I B, p. ROHWEIER, THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XLVII. MIFFJJNTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 29. 1893. NO. 15 ' 'k I J WAITING. II KKYA1ST KUSSET.L. Wrtlnf! watching : h:it does It aval? li. une U'i'K U.iv waited f.r delays to ceins rri trji tt-il alv-m-e. e 1:i nam tu-wail, H,e uuui-nl.is runs, anil all beside is dumb. Waltioi!- wafliiR' Why so lonn dnlayr faiti-n an. I our lailli b. co.nes le.s str.'in:; Thf on ! 'cted iny 0- tar .way, huunll we wail. Uioi g!i we have watted Ivlit- ruuil'H'iE wheel, tlie fluttcrliin of a tear; .i li iniifH d si. .nit kl-es lt a i ihilul llirlll; Tiy nuK-k uiir wall lie; with a false relief, Sui-ii-c null lroo.t while all without Is ...lil. There 1 iranl In waiting; ll-ten mml A . .iai. I is braid like una t e luaril t .!; IL l.fjrt brats quickly, J-.y lights uj the t-r--w, 1 Le ou familiar step is at the door. On tfie Field of Death. Trant'aitd out (lie French cf George Le Faure. UY Is-Bl L bMI'I HeoN. The buttle had liegnn at daybreak. The tiring of euns Biul roar of cannons liad deafened I'1' echo for teu leagues biooii.I, and over t lie buttle-tield there Dow hung tiiicU veil uhich the sun's bright ras could hardly penetrate. Blood liowud in rivers, watering the ground with a horrible dew, ami on eveiy fiJo weie seen corpses. Mutil ated, crushed, waugie I forms an. I f ires which in Jeth retnued the ttume ex pression of tierce hatred that tbey had worn in life. tor several bourn Russiaus and Turks hal diluted the gronudt the former attickuig, and thu latter de fending tlii position, but at List, the Russian battalions and npiadrous had weakened, and the Cur's ling hail re treated lief ore the standard of the Sultao. Now, every thing wns qniet; the terrible noise of gnt)o-shot was suc ceeded by -roloiiiid sileuee, and little by little, the black clouds of smoke which enveloped the country like a Winding sheet, tore tlasniselves apart and weot nmtiug toward the horizon. The torrid heat of noon day cpr- ad around, uud the dead, with upturned faces, slept the etertml sleep nnder the fierce rays of the min. livery few minutes, aciy of au'ouy winild riae, or a hw moaning pound le heard; it i a wouuded man calling on death, or a dv iu one Kreet nit? it. The next ln-taut, the Nileiice of this iiuuieuse tomb would be broken by the sound of a low aid soul,-, from the tl r at of a bird in the vou lu near by, mourning the los of its brood w hich had been destroyed iu I he not bv a riiu- bot. There was something plaintive in tLe wail of that iuuo ;ent victim of human hate. It wan noon-day: the hoar at which the earth plumbers l'tn-utU the buii's rays, and t.'i l il. nt. im-adows seemed to lie Moilinfj at the blue ky, and awaitihK tie arrival of the firmer with his pltHib. iheie was not a breath of wiud stirriu;.'. i ot even the rli'lit of ciown, tho.se diead nmraii lera of the tattle-tield, wan heard. Suddenly two shadowy forms miht be seen ponnntr hIowIv from the direction, of the liiiHHi n pam, steppin;j; over the corpses and Hlipfint; on the bloody ground. One oT theae wore a dalmatic, with oiverembroidery which flittered iu the bud light; he c:rrietl a golden censor from which arose the smoke of iuOMiise; bis head was bare, his eyes downcast, and his lips moving as if iu prayer. This was a Kuasiau priest. Behind him walked a soldier, carry ing a book aud a bilver cross. 1 As the two men stepped between the bloody furrows of the human harvest, the priest v. as filled with pity, but the soldier's face was Ftolid-lookinir. .Now the priest flopped and looked around as if overwhelmed by the terri ble sight which presented itself on every side, aud the soldier, silent and with lips eoiupretwed piled ni some knapsacks to form a sort of aitar. on which he laid the book aud silver cross. Then he removed his hnt, end the priest, stretching out his arms as if to include all the dead and dying in his benediction, began the olli.-e for the dead. He pronounced ttie words as calmly as if he were iu the Cathedral of Ht. 1'etersburg, but there was a tone of sorrow iu his voice, for all these nn fortauates were brothers. The soldier made responses to the prayers. While the prient prayed.the wonuded men, even the dying ones seemed to gather new strength to tight against Death, and faintly, bnt with reverence, joined in the responses. The wounded Mnssulmen were auiazod at the vener able figure standing there distinctly outlined against the deep blue of the sky, and as they listened, ther under stood vaguely that this Christian Wds praying for iheui ; aud as they called on Allah, they thought of the Chris tians' God, who was so great and cen rons as to open his Paradise to his enemies. The priest swung the c nnor, and turning to the four quarters of the earth, sent clouds of incense towards beaveu. Suddenly he stopped aud stood motionless with his eyes tiled upon the horizon. He had been asking of God the reason 'by the Christian Kus aians had not bren alloued to triumph over the followers of .Mahomet, and he had received the answer. The battleGeld ws transformed, and to the eyes of the Russian priest there seemed to be iu its place a devastated laod with harvests d-Frnyed, villages burned, women and children slaughter ed iu the streets. He groaned aloud, fell upon his knees, and lifting his arms towards Heaven, cried: "Polaud! Poland! Oh, Ciod, hast thou not yet forgiven?" WMther Wsnti of Soft Coal. The weather waste of soft c ml lioinft O settled fact, an allowance, for its lo is to be taken inv account by I ho large consumers. The loss, as scien tifically stated, is due to the oxk!:l tiou taking place during the ex posure of the coal, the result U-itirf a lessened heating capacity. From .1 careful and continued series of ex periments made in. Lurupe it lias Ih-cii found that as a result of exposii.e t.i the weather, though anthracite and caouel coal sutW but little, the ordinary bituminous coal depreciates nearly one-third in weight, and nearly one-half in gaswakiiitf prop erties. Agecd'Steel. Latk market quotations report, corn easier. But perhaps this U the annual boom for the chiropodist. FAULTS AND KAVOf.S OF OUU SOCIAL. SYSTEM. BY CLINTON MONTAGUE. In ancient Sparta and Rome, society was atronger than the individual. Everything was subordinate to the State. Men surrendered even the rights of nature to the demands of their respective government. Stronger, more imperative than the instincts of love, of home, of individual freedom, was that of patriotism. The true citizen was taught to be always ready to snrreuder every personal "privilege for the welfare of society. As oliti cal states. Home and Sparta may have been the stronger, the more dur able for t iii complete subjugation of individuals for the good of the whole; bnt, as eorporata societies, as Komatw, as Sj artaua tliera was too dead-level, a corresponding weakness. T he state Was benefited; man himself was dwarfed and degraded by it. Thia is oue ex treme which we, aa Americans, are to avoid. Among the Greek democracies and the modern Italian commonwealths, we notice the prevalence of a contrary sentiment. Mau. who was nothing but a machine in Home and Soarta. was j here the creator, the master, aud pos Bibly the destroyer of tha common wealth. The individuals who wero etroug by wealth, birth or t dents, did not feel that they were nnder obliga- 1 turns to the state or to society, but that they owed everything to themselves. j Man. as an individual, arrogated to him soif a liberty, oftentimes an insoleuoe 1 that was entirely selGsh and destrao- . tive alike to society aud to good gov ernment. Iu the Italian cities of the middle ages, the halt timed feudal lords were gathered lulo the town not a little against their will. They, there fore naturally continued within the walls much of the isolation and lawlessness of the old life which they had led in the mountains, j The Venetian noble might boas: of I his pal iec, but iu most Italian cities j the patiiciau mansion was not a palace, , but, fortress title 1 and aocustome l to defend itself against rival nobles aud . against the power of thu commou Wxitlth itttelf. Kreu iu ancient Athens . wealth and power assumed a s'rane practical licene. Great leaders were ' followed by bands of armed retainers, j Meidias indulged himself iu the prac I tice of assault and battery unrebuked; Alcibiades was lord of a private castle aud held the unwilling Agatharchns ; against the united authority of the tell (ienerals. And this daring 111 , soleuce of iudiilual men was not rx- ceptional, but' of common occurrt nee ', duriug successive generations. No wonder society became disorganized , and states lost their preatige of great ness, with such conduct H'8sible. Bnt i where can you tiud '.icti men a-. Athens, I'iorcucu and Milan pro ! duced? 1 suppose every American citizen ' considers himself a noble, a sovereign. He certainly is not a mere automaton weose every individual desire and as piration is crushed nnder the des . potism o' the state or of society. Nor ' has he the right to isolstn himself en 1 t'rely and shirk thu duties lucumbeut on him as a man aud bs a citizen. The j rights aud .In lies of the ludividual aud of society m .ve aloiw iu parallel lines and neither should interfere with the other. The model citizen loves his Iiiidri, he is happy iu it. but he does not ignore social organization and the part he has to play lu it. The seutiim nt of domesticity, which our forefathers brougut with them out of the German woods, owes much to America. The love of home i stroug in the human breast. It is continue 1 by a peuse of absolute proprietorship. The privilege of a real home bus in duced many a foreigner to seek the Amoricau shon s. The possession of a I home has encouraged a sentiment of I true patriotism. The consciousness of domestic po ses ions is the basis of a noble citizeusinp American citizen ship has been truer for the sense of an individual copareeuary iuterest. Men are trnest to that from which they an 1 ticipate returns of ludividual advau ! tage. This sentiment is the stronger for the advantage of improved iudivid 1 n.d possibilities. To live and hope is ' greater than simply to live. The ! prospect of social elevation, confirmed : in many instanc s by practical euoi ' pie, has made many an American more zealous of his conutry's integrity and honor. I The honor of onr land has been in creased by the consciousness of the freedom of moral and intellectural ex pression. The sonl, relea ed from fetters, expands her wings with alacri ty. With its powers in free play, human nature niultipli. s its proofs of nobler excellency till they are as many aa the changes of t ie kaleidoscope. Forms of love and moulds of thoaght, like a multitude of blossoms upon one parent stalk, have been evolved to the enlargement of the scope of social benevolence aud activity, from that life of freedom which is lived easiest J on our own noil . The favors of tha American System ' are not more nnmerons than tht fanlts that have arisen lioin its misinterpret 1 tation. Men have mistaken a dotneslio ' privilege for an absence of all moral obligation to society. When once the strong man has bu It his house, he has j shut the door an I kept it barred ! against the ingress of social liberality. I Men have fondled feasted, and fattened their own selfishness. The language I of their lives is: "As for me an l my I house, we will serve onrselves." They love self, live for self, die for self; the j world derives no beuetit from them, except it comes from their nuavoid- able, external dependence upon it. ! Thev will do nothing for social moral- itv, intelligence, or civility, unless ! action be wrested from t-iem by the I strong arm of the individual or l.cal nc cecity. Apparently unable to com i prebend citizenship, they call this a free country, aud nug their independ ence," unmindful of the hindrance so cl ty inmra by their steadfast indiffer ence to all true so 'ial Interests. Society u America sutlers from a niisco. strncliou of the royal privilege ot national citizeuship. The concep tion of the rights of free citieus w ' di.st .rted into an apprehensiou of the ; wrongs of all citizei'B. The conception that free citizenship does not mean free 'defiance of all the laws of true citizen ship apparently failsof a resilience in the minds of many aspiring to protuiiien?o iu our social affairs. The idea that it is practically iiui os-lble for a person to assume the Wutiee of public use, ex cel t for an absolutely private end, is i too painfu ly prevaleut in our country. I The sensitiveness of the truly loyal I citizeu is often shocked by remarks betraying the wide spread aorninanee of the ascriptions of abject self ishness to all public acta. To the ....i.bn ooiirehension it seems to 1 be unhappily true that the public serv- ant is a thief, and the thief oometh not but to appropriate the revenues aufi destroy the reputations of others. The unfortunate state of mind portrayed, can be encouraged by no other nieaus than the irra'ioual attitudes and acts of public men wuo have turned royal freedom into servile license. Our American social intelligence is intoxicated with false notions of t ie laws of real derelopmeut. A fungo d exhalation is mistaken for a gigautio growth. The many moral and intel lectual perfections, the tedious developing processes by which all unseen by the indolent observer, are not only estimated as products of a single day's creatiou, bnt are imitated aud substituted by the frailest forms the Soul's evolving agencies cau affir.l. As the fungi spring rapidly from ac cumulated heaps of fertilizing material, so rapid thonghts a'ld feeble things arise profusely from the rich fields of moral and intellectual production, laid open by onr system of free cultivation. Because of the possession of freedom, men have appsrently concluded that great uess cannot only be effect.! speedilv, but in practical ignorauce of the constructive laws which wisdom has always held inviolable throughout the historic past. Our social system is distinctive front all others, and it is desirable that we escape aliko the scythe of despotism and the Cliaryb.hs of license. iife i 1 America can never tie just what it is anywhere else. As the individual man is endowed with a person and features that are uucopied iu the form of auy one else, so this nation will have a constitution- aud executive policy nnlike that obtaining in any other political realm. The distinctive life of our American nation will be unitary in ex pression. Potentially it is so now. The American citizen cannot now go abroad wittioiit betraying his national ity by his distinctive U-aring aud ad dress. It only remains for the Amer ican people to actualize their 11 11 1 tied identity in the deeper consciousness of their souls, to make it a bond of permaueut social auauiiuity. B it the unity of our nation will be compoiite iu character. While onr American system will leave out nothing coming within the legitimate circle of its in .11 euces, it will embody all iu a structure of harmonic national proportions. Its strength will make every man acknowl edge his obligations to society. Its jii.lgiuent will make men forbear their abuse of its royal preogatives, and its wisdom will effect aally dispossess its subjects of presumption and folly in the assertion of their ludividual, moral and intellectual aspirations. THE Sl-.ASON. forth Is-iiisl the SmHn or the yert : Firs, lusly Si-ring- alt difli! In leaves of dow ers Thai freshly bil.liled and new flowers did beare. In which a thoiis.in-1 b r.la had built ihel' l-ower-i. Thai sweetly silnir to call lln-lr paramours: Ail til hi- hand 11 javelin lie d at b ar And 1111 h head (as III fur w irlike stnnrcs) A jrib t iiiiaax en nii.rinn he did weare; That as nne did lilm love, tsa others did him fcire." ScENsr.H. So, four centuries ago, did this oldeu poet celebrate the Spring. It seemed to be a gi neral idea among all these old wr tors that the world was rested iu this season and yearly renews its youth lis the sun crosses the vernal cipimox. Si-user, as wo have seen, gives Sprin' the first place, and Homer, Virgil, Mtltou and others ex press the same idea. We, also, find Spriug and its com ing, used as a .symbol of imruort dity, its teeming life idler the long winter's sleep, typifying f its glorious resurrec tion of the body and the renewed vigor of the soul. Howar ', Karl of Surrv, writintr t.ie early part of the sixteenth ceuiury, after b-sciibin4 the bn.ls and blooms, the birds ami animal life aud activi y. ends with a bcHiinfid reference to his own grief and misfortune. 'Winter is worn ih tt was the rt.iwers bsle; An ) ihus I sec nun. in: the ih a-ant Minor Kaeh oare ilecays and yet my s -rrow r-pi Iiik.' Not long after, this famous Kail and noble gentleman was beheaded by an ungrateful sovereign. 'lhe references to Sptiug by onr best poets are almost innumerable, some of them full of delicate fancies. l'ruiumoud, the Scotch poet, has a rretty sonnet beg nuing: Sweet Sptimr. thnu tinns't wt h all tin goodly tttmi. Thy head with Hame-', Ihy mantle bright wilh flowers." Swift's "Vanessa" is almost unknown in literature, but her refined taste aud highly ctiltived mind is shown in her btaut'iful "Ode to Sptiug:" 'Hall, blushing goddess, beauteous Srlng! IV ho in thy Jni imd train dost brinjr l-oves and grace, snn'ng hour., Ititlmy breezes, fragrant ttowera." Thomson celebruted it in bis "Sea sons' and there is no more often quoted lines of Thomson than bis 'In tha Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thnUL'biK ot love-" Many of onr American poets have written of our New World Spring. Emerson has a "May-day" pom, Hay Hr.l Taylor, ,1ns "Spring Pastoral," Bryant, and Ijowcll, and Whitman, have written their glowing eulogies, interpreting lhe mysteries of Nature each in Ids own wav, and addiug to the joys of the season the charms of their musical lyrics. beoonia mmrsTA. From the A mrricait Ayictilfuriiy we clip the following iu regard to very favorite plant of our own, just now in fullest bloom: Flowering begonias are not only sat isfactory because of their sturdy quali ties, bnt their beauty of folliage and blossom lends them a double attrac tion. Among a largo collection ol window plants, I tuke great 'pleasure in my begonias, and am often surprised that they do so well under neglect, which is sometimes unavoidable. One of my pet plants is Irionia robunta. A large specimen gave me, Inst wluter, tweuty-six stales of p.nkish, bell shaed flowers, which retain their iH-auty for over two months. The fol liage is large aud lleshy. a glossy, dark green, with light pink on the nnder side. The pi mt requires an abundance of root room and I have had the lest success r growing it iu a large box or paiL If possible, give the plant a warm corner, with sun about one-half of the day; do not allow the sun to strike the foliage after watering, or the leaves will bum. Plant foo.l, iu the shape of ammonia wateri household ammonia, at the rate of a tablespoonf nl to a gallon of wateri. or the concentrat ed commercial foods, for sale by all seedsmen, should be used ouce in every two weeks during the blooming season. The flesh or the oyste contains about ninety per ceiA of water. A MISSISSIPPI JUDGE. Boand to Work Lp Bti.lne. for HI. Ex checquer W11 Low. Business has been dull; remarkably ..till. The town jail called by cour tesy a jail, for a "tramp could have crept In and out of it bad not had an occupant for some weeks. This jail was a remakable affair; It had bars before the windows and no one could get out that way. It had a ponderous lock on its massive door and no one could get out that way. Put if these means of eiriess were closed, so that the building might by courtesy be called a jail, there were plenty of other ways of getting out, for the boas-ds of wh ch its sides were formed were old and worm-eaten, the roof leaked, and where there were no holes, It was extremely easy to make theiu. It was a most uncomfortable habitat on and even a tramp who had crawled in not knowing Its official character, left in disgust, driven away by those fleas which for fifty weeks out of fiity-two are the sole occupants. The time done by dls ordcrl es there during the year would probably aggregate a fortnight. On these state occasions the immanent lo gers receive the transient with every evidence of coidialtty, as though they were trying to make him feel right at home. An arrest is the signal for great ex c'temcnt, and, as It means a fee for lhe Constable and the Judge, there w:is naturally engendered a great ileal of hard feeling lt ween thegorsj cil i.eus and the representatives ot law an I order. The little town lies mi the gulf and over half of Its iKip u ation are colored people. The Judge could s ent a disturbance from a'ar. No sooner was a quarrel well under way than he saw visit ns of a iu iiit $4 for himself and assistants. Consequently he arrived on the scene with the greatest speed. Then 110 matter how enrage I were the com batants, whether or not one of them was engaged In the friendly act of butt ng his opponent wilh h i woolly head, or the excited group were ut tering words Intended to encourage the principal actors In the scene upon seeing the judge the men separated, for they bad no relish for the tines which he chased by day an 1 night Afler the judge hud retired they wo Id go up the shell road and when thev reached the laruiidary they would j result? operations. At the time of writing the Judge was getting despetate. Fines hi'd been unusually slow. He ban not had a case for over a month and was out of tobacco and hardly supplied wilh the ordinary luxuries of life. "Tony, ymi must.arrest some one to-day," he said to the Constable. I'll try. Jcdge, but those fellows are dead onto us. They do their lighting just Iieyond the 1. tie. " "Tony. I thought you a lad of discernment. The official treasury Is so low thai if wo wanted a glass of rum at this blessed moment, we would have no way of satisfying na ture. A deplorable condition of af fairs, Tony.': Tony assented. '.Mind what 1 say, Tony; bring in o:i,c one." That night alrout sundown Tony ame in with a prisoner who was manacled with olil-liishioiied hand cuffs, as though he was a desperado. The crowd indignantly protested that the man had been fighting beyond the line. 1 1 was the old argument. Ilow many times had the Judge siood on the boundary and gaed over the imaginary line with wistful eves, while the crowd jeered at him be-L-ause he was powerless to make an arrest. We can prove by witnesses thai the tight took place beyond the line," continued the speaker. How is that, Tony?" "I'm not sure that I noticed. But the man fought me after we got over the line, Jud'e." "Tnen we will pat him in jail for resisting an officer of the law. This L'otnuiuiiity has got to be purified. Take him away, Tony, and see that there are plenty of guards at the jail, so that he shall not escape." "But you have no right to hola that man. He was fighting beyond the line," continued the bystander. "No right to hold him?" "N'o. He was out of your jurisdic tton." "Well, sir; 1 see that you know lit tle alsjut law," said the Judge, im pressively. '-Out of my jurisdiction, indeed? What woulc. you say, sir, if I met the exigencies of the case by mending my Jurisdiction? What would you say to that, sir? Tony, lake the man to jail. Lock him up for resisting an officer, and to morrow justice shall be uuetzd out." How Hlstnrlo Ink Wu Stolen. Years ago, when James Monroe was President and John (uiticy Ad inis Secretary tf State, the ingenious Knglish engraver obtained permission of the two dignitaries mentioned to take the Declatation of Independ ence and engrave it facsimile ou cop p r. He carried the Drecious docu ment to the printing office of one Peter Force. When everything was in readiness he pla ed it upon the imposing stone and laid a sheet of In dia 1 aper of the same size ujion it. This India paper was next moistened with water in which gum arabic had been dissolved. A heavy proof roller with a weight hanging from each end was then rolled several times over the historic document. When the India paper was removed from the face of the instrument it took with il at least one-half of the ink used in writing aud signing the document. The document is less than a century anil a quarter years old, and, accord ing to the St. Louis Republic, with proper care should le almost as legi ble as it was on the 5th day of July, 1776. As It Is, only eleven signa tures out of the fifty-three can br rad without a glass, and. some of j them have disappeared heyotid recall, ill on account of the thieving trick )f a (ioverntnent which, when they found that they could not keep the colonies dependent, stole the very Ink from the document which de clares our independence Farragut n. a Mudent. As a general rule it is true that A man does his best work between his thirtieth and fiftieth year. but the rule has its exceptions, Haye- lock was (52 before he made the mag nificent march that; defeated Nana Sahib and relieved Lucknow. Ad miral Farragut had passed his sixtieth year tefore his greatness as a naval commander was manifested to the world. Two facts, however, should be con sidered. Each man had natural aptr tudes for his profession, and both carefully improved them by study, reading, and observation. Both the soldier and the sailor were found pre pared wheu the opportunity for action same. From the day Farragut entered the navy as a 10-year-old midshipman un til his death, he made coustant effort for professional improvement. He was eager to learn and kept some book always ou hand, besides inform ing hi 111 so t by observation and con versation. His eyes were weak, but by employing readers in the different ships on board which he sailed, he le came familiar with the biography ant history of his profession. Naiioleon recommended a similar course of reading to all who would fit themselves for high military com-, mand. "There are few men," Farragut once said to a brother officer, "from whom one cannot learn something, and a naval officer should always l adding to his knowledue. It might enable him to 1 more useful some day, as it is impossible to say what 9 naval officer may have to do." Even when he visited Europe, after the civil war had given him the repu tation of one of the first of naval commanders, he noticed critally every harbor he visited, observing ila chances of defence bv sea or land. "Who knows," said he, "but my services may be needed here some day?" Capt. Mahan, Farragut's biogranher, mentions these instances of the Ad miral's passion for knowledge, and adds this suggestive anecdote: "Ah, Mr. Tucker." said Earl St. Vincent to his secretary when plan ning an attack upon Brest, "had Capt. Jervis (the Captain and the Karl were the same person) surveyed Brest when he visited it in 1774, Lord St Vincent would not in 1800 hav been in want of information. " Tyrlan ;ia. An uncommonly interesting collec tion of Tyrian glass has come to town. It resembles in most particulars the collect ion of the same glass in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and is supposed lo belong to the period of Sou years before Christ. Some of the pieces still bear the stains of a rust which they held tn buried with the Tyrians King, and others show the scratches made by knives of cop per and bronze. It is even asserted that some show traces of the per fumes with which the Tryians were ' accustomed to enrich their wines. but as to this there. Is room for skep ticism. The glass Is marvelous! v light, and some of the Vessels are beautiful in form, but the presence of air bubbles in even the finest speci mens seem to show that the Tyrians had not fully conquered the art of ! ilass-biowing. A skilled glass-blower w ho saw the collection says, however, that sonic of the efiects obtained are beyond the power of hiscraft to-da" New York Sun. I Rubbing w Prison. It is ierfectly natural that thieves should be sent to pr son for having stolen, but it is somewhat of a nov elty that tbey should of their own free will and accord go there to steal. j This is, however, the novel experi ence of the governor and wardens of I the largest penitentiary in Hungary, which is situated in Oldenburg, a few hours distance from Vienna. This establishment, which is known as Steinabruchl, contains at the pres ent moment sijo convicts of various categories and 100 wardens and watchmen seemingly a sufficiently large guard to prevent untoward c- currences like that which lately took place. Two or three burglars broke Into the prison 111 the middle of the nitiht, ! ana hunted atrout for spoil. They I u-. . r.. A I . I .... I I ,- i. ..e.ilitu.l utlll llin building, for they contrived to re move articles of value, sliver and gold, beside a matter of 1,800 Uorin In hard cash. Observation. "Clentlemen, you do not use yoc.t faculties of observation," said an old professor, addressing his class. Here be pushed forward a gallipot contain ing a chemical of exceedingly of fensive smell. "When I was a stu dent." he continued, "I used my sense of taste," and with that he dipped his tlnger in the gallipot and then put his linger in his mouth. "Taste it. gentlemen, taste It," said the professor, "and exercise you1 perceptive faculties" The gallipot was pushed toward the reluctant class one by one. The students resolutely dipped their lin gers into the concoction, and with many a wry face sucked the abomi nation from their fingers. "Gentlemen, gentlemen," said the professor, "1 mus repeat that you do not use your faculties of observa tion, for had you looked more closely at what I was doing, you would have seen that the finger which I put In my mouth was not the tlnger I dipped in the gallipot." Rev. Ellen Ki-nkle, said to be the first woman in Ohio to pi rform the marriage ceremony, was herself mar ried recently, the ceremony lreing j performed by the R.-v. Mat tie Mum maw. Both beloug to thu United Brethren Church. Mrs. Ella G aillaro Is distinguished for her invention of a carriage tele phone, a folding flat-iron, a musical top, a mns'cal fountain, the eyelets needle now n ed by .nrgeons, and several other origiual productions of more or less valne. ' Mrs. M. M. Andfrios, of Pnlaski, was elected aisisUnt sergeant at arms of the Arkansas House of Represent atives ou Jannary 1L This in the first time a woman has been elected to that position. The king of Mam, at h's own ex p ne, has dechled 1 1 make an interest ing display in the tnannf ictures, agricultural and forestry buildings at t'.e Worl I's Fair, and will also erect a royal pavilion ot elaborate carved woods. SMILES OrCOSTKNTMENT ISSUED FROM THE PENS OP VARIOUS HUMORISTS. I.kmkI Incident. Occurring tn. Wnrld Or.r Snylag. that An Choanal to tho OI4 or Tmii(- Joko. tn oft E.rrtody Will Kujor Hooding. A Cranky Paitow. roctor (to patient) I do not wish to frighten voti but if von have no ob jection I'd like to call in a couple of my brother physicians. Irascible Pa tient All ri'ht. If you need any assistance In murdering me call iu your accomplices. Texas Sift.ug. Wanted a found or Cure. Mrs Kane I read iu a paper that .ugar was a sure cure for hiccough and I tried it on Dick. Mrs. Beet root Did It work? Mrs. Kane Temporarily; tut he has had a re lapse alout every twenty minute ever since. ruck. A Vernaoular Krror. Sporting Gentleman (aiter a five- 1 mile walk) Great Scott! Is that I the mill you wanted me to see? 1 thought somebody else was goin' to ' stand up against somebody else to see which was the best man. South- J nm. j One iKd Reason. Why not live forever?" asks a re cent writer. Well, the principal ob jectiou is that one would get so awfully tired of it. Norwich Bulle tin Mm. Yountfwed (endearingly, at j ! sweet little peach! I I Mr. 1 oungwed (in an undertone) vm glad it isn t a pair! Truth. A Step Toward Art. Mrs. Burty They say the Theater j cf Arts and Letters will accomplish much toward the elevation of the stat-e. Mr. Cvnik Why not? The managers insist on the ladies taking 1 off their hats during each perform- i . unce. Nast's Weekly. Ea.t1y E.plaln.ft. Jasper I i-ee that society people are complaining because novelists never describe them properly. Jump uppe Well, what can they expect when they so carefully exclude men of brains from their ranks? New York Advertiser. A Ilia Reward. A woman dropped a 5-cent piece in the street yesterday and a small mes senger boy passing picked It up for her. "Thank you, "said she. "Say," said he, 'ain't yer goin to give me de nickel for plckiu it up fur yer?" buffalo Courier. Only On. Way. Hicks Hamfatter is bound to rise In hi9 profession. Wicks At any rate he's got an excellent ehauce. He can't get any lower than he is now unless he digs a hole in the ground and crawls into it lAiston Tran- 6crlpt. HI. lot-;rariuate Course, She Are you going abroad to com plete your education? He Not much coing to marry to complete it. Vuck. Not Alway.. Seeing may be be'ieving: but, for all that, the wide-awake mau is not the most credulous. Puck. Annoying Interference. The musician Maria, send dot Child out of der room. It vos a ity 1 can't bractise mine part in der new , nhera in peace mit quietness. Judge. Conrlvnl Item. Mr. " Gnzzleton (going out) You needn't sit up for m - to night, Maria. Mrs. Guzzleton No, I suppose you tan do all the "setting up" that is needed yourself. Texas Si f tings. f Two Iloart. That Heat a. One. I Jinklns So you first met Miss Fitz I In a boarding-house. What was the ! bond of sympathy between you? Harris W e bad both abjured prunes Life. Odd. Enoagh. There Is an aged negro In middle Tennessee who rejoices In the name j f Nigger Falls, though he was really 1 christened after the great cataract j Glory Hallelujah Jones Is the lmpos I Incr name of a Mlaai&sioDi darky. Mrs. Fbehch-Sheldox, the intrepid Afrioan traveler, has applied for space for exhibiting at the World's Fair the fin eoUeetion ot caries and tropiehs aha baa gathered. tight Bo Worn FIGS AND THISTLES. CTk;y nil,... u of Clio Epttramm.tt. lioio. ttoru. MAN with S doubt is a man ' in the dark. To lose time is to get started wrong in eter nity. 1 Wheit people get religion right it is always con tagious. I A uiff with ) the big head u always a stranger to himself. Ouk only real possessions are the blessings Uod gives us. Until Goti is known as a Father lie is never truely worshiped. The blossoms may smell very sweet md yet the fruit be bitter. TriEitE is often more religion in a smile than there is in a tear. The devil likes to be called b names that sound respectable. No arm y is ever ni:de weaker b putting the cowards out of it, The man who knows God knows that He Is still working miracles. The man who does all his pravlug on bis knees doesn't pray enough. The man who looks at everything through money never sees very far. Tti justice that a wicked man never wants is the justice he deserves. Take a mountain to pieces and you will tlud that it is made out of atoms. The only work God pays for is that which somebody tries to do for notby big- No max ever finds out that he Uvea in the dark until he has seen tho sun. The man who tries to accumulate a great fortune has no mercy on him self. Wftev you get a giant down It is never safe to stop until you cut off his head. "Better is a little with righteous oess than great revenues without right." "Evert one who Is angry with his brother shall be in danger of judg ment. WrtEN a child does its best Its work, looks as well in Heaven as that of ao angel. If you look at the top side of a cloud you will always see something bright. If you want to help the Lord, don't 1 find too much fault with your preacher. TnE one-talent man Is very apt to believe that God requires too much from him. Pcttiko God's love In a man's heart makes him a full brother to everybody. The devil never gets a chance tc ride up hill in the neighborhood of a busy man. Without money it would be hard for one man toshow another just bow mean he is. Whenever you find anybody who knows Christ you Bud somebody who 'oves Christ. God don't care how weak a mart may be iu the legs if he is only stroug In the heart. Repentance is sure to come the minute the sinner really believes that God loves him. A back boneless man in the pul pit is always one who has misunder stood the Lord. There are some people who can see more with one eye than others caD with a telescope. The blind child would never find out that it was blind, if somebody Ise didn't tell it. CnuisTiANiTr Is not a change of opinion about God, but a change f heart toward God. ' TnE preacher can tell your hus band about religion, but you are the one to show it to him. How They Began. Dan Lamont's income ten years age was $1-1 a week. He is said to be earning to-day $100,000 a year. Mr. Winans, the State Superinten dent of Public Instruction in Kansas, was formerly a bricklayer in Atchi son. Ex-Gov. Tom Cailin of Illinois was In early life a village bully. A sound thrashing made a man of him. The man who thrashed hlmjielped him to secure an education. Charles E. Gorman, nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island, was a newsboy in Providence in the'50's and commenced the study of law at the age of 18 by the advice of ex-Chief Justice Greene, whose office he en ered for the purpose. Edward Pardridge, whom "Old Hutch" considers his successor as the most daring speculator on the short side of the market, was formerly a dry-goods merchant In Buffalo. He is credited with having made $2,000, 000 since the middle of last August. Henry Miller, probably the largest land-owner in the San Joaquin (Cali fornia) valley, was forty years ob o aeo a butcher boy, with scarcely a dollar of his own. He individually controls over 1,000,000 acres now and is tielieved to be worth between $20,. 300,000 and $40,000,000. Exchange. In tho Dim, Mas.nm. Visitor Is it true that a lion like this can be bought for $1,000? Proprietor Humph! These are 1 l . .. , ,11 1 .1 J w cneap lions, oui luis ouuu oiu ucra, for instance, is very near. 1 wouia lot part with him for $10,000. "Why is he so dear?" "He ate ud my wife's mother.". 1 Texas Sittings. If a man walks ten miles, he says be walked sixty. Hot Sonnd. A New-Yorker forwarded to one 01 :1s friends In the West a set of CoL Ingersoll's works. Then he sect a j telegram Informing him what he had tone, and expressing the hope that 1 the books would arrive safe and 1 round. A few days afterward he re- seived a telegram from his friend . who was an orthodox Presbyterian which ran this way: Bookn arrive! ur, but not sound." 1 srx m 1 Ni.W6 IN BRIEF. The ostrich is the swiftest runnei known. Rata will not eat oranges though very partial to applea. The pr?ce of parrots in South Am erica is only ten cent". The valuation of the state of Maine Is placed at $2iJo,G00,000. Presideut Diai'T Mexico is reputed to bd worlh $31,0J0 010. The statistics of electric railways are expanding at a xreat rate. Pajier was made fram rags as early as the r ourteent'i Century. The cost of the Capitol at 'Wash ington has excee eJ $ W.OCO.OOO. Three of the first four prestdetts of the United States married widows, 1 The turtle lives for nearly a cen tury, uud the pike for about 175 years. 1 Ii Is said that pigeons have been used as mail carriers for about 70C yt are. Turned-in toes are often found with preoccupied, absent-minded per sons. 1 An iDdtac girl student at Haskell, Kan. , ii.sutu'.e is named Jenny One Feather. (Jne-fonrth of the land surface of the globe is occupied by English-speaking people. One of the commonest salutations in Hawaii is "Alo ha," which means 'I love you." The wide skirt, under the nsms of fardlngale, hrst appeared lu 15:10 ot the court of Francis I. Over 000 vaiieties of cotton are said to exist 1 0 in Asia and Africa anl 200 in America ! Ruskln has the finest collection of illuminated inbS'ls in tha world, num bering about 1,300. , The youngest, amateur editor is Miss F:htl Stout of the Florida Mid get. She Is 10 yea's old. Men attending the pans in salt works are never knowu to have cholera, smallox, scarlet fever or lutlueuzi, The Prussian Cabinet has unani mously approved a bill to reform the present s stm of voting in Prusa a. i Governor Cleaves of Maine selected time of the baudso test mtn in bis own town to be memters of bis staff. I A recent estimate places the amount of standing timber in the sute Cf Washington at 3nO,000,000,OvO feet. One of the stones In Mrs. Haggln's casket is the moat valuable ruby in tLe world. It fcrmerly belonged to Lola M011 tel. 1 Mr. Charles Vil'.iers, father of the British house of Commons, has just completed Li. 90ti year, having bten born on Jan. 2, 1802. Sir A.tliur Sullivan Is said to have struck 1 , 000,0X) notes on a piano iu tight hours. The performance was the result of a challenge. It has teen discovered that Smiles, tb - fc-ujuli rhinoceros in the Central Park menagerie. New York, has two perfectly developed tongues. j A dog at New Haven, Conn., being the object of much abuse, committed suicide recently by Ji mplug out of the , tbird-story window of a factory. j Hawaii's flag b-'ars stripes of red. wh'.te aud blue a sort of outward and visible sign that the Ir.tle isle has a bind of i ffialty for the great Republic. Charles Emory Smith, who was j minister to Russia, says the czar Is -a sedate, sensible, sober minded, fearless mau hrm aud resolute in acitoo. ' I A deaf and dumb book canvasser sold seventy-"! books within four days I recently in three small New Hamp , shire town?, with commissions am ' mounting to 15J. I R. Henry Taylor who Is said to :have invented baby carriages, was 'found by the Wallham (Mass.) police recently in a st-uviug and mentally i unbalanced condition. I The word "preface" used in the begiunlng of books was originally a word of welcome to a meal, ana was equivalent to "Much good may It do . you." Lady legram "Watklns has allows 1 her South Lincolnshire tenants a return of two-thirds of their half year's rents I in consequence of the agricultural de '; presslou. There are 303 depositors in the Boston Five-cent Savings bank with sums ranging .from Siio $2300 who haven't been heard from for over twenty years. Ethel Mackenzie McKenna, the 1 elJe.t daughter cf the late Sir Moreil Mackenzie, the great medical specialist, is a clever newspaper woman, wtU knowa as a Loudon correspondent. At Minorca the fisherman simply dives to a depth of 70 feet, with a weight in oue hand to wiry him down. With the other band he picks up as many pearl oysters as he cau carry and brings them up to the boat. It Is asserted that the 8:0 ocen ho I work in the Paris sewers are as healthy as any other 800 Partsiane, and tLat tbey are est ecially free from infect.ous dkeases. Irrigation Is doing wonders In that broad region which some atlases even now denominate the Great American desert. In Douglas county, Colo., ' 48,000 fruit trees are irrigated by one company. Tnere Is a rept'le common to the Sacrenientc Valley, California, known ' ih biowsnake. A lullgrown Plow- snake thinks nothing o: swallowing a half dozen ergs at a time. There Is a carrot lu Viealla, CaL, of the Belgian variety, that measur. s ' eighteen and a quarter ieches aiouud I taio lurjftst. TKirt .n. I taentv-three inch es hi length from the leaves downward. The late General Robert E. Lee's 'daughter Miss Mary Curtis Lee, 1 1,, spends little of ber tlaie in Americ i. Mie has twice made the journey around the world. With meekness, humility and dili gence apply yourself to the duties ol year condition. They are the seeming ly little things whkh make no noise, that do the business. Knowledge of books In a man cf busi a si is a torch in the hands cf one who is tiling and able to show those who aie bewildered t'.e wsy which leads to prosperity. Furnaces for puddling iron were In dented ty Csjrt In 1781. Tou can often measure a man's debts by the size of his diamonds. Modesty is a guard to virtue. StocklDg- making cachines were tte Otk ot Le, in v. fcsaSsBnVois&ixxili rf.
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