The English Language. A pretty deer is dear to me, A hare with downy hair; I love ft hart with all my heart, But barely bear a bear. Tis plain that no one takes a p'.ane To have a pair of pairs; A rake, though, otlen takes a rake To tear away the tares. All rays raise thyme, time razes all; And, through the whole, hole wears. A writ, in writing right," may write It " wright," and still be wrong For " write " and "rite " are neither " right," And don't to writo belong. Beer olton brings a bier to man, Coughing a coffin hii gs, And too much nle will make us ail, As well as other thi'igs. The person lies who says he lies When he is but reclining; And, when oonsumplive lolks deoline, They all decline declining. A quail don't quail belore a storm A bough will bow before it; We cannot reiu the rain at all No earthly powers reign o'er it, The dyer dyes awbile, then dies; To dye he's always trying, Until upon his dying-bod He thinks no more ol dyeing. A son ol Mars ranrs many a sun; All doys must have their days, And every knight should pray eaoh night To Him who weighs his ways. 'Tis meet that man should mete out meat To leed misfortunes son; The lair should tare on love alone, Else one cannot be won. A lass, alas ! is something false; Ol faults a maid is made; Her waist is but a barren waste Though stayed, she is not staid. The springs spring forth in spring, and shoots Shoot forward one and all; Though summer kills the flowers, it leaves The leuvts to fall in fall. I would a story here commence, But you might And it stale; So let's suppose that we have reached The tail end ol our tale. . " ...... .... dvjluu 1. 1 1 ri i tin to T. m a nmn nn n nnn n. I mi it t may run for von. and von win Z. a.H IT " oT.j '".V" iiaT AU? Bre llme? wnen you ieel as good hattw an. r t rr m uu "King xnocKcQ i morally certain oi nfteivin. 7T.2 -t:-."80 nearer tue other players. Every time for the rifield: whZTwK WK? J ?u.re ( holding that b.U it on nil tho w f ; "J-j; ".s" "" "? x. V. F,y " luuiiuerous ap- , u"" iiuy juriBuiuuon. xuis piause wnicn ioiiows sucn brilliant ex- mvsp.lf tn ho I nut n i, i . . - 1 " u vmw iui nil buc uuaiiiKii. H"""' .. In the R xth inn nra " a rini'av-nnttor ' I !- T,I, ..-""" 1.764. New Vorlr hpnHa tha li-f uu xnetourtn of July turned out to be came skipp ng toward me. I dodTed FhThi imlZto iK..ti.Z . . ' - . . . - . I "" ........ nno nu rt . . ' ..... ' -. "v- ..guu-uciu, rviiKio you won t a dash for nave much to do, but can put on all the was sroini i style you wish." tended to s Unfortunately, I suffered myself to be out for all 1 TIMELY TOPICS. There are now 42,677 postoffiees in the United States, an increase of 1.S38 in the fast year. The number of offices pay ngmore than $1,000 each, and there fore called presidential postoffiees. In a spienaia day cool, breezv. and of just tue rignt temperature, and we were ajoiiy party tnat tooK tne cars, early in the morning, and went over into Jersey I haven't space to describe a fourth part of the hietory of those hours dissi pation in tne country. There were about twenty-five gentle men, and tne same number of ladies eacu oi ine latter having nn uimh It was the expectation of us all that our party including t.hp fnmilv nf th old farmer who owned the grove would mo vuiy wimesses oi on memorabh contest: but one of htn nrriiina ployed himself for two days previous to the game in spreading th i i a v. - v iuov cvciy i iiue nicer mat: nuc an rrmt. n the majority did, I didn't feel were several Hundred ramrod lnn under the shadows of the trees to watch uui uei lurmances. The little rascal also pointed me out t" ",u"uo' jjuiL'sionai, wno had re- iiiseu tremenduous i flers from all the iuuBinmo country, s that great ex- about, danced tiere and there, and pre. vented it going by, and being ordered to sena it in, made a desperate throw to home, to head off a rjlaver runninir in from third. I put too much steam on, for the ball went some twenty leet over tne catcher's head, who, nevertheless, iuamed in the air and threw up his hands as if he ex pected to reacn it. lne best thinir ahrmt the hnsinpaa-oroa that the ball struck the little boy wbo had been yelling my praises, and he was so occupied in weeping for the rest of me game tnat ne let me alone My wild throw cave me a fnnrfnl wrencn in the side, and I struck out every time alter that ; but as that was so loneJv as I anticinatprl. I Should have Stated that havinir hud a week's notice of the game, the most of us prepared a sort of burlesque uni form, with a view of helping along the 1UI1. ff now ClLnA 1 i a 1 ? rwJ t J . d con?ernmg me. frontispiece extended nearly a foot di- iseveraldisrespectful'remarkscon- WmlT WAS whizzinir uunutraiubuiuugu bun pulsing ft IT J1K6 a meteor toward me. 'Keen back! this is mine! Til hold it " The ball shot straight thrntio-l. hands, and striking me sauarelv on tho nose, bounced off somewhere into space. I described a back somersault, and in going over saw more stars than lfpr. scnei ever aiscoverea. The hoots, laughter, disresnentfnl . marks and yells were simply terrific. I hastily scrambled to my feet anil be gan glaring around for the ball. While thus ens-RtrPd. the tlirpn men nn hnoc. ran in, and the latter made a home-run. Consequently our side was ;heaten, and my nose was decidedly out of shane. Since then. I have not been n. vn ardent admirer of baseball, and I trust that after this no one will ask me to tell him, privately, why it is my nose is not plumb. Golden Days. A Wonderful Game of Ball. Those persons who hud the honor of my acquaintance ten years ago, wiil re call that I was quite an adopt in the national curuo of baseball. I pitched for the Stroniholi club a fair under hand pitch for several games; but about that time the fnshion of curving and underhand throwing came in i as n ion. 1 never believed it possible for any hum nn neine to send a regular body such i.s ii f Bfjlnll Irom his hand i sucn n fnsl.ii. n as to make it turn it to the nght or h'ft . When the boys began to tell their wonderful stories about it, 1 sniil loftily that it was contrary to the law of mechanic?, nnd, with a view of si lencing these pu'suinptuoiis youngsters. I wrote to the Sr.ieu ific Americn, and submitted the question to that authori tative journal. It answered, in iffict. , that it wa- a ridiculous absurdity for any person to make sucu a claim. This, however, did not silence my friends. They said they had seen ii done. Cuniinir.gs, the professional, could do it with ease, though that was about the extent of hi capacity on the field. Then I was told that Mann, of the Princeton college nine, had acquired t ha art; but I only laughed, until one day I witi.es sod a game between the College nine and the New Haven pro fessionals. I placed mys-eJf behind the board-fence back of the catcher, and wntched. Tnat settled it. Mann did it continu ally. I saw the ball, as it left his hand. iuhkc buuii a tieciuen mm to one side ik0 ara u: .i - ,r-" :;-r. . . F. . . " viI i war rpnfn.r.Pfi ir. vnn d ha itia cerning my ponderosity, as I moved doui among my mend-, picked up the urns, ana inea tnem with theoff-hand eaness oi a protessional 1 Was not Without miacriirinira (nr there was nothing but my former skill w count upon, ana that was an exceed ingly sienuer tiireta. In throwi g the ball, before the game, I tried my. best to hold it, but muffe 1 every one, with a single exception, and that, I think, I held by accident. But it maae my nants tingle and smart, though I didn't let anv on bp Ir My ereat relief, however, was, in ob- (seiying tnat all the others were about as deep in the muffin business as I was; and there's nothing like company when I tried a little with the bat, and did bettor, forgetting that in this case the balls were pitched precisely as I wished them, while in the game it would be exactly the opposite; that is, if the pnciier Knew anything about his bust ness. I was the last striker of the nine, and as our piayers were put out in one-two tnree order, it was not until the close of the third inning that, I stepped up to me iiome-piate, ana tooK up tfce ash in ui.v um-ume style. A good many remarks from the crowd were audible : " Knock the stuffing out '!" . " jeorge w rignt in dis guise!" "He's Dickey Pearce. grown stouter !" "Try 'Anti-Fat! '"and sirni iur expressions reached my ears. iiaii players must be accustomed to sucn annoyances, for they are often ul tereo. ior tne very miroose of nf Hom ing the game. But I was anirered. nnri seeing the ball coming fairly over the home-plate, I banged away at it with an n-.y migiit. I came within about fourteen inches oi it, tne momentum of my own blow carrying me completely around on my icei, i-nusing my uai to lail oil and niy sell almost to stagger over on my bend mm ruuui ii uizziness. A general laueh follow this fm'imv. and my cheeks burned with chagrin, for i was sure tnr.t me uasty glance which I cast down toward the grove, showed my particular friend of the gentle sex aiuiiingHi tne ngure i cut. Before I could get in "form," as they say, the second ball was pitched. The umpire yelled, "Strike!5' just as the cuoe strucK me in front and nearly took uiy oreuiii away. mere was another laugh, and the pitcher called out, "Beg paahrdon!" utterea just as you will hear it about a hundred times when a couple of college hdent of making a home run, didn't come within six inches of the cube. Even the veteran Gould, once of the famous old Red Stockings, after in structing his men how the thiny was done, stepped up to the plate, and banged away eight times during the game, without coming anywhere near the ball. I immediately reversed my opinions, as did the Scientific American, and also Profess or Swift, oi Rochester, who went out on the ball -field and saw the ball pitched squarely around the end of a board. I think it was a good time for us all to paten up our theories. IRAC npr. luruinuue, nuu i scowiea terribly, and griped my bat in a suggestive wav. I drove away at the third ball, and caugut it iainy on the end of my bat. There was a sharp crack, like a Distol. shot, and a roar of annlansp mpnt tin from the crowd, as I started like a buf- laio ior nrst base. I didn't see the ball, but when our captain snouted, "Uomehome! Come home!" I made a desperate eflort to complete tne circuit of the bases. At the hrst, my hat went off. But wuaioi ltr JNo professional would mind such a thing. Before I reached second, one of my shoes shot up in the air be- hinH ma on ' Ih.J -1 ;il UD UUf L lift J II PH. I i , , r uu kj. asked Mann how he did the trick, and lTea?d lauXer &onmAead he Ha d that lip ..nriroH hfl Kaii anQ 1 "card laughter mingling with an and he said that he curved the bail acci dentally one day, while practicing in the gymnasium, and showed me how he held the ball. But I could never acquire the knack, and resigned my position as pitcher for the Strombolis, and was succeeded by nu ambitious young gentleman, who nearly snapped his head off every time he pitched the ball. Shortly after, I became sensible of an increasing tendency to corpulency on my part, doubtless inherited from my fa ther, who weighed an eighth of a ton. sty weigui steadily increased, until I now tip the scales at 220, and am still rising. I was always fond of witnessing the game, and used to go out to the Athletic grounds, to see that club clean out. ti10 old Atlantics, and then get cleaned out II. v. ,1,UJ C 1.; . minirlinir with on. r I on Da By the time I reached second, I began to feel tired, and wanted to sit down nri rest, but about aii our nine were chasing after me, clapping their hands, dancing and screeching like lunatics. "Run it out! A home-run! The bf st hit you ever made! This'll win the game! Run hard; all the ladies are watching you!" I couldn't think of stopping with such Incitements in my ears, though I was al most out of breath, and a sudden kink in my left ankle caused me to limp and nearly fall. I went panting by second with bulg ing eyes, and my otner shoe went up like a rocitec over my nead. Forging by third with the whole pack at my heels, while all the other nine were shouting to the center-fielder to were stars. but were verv tiht. and wpn nnntinn. ally coming unfastened at the knee and working up my legs. The stockings were a brilliant crimson, and tl.p ah oi tne ordinary kind. The shirts Lad an immense letter " S" worked in lront, to distinguish our memhern from tUo omers. In all such games the blunders m in. numeranie. One of our nine insisted, after reao'i ing second base, that he had the right to run oacs to nome-piate, instead of going lurwuru, na tue instance was tne same. Another, finding the ball at Rrnt nlienri of him, hastily withdrew to home. where he contended that he had a rieht to stay until he saw a favorable open ing. " That s the wav we used to do!" ha said, savagely, "and it was a good deal better than this new-tangled fashion." in tne ninth inning the situation as sumea an interesting phase uur opponents the invincible were at the bat. we having Dlavsd out our nine innings. e had made thirtv-five runs, nnd they thirty-three. If we could blank tnem (.and each club had been white washed several times) we would win It they should eet in two runs the would be tied, and another innin? wouid be necessarv. If thev should mt iuiic, mey wuuiu Win. ihe excitement was intense," as the expression goes, ine snouting stopped. and the countrymen began trenching upuu Hie ueiu in tueir anxiety to see tne close uur captain admoms'ied ns all tn Keep cooi and to watch every chance " Don't get rattled !" was the caution ue repeated halt a hundred times. we ail promised we wouldn't allow ourse.ves to be rattled, thoueh thpre were only one or two who knew he was warning us against becoming demora. ized or (dgurntively) losing our heads Ihe hrst ball struck went straight to tne pitcher, who took it on the honnrt and threw it furiously to first, to head off the striker. The baseman, startled to see it cominw . .1 . iiku a cannon-Dan. turned n a hnnu- toward it and shrugged his shoulders. It struck him and lell at his feet, he turning iranticauy around to hunt for it. ine runner would have been there in time, if he had not stumbled and torn nan nisunnorm oil. This so bewildered mm that netore he recovered the hasp man found the ball. One man out. and no runs! ihe second batter drove a "sky- iin(iL-i- over cenier-neiu, and made his second before the bull was fielded in. Ihis looked bad. but wa wen? much cheered and revived by the captain beg ging us again not to get " rattled." Wc arew in a oeep breath, and resolved to die neiore becoming "rattled." ihe pitcher took his position, nnd made ready to deliver the bail to the batsman. At this juncture the runner, who was on second base, stepped off a pace or two io wuicu uis cnance. The instant he did so the baseman near him took the ball from under his arm, anu, tapping him on the shoulder, shrieked for " judgment!" The umpire could do nothincr hut the runner out. This little trick, you know, is some times played by professionals, and is nothing but a deception as to where the ball is. The opponent supposed it was in tha pitcher's hands, and did not suspect the risK ue ran in stepping on his base. Two men out, no runs in and we were ahead ! The next three batsmen maria Mini buses by knocking skipping, difficult balls. With all the bases filled .; made the situation extremely interest ing, anu we Decame more determined than ever that we would not ha"ri. tied." ' I had not yet had a fair ball. Vint, tho next striker raised one well nn in tho air, and my instinct told me on the in- BToorlsh Robbers. What kind of people are fho Roni. Hassan P" demanded De Amicia. mom. 1 1 . T..1. i . . . ' 1 - uki ui wie. namm emoassy to the Moors referring to the approaching company oi wild horsemen wno were to oepnrt tnem turougn tne next province. " Thieves and murderers," replied the interpreter; "faces from the other wonu ; me worst crew m Morocco." And naturally the signor's curiosity was excited to the uttermost when they nrcie cA.p;Liiig lub arrival oi their rob- per escort. rp u , e . i xuo inues iiuui anoiner world wpvp not long in coming. We saw in ad vance a great cloud of dust, and in a few minutes were surrounded by a throng ui oinr uiuuiiwu savages in green, yellow, niiiLc, viuiei, ana ueanei, ragged, dis heveled and panting, as if they had just come out of a frav. In the midat nf tho thick dust they raised we could discern their governor a long-haired, black bearded giant, who, followed by two uuiviv viue-Kovernors. ail armpi with muskets, approached the ambassador, pressed his hand, and then disappeared. Pennsylvania, with 132, and Ohio, with 113 The national association for the nrn. wuuon oi ine insane, which was organ izeu lib 1110 cnaritlPS conipfpncn in Cleveland recently, has for its object luo luirouucuon oi more humane and intelligent methods of dealing with in sanity. Great things in this direction nave Deen none in the past generation, uui, iiiuuu stiii remains r.n ho nnnn ftBpeciai care lias been taken hv tho association to make it understood that the movement does not arise irom hos- uuiy to any asyium or ouicinls A drUffSrist'H Assistant, was nhav:,aA before the correctional chamber in Paris, a few davs airo. with causinir tho death of a man bv misrendinir A nro- scription. The doctor, whose writing was very clear, ordered eight drops of laudanum, which the assistant care lessly read as eight grammes, or about a quarter of an mince. Tho nvurHnon naiurany killed the patient, and the court sentenced the prisoner to three months' imprisonment. His advocate urged as an extenuating circumstance tnat, ii tne mistake had cost the de ceased his life, it had at least provided iiiiu t uu a painless death ! The honors accorded to the American exhibitors at the fishery exhibition at remn were quite numerous. Thev were as follows: Address of thanks ann a gold mtdai; one honorary prize ; a gold medal, with special honorary diploma; nine gold medals, exclusive of the special ones before mentioned; fourteen silver medals; twelve bronze meaais, anu seventeen honorable men tionsin all sixty-nine awards to the United States Larire as is the nnmhni. oi prizes ior America, they might have been very much augmented, for tho overwhelming superiority of the Ameri can eiuiuiuun over tuose ol all other countries was conceded from the very first day. But the American exhibit was ior tue most nart n, collective r.nn 1 1 .1 IT . uiaue oy me united states nsu commis- Immediately the usual firing, charging fionand (or th.is Fea.9?n comparatively and yelline begun. Thev seemed Iran! in rr i . u . .. . xucy uieu ueiween tue legs ot our muies, over our heads and close to our shoulders. Seen Irom a distance they must have looked like a band of as sassins assailing us. Tbey were formida ble old men with lone white beards nil skin and bone, but looking as if they might live for centuries; and young uicu Kim iung iocks oi oiack hair hying like manes. Many had their chests more or less bare, turbans in tatters, and red rags twisted round the head ; cnics torn, saddles broken, bridles made ot cord, old sabers and poniards of wirunge iorms. Ann such hues! "It is absurd," said the commnnHnnt.. "to suppose mat inese people will be enpa oie oi tne sen-sacnhce of not killing us. ivvery one oi tnese laces to ri story of blood. Thev looked nt. 113 they passed, out of tho corner of their eyes, as if to hide the impression of their gi.mce. The manner and morals of this nn pleasant people by no means belied their villinous looks. Theft is their avowed profession, and they take rank accord ing to their dexterity in it. Tho boys aic iui, in naming irom tneir most ten der ages, and the youth are told off to particular departments, according kto the capabiliies thev develon. Thev to work like-an oiganized "imgof bur glars, on circuits lar bevond their im mediate beat. They are in the habit of lying in wait in the towns to attack Jews, who are compelled by law to go uuaiuu-u, anu wno are generally worth plundering. Like mounted they go great distances on horseback to til n r CI OIlHllnn A. onnr """v ouvjutu utciciiLs till uii.usiiiji:f in r duars. They will dismount, and, like some of the low-caste Hindoos, strip to me Hitin, soap tuemse ves an over, and slip within the precincts ot the village, iui Liiu nogs win not oark at a naked man. They glide upon the ground like snakes, covered with grass, with straw, with leaves, dressed in sheen-skins. rlis- guised as beggars, as madmen, as saints, as soldiers. Thev will risk their livea for a chicken, and no ten miles for n dollar. They will even steal a bag of uiuiicjr iioui unuer tue neaa oi a Sleep ing man. They terrorize the surround ing country far and near, levying heavy contributions of blackmail on the vil lages that derive exemption from their depredations. It mav he said, no Hnnht that it is not so very long since gentle men caterans like Rob Roy drove a nourishing business in KcntlnnH R..t a; all events, Rob Roy was proscribed and hunted down, and he had his head quarters in the fastnesses of a remote Highland district, while thesn Afnon'oh robbers thrive on their ill-gotten gains in a COUntrv onen to the irrpcrnlur ... airy, of which their emperor has so many in his pay; and their bands infest the roads between the court and his capitals, which are habitually traveled by his caravans and treasure trains. few American individuals, so to neir : j icueiveu uwarus. Mr. btoddard. second niatp of I ho brigantine Fortunate, which arrived re cently at naiiiax. Si. s., from the West indies, reports that one niaht, while passing along the coast of Florida, a singular phenomenon appeared just after uam. wo columns oi nre were seen, seemingly about a mile away. Thev were aoout nttv varns nnnrt. nnri moo t a height of nearly 501) feet, when they arched toward each other, but did not meet. j.ney ourned with a steady, dull ieu coior, anu did not emit any sparks. DUt at the arching portions emitted tremulous rays or penciling of li.rht similar to an aurora borealis. They ap peared in sight all night, and gradually faded away as daylight came. The weather was beautifully clear, and not a cloud was visible during the entire night. On the following dav therp w.is a neavy tnunoer-storm, accompanied by a (laicui VVJ11U, UUb UU THin. A Washington dispatch sava that General Walker has placed the task of attempting to procure lull census sta tistics of Indians rot taxed to Major Powell and his assistants, who are working under the Smithsonian insti tution. Colonel Garrick Mallerv. of tho army, is nowengascd in nrenarinw,. :i . x , . T .r ; special set oi sciieuuics ior recording Indian statistics. These will embrace heads calculated to set out. all mntri..l facts of the Indian situation, and the condition of each tribe. Colonel Mal- lery has made a close study of the American Indians, and is well fitted to prepare schedules which shall cover ail tne more prominent features of Indian life, and bring out many points in the line Ot his 1 esearches which will h both new and interesting. This is nn important matter in many respects. Hitherto all estimates for the purchase of Indian supplies have been based upon the supposed number of Indians in each tribe, but there is ground for the belief that the number has been vastly overstated in respect of many tribes.and that large sums have been wasted in consequence. Trying to Drive a Hen. Did you ever undertake to drive a hen anywhere P If not, then never say " Where there's a will there's a way," or "All things are possible to him who perseveres," because you don't know anything about it. Driving a hen properl j, and decor ously, and successfully requires more skill than capturing a herd of buffalo. The hen you want to drive is always a Biiong-minoed nen. ii she had been a woman she would have wanted the ballot long ago, and her husband would have, had to keep quiet when she " got set "on anything. But being only a hen, all she can do is to cackle, a id be Contrary, and thwart roil nt. pvpw Inrn. If you want her to go in somewhere nKn'l I I. n n . . ... . . . . ouc ii bui e w want to gj our, and vice versa. You want to drive her most when she gets out of the coon. nnA gets into your garden, to the total de struction of your pet bulbs, and roots, and seeds, and everything else. One smart, active hen will do more harm in one hour than a cow would in half a day. A hen is born with an instinct to opt. at the root of the matter, and she fol lows out ner nature. When your hen gets out of confine ment she makes straight for vour choicest flower bed, and "she stays there for an hour before you discover her. By that time she has dug out everything that you cared anything about, and has buried herself un all hilt, hpr head nnH there she lies in the sun with h anninpss and triumph in her speaking cuunten- How mad vou are! You feel as if von could sever her joints and make hor into a pot-pie with a will no matter it she is one of the trio that cost $10. iou go tor her with energy, and scream out "shoo!" at her, and flourish your apron, and make wild gestures in her direction, and call your husband and the children and the hired girl to neip drive her into her quarters. Now, it is never anv use to call a man to help drive a hen. We nrn jtrillinir to admit that the lords of creation can do quantities ot things that the weaker sex cannot, but there is one thing a man can never do and that is drive a hen He'll break the rake-hand 1p nnH opt I ! .v..,: 7, ,7 uuuk in ine cioiiies-nne, and lose his hat, and fall down over the cromipt. wiuKeis, ana ourst on two or three of his suspender buttons, and the hen will ny up on the top of the barn or take reiuge in the tallest tree on the premises, ana mere sue win stay and laugh at mm until she is ready to come down Ann nu the men in creatin nnnnot cinve ner down, tor she knows that she has got things her own way. Your hen that vou are iroino to drive generally cackles all the time you are trying to drive her. It gives her cour age, perhaps, to defy you. It is like the music of a martial band when t.linl uic Luniuimig mio Dattie. it is as in spiring as the strains of " Yankee noodle to the hen's ear. You try gen tleness first. Shoo. bidJv! shoo, hlriilut ci, ti:ere!" and she plunges off in tho di rection contrary to the one you wish her to go in ; and then you draw off your iuiuus anu execute a nan if ninmninii .. .. j . t i . . nuu pen ner up, DUt presto! just as vou think you have got her. she tnnma uiiooi riguc unacr your skirts, and awav she pops froo a, Then you get some corn and try to bribe uui. kju, no, sue ooesn t want any coin, thank vou. She is above h Pi hurif Kim doesn't tako any siock in your " chick y ! rf- - -- j . ui.iiTi.icu in y 1 1 LI 1 most caiolins of voicps St 11 eh,, cacKics. All the roosters cackle, tot eviuentiy tickled with her spunk. A few hens who arc not. em-ions n All the neighbors will be looking out to see ' what on earth you are making inein nens screech so tor. lour husband gets a nolo and mnkna a dive for that hen. Ho'lifiy for her, lie says ; she'll go into that aen- uuusu or ne u Know the reason! Anu by the time lie has chased her all over the premi.-es, and torn his pants aim nuuincu a piece oi skin ou his hand anu run over httlo C hariev. he h unci out tue reason. It is hecnuae a m la not oi a mind to go into that hen-house. And he SrtV8 that bens nrn n niiiannoo and that he'll kill the whole of em, and he wishes there had never been one invented. By this time vou arn tired of hit. hnlr. and you request him to go away and you 11 drive that h n. 1 hen you begin, and the hpn heo-ino too. She flies over the fence, and up oil a neighbor's woodshed and down into somebody's pig-pen, and then the pig takes after her with a vim, and she flies out with a screech, and runs under the barn, and there s'.ie stays till night, and men ii jou win leave open your hen Finish Thy Work. Finish thy work, the time Is short; The ann is in the west; The night is coming down -till then Think not of rest. Yes, finish all thy work, then rest; Till then, rest never; T e rest prepared ior thee by God u Is rest forever. KiuMi thy woik, then wipe thy brow; Ungird thee from thy toil; Tuko breath, and irom eaoh weary limb Shake ofl the soil. Finish thy work, then sit thee down On some celestial hill, And ol id st -ength-reviving air Take thou thy fill. Finish thy work, then go in peace; Life's battle taught and won, Hear from the throne the Master's voice, "Well done! well done!" Finish thy work, then take thy harp, Give praise to God above; Sing a new song of mighty joy And endless love. Give thanks to him who held thee np In nil thy path below, Who made thee faithful nnto'death, And crowns thee now! ITEMS OF INTEREST. Marketing In Old Rome. The sir or mnrlnm who in thpao K,nn ing summer days entertains a party of ""use tfoor she will find her way thither, friends at lunch or dinner, and the ex- ? metk and innocent looking as you quisiteness ot the feast vies with tho Please for " chickens and curses come cost oi tne service, naturally supposes "u,uc w roust. na unorne, that irom this 'modern vantage-ground they can give points to Heliogabalus or Apicius. But these older gourmets made light of sums at which our mod erns would turn pale. Professor Her- nermann, in a late number of the "Half- Eortluinakes, Professor Palmieri. who mnn ha dM 7 wtj OiUlt tit haiTO Kaam c- ! t--! . ... " -- ivuauuccn BllLUK fill II D Pi IT II n 11 o tr a iiour series," gives a most entertaining (on Mount Vesuvius) for the last thirty l! teSU1 "Busines8 ?r fofty years, is an Puthoriu Vn the Sunstroke. stant that it was ' mir hull " anHVr dl. 7 ,tw ( nays me bingie aaimy aisu to set beiore a kin, sunt that was my ball, andnoone iVoc on, , of singing birds; and Apicius, the prince Life in Ancient Rome.1 Not only Nero, Verus and Heliogaba lus lavished from $240,000 to $400,(00 upon a single banquet, but the actor Esopus paid more than $4,000 for a single dainty dish to set before a king. Wi. who in t.nm would h VomTi?" throw it in, I struck for home, k.j.. u,i. i .i .r T", "Get out of the rnarl I" aoIIoH 9CU UU UV IUB AblUULlUD. 1H rfl HllhV . ' . . - i ! " " i . t j crowd lLas as Iniforms, while fortune varied as con V'rned the other clubs. t fourth of July, a social party gotten together, and arrangements ade for spending the glorious anniver ry over in N ew Jersey. A delightful grove was selected, and, uong the amusements, it was settled that a game of baseball was to be played in the afternoon, and I was selected as a member of one of the contesting nines. I shivered when told it, and protested. Tin fact was, that among the numerous spectators was to be a young lady for whom I entertain a very high respect, and who, I was beginning to hope, was not altogether impartial toward me. I declined at once. " It can't be thought of," I said, em phatically. " I haven't played ball for ten years. I'm too fat to run. I can't catch a ball, and couidn't hit one, un less they wiil allow me to use a ten-inch board." That's the fix we're all in," said my friend. "There's really only one fair player Macpherson; and we will han dicap him, so the difference won't be the "That chan can't sf on! TTp'II have to go around three or four times belore he can put on the brakes ! Let the band play!" etc. Well, I reached home-plate a second ahead of the ball, which, being thrown n from a long distance, struck me and helped mo forward somewhat. oeeing now close the contest was, the 1 M . i Degan aancinff about and moving forward and backward as though the ground had become suddenly red-hot, while at the same t;me my head was thrown so far back, to allow me to gaze skyward, that the long fore piece of my hat pointed straight toward the zenith. "Right-field! Take it, right-field!" was shouted by every member of our nine, while our opponents began to hoot tne blood, which usually is the result not so much of exposure to the sun as an insufficient perspiration: mannuDi of sunstroko happen among laborers not. exposed to tne sun. it a man, whether intue sun or in tue shade, is exposed to a temperature of say ninety degrees, and does not prespire freely, his blood be comes overheated, and he is in dtpr. danger of being attacked by that kind of captain shouted to me to slide in, and I by such triflesT muufium i uuuiu Biiae a lew ".Iut ae him tVo thot t I ww VUMU ' U U1U' rest me. 1 fashioned style !" some one called from urw! Willi nroat.rn.tion whinh is ptillori aiiMo.Ai.. and howl so as to "rattle" me; but I because perspiration is, as it were, a .v. u ,u,uS iciuio, ouu uij poind eaieiy vsive, wnicn carries off was too sublime for ine to be disturbed inches it would serve to succeeded, but it played my trousers, though the damage was uuv nit jyai auic Whan i wraa caam T I 3 home-run, the applause was terrific and Kecovenng my wind as best I could I carelessly sauntered off toward itees, Theflay 1 WXla as though I had donea verv Bmnii thin iTii j , .. . .. in the world 6 f"eu aiterwaru, an ine ladles in tue worm. i raMj thoi h... v,.u i , I heard the young scamn of w ""f"""". "T" Vio-8? shouting out that I was an 'old profeV- 33 TC&t I wZ seen I held it. BionaU and he had told them I would do Even our maTnanimon. n m.i. ?5!rTl?8,au.rln eam. adding who were trying to rattle me. took off the crowd probably the urchin who had been heralding my skill from the beginning. "Keep back! keen back!" T ahnntoH -Fho18?!11 Don UeHntheway!" something worse, he does not promote ,in1y o h .a0- lone Audience perspiration, but checks it; water is s ii ner. fluous heat: in fact, the amount of hpt wnlch, as it were, disappears in the act oi perspiration, is something startling when calculated in figures, according to the theory of latent heat of vapors. When a man who feels oppressed by heat does not drink moderately cold waiEi, uub tunes recount to Deer or tue very Desi arms ior man working in hot surroundings ; a little oatmealmixed in it hag become very popular, and we advise to acidulate it slightly, not with thesulphurio or other mineral acids, as we have seen recom mended such acids check prespiration, that I wouid show more astonishing their hVts and held them in band reSS " n 7Tf abl6 , P'?mote U' Be8t performances before it was through. 8 t i fn thr..r.?. in Land' ready of . a11 enlon juice, citno or tartario H Tvas quite correct. ThYtJhu, ifi"' ? HAfffJ ?oC obl - i viucvivr, ior warn ui vviwr of good livers, after spending $4,000,000 upon the pleasures of the table took poison because he saw nothing' but a beggarly $400,000 left. Citruswood tables cost $40,000 to $50,000 apiece; and the elder Pliny says that the philo sophical Stoic Seneca had five hundred of them at, various prices. A statue by rraxueies was worth $ao,O00 or $30,000. The little book is lull of curious in formation. Who knew that pork and not beef was the favoritn ment. of tho Romans, while lamb, mutton and veal were not in favor P Game, poultry and fish were very acceptable, but the old Romans, like the modern Italians, ate meat sparingly. The professor gives us a price list: Beef, per pound, four cents; Jamb and fresh pork, six cents; ham, ten cents; river fish, two cents; sea fish, six cents; a pair of quails, thirty cents; eggs, six cents a dozen; mule, tour cents a quart; salt, sixteen cents a peck; ten to forty apples or pears, two centa; four pounds large grapes, two cents; green beans and shelled pea?, two cents a pint; oil, six to twenty cents, and honey, four to twenty cents a pint. His attitude is always imnosinsr tha obtainable, attitude of a maker-up in a printing office always imposing. suojecD ii any one is. He has recently given at Naples a public lecture at the university on the possibility of foretell ing earthquakes. After mentioning earthquakes as known and remarked in ancient days, ho illustrated the throe signs of coming earthquake which since time immemorial have been popularly believed in, namely, the sultry oppres si ve state of the atmosphere, the drying up of wells, and the uneasiness shown by animals, observing that, th Olltrh t hooo signs do not always, yet they undoubt edly often occur. Professor Palmieri went on to say that earthquakes have no doubt shorter or longer periods ol preparation. The earth is never per fectly quiet for some time before end after a great shock, but gradually sinks into repose or increases in agitation. The professor believes that by register ing the preliminary tremblings, and noting their increase or decreaso, it would be possible to foretell an earth quake about three davs in aiinm.. just as tempests are now foretold. If a connected system of sismographie stations were to be organized the dif ferent stations communicating with each other by telegraph as would be quite possible, in most cases, to issue warnings to the threatened district in time. He scarcely expected to live to see it; but he hoped that after he was gone, posterity might benefit by such a system, universally and permanently established. The sismographie stations should be erected by the different gov ernments, in quiet places where the ground is not liable to be shaken by railway trains. The keener of a lighthouse holds a high position in the world. Marathon Independent. The man who picked un the hot penny originated the remark : " All that glitters is not cold." It is estimated that Oregon will fur nish a surplus of 250,800 tons of wheat ior export the coming season. An experimental plantation of olive trees in Georgia is said to have yielded an excellent quality of olive oil. A tract of fifty thousand acres on the Northern Pacific railroad has been bought for a colony from Belfast, Ireland. The treas on the trail toward fortune are all blazed with printer's ink, and every guide-board rends " Advertise." Midcrn Art. The lower jaw of an antediluvial mammoth was recently fished out of the River Dnieper by Russian fishermen; it is as black as a coal, and weighs seventy five pounds. It is said that during the next fifteen years almost all the Russian railroads now in operation will undergo the pro cess of redemption and become "govern ment property. The locomotives used on the railroads of the United States, it is said, are do ing the work of over 29.00,000 horses, while the census of 1880 aggregates horses ot all ages nt less than 9,000,000. A man fell down a short time ago and was pretty badly used up. He says he will be all right by next fall. We beg leave to differ. Wo think he will be worse off the next fall. Keokuk Con stUution. An expert estimates that in a single decade 500,000 persons engaged in in dustrial pursuits in Great Britain sus tain personal injury or are killed; in mines, 30U.OO0: in railways, 70,000, and in factories, 180,000. It is verv fortunat.p that, tho wnn lightning-rod ngents turned out short this season. The iarmers have enough trouble with the armv worm, without. having to contend with any other pest. The manufacture of sporting imple ments bus assumed lars-e nronortiona in this country. It is estimated that from 50,000 to 60,000 sets ol croquet, 200,000 uascuau oais, anu -vou.uou baseballs wil. be mude for this season's t.rarlo hn a single firm in Chicago. It almost unnerves a man to watch a woman undergoing the operation of nin. ning on her bonnet, and a fel low hOHVPB a sigh of relief when the four inches of pin disappears 111 a lTlflSR nf trwcttfuw and hair and the female comes out of the perilous operation uninjured and smiling. When a dog eats crass it is Raid fo ho a sign of rain. It certainly is an omen o f something, when the brute gets a long spear stuck in his throat, and then crawls under the table when the family have company at supper, and heaves his shoulders, and howls, and kicks with his hind legs, nnd screams horribly in a foreign language, and is lifted out the room by his tail by the hired girl. It is the sign of a norm. Bockland Courier. TUB FAUMBIt AND POLITICS. The larmer in the paper Head ihe editorial mentions That the late ot nations rested On the H. and U. conventions. But the trees had leaved and blossomed, And the grass continued growing; All the sprouts ol corn were starting, And the farmer went on hoeing. When the matter was decided, And they made the nomination, One declared it was a blessing, And another ruination. Still the fruit grew ripe and mellow, And the wheat was nicely growing; While the farmer in his garden 'llout his turnips wont on hoeing. OU City Derrick. A Baring Mexican. A Mexican, accompanied hv Ma do. was on his way to Teinpe to do some trading, when the dog treed a large Cali forma lion. The man was unarmed, save a large butcher knife, but nothing daunted, and knowing whom ha rnn In sell the skin for a dollar, he whipped out his knife and started up the tree unci iuo specimen oi tue king ot beasts. Slipping up within reaching distance, he COOllV DlUnpP.d thn bnilo inln tho animal just behind the shoulder, which so startled him that he leaped to the ground and was instantly bounced by 6, nucu iub man Hastened irom the tree, sprang upon the beast and planted a home thrust through his heart, without further damage to himself than having his hat torn in nieces. Tho lion measured about eight feet from the tip of the nose to the tin of hia tail nH had he got one good blow at the man he WOUld have mashed hi This same Mexican killed one of these" ueabis aoout three months ago that measured over nine feet from tip to tip, using no other weapon than a small pistol and knife, and he came near los-' V1? nil ia tUat encounter. Fhcenix .A. I.) Expositor,
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