstrels recite their tales and poems. .Eiiip'a fables were not written by their author. They were relate 1 and banded down until the fourteenth cen tury, when th-y were collected and pub lished by a monk. A cribo snake Is one of the Interest ing pets at the Central Park (New York), meaagene. It has a taste for devouring oilier snakes and it Is feared by them all, even the poisonous. The Hragan7a diamond, the largest In the world, weighs 180 carats. It was found iu Brazil iu 1741, and Is now mo of the Portuguese crowu jewels. Needles, even in the days of Henry VIII., weie S3 rare that au old play records the fact that a whole village turned out to hunt for a lost one "by the light of a cat's eye." Acorns are prized as an article of liet among soim tribes of Indian?. Tney are pounded into meal, which is mixed with water and kneaded Into dough for b.ikii.g iu the style of boe-cak-. An enormous crab of the Malay islands lives upon the fruit of the co coauut which It secures by climbing the tree. It breaks the nuts either by haul ing them down or by beating against the rocks. On the old Boston and New Haven turnpike, lu the southern ptirt of New London County, Conn., Is an old mile stone, notched and mossgrown, that was set there by Benjamin Franklin. Two of the pro'id possessions of an Atlanta (Cia.) man are a rabre and a :ro&s of the legion of Honor that one of hit ancestors received from the hand of the great Napoleon. 'With the de ire of giving her hus band a true picture of herself, a wo man in Atchison, Kan., had her pho tograph taken as she appeared at daily hou: ewors lu her dress with a baby on one arm and broom and dust pan on the other. Each year about ? 0,00O is expend ed in sprinkling Ihe asphalt-paved streets of London, England, with Baud te prevent the horses from slipping. In some of the small villages of Scot land laborers formeily carried nails In their pockets with which to pay for the day's suppiy of bread, etc., just as the native Australian divests himself of a Btring of beads for the purchase of some coveted luxury. So dear has forage become in the Sandwich Islands, learns the Louisville Courier-Journal, that the ownersof the hor.-e rai road in Honolulu, have decid ed to ruu the cars by electricity. It Is expected that considerable saving will be effected. The largest establishments for breed ing dogs In the world are in Manchuria, Chineie Empire. The dogs are raised for their sk ins and killed when about eight months old. The town of New Bh wang alone exported $ 100,000 worth of skins in 1-83. The rcources of a shoe factory in Eeice-ter, England, have been immen sely increased by the adoption of electric power. The installation is to befuither enlarged, and when com plete it will include two engines of 150-hor e power for the driving of the dynamos for light an1 power. Fifteen nundred people will bj employed and the factory wiil produce 50,000 pairs ot shoes a week. A number of the mining companies operating In the Black Hills, South Da kota, have adopted a system of aggre gating their shipment of ore, and send ing to the smelting works in Illinois a loi.g train of loaded cars of ore drawn by two locomotives, anl each car decorated an 1 marked with the name of the mine from which it e.ime. A walnnttree 6 feet in diameter and SO feet to the first branch will be the ut.ique exhibit of a Missouri town at the World's Fair. Two trains between Berlin and Pots dam bad to stop in the woods between the two cities because the German Em peror was banting across the track. A black bear Jumped aboard a con struction train near Falmouth, Ohio, and was apparently enjoying the ride until (erne of the trainmen made their way to him from the caboose and clubbed him off. Leva at first sight does not wear spec tacles. Thai may be why it seldom I occurs ta Baston, t i grt II i if if? 6 S3 & .4 8 m St I I ' Si ?f. 2 -M ,(! 'i i u . 1 i ;; P I u If if I as ! -r nMuin'iuLMMM . 4 Asib uiJ.i!wi
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