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B. F. SCHWEIER, THE C0XSTITCTI05 THE C5I0X AXD THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XXVIII. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA., JUNE 24, 1S74. NO. 25.
Poetry.THE ROSE W THE WALL.
BY MBS. COHME-LA- ST. JoHX.
Loet in tlie pray, tangled shadows,Lilack in the morning of years,
Loet in the dust of wild ruin.And dim through the hazing of tears.
Lo-- O thou Queen of spent seasons !
One Summer, the crown of them ail.That called the dumb fields into flowers.
And the rose from the mold of the wall.
The days, for one rose's bright blooming.Through the faintness of distant years seemLake sunny hills, far off and golden
Thy nights, like cool valleys between.
Lot, save thy mcmoried beauty.That lays on my heart, soft and sweet.
Like the pure, tender palm of an Angel,That stilleth its hot, fevered beat
Thou gav'st me one gift, gentle SummerThe brightest that Woman may wear;
Thon gathered it back from my bosomWhen the wall of its roses was bare.
I hold the Crown-Sai- nt of all Summers,Icuse of that tender love-flo- w
That fell 'mid my heart's rugged r s.And bloomed for one life-givi- hour.
Kut the gift was too bright for my wearing:I forgive thee its gentle recall:
For perhaps 'mid the harshness of ruin,Twonld have died like the rose on the wall.
Caring Insanity br irritating theretain.
There are many cases published inthe medical journals, relating to insan-ity, says Dr. Brown-Sequar- d, showingthat a large number of patients havebeen cured suddenly by means of irri-tation of the skin, that was either acci-dental or employed by a physician.There are other means more curiousand equally effective, as in the case Iam about to mention. A patient in alunatic asylum met another one whostruck his head and broke the craniumon the right side. The brain oozedout; a good deal of it was lost, and thepitient was cured of his insanity andepilepsy. This is rather a dangerousmeans of treatment, however, and ofcourse 1 speak of it only to show thaian irritation brought to the brain mayoften cure. It is in that way that boldsugeons as many there were in thiscountry in the period from 1823 to 1859
who have brought their instrumentsto the cranium and made an openingthere, in cases of epilepsy, in search ofa disease at that place that did not ex-
ist, have very frequently cured theirj'Hticnts. But not because they havetaken away the disease that they Fup-l-os- ed
existed there, but because theyhave produced aa irritation which hasdone it. But I may add that it is notnecessary to open the cranium, thoughit has been done, to my knowledge,more than fifty times in this country.All that is called for is an irritation ofthe skin of the cranium and of the('.'irons band that covers the bone be-tween the skin and brain. Irritationthere has a very good chance of cnriDgt pilepsy in many very obstinate cases.'1 uere are many cases on record show-ing that an inflammation in almost anyof the organs of the body is sufficient to.heck insanity. In the same way otheralTectiona of the brain, such as aman-ros- is
or paralysis, may be cured sud-denly sometimes without any cause thatwe can find, but with good ground certainly to believe that irritation hasurted which has produced a change inthe cells of the brain and diminishedtheir morbid activity. For there arec;ear cases in which those affectionsh ive been cured by such irritation.Tiiose alterations of cells that were pro-ducing an arrest of the power of sightr paralysis have been submitted to an
irritation of parts of the skin or ofhome viscus, and this irritation goingto the morbid part and producingchange ic the activity of those cells,hascured the disease. So that a doublemechanism of arrest may take place inatl these cases. There is in the brainan irritation starting from the placewhere there is disease. That we cansee after death. That irritation goes toparts at a distance and acts on cells to
their activity; but another irrita-tion starting from some parts of thebody goes to the parts that are diseasedaudthere acts on the morbidly activecAla and stops their activity, so thatthe effect that resulted from the diseaseceARed. So one phenomenon of arrestproduced the cessation of another.
Alxintnf.The Swiss Timet gives the following
account of absinthe and its history :
In the Canton of Nenchatel, in thelong, broad, wild Val de Travers, fa-
mous for its asphalt mines, is the seatof the manufacture of absinthe. Themanufacture of this pernicious drinkdates back to the last decades of theeighteenth century. A French exilebud doctor is credited with the first in-
vention of absinthe, which he employedas a medicine, and at his death, left hisn ceipt to his servant girl, Mile. Grand-pierr- e.
She sold it to the daughters ofLieutenant Henriod, who at the begin-ning of this century, sold toM. Per-nod of Couvet, and from that periodthe "Extrait d' Absinthe" appears incommerce. The quantity of absinthemanufactured at the present day isestimated at about 370,000 litres. Theherb (Artemisia absinthium) of whichthe absynthe is first prepared is plant
- - i, i, t f Imn two to fourfeet It is found throughout Centraly.urcpe on stony hills and also in gar-
dens. Consumers of absinthe areprincipally found in France, England.Vm-t- America and Switzerland although the hurtful effect of the liquoron the nervous system nas oeen repented ly pointed out ny meaicai men.
The F.dilor.CUIUV iwinUJ' . ' . natimnta. ...... the nbilitv of n
newspaper and the talent of its editorl.y the quantity oi unniuui wanw. nis comparatively an easy task for airothy writer to pour ruiof words words upon any aud all subjects. Jus ideas niay now in our ,
washv, everlasting flood, and the com-mand of his language may enable himto string theni together like bunches ot
uioD8,and vet his paper may lie a mea-
gre and poor coucern. Indeed the merewriting part of editing a paper is but asmall portion of the work. The care,the time employed in selecting, is farmore important, and the tact of a goodeditor is better shown by his selectionsthan anything else; and that, we know,is halt the battle. But, aa we havesaid, an editor onglit to U estimated,iii,d hi laiKir understood and aPPJ-
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luted by the general conduct of hisilter its tone, its uniform, consistent
its aims, its management, usdignity, and its propriety. To preservellu-sea- a they fcbonld be preserved is
to occupy fully the time andattention of anv mad. If. to this beadded the general supervision of thenewspaper establishment, which mosteditors have to encounter, the wonderU how they find time to write at alL
Ot'B MAY PARTY.BI HAHMET K. B&BB.
"You have so many charming spotsaround your village, dear Mrs. H.,which seem just made for May Parties;do you never have any of those delight-ful celebrations here ?"
"Only among the juveniles of thecommunity. The school children, Ibelieve, choose a queen every year, andgo out into the woods to spend a dayin crowning her, and in feasting, andgo home at night and give their motherssome practice in the art of nursing, inconsequence of the heavy colds theyhave taken, sitting on damp ground intheir muslin dresses, and the vastquantities of cake and confections theyhave managed to swallow during theday."
'O Mrs. H., how yon do strip thescene of all its romance,! But I shouldthink the young ladies and gentlemenof the town would have may parties,there are generally so many thingsgoing on in the neighborhood of acollege !"
"O, we did once have a May partyamong the young ladies, which I be-lieve proved enough for all concernedin it, as I have never heard of any at-tempts to get up another."
"Did you attend it ? What was itlike, that they never should have wishedfor another'"
"O yes, I was there, as everybodyboth married and single for milesaround, was invited; and it was a bril-liant affair, I assure you, though therethere was one person there whom itsbrilliancy seemed a heartless mockery,and wlio still regrets that May party.
"O do tell ns about it," we bothpleaded.
"Willingly. Ton remember the gentleman whom you pronounce a 'crab-bed and confirmed old bachelor towhom there was no sort of use in playing the agreeable ?
"What, Mr. C? But what had he todo with the May party ?"
He was younger then than he isnow, and much more interesting "
"liut, Jlrs. ll., he must have alwaysbeen peculiar," broke in Alie, who hadresolved to uislfce him.
''He mny have had a slight touch ofeccentricity before, but listen and judgeif that May party was not sufficient tosour the sweetest temper, and renderpeculiar even a fascinating man.
"O I am all attention for I am dyingto know what harm the party could havedone him !"
' It was the means of making him anold bachelor ! Before it was talked ofhe had been attentive to one of ourprettiest girls Lizzie Fith and she
so well satisfied with monopo-lizing his attentions that all lookers-o- n
agreed it woald be a match. A shorttime before the party was thought of,he had proposed to her and she hadneither accepted or declined him, butli ft Lira in that state of uncertainty inw hich a man feels there is more to hopethan fear a dangerous tiling, by theway, girls. Take an old woman's ad-vice and don't keep a man in suspensea moment longer than is necessary. Ifhe really loves you suspense is cruelty,and in either case you lay yourself opento imputations which must diminishyour resDect
"Lizzie was a sweet girl; but ratherweak. Her life hitherto had been soqr.ii t that she was herself unaware ofthe love of admiration that slumberedin hrr breast; and she would probablyhave liecome the wife of Mr. C, andbeen perfectly happy in that positionbad not just then been chosen forthe 'May Queen. This opened a newphase in her existence, and all the dor-mant vanitv in her nature was thoroughly aroused. She was canvassed sopublicly, her claims to beauty set forthand discanted upon so freely, that asteadier brain than hers might havewhir'ed a little. Her father with afather's pride, resolved that every thingpertaining to her dress should be trulyqueenly; and be therefore ordered allher things to be senton Irom .ew xorxwithout any regard to cost: and theirelegance and richness was such as hadnever beiore been seen in our primitivecountry town.
"SarflMl rrr.r: (loTiion frnm Cincinnatiwere expected to honor our festival withtheir presence, and through ljizzie sKmin thoro flnuted indistinct hnt hriirhtpictures of conqnest, and city hearts,and city establishments wmcn io acountry maid seemed so attractive,laid at ner iceu it was certainty un-wise in Mr. C. to renew his suit just atsuch a crisis, and try to draw irom nerlips a promise that should bind her tohim; but the iminent danger of losingher caused an anxiety which deprivedhim of his usual wisdom. Of courseoliA vafnuwl nndpT thA rorenmstances.to bind herself to him, and he wentaway feeling that all the sunsnine oihis life was enveloped in very darkOmnia f'lianrino- - to srtend the nextevening in the society of good old MissSnapp he perfectly agreed witn nerthat May parties were ridiculous affairsand that it was indelicate in a youngfemale to set herself up as a publicgazing stock. He talked so eloquentlyalunt tViA .tnla arming to a vonnir lad vfrom such publicity; that Miss Snapp,afterward remarnea, a most eiiioieman that Mr. C. is. There was a talkat one time that he wanted Lizzie Fitchbut his judgement is too good to choosea little nirt of a thing like her I'
"The morning of May-da- y rose with-
out a cloud, and the unusual stirthroughout the town would have toldnv riMsitiff ntranper that somethinff
more than ordinary was about to happen.
"That beantifnl grove you visitedyesterday had been chosen for thescene of the fete and the throne waserected with more than usual care and
"At an early hour of the day tables. . . , , i jwere spread witn snowy u amass piaceu
under the shade trees.and covered witharticles of refresh
ment, while floweis everywhere met theeye, here arranged in vases and merepiled np in baskets, to be scattered onthe green turf as soon as the Queen.kAnM liov armparance. But oh.how manv pretty gardens had been ri-a- A
r ih.r luxintv to furnish thischarming profusion ! Who knows howmany of those fancied dew-drop- s weretears of regret which their fair ownerslet fall over the roses while cuttingthem !
"No wonder that a burst of admira-
tion arose from a hundred lips whenthe Queen appeared ! 'How lovely sheis r was the universal feeling. IKhtwell did the rich satin and blonde, andpearls become her; and if being gazedat by so many people deepened thecolor on her cheeks, it only heightenedher charms; and if her eye flashedproudiy.and her head drawn up haught-
ily as she caught sight of the disconsolate-l-
ooking Mr. C. why that made herall the more queenly !
"He had come there to see hercrowned, though the sight was tortureto him, because it would make such a
talk if he staid away ; and those whoare at all familiar with the customs ofour country Tillages, know that to bethe subject of public gossip is as annoy-ing as the cherishing of an unrequitedattachment must be painful Thewould-b- e indifferent air he sought toassume feelings which, in spite of hisefforts left their impress upon bisfeatures rendered him a ludicrious ob-ject to many present, especially to thecity beaux, who with their white kidgloves and carefully cultivated mus-tachoi- s,
were making fearful inroadsthat day upon the peace of certainmembers oi our community. The cor- -
nation speech had been delivered andthe Queen had returned thanks for thehonor lavished upon her. and verr rraciously given ns privilege to renderhomage to her as our sovereign. Thecongratulations were duly offered, andthen a few moments of awkward silencefollowed because each one was at a losswhat to say or do next That awfulstillness was suddenly broken by astrange sort of snuffling noise. Everyone looked in the direction whence itcame, expecting to see some animalthat had recognised the remains of someslaughtered cousin in the nicely glazedhams on the table : but beheld insteadpoor Mr. C. in his agonizing attempt towear the nonchalent air.snuffling audibly at an immense redpeony he held in his hand I The delicious perfume of that delicate flowermust of course, have been very cheer-ing, as in his eagerness to take it hehad drawn upon himself the notice ofthe whole company.
"The order and decorum which thepresence of royalty generally imposeswas sadly disturbed by the laughterwhich could not be repressed, till thewelcome call for dinner turned theirthoughts into a harmless channel."
"And poor Mr. C?""Oh he was too wretched to attempt
to eat or he might have derived someconsolation from the delicate "bivands"as old Mr. J arris called our refreshments. He was soon reported amongthe missing, and the next news we hadof him. was that he had gone to bedwith an ague chill, caught by standingso long on the damp grass. Some ofthe city gentlemen were flirting mostvigorously with her Majesty when heleft and this picture before his mindseye did not tend to render his sickroomany more cheerful."
"And what else about the May Party ?""O nothing else ! After Mr. C. had
gone, everything had gone as usual ;
people ate and drank, talked a greatdeal of nonsense, and laughed oftenand loudly at nothing. The younggentlemen passed mottoes to the youngladies, who read them, blushed, sim-pered and flung them back with 'Did Iever?' or'Aintyon ashamed of your-self!" while the elderly ladies filledtheir pockets and reticules with cakeand candy; and when everybody gottired everybody went home, except afew of ns married ladies, who had tostay to count the spoons and forks, andsee that each one had her full numberof plates and table cloths returned toher."
"And what of the Queen?"O, she took off her queenly robes,
and went to bed, declaring she wastired to death, but three months after,there was another great excitement inour village when the handsome Mr. M.,from Cincinnati, came to bear away hisbride, having, as she told her intimatefriends, the day of the May Party laidhis hand and fortune at her Xeet, andbesought her to become an equal pos-sessor of them with himself."
"Did she do well ?""Yon shall Judge, The hand was a
pretty one small, fair and soft ; and itmoved in obedience to the dictates of abrain equally soft One evidence ofthis was, that he shrank with moreloathing from any labor that mightharden or blacken that hand than forsin, which would produce the sameeffect upon his heart This secondarticle named in his inventory of pos-sessions, I am told she found but littleavail when her beauty had faded, whichtook place soon after her marriage. Weleave you to judge how much this washastened by the mortification of havingto draw constantly on her father formoney to supply her necessary wants,and the annoyance to which she wassubject from the rudely presented claimsof his creditors, who having waitedlong, rushed eagerly in as soon as it wasrumored he had married a rich wife.As for his fortune, the rich inheritanceof debts contracted by his reckless styleof living, was all he had to settle uponher while the marriage portion placedin his hands by her father, was speedilyswallowed np without procuring eitherthe home or the furniture for which ithad been intended.
"Two years ago she came back to herfather's house on a visit it was firstsupposed but she has remained eversince, secluding herself from society,and forbearing to mention her husbandsname even to her mother. hat shehas endured from him, her changedappearance alone will telL Tis saidthat when first Mr. C caught a glimpseof her face in church the tears sprangto his eyes at the fearful change, andhe bowed bis head upon the back of thepew before him, and did not raise itonce during the service."
"How he must have loved her I AndI suppose the moral of your tale is, thatshe would have been happier as thewife of the awkward eocentoc but reli-able Mr. C. than of the handsome andflattering but heartless Mr. M. Is itnot so?"
"I had not deigned to draw a moralfrom it ; but I will at least express myconviction that young girls should betaught both by precept and example,to think more of that inner adornmentof mind and heart than arraying theoutward form, however lovely it maybe, in satins and jewels. Then settlingthe perplexing question 'Wilt thon havethis man for thy wedded husband' orthat one ? they shall be l'xl to preferone possessed of sterling virtues ratherthan a fascinating exterior."
A Large Bnneh f Grapes.
The English grape cultivators havethus far excelled all others in the pro-
duction of enormous bunches of grapes.The latest wonder of the kind was abunch of Black Hamburgh grapesweighing 13 pounds 4 ounces. It wasraised at Lnmbton Castle, the seat ofthe Earl of Durham, and was exhibitedat Manchester in September last Itmay b considered the most extraor-dinary bunch of grapes, for siae, evenin England, nor exempting Speechly'stwenty-poun- Syrian, and those im-
mense Syrians of more recent date pro-
duced at the Edinburgh and GlasgowInternationals. This bunch was theproduct of a rine struck from an eye in1869. The vina was cropped the secondyear and carried six bunches, one ofwhich gained a prize at Glasgow in1872 This last year the Tine boreseven bunches besides the one men-
tioned above, the lightest of the eightweighing oyer four pounds.
Old Hickory's Pistols."D.." who has been writing some in
teresting reminiscences for the Frank-lin Kj.) Patriot, contributes this to thelast issue :
I saw some time ago a brace of duel-ling pistols, in the possession ofThomas Butherford.of Sumner county,Tennessee. They were steel barrels,fluted within, and highly ornamentedwith silver.
The history I received of them was asfollows:
Many years before the brilliant tri-umphs of the war had lifted GeneralJackson high above all competitors intothe Presidential chair as the Chief Executive of the nation, it was his cus-tom to have some one to take his placein the dirty street broils which mightcome up.
At the time to which I refer, oneFerguson was the man a regular
out sort of afellow, dreaded by all who were ever sounfortunate as to come in contact withhim.
An uncle of Colonel Rutherford, bythe same name, visited Nashville to sella fine pair of match horses. Fergusonoffered to purchase them on a shortcredit and to give General Jackson assecurity. This arrangement was madeand the horses were his.
Before Mr. K. left Nashville helearned the character of the man withwhom he had traded, was told that ifhe ever asked for the money or the notewhich he had received for the horsesFerguson would whip him.
It happened that Itutherford was arough customer nothing suited himbetter than a ground scuffle in defenseof his rights, and so he was impatientfor the day of the coming conflict
Early on the morning the note felldue Butherford visited Nashville, sawthe same man F., presented his notefor payment telling him at the sametime what he had heard of him, andfurther said to him that, if he didn'tpay the money right away, he wouldthrash him like a dog.
A word and the blow followed. Neverwas a man more soundly thrashed thanFerguson was on that occasion.; in fact,he was supposed to le dead for a time.This aroused the General's sympathiesfor his man who had received such acudgeling, and to resent it was his firstimpulse, but in a fisticuff he would beonly a child in B.'s hands, and so chal-lenged him to fight a duel next morn-ing, distance ten paces.
Though R. had no experience withfirearms, he instantly accepted thechallenge.
At the appointed hour all partieswere at the.
place......of rendezvous. Allpreliminaries made, the distance mea-sured, the positions taken, the wordsone two at this juncture Jackson,who was a dead shot, having eved hisantagonist closely, saw there was noflinching in him, but that he was ascool and deliberate as if nothing wasoccurring, stepped forward and ad-
dressed Butherford : "By the Eternal,sir, I would despise myself to sacrificesuch noble material as you are madeof. Sir.please accept these pistols fromone who ever admires true courage andpluck, such as you have to-da- y demon-strated, and accept them from me as anevidence of my high appreciation ofyon as a man who dares to defend hisrights.
General Jackson paid the money dueon r erguson s note. Lver afterwardthe Butherford family have been Jack-son's warmest supporters, and nonelamented his death more than they.The pistols will be kept in the familyforever as priceless souvenirs.
Lamarline's Generosity."Like all Frenchmen." says a writer
on Lamartine, "intense egotism wasone of the prominent errors of his char-acter. This fault was redeemed, how-ever, by so many noble and shiningqualities that it almost disappears intheir lustre. He was the soul of honor,the bravest of the brave, the most gene-rous of men. Pages could be filled withanecdotes of his gentleness of heart andboundless charity. Ihe emoluments
hich he derived as a member of therrovisional government he distributedfreely and unasked among the poorauthors of Paris, and the letters whichaccompanied these gifts doubled theobligation. Sunday, his only holiday,was devoted to charity ; his doors wereopen to all who suffered, who were inwant All who came, whether knownor unknown, he greeted with extendedhand, with kindly smiles and words, tosoften the bitterness and humiliation oftheir position. 'I am dying of hunger,'one day wrote laconically an unknown.1 have five hundred francs ; they are
yours with all my heart,' wrote backLamartine. 'If I had a hundred francsI should be truly happy !" exclaimed apoor author in his presence. "Here area thousand, answered Lamartine, giving him the money. Only the revenuesof a prince could sustain such ,nunifi- -cence, t or years before his death hewas overwhelmed with debts and re-
duced to comparative indigence, butthe divine impulse of charity remainedas active as ever. He was saving np tobny himself a little pony-chais- e to takethe air in. He had gathered just athousand francs, when a poor womanwho lived in the neighborhood came tohim with a piteous tale ; her goods hadbeen seizad by a hard-hearte- d creditor,and homeless destitution stared her inthe face. "How much do you require ?"he asked. 'A thousand francs,' was theanswer. There was a momentarystruggle, and then he went away,fetched his little board, and placed itin her hand.
The Tomb of Marshal Key,
There is in the city of Metz a handsome statne of Marshal Ney. and hisname certainly lives in history. Butaccording to a correspondent in Xoteand Queries, his grave is sadly neglec-ted. It is in Pere la Chaise, in theprincipal avenue, and close to that inwhich Beranger and Manuel, the ora-tor, lie together, surrounded by thesumptuous tombs of his brother mar-shals, and in sight of those of the Gen-erals Foy and Gobert, and that of Ba-ron Laney, the surgeon of NapoleonL "He has no cenotaph, or simpleheadstone even, to tell the passer-b- y
who it is that lies within the lichen-covere-d
rusty iron --railing; and fewthere are who recognize it unlessprompted by individual interest in theintrepid and unfortunate soldier, or bycuriosity at the wildness of the neglect-ed, uncared-fo- r place. Years ago somebody laid out the enclosure as a smallgarden, but no one since has ever tendedit and weeds have choked all but a fewsmall wild flowers. There is no slab orinscription such as was described asexisting in 1827, or if there is it is com-
pletely hidden beneath the ground andtangled briar."
Another correspondent sayshe visitedMarshal Nev's crave in 1861. and it wasiust in the condition described, therank grass glowing all oyer the grave.
The Old Ax or a Martinet.A Berlin correspondent of the Lon-
don 1'rhijrapii remarks that the Em-peror William no longer rides on horse-back, but has to review his troois frombis carriage. He is now in his TStliyear. "It is true," adds this writer,"that Count Wrangel, who is nearlythirteen years his senior, may still beseen from time to time threading thepaths of the Thiergarten uinm a steady-goin- g
hack, to the saddle of which lieis carefully strapped; and that thegrandfather of the Prussian armypromenades the Linden with feeblejauntiness, chucking servant-girl- s underthe chin, returning eagerly all the salu-tations paid to him, and distributingnew silbergroschen to the little boysand girls who follow Lira in gleefulgroups, and look u;on 'Papaclien'Wrangel as a certain, though irregularsource of revenue. This lively andsimple-hearte- d old gentleman has a trag-ical iKtst behind him, too, and was avery terrible fellow in his day; besideswhich, he has lieen wounded a dozentimes more than once severely and i
has achieved as many victories in the j
boudoir as in the field: yet he bearshimself as though the idea of deathnever crossed his mind, and even defiedthe hiws of nature so utterly as to re--cover entirely from a sharp stroke ofparalysis at eighty-eigh- t years of age.But the cares and responsibilities thatoppress crowned heads has been un-- 1
known to him. He has ever been a sol-
dier, pure and unadulterate; r.o poli-- !tics, literature, or other puzzling matterof that sort lias he ever allowed tobother his brains. As a sulxrdinate,tocarry ont to the letter his orders as a '
chief, to see that his own commandswere accurately fulfilled these havelieen the sole cares and preoccupationsof his public life. Private griefs of themost tremendous and crushing naturelie has met with the stoical courage ofa hero, and has dealt with them invari-ably in a manner dictated by the honorof a soldier more than once with themost tragical results, but in such sortthat one's admiration for him, though aslight shudder may ieruieate it, cannever for a moment be qualified by the ;
remembrance of any word or action ofhis in the least out of keeping with the j
maintenance in unsullied brightness ofhis personal and professional honor; aregimental cadet when King William '
was bom; a tlecm-e- , for valor in thefield, of tlie first days of the presentcentury; a colonel at Waterloo, andgeneral htty-on- e years ago. it is veryliossible that this extraordinary veteran.of whom the lierliners sav that 'he hasforgotten the way how to die.' may out--!live his sovereign, whom he little lessthan worshii lie has already outlivedfour Prussian Kings !"'
The Cienlle Life.This is the beautiful heritage of the
well-bor- n man and the gentle woman.They may be poor or rich to-ua- y, theymay be living a life of leisure or toilingfor their bread all the same they carrywith them the grace, the cure, the gentleness, the consideration, the knowl-edge which we call intuition or instinct,which comes from generations of cut- - j
ture and a thousand qualities of mindand heart which win social recogni- - j
tion and bring happiness to the pos- - j
sessor.The accumulation of more money as ;
an inheritance for children is oftenworse than nothing in their hands; it ;
deprives them of all incentive to per-sonal effort and nnfrequently provesthe means by which they ride fast todestruction. Money is worse thannothing if the lives of the past andassociations of the present have nottaught us how to put it to its noblestuses.
But the order, the training, the cxpe- -rience of a life are invaluable. They j
form, with education, a key that un- -locks the recesses of the world, and be--'comes a power that no loss in stocks orbonds or bouses or lands can deprivethe fortunate possessor of. Tiiry makehim the eqnal of the best, and there-lor- e
at ease with all men. Deprived ofleisure and of resources which he wouldknow how to appreciate, he still findswithin himself more than others findoutside of themselves. Outwardly, his j
life is isolated; inwardly, he holds com- -mumon with all that is lest and finestin art and society and literature. Hisgracious and kindly manners, which heretains in spite of poverty or wealth,show that be consorts only with thenoblest whether his dwelling hero bea hut or a palace.
A Cnrions Ntory of Kerovcrlnj aL.ot Voire.
The Springfield Jirpuhlican tells acurious story of the way in which A. B.Leonard, a dumb man, at Southbridge,Massachusetts, recently recovered his
lff, n at.tank of or).rn-aiiin- al mt-ii-
ritig. A few mornings ago he wasawakened about four o clock by a senseof oppression and faintness. He be-
came conscious, enough to understandthat gas was escaping from a coal stove,and that he would soon die unless hecould get to fresh air; so, after manyfalls and tumbles he gained the outsidedoor, when he fainted, but was soonaroused by the lapping and tugging ofa faithful Newfoundland dog. Thenthe thought came to him that his wifeand child were in the house.and thoughhe had not spoken for months he calledloudly for help, his cries, united withthe howls of the dog, soon rousing aneighbor, to whom he told his troubles,and again fainted and was insensible fortwo hours. On recovering he was un-
able to talk, but the doctor, on hearingthe case ordered him to visit the gashouse and breathe the air in the puri-fying room. After spending an hourand a half there he could talk in awhisper, and since then has gained theperfect use of his voice.
IIomming-Bird- t' Courtthip.When catching the ephemeridse that
play above the water, the tail is not ex-
panded; it is reserved for times ofcourtship. I have seen the female sit-ting quietly on a branch, and two malesdisplaying their charms in front of her.One would shoot up, then suddenlyexpanding the snow-whit- e tail like aninverted parachute, slowly descend infront of her, turning round graduallyto show off both back and front Theeffect was heightened by the wingsbeing invisible from a distance of a fewyards, both from their great velocity ofmovement and from not having thernetallio lustre of the rest of the body.The expanded white tail covered morespace than all the rest of the bird, andwas evidently the grand feature in theperformance. While one was descend-ing the other would shoot np and comealowly down expanded. The entertain-ment would end in a fight between thetwo performers; but whether the mostbeautiful or the most pugnacious wasthe accepted suitor, I know not. TheNaturalist in Nicaragua.
Bnddhlatic Hoopitalily.The honji or ecclesiastical residence
of the chief priest of the Nichiren sectin Echizen was a temple-lik- e structureof the kind peculiar to Japan, and sowell fitted for a country in which thechief concern is rather about subter-ranean "probabilities" than those inregard to the weather. The first dutyof a good house in Japan is not so muchto look beautiful as to keep on its legs.I have seen some poorly-bui- lt housesmade giddy, reel, and fall into a flat-ness that makes a flounder round bycomparison. In a well built Japanesehouse, however, one is aa safe duringan earthquake as on a Cunarder in anAtlantie gale. My clerical friend'shouse was evidently earthquake-proof- .From one massive crest swept down oneither side the heavy roof of black tiles,making two colossal gables on eachside. To snppott this awful weight oftiles, the roof timbers are whole trunksof trees, so joined together as to rockeasily in an earthquake. The uprightsrest in sockets in boulders set in theearth, so that when an earthquakecomes, the continuity of the shock isbroken by the joints and not too tighttransoms, while the inertia of the heavyroof preserves stability until the shockhas passed. That the Japanese under-stand the science of earthquake proofarchitecture is most evident, sincescores of their pagodas, temples, andtowers have withstood the shocks ofhundreds of years. Any one knowshow he can balance a gold headed caneon his finger-tip- , and move the base afoot or more from the perpendicularwhile the heavy head scarcely changesposition. The supports of a Japanesehouse seem frail and the roof danger-ously heavy, but the house is c gold-head- ed
cane, and the earth the movinghands. In the earthquakes which wehave in Yeddo about twice or oftener amonth, the foreigner prefers to be in aJapanese house.
Our host meets us in the soft-matt-
room, with glistening skull freshlyshaven, and clad in new robes of finestQuaker-colore- d silk and gorgeous collarof brocade, buthaving bare feet The mutual saluta-tions consume several minutes. Anacolyte brings us cups of tea, then conversation for an hour or mora ensues,during which the dinner is served.Thongh in a priest's and abbot's dwell-ing, it was no anchorite's fare that wasset before ns. I would not insinuatethat all Japanese bonzes live as luxu-riantly as his Reverence Kan, but Idoubt whether any class of men inJapan will average heavier in the scales,or illustrate better the laws of gravityif they should happen to fall outside avacuum. Fasting is, of course, oftenpractised, and some of the yonng bonzeslook as pale and spiritual as thoseamong our own students of theologywho cultivate dyspepsia as a means ofgrace. Indeed, there is a very pale andhandsome, dark-eye- d young bonze, whoperforms the part of warden to thetombs of the taiknus at Uyeno in Yed-do, and acts as cicerone to visitors, ofwhom one of a party of young mission-ary ladies that visited tbetonibs a shorttime ago naively remarked, "What asplendid convert he would make I"Lippincotfa Magazine.
The Euealyplnft Plantations oiAlgeria.
A correspondent writes to the PallMall Uazt tte as follows : The Eucal-yptus, a tree of the myrtle family, wasintroduced from Australia into Algeriaabout eleven years ago, and flourishedsurprisingly. It was not, however,until within the last seven years thatany extensive plantations were made.A few days since we made an excursionto visit those on the estates of M. Trot-tie- r,
M. Bimcl and M. Cordier.On M. Trottier's estate at Hussein
Dey we walked under tall trees, theEucalyptus globules (blue gum trees),on an average fifty feet high, whichseven years ago were planted with seedsnot so big as a mustard seed; this par-ticular plantation was on bad soil, andhad not had very experienced care, yetthe growth of the trees was marvelous.In this evergreen wood all round uswere tall reddish smooth stems, withthe bark hanging down in a ragged,untidy manner, for the tree sheds itsbark in winter, and grey willow-lik- e
leaves were waving on flexible boughs.For about twenty-fiv- e feet the stems oftbe trees in the inner part of the plan-tation rose np with no branches at all,but on the skirts of the wood the treessent ont branches in the light and airnearly to the ground. It produced acurious impression to walk in the dimtwilight of this Australian-Africa- n for-est, and to think that this was also awood of the miocene period. Beautifulis not the word I should apply to itsappearance, but, in exchange for baresun-bake- d earth or deadly swamps, Imust say these Encalyptio forests aremost grateful, and the smell delight-fully resinous, warm and gummy. Themultitude of birds in the branches andtheir busy twitterings added much tothe pleisant impression. I measuredthese trees as I walked along, andfound them forty to forty-fiv- e inches incircumference, those on the borders ofthe wood always, of course.a few incheslarger.
Many village communities in theplain have planted scores of gum treesin this neighborhood, and feel the1enefit, but at present there is certain-ly an exaggerated manner of speakingof the Eucalyptus. It is praised as ascent, as cigars, as a medicine, as atonic, as a throat lozenge, and, aboveall, as a bath. Branches and leavesare pnt into hot water, and I am as-
sured by those who have tried it thatbaths remove rhenmatie pains, neural-gia and the debility left by the malariaincidental to the country. The flowerof the Eucalyptus tribe is very like themyrtle flower; it is very full of honey,and attracts a multitude of flies andbees, and the birds naturally follow.forthey find not only food but thick. warm,leafy cover in winter, and shelter fromthe burning sun in summer. Somespecies of Eucalyptus have large andvery beautiful flowers.
Finally, our opinion is that the ns
tree may prove the most pow-erful element of civilization as yet putin force on the coast of North Africa;that in a very few years it will be selfsowing, and thus take its place as anaturalized subject, there is very littlereason to doubt This year the seedripens plentifully on the seven-year-ol- d
trees. Thus in a few years we may seethe one thing most longed for on theBarbary coast that is, shade from thefierce sun.
Debt is a word of Latin origin, witha perfectly well denned meaning, thoughall sorts of expedients have been startedfor disguising its meaning. Debt iswhat one owes. What one owes oneought to pay. Tliis is plain and wellsettled. Doubt only seems to meanwith some men the amount they havehad the lock to be able to borrow.
Youths Column.Lollaby.
Baby, what do the Moosnm oaylwn in tue garden walk ?
Th-- y nod and luey bw in the twilight gray :Fray, can yttn Dear thm tai t
Thry say : "U darling- Dabyw e are going to ata-- : g od oiglit wned night
Tnr the luilaby brear bavr MD to aiugHww Ov d take care "i everything."
bleep alevp !
Babv. what doc the robin fay?lo you hear laa evening aong 1
He .i:a an alnffB taut auiteet layU ilh a heart all bitue and .tromr
Be aingit : "d nicbt, my tviby dear.Sleep euft, aleep well, aud ii not fear ;l'ur omebow I know aa 1 ait and aiug.That Oodtakea care t everjUtuig "
bleep! aleept
Baby, what doen the cricket ny t1j yon hear hia meaaured voiceHe mo a : " l'be auu baa g.ue away,
Aud lve come out to rejoice ;For tbe cold dew talla upou the gramAnd tbe nretiiea wbmer aa tbey paea,1.'rtcker, cricaet, come out aud aiug.llow uod takea care i every thing.' "
bleep ! eleep !
Baby, what are your mother word,Aa you uetl upou her breaat 7
She eay : c'ome hither, nty sweetest of blrua,1'or you moat eeek your UeHt.
Tbe dowers and tbe robins have gone to sleep,Tbe crickets aud s their watches keep ;And your mother will sit by your cradle aud slug'lhat tsod taAee care of everything.'
blieep! sleep!
A Trus Stobt. Some time ago achild ill with hip disease was broughtinto a certain asylum in New York alittle girl of five years old, who, fromfright or weakness, cried bitterly onher admission. Another girl, a littleSwede of about nine, heard her. "Isshe crying because she has left hermother she asked the matron, ao.She has no mother ; she is an orphan.""Her friends then, may be ?" "She hasno friends. She has nobody in theworld to take care of her, unless shefinds one here." Jennie, the littleSwede, stood for a minute or twosoberly looking at the stranger. Shewas not a pretty child, nor attractivein any way, being homely, diseased and
"1 think I will take careof her," said Jennie, gravely. "I'll bea friend to her ;" and she went over tothe stranger, then and there, and beganto soothe and humor her. The matron,thinking it only a passing childish out-burst paid no attention to it, evenwhen she found that Jennie had secureda seat at table next to the child, andhad managed to have her placed in thebed next her own in the dormitory.But when the story was told to ns, ayear afterwards, the little girl hadnever failed once in hertrust. As far as was practicable shetook the place of a mother or eldersister to the child who, still lame andsuffering, needed a constant attentionand care which the matron and nursescould not give. She cut and preparedher food at meals, humored her peevishfancies during the day, and at nightwas in the habit of lying down halfdressed, to be ready to spring np at amoment's warning, and she passed manya night, it was discovered, holding thechild's head in her arms or soothingher. On any holiday or when visitorscame, Jenny's first anxiety was to makeher little charge presentable, just aa afond mother would do ; and when thechildren were once given an excursion,or an afternoon's romp in the grounds,Jenny had an excuse to account for hernot going, and actually, although hertears choked her, she being a child,would have stayed, patient and cheer-ful, beside the lame child, who couldnot go, if her deception had not beenfound out The singular part of thestory wa3, too, that the child was not alovable nor grateful one ; but peevish,jealous and tyrannical towards her poorlittle nurse, who apologized for andmade the best of htr to others, afterthe habit of mothers. There were manyother children in the asviuni prettierand m .16 winnir.g ; bui. jnny was trueto the one whose only recommendationwas that "she Iiad no friends."
Tub Doctor's Visit. Rachel was agood little girl, but apt to be heedless.tier father had been lost at sea when agreat steamship, filled with passengers.was struck by a sailing-shi- and wentdown. Bat Kachel had a darling motherand a sister Sn9an.
IUchel had been told that she mastnever go with wet feet Suu forgotthis, like other good rules ; and one dayshe was so ill that her mother wasobliged to send for the doctor.
The doctor came, and took the littlegirl's hands in his, felt of her pulse,and asked what she had been doing.She said she had been out in the wetsnow without her overshoes.
"That was a great mistake, my dear,"said the doctor. "There is no morecertain way of taking a cold than to gowith wet leet Will you rememberthis?"
lUchel promised that she would re-
member. But good resolutions will notcure a cold. The little girl was soonconfined to her bed by a lever ; and forseveral days she was in great danger.
At last she was well enough to playwith her doll, and to read her volumesof The Suriery. By and by, on sunnydays, she could take a little walk on thepiazza ; and roon she could take a ride.
One bright spring day Rachel wasquite well, well enough to come downstairs and sit at the dinner-tabl- e. Hermother and sister Sasan were very gladindeed to see her. Rachel climbed intoher mother's lap, kissed her, and saidshe would never walk with damp, wetshoes again, if she could help it
"That's right, my dear, and never siton the damp ground, even in summer,"said mamma : "I have known manylittle girls to take bad colds in thisway."
"I will try and think," said RacheL"That is what is wanted, thought,"
said mamma. "We must learn to thinkif we would do right" Dora llunuide.
Do s't be a grumbler. Some peoplecontrive to get hold of the prickly sideof everything, to run against all thesharp corners, and find out all the disagreeable things. Half the strengthspent in growling would often set thingsright You may as well make np yourmind, to begin with, that no one everfound the world quite as he would likeit ; but you are to take your share oftbe troubles, and bear it bravely, louwill be very sure to have burdens laidupon yon that belong to other people,unless you are a shirk yourself ; butdo n't grumble. If the work needs do-ing, and you can do it never mindabout the other boy who ought to havedone it and didn't Those workers whofill up the gaps, and smooth away therongh spots, and finish np the job thatothers leave undone, they are the truepeace-maker- s, and worth a whole regiment of growlers.
A collection of Chinese coins in theMuseum of the Paris Mint consists ofnearly 800 specimens, some of gold andsilver. One of the pieces dates from1.700 vears before Jesus Christ A factworthy of notice is that the Chinese observe the decimal system in me divisionof their money. There are gold andsilver ignots, covered with regular con-
trol marks.
"Vnrietles.A sure recipe to remove stains from
character Get rich.Emerson says: "We do not count a
man's years until he has nothing els)to count"
John-x-t assures ns that a rail fo 1 con-ductor punches a hole in your ticket tolet you pass through.
Ax English wag asserts that ma-chinery is the most modest of all things,since it almost always travels in cog.
The proposition to introduce ladiesas railroad conductors is frowned uponin view of the fact that their trains arealways behind.
The independent wrappings worn withall kinds of dresses, dark or bght, arelittle mantelets, double-breaste- d jacketssmall capes, and small Dolmans.
To be bodily tranquil, to speak littleaud digest without effort, are absolutelynecessary to grandeur of the mind or ofpresence, or to proper development ofgenius.
The borne of the cactus family appearsto be in southern Arizona. Here thegrand cictus, vermin girtantevt, is fromthirty feet to forty leet high, and fromthree feet to f.iur feet in diame'r.
About a million's worth of one andtwo frano pieces will be coined inSwitzerland during this year. The re-
verse will be unchanged ; for the ob-verse of the new coins a standing Hel-vetia, with lance and shield, surroundedby twenty two stars, has been pro-posed.
A citizen of Detroit, who moved toLone Tree, Nebraska, several yeaisago, writes to a tobacco house in theformer city to send him five ponnds of"fine cut" by express, adding: "I am acandidate for Sheriff of this county,and I think by judicious use of fivepounds of good tobacco 1 can secure twohundred majority."
King Kalakana, of the SandwichIslands, has requested an old womannamed Kalai, who sent him a mat intowhich she had woven a petition prayingfor the removal of taxes on animals, toweave two mats, one with the Americanand the other with the English coat-of-arm- s,
to lie exhibited at our CentennialExhibition as specimens of Hawaiianhandiwork.
The rapid growth of cities is not con-fined to this country. Berlin, in 1690,had 21,0)0 inhabitants ; in 182$, 220,000inhabitants ; to 1S57 the number hadincreased to t'iO.O'X), and the last censusof 1873 established a population of verynearly 1,000,000. Vienna has also risenfrom a citv of 175,000 inhabitants in1754, and 476,000 in 1857, to 1,000,000in the present Tear.
Eight Russian lady singers, who havelately attracted considerable attentionin Paris, are now in England, and haveappeared before a select audience. Theysing in Russian, Swedish, Dauisi;, andthe Viennese dialect The airs are saidto be very quaint, and are rendered insuch a superior manner that they werespecially retained to sing before theDuke and Duchess of Edinburgh at thewedding festivities at St Petersburg.
The Swedish navy, by the new ar-
rangements just made, will include thewhole of the male nautical populationof Sweden, who are to be liable fortwelve years' service after attaining theage of twenty-one- . The establishmentof the fleet is to consist for the presentof 228 officers, 270 su'wifll er and2.400 sailors; h ;i tu. n vd urma-inrii- U
now in ptor jjolete 1,
it will ot increased ! 321 ffi?ers, 371sub oilier, and aboin o.OjJ sailors,besides a corps of artisans of 525 men.The yearly contingent of men liable forservice is calculated at 1,500 men intime of peace, and about 9,000 in timeof war.
The most wonderful pictures at theParis Exhibition are the celebrated'Kettle of Fish, which would deceivea dime de la Halle ; the picture of alady, with a curtain background, whichwould deceive all the great painters ofantiquity ; the picture of a Cjootte,which would deceive a Gommenx, sonaturally is she painted ; and the pic-ture of a monk, in gray, with a bit ofsunlight on it, which deceives every-body. On the whole, the Salon is verygood, though there are too many por-traits of alphabetical letters. It is pro-posed to affix the real name and age toevery lady's portrait next year. Thatwill no doubt reduce the number.
Some months ago, says the Sin Fran-cisco Jiallclin, seven male Indians anda young Indian woman started to crossClear Lake, near the north end, in asmall boat, which was capsized threemiles from land. They righted it, butas the lake was rough, they could notbad it ont, and while full of water itwoald not support more than one per-son. The men pnt the girl in, and heldon the edges of the boat, supportingthemselves by swimming till exhaustedand chilled through by the cold water,and then dropping off and sinking oneby one. Tu-- y showed no thought ofdisputing tn toting woman's exclusiveright to tii Sae was saved bytheir seLf-Saer- x.
Besides milk dairies, butter dairies,and cheese dairies, there is one otherway of utilizing milk, adapted for lo-
cations where neither of the other arepracticable, and this is in the manu-facture of condensed milk. The de-
mand for this is steadily increasing,and it affords one way, at least bywhich the difficulties between producersof milk and the dealers in our largecities can be overcome. In New Yorkcity, where the people have sufferedmost from watered and diseased milk,condensed milk is greatly preferred inmany families, as it is known to be pureand clean. Tbe exports of condensedmilk from the United States during thetwelve months, ending September 30th,1870, amounted, in custom house valu-
ation, to about two hundred thousanddollars.
Private letters to the friends of oneof the young American studentsdrowned in Like Geneva, Switzerland,give details of the accident One ofthe brothers was found sitting uprightin the boat, nearly submenred, wrappedin the sail and frozen stiff, his handsclntching tho sides of the boat so hardthat the skin was torn from his fingers.As the two days intervening betweenthe departure of the boys and the dis-
covery of the one body had been stormyand cold, it is supposed that the boysdiscovered the approach of the storm,and os attempting to lower the sail thesmaller of the Crane brothers fell over-board, and that William Woodbury,who was an excellent swimmer, spranginto the water to save him. but thatboth were drowned. The remainingboy, it is supposed, wrapped himselfin the sad for protection, but becamedrenched and froze to death in lha
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