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Barbour County index., 1884-02-01
Our Young Readers.
THE BISHOP.

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Tell you about it' OF course I .willi
thought twould be dreadful TO have him
For mamma said must be quiet and still,
And she put away my whistle and drum
And made me unharness the parlor chairs,
And packed my cannon and all the rest
OF my noisiest playthings on upstairs,
On account of this very distinguished guest.
Then every room was turned upside down,
For when the Bishop is coming to town
The house must be in order, you know.
So out in the kitchen made my lair
And started n game of hide-aut-seek; ~
But Bridget refused TO have me there,
For the Bishop was coming-to stay week,
And she must make cookies and cake and
pies,
Thu thought this Bishop, so great and wise,
Must be an awfully hungry man.
Welt at last he came: and do declare,
Dear grandpapa, he looked just like you.
With his gentle voice. and his silvery hair.
And eyes with a smile a-shining through.
Ana whenever he read or talked or prayed,
understood every single word:
And wasn't the leastest bit afraid.
Though never once spoke or stirred;
Till. all of sudden. he laughed right out
TO see me sit quietly listening so;
And began to tell us stories about
Some queer little fellows in Mexico.
And all about Egypt and spain--and then
He ,cdsnt disturbed by a little noise,
But said that the greatest and best of men
Once were rollicking, healthy boys.
And he thinks Ii Ia no matter at all
If a little boy runs and jumps and climbs;
And mamma should be willing to let me
crawl
Through the banister-rails in the hall some
times.
And Bridget, sir, made a great mistake.
In stirring up such bother, you see,
For the Bishop-he didn't care for cake
And really liked to play games with me.
But though he's so honored in word and act
lStoop down, for this is "A secret now)-
ne couldn't spell BpstOn, That's facti
But whispered TO me TO tell him how.
Mrs Emma Huntington Ndson.in lFide-Agdk
Barbour County index., 1884-02-01
Prof. Thwing's Interesting Description
OF Scenes IN NORWAY.

Rev. E P. Thwing, In 'Dio Leois'
Monthly. gives several interesting pict-
ures of life in Norway:
Lyderhorn looked down from its Sc
rene heights, crowned with sunshine.
and mellow Sabbath bells filed the
morning air with music, as we steamed
into the Port of Bergen, where we re-
mained until Monday afternoon. This
seven-hilled town is one of the oldest
in Norway, and its name signifies "a
meadow among the mountains" 1t
was a royal residence eight hundred
years ago, and the most important land
and naval battles of subsequent cent
uries were fought here. 1t had thirty
churches and monasteries. The Han
seattle League gave impulse to its traf-
fic. and Bergen became the largest and
busiest center in the kingdom.
Its picturesque situation charmed me.
| shall never forget the sweet tranouili-
ty OF that June morning. as we entered
Bergen. l have spent five summers
abroad and seen much of European
scenery, from the Hebrides to Venice,
from ST. Petersburg to Madrid and be-
yond, but few points of more alluring
lovelness have arrested my attention
than that old Norwegian seaport, with
its noble amphitheater of hills and its
smiling environs, lying warm and
bright under those cloudless Sabbath
skies.
Three things make a summer excur-
sion along the coast of Norway most en-
ticing to traveller. The scenic gran
deur of those stern, solemn, awe-inspir-
ing mountains, austere and bold, and
glorious in their strength and solitude,
is the first. Their gray and melancholy
peaks often rise sheer and clear from
the tiords to a considerable height, and
present sometimes a weird aud fantas-
tic shape, as at the LofOden Islands.
with their countless pinnacles, COM
pared TO sharks teeth. or the Seven Sis
ters, four thousand feet high, that seem
10 clasp each other with frosty fingers
IN the upper air; or most notable of all
perhaps, the Giant HorSeman. under the
Arctic Circle, mysterious presence
that every Norseman feels, and in which
he has superstitious awe. This sug-
gests another element, the historic and
legendary interest attaching to these
localities. The old Vikings have left
their memorials on sea and shore. 1t
is delightful TO look at this grand
scenery through the misty perspective
OF romance and mythology. But more
than all is the bewitchiDg beauty of q
ceaseless day, which invests with
subtle cham that which otherwise
might be bleak, bare and chilling. The
tine gradatiOns of color in sky and sea.
on mountain and moor, the atmospheric
conditions in these high latitudes where
there is no night, give a plenaiy and
crowning glory to the view.
To tell the attractions of this town of
Bergen would require book. To the
lover OF antiquity the museum affords
materials for frequent and prolonged
study; TO the lover of art there is the
gallery of paintings by nat We artists;
to the philanthropist the oldest and
largest hospital for lepers in Europe is
full of interest, and to one who studies
social and church lie, the Norwegian
sabbath congregations and worship
present many suggestive features.
Barbour County index., 1884-02-01
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

"A Boston paper calls Matthew
Arnold ''the apostle of molasses and
moonlight"
1t agrees with Mr.. Arshur to be
President of the United States. He has
gained twenty-six pounds in weight
since he assumed that Office. CHICAGO
Herald.
Titus Sheard, the new Speaker of
the New York Assembly, arrived in New
York City in 1856 from Ireland, alone
and almost penniless.-N Y Times.
Senator Salisbury. of Delaware. Is
the only member of the United States
senate who has never been married.
He is called the Lone Star of that body.
Boston Post
"A volume of table talk, or wit and
wisdom, of Frederick the Great. has
been discovered in the Prussian State
Archives. and will be published early
in the ensuing summer.
"A Miss Sheriff, who was practical.
ly the first English prima donna to try
her fortunes in America, recently died
unnoticed in London. 1t is thirty
years since she was in this country.
r. j. Burdette is forty. Bret Harte
is forty-fiye, Mark Twain is forty-eight,
w. ID. Howells is forty-six. Thomas
Bailey Aldrich is forty-five. JOAQUIN
Miller is forty-two, James Russell Low
ell is sixty-fOur and John G.. SAKE is
sixty eighty. Y. Tribune.
-E. ID. Winslow. the notorious Bos-
ton forger, who almost succeeded in
causing rupture in the diplomatic re-
lations between England and America a
few years ago, is now a successful business
man in Buenos Ayres, South America.
He has taken the name of w. ID. Lowe.
-Boston Herald.
The Boston Trdceller saws that
President Bruce. of the Massachusetts
Senate. and Speaker Marden, of the
Massachusetts House of Representa-
tives, We're born in the same year, in the
same town in New Hampshire, and
were graduated in the same class at
Dartmouth College.
The Fresno Col Republican saws:
A remarkable matrimonial compact was
made at the United States Hotel in this
city Monday evening, in which Noah
Hickok and Elizabeth Hickok were
married for the third time. They have
been twice divorced. The bride and
groom have reached the mature age of
seventy-three and eighty-seven respect
lively.
M. Roustan, the new French Minister
at Washington, is about forty-eight
years of age. He has held many Con-
sular posts. and in 1881 was appointed
Ambassador to Tunis. He was con-
spicuous actor in the recent events in
that country, and the success of French
diplomacy in the dealings with the Bey
is due almost entirely to his firmness
and sagacity.- Washington Stdr.
-Trollope received S24O for his first
production and $685. for one of his
last. Captain Marryatt received $780,
900 for one of his works, and Lord Lvt-
ton $4,000 for the copyright of the
cheap edition of his works by Messrs.
Routledge & Sons, in addition to the
large amount paid at the time of their
publication, while it is well known that
Messrs. Longman pa d Lord Beacons-
field $50, 600 for g Endymion.
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AbOut Moles.

Acorrespondent of Ciambers' Journal
thus writes concerning the habits and
peculiarities of this little animal:
i will Just mention one instance. out
of many, of the trouble and ANNOYANCE
which he NAV cause. Most people
know that the laying of box-edging re-
quires deal of labor and no little skin.
Well, / have known the labor of day
destroyed in one night by a mole. In
this case the hard-working little fellow
had commenced at one end of the edg-
ing and gone right to the other, suffi-
ciently near to displace the whole, so
that il had to be laid over again.
1t is, however, beyond dispute that
moles destroy vast numbers of wire
worms and other grubs. which are fire.
1uently most destructive to the crops of
the farmer and gardener. / am there
fore an advocate for allowing them to
work without molestation wherever and
whenever it can be done; and / do not
grudge the little labor required to scatter
their hills. On this principle / allow them
the full run of the kitchen-garden, when-
sver the crops are advanced enough to
prevent their being displaced or buried.
IL does not seem to be generally
known that moles come out and feed
upon the surface at night Grubs of
various sorts, and worms, do the same
thing. and the moles cOme MP to feed
on them. Moles are very voracious,
and seem 70 be always hungry. II one
is caught unhurt and handled tenderly,
lt win Immediately BEGIN to eat any
Barbour County index., 1884-02-01
Chinese Gambling and Curing.

admit that, as 1 have before said.
the Chinaman has his vices. One of
them. and perhaps the principal one, is
his propensity for gambling He will
play for money at any moment out of
work and whatever may he the cOnse-
quenccs. You have seen him toll ng in
the hot Siamesc sun with bags of rice
ON his back or great pieces of teak on
his shoulders. Were you to follow him
Mt night you would almost certainly
find h m. after the evening bath and sup
per, moving in the direction of a gam
bling house. The bamboo-built room,
a spacious one, is full of people. all
of whom are squatted on the floor in
front of little mats. playing for all they
possess. Almost every man is of Chi
nese birth. There are some women.
but these are generally Siamese, and of
them j have something to say later on.
The game they all play is very SIM
pie one. A pile of cowrie shells is
placed by the side of cloth on which
are marked in four luares the figures
one, two, three and four. A cup and a
long thin stick complete the gambling
apparatus. The people who intend
playing stake their money on one OF
the squares, Just rs nc Monte Carlo the
gamblers place their napoleOns on the
cloth. The croupier or representative
OF the keeper of the establishment tnen
lifts the cup, puts il on the pile of cow
rie shells, and draws away from under.
meath IL as many as he can. Lifting
the cup OF these thus subtracted he pro-
ceeds TO count them with The long stick,
for the players will not allow him to
touch the shells with his fingers. He
pushes the shells away four at time
III, when he comes to the last lot, one
shell is left only. those who staked on
tile figure one get twice their stake and
the money they hazarled besides; sc
will the two aud three. OF course, if the
shells divide equally into four, those
who hszarded on the four win. That
is the whole of the business, and on that
game the Chinaman will risk all he is
possessed of. no matter how hard he
has had TO work for il. The Siamese
will do more than that-he will actually
play away his house, children,
and even himself, going into
slavery willingly rather than miss
the excitement of the game. But ]
am dealing more particularly with
hhhNthCu HONs anu Will Spcdh VI but
Siamese later on. AS for the Chinamar
away from the gambling-house, fins
him model of what u man should be-
a good husband, thrifty, careful. a cap
ital father, generally bathing and feed
ing as well as providing for his chill
den, leaving ~ his Siame.e wife the
task of correcting them--a duty which
she undertakes. I am bound to say. in
spirit that would have pleased Solo.
mon, that royal advocate of the birch
To the very utmost. Indeed, the cufiina
OF her offspring seems to be nearly the
whole duty of the Siamese wife of .
Chnaman. Married to a Siamese she
would probably have TO work; but a.
the spouse of a Celestial her days &c
easily by, and all she has 20 do is tc
LOOK for hard piece of bamboo where
with to chide her unruly children. And
that she usually selects q very heavy
and very hard piece is fact which
forms pretty fair index to her char.
acter.-I'O''dOI Telegraph.
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Bobby and the Ram.


When Bobby Smart was six years old.
he was left to the care of his uncle
James, who lived in the country. His
aunt took him to his future home, and
at the depot he saw his uncle for the
first time.
Bobby was lonely and sad; his uncle
often treated him with harshness and
even cruelty. The cold winter had come
on early. Bobby was the only boy
about the farm, and he had to work
very hard. His clothing was unfit for
the winter weather, and he often suffered
from the cold.
Among the duties which this poor boy
had TO perform was that of tending q
hock of sheep. One afternoon, when
there were signs of snow-storm, he
was sent to drive the flock to the barn.
de started for the field, but his clothes
were so thin that he was benumbed by
the intense cold. He sat down on n
large rock to rest himself. He felt
strangely tired and cold. In a little
while he began to feel drowsy. Then
he thought it was so nice and comfort.
able that he would stay there awhile.
In very few moments he was asleep,
and perhaps dreaming.
Suddenly he was aroused by ire
mendous blow which sent him spinning
from his perch on the rock to the
ground. Looking about him, he saw an
old ram near by. The creature looked
as though he had been doing mischief.
and Bobby was no longer at q loss to
know where the blow came from: but
he thought the attack was an accident.
and in short time he was again in the
land of Nod.
Again the ram very rudely tumbled
him over into the snow. He was now
wide awake, and provoked at the attack
OF the beast. He began to search for a
stick to chastise his enemy. The ram
understood his intention, for he turned
upon Bobby as if to finish the poor boy.
Bobby was forced to take to his heels,
and run towards home
The ram chased him, while the resi-
OF the flock followed after their leader.
The inmates of the farmhouse were
surprised to see Bobby rushing towards.
the house as fast as his little legs would
allow him. His hair was streaming in
the wind, and he was very much terri.
fed. Close upon him was the old ram,
kicking up his heels in his anger. Be-
hind him could be seen struggling line
of sheep doing their best to keep up.
Bobby won the race, however. His
uncle came out in time to turn the flock
into the barn. 1t was long time be-
fore Bobby would venture near the ram
again.
Bobby knows now that but for the
efforts of that old ram in knocking him
from his seat on that bitterly cold day.
be would have been among the angels
in very short time. The sleepy feel.
ing which overcame him would have
ended in death.
Bobby declares that the ram knew all
the time what allied him, and that he
butted him from the rock on purpose.
can not explain it, but do know that
God moves in a mysterious way His
wonders to perform. y Our Little Ones.
Barbour County index., 1884-02-01
Winter Millinery.

Exquisite little visiting bonnets have
the crown covered with fur, band of
fur in some wise intermixed with velvet
crossing the top. the head of weasel,
sable, or some other small animal finish
ing the decoration. The velvet-trimmed
velvet bonnet is variously the little En-
glish capote. with stiff, oval crown,
and the Charlotte Corday bonnet, with
the soft or puffed cap crown and the
quilted or box-plaited cap brim. The
Corday capotes are simple. The crown
is large, round cap, as in the portraits
of the assassin of Marat, laid in box
plaits at the base and at the top and
completed by a single or double
quilted brim. The brim in some models is
faced with velvet or other silk material
OF contrast ng pale shade or of a con-
trasting delicate color. with drapery of
loose folds or a closely-twisted torsade
covering the junction of the crown ana
the br,m, and bride of the velvet or
strings of satin-lined velvet or ottoman
ribbon. Plucked otter, plucked beaver,
the irosty-looking gray Persianer of
close nap, Persian lamb-skin, chnchil-
la, and other furs of fine, light fleece.
with dOwD-cloth and other materials of
like nature, and the heads of small
animals as trimming, all come into
requisition for the millinery of mid
winter. There is now a decided fancy
for fuller cap-crowns that are often in
one piece with the material of the brim: /:
these may droop into shallow plat,
ike fold on each side, or they may
have two box-plaits, or else only one
down. the middle, while perhaps the
greatest number are laid in small side
p ATS the whole length and breadth OF
the crown.
The smooth, fiat crowns, and those
that have only a slight plat each side
are used when there is TO be much or
nament introduced in the way of en-
broidery in floss silk, wool or beads.
Dark or black velvet crowns can be
made very dressy by putting small star
or leaf figures of beads the color of the
velvet at intervals all over the crown.
Some of the handsomest of the capotes
prepared for wear at afternoon recep-
tons and for the evening are of brown
velvet, lightened up with pale ecru, OF
of gray running to very delicate shades.
Handsome, effective and becoming ca
potes are of velvet in black, ruby and
cardinal reds. emerald green. and other
strong colors, made up in combination
with Hamburg embroidery flouncing on
silk muslin grounding, the velvet ap-
pearing on the brim, and the fiouncinp
artistically draped on the crown.
There are capotes perfected solely
through the agency of drapery; or, in
other words, the framework Is covered
with draped velvet To arrange this
drapsry 50 as TO be pleasing requires the
skill Of an artist, as there is nothing,
save the strings, to assist In the design,
and the tendency is TO abolish even the
stringz-N T. Cor. Chicago Times.
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CLOCKS.

Of course, you all know what clock
is. and some of you six-year-olds can
tell what time it is by one. And vet
many of you ten-year-olds know as
much about clocks as the wisest man in
Congress which is simply nothing.
Whether it be spring or weight clock,
they all have the same machinery in
side; that is, the same number of
wheels though ingenious Yankees have
invented clocks that run with a less
number of wheels than the standard
Meriden or Waterbury clocks. There
used to be story current when was a
boy of Moses Latta, of Cincinnati, who
invented the steam fire-engine, how
that he took an eight-day clock to
pieces, cleaned it, put it together again,
had one wheel left, yet it ran as usual,
kept time and struck the hours prompt
ly. But there are few Moses Lattas.
In the first place there is the main
wheel (Which is attached directly to the
power, be it spring or weight; two
face-wheels, one TO run the minute
hand, which revolves once around the
face every hour, and one to run the
hour-hand, which goes from one figure
w nhOthSA OoSh hOui WV luISt ulculdtc
wheels as checks upon the power; one
escape-wheel-that is, the little one
you see through the hole in the center
of the face, and which. as it escapes
the claw-like verge at the upper
end of the pendulum rod. makes
the tao, tic noise you hear.
On the striking side there are
the main-wheel attachment to the
power, the count-wheel, the warn and
strike-wheel, and the stop-wheel. Did
it ever puzzle you how the hammer
should strike the correct hour and then
stop? And yet the explanation is simple
enough. Thus: the count-wheel has
seventy-eight little notches and twelve
big ones. An arm is attached to the
strike-wheel, which is bent square down
at the outside end. As the strike-whee
revolves it throws this arm up and lets it
drop down exactly when the notch of
the cOunt-wheel comes under the hook.
Let us begin at one o'clock. When the
minute-hand wheel reaches II it starts
the strike-wheel, that wheel throws up
the arm, the wheel moves. the hammer
strikes one, the arm then drops into the
deep notch and remains there until the
minute-wheel describes one more full
revolution. Here is an explanation:
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THE MESSAGE or rFa svow

AL around mc. through tho foros,
a. l.Eo
shining Wilt IN > .ittcrlug radiance,
,r, L. the snow:
E'.t ulp uisttut-cvcrywherc
SUI a'.i silent, pure AID fair
Fails tho snow.
AL the summon brirht lies buried
n 'ath the snow.
hppling bro X IS cca . their murm'rfn1-
. S.icut tiow.
bcuni IN Winters o. chains
Mhto king rost triumphant rcirns.
siienced. too, the song-blrds' strains
by tue snow.
Tiny snow.drops peep already
Tprodgh N snow;
flo"rots % az he'd With tllnid terror
OF tho snow:
Yet thoJ ne tito closely hsre.
SON vii. va a. IN w,nfSIp pri,K Ir1,r j. noari
Aud the snow
Iona. tread with lingering footsteps
-. Der the snow.
"hHo u casts a spell upla me,
For in snow
S Salls 70 mind tho Vanished years.
severed ties Hnd tr iullot foa
hopcs that melty Into ,airs
With tnc snow.
Yet greet with loving wo'como
Virgin IA w,
Type OF Heavenly niritJ.
-. sem boiuw.
. Illl unbid leu tlou u arise
ihesc tears IRON arve e cyca
bropt in pity from he * e. 80
Flascs OF snow.
When the toll o. ~, -over
licrc bc.8w.
NAY w sink % pea cfui slumhor.
Meath tho sn W.:
rrir3omlsod Crown ga h eros make livht~r.
u lu W reach , lpni that brigh or.
hisc . wuar ~ 49, rarinnuIa winter
1han the snow"
MAO y. ,pfH q, "a fhuHtbrrs' J,tfruoI