ABOUT ORIENTAL RUGS. THE LOVELY PRODUCT OF EAST ERN RELIGIOUS LIFE. Every Worshiper an Artist—The Prayer Bug of the Turk —A Great Institution with Both Moslem and Clir'stlau—Pa tient Industry and Consummate Skill. In all sizes unci in all possible colors, with figures fantastic or designs most exquisite; soft and glossy as a seal fur or thick and shaggy as a boar skin; fresh from the looms of Persia or old as the empire of the sultans, and bearing the dust of the Caucasus, come the ori ental rugs to the marts of western civili zation The oriental rug is the product of eastern lift;. The mountain sheep sup plied its material, nature taught the de sign and gave the coloring, and the re ligion of the people became the impulse and guiding spirit of the deft woman fingers that through many centuries spread"the knotted mystic covers in the homes and shrines of the orient. Eastern life is religion. The people eat, drink, work and think according to the dictates of their traditional faith; and though the idea of utility may have some time largely entered into the pro duction of rugs in the orient, the domi nant spirited' the work has been religion, and the rug is thus sacred in the eyes of tiie people. In the prayer of the Islam center va rious sacred ideas. lie bows down be fore his Maker, and the material on which lie rests his hands must be suscep tible to spotless cleanliness; ho wants to find himself in an atmosphere of high thoughts and sacred suggestions, and as he looks down in kneeling he sees the living green and crimson—symbols of life and power—mingled in all mystic figures with blue and gold that carry to him faint ideas of love and glory. At home in the rooms where the morning sun looks in. the pious Turk finds in his prayer rug the associations of the mosques in his native city, or of the holiest of holies where lie prayed in his pilgrimage to Mecca, in the form of domes and panels and the designs of en caustic tiles, and peculiar arrangements of stone and brick in the walls: so that wherever the worshiping Turk may be found, kneeling upon a prayer rug against the eastern sky, the soul finds itself in the midst of sacred associations and breathes the holy atmosphere of the temple where it has prayed with the faithful. Tbusdigniiied, the oriental rug becnime a great institution among the peoples oi the orient, hotli Moslem and Christian, and industry and talent have been de voted to it for centuries.. By reason of the high value thus put upon a good rug, tlie mothers and daughters of the people who set themselves to the arduous task of "tying up" a rug spared no pains in procuring the best materials, and their zeal developed the highest talent. In many casei they were made for votive offerings to mosques and shrines; then nothing was to lie spared, Buskin's "lamp of sacrifice" was there in all brightness; it is a gift to God, and must he costly. The finest wool, the best of dyes and the highest talent were put upon the altar, and some of these old Ka.tak and Daghistan rugs that stray out of a Turkish mosque or shrine are splendid works of art, with an exuber ance of rich, soft coloring and bold de sign that delight tlie eyes and call forth the admiration of appreciative minds. There is no complicated machinery in tlie manufacture of an oriental us. the warp I'.'ing stretched on a simple frame, and ail the rest of the work done by tying the colored yarn across the warp in a line, in a peculiar strong knot, combing it down hard and cutting it the necessary length. Where each particular tuft of yarn had thus to lie tied in a knot by the skillful lingers of the artist wea ver, a medium sized rug of good quality required the labor of months or years, according to the simple or elaborate de sign which the artist carried in mind. Con iiicring the tact that there was no machinery to save labor, no chemicals, no shadow of an art school, an antique oriental rug of fair quality', that in color tuid texture lias defied the tread of cen turies. is no mean proof of the patient industry and consummate artistic skill of the daughters of the orient. Professor William Thomson tells of an oriental rug which the family had in his boyhood in Syria. It had done ser vice of all kinds long enough to be torn in two, and the half rug used to go to the sea shore with the boys to receive no gentle treatment. When soiled with earth it would be washed in salt sea water and thrown on the burning sands to dry under the Syrian sun, that can bleach anything; but the only effect of the ordeal on the half rug would be to give the colors new life. What is 1110 intrinsic value of an an tique oriental rug? Answer, lie who can. That soft, glossy Anatolian prayer rug, with lino, intricate design border ing the rich gold ground, is the handi work of a passionate maiden, who spent years of patient toil on it, while before her mind there stood the distaut visions of herself, a mother, kneeling on that rug in ardent prayer for her children. That rug could hardly be produced today for its own weight in gold, for not only the artist and the dyes are gone forever, hut the patriarchal days of peace and quiet prosperity that made such art and labor possible are no more to be found under Turkish skies. Turki/h rugs of tho highest quality have always been made in the region of the Caucu its mountains by Turks, Ar menians, Turcomans und Kurds, the lat ter two being nomad races. "Daghis tau" (which means mountain region) is a generic name given in the native coun try to nil close woven, heavy, line wool rugs, which would naturally tie made in a region where a largo portipn of the people am occupied asshepherds rearing HOCKS of line sheep. The term "Daghis tan," however, lias now come to be uni versally applied to the finest quality of short nan Caucasus rugs, made generally oblong tu shape.—Herant M. Kiretch jian in New York Wail and Express. HERMIT OF TOE PLAINS. TRAVELERS IN TEXAS ENTERTAINED BY A MYSTERIOUS HOST. fie I. Beooffnlced by One of Mia Curat., Who la Fnrblddert to Speak the Hermit's Name on Peril of Ilia Life —Subsequent Disappearance of the Stvatit-e Mao. A certain gentleman, whom I shall call Herr L , was sent to Texas from Mer lin by a syndicate of German noblemen who were desirous of investing in land for the purpose of establishing u'l exten sive ranch Herr L stopeo in Fort Worth for a few days. nd. hearing favorable accounts of the country lying northwest of this city, became impressed with the idea that bo would find there a suitable location for the proposed ranch, lie wished to visit the sections lie thought of purchasing, and your correspondent, as agent for the Houston and Texas Cen tral, which owned the lands, was ap pointed .to accompany iiiin. We left the railroad at Vernon, and went by private conveyance to the tract in question, which lay some eighteen miles out from that town. As we left the hotel at Vernon we asked the landlord if there was any house ou the road where we could pu up for the night should it happen that we would not bo able to make the return trip that day "No bouse at all, sir," said mine host, "except that of the hermit." "The hermit!" we both exclaimed. 'Yes, the hermit of the plains, lie's a sir "lar foreign character, who lives sou.e fifteen miles from here, all alone, in a little shanty about half a mile off the road. He's so mighty unsociable lie's got himself the name of the hermit of the plains, lie might take you in, Mr. , but it's one of his peculiarities that he can't bear a German" | with a glance at my companion], "and lie wouldn't accommodate me to save his life." "A rabid Frenchman, in all probabil ity," said Herr 1, , as we drovo off. We had a capital pair of brisk little Texas ponies, all fire and nerve, and, the roads being good, reached our object point in good time, but Severn' hours were consumed in driving over the coun try, and. unconscious of the lliglit of the short day t we were surprised to find our selves near its close. Another reason lor haste was also apparent in the purplish masses of cloud lying near the horizon that threatened a storm. In an Incredibly short time darkness was 'on us and the entire heavens black with the coming tempest. The ponies been mo unmanageable at the first peal of thunder and forsook the road, which 1 vainly en deavored to find again; but the vivid flashes of lightning, instead of serving me, only added to my .confusion. An hour's plunging here and there in the bald prairie threw me completely out of my reckoning, and when at last the storm had spent itself anil the rain began .a pour down in torrents, I couldn't have told uly right hand from my left. Ilerr L called my attention to a dim but steady spark of light burning close to the horizon at no great distance from us. Tal itig ii to lie at some house wo drove the now subdued ponies straight to it, and found ourselves before a low shanty, through whose unshuttered window that welcome light was shining. We knock ed, and a voice in English, though with a slight foreign accent, called out to know who we were. We replied that we were two belated, lost travelers, who sought the shelter of a roof for the night. After some delay'the door was opened, and we stepped in. A man of average height, but of a commanding, elegant ''aring, stood holding in his hand a candle, whose light falling ou his face revealed it most distinctly. Ilerr L looked at liirn and at once ex claimed in amazement: "God in heaven, it is tie Count ion i" But the name was umutircd, for the man dropped the candle fbstantly, and sprang like a wild beast at L 's throat, crying, in Gorman: "Spec!: that name and 1 kill you like a dog!" L gasped out that lie would not, and his assailant took his hands from his throat and relighted the candle. The room was furnished rudely, but was scrupulously clean, and the plank table covered with bookjj that proved on ex amination to tie the untranslated Latin poets, with a few well chosen volumes of English essays. The hermit provided us wit' a supper of boiled ham and crackers, and then, turning to L , said that if he would pledge himself not to reveal to any one his name and whereabouts wo would be welcome to such shelter as he could offer. L promised, and we remained all night. There was only one room, and we all slept in blankets on the iloor. Our mys terious host had little or nothing to say, and when L volunteered some infor mation in regard to recent German poli tics, replied that he wished never to even hear the name of that country mentioned again. • "I don't ask you who that man is, af ter your having given your word to him, Ilerr L ," I said, "but what is he, or rather what has lie been?" "I will t 11 you only this," answered my companion. "That lone hermit is the head of ' :ie of tho most powerful families in Germany. He is supposed to have died, however, some years ago. At any rale, a cofiin was buried with every possible honor, and, up to last night,] am sure, it never occurred t-> any one to doubt his body lay in it. He occupied oneofthc must important pi/si lions-at court, and 1 am at a loss to understand his exile to these Texus plains, lor he left a charming young wife, an exalted rank and a prim ely income lor that hovel." "You will never tell of your discov ery?" I queried. IJerr 1, quietly answered theques tion, of which I became a little ashamed: "Sir, 1 am a gentleman." 1 again had occasion to visit the vicin ity of Vernon, and, on inquiring for the hermit of the plains, was informed that ho had <li-appeared from that neighbor hood, leaving no trace behind.—Fort Wort li for. St. Louis Globe Hemocrat. IT IS BOILED 'WAY DOWN. SOME FACTS FROM A CHEMIST ABOUT CONDENSED MILK. The rrocesrt of Preparing It for the Mar ket— How and by Whom It Waa Find I>one—Wliv It Is In Certain Form Good Food for Infants. "Tell me something about condensed milk, its manufacture and its popular | uses," requested a Globe reporter of one j of the best known chemists in Boston, as the two sat discussing matters in gen eral. "The demand for condensed milk grew, I suppose, out of a desire to render milk capable of being transported long distances and to keep it sweet for a long i time. It is hardly worth while to go I into a technical description of the pro- I cess of condensing; as it is simply evapo | ration—by means, however, of a vacuum | pan. WORKING IT OCT. "In the middle of this century, Pro fessor E. N. Horsford made numerous experiments showing that milk could be successfully condensed by evaporating it at a low temperature with the addi tion o/ soma sugar. 110 did not employ a vacuum pail, but lie pointed out the moans by which his assistant, Dalson, with Blatcliford and Harris, succeeded in placing the first condensed milk upon the market. This milk, which was sold in cakes packed in tin foil, formed part of the provisions which Dr. Kane took with him on his polar expedition. "In 1850 Blatcliford improved the pro cess by introducing tlio vacuum pan. In the same year Gail Borden obtained a patent for applying the vacuum pan in a particular way to the preparation of condensed milk without the addition of sugar or other foreign substance. This milk, however, would not keep for any length of time, and Borden added sugar: and his preserved milk appeared on the market in tin boxes, hermetically sealed. Horsford and Borden share the honor of having invented condensed milk. "Condensed milk is prepared by evap orating ordinary milk at a temperature below 100 dogs. O; preserved milk is con densed milk to which sugar lias been added during the process of evapora tion." "What is the ordinary condensed milk of commerce?" asked the writer. "Simply condensed milk to which cape sugar lias been added. They found that in the condensing, after the mill; reached a boiling point, the fat separ ated from tlio rest, and a proper degree of thickness could not be obtained, but that by adding cane sugar the milk could be reduced to the desired consist ency. If the milk were thin enough to shako around in the can it would be churned, as it were, by handling, and little lumps of butter would gather in it. Even in common milk that lias, been brought to uie for analysis, I have found little lumps of butter if it lias come a long distance on the cars. "Then there is another kind of con densed milk that milkmen sometimes work off on their customers when their regular supply has been soured by a thunderstorm" "Is it really a scientific fact that a thunderstorm will sour milk?" broke in the reporter, whose crude ideas),on that point had been suffering for enlighten ment for veers. "Yi s, J think so," continued the chem ist. "At least the conditions during a thunder storm nre such that milk often will sour then. For one thing, thunder storms usually come on very hot days. Then, too, the unusual amount of ozone prevalent during a thunder storm, the presence of nitric acid, in fact, caught in the air, washed down by the rain, may have something to do with the souring." DIFFERENT QUALITIES OF MILK. "But as 1 was saying, milkmen often carry around in bulk, in ten quart cans, a kind of condensed milk made without sugar, and t hat will keep several days. That kind is the best in the world for babies brought up bv band." "How is that?" asked the reporter, growing suddenly interested. "Well, this fallacy about 'or.e cow's milk for tin? baby' is pretty well knocked out now. People in the iirst place are not sure that they are getting one cow's milk, and the next place if they are and the cow is diseased the baby's health is endangered. The milk of a whole herd is more uniform; and the process of con densing will remove or destroy any in jurious ingredients or taints that might have been in the milk before it was boil ed. This kind of condensed milk is the best for coffee, also, as it will not dilute and weaken the coffee as common milk will. I have used it in my family for years." "It is strange," added the chemist, "that there is no law regulating the sale of impure or condensed milk, or milk not up to the standard. The Jaws affect ing common milk are many and stringent, but they do not apply to condensed milk. Now, here is the result of an analysis I have just made of two samples of con densed milk, the first made from partly skimmed milk and tho second from whole milk: Per cent. Water D 3.80 Fat 6.40 Solids not fat 00.40 Total 100.00 Water. 87.43 Fat ... 10.26 Solids not fat 40.20 Total IWI.OO "You notice that the first is more than half water and contains oril'y 5.40 per cent, of fat; yet the public couldn't tel' the difference." "What is milk sugar?" asked the writer. "Milk sugar is made by extraction from whey, which contains 83 per cent of milk sugar. It is not sweet, is insolu ble tn water and will not decompose. It is used a great deal in medicine, mixed with pepsin, for instance, and to make those little pills liomceopathists use. It comes to this country from Switzerland, chiefly, erystalized on thin sticks, just as rock candy is on strings."—Boston Globe. SOME CUHIOUS THINGS. DDD AND BEAUTIFUL OBJECTS FOUND IN THE FAR EAST. The Foifht llucll.t'k Method of Starling Fire* —Cutiibt'raome "Coins" of the Dyak People*—Many and Interesting Kinds of Read*. The 'forest dwelling peoples of the fur ther east have an odd instrument for making fire. Very seldom, so far as we observed, do they employ the proverbial method of "rubbing" two sticks—which is not rubbing at all. Near the coast every man carries a hit of pitcher in the Biri box or bamboo slung at his waist, a chip of a plate, English or Dutch, and a handful of dry fungus. Holding this tinder under his thumb upon the frag ment of earthenware, lie strikes the side of tiie siri box sharply, and it takes fire. But this method can only be used by iribes which have such communication willi the foreigner as supplies them with European goods. The inland peoples use a more singular process. They carry a short cylinder of lead, hollowed roughly to a cuplike form at one end, which fits a joint of bamboo. Placing this cylinder in the palm of the left hand, they fill the cup with tinder, adjust the bamboo over it. strike ■sharply, remove the covering as quickly, and lhe tirder is alight. Ob servers who take a narrow view have de clared that the earliest art practiced hy human I cings after they escape from mere barbarism is pottery. These races have long pa .sed that stage, but we do not recall any evidence that they use the art. The fact is that, in countries which produce the bamboo, earthenware is hardly needed except for luxury. They make charms and fetiches of dried clay. MEASURING VALUES. But in Borneo the Dynl; peoples have a class of foreign earthenware singu larly interesting. As Malays employ brass guns for their currency, so the Oyaks employ antique vases. In neither instance do tho actual "coins" pass from band to hand, since by brass gun a Malay signifies a cannon, twenty feet long, perhaps, and a Dyak signifies a vessel eighteen inches high or more. These tilings are measures of value, divided into imaginary fractions. There are three varieties of this earthenware— the gusi. which represents about £50(1 sterling, the naga and rusa, much less valuable. The first is certainly Chinese, and the last probably, but perhaps they never came from the continent. At some date unknown the nortli of Borneo was occupied by a Chinese colony which must have numbered millions. This great time, when a third part of the isl and was cultivated and densely peopled, may have been 800 years ago. But the first paragraph in the "Annals of Ilmni" recognizes a powerful Chinese kingdom of liataugan in the Fifteenth century— we are not to digress into that fascinat ing lluine, however. The Celestials were exterminated about two genera tions ago; an old friend of ours, the great Chief Gasing, still carried ten pig tails attached to his sword of state— trophies of his father's valor, probably. Chinese merchants have tried again and again to Counterfeit the old jars, as have the Dutch, but they never succeeded in passing off their imitations. The Naga tuav be Hindoo or Japanese, of very re mole antiquity; both peoples had great settlements in the island at somo time beyond human memory. They have left Buddhist remains of importance here and therft. • We secured no samples of these curi ous tilings, for reasons that have been suggested. But the recollection calls to mind '.nine extraordinary objects of the same class, in a sense, which are treas ured i u the other side of the world. WONDERFUL BEADS. The Ag:,ry and the Popo beads, which serve for jewels in West Africa, are glass re.i'inl I. earthenware of unknown uiaiinl' ' f immemorial antiquity, and i lern skill to counterfeit. Mud ;.:i nations, probably, have tried I at imitating the Aggrv bend. wdest chemists and the clov I .ers of Venice and Bir ining! .• done their host; the pot ters o, . ;d, France and Germany have ■ ,1 their resources, but in vain 1. • ; cot seem such a difficult enter])!':. . however. The beads are ir regular ii shape and size; many have been sawn in two. They havcran opaque ground—ochre yellow in the most valu able species—but so various that this point gives no trouble. A rough orna ment of circles in another hue runs through the material from side to side or end to end. Here, again, imitation seems easy, to the craftsmen of Venice in par ticular; but appearances are deceptive, evidently. The Popo bead, less valuable, but valuable enough, is blue glass, trans parent, but so manufactured that it shows a dull yellow against the light. These things are all found in the earth; but, so far as can be ascertained, they never turn up in company with bones or other signs of burial, which, to our mind, is the most curious fact of all. That they are ancient Egyptian is a certainty. Many hundreds, if not thousands,were taken in the sack of the palace at Coo tnassie, strung, in general, upon that very pretty cord which we mentioned, with gold nuggets beaten flat, and cubes of coral and tufts of colored silk inter spersed. Very handsome they looked, no doubt; ujcoit the smooth brown skin of the royal dames, A pretty bracelet frtmi Coomursie is made of triangular pieces cut from the rib of a shell, snow white, strung in groups alternately with these small flattened nuggets. Hut tlio curiosities saved in that loot hear only a miserable proportion to those which men of taste admired in the palaeo and the big houses of thecaboceers. But one stool was carried away—as memorial for the Princess of Wales—among the hundreds adorned with silver which lay in all di rections. Very charming were many of these—the Ashantee artist seemed to de vote ids best attention to the stools. Seven were piled, as if for removal, in the courtyard of a great house, eaph plated with repousse work, showing much taste ana ingenuity of design. Those** people have "gifts."—Saturday Review. GLEAINGS FROM EVERYWHERE. Pithy Pftragrnplm of Late News in Con. <ln.(l Form. Whittier has refused an offer of $2,500 for a Christmas poem. New York is left in temporary darkness because the authorities are taking down the dangerous poles and wires. The Czar is now a performer on the violin. If this does not clear the Winter PalaCe of Nihilists nothing else will. Farmer Hudson, of Templeton, San huis, Obispo county, Cal., pulled a beet the other day that weighed 154 pounds. It was seven feet long. A conference will assemble at Mel bourne, Australia, in February, lo discuss the advisability of forming a confedera tion embracing all the Australian colo nies. A new Philadelphia man who went west and became a faro gambler, accumu lated a fortune of $500,000, but played rashly and lost it all. lie is now insane iu the county infirmary. The dav after Harrison's extradition t'eaty was sent to the Senate a Michigan doctor skipped lo Canada with $50,000 of other people's money. He was evi d .'ally a close reader of the newspapers. Mr. Carnegie's intimation that he may b i able to accord Mr. Cleveland his tlls t nguished support in 1802, iu case the latter is the nominee, can probably be set down as n delicate touch of Pittsburg irony. At a meeting of the School Directors of Schuylkill county, at Poltsvillc, a resolu tion was passed favoring Hon. Henry L tucks as the successor of the iatc Dr. E. E. Higbbte as State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Zo'a reports tlmt his attempt to reduce his weight, which was very great, by not drinking, resulted in a reduction of ten pounds in eight days. At the end of three months he had lost forty-five pounds, and was in much improved health. The New York weekly Mail and E.t press has given $lO,OOO to the Graut Me morial Fund and all subscriptions to the paper are to be turned over to the associ ation. Mrs. Grant says the tomb of her hu.-baud is Anally located at Riverside l'ark. Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, has served longer in the United States Sena'c than any of his colleagues. On April 5, 1800, he will have been ill the Senate without a single break 24 years. .Mr. Edmunds will be (12 in February. He looks his age. The epigram of Mr. Speaker Heed, to the effect that "'the Senate is where good statesmen go when they die," sounds telling, but it is not a correct stateineut of the facts. The Senate is where big millionaires congregate when they wish to sjiow how much.strength their barrels can exert in politics. Australia is reported to have got a new explosive which is one-third more ex plosive than dynaniate. and is expected to work wholesale destruction in the Held. The inventions of destruction will soon reach a point which will wipe the deleated at my out of existence and break up tine victorious one by its cost. Among the collection of relics m the National Museum is an enormous puneh bow 1 which once belonged to George Washington. The more we stu-'y the life of litis great and good man the more evi dence do wc find of a kindly and genial nature which softens the somewhat grave and austere aspect in which history presents him, and renders lim still more dear to the memory of his countrymen. " Uoliah," one of the big trees of Cali fornia, is a solid tree measuring twenty three feet through tit the ground, twenty feet at Ave feet above the spreading base, and seventeen feet still higher up. It has been estimated that its weight is about 100.000 tons, and that it would make ,500,000 feet, board measure, of clear lumber, the branches and top piling up 100 cords of wood. The citizens of East Bradford township, Chester county, arc stirred up by the uu eartbly cries of a wild animal that i 9 roaming the fields anil woods of that part of the county at night. The farmers and their families are awakened in the middle of the night by cries that curdle their blood, and none are so brave as to hunt the animal. It is supposed to he a wild cat. Over 300 old soldiers of Westmoreland county met a Greensburg Thursday to discuss questions of importance to them. Resolutions were adopted that the per diem pension bill should become a law; that the arrearage bill should have its date so changed as to allow all applicants for pensions their arrearages, and that all soldiers and soldiers'widows who have been allowed pensions by special acts of Congress should be allowed airearages. liev. Mr. Talmage says ■-f Solomon : " He had at his command gold to the value of $3,400,000,000, and he had silver to the value of $5,145,000,377, yet Solo mon was not happy." Well, when it is remembered that he had several hundred wives, it doesn't seem surprising that he should have felt low spirited at times. It is extremely doubtful if the exuberttn Mr. Talmage would be happy under sim ilar conditions. A young lady school teachei of Sumter county, Florida, one night last week dreamed that she was whipping one of h.-r scholars, and from reports she cer tainly had a terrible time of it. She waked up the inmates of the 'bouse by screaming : " Won't you be a good boy —won't you study your lessons—won't you quit silking pins in the scholars ? " Her mother, thinking Unit something must he tin: matter, rushed into thb young lady's room and saw iter shunting up in bed, beating, kicking and otherwise abus ing a pillow. OUR Y. M. C. A. Strong; Effort* Being Mu<le to Recover From the Heavy Losnc* by the Flood. The Young Men's Christian Associa tion of Johnstown deserves great credit for the rapidity witli which recovery from the great disaster is being made. The organization now has pleasant rooms again, witli piano, games, and other elevating means of recreation.where tiie long winter evenings may he pleas antly spent. As our city has little or no means for entertainment, it becomes all the more necessary that there shall be some steps taken to supply means of pure enjoyment. The Association issues a circular re questing a return of all who have'held memberships. A united effort is making to secure a circulating library for the As sociation. This will partly t:ike the place of the lost Sunday School libraries, and also of the Cambria Library. It is ,0 be sincerely hoped that the young men will meet with prompt and ample assistance in their worthy en deavors. MOltt: THAN JIK I! VK(JAINKI) roit. 'Squire Mcdougli, of I'ortagp, Order* u Cof- Hii and Gets On© Willi a Body In it. On Tuesday a Hungarian was killed at Potage, and. having no friends, he had to be buried at [the expense of the county. An order was given to have the cotßa shipped to 'Squire McGough, who was to see to tiie burial. At the same time Under taker Henderson got an order from Poor Director Easly to Cotlin the Hungarian, Qusky, who was killed at the stone bridge. Somehow the two orders got con fused. and the Hungarian killed here was. sent in the coffin to 'Squire McGough. His surprise, when he received the colli u with the corpse in it, can lie imagined. He returned the body to Johnstown yes terday morning, and it was hurried in Sandyvaie. OUT IN THE COLD. Coopersilnle Horotigh Will Nut he a ('art ol the New City at Kirst. It is expected that the charter for the new city of Johnstown will he issued in a day or so. Coopersdale not being con tiguous with the other boroughs that voted in favor of consolidation, will, it is stated, not be included in the incorpora- 1 lion, but may he annexed as soon as the new city Council organizes and takes the necessary steps. Other territory may also he annexed, should the people so desire. As now constituted the city will contain sixteen wards, the Seventh, which now includes Moxliam and the other territory recently snnexed to Johnstown borough, being the largest. Public School* of l'enns>lvuulii. HAKRISBCKG, Decern tier 20 —The annual report of the lateSuperintenilent of Pub life Instruction, Dr. Higbeo, is in the hands of t tie State Printer. It says: "The schools now number 21,889, an increase since last year of 54T. The increase the previous year was only 290. The increase in the number of pupils is 18.17(5, differ ing little from the increase of the previous year." Dr. Hlgbec says now that the ap propriation from the State is double what it was four years ago, the average salary of the teachers should be raised. 'The want of proper remuneration, he says, is injuring the status of our schools, and lie suggests that directors and parents re fuse to make the matter rf selecting teachers nothing more than the employ mcnt of the cheapest candidites in tho maiket. lie regrets that the bill for a closer inspection of our schools in rural districts failed of passage at the lu-t ses sion. A Mystorou* shot. (iitKENSBCHO, PA., December 1!). Frank Miller, a thirteen-year-cld son of Fredolin Miller, wl the Greensburg Hanking Com pany, fell to the pavement yesterday on his way home from school. When picked up he complained of a prickins sensation in his right leg, an examination showed that lie had been shot through the fleshy part of tiie thigh. The ball which had passed through his leg, was a twenty two calibre. The shooting is a mystery. He is resting easy and will be about again in ten days. * Fine New Plate-Glass Windows. The extensive repairs and remodeling lhat have been going on for some time in the large business establishment of John Thomas & Sons took a big step toward completion yester'day when eight tine large plate-glass windows were placed in position. The establishment considering its depth and frontage, is the largest in the city, and the present work of remod eling it, when completed, will give it a very imposing external appearance aw well as making it a model of conveni ence in its internal appointments. The lloiiy Found 011 \Yt-du *duy The body found at the edge of the Stonycreek, by Sandy vale Cemetery, and taken to the morgm on Wednesday afternoon is described as follows : No. 514, female, apparently about fifteen or sixteen years of age, dress of garnet or wine-colored cottonade, reaching about to shoelaps, metallic buttons, white mus lin sk'rt, white cotton urtdershirt. black wooien hose (likely home made), buttoned shoes about number one or two. To b© KUIIK ut Christ! mu*. The large bell belonging to St. John's Catholic Church, an account of which was given in the DBMOCHAT some weeks ago, is being put on a temporary scaffold ing near the church, so that it can be used to call the people together. It is ex pected that the bell will lie in position?! for use on Christmas.
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