. P. BCHWEIEU
THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS.
Editor amd
VOL. XL VI I
' MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 25, 1S94.
no: 19.
SPRING.
rb sun has kissed the slumbering buJ
And waked the earth to glory,
& roused from winter's dreary sleep.
As In the fairy story
The prince's kiss awoko the mai l
When ho in slumber found her.
And at the touch the sleeping worM
.Moved, rose and stirred around her
The spring is here. In bush and tree
A "hundred birds are sinking;
The flower-buds swell, and from tno earth
AbunJred shoots are springing,
r
We till the ground, wo plant the sooi
"While balmy winds are blowing.
And pray tioi bless tha harvest Bold.
And prosper all our sowing.
Ena O. Wright, in Outing.
A Washout on Horse-Head
Br frank w. calkins.
EARLY a11 tbe Cl'cck
"Yr fob-i'S'A which arc tributarj
ft t-uuv, lliU II II J' u I
i. Niobrara anl the
North Plaltc Riven
have tiieir sources
amouj the "breaks"
of a high, hregulai
plateau, which lies 1
like a vast, layered- '
edged, widc-tonnud i
nountain across northwcsicrn Wyoiui'jg. I
A network of ditches, gulciits aud I
canons, a labyrinthine tangle of water- 1
ways, slashing the sides and antics of i
the breaks, goes to form the heads o.' j
licsc creeks. I
These numerous and precipitous ma- J
lets produce the dreaded washouts
which, in the season of rains, occasion- I
ally flood the upper valleys of all the !
streams in that region. Those who are 1
acquainted with the country make it a
point to avoid building a habitation of
any kind in the narro.v creek valleys,
and never encamp in them iu
:he season of rains, which come in
April, Slay and June. "
In these mouths occasional violc-u
showers, accompanied by frightful elec
tric displays, occur upon the plate., i,
and the rains which fall in tloods are
poured so suddenly down the dce,,
bard beds of thousands of ditches and
small cauons that their volume reaches
the valley of a creek with all the effect
of a cloud burst.
In 1S7S my uncle wa3 one of a p'lttj
of "tender-footi" who lost half a do.eri
wagons and most of their tiorses a:id
effects, and had three of their numojr
drowned in the valley of Heaver Cr.-ek
where it comes out at Buffalo Gap. .My
uncle lost a riding pony and saddle, a
trunk containing some valuable, his
gun and all bis clothing except that
in which he had lain down.
During the building of the "Blne'l.
II ills Branch" railway, several cimps of
workmon were, overtaken by a fijod in
tho deep, canon-like valley of a short
tributary of tho South Cheyenne. Five
of them perished in tho flood, and their
?amps were completely wrecked.
A few years ago a Swede, namei
Scharf Eergnian, emigrated from Min
nesota to the vicinity of the V. olX.
ranch near the source of Horse-Ilea j
Creek.' He came early in the season,
with his wife, several children and a
bunch of sheep, and built a shack of Cot
tonwood logs about a mile below the
V. 30X. buildings.
The prospective railroad had attrae'eu
many settlers, or "ncsters," as the cow
boys called them.' They were dropping
in and buildings their temporary cabins
all' along 'tho stream, and were already
beginning to break land. The ranch
men at the V. 30X., like all cattlemen,
had a contempt tor agricultural settler?,
whom they regarded as an obstruction
tnd a nuisance.
One day, when the Swede had been it.
his cabin about a month, Gob Nugent
and 'Tex" I never learned Tex's full
or real came two cowboys who were
stopping alone at the ranch, happened to
ride by tho Swede's shack, and iiolcJ
that he had built it upon a flat iu tho
narrow valley, scarcely four feet above j
he level of the creek's ordinary bed. j
Tbe settler was at tho moment up- j
hitching a yoke of oxen from a load of
pine wood which bo had just hauled
down ' from ' the breaks. Three to.v
headed children were climbing up on the
wagon. -
The cow-boys saw at a glance the
perilous situation of his cabin. They
turned their horses' heads and rode dowu
to tho man.
"How d'ye do?" said Tex. -'-'How
do!" answered the Swede, with
a suspicious look on his face.
"Look bycre:" said Tex. "If roi
don't pull your freight out o' that hole,
the next washout '11 drownd you iu'
jour woman au' all them lcetle cof.ou
.ops."
Vat you said I no uuderstan that,'
nswered Bergman.
With some ditliculty Bob Nugent malt,
the man understand that they advised
him to remove his shack and effects to
higher ground, to escape a possible flood.
But Bergman had heard of the u sUkc of
the cattlemen to "nester.V'aud susptded
a wicked design to frighten him oil his
?laim.
"I bees a man," be said stoutly, "i
havo always mint my own becsness. E :t
tcr you mint yours, mcester gattlemans.
stay where I was."
So the cow boys left him, but mailc ur.
their minds to keep an eye open toward j
tbe cabin, at least for the sake of the '
Toman and children.
Only a few days after this a sudder.
storm came up in the night. Bob was
awakened by a terrific clap of thunder,
and a moment later heard tho rain pour
ins; in torrents. He rocc and looked cut ;
the we.tcr was falling in floods, as he
could ice by the constant vivid flashes of
lightning.
Urn thought of the Swede and hu
family, and hurrying to the room where
Test slept, woke him Tex had a repu
tation at the ranch as a sleeper a-iJ
to or three minutes later the two co.v
bo" were dressed aud out iu the storm.
They found the water running ankle
deep down the side hill upon which the
ranch building stood. It wa3 as violent
a storm ns they ha 1 ever known in tint
region. Greatly alarmed for tiie family
of the Swede, they ran to the horse cr
ral, caught two of the poni';?, wl.i:'i
were huddled under a sor;n shed, a id
stopping only to bridle them, rode at a
breakneck speed down the valley.
When they reached the shack iu which
n-rrnvin lived they saw that ta-j be 1 of
tiiccr:cic wr.s nlre-uly !l!!n.l with a tor
rent cf v-'utcr, winch tumbled imu foauied
' - -- it lutioc) in adj
as tney nn o.ieu ..
vance of the swift flood which would
inevitably fill the little val.ey, rolling
down like au avalanche.
The lightning was so incessant a? to
Keep all objects near at hand within plain
view. Bob sprang from his borse and
pounded loudly on the rough door. Soon
it was cautiously opened, and Bergman
thrust out his head.
"Come," shouted Eo'i. "Out o' this
with je, or you'll all bo drowned in your
blankets!"
Bergman looked stolidly out into the
storm.
"You go away viz yourselves," hi
shouted. "You like putty veil get me
out by dis waller, heh? You ko avay!
I neller viil ko, I say you!"
He had allowed the door to open
gradually, and stepped partly out into
storm as ho grev more in earnest, and
wound up in quite a rage, shaking bis
Cst in Bob's face.
lie was a plucky fellow, at least, at
;'ae boys admitted; and - believing that
they were maliciously trying to get him
and his fanily out into the storm for
so:iij purpose, be was determined to
make a bold resistance.
"Vot you goiu' do by uat?" he ex
claimed; for Tex, while tho Swede was
talking, had pressed up close behind Bob
on his pony, and hearing the well-known
roar of the washout, knew that some
thing must be done quickly. ' The pony
which he iode had, as stock ponies often
do, a rope dragging at its neck. Gather
ing this quickly into a coil, Tex swiftly
roado a funning noose, and yelling
sharply to Bob to get out of tho way,
dropped it over the Swede's bead and
shoulders. Then he gave it a sharp
jerk, and started his poay oil at a trot.
Tno thro.v was skilfully mvlo. I:
;aught Bergman about the middle, pin
ioning his arms at his side3. The pony
dragged him a.vay in spite ol his strug
gles and yells.
'Fetch them c Jlt.on-top3 quick, Bob !'
jailed Tex, as he hauled tho struggling
man away toward higher ground.
Bob needed no admonition. As Earg
am was jerked past him be sprang
through the doorway. The womia ha I
I got oat of bed, and stood with a blanket
tbro.vn around her aud a small child ia
her arms. Siie had lighted a small lan
te.n which hung at tho hea l ot their
bunk, and by its light Bob saw three
other children huddled in a frighlenel
j heap upon a bed in another corner.
Bob sho ite 1 lierce'y at the wo:nin ti
' get out with her child aid run for t'ua
I high grouud. She stood as if daz.'J,
staring at him in blank fright. He nushe 1
her toward the door and out into storm.
, Tiicn rushing to the bunk which c n
taine I the children, he caught up two
of them the thirl had crawlel un ler
the bed while he forced its mithor out-
ide and rushe 1 out with them.
The flood had come with the us la.
,na t rush of a washout. The water al
ready enveloped tho shack, which stool
u:on a very slight rise or hillock, anl
lijb fouQ'i hi.uself w ling knsc-dee;
before he c o.iM reich tiie high lanl some
fifty yards away.
i Ho found the woman, thoroughly ;
aroused at last, also waling toward high '
ground, clinging to her little o.ie aul
rilling piieously "O SehaKl Scharf!
Mine born, mine born!' I
i "Come on! come on!'' shouted E b i
wading in ahead of her. "Here's tivo '
o'yer young un, a:i' I'll git t'ot'uern in a '
minute." j
In a few seconds they were upon dr j
grouud, wheio Tx aul Bergman stool, I
j anxiously scanning the n by such light j
, as the electric stor.n furnished, for tiie
, Swede siw the flood now, and the dan
ger, and no longer doubled that Trieu Is 1
i were getting his family out of fearful
; aeri!. j
I Without waiting for a word E1
lioppe 1 his bj.deas the moneat his '
Tict touched grouud, and turned back (
oito the flood. Before he had male a
lt.zen steps, taoug.i, lexs pony was
plunging at his side, splashing water all
over him as the rider shouted in his ear tc
kr.on-if there were a chil l still left in
the sh.tck.
"Yes," shouted Bo; "under the
b'Jnk !"
Only waiting to yell: "Go back! I'llgil
muil Tex dashed pa;t,la;hing his horse
it a plunging gallop thriugh the water.
Tiie flood was above his boot tops in
side the cabin wheu Tex, holding to his
pony's rope, sprang iu at the door. The
child, a boy of seven or eight years, had
emerged fro.n its hiding placa and
crawled back upon tho bed, where it lay
screaming. Tex snatched tho boy, and,
running out, threw him astride the
piny. -v
"ilang on, colton top" ho shouted,
"an' we'll pull ye through I" I
Bat the water was rising an inch n
second, a:id before he could mount In- j
hind the child and get half a doz.'L
yards away from tho shack tho animal's '
feet were swept from uader it by the '
swift cuirent, and horse and riders were
struggling together in tho rolling flood. ,
There was no Mich thing as staying
upon tae pony's ba.:lc, for the water was
not yet deep cnouga to enable the horse ,
to s-.viui, and the creature simply strug
gled, plunge !, and finally rolled clear
aver in the attempt to keep its feet. j
Tex had hard work to save the boy '
from going under. For a time he feared
that both he and the child were done for. i
But by a powerful cUort, he complctily
frjed both the little fellow and himself .
from the animal. j
Then he had to swim for it, burdened '
as he was, iu a swift, tumbling flood
filled with the wash of the breaks. j
Quartering the current as near as hb
could, aud holding the boy under one
cm, he struck out, using the other arm
ind hi3 legs to propel himself. The water
lad now risen so that ho could not touch
Dotto n, and the flood was at raging
height. It roared in hi3 ears, while the
rain descended in torrents upon his
head.
Tiie boy, too nvich frightened to re-
llize anything, clung to him about his
neck with a grip that was almost stran
gling. Jlore than ouct Tex thought
aiiusMf lost, as some sudden moveuii at
plunged hishiad unJerthe surface, anl i
the bov a tigutene I grasp caosea nun
until the water poured dewn his throat.
B'lt each time he managed to right Liia
elf before his lungs were tilled.
Many times as he struggled in tht
water he thanked the good fate which
had givja hi:n plenty of practice ia
swimming in his boyhood.
At last ho dragged the poor, '.rein
uling, half-drownud child out upon dry
land, and had the satisfaction ot do-
liveiing h'.m safely to his clistrossea
parents.
T'-.e family wore lodgel that night at I
:h2 V. 3 'X. Next day it was discovered,
that Ten's poay and oao pIthQjJ3wede'
oxen and a few of his sheep had been
drowned. The shack was swept away,
and only a few of the household goods
were ever recovered.
Bergman was glad enough to get oH sc
cheaply; and it Is needles to add, was
grateful to have bad his family save 1,
sven by violeuce. When he next built
a cabin he made sure to put it beyond
reich of a washout. Youth's Cyn
panion. -
What "Sow lork" Means.
It is a matter of pride and patriotism,
and of education, lor young readers t
think of this of w it is meant by a
rr.;tropolis when they visit Xew Yorx.
That the meaning is impressive is shosvn
by the impulse which brings every one,
old or young, to see the great town. For
every American rishtly feels that ho has
a share in it as he feels that he has a
share in the National capital, Washing
toe; "a knows that his own State ba
contributed to its wealth and talent and
local traits, and that here he has a right
to feel at home. Ho comes to a city
which, as we learn from one authority,
has a wealth "greater than that of tho
entire State of Pennsylvania," and fiva
times greater than Illinois with its world
famous city of Chicago. He learns that
in a spaco not much greater than tijc
London metropolitan district, there are
over 3,C09,OUO of his fellow beings.
Make the suburban circle a little larger,
and l,O'J0,UO3 more will be included; so
that Xew York with its subur'03 is now
tha second among the civic centers ol
Europe and America. In visiting this
metropolis, moreover, with its unique
mixture of nationalities, he sees the peo
ples and customs of the entire civilizoj
world.
Thoughts of this kind probably are no
what chiefly fill the minds of Xew York's
younger visitors. They and I know
very well the sights they chieily coaie to
see, the famous marve's and attractions
of the great town the Brooklyn Bridge,
the Liberty Statute, Trinity Church, tha
Exchanges, the great nc .vspapcr ofli :es,
Cooper Iustitate, Malison square Gar
lea, the parks, Grant's tomb, the tnu
eu H3, motuineats, and places of his
toric interest. They wish to see tho
hipping at the dock9, the huge ocean
e i ners, the yacht fleets; the rich and
brilliant shopping districts je, aul
their Irequenters, lor I am not tho first
to think that the woman of New York,
Trom the fashiouable dames and damsels
:o tho spirited, self reliant shop girl,
whether of native or foreign blood, or
)f the two commingled, have a mora
various beauty, and a stylo and carriage
nore indisputable than can be observe 1
il.-c-.vhere. Wheu I was a boy, Barnu n's
Museum was the place which boys an 1
girls visited without delay. Tuat does
not seem (to me) very long ago; but no
there are scores of places of amusemen'
Tor young aud old, and delights and
wonders far mora confusing and endless
ban those which Christian and Faithful
found in Vanity Fair. B :t ratKor !!
.o catalogue such sights, I shall try to
;onvey some idea of Xew York as a
whole, of its character for gool or bad,
jf what it means now, and what it is to
oe and to mean in the future. E. C
3tclm'.;n in St. Nicholas.
WISE W0UDS.
The eye of faith can see in the dark.
O .k trcjs cannot bo raited iu a Loi
hou:e.
S t.c of the most deadly serpents have
the brightest skins. .
The biggest dollars we see are those
just out of our reach.
The nickel plating docs not give any
power to the engine.
It Is not what we do but what we love
that decides our fate.
Smallpox is not any moro contagious
than a good example.
The man who is always looking for
mud generally finds it.
The emphatic part of our life i3 what
wo do, not what we say.
The shortest cut to wealth is through
the lane of contentment.
The man who chases buboles will bark
his shins sooner or later.
One of the tccts of a fine nature is the
eHect joys and sorrows have upon it.
The man who controls himself makes
unwritten laws for many other people.
Tho man who docs most without a
gool motive, will hava most to regret.
Fill the place you now have more than
full and you will soon havo a better
one.
A quarter in the pocket will buy more
groceries than a dollar somebody owes
you.
If you have no temptation, stop!
Turn around I You aro going the wrong
way.
We are not in a ondition to enjoy
riches uutil we can be happy withc-5
them.
Be definite. When a ships sails for
England it steers for Liverpool, not
Europe. "' ; '
Wo are not always ignorant because
we do not learn, but because wo forger
too much.
People who boast that they never did
iiny harm are generally those who haven't
doue much good. Barn's Horn.
Washington's Last Letter.
What is regarded as "absolutely thu
last" letter penned by Goorge Washing
ton was sold iu Philadelphia, Wednes
day, for 350. The purchaser was the
Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Gjorg W. Childi has what was long
suppose! to bo the last lotter written by
the Father of his Country, a3 it wal
composed six days before his death, bul
the Icttor sold the other day was written
only twenty-four hours before General
Washington's decease. It is dated
"Mouut Vernon, 13ih December, 1733,"
and gives very unromantic directions
about matters conaectol with tho mm
agement of his farm. Detroit Free
Press.
Infirmity.
Mr. Kornblum IIow do you like
"Looking Backward," Miss Wrinkle-?
Miss Wrinkles Of course I am aware
that J am cross-eyed, but I am not
accustomed to having my infirmity.
Mr. Kornblum, made the subje t ol
tonvcrsat'on by strangers. Truth.
Sandwiches made by machinery an
the reU of a labor-saving device jus'
invented.
OUR SOLDIERS OF THE SEA.
THE MASINE3 WHO OA RE.VSr.U
TJNO'tiE SAM'S FLOATING POS TS.
The 'ew Stvle Man-o'-War'a ,'an is
NotJIncnola Sailor Tho "Horse
Matincs."
T 1 VHE United States Marine Corp
If is likely to be increased nu-
j merically by the new Congress.
"5 More of these fighting men are
oecaed for the battleships which are be
ing adderj to the Navy. At present thay
number only about 2000. It is begin
i.;ng to realized that a few more bat
talions of these hardy follows aro
require-! to garrison Uncle Sam's floating
fortresses. A marine is a sea soldier,
highly disciplined, with sea legs and a
sea stomach; atrained gunner and sharp-
I shooter, able and accustomed to do every
toing a sailor does, except going alori.
But goiag aloft is an obsolete practics
on a modern war vessel, which carries
no sails, having only one mast, called the
"military mast," with two tops, whence
rapid-firing guns aro designed to hurl a
shower of projectiles against the enemy.
The new style man-o'-war's man is
rather a soldier and a mechanic than a
sailor. Ho forms an into ral part of a
body of regular troops, housed in an
enormous mass of floating machinery, I
which is lighted and ventilate J. by elec
tricity. Only a few sailors are reaiiy
needed on board such a sh'p, lor handy
work of certain kind". Vessels for coast
defense are best nuiine! wholly by SC4
soldiers. The Naval Reserve now be- (
ing organized and trained as a sort ol
ocean militia, is really a body of marines
' though the men composing it arc drcssc I
in sailors clothes.
Tue idea which they represent is not
at all an economical one, inasmuch a)
they get seamen's wages. Oddly enough,
the pay of sailors is nearly twice what
marines receive. A marine is allowed
only $13 a month during his first term o(
enlistment, whereas a seaman gets $21 a
month, and even a lubberly landsman on
a vessel is worth $15. The reason for
this difference is simply that sailors arj
difficult to get and to keep, so that their
value is higher in tho market.
Thu, it is readily seen that a great
Baving would be made by reducing the
number of seamen in the Navy and in
creasing the force of marines.
Experts arc of the opinion that a war
chip's complement of men should be not
less than three-fourths marines. It is
rather interesting to consider the fact
that tho Srst beginning of a navy for this
country was the raising of two battalions
of such sea soldiers by the Continental
Congress ia 1773. Since then they have
formed part of the company of every
sea-going vessel belonging to the Govern
ment. Forces of them are regularly
stationed at Newport, Boston, Brooklyn
Washington, Norfolk, Sitka in Alaska
and six other places
-w wil --ii uui oauia property
at those points they are being trained to
take the place of other marines who are
doing sea duty on board of ships. Mean
while they are ready to be called on as
regular troops in coso of riot, fire or
other emergencies. IIow useful they are
on such occasions will bo presently
shoxu. Whenever there is trouble at
any port where a United States vessel
may be, a force of marines is landed to
restore order and maintain it, just as was
the case only the other day at Honolulu.
The headquarters of tho Marine Corps
is at Washington. Oilicers assigned to
this branch of tho service on leaving
Annapolis are trained for one year in a
fehool at the barracks hero before join
ing any ship. They are taught how to
make cartridges, port-fires, signal lights
and rockets, learning also how to manu
facture explosives, fuses, torpedoes and
other engines of destruction. They aro
instructed in the art of preparing and
controlling submarine mines, at the same
timo getting an acnuiintance with the
uses of red-hot shot. They aro drilled
in all sorts of tactics, such as have refer
ence to the crossing of rivera and thread
ing of defiles in tho prosenco of tho
enemy, as well as night attacks.
They find out how to build walls witl
loop-holes, and acquire a knowledge of
the methods by which the bundles of
sticks called fascines and gabions are put
together and built in with embankments
of earth to give the latter solidity. Be
sides all this they bear lectures and pass
examinations on first aids to tho injured,
comprising tho treatment of tho gunshot
wounds, frost bites, poisoned Vounds,
fractures, and tho restoration of persons
partly drowned. -
Perhaps tho most p'cturesque feature
of tho corps is the Marino Band. This
band is considcrel in a manner to belong
to tho President of tho United States. It
is always at his disposal, so that tho finest
music is at bis command wnoncver he
cares to listen to it. At White nouse
receptions it is ca hand with its most
melodious strains. Every member of it
must enlist in the ordinary way and serve
five years as a private at $13 a tnoatb,
after n-hich he may bo promoted through
the grades of first, second and third-clasr
musician.
Mr. Sousa, who ha3 mado his reputa
lion as leader of this musical organisa
tion, was himself a child of the Marine
Band. His father was a member of It,
and bo himself was trained in it as a
small boy. . Twenty-five drummers aai
buglers temporarily attached to the baud
are always in training at tho barrack'
hero. They are boys enlisted at tho age
ot fourteen to sixteen, and they serve by
rnlistment up to twenty-one, when thsy
are assigned to ships. It is their duty
In the service to sound tho calls to
quarters in the morning, for hoisting or
pulling down the flags, etc., whether on
shore or oa board.
Durinj the cholera scare of last sum
ffler the marines encamped at Sandy
Hook kept guard over the people who
wcrjj landed from the infected vessels
tad prevented them from getting away
to spread the plague. Fifty of them
were sent from Washington. Within
foity minutes from the receipt of a tele
gram calling for them they had started
by train from the Navy Yard. Durina
the frightful burricano at Samoa, which
eost the United States Navy so dear,
United States marines took charge of
die town of Apia and held control there
antil all danger of trouble between the
Germans and Americans was over.
There are actually horse marines in
the service of tho United Status, but
these are merely those officers who are
entitled to ride. If they go on ship
board they do not take their horses
with . them. Majors, Lieutenant-Colonels"
and Colonels in' the corps have
lorses
It U a matter ohSstoij that ymaa
named. Hannah BaeUiauaht fot!lnz
time in the ran'is of the Roya" British
Marines. Sho was wounded twelva
times in various actions, and was finally
discharged hoaorably, her sex being un
discovered. Marines aro a very ancicnl
institution. Such sea soldiers were
regularly emplcyed on war ships by the
Greeks aad Phce licians five centuries be
fore Christ. They did the fightinj
while the sailors mauaged the vessels.
X v York Advertiser.
SELECT SIFTIN'GS.
Ostrich farming thrives in California
Norway usc3 a wooden church built ii
Jie Eleventh Century.
An Emporia (Kan.) elocutionist ha
memorized 200,000 verses.
Chain and cable suspension bridgci
antedate the Christian Era.
Tho New An!o aqueduct at Ko.no
Italy, was 3ix:y-three miles long.
A Frenchman has wrhteu a volume o'
200 pages to sho that oysters rest thi
brain.
Out of the standing timber in the
State of Washington 41,3 JO, 003 cotfagei
could be erected.
In 1C21 a factory was operated neai
Jdine3towo, Va., which made ghis.'
beads for the Indians.
The bronzo cents of tho year 1S7
havo become so scarce that coin dealer
pay a premium oa them.
Allie, Elihu and Elidi l Frank, thro
brothers who live at Castle Hill, Me.
ire said to aver-ago seven feet in he'ght
Tula sisters, Mrs. Ackermtn and Mrs.
Chrutiaa, of Glen Ellyn, near Cuicago,
recently celebrate! their ninety-firs'
birthday.
Mr. anl Mrs. David Wells, of Nortt
Coventry, 1'enn., have been tnirrieJ
lor sixty-three years. They claim to be
he oldest marriel couple in the Slate.
The Golconda mines are now cx
hausted. At one time 63,000 men were
e-nploycd m'them. When the Sultan
Mahmoud, who reigncl 1171-120(3,
died, ho left in his treasury over 10U
tioun is weight of goms from Golconda.
One day recently the wife of a Floyd
County (Gaorgia) farmer presented him
with twin babies. At tho saoac time,
according to tho run of the story, twa
goats owned by tho farmer gave birth to
two kids each, and aso.v produce 1 a lit- L
r of seven pigs.
The "Sforza Missal," which Fra Lippo
Lippi, a great Florentin j artist, prepared
for G. M. Sforza, Duke of Milan, in the
Fifteenth Century, is probably the most
valuable manuscript in this country. It
is in the possession of J. J. Astor, whe
paid $15,5 )3 for it.
Thomas Allen, who scrval uudoi
Wellinatin iu tho war with Napoleon,
and under G.-neral Scott m the Mexican
War, and who enlit-J- tuo ge ol
seventy -two lor ssrnco in me oiva ar.
I. tii! K.ind t u ago or lo. rnrs, in
Tyler County, West Virginia.
Various kiuds of vegetables are culti
vated by tho people of Madagascar and
with comparatively littlo labor. Rict
forma the staple article of consumption,
wh'le manioc, the sweet potato, yams,
arum, beans and earth nuts arc aoiong
the articles cultivate 1 to increaso and
vary the food supply.
The Woodford (Ky.) Sua tells of a
wooden legged cat that flourishes as a
famous rat killer in Wooiford County,
clubbing the rats to death with its arti
ficial limb. Tho kitten was bora with
or.ly threo legs, but P.it McGrath had
tho wooden leg fitted to tba stump
where tho fourth one should have becu.
Thunder Storai in a Zanzibar Forest.
"The most glittering spectacle that I
ever witnessed," said Myroa -Hunter,
who is at tho Laclede, "occurred iu
Zanzibar whilo I tarried with Company
E of the Holstcin Guards, which, with a
number of other companies, was sta
tioned there by the German Government.
I was not in the German army, but I
accompanied them on friendly term,
sketching for himself. Zanzibar furn
ishes ' somo of the finest specimens of
tropical foliage and plant life that on?
can imagine.
"The willow tree of that country is
really beautiful. Ono aftcraoon, whilo
out sketching, I was caught in a true
African thunder storm. Lots of thunder
and lightning, but little rain. The
rainfall was sufficient, however, to cover
a neighboring willow with myiials of
drops,' which, when a littlo later the sua
fhone I out, reflected its rays in evcr
shaoging colors. But beforo this the
tree was struck by lightning. Not
enough to destroy it, but sufficient cur
rent to spread from limb to limb and
leaf to leaf, entering into every crystal
drop that swayed with the wind tos?ed
leaves.
"The effect was marvelous. The rich
green of the leaves set off the gorgeous
gems that glittered and sparkled richer
than any diamond set in gold. It was
but for an instant, but that instant wss
sufficient to give one an idea what an
Edea or a Hesperides might look like.
Wheu such things occur ia the land of
the sun, do you wonder that the Arabian
literature abounds in rich fancy and
gorgeous descriptions!" St. Louis
GIooc-Democrat.
How Bapldly We Think.
Ilelmholz showed that a wave ol
thought would require about a minute to
travel a mile of nerve, and Hersch found
that a touch on the face was recognized
by the brain and responded to by a
manual signal in the seventh of a second.
He also found thit the speed of sense
differed for different organs, the sense of
hearing being responded to la the sixth
of a second, while that of sight require 1'
one-fifth of a second to be felt and sig
naled. Ia all tnesa cases tho distance
traversed was about the same, so the in
ference is that images travel more slowly
than sound or touch. It still remained,
however, to show the portion of this
interval taken up by tbe action of tho
brain. j
Professor Donders, by very delicate
apparatus, has domonitnted this to be
about seventy-five thousandths of a '
second. Of tho whole interval forty
thousandths are occupied in the simp .
act of recognition and thirty-tivj
thousandths for the act of willing response.-
Detroit Free Picsj.
Ono thousand eight hundred and fifty
x)wns and cities in the United States are
equiprtd.with electric lights.
Woe tQ that land where tijc wijisky
business la considered respecUbi&
w
A SONd OF THREE VOICES.
V.
Wtvo and wind and willow tree i
Speak a speech that no man knowetb;
Tree that sigbeth. wind that bloweth.
Wave that bloweth to the sea.
Wave and wind and willow tree.
Peerless perfect poets ye.
Singing songs all songs excelling'.
Fine as crystal music dwelling;
Ia a welling fountain free, , '
Peerless perfect poets three.
Wind and wave anl willow tree,
Enow not aujat of poet's rhyming.
Vet they make a silver chiming
Sunward climbing minstrelsy.
Soother than all songs that be.
Blows the winl it knows not why.
Flows the wave it knows not whither.
And the willow swayeth hither, .-
Swayeth thither witlessly, .f'x"
Nothing knowing save to sigh.' -
William Watson,
PITH AND POINT.
Always on top The sky.
A rash affair Scarlet fever.
A summer reflection A shadow.
A trial balance The judge's charge.
A slaughter pea The critic's pencil.
A bone of contention The jawbone.
A turkey gobbler The average sraail
boy.
Timo out of mind Delirious inter
nals. Depends on the whether The engage
ment. With tho lawyer, cases alter circum
stances. A friend in need is a friend indeed.
But a friend. ixideeJ. Ls never iu nd.
Truth.
The outcome of a courtship nowadays
is largely a question of income. Eluaira
Gazette.
It appears to us that these meetings
between debtors and creditors are largely
over dun.
A lady describing an ill-natured mai
says, "he never smiles but he feels
ashamed of it."
The Astor baby has a $1003 cradle.
It will take lots of "rocks" to keep that
going. Yonkers Statesman.
"Did you get that bald head of yours
from your father, Brown?" "No; my
father never had but one bald heal and
he's got that yet." Pharmaceutical Era.
What makes you wait for the change
before you select your gloves?" 'Be
cause there may be some new style be
fore it gets back." Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Uo looks down on tenament dwellers
With a vision full of gloom;
Cut 'tis not with pride or scorn on his si la
For his is an attic room.
Truth.
"Your behavior it most singular, sir,n
said a young lady to a gentleman who
had just stolen a kiss. "If this is all,"
said he, "I will soon make it plural.''
Mercury.
Young Man "I wish your opinion,
sir, as to whether your daughter would
make me a good wile)" La wyer "No,
sir. She would not. Five dollars,
please." Boston Bulletin.
Brown "The facial features plainly
indicate character and disposition. In
selecting your wife were you governed
by her chin?" Jones "No, but I have
been ever since I married."
"I wish I was one of my jokes,"
groaned the humorist, as ho picked
himself up from the slippery sidewalk.
"Whenever they fall flat no one laughs
at them." Indianapolis Journal.
"I want,", said the astronomer, "a
inscription for my new telescope whic'i
shall bo in the nature of an address t
the stars." "How would Here"s look
ing at you' do?" Buffalo Express.
The fat man is not a sincere belicvei
ia the ideas of the greatest good to the
greatest number. - If he were bo would
be the first to give up his seat when
ladies aro standing ia a horse car.
Washiajtan Star.
Life greatly resembles a basket of apples
You'll lluJ, if to think for a moment yoa
stop:
The smaller ones are all far down in the
bottom.
And the big fellows congregate up at tht
top.
Defiauea Xewa.
"What means this coolness betweet
Jonson Joanes is there a difference be
between them?" "Difference? I should
say so I As much difference as there is
between a gentleman and a donkey."
"il'm I But which is the gentleman and
which tho donkey?" "Well, it is just
there where they differ." Boston Trau
ocrint. v
IIow Mirrors Are Mad.
Mercury is prepared for application to
-lirrors by being melted simply, and it
is applied to tho glass in the following
way: A stone tabic, which is arranged
so that it can be inclined to one side by
means of a screw beneath it, is carefully
laid over, while it is level, with tin foil.
A strip of glass is then placed on each of
three sides of the foil and melted quick
silver is poured upon it to the depth of
nearly one-quarter of an inch. As thero
is a chemical affinity between the quick
silver and tin foil, the latter does not
flow off. Then tbe plate of glass, which
has been carefully polished beforehand
and is absolutely spcckless, is slid from
the open side upon the melted mercury.
When it is exactly in its place it is held
until one edge of the table has been
raised, and through a groove on one side
the superfluous mercury is slowly ru i
off. Then the table is placed baclt a;ga;a
on a level, weights are put oa tho glas,
and it i3 left for several hours. It u
then turned over on a fr'ame, the side
covered with foil and quicksiUer tein
uppermost. As this coating is very
easily injured at first, the mirror hi3 to
stand for several weeks to thoroughly
harden. Sometimes mirrors are made by
coating glass with silver, platinum and
aluminum, but tho finest plate-glass mir
rors aro made with the quicksilver coat
ing and tin foil, a process which was
invented in the Sixteenth Century by
the Venetians. Chicago Ialer-Oeeau.
fll ISatlve Elemrut.
Kitty Tom U down South, this
winter, and he has just sont nie the
loveliest littlo alligator you ever suw.
Ada IIow are you oing to kej)
him? Kitty I don't know, but I've
lu him in Florida water until 1
hear from Tom. Exchange.
Greek
mirrors,
hottlcs.
ladies had strcl n'.i.l
parasols, fans and f:
lla
ACROSS BROOKLYN BRIDGE
A TB2MSSEOU3 RUSrT ON ETI.iS
People Homewaril Eoiintl Form t
ilu mail Torrent on tho Xeiv Vii-s
Side A Wondertnl tcene.
J
UST a; a summer rain berins with
big drops out of a half clear sky,
go the rush to Brooklyn sets ic
around the New York end of th
East
reni
River bridge on every work-dai
ng. 1 he gaping maw of the brulert
lias been at work lz ly during the after
noon sudsing in a few stragglers m l
r wing out little sqails -f foli Iron
tiie trains that run beoi:i 1 ir. B:it w :ea
live o'clock comes the !ioos of t'.e a--r
i-ching te.npest of hu o I'iity that is to
tirm the plve like rcv!unnnr mVi
urr.tinct a BistiUe legi: t a,eir m
Printing-house ?q:me. I' .ey c.vne i'-iler,
an I run together iu 1 t:le rivulets u
Pari Row, down Chathan s're -t, s'oo ;
Centre street, aul across toe Cty ila.l
Par'c all turned one way, all stre.i uin :
toward the bridge. Even t'len tl;ei
;ivo no warning of what is to come, ex
cept to those .10 kiiow that the torr;nt
is as certain to develop- anl us sure to
beeome tremendous as that tid ii bore
which daily swells the Sigueuay with its
overwhelming Hood.
The black drops come footer and
thicker. They splash iu sudden numbers
from the near-by ollke buildings an j the
horse cars. The little strv .ins uo.v
lengthen out, and fro:.i far up and do.vu
the streets and across the park iu Broad
way. It is 5 o'cloc'c, aud the oiiiees in
tho buildings that hold villagefuls are
closiDg. It i3 no longer a spriuklc.
It is a shower. Farther and farther
away the human drops miDgle; bigget
lrox the converging streams. At half
past five tho wholesale stores and the
warehouses are closing. It is a torrent
r.ow. At six the factories aad the work
shops thrust a myriad toilers upon the
streets. The very clouds of tne city's
humanity appear to havo gathered over
one spot. The usual contiues no longer
hold the two-legged drops which now
jostle one another off the sidewalks, into
tho gutters, out upon the road way 3, all
over the park's asuhaltum. The outlook
from the upper stories of the neighbor
hood is upoa a sja of people, iu droves
like wild cattle, co.nin; up as if out of
the earth from every direction, pushing,
hurrying, covering every open spaco like
locusts. Now it is a pelting rain. Half
an hour pas e3, au 1 tiie elevated train',
which come like bre.itai lg, absorb half
the crowd so fa-t that tiie station stairs
become a3 the beds of inverted cataracts
up which tha d irk torreut climbs ret
lesslv. '1 ho hoive M f j:n both direc
tions stop nn-J discharge people as guns
are whce'J ' uPi ircd, aad dragged
wy on a battlefield. It is a cloudburst,
and it has made a mill race something
far bigger than that the swollen drain
of a human freshet.
Thirty thousand men, women and
children are in the torrent, thirty thou
sand pe Jestriaas in a ninety-minute down
pour; for though the ruh is between
tivc o'clock and seven, it is thinned at
both euds, and tho bulk of it is com
pressed iu a period of between sixty and
ninety minute3. This is not counting
the almost equal numbers that eeck the
elevated cars. The surging black waves,
white-capped with human faces, hurl
themselves against the gruuite steps that
lead to the yawning iron throat of the
bridge and sprea I over them. There is
no more sign of individual motion than
there is in tho herds of sheep that one
loo'is down upon fro.n the Colorado
Mountains when the droves are moving
along the valleys like floating brown isl
ands, as clouds move against the sky.
Overhead on a trestle that crosses from
the City Hall Park, another black cur
rent, from the steam-cars, kecp3 pace
nilh tiie tide belo.v. In that way the
exodus to Brooklyn moves over every
thing ahead of it, as if, were the bridge
to fall, the people would still keep
straight on, filling the river, and press
ing forward upon the undermost boiies.
We read about tho E.iropeau capitals,
treated with the skill of artists, clothed
with tho glamour of tradition, ami col
ored by the fancy that grows richer
with the distance of its subject. But
what has London to show like that
daily congestion at the Brooklyn Bridge?
What crowds in Pari? are to be meas
ure I with this: What E iropean city has
even one of the many straage conditions
that produce this scene' Here come tho
elevate 1 railwajs that carry three
quarters of a million souls a day, the
surface vehicles of the million and six
hundred thousand people of Manhattan,
the streets leading from the densest pop
ulation ia America, all meeting in one
little square, all pouring out people, and
all tho people streaming into a great
trumpetlike mouth of iron in order to
be shot across a hanging cobweb of
metal threads' iuto a city that has not its
mate or counterpart on earth Brooklyn !
It is like a city in some things. It is a
vast aggregation of homes and Etreets
and shops, with a government of its
own. Yet many things it has not got
thiags with which many a little town
could put it to the blush. And every
other city earns its own way, while
Brooklyn works for New York, and
and is paid off like a shop-girl on Satur
day nights.
"Stop shoving sol" "Lookout who
you're pushing l" "Don't try to run over
me, I say." These aro notes from the
chorus of the solid mass of persons that
crowd up the stairs to the bridge cars.
Oa tho upper platform the train sweep
away regiments at a time. Burly bridge
policemen are there urging every one
forward, and at times until tho news
papers cry out, periodically putting
their hands on their betters and wedging
them into the cars, through three doors
at once, as revolvers are charged. There
are fourteen other ways to Brooklyn, all
by ferry-boats, and at the time of which
I write all these are crowded. They are not
mobbed like the bridge, to be sure, but
tucy are packed with people so that you
can only see the rims of the decks 03 you
see the edgo of a grocer's measure ;that
has been filled wuu pe.isc. ...v tan
birr bridge hurt tho business of the fetry
companies, but after a while it built up
a surplus and paid them back, just as
our elevated roads in time increased the
traffic of the horse-cars. In a word,
then, everything that is going to Brook
lyn at nightfall is crowded. That is
even true of tho drays which start empty
for tbe bridge that carries forty-one mil
lions cf p&ssengers in a year, and for
the fen ies, one company of which col
lects thirty-six millions of fares annu
ally. Harper s Macrazine.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Franc j has the largest national
debt
Our wool crop
is 3Gl,loG,rCC
pounds.
Underground photography is ad
vaucii'g. Loud nhasabont 178 ra'uy day:
in a j ear.
For tho will and not tho gift makes
thj giver.
Home wish they did; but no man
disbelieves.
Ia China the rollin ; of tea leaves is
done by band.
Caund i forbids the adulte'aliou of
cheese and funada is light.
It wou'd tuke a snail exactly four
t jan. day, fivo hours to travel a'ruilo.
When a man dies in France the first
I i 1 that must bo paid is thu doctor's.
- In Berlin tho police surest p ople
who play tho riano after 10 o'clock at
night.
IVkin, China, is surro .nded by a
wnll fifty feet hi h and forty feet
thick.
The miucs tributary to Butte Citv,
Montana, have an output of Sg.H.OOO.OOU
a vear.
On tho plains of Mature there is an
oak under which legend says Abraham
rest.'d.
In her hilf century's reign, Qvteon
Victoria has worn her crown but twenty
times.
Tho diamond mines of Brazil have
yielded over 15,01)0,000 carats of
stones.
The United .-'tatia uses nearly oi e
hulf of ho quiuiuo pro 'need in the
wot Id.
I h ; bet i mtra'il.s found in the
I'n.t -d States co ue from .North Curo
hu .
Lea' txecutii ns iu MLx'coare by
s". ootiug i nd take place iu thj pr'si u
yard
In lo( Francis I. gave his Queen
the oqniviilent of ijtlG.Oui) cf our nio cy
to buy her a bat.
China is lb most ancient limplre
i l the world aud c ntaius ono Cftu of
tho h' limn tuco.
--'1 be first lnv degrie s bcluvel to
bavo liren conferred In- the Uuivcmily
of Paris iu lil t.
The in i - i:uuru n c iixid for marriage
in Spa ta wa.s thi ty for a man aud
twenty for a woman.
C'riiciiixioii is tlio method ot Fucri
fiee ndo.itcd iu tho Benin country on
tho west coast of Africa.
In Hie days tf liome'a greatness
mnnv of the rvnitors had income as
large ns ?'iO,000 h ' car.
In fouiten States and Territories
of the Union nuirri igo between iint cou
sins is forbidden by law.
In the Royal Aquarium of St. Fo
tcrsb'irg, Rome, are tish which have been
on exhibition for 150 years.
Theophilus Bland, of Titt County,
North Carolina, has Ktven sons each of
whom weighs over 203 founds.
Hiirty-two Vings and princes have
born t'.e name Albeit. It is of Anglo
Saxon derivation, and n-eans, "all
b ight.
The Suez Canal ia eighty-eight
milcR long nnd reduces tho distance
from Kngland to India nearly 4009 miles
lor slips.
At SalUburg, Austria, a man was
kept prisoner ia n cellar for filtccn
yeais, during which ho never Haw
a bin an face.
Athcrstone possesses the largest jug
in the world. It was made fifty years
no, holds 150 quarts, nud is ko largo
that u man can btnnd inmd of it.
Fa-mcrs along the Cornish coast in
Iiiigbiml, aro iiting Kia Fund us lx-dditig
fir cuttle in place of straw, which the
late draught has rendered bo expensive.
Oue of t ls most thoroughly origi
nal works iu English is "Bedlam," a
iilay in twenty-five acts. It was written
y Nat Lee when confined ia a mad
house. A cottoa vest made from a piece of
el.- th woven 111 years ago is owned by
John B. Perry, of Dawson, Oa. The
cotton was woven by Mr, Ferry's great
grandfather. The public library of Ensthanipton,
Mass., has been presented with a wed
ding dress over 103 years old. Tho
Rarmeut ia of "changeable silk" uu.l
weighs k-ss than eight ounces.
Yyniicio Garcia, of Buena Vista,
Ca'., is 11: years of age, as is hliow n
by iucoutestiblo records. He is erect
nud strong nnd has the full use of bis
fae-ilties He settled iu Los Angeles iu
1 L5.
In a Scotch asylu n there is a wo
men whoso one form of insanity beforo
she was incarcerate I consisted of haviug
her horses' shoes of Solid gold with f? ld
laiiN, eiieh Fct ( f fchocs and nni s cos
ting 5 0.
One of the most famous mountains -in
a very mountainous country is
'J'h' r'hiilten in Norway. From one
tide of this big natural elevation to the
ot'ier there isn frreat hole a sort .f
tunnel, provided by nature
Rome was supplied from twenty-four
large aqueducts, which brought .r(l,
( 0 1,000 cubic feet of water daily into
the citv.
j What Is Pride?
1 "Father," sail his son, looking
up from a took, "what is pridel-"'
j "Pride," returned the father.
"Pride! Why a oh, surely you
! known what pride is. A sort of be
ing stuck up a kind of well, j roud,
' you know. Just get the dictionary;
that's the thinir to tell you exactly
what it is. There's nothing like a
dictionary, Johnny."
i ' Here ii is," said tho latter, after
an exhausting search. " 'Pride,
bc-
ing proud.' "
Lui yes, that's it," replied
tho
iamer.
"Hut "J
"Well, look at 'proud.' That's tho
way you've got to hunt these things
out. my lad."
"I've trot it," answered Johnny.
" 'J'rc-pri-pro' why "
"What does It say-"
" 'Proud, having pride.' "
"Thai's it. There you are, clear
as day. I tell you, Johnny, there Is
uotl.ii'g like a good dictionary when
you are young. Take care of the
bludiuK, ray son, as you put it back."
Amuaing Journal.-