B. F. 80HWEIER,
TH E OON8TrTUTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS.
Editor
VOL. XLVH
MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 6. 1893.
NO. 5!.
BRIDAL HEASURB
giti they sent her manifold.
Diamonds, and peart, and gold.
One there was among the throng
Pad not Midas' s touch at need:
Jit against a sylvan reed
Set his lips and breathed a ton-,
Bid bright F.ora, as she conn,
Snatch a spray of oranga Lloo.n
For a maiden's hair.
Let th. Hours their aprons fill
With mignonette an I dalo JiU
And all that's fair-
For her bosom fetch ths rosa
That is rarest
Sut that either these or those
Could by auy hnppuiag bs
Ornaments to sueu as she;
They'll but show, when she is drease.1.
She Is fairer than the fairest,
knd out-batters what is best!
Tuomas Bailey Aldrieh, in th. Ceutur.,
TWO OF THEM.
BY J. M. BARKIS
lit. is a very pretty
I Z&'iMl though that
I 'l lJr counts for nothing
' II I ll' with eithm- nf n.
itS"- and ber frock is yel-
jijlowsna brown, with
pin here and there
a foot long and wr-n
they are not in use
she keeps them in
her hat, through
hich she stabs the in far down into her
brain. This makes me shudder; but so
is she constructed that it does cot seem
to hurt, aud in that human pincushion
the daggers remain until it is time for
ber to put on her jacket again.
She comes here occasionally (always,
looking as if she ha I been born afresh
that morning) to :.t m the big chair
and discuss wh.c sort of giri she is,
with other '.natters of moment. When
she sudii'jnly flings herself forward
elasping her hands on her Lnee and
ays, "Oli!'' I know that she has re
membered something which must out
at cr.ee or endanger licr health; any
whether it be "I don't believe in any
body or anything there!" or "Why do
we die so soon?" or "I buy chocolate
drops by the half pound," I am expect
ed to regard it, for the time being, as
one of the biggest things of the day. I
allow her, but no other, to mend my
tire; and some cf her most profound
thoughts have come to her with a jer ;
while holding the poker. ITowcver, she
is not always serious, for, though her
lace is often so wistful that to be within
a yard of it is too close for safety, she
s-metimes jests gleefully, clapping het
hands; but I never laugh, rather continuo
smoking hard; p.nd this she (very
properly) put? down to my lack of hu
liior. The reason v.e get on together so
v. ell is because I treat her exactly as if
the were a man, as per agreement.
Ours is a plutonic friendship, or, at
least, was, for she went off half an hour
b;t with her head in the air.
After only one giance in the mirror,
she had spread herself out in the bi.j
i lialr, which fcnis to one to put its arms
round her. Then this jumped out:
And I had thought jou so trut
worthy!" (she always begins in the
n.iddle.)
What have I doceV'I asked, thoun
I ;new.
Yesterday," she said; "when you
r ut me into that cab. O'a, you didn't
no it, but you tried to."
'I)o what?'1
Slie screwed her mouth, whereupon 1
nuked hard, lest I should attempt to
do it again. But she would have an
answer.
' Men are all a'ike," she said indig
nantly. "And you actually think," I broke
out bitterly, ";hat if I did meditate su-h
an net (for one brief moment) I was
welding lo the wretched impulses to
which other men give way! M.ss Gun
ninar, do you know me no better than
taati '
'I don't see what you mean," she
replied, (tier directness is sometimes a
little annoying.)
I wagged my head mournfully and
there ensued a pause, for I did not quite
know what I meant myself.
' What do you mean?" she asked more
K?ntiy, my face s'lowing her that I was.
.ieeply hurt not angry, but hurt.
1 laid my pipe on the mantelpiece
and, f,i;cr.king very sadly, proved to her
hat I had nothing in common with other
young men, though I forget now how I
proved it. If I seemed to act as they
iid my motives were quite different and,
i. are fore, I s'aould be judged from
: r.cther sinndpoint. Also 1 looked upon
. : as a child, while I felt very old
i. iure aie six vc-ns let ween us).
"And cow," said 1, with emotion, "as
- ou stiil think that I tried to to do it
iicm the wretched ordinary motive
ir.rae'y, because I wanted to), I suppose
ir,u and I must part. I have explained
ii. e affair to you because it is painful to
me to be misunderstood. Goodby; I
shall always think of you with extieme
regard."
Despite an apparent effort to control
it. mj voice broke. Then she gave way.
r-he put her hand into mine, and, with
'ears in her eyes, asked me to forgive
her, which I did. ,
This little lucident it was that showed
her how different I am from other men,
..i i. a ... ii. ,1. r m ot our pa-
,. . i,;-n rep sirned. so to I
k eak, that afternoon over the poker. 1
promised to be to her such a friend as 1
Lra to Mr. Thomson; I even undertook,
if necessary, to scold her though she
t ried (as shj hinted she should probably
.i -j ... that it was for
' ' ' J I auu cue v ta
her good, just as Thomson sees
it when
r r.v - i i
1 ecold him. ,
"I shall have to call you 'Mary.
"I don't see that." .
"Yes, it is cui'omary among real
fii-mds. Ther expect it of each other.
1 was not looking her in the face, to
'aanot tell how she took this at first.
However, after she had eaten a chocolate
!rL: in silence, she said
"But you don't call Mr. Thomsoa by
r.u Christian came?"
"Certainly I do." ..
"And he would feel slighted if you did
"He would be extremely pained.
"What is his Christian name?"
"Thomson's Christian name! On, hi
Christian name. Thomson' Christian
!ia;e is ah Harry." T
"Bat I thought his initials were J.
r. Those are the initials on that um
brella you never retu.-nc4 to him. .... .
"Jl JiiLfoLIbfiB iiUSlSlBSLSZa
E0keSnare-,4!:0tLl8-
bim VhoL'onl" tbSt 700 mCre,J C5:eJ
fnend. address each other in one way in
company but in quite another way when
they are alone." -... .
"Oh, well, if it i customary." ;
'If it were not f would not propose
luch a thing." 4 '
Another chocolate drop, and then.- j
"Mary, dear
"Dear!"
"That is v::,at I gaid."
"I don't think it worthy of yen. " II
is taking two chocolate drops when J
only said you could have one.'
"Well, whtu I get my hand into the
bag I admit II mean, Thomson would
avi. nave oeca so niggardly."
"I am certain you don't
call him
tiarry, aear.' " .
"Not, perhaps, as a rule, but at timet
men friends are more demonstrative than
you think them. For instance, if Thorn
I mean Harry, was ill "
"But I am quite well."
"S'.iU, with all this influtnza about "
HER BACK.
She had pui her jacket on the table,
her chocolate drops on the mantelpiece,
her gloves on the couch indeed the
room w full ot her and I was holding
her scarf just as I hold Thomson's.
"I walked down Regent street be
hind you yesterday," I said, sternly,
'and your back told me that you were
vain." m
"I am not vain of my personal appear
ance at any rate."
How could you be?"
She looked at me sharply, but my face
was without expression, and she sighed.
She remembered that I had no humor.
'Whatever my faults are, an 1 they
f.re many, vanity is not one of them."
"When I said you had a bad temper
fDu made the same remark about it.
Abo when '
"That va? last week, stupid 1 But,
f COUTS-, if you think me ugly. "
"i did not sty that.'
"Yc, yoa did."
"But if you think nothing of your
personal appearance, why blame me if I
igree with you?"
She rose haughtily.
"Sit down."
"I won't. Give me my scarf." Het
ryes were flashing. She has all sorts of
?yes.
"If you really want to know whit I
t'link of your personal appearance "
"I don't."
I resumed my pine.
"AVell?" she said.
"Well?"
"Ob, I thought you were gilog to sa;
something.'
"Only that your back pleased me in
scrtnin other respects."
She let the chair take her back into
its embrace.
"Mary, dear!"
It is a fact that she was crying'After
had make a remark or two:
"I am so glad you think me pretty,'
she said, frankly, "for t&ough I don't
think 10 myself, I like other people to
think it; and somehow I thought you
considered me plain. My nose is all
wrong, isn t lti
"Let me see."
"So you admit you were entirely mis
taken in calling me vain?"
"You have proved that I wai."
However, after she had drawn the
laggeis out of her head and put them
iuto'the scarf (or whatever part of a
lady's dress it is that is worked with
daggers), and when the door had closed
ooher, she opened it and hurriedly fired
these shots at me.
Yes, I am horridly vain I do my
hair every night before I go to bed I
was sure you adoiired me the very first
;ime we met I know I have a prelty
aose gojd afternoon."
1IEI1 SELFISIIXESS.
She wa making spills for me. because
.hose Thomson made for me ha J run
down.
"Mary.".
"Well?"
"Mary, dear."
"I am listening."
"That is all."
"You have such a curlou?, wasteful
aabit of saying one's name as if it was a
remark by itself."
"Yes; Thomson has noticed that also.
However, I think I meant to add that it
s very good of you to make those spills.
wonder if you would do something else
for me?"
"As a friend?"
"Yes. I want you to fill my pipe ana
ram
down the tobacco witn your iittii
iDger."
You and
Mr. Thomson do ths fo
;ach other?"
"Often."
"Very well. Give it me.
'It smokes beautifully.
This way?'
You are a
dear, good girl.
8he let the poker far.
"Ob, I'm not," she wailed, "1 am not
really kind hearted. It is all selfishness ! '
This caino out with a rush; but I am
ised to her, and kept ray pipe in.
"Even my charities are only a hideous
iind of selfishness." she continued with
Gasped hands. "There is that poor man
who sells matchboxei at the corner of
his street, for instance. I sometimes
',ive him twopence." (She came an
snormous purse, but there is never more
than twopence in it.)
That is surely not selfish, I sau.
'It is," said sae, seizing the poker a
,f intending to do lor ns,e.i i""
.tant "I never give him anything simply
I am only tnmKing o' '"J " , "
1ST- I gfe it him. That U the personi
fication ofselfishnesj.
Cive him something when I am passing
F . nv rate. I never dream of
crying thVsUelt on purpose to do it
oTl should need to be terrifically happy
KforVl would bother crossing to give
ty0afBm.veDhrm something on Monday
when 1 was with Ton?'
"Sen you were happy at thai . time?"
.What has that got to do with .
'A great deal."
I rose. t
"Mary, dear
No I Go and sit 07er there.
nEB 8CAKF.
So far I had not (as will hare bn
bv a word or look or sign
iufp'latontc&yp POible., I had
because, having reflected a good deal oi
the aubject, I could not ptrsualo my
self that this was one- of my ways of ad
dressing Thorn" And I would liar J
1- - .
continued t i- vue treatment had it n c
been Ji.r her scir.', wh:e"i has pr.ve I
be-jd all bearing. That jorf is ea I
riieiy responsible for what happened tJ-1
(lav.
Itis a stride of fa led terra co'.u.ml s e
ties it round her moucli before going out
into the tog. Har f C3 i t'.ie:i i.3
ciently irritating, but I could ndurj it
by looking another way, did sh-j nit
recklessly make fjrewe'l rj.ii.;i
through the scar.', which is very tain.
Then her mouth in shar, I ciu't pat
up with thi?.
I had warned her repeatedly. But
s'.e was like a mad girl, or, psriiaps,
she did not u .derstai l my me nog.
' Don't coi.e near ma with that tirn;
round your mouth," I have told h'.r a
dozen times. . I hava refused firmly to
tie it for her. I have put the table be
twee me and it, and she nsked why
(through the scarf). She was quite
mad.
And ti day, when I was feeling rathei
strange at any rate! It all occurred in a
moment.
'Don't attempt to speak with that
scarf rou id you," I had said, nnd aid it
with my back to her.
"You think I can't bscause it is too
tight?" she asked.
"Go away," I said
She ' jrned me round.
"Why," she said, wonderin"ly, "It is
quite loose. I believe I could whistle
through it."
She did whistle through it. That
finished our platonic friendship.
FIVE Mt.NCTES AFrEBWAKD.
I spoke wildly, fiercely, exultingly,
and she, all the time, was trying to put
on her jacket, and could not lind the
sleeve.
It was your own fault; but I am
glad. I warned you. Cry away. I like
to see you crying."
'I hate you!"
No, you don't."
"A friend"
Frieuu! Pooh! Bah! PihawP
" Ir. Thomson"
".'hornson! TchutI Thomson! His
.Christian name isn't Harry. I don't
know what i: is. I don't care!"
"You said "
"It was a lie. Don't screw your mouth
tn that way."
"I will, if I like.'
"I warn you."
"1 don't care. Oh! O'a!
"I warned you."
"Xo.v I know you in your true col
ors." "You do, and I glory in it. P. atonic
friendship fudge! I quarreled with yoa
that time to be able to hold up your
hands when we made it up. When you
thought I was leading your character I
Don't screw your mouth I'"
"Good -by lorever."
"All the ti-ne we were discussing the
mystery ot being, I was thinking ho
hiuch I should line to put my hands be
neath your chin and flick it."
"If you ever dare to speak to mi
again "
"Don't screw your mouth. And I
would rather put my fingers through
your hair than write the greatest poem
in"
S':e was gon, leaving the sc.vrf behind
he-.
My heart sank. I flung open my win
do (six hansoms came immediately)
and I could have jumped after her. Cat
I did not. What I saw had a remarkable
effect on my spirits. I saw her cross
the street on purpose to give twopence
to the old man who sells tne match-'.
All's well with the world. As soon as
I cm lay down the scaif I am goinj
West to the nous-? where -Miry, dear,
lives. New York Press.
The Hijr.tliii ol t id lrit.
"The preliminary gathering of cr.i.vi
jefore they take their flight to t'.ie
Southland at tau uppraaj'a of winter is
alw.tvs intern-sting to me," said Ban
R .1.1 Ki the Oiford. "Fra u t'ae Daiio-
tas they leave iu great nu n srs aftsr tae
tirst severe frost. Oae cold, frosty
uorning I arose aud looke I oat of my
ie lroo-n window in lle-l .nc down
ni.i mm leld that was b.iarded by a
rouh board fence, and from which even
thodry shocks had been reinaved.
Only the bleak, black-froited stub ale
remained. Tne village is locally faiuuui
for crows. Tuey gatuer a'o.-ut there in
ereat numbjrs an J feed on a will rice
patch near at nan-', i nonj'.-a ui n
iu,ir.l. of the feu-, five in number, were
lino 1 with the birds, that sat cawing
most vociferously.
"I was amused at the spectacle, anc
Kias standing enjoying it when I o'j
lerved a long line of crows a.iproac'iin
aver a neighborin ( patch of timV-T.
These also settled do.vn iu the field. I
watclK-d for several hours and contin
ually observed great flocks o n'.ng tn.iu
all directions anJ fettling in the field.
By noon the fences and fields fairly
iwarmed with bird". It seume I to nie
that there were hundreds of thousands
3f them. Then no in re came for a
while. The end of the wuo'.o tiling wa'
a tremendous flapping of wings ant
division after div.sion tie away to th
South in perfect order. It took lull)
half on hour for all to get under way.'
".iotix li ty (lo.vai Journal.
Explanations All Around.
There is a Washington young wo
who. in addition to luviiu
sensitive nerves, is intensely devoted
r TtrowninLT. Much or ner time sns
aDDlies to the discovery of a new
tiivatifUms and much more to worry
ing over them. Not long ago she was
nulte ilL A friena ailed on her anc
said consolingly:
'Vuvot- mini! rnv dear, this idle
ness will make you enjoy life all tb
more when you are about again."
"I don't know," sighed the patient
perhaps I will not get well."
"O, you dou't think of such thing:
as that, do vou?"
'Yes."
"You take it rather cheerfully. "
"(.), 1 don t nuna at an. 1 ernapt
I shall meet Mr. K.rowning in thi
next world, and we shall have sucl
a good time explaining his works t
each other." Kate Field's Washing
to..
John Liater. of Passaic Fall', N. J.,
figures in the Wheel as the oldest aclivj
bicycler in the country. Ilu is over
sixty, a veteran of the war, and oici
rode 1SJ mile on his maj'ainu in two
days. Since last January he has overed
yyly four thousaad mUes-
SPECTACLED CHILDREN."
Their Number la Increaalna; at
an Enor.
moo. Rat.
Who has not noticed the growing
irmy of spectacled children, und of
adults below the age when one is ex-,
pected to wear glasses because ot the
presence of approaching auc? Es
pecially among childien is this seen.
When we were a boy it was a very
unusual thing to see a child with
glasses and few adults under forty
rive or fifty years of age wore thcni.
Tndeed it was so rare as almost in
arlably to require, if not an up logy,
at least an explanation.
arious explanations have been
offered, aud the popular custom even I
with oculists Is to blame it on over-'
crowding In the public schools;
nools; on d. )
fectivc lighting of Lhe school build
ings: on too close application to study,
and a number of other faulty meth
ods of early Ufa
With all due respect for a respect
able and grc I ng class of specialists
the eye-doctors we believe this
condition is largely attributable to
them. We believe if there were
fewer oculists, and if those of this
class were less wise, there would be
fewer children and adults by several
hundred percent, wearing, elisses.
AVe believe the home, are con
structed aud home environments have
all been so ad usled within the last
twenty years as to favor instead ol
obstruct the normal functions of the
eve. We bt-lluve school rooms and
public halls arc built and have been
built for some years past with more
s.icclal refarence to the care and com
fort of the eye. We know that text
books have better tvpe and paper
better adapted to the eye than when
we were a boy. We know that school
hours are shorter that recesses are
more freuuent and that fewer days
in the week are required in the school
roo ru
in Pennsylvania thirty-five or forty
years ago the school houses were built
largely after one general style a
rertangular building about 4nx00
feet.
The wiiiaows were fin the sides.
There was on the two sides and on
the end up to near where the
"master"' sat, a broad writing board
with a backless bench running paral
lel with the writing "desk" or board.
Most of the work done by the further
advanced scholars was done facing '
the wall or window neither of which
was to exceed two or two and one
half feet distance. Here the writing
and ' ciphering ' was done, and when
through with this part of the day's
work the scholar, if he turned his
back to the desk the glare of light
from the opposite windows greeted
him. The seats for the smalKcr
dus'J learning their A U Cs or who
had been promoted to spell ana pro
nounce ba" or "ab" were paralleled
with the sides of the house and from
morning until evening, from Monday
to include Saturday, on dull days and
an bright days, without shades on
the windows; with only stolen relief
from persistent application to the
book, this search for knowledge went
on. We speak from actual personal
experience.
With all this we do not recollect a
bey or girl of iur acquaintance In
rchool who used glasses in that early
day. There were boys and girls who
u oM rt-jla anrl tvirl luiil VitinH ui'Viiw
ihr hov-nnrt tric wh, foil h.
hind in the race for promotion who
were considered bright these were
bovs and girls with red eyes but no
snectab.es. There were those who
needed them.
Nobody thought of consulting an
oculist there weie noue. The fam
ily physician had too much to do to
combat fever and ague and other
malarial disorders to give any
thought to so insignificant a part of
the body as the eye. The liver must
I e regulated, the bowels looked after,
the kidney touched up and "ex
Ieciorants" prescr bed, and if the
eye was very painful "eye-drops"
given, but as a general thing the eye
had to take care of itself. I
In course of time by a process of
- ...
medical and surgical evolution oc
uiists nave oeeu ueveiopeu, ami sa
result we are fast becoming a"spccta
cled" people. Now this class of
specialists are themselves to be
blamed as well
the discovery of
for the variety
as compensated for
visual defeats and
of glasses used to
overcome them.
The opthalm jscopeand the various
revelations made bv it in the hands
of skilled specialists has revealed
visual defects never dreamed of, and
have suggested a course of rational
treatment by properly selected lenses
that not only greatly aid the eye hut
rel'eve many heretofore nervous and
orain svrapioms mar, were a pu..ie com ..ositin niay De detected by keen
to the general practitioner and that nostrii9 iu lne scent of May, w hich
in children lead to an early abandon- ; jdeed. more agreeable in the o aen
mcnt of iKjoks or to permanently im- .,jr lnan j ;l warlI1 rao,Ui an t it i9
paired eyesight. (this curious clement in an otherwise
Hence we beiieve that spectacles de:icious and pure perfume that at
are the Indices or advancing civilt.a- triiCt3 the ,eat-eating iriseets-or,
tion. and some of the badges of pro- rilUler to le mo:e accurate, the in-
lessionai ingenuiiy ana emciency. as
well as the
achievements
specialty.
We favor
mended an)
promises of wonderful
in the future in this
all measures recoin
adopted that will se-
cu e the construction of public and
private buildings in every way
ada, ted to the care and development
of the eyesight. We believe the
w rid U progressing In this respect
that the time Is fast coming when
architects and builders who have the
I est knowledge of sanitary laws will
lie preferred to all others. At the
eniiic time wc believe that, until a '
lace is born with less heredity defect
ive vision, the army of the 'specta
cled" will increase, and the comforts
of tie wearers of eye-glasses will be
enhanced. Monthly bulletin
King. Oscar and the Doctors.
There is a touch of humor in Kiiii,
Oscar of Sweden's offer to place 8
Covernment crutiser at the disposal
of the International Medical Con
gress, which is shortly to be held in
his dominions. He suggests that the
meetings take place on board and ai
sea. possibly in the hope that thf
delegates might be led thereby t(
concentrate their efforts to devise
some cure for the malady that ba
I itherio detled all remedies, namely,
.casicknes'. It, is to be hoped t tat
Hie doctors, both Mwedlst and foreign,
wdl see tneir way to avail them
selves of tho King's offer.
CREAMERY BUTTER.
Th.
Youth's Companion tDeaeribea
Operations of a Model Fine.
How many readers have seen a
creamery in action, and know exactly
how butter is made by the method
which nas taken the place of that
oucein vogue in every farmer's dairy?
At Mo we, Vermont is a good speci
men of these "new-fangled" ways
of treating cream, antiacne who
wishes to spend a forenoon in pleasant
survey of an interesting work would
Uiid himself repaid for seeking out
this cool, clear builclii.g in a lovely
town. Hrst ofall, unless the cream
ery is a co-operative one, the milk
' bought, and in any case the
farmers for miles around must bring
ur send la tneir luiiK. iienerally all
the milk that a farm produces is
sent. Sometimes the creamery uses
over four thousand iounds a day, a
"pound" of milk usually dlling a
scanty" pint
The milk Is not paid for by measure,
for that would be mosi unjust. The
man who had Jersey cows would then
receive no mo e than the owner of
an nials wnich are "large milkers."
but whose milk is of poor quality
-o the milk Is tested by the use of ai.
acid and paid for according to its per
centage of butter-making quality.
Harly in the morning this new mil'.;
is made to flow very steadily Into ;
receive rand there it comes in contat -w
th a cylindrical ve-se! whh-h i:
whirling at the rate of forty foui
hundred revolutions a minute. Thi
inotiou has the effect of scparat r;
t lie cream from the milk; as themiii
is heavier, it falls to the outside ol
the vessel, where it is can ied through
a pipe, and the cream, being lighter
eeks the center, exactly as the foam
of a whirlpool Is always thrown ti
the middle of the ciiclc.
A metal rim. rising between thi
two fluids, serves to keei tiieiu per
manently apart, and the cream, 1 k.
the milk, is tardea off by a pipe of
its own. It Rows into a oblong tank
in the next room, and there, pro
tected by a thin cloth from dust and
Hies, it stands for forty-eight hours,
since butter has a richtar taste if the
cream is allowed to "ripen" a little.
The enormous churn which receives
the cream when it is ready for the
second pro.'ess is in shape exactly like
those used by many a farmer's wife'
aud turns bodily with every revolu
tion; it is however, moved by steam
power, and not l y elbow grease, "
and the buttermilk is finally drained
off through the floor into enormous
V.lts.
Hut when ti e butter has "come,"
what, dc.ight tj see it worked! Great
yellow masses, usually about sixty
pounds in quantity, :ire spread, in a
broad circle, ujKin a round table. Ini
rncili.i'ely over this table are two
groo id. wooden rollers, an I when
the tadle is set in moticn by machin
ery it slowly turns about under the
rollers, w.iich are at the tame lime
revolving. Thus the buttermiik is
quickly and e.Tcctuuliy pressed from
the ma s, iin 1 it l.cs spread out, read"
for salting.
As the table turns a woman shakes
over the duller tine salt from a sieve,
an ounce or altt a pmund of butter,
and when a few more revolutions of
the rollers have worked it in, the but
ter is made. ,
It is then rapidly packed intf
s.uall tubs, covered with a cloth arid
a thicl. 1,:ler palt- or lV?aila into
beautifu regular pats. These pits
eacn weignmg a l ounu, iiiarwcu w.in
'-u" "-'-i'""""
v.sioiis, are wrappeu
up in wnite paper ana then p'aceu in
a very Ingenlus reeeptacle, formed of
thin wood, made so as to tend in the
pro; er places and form a little box.
When one views the cleanliness and
precision which go with this work,
done o 1 so large a scale, he cannot
help being convinced lhat the cream
ery has not destroyed the poetry
which still clings about the life of
the dairy.
The Timid Hawthorne Kush
Few bushes in England are more
timid of .lowering than the common
. v. i i...Z
I IJtl W LUOl II. iia,c SVCIl LOU
I bloo!nhcre and there at ieast-
seen the hedges
early as tlic middle of April, and
1 have seen them as late as the mid
dle of June. 'o doubt the buds wait
patiently for such weather as will
bring out in numters the particular
Hies on which, as a rule, they depend
for fertilization, says a writer in thf
Longman's Magiulne.
On this year of which I write i
noted the meat fly abroad on April
l!4, while the May blossom broke into
bloom on the 271 h. For must I tell
the sad truth? painful as it is to re
late, the hawthorn (lowers are ferti
lized for Ihe most part by carrion in
sects A certain undertone of de-
. ,., .nat tiu.ir e,,,.s an.i hatch
out their larva- in decaying aniina'
matter.
The hawthorn,' however, keeps the
unpleasant meaty odor well in the
background, so that the perfume as
a whole is decidedly agreeable in the
open air, but many other fly dowers
have it so strongly developed and so
well imitated as to be positively nau
seous This is particularly the case
with parasitic plants wh ch cften
combine with their predatory habits
the yde and od ous deception of in
ducing flics to lay cgys on their sur
face under the hateful i-iet-'-nse
ot being carrion in an advanccn
stage of decomposition. Could any
flower sink lower from its high estate
than thus to masquerade in thp
loathsome disguise of a decaying dcae"
animal?
Forcing.
Forcing young peach trees is some
times the cause of their failure nt
the age of three or four years. You ml
pear trees should never be forced ton
rapidly, as the overgrown trees arf
more often attacked by blight thnn
those which are not pushed rabidly
when young.
Judge Lynch was one of the Crs.
Irishmen ever given an official posi
tlsn in tats country, but he is sUli ii
the fcusioeii
BUNDLES.
?he Rtdlrulona but Amusing; FaatfitloasneM
of Somf People.
Although 6 till large, thenutateroi
pco V.o who feel themselves degraded
if tl.cy are feea carrying a bundle
ten'; s. under our fortunate republi
can institutions, steadily to decrease.
fft can still fell the point in Mark
Twai.i's jocular account of Venice;
how t.e found it impossible to feel
that Ihe fairy city ot silent water
ways and gilding gondolas was a
reality and not a vision, until he
chanced upon a fair Venetian out
shopping. When she bought a yard
of blue ribbon and ordered it sent
home ia a scow, he knew that V?nic
was real after alL
Pome queer distinctions are made
by objectors to bundles. There are
lad es who will ca -y anything, not
too bulky or too hea y, except a fail
of boots. Why not boots? What
harm or horror is there about boots?
Others object to taking parcels
from the butcher or the baker. Those
whom they meet may not know the
dreadful secret of the ravkage, but
they know, and that Is just as un
comfortable to them.
Some very unreasonable young wo
men will carry nothing but a book: a
book makes a good, shapely parcel
looks intellectual and cultured, and
Is never suggestive of our countr.v
cousin come to town to shop. But
why should not our country cousin
coma to town to shop? And whj
feel one's self superior to country
cousins?
Our country cousin, however, is
often as sensitive on the bundle ques
tion as her city relative, Cne village
matron disliked to carry a bundle
because everybody she met was sure
to look at it, and she felt as if they
all wanted to know what was inside
of it, and exactly what she paid
for it
On the other hand a certain liter
ary man refused to hae a teapot he
had just purchased wrapped in paper,
lie was sure, he said, on his wa;
home, to pass half a dozen old ladles
sunning themselves at their windows,
an I e cry one of them would puz le
their brains o.er what Mr. Jones was
taking home so carefully done up in
white tissue paper. a present fot
Mrs. Ji.nes or what, while if ht
carried it openly they would have the
pleasure of seeing for themselves.
lie had his way, and walked cheer
fully up the man street of the little
town where he lived swinging the
undisguised brown teapot by itf
handie. Youth's Companion.
Two Kind-s of Thirst.
Thirst is simply a sensation bj
which a lack of I'.uids in the systerr
is made known, and in a state o!
health it is a generally faithful indi
cation of the wants of the body.
Natural thirst, which must be dis
t nguished from the th rst caused bj
stimulating foods and drinks or bj
fever, is Urst indicated by a peculiai
dryness of the mouth and fauces,
caused by the failure of the pharyn
g.-al meruhrance to secrete a due
amount of liquids but if fluids were
to be 'ntroduced directly into the
stomach through a tube, and not bj
way of the fauces as has been done
in some unusual cases the ini
mediate absorption thereof instantly
allays the sense of thirst, from which
it has I een supposed that the sensa
tion of thirst is in the nerves of the
stomach, and that the throat sensa
tion is a kind of reflex action.
However, this theory cannot be
fully accepted, tlrrst being a sensa
tion cai'sed by the general want
which can be supplied through the
blood vessels, the rectum or the skin,
as well as through the stomach oi
throat The exhalations from the
lungs aud skin and the kidney and
ether secretories are effected "prin
cipally at the expense of water in the
blood, which must be restored to its
normal amount or intense genera!
suffeiing follows.
A sudden loss of blood by the lance;
or from a wound, or a rapid drain on
the vascular system, as in cholera oi
in dial ctes, also causes the intense
sensation of thirst Tho thirst ol
fever, on the other hand, is not
caused by the lack of fluids in the
system, but by tho dryness of the
throat, mouth and skin, caused bj
the unnaturally high temperature ol
the blood. Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Family of the KeinidofT.
Young Prince Iiemidoff, who was
married some t me ago to the Count
ess U oronzow-Oaschkow, daughter
of the Czar's minister of the imperial
household, has just purchased the
splend u Villa Feuzi, at Florence, a
city where both his father and grand
uncle achieved much fame by their
prodigality and extraordinary luxury.
It is f rom Florence that the lemi
doHs take their t'tle of prince, since
t :.ey have no Ilussian title, but mere
ly the Italian one of "Prince of San
I'onato," which they acquired by
purchase. It was the granduncle of
the young man who bought this
Italian title. He was the husband
or Princes Matbi.de Ponaparte, who
still derives a large income from the
Deniidoil estates. His nephew and
successor started life as a profligate
and died iu the odor of sanctity, after
marrying the lovely Princess Met
chcrski. who was at one time 1h
trothed to the present Car. It is to
the romantic passion of Alexander
III. for th's lady that must 15 at
tributed the atfectionate interest and
marked favor which le manifests
toward young Demido T, who is the
richest private personage in Europe,
and, like so many of the other great
huropean nobles, of pletieian descent.
the founder of the family paving
been 3 v.llage blacksmith.
Carrying a Gun.
Learn to regard your guu alwav.
s an enemy. On no account grow
familiar or friendly with him. In
sist upon carrying him so that it he
chooses to explode he can hurt noth
ing but the trees or fence. Py con
stantly observing this rule you will
not only insure your own safety, but
keep your companions comfortable.
Many men are made nervous for a
whole day by happening once or
twice to se down the barrel of a
friend's gun; and in such a state of
mind are of course much more likely
to commit some act of folly them
selves. As for men who use their
guns like walking-sticks and to help
them in getting over fences, words
would be wasted on such madmen.
SPBINKLES OF SPICE.
HUMOROUS SELECTIONS FROM
OUR EXCHANGES.
okes of Preachers, Lawyer, Doctors, ant;
Editor Some of Thena Very Dry aa4
Others Somewhat Juicy They Will Alt)
Dlc-eeUoa If Perused After Menla.
f he Money Not Loet.
Mr. Lakeside (gloomily) The book
keeper has run off with all my money
and we mar have to go to the poor
house. Mrs. Lakeside No need of
that, my dear. "We'll get a divorce
and yon marry the woman who got
150,000 out of you in that breach of
promise suit and I'll mary the book
teener. New Y'oik Weekly.
A Charge to Keep.
Mrs. Frixie Hab yo' got dem red
pullets In yo' buzzum dat I wanted?
Mr. Frlxle (groaning) Nopey, but 1
done got some lead pellets in de
buzzum of mah pants I'se dldn' want
Dldn' yo' heah de gun boom? Judge.
riausible.
Jack Toetaster Oh, Miss Meta,
why will you and how can you wring
my heart by lavishing your affection
upon that stupid little terrier who
molts white hair all over that dream
of a gown, in which you appear a
vision of ravishing lovliness? Miss
Meta Perhaps it is because he comes
off. ruck.
Temptation.
Old Lawyer Really, Miss Dewslcy,
ou quite surprise me; so you refuse
to allow us to i ncrease your salary?
Miss Dewsley (the type-writer) Yes,
sir; you see, if Harry should offer, 1
I'm afraid 1 should hesitate so long
between the two that I might refuse
aim. Fuck.
Insectorla.
Smythe Is your son James a gold-
hug? Tompkins He tried to be;
but mistook himself cntomologically.
Smythe What do you mean? Tomp
kins We'd, after severul drops in
Wall street he concluded that he was
uore of a tumble-bug. Exchange-
No lxophole.
Jealous Jackson (loftly) I see byde
comp'ny yo keeps, Miss buowdrop,
dat I mus cut yo'ah qualntance.
Johnson Plades Ef yo' means de
lady, sah, 'polergise immcjitty. Et
yo' means me, niggah, draw yo' steel
draw yo steel, man! Judge.
Long Way Off.
"Let me see," said Crown to Jones;
"isn't this Jones that we were just
talking about a relative of yours?"
"A distant relative," said Jones.
"Very distant?" "I should think so.
He's the oldest of twelve children and
I'm the youngest!" Exchange.
What He Had Hoped.
"Promises, like pie-crust, were
maae to be broken," said the summer
girl when she broke the engagement
"Yes" said he, gloomily; "butin this
case I had hoped the promise would
be like some ot the pastry at our
' oarding-house. Exchange.
He Had Been a Martyr, Too.
Elder Waters Oh, Deakin! Mj
heart aches w'en I thinks of the sorrers
or them thalr Foxes Martyrs. No
body nowadays has ever sich suffering.
Deacon Snively I dunno; my secon'
wife ust ter sleep In her curl papers.
-Puck.
t'nrerlainty.
Ir. Fourthly I know how giddy
fashionable life is; but do you not
pause sometimes to think of your
Heavenly Father? Miss Waite
Well er doctor, perhaps you never
heard that papa's was merely a death
bed repentance? Puck.
Temptation Solicited.
Willie (who has eaten his apple)
Maliel, let's play Adam and Eve.
You be Eve and I'll be Adam. Mabel
ll right WelL Willie Now
you tempt me to eat your apple and
'Ti succumb. Judge.
Good I'm for Htm.
Wool I sent that runaway horse
over to the hospital this morning.
an Peit Hurt himself? Woo!
Nope. Their horse was lame and
lhey wanted to borrow him to drive
jn the ambulance. Puck.
Sarcanm.
Whipper What do you think ol
this coat old man? Snapper Was
it made to order? "It certainly was."
"Who for?" Judge.
At a Loea.
Tom What are you doing with so
many dictionaries? Dick plaintively)
I'm trying to find words to tell
Helen of my love. Exchange.
One on Hobby.
Ilusband (anxiously) You should
not carry your pocket-book in your
hands. Wife (reassuringly) Oh, it
Isn't at. all heavy. ;w vork
Weekly. T
R'EWJ I. BiUEr
TLe little toe is s iid to be disap
pearing from the human foot
In 1G72 the whale fisl.i-tg was be
gun by vessels from Nantucket.
Schools at Oxford were established
by Alfred the Great about 87 '.
- Abont one-third of ths houses iu
this country are lighted by gas.
Hard times have notably affected
the attendance at Vasaar College.
A spider's eyes are not in his he id
bnt in the upper part of tho thorux.
The Tartars take a man by the car
to invite him to eat or drink with
them.
An eleelric locomotive K.r work in
r-olleries lms been put to n-rviee iu
Sermany.
Tho longest nnim.-il know to exist
Is the roequal, which averages in I feet
in length.
A nnarter of each generatian im
said to die before re ich ng the nge of
tevent.'en.
A long, strons thumb alwuva iudi-
;ates great will power aud fj.-ej of
maraeter.
A locomotive requires fuel and la
bor to the amount of f?3,(K0 ia the
eource of a venr.
-Thelongest trestle work in tlit world
is the bridge over lake Poule'iariraiu.
Vew Orleans, La.
Arithmeiunl notation hr the nine
digits and zero was used in iliud ms'.in
in the sixth ceuturv.
In lo'yl books on ceometrv un 1
ostromomy wtre destroved in F.u-lau 1
as savoring of magic.
The children of the Aitntaki Isl-
snders are burn with the left letr uu
inch shorter than the right. . - .
There are no italics used iu the
biblical translation until tho time of
the King Jumes version, lCll.
The first attorn t to give regular
instruction to the deaf and dumb was
made by a Spanish monk in 1570.
The enrlie-t known bank wns one at
Babylon, B. C. 701 managed bv Kgil.-.
It leceived deposits and issued drafts.
-The woman of Iceland have had
municipal suffrage for more than twen
ty years, lhey are now ehgil le to
municipal offices.
The Cossack soldier in the w inter
time is oblidged to sucririee'every other
consideration to that of resisting the
deadly cold of the steppes.
No representation of the face of a
man was ever stamped on a coin until
sfter the death of Alexander tho Great,
woo was regarded ns n divinity.
Cutting off the hands an I feet as a
punishment was practiced in every
?onntry in Europe 1 lit Eug'and two
leiitiiries ago.
An English wetelnn iker exhibits nu
engine of 1J2 distinct piec a not in
cluding thirty-three bolts and MTew.,
Inch could be hidden in a lairs
thimble.
A man in Washington County,
Penn., has a buntum rooster that is io
familiar with a cnt thnt it can get on the
Mine's book and crow with.mt the cut's
taking any notice to it.
The bride's cake ot to-nay is n re
lic of a Uoiamun custom. At a Koninu
marriage the bri lo was expected to
prepare a part, at le st, of the wed
ding feast with her own bauds.
Everglades ore culled by the Indians
"grass water ,Low tracts of land in
undated with water and interpersed
with patches of high grass, peculiar to
the Southern States, nre known ns
everglades.
Tavernier saw ia India a diamond
-f 104 carate, whoso winter was so f.ml
is to make the stono worthless. When
it was cut open it yielded eight, carats
af filth, like that from the bottom ot
l dirty pond.
A package of gold coin worth $:;sl
and wrapped in au old stockin; or
woollen cloth, ft relic of the Johns
town Penn. flood, was found by
workmen in the river bid uenr that ill
fated city the other day.
The British Government report of
in investigation into the epidemic of in
fluenza of the past four years regards
the proof of the consagionsness of the
disease as overwhelming and that it is
not transported through the atmosphere
A stream near Tucson, Arizona,
petrifies all soft substences thrown in
an to it. It is tho great Coloradopofuto
beetlo belt, and at tho time ot their
migrations thousands of them strike
the water and are converted into solid
stone.
When the first Bible was printed in
America it took three years to print
the Old Testament . When the revised
version of the New Testament was tel
egraphed to Chicago, in 1SS1, it was
put in type and stereotyped In twelve
hours.
In the Cascade mountains is the
Great Sunken lake, the most deeply
sunken lake in the world. Itis fifteen
miles long and four and a half wide.
It is 2,100 feet down to the surface ol
the water, but tho depth of the water
is unknown.
In Hard Lack.
Aunt Jemima (seeing flsh breathe)
Look, Josiah! Them poor fish must
be almost euiEcated in them little
tanks. See' em gasping for breath
now!
-lost Like a Man.
There probably never was a man
who could keep the astonished look
out of his face when his wife tells
white lies to company. Atchison
Globe.
Changing Places.
Llakcly (as Tendertooe, the long
haired teoor, passes) If that fellow's
halt and his brains were to change
placet he would be baldneaded. Bliz--ard.
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