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For New York via Allentown, at 8.S0, 8.05 a. m,
and 1.4fi n. .in.
For New York via " Round Drook Route," 5.20,
a.fS a. m. and 1.4ft p. in.
For Philadelphia, at 6.20, 805, 9. 55 a. m., 1.45 and
4.BO p. m.
For Heading, at 5.20,8.05, 0.55 a. m., 1.45,4.00,and
p. in.
t. . i . . . i , . m - n . .t 1 dah h.
ror rmiHviiiH, ni. n.z"i, p m l. nun in.,
and via Hchuylkill and Susquehanna Branch at
2.40 p. in. For Auburn, 6.30 a. in.
For Lancaster and Columbia, 5.20, 8.05 a. m. and
Loop. m.
For Allentown, at 5.20, 8.05, 9.65 a. m.,,1.46 and
4.00 p. m.
The 6.20, 8.05 a. m. and 1.45 p. m. trains nave
inrongn cars lor ?iew om.
The 6.20 train has through oars for Phlladel
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connection at Rending Willi Main Line trains
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Trains Leare for llnrilslinig as Follows I
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Leave New York via "Bound Brook Houle."7.45
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Leave Philadelphia, at 0.45 a. in., 4.00 and 7.45
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Perils in The Air.
THE recent logs of Professor Wise, trie
celebrated reronaut calls to mind the
great mrlal voyage from the Mississippi
to the Atlantic coast which began on
July 1,1850. It was the longest trip
ever made In a balloon. The adventur
ers were John La Mountain, a noted
aeronaut, O. A. Gager, John Wise and
Wm. Hyde, of the St. Louis Republican,
Mr. Hyde described the trip In a long
letter to his journal. He said that they
left St. Louis at 0i P. M. The cargo
consisted of 000 pounds of sand, In bags ;
a large quantity of cold chlckens.tongues
potted meats, sandwiches, etc.; numer
ous dark-colored, long-necked vessels,
containing champagne,sherry .sparkling
Catawba, claret, Madeira, brandy and
porter; a plentiful supply of overcoats,
ehawls,blankets and fur gloves; a couple
or three carpet-bags; a pall of Iced
lemonade and a bucket of water ; a
compass, barometer, thermometer and
chart ; bundles of the principal St. Louis
newspapers ; an express package, direct
ed to New York city ; cards of candi
dates for clerkships in several of the
courts; tumblers, cups, knives and
other artioles.
The balloon, the Atlantic, with Its
four passengers, sailed off In a north
easterly direction, and in less than two
hours, at a height of about one mile,
struck the current that the teronauts
had declared was always flowing in the
upper regions from west to east. The
discovery greatly elated Prof. Wise.
There broke from his lips a little cough,
and saying, "Boys, let's sing," heBtruck
up the stirring national anthem, "Hall
Columbia," in which all joined, though
the frigidity of the atmosphere put quite
a damper on patriotism and melody.
A little after midnight there were
momentary flashes of lightning on all
sides of the horizon. The milky way
appeared like luminous phosphorescent
clouds, and heavens jeweled tiara of
stars glistened below and above. Night's
queenly brow shimmered with the
mellow light of the new-born crescent
moon. The mighty scroll of the cerulean-pillared
Armament glittered all
over with gorgeous heraldry.
Day broke at 8 o'c'ock, and the dogs
began to bark. At 4.15 they sailed over
Fort Wayne, Ind., aud could hear the
shouts of its inhabitants. At 5.15 they
descried in the east what at first ap
peared to be a reflection of the sun on
the sky. One of the party asserted that
they were not many miles from a lake.
The noble air vessel was rushing along,
at a brisk rate, dragging its shadow on
the ground encircled In fantastic colors.
There was no doubt that what hud at
first seemed a brilliancy of the eastern
heavens was nothing less than an im
mense body of water. The icronauts
concluded that it could only be Lake
Erie, and they were right, for, tracing
the shore and observing the little islands,
its contour corresponded almost precise
ly with the map.
A sublime scene now broke on human
view. Lake Erie has a surface of 7,800
square miles, and, although they could
not behold the whole of it, the view lost
none of its magnificence. Groups of
white clouds, like great puffs from a
steam pipe, floated languidly on every
side, unfolding their gauze-like robes,
and passing off in eddying currents.
There was a collection of houses huddled
together at the mouth of the Maumee.
It was Toledo, There, in that great
bend, dotted with specks of land, Perry
gained bis victory in 1813.
At 7:25 they swept over Sandusky,
and floated out on the bottom of the
lake. At 9:30 they overtook a Buffalo
steamer and were hailed with a shrill
whistle. They were about 500 feet high,
and held a conversation with the pas
sengers. At 9:50 they were over Long
Point, Canada, the scene of the great
fight between MorrlsBey and Heenan.
So they had traversed nearly the entire
length of Lake Erie, a distance of 250
miles, accomplishing it in three hours.
At 10:30 they had Lakes Erie and
Ontario both in sight. The balloon had
again attained an altitude of nearly a
mile. A terrible storm was surging
beneath them, the trees waving and the
waves dashing against the Bhores of Erie
in an awfully tempestuous manner.
Now, like a gurgle, came the subdued
sounds of the plashing and headlong
cataract of Niagara.
At 11 o'clock, having skimmed over
the lake shore.stlll bound east wardly, the
balloon broughtthem In sight of Buffalo
and Niagara falls, as also the Welland
canal. They had reached a height of
over a mile, the barometer marking 23.6
inches. At 12:30 they were nearly
between the falls and Buffalo, inclining
rather to the left of the latter. The
famous falls were quite insignificant.
There was to the voyagers a descent of
seemingly about two feet and the water
appeared to be perfectly motionless. The
spray gave the whole an appearance as
of ice, and there wag nothing grand or
sublime about it.
Passing the western terminus of the
Erie canal, the balloon was borne direct
ly toward Lake Ontario. The ballast
was now nearly exhausted, and to have
determined on crossing the second lake
would have been sheer recklessness and
hardihood. Here it was debated whether
it were better to land Messrs. Gager and
Hyde and in their stead take In suffi
cient quantity of new ballast and again
steer for the Atlantic) ocean. The air
ship wag lowered, but was Immediately
caught In the hurricane which was then
raging, and carried very near the tops of
trees, which were bending and swaying
to and fro by the force of the wind. Mr.
La Mountain at once threw over the
buckets and their contents, and the lift
this gave them kept them from being
crushed in the woods.
Like a bullet they shot out onto the
lake. The boat was got in readiness,
and the trooping winds sent them out of
sight of land. They were in a dreary
waste of 7,000 square miles of water. At
length they neared the dashing billows.
The steering machinery was cut away,
and they rose like a feather. For a time
the ship waB buoyed out of the way of
danger, but she frequently darted down
ward, as though bent on destruction.
Carpet-sacks, overcoats, provisions,
everything was pitched into the lake.
La Mountain finally cut away the
lining of the boat. The oars were sent
after the lining. Everything had now
gone but a-n overcoat and two blankets,
which were saved to be used as a final
resort. A propeller, Young America,
bore down to their relief, but they scud
ded some hundreds of feet before her
bows, and that hope failed.
Flual!y,after skirmishing within thir.
ty feet of the dark waves for a distance
of not less than fifty miles, and perhaps
more, they were out of danger of drown
ing, but a new peril was before them.
The hurricane blew them into a dense
forest which Bklrted the lake, and threat
ened to tear them limb from limb. Mr.
Gager had thrown out the anchor, a
heavy iron one, with three hooks, each
an inch and a quarter in thickness. So
rapid was their flight that this Btood out
nearly Btralght from the car. As the
grapnel swung against the trees of
moderate size,the velocity of the balloon
and its terrible strength would tear them
down and fling them to the ground.
One by one the hooks broke off, and
they were again at the mercy of an all
sweeping wind. Messrs. La Mountain
and Hyde held on to the valve rope,
endeavoring to discharge the gas, but
were quickly compelled to release their
grasp, and cling to the concentrating
hoop to avoid being thrown out.
The balloon actually went through a
mile of forest, and, tearing down trees
and breaking branches, pursued its
course dashing the party in the willow
car to and fro, ngaluBt trunkB and limbs,
until the stout netting had broken, little
by little, and the balloon itself had no
longer any protection, when, striking a
tall tree, the silk was punctured in a
dozen places, and rent into ribbons,
leaving the car suspended by the netting
twenty feet above the ground. The
course in the woods left a path similar
to that of a tornado. Trees half the size
of a man 'b arm were-snapped in twain
as though they were pipe-stems, and
huge limbs were scattered like leaves.
The landing was made within .150
yards of a settlement, and the crash was
so great that the people ran to the spot
to Bee what had happened.
How Stoel Engravings are Printed.
IN the first place the designer furnishes
the subject to be engraved, usually in
the form of an oil painting, and often at
an expense to the publishers of thou
sands of dollars. The design is then
engraved on a highly polished plate of
steel about an eighth of an inch thick.
Skillful engravers must be employed in
the process of engraving a creditable
plate, often spending many months or
years of constant work in its completion,
and frequently at an expense of many
thousands of dollars.
However perfect the steel plate, the
engravings there from will have but
little or no value to the critical eye
unless well printed by a competent
printer, who has spent years in learning
and mastering his art, so as to be able to
perfectly produce the engraver's trans
lation of the painter's thought.
The highest portions of the engraved
plate produce the lights, and the deepest
engraved parts the shadows or dark
portions in the picture, which is the
reverse of type printing. The steel plate
is warmed over a furnace to facilitate
the managementof the ink when spread
thereon. A very fine thick ink is rolled
over and into the engraved portions with
a hand-roller, which is passed over the
plate many times. The ink is then
removed from the surface portions of
the plate first by the use of cloths, after
which the naked hand more perfectly
wipes the ink from the surface some
time being spent in thus polishing the
plate, that It may produce the desired
grades of light, so that if brilliant they
shall be mellow and harmonize with its
rich and expressive darker portions.
The plate is now removed from the
furnace and placed upon the press made
expressly for this kind of printing. A
thick sheet of paper that hug been wet
for many hours is laid over the polished
plate, and is passed through the press,
receiving a powerful pressure. The wet
sheet with its pictured Impression is
carefully lifted from the plate, dried
between mill boards, dry pressed, and
prepared for market the whole process
requiring a number of days of skillful
management. The warming, Inking,
wiping, polishing of plate, etc, must be
repeated in printing eaoh picture. No
steam power or mechanical invention
lifts the sheet from the press all must
be done by hand work.
It Is a fair day's work for two men to
prepare for market from ten to twenty,
five copies of the largest size engravings.
Thus it will be seen that after spending
tt large sum of money for paintings and
engraved plates, and waiting months or
years for their completion, the multipll
cation of creditable engravings Is slow
and expensive, and that, their beauty
and finish depends very much upon the
skill of the printer.
When all fully understand the slow
and costly processes by which engrav
ings of real merit are produced, and
other facts in art, the more clearly it
will be realized that the quality of the
work should regulate the price. Then
the detnand for pictures by the square
yard, with which to cover walls, will
entirely cease, and the quality, and the
soul of the work, and not Quantity, will
be the thing desired, and then many
"palatial" as well as "cottage homes"
will be more beautifully adorned.
A Hundred Ladies Victimized.
A BOSTON letter gives the particu
lars of a sensation that has recently
transpired in that city by which nearly
a hundred of the most fashionable ladieB
became the victims of a blackmailing
operation. A year ago a fashionable
dressmaker of the Hub employed an
attractive young woman whose specialty
was to call at the residences of her cus
tomers and cut and fit their dresses.
Miss Annie, as she was called, became
a great favorite, and no dress -was con
sidered complete unless it had the touch
of her artistic fingers in " taking in"
here and "letting out" there. It was
noted that she had. a note book which
she bandied as deftly as Julian Hardy,
the Reporter in " Fatlnitza," and was
constantly making memorandums of
batting and whalebone required to fill
out the ideal curves and irregularities of
surface constituting the highest type of
a full-dressed beauty. These memoran
dums, he explained', were necessary to
prevent his losing the reccollectlon of
any sudden inspiration as to the delicate
insertion of a gusset, or the bold cutting
of a shoulder piece on the bias. The
business of the employing dressmaker
who had the good fortune of employing
Miss Annie increased rapidly. It became
a test of true culture among Boston
ladies to have their dresses made exclu
sively at her establishment, and the
result was an apparent Increase of Bos
tonlan beauty, both In breadth and
thickness, without much increase in
weight. One dark and dreadful day
that will long be remembered by the
patronesses of Miss Annie, each of the
ladies received at home one of her cards,
and was told that a young gentlemen
wished to Bee them in the parlor. Each
lady had an interview with a young
man who was instantly recognized as
the hitherto Miss Annie, and was, of
course, terribly surprised. The wicked
young man who had so successfully
masqueraded as a dressmaker's assistant
explained with much apparent penitence
that he had been detected and discharg
ed, and that his sole desire was to hide
himself in California. To do this money
was required, and he presented a small
bill for materials which he had fur
nished at his own expense. Cotton was
charged for at the rate of three dollars a
pound, and whalebone at five dollars.
On payment of the bill he would in
stantly send from his note-book the
memoranda relating to her dresses and
depart on the first train for the Pacific
slope. The story goes that he made a
complete round of his former customers,
and that his collections exceeded one
thousand dollars from the terrified fair
Was it Her Vallsa?
THE other day an omnibus full of
passengers drove up town from the
Union depot. Side by side sat a com
mercial traveler, named Wm. Mackaby,
and Mrs. Winnie C, Dumbieton, the
eminent lady temperance lecturer.
When the omnibus reached the Barret
house the commercial missionary seized
his valise and started out. The lady
made a grab after him, and he halted. '
" I beg your pardon," she said, "but
you have my valise."
"You are certainly mistaken, mad
am," the traveler said, courteously, but
grimly, "this is mine."
" No, sir," the lady replied firmly, "it
Is mine. I would know It among a
thousand. You must not take It."
But the traveler persisted and the lady
Insisted, and they came very near quar
reling. Presently one of the passenger
pointed to a valise in the omnibus, and
asked i
"Whose Is that?"
"It Isn't mine," said the traveler; "it
is Just like It ; but this Is mine."
" And it Isn't mine," said the lady;
" he has mine, and I'll have It or I'll
have the law on him. It's a pity if a
lady can't travel alone in this country
without being robbed of her property In
broad day light."
Finally the traveler said he would
open the valise to prove his property.
The lady objected at first, saying she
did not want her valise opened in the
presence of strangers. But as there was
no other means of settling the dispute
she at length consented. The traveler
sprung the lock, opened the valise, and
the curious crowd bent forward to
see.
On the very top of everything lay
a big flat flask half full of whisky, a
deck of cards and one or two other
things that nobody knows the name
of.
The traveler was the first to recover
his self-possession and speech.
"Madam," he said, "you are right.
The valise Is yours. I owe you a thou
sand apolo"
But the lady had fulnted, and the
traveler relocked his valise with a quiet
smile. Early in the afternoon a sign,
painter down town received a note in,
a feminine hand, asking him to come
to the Barrett house to mark a red
leather valise in black letters a foot and.
a half long.
Stump Stories.
"W
HEN I was a vountr man.V
said Colonel B., " we lived in
Illinois. The farm had been wooded
and the stumps were pretty think. But
we put the corn among them i .id man--aged
to raise a fair crop. The next
season I did my share of the plowing.
We had a 'sulky' plow, and I sat In the
seat and managed the horses, four as
handsome bays as ever a drew rein over.
One day I found a stump right in my
way. I hated to back out, so I just said
a word to the team, and, if you'll believe
it, they walked right through that
stump as though it had been cheese."
Not a soul expressed surprise. But
Major S., who had been a quiet listener,
remarked quietly, "It's curious, but I
had a similar experience myself once.
My mother always made our clothes In
those days, as well as the cloth they
were made of. The old lady was awful
proud of her homespun said it was
the strongest cloth in the State. One
day I had Just plowed through a white
oak stump in the way you speak of,
Colonel. But it was a little too quick
for me. It came together before I - was
out of the way, and nipped the seat of
my trousers. I felt mean, I can tell
you, but I put the string on the ponies,
and, if you'll believe it, they just snaked
that stump out, roots and all. Some
thing had to give, you know."
No Sabbath In Austria.
A traveler writes : " Whatever else
Vienna may have, she certainly has no
Sabbath. Unless the traveler keeps
close watch of the lapse of time, he will
forget the recurrence of Sunday; for
there is nothing here as in most other
Continental cities to remind him when
the Lord's day has c ome. We have
been in Vienna two Sabbaths, and out
side of our own party and a few Ameri
can and English travelers, we had not
heard any suggestion of such a day.
Traffic, work, amusements, and worldly
occupations, have gone on just the same
on the seventh as on the sixth. Indeed,
the theatres and the dance houses do a
better business on the Sabbath than on
any other day. The Catholic churches
(for nSarly everybody here is a Roman
Catholic) have services on the Sabbath,
and, small audiences gather, but the
noise of business outside drowns the
voice of prayer. Continental Europe
has virtually set aside the fourth com
mandment." One Experience from Many.
''I had been sick and miserable so long
and had caused my husband so much
trouble and expense, no one seemed to
know what ailed me, .that I was com
pletely disheartened and discouraged.
In this frame of mind I got a bottle of
Hop Bitters and used them unknown to
my family. I goon began to Improve
and gained so fast that my husband and
family thought it strange ana unnatu
ral, but when I told them what had
helped me, they said, 'Hurrah for Hop
Bitters I Long may they prosper, for
they have made mother well and us
happy." The Mother.
(JT Happy homes and smiling faces
are invariably the result of wise parents
constantly keeping "Sellers' Cough
Syrup" on hand. Price 25 cents.