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THE NEWS.

EU» Holiness the Pot* cqtdially: receded Cardinal McCloeke/ on fire evening of the Bth. The New York Republican State Con. vention met at Saratoga on the B<h and nominated: For Secretary of State, F. W. Seward; Comptroller, F. E. Spinner; Treasurer, Gen. E. A. Merritt; AttorneyGeneral, Geo. L. Danford; State Engineer, O. H. P. Cornell; Uhnal Commissioner, Wm. E. Tinsley; State Prison Inspector, Rev. Benoni T. Ives. The resolutions adopted declare against further currency inflation and in favor of the speedy return to specie payments; recognize as conclusive President Grant’s declaration that he is not a candidate for renomination, and declare opposition to the election of any President for a third term; ; indorse the Administration of* President Grant, etc. Mbs. Peer testified in the Westervelt trial on the Bth that on July 6,1874, she saw in a Brooklyn street-car Westqrvelt, accompanied by a little boy whom she now recognizes as Charlie Ross. Capt. Jones, of New York city, committed suicide on the Bth by jumping into the rapids and going over the American falls at Niagara. An explosion occurred in a celluloid factory at Newark, N. J., on the Bth which set die building on fire and destroyed it. Of thirty men in die building at the time some escaped uninjured, but several were either killed outright or fatally injured.

The Democratic-Reform State Convention of Wisconsin met at Milwaukee on the Bth, and renominated the present State officers by acclamation. A platform was adopted indorsing the reform resolutions of 1873, including the one favoring sound currency in coin or its equivalent The Maryland Republican State Convention met at Westminster on the Bth and adjourned to meet in Baltimore on the 22d. Miss Eaglesfield, a young lady law student, was admitted to practice in the Circuit Court at Terre Haute, Ind., on the Bth. The Chicago and Cincinnati Industrial Expositions were opened on the Bth, to continue one month. The fifteenth biennial session of the American Pomological Society was begun in Chicago on the Bth. Marshall P. Wilder. of Massachusetts, was re-elected President ; A London dispatch of the 9th announces the loss of the steamer Martin Weiner, from Shields, England, for Hamburg, with all on board. According to a Madrid telegram of the 9th Gen. Jovellar had returned from pursuing the Carlists and resumed the portfolio of the Ministry of War. Virgil D. Stockbridge, of Maine, has been appointed Examiner-in-Chief of the Patent Office.

A Washington dispatch of the 9th says that a company of Italians had gone West with a large amount of the counterfeit $lO bills of the First National Bank of Philadelphia. These counterfeits are said to be exceedingly dangerous. In their State Convention at Erie on the 9th the Pennsylvania Democracy adopted resolutions on the currency question similar to those in the Ohio platform. They demand that contraction be abandoned and that the value of money be kept equal to the wants of trade; favor the abolition of the National Banks and the retirement of their circulation, to be replaced by Governmental legal-tender issues, and the establishment of banks of discount and deposit under State regulation. Judge Pershing, of Cambria County, was nominated for Governor on the eleventh ballot. Thb Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Conference lately held in Cincinnati adopted resolutions demanding the repeal of the National Banking law and the issue of paper money directly by the General Government, to be made a legal tender for all debts, public and private, including duties on imports, and to be interchangeable for registered interest bonds. Resolutions were also adopted denouncing monopolists and favoring the limitation of the Presidential office to a single term. A heavy rainfall occurred in Chicago and a large section of Illinois, Wisconsin and lowa on the 9th, doing great damage. Three accidents occurred on the Wisconsin Division of the Northwestern Railroad, caused by washouts. At Lawrence a bridge was washed away and a passenger train plunged into the stream and was completely wrecked, the engineer, baggageman, newsboy and one passenger being killed and several others injured. Two accidents occurred to freight trains, causing loss of life.

A largely-attended meeting of the friends of the late W. fc. Ralston was held in San Francisco on the night of the Bth. Resolutions favorable to the character of the deceased, and denouncing the Evening Bulletin and Morning Call for brutal and unjustifiable attacks upon his private character, were adopted. The Republicans of the Third Mississippi District have nominated Finnis H. Little for Congress. According to a special dispatch from Vicksburg, Mas., of the 9th, ali was quiet in Warren, Yazoo and Hinds Counties. The Red Cloud Investigation Committee began its dpen session in Washington on the 10th. The prosecution in the Westervelt trial closed ite testimony on the 9th. On the 10th, for thl defense, Mrs. Westervelt testified that on the 6th pf July, 1874, the day when Mrs. Peer said her husband was in a street-car with Charlie Ross, he § warned in the house all day,

THE JASPER REPUBLICAN.

VOLUME 11.

At Augusta, Ga., on the 9th, Jake Hicks, colored, was on trial for connection with the late alleged attempted insurrection.A verdict of not guilty was returned and the prisoner wag discharged. ' The accounts published of the recent disturbances in Mississippi differ asto die origin of die difficulties and their result. One statement says three whites were killed and five or six Wounded. Five or six negroes were killed on the barbecue grounds and an unknown number wounded; two were killed the next morning, and two or three others were reported found dead. Another report says thirty negroes were killed and fifty or sixty wounded. A Washington dispatch of the 10th says a telegram had just been received from the Sheriff of Hinds County, Miss., reporting that perfect peace prevailed throughout that county. The Attorney-General expressed the opinion that the difficulties were at an end. The new California Legislature is made up as follows: Senate —Democrats, 19; Independent Democrats, 5; Independents, 9; Republicans, 7. House—Democrats, 60; Independent Democrat, 1; Independents, 7; Republicans, 11. F. B. Hancock’s Bank, at Greenville, Ky., was robbed, a few nights ago, of nearly $35,000 in United States bonds, currency and gold coin.

A London dispatch of the Uth says the Privy Council had been asked to issue an order forbidding the holding of fairs or markets throughout Warwickshire on account of the prevalence of the toot and mouth disease. A crisis occurred in Spain on the 11th, and the entire Ministry resigned. The next day Gen. Jovellar formed a new oneThe daughter of Prince Bismarck has been betrothed to U Prussian Count with an unpronounceable name. Hon. Henry T. Blow, of St. Louis, formerly United States Minister to Brazil, died suddenly of congestion at the United States Hotel in Saratoga, N. Y., on the 12th. That portion of Maj. Powell’s exploring party in charge of A. H. Thompson, arrived at Gunnison, Utah, on the 11th, en route for home. One of the severest storms experienced on Lake Michigan for many years occurred on the night of the 9th, and great damage to vessel property and loss of life are reported. The most serious was that which occurred to the propeller Equinox, of the Grand Trunk line. She was laden with salt, and had in tow the schooner Emma A. Mayes. When within about ten milesDf Point Bauble she suddenly sank, carrying down with her all on board, including the crew and Capt. Scott’s daughter and niece, and a gentleman and lady whose names have not been ascertained. Twenty-four persons are supposed to have been on board at the time of the accident. A St. Joseph (Mo.) distiller, under prosecution for violation of the Internal Revenue laws, pleaded guilty on the Uth. Mike Scully, a Columbus (Ohio) pedestrian, has recently finished walking 1,000 miles in 1,000 hours. Mrs. Abraham Lincoln reached Springfield, 111., on the 11th, in charge of her son Robert. A dispatch of that date says she was not regarded as being any better, mentally, than when she first went to Batavia.

THE MARKETS.

NEW TORK. Liu Stock.—Beef Cattle —$11.50®13.00. Hogs —Live, $8.25®8.50. Sheep—[email protected]. Bbkadstuffs. —Floor—Good to choice, $6.00® 6.40; white wheat extra, $6.45®7.60. Wheat—No. 3 Chicago, [email protected]; No. 2 Northwestern, $1.27®1.28; No. 2 Milwaukee spring, $1.29® I. Rye—Western and State. 95e®51.05. Barley—sl.2s@l.&o. Corn—Mixed Western, 70® 7414 c. Oats—Mixed Western, 37@58c. Pbovisions.—Pork—New Mess, [email protected]. Lard—Prime Steam, 13J4®13Xc. Cheese—4® 9*c. Wool.—Domestic fleece, 43®65c. CHICAGO. Live Stock.—Beeves—Choice, $5.75®6.23; good, $5.00®5.60; medium, $4.2G®5.00; butch, era' stock, $3.00®4.25; stock, $2.75®3.75 cattle. Hogs—Live, $?.45®7.60. Sheep—Good to choice [email protected]. Pbovisions.—Butter—Choice, 25®30c. Eggs— Fresh, 13*4®14c. Pork—Mess, $20.«[email protected]. Lard—[email protected]. BsMADSTurra.—Flour—White Winter Extra, $6.26®7.50; spring extra, $'5.25®6.25. WheatSpring, No. 2, [email protected]. Com—No. 2, 58>4 @sß*c. Oats—No. 2, 35X@38c. Rye—No. 2, 75©75J4c. Barley—No. 2, $1.11®1.12. Lumber —First Clear, $44.00®45.00; Second Clear, $43.00®44.00; Common Boards, slo.oo® 11. Fencing, [email protected]; “A” Shingles, $*.50®2.90; Lath, $1.7t®2.00. EAST LIBERTY. Live Stock.—Beeves—Best, $8.50®7.00; medium, $5.25®5.50. Hogs—Yorkers, [email protected]; Philadelphia, $8.90®9.10. Sheep—Best, $5.25® 5.50; medium, [email protected].

A Mirror in the Moon.

A most remarkable discovery is reported from the astronomical observatory established by the Russian Government several years ago at Pamlateska, the highest point with one exception on the Himalayan range. For several months a peculiar bright spot had been discovered, shilling from the extreme edge of the moon’s disk, at a point where no mountains break the continuity of its perimeter. This light suddenly disappeared and remained invisible for nearly twelve months. It has lately reappeared in greater brilliancy than ever, and the immense power of the telescope attached to the above observatory, so well known in the scientific world, has developed the feci that the light proceeds from some huge furnished substance, acting as a mirror, which must be at least 100 feet in diameter. The most astonishing thing in the matte? is the almost complete proof that this is actually a mirror of artificial construction, and the theory of the savans at Pamlateska is that it is erected for observations of a scientific character, principally to observe the phases of the earth’s surface,

OUR AIM: TO FEAR GOD, TELL THE TRUTH AND MAKE MONET.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1875.

It is well known that the immense height of that portion of the moon which is turned toward the earth, not only through the well-known laws of gravitation keeps that portion of her surface presented toward us, but also renders it uninhabitable. It js supposed that the side turned from us may have an atmosphere suitable for animal life, and that intelligent beings, observing the halo of light shed around its horizon by reflections from the earth, may have taken this means to ascertain the cause. Some ingenious device to place a mirror at a height where animal life could not be sustained was the result. It is hoped this discovery may lead to others in regard to our interesting satellite.— Chicago Timet.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

.Ah Jack, of Ban Luis, Cal., cut off his queue, and the natives ordered him up to a leafless branch. How to turn a riding-coat into a walking one—hang it up in the passage, taking good care to leave the street door opeiv It is now in order for some newspaper to come forward and predict a winter which will freeze the heels off a lawn ornament. No paphb has any, more right to leave the “e” off of “ envelope’* than to leave the same off of “take” or “bake.”—Detroit Free Frets.

Venice, the beautiful Venice, is not only romantic, but late visitors say that the city smells worse than the Chicago River in its best days. Oh. yes! Editors, printers and others chipped in fora monument to Greeley, and the mon But where is the money? Who took charge of it? Budd Doble earnestly moves that Goldsmith Maid, who is now in her twentieth year, be allowed a farewell benefit and retirement to private life. The latest mineral discovery at Newburyport, Mass., is that of a $5,000 rough diamond within the city limits, but how it got there they don’t tell us. A Chicago doctor says that mustard plaster will cure a broken heart m twen-ty-four hours by the watch, but the world will prefer to cling to sentiment. “ What branches of learning have you been pursuing at school to-day ?” said a father to his son. “ None, in particular, sir; but a birch branch has been pursuing me.” No more gros-grain, big-bowed, longend sashes, if you please, says Mme. Modiste, but instead wear a narrow ribbon around your waist with a lotof streamers at the side.

The demand for one little word, just one little word, from Mr. Keeley,of motor feme, continues pressing, but he is as silent as the woman with the worst bonnet at a garden party. At Silverton, in the San Juan mines, Col., a boy thirteen years of age, named Wallihan, accidentally shot and killed his mother with a shot-gun which he had taken up to shoot a hawk. A man in the Omaha jail is noted for his fine penmanship; but the jail is mightier than the pen, and he will have to do his “stretch,” notwithstanding talents which might be useful on the outside. It is stated that over $300,000 are due to Albany physicians by patients in that city. A Troy surgeon asserts that during the past ten years he has gratuitously treated in the single department of fractures alone 1,000 cases. There’s a comer in salt. People are salting it away, and salt-cellars are inactive. Lively discussions are taking place between cucumbers and green tomatoes relative to this high-handed attempt to keep them out of their native brine. Salt, they say, is their only preservation. A too much married Mormon in SaltLake City had his clothes tom off him by a swarm of jealous wives the other day, who then turned him into the street While prowling around the house, trying to get in, he was collared by a police officer, who took him for an insane man.

Hartford, Conn., has some queer horses. One animal will not drink a drop of water on Sunday. Another takes a nap every Sunday morning after breakfast, and does not doze on any other day. Still another likes to chew tobacco, and will masticate a paper of fine-cut with evident relish. One Brutus W. Liski, of New Haven, has been busy robbing his sweetheart and her mother, and is now m jail. An exchange blames him for not calling himself a Count If he had the parents would have pardoned him, and the girl marrying him would have clung to and fed and clothed him as long as he wished. It is proposed in France that the right to take, collect and use water for purposes of irrigation should be granted to the inhabitants of agricultural districts in the ■same manner as it is now granted to the inhabitants of cities and towns who require water for drinking or household purposes. The owners of the land are to be indemnified as when their property is required for any other public uses. The Lowell (Mass.) Courier says that a few evenings since a lady called into a store in that city and asked in an excited manner to see some revolvers. A secondhand one was offered her for $4, and on purchasing it Bhe expressed a desire to have it loaded. The revolver was loaded —■with blank cartridges, unknown to her-%-and she made a hasty departure for home. The next morning her husband came to the store and offered the revolver for sale. The storekeeper offered him $3.75 for it and the offer was accepted. The husband said teat the wife fired the revolver at him, and on finding that he escaped unharmed regretted her attempt at his life, and the result was the disposal of the "revolver.

BEAUTIFUL THimS. Beautiful feces are those that wear— It matters little if dark or fair— Whole-souled honesty printed there. Beantifnl eyes are those that show, Like crystal panes where hearth-fires glow, Beautiful thoughts that burn below. Beautiful lips are those whose words Leap from the heart like gongs of birds, Yet whose utterances prudence girds. Beantifnl hands are those that do Work that is earnest and brave and true, Moment by moment, the long day through. Beautiful feet are those that go On kindly ministries to and fro— Down lowliest ways, if God wills so. Beantifnl shoulders are those that bear Ceaseless burdens of homely care With patient grace and dally prayer. • Beautiful lives are those that bless— Silent rivers of happiness, . Whose hidden fountains bat few may guess. Beautiful twilight, at set of sun, _ Beautiful goal, with race well won; Beautiful rest, with werk well'done. Beautiful graves, -where grasses creep, Where brown leave* fall, where drifts lie deep Over worn-out hands —Oh! beantifnl sleep. —Pittsburgh Christian Advocate.

PANSIES FOR THOUGHTS.

A hapvy young family— father, mother, and baby—came to live in a great city one May. Their home was one of the many houses in a line, all alike, with a little ornamental balcony at one side, a bay-win-dow at the other, and a tiny grass-plot in front which itself “the garden!” Opposite »« a row of houses very similar, and on both sides came to take a livply interest in this family. Very soon their refined taste evinced itself. Vines peeped through the fleecy curtains of the bay-window, and a canary’s cage hung from tile center. The piazza became gay with baskets and- stands of flowers. Passers-by had glimpses of books and pictures, and a piano, where, every evening when Rob Roy came home, the clear touch and tuneful voice of Helen, his wife, was heard. Thus they commended themselves to the cultivated of the street, who cast favorable eyes upon them as fit partakers of OBetiheUtchet thee.

But a greater company by far, the mothers, approved them for the adulation of the baby. And the baby was surely as lovely a one as heart could wish. A wee, round, delicately-fashioned creature, pretty from the top of the head, crowned with little rings of sunny hair, to the rose-pink soles of her feet; with great smiling blue eyes, a dainty little nose, and an actual sweet, cherry mouth, not the imbecile aperture for the reception, lacteals which goes by the name of -tile average baby face. You will observe I use the feminine pronoun. If a baby is pretty, vivacious and acute, is it not sure to be a girl? If it is a Dutch cherub, with a splendid physique and a lumpish demeanor, which the little impostor tries to palm off as dignity (deceiving only his next of kin thereby), is it n$ —bear me out, O mothers of the herd—always'a boy ?

When the baby went to drive in her perambulator her course through the street was a royal progress. One loyalist after another stayed her chariot to do her homage. They kissed her, of course; they rejoiced to find her tendrils would soon become .purls; they peered into her mouth and gave each other intelligence concerning her latest tooth; they pointed out the dimples in her cheek, the two that indented her shoulders, the many that dwelt at her .elbow and round her wrist and in her hands. Her most enthusiastic subjects counted her toes, examining each shining nail, scrutinized her fairy ears, and besought her to show them her tongue. When she condescendingly stretched it forth they whispered breathlessly, “She knows!” Baby was a friendly creature, sweettempered as well as merry, and she patiently aired her gifts and graces before her people; but she was artful, too, and kept her sweetest wiles for home. What a famous day it was when she took her first steps! We saw the exhibition, and it was as good as a Christmas pantomime. At Rob Roy’s ring Helen opened the door, and, the greeting kiss given, led him to the balcony and plunged at once into a description, quite intelligible to us from her gestures, how she had get the baby against the wall and knelt before her with open arms to lure her to come to her, and how baby, after some hesitancy, suddenly flew to her, and she had tried two or three times to make sure she could do it, and how there was no mistake. Then Rob shook his head and

put on the most incredulous, expression, and Helen, persisting? looked very pretty with her bloom heightened and a rippling brown lock straying into her earnest eyes. Asseveration proving, vain, she went off for the champion walker of the universe. Baby came, filly arrayed for the solemnity in a short white frock much befrilled and a blue sash tied in a big butterfly bow behind. She greeted her father with effusion, but when he derisively requested her company for a promenade in the park she grew calm. Being put in position the kneeling pair—for Rob the skeptic straightway became a devotee—enticed her to them .by all their arts. But none of these blandishments moved baby until she chose to set out. Closely pressing herself against the wall, she watched her parents for a minute with a tranquil and conning smile. Then catching her dress, danseusewise, at each side she advanced, not as hitherto with the skimming motion of the sparrow, but with stately little steps, until just in front of them, where she paused in the prettiest attitude of coquetry and irresolution in the world, and signalized her

victory by eaatiag herself into her father's arms. Then shouting arose, in which we blush to say the overwrought spy joined, thus bringing condjgn punishment upon her eyes, for, discovering the publicity, the actors withdrew. Baby, throned cm her father’s shoulder, beat a tattoo against it with her wee blue kid feet, and Helen, grasping his arm, laughed in sweet triumph. Only a week after wC heard that baby was ill. Very ill, the report was as the day wore cm; and more than one pair of eyes filled when it grew plain that there was small hope of her recovery. Baby lay on the bed with the clutch of diphtheria at her darling throat—her soft, milkwhite throat, which we had so often kissed, lifting the coral the bettor to see its fairness and plumpness: She suffered, moaning constantly, sometimes catching at her throat with both hands, turning entreating eyes on her mother. ■’

Her mother! Who pored over her with deathless love in her face, who was fain to suffer torture for her child wad could dot, who was smitten with the sense that in her physical ease she was unjust to her. “OGod!” she groaned, “take her to Thyself, if it be Thy will, but give meher pain, I pray.’.’ t She would stand for hours caressing baby witfi lips and hands, soothing her with all her store of fond words, looking at her with a smile—such a smile!—in her eyes. “You must take rest,” kind Mends said. “/rest!” she would answer, pointing to the restless little child. God was good. The day the baby lay a-dying she had no pain. She knew her father and mother, and constantly smiled a weak little smile upon them, often held up her mouth to be kissed. At sunset she turned her great pathetic eyes upon her mother and held out her arms, and-when Helen raised her head from that embrace and looked in her face she found baby had bidden her goodby. For a little while she lay in pale, lovely sleep within the snowy draperies of her crib, all among flowers, and then there came the day when her parents shut the light of their eyes from their sight, when they left their dearest in her lonely bed. Helen asked so piteously to go none coulflcesist. She stood like a statue until the mound was heaped. Then eveiy mother’s in : stinct seemed to draw her down and she fell on it in a ddfep swoon. In a few days Bob carried her to her own mother, in whose household chronicles such loss had more than once been written, and together they mingled their tears. r ’ ; ’ ' > - * v

That autumn Miss Ray came to spend a week in the city. Miss Ray was forty. Her attire was in good taste, but it hung sharply off her angles, as is the treacherous wont of old maids’ clothes; and it had the other fault ascribed to that order—extreme neatness. She was thin, her hair was threaded with gray, and her features were not beautiful; but on her brow dwelt peace, and love shone from her eyes. Miss Ray was one of the few mortals who know all the three chords of the angels’ song. We are willing to ascribe glory to God in the highest, and content that there should be “peace on earth”; but who practices “good-will toward men”? She did. She had not the love of the philanthropist for man in the mass, but an individual love for each one as for a brother, a sister. The outgrowth was quiet enough, but if you laughed first the tears of genuine admiration hastened after. She always mended torn bills because she never forgot the distress in a poor woman’s eyes when her tattered money was. refused in the shop, and her own modest means, promptly tendered, were insufficient. Her course through the village street was a devious one because of the peelings, the broken glass, the rusty nails she gathered and put into the gutter. The child we have all met crying because he has lost the money for bread, or broken the milk-pitcher, was always consoled by her, and gazed after the dear slim figure, with relief shining through his tears, the assuaging coin clutched tightly in his fingers. Old men found their empty tobac-co-canister mysteriously replenished. 01d f women found the shawl they had coveted, with the “desire of the moth few the star,” waiting in the drawer to be worn on Christmas meaning Tired washerwomen were cheered by the package of tea that appeared on their table when they lit their late lamp after a hard day oufPand as they sipped the steaming brew and felt revivification steal through their veins they gave up the conundrum; Who thought it? in placid satisfaction. The lank-cheeked boy gazing into the confectioner’s window, the forlorn girl fixing wistful eyes on the doll in the toy-shop, had the treasure suddenly put-into their hands. Her eyes “ grew tender over drowning flies,” and she duly fished them out and laid them in the sun to dry. How she has stopped dog-fights, tending the lame warriors on both si4es; how she has snatched kittens from the very jaws of the puppy, cannot be told. If you surprised her in these deeds she blushed like a girl caught writing a loveletter. Her steps were as noiseless and beneficent as an angel’s. Her friend took her driving to the cemetery (me morning and when they got there they wandered through the tranquil garden of the dead. Stately dowagers rolled by in velvet mantle and double chin; gay girls took their noonday airing and made plana for festal, days and nights; two lovers read eternal love in each other’s qyes—all were unmindful of this fleeting, tragic life whoee memo rial stones gleamed thick and pale around them. They came upon a tiny red mound. “ Poor Mrs. Roy’s little girl,” said her friend. “ She was buried a week ago, and [ I hear the mother’s grief was terrible,” I and she went on to speak of it,

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“ Poor thing! Poor young thing!” said Miss Ray, with the sympathetic tears rising. “I wish i could do something for her!” Then she considered. Presently her face brightened; she put her hand in her pocket; took out her porte-monnaie and extracted therefrom a tidy package marked “ Viola Tricolor !’ ’ She borrowed a trowel from a man at work near by and soon had sown the little grave with seed and deftly covered them. “There!” she said, with a long breath of satisfaction. “ Poor young mother!” Rob Roy passed a lonely, anxious winter. Helen was taken with diphtheria. She was not very ill, but the flbctdr urged care and watahing, so Rob Roy left her with her mother. He spent every Sunday with her and several days at Christmas tide, when, I doubt not, they kept the birthnight of the Holy Child with smiles and team. We pitied him in his solitary life. We looked at the one light at night and the darkened nursery window, and sighed as we remembered six months ago. But one day in early spring, when gentle airs were blowing the vapor about the soft sky, aod flowers were thrusting their gay young heads above the black earth, Rob stopped under our balcony and lifted his glad face to say he was going for Helen to-morrow.

So she came back even sweeter than before, for the mourning-dress and for her selfless bearing of her cross. She took up the thread of her home life where it had fallen black and tear-stained and wove it shining as before. When she had been at home several days she said one morning: “Can’t you come home early this afternoon, Rob, and take me to baby’s grave?” “O, yes,” answered Rob, .drawing her tenderly to him. She, leaning on his shoulder, asked: “ Have you had anything planted there, Rob? I shall not see it hare, shall I?”entreatingly. Rob hung his kind, foolish head. The day she came he had ordered an elaborate dinner; he had adorned, the house with costly flowers, he had given her an exquisite trinket; but the thing she wanted most in the world he had left undone.

Then this wise woman, divining his trouble, said, from her resting-place: “ Never mind, we shall see about it together. I will look for you early.” So she kissed him good-by. But when he was gone the tears' flowed over her face. It Was a lovely afternoon when they entered the great cemetery gates. A little chill lingered in the air, but it was sunny and calm. Helen held a cluster of white flowers, the purest, sweetest yet above the mold; her arm was in her. husband’s and her voice had somewhat of its oI(: ring. But as they neared the angle which, passed, would reveal the little grave, Bob felt her tremble and, looking down, saw a pale, quivering face, which hid itself against him, shaken with sobs. “ I can’t help it, Rob!” she gasped. “ Ihavetried. But when I think of my baby and the dreadful clay-heap over her, why, my heart bleeds again!” And she made a gesture as to show how the thought tore her. “My dearest,” said Rob, grieved through all his heart, “ you shall never see it so again, never, I promiseyoul” Thus speaking they moved on, her head bowed low, so that she only knew by their stopping that they had reached her baby’s bed. Rob started as if to utter an exclamation, then checked himself, and they stood in silence for awhile. “Look up, Helen,” he said at last, veiy gently. And lo! a marvel. The little mound smiled all over with pansies. They made a canopy above the harsh clay to hide it from the sight of love. With their root in death they opened fearless, innocent eyes, and spread abroad their store of purple and gold without stint to cheer the sad heart “ O Rob!” cried Helen kneeling down and laying her wet, bright face against the flowers, “ who could have done it? Oh, thank God! God bless her!” When the evening of that day closed in a quiet home, said one who loved Miss Ray: “ Did you notice her face to night? It was as bright as if she had seen a vision of angels.” But I think it was Helen’s blessing.— May Carroll , in N. Y. Graphic.

The Forestville correspondent of the Buffalo Expr&t relates this incident; “J. C. Mount was married to Mrs. Grace Ann Crowell, of Hamlett, this morning, and about noon the •couple drove to the rail way station to start on their wedding tour to New York. White unloading trunks the team became frightened and ran away, throwing the lady out of the wagon. In felling her head struck a post in front Ot Parsons & House’s store, opposite the depot, and she was so seriously injured that she only lived fifteen minutes. She was sixty-two years old.” Knurr, the German cannon-founder, has refused to sell the British government one of his big guns. In reply to a request for one, he said he was “willing to contract for the arming of as many forts and ships as England wanted, at home or abroad, but he must decline to part with specimens for experimental purposes.” Mb. Nash, the anatomist of the University of Pennsylvania, says that the average market value of skeletons is SSO, but that at present they rule dull at $35. Skulls well prepared, so as to show all the nerves, bring S2OO. Huckleberries are only three cents per quart in Maryland,# but yon may travel for 950 miles and not see a girl whose nose is free from freckles.—Exchange. When they catch a man gathering Delaware peaches at midnight they preserve whatever good traits he has in him by footing half a pint of salt into his tegs.

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Why Do the Clouds Float?

For too long a timethe scientific world has believed in the idea ofDetawssure*that the i&ter particles pf which do*d» and fogs consist enntfyms to soapftyibblesv consisting of a, velope, with a vacuum inside, no as to be specifically 1 lighter fiKm W is strange that thefeot % contihti&llj being overlooked that if’pKrtietti'WFTJflfJftmall enough they may be kept up In sHlffliH or gas* n*twitiutaodlng:tJibO' m**Minl of which they are parts ier than the medium * in which they float. Powfiers of hea kept rs|'«p» The fliHfet etnery is ofify oMSijßf« 4j frdm water fromwhach theoaatise. jiaftfdlikhftve been deposited in different, pgriqds. »f. time, according to thair at last, after collecting tiwv.depositftuf xuukj i

hours, and. even days, the do not settle Until after many weeks’ refit. It is the same in the afr ( xf wi übftbct the dust deposited in a room which has been closed for some weeks and examine it we: will find it aH to consist of pasticles o very heavy materials, and If MtavMMe lie dust will be recognized. Now, when heavy metallic dust can carriedinthc air, why not-Watts dfcst/ 1 which is much lighter? In viewingdtiw grand Falls of Niagara we have neticed that when the atmosphere was hot too dry. so as to cause the spray, to disappear, while the sky was covered wjtfi loose, floating clouds, the spray in' &>rmed a cloud identical to the others, with which it floated away. r *1 The height at which clouds will- -flnat: depends chiefly on tiraeias of th*_sratery particles; the larger they are the .lower t the clouds will float This was recently, verified by Mr. Angus,Smith in Iceland, whire fteobserved a cloud of $g riffling down the streets lik& dust- el: teinokC; it came from the sea, and .the particles were larger than any he had ever jsecflj being about 1-400 of an inch eter. He did not find the particles nollow, but concrete throughout, account refers alto to the abkuitißy or fqe theory that the cloud-p&rtieles should ’ consist of hollow spheres or vdsksleg. The power which holds smallUhd betmjrf particles up in a liquid or gas is simply. the adhesion, which increases with tiie surface. The finer the dust is ftto larger is the surface as compared with the Vblume, and when the adhesive action of the liquid or gas on this large enough it may overcome gravitation, and the particles cannot fall, but will be kept floating. That there is a strong adhesion' between airland water is proved by the efftfct of wind on the surface of water,! especially when compared with; the effect of the wind on a watery surface lubricated with a film of oil ; then the air glides ovef* ft without causing even a ripple. On this depends the quieting effect of oil when poured on turbulent waves whoadfcay are caused by wind. ,Oil poured on tire waves of the rapids of the Bt.Lswrence River would, by no means hayp that same quieting effect.— Mmufd&uYer and Builder. ‘ *•’* p •

Very Plain Swiss.

A correspondent of the Louisville Courier Journal writes from Switzerland; The vulgar idea of the interest ter of mountaineers, whether male or, female, is, you know, fallacious everywhere,' ' and notably so here in Stflteflriand. romance there is none wlth them.' It all goes into the mountains, the: rocks; theN veils of snow and cloud and positively there is none left foiThe wretched inhabitants. They are an awfullooking lot of folks as a general ihihg. 1 ' Now and then, at the crack hotelsj iay oF the Rhigi or Luzerne, you seeAQme rather fine-looking, healthy waiting-girls, dressed ? in piquant costumes—that is one of the tricks that show how smart these people are when they are after your money—and I do remember also, and pleasantly, too, one very sweet, gentle pair of eyes at the Hotel du Lac at Luzerne, but fife.grad mass of the women are not only ugly Wttt positively hideous. I think this ugliness must be bred in them fo* generations. Their enormous feet and ankles are easily explained by their having to waft: over these rough, rocky paths, up and down very steep tracks; but this is • not all of the reason why. >T&e peasant women here do the very roughest sort pf work in and out doors, and the.hurdens they are wonVto carry on their backs are really appalling. They do not seem to mind them much. They trudge along with these burdens cm the highways, bending forward at an angle of forty-five degrees, stooping more even than afhshionable American girl with an attack of the Grecian bend. Several times i have stopped them,and “hefted,” to use an Americanism, their loads, but only for a moment. One trial was enough. It is the same way with the men. The loads they are able to pack on their backs up a. mountain would try very sorely the patience and long-suffering of a Kentucky mule. The faCt*is, life goes rather hard with these poor beings. They Katfe id work very laboriously, and they begin pretty early in the day. And yet they do not seem careworn and unhappy . I saw numbers of them to-day on my hour's tramp to and from the Riechenback FtdW, and all seemed eheerfrtl enough. • a —Winchester, Va., which was taken and retaken seventy-two times during the war, has not varied a hundred in population in twenty-five years. _ . v a •• The matutinal flap-jack will be iff Inexpensive luxury this winter. Buckwheat was never so plenty and cheap before.