AT , F. SOHWEIER, THE OON8TITDTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XLVI. M1TFLINT0W1N. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 14. 1892. NO. 52. a- A MORTIFY i.-.O MMTAKi, ET A SNA . PIU.TT. tu t n v t-ili'o over ;md over, and back- . r i hi J Im " nut, t. . : fat 1 ii "t irtn-iiiLM-r six times nine, and. I 'in't v hat to o t' d .,,e ( i.lay with my doll and not t !( ' IH T eea'i, ii you cut lirr Fiiiy-four' for a while, you'll leal r. U by heart," she ald. S" 1 1. "K my fn vt i tte M iry Ann (though I U :iM.;tn 'tw.i- a dreadful s.iame Ts i- s ' Ii a i erectly lovely child such a I cnv r.onul name). auJ I :.'. ! I.er t',y n ir little "Fifty-tour" a 1,1:.; .led lllllfn till I titlt-W li.f a i"f mx ti nes nine as well as the of two lluu-s two. .r-.i y. Ellnbet'i Wlgslesivorth, who al- a , ? hl-is so itrou't. m'.j : x tunes u ne li filty-two," and I nearly :iu.l,i d alcuU ! lull" i-l i'd 1 n t when teicher Slid, "Sow u m il y t 11 U ou cm." t . r i : i Ji.jfc' t of my (lull and 3akS alive I jBjwctai "iiarv Auul" lilt Y3INGEST TLANET, AND COW III BECAME A COMET. Xoti ll get lost therel" Ut, getting reider than Shrieked ever with . rat ll. "us; an J you'll catc'a col J," shouted. .1 cj.it r auxiously, "OV let him go if be wants to; who rarcs'.'" jeere I Earth. "OLl don't go," pleaded Venus; "it will be s much nicer to stay ber with v.- u it keep safo iu sight of Mother Litie Mercury, tbe planet text to the Vonugesf, sai I nothing, but one or t i tears fizzled down his warm cheeks ,it i":ir tuouut of all the dreadful thii s--3 Unit would purely happen to Lis v.l. nrtsoiuo playmate out beyond a M.V cl lplical orbit. jleyouneest .Planet didn't care a Lm I-'olo for what some of h a brothers tuin?, aud if you'll just tell him von're hlJ sisters caul; they were always tell- ! my brother, be can give you a point or u.u.mto rotate more rapidly or to two wortu knowing. Dear me!-a m.-. inel.9oubia axis or to make bet-' Comet;" -and the Ebter Brother ttr po e in his revolutions, and be was turned slowly aDd sally on his axis, as ie.i;v-y.iU6 hiippy at the thought of he recalled another i outh-time, now lo.i.ov away from all their tireooxe ; long since vanished, " aad the once iu ibuling; but when bia der suter throbbing hope3 that had never got be Ve..us begfed bun to stay, and when . yond the dreaminar ii.to the doing, and Le ; curd Mercury's tear, he faltered, tint now mcr.lr the Do von tbiuk that it is dangerous 1 u,:t 'lu re.' assed be ot eauR. iJhll'ixi sure of it," she cried, "i nt uijous ail those strange enns and i-:urs ayd t-j'aces! How do you know tide's c tingle respectable planet svs t. u aniong item? And thrD, what will o i do so far away from Mother Suu? W-'i'l! behold and dark, aud " - U nt i conU'n't get verv cold, be . :Ui-e I'm so warm myself," answered tin' Youngest. "Yon kuow I am, V'rnu I never coed half to many i'1'iiiiU over rue nt nfcbt as you do u i that Comet th.it was here only lust en.' tiry -aid " "Ah! that's it," remarked S.ttnra s.fC.ist!c.il;y, "that's it. This silly l.ttie ppueie baa been turned giddy, l iiine.s, I y tbe wild tales of thiit vitiliiiuJ Comet. Perhaps he would like to brci iue a Comet. ir'.mcy! the ionnrrst Flant propones to become a dm t!" And Saturn laughed a dis li. rtea'oie la;lgh. "Didu't tou tell me yoirsalf that the Comet was really ono of our own a rttem, ouly that he bad been aw .y s long that we vounger ones couldn't re momhir him? And if be could roil out into space and could keep growing warmer and brighter an 1 could coma back Mt-'ain, why canuot I?" "What the vouna; globo needn is a vood blacK eclipse," growled bir Jupi ter; "and if 1 were Mother San, lie shouldn't have a s giit of my face for manv a day after this." "He's always been wilful and tin manageable," said earth. "vor since he way a little mite of molten Auy thicg he wont In't revolve soberl and ellipucally like the rest of ns. Xo: be would veer 'way otf, first in oni dire 3 tion and then in the other, nnd Mother Sun had all she could do to keep liiru in his proper orbit. I s-ay. let htm go; he'll never amount to a ly sort of planet with his vagrant notion. Bo sides, he baa no density to speak of, and what do wo weighty, sen-iblo bodies want with such tiiinsy s.ulT in our system, anyhow?'' This angered the Yonngest. "ow, 1 shall go," he sa d bittor- "O, dear!" sobbed Venn, and agu'n was heard tbe 6izziiug of Mercury's tears. "Mother dresu't tell mo whether to go or stav," said the Youngest, orce more wavering, tbouch his heart still lenpt toward tbe unknown tho bouud lets blue highways where be longed to speed farther and faster than coul l be dreamed of in these dull, narrow ellipses. Then spoke the mother voici the dear pretence that had kindled and warmed the restless little tpark iuto breathing nnd beinjr; but the words came slowly aud without joy: "My faith is with thee, my bravest. It nas but the young and untried strength that I once held back. Let it be as thy heart bids, and I shail tru.-t to that bid'ling to sometime lrin thee back to my loving shelter;" nnd the Mother ua drew a noft bit of cloud over her face as there came the mem ory of another restless planet-cbild, who, long ago, bad likwise Ventured fi rth into the nnkncwD, and, as she well krew, never to return, for, in his eteiid, the slow centuries had brou-jb circling back a oridiaat chaage- bnff- "Then I'm going," cried the Young est rapturoi.sly, heariu only the co i sent, and guessing nothing of tbe motber-sa Iness. "If mother snys I may, it must be all right. Good-by, Veil us, good-by, Mercury." "Good-by, go id by," Venus an I Mercurv called sorrowfully after him, and "Good-by, goo 1-by," came iu chorns f-ora the nursery of Asteroi 's. "Well have peace now," shouted MhT". "He does rotate well," snil Karth, loot ng after her youngest brother with a eatibfied smile. "Training will till." "Ifron'ro roilly goincr," cried big -Tiiprer, "give my love to Xeptune I haven't been neur h'ta for ages." "I suppose you'll be back before i nc," sneered Saturn. Not until I'm a Comet," answered tii Youngest Plnuet bravely, at which at un snapped out something in re-tn-;,; the Youngest, rlyiDg even fasttr t!i u barp wordf, could only be sure that it was sp;te;ul. I'u-eutly he whizzed by another hrotl er, one who lived so far otf that, iscei t uMocial le Saturn, tbe most of Hem" tnly knew him by name Cretins. "GooJ-by," cried the Tonngest to this str Vfkr, who, from pure wondor p nt, heurlv storped ehort in his rota tion. " te "Whatl You? the ronnge.t Planet? yn3i Itay. what may you be doing so l going to be s Comet," floated J Back a isarieas voice; uiready tie was away a'?ain. "but, bold on! watl" spluttered Lrantis in disraiy at anch daiiug. Bat by this time the Youngest was nearing Neptune, the other far-nwy brother. "Jupiter sends his loTe to you," cvled out the Youngest aa be came closer, "and Mara is just as cross as ever, and Saturn more apitefaL but Venus grows prettier every ceu'urv," at wbich Eider Brother Neptnne laughed. Be was barely aware of the existence of either Mare or Venns, ond be bad never even beard of tbe Young eet Planet, but ecrue of Saturn's dis agreeable speeches still stung his ear.-, and, for their soke, as much as any thing else, Le felt a kindly sympathy for the small, fiery atom speeding past him. "Hold on a minute," he cried. "Who are you, anyhow? Bless my moons, yon must be one of our system. 1 could tell that rotary motiou anywhere bnt 1 didn't even know yoa were in tbe heavens." "I haven't been for a long time," apologized the Youngest "But, rloauu f4,riflif Va. .. r i i i nd in.l...l T'm v.. - Come and, ohl w.ll you tell me (for ! you ought to know, revolving so far uu uere an oy yourself, is It so dread: ul in Space? And " "lo be a Comet? Well, you are a brave b dy. O, no! there's nothing so frightful about Space. It all depends on yourself. But dou't you go to roll ing too fur away, and forget the old system acd Mother Sun. Maka a rev olution round hfre once in a while, if it's only ev ry million centuries. Of course to do that, vou'll have to find ont all abont hyperbolas and pirab jlas and I dou't pea bow you'll ever learn by yourself.- I never could undertan I how it was done. Oh! look here the llOff StilP hill nlaQcoa in tKnf cstvf. ef old tet of memories in the staid thoughts of a sober, elderly boly who took a le, surely one hundred and sixty four years in his journey round the BUD. And, nieinwbile, the Youncrrst Pinner, spurred by an ambition that overleapt fe;ir, cantion, danger, and the hundred hnndnups barring any one to dare beyond the common Hip tical groove, wheeled on, pnst Xen- tune, punt tho furthest point that still I kept in view tho dear old Solar System, on and on. until all that was familiar laded finally out of siht, and endless niiknown Etretehes of sky space lay be fore him untried, uu'rodden. It was long before (he Youngest Planet retnrned; so long, that the mother Jove alone was now st' ongi'r ana f'enrer to him thau all the brieht pmtii'ioiii thr.t had once lured him j from i a safe shplter. He bow wanted j nothing k iidiier than the Jrn's light, the corrpaiiV of his sisters, Venus and Earth, big Jupiter and lit'lo Mercnrv, nnd lie ve irned for the sound of Sat uru's sharp tonjjne, and the sight of Mar's red face. He wheeled slowly d wn Space toward tbe far spot where spun a small spe"k the Solar System. Aud Le wo:.de:ed, as he shok ont his ra innt plumage for tb flight, if this res; b n lent llosa that swept the skis would be recoguized as the poor little wayward Planet who bad dared and tuled and suffered to gain such glory, and w hose conquering in the bard tight with circumstance and condition ha 1, alter all, onlv left a little less bitter sting thru d -feat itself. "Uut I became a Comet," he said to himself as be remembered Saturn's one-'ime scorn. "It is I do you not know me?" cried ont tbe Comet to Neptane Nep tune, once so elder-brotherly, so nineh mightier tha.n the small speed ng globe that-offes before bad venturesomely gone tbat way Neptune, now dnz.'.led and wonder-stricken at 'the presence before him. "VVhatI the Youngest? Well, bless my mo ns! Ah! you were whirled for a Comet and no mistake. YVu could never have settled down into onr hum drum plat.etury wavs. But, br. ther, it was u:y n essase to the Dog-Star that did so much for yon, nnd no mistake." And the splendid yonug Comet ouly smiled and passed on, never revealing that the high nnd mighty Dog-Star hadn't even 60 mnch as remembered i oor Neptune. "Let me see," bad said this elegant personafjo in supercilious answer to the planet-fledgling trem bling before him, "Neptune, J. thii k vou said? H'ml No, all our classes in tho perusal of hyperbolic orbits are lull at present. Otood-night, sir." But the secret of "hyperbolic orbits" had somehow been got at by tbe de termined little body, and the Dog Star had since then been wonderfully complaisant toward the brilliant wan derer, whose early appeal hi bad chos n to ifrnore. Uranus seemed to have bpen moetly Beleep while the Youngest Planet bad been nwar. "Why,"h illoo! who's that?" he cried ! ont, ns the Comet swept into view. I "The roundest Planer, auswerea the rndinnt stranger, unabla to from lauhin? at Uranus who was rubbing his eyes at a Rreat rate. "See here. you're vou're- keep know the others ran stand this s rt of thing, 1 ut Neptune and J, 'ay off here from the S:in, we're not nspd to it, a::d all that light pretty n arly knock-, me out of the ecliptic. My! won't Satiru bs farions when he sees yon? he thinks bis rings beat anything iu tbe heav ens." Saturn was crosv, the Comet could see it in everv mo'ion. "Don't you rem- mbcr me, Siturn?" ried tbe Comet. ".No, I don't," answered Saturn promptly; "and 1 don't want to; if you're that 8,1 y little Planet who sgas ago wouldn't revolve in his proper ellipse, and who word I go flying on into Nowhere, in spte of nil bis Sys tem's advice; why, ail 1 can say is that yon'd much better have staid off there among your disreputable fixed stars and not coreo back to bother ns. Be ides, you'ro not mnch of a Comet, af ter all. We had ono here threa thoa and centuries ago that was a Comet, I'll admit He was almost as bright as these rings of mine. By the way, 1 don't suppose yi '7,eaBeen,,D!li,i1u equal to them in ,11 S;ace? Well,! don't think much of your eccentric or bit. nor your tail neither, obody kuow? just what a Comet s tail In, any how; it can't rotate nor revolve, end it d isn't any axis,eo what's the nse of it at a'!' And yon haven't a siogle m ocn! 'Do yoa remember me, Jupitei? The Comet wis almost afraid to aek. No," eaid Jupiter, shaking his bead -which must be owned was a trifle beaT7-'B0. I don't, Ihere was a Comet bere osce be "ore, it was O, dearl I can't remembor anything thete timef , But he wasn't so bright as yoa are." "Don't you remember a small, flimsy qood-rcr-Dotbing Pianet that went ont into Spaoe one century, iu spite of all the advioe his brothers an d sisters gave him, and who said he wanted to be com" a Comet t" "No, I dou't remember him; was he an Asteroid?' asked stupid old Jupi ter. "No; he was the Youngest Planet He was a queer fellow, aud an ellipti al orbit didn't seem to suit him." "An elliptical orbit tot suit t'mi Why, I never even beard of snch a tbiug!" For opa Jupiter opened bis sleepy eves quifo wide. "My orbit is not elliptical, " smiled the dazzling vi-uor. But poor Jupiter only looked more puzzled and horri fied, and tke Comet passed on. None of the Asteroids remembered the Youngest hlanet "We're not expected to ren ember things," said Ceres saucdv. The Comet sadly went Us way. "Yes, I remember you." bawled red face 1 Mars. "You were a bad, ill -tempered little Planet, and yoa were forever petting a bigger tbare of the Sun's warmth than 1 was. Yes, and more clouds and rainbows and every t jiDg else. Earth and I never had anv peace while you were around; you made trouble, and be glowered sav agely at the Comet. Earth was very much engrossed with domestic cares jast now. "I have only had a satellite these last thousand centuries," she said apologetically. But busy as she was, she found time to disapprove of the Comet "fie is not quite well, quite planet ary, one may say. That tail of bis is of no heavenly use, and who knows but it may be dangerous? Thon his not coming back here for so long now what has he been doing all those sg.'? He shines, tbey sav, with bis own livid; well, that may be, but how do we know that borrowed licht is not tbe best, after all? The Sun is the only thing we know that gives forth light, and I, for one, ray that for anybody else to eet np shining on bis own account, is sheer saorilege. I don't care if they do say that It is done in other systems. The Solar System is good enough for me, and always shall be. But what could you expect of anybody that can't eveD revolve in an ellipse?" All this to Venns who, of all the planets, was most truly glad to see her long-lost playmate. " No, eartb, I don't agree with you,' said Venus. " Tbe Comet is a snlondid yonDg light, and, with his nature, I think he has done far better as he has, than to stay here like the rest of us aud rotate century after century in the same old way." And she gladly made the Comet wel come within her small, safe orbit, w.iere nothing fiercer than a zig-z-ig etrenk of HahtniDg or brighter than a roy cloud-bank and motherly sua ray had ever before had entrance. Mercury was still very young, al thoa.hhewas actually older than the Comet. "The Sun says 1 may have a satellite some day," he said gleefullr, rocking backward and forward. "My brother Uranus has eight! I'd rather be Cran ns than a Comet. Oh! I forgot yon were a Comet, bnt you see we 'ou't think mnch of them here. They're so flighty and far-off, and they ouly come here once iu a sreat while. Kurth save they're afraid to come." There was a nw p'anet, too a small Vulcan that seemed like a do cent, orderly little glolw, content to spin forever in the very orbit once de signed for the wanderer. But Eaitb had her fears that tbe Comet would lead Vulcan astray, and teucb him lad, nne'liptical habits. "I sba'n't feel satisfied till that vaga bond goes out of our System," she oon fided not to enns this tim, but to peppery Mar?. "Why, he influeuces evea my moon." And Mars burst out with, "That's so! Always making troub'e. He was tbe worst planetl But his temper. Earth, was never one bit more disagreeable than yours." At which Earth and quite excusa bly fent oil in a perfect eclipae of rags- But the mother love, the cherishing creating Sun warmth that great heart never failed the wanderer. "My briehtest and best!" she whis pered. "My shining one, that tanght himself to give forth light and so earned the glory that goes with it and follows after!" And the words lifted the Comet's spirit, and, lo! as he sped forth on a new journey, the wondering planets cried, "Look! H is even more radi ant than when he first c ime to us." But Earth only said, "ihat comes of his having staid so Jong with us, you may depend." Heles Clakkson, in Wide-Awake. Tsn.r- "Tansy"' a humble plant. I: name nas seen far better days. In Gieek it was athanasla. How little of tbe original is left on!y a shred. In old New England days, and even now, the kitchen garden had its t tnsy bed to draw from In the interest of "iansy i cheese," "rum and tansy," "tansv bit ters, and, in case or nines.', tansy tea." It is only a trace of classic custom that ha3 came down throush , the age. So powerful its properties trmt should Jove's messenger admin ister a draught of tan-y cordial to a mort il he tcok on immortality. The Y'ankee took H for another reason. So popular was Tansy that it wa adopted i a christening name, and in several European countries to-day Athanaso (inimortality) Is very popu lar. As an example of word debase ment tansv is rather striking. Davenp - ocrat. ft,.. v P.tsml Oar. Thentcr Treasurer I can't help !t My orders are imperative. Bead tho notice behind you. Walker Wayback (persuasively) But my dear friend, I am an ariist. 1 played with Booth for over three years. Theater Treasurer What did you play for heaven's sake? Walker Wayback I played the bass drum In the Salvation Army. Life. Th. Good Man' Llttla Fail nr.. "Young man," exhorted the blue ribbon leader, "youna man, pause! Pause before it Is too late. There is ruin, degradation, damnation, perdi tion, 6hame, sin and destruction In the bowl!" "Ah," said the frivolous youth, "come off! I don't drink out of a bowl! I use a glass!" Boston News. OHIO 9 MONUMENT. eh. Buckeye state Erects a World's Fail Shart at a Coat or 33,COO. Ohio has erected a monument In front of the State Building on tbf Fair grounds, Chicago, wtjieh when the Exposition Is over with will be set up permanently In the city o1 Columbus. The monument Is 31 feet high and rests on a base 14 feet square. The crowning figure, sym boiizlng the State of Ohio under tbe K i,!ii3 of the famous Eoman matron, o nelia. is ten feet tall, aud the ilgures around the shaft measure seven feet and represent "Ohio": Greatest Sons" Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Garfield, Chase and Stun too. The cost of the monument b S'25,000. A LULLABY. From Me eft coflii ntrr-Ocean. Every one seemed to know that the baby was ill. Baby was a winsome lit tle creature, aud she ba I made many frieuds as she had toddled along the atrei t at the side of her mother or her nurse, and now these friends came to tne door to inquire abont her. There were all sorts of people. Prom the s'utelv old jndge, wbo bad scraped au acquaint, nee with the little maid over tne front gate, to the small news boy, who liked always to deliver the paper into her plump little hand. Ihej were a motley crowd Baby's devoted admirers who came on tiptoe ai'ound to the back door, stepping soft y npon the straw strewn sidewalk aud going away with bowed heads when the servant told them that tbe cb Id was worse. For she grew Blood ily worse from day to day, and th re was no hope, the doctors said, that she wonl-1 ever le any better. Al first she tad noticed the flowers tbat old l luck Sam had sent, and uhe no .1,1 stretch out her hands for them, or for tbe oi ange which little Jennie had bronsht for her, tut afterward she sank into a stupor, tossing rest lessly at times and making a pitiful little wai ing sound. The great room was hashed and daikened. The little white crib stood iu the c-nre, and beside it dosed the uiire, worn from hours of watching. 1 lie ouly sounds which broke the paiu ful stillness were Baby's irregular breathing aud the quick, nervous tick ing of a tiuy gold watch which lay be side the medicines upon the table. Uo-asionaily a clinker or a bit of coal wonht droit torough the bars cf trie grate an 1 fall with a tinkle in'o the iron ash j an below, then Ba'oy would start np suddenly as if iu frig t. the mother, p le and hollow eyed, knelt I eside the crib, watching eicli movement of the little sutlerer. Baby's durk eyes were opened wide, but there was no recognition in their gaze only a vacant sture. She lay quite still for some time, then tbe little head, with its uia te,l mass of tangled curls, began to roll f om aide to side upon the pil- iw, and she uttered her queer little ny of pain. It was hardly a human cry id ML It was like the moaning of some Jurnb anim,.l, and e ich sound cut the uiotht r's heart like a knife-stab. The woman bowed her bead in her hands and a quiver ran through her i'rarue. ihen the strange cry rang ont louder than before, and, aa with a sud den inspiration, she began tbe lul laby that Baby loved so well: Sl-p-e-p. B:.by, sloop. Thy fa-tli r w..teben his fheep ' ice faltered In a low, trembling- voice! Thy moth-cr la sh-a-k:ng The rlre;ni-lani tree. And down fail 1 ttle dreams on thee- El-e-tp- Uaby, il-c-ep! "SI e-ep. Baby, sl-e-ep," she began, i.ut the word ended in a sob. One can keep fro:a weeping if one is silent, but the voice opens tbe floodgates of ten re, and the woman had not wept be fore. Was it her fancy that Baby seemed a litte qnietei ? She could not trnst her voiOH aa'n, but she went to tVe open piano and with her fingers she drew forth tbe raelody whiob her ach ing throat refused to make. Softly over and agnin she played tin sweet little nir, looking back over shoulder at Baby all ti.e while. Tbe moauing crew fainter and the curly bead turned kvi uneasily. The mother's fingers grew tired nnd stiJ, still she played on and on while the nurse dozed in her chair. At lat tbe . nurse's head nodded so abruptly that it seemed as through her neck must have been broken, and she woke wit'i a start. She bent over the'eiib. Baby was sleeping naturally, and there were little beads of perspiration on her white fi re eal Tho nnrs bock o nod with her fiuger for the mother to come ncurbr, :ut tbe mother's trembling limba refused to act, and she crouched wi'.h hands half raised a, if to ward oti a blow. "Don't tell m'," she faltered. J cannot bear it yet. "But see," whispered tbe r.nrso, "it .8 not as yoa fear. The fever is broken and your baby will live. Maris Moore Marsh. Oil on vt at.r. Mis. Veriknu Oh, I bought a aeautiful ocean landscape to-day. Mrs. Bornso Is it an oil or water color? Mrs. V- Water color, of course. Didn't I say it was an ocean land scape. Detroit Free Press. Thebe is more fabulous welth than there is ot any other kind. Cranes, storks and wild geese fly fast . enough to make the trip from .N orth ! ern Europe to Africa in a week, bnt most j of them rest noitla of the Mediterranean. i lUO'3 WORLD'S FAIB MOSCMSST. RELIC OF EARLY NAVIGATION. AocUut Wooden Anchor Taken from the Bottom of Green Bay. One of the many curious exhibit which will be shown In the Transpor tation Department of the World's Fair, and one which will be of Inter est to lake captains, will be an old WLodec anchor in use ca the lake 100 EAl.LV ASCBOR Ot TEC LAKKS. year ago. It Is a primitive contriv ance. and has been serured for exhi bition by Chief Smith through the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. This old anchor was taken from the bottom of Green Bay, Wisconsin, four years ajo. It Is a curious con trivance, and was not uncommon on trading vessels on the upper great lakes In 17y2. The anchor Is about five feet across from tip to tip of tho fiukrs, and about four feet high. It Is regnrdod as a picturesque relic of ear'.y navigation. Three of the legs are a part of the stump which forms the head. The fourth leg, In front, is movable, and is secured by an Iron bar as shown in the picture. This was ruoved outward In order to fill the basket with stones and then bushed back Into place and nailed in Walton at th. Eipotttlon. It Is proposed by a special agent of tbe United States Fish Commis sion, who is in charge ot the angling exhibit at the World's Fair, that tbe three-hundredth anniversary of the birth ot Iiaak Walton, whom English-speaking persons piseatorially inclined have long heard of, shall be celebrated at the 'Exposition. The agent thinks that the celebration should take the form of an angling tournament which should be an ex bititi. n of skill in casting artificial flies and bait. The commissioner desires also to have erected a memo rial building to Izaak Walton, to take the form nf a reproduction of Wal ton and WettQn's h iuse on the River Dove in England. Izaak Walton was one ot those gentle souls much heard of and alluded to, an author ot books on augliug that have great celebrity and few readers. Izaak lived to a green old age. He was just 90 when he took the bait dropped by death and was landed in the Elyslan fields. His life was gentle and contempla tive, but he himself said nothing so much in praise of tLsulng as his friend Sir lleniy Wot ton, whom he quotes "a most dear lover and frequent pra ticer of the art of angling, ot which he would 6ay, "Twas an em ployment for his Idle time, wbich was then not Idly spent, a rest to bis mind, a cheerer to his spirits, a dl- verter of sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of passions, a procurer ot contentedness;' and 'that It begat habits of peace and patience In those that professed and practiced if" It Is the lover of old books rathei chan the lover of the fishing rod who knows Izaak Walton, and pre cise knowledge of his fame is confined, therefore, to a small number of En glish readers. The fisherman to day would care very little about his advice concerning tbe manner in which bait should be attached to the hook, as witness: "Thus use your frog: Put your hook I mean the arming wire through bis mouth and out at his gills and then with a fine needle and silk sew the upper part of his leg with only one stitch to the arming wire of your hook, or tie the frog's leg above the upper Joint to the armed wire, and In so doing use him as though you loved him.' We don't fish that way nowadays, and when we do Impale a frog, as Is sometimes done, we don't talk of handling him as It we loved him. This is a practical age. Let us admit that Walton was "au x-ellent angler and is now with God." The words are his own. But If we are to celebrate at a Wor.d's Fair the memory of a fisherman who is known throughout Christianity, not to the readers of English litera ture alone but wherever the gospels are disseminated, perhaps it would be well that we take up St. Peter, who had a double office to spread his nets for the tenants of the deep, and, by the commission of the Savior, a flsber of men. Bet. Thomas Detox, Jr., the Bap cist sharpshooter of New Y'ork who paid 1155 recently for thirty-one rob ins thai he shot out of season on Staten Island, reaped the recompense of his reward for being a brute. It Is gratify'ng to be sure that there is at le.isc one place In the country where jUsth-c deals alike over fc-anie :tvrs violated, and the Staten island 'Squire who was not afraid of his plain duty deserves tho whole amount of the Jloo fine, even If the law docs not allow it. Chicago will do the right thing b visitors. Iu any event the men who find the hotels full have a right to go elsewhere and do the same thlug themselves. Th. Eflolenoy; He Sorry to have kept you wait ing but my watch was wrong. I shall never have faith in it again. SBe It's not faith you need eu? works. Life. Two of a Kind. Stella I felt like a fool standing there at the counter waiting for ray change. Clara So did L standing there with 700, HOW HINDOO GIRLS WEI). IttJl SMALLER THE Bllt-E TES MOBS ELABOEATE ND l.NTERESTl'.t J THE CTEEilOSI. In this country, where tbe march from "Lohengrin," a white ailk frock and a few unintelligible responses make i n elubor.de weddirg, the bare idea of a em ll twelve, year old girl requiring nine hons to bind herself to the man of btr choite seems absurd in tbe txtremo. w both r the ontlay ot strength and rupees that such an event incurs has anything to do with the tecacions prohibition of a second marriage for the gentler sex, bas never been explained, bnt as the Hindoos are a practical people and an avari cious people, it does not appear un likely. In the first place, with them to he a woman and niimarried is Utile short of a crime, yet to marry, obvi ously, one must have uoney. As an outcome of this, when daughters are born to tbe poor Banian he helps them ont of tbe world by tbe simple and negative method of not giving them food. One man admitted, quite as a matter of course, having followed this np through a long succession of some twenty g,rl babies. But it the baby's papa has a financial position that admits of her growing np and is a Bombay Hindoo (that fs, with no prejudice against Europeans), yon may perhaj s be bid.lea to one of those high functions that come for her at an age when our children are playing with do'iB. In that case, allowing for variations in individual taste, you will find tbe affair something in this wise: At about six in the afternoon, when tbe air bas a trille more life, and that thing they call prickly beat is a degree less aggressive, you maae your way to tbe house of the bride's father. Out side the door your totiee is first attracted by many rows of shoes that tbe guests witLin huve taken off ont of respect to the household sod. Tbis may be a delicate attention tbat thegods refuse to get along without, but yon cannot help womb ring bow on eartb any one ever knows bis own pair again. Tbe drawing room into whieu yon ate ushered is in tawdry imitation of a French hotel. There are gay rugs everywhere and tbe furniture, which is exceedingly ornate, is covered with bright crimson sa in. By this Bind y provision vt c hairs, Lowevi r, one is enabled lo sit "a la Ahra$." On entering, the bead of tbe bouse comes forward to greet you with a profout d salaam, then all tbe standing or squatting Hindoos follow his exam- p'e, nd it is yonr duty to salaam mde fatig ,blv in return, but always with your rigkt hand, else the company will thirk your manners exceedingly fnnny, and what is more prove it oy laughing. The brid and bridegroom move about informally, s; coking to acquaintances. 'Ihe groom shares wilh his Westeru brother the para oxical fate cf b, ing nee esary but unimpor tant. H - is r.oticesble ouly for a nigh tivlan studded witii a priceless num ber of niitnt gems, tbat make it loos neither comfortable nor brill aut. The bride, on tbe contrary,;a rather charm ing. Her costnme cousiBis merely of a tight fitting yellow India silk bodice, with yards of tbe same material swathed loosely at out her supple body, and one end thrown over the hair. She is farther orcamentid by enrrinRS. finger rings a nose ring aud I angles that reach to tbe shoulder; on her pretty ankles are the heavy ack'ot chains that clink w hen she steps. Al together she would be a lovely and picturesque little object if she were only playing in tableaux instead of pitunl real life. Bnt all interest in ber is immediately snuffed out on the arrival of tbe Nautch girls. They are two or more hired dancers, whose performance appears to l e the meet welcome and wonderful feature of the en ire occasion. In dress they are not unlike our own bal let girl, wearies: from fifteen to twenty gauze skirts; tbe longest of these reaches to the feet and the others art graduated to within half a yard of the waisr. J hi lr so-cailed dance is strange and weird, and after the first fifteen miuutea remarkably nninterestins. It is made np cf a series of impossible poses, in parts so slow aa to remino one of the last twitches of a mecbauical toy when it is nearly run down. A an Indian ballad has it They posture, roll, wlurlleic wil 'iile like eels. An all the time shuttl- about on ttieir heels. Keeping Mne to the plpcis and toiu-touiiuers' simp 9 Wilh the clink of ttieir anklets of reionanl ;baim. When this bas gone on until yon are exbaus'ed and tbe rest of the atioience is reduced to a state of ei, tranced breatblessness the really sacred part of he rites begins. An adjonrnment is made to an onte. room with an earthen floor, in the cen tre of which a bright fire is burning. Around this, in the presence of many witnesses, the young couple promenade solemnly seven times, carefully clasp ing each other's right hand- By one of the oldest customs ever kept ai they must go always toward tho right, because it is a festive occasion; should a mistake be made and tarn to the left be takee, the direst misfortune and sorrow would be the result anticipated. In tbe meantime a priest, the dirt of whose oncewhite farmnts is supposed to add to his holiness, Roes about ma jestically, muttering a lot of myatica' words. Finally this also is gotten throngti with, and tbe coobes enter bearing a bowlof richly buttered rice. Tbe groom then, as a sacred duty feeds bii wife, holding the oily mixture out to her in his palm; afterwards he partakes him self and does the proper thing in wiping his greasy month on tbe nilken gown of his mother-in-law which last goes to prove that hnranu nnturit and tbe position of that unfortunate lady are j retty msch the same the wot Id over. Later, when the feastiug bg'na, a separate table covered with English delicacies is set for the Christians pres ent. Although your invitation means staying until 3 in tbe morning, after tapper the ordinary individual is glad to say good night in his best Hindu s tanee and make his way homeward in a cab, or better still, one of our own A merican horse cars. A Diff.r.nt salt Eaeh Hay. Wagg Well, for my part, I like to see a man well dressed. Now I never wear the same euit twice. Wooden Why. pardon me, butttu iuir. you're wearing now is the same one I saw you la a year ago and every day since. "I tell you It's a different suit every day." "Well, how do you make- it out?" "IV t!ays older.r VISITED THE PETRIFIED FOREST Vno Wonderful giant. Wltnell.i by B AitT.ntaroos Catr.ra Cl.rcrra.n. Eev. Dr. IX C Hovey of Middle tjn, Conn., has just returned from a visit to the petrified forest In Arizo na. Speaking of his experiences to a Kansas City Times man, he said: "When I arrived within about fifty miles ot the spot where this wonder wa3 said to be, I discovered that my only way to reach it was to leave the railroad right there and take horse across the sandy, arid plains, as for ionic reason the railroad will disem brk no travelers near the forest After covering a part of the distance I found a place where my horse could no longer serve me. I had reached a stream of liquid mud 6C0 feet In breadth and of unknown and uu fathomed depth. I finally found a spot where I could cross on driftwood until I reached a point about ten feet from tbe farther shore- There was a house nef.r by at which, I was sur prised to find, there lived a nephew of the celebrated Albert Barnes, who wrote the best commentary extant co the New Testament Although he was ill abed he did all he could to as sist me on my way. His wile volun teered to go out and get roe a horse in a distant pasture. After she had been gone an hour we became very greatly puzzled to know the reason for her long absence. I was pros trated with fatigue and could not walk out to look after her. After three hours had past she returned a pitiable sight. Here hands and cloth ing were torn aud there was blood on the club she carried. The dog that accompanied her was iu a dying con dition from the attack ot wolves, which they had beaten off after a long running fight. 'I left next day for tbe forest anu was successful in finding It. The wonderful beauties of that place have never been told. It was all strewn wah the strong limbs of tbat once green foiest. Here silence reigned and all was as a sepulcher ot the dead. Some great earthquake had rended the trees from their places af ter tbey were turned to stone and the fragments lay heaped In grand ruins all about the grouna. It was once a waving green forest of great extent, and here were such valuable stones as ag:ite, opals, chalcedony, carnelian, beryl, i.nyx, and many others in the greateit profusion. They glittered where tbe great limbs were broken in twain and strewed the ground on all sides. I gathered fifty pounds ef the most beautiful specimens, obtaining a few rubies and sapphires. I took all I could carry, and it was only af ter the most strenuous efforts that I could get the railroad men to let me carry them away. For some reason they have adopted these plans to keep the great wonder untouched by man, and bave succeeded very well. I ex pressed the stones to my home and will soon follow them." A Millinery Complication. IL washer new hat; there wasn't any doubt about It, for she wore It with that peculiar self-conscious manner that always goes with the first ap pearance of a bit of feminine flum mery, while the occasional glances that she cast at her reflection in the shop wiudows were those of admiring Wide. And being a new hat It bore the, latest idiocv in millinery those long strips of varl-colored ribbon that hane limply down the back of the wearer and rejoice in the name of "streamers." They were fully four feet in lenath, and they snapped and cracked in the Broadway breezes like the penant of a frigate of the line Down the street came that eminent Thepian, Mr. Otis Skinner. He was in a reflective mood, waj Mr. Skinner, and be wore an expres sion akin to that which is ouly wit nessed upon the lithographs ot popu lar price tragedians. As the fair one of the beribboned hat passed him a lively gust of wind whirled the streamers toward the player and las soed him in a way that would have done credit to the cleverest lariat swinger In Texas. One stfand wrapped itself neatly about Mr. Skinner's neck, while th-j second colled around his glossy Brit ish tile. The damsel turned pink and dropped her purse and parasol. Then she dived for them with a suddenness that snapped the cogita tive actor's hat Into a neighboring doorway and nearly wrenched the rear oft of her own. It took exactly two minutes to disentangle thinus, and when the player was Anally re leased from his unexpected bondage one of the worst rattled and generally broken up girls in this town bolted into a horse car and indulged in a loupcon of hysteria. Add when Mr. Skinner gazes upon the ruin ot his stately headeear his remarks upon the subject of stream ers are short, sharp, and decisive. New Y"ork Commercial-Advertiser. T.f.tab'. Artillery. The common balsam has a most singular method of disseminating its seeds. When they are ripe and pre pared for germination the seed pod explodes with the slightest touch, nnd tbe seeds are scattered In every direction with such force as to earn them a distance of twenty or thlrij feet. Plants hive many curious methods of scattering their seeds, hut there Is none stranger than the vegetable artillery represented tw th "alsam. Glol-Democrat. M.ifleal sei.itre. A physician in New York citv is now using an attachmen to the stet h oscope by which, he claims be can establish the outline of the heart so accurately that it would be p ssible with certainty to thrust a pin throi;h the patient's chest to a point within a hair's breadth of the heart without touching the latter. Am Arll.t wth flor.. s.ne. Friend What on earth are vou do ing to that picture? Great Artist I am rubbing a piece of raw meat over this rahbit in tbt foreground. Mrs. De Shoddie will be here this afternoon, and when she sees her pet dog smell of that rabbit she'll bay it .New York Weekly. Pap r flowers aie In demand. NEVs IN BRIEF. The oriinal pin wai u ash bon. ' A! hi tumid trgun the Koran at -ai;tv-ve. The petrary was a m d'eval eaU piilt. Plate armor wns used from HiO t. 3'J0. R'ce is the least nl'r igenous of all Cains. The standard Roman sword was twtnty-two inches long. A penry was receully found Im bedded ia the heart or a peacu. Vi itary han'm-rs were first com monly used ,n the Tenth Century. A new foi ling baby carriage Is one that can be folded up to go In a trunk, The shark n worship d by foma of the C welders along tbe African coasts. Dallas, Texas, didn't bave aci mosquitoes until the railroad was built tcrcugh it It is asserted that mosquitoes cav le driven a ay by evapoiatlng gum camphor In the room. At tbe siege of Sancerre, 1872, the Hugaenota, to economize their power, ised slings and blows. Au English company is being or ganized for the acclimatization of elephants in South America. Homer aiys the Greek bow was used by placing one end on the ground to secure steadiness of aim. The shield of Charles V. was In laid with geld au 1 contained over 60J figures engraved on iti facs. Tbe soil of Hayti Is .'aid to be very fertile. Corn is easily grown and thiee crepa can be raised annually. There Is some curiosity to know, whence came tbe shower of dead 11 ea hat tecently fell at Mount Joy, Penn. The lasso is an Invention of tbe 5ou!h American Indians and was In use when the country was discovered by Siiniards. A corn stalk bearing several ears, eventeen feet high, is tbe tallest pro duct from the Cblno Runch, at Pomono. Cab, last season. V Detroit lady, over 70 years of ago has a head of hair which turned from w bite to a jjt black tbe color it was n her giriliood. tio'.h oianges and lemons are packed . nripe -the latter when quite i reen aud the former when just turning trom green to yell iw. A quash weighing 233 pounds was recently displayed by a farmer at Pomona, Cal. It is four feet iu diame ter at the siaalleit t art One miill m line hundrel thous and ouLua' worth of iicklri and saucis are Pvpoitod from t.,glaud to other countiles yearly. Poiphyiy boulders, which greati, .eseiui.le watermelons uis'Z', shape aud color, are to be found lu the C.tfOade Mountains east of itoseburg, Oregon. The peach is of P.-rsian origiu and the a;,nc .t is Syrian. The former fruit .s inei tioi.ed by classical writers a- tar y as S11O U. C, but the lalter not ti 1 30 A. D. The fii st cnal on the line of the pre-ent Suez Canal was projected by N'eclio, au Kpuaa king, about SCO b. c. Tl e two feas were actually united 'iiO B. O Ihe greatest number of death. from e.irll qu ,ke shock was at Yetfdo, Jap.n, .11 1.03, when 100,000 people, it s etinmteii, h st. tin ir lives In the lei- nble seismlo upheaa'. Tbe filth In Russ'a, outside of tlu. large cities, is simply barbarjui There is Lot one village lu a thousand which pays the si gtitest attention to ordinary sanitary piecaution?. Dr. C. P. Caiver, of St Angustlne, Fl , wr.s the oldest houe in America, anil lives in It too. According to deeds in his possession bis Florida house was 1 u It in 15u0 by a Frenchman. Tie 'Beautiful Blue Dannb?." especially where it flows through Vicuna, is not at all romantic looking An American traveler states that its hue Is rather yellow. Ac rlous greweome sight can I seen in the window of a shop on Wal nut street, Philadelphia. It Is the skeleton of a rul!-gron man seated in an arm chair, his pose being one of 'uxurious ea-e. The men In the Union A' my of foi eign birth mm tiered twenty-two rer cent, ana the native bom seveniy-e'ght per cent, of every one hundred who vent forth to the eeld cf battle. The soil or nayll is so fertile thai, tine crops are fieu raised In a year. The natives, however, are too ludi Ien1; t j avail ibemseiVes of these advantages, ani they cul work lor enough to enable 'hern to live. Cockscombs are considered a great delicacy by the French, who use them in their famous sauce a la financier, for euirees,and especially for garnishes. Thev ate considered a dainty tidbit Mprxd in butter and fr'ed. Tin re was exhibited at Beilin, Germany, recently a set of false teeth made out of pater which a dentist had contrived for a patient thirteen years before ai d which after constant use during that t me were in excellent oju titioa. A clergyman In Oxford, England, has invita 1 the men wbo frequent tbe river on Sundays o come to church in their boating flannels. Hitherto such costumes had been fiowued npon and 'he boattueu bal not gone to church. There la In Cblna a secret society called 1 be "Triad." Jt Is a capital crime to titlon to it, yet It hai mora than tl iity milPona of members. Is object is to overthrow the present dyn .y. The term "tabby cat" is derived "vim Ai8b, a famous street in Bagdad thabited by tne manufacturers cf silken stuff called atibl or tiffety. This fctuff Is woven with waved markings ot watered silk resembling a "tabby" cat's '.oat. Gutta percha was first Introduced I'n o Europe from Malaga In 1842. Tbe annual consumption now amount to 4 000, CC0 pounds, And tbe East In dian trees which supply tbe demand are dlmb isbiug at an alarming rate. Tbe milk trre grows in South Africa. Tbe sai trom it is a good substitute for nilk. Then is a man resident La Yorkshire reported to be wearing shoe tlxteea inches in length, y c?Vrai
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