gran B. F. SOHWEIER, THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Prortator. VOL. XLVI. MIFFLINTOWJS. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 24. 1892. NO. 36 I THE QUIET HOUSE. m cottiers, fin weary, Villi I'll1! l,e' 'r Ce.SO, With never time lor ple,snre. Vutti nv ti't liiive no peace, Itll llltlt- Ili.lUlM IO tllllOl 1. nb feeble del s to (;uai d. tt th t?Ks that lie unhiiistied, pi em cot vour lot too hard. 1 Know a imuse where childish thlagt Aie uliut n uit ol siht V here never sound ol Imle feet Is hearii Irom mom till nlht lio tmv haii' s that Tist undo, lliat'ruil thnms ;tll awry Kobabv huris to pity Aquti-t iluys ro by. Tl.e V.('Ue is all In order. Aiiil liee Irom liieoiue none "j moii.eius t emulsion ,o scattered bioken toys: And tiie clill.lif n's liitle garment Are never M'lb-d or torn, . t ure la d a;iy forever Just as they lat were worn. jirrt he. tli" sad eyed mother, Wliut wi'U'd she Live tu il if lofeei voiu cares aud burdens, To k voui wearv way: Alii liat'uu-5t on all tills earth t ould -lie iig.un but see The rin-s all strewn with plaything And ihe children 'round ber knee! Sichangi THE UN EXPECT KD. 1 don't care I'm happy," said trunk. "I'm sure I don't care, I'm Lappy, perfectly happy don't see how I could be more so," said Nellie. Neither waa looking at Hie other. Eacli tried to absorbed in a book; but certainly neither saj absorbed; for on the average, during the entire at'ter duo", they had made remarks similar to the foregoing at least once every ten minutes. "lid you 89y, Nellie," continued Frank, just a triile doubtfully. "tht there was enough in the house for sap per and breakfast?" "I'm qu'te sure, dear," said Nellie, "that there is enough for supper, and perhaps for breacfust. But we shall not want iniich for breakfast. You know that you have very often si id that yon did rot care for much break fast, and really I can get along on nothing at all.'' "I don't see what a have to worry about, then, do you?" "Indeed I do not 1 think we have every reason to be perfectly happy," she answered. "Sure of fcupper to-day and break fust to-morrow I.-hould say we have every reason to be thankful," continued Frank. Yes," ad 'ed Nellie. "Just think of the number of people in the world who are sure of nither supper to-day, nor hrt-akfa&t to-morrow. Take the case of a cannibal " "Just whac I was thinking," broke in Frank. "He is dependent on the chance call of a missionary surely a preoarions existence." "Oh, Frank, you are joking!" taid Nellie. "Proof that I am perfectly happy," responded Frank. "While I am perfectly happy," said Nellie, "1 do wish that tlie rirm had not tailed, and that you had not lost von r position. " "Yes, and while 1 am perfe tly hap py, said irai.k, "I do wish that our parents had not objected to our mar riage." "The idea that we, who are children, both of ng. of rich pareuts. should be left to the disagreeable expedient of pawning tie few wedding presents that we received ! "Sav rather the disagreeable expedi ent ol pawning the last wedding pres ent that we received now now now I little wife, you are going to crv." "Indeed, I am not," said Nellie, struggling bravely to suppress the tears, "1 think we are very lucky to have any wedding presents to pawn. In fart, I think we are very lucky, indeed." "And so tlo 1," a Ided Frank, "very, very lucky " just there he was interrupted. There is no better time than an in terruption to explain the condition of affairs in a romance, so 1 will take ad vantage of the present one, which may be the onlv interruption in my story. Frank and Nellie Hay ward had mar ried against their parents' wishes. Their p;irents, though rich, refused to help them in any way, or even to re ceive them in their homes. Frank was brave and manly, and Nellie was sen sible and womanly. They determined to do for themselves, and at the very outset made a solemn compact with each other that, come what might, thev would consider their love for each ctber compensation for all the iiis of life. For a timo things went very welL Frank obtained a position that enabled tbem to live very comfortably in a famished flat. But, as in the life of everyone else, the time came when luck turned egaiest them. The l'rm that ew ployed Frank failed, and he was nnable to get another position. The little money that they had saved up from his salary was soon exhausted. They were forced to the disagreeable expedient of pawning such things of value as they pos-sossed, and finally they had come to the end of even that resource. Never during all their troublo had either acknowle Iged to the other that they were anything but happy. The crisis, however, had just about been reached. They wore in a quandary. It was a questiou whether they would be forgiven by their parents under any circumstances, and they were not at all willing to acknowledge that they had luado a mistake. But there was an interruption. It was a knock at the door. Nellie rose from her scat, and Frank was about to do so, when it occurred to him that the chmces were that it was a creditor, and be thought it hardly worth while to go to the door. He was rather Bur prised, though, when at the invitation of his wife the door was opened by a queer old man. who looked at each of them over the rims of his glasses for a full minute before be spoke. "Mr. and Mrs. Hay ward, I believe?'' he said at length. "Yes, sir," replied Nellie. ' Will von take a chair?" "Ought to have been named Way ward, 1 suppose," he eaid, chuckling to himself, as he took the proffered chair. "I snppose my visit is rather unexpected?" "Ueciuedly." said Frank curtly: "Well, it is the unexpected that al ways happen?," said the old gentle tui n. "I was rather surprise! to henr ou through tho door, accidentally, of course, assuring j ourselves that you were very lucky aud very huppy and all that sort of thinir." "May I inquire what business it is of yours, sir?" asked Frank. "None, except that it assured me that I had found the right place-," an swered the old gentleman. "And what place were you looking for?" asked Frank. "The house of a happy married couple," said tlie old gentleman. "Yon have found it," aoid Frank and peuio together. . "Ah!" said the old gentleman. "It .-2?It6 cn08i,y- "appose you will pardon an old geutleman like myself, it he asks a lew questions. I am a student of human nature, you know, and who knows? perhaps this visit may redound to your advantage " "Fire away." said Frank, who wo. beginning to be interested. "in the first place, what waa the oc casion of your saying just now that you were lucky?' "Beoauee we had some wedding presents to pawn," answered the in gennous Frank. , corrected his wife, gently. w una uaa some wedding presents to pawn." Dear me!" said the old gentleman, "they are all pawned, then?" "Xes," answered Nellie, "but that does not rxake us unhappy." "I snppose you occupy a good posi tion? ' said the old gentleman to Frank. "I have lost my position, sir," the latter answered. "You have plenty money ia the bank?" "None," "Undoubtedly you have a well stocked larder, though? ' "It is about exhausted." "Of course in case of real di tress, you have your parents to rely on?" "On the contrary, we would not wish to ask them to help us under any cir cumstances." Well, young man," said the old gen leman, excitedly, "will yon tell me whet in the world you are goii g to do?" "I would much rather have you tell me what I am going to do," answered Frank. "Nothing," answered the old gen tleman, solemnly. "That's what I have been doing for quite a while." "J he fact is continued the old gen tleman, "you are precisely what you were saying you were when 1 knocked on yonr door - you are lucky. 1 am a ruau of whimsicalities. 1 have been looking all my life for a happy mar ried couple. Someone, never mind who, told me that yon were the couple 1 was looking for. 1 did not believe it for a long tiu e, but when I discovered that you were in hard luck, and still were not complaining, I began to believe- it. My mis-ion on erth ia to assist happy couples who are in hard lnok. This is the fir-t time 1 have ever had a obance to fulfil my mission. It is all the more to yo r advantage, thngh thre is more money in the fund than there would be if the world were stocked with happy couples. I proposo to settle on you a little income of five hundred a year." The old gentleman paused to see whac effect this startling announce ment wo Id have on the happy con pi j. The effect waa not marked. They looked at him very much a) they would look at a curiosity. "i snpp se you think 1 am an insane man? ' he said, angri'y. "No," answered Nel ie, "but I think you are my father wi h a wig and eye glasses and a very poor attempt at a disguised voice." Saying which, she ran to him and threw her arms about his neck. "Well, I am," said the old gentle man laughing, as he removed his dis guiee, "and frankW confess that for a long time I have had a disguised heart. I didn't want to help you until I thought you needed it, so 1 waited. But I will tell y. u this if you had ac knowledged that you were not happy, I would have given you double the allowanc-I have.'' "I don't care," said Nellie. "I'm perfectly happy." And so am I, said l rank. T. W. H. THE WHITE-LIPPED PECOARY. The various species of Pigs, consti tuting the genus Sua of naturalists. which are met with in F-urope, North ern Africa, and Southern Asia, and its Maude, altogether fail in the New World, where their places are taken by animals of inferior size, and slightly different organization called "Pec caries. Of Peccaries, only two spe cies are known to exist, namely the Collared Peccary, and the White-lipped Peocary. of the" latter of whioh we now give an illustration from some spec imens lately added to the Zoological Societv's collection. The Peccaries have a wide range in America, extend ing from Mexico throughout the cen tral and southern poitions of the con tinent down to F"araguay, and tne northern provinces of the Argentine Iiepubtic. The larger mammals, being scarce in these parts of Amerioa, Pec caries are much songht after by the native hunters as articles of food, and much prized when they are obtained.. The Peccary, however, is provided with a strongly odoriferous gland sit uated in the hinder part of his back, and unless this glaud be removed as soon as the animal in killed, its flesh is said to be hardly eatable. The Col'ared Peccory is the commoner of the two species, and the one most frequently met with in captivity in Europe. In the Zoological Society's Gardens it has bred on more than one occasion, but produces only two young ones at a time, intead of the numerous progeny of the true Pigs. The White-lipped Peccary is a larger and fiercer animal, and is said to be rather dreaded by the native hunter when met with In large herds. Some singular stories are told in British Guiana about persons having been compelled to mount trees in order to escape their attack, and to pass many hours of siege in this condition, before the infuriated Peccaries chose to move away. But it is a little doubt ful perhaps, whether this is more than a sportsman's tale. In captivity, at any rate, the White lipped Feccary seems to be a well-behaved and inoffensive animal. It Is said that e church in 5C Ives, England, supports an annual dice-shak- nhirh Bibles are given as lug CUUVvaw -' prizes. The custom Is a very old one, datinjt back 325 years. Since the United States Constitution was adopted, Massachusetts has beeen the birthplace of two presidents; New Hampsh're, one; Vermont, one; .New Ycrk two: Ttninylvaiila. one; Virgin ia, seven; Oi.io. four; New .'ersev, one; North Carolina, three; Kentucky, one. The prospectus of an Indian match factory has been issued in Calcutta. The promoters, who are all native", have collected different kinds of wood suitable for matches from different parts of Iu-lia, aud have forwarded simples of them to expeits In Jondou and Hamburr. The ponKrd of the celebrated brig and Fra Diavolo, Is anion the posses sionsof the museum of Nancy, to which it was presontoJ by General Hugo, the captor of the robber. QBH. JAMES B. WEAVER. Candidal, ol tk. Pvopl.'a rwpty for President. Gen. James B. Weaver, the candi date of the People's party for Presi dent, wa9 born In Dayton, Ohio, June 12, 1833, and graduated from the law school of the Ohio University, Cin cinnati. In 1854. In April, 18B1, he enlisted as a private In the Second Iowa Infantry, and on Oct. 3, 1361, waa made Major. In 1865 he was brevetted Brigadier General for gal j lantry In action. After the war he OEM. WSAVER. resumed legal practice, was elected District Attorney, and later served Bix years as Assessor of Internal Rev enue for the Fifth Iowa District. In 1374 he was elected to Congress. In June of the following year he was nominated for the Presidency by the Greenback Labor party, and In the election following received 307,740 votes, iu J 885 he was returned to Congress by the vote of the Green back Labor party. He was re-elected two years later. Since then he has been active In political movements and was one of the founders of the People's party. Making in linpra.akou. The girl is lucky who finds out suddenly that she has something nice the matter with her. I knew ono who learned that she had lovely hair. She took to doing it up with one hair pi u, and she used to look like a mop on the third day of a house-cleaning. She took to Jerking her head, too, so that the hair would come down, and then she did look lovely, especially If it happened at the theater, at lun cheon, or In the cars. She would waggle her head so that her words would come out scalloped, and her nose got all spread around. A girl with a neat foot is the worst nuisance I know. She always has it stuck out In the car. Her shoestring Is always coming undone. She Is forever lift ing her dress and making you nervous. It just about spoils a girl If she fluds out that she has fine eyes and pretty teeth. Good.-hy to quiet expression at once. Her eyes roll, droop, snap, shut, open, dance, and 6parkle all over the place, till you wonder why thoy don't get sprained. Meanwhile her teeth are working just as hard. She smiles twice a minute, and often her eyes are getting In some fine touches that don't go with a smile at all. The effect Is awful. I got so tired looking at a girl the other day that I wondered why the man with her didn't marry her just for the sake of tying her eyes fast to her nose and knocking her teeth out. As for me, give me a girl who knows she is homely or one that is so good-looking that she doesn't care. Philadelphia Press. Memorable K. wanna. Ravenna Is the end of the old, the beginning of the new. says a writer in Scrlbner's: "Toward Rome all ancient history tends, from Rome all modern history springs; but here for a brief moment the broad current of history was dammed up into this little space, then ebbing away, even as the Adri atic has done, It left Ravenna full of strange, stranded monuments of a time that has elsewhere been swept out upon the tide Into the ocean of oblivion. Among the graves of the buried past the sarcophagi of exarchs, cap tains and priests which lie scattered In the churches and the streets waifs from the shipwreck of Italy when Alarlc burst upon her are the sepul chers and effigies of three rulers who epitomize the art history of the city; of Galla Placid ia, the conquered Ro man Princess, who subjugated In her turn and married her captor, and pre served to Ravenna what remained of old-time splendor; of Theodoric the Ostrogoth, who Infused the vigor of the Korth Into worn-out forms; of JustiDlan the Emperor, who dowered the city with the art heritage of the Greek. The mausoleum of Placidla and the baptistery represent the first of the three groups into which the buildings of the city fall; those re mains ot the Theodoslan epoch being followed by the works of the Ostro gothic period, San Apolinare Nuovo and the tomb of Theodoric; while the last group, that of Justinian, boasts San Yitale and "St. Apolinaris in the Fleet. " The little mausoleum of Placldia may claim a first visit. There for 1,100 years her body sat upright In jeweled cerements in her sarcophagus, and was the very type of her city's mission. For In Ravenna antique art grew rigid, swathed away in the embalming clothes of conventionality, ! gilded and stiffened, mummied within the stone walls till, eight centunc3 having rolled by, the spirit of an tiquity rose again and the chrysalis was forgotten, even as Galla's actual , body crumbled in fire and ashes at a moment when the renaissance had at tained its full strength. A little girl entered a rope Jump lug contest at Wilkesbarre, Pa. She won, jumping 840 times without stop ping. Then she died. But her be reaved friends can console themselves with the reflection that she was the champion rope-Jumper of her towu. lr is a tact not generally known that jailors who are off the southern soast of South America, aud are in want of water, make for the mouth of the Ama zon, where they can procure fresh water two hundred . miles from the ooast. The volume poured out by the river is so great and so strong that it sweeps back the ocean itself. A Chemist advises that canned frnit be opened an hour or two before it is ised. It is far richer after the oxygen tf the sir has been restored to it A PLEA FOR QOOD ROADS. From the earliest times of whioh wi have record, and even in prehistoric times, as shown by ar-heological re mains, human intelligence has devised means for surmounting the obstacles of travel, which the physical necessi ties of man have called npon him to perform. In the Section of Transpor tation and Engineering, in the U. S. National Museum, at Washington, may be seen arranged, in chronological order, the various means used for pro moting travel and commerce, and for conveying intelligence, makinr a nniqne and interesting memorial of the genius of man as he created, link by link, the grand chains of communi cation which have exerted so powerful an influence on civiliz tion Here we may see brought together 'from every available source the appliances of travel by land, beginning with the simplest aboriginal devices for the conservation of muscular force in the first that is the human beast of burden: skin bag3 woven, baskets and cases, toboggans, carrying chairs, sledges, e rts, liar .ess, eta, tinning the various stigos of progress until we reach the smooth iron tracks and pow erful steam engines and palace cars of our XIX Century. But with all the Yankee facility for invention and with the numberless do vices for promoting travel, our country roads, and often our city streets, are noted for their wretchedness, and the pa ient farmer pays more than enough in taxes and in the wear and tear of vehic.es and harness to procure, a smooth and level road, were it man aged with the "brains" for whioh we, as a nation, pride ourselves, but whioh ia the matter of our conntry roads seem heretofore to have entered as a minimum factor. In the promotion of all great reforms there needs to be a continual bringing of the subject before the people in or- ' der to so mould public opinion that the people, as a body, shall coll for legislation npon it, for, however care less may be onr pnblio servants in the administration of their trusts while the public remains apathetic or unin terested, a general demand for the re dress of wrongs by the great American ' people is invariably followed by a re ' sponse from the government. I But it is this moulding of public opinion that is the hardest part of the task, for the call must be from the peo ple and not from a few reformers who may prove only to be "cranks," or from a class or section who miy have 1 an individual ax to grind. When we shall have trained wardmasters, thor- ' oughly understanding the topography and drainage of the country; the rela tive merits and economy of gravel and asphalt and broken atone and the proper machinery; we shall see a cor responding improvement in the con dition of the farmer, a greater profit on the product of his labor and an in creased value in his land. As the in crease of land values necessarily im plies a corresponding iucrease iu tax ation, thus enlarging the revennes of the State, it will be readily seen that the State can well afford to take the matter in hand and provide for sys tematic road construction. And here the Agricultural Colleges and other industrial institutions, maintained by the State, may do a good work by fitting out ana training expert roadmasters who will be sure of permanent and paying employment in this most im portant work. , When we survey our miserable country roads, miles of sticky clay ' alternating with wretched corduroy, almost impassable at some seasons of the year, we can well imagine the agriculturist surveying the wreck of dilapidated vehicles and broken winded horses, caused by the laborious hauling to market of his produce, and count ing up these losses and the growing taxes he has paid for this wretched I failure, we can readily imagine him I exclaiming with the ubiquitous street gamin, when he dropped bis hard earned nickel in the area grating: "Oh, where Is my pocket-book (tone ti-oo-oo. Aud the money, I loved It so much:'' As it is a self-evident fact that "the farmer feeds the world" the matter , becomes in this way, if no other, a sub ject of the deepest concern to us all. I'-By the improvement of conntry roads every branch of our agricultural, com mercial and manufacturing interests i would be benefited. Every article ! brought to market would be diminished in price, and the number of horses need j ed to carry on business would be greatly reduced, says an eminent authority. I The city, too, sharing in these bene .fits should provide well paved streets, so as to attract to her markets the pro ducts of the surrounding country. If it be trne that "the road is that physical sign by which may be best understood any age or people," one might easily conclude that the people of America, to-day stood on a lower plane than the Incas and Azteo nations, whose broad causeways of stone, con structed without the aid of the labor saving devices of to-dar, were a wonder to Europeans who discovered them. Humboldt, never lavish with his en comiums:, says of these vast roadways, "The roads of the Incas were among the most useful and stupendous works of man." The excellent opportunity for pre senting the subject at the World's Fair should not be neglected. Col. Albert Pore, of Botton, in offering 81 COO as the beginning of a fund to raise a building on the grounds of tho Columbian Exposition, has begun the good work, and if other capitalists and manufacturers, pecuniarily interested would assist, we might have, such a display of machinery and materials for proper road construction, exhibited by skilled workmen as would be an object lesson to every visitor and would go far to convince the most apathetic, that the remedy for this great evil of bad reads is within our rt ach and only needs that the people of the country should wake up to its importance. Let ns then petition our Congress, that while making such liberal appropriations for our World's Fair aa may give opportunity to fairly represent the industry and ability of onr country, that this important sub ject shall have such conspicnons exhibit as its importance demands, ana that, among the buildings set apart for such special representations as may be de manded by their consequence to the ' interests of the people aball be seen 'that devoted to the '-Department of Road Constrnction and Maintenance." E S. Cransos. Blaudyte is the name given to the new material made of Trinli 1 asphalt and waste rubber. It res sU the heal ot high pressure steam and lasts well la the presence of oil and greasi The Ions life of birds has been Inter - preted as compensation for tbei feebie fertility and for the great mortality o their young. THE IDYL OF A SEA-MOSa T ADA X. TROTTER, On the horizon the dancing flames of light proo!aimed the rising sun. Tho laughing waves splashed the crimson rays, scattering them in dazzling reful gence, to spread over the bay, in and out the eddies ebbing on the reef, downwards through the clear water stretohing.until the paradise of mosses, swaying with the ebb and flow, caught the radiance, and glanoed up, golden tipped and tinted. The blue and gold went drifting on from horizon to shore, as the sun, cloudless, sent forth its myriad rays,to play in and oat the depths with rain bow hues, until recalled by the last flames of the sunset. The sunbeams were great talkers. "Why not?" asked the m isses, laugh ing at the mirt fal b.ibble around "Such travelers as they are, with the whole world lying at their feet! More morel" was their genial cry. j Sea urchins awoke, and crawled along the ledges of the rocks; crabs put on their ntmost speed, lest the ebbin9 I tide should leave them stranded. The star-fishes, creeping over the opening I mussels, made their morning meal, while the rose-tinted anemone swept the snnlit tide with its fragile t nta- ' cles, seeking some victim worth assim ilating. The sea-mosses grew from some coarse dulse, which elung to the rocks always in deep water. The sun was scarcely up, when overhead drifted a shadow. The beams thus pushed aside cried in warning chorus, "A beat a boat!" "Oh. how beautiful!" cried a young girl. A sonorous voic rsplifeu, "Let me reach it with my oar?" "You cannot, professor. What a pity!" The sea-moss, looking up, saw two pager faces gazing at her swaying, per fect form. " 'an't you get it?" "Impossible!" "What it is?" "I do not know. My book does not mention it. It is evidently a rara avi. Well, we must give it np. ' The shadows moved with the boat; the laughing sunbeams came back. "We found you first, rara avi," said they. "Were they admiring me?" "Of course." "What next?" The sunbeams laughed. "Yes, that is the way," they said. "Now you have tasted a new joy, you will always be asking 'What next'?'' "Will they come again?" "Possibly. Probably, however, you are already forgotten." -'1 might go after them. I am tired of this. Every day 1 do the same things. Look now at this large breaker! I might mount and flit shore wards. I too should travel. I should meet with incidents Most people might see me." "You mean admire yon, I suppose. After all, such expressions soon pall npon one," replied the sunbeams. "We think nothing of it. It is our daily bread. Poets rave about us; children chase ns live on us. We are courted by princes, loved by queens, songht by rioh and poor alike. But hat of it?" "Ah! what a career!" cried the moss breathlessly. "No wonder you do not understand our limitations, obliged at the slightest breath of the ocean to float this way or that." "Nevertheless, you are with yonr friends. It is tietter than drifting among strangers." "Fiiendsl" cried the moss, with a ioornfnl recoil from the dulse, to whose good services she owed her freedom from care, having nothing to do but pi iy, while the stronger moss clung to the rocks. "Coarse creatures! Give me good company or none." The dulse laughed hoarsely, feeling inclined to be very good company. The family possessed a kind of beauty of their own, too, ot whioh thev were quite unconscious. When the tide was low and the reef was hire tHe cov ered the scarped rocks with mellow tints, golden brown deepening into black, even purple in the twilight. The delicate moss grew lang-iid as the day wore on, but the gay sun beams never ceased their danciug. The tide ebbed lower and lower, then turned, and babbled back into the hollows of the reef. With it came a wind from shore, driving the wavelets briskly on, splashing the foam on the rocks, and scattering the sunbeams iato millions of sparkling gltitms. At length the wanderer was caught in a rocky cave, and roamed hither and thither with its monotone of story. "So much to do ere surtBet our time for rest, you know so I must go on. No way out of this, you say, but the way 1 came! Absurd! Can't go back wards, you know. No 1 don't want to stay. I'll search about; I daresay there is a crack I can squeeze through. No, I'm no story-teller, bnt it was in teresting, very. A balloon, 1 think they call it, with a nian-oi eature sitting, trying to sail. Oh, yes, but I'm good natnred enough I don't mind !eing 'sat upon.' 1 gave him a lift sent him out to sea. I believe he said, at the time, I was going the wrong way; but you can't believe that kind of creature North wind came blustering up and turned him ronnd; carried him up ever so high. I want to get out to see him 1 drown. Of court e be will as soon as i north wind drops him. Ah! 1 thought i I should find a crack. Dear me I I'm ' terribly squeezod-thera won't be much left of me to roam over the reef before sundown." He gathered his drifting garments and drew them through the tinv cranny, sighing softly his "fare well. " I The waves tabbied into the cave, calm and peaceful in their ebb and flow, a low moan came from the ebbing depths, prophetic of coming storm, occasionally breaking their monotone of rhythm. While the snn fct. His triumphant course was run with out the uprising of a single cloud. N earing the horizon he cast forth flames of dazzling brilliance, caught the forests, shedding gold upon the boles of the stalwart pines, buried the scarped cliffs in a haze of glory, touch ed the ocean, leaving a trail of crimson from horizon to shore, and glowed amongst the rock pools, until the bar ren reef, purple amidst these gorgeous sut flames, was crowned with dia monds and rubies, while the lapping waves, splashing against the rocky walls of the cave, for the moment budded ther, in amethyst and gold. The sea-moss swayed beneath the crimson current Torrents of gold rolled past and over her. The gay sea-creaturs crept ont of sight into the crevices of the rocks, awaiting night The western wind sank softly with the sun. Then the after-glow touched the very zenith in its rapid, upward flight, and, fading as it fled, gave plaoe to the evening star, serene and sale. Tha did the dim sky darken into night, and the Eternal drew baok the veil that hid the glories of the d.s tant worlds from sight ' At midnight the storm arose. The reef was covered; its garments of dulse rutblegjly torn by the swirling waters, ' were swept far out to sea. The delicate sea-moss set forth alone. Dashed now against some ship in distress, now against some hid eous sea-monster, her career was no longer frea of incident Day dawned I as she drifted shorewards on the heav- j ing billows. The advantages of trav el were hers. She saw how large the world migut be. Perhaps it appeared a little dreary to her, all alone. "Even those coarse creatures on the reef would be company," she said sadly- It was a monotonous life, after all, thus drifting baok and forth about the island. "At lastl" She recognized the voice as she waa lifted from the waters and laid in a book. "None but the rarest specimens are placed in this collection, cried the professor gaily. "Your rara avis is in the best oi company then," laughed the lady. The rara avia was triumphant ad mired of all, shown as a cariosity, her perfect form commented on. "What next?" she asked after awlule. Life was still monotonous. There waa no answer. "The best of company," chatted the live-long day. Here should have been a compensation for the I as of liberty. Our sea-moss listerd., t"6idy to ad mire, and, in return, give her own views of life, but after all. remained ever silent Her compeers were dull, self-centred, self-absorbed. Was she as dull as they? She turned with a warm glow at her heart to her old life on the reef. "I prefer the dulse after all," said she; "they have their outside interests, the kindly folk." Too latel GLEAN1NOS AT HOME AND ABROAD. A hocse-dook letter-box which is so arranged that the postman as he in serts the mail mechanically and auto matically rings a bell, is a new inven tion. Photographing; under water has actually been carried out, so it is said. Experiments were made in 1889, in the Mediterranean, to asoertain how far daylight penetrated under water. In very clear water, near Corsica, and eighteen miles from land, the limit of daylight was found by means of pho tograpbio plates to be 1580 feet A tool has been recently invented that may be attached to any drill press for boring any geometrieul figure, such as round, square, hexagon, octagon, tri angle, diamond, star, oval, half round, etc. It can be fitted to bore any shape of hole having straight sides or curved sides, or both. Any machinist of ordi nary ability can successfully use the tooL Thb oldest of the Dutch journals ha passed its 2'26th anniversity, and the publisher has issued to his subscribers copies of the first number of that journal as it appeared on January 8. 1656. It is said that the earlier copies of this paper were carefully consulted by Macaulay in preparing his celebrated history. Onb of the hottest regions in the United States is along the line of the Southern Pacifio railroad, in Arizona. At Bagdad, in that Territory, the ther mometer has been known to stand as high as 140 in the shade for days in succession. Tlie ticket agent at Bag dad says that he has seen the mercury standing at 128 on the cool side of the depot building at midnight TnE common school children of Athens are taught ancient and modern Greek, French and sometimes English. Their "readers" are the classics of their own country, and while they are still children they are familiar with Homer, Xenophon, Herodotus and the dramatists. Their nursery tales are the myths of Hellenic- literature. Belrek warb is no longer made in Ireland. It is the thinnest "china" in the world, and Queen Victoria drinks her tea from Beleek cups. A cup and saucer of Beloek ware is a suitable wedding-present. What is called Beleek ware is now made at some of the potteries in Trenton, New Jersey. It is expensive, as there is so much hand-work necessary to impart to it the delicacy of the famous Irish ware. Is the new British Pharmacopoeia the metric weights and measures will be a looted, to the entire exclusion of the English weights and measures hitherto used there and in the United States. Statistics of the Custom house at San Francisco show that the sum of $750,000 was collected last year as the duty on importations of smoking opium, at that port alone, with the tariff at 112 a pound. This means an importation of 62,000 pounds. Onb ot the natural curiosities of Asia is the Great Salt Desert of Persia. It is many miles in extent, and is a solid incrustation of salt several feet thick. Thb latest architectural novelty ia Chioogo is a book-shaped block, twelve stories high, to bo known as the Mer cantile Register. "This book will have steel bindings, with terra-cotta trim mings." Is the kingdom of Poland there was formerly a law according to which any person found guilty of slander was compelled to walk on all fours through the streets of the town where he livsd, accompanied by the beadle, as a sign that be wag unworthy of the name of man. ' A discharged apprentice ia Vienna, Austria, revenged himself the other day by sneaking into his employees cellar, pulling the bungs out of all the barrel', and allowing $1-2,000 worth cf wine to escape. In order to keep sea porgles through the summer, the fishermen of Rh'e Island have nets so arranged that t e passing schools are led up into salt water ponds and the channels connect ing with the oceon are closad. Opium is the dried juice or the pop or, and the do er gets its rpuUtiou f putting petple to sleep because it con tains so much of this narcotic A story comes fr m Turkey that people stopping to rest near the large poppy fields there are often overcome by inhaling the drug. An Egyptian scythe, dug up on the banks ot the Nile iu l(90,and said to he as old as Moses, is exhibited amoig the antiquities In the private museum of I Flinders Pe rie, Loudon. The shaft of the instrument Is of wood set with a row of fine flint saws, wbbh are secure ly oeu ented m a groove. fVenaarek as a Schoe'bny. Prince Bismarck, the great Ger man statesman, though new in retire ment, is regarded by his fellow-countrymen as their greatest man. Not long since he passed his seventy seventh birthday; and on this occa sion 12,000 people visited Frledrlchs rutie to congratulate him, and 3,000 telegraphic m-issasjes were brought In by hard-working messengers. Prince Bismarck is an example of the effect of scholarship and high education In shaping character and helping a ca reer. Not a few great men have tri umphed in spite of lack of education; many others have realized their great ness by its aid. Prince Bismarck was an excellent scholar In his boyhood. He was not yet seventeen when he completed his studies preparatory for the university; and that these studies were not of a trifling sort, judged by any standard, Is proved by the certificate which he received on passing his examination. This paper which bears date Easter, 1832, runs as follows: "The written examination com prised Ancient History: 'Bella Ro ma norum adversus Macedonum Re ges,' a Latin essay. Secondly, Modern History: On the political conditions of the leading States of Europe at the beginning of the Eighteenth century.' Thirdly, Mathematics: To find the area of a figure limited at will by a parabc!? curve and several straight lines. Fourthly, 9 German essay: 'How Europe accqulrea and main tained superiority over the other con tinents of the world. Fifthly, Greek: Translation and crucial comments on the passage In the 'Ajax' of Sophocles from line 940 to line 970, and a Greek exercise. "Otto von Bismarck received the following certificates in the viva voce examination: Latin, good and flu ent; Greek, good; Ancient History, very good; Modern History, good; Mathematics, generally good, Philos ophy, good." The general certificate Is as follows. "His knowledge of Latin is good, both In his comprehension of the writers and In facility of composition. His knowledge of Greek Is pretty good. He has a very satisfactory skill In the use of German; aud a fair knowledge of mathematics, history, and geogra phy. Ot the modern languages, he has studied French aud English with special success." The teachers close their certificate of the boy who wa9 to become of the most powerful man in Europe, with these words, "We dismiss this able and well-equipped youth with our best wishes, and the hope that he will pursue his further education with re newed energy." Bismarck's university course did not fall short of the promise of his preparatory studies; and in his sub sequent career as a sta'esman con tinual evidences are fjund of hU scholastic training. Story of a MlMlng- Jlauiund. One night a newly et gaged couple were going to a ball. In the carriage he asked her to let him see her ring for a moment, some peculiarity of Its sparkle having caught his eye, al though why she should have had her glove off no one can tell. She gave him the ring and he examined it for some time in the light of the carriage window. When the carriage stopped she asked him for the ring. "But I gave it back to you and you took it." "No, you did not. I have not had it since 1 gave it to you." Lights were brought, search was made, clothes were shaken every place where a diamond ring could possibly lie concealed was uncovered. The ring could not be found. Fach persisted, he that he gave the ring back, she that she did not receive It. Assertion became argument; argu me'nt changed from heat to Ice; com munication was interrupted and finally ceased; the engagement was broken. They went their ways and each married another. One day several years later the woman, rip ping up an old ball dress found In the heading of one of the ruffles a diamond ring. It was the lost en gagement ring. She wrote to her former lover a letter of apo'ngy and explanation, but the incident had turned the curreut of loth their lives. This Is a true story. New v0rk Sun. CARE Ot FINE CHINA. "One of the troubles of a house keeper's life,", said a practical woman the other day, "is the practice that som servants persist in of pouring boiling water over fine china. I went into the kitohen the other day just in time to see this done, and when I spoke to the maid about it she imme diately turned about and deluged the dishes with eold water from the hy drant It seems impossible to impress on the minds of these people the fact that sudden changes of tempeiature will crock the glazing on almost any earthenware, and that it is practical rnin to fine grades of china, and all argument on the subject seems wasted. They will take the dishes out of the pan, examine them with the greatest care, and declare that they are not in jured a t article, and they may not tho at the moment that they are, bnt soon afterward they begin to 'craze,' as the manuf ctnrers say, and after a time are covered with tiny lines of crackle. There is but one safe way to wash china and glassware, and that is to have the water of just snftioient temperature, so that the hands can be pnt in it Water that ia too hot for the hands is too hot for good dishes. I used to insist on the servants prepar ing the dish-water before puttiog ths dishf s in the pan. To do this tbey must rub the soap on the cloth, and will easily discover what the proper degree of heat should be. in this same connection, I may say that 1 never allow dish-mops in my kitchen. Ser vants are almost absolutely certain to nse boiling water, because they do not realize the necessity for cooling it when tbey use a mop. If the pieces are brushed out with a mop, the water may be actually at the boiling point and for this reason I think that the di h-mop shonld be abolished from every well regulated kitchen." A Houston County (Georgia) man feu a sow 0 years old, that has been the mother of 172 pigs, and now hat t llttesf eleven. Almanacs for 1S93 are out already. NEWS IN BRIFF. London is said to have been the first city in the world to use coat Six millions of dollars are invested j in the manufacture of dynamite iu the I United Stater. The value of the art treasures ot the Museum of Art of New York City Is $7,000,000. The people of Russ'a use np 6,000, 000 packs of playing cards every vear. It has been stated that every 800 bullets fired duriug the civil war a man was killed. Some of the African tribes pull their fingers till the joints "crack" as a rorm of salutation. From an old account book it ap pears that in 1797 tobacco was sold by . the yard In Eastport, Me. j The area of the Czar of Russia's possessions Is far greater than that of ! 1. .v-.ll T 1., . r- tue entire xvepuuuu ot r ranee. Every southern state except Ken tucky has passed pension laws for Us ex-Confederate soldiers. A large block of asphaltum was rect ntly taken from a mine In Califor nia which weighed two tons and a halt The tallest chimnev in the world la ! at Port Dundas, Scotland. It is 454 feet to its copestone from the ground, Photographers say that the facial resemblance of husbands and wives is ' closer than that ot brothers and sis- Galileo's first telescope was made . from part of a lead water in each end of which he cemented cC23)on spectacle glasses, The World's Fair managers re cantlv offered 50 for the nroirramma j held by Lincoln when he was shot. Mrs. j McClintock of Philadelphia now has me paper. The author of the "Watch on the Rhine," Max Scheckenburger, Is to be commemorated with a monument In the German town of Tuttllngen. The "Sampson" well at Waco, Texas, Is the largest one in the United States, It throws up one and one hair million gallons of pure hot water dally. Plcardy, France, claims the honoi of being the place where the first plate glass was made. The process was dis covered by accident in 1633, The last execution for forgery In England took place at the Old Bailey on December 31, 1792. The name of the convict was Thorras Maynard. The first monument ever erected to the memory of the Union soldiers who fell in the Civil War is that in the cemetery on Somerville avenue, In Somerville, Mass. A very convenient mucilage can be made of ocion juice. On being boiled I short time It will yield, cn being pressed, quite a large quantity of ad hesive fluid. The former record for fast type writing has been broken by Miss Caht arine V. Curry, of Syracuse, N. Y who can write 182 perfect words in one minute. She has been operating near ly five years. A man living iu New Ecgland, who is five feet seven Inches In height, has a beard six feet two Inches in length, or eight Inches longer than himself. The beard began to grow twelve years ago. Of the alxtv-four candidates for admission to the Imperial Academy at Berlin, Miss Bella Newport, an Ameri can, stood at the head. She excels ov the piano. The tray or drawer In which Cali fornia ships so much of her small fruit is lei Indies long, 8J Inches wlds and 1) Inches deep. They are packed ten, fifteen or twenty in a crate, being placed five deep. By a recent edict issued by the St Petersburg (Russia) police has been decreed that every theatrical manager shall place in the hands of a specified official, either in cash or current bonds, a sum sufficient to cover bis exper.se.' during an entire fortnight Quince culture is not generallly over done, because many fruit growers think It a difficult fruit to produce, and so avoid it Under a deep, strong, sandy loam, with good culture, there should b9 no more reason for failing with quinces thau with anything el). A joint commit tse of the two bouses of the English parliament has reported electricity a su table and effi cient source of motive power, and recommended that electric railway constructlou be encouraged throughout England. The natives of Gibraltar, and also tho Moors across the strait, have a tradition that somewhere on the rock there exists a cavern whence a subtetran ean passage leads under the strait to the mountains on the other side. The existence of the passage, they say, is known to the monkeys, who regularly use it in passiug from one continent tc '.he other. ' There Is nothing so fatal to craw fish as a thunder storm," said a Wash ington fishdealer. "When I make a shipment of them to any place at a dis tance I always make sure that the weather promises well. On more than one occasion I have had entire consign ments killed on a journey by a small Meclrical disturbance." The newest great city of Europe Is 1 Buda-Pesth, the Capitol and metropolis . of Hungary. In Koesu h's day, less than ' half a century ago, the combined popu ' latton of Buda and Pesth, lying on op ! posite sides of the Danube, was about j one hundred thousand. The eonsoll ' dated municipality now has a popula tion of fully na.f a million. The pains and expense which Gun maker Krupp will take to bring his best work to Chicago shows the valnn that he puts upon an exhibit at the World's Fa'r. He will probably spend a quarter of a million on his display, but he will secure an advertisement that will be worth far more than the outlay. An old restaurant bill of fare, prii.ted In Richmond, Va., in January, 1834, giv e the following war-time prices in Confederate monev: "Soup, $1 60; chicken, $3.50; roast beef,. $ J.00; ha ji and eggs, $3.00; raw O' sters, $2.00; coffee, $2 00; bread and butter, $1.50; a bottle of ale, $1100; and a cigar, S2.C0. A piece of wood one inch long and one-half inch thick was removed from the cheek, of a Reading, Pa., young man. The splinter entered his cheek six years ago in a coasting accident. (-
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