F. 8QHWEIEK, THE OONBTITUTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor amd VOL. XLVIH MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. MAY 9. 1894 NO. 21. THE FATIEN T SEASOrt low patiently the seasons bide their time I No murmur from tha bal that month ago Was ready, where the earth inclined, 'to blow; rhe birds are happy in their chosen bom?. So doubt there are commuuinss'neath the snow. And some bright eyes thstt n?vjr close iu sleep. And some sharp ears that listen well aad keep Sweet hope alive in little hearts below. Toon let the winter wear itself away. Borne thither ou the breast of freighted rills; A dream of spring has touAel the con stant hills, 4nd made the valleys patient of delay. Mary A. Meson, iu Youth's Companion. THE OLD WELL SAVE EP. Hi- IIELE2J FOItRUST GRAVES. OU ain't goin' to ta'e that well sweep, away, J o t h a m t li e well sweep tLat was there wheu I was a babyt Don't do it, Jotbaui don't!" Squire Sec gick bickoned to his son to lay down the iriliftej axe. Mrs. Scdgick stood in the doorway, with h fat, old-fashioned tuaibler and a glass-towel iu her hand. Ellen, the d. u:Lter, pained in the net of tying up an obstreperous young honey suckle shoot; and old Grand-ir Scdgick, leaning on his stall, with his gray hairs blowing in the froii spriug wind, look ing not unlike one of the ancient Diulds. "Why, father, we didn't know you'd cire," said the squire. "It's a i!cl;ct old tiling, anyhow " "Well, so'ra I a rie'eety old thing!'' quavered the octogenarian. '-Bat ju wouldn't go at me with an nxo ami a mallet, wruld you? I ued to draw water with that well sweep afore I stood as 'jigh as the curb." "Well, well," soothingly uttered fit, squire, "if you've any feeliu about it, it shan't be touched! Only, Eer.c:the pines have been laid from the spring ,i: on . "ravin Hill, Eunice, she thought " "I don't keer what Eunice thinks!'' slid Grandsir Scdgick. "The pipes from Savin Spring ain't nothin to me. I'd ruthcr hw a glass o' clear water fromthu old well thau all the springs in crca ion I" 'So you shall, father so you shall l' said Mrs. Scdgick, picking up the knotted cano which the old man had dropped, and tenderly t;ui ling his foot steps back to the cushioned chair ou the porch, Ii;t!i he had just left. I3ut Ellen tossed ber much be-cri;npce head. "It's the only well sweep left in Kon dal,"muttcred she. "Horrid old fashioned thing! Everybody calls our horue 'the place with the well sweep. It's toj bad!" "Hush, dear!" said Mrs. Scdgick. "Grandsir's a very old man, and he's never got over the shock of Dora's run ning away." Deaf though he was, the old man's ear caught a word here and there, when it was least expected that he would, lie looked quickly around. "Dora," be repeated "little Dora. My son Adam's daughter, with the black eyes and the real Scdgick features! There ain't but a few things that I care for left in this world, aud Dora was one of 'cm. What have you done with Adam's orphen gal eh, Eunice? The gal that hadn't no one but me to loot fter her?'' A distressed iook crept over Mrs. Ecdgick's kindly face. She hesitated visibly. "It wasn't our fault, lather," said she. "Dora was always a restless child, and she somehow couldn't 6eein to be con tented in tliia quiet place." The old man fhoolt bis leonine whit head. - "I dunno nothin' about that," said he. "All I know is I miss little Dora, and I want her. Jotham," turning ab ruptly to his stulwart son, where" Dora?" "I don't know any more than you do, father," said the squire, leaning up against the porch pillar, and saying to v, ifc in a loner tone: "What lias eet him oil thiukia' ot Dora iust now?" "Tuinkin'! Ain't I always thinkin' of her?" piped up the old man. "Adam's gal, that was loft to U3 to take Caro of; and Adam was always the best of the family ! You nagged her, and you wor ritca of her, and she was too higtt spcrilcd to stand it, and now she's gone, an' you cay you dou't know nothin' about it. Eh" and his voice grew thriller "that was what Cain said, ruiud you, when the Lord asked him where Ids brother was ! That's why I set here on the porch, where I can see half a mile down the read, to get a sight of Adam's gal, Dora, comin' back where she be longs!" The- threo lookers on glanced un easily at each other. Martin Scdgick, the son, flung Lis cxe emphatically ou the ground. "Grandsir spcak3 the truth," said he. "The bouse aiu't itself smco Dora went away." And be stalked gloomily down the bill, to where his handsome four-ycar-old colt was tied to the fcuce rail, await ing its daily exercise around the square. 'Eunice," said Squire Sodgick to hi3 wife that afternoon, "Martin is getting restless again. He wants to go Wast." Mrs. Scdgick clashed her hands ntrv ouy. "Martin our only sen!" she crictf. "He was jist beginning to be recon ciled to life on the farm, whea Dull uent away," said the squire, dejectedly. "And it was she that reconciled him. Eunice if wo could get Dor back again! It's as my old father tajs she was the luck of tho house." Mrs. Scdgick burst into tears. "It wasn't my fault, JothsmJ" tht s-.id. "I always liked the child, though i -.e wasu't no more like our folks than a corn flower is like a squash blossom. But she and Ellen couldn't somehow ...roe. Ellen always wanted Martin to nfarry Miss Brownlee, and she up one d ly and accused Dora of settin' her cap to' Martin, and Djta couldn't stand that; and when they r.ppfalfed to me, I'a arraid I didu't lake Dora's part quite so strong as I might hcv dene." 'I knott ed a wonaa' longuo wa? a; the bottom of it all," said the squ.ia, with some bitterness. "Pjor Dora!" That night the whole Scdsick fam ily were aroused by a light blaze in tut dooryard the old-fasaioned well sweep burning up. Grandsir, in his flannel dressing gown and knotted stick, hit leonine head well outlined in the scarlet glow, looking more Druid-like than ever. "You done it o' purpose," said he, feebly shaking the stick at the assembled family, who were trembling in the door way. "You know you did. First Dora, and then tho old well sweep. The only things I kecred for in this world and now they're both gone, an' I may ai well lie down and die!" "I didn't mean any harm!" hvateri- cally sobbed poor Ellen. "I was light ing a taper to seal a letter Marian Brownlee always uses the new-fashioned colored was to seal her letters and it burned up too quick, and I flung it out of the window, but I never dreamed it would fall among the dead leaves around the old well curb and set it on fire I 1 didn't mean any harml" "Don't fret, father," said the squire. "We'll build it up ag'in mo and Mar tin jnst exactly like it was before." The old man shook his head. "It won't bo tho same," moaned he "it won't be tho same I Nothiu's th same in this world!" And he took to his bed front that day. Poor Ellen hung down her head like t drooping lily. In neither case had she intended any actual harm, but in both instances she fc'.t acu'e'y responsible. Martin was making preparations to go, out West. Grandsir seemed to have lost ill interest in the surrounding world. Her mother went about with swollen eyes and a pale face, and Squire Scd gick sat by the hour on the front porch, looking as if ho had lost his last friend. One violet-scented April afternoon, however, Mtrtin came home from the city, whither he had been to purchase some absoluto necessity for his travels, with a flat parcel under his arm. "Look, mother!" he said. ''It's some thing for grandsir. I don't know but what I've been extravagant, but I declare to goodness I couldn't help it. Tac minute I set eyc3 on it, I thought of the dear old man lyin' up stairs in his bed. It's a picture," he added, as Ellen came hurrying to his side "an oil painting with a tine gilt frame. Exictly like our old well sweep that was burned down, with the red barn in the distance, and the sun scttiu' behind the woo Is, just as I've seen it go do.vn times without end. You don't know how queer I felt when I saw it iu the store window, and I went in and paid twenty dollars for it. I'd !o without them caTipin' blankets and tho fur robe, mother; but I wauteJ jrandsir to have that picture." They hung it up ou the wall opposite tho head of his bead, and when tho old. nan waked from a nap, just as the sun set beans shone over the mute cauva?, he looked at it with a smile. "It's our old well," said he, not evinc ing the least surprise. "Just like I wa a-lookin' out of the window at it. I've rot tho well sweep back ag'in now, aad p'raps Djra'll come next. Who knosf' And for the first time in a week, he get up and drcsse.1 himself, and deigned to give a sort of conditional approval tc the repairs going on in the barued dis trict. "It looks too new now," said he, ad justing his "far-away" spectacles. "But p'raps in a year or two it'll be more weather-beaten an' nat'ral-like. I can allays look at the picter, though, wheu 1 want to see the old well sweep." Ellen pulled her brother's sleeve as he stood intcutly regarding the bright Utile oil painting on grandsir's wall. ".Martin," said she, "nobody eve. cou'.d hare painted that plcturo by gue-s. It is our old welt swejp, and there's tiie very butternut tree nn 1 the broken shingles on the barn roof. And doa't you remember, Martin, how foui she used to be of paintiug?" He turned suddenly around with an ir radiated face. "Whv dida't I think of it before?" ha cried. Mr. Solomon Feldmm, sitting behinc his desk rail in the darkest corner of tho dark little art store, was startled from an abstruse financial calculation by the ques tioning gleam of a pair of dark eyes close beside him. "Is it sold?" a so'.t voice timidly as', ci "niy 'O.d Well Sweep?' I see it is gone from the window. Oh, Is it pcj3i b!e that I can be so luclsy as to have sold that picture?" Dora Scdgick wrs very plainly dressed, iler shoes aud gloves were unraista'jly shabby ; there was a certain pallor in her skin aDd sharpnes in her features which told of a battle with the world, iu which jhc had not as yet gaiacd the advantage. But at that moment her face seeoieJ transfigured with exultant joy. Mr. Fcldman referred to his books. "Tweaty dollars," said he, with lea; pencil betweeu his teeth. "Not a bad price for a beginner, and tweaty-five per cent, commission. Price of frame, five dollars, and and here is your ten dol lars. You might as well sjnd sorcethinc' ;lse." A shadow from without made tho lit tie gas lighted cubby hole look a dcgrci dingier than before at this moment. 'OtlM roll cve rr'n th -n-1 - ' 3iess ot tbe person who painted the pic ture I purchase 1 yesterday tho 'Oi l pVell Sweep JM asked thevoiccof Mania Eedgick. The veiled and shawl wnppcd figure turned suddenly 'around, so that the flickering gaslight shoae full on the dark eyes and mobile lips. "Martin?" she cried out, wit'u an ia voluntary step forward. 'Dora my Dora! No, you shall not Iraw away your hand I" ho cried. "I've got you now, and I mean to kec; jo u yes, always, Dora?" "Eh?" cried Grander Scdgick, ious ing hiaiself from one of tho frcq-itnt slumbers of extreme old age. "Dora, is it? Alans' little b!ack-cycd gal? AVcJ, I knowed s'aa would come back before tho Lord scut out a call lor mo. Some thiu' told mo she would. Thcy'vo fixed up the old well sweep, Dora, and you're back again! I hain't nothin left to wish for now." 'And she's promised to ba my wife, declared Martin, with liU arm passed carelets'y around the gin'i slim waist. "And Mtrtin's givaa up tho Western plan," ecstatically ensd 3l. Sodgick, 'aad he's going to to content to suttlj dowa here for good wa l all." "And r.a, I'm so gia 1 !'' ga-.ped Ellen, w'uLc ti- s-pfrc'f.'iipi't'd bis sou's bsek ia aJ eicosrax-'ru- f isbLq. Old Grandsir Sedgick looke I from one to the other with a serene smile. "I hain't nothin' left to wish for," hp ! repeated. Saturday Xii;ht. Tacts Abuat the -U letou Industry. Paris is the hcai-centro of the skele ton trade. The mode of preparation is a very delicate operation. The set! pel is first called into requisition to remove he muscular tissues. Its work bcin done, the bones are boiled, being care fully watched meanwhile that they may not be overdone. After this cannibalis. tic procedure they are bleached in the sun. Even then spots ot grease are sure to appear when they are exposed to heat. The French treat these wita ether and benzine, securing thcreoy a dazzling whiteness, whicU is a distinguishing mark of their skeletons. They are war ranted never to turu yellow and to slan 1 tho test of any climate. New York in midsummer is not too hot for them. They are put together by a master hand. A brass rod with all the proper curra-tu-es support the spinil column. Deli cate brass wiie3 hold the ribs iu place. Hinges of the most perfect workmanship g.va to the joints a graca'ul and lifeiiko movement. Cleverly concealed hooks and eyes render disjunction at p'cuu o possible. The whole construction plainly indicates the care and skill of an ur.iit tnd connoisseur. Djmestic skeletons are generally tha woik of amateurs. Jauitors in nvjdic.il colleges rescue bones from tiie dissectin rooms and cure and articulate the n. They find purchasers among tiie sludeoti, who ou the completion of their stu lies resell tho skeleton, if happily the market is not glutted. A sjeoud-han I skeleton may thus be hal at quite a reasonable Iguie occisionably as low as $15. The imported article, however, range, from $.TJ to $t )0. Tue very high-priced ones are value! because of tho preserva tion of the nervous an 1 circulatory sys tems. Of course, they are beyond tii j rvacu of modest purses, an 1, as a tasta for medical and scientific roseirch hn not yet developed among the millioaaires, very few skeletons are sold. They are always a special order. Avery fine French skeleton miy be had for $15J, and that is as high as t'us gen.-ral run of ujrc'ia'iers care to go. Skulls, hands, and feet may bo pur chased separately, but to obtain a rib, an arm, or a collar bone, the whole a'falr must bo bought. A skull and cross bones, suitable for decorative purposes, cost but i'10. T.io skull has but oue cut; it may be pretty, it is not artistic. For 22 a skull that will unhingo au 1 reveal its hidden contents is possible. Tho bones of the ear are co npriscd in vUis treasure. Boston Herald. American Footlml. It Is admitted on all sides that played under the most favorable cir cumstances, and by men who would consider a loss of temper almost equivalent to a loss of honor, tout ball under Kugby Union rules is a reasonably dangerous game. Played as It Is in America, it seems a l iiiirably adapted for paying off old grudges, and proving conclusively that good-humored puck and skill are no match for savage brutality an.l irrelevant violence. To an aspirant for honors in the American foot-ball Held we would say: "My son, learn boxing. I. earn foot ball also, If pos sible, l-iit !ca::i liiat tlio art of svlf iefens," Moi'eMVfr, the pernicious practl'Ci nre not exercised secretly (except with regard to ths umpire), but tacitly recognized as a part and parcel of the game. True, if a man is caught lighting he may be ruled out of the match. It is mad'j a logical outco:ne of this law that six or eight reserve men are always ready equipped to take the place of any detected bruis. jrs. The thinking man can and does easily improve the occasion. If ho feels exhausted as the short winter afternoon is drawing in, ho can watch until he catches the umpire's eye, ".dug" a diminutive opponent, and have his place occupied by one seven times more wicked than himself. Or, being but a player of mediocre ability, lie can yet provoke to a merry bout of fisticuffs one whoso ability in the game U greater, and may thus brinn a out the retirement of both, sacri tlc'ng his own pawn self for the op ponent knight. Tho American as serts that his game Is more scientific, wliicli, from a certain point of view, is self-evident. Tho Saturday Re. :iev. Intcrctlns Facts. Tho Atlantic Ocean includes an area of ot), 000, 000 square miles. Sup- j pose an inch of rain fall upon only oue-ilfth of this vast expanse, it would weigh 3'i0,000,000 tons, and the salt which, as water, is held in solution in the sea, and which, when tno water was taken up as a vapor, was left bchin-ljto disturb thecquilib riutn, weighed' 10,000,000 more toes, or nearly twice as much as all the ships in the world could carry at a cargo each. It might fall In a day; but occupy what time it might in falling, this rain is calculated to exert eo much force which is Inconceiva bly great lu disturbing the equilib rium of the ocean. If all the water discharged by tho Mississippi River tluring the year were taken up in I mighty measure, and cast into the ocean at an effort, it would not make ' a greater disturbance in the cqullib I riuni, ot the sea than the fall of rain ! Bupposed. And yet so gentle arc tho operations of jDaturo that movements so vast are unperccivgu. TO hat Is Boiuc? Home," says Robertson, In his Sermons "is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence. It is tho place where we tear off that ma.'k of guarded and suspicious cold ness which the world forces U9 to wear In self-defence, where we pour out the unreserved communication of full and confiding hearts. It Is the spot where expressions of tenderness gush out without any sensation of awkwardness, and without any dread nf ridicule. Let a man travel where ho will, homo Is the place to which 'his heart untrammelled fondly turns.' He is to double all pleasure there. He is to divide all pain. A happy home is the single spot of reso which a man has upon Ibis earth for tho cultivation of Li3 noblest sensi Vilitlcs." """'.- GEORGIA'S NEW SENATOR. A Well-Known and SuccMsfol Nempkpet Publisher. Fatrick Walsh, the new Senator from Georgia, appointed to succeed the late Senator Colquitt. Is the ed itor of the Au gusta Chronicle, and ono of the best-known news paper men in tho South. He was A -'TiborQ in Ireland, ,ige. He learned the trade of a printer In the esator pat'k wAL&n city of Chai'lcs ton, S. C, and served in the Confed erate army. After the war he en tered the office of the Augusta Con stitutionalist, and ro.-e from the caso to an editorial position. He secured a half-interest in the Augusta Chron icle and Sentinel, uniting the Consti tutionalist with it. Later he bo came full owner of tho two, under the name of tho Augusta Chronicle. Mr. Walsh Is a very popular man in Georgia, and is an ardent admirer of Senator Hill. The Sirert of Candle. We were InLa Callc de las Vela9 tho Street of the Candles. It wa? tho way which all devout ones had to take on their routa to the shrine, and no one could worship there with out a lighted t-iin lie In baud. There fore there was au enormous business done in candles, which, to meot the regulations of tho chu'eh, had to be of pure beeswax. The street was lined with booths for tho sale of these, which were displayed in amaz ing quantities and in a variety of handsome shapes and attractive col ors. Probably the idea was that the more elaborate aud costly a candlo the devotee held In. his band b-?fure the altar, the greater tho efficacy of tho ceremony for him-e'.f. The rev enue from the sale of the candles was a prerogative of the cu a the parish priest whose position was so snug ard comfortable as to make him the envy of all his colleagues In that part of Mexico. The income from various sources during the fcria was so great as to assure the cura a very handsome personal return, as well a9 to maintain the church In first-class condition. I was informed that an other priest had offered his brother of Tepalcingo $6,000 a year for his position, but the proposition was not entertained for an instant. These candles were not only paid for at goodly prices, but It was the rule that they must be left in the church at tho end of the ceremony. The cura, therefore, got tho greater part ot tho wax bick again, to be made over into fresh candle--, for tho cere monies, very likely, with regard to the duo economy of wax, were made conveniently short. A Sensitive Point. The Widow Granger had an im portant case In court. She knew that if she should win her condition there after would be ono of financial ease, and 6he had accordingly employed tho most effective lawyer in the county where she resided. When tho caso came to trial the shrewd lawyer saw that his road to success lay through the emotions of the Jurymen. "Gentlemen," said he, "look at this poor woman. Is she not enough to excite the pity of any beholder? De crepitude has not spared her, and age Is fast spreading its blight upon her once fair face. She " "You stop right where you are!" exclaimed the widow. "I need tho money that might coino out of thl3 caso, but 111 le hanged If you shall stab 1 up there and call me old." Tho lawyer hastened to her and -aid: "Why, madam, I must talk that vay or loc tho case." "I don't care If you do have to talk .tint way, yuu shan't. I'd rather lose he whole thing than be called old. l am just as good-looking as I ever was, and I want you to undo: stand that fact. De:replt, Indeed! I'll bet I could gather you up and throw you over a ten-rail fence right now. If you want to talk about the law there is the case; go ahead, but If you call me old again we'll fight, that's a!L" An Illustration. A well-known English diplomatist, while calling upon Prince Bismarck some time ago, asked him how he managed to rid himself of that class of unfortunate visitors whom he could not well refuse to see, but whoso room ho found preferable to their company. "Oh," replied the Chancellor, "I have a very simple method. My wife knows them pretty well, and when she sees that they are with mo she generally contrives to come in and call me away upon some pretext Oi ot her. " Hj had scarcely flnlshcJ speaking when the l'rinee s put her head In at the door, and said: "Otto, you must come and take your medicine; you ought to have had it ten minutes ago." The diplomatist had not till then had any idea that his room could be more welcome than his company. A New Jersey court has fined a man 110 for winking at a girl, whllo a more humane Judge In Holland dis chaigixl a man arrest.d for having violently kissed a girl, declaring that a kiss was a token of admiration and Citeem and the ki?sce could not properly ask for damages. And yet pet ple call these United States tho lar.d of liberty. Pakticclars of a murder in which the victim was burned are being un earthed. The statement Is made that the perpetrators must have been In dians, as the deed was tco fiendish to be ascribed to Caucasians. In the I ght of recent history it must be conceded that the nob'e wh to man has received an undeserved compli ment. There are too many parents who think that to teach their boys to be good, they should be given a dime to put m the collection basket every Sunday, and not be allowed a cent to spend during the week. i'i.easl !tu tuuv Ik; ha I, but itcouie fearfully high. Nothing in the world j.sts so much. Ev-eiiy man thinks it would be im possible to be a Christian in the t-usi-nes3 ae ia in. s -.. GEORGIA'S NEW SENATOR. J GERMAN NEWSPAPER3, , SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. la. MOST WONDERFUL :NSECT. ITEW9 IS BRIEF. 5- x s rrv GERMAN NEWSPAPERS, everything Iut In In the Shupe or Aveffh tlsomcnt. Tho newspapers here are largely solt by weimcn, and the small newsboy o: America is unknown in Dcriin. Nov and then you see a man selling pa pers, but the greater part of the cir culation of tho journals is by sub scription, and women always dclivei tho papers says a correspondent o: the Washington Star. There arc many queer things abem tho newspapers, and few of the Eer lln journals have large staffs of re porters. The local news is about Jt he samo in all papers, and no onr think.' of trying to make a scorqi, a.s it is called, or to have the news ia ad vance of his fellows. The editors ol tho morning papers leave the ol'.ice at 9 o'clock, and the pagers are ol press at 11. ily 12 o'clock even the printers have gone home, and v. her Gen. Von Aloltko died :;t II o'c'.oei bne night some time ao there was pnly ono lierlin newspaper that had lino about it in its issue of the r.cxl' morning. Tho announcement of the death was published in New Yorh and elsewhere in full, but the (!er ! man newspapers rijrht here at home inew nothing about it The newspapers here publish iteim from their contemporary journals which they should have had them- j selves, 6aylng that tho other paper says so and so, and there is no lite in lieilln journalism. The papers b ive not a very large circulation, and they do not make a great deal of money. The biirgost of them sells something like 100,000 copies, and tiiis paper makes $137,000 a year, and thinks it Joes wonders. Men who write for tho papers are? moticrately well-paid, editors-in-chiel's get frcru ?4,0uo U I5.0oo a year. The Germans arc good advertisers and there seems to be no reasoi why the papers should not do 1 ctter. Everything under tiie sun is put intr the papers in the sliap of an adver tisement. And there is a great ileal of social news which we publish fui nothing which is here put in at s- much per liue. Engagement! are generally nn jounced In the ncw-pap-jrs by the parents of the bride and also by tli iroom, and there are a large numlci of matrimonial advert seiuentf, in which men and women state theii ;ood qualities and ask for husband.? and wives. Sometimes men adver tise, stating they have a daughter whom they wish to get rid of, and in one year there were 400 advertise ments in one paper of persons seek ing better halves. Man iajes are nisei published iu the same way. and there Is a fixed rate t,r births and deaths. The Germans are very proud of hav ing children, aud it is generally ex pected that a son or a daughter will make his or her appearan -c in the newspaper columns immediately upon Its appearance in tho world. There are always numbers of death notices, and tho official advertisements of the city amount to something. Advertisements of patent medi Clncs have as much prominence in the Berlin newspapers as in ours, and al together the German is a very good advertiser. CHURCHES AND BUSINESS. Strange L'bes to WliU-h Houses of Wor.-tliif Have llci-ll DevuU-O. Our ancestors transacted a good, deal of business of one kind and another in and alxiul their churches, says tho London Standard. To 1 eg n with tho churches of old England in turbulent times were regarded a; places of safe custody for public and private property. In the border land of England and Scotland the idea was carried out still more completely, and churches or at least their tow ers, became regular fortresses and not infrequently were objects of of fense and defen-e. We may note in rural England that in the cases ol ancient churches the towers are often not merely disproportionate in size to tho rest of the church, but are carefully and strongly built, evidently with an object Even in peaceful Surrey and Susses the belfries arc veritable strong room with barred windows and massive doors, and often contain an ancient treasure chest Hither, at the first alarm, money and valuables were hur ried, for, beyond the security of thick walls and bars and bolts thcro was an a?gls of sanctity which in a super stitious ago protected tho building from the most ruthless of foes. The fortress-like construction of many of the border land churches Is an In teresting study to antiquaries. In more than the well-known case the holy edifice consists merely of a barn attached to but walled off from a regular Tele tower. Even in South ern England a scmlmilitary character is given sometimes to a church tower by the cresset, wherefrom, in cases of general danger, such for instance as tho Spanish armada or the French in cursions of a later period, the beacon Are spread tho news from town to town and from village to village. In lono districts, such as the marshland of Kent and tho Fen country of Lincolnshire, the tall church towers which are such promi nent features In the landscape served a very important purpose, inasmuch as they were landmarks for travelers, and even to-day tho pedestrain has reason to be thankful for the guiding presence of Boston "stump" or Ly'dd tower at the close of a hard day's walking. In a later age than that of civil war the vaults of coast churches played a very important part in what was an important branch of business. When a new rector was appointed to a church in tho wealds of Kent or Sussex it was usual for him to receive a contribution to his wine cellar, ac companied by a concise intimation that out of regard ior the future peaco and happiness and, perhaps safety, he would do well not to in quire too closely into the uses to which the vaults bsneath his church were put. Serves mm Right, nave you got any stale brsad?" asked Johnny Flzzletop, sticking his bead into a baker's shep up in Harlem. 'Ves, I have five or six loaves." erves you right. Why didn't you sell 'em while they were fresh?" Texas Sittings, Chinese botanists can grow osJcs in '.Limbics. Science announces that cholera bacilli do not live long in tho body that has ieen properly buried. The University of Pennsylvania, Phil del phia, is to have a building entirely devoted to chemistry. It is necessary to use high pressure in order to transmit the electric current economically to long distances. The Edinburgh Keview says that the commonest form ot color blindness is that which thiuks green identical with red. Coal of an excellent quality and ia large deposits has been dissovered at Djebeli-Ebou-Fuyuz, in the district of 1:r, Asia Minor. There is a reptile conmon to the Sacramento Valley, California, knowu m the blowsuike. A full-grown blowsniX" thinks nothing of swallowing a Lalf dozen eggs at a time. The auger that bores a square hole consists of a screw auger in a squ tie tube, the corners cf which are sharpened lroin within, and as the auger advances pressure on the tube cuts the round bulc vjuare. The modern lecturer relies greatly up ou the projection of illustrations upo-i :i Screen, and the lanterns for this purpose have been so improved that effects and illusions of a most wonderful kiud ai 10 .v obtained in tho lecture-ro ni. M. Van Rysselberghe, who died r ; ccctly at Antwerp, was the inventor ol tho moteorgraph, au electric weather register, by means of which the con ditions prevailing iu various localises nay be shown at a ccatr.il station. Much research and investigation war rant tho assertion that mm is not the only animal subject to dreams. Horses neigh and rear u oa their hind, feet while fast asleep; dogs bark and growl, and in many other ways cxhioit all their characteristic passions. Electricians aro now considering tho feasibility of using potentials up to hun dreds of thousands of volts. With the potential of 100,000 volts tho power of Niagara cmild be transmitted to Chicagi, with a loss not exceeding twenty per cent., anel it could be sold at that place in competition with steam power, prj'o ub'y to commercial a lvantago. A large dirigible balloon, intended tr. make heidway against air currents of twenty-eitrUt miles an hour, is being made in Franee. It will be similar in loriu to thd La Fvaucj of 1SS1-1835, but larger 230 feet in length aud forty three feet in its greatest diameter. it will weigh sixty-six pohn Is per li'irs power, and will bo prjpellcd by a scow in front with a rudder behind. The enameled iron of various colors which has become such a common ar ticle of electrical commerce is made, ae cording to a Frecc'a industrial piper, by dipping the iron plates into an enamel ing liquid composed of: 15 rax 2i parts by weight), soda salts 0, boric acid 15, washed sand 23, feldspar 12.5. saltpe'.e. 3.3, tlour spar o parts. Tue plates are f.hen dried and fired. Coloring is oh laiucd by using metallic oxides. Cliau;e for tin ras.tn.er's $1). There is a conductor on the Euclid I avenue street car lino who played a ciever inc& on a passenger me ot.icr morniug, which has probably taught Liw to have his fare ready hereafter when ho boards a car. The passenger lives away out at tho end of the line, and was so punctual that he caught tho same car every morniug. About a week ago he tendered a $10 bill in payment for his fare. The conductor did not have so much money at tho beginning of bis trip and told tho passenger that be would pay tho nickel out of his own pocket and be could return it the fol lowing morning. The next morning the busiuess man again presented a $10 bill. Again the conductor paid tho fare for iim. This occurred four mornings in suc-cc-sion. The filth morning the same $10 bill came around, but the conductor was prepared. He drew a heavy bag from beneath the seat and handed it to t'uc passenger with tho remark "Here's yojr change, sir. It's all right. I've counted it." Ho had secured 1009 pen nies the night before and kept twenty, live of them for the fares he paid for tho business man. The bag contained 975 copper coins. The passenger took the bag and rang Jr the car to stop. He now rides on another car. Clevelauc" Plain Dealer. A Tree 5'JO'J Years Old. On the island of Teaeritle, one of the largest if not the very largest of the Canaries, about half way between the Porto Santo and the summit of the fa mous Pico de Tyde, the highest point of land on the island, stands tho consider able town of Orotava, famous for its w jndcrful "Dragon Tree," the identical botanical specimen which Humboldt pronounced "the most ancient vegetable relic in the world." Humboldt made calculations on its age in several di3e.-eat ways, and declared that it was between 5000 and GJ0J years old. Sir John licrschel often alludes to it as the oldest tree in tho world. For at least twenty centuries the Quanchcs used theiinuaea-e hollow of this ancient tree as a te np'.e of woiship. Its eventful career was ;u 1 tleniy terminated in the sum ncr of 1307, when it was uprooted sad almost entirely destroycl by a hurricane. St. Lj lis Ucpubuc. Kats'a; Swans. Swans are nt hard to raise; t'aey sail at 40 and $75 per pair. A fanner ct Biddeford, Me., is makiag quite a tutv ceis at stvan brctding, and bis pro'i's must be quite large each season. T is average hatc'a yields fro.a tiirea to s x youag swan3. They halcii usually a'oj r. June anc mature ia fourteen uioatn from birth. T4py are very cross wii i. with brood, and ntci watching o i stia.ly unless pecned u; closely. t- York Independent. lieuclic.1 tho Limit. Ccrastock In the V-shane ctrs-.ge; fashion has gone about as fast as it laics. Parkhurst lcs, I hope it ivon't venture to take up tn v.o-.i ettcr of the alphabet Liuci. c Spcik. . . . NutllltTf to' Hiilu Tiilinghasb You lost $20 In lh.ii, tamo, didn't you? BigzcrslafT It wasn't my loss. I'd promised to fixe Jie nione to my wire to get a new kmnet with, aohowExcbantfA. The nut Lice, Which Are feed toy Anli s Their Cow. Almost every plant has its peculiat aphis or plant louse, says tho St Louis Ilepubllc, creatures whicl nature has endowed with wonderfui powers of reproduction. Ainonjj these odd insects there may be froiL twenty to fifty generations in eact year, each generation capable of pro ducing others. A distinguished naturalist has given figures to prove that one pair of aphides In live lien cratlons, all or which could be brouirht into the world in less than ter days wouia have descendants to the auiuber of ;", 904,900, 000. Ants, although they cannot also l.c classed as the "most wonderful insect of creation," are certainly the wisest They u;e a certain species ot aphb with his proboscis pushcel entirely through tho bark of some tendei plant, slowly sucking its lile's blood (sap). Eeason (It cannot bo properly called by any other name) teaches tho ant that if the aphis Is irritated lie will void this digested sap. Straightway Mr. Ant marches up tc the helpless aphis and proceeds te irritate the poor creature with hi? feelers, and forthwith the sap begin; to flow from two bristle-like tubes which are situated near tho tail end of tho aphis. This flow ! sap is what the ant had reason to expect, and as he is very fond of it ho begins to greedily suck it up. Livingstone tells of a species o! ar-hls' which inhabits the lig trees ot Africa, which constantly distill water until it forms in great puddles on tie ground underneath. There seems to be sjiiio contention among natural ists as to whether thi s insect distills its water from the sap of the plant which it infests or from the atmos pheres. Livingstone found some of them at w irk on a astor-bean plant and set about making an experiment When first surprised at their work distillation was going on at the rate of one drop every sixty-seven seconds, or alxiut Ave and a half tablcsi ooii fuls every twenty-four hours. He de stroyed thi bark of tho plant below them, and, although it is known that sap must como from the earth, they were actually distilling a drop every live seconds tho flew Icing thirteen times greater than it was the day be fore. He then cirdled the plant so deeply that it dried and broke off; still the littlo colony of In.cct wonder kept at work, regularly distilling ono drop every five seconds, while an other colony on a green twig cniy managed to distill a drop every seven teen seconds. There are many other curious 'poiuti about aphides, such as the idoa that they are tho progeny of ants that they will turn to ants or that ants will turn to aphides common errors. Tracheotomy. Tracheotomy is a surgical opera tion by which the trachea, or wind pipe, is opened. It is an operation resorted to by physicians in cases' v here the throat is 6toppcd uo and ; mission of air to the lungs is ob structed. It has also sometimes been ued in the case of drowned persons in order to hasten the inflation of the lungs with air necessary for their re vival. It is admitted by all surgeons that the operation is not without danger, and in the e-ascs in which it is most frequently performed, thoso of obstruction of the throat, it does not cure the disease, but simply pro longs the life of the patient until the trouble can be reached by deliberate means. .The manner of performing this operation consists In making an incision t the middle of the throat and cutting into the windpipe, cau tiously avoiding injury to tho nerves and muse'esas far as possible. When the windpiie Is exposed and the bleeding, which is slight, is stopiicd, the windpipe is cut vertically and a part of it removed and into the open ing thus made a silver tube Is thrust, which, when obstructed by mucus, can be removed and cleansed at any ti i:e. As soon as the throat disease is healed, this silver tube can be taken out and the edges of the wind, pilio allowed to heal. There are no after evil effects from this operation, except a slight weakening of the volco and a tendency to constriction and tigntness of tho throat upon taking a slight cold, and perhaps an iu. creased sensitiveness to exposure. The Story or lllucl-rl. The story of Bluebeard appears flrsi fti literature in the tales of Perrault, a French writer of the seventeenth century. It was long supposed that the story was purely fictitious but modern students of literature and history assert that the savage hus band of the tale had an actual proto type In Giles de Kctz, Marquis of Laval, who was the Marshal of France in 1429, and who, according to some historians, murdered six of his seven wives and was strangled for his crimes in 1444. Anothe similar character was Count Conomar, Lieu tenant of Brittany 1 the reign of Childcbert, who married Tryphyna, the beautiful and amiablo daughter of Count Gucrech. It is said that sho after ber marriago ascertained that bo had a number of wives previ ously, all of whom be had murdered, and she sent word to her friends re vealing bis true character during his absence from the castle. On his re turn, flndiDg that she had revealed his secrets be was about to kill ber, but her friends came in time to save her life, and Just punishment was executed on him for bis crimes. His wife was subsequently canonized as a saint It is however, impossible to ascertain positively how much truth and how much of fiction there is in either one of these legends. Literal People. The Hartford (Conn.) people try u keep up with everything that there is going; it is a very spry little city. But there are some things that the people there do not understand. The Courier, for instance, says in speak nhz of the physical culture fad: In the latest text book concerning this new subject of exercise tnd attitude we read that the abdomen should be kept In the background.' Per haps it should be; but if so, why wasn't it put there in the scheme of creation?" They are literal people in that part of the country. Buffalo Commercial ' Paper pencils are the latest. Bilk is woven by electricity. Cotton grows wild in India. Homer mentions locks and keys. A dog's tailor flourishes in Paris. Tho India cable is 21,00 miles long. Japanese farm animals ore shod with straw saxdala. Tho African King Trester John ccv-tr had an existence. A reck on tho top of Alpine Peak, in California, spouts electricity. Moravian missionaries have been maintained in Labrador since 1760. Victors to ihe World'sFair, Chica go, left 1000 umbrellas behind them. A Swiss electrijal firm ore to es tablish a central station at Cairo, I'ypt. Greek ladies had steel and brass n irrors, parasols fans and smelling bottles. Sandwiches made by niavbinery are the result of a labor saving device jusl invented. Tho Western Union Telegraph Company consumes 100,000,000 enve lopes a year. One of tho smaU hamlets on Crip pie Creek, Col., is very appropriately called "Crutches." Eussia raises 12d0 pounds of grain and fifty-one pounds of meat to each inhabitant. In France tho doctor's claim on tli estate of a deceased patient his pre cedence over all others. Tho horseshoeing smith first ap. peared in Germany, where iron shoei wero flat used lor horses. Bullets poisoned with infectious dis ease germs is tho latest fiendish im provement in tho art of war. A caged canary in New London, Conn., after watching the antics of a free crow, committed suicide. Homo was supplied from twenty four large aqueducts, which brought o0.00i0U0 cubic feet of water daily intu tho city. Iu the EritibhMuseum, London, ac. cording to tho catalogue jnst issued, there aro 2700 complete Bibles in all languages. 'icotino is present in about 2 J per cent, in tho mildest Havana tobacco, and ranges up to 7 in tho strougea. Virginia. Au Indian named Kimotuh, who lives at Fort Smith, Ark., has a horse that is within a fraction of nineteen I uuds high. -Eight colored women entered a "nail driving contest," tho feature of a church entertainment in Baltimore the other week. Tho best pearls aro pc-rf ctly round, tho next best aro pour-shaped, and egg.slmpcd ouea aro considered tho most inferior. One part of Lake Ilonkonkoma, Long Island, bus never been fathomed. Two hundred feet of liue buve failed to tind bottom. The women in tho middle rges ol wnys parted t' eir hair with a small dagger. Wheu uot iu uso it was car i ied in the (jirdlo In w'nut are called "looming mir ages," distant objects show an apparent extravagant increase iu height without alteration iu broadtu. Cival engineers say tho wings of iuo imuertly display the greatest jxissi Ible lightness c untuned with tho treut- est possible strength. It is said t'nit tho laurel and sun ll.jwcr, planted iu the garden of a "dump," bouse will cliaugo ito atmos phere from moist to drr. i j i ia it stated that a railway train trawlin r at the rnto of om hundred tuilos an hour could not bo polled np in a distance lesn thau two miles. Druukounrss is ver? rare in Kio Jnue-iro, Brazil, tho cause being that tho p oplo elriuk coffee to tho almost entire exclusion of aleliolic beverages. Dijon, France, boa a poplar tree with a record that can bo tinced to 722 A. D. It is 122 feet hi-h and i forty-five feet in circumference at tho j base. Artificial wood for furniture, roofs, insulators, etc., ia now made by bnru I ing mngnesito together with wood, shavings, sawdust, cotton bair t r l A. i After riding on a carousoll at Alexandria, La., recently, an aged colored womou dropped. dead I'liysicians pronounced her deuthduo to the excitement. Enr-lopping was of threo degrees. For minor offenses iho l.wer was half; taken off; for gravor, tho npinjr lobe for .;r:D:K-3 etiil more, serious, tha wholo ear was shorn awa. Coin collectors regard tho collecting of old Greek coin as their most formi dable task, not because of their raritv. but beeausj fully 1000 independent cities had a distinctive series of coins. Mr. Niger, living on a farm near Aubnrn, Texas, Las a natural curiosity a tree-legged calf ono month e!d. wlneu goes a round as well as if tho right shoulder and leg bad been de veloped. A Kansas tramp offered to woik for his board aud clothes on a farm, niado love to tho farmer's old maid sister. consented to mnrry her if sho would have all her ugly t th pulled out and ran away after sho had djiieH.i. Presidential JtteunU. Tho men who wear mustaches wih rejoice at the return of one of their kind to the Presidential chair. Pres ident Cleveland is the only ono wo have ever had who indulged in that kind of facial adornment. Indeed, all tho Presideuts before Lincoln wero stDooth-facel, as Lincoiu himself was when ho ran for the office. Il'.s long, thin face was much changed when ho raised a beard, which bo wore until Lis death. General Grant was tho first President with a full beard, and Hayes CarSeld, a"d Harrison wore of the same persuasion in tnatteis hirsute. President Arthur had very handsome side whexers and mus tache, and wua proud, though not vain, of them and of general ue.- f onal sjpear&nca. fie look pains 1 5 look well, Ling finoly 4es'ed always nu ptiirect-atting clothes snowing off Ids Am forrn to rood advantage. Tin tail beard of Proident Harrisoa now gives way to tbe mastacae, aud tho smaii, compact form to tbe portly presenco ot his predecessor and suc cessor. Boston Globe. .1 ' -- - . . ' A, .
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers