VOL XX LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS^ Jnry Usts tor January Terui. l.ist of Traverse Jurors drawn for * Special Term of Court, commencing the second Monday of January, being the Bth day, A. 1)., lttsJ. T J AUworth, I'arker twp. farmer. Lewis Albert. Franklin twp, farmer. M S Adams, Allegheny twp, farmer. K M Anderson, Peuti iwp, farmer. Charles Book, Worth twp, farmer. Abram Brown, Buffalo twp, farmer. Clemence Bond, Butler twp, farmer. V H Brishtmore. W infield iwp. farmer. John Cradle, Butler twp, i inner. John Cooper, Marion twp, tanner. James Cuuningham, Penn twp, farmer. Walter Cutty, Cherry twp. farmer. Johu Day, Clay twp, fanner. U L Dulford. Sunburv, farmer. Leonard Kasterling. Summit twp, farmer. James EOiott. of James, Buffalo twp, farmer. P A Fleeger, Concord twp, farmer. If M Glass, Mill«r.sU>wn boro, merchant. Samuel Hilliard, Washington twp. fanner. Peter HUderbrant, Donegal twp. farmer. J B Harbison, Clinton twp, teacher. Wm Johnston, Adams twp, fanner. James McUride, Butler twp, tenner. John Miller, Butler twp, farmer. Wm MeGlnnis, Allegheny twp, farmer. Robert McClung, Kan view twp, Justice. Daniel McLaugiilin, Winfleld twp, farmer. John H McLaeghlin, Clearfield twp, farmer. James T McJunkin, Butler boro. J A McCaffertv. Parker twp, farmer. Harrison Kuby, Frankliu twp, farmer. John Relber, Butler boro, dealer. Peter Ripper. Jackson t wp, farmer. Wm Stewart, Butler twp, farmer. Heiman Seipple, Saxon boro, tinner. James SthJi, Cherry Iwp, farmer. Casper Sherman, Butler boro, moulder. N M Slater. Butler boro. surveyor. J P Tadder, Concord twp, Liveryman. S Vanderlin, Marion twp, tarrjer. Thomas Wilton, Clay twp. frruier. Wm Wilson, Pa'rview twp,fanner. List of Traverse Jurors drawn for a Special Term of Corrt, commencing the third Monday of Jan.-.aiy, being tUe 13th day A. D..1&J3. 0 M AHveU. M. rloc twp. farmer. .) T Atkins. Buffalo twp, (air.ier. 1. -v Lander, Mi drtyereek twp, farmer. J.t ... .Iricker, WinJUid twp. farmer. s..„,iiel Crookshenks Middlesex twp, farmer. J 11 ratty. FiaiiUllu twp, farmer. JO.-H.-U I Collins, Fairview. laborer, h . r nvford, Marion twp. merchant. J >.iri:el Durbar, Jackson two, farmer. Jw.iU Dininger, Butler twp, fanner. Jacob Esler, Jr, Jackson twp, clerk. Hugh Forquer, Donegaltwp, fanner. Hujdi Forquer, Veaan-jo twp, farmer. J...iies Frazier, Muddycreek tw]n, farmer. Win W (jrahara Connoquenessingtwp, farmer Joseph Heckart, Middlesex twp, farmer. J a hill. Petrolla boro, producer, l'resly Heck, Centre twp, miller. (-.-o Hogg, Sllppervroek twp, farmer. Fred Hilliard. Franklin twp, farmer. Joiin Jiunstou.- Peuu twp, farmer. m'M Karm, Butler boro, clerk. , • s >1) Kennedy, Summit twp, farmer. 1 J. Kepler, Parker twp, farmer. Julia Kirkparrick. Clhiton twp, ieniier. 8 S Mays, Fairvie w twp^larmer.. .'onatfeaa Maybury.Ceiitrevil'e haro.oroenter JamefMeNens, Middlesex tv.p. f?r..ier. Michael McOinley, ( oneord twp. fanaer. Jon#arnier. W» Polltemus, Centre twp, fanner. James B Ramsey, Centre twp, fanner. Kit Beep, Fairview tv. •j.fantiev. John Swain. Clearfield twp, farmer. Nicholas Slupe. -Jeffe.-son iwp. It uuer. S. .nuel Tagert, Biai'y twp. I'.rnter. Wm Webb, Cl«y twp, fai >.ie . E.'iate ol Jawea Yonix Dec'd. Letters of Administration in the estate of James Young, dee'd., late ef Clay township, Butler county, Pennsylvania, having been grnutcd to the undersigned, all persons know lug themselves Indebted to said es tate will please make Immediate pay- , ment andauy having claims against iaid estate will present ihem duly authenticated for settle- | ment. ROBERT A. BROWN, Administrator. Coulteisville P. 0., Datler county, Pa. I Orphans'"Court Sale. 1 3j virtue of a decree of the Orphans' Cou of Butler county, to us directed, as well as by the authority given us in the last will and tes tament of Samuel G. Heals, dee'd, we will offer for sale at publio outcry on the premises in Washington township, en MONDAY, PEBUARY 5,1883. at 1 o'clock p. M., the following real estate: SO Acres and 75 Perches more or lea*, oat of the northwest corner of the farm lately occupied by the said Samuel G. Meals, dee'd. About 75 acres cleared, balance Kod timber. Good two-story frame house and ok barn receatly erected thereon. TERMS—One-third of the purchase money on confirmation of sale by the Court, and the remainder in two equal annnal installments with lawful inierest from that date, to be secured by bond aud mortgaga. G. W. MEALS. dec 6 , one of fie Executors. Dissolution Notice. Notice is hereby riven that the partnership heretofore existing between G. M. Zimmerman and Joseph Wuller, under the firm name of Zimmerman & Wuller, doing business in the borough of Butler, Butler county, Pa., has been dissolved by mutual consent. The books are in the possession of Joseph Wuller, and those in debted to the late firm are requested to make immediate settlement. G. M. ZIMMERMAN, JOSEPH WULLER. Having sold oat my interest in tb« drugstore to Joseph Waller, I can cheerfully recommend him to the public as a careful, competent and reliable druggist, and ask for nim a continu ance of the liberal patronage extended to the late firm. G. M. ZIMMERMAN, M. D. Deo6 4L ASSIGNEE S SALE. The undersigned offers for sale 70 acres of latad, more or lee«, in Venango twp., Butler oonnly, Pa., bounded on the north by Kelly heira, east by Samuel St alker. soath by ' Julia Ann Sim peon and on the weat by Joseph Murrin and heira of John Murr n; 50 acres cleared, 10 of which ar« meadow, gooi orchard, all under laid with coal, good dwelling house, two ntorisa high, part log and part frame, with kitchen at tached, good frame stable and hay houae, well watered; one mile and (a half east of Murrina- Tille. Sale on the premises on January 13th, 1883, at one o'clock p. M„ with privilege to ad- Jonm to the Court Hou»e in Butler, on the 15th day of January, 1883, at o'clock, p m. Terms cash on delivery of deed. Dao. 18, 1882. MICHAEL MoBRIDE. Assigns* of Jamas Morrin. Hotlee. Application will be made to ths Legislature of this State at its next session, for the passage of a law changing the Road laws of Jeffer son township, Butler county, Pa., and ex tending tetaakl township the provisions of the Act of Assembly approved April 2nd, 1869, and the supplememt thereto, so far as the same may be applicable thereto. HENRY BOWMAN » AND OTHERS, Citizens of Jefferson township. Dec. 13, 4t 1882.) A st tee. A general meeting of the Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Haunahstown, Batler county, Pa., and vicinity, will be held at the hoase of Mrs. Krausie, in Hannahstown, on Saturday the 13th day of January, 1883, at one o'clock, p„ M. All members are respec tively invited to attend. JACOB BECK, Pres't. HENRY HECK, Sec'y. decl3,3t Election'. The annnal election of twelve Directors of the Batler Co. Mutual Fire insurance Co., Jto serve for the ensuing year, will be held a the office of the Secretary in Butler, Pa., on thesec and Tuesday of January next, being the 9th inst., 1883, between the hours of 1 and 2 P. M. H. C. HEINEMAN, Bec. Butler, Pa , Dec, 1, 1882. NOTICE is hereby given, that application will be made to the Legislature at the next session for the pass age of a law entitled, "An Act requiring exe cutors, administrators and guardians, to give public notice of the aale of personal property of deoedenta within the county of Butler." The object of aaid act is to compel execntors, admin istrators and guardians, to give publio notice of the sale of personal property of decedents by publication in ons or more newspapers or other wise. JAMES T. AUSTIN. d2O-4t. OCCa week in your own town. Terms and 9 s YVUOUTFLT free. Address H. HALLETT & Co- Portland, Maine. mars i, giflei (fitincn, Union. Woolen iVlill, BUTLER, PA. H. FCLLEKTOX, Prop'r. Manufacturer ol BLANKETS, FLANSELS, YARNS, Ac. Also custom work doue to order, such as carding Rolls, making Blankets, Flauucls, Knit ting and Weaving Tarns, &e., at very low prices. Wool worked on the shares, il de tired. my7-ly PUREPP*" ja © INDIA UjAIJ From the Districts of ASSAM, CHI 1' I'AUONG, CACIIAR. KANGRA VALLEY, DAR-JEEL -ING, DEHR-V DOON, add oihers. Absolutely Pure. Superior In Flavo.. Tiie Most Econom ical. Requires only half tl'e u?ual quantity, gold by all Gioceis. JOIIN C. PHILLIPS <& CO., Asents of the Cakulla Tea Syndicate, ISO Water St., N. Y. Novß-ly. "BUTLJER COUNTY Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Office Cor. Main and Cunningham Sts. V}. C. ROESSING, PRESIDENT. WM. CAMPBELL, TKEASCRKI:. H. C. HEINEMAN, SECRETARY. DIRECTORS: J. L. Pnrvis, E. A. Helmboldt, William Campbell, J. W. Burkhart, A. Troutnian, Jacob Sehoene, G. 0. Roeeslng, John Caldwell, Dr. W. lrvin, J. J. Croll. A. B. Rhodes, H. C. Heinem&n. JAS. T. M'JUNKIN, Gen. Acc't .BTTTIJIEIR, Planing Mill —AND— Lumber Yard. J. L. PURVIS. L. 0. PURVIS, S.G. Purvis & Co., IfAWUFACTTTBBBS AMD DIALERS 111 Rough and Planed Lumber OF EVERT DESCRIPTION, FRAMES, MOULDINGS, SASH, DOORS, FLOORING, SIDING, BATTENS, Brackets, Gauged Cornice Boards, SHINGLES & LATH. PLANING MILL AND YARD Near German Catholic Church j*n7-80-]jr OLD COUNTRY TE A HOUSE! EMXA BKIHHED I8«.S. TAT NO MORB FUFIGIIT ON GROCERIES. The Largest and Most Complete RETAIL GROCERY IN THE UNITED STATES FREIQBT PREPAID WITHIN 50 MILES OF OUR CITT Order ol 9-5 and npwards, freight prepaid. Orders of s">o and upwards, freight prepaid. Or If preferable, a dlscouut allowed ol per cent. Orders ol SIOO and upwards, freight prepaid, or a discount ol 3 per cent. PARTIES LIVING OVER SO MILES FROM PITTSBURO Orders of 125 or upward?, a discount of 2 per cent. Orders of 950 and upwards, a discount of per cent. Orders of 9100 or upwards, a discount of 3 per cent. Single families not wishing to buy 925 worth or over can cluo together with another family which will place them in the same position as larger buyers. No charge for boxin r. send for our Monthly Price List (Housekeepers Guide,) a book ol 24 pages, giv ing all onr prices and a complete description, to parties ordering living out of the city on railroads. Wm. Haslage & Son, 18 DIAMOND malO.ly PITTSBURGH, PA. "BOOTS:AND SHOES" HADE TO ORDER JOHN BICKEL'S. French aud American Kip boots made lo order on short notice, also Fine wear for Ladies, Gentlemen and Children. Repairing also done on short notice. Look Here. The undersigned wishes to inform his many customers, that he has now on hand a weil (elected stock of Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, -BPECTACLBH AND SILVER PLATED WARE at the lowest cash price. Just what you want (or HOLIDAY PRESEHTS. Call and see him before buying. Oacs<]uaie South of Court House, Main street, Butler, Pa. D. L. CLGELANI). HENRY ». HALE, FINE MERCHANT TAILOR, COB, PENN AND SIXTH BTKEETS, Pittitburgh, Pa ICR tn COHP" day at home. Samples worth Address STIMHON & Co., Portland, Maine. maia>,l.v' For Dyspepsia, JngSg^L 0 ; Chronic Diar -0 rhcea, Jaandlct, Impurity of th« Blood, Fever aad Ag-ue, MaUrift, 1 ;1 d bv ihis t me. howe'er, A'e - i p. » oee i tt ; And st.-aight he sent the n all aivpv, Wit lt ie 'a- a e su.n of-op.';, it! Friends, be ) rt i<.*cod, <*o ior id us flock Wiiea we ?>e r : cn and g.e/u; But wueu wpnt corner ami uouoles r se Tney leave us to our I'a.e. And he hnd Jen ned w'opt is o cn seen When frieods pre 'n re^oe That those of whoui we tuiok the least Turn out to be the be-^t. —Cham\e Jov.rnci. SELECT. SECRETS CM OLOED Of the Dlssectiaz Room, PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 6.—What is the treatment received by the once an imated clay that legitimately or illegit imately fails into the hands of the med ical students ? Passing down Medical street above Tenth the other afternoon, a reporter saw a wagon piled with long pine box es standing within a door way on the south side of the Jefferson Medical College. The driver and an assistant carried the boxes back one by one, and presently brought them out again, evi dently much lighter than before The boxes were from five to six feet long and about square at the ends. Save an occasional glance hom the passing, no one noticed the oppeiaJoa of un loading aDd loading, so sugges' l ve of victims of almshouse life, and the wag on drove away as unobstrusivelv as it came. Should anyone be curious as 1o what become of those long boxes he could easily lea>n. "Where is tbe dis secting room T" was a question read : - ly answered at the college door. A climb of four flight of staivs, a turn to uhe leit and a closed door faced the re por-er. The thought of what is be lieved that screen of death might deier a sensitive person, but tbere is no sen timent there. A couple of students came up the stairs, their cigais alight, and with caieless tiead passed in. The reporter followed them into a large room, well lighted from above and the side. As he stepped through tbe door, before the eye had taken in the details of the scene, there passed in front cf the door a student, stepping irom one table to another. He wore a large apron coming up close 10 the chin, and falling nearly to tis feei. It was cov ered with dismal siains, some yellow, some dull red—and all smeared and blurred together, and as far as possi ble removed in their look from the bright scarlet d'ops which sprinkle the Bnow-whiie tcxiU'e of a butcher's apron There is no blood here, for blood flows from the living, not the dead. The siudeut who was envelop ed in this hideous apron flourished in the air a human arm which he had just purchased, and which he was carry ing to his table to dissect, but, save in shape, it did not look like an arm. There was the curve of the biceps, but it was wasted and thin; there was the slanting outline of the fore-arm, but it was gaunt and bony. The color wa3 not glistening white and pink; it was a dull ashen hue, inclining even to gray. With a slap, the student swung his arm upon the table and fell to work. By this time the eye had wandered over the room, drawn on by that strange fascination which the horrible always exerts. Tbere were forty tables. Over many of them students were bending, busy with scalpels and scissors. Over others brown cloths were thrown, partly concealing the "subjects," as the cadavers are called. Near by these lay a glistening saw, a hatchet and a chisel, for separating bones. Over the edge of one table bung what was once the neck, now only a spinal column, with depending shreds of flesh. The skull lacked the lower jaw, and the upper half was sawed clear through. The cranium, thus opened was empty. The brains had long before gone the way of all, tbe skin and muscles which had once covered, perhaps with beauty, the face which is now a repulsive frame work of bones and dry tendons. On another table a pelvis was seen, the viscera protruding from the gaping abdomen. The flesh was turned away from the hip bones, which stood out in ghastly nakedness. By the side t" each dissector stood a pail, into which he threw from time to time the cellu lar tissue and other filmy, superfluous substances which he had s.raped from the muscles, or arteries, or nerves whose course he was tracing "How much do you pay for the privilege of working here ?" the re porter asked one of the students, who was carefully turniDg back the skin from an arm. "We pay tea dollars in the first place to the demonstrator ot anatomy, Dr Forbes," he replied. "That is the first fee. Then we pay a dollar a 'part.' A body ia cut up into five parts, so that it is sold for five dollars; but no one has more than one part at a time. The head is one part; the arms and thorax are two more; aud the legs and the lower part of the trunk are two more. When a student finishes one part he buys another, so that in time he has dissected the whole bodv. Though most of the bodies in a dis secting room have been without life for some time, they are carefully kept from decay. Nevertheless, the s«cret is not pleasant. The bodies are preserved by injecting chloride of zinc into the arteries. This antiseptic penetrates even to the flue capillaries, and pre serves the tissues for a long time. Son eiitues a solution of arsenic is used. With the liquid is mixed a lit tle plaster of paris, to distend the ar teries, that their course may be more readily traced. But the dissecting-room in the fourth story is not ihe most gastly p'ace. Down in the cellar there are four taoks, each about sixty by four foet, and five feet deep. In these the bodies are' pick led," as the local phrase goes. Human bodies a.e literally packed in these re ceptacle, heads alternating with the feet, and over all is poured a strong so lution of sail petie. A reporter visited this place yesterday. The liquid sur face of the vat glistened in the dim light, giving no hint of what it con cealed. "Are there 'any' in there ?" was asked. "Look," said the man of the scalpel ; and baring his arm, be pluncced it inlo the brine, and drew slowly into the light a man's arm. He waved the flabby hand in the air, as two eyes rose with a stony glare to the light, and then let it fall back with a splash, which echoed feebly again the side of the vat. "How many do you keep here?" "Oh, we pickle a dozen in a vat. There may be thirty in he e sometimes. We don't think anything of tc : s. No, I can't tell bow many we use ia a year. You might as well as>k how many shoes 8 man made. Bodies are just like any article of commerce. Some times they're searce and sometimes they're plenty." The luw of the State is that all un claimed bodies are to be diyided medical schools for dissection. In Philadelphia this division is made pro rata, according to the number of students each school has. The Jeffer son College has about CSO students, the medical department of the Uni versity about 450, the Hahnemann College about 100 and the Women's College about 100 more. Thus there are 1300 students to be provided with "subjects." Not more than half of them are dissecting in any one year. But bodies aro needed not only for practical anatomy, but for illustrating surgical operations, and a body which has been used for this latter purpose is usually too mangled to be of use for dissection. The unclaimed bodies used in the medical colleges here come mostly from the almshouse. Other legitimate sources are from the Curone-, the house of correction and occasionally the peni teniiary. The poor and friendless, when death approaches, know well the fate awaiting their mortal frame. Most of them dread it; a few legal dit with apathy. But the dread of being dis sected is as prevalent among this class as is any bugaboo among children, and would not be lessened could they know the hard coolness with which those ac customed 10 the dread.ul t ,- ade will haoole Uieir bodies. Their notion of their fa eis aa inoefini e one of be ! ng cut to shreds; they know lii„le of tbe rough handling, hauliog, pickling, dis memberment, purchase and sale, which awaits their inert remains". It is this utter indiffeience to all feeling of what this flesh and bone ha3oace been which most keenly thrills one who is brought into even su[»erficial knowledge of tbe secrets of the dissecting room. Death and the grave, with all the ceremony of a decent burial, are solemnly im pressive, but the actual sight of bodies, bartered and cut, and treated as mere "subjects," without a sign of feeling, makes tbe flesh of the living creep. Awulvers:»*"j M'eddin^s. A correspondent has requested us to give a list of the ana'versarv weddings, which we herewith append in the order in which they occur: Tbe paper wedding, or Ist anniver sary. Straw wedding, or 2d anniversary. Candy weddiag, or 3d anniversary. Leather wedding, or 4th anniversary. Wooden wedding, or sth anniver sary. Tin wedding, or 10th anniversary. Linen wedding, or 12th anniversary. Crystal wedding, or 15th anniver sary. Floral wedding, or 20th anniversary. Silver wedding, or 25th auniversary. Pearl wedding, or 30th anuiversary, China wedding, or 35th auniversary. Coral wedding, or 40th anniversary Bronze wedding, or 45th anniver sary. Golden wedding, or 50th auniver sary. Tbe Smallest Ifaby Alive. A gentleman from Candelaria in forms ua that the smallest baby in the world was born in that camp at noon on the 3d of October. The father is a miner in the employ of the Northern Belle Mine, and weighs one hundred and ninety pounds. The mother is a stout, healthy woman, weighing per haps one hundred and sixty pounds. The child is a male, as perfectly form ed as any human being can be, but up on its birth it only weighed eight ounces. Its face fs about the size of a horse-chestnut and the size of its limbs can be imagined when we say that a ring worn on the little fiDger of its mother was easily slipped over its foot nearly up to the knee. Our informant stated that it was the opinion of the attending phvsiciau that the child would live and prosper in good health, notwithstanding its diminutive pro portions. The midget is so small that three of its size could play hide-and seek in a cigar-box. This is believed to be the smallest baby ever kuown.— Carson ( Nev.) Appeal. Captain Allen May, of Kentucky, apred 101, is about to take to himself a 19-year-old wife. There's no pleasure in living if you'r to be corked up forever, and only drib ble your mind out by the sly, like a leaky barrel. The exports of India amounted to $300,000,000 last year. If India con tinues to develop as she has done for a few vears past, the United States will have a formidable rival in the supply ing of Europe with breadßtufls. | TUE MA3T-EATL\G TREE. A Botanical Vampire in the Wild** ot Xubia— l'lie narrow Escape or a Hunter. From Robinson's under the Sea. "Many years ago I turned my rest less steps toward Central Africa and made the journey from where the Sen egal empties itself into the Atlantic to the Nile, skirting the Great Desert, a>id reaching Nubia on my way to the eas'ern coast. I had with me three native attendants—two of them broth ers, iha third, Otona, a young savage from the gaboon uplands, a mere lad in his teens—and one day, leaving my mule with the two men, who were pitching my tent for the night, I went on with my gun, the boy accompany ing me, toward a fern forest which I saw in the near distance. As I ap proached it I found that the forest was cut in two by a wide glade, and see ing a small herd of the common ante lope, an excellent beast in the pot, browsing their way along the shaded side, I crept after them. Though ig norant of their real danger, the herd was suspicious, and slowly trotting be fore me enticed me for a mile or more along the verge of the fern growths. Turning a corner I suddenly became aware of a solitary tree growing in the middle of the glade—one tree alone. It struck me at once that I had never seen a tree just like it before: but, be ing intent ou venison for my supper, I looked at it only long enough to satis fy my surprise at seeing a single plant of such rich growth flourishing luxu rantly in a spot where only the harsh fern-canes seemed to thrive. The deer, meanwhile, were midway be tween me and the tree, but suddenly, instead of passing it, swerved in their career and swept a-ound it at some yards distance. Was I mad, or did the plant realy try to catch the deer ? On a sudden I saw, or thought I saw, the tree violently agitated, and while the ferns all round were standing mo lionless in the dead evening air, its bows were swayed by some sudden gust toward the herd, and swept in the force of their impulse almost to the ground. I drew my hand across mv eyes, closed them for a moment, and looked again. The tree was as mo tionless as myS3lf! Toward it, and now close to it, the boy was running in excited pursuit of the fawn. He stretched out his hands to catch it. It bounced from his ea ger grasp. Again he reached forward, and again it escaped him. There was another rush forward, and the next insiant boy and deer were beneath the tree. And now there was no mistak ing what I saw. The tree was con vulsed with motion, leaned forward, swept its thick fo'iaged bows to the j ground, and enveloped from my sight the pursuer and the pursued. I was within a hundred yards, and the c-y of Otona from the midst of the tree came to me in all the clearness of its agony. There was then one stifled, strangliug scream, and except for the agitation of the leaves where they were closed upon the boy there was not a sign of life. I called out, "Otona!" No answer came, I tried to call out again, but my utterance was like that of some wild beast smitten at once with sud den terror at its death wound. I stood there, changed from all semblence of a human being. Not all the terrors of oearth together could have made me lake my eye of that awful plant, or my foot off the ground. I must have stood thus for at least half an hour, for the shadows had crept out from the forest half across the glade before that hideous paroxysm of fear left me. My first impulse tnen was to creep stealth ily away, lest the tree should perceive me, but my returning reason bade me approach it. The boy might have fallen into the lair of some beast of prey. "The vegetable first discovered my presence at about fifty yards distant. I then became aware of a stealthy mo tion among the thick-lipped leaves, re minding me of some wild beast slowly gathering* itself up from long sleep, a vast coil of snakes in restless motion. Have you ever seen bees hanging from a bough—a great cluster of bodies, bee clinging to l>ee—aad by striking the bough or agitating the air, caused that massed life to begin sulkily to disinter igate, each insect asserting its indi vidual right to move? And do you remember bow, without one bee leaving the pensile cluster, the whole became gradually instinct with sullen life and horrid with a multitudinous motion? Eacch separate leaf was agitated and hungry. "Was I bewildered by terror ? Had my senses abandoned me in my need ? I know not—but the tree seemed to me to be alive. Leaning over toward me, it seemed to be pulling up its roots from the softened ground and to be moving toward me. A mountainous monster, with myriad lips mumbling together for my life, was upons me! Like one who desperately defend him self from imminent death, I made an effort for life and fired my gun at the approaching horror. To my d'zzied senses the sound seemed far off, but the shock of the recoil partially recall ed me to myself, and, Starting back, I reloaded. The shot had torn their way into the soft body of the great thing. The trunk, as it received the wound, shuddered, and the whole tree was struck with a 3udden quiver. A fruit fell down, slipping from the leaves, now rigid with swollen veins, as from cavern foliage. Then I saw a large arm slow ly droop, and without a sound it was severed from the juice-fattened bole, and sank down softly, noiselessly, through the glistening leaves. I fired cgain, and another vile fragment was powerless —dead. At each discharge the terrible vegetable yielded a life. Piecemeal I attached it, killing here a leaf and there a branch. My fury in creased with the slaughter till, when ammunition was exhausted, the splen did giant was left a wreck—as if some hurricane had torn through it. On the ground lay heaped together the frag ments, struggling, rising and falling, gasping. Over them dropped in dying | languor a few stricken boughs, while upright in the midst stood, dripping at every joint, the glistening trunk. My continued firing had brought up one of my men on my mule. He dared not (so he. told me) come near me, thinking: me mad. 1 had now drawn my hunting knife, and wiih this was fighting—with tiio leaves. Yes, bnt each leaf was instinct with a horrid lif.-; and more than once I felt my hand entangled for a moment, and seized as if by sharp lips. Ignorant of the presence of my companion, I made a rush forward over the fallen foilage, and with a last paroxysm of frenzy, drove my knife up to the handle iuto the soft bole, and slipping on the fast' congealing sap, fell exhausted and un conscious, among the still panting 1 leaves My companions carried me back to the camp, and alter vainly searching for Otoua, awaited my return to con sciousness. Two or three hours elaps ed before I could speak, and several days before I could approach the terri ble thing. My men would not go near it. It was quite dead ; for as we came up, a great-billed bird, with gaudy plumage, that had been securely feast ing on the decaying fruit, flew up from among the wreck. We removed the rotting foliage, and there 'among the dead leaves, still limp with juices, and piled around the roots, we found the ghastly relics of many former meals, and—its last nourishment—the corpse of little Olona. To have removed the leaves would have taken too long, so we buried the body as ft was, with a hundred vampire leaves still clinging to it." co AL nimo. JusUicc Green's Opinion on the Protection i»r Surface Moil. In the case of Carlin & Co. vs. Chap pel, Justice Green files an opinion of interest to the owners of mineral lands and operatois Referring to the case as it came up in the Court below, be says : "This was an action brought by an owner of the surface against the de fendants, miners underneath, to re cover damages for injuries to the plaintiff's house by reason of the sink ing and cracking of the soil, occasion ed by the mining operations of the de fendants. The only question arising upon the record is whether the Court was in error in refusing two of the de fendants' points. One of the points wa3 as follows: "Under the title in evi dence in this case the defendants are not insurers of the soil; all the duty imposed upon them is to leave such support as would ordinarily support the suiface of the land." The remaining point expresses the same idea, though in slightly different language, thus: "The law does not exact .rom the defendants more than an ordinary careful taking away the su.face of the plaintiff. Thare is no doubt, that under the reservation con tained in the deed from the original owner all the coal underlying the plaintiffs premises was reserved to the grantor and this coal and the right to remove it became invested in the de feuda&ts. The question was what kiud of support of the surface were the defendants bouud to leave ? By their points they asked the Court to say 'such support as would support the surface of the land,' or such as would be left by 'an ordinary careful taking away the coal from underneath the surface of the plaintiff.' "Practically, this amounts to the doctrine that "ordinary" instead of "actual" support is all that the surface owner is entitled to. In other words, if the support is apparently sufficient though not so in reality, the duty of the defendants is discharged. We do not understand this to be the law nor even that the question is an open one under our recent decisions. Referring to recent decisions, the learned Judge says it will hire be seen that the right of the surface owner is declared to be a right to absolute support, and that when such a right exists it is of nocon sequence with what degree of skill and prudence the mine owner conducts his operations." Iu the case of I ones vs. Wagner, Chief Justice Thompson, after quoting the authorities, savs: These citations prove two things, viz , that the owner ofa mineral estate, if the law be not controlled by the conveyance, owes a servitude to the superincumbent estate of sufficient supports, consequently the failure to do so is negligence, and may so be declared upon The concluding portion of the opinion reads as follows: "Of course we do not mean to be un derstood as holding that this right to actual support shall be superior to the consequences of the convulsions of na ture, such as earthquakes and such violent disturbance as may be classi fied as being the act of God. Nothing of that kind is claimed to have trans pired in the present case. Judgment is therefore affirmed. He Prayed Tor too Much Pep per. One of the most prominent preach ers in the city tells the following an ecdote as a fact whenever he hears a story too incredible for belief. "A very wicked man became con verted, and in course of time it be came his turn to pray in class meet ing. Not being used to speaking in public, of course he was very much embarrassed. This is the substance of his prayer: 'Oh, Lord, thou giver of all good things, look down with pity upon our poor people. You are rich and can spare them plenty to eat -while on earth. Send every one of them a full barrel of flour, a side of bacon, a ham or two and a pound of butter Send each one of your hungry, starving creatures a barrel of sugar, a barrel of salt, a barrel of pepper— oh hell, that's too much pepper. Amen.' —Cenfreville (Md.) Record. One of the most remarkable features in the late shearing of the lambs in the oil market was the laying down of a Titusville plumber. The beauty of a lovely woman is like music. Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them. j "Guilty or not guilty?" asked a Dutch justice of a prisoner. '"N «t guilty." "Den wh it you want here 7 Oo about your business." One may be betrayed into doing tl. ucc by :i cmhination of circum stances which oue might never h ve do i<* o herwiso "lint, mother, theo kiow'dt we can n -t love jnst were other folks 'uil have uv There's nobody but God tiiat c.m c >ntrol the hear* of man. It's a deep mystery--the way the lu'svt of man turns to one woman o it of all the rest he has seen in the world, and makes it easier for him to work seven ye:ir 3 'for her, like Jacob did for Rachel, sooner than have any other woman for the asking. The recent electrical storm was a - tended by some particular manifest - tions at Pike's Peak. The summit of the mountain looked as if on fire. Every rock and tree and even the ani mals and human beings in the' vicinity were covered with electric sparks. From the investigations of natural ists it would appear that the trout lives to a green old age. An instance is fciven of a trout, domesticated in an English Veil, having attained the ngr of nearly forty years, though its weight never exceeded two pounds. The smallest bird of America is the humming-bird; and of Europe the golden-crested wren. The smallest quadruped in the world is the pvgmv tnou.se of Siberia. One of the most diminitive plants is the arctic raspber ry, which is so small that a six-ounce vial will hold the whole, branches, leaves and all. The best mats for covering hot beds are made of rye straw of the best quality, tied with tarred spun-yarn, which may be bought of any cord age makers. They are easily and cheaply made, and no covering so effectually protects the hot-beds from f.ost. With proper care they will last for several years. Recent evidence seems to indicato that vegetable matter may, under cer tain conditions, be converted into coal much more rapidly than many geolog ists have believed to be possible. At least an approach to such conversion has discovered in the mines of the Upper HarU, in Germany, where some of the limbers originally used as supports haye been changed into a sub stance which appears to be a genuine lignite, or brown coal. It is believed that the process cannot have extended beyond four centuries—a very brief period compared with that usually as signed to coal formations. He said to the barber: "I want a close shave, lamin a hurry Do uot put any oil or grease upon my hair. 1 never use bay rum or cosmetics. Please comb my hair up and back. I do not waut my hair trimmed or cut. I do not want any tonic or skin medi cine. Ido not want any shampoo or a bath. I have not heard the latest news from Egypt, nor do I want to. Care nothing for politics, or crime, or society. I do not care for stock or market reports. I am not a stranger in the city, and I am not going to the ball this eveing. I am a professor in a deaf and dumb institute, and I am g'ad of it. Go ahead and shave me." The o man in the world, accord ing to bis own story, is a negro named Santa Quanta, who lives in Archer, Florida. He claims to be 130 years old. He was born in western Africa and lived there until he was old enough to have a fall beard on his face. He was then bought by slave dealers and brought to this country. He has had five wives and four chil dren. He has never been sick, and still has his full set of teeth. They are worn down to the gums. He wears a No. 12 shoe and has a frame which indicates that in his prime ho stood over six feet high. He has a good appetite but sleeps very little, hardly ever more than five hours out of 24. He has chewed and smoked tobacco and belonged to the Baptist Church for about one hundred years Women are women the world over. Their intuitive perceptions and quick sympathies put them in the charitable, lead of men, whether civilized or savage. When Niderman and Noros first fell in with the stolid but good-na tured natives of the Siberian coast they might possibly have saved DeLong and his party if they could have pre vailed upon them to go back with their reindeer. But they could not penetrate to the.hearts of the men folks. It was only the women who could be made to understand and minister to their necessi ties. History is full of like instances, as the adventures of Captain John Smith, Mungo Park and others will readily recall to the minds of readers. Women follow the lead of their hearts and men of their heads. It very often happens that when our reason stumbles our affections and cur sympathies car ry us safely forward in the way wo should go. A Blessing. The paia in nil his joints became intense; fever with its deteriorating effects, was now added, and he became rapidly reduced to the semblance of a skeleton, while vitality reached its lowest possible condition, and his suf ferings were of such indescribable character that those who most loved him sometimes thought it would be better if he were called away. At this time, physicians, well-known in this city (Pittsburgh), informed his parents that he was in immint danger of total J'aralyeis, and directly after they an nounced to his sorrowful mother that they could give no hopes of his recov ery. At this juncture the use of TVru na was commenced, and in six week* Wm. Lincoln Curts was v.ell and at work. Read page 23 of Dr. llartmaii'n "Ills of Life;" get it from your ! gist. NO. T