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S. P. BOHWEIER,
THE OONSTITIJ7?ION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS.
Editor ud Prepurtotjg.
VOL. XL VIII.
MIFFLINTOWIN. JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA., WEDNESDAY. APRIL 11. 1S94.
NO. 17.
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;'tPRINO CLEANING.
TeiTclean yer house an" c'ecn yer she!
. An' clean yer born in ev'ry part;
But brush the cobwebs from yer heal
' An' sweep tLe snow banks from yer heart
Jes' w en spring .Jeanin comes aroun
Brins forth the dustir an' the broo n
Cut rake yer foy notions down
. An' sweep yr dusty soul of glo.n.
Bweop 61' idees out with the dust
An' dress yer soul in newer style,
6crape from yer min' its wornout crust
An' dump it in the rubbish pil.
Eweep out the hates that burn au' snare,
Bring in new lovos serene an' purj
Aroun' the herth-stone of the heart
Place modern sty es of furniture.
Clean out yer morril chubby-holes.
Sweep out the dirt, scraps off the scuu;
Tis cleanin' tine for healthy so a s
Git up an' dust: The spring bez co ne.
C 1- sq out the corners of the brain.
Bear down with scrubbm' brush an' soap
An' dump oi' Fear into the rain.
An' du-t a cosy chair for Hop?.
Clean out the brain's deep rubbish hols
Hoak ev'ry cranny great an' saiall,
An' in the front room of the soul
Hang pootier picturs on the w ill.
Scrub up the winders of th minJ,
Clean up, an let the spring bijin;
Swing open wi le the dusty blind
An' lot the April sunshine in.
riant flowers in the soul's front yard.
Set out new shade an' blossom trees,
An' let the soil on froze an' har J
Hprout crocuses of new idees.
Ye?, clean yer house an' clean yar the I,
An clean yer barn in ev'ry part;
Cut brush the cobwebs from yer heal
An' sweep the snow banks from yer heart
-S. Walter Fos in Yankee Biade.
REVENGED.
t.i.
trembling
c v e n i a g star
hanging over tin
green silence of tin
fragrant Tennessei '
woods. V a p o : j
wreathed phantom;
from the river course I
f
I U'1 from the dense thickets that skirtoci
the camp ground cmio ever and aiiot '
the mournful sound of whippoorwills, ;
sounding 'aiut anil low, like tna rcmem- j
be re 1 (.cooes of a lircirn. Yet Wallace
Keeno would have gives well nigh all he !
was worth to exchange its luxuriant
verdure one moment only for the pine
vdad heights and salt winds of Maim, '
T'ith russet winged robins chirping their
familiar madrigals in the apple orchards .
below. I
"Two years ago I left home," niur- '
mmcd . Waliaco Keene as he gazac
thcivghtfully out where the purple ekj
seemed to touch the waving woods
"Two years since young Harney told m
he sever would give Marion to 'a corn- '
moo mechanic,' yet the wound rankles
sharply still." I
"Captain" -:- ' - !
'Is that you, Spicert What now )'
Captain Keene turned his face to ward
the opening of the tent, where Private
Spice r's head was just visible. J
"Why, sir, our fellows have just
brought in that lot o' men that was hurt
in that scrimmage across the river this
morning, and some on 'era Is wounded '
bad." j
. "I will be there directly, Spicer." !
There was a little crowd of men gath- 1
ered on the river shore in the warm '
glow of the spring, but they silontlr
parted right and left for Captain Keene's
tall figure to pass through their midst. 1
Six or seven dusty, bleeding men were
sitting and lying around in various pos
tures, their ghastly brows made still i
paler by the faint, uncertain glimmer of I
the young moon. Keene glanced quickly 1
around, taking in the whole scene lit
that one brief survey.
' lie stopped short as his eye fell on I
new face, half shadowed by the greea
sweep of drooping alders a pale, blood
streaked f.icj with a gaping cut on the
forehead.
"This i3 not one of our men!" ho ex
claimed sharply. "How came he here?''
"Xi sir," exclaimed Spicer, stepping
forward. "I think he belonged to the
Eighth. I'm sure I don't know how he
ever got mixed up wiih our fellows, but
there he was, and I thought we'd bettor
not wait for their ambulance, but bring
b-ira straight here."
Right," briefly pronounced Keene,
stoopi:ig over the insensible figure.
"Lot thcui carry hiai to my tent,
Spicer.''
g your pardou, captain to youi
ten s '
"Didn't you hear what f said?" sharp
ly interrogated the superior officer.
"Bruce, make the others comfortable ic
L'cutenant Ordway's quarters. Then
will be plenty of room lor them there."
'Well, I'm beat!" ejaculated Bplcei
five or ten minutes afterward as ho cair.f
out of the captain's tent scratching Lit
shock of coarse red curls.
Meanwhile the dim light of a lam;!
swinging from the center of the little
tent 6hone full on the singular group
within its circling folds the wounded
privato lying like a corpse", still aud pale,
on the narrow iron bedstead, the youn g
officer leaning over him and supporting
bis head aud the biisk, gray eyed little
surgeon keenly surveying both as he un
folded his case of phials and powders.
4,flc is not dead, doctor?"
"So; but he would have been in an.
other half hour. Your prompt remedits
have saved his life, Captain Keene."
, "Thank Cod! oh, thank God!"
The surgeon looked at Keene in
imazement.
"He doesn't belong to your regiment.
Why arc you to interested in tho easel"
. 'Because, doeto.-," said Keeno, with
i strange, bright smile, "when I saw
him lying under tho aiders, dead, as
thought, I rejoiced in my secret heart.
At Crst only at first. Tho next moment
I rcmcmberc 1 that I was a man and a
Christian. For years I have carried the
spirit of Cain in my breast toward that
man; no.v it is washed out in his
blood." .
' It was high noon of the next day be
fore the wounded man started from a
fevered doze into the faint dawn of con
sciousnc33. -'- ' -'
' "Where am IJ" he faltered, looking
wildly aruund hira, with ai ineffectual
cJort to raise his dizzy head from the
pillsw, . .
hi''ow, b9 easy," eaidPfivate Spicer,
'giZr T was about half ai
-i) jjff hour after sunset, bu
,H r-n orange light stil
.V2? t ry burned above thi
;. tV 1J I lonely southern val
W- '' Uv. The
side. "You're all right, my boy. Where
are you?" Why in the captain's tent,
to be sure, and that's pretty good quar
ters for the rank an 1 file, I shocid
think."
The captain's tentl IIo came I
herel"
"That's just what I cn't tell you
you'll have to ask himsel', I guess. You
ain't any relation to Cvi.ain Keene, be
you?"
'Keene Keene!" repeated the inn.
Because," pursuod Spicer, "If you'd
been bis own brother b ru, he couldn't
have taken better cire of you. Ills
cousin, maybe 1"
"iiot God forgive me, no!" faltered
the wounded man with a low, bitter
groan. :-v-
"Hera he is now," said Spicer, the
familiar accents of his voice falling to a
more respectfully modulated tone as he
rose and saluted his officer. .He's ail
right, captain as clear beaded as a
billl"
'Very well, Sicer; yoj cn gi."
The private obeyed witU aUcrlty.
Yhen they weie alone together in tuo
tent, Wallace Kene came to the Iott
bedside.
"So you're all right, Mr. Harney i" ho
asked kindly.
"Captain Keene," murmured Harney,
shrinking from the sjjliiiug tone as if
it had been a digger's point, "I have
no right to expect this treatment at
your hands."
"Oh, never mind." said the youn
man lightly. "What cm I do to mt'xe
you more comfortable?''
Harney wai silent, bat bis eyes wero
full of the te-irs he fain would driva
back tears of rem rse!ul shame and
he turned his Sashed face a.vay lest the
man he had once s grossly insulted
should see t'.ie-u fall.
Tb.3 next day he a;;ain allude 1 to the
home subjsct.
"Captain Keene, you asked me yej
terday what you could do for me?"
"Yes."
"I want yoj to obtain leive for Miy
to come and nurse me wuea I a n trans
ferred to the hospital."
Captain Keae turned to.vird the sick
man a face win te aai hard m m irble
and said in a strangely a'tcrei vjic j:
"Do you mean your sister?"
'My sister yes."
"Of course, if you wish it, I can ob
tain permission, Harney. But "
"Weill"
Keene's cheek colored, and he bit bu
, up. --v- '
j "I should not suppose she would be
i willing to leave her husband for the
i very uncertain comforts of hospital life."
Harney smiled, looking into his com
panion's face with keen, se itching eye3.
i "May is not married, C.iptain Keene.
S'le hat no such m:cnla;a as a hus
band!" j "Not married !'
"I know what you tuought. une was
engaged and almost married. We had
nearly iaiuciU her to become Lisle
Spencer's wi'e, but she refused on the
very eve of the wealing day."
I Keene had risen and was pacing up
and down the narrow limits of the teat
with feverish haste.
I "Because," went on Harney, "she
1 loved a certain young volunteer whileft
3 about two yeirs ago too well ever
tD become any other man's wife."
j "Harney yoa do not mean to say "
i "I do, though, old fellow, and, what
is more, I meau to say that since I've
b( en lying in this tent my eyes have
been pretty thoroughly opened to my
own absurd folly and impertiae:i;a."
! Captain Keene wrung bit co npinioa's
hand and hurried away, to mistake the
bootjack for the inkjia id au i to on
mit several other no les? insxrmhle ab
surdities. i "I see you'll get nothing written to
day," sighed Harney as he lay watc'imj
Wallace Keene tear up sheet after sheet
of condemned note paper.
I "I shall, though," smiled Wallace,
j ''Only I can't tell exictly which end of
my letter to begin at."
I Captain Keene did write and if he
I inserted a little foreign matter into tho
epistle it didn't matter, for Harney, con
siderate fellow, never asked to see it.
Marion came, and when her brother
wa3 promoted into the convalesceat ward,
and she went hone again, it was only to
lose herself in bo .vers of oriage blos
soms, forests of white satin rib on aal
acres of pearly, shimmering Bilk, shot
with frosty gleams of silvery brocade,
for tho course of true love, after all iu
turn and intricacies, had at length found
, its way into the sunshine and was run
ning smoothly overaanls of gold. Nct
York News.
TTOKDS OF WISDOS
Love Is the unknowable.
If you can be silent keep silent.
Don't"givo heads --lies instead oi" heart
aches. Cbsrity and mney cver a multitude
of sins.
Work taken in proper doses is a good
medicine.
Dividends are the legs investments
walk upon.
There is always something provoking
in amiability.
To be a shining light we must have a
heirt burning.
In order to carve out a fortuie, on:
must be sharp.
If we leave the wolves alone we csne
to bo shepherds.
Welcome is the honey the visiting b;a
finds in the flowers.
Happiness is a result of what we are,
not of what we have.
Love is like religion ; it mast be ac
cepted largely on faith.
To be young is surely the best, if the
most precarious, gift of life.
The highway of virtue is so little fre
quented that collisions are rare.
Laziness grows on people. It bagios
in cobwebs and en Is in Iron chains.
'Tis a grand thing when a man ha
the faculty for precipitating decision.
The truths which have broken th
preacher's heart will break the hearts o'
Lis hearsn.
Avowed work, even when nnconge
nisi, is far lees trying to patience thao
feigned pleasure.
The bore is usually considered a h ru
les creature, or of that class of irrational
bipeds who hurt only the.ne'.vs.
Man only was cisated under the la
of reason ; man only maintains a constant
Opposition to the Uw and reason of era-
MORE VALUABLE THAN GOLD.
torn Drag Coat Jer Their Weight 1
the Tellow SK-tiO.
Some months ago, at an exhibition
of the American Public Health Asso
ciation Id Brooklyn, one manufactur
ing chemist handed in medicines the
total value of which amounted to
some 130, 000. The most costly druu
in the collection was that labeled
'Hom-atroplne hydrobromate, cryst."
In all six pounds of It were contained
in a sln.'le lar, and the price thereof
was U',600, or $2,100 per pouud.
This expensive remedvls an alkaloid,
artificially prepared from atropine, a
preparation of belladonna.
Another costly medicine shown was
an aconite alkaloid in the form of an
amorphous powder, prepared from
aconltum napelius. Three pounds o
this wag valued at $489.50. A three
and one-quarter ounce bottle of
anemonla was priced 9191.45. OI
caffeine there were thirteen different
preparations in small bottles, rang
ing in price from lS to S2i a bot'le. i
A small vial of a tetter wart prepar
ation called chelidomine alkaloid was
marked $S8. locaine is another ex
pensive medicine, four pounds of it
beinx there valued at ?120. A nt;.v
form of cautbaridin crystals wa
priced 31411 a small vial.
A tlfteen-o ince bottle of a prepara
tion of m ir, h tie. called c deine phos
phate, stood for $135. Digitalis
u'ormaine, the creat heart remedy,
costs about 410 per p und. A lUe
ouncj bottle of "true cotoin" sells at
70 an oun -e. The t outh American
lud an anow poison, as prepared in
the form of crvstals acd used as a
medicine in hydrophobia and lockjaw,
costs $35 co ounce. A still more ex
pensive funu of crystals named liyo-.
seine hvdrobroniate, is valued at
tl, IriG. titi per ounce. Certain othei
drucs varied in price all the way fron
$12 to $35 per ounce. j
rapa'ne alkaloid, a vegetable pep '
bin obtained from the juice of the
melon tree in tropical America, sells
tor 4120 a pound. A solvent for dip-
thcric membrane is valued at $14.57 j
an ounce. The calabar bean comes
in for v?ry costly preparations chiefly j
used in di-.e:ises of the eye and lock
jaw. One of the-'c. physostlgmine
alkaloid, is value i at the sum of
$l0f.35 rer ounce. Another prepara-j
tion of the same costs something ovef i
9H13 an ounce. A special form of
nitrate crystal, prepared from the
leaves of the Jarborandi, pilocarpus
pennati folius, and u-ed in consump- '
tion, is priced at i37, ounce value. I
The list might be indefinitely ex- j
tended, for the number of new and
costly drugs is on the dally increase.
It would be hard, indeed, to And the '
d.ugglst who Is familiar with allot
Z , :r
edge on this point the immense phar- '
ruacop'i'ia of the Cnited States must
not only be studied, but those al-o of
Germany and Great Britain, them
selves vast complications of sclentifl'
lally assorted tact.
Out of this great number of rerue.
dies, however, but few are lo actual
use, aod the task of the practical
pharmacist Is. therefore, not so hope
lessly bewildering as it would seem.
To the cost of the d runs he manipu
lates must, moreo' er. be added a cer
tain per centum of the cost of his own
training let alone that of the pre
scribing physician. Tutting all this
and that together, it would seem a
matter of wonder, not that it costs so
much, tut that it costs so little for
tho luxury of being ill. Fittsburgb
Dispatch.
Wonders from ftocky Island.
The ro ky islands of Jersey and
Guernsey are perhaps .the highest
tyres of culture at the present days.
Jersey farmers make $.-;00 an a re
yearly from early potatoes for the
London market; they have more than
one cow to each a er of meadow in
grass, and average $250 to ea-h acre
of the island. Guernsey, with 1,300
souls to each square ra lo, and more
rock than Jersey, has developed
creenhoase culture. The raising ol
hothouse grapes was started 30 years
ago by a few men, and now the island
exports yearly 50 tons of graces.
which bring $215,000 at the low priri
18 rents a pound in winter. I
Kit'-neu garaen unaer glass art
now the rule. Three fourth of an
acre covered w th glass and heated
for three months in the spring yleldi
a ton of tomatoes and 200 pounds ol
beans as first cro in April and May,
to be followed by two crops more dur
ing the summer and autumn. One
nardeaer is employed, with two ass s
t&nts: a small amount of coke is con
sumed with a dollar's worth of gas a
month for a small watering entrlne.
ITInce ICrar otklne wntos that he
saw a quater mile of green peis un
der glass Jo April wbi h has already
vie'ded 3, 00 p(unds of excellent jeas
and were full, as if untouched, and
be also saw potatoes dug from the
ground in Ar 1 at the rate of five
bushels to 21 feet square of ground.
The Immense vineries of Mr. Dash-
ford, in Jersey, cover 13 acres;
cost, ex ellently built, was
a square yard. The whole
is done by 35 men, and
their
2.34
work
1,000
loads of coke and coal heat the whnlr
tor a season.
A well-known writer on agrkulture
states that the money returned from
these 13 acres of irlass greatly ex eeds
those of an English farm of 1,300
vrrcs.
The Snylock Quotation.
A good story is told on ex-Pension
Commissioner Black. Everyone who
knows Black is aware that Lo is one
of the most dignified legal practition
ers lo the West, and that he is also
somewhat enamored of the classl s.
Sot long ago he was attorney II a
usury case at Sprinefleld, 111., and in
his address to the jurv he quoted very
freely from the -Merchant of
enice." and wound up by saying.
that although the plaintiff could de-
2V'nv h J"nd.f ' C,h vV10 10""'
bis bond did not enable him tc go be-
yiLl o; , n a 1
The attorney for the alleged usurer
. , , .
of argument Mr. Black was taking,
and when that gentleman's peroration
was concluded he rose and remarked
with somewhat of a pitying tone that
Brother Black had recently held a
brief in a dresscd-beef case and that :
he bad got the two cases mixed up, i
concluding by assuring the jury that '
there was no liesh in the case at all. '
but only money. A leiral friend of
uilne, whj solemnly assarts Ji was
in court on tne occasion, says tne loot
of disgust on Mr. Wack's face would
have beeu wortha small fortune to
any artist wno couia nave reproduced
it on canvas.
He Wanted to Be Robbed in StjU
A lanky individual in a long nnd
faded brown overcoat dropped into a
restaurant on d earborn street re
cently, took his scat at one of the
tables, placed bis bat on the floor be
side his chair and beckoned to one of
the waiters.
"Have vou got any stewed pun
VI bo asked.
'1 think not replied the waiter.
Got any fried onions?"
"Xa"
"What have you got that a man
tan eat, anyhow?"
'Here's our bill of fare."
"I can't read It without my specs.
and I didn't bring 'em. S'posen' you
was hungry yourself, what'd you
want?"
"Well, here's porterhouse steak,
roast turkey with cranb rry sauce,
veal cutlets, breaded, saddle of veu
sion, minced clams on toast, pork
and beans "
'Tork an' beans? That'll do.
Bring me some pork au' beans and a
cup of sassafras tea, purty stroug."
We haven't any sa-sifras tea.".
'Hain't got no sassafras tea? Whav
kind of a cat in' house are you ruu
uin"? Don't you know everybody ort
to drink sassafras when tho sprin's
comin' on? Kind o' thin's the blood,
like. How much do you charge tor
wrk an' beans?"
"Xwenty-Uvc cents."
The stranger stooped and picked
up his hat, put it. on his head, roso
deliberately, and said to the waiter
'n a tone cf withering rebuke:
"Young man, when I want to git
robbed on pork an' beans I'll go to a
Crst ciass tavern and have it done in
H Ic. Any charge fur the time I've
been settin down here? No? Wall
cood day."
A FIRE FIGHTER.
The Hi f.acimttitlvo Fire Eiigine autl wp-s
It C:tn Uo When at IVurk.
The largest aid most powerful
locomotive st am tire enifl e in the
world s owned by tne City of Hart
ford, Conn., says Ilarptr's Weekly.
Tho name w th which she has bee i
christened, Jumbo, is one to wh h
net dime:. s o s will entitle l.e-.
Over 10 feet high ar.d 17 feet lo u,
she weighs ej tons a:.d c n thrmv
1,300 gallons of water per minut?.
Her boiler contains 3!)1 copper tubes.
This engine, at her lirst trial,
threw throuyh fifty feet oi bos ',
three and one-half inches in diam
eter, a horizontal stream of water a
distance of 448 feet, and threw tv e
streams, each as large as that thrown
by an ordinary Are engine, a distance:
ofoer .'iOO feet. The si :o of t1 i
leviathan is better appreclatea whep
wo think that a common ho::e
draught engine only weighs about
li.ooo pounds and has a ca;acity ot
only 600 or to0 gallons p t minute.
I Too road-driving power of this en
gine Is applied through two endless
chains running over prockct. wheel;
on each of the main rear wheels, per
mitting the e wheels to be driven at
varying speeds when turning corners,
"ine engine may be run either for
ward or backward and can be stopped
inside of fifty feet when running ai
"ull .--peci.
When In the bouse the boiler i
connected with steam pipes from e
heater in the basement and steam Is
always kept up to about ninety-five
po n Is, which would run her about a
quarter of a mile. The firebox i.
ki-pt full of material ready for l'ght
ing and a steel arm under the engine
curries a quantity of waste saturated
with kerosene oil, in close proximity
in a card of matches In a holder un
der a scrathcr, tho latter being at
tached to a cord tied to a ring In the
floor. At an alarm of fire the steam
pipes are disconnected, tho throttle
opened and before the engine has
moved six inches the cord pulls the
scratchcr and the hod carrying te
blazing waste swings around under
the tire-box, igniting the shav
ings and wood.
Cannel coal is burned
and steam enough can be generated
ln lw ml"uKl" t0 run 8 enlae at
Water Proof Masonry.
What was at first considered a
doubtful exierlment. namely, the
use of coal tar as a means of render
ing masonry Impervious to water, es
pecially in positions exposed to di
rect contact with the latter, ha3
proved a tractically valuable resort,
t'sed as a coating for masonry butit
up of very Dorous stone, tar renders
it quit-.: Impervious, even ata depth
of some fifty feet of water, and. ac
cording to the opinion of those whose
experience hns been extensive with
it the article should be utilized in
all public I. u ldings particulariythc.se
ile-Uned forthe preservation of works
ol art. the d's-olving action of water,
even upon mortar of superior quality,
being we I known, and also the un
favorable effect of the exudation ol
water charged with lime salts from
the water. Two methods of using
the tar are named, namely, in a boil
, ing state ln one or several layers,
this being suitable tor surfaces ex
posed to the air; or it may be made
to flame up before using, this Leins
appropriate to surfaces which have tc
, be covered up. It is stated that wt.cn
; boiling coal tar is employed ln three
coats on masonry the result is a Mac's
; and very brilliant varnish, which
' perfectly resists the action of frost,
water, and sun, being likewise abso
lutely impervious; and the tendciic;.
of the black coatlne to absorb beat
maybe overcome by white-dusting
'.ho whole before the tar is ru;te d.y
'
ifitmcAt. ite a.
An English lady who rccantly vlsita 1
America states that on tho voyage sh.-
was one day shocked by seein ' a saipi
offlc kn( down one of the wa
was inclined to mutiny.
80 much dld th "S" X.'8t her that
t, ,fM,j v f. , ,: ,
BUV V UOl IIMbCi '.JL1. till 4 U',
not again appear on dack until Und w.i;
sighted. Then' she perceived at tin
wheel the man who had retired th.
blow. 'How is ymrhead now?"
'West and by nor', mi'atn," was tha
reply. Texas Siftings.
. .. , . " ., . ,
L:lstor 0:1 .l!a3 not w'ei In any cue i
TeulOY0 "arls lo wnica it was aoji;
once a dtj for two wccSu.
5
CURIOUS OLD WEAPON.1
j
OLDEST ITPE OP THE MAGAZINE
ASM IN THE WORLD.
?IaJe in London in 15SO and Fouu I
at Baltimore After the War Its
Itoraantic History,
HE oldest type of magncine gun
in the world is the John Cuck
son, which was made in London
(1 during the last part of the Six
teenth Century. Tho only arm of this
kind in the United States now known to
be in the possession of collectors is held
in Unrtford, Conn., by the :jnuii?ecur,
A. IT. Brooks, and can only be seen by
( the collector's favorites.
I A number of inventors, including
j Lieutenant II. K. White, of the United
I S;u'e3 Navy, have been afforded acccii
i to the arm, which is one of romantic
I interest. The story of iti loss aud re
covery in tne city ot lia:tiinore aunn;
the war is in itself a fascinating one, n .t
to speak of the mystery that surrou.i b-d
it for years prior to the attack on t.iu
Federal troops in 1S6I in the city
lounded in honor of Lord Baltimore.
This ancient gun bears the name and
date "John Cuckson, fecit, London
15-rC." The magazine was calculated
for ten shots and rested at the left of the
breech mechanism. The bullets were
round and were ejected into place simul
taneously with the powder. The use of
a flint lock necessitated a device that
wojld carry the powder into the pau,
where it could be ignited by the spark
from the Eteel. This was accomplished
by a peculiar mechanism that carried
enough powder from the magazine to the
right of the gunatock, from which point
the distribution supplying the basin took
p!ac;v.
The magazine was operated by a lever
on the lelt side of tho stock, which
moved in a semicircle at right angles
with the magazine itself. 'The motion
threw the left hand oat and away from
the gun until the quadrant was com
pleted, when the hand in operation was
driwn back to the butt or stock.
It is nn interesting fact that the ball
adjoiued the powder when loaded, tho
paper wadding that was regarded as in
diaoensible iu the cartridge that was
used for 100 years before the war being
conspicuous by its absence. The car
tridge ot the present data is identical in
principle, with the exception that it i3
elongated and attached to the shell con
taining the powder.
Tho sight, which is perhaps six incae3
from tho muzzle, Is a crescent in form.
The muzzle show3 a plain bore half an
Inch in diameter. The stcck, which is
fiaely preserved, shows raro aad curious
carvings. The heas of the screws even
are embellished with figures of dragon3
and wild animals.
The cost of this old arm must have
been great, as every particle of work
counccio 1 wiiU it niait have beea exe
cuted by hand. Tne gun was so expen
sive in design and workmanship that it
could have been owned at first only by
tho rich and powerful land owner or
military leader of tho timo of its uis -u-facturc.
It is a plausible theory, at
least, that it was brought to America by
one of tho wealthy colonists uuder
Lord Baltimore. While there are no ex
act data at hand at present sustaining
this notion as fuliy as could bo desired,
there is unmistakable reason for ad
hering to it as the only tenable one.
The history of tho gun during the last
thirty years is not destitute ot exciting
features. After the attack on the Union
forces that were marched through Balti
more in April, 1S61, the city was ordered
to be searched by the Government
forces, and arms of every nature were
confiscated by the Provost Guard. These
arms were rendezvoused at a central
point, where they were kept under guard
for four yearj. At the conclusion of hos
tilities, tho residents of Baltimore, from
whom the firms in question had been
taken in loGl, were allowed to recover
them. They were rusty, and the selos
tions were generally of small value.
Strange as it may seem, the old mag
azine gun of tho Sixteenth Century, was
so unprepossessing in the rust and de
filement of its long servitude that no one
cared for It enough to take it homo. In
tho end it was actually thrown away an 1
left to ba carried otf by a ragpicker as
old junk. It was purchased from the
ragpicker for half a dollar and taken to
an old German gunsmith in the city, to
be transformed, if possible from the
flintlock to a modern piece. Weeks af
terward the German gunmaker decided
that the job could not bo done and that
the old gun should have no better fate
tha 3 the junk heap. A second trade
was effected, and the repairer of old
muskets became himself the owner, pay
ing $1.50 forthe privilege.
It occurred to him one day, after
assuming the proprietorship, that ho
would attempt to disassemble the gun.
The process was slow and intricate. Tho
more the man worked, the more he be
came absorbed with interest and do
light. Eleven days were actually spent
in the process. The rust was removed
and the barrel polished to the old surface.
For the first time the gunmaker, as he
deciphered the inscription, began to
understand the treasure that had como
into his hands. It was found to be a
veritable Cuckson, with possibly not a
duplicate on this side of the Atlantic.
So far as known, there is not one in tho
United States.
Mr. Brooks was in negotiations. with
the Baltimore owner for three years at
least, trying to buy the arm. It was
not until within a few months that terms
could be made. A personal visit from
the collector to tho old German gun
smith was the only way that led to suc
cess in the negotiations. A large check
was made payable to the Baltimore dis
coverer before his consent was obtained
to the removal of the ancient weapon to
Connecticut.
The army men and inventors who
have seen the gun have gone into
ecstasies over it, considering it one of
the most interesting mechanisms known
of in gun manufacture. New York
Times.
Epileptic Infancy of Great 3Iei.
Sir Andrew Clark is quoted as saying
at a meeting recently held in London to
promote the fouudingof a colony for ep
ilentics: "It was a singular fact, and hal
been proved by specialists, that a large '
proportion of our great men, from New-
ton to Charles Darwin, were sickly in
their infancy in fact, they had been ep- '
ileptics and yet wheo they had attained
to manhood they were capable of doing
zreat things." Chicago Times.
SELECT SIFTISGS.
The authograph of General Israel Put.
cam sells for $35.
Men with gray aud blue eyes are
( usually better marksmen than those with
I dark eye3. :
' In olden times deformed people were
j frequently thrown in prison to be kept
cut of sight.
A Louisville (Ky.) barber cuts halt
with a razor more artistically than his
rivals with shears.
i Kearly every county in England ha
its favorite oak, the largest of .which is
the Cowthorpe of Yorkshire.
Mcrvin Paje, a colored man of How
I ard County, Missouri, wears a shoe four
! teen inches long and Cvb inches aero;?
I the sole.
A fourteen year-old boy who his bcec
nttending school at Alliance, O'aio, for
the seven years cmnot even Ic.r i
his letters.
j Kouiseau tells of a fricnl who was i
warm advocate of suicide, and at tltt
pto of eighty drowned himself in tii
Ls're of Geneva.
A stranger on the cars neir Lis
i Angeles, Cat., ordered cigars far his fel
I low-passcnsers and, just a3 the weed;
had been lighted, blew out his brains.
A wonderfully good irritation o
maple sugar may be made by fUvoriu:
ordinary brown sugar with aa extract ol
hickory bark. It is eaid to bo almost
indistinguishable from the genuine.
In a recent case in Chicago an expert
testified that tho vaiu? of a corpse i:i
good condition was $12.5. lie said thai
if a man had no use fur a corpse, hi
might not give more than ii or $10.
The Minnesota Historical Society sir;
that the source of tho Mississippi llivc:
is in a partially enclosed basin coutainin -many'ppnds,
lying directly south of Lake
Itasca, and distant from its head three
miles.
Buffalo, N. Y., is the only city in the
United Slates that has given the country
two Presidents Fillmoie aud Cleveland.
Both theso Presidents appoiuted theii
former law partners to the office of Postmaster-General.
The Simplon Tunnel, which is to ru i
from Bieg in Switzerland to Isella ia
Italy, will take from eight to nine years
for its completion. It will be the longest
tunnel in tho world, and will measure
about twelve aud a half miles from en
trance to outlet.
According to tradition the test of
tho ancient Japanese sword was eren
more rigid than that of Saladin's blade.
It was enough for tho latter to cut in
twain at a single blow a down piilo-v
thrown In tho air, but tho Japanese
blade, suspended horizontally beneath a
tree, must sever any leaf that, f a!liur,
should accidentally light upon the edgo
of the blade.
The wil'i'iness of perfor.iri doj'i is
one of the mo3t interesting character is-1
tics of those intelligent animals. So
delighted aro they to play their parts
that they can hardly wait for the cue t
go on. Even the coldblooded grey
hound, usually undemonstrative and siiy,
wags his tail in the pleasant antici i i :i
of an early call to the front. The po ( lies
simply cannot keep still ' a m.a-- it.
They whine and bark for recognition,
and never tire of their own tricks.
Toi, the National Dish or JIaiKuI.
Pol, the great food of the natives of
Hawaii, is made from the taro plant, a
vegetable similar ln size and shap: to a
rutabaga turnip, which is grown iu bcd3
kept constantly submerged in water, a
number of tho beds being termed a taro
patch." Owing to the genial character
of the climate the plant can bo culti
vated throughout the year. It is consid
ered to ba one ot the most nutritious
foods known, and is specially adaptel
for dyspeptics and persons troubled with
stomach disorders.
The process of making poi from the
plant is to first boil it and remove tua
skin, after which it is placed on large
wooden trays and thoroughly pounded
with pestles of stone, small quantities of
water being added from time to time
during the process of maceration. Aa
hour or more of continual pounding is
required, when a substance like dough
results, known as paiat. In preparing
it for the table, the paiai is placed in a
wooden bowl, or calabash, and is al
lowed to stand for a couple of days, un
til fermentation sets in, when it becomes
poi, and tastes, to the unaccustoine I
palate, like sour flour paste; but tha
taro when boiled simply aj a vegetable
is very palatable.
The natives eat poi sitting around a
large calabash and dipping int j it with
their fingers. The dish is known a-,
either one, two or three Anger poi, ac
cording to its consistency. One fiuger
poi is the thickest form in which it is
served, and sufficient of it adheres to
one finger when dipped into It to ad nit,
of its being conveyed to tho mouth. A
thinner form of poi requires the use of
two fingers for the purpose hence two
finger poi ; and yet another, still f url'ier
diluted, cannot bo secured from tho dish
without tho use of three fingers, heaca
its name. Dyspepsia is almost uakuo.vn
among the Kanakas, owing principally,
it is said, to the general use of this sal
utary fooJ. JJemorest.
Hiltlug tho Fanny Bon--.
This most unpleasant sensation is
caused by the violent excitation of the
ulnar nerve duo to a blow on the eli;-.v.
This nerve passe3 down on the inner sido
of the arm, and then, rather inconsid
erately, bends round and enters the fore
arm at the back of the elbow joint.
Any one who has felt his neighbor's
elbow sticking into his ribs knows that
the elbow is remarkably deScicnt in
flesh. The nerve is, therefore, at this
point very near the surface, and has lit
tle to shield it from a blow.
If we are so unfortunate as to give our
elbow a smart tap, we obtain a practi
cal confirmation cf the fact that the ul
nar nerve is the principal sensory nerve
of the forearm and hand. New York
World.
Prayer by Machinery.
Praying by machinery is uied
among the inhabitants of Centra)
Asia. A large hollow cyl'ndcr like a
drum is erected, and within it are in
closed the prayers that any one
may wih to offer written out neatly,
lbe cylinder is then made to rewd .e
by wind or water power, and every
time that it goes around the devotee
imagines it to be equivalent to a
verbal repetition of all the prayers 1'
witalns. . - , . .
BUDGET OF FUN.
nU3IOROTJ3 SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
roof Practical Tiieolo jv Tho Xeo
Caisary Accessories Never ia
; Lack Explained A I'aiu
- iul Subject, Etc., Eto,
It's t'aa littla tiling that telU"
Admge tr'i?, lika uiaay others.
If you don't relieve it well
Ask bi - sister- wita suiatl brothrs.
Life.
THB XECESSAtl? ACCESSORIES.
'How was it that he managed to null
tho wool over your eyjs!"
"Well, he had fleece 1 several fellows
before I met him." Caie.ij Xawi.
Record.
EXPLAINEL
Miss Kiddle j "What makes oau
women look so oK12''
Miss Agie "It's because appearances
aro deceiving, I presume." Detroit
Free Pross.
rRACTICAI. TUEOLOfiV.
Baggs "Dj you tiiuk that a maa
can servo two masters'"
llenpeck "Well, simetim-js; he miy
have a wife and a growa daughter, yoi:
know l" Puck.
Tnnowx in-: hence t uto.vs our.
Merchant (c itching his c'.erk ma'.iiaj
lovo to his dau'utiT during business
hours) "Why, Mr. M iller, want iat'.iU?
Do I pay a salary for this kind of wjri;.' '
Cierk "Xo; I do it gratis
NEVKli IN LCCK.
OM Lady "Just my lue'v!''
Caller "What's wrong 1"
Old Lady "I've just heard of s'x
cures for rheumatism, aal not oa.i of
our family has got it." Ne v Y.ric
cckly.
TIUKU.
Doctor "Will your ladyship p'.o.s
let me hear how you c j'igh."
Countess "I don't feel so incline! at
this moment. (To her runid:) E is;,
just you cough in the sa;n3 way ai I li r-j
been doing ail this morning."
AX EXEU3ETI0 VO'CTII.
Mother (anxiously) "I don't bjlij.-j
that young man who comes to s.-e you
will ever ba abla to make his way ia the
world."
Sweet Girl "O'.i, you do him injus
tice, indeed you do. llo isu't at all
bashful." Good News.
TEET ALL HAD It.
Customer "And this will care mst
any of those tired feelings?"
TJrug Clerk "Yes, ma'am."
t Customer "I'aI Ukw of 1'is .-tru
est sized bottles and try it on then
boarders that's bin refusiu' the pruaa-."
Chicago later-Ocean.
ASOIUEll O.VE3TION" ALT03ETUErt.
President of Booming Western Ojr
p ration "Wo can easily pay our oljii
feationsby filling out blank ordars oa t'ao
treasurer."
: Stockholder (somewhat dubiously)
'Ye3;"but how shall we pay tha pr'r ::
for our blank orders?" I'uck.
A TAIXFUL SUilJiiCr.
Mr. Shortcash "I shall feel grea'-iy
honored if you will accompany ma to
the theatre this evening."
Miss Beauty " Wil i pleasure. Wh it
is tho bill for to-night."
Mr. Shortcash (absently) "About
ton dollais." New York Weekly.
A REAL rillEN'D.
If was making friends with the
licsman.
po
"My good fellow," he 6aid, "you
musti't believa everything you Lear
about me."
"I don't," responded tho ofUc-r. "If I
did I'd run you in." Detroit Frej
Press.
TEitaon.
"Did you ever seo a ghosti"
Once."
'Were you scare 11"
"Was I scared? Was I? My f'lls-j
teeth were in a glass on a table three feet
away from the bad, and they actual iy
rattled so loud thitthey wo'.ie the neigh
bors." Indianapolis Journal.
KETUIEtrriON.
Teacher "Do you know what ret-ii-bu-tion
means?"
Bright Boy "Yes'ui. We Lad that
word las' week."
Teacher "You have a good mem ry.
Now stand up aud give a deSuition."
Bright Boy "W'y, if you play ia th'
dirt, your mamma fills your ears an' noso
an' eyes full of soap." Good News.
A PRESCRIPTION".
"I'm feeling very much ran doTn,"
said tha twenty-sixth spring poet who
had called that day on tho editor. "Could
you recommend anything I coa'.d tke
for it!"
"Yes," said tho editor, wearily, yet
strong enough to ssiza tho opportuaity.
"Take two ounces of prussio a3id or a
twenty years' trip to Central Africa."
Harper's Bazar.
mas raorosES.
Mr. Shortpurso "Whit are yju pay
ing that woman for washing?"
Mrs. S. "A dollar a week."
"Hum! I can get a washing machine
for tea dollars, au I I'll do it."
Mr. Shortpurso (a month later) "How
does that washing machine wori?''
Mrs. S. "Very nicely, but it's rather
expensive."
"Expensive? How?"
The woman makes me hire a boy to
help run it." New York Weekly.
DEEP ATTACHMENT.
Suitor "Respected Ilerr von M.-. r,
yoa must not be surprised at my calling
upon yon in evening dress. The reason
why I have adoptel this gala costume is
a very seriou3 one. I am in lovo with
your daughter, aud have coma to apply
for her hand."
Stern Parent (a millionaire, taken by
surprise) "Bless me, I feel hiialy ho,i
crel. But I have three daughters; which
of them is it you are in love vit'.u'"
Suitor "Whichever you i.j . . 'I:::
von Meier." 3j lanc-tjr Vi
There are few nmendmonts to rewri
tten laws.
NEWS IN BRIEF,
Kentucky is first in tobacco.
Connecticut has 30,000 farmr.
Tied is the Chinese lucky color.
Yeiuce is built on eight i , lands.
Ptkin, China, has 15,000 police.
Tho llo of Man has no pawnshop.
California stands first in gold a-d
grapes.
Tho Union Pacific Railway crosses
nine mountain ranges.
Moio pe )plo dio in spriug than in
any of the other seasons.
Furlong was a furrow-long, or the
length of a plowed furrow.
Brandy is a contraction of the old
Enlih brand wine, burnt.
Kuf-sian farmers bold an average of
twenty-seven acres to each family.
Blankets were invented by Thomas
Bl.inket, who made them in Bristol in
1310.
The blood rose is found only in
Fiuridta in an area five miles iu
diameter.
Wolves have bejn killing sheep at
a great rate in parts of Minnesota not
very remote.
There are HOG savings banks in
Frane.o with depositors to tho number
oi (5,173,0.r4.
Kid gloves aro sewed with otton
thread, as it does not cut the kid as
readily as silk.
Eufuula, Ala., has a curiosity in
the shsipe of a chicken with threo bills
and threo eyes.
There are 1G20 counties in tho
United States named after the Futher
of His country.
In the year 1C20 England coined
tin bbilliugs, each having a stud of
copper set in the centre.
Tho Koman architects used to put
empty jugs in the walls of theatres
to make them more resonant.
So far as can bo discovered, the
first use of nn iron roof was on a buil
dicg erected in Ohio in 1SG8.
Moscow is said to have 170G ''big
bells, " tho smallestof which wei.'ti.s
.1000 pounds, and the largest 413,772.
At tho beginning of tho eishteontfi
century people were hanged in llreut
Britaiu for the illicit manufacture of
salt.
There aro over 0010 person foil
three times a dnv at Dolina-Bagtch
Palaco while the Hultnn of Turkey u.
thtro.
Sinco tho repeal of British naviga
tion laws in lsll) British shippiug h is
iueitnseil seven times taster tiiau tho
yopulution.
IeiMutitichilly manufactured by ths
use of chemical mixtures is not a late
ideii by any moans, tha invention dat
ing back to 17-3.
Pons an I beans cooked in hard wa'er
containing Mine or pvrsnm nil! not
'on ttmirr, irr-enftse lljt'BtJ enlif anctB
burden vegetable cnaeiup.
Tho two highest inhabit d s;iot on
earth i:ro Arevichiury nnd Mnrupatn,
mining camps iu tho Andes. The
former has an elevution of 17.'JjJ
feet.
A rabbit was recently killed near
Jefferson City, .Mo., which bad the
form and features of a rabbit but wus
r-iiptirently wearing tho iskiu of a
Maltose cut.
An nnthority is of the opinion that
the natives of Mashoualand nre ull de
scended from n commercial ieopls
who, some 3i')0 years ug, penetrated
froiii Arnbia.
Tlio wonderful miniature witch of
King Georgo III., which to kept for
vi ars as a curiosity in tho Kensington
Museum, wa3 about tho size of one of
our silver dimes.
Mr. Austin, of Livingston Connty
Missouri, just dead, was seventy-four
years old, never was out of the State,
never was shaved in a barber shop,
never ate in a hotel, and was never ill
nut ill just before bis death.
- -The oldest mathematical book in the
world is called tae "Papyrus Bhind.
It is iu manuscript, of course, and was
wn'.Un bv one Ahmet, an Egyptian,
who lived in the year 2000 B. 6. The
book is now in tho British Mu
seum. Cardinal Mezzofant, the most rc
m arUnble linguist the world has ever
known, is said to have been able to nse
every word of any considnrable impor
tance 'n over I X) different languages,
and to have been nMe to carry on a
conversation in forty-five or fifty
others.
A murderer in Alabama fled the scene
of his crime. Soon after, a man of
the same name and appearance, indued
ing a peculiar tear, was positively
identified ns the murderer, found
guilty and sentenced to death. Bo
fore the fatal ample evidence was
furnished proving that he was at work
in Tennessee at the time cf the murder.
A widow in Vienna, having asked
whether s.he would be allowed to pre
serve tho ashes of her husband in an
urn in her apartment, hns be?n told by
tho Government that this could not bo
permitted. The minister responsible
says the custom, if it became general,
"might lead to strange eccentricity
and superstition.
In tho brave days of Quten Eliza
beth the handkerchief bad a senti
mental as well as useful mission. In
that day liny pqr.nresof linest lawn
finely and delicately wrought and
edged with gold lace, were made
purpo-ely for ladies to give to their
lovers, who wore these tokens neatly
folded in their hats.
Friendship Between a Uorse and a Do?.
A plumber at Xarragansett, R. I., hal
a horsa twenty-sevea years old, whica
was used for carrying around Lis master's
material when that was necessary, but
spent most of its time ia a small pasture.
A fox terrier, also boloniina to tha
plumber, was an Inseparable companion
' of the old horse. ' When the old horse
was harnessed to the cart tho dog was on
guard to seo that nothing was stolen
from the cart. In the pasturo the dog
was always saining around the ho-se and
wa3 never so delighted a3 when the horse
would begin to roll in the gross, which
it often did, apparently to please the
dog, which would jump about ia every
direction and bark for pure Joy. At
night when tha hor3e was put In the
barn tha dog always entered with its
friend and slept on the animal's body.
One day tho neighbors heard the most
dismal howls coming from the putnre,
and found that the old horse had die4.
There was the terrier oa the dead body,
howiiug out its sorrow and misery. Tho
dog remained with the body "until it was
tiuioved for burial. Ne .v York Trlbuae.
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