Ligonier Banner., Volume 13, Number 41, Ligonier, Noble County, 30 January 1879 — Page 7

The Ligonier Banmer, ‘ J. B. STOLL, Editor and Proprietors » LIGONIER, : : : INDIANA.

- FACTS AND FIGURES. : THE German Empire has a population of 756,000,000. { L ' THE families belonging to the Danish nobility number 173. P THERE are 155 convicts now in the Oregon Penitentiary. - : - THERE are 421 Chinese businesshouses in San Francisco. - JERUSALEM is adding 1,500 to its Jewish population every year. ‘ TWENTY. MILLIONS dollars capital is invested in laundries in New York. 'ONE-SIXTH is a Japanese landlord’s share of the orops on his land; average size of farms, one acre. ON aneaverage, 686 bodies are annually taken to 510 Paris° Morgue, and some 80 per cent. of these are recognized by their families. : /THE annual value of silk ribbons exgbrted by Switzerland to the United States has fallen, in the last five years, g;oom over $4,000,000 to sbout $1,000,- * 3 9 IN Louisiana there are 62,883 white voters who can write their names, and--13,936 who cannot do so. Of colored voters 10,390 write their names, and 68,300 do not. ! ; AcCORDING to the statistics of 1870, there were 9,749,833 acres of timbered land in Ohio. In 1877 there were but 9,117,310 acres. If these figures are correct, they show the destruction of over 4,600,000 acres of timbered land in Ohio in seven years. :

It is said that the real estate on Manhattan Island has been so taken up that there are not over 400 building lots for - sale above the lower end of Central Park. Land is being held very firmly in that part of the town. Even if real estate has gone down, the taxable value of New York City has gone up in spite of it. In 1872 the assessment was $797,125,115, but in 1878 it was $900,855,700. :

THE losses caused by depredations of wild beasts—mainly wolves—in Russia are enormous, even in the more thickly populated parts of the Empire. According to a recent official report, in one district of the Government of Novgorod alone, durin% the! year ending the 31st of October last, the number of domestic animals destroyed by beasts of prey wes as follows: Horses, 43; neat cattle; 153: colts, 209; calves, 111;sheep, 529; hogs, 7, and dogs, 12.

AMONG the deaths recorded in New York, last year, fifteen were of persons whose ages at the time of their death were given as over 100 years. All except three of these were natives of lreland.-- Of the remainder, two were born in New York and oné in Maryland. The best. authorities in vital statistics, however, are slow to believe the stories of alleged centenarians. Eleven men and women, reported as of 100 years and over, died in Philadelphia daring 1878, and 686 who had attained the age of 80 and over.

~_lr is a curious fact that more persons die of diphtheria in the healthy districts of England than in those where the general mortality is hi%her. 'ln the healthy districts, out of 100,000 persons born, 1,029 die of this disease; while in-the less healthy districts, such as Liverpool, the deaths from diphtheria amount to only 441. 'On the other hand, the deaths from scarlet fever in the healthy districts number 2,140, while in Liverpool they are 3,830 out of every 100,000 born. The best medical authorities assert that the disease has existed from the ‘earliest days of medical history, but it hasdbe‘come mueh more virulent in modern times. e

Cooked Air, THERE is one very good reason why Efople ‘‘take cold” in . winter-time. ost of the well-to-do spend their lives, when in-doors, in cooked air. The lower down the thermometer goes the higher the burning coal is piled; all the chinks and cracks are stopped that would let any fresh air in, and its main chance, indeed, is when the front door opens for twenty seconds, or when the beds are made in the sleeping-rooms. In the living rooms of the family there is no occasion, many people think, to raise the windows ever, e'xcegt. to wash them on periodical cleaning days, or to shut in the shutters. So carpets and furniture, and people, lungs and skin, are dried and baked in the hot, dry rooms, until ingenious persons can bring “out electric sparks from their finger ends by skating rapidly up and down the room in their woolen slippers. Out from this kiln-dried atmosphere into the winter streets and :dnto the very cold or very damp air, plunge the folks who live in these air-tight rooms. They put on plenty of wraps, but they wear the same foot-gear and they carry the same lungs out into the streets with. them and the same sensitive skin.' Then they go into friends’ houses and sit in other hot rooms with all their wraps on, or they sit in church-pews, the women, at least, heavily muffied in furs and woolens, for a matter of two hours. L (Why a man will take off his overcoat in church and women cling to their jackets as to an article of faith, is among the puzzles for the wise to settle, or for the rext hundred questions -of an inquiring world.) Again, tifey go out into the damp streets, and it is a wonder to all doctors and thinkers that they do not all *‘tuke,” and keep, too, that congested state of the lungs, and membranes, and chilled blood vessels that we class under this one convenient term of ‘“cold.”” ;

Perhaps the houses are not kept any | warmer than they ought to be, when Ee'ople are tukinq but' little exercise. ut they oertainly are nearly all of them too dry and Izckingin constantlyrenewe%;ure air. It has beéen before remarked in the Ledger that folks who are extreme(l}{ particular about wearing their own clothes, and who would by no means consent to take the cast-off garments of a neighbor—one and all of them are perfectly comforfable to breathe over and over again the.cast-off

and soiled air from each others’ lungs, when it is cooked especially;for in summer time they doinsiston a‘cha:ﬁe of it, and do get tlvxeir houses ventilated. Janitors of public building, in a shortsi§hted economy of fuel, will shut up all the apertures by which fresh air ‘might get in, lest they should suffer some heat to escape thereby, and are rewarded by sleepy audiences, especially when the gas-burners are at work, also draining the cooked air of what little life it %ms. There are some people—many it is to be hoped—who open an inch or two .of their bed-room windows every night to insure a modicum of fresh air to sleep by. But these do not in the least care to have fresh air to be awake in, it seems, for they are content to have their furnace draw all its supplies from the tightly-sealed cellar and from the stale atmosphere of the ash-boxes and vegetable bins in the subterranean apartment. When we live in fresh air within doors as without, with its proper proportion of moisture for thé skin and breathing apparatus to keep up their healthy tone, it is likely we shall have found out one way at least of how not to take cold.—Philadelphia Ledger. 3

- The Transmutation ef Elements. Nor a little nonsense has been written with regard to Mr. Lockyer’s recent assertions concerning the probable composite nature of several,.possibly all, of the substances hitherto accounted elementary, and the probability that all the elements so-called are but varying phases of some fundamental matter-stuff. _ o

It has been commonly assumed that if these assertions should be verified, the dreams of the alchemists would come true, and chemists would be able to change one form of matter into another, as lead into gold or silver. This assumption is altogether gratuitous. In his studies of the spectra of different substances under varying conditions of heat and pressure, Mr. ' Lockyer has indeed come to doubt the integrity of the elements as commonly understood; and to believe that substances as unlike as calcium, lithium, iron and hydrogen, may be not only not fundamentally distinct, but that they'may be merely different aspects of sume basic matter-stuff, of which hydrogen is the simplest form at command. As yet, however, the evidence he has offered is far from convincing; and able chemists who listened to his paper before the Royal Society, among them Prof. Roscoe, %Villiamson, Frankland and Gladstone, are of the opinion. that he has merely demonstrated the presence -of impurities in elements supposed to be perfectly pure. But supposing these gentlemen to be wrong, and Mr. Lockyer right; supposing it is true that all matter is fundamentally one—would we be any nearer to the practical realization of the al-. chemist’s dream? S

- If matter be at bottom only hydrogen or some, still simpler substance, the existence -of strongly marked phases of matter, like oxygen, iron, gold and so on, can be explained only by supposing them to be the result of a process of natural selection operating through past ages, under conditions about which we can have but the vaguest knowledge. W : ' We know that life in' all its phases is fundamentally the same, yet those phases are, in the main, so far as we are concerned; unchangeable, certainly not transmutable. Eyven if the common origin of the horse and the zebra should be demonstrated beyond the possibility of a doubt, we should be no better able to transmute zebras into horses than we arenow. Soifitbe demonstrably true that the two phasesofone matter-stuff, like silver and lead, have resulted from the cosmical processes of material evolution, acting through the cycles of the past, the probability of our being able to change the one into the other would be scarcely greater than if they were fundamental%rrudiss tinct. The chemical behavior of the different sorts of matter is quite independent of any theoretical notions with regard to the ultimate constitution of such substances; and chemistry will remain substantially what it is, whatever may be the ontcome of the investigations of Mr. Lockyer and those engaged in similar work. By this we do not mean that the prevailing theories ‘and practices of chemists may not. be materially changed—such changes are the necessary result’ of increasing knowledgé—Dbut simply that the popular talk about the radical overturning of the science, as the result of Mr. Lockyer’s alleged discoveries, is sheer nonsense, even if his utmost expectation should be realized.—Scientific American. it b

A Child’s Rescue from a Well. AT Roseville, a few days ago, the little son of a widow lady—a qhifd three or four years of age—while playing at a well, fell into it. His fall was observed, and parties ran to his rescue. It was found that he was on the surface of the water, which was about twenty feet deep, clinging to something and apparently unhurt. The people cast about for means to save him, but found that the well rope was not strohg enough to sustain the weight of a man, | and it would be dangerous to the child, | to say nothing of angthing else, for any one to try to descend. While a‘messenger was hastening for a strong rope, the well bucket was placed within the child’s reach, and he was directed to %et into it and hold on to the rope. he little fellow, in an effort to do as he was told, put his feet on the edge of the bucket and clasped the rope with his hands; then those above commenced to draw him up. It was a moment of intense suspense; scarcely a breath was drawn as, with exceeding care, the rope ‘was handled -and the bucket gradnaﬂy ‘ascended with the braye chil ch.uﬁmﬁ to it courageously. If he lost his hol and fell he doubtless would perish, for it was almost too much to expect that he could fall twice into such a perilous. glace and escapé. But gradually the ‘bueket -ascended, slowly and surely, and when at last thé boy was where he could be reached, and a strong hand gra.sfied him, there was a great shout of relief from all; and the gratification was increased when it was -auhsof%uentl;ﬁtonngl that he was not hurt a bit.—

4 Farming in France. SINCE the transfer of Alsace and Lorraine to Germany th;(fopulation of France has been estimated at thirty-six millions. This is probably more nearly accurate than such estimates usually are, as, in the first place, the French collect and preserve statistics far more exact and exhaustive than any other people, and in the second place, the population is more nearly stationary than that of any other important territory. France has been for the past five {lears the most prosperous of civilized ations, and her prosperity has not been in the brilliant fortunes of the showy few, but in the comfortable competence attained by the many. We are, says the Philadelphia Imquirer, apt to think of the French as excelli(x)xg in the manufactures, especially of productions requiring artistic skill, and to these superior industries we often attribute their exceptional good fortune throu%h the hard times prevailing all over the world. But the truth appears to be that agriculture is, after all, the basis of their accruing wealth, as it has been of permanent and abiding welfare-in all lands and all times.

Of the 86,000,000 of population, as above noted, 21,000,000, or about threefifths, are agriculturists. The total arable area is estimated at 114,000,000 acres. This would give an average of 53.5 acres to each individual, or twentygeven acres to each family of five memers.

A farm of twenty-seven acres in this country would be considered ‘rather ¢ small potatoes.” In the grain-growing regions of the West, the cotton-fields of the South and among the cattle ranches of the South‘west, - twenty-seven acres' would be counted a garden-gatch, and not a very large garden at that. But in France these small farms not only support the cultivators’ families, but enable them to improve their condition year by year. The rural population raise crops enough for themselves, provide a surplus for the other two-fifths of the community engaged in manufacture and trade, and usually have considerable stores to spare for export beside. How small the shares contributed by each farm must be is illustrated by -the fact that any shortcoming of a crop is more than likely to wipe out: the surplus entirely, as, for instance, the bad wheat harvest of this year makes ali the differ-ence-between the exports of about 20,060,000 bushels and the import of nearly as large an amount. But this isonly an accident. Usually the surplus can be counted on ‘with a degree of certainty, and the French farmer is in the long run sure of fair returns for his labor. It is plain to see thatv the system of agriculture pursued on these miniature plantations must be very different fromthat in vogue on our broad prairies and wide-‘spreadin§ valleys; and, in view of the substantial results obtained, it may yet be worth our while to learn what the distinctive features of this system are. that gives success to the farmers of France.—Cincinnatl Sun. - o

New Styles in Jewelry. - THE present display of jewelry comprises so many novelties that it 1s difficult to determine where to begin their description. The ¢* slide pin’’ or ¢‘lace pin’’ is very popular, owing to its convenience of adjustmeént. These are worn by fashionables not only to fasten lace bows and ties, but to attach the collar and fichu. . : One of the most novel of these is a bar on which lies a round, open fan. Through this—gold on gold with silver tracing—a mouse has nibbled a hole, is reaching through, and, to all appearances, interviewing another mouse as to the difficulties of his ambitious attempt. Another pin has two mice running over a golden girdle,. wkich, by the adjustment of glowing topazes of extreme smallness, and garnets equally small, looks as though heated, which would argue a certain recklessness, to say the least, on the part of the mice in question. Still another pin has upon it & horrid little death’s head, in wﬁite enamel, in which very diminutive points glow behind the hollow sockets of the eyes, and, upon examination, g‘rove to be two lighted cigars of ruby. his is of French design. A fourth pin has a golden skeleton adjusted by invisible wires, which jerks at every motion, of the wearer: : e There is a certain fascination about these weird pins that gives vne an unaccountable desire to possess them. Pin fifth has two skeletons dressed in the masquerade dress of. ¢ Pantalon’’ of the ballet, and with their caps set jauntily crooked over their sightless PyESs L

A beautiful design is a bird balancing itself upon a silver-barred fence and holding in its beak a slfray of coralberries. Another equally ' pretty has two unfurled fans at the end, and in the center a ‘‘carbuncle stone.”” An odd pin has two heads of negro children in black enamel, with diamond eyes and grinning mouths with teeth of ivory. One of the most curious. and costly, and most difficult to keep from injury, owing to its mechanism, is a slide upon which are set two. jeweled eyes, imitating human eyes, shaded with lashes and eyebrows of enamel, and which move from side to side by a tiny spring that'the motion of the wearer stirs. The effect is odd, and is that of rolling rather than simply turning the eye from side -to side, yet the. exquisite beaut{ of the crystals, colored to represent the ball, iris and pupil, is a triumph of the jeweler’s art. " - A'very handsome. pin has ‘a" Turk’s head, with a superb Oriental turban. The care of selection of the tiny, manyhued jewels that make up the stripes and aigrette of the turban must have beéen toilsome, but the effect is singularly good. A brilliant affair is a party‘colored enamel pin, with sqveral spread ‘cards held in a man’s #'hand.-—ﬁ.. ¥ ‘Herald. ’ o

Entombed in Ice. - CAapr. HUuBERT KANE, who arrived in this city is;ester_d_a.y from Gloucester, Mass., in the schooner Flirt, of St. Mary’s, N. J., told a very harrowing story. It .is to the effect that, while ice-bound in Placentia Bay, on the south coast of Newfoundland, on the 4th inst., he descried what appeared to be & dismantled vessel, ' apparently

,abont two miles off his lee bow. The vessel was also ice-bound. On the following morning he proposed to walk to the vessel, more for the sake of satisflzing his curiousity than anything else. The ice was frozen solid, and he experienced no difficulty in obtaining the company of a number of the: sailors aboard his schooner. Preparatory to starting, the party were provided with axes and other articles nécessary on exploring trips. After a tiresome journey, throughout which elimbing over and sliding over immense, irregular masses of ice were the most noticeable features, the vessel was reached and discovered to be the hull of a lar%e brig careened over on the port side andimbedded solidlyin the ice. Of the two masts only jagged stumps remained. On d;gz stern-post was painted ‘‘Adelaide Folquet, Di{%»pe." _ . ; ith the aid of the axes, Capt. Kane sags, the men ascended the starboard side of the vessel, and, upon gaining the decks, a terrible sight met their gaze. Near the galley door lay the body of a wman, face downward, imbedded in the ice so firmly that recognition was impossible until after the corpse had been thoroughly thawed. The steps leading down to the forecastle were completely blocked up by the frozéen sea-water. The axes were again called into requisition and the passageway was soon cleared. Below there was a horrifying sight to behold. Diagonally across the floor of the once cozy forecastle - another body -lay stretched. The appearance of the eyes, mouth and neck gave assurance that decomposition had been arrested in its course by the atmosphere of the improved ice-box in w%ich it lay. Another corpse was found in the forecastle, with its back nbarly upn;fht against, and firmly frozen to, an old sea-chest. The head and face of the corpse also presented the appearance of a skull from which every particle of flesh had faded away, and such it would literally have been but for the frail and tightlydrawn covering of withered skin which concealed the bone. Both of the bodies found in the forecastle were dug out of their tem(forary resting-place, to which they had been tightly frozen, and conveyed on deck and laid beside the body found in the galley. The entrance to the cabin was next examined and found almost frozen over, except a small aperture through which nothing but darkness was visible. The axes soon removed the icy obstruction, and an entrance into the cabin wa effected. An opening vras cut through two of the cabin windows, and the light which entered revealed another sickening spectacle; a sadder one, by far, than the others, for the body of a woman was found lying prostrate in the Captain’s stateroom. A few feet away protruding boots led to the discovery of another body, the upper portion of which was deeply imbedtfed in the thick ice which covered the cabin floor from the entrance to the opposite side. All the bodies were arranged on deck as neatly as the circumstances allowed The interior of the Captain’s stateroom contained no ice, and the exploring_ party found in a locket on the dea woman’s neck the miniaturesof a handsome man, about thirty-five years of age, and a pleasing looking woman of about thirty—evidently the Captain and wife. On the floor of the stateToom was an ebony crucifix, with the figure of the Redeemer in ivory. The stateroom contained two religious pictures, & writing-desk, a medicinechest, twofine trunks, valises and sachels, which the explorers would not touch until the authorities had been consulted. The men gloomily made their fatiguing journey back to Placentia Harbor, where they laid all the particulars of their sa,dd,enin% adventure before the. Magistrate, who at once took steps¢o_have the bodies brought ashore, together with the shi)i’s pagers and other effects secured until full identification had been made.

. Atelegram from St. Pierre announced that the " Adelaide Folquet, a French brig, had last been seen when she left that port on Nov. 16, with a load of codfish, herring and dried caplin, bound for the Port of Marseilles, in France.— N. ¥ Star. - = ; /

Hydrophobia in Winter.

WitH most people the idea of mad dogs is intimately associated with the “heated term.’”’ In fact, canines with the rabies are almost looked upon as a summer institution. Eminent medical men who have paid attention to cases of hydrophobia have declared that the disease has its origin in the action of intense heat in the canine’s physical system. The theory is, however, now met by the fact that hydrophobia is not a ‘‘season complaint,”’ but is liable to appear in canines at any time of the year. : Several mad dogs have recently turned up in New York State where the thermometer was at zero, and one was killed at Blue Bell only a few days ago, In December last also° a mad dog at Overbrook viciously attacked a horse, which, a few days later, showed signs of the rabies and had to be destroyed. ' ¢My idea is that hydrophobia is not peculiarly a summer disease, but that it may be looked foras much in cold as in' warm weather,” said a prominent veterinary surgeon yesterday. ‘‘ln the winter,”” he continued, ‘‘ when everything is frozen'up, it is very difficult for dogs to procure water, and intense thirst is almost invariably the forerunner of hydrophobia. It is also held to gsome extent that the disease may, in some cases, have its origin in a want. of food, or again fromthe animal being kept in too close confinement. Altoggether, while we look for rabid dogs in he summer, there is no reason why ownersof canines should not be on their guard equally in the winter.”” ' , | Cases of hydrophobia are frequent in ‘Quebec when the thermometer .is 80 ‘deg. below zero, but in the summer, ‘when itis up in the nineties, a mad dog is ‘;dvery rarely seen.-=Philadelphia Record. | . Woan el { s G 2 Rl et S S 5% 3

—Revenge is sometimes gained by making an impudent retort, as in the case pg ‘the student who 'said, in response to a reproof for the lowness of his position in the class: ‘* Well, professor, never mind. Ipresume I am as muoch to blame as you are.” e

Our Young Folks. - . DREAM, MY BABY. Moruer's baby, rock and rest, - Little birdabayre fast asleep. : Close beneath her mother-breast. Bafe the bird her brood will keep. Oh! my n.sstlm& mother sings, Fald th Kl oo . . o e, un W, s Bafe f‘;om any rude alarms, Sweet, my baby, on my breast . ] Dream y our baﬂz dreams, and rest. 4 t. oh! rest. : Ah! my baby, from the nest Little birds will some day fly Towtilﬁmt_and tgythqweo& i their pret Win,| . ‘But, fly they fast, my ,bgn?d, oﬁu, Never can they find the spot, Under sun or any star, 2 ‘Where the mozherblove isnot, : Sweet, my baby, on my breast ‘ Dream your happy dreams, and rest. - ?est. oh! rest. Oh! my baby, raother As sge clasvps you eloge::‘?'ﬁll. AlAl;gee:t things for mﬁing days, Alvmy'ul.l chﬂm% this: Mother’s heart is warm and true, . And she tells you, with a kiss, There’ll be alwnmroom for you. Sweet, my baby, on my breast Dream your hamdreama, and rest. t, oh! rest. —Eben E. Bexford, in N. Y, Independent.

THE ORIGIN OF THE JUMPINGJACK. CoME with me to the park this fair day, for I wish to show you a certain carriage and its occupants, and tell you a story. | : : In pleasant weather, the scene is gay and grand, with multitudes hieing thither for .recreation amid country sights, odors and surroundings. The rich and the Eoor of all ages and classes, afoot, on horseback and in carriages, make a living ga.norama of the shaded walks and graded drives. - But here comes the ¢‘turn-oyt’ for which we haVe been waiting; a magnificent span of dapple-grays, by far ‘the most powerful team we have seen; a carriage to match, roomy and costly; but not gaudy; adriver not in livery, &s many are, but looking just the man for his work; and such a load as are making merrg' within—everyone of them a hunchback! Yes, from the crooked gentleman on the back seat to the little fellows up t])f the driver, all are hunchbacks; well-dressed, happyseeming, but with a wistful look—and, as they roll by, you see in them the introduction to my little story. : - Something like twenty years ago, a aiserable brick house in a back alley was the home of Archibald Ramsey, a Scotch carpenter. He worked downtown in a shop, making cornices, moldings, mantels and a variety of the more elaborate Earts employed in finishing houses. Every evening he took home pocketfuls, and often handfuls also, of bits and ends from the shop. These ‘oddly-shaped fragments of soft, sweet-smelling * pine furnished samusement for poor little Alec, Mr. Ramsey’s hunchback boy; and when they had served this purpose, they were used as kindlings in the kitchen stove. There was a Eouseful of little Ramseys, of whom Alec was the oldest, and when he was amused, so were the others, thus giving the overworked mother time for other duties. -

Alec was sixteen years old, and not taller than an average boy of ten. He was very much deformed, and had he lived in an ‘aﬁe and country of Kings seeking dwarfs and human oddities for ¢« court fools!’ or ¢ jesters,” he would have been a prize to some iron-handed tyrant. His shoulders were almost as high as his head, his arms hung out. loose and dangling, and the rest of his body was shrunken and slender to a most pitiable degree. But whoever, with a tender heart, looked into his great, questioning’ :{}g’es and noted his broad, fair forehead, and his clean, delicate hands, would soon forget the sad shape ih the nobility of the face. I need not linger to speak of his studies, which, all unaided, he pushed along with success; nor of his constancy in the Sunday-School; where he was a universal favorite. It is about his play with the bits of pine from the shop [ wish to tell you. : % N{)any a droll pile he built on the kitchen floor; many a funn{) thing he whittled out to amuse the little ones; many a comical toy he made and (gave. away to neighboring children. Often he said, and oftener thought, ‘* What can I whittle that will sell?”” = For only money seemed likely to bring him the changed life for which he longed. Once, when he sold for a few pennies a queer little lFine trinket, his father stroked his silken hair and said:. -

‘“ Ah, me puir bairnie, I dinna ken but ye may mak’ your fortoon wi’' your knife.”’ : . How that little piece of encouragement rang in his ears and stimulated him to think and whittle, whittle and think! 4 One genial afternoon in' May, Alec crept out to enjoy the balmy air, and, by the noise of a crowd “of urchins on a vacant lot gt a little distance, was drawn in that direction. Here he saw a colored boy, named Jack, attempting, for the amusement of the party, all sorts of pranks in imitation of circus performers. Bareheaded and clothed in striped red and yellow garments: of coarse quality, the negro lad almost seemed made of India rubber.

Alec watched his capers in amazement. Never before had he seen such. antics, or even thought them possible. It was no wonder .that the frail, stiffjointed little hunchback dreamed it all over again, as he did that night. The next morning - his whittling genius took shape from this event, an before noon he had produced a rude pine image of the negro—head, arms and 'legs loosely hung with bits . of broom-wire, and ‘the whole curiously arr‘an%ed, so that by working a string, it would jump, nod, turn somersaults, 'and’g’othro%gh quite @ series of con‘tortions. < With colored . pencils, of which he had some: cheap specimens, he blacked .its. head, ha_cg.\hgnds and feet, reddened its ' lips, whitened its ‘eyes, and rudely striped in yellow and red the body, all in imitation of the little Vne%m yymnast. Before it was ‘completed, hg younger brother, who ‘had been with him the d,a“y ‘before, named it .“,Jumgipgz-dfack;’ ~And n the afternoon, when he went to the -yacant lot and exhibited it wths‘,ygn:l‘f& sters there, it was not only universally but boisterously hailed by the same

name. When he returned home, he brought, instead of the Jumping-Jack, | a silver half-dollar, for'which he had sold the toy to_an eager, well-dréssed lad of his own age. And not only this, but he had orders from the boys for half a dozen more, to be made as soon as possible. - . e Oh. what a proud;glad heart beat within ' that deformed - little body of - Alec’s! How his temples throbbed! How elastic his step! What flashing eyes! - What a skein of wild and hope-’ ful talk he unwound to his mother! So much money. for his whitﬂin%,an,d a chance for more and more! Castles, sky-high and star-bright! R But 1 have not told you all. =~ - That evening he whittled, and -the next day he whittled, and before night had added to his capital three more shining half-dollars. The next day he doubled his money. The demand for - Jumping-Jacks increased. Boys came to the door, silver in hand, to. get what he had not time to. make. i

His grave Scotch parents began to bold serious counsel over the matter. 1f Alec cculd find such sale for these pine ima§es in that nei‘g_hborhqod-,-wliy. : the whole city would require thousands; and what would sell ‘to delight- - ed children in one city, would sell elsewhere also. If they could supply the market, a fortune might readily be made. e Ak Scotch blood, once aroused and challenged, is sanguine and venturesome. But it would |be uninteresting 'to repeat dll the details; so the rest ‘of my story shall be brief. - -~ ' - = .o Ezc’s Sunday-School teacher, who was a lawyer, procured for him a patent on Jumping-Jacks of every description; a rich old uncle of Alec’s mother built him a factory and started him in business; and, within a year from the afternoon when the poor lad wondered at the pranks of the colored boy, Jumping-Jacks from the Ramsey factory were selling in great numbers all over America. - = - :

Traly Alec did ‘‘ mak’ a fortoon wi’ his knife.”’ " St To school he went; into a better house, all their own, the family moved, easier circumstances, better health, less weariness, and amgle‘ means for doing good, came to the Ramseys. = But the best point in my story is that a fine asylum and schoel for hunchbacks, free to the poor, is one of the noble enterprises to which Alec has been chief contributor.- o Those deformed lads in the carriage yonder are from the ‘* Ramsey Asylum for Hunchbacks.” Siiae L That was Alec’s ,carriage,- and that ‘¢ crooked g}:s‘ntleman on the back seat” was Alec himself. - Every fair afternoon he is out in this way, taking a load of ‘“his boys,”’ as he calls them, and thus, as often as once a fortnight, he gives every inmate of the asylum a turn in the park.—l. L. Beman, wn 8. Nicholas for February. s :

Elopement and Pursuit. A RECENT Richmond (Ind.) dispatch tells the following romantic story: About eight- o’clock Monday evening, as the Cincinnati ex{)reiss , steamed into the depot at this. place, the train was boarded by a fine-looking -old farmer, accompanied by a quiet-look-ing old gentleman, who, from. his appearance, might have passed for tEe , family )}:ast.or. . The two gentlemen ! rushed through the train, evidently in great haste, anxiously peerin§ into the’ face of every lady and ' gentleman in the car. ‘¢ Ah, ha! I’ve found you at last?’ said the farmer, as he halted before a young lady and gentleman who were seated together in a most suggestive proximity that would indicate connubial bliss very recently ﬁfquired. The younf gentleman jumped up and demanded the mission of the elderly party. ‘I want my daughter, you villain, and I’ll have her, or I'll have your heart’s blood!’’ exclaimed the now-infuriated old man, and, whipping out a huge navy, he was -about to llt)avel it at the young man’s head, when the gentlempan who accompanied him interfered. The: passengers with which the car was filled, hearing the row, the call for blood, and seeing the pistol flashing in the air, stampeded for the door, and in a few minutes there were but half a dozen men beside the interested parties in the 'car: “‘Valentia,” cried the old man, ‘‘ come home, or I'll kill you and the scamp that stole you away from me.”” Suiting the action to the word, he broke away from the old . man who held him, and covered the youthful pair with his revolver. The girl, who had:sat very quiet thus far, sprang to her feet, herblack eyes flashing as she gazed into the face of her wgite-haired old father, saying: ‘Father, I’ve married this man, and whereever he goes there 1 will go; and, as for goingrhome, I will not—shoot or no shoot.”” The old ‘man was so infuriated. at . this outburst that he would have killed them both had not the bystand<" er§, who had sympathized with the youn% couplefrom the outset, disarmed the old man and held him in a corner, and hustled the = young .couple out of the car and into another train that immediately started Chicagoward. The old man and his part‘x::r, were held until the fleeing couple ‘were in safety. The bride was a petite little brunette, afid her husband was a fine-looking young man, both, to ‘all appearances, balonginglto the wealthy ¢lass of country people. As near as could be learned, the garl:ies. lived at Wilmington, Ind., and are all highly-respeeta-ble people.l The f?;)amh -betwegbn; g:e oung people was frowned upon by the: gat% l;! 510 lady, md;h:?om indomitable pluck, would have the same man of her coice, in spite of thé old folks. -8o they took the Sunday-night train for Cincinnati, where the. knot ‘was tied, with the above results. The lady is said ‘to be an only daughter, wd the Sfflr thae Smo S 0 ok fhcini: natiig witl & beigiy Wil probably result after the style of the story-books —*forgiveness.and a return to the old homeoz‘ T I[‘, e | —Two little_girls weré talking to each other on John street, this m OTRing, and one said with the greatest naivete: “We_ have a new. schooloo du iy 't R naldg. U WORTRAIYIN O e R s ey