jl lilH B, F. 8CHWEIER, THE OON8TITUTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XLVI. MIFFLINTOWIS. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. APKIL 13. 1S9-2. NO. 17. i V St. A THE UTOPIAN FAiIER. Coma bare, my dear, I want tar Bay a word cr two tar jjon Bout what I inn-Vs the proper thing for ma w 70a ter do. fs'Te gave me mighty good advice sence wa waa wed that day Way back in sixty-one, 'n' now I'd like to hT ya iay Ef you don t think, I're got a right to do aa oth er, do... W aeli the crora before they growa, Jest like them Easterner.. Why, If eg. a man ont in Noo York haz aold a lot o' earn that', several thou.and bushels mora then what the country', borne "N" got hi. money, too, I'm told, 'n' didn't hava a peck Of graJn of any kind in hand to back hi. little apeu. Be cleared a hundred thoutand caaht 'N' Mag, that', more'n we Vara cleared at faruiln' all our day., or aver will, by goal V I can't .ay I aee. the una o' workin' day by day V only aellin' what wa raiaa for mighty llttla pay. W han them a. haunt any grain can aall up there in town A million peck, of wheat 'n' corn, 'n' get there money dow n. The modern plan', a dandy, Meg, 'n'ef we makes it go. I ll get you that planner, 'u' the trottin' horae fur Joe. We'll ralu the mortgage off tha root, 'n' paint the old barn red. 'N' aend the giU. to Faria, Franca, and buy a roeewood bed, Wa 11 get new carpets for the floors, 'n' keep a hired man, f only I can go to town 'n' learn to work the plan. 'V maybe, Meg, I'd make enough to run for Gov ernor. Or get aent down to Washington a full-fledged Senator. I tell yer, gal, this Is an age that beats crea tion, bay . What would yer father've said, d'ye think, if ha wus bare to-day. Tar see folk, selllu' wheat and corn, and hull ear. full o' rye, 'M' '.even-twelfths of all they aold nowhere but In their eye? Bow he would yell ter think of us a-makin' of a pot 0' gold at .ellin' feller, things wa haven't really got I What's that ye say? It isn't straight to sell what ye dou't own? 'N' if I goes into the spec, I goeq It all alone The mi. Hie on the piat.ua jr ye think would drive yer mad. If it was bought from sellin' things ya never riKUtlv bad? Vtaal, have yer way; 1 11 let it go; I didn't mean no harm ; But what i. straight in cities can't .be crookad on a farm -Barper's MegaziDe. THE CAPTAIN'S 3IURDEK. Mr. Joseph Tonce was a spare-built, clean-shaven niau of about forty, with gray hair and no whiskers, and with nothing remarkable about hirn except a deep cut over his right eye brow. When he first came into the neigh borhood the gossips of Bradtown had peculated a great deal as to who and what he was, but without any basis Tor their conjectures. About the time our story com mences the Captain had got into tome trouble. His landlord, an easv rolDi?, well-to-do tradesman, began to think that, as he said, he should like see the color of the Captain's money. The patience of his creditors was Dearly exhausted, when one day a circular letter was sent to them ap pointing a meeting for 12 o'clock on the following Monday, "when," the Captain wrote, "he would satisfy all claims, as a legacy left by a distant relation had been paid into his ac count at the Balston yank." On Saturday the Captain hired a (tig at the King's Arms to take him to Balston. Johnny Wilson, the land lord's son, drove him to the bank at Balston, where he staid about ten (blnutes, and came out at the end Df tbat time buttoning into the breast pocket of his coat a fat-looking pocket-book. Johnny waited for him while be made a few purchases in the town, and then drove him straight Vome to the "building." At 6 o'clock on Sunday morning Che Inhabitants of quiet High street were aroused by a violent knocking at the door of the police station. The policeman who was on night Suty opened the door and Mary Wil eombe, the Captain's servant, white with terror and panting with exer tion, nearly fell into his arms, gasp ing out that her master, the Captain, bad been robbed and murdered in thr Dlght. The Inspector was immediately called and the whole available police force of the village, consisting of two policemen, set off with him for the "building." ' Mary Wilcombe, who seemed ut terly prostrated, remained under the tare of the Inspector's wife. On peaching the "ouilding" the In ipector found the front undisturbed, the windows closed and the doors locked. On going round to the back the 3oor leading from the dining-room to( the garden, which sloped down ti the, river, was found to be open, and on' tntering the sitting-room drops ol blood were seen along the carpet Ve tween the staircase and the garden 4oor. On the staircase itself the drops ol blood were more frequent. The bedroom, however, was clearly the place where the murder had been committed. The table by the window had been pushed out of its place; the only two chairs in the room were found lying on the floor. The bed, which had not been slept in, was deluged with blood, and in the middle of it was a deep indenta-, tion as if a heavy body had been pressed down upon it. A large clasp-knife, stained with blood, was lying on the pillow, and by the door on the Moor was an open pocket-book. So much the inspector saw at a lance as he entered. He took the pocket-book and looked carefully through it It was empty; but lying near it and behind the door was a piece of neatly folded paper. It had evidently fallen from the pocket-book while the mur derer was emptying the contents. It was a half-shiet of note paper folded in three, and written on it were the numlers and value of the bank notes, the total of which Amounted to 270. Pollveman Jones was Immediately lent off to Balston with the paper to inquire of the bank manager whethei those were the numbers of the notet which had been paid to the Captain the day before, and if so to take measures to stop them. He also received orders to telegraph Immediately to Scotland Yard an ac Munt of the murder and any facts ho bight ascertain at Balston. After locVing the bed-room door the pector proceeded to the garden. outside the door, on the grass, were the footprints of a man, the toes pointing toward the house and the heels deeply indented in the soft earth. The rest of the footprints were partially obliterated, as irsomething heavy had been dragged over them. The murderer must have gone out of the sitting-room backward, drag King the body of his victim after him. Across the small grass plot and half-way through the belt of trees the footsteps continued. There they ceased. On the soft mud and leaves was an Impression as if a heavy bodyliad been laid there. Near the impression, lying on the ground, was a spade, and at a distance of a few feet the ground had been dug op as if it had been In tended to bury the body there. I On the river bank the footprints were again found. This time they pointed forward and not backward, and the impression was clear and .harp. The body must have been carried. The river at this point was deep and sluggish; there would be no little ' difficulty in dragging it Drags were sent for and the In- , spector went home to breakfast, leav ing a policeman in charge of the premises with orders to admit no one i except on business. I The Inspector had hardly finished his breakfast when Policeman Jones : returned from Balston. I He had been eminently successful. ' The bank manager had identified the ! numbers on the paper as those of the I bank notes paid the d?" before to th Captain. The money, it appeared, had been paid to him in pursuance of an order I contained in a letter received that .Saturday morning from their London ' correspondent, Cuwie, Nabob & Co., 1 the great China and Indian bankers. ) The drags nad now been at work some time, but without success. The river had been dragged up and down, and sideways and across, and at every conceivable angle, but no body had been found. The Inspector was getting impa tient, when a gig drove up to the "building" and a dapper little man in i frock coat, buttoned to his chin, and with a heavy black mustache, lumped out. The crowd which had collected by this time made way very respectfully, for it was whispered that this stranger was no other than Detective Perkins rom London. In a few minutes the detective had heard all tbat the Inspector had to tell. They entered the "building." The crowd outside was getting more ex cited. I They thought that now the London Setective had come the murderer ' would soon be dragged from his hid ing place and handed over to justice. Timo, however, went on and Ter kins was still inspecting the premises, . while his character was rapidly lall- ' Ing in the opinion of the crowd out- ' side. "He's no conjuror. I told ye so afore," said one sturdy countryman ' who had been a skeptic from the first. And this time his assertion did not meet with the disapprobation it had 1 ailed forth when pronounced half an I hour before. The crowd was tired of waiting. Perkins, meanwhile, unconscious of hostile criticism, had looked over the ! kitchen and Mary's bedroom, but j without making any discovery. When he came to the Captain's bedroom he ' stood in the middle of it and took a ' general survey. He then proceeded to the details. , He raised the chairs and then put J them dow n aga'u in their original position, repeating this operation two ! or three times, watching with great I Interest how they fell. Then he came to the bed. He , looked at it from all points first a full view, then a three-quarters, then one side view, and then the other I side till he had exhausted it and the I patience of the Inspector. He then stood and mentally threw I himself upon it in such a position as I to make the impression which still . remained on it There was some hitch, for he shook his head. He pulled out the drawers I and examined the wardrobe of the de ceased man. A pair of boots lying in the corner of the room next attracted his atten . tion. I He examined them carefully. Some thing in the lining of one of them seemed to Interest him, for he brought , out his pocket-book and referred to something written In It. He then J examined the boot again and seemed satisfied, for he pocketed it I At last Perkins finished his exam ination of the bedroom and went down-stairs, inspecting each stair as 1 he went. ' These were apparently more satis factory, for his face brightened con siderably, and after he had been shown the tracks of blood along the floor of the sittine-room, it had ex panded to a broad grin. "You ?- how it wa9 done?" asked the Inspcor, whose opinion of Per kins had by this time reached the lowest ebb. Perkins smiled: he wa9 not the man to commit himself. He walked to the table and turned over the books and papers rill he found some sheets of blotting paper. Thse he examined attentively, holding them in every possible direc tion. The result seemed to be very satisfactory, for he pocketed them. The footprints in the garden, the half-dug grave under the trees and the impression in the wet leaves seemed to interest him little. He examined them, but only like one preoccupied with his own thoughts. They came to the river bank. "We've dragged the river," said the Inspector, pointing to the two boats which had now been working unsuccessfully for some hours. "Ah, yes!" said Perkins, as if the lecessity of doing it bad never struck him. 'The man's a perfect idiot," thought the Inspector. "And now about this Captain, " said Perkins, choosing the clearest footprint he could find in the soft mud and pulling the )ot out of his r., i-,r 'Tf is r"" - Tonce, you aw,. nuL im lad if?" "Nothing that I Know or, but the) do say that he has been a captain In th China trade." "China?" repeated Perkins, as n the idea of that country gave him ex quisite delighV "Yes, Chins," repeated the In r pec tor, gruffly. He was losing all patience; how on earth did such a born idiot become a detective?" "What sort of a man is he?" "Tall, spare-built, about 40, gray hair and no whiskers." "Deep cut over the right eyebrow?'" added Perkins, quietly, as he stooped and fitted the boot into the impres sion. "Yes," said the Inspector, puzzled at Perkin's knowledge. "He never went by that name here, did he?" said Perkins, banding tha boot to the Inspector, on the lining of which was written "A. Compton." "Never." He was getting mora and more puzzled. "Compton, alias Watkins, alias Crowder, and now alias Tonce; I've, wanted him these two years," said. Perkins, cheerfully. "I've got him now." "Yes." said the Inspector, grimly, "he's safe enough here." And he jerked his head toward the river. "Bless you," laughed Perkins, "he's nearer China by this time. He'll die with a rope round his neck yet. It's a plant, man. Don't vou see? He has murdered himself and bolted with the swag. That room some how looked queer. It was overdone; too much blood and too regular. When I found that boot I thought how it was, and this settled It," said Perkins, pulling the sheets of blot ting paper out of his pocket aud hand ing them to the Inspector. There, all over them, were tht words Cowie, Nabob & Co., in a neat cierk-like hand, with that peeuliai flourish at the end which those who have dealings with that eminent house knew so well. "That letter to the Balston bank Is a forgery. It is not the first time he has sereved Cowie, Nabob & Co. this trick. He was in their counting-room for five years, came over with a forged character, robbed them to the tune ol 2,000 and bolted. He's been smug gling and thieving all over the world since then. But when is the next train to town? I wouldn't miss him 'or anything." Perkins was right The manager of the Balston bank found to his astonishment that Cowie, Nabob & Co. repudiated the lettei which purported to bear their signa ture. It was a forgery. i On the following luesday the Cap tain was arrested at the London docks as he was booking his passage for Melboune, and at the Balston as sizes he was tried by the name ol Joseph Tonce on a charge of forgery and sentenced to nensl servitude for ' the rest of his natural life. Hi9 cred-! itors at Bradtown were the only per sons who regretted him. Abnut the) J'otata. This bacciferous herb with esculent roots, as Houghton calls it, or opti mum benigni Kuminis donum, dapea grata diviti; pauperl panis, as an eminent botanist styles it, was first discovered in America, according to Gerard's Herbal, published in 1597, which authority is quoted by the Encyclopedia Britannica. The Spaniards met with It in the neighborhood of Quito, and Spanish books refer to it as early as 1553. It was introduced into Spain from Peru by Hieronymus Cardan, a monk. Thence it passed into Italy and Bel lium. Sir Walter Raleigh carried it from Virginia to Ireland, according to tbe same authority, in 1610. The American Encyclopaedia says: 'It is thought that Its (the potato's) occurrence in Virginia was due to a recent introduction by the Spaniards; lJlM." try or those of Mexico." Too POQCtuaL The Hindu places a clock in his 6how-rooms, not because he ever de sires to know what the hour is, but because a clock is a foreign curiosity. Instead, therefore, of contenting him self wit h one good clock, he will per haps have a dozen in one room. They are signs of his wealth, but they do not add to bis comfort, for he is so indifferent to time that he measures it by the number of bamboo-lengths the sun has travelled about the hori zon. In the country police stations, where the European division of the hours is observed, time is measured by placing in a tub of water a copper Dot in which a small hole ha9 been bored. It is supposed that it will take one hour for the water to leak into the pot so as to fill and sink it. When the policeman sees that , the pot has disappeared be strikes tbe ' hour on a bell-like gong. If he is smoking or dozing, tbe copper pot may have disappeared several minutes I before he discovers the fact but the ' hour is when he strikes the gong. I A writer in Temple Bar, from whose article we have gleaned, tells au amusing story to illustrate the Hindu's indifference in this regard. When the railway was first opened in a new part of India, it took a long timo and many bitter experiences to convince the natives that a train al- ways W arted on time. Shortly after the opening of the new line, a Deputy Commissioner sent his native servant with his letter-bag to put on board the mail-car. Presently the man re turned with the bag, having missed the train. "You had not half a mile to go, and you knew that the train left the station at three o'clock," said the an gry commissioner. "Yes, truly," answered the native, in an aggrieved tone; "but, sahib, when it strikes three here, the train goes from there!" Such sharp practice the native hajj never known before, and be did nc think it creditable to the company. The Ketort Unkind. Great Actor iimnersonatinr TboyA Rnt he who fllchpa fmm rr nfV o-rwvl name (impressive'pause.) - Hated Rival (matin a scenes Will let it drop like a hot potato. Epoch. Pendulums in clocks were first i&ad u tue greatest and moat secure of iicb use of by Hnygner In 166S, j, MATUftaV RKMBDlXlk vv (s Mar aaterwea To aa tat MeaMeaJ Oee4 at WMlaa. A noted authority of Philadelphia thru suuwnartees th ne of fruit In relieving diseased conditions of tha body. It should not be understood that edible fruits exert direct medi cal effect. They limply encourage the natural processes by which the several remedial processes which they lid are brought about "Under the category of laxatives, oranges, figs, tamarinds, prunes, mulberries, dates, nectarines and plums may be in cluded; pomegranates, cranberries, blackberries, sumach berries dewber ries, raspberries, barberries, quinces, pears, wild cherries and medlars are astringent; grapes, peaches, strawber ries, whortleberries, prickly pears, black currents and melon seeds are Hurdles, gooseberries, red and white currants, pumpkins and melons are refrigerants and stomachic sedatives. Taken In the early morning, an range acts very decidedly as a laxa tive, sometimes amounting to a pur tative, and may generally be relied n. Pomegranates are very astringent, and relieve relaxed throat and uvula. The bark of the root in the form of a decoction, is a good an thelmintic, especially obnoxious to tapeworm. Figs, split open, form excellent poultices for boils and small abscesses. Strawberries and lemons, locally applied, are of some service in the removal of tartar from teeth. Apples are correctives use ful in nausea, and even sea-sickness, ami the vomiting of pregnancy. They immediately relieve the nausea due to smoking. Bitter almonds contain hydrocyanic aeic, and are useful in iiraple cough; but they frequently produce a sort of urticaria, or nettle rash. The persimmon, or diospyros, is palatable when ripe; but the jreen fruit is highly astringent, con taining much tannin, and is used In diarrhoea and incipient dysintery. The oil of the cocoanut has oeen recommended as a substitute for cod liver oil, and Is much used in Ger many for phthisis. Barberries are very agreeable to lever patients in the form of a drink. Dutch medlars are astringent and not very palata ble. Grapes and raisins are nutritive and demulcent, and very grateful in the sick chamber. A so-called "grape cure' has been much lauded for the treatment of congestions of the liver and stomach, enlarged spleen, scrofu la, tuberculosis, etc. Nothing is al lowed but water and bread and sev eral pounds of grapes, per diem. Quince seeds are demulcent and as stringent; boiled in water they make an excellent soothing and sedative lo tion in Inflammatory diseases of the eyes and eyelids." A Curtone Jtdvaatarax A n Alabama duck-hunter had furious adventure, one day, while out ia the water in his skiff. Some years before he had lost his leg in a rail road accident, and the limb had been replaced by a cork substitute, useful for ordinary purposes, but preventing him from following game, except in a boat On this occasion, as he was I an expert marksman, be had always I loaded the skiff with ducks, when, in reaching after a particularly fine . bird, he overreached and upset the boat. Down went the birds, the gun and the hunter, and. there being a iwift current at that point, the boat Irifted away before he came to the ' lurface. Being unable to swim, the Hunter clutched wildly for a sup- j ! port, but found none, and would cer i tainlv have been drowned had it not been for his cork leg. It kept him ..float, and at first he was overjoyed; I then he became apprehensive. The :ork leg had a tendency to invert him in the water, and, after strug gling against this for some time, ae managed to unstrap the limb and ise it as a float, It was then easy ,o paddle ashore, and the hunter was laved although he lost nearly every thing else but his life. Stub nil. of Thought. ( Measures 1 Mouth Masters Mind. ( Murders ) Give a man an inch and he win iake an ell, but not of toothache. We oftener suspect a man of vice ihan of virtue. His thoughts hung upon his words is beautiful pictures on hooks of gold. I Age should make a woman beauti ful. j If life were twice as long we prob ably would not be twice as good. I We learn to love with easy teach ing. I It is really easier to pay a bill than to shirk it. I A rich man may have all the pleas ares in life and still there Is just as much for the next one. To be married is not always to be tnerried. fhe Digestibility or Bcar and Fish Varl oaaly Praparod. Dr. Popoff finds that beef and fish are more rapidly peptonized in a raw I thau in a cooked condition. He con- I jludes, therefore, that these viands are ' rendered harder to digest by cooklnl. Moreover, the longer they are cookJd the more indigestible they become. Phis is especially true of beef. After tiavimr been suhiec.ted to the (same (irn nf nremratii.n twont smok- bg) beef, as a rule, was the more easily tested. Smokimr renders fish more ligestable and beef less digestible. Fish rich in fat is easier digested than lean fish. Deut. Med. Zeit. Had Keen SerT.ee. "Clara, dear, I want to show yoa my new engagement-ring before I go." , "It's very pretty, Maud, but re member the stone is lose." "Why, how did you know it?" "Didn't Mr. Ringsby tell you that wore It a month or two?" Spare Moments. Tha raw la tha Caaav Mrs. Kindly (meeting one of the twins) My, my, bow much you and your brother look alike! it la very difficult tO tell VOU apart. Twin But it ain't so hard, ma'am, to tell us together. Detroit Free Press. I To be content with what we possess THE STORY OP DRESS.- TBI TRAGEDY IN SILK HOW CLOTlIINd MATERIALS FOB THE WORLD OF WOMEN ARB STOLEN FROM INSECTS, ANIMALS AND VEGETABLES FASI1IOSABLE, US- IQTJB AND USEFUL FABRICS. A careful study of the oil timo legends clearly demonstrates the tact tbat they were inspirational sugges tions of thoughtful minds, of scientific possibilities, to be sometime developed by those who bad knowledge of exist ing qualifications in plant or metal, and as well possessed the ability to utilize such valuable element:, The childish faith in the beneficent fairies who enabled beautiful captive maidens to accomplish each seemingly impossible tasks, as the spinning of golden threads out of wisps of straw, aids one in these later days to accept as realities the glittering iridesoent garments of epan glass, and the gossa mer tissues, veritable spider web, as diaphanous as the logondary burial veil of the blessed Virgin, and as light es the down of the Irish thiHtle. Many a pretty flower of tbe milk weed has been plucked, without giving knowledge that fine, strong threads could be spun from its stem fibres, and a life-time night be passed listen ing to tbe ''murmuring pints" without learning tbrongh their constant sigh ing about the health-restoring "wold wo lie," or the flannel made of the pre pared fibre of those slouder odorous .needle-leaves of the singing pirns of Ueorgia and Germany. In all the wonderful story of dress there is no incident better known, or more pat Let io than the tragedy of the innocent silk-worm which spins its own shroud, and is wantonly murdered that with its death gown women may be clad in silk attire. It seems far lees cruel that the sad eyed camel, and the wild goats of Thibet and Australia, should be called npon to furnish fibres t&r the making of the countless specialties known as Cashmere Valley, real lndias. Camel's hair goods, and superior wool stutls. FASHIONABLE BLACK FABRICS. Illustrative of the extent of the pro duction of dress poods of the combined materials stolen from the silk-worm, the camel and the gout, is a marvelous collection consisting of over fifteen bnndred varieties of materials in solid black, and in gray, and in gray and blnck mixtures, in different weave effects, and all henring the distinguishing brand of B. Priestley & Co., the celebrated Eng lish manufacturers of hish-class, beauti ful and durable unchanging black dress goods. All reliable fashion authorities, for eign and domestic unite in pronounc ing tbe most elegant mourning garb, that made of Priestley's jet black silk warp Henrietta, combined and trim med with Conrtauld's English crape, and it is well known that most stylish costumes, for ladies who are not in mourning, are fashioned in the medium and heavy grade Tnestley fabrics for general wearing, bnt it is only recent ly that the lines of these eoods have been augmented by the introduction ot novelties, exceedingly light in weight and beautiful in appearance, in other words fabrics have been presented, which are designed to take the place of Spring snd Summer silks, and other materials of similar weight aud thick- ness. summer muffs. Among these light weight blnck dress goods may be noticed the exquisite Chtirette, and the Crystaiette, both with silk-warp, and fine wool filling in lustrons bluett, which hue is not changed by exposure to dust, damp ness or salt sea air. A new silk and wool fabric called Carmelite varies materially from the other staffs, as it has a hard lustrous clean, surface finish, tht is there are no hairs left from either silk or wool npon its glossy face, hence it proves to be a real dust resisting material. Then there are numbers of other a tractive specialties, such as the silk warp Algeiine, Diagonal, Drap do Toulon, and Tamise, with silk and wool moUBseline and Anstine, all presented on varnished boards, bearing the Priestley trade mark, and nil stamped on every five yards of the selvedge with the name of the manufacturers' B. Priestley & Co. LAJiSDOWNK IN RARE COLORS. lue same protective pride in a high ciass material is exnioitea ny the rnil- Bi elphia manufacture of Lansdowne, stamp in place of golden letters, on every Ive yards on the selvedge of these dainty staffs. These lustrons Lansdownes come in most delicate tints of all colors, and as well in rich dark shades, and while they are very light in weight, they are closely woveD, and possess greater draught resisting powers than can be fonnd in mnoh heavier loosely woven textures. Most charming even ing dresses are now fashioned in Lansdowne, and it will prove equally effective in day toilettes for summer wearing. FASCINATING OOTTOX FABRICS. Mentally borrow the active brownies so often utilized for industrial pur poses by Palmer Cox, set ttiem to work in a Southern cotton field; just imagine the mischievous mites plucking by moonlight, the snow-flakes from open bolls, so prettily flanked by the green leaves, and you will have ground -work, for an ideal dress story of the materials furnished by good Mother Earth, but no magic trans formation scenes can be filled with more interesting events than are actu ally realized in the many methods employed by which the vegetable snow is converted into the popular cotton dress fabrics, jonrne-ing in its various stages from the sunny South to perhaps a New England or a .Pennsylvania mill, and at last landing in cultured Boston, liberal New York, or in sedate, modest Philadelphia, where the largest business houses in the world are located, and the most gigatitio railroad deals are effected, and the most widely cir culating Home Journals are published, and still Philadelphia is called slow In the Philadelphia sample rooms of Wan Simpson Sons & Co., the widely known manufacturers of fast colored ootton specialties, are wonderful exem plifications of modern loom facilities, and the artistio skill of designers, shown in curious effects in weave, and exclusive and original printed conceits, in aniline dyes, in and upon ootton cloth ground. THB NEW BRANDENBURG CLOTHS. Brandenburg cloths are to be large ly used in constructing charming dresses for flower festivals and for general wearing. These attractive goods come with ground colors in every desirable shade in new end ap proved hues, and have uniqne floral and other designs scattered regnlarlr and irregularly, over the surface. Ihandenrg cloths, laundry beanti Tuny, as ao aso aimpsons canton cloths, which are printed ia lovely floweis and thow other effects The sa'ines come in self-color, and are dyed or printed. Among them are spec nit ies intruded for tbe creutiug of shirt waists, whita zephyr pr.nts are lurgoly converted intj wrappers, gowns au I dresses for every day service i'lio decidod cariosities in Simpson Rons c ittou dross goods are the bro cades whicb are presented in black ouly. They are woven on Jucqnard looina, and are in odd pluided effects, with polka dots on tbo plaid defining bars, or on the centre of the smooth block of the desigu. Thee goods, aa are all of the productions of these popnlur manufacturers, are noted for their beauty of liuiili, their fiu-t colors, aud their durability. Tue costumes and dresses formed of the effective bro cades, are exceedingly stylish, aud becoming. i Mart E. Lambert. BlalntalnlDr HI. Dlgallj. TTtl nctAr T 1 J 1 lavn In ninintfiln. ng our national dignity. I would give those confounded Chilians no quarter. I'm for war to the knife and the, knife to the hilt. I say make them apologizo if it cost us thousands of lives and millions of treasure. I " Mrs. McU. (from tha next rooin) John, you shut up your noise and let baby go to sleep and you just turn those fellows out of the house d'ye hear? Mr. McB. Yes, love I guess you'd etter go; my wife isn't very well. loston Transcript Bufloesl with I'leasure. t Smith & Co's Porter It do be ter rible sloppy. Miss, an' av yez loike Oi'll carry yez over th' crossin'. Miss Sweet Well, really, you are very kind, but I'm afraid I'm too heavy. The Torter Ah, Miss, 'dade an' it's me business carryin' sugar. Boston Beacon. A Itf-a.im fur If. no caught her to his manly bosom with a wild, impetuous, tumultuous, tempestuous hug and held her there for as much as a minute. 'What a slugger you are," she said adiiiii iiiL'l v, as be released her. "-nui nj - snouiuu l x oe.- in- m- plied proudly, taking a velvet case from his pocket, '-haven't I brought the prise ring with me?" i she oiiencd the case joyfully and her eyes rested upon a snltaire which was rcaUy a corker. Detroit Free Press. Ftincar Noon. 1 Brother Pest us I's mighty Im pressed wid dat tex' dis niui'nin', 'Do unto oilers as you would have oders do unto you." Deacon Koon Yas; dat fine tex', eoog sermon. I "Well, I'sgwiue to bring back dat ham bone w'at 1 fetched outen yer kitchen las' night and I want you to gimme dat turkey w'at you booked ollen do nail over my do'." ruck. What Carried Hlin Away. Weeping Widow (to whom the news is brought of her husband's death in the West) P ltoor James! And and did be 1ko-Iioo! die of his own free will and ac cord? Pampas Philip (who has brought the sad tidings) Well, mum, yaas, he er he did die of a cord, I might sav." Boston 'ews. The rroper Treatment. , Mr. Veripoorc I am drunk love of you d(arest one. with Miss Veririch So? And you want to try the gold cure, do you? Detroit Free Press. Llie In I'lion Creek. 0...(t H0K1 ( "WO TTTvf , SAirmiJ it MHO Ji , Stranger Sir, I your people raised for the man who woolen-mill here. understand that $1,000 as a bonus would establish a I want to start a woolen manufactury from Massachu setts, and I wonld like to talk with you about it. Major Rattler rardner, yer too doggoned late. We did raise the 1,01)0, but better counsels prevailed, and we used it to lay out the finest half-mile race track west of the Missouri! If you've got a runnin' hoss that you think is fast, come over an' put him agin my sorrel, ace high, an' see me knock the socks off'n him! Texas Sittings. Human ISatare In Vlllace Lire, "I should think in a small village like this the people would all know each other." "They do." "You must be mistaken." "Why do you think so?" "I saw two men pass each other on the street a few minutes ago and they neither saluted nor spoke to each other." "O, they're not on speaking terms; .bey're brothers." Exchange. Good peat in Germany furnishes a cellulose which is valuable to paper makers. Arabs never eat catfish. U W I ok 4 W kcitl rrf e-i 'f CHINESE ENGLISH. Soma lll.takr. That Are Mad by Writer of Iilairet Storlea. It is well known that the Chinese cannot master the sound of the letter "r," but this has proved the rock on which many professed writers of the Chinese dialect has come to grief. They do recognize the fact that while John Chinaman cannot make the "r" sound he is fertile In expedients to avoid it. Two illustrations will show how easy it is to blunder on this point. In an early edition of one of Bret Harte's stories altered we be lieve in later editions he makes a Chinese servantcall himself "Ah Ri," which is a manifest impossibility. His name would certainly have been "Ah Li," for the initial "R" would not only come trippingly from his tongue, but not at all. But in the same or another story he makes a Chinaman call his employer "Mr. Fostel," his name being Foster. Xbw, no "Chinese person," to quote the re striction act, would eversay "Fostel." He would soften the last syllable of the name and call it "Fostah," just as the name "Porter" in his mouth would become "Potah," very like the j negro pronunciation of the samel word. j The authoress of "A Summer in &, j Canon" has given a very good exam ple of the dimculties of the Chinese with the letter "r." She makes one of heroines, a inisehevious gin, select a reading lesson for the Chinese cook, who wants to learn English. The lesson is made up of such sentences as "The grass is green," "The rose is r I," and the like. Of course, they tVcame in Hop Sing's mouth "The glass is gleen," "The lose is led," and so on. The whole scene is a excellent study in broken China, savs the San Francisco Chronicle, and is com mended to ambitious Eastern writers who want to try their hands at En glish as she is spoken by the Chinese in California. The letter "j" is another which presents difficulties to John, which, however, he usually resolves by mak ing it into "ch." It may be slightly exaggerated to say that Chinese schol ars in Sunday-school know the author and founder of the Christian faith as '('bee CI-," but it is not very far out of the way. An American of this city, an interpreter of the Chinese language, whose given name is "Jer ome," is usually known among the Chinese as ,lChee Loam," they, per haps, imagining that that is all the name that belongs to him. It should be noted, too, that the Chinn-e in California do not use the lingua franca called "pigeon En glish," which is employed in China. Such an expression as "My b'lonj topside," meaning "I live higher up," is never heard here. The Chinese in this State try to talk English, and some of them succeed fairly well, al tliiniiih the "r" and -'j" are too much for them. This is not an attempt at an ex haustive study of Chinese English, but rather a note of warning to am bitious dialect from books. If they will but bear in mind that "r" does not become "1" unless it carries the genuine "r" sound, and that such a word, for example, as "Berkley" is not "Be.kley" in the Chinese tongue, but something more nearly resem bling "Bahkley," they will lie saved from blunders which make their sketches and stories rather ludicrous than humorous to those who are ac vustoined to the dialect. Queer Facta About Eala, Occasionally some one applies to the Fish Commission at Washington for a consignment of eels' eggs, to stock a pond or stream, and the re quest is invariably refused. This is not due to any intentional desire to be disobliging, but because nobwly knows whether eels lay eggs or not. .' to breeding, the eel is the most mysterious animal in existence, and the question has been a puzzle to learned and unlearned for centuries. Some authorities have contended that eels grow up from horsehairs, which, in some strange manner be come vitalized. Others have held that they were generated spontane ously from slime, while others still have gravely advanced the belief that they came from tne skins of old eels, or similar exuvke of water snakes. Most popular among people who get their living from the water, how ever, is the theory that eels are the progeny of various other fishes. The Sardinian fisherman assert that they are produced by a certain kind of wa ter beetle, which for this reasoa is called mother of eels. All this mystery about the eel, as science has learned in the lust few years. Is due to the fact that it lays its eges in the sea, where no one has a chance to observe the process. Other fishes, like the shad, leave the ocean to spawn in fresh water streams, but this curious and slippery customer does precisely the reverse. The young eels, newly born or hatched, leave the salt water and make their way in armies up the riv ers. Obstacles apparently insur mountable they use the utmost in genuity in passing, even traveling a considerable distance on dry land in order to get around an obstruction. In the spring and summer any vis itor at Niagara Falls, who descends beneath the great sheet of water at the foot of the falls, will see literally hundreds of cart-loads of small eels wriggling over the rocks and squirm ing over the whirlpools. Of course it is impossible for them to go over the falls, and thus it happens that, al though eels have always been plenti ful in Lake Ontario, there were none in Lake Erie until they had been planted in the latter body of water artificially. Inasmuch, therefore, as eels must go to the sea In order to propagate their species, they are found not to I oeen worn sujuotu nura. vuc u multiply at all when placed in ponds dentation is particularly noticeable, that are landlocked, although in such i Although similar in size and contour places they w ill grow rapidly and be o those made by sandals, it has a healthy. It costs so little to pur chase young ones by the quantity that i this is no great obstacle to theuseful- ness of stocking inland waters with , these fish. In all probability eels lay eggs, just I . i i ii ..i m,.' as do nearly all other fishes, Th only difference is that they deposit them in the sea instead of in fresh water. - - I NEWS IN ER1EK j Arabs never eat catCsh. Sawdust builniugs are announced. Arsenic is extensively used in mak ing ice cream. St. Petersburg, Ku33ia, Is tbe cold est capital in Euroi. India has a pr'est who is drawing a pension and is in his loll year. There are 40,000 women studying 'n he various colleges m America. Ammonia as a motive poweriscom ing into use on various street car lines. The Chinese mp ror is called "The Son of Heaven" by the Celes tials. Tbe product of the Chilean nitrate beds last year was valued at $30,000, 000. The "heaviest" woman In Europe ba just died in Bavaria. She weighed 5o0 oucds, I The number of Government em ployes In all depigments ia said to b about 150,000. I The colossal statue at ths World's Fair, Chicago, will be a female figure seveuty-Ove feet high. Three times as much spirits are consumed in Scotland, according to population, as in England. I In the Chicago (111.) militia privates ' are not allowed to dance on the same I rlnnr with t.hnir rnl.tnl4- The first Idea of electricity wa civen bv the friction of two crlobes of 1 quick-silver in the year of 1467 An alligator mtasurlng nine feet , five inches in leDgth was found in a small lake in Lonoke County, Ar kansas. The paper tree of the South Seas ia a kind of mulberry, with an inner bark of peculiar delicacy and softness. A man in Sydney, New South Wales, has $250,000 invested in city proerty, all of which was made out of pigs. Thfre are 401) widows of confeder ate soldiers on the Georgia Pension List, which compels an annual tax o' $400,000. Hundreds of fish are still alive ic the royal aquarium in St. Petersburg, Kuss a, that were placed there mors than 150 years ago. Carriages were first introduced in England in 13S0, and were for a long time used ouly for the conveyance of tht sick and of ladies. Dimetri Mlnde'eff , a Russian and tbe inventor of terrorite, an explosive more powerful than dynamite, if dead. Cream-of-tartar U often mixed with sand, phosphate of lime, quartz, starch, flour, tartrates and sulphate o lime. Tbe first book containing musical characters was issued in 1495 from the press of the celebrated "Wynken df Worde." Seals when basking place one of their number on gu ird to give alarm in case of danger. Tue signal is a qulcV clap of thd fliprers on a rock. A fall caused the heart cf Mrs, Ann B trr, of Vlcennes, Ind.. to shlfl from the left to tha right side. Tbi is the opinion of her physicians. A copper rod projecting from the face of a cliff in Saline County, Ma, indicates tha' at some date in tbe Far West, berond t ie ken of mun, copper mining was carried on in that vicini ty. A curious fad for obtaining Indian relics ha taken posseifio j of the people about Heading Penn., who go out In numbers, armed with spades and pick axes to dig for arrow heads and other emains of the red man. Should a man In China be unfor tunate tnough to save the life ol another from drowning, hs la at one saddled with the expense of supporting the survivor for tbe remainder of that person's life. John W. Wise, a grandson of John Wise, a miser who lived in Kansas and died without revealing bis hoard, found $.15,000 while digging a foundation foi a house, also a will leaving blm all ln oroperty. Spectacles were first used in tbe latter part of the thirteenth century. There Is no certulnty as to who was the inventor of them, but the distinction i generally claimed for Alessandro dl Spin i, w bo is said to have made soms about 12S5. There used to be a giant species of tortoi.'e In Mauritius. Van Neck, tha discoverer of the dodo, found some there which were so large that six men could be feated in a single shell. Another authority states that 2000 or 00 of them w ere somt times seen in our trove. It is reported tbat a lamb waj born it Ilondtos, M9rced County, Cal., re cently, that bad eight legs, three eyea three ears, with two perfect bodies at tached to one bead. Oie of tbe ear and also one of the eyes were on top of tbe head. It lived several hours. Pens wrre first used early in th seventh century. They were, of course, quills, and steel pens did not come into use until 1820, when the first gross of them was sold wholesale for S3G. The quality of these pens was greatly infer ior to that of those for which the Eng l.sh now pay twelve cents a gross. Footprints on Ancient Sands. There was recently received at Den ver a piece of a rock which was once tramped on by several pairs of small and well formed feet. The rock must have been soft at that time, for the impress of two sandals Is plainly outlined, just as If a cast had been made to show the Inhabitants of the coming ages how artistically beauti ful were the feet of those who wan dered in the mountains before the in vasion of the white men. The rock was found near the brickyards at Golden, Col. It seems to be of an ordinary limestone formation, except the surface where the prints are, I which resembles sandstone which has I . V. V. r.nn In heel-mark which Is sharp and deeper than tbe others. A flftv-year-old Phlladelphian hat carefully preserved all the hair cut from V,im Viorl rlmino- his whole lire. The his head duung his wnoie lire. accumulation weiaiisiw pounas. The King of Ashantee, Africa, U allowed 8333 wives. J r: n
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