Itohnstaum Jemocra PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY - MORNING, No. 13R KUAN KLIN STKKET, JOHNSTOWN, CAMBRIA CO., J'A. TERMS—#I.OO per year, payable In advance; eutalde the county, fifteen cents additional for postae. If not paid wltliln three months •£ will be charged. A!paper can be discontinued at any time by paying arrearages, and not otherwise. The failure to direct a discontinuance at tho ttplratlon ol the period subscribed lor, will bo considered a new engagement. .Veto Subscriti ttans must be accompanied by the CASH. L. D. WOODRUFF, Editor and Publisher. ~ FRIDAYTAUGUST"23/188!)! IT seems as if Brother Halstead is not being welcomed with open arms by Brother Foraker for a Senutorsliip. There arc also other Buckeye brothers who are not receiving him witli open arms as a Senatorial aspirant. AN Ohio farmer drove into Cincinnati the other day and for the first time heard of Harrison's election, and was so delight ed that he drove out of town with his family so suddenly that he could not be told of Tanner. A MEMBEII of the Indian Bureau in writing of'tlie marriage of a Washington young lady to the Seneca Indian, remarks ; "We have a few more young men to spare if Washington should desire to send some more of her daughters among the dusky braves." THE yacht Maualee party wasn't much of a haul after all. It seems that the plun der secured by the pirates from Senator Quay's party, when summed up, is not great. The clever thief only got away with two gold watches, one scarf pin and forty-eight dollars and thirty cents in cash. Under the circumstances this is not much of a haul. IN HIS MINU S EYE. There is a correspondent ot Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and New York papers in town who as Poldnius says of Hamlet, is " still harping on my daughter." Specia* dispatchcs have appeared in the papers every morning about the great disatisfuc tion existing among the residents of Jolius town, first, about the manner in which the Commission distributed the money, second, relative to the manner in which the late Judge Cummin conducted the business of bis office, and the third and last call is that Beaver lias deter mined to stop the Vork of cleaning up his week. The fact of the matter is that issatisfaction exists only iu the mind of .he correspondent. And as to the inten tion of Gov. Beaver slopping the State work, he has no means whatever of know ing what the Governor is going do. While the Governor has acted so ncwhat strangely in handling ihe Johnstown relief fund, yet no one here imagines he is going to stop the work of cleaning lip at present. HE IIIED AS HE HAH LIVED. After many years ihe violeut life of a j a violent man, the killer of Senator Brodcrick met with u violent death. There is a moral in the case of the killing i of Judge Terry, which is that "a violent life will end in a violent death." The kill ing of Broderick more than a quarter of a century ago, by Terry, was a crime which aroused the sympathies of the whole country, aud the story of that murder is still fresh in the minds of many now liv ing. In regard to the act of the United! States Marshall killiug Terry, there can he but oue opinion. Tiie contumely that Terry put upon Judge Field, was tiie in- 1 suit which was before the premeditated murder of him. Had not the United \ States Marshall killed Terry when he did, ; Terry would have killed Field. But tor the Marshal Field would have been another of Terry's victims. During all his life Terry never asked j nor gave quarters, and it was doubtless J the knowledge of that fact which inspired ! United States Marshel Nagle's notion. , Terry was a man of brute courage and violence, and died with his hands raised j against moral order and the law. • After ( a long and stormy career, reddened with blood and darkened by crime, lie at last I met with the fate lie deserved. " He that taketh the sword shall perish , by the sword." This sober justice of de- j eree has stood tin ouch all ages and all lands. Judge Terr} - and iiis wife were well I matched. She was no less remarkable as j a woman than he was us a man. Her chief j victim, like her husband's, was a United j t States Senator. Terry was a terror. His name almost spelled terror. Terry had nerve, but in the ease of men of his type of nerve, it has always been misdirected. THE UNRECOGNIZED. The large number tif colored men who have congregated in Washington since Marcli 4th, u:id who have remained there in an unsuccessful hunt for " recognition" are dissatisfied with the attitude of the | Administration. They have held several i consultations, and have decided to call a national convention of colored men to meet in that city in October. The an nounced object of the conference is to consider the condition of the colored peo ple of the South, present their grievances i to President Harrison and Congress, and [ urge the passage of Senator Slier ! man's national election law. Among ; the promineut colored men who are interested in tlic movement looking to the national conference are ex-Sen ator Bruce of Mississippi, and Prof. John M. Langston of Virginia. Bruce, who was Register of the Treasury under Arthur, has not yet received an offer of a place from Harrison, and Langston lias little hope of getting into the Congress seat for wh'ch he is lighting since Mahone, his wide-awake enemy, has been put in con trol of the Republican party in Virginia, and backed up by the support of the Ad ministration. Many leading colored men are opposed to the proposed conference, on the ground that it can accomplish no good, but those who are determined to present their grievances against the Ad ministration were in a majority and so the conference, which is not likely to be a harmonious one, will be held. A. P. Atkinson of Georgia, a leader among the colored Republicans, is there, fie ex pects to head the delegation to the confer ence f .'om his State. Mo thinks that it is high time for the colored Republicans of the South to assert their rights, and as certain what treatment they are to receive from the White House aud Congress. Juggling With tli Constitution, Notwithstanding the " Constitution is Constitutional," as declared by Attorney- General William S. Kukpatrick, it is not so considered by the presiding officers of i the Senate and House of Representatives. | Lieutenant-Governor Duvies aud Speaker Boyer are troth juggling with the Consti tution, the highest law of the Slate, in a most disrespectful and discreditable manner. The Lieutenant-Governor is sued a writ for an election to fill the va cancy in the Senate in Collector Cooper's district, aud wilheld like writs in the Al legheny and Speaker Boyer witheld the writs for electing a Repre sentative in the same district where the Lieutenant-Governor issues a writ to fill the Senatorial vacancy. This juggling witli the Constitution upon the parts of the officers of the two Houses is most disrespectful and discreditable. Why this juggling with the Constitution ? The Philadelphia Times asks : '• If a Representative is not needed in Delaware county, Why a Senator ? and if a Sena tor is needed in Delaware, why not in Al legheny anil Lancaster ? The Constitu tion is equally mandatory in all these oases, and why this juggling even in the same district ? Hatlier Hard on KUNHOII. Mr. Russell B. Harrison leaves the won dering Old World to-day, and starts for his native shores. The steamer that carries the elastic and pervasive younker has the most impressive job that has been intrusted to any boat since the days of the famous dory that carried Ctesar and his fonunes. Besides the Republi nan policy, a tine eheekstone, given him by the Shah, a napkin marked "V. R and a diary shock full of reminiscences of Nobs That He Has Met, the Markis of Montana brings with him a choice lot of English Trouserings in the Latest London Style, so that the meeting between him and Wunatnaker will tie doubly affecting. The return of the Markis of Montana ] will be an event to make strong uien grin. It will add to the gayety of nations. It will freshen Republican politics. Blow, leviathan-lunged Wag ! ners that contribute wind to brass! Show your tickets, ladies and gentlemen! The ! circus is about to begin.— N. V. Sim. "Hobo." From the crash and debris of the flood a new word lias sprung into general use about the city, which may yet creep into our dictionaries. The word is "Hobo," a contraction of Hello ! boy, which was addressed to all strangers seen picking up re'ics after the flood. It was first used as a notice to drop whatever was picked up and go, but now.is a term of recognition when friends meet. The latest edition of it is "Hobo got any 'rumdum' in your pocket?" "Rumdum" is a synonym for Jersey lightning. Tlie Cause Explained. A number of eases of sickness in Mox ham, led the State Board of Health to an alyze the waters of a well just back of Camp Moxhani. It was found to contain impurities from a cess pool near by. A card notilied tiie people that tiie water was not healthy, but tiie warning was dis regarded. To prevent its further use and that the health of the community might not further he impaired the pump was removed and carbolic acid thrown into the well. The O'Cnllatum I'timlly. Mr. and Mrs. James O'Callahan, with their daughter, Ella, and Mrs. O'Brien and her daughter, occupied the house No. lit Iron street. Millville borough, before the deluge. When the great wave struck that part of the city they were swept out of ex istence and no trace of them has ever been found. A daughter who was in IJeaver Falls at the time came on shortly after the disaster uud has been here ever -ince, hut so far has been unable to find the faintest clue. _ .. . ♦ Heatli of Judge Watt*. Hon. Frederick Watts, ox-President Judge of the Cumberland, Perry and Ju niata County Courts,and Commissioner of Agriculture under President Grant, died at Carlisle on Saturday last, at the age of eighty-nine years. He was President of tiie Cumberland Valley Railroad for many years. —— - ♦- - She KIOOIIKMI Again. From the Philadelphia Record. " I was once a footlight favorite, and men showered me with pearls and dia monds. Oli ! can Ihe young again ? " she exclaimed witli the fervor of a maiden of sixty-two summers. " You shall be queen (J the Slay," responded Dr. Brown- Seuuurd us he proceeded to his laboratory and slaughtered a fresh guinea pig. ISBP There was once a little girl by the name of Coralie who took pleasure in telling falsehoods. Some children think very little of not speaking the truth, and a small falsehood or a great one, in coso of necessity, that saves them from a duty or a punishment, procures them a pleasure or gratifies t heir self-love, seems to them the most allowable thing In the world. Now Coralie was one of this sort. Tho truth was a thing of which she had no idea, and any excuse was good to her, provided it was believed. Her parents were for a long time deceived by her stories; but they saw at last that she was telling them what was not truo. and from that moment they had not the least confidence in anything she said. It is a terrible thing for parents not to to be able to believe their children words. It would be bettor almost to nave no children, for the habit of lying, early acquired, may lead them in after years to the most shameful crlmos, and what parent can holp trem bling at tho thought that he may be bring ing up his children to dishonor? After vainly trying every means to re form her, Coralle's parents resolved to take her to the enchanter Merlin, who was celebrated at that time over all tho globe, and who was the greatest friend of truth that ever lived. For this reason, lit-tle children that were in the habit of telling falsehoods were brought to him from all directions in order that he might cure them. The enchanter Merlin lived in a glass palaco, the walls of which were trans parent, and nover in his whole life had the idea crossed his mind of disguising one of his actions, of causing others to believe what was not true, or even of suffering them to believe it by being silent when he might have spoken. He knew liars by their odor a league off; and when Coralie approached the palaco ho was obliged to burn vinegar to pre vent himself from being 111. Coralle's moth with a beating heart, undertook to i tain the vile disease which had attar >d her daughter, and blushinglv con. icnced a confused speech rendered ■ ,gty by shame, when Merlin stopped h short. "I know what is the matter, my good lady," said he. ••! felt your daughter's approach long ago. She is one of the greatest liars in the world, and she has made me very uncomfortable." The parents perceived that fame hud not deceive t them in praising the skill of the enchanter, and Coralie, covered with confusion, knew not where to hide her head. She took refuge under the u I iron of her mother, who sheltered her a ■ weii as 6tie could, terrified at the turn affairs were taking while her fathor stood before her to protect her at all risks. '! imy were very anxious that their child should be cured, but they wished her cuied gently and without hurting her. "Don't be afraid," said Merlin; "I do not employ violence in curing these dis eases. lam only going to make Coralie a beautiful present, which I think will not displease her." He opened a drawer and took from it a magnificent amethyst necklace, beauti ful set, with a diamond clasp of dazzling luster. He put it on Coralle's neck, and dismissed the parents with a friendly gesture. "Go, good people," said he, "and have no more anxiety. Your daughter carries with her a sure guar dian of the truth " Coralie, Hushed with pleasure, was hustily retreating, delighted at having escaped so easily, when Merlin called her back. "in a year," said he, looking at her sternly, "I shall come for my necklace. Till that time I forbid you to take it off for a single instant; if you dare to do so woe be unto you I "Oh, 1 ask nothing better than always to wear it, it is so beautiful." In order that you may know, 1 will teil jou that this necklace was none other than the famous Necklace of Tru'ii, so much talked of in ancient books, which unveiled every species of falsehood. % OOKALIE GETS THE NECKLACE. The day after Coralie retui nod home She was sent to school. As she liad long been absent all the little girls crowded around her, as always happens in such cases. There was a general cry of ad miration at tho siuaf of the necklaco. "Where did it come from ? And where did you get it?" was asked on all sides. In those days for any one to say that he had been to the enchanter Merlin's was to tell the whole story. Coralie took good care not to betray herself in lhi way. "1 was sick for a long time," said she, bokll v, "and on my recovery my people gave me this beautiful necklace." A loud cry ros • from allut onco. The diamonds of the • : c-;>, which had shot forth so brilliant a light, had suddenly become dim, and were turned to coarse glase. "Well, yes, I have been slok! What are you making such a fuss about?" At this second falsehood the am thysts in turn chunged to ugly yello'v stones. A now cry arose. Coralie see ing all eyes fixed on her necklace, looked that way herself and was struck with terror. "I have beon to the enchanter Mer lin's," said she, humbly, understanding from what direction lh blow came, anu not daring to persist in her fal-eliood. Scarcely hau she confessed the truth when the necklaco recovered all its beauty, but the loud bursts of laughter that sounded around her mortified her to sueh u degree that she felt tho need of saying something to retrieve her rep utation. t "Ton do rery wrong to laugh," said •he, "for he treated us with the greatest possible rospect. He sent his carriage to meet us at the next town, and you have no idea what a splendid carriage it was— six white horses, pink satin cushions with gold tassels, to say nothing of the negro eoachnian, with his hair powdered, and the three tall footmen behind ! When we reached his palace, which is all of jasper and porphyry, i.e came to meet us at the vestibule, and led us to the dining room, where stood a table covered with things Hint I will not unrne to you, bocause you never even heard spcuk of them. There vcs. in the first place " the laughter, which had been sup pressed with great difficulty ever since eiio commenced this lino story, became at that moment so boisterous that she stopped in amazement, and, casting her eyes onco more on the unlucky necklace, she shuddered anew. At each detail that she had Invented tho necklace had become longer and longer until it already dragged 011 tho ground. "You are stretching the truth," cried I the little girls. '■Well, I confess it; we went on foot I and only stayed five minutes." The neck i lace instantly shrunk to its proper size. "And the necklace the necklace— where did it come from?" "Ho gave It to me without saying a word, probabi " She had not time to iinish. The fatal necklace grew shorter and shorter until it choked her terribly, and she gasped for want of breath. "You are keeping back part of the truth," cried her school fellows. She hastened to alter the broken words While she could still speak. '•He said—that 1 was one—one of the greatest liars—in tho world." Instantly freed from the pressure that was strangling her she continued to cry with pain and mortillcation. "That was why he gave me the nock lace. He said that it was a guardian of the truth, and I liuve been a great fool to be proud of it. Now lamln a lino posi tion r* |l Qt. WHEN SHE STRETCHED THE TRUTH. Her little companions had compassion on her grief, for they were good girls, and they reflected how they should feci in her place. Y'ou can imagine, indeed, that it was somowhat embarrassing for a girl to know that she eould never more pervert the truth. •You aro very good," said one of thgm. "If I were in your place, I should soon send back that necklace; handsome as it is, it is a great deal too troublesomo. What hinders you from taking it off?" Poor Coralie was silent, but the stones began to dance up and down and to make a terrible clatter. "There is something that you have not told us," said the girls, their merriment restored by this extraordinary dauce. "I like to wear it." The diamonds and amethysts danced and clattered worso than ever. "There Is a reason which you are hiding from us." "Well, since I can conceal nothing from you, ho forbade me to take it off,un der penalty of some great calamity." lon can imugine that with a compan ion of this kind, which turned dull when ever tho wearer did not tell the truth, which grow longer whenever she added to it, which shrunk whenever she sub tracted from it, and which danced and clattered whenever she was silent—a companion, moreover, of which she eould not rid herself, it was impossible even for tho roost hardened liar not to keep closely to the truth. When Coralfp once was fully convinced \ hat falsehood was useless and that it wo ulu be instantly discovered, it was not difficult for her to abandon it. The consequence was that when she be came accustomed to always tell the until she found herself so happy in it, she felt her conscience so light and her mind so calm that she began to abhor falsehood for its own sake, and the neck lace had nothing more to do. Long be fore the year had passed, therefore, Mer bn came for Iri necklace, which lie needed for another child that was ad dicted to lying, and which, thanks to his art. tin knew was of no more use to Coralie. No one can tell mo what has become of this wonderful Necklaco of Truth; but It Is thought that Merlin's heirs hid it after his death for fear of tho ravages that it m ight cause on earth. Y'ou cau imagine shut a calamity it would bo to tunny ; • i;ile —1 do not speak only of children— ■f uiev were forced to wear it. borne u velars, who have returned from Con •:..: Africa declare that thev have seen u. n the uock of|a negro king, who knew not bow to lie. but they have never been able to prove their words. Search is still being made for it, however, and if I were a little child in tho habit of telling falsehoods I should not feel quite sure that it might not some day he found attain.—From "Mace's Home Fuirv Tales." Copyright, l*ti7, by Harper & Brothers. Civil Mats. The civil list of the united kingdom amounts to £385,000; the revenue of the duchy of Lancaster amounts approxi mately to £1 >.ob i, making a total of £•145,000. To i his sum may he addml the income of the Prince of Wales—an nuity of iUO.OOO and £OO,OOO from the duchy of Cornwall—and annuities to the other members of the royal family, mak ing a grand total of £685,000. In Austria the civil list is £780,000, and tho emperor has a private fortune which probably brings in as much. In Germany the emperor as king of Prussia has a civil list of £670,000, and besides has large domains, the revenues of which enable him to provide for all (he princes and princesses of his house. The crown prince, however, is entitled to £50.000 per annum from Hie country. In Italy tho civil list of the king is over £600,000. The revenue of tho czar is probably as groat as those of the other sovereigns combined.—London Standard. t.ITAIRKSK. Heath, oome to mel ToXo this pain and Htrlvlng Out of uiy brain. *. Take thia gnawing misery Out of my heart. - * . With your pale cold Angers Lay straight these bonee That arc weary I Shut frmu my sight The azure and the gnen. And the opaline eplendor of n*ta% Enenaring the soul with hope And vlsione of Ufa as splendid! Benumb my ears that I hear not The wail of the thousands Who labor with blending hands. Vet may not reap. Stop the obh and flow of life That brings forco only for defeat. And quickens tho heart only Only that it may bear its anguish. At least bring silence and peace, O, tender and beautiful Death t —Harper's Magazine. A SEI UF SAPPHIRES. IT *T HS. MAJOR GLEN ' ALIVON had invited -■ '/ \\ Jenny Linsley to <££> vlbit the White Sul (vr-'-r X phur Springs with g herduriug the month I"<\ of August, and MM- ,-Y Jenny had accepted, with much rejoiciug. j-h' "A whole month. Jjgjjtyia I mamma," she cried, mlt/M f ecstatically. "Who 111 knows what may ( | 11l '•'( happen in a month?" For Jenny was one of those social suf ferers who are too genteel to work, and too poor to be idle. Captain Llnsloy had been dead a year, and his wife and daughter were already beginning to comprehend what an abyss of debt anil difficulties had underlaid his light and fascinating manner. "Jenny is very handsome," Mrs. Lins ley said wistfully to herself. "If only ?bo had the opportunity, I think she might marry well." "But, mamma," said Jenny, with a troubled look upon her apple-blossom face, "what have I got to wear? My mourning Is a deal too shabby?" "Of course it is," Mrs. Linsley an swered, briskly. "I shall make over my pearl-colorod silk for you, with white blond; and there is the black not, which will do very well, if it Is bright ened up with a few bows and loops of cherry ribbon. And then wc really must order a new white gown—nun's veiling, or ulbatross cloth, or some of that inex pensive material which make such a good show. It needn't cost so much, you know. We can make it ourselves, you and I." Jenny clasped her plump white hands. "Oh, mamma, how perfectly delight ful!" she cried. "But about jewelry ?" Mrs. Linsley's countenance foil. "Ribbons and flowors are most suita ble for a young girl," she suggested. "But I ought to have something," pleaded Jenny. "Oh, mamma, if only I hud Aunt Sabina's sapphires! And she is going to leave them to me at hor death; or, at least, she always said so." "Yes," sighed Mrs. Linslov, "but she'll live to be a hundred years old yet." Aunt Sabfna, Mrs. Linsley's maiden aunt, had all the money there was in tho family. She was a shrewd, wrinkled, lit Lie old woman, who kept her purse strings tightly tied. "Linsley and Barbara always were an extravagaut pair," she said. "They've made their bed; now let them lie upon It. I don't feel called upon to interfere." She had a snug little bank account, this eccentric maiden lady, and son: • valuable trinkets, chief among which was a set of rare old sapphires, each one outlined with a glittering row of dia monds; and these were the jewels after which pretty Jenny's soul yearned so longingly. "Mamma," said Jenny, after a moment or two of sad reflection, "would you write and ask her to lend them to mo?" "It wouldn't be of the least use," said Mrs. Linsley, shaking her head. "Aunt Sabina never lends anything." "Then, mamma," said Jenny, with glittering eyes, "I'll hire a set." "Hire it!" repeated Mrs. Linsley. "Other girls do it," breathlessly de clared Jonny. "And why shouldn't I? There is old Sangulnettl, on Terrace street; he makes a business of renting jewels. I can't afford to hire a set of diamonds for a month, because even to hire they are expensive. But sapphires are becoming to me, and sapphires I'll have." "But, my dearest child," plaintively remonstrated Mrs. Linsley, "where on earth are you to got the money?" "Lilly Hayward will lend it to me," said Jenny. "It was she that told mo about it. She hired a lovely pearl neck lace to wear to Lucy Osmond's birthday party." "People do tho strangest things now a-days, said Mrs. Linsley, with a sigh. So Jenny Linsley hired a set of sap phires ; not so elegant as Aunt Sabina's, to bo sure, but very handsome, insetting of antique gold; a lace-bar, and a pair of ear-pendants, which became hor plump, blond loveliness like a cluster of blue bells. "Only twenty-five dollars for the month," said she, radiantly. "Twenty-five dollars!" said Mrs. Lins ley. "Is not that very dear?" "Oh, mamma, i couldn't buy them for three hundred dollars," said Jenny. "Yes; but how are you ever going to pay Lilly Hayward?" sighed the mother. "Oh ! time enough to think about that when I get back," said Jenny, saucily. "Perhaps I shall bo engaged to some bonanza king, whose money is i.s ex haustions ns the treasures of Aladdin's lamp. Just think what a blessed range of possibility there is within tho thirty oiii' sunshiny days of August." Ami she danced merrily away, leaving Mrs. Linsley to sigh over the elasticity which had long since died out of her own heart. Jenny Linsley went with Mrs. Majot Glenalvon to the White Sulphur Spring , and the first bright evening she came down to "the hop" in her white dress, with pale blue libbons, forget-me-nots pinned in azure masses into the red-gold luxuriance of her hail - , and the sapphires glittering at iter throat and swinging from hor cars like stars of blue, COlTUS cating light. Yes, she was vory pretty. Her glass told her that before sho left the seclusiou of her own room ; the full-length mirrors of the ball-room duplicated the pleasant tale, and the admiring glances of tho as sembled crowd repeated it yet a third time. "And those nice old jowela," sho heard a lady say just behind her in the pause of the dance. "You can tell sho belongs to a fine family from those. No parvenu wears sapphires." "I'm so glad I thought of hiring them from M. Banguinettl," said Jennie to her self. "I should have looked a perfect dowdy without them." But what was our fair herolno's amn. v DMt, as, leaning on Captain Steele's arm, she passed across the wide hall In search of what the captain termed, "a breath of fresh air," to meet face to face- Aunt Sabina! Aunt Sabina, and not alono. Bessie Tuil, a second cousin of Jenny's, was at her side, dressed In u neat little checked silk, trimmed with bands of inexpensive black velvet, while Aunt Suhltin hor.-i 1! wore tin ah in k diamonds, a hi ocadcd sa: iu gown and old lace, that the Metropolitan Art museum would have ot.eied a ran som lor. •Ah!" said Aunt Sabina, graciously, while her keen glance look in evorv Item ; of Jenny's costuuio, "it's my niece, Jenny | Llnsley. How do you do, my dear? I I h >;> io see you well. Nice' sapphires I llio-e you are wearing." ! "Ves," said Jenny, lain; ly. She liad not the morai courage, espe j eialiv lielore Captain Steele, to coufes-. } that they were ineteiv hired for the m : casion. "A gay place, this," said Aunt Sabina. "Bessie Tail, and 1 have been here for a month. We are going away tomorrow.' , And thon the crowd parted them. "I am glad they axe going," thought Jenny. "1 should feel a- unasy under - Aunt Sabine's regards us the wedding 1 guest did when the Aueieut Marino 0 ilxed i.im with his glittering eye. I can bicathe freely when she is gouo." It ''nny Linsloy had a delightful month, a it .is full of music, picnics, promen -1 nude concerts and ilirtalious; but when . she came home, OD the Ist ot September. : he wore no engagement ring. . "They were all delightlul," she said, i with a sigh and a smile, "but they neve: . J any of them, came to the point. Oh. f • mi ma, my campaign has been a lallui. .d'.er all." And here is a letter from Aunt Sa j iiina," said Mrs. Lineley. "It cam } wliilo you were gone. See what !.•• I says." ' it was a shrewd, pleasant, sensible lot • l .or, congratulating "Niece Barbara' . n I . .'cony's beauty and style. "but." added Aunt Sabiua, "It muatoost ' I ;<> dress her as you have done. And. ... i sac wears such handsome sapphires, (hi ) rci Hiy set to Bessie Tait. As old fmil>- |. ... sot without value, Bessie is delighted tr. ,'i,. , tV'U. and your Jane will not tuiss ihem. V>; I ov r ilessie is like a daughter to luy eld ape ix. r Inc.. decided permanently to adopt her a. .ay ••nny looked aghast. •• The sot of sapphires," cried sli •, i iveu to Bessie Tait! Oil, mammal • 1 told you not to hire those stone .. Mivuinetti's," said Mrs. Linsloy. • - f .• ' ieutly. ■v id she has lopted Bessie, too ' m: l Jenny "Then farewell, a long 0.v.i11, to all ray hopes of inheritance. "V> hat are we to do?" suid Mrs. Liu - i i may as well drown ourselves, for ill that I can see," said Jenny. i But she did not drown herself, blo wout into a fancy store the next week as > my.girl, and earned a decent little in i-.>.iie, while Mrs. Linsley staid at lioiu.- utci did what law copying s*m could go' And Jenny Linsley never wore silks nor upphires again. -N. Y. Ledger. An Knormou* C*lt>l>. Among the many wonders of the Pu exposition there is nope, says u wr;'- r in the "Boston Transcript,"*! hat she 1 more accurate scientilic knowledge ■> the part of the makers than the cant mouß globe on which the earth's sur face is depicted. The diameter i s forty • two feet and the surface is 525 squar feet and these figures arc said to repr - sent just one-millionth of the ditueusioi s i of the great original. The seaio permit i close detail. Large cities have the ou - lines and some of their principal thor oughfares expressed, all drawn t , scale. Everything that relates to the earth, its geography, its political divisions, a!! its means of communication on laud ri sen, is shown. The globo is made o. stout pasteboard, in 100 pieces, covered > with piaster, fastened to a skeloton o wrought-iron ribs, and although it very heavy, so finely adjusted is th i balance that it will turn at the slighter; touch. i If it were rotated at the same velocity , as tiiat of the earth its movement would hardly bo visible as n poiut at the equator where tho 6peed would be highest would move at the 'rate of only an inch a minute. > I.inil< up.. Gardening at t'liainonlx. Travelers who visit Chamonix will be ; astouished, on approaching the village by the Geneva road, to see some exteu i sive earthworks at tho foot of the moun i tiiiu side on tho loft ot tin- valley. These unsightly works are being carried on i > an eccentric Englishman, J. G. T. Sin •• lair, who has purchased at least 40, 0ur square motors of the mountain side ami rocks in order to make an artificial lak . a fairy grotto, a dripping well, etc. i In order to form the lake Mr. Sinclair has dammed up a small brook, and its level Is regulated by a series of sluices. Tiie lake is 60 meters long and 30 wide, end there is a diminutive island in the middle. At one end is an imitation gi otto from tho stucco. Water is brought to this by moans of turning the course of : a mountain torrent, which is made to run into a small basin at the foot of the lowering rock a, and thon through a pipe to the reservoir above tho lake grotto. By this means a regular cascade can be i iil.imina.ted from the interior of the grotto. At one end of tho lake imitation ruins ufa Gothic chapel are to be erected. Mr. Sinclair has also built a fortress on the top of his rock, some !K)0 foot above i the level of the lake.—Swiss Herald. Inventor ol" the Thermometer. The actual inventor of the thermometer i is not known. The honor of Inventing it has been given to several natural philos i ouhors —to Galileo, to Hicobel, to Saiic > lorio, to Paulo Siirpi aud to Bo bet i'iudd. Tho claims of Hubert Find.l are more tangible tlmu tho-o of Drobbt i. Sanctorlo or Harpi, but the in-tnimci:. invented by Galileo lat fore IV. 7 com-. i post entitled to be eons.de;oil the pre cursor of acourate thermometers. All the earlier instruments were un t heriuosoopes, and until the variation o, ' atmospheric pressure was discovered . their uso was only deceptive. The gvo. ( step in advance of inventing llic iiboico 1 thermometer is also duo to Galileo, bo. i tiie date, probably 1611 or 1612. is not ! precisely known. Edward Hailoy Intro duced mercury as the liquid for tho in strument in 1660.—Exchange. 1 • tiling to See It. * Washington guide—Have you ever seen a bird's-eye view of the capital? j Mayor of Podunk—No; hev ye got a lard's eye with yo?—Judge. CURTAIN LKCTUHK TOR ICS. 9 9 Ooneult with your wife. Better use, on a rainy day, mind and ( pen than tongue and jack-knife. "All work makes Jack a dull boy," and I no work makes Bill a very mean one. When tho wife and children attend to i. the poultry, it isn't fair toexohange eggs t tor tobacco and machine oil.
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