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"i uj;ieiiic mei.iLULc, ..e l. : : 1 : , , nn : or, V, ;I')I.I.Y FRIEND'S SECRET. - , work i an iinmcnse nieces?. , v,,1'r.v aud precious health, and "tv rrll ,l,i,( or, .... i .... . L w:tii lT , ' ' a " . , . 1 J L O'lJ mtiiifU I'll.l .loinn- a w.l.l i'Jt'J , ' . ";!": ,,,t- l,ut addl es at ci- -'A'-LLan, Publisher, Philadelphia F i-. From the iMttsbursh Gazette. lietacy ami I Arc Out Omi Jlore. 15Y H. KLI.IOTT M'jtRIUK. Hetsey nml T are out once more we've had a tearing liplit ; Wo jawed, and talked, and slashed around I tell you 'twas a tiyht. I kinder wish we hadn't fought ; it seuis a little queer That we can t live like other folks, and be contented here, ltut Betsey lias a temper, eir, and I've a temper, too, And when we commence to fiht, we fight ' In thlatrtle fuss, .he fairly ! scrunched me down; She grabbed my silver locks, and tore them , front my crown. . j She thrashed ma with a hazel stick it might lie called a pole And then she cracked me on the head with : twenty lumps of coal; j She took inn by my Koman nose the handle of my head She wrung and twisted it about Oh ! gosh- ens how it bled ! She said I'd never bought for her a new aud ' shiny silk, And then she Hung kerslosh on me a crock ' of buttermilk; j She said 1 was an ugly man a mean aud I lying cheat j And up her foot went, sudden-like, and I , went off tuy seat. 'Now, Tale," said she, "just sit vou there, ! and li.sten while 1 talk; " I'll show you now 1 am boss, and make you ! toe the chalk. Vou an; a pretty man, oh, dear.' of high and moral tone, To lounge alK.ut that drinking hole, and have me here alone. j ' 'Tis ji-iira ago since first we imst; you said you luved me well; Vou said you'd always Ik- the same in hap piness we'.l dwell' j Vou u:il you knew there ne'er was one you ' would so Ion, My prize." i And while she siake, ah, me.' 'tis true, the 1 teats tame in her eyes. I 'T was very strange to m c her thus, my Ilet- wy sh- ililiiig tear.-, ! I'm sure I had not .s-eii her cry for mure than twenty years. It look me back unto the past the p:viu of long ago When she and I sUmhI by the grave of dar ling little Joe. I thought I'll like to say to her, "My Iletscy, I i j i i , no liol weep; , If you forgive me, true it is 1 will my pre- ' llli.-x- keep: I'll drink no tu.ue, I'll stay at home, for 'tis ' a better plan, ' And you can help me, if you will, to be .1 bi tter man." j HuM!et.scy had the lioor just then I thought 1 wouldn't speak ; ; I thought I'll wait and hear her through, if idle would talk a week. I.' pou tie- tlmir J rested stiil and sure 'twas la tter thus; If 1 hud tried to take a chair there might have been a fuas. And then he spake to me again: "Have you forgot the pa.M? Have you forgot our sunny life before it was o'ercast '.' Ah.' ('ale, I truly loved you then you were so kind and true For many years I thought there was no bet ter man than you. "Ami when our little darlings died, Kliza, Kate and Joe, They placed them in the quiet vale, and we were full of woe; You were so good ami noble then my staff and only stay; Vou spoke to me so tenderly, my troubles passed away. "The years went on and you grew cold you cared no more for me And somehow we commenced to light, we cotiiu no more agree; Vou took to drink and squandered all it sorely grieved my heart; Liut I have i bought the matter o'er, aud, t'alc, we'd better part." This roused me up. Said I, "Old Bets, you Ivliin imlc!" (1 felt as bi as seven men ami not the least airaid.) "l'ui sure I haven't squandered all you've got your money yet; So keep it all and use it all, and don't get in a sweat." With that a heavy lick she struck me, and knocked me on the lioor. And then she rapped me on the head some twenty times or more. She pulled me east, she pulled me west, she grabbed me by tin: hair; She Hiing me clear across the room aud smashed the rocking chair. When I g't out I came away, and now I have no home ; I go away with saddened heart, in this cold world to roam, The tears will come into my eyes, it seems so lonely now ; And then I ask, "How will I live?" and echo answers, "How?" I am a very quiet man ; I hate these fights and brawls ; I'd rather go and end my days within the Jmht-Iiouso walls. I'd rather le both lone and poor, and live upon the town. Than have my Betsey jaw me so and daily knock me down. It seems so strange to leave my home when 1 am Door and old. And go away and wander round in this great world so cold ; It seems so strange to leave the one with whom I've passed my days ; I should have lived a nobler life and tried to mend my ways. I fear that Betsey '11 come to want ; she's get ting old and gray ; But can I slay and help her ou along her weary way '.' No, no, I can't, she wrung my nose ana drag ged me all about, And so you sec, it cannot be ; for she anil 1 are out. But now that I have left my home, I'll take a solemn vow I'll never drink another dram 1 11 start anew from now ; And while I live I'll live aright atone for for all the past. And strive to reach that better land aud rest in peace at bust. Shikiaxh, Allegheny Co., l'a. An Akron, Ohio, cat, relying upon his nine lives to save him, allowed his tail to swell, his spine to curve, and with the "banner try of hell"' emanating from his jaws, waded into a buzz saw iu rapid mo tion. The cat was never seen again, but the boss sawyer, who always stood w ith his mouth open while at work, remarked to his assistant that he could taste "HUdle strings and &auagu meat in the air that morning." EH 19 l"Kf.Alf EBENSUURG, PA., FllIDAY, AP1HL 4, 1873. TllIU A TTIC LODGKll. The tailor lived on the second floor, and did his best to make his living (of his vlte ami four children. Down stairs the small tobacconist lived in a state of perpetual anxiety about the tailors rent, which he gener ally gave up piecemeal, and with groans, as people give up their teeth, i not because he did not wish to pay all his bills, but because of the shortness of funds, common to maiiv people. M" the attic lived the single led- j ger, ot whom no one knew anything. His name was Smith, but what did that i teU w jR.u k Wu g() cominon 9 le wag ! lean, and had hollow cheeks and anx tous eves. hat his business was, or if he had any, no one knew. Perhaps he wore stockings. The poor apothe cary of "llomeo and Juliet" put him in mind of his attic lodger, when, 1k? ing presented with tickets by a theatri cal lodger, he went to spend an even ing with Shakspeare. "He ain't like it in the face, though," thought Mrs. Tobacconist; "his clothes is too good, Air. Smith, that's all." It was an acute remark. Mr. Smith's clothes did not lit him too good, inas much as they were a few sizes too small for him. As for business, he seemed to have none. At noon he went out for a loaf of bread and n pitcher of l.t-r. At twelve o'clock he disap peared till midnight, when he let him self in with a latch-key, and went to 1h.i1 without a candle. "And lor all he told anylnxly about himself," said the tobacconist's wife, "he might have leen a ghost." "Hut he's civil spoken," said the tailor's wife, to whom he always said, "Kxcuse me ma'am," when he found her afloat on the staircase, in a puddle of soap and w ater, which always made the blackboards blacker than before, and was obliged to wade through the flood with bread and lierr. And the tailor's wife, who had lived at service in her youth, even ventured to hint to her husband that she thought Mr. Smith a gentleman. However this fancv the tailor crushed it with a curse, "Gentlemen don't wear anv such a coat that. dlv. Poor little tailor, he sat cross-legged on his board and stitched, ami mea sured men by their coats. If he had measured or even mended more coats, it would have been better for him and his brood. Times seemed to grow worse, custom less, the money harder to get. When the little man read in his morning paper of men who shot themselves or took laudanum, he won dered whether they had four children with hearty appetites, and a prospect of having nothing to eat for several days. So thought of killing himself liesides he had been told by his cler gy man that suicide was wicked ; but lie couldn't help thinking. And the civil lodger in the attic, how did he fare ? One night when Sally, who had leen mending and ironing and patch ing the family rags all day, was eco nomically using ii) the lire by cooking a loaf of bread in the stove oven, she heard the lodger come in. He went up stairs and paced the floor he came out on the entry and creaked the stairs. He seemed as restless as a caged tiger ami ho hail In-liaved so for three nights, instead of retiring at once, rvsthe tail or's family knew he generally did by the creaking and snapping of his bed stead. "What can ail him?" said Sally, as she took her bread out of the oven and pricked it with a straw, finding it done. "What can ail him? I hope he ain't sick or nothing he is so civil, poor dear." Then Sally listened again. "I declare! he's coming down," she said. "He must le sick, and there he is knocking law !" Then she ojiened the door. The lid of the stove was otf, and the red lioht flashed on a hungry face, with hollow cheeks and sunken eyes. The gaunt hand stretched itself out, and a voice said faintly : "Madame, 1 know you have a kind heart. 1 am so hungry. It's three days since I ate anything, and I don't want to die." "Law ! I should think not," said the woman. "Why, law me, I'm so sorry ! And I suppose you can't get a job ? Law, why, do take it. I ain't got nothing else. You see we are pretty poor ourselves and there oh, law !" She was trembling, she did not j know why. She was thinking to her self: "It's like a play. It makes me want to cry." Then he took the warm bread she "had given him in his hands, tearing bits from it and eating it. "I didn't thank you," he said. "Thank you ! thank you !" and went awaj. Sally sat down, trembling still. To be out of a job and to be hun otv were no rare things and no tragic Things in her experience ; but this man had stilled her soul, somehow fright ened her, and she said, "I hadn't any busiiu ss to give away a loaf of bread; but there, now, I couldn't help it." Then Sally went to led and slept, and dreamed of the hollow-cheeked lodger of the attic. There was more bread to make next WUOM THE TUVm MAU S FKEE,- AKD ALL I day, and I am not sure but that she j had made an extra loaf, in expectation ' of another call from her neighbor, but he did not come, and in th course of : time Sally had enough to think of without leaving her own room. Mat ters did not prosper with the family. Little Lena had the scarlet fever and lay for a long time at death's door, and the work with which the mother helped to 1111 the family purse was ne cessarily neglected, and her customers grew angry and left her. I hen the babv died. Poor little babv ! j The mother wept bitterly. The father also longed to weep, although children were expensive luxuries in ' that poor household. Finally the last I affliction fell upon the tailor- a felon : on his right thumb. j There was an end to all, it seemed i to both. Nothing but the hospital and ( the almshouse ln-fore them. The rent was quite unpaid at last, and the to- bacconist was in a fury. He called to give him warning and a piece of Ins mind. On the morrow out he should go, neck and crop. The tailor said nothing. The wife, woman-like, had . her word. J "Where shall we go?" she asked, j "We haven't a penny in the world." I "It is nothing to me where you go," said the landlord, "so that 1 get vou 1 out of my rooms. I want them for ' honest people." j "We're unfortunate, but we never i mean to lie dishonest," cried the wife, i Then the husband, in an angry word, S bade her hold her tongue, j "It's all the same," he said ; "we will go to-morrow, and now vou go, Mr. I Landlord." Then they were left alone, bemoan I ing their hard fate. There was abso ! lutely nothing to eat in the house. ( Sally looked at her empty flour bar i rel, at heY wretched family, and then burst into tears. "It's no ttse trying any longer," she said. "If the Lord would only take us. That's all I ask." She put the children to led and sat down upon a chair drawn by force of habit to the hearth of an empty stove. Her husband, between pain and anx iety, was less sane than a madman. lie paced the floor like a tiger, talk ing to himself. The bit of tallow can dle burnt low, the bitter wind rattled the casement, the ram beat against it. "We shall be out in all that to-morrow," said the man. "We've not a friend in the world." "We've got one friend, I hope," said the wife. "Who is he?" asked the tailor. "God," said the woman. "Maybe He'll find a way to help us. We have not leen very bad, Sam." "Better to have starved before now," said the tailor. "We haven't any par ticular right to expect miracles, that I know of. Hark ! what's that ?" "A knock," said the wife, and, trem bling lest her landlord should have re turned, opened the door. Without stood the tall, gaunt figure of the lod ger in the attic. "He's come for somebread," thought the woman, and amidst her own trou ble she grieved over the thought of re fusing his appeal. He made none, however. This is wlint lio : "Madame, awhile ago I took the lib erty of asking you for bread. Allow me to return the loaf with thanks." So he vanished. A whole fresh loaf lay in the woman's hand. She carried it in. "This is more than I expected," she said. '' ou see God is good. She lifted the side of the candlestick a little. The light flared up. "Now, mother," cried a child's voice from the -bed, "I'm hungry." Sally broke it in two. It parted with singular ease. She gave a little cry. It had evidently been parted before and joined together, and from the heart a handful of crumbs had been scooped and iu it lay a little white packet: "It's fairy-bread," cried Sally, re memliering'some old country legend. "Look on it before the light goes out," said the tailor, Sail v obeyed. She opened the packet and found two envelopes. In the one was this note : Madame : Your loaf of bread saved my life. I know you are in trouble, and yes terday my luck turned. To-day I am worth fifty thousand dollars, having won a lawsuit, that has been pending for years. Please accept the enclosure, and believe me your ever obliged, Attic Lodger. There was a live hundred dollar note in the envelope, ami when she sawr it she thought herself the happiest wo man in Christendom. The gift was the saving of the family. Sally had cast her bread upon the waters" to find it again in truth. And when the tailor's hand was well again, there was a patron for him who dress ed in such a manner that Sain could no longer doubt him a gentleman. The attic lodger wears the finest broadcloth now, and the tobacconist bows low as he meets him on his way out, or sells him choice llavanas over the counter. He stops at the door in his carriage, and lodges in the attic no longer ; but he never has forgotten, nor seems like- A1UC SLAVES BESTDE.' t.. rt e. . H ,.4- i. i in ioiiei., me io:ii oi nreau uiven him by the tailor's wife when he was starving. A KIXG roil AX HO VII. OXE OF THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY REV OLUTIONS OX RECORD. On the 11th of December, 1754. at eight o'clock in the morning, the Dcy i of Algiers was distributing pay to his i soldiers in the courtyard of his palace. The Grand Treasurer was with him, beside his secretaries and the usual di van : anil the number of soldiers was aliout three hundred. It was under stood that these were all unarmed, as it was their custom to lie on such oc casions (though there was no suspicion of any disaffection among them) ; and when one of them, after receiving his pay, and kissing the Dey's hand, sud denly drew a dagger, it produced a great sensation in the court. When, rrrstfiwl of repenting him of this indis cretion, and putting it back again into his girdle, he proceeded to sheathe it in the Dey's breast, and then to shoot him with a pistol, the excitement re doubled. Yet, seriously enough no body stirred, except himse'f. lie rose, and "walked a few yarls" I well re collect the description of the writer in that gazetteer calling out to his at tendants: "Among so many, can you not destroy such a villain as this?" and then dropped. If his Highneso could not do more, it is scarcely imaginable to conceive how he could have done much less. But his assassin was as prompt in ac tion as the other was slow ; he no soon er had his victim on the ground than he snatched otf the Dey's turban, claji Ied it on his own head, ami seated himself on the throne. In the meantime a friend of Ih's au dacious character had lodged a pistol ball in the High Treasurer's collar bone, given him two sabre cuts over the head, and cut his right hand otf; while four more conspirators for they were only six in all were "hard at work with their pistols and sabres" among the company generally. In a recent Ameiican description of a free light, we read that "crowbars and other sedatives" were used ; and pistols and sabres seemed in this case also to have had a narcotic influence, for the company actually listened with patience, during all these anarchial proceedings, to a speech from the throne, a sort of programme issued by the new Dey, respecting the system of government that would le pursued in future (for the man on the throne had an idea that the virtue of sover eignty lies in what he sits on, and real lv imagined that he was firmly seated in that supreme power which he had himself shown to be so precarious even in a legitimate possessor of it.) He told them that he was henceforth about to govern the country on good prin ciples, and especially that he would declare war against a good many peo ple who fancied that no danger was hanging over their heads. "The coun try is at peace," said he, "with a good deal too many ;" and he especially bade them to take notice that he was a sovereign "who would do justice to all," at which observation he brandish ed his sword about his head in what was, tlottiitlcss, iclt to oe a significant manner. Then he ordered the drums to lieat, and cannons to lie fired, to give notice to the city of a changed dynasty. While this" was being done, one of the chiauses, or messengers, of the palace took heart of grace, and sud denly snatching up a carbine, shot the usurper dead at which action every body seemed to recover from their stu por," and the work of cutting his five accomplices to pieces, after the Last cm manner, at once commenced. Even Ah Bashaw, the new Dey, acknowl edged that if this audacious rebel had kept his seat but a few minutes longer, and until the cannon were fired, the government would have been subvert ed. Never was treason on such an humble scale so near a success. These six men were the sole conspirators, but the inaction of the surrounding sol diery (to whom they themselves be longed) is explained by their ignorance of the plot, and their fear of being supposed to be mixed up in it. As it was, the chief rebel was the shortest Dey on record a King for an hour. Chambers' Journal. Checked Baggage. A bachelor editor was traveling all alone by him self. His baggage consisted of but one extra shirt, and that one a blue checked one. The baggage man accosted him with : "Any baggage, sir?" "Yes, sir." "Let me see the checks." The editor cautiously unravelled the bundle, and holding up his shirt, asked the fellow if he could see the checks. An uinph ! in basso continuendo, and the expressman was gone. ; A merchant in Topeka recently 1 lost s450 in cash. As his wife and one of his clerks have not been seen since, he is apprehensive that they were murdered for the money. fJL'Iil OS I TIES or SL'IEXCE. poMPEY s pii.i.ar. mepintic gases iu expressed i y the This remarkable shall is situated inhabitants. They neither see nor im ftbout two miles from the southern agine any sanitary disturbance from gate of Alexandria, the famous cit v of such a source. Investigation shows Lower Kgypt, and once its capitol. It that the conlerva' is a vegetable grow t ii is composed of red irranite : the c:ui- actually modifying and iui ifviii" x- iai, ntitcii is nine leet lugli, is i orin thian, with palm h aves and not indent ed. The base, w hich is one solid block of marble, fifteen feet sipiaiv, rots on two layers of stone, bound together with lead. The shatt and the upjer momlicr of the base, are of one. piece of granite ninety feet long and nine feet in diameter. The whole column is one hundred and fourteen feet high. It is iK-rfectly well polished, and only a little shivered on the eatern side. Nothing can eqr.al the majesty of this monument, which, seen from a di? tance, overtops the town, and seem to le' a signal for vessels. Approach ing it nearer, Pompey's Pillar produces astonishment mixed with awe; and the lieauty of the capital, the length of the shaft, and the extraordinary simplicity of the jKilotal, excite the admiration of all travelers. THE NEPENTHES. One of the most sinirular produc tions of the vegetable world is fotirrd in f fie Monkey Cup, a tropical plant of the genus Nepenthes. This plant ha always excited the admiration of those w ho "have examined its structur with a view to the contri taee which it sostrC- kinirlv exhibited in the formation of its leaves. It is a native of India a herbaceous plant, with thick roots, and a simple stem crowned with flowers disposed in branches. The leaves are alternate, partly einbracinn the stem at their base, ami terminated by ten drils, each of which supports a deep membranoiis urn of an oblong shape, closed by a little valve like the lid of a box. This apjiendage to the leaf appears to be as designed and studied a piece of mechanism as anything we can meet w ithin Nature's mure com plicated productions. The leaf as we have already said, is terminated bv a deep, oblong urn ; this in general is filled with a sweet, limpid water. In I sidered a brain strcngthenor, while the the morning the lid is closed, but it latter keeps down glandular enlargo opens during the heat of the day, and ! ments, it is In-coming a popular dih. a portion of the water evaporates ; this j No matter what the inducement may is replenished In the night, and each ! l fish is excellent food and eminent morning the vessel is full and the lid shut. The plant grow s in a climate where the parched traveler is frequent ly in want of refreshment, and gladly avails himself of the watei'which this vegetable affords, each urn containing the measure of alxnit half a wine glass. The use of this plant is too evident to neetl any comnieit- It is one of the many instances in nature of the bounty of Providence, who has filled the urns of the Nepenthes with a treasure, of all others the most refreshing to the inhabitants of hot climates. Whatever is suiliciently singular to raise our admiration, frequently be comes the object of superstition : this is the case with the Nepenthes among the inhabitants of Madagascar, who Ijelieve that if they overturn one of these vessels of Avater, no rain Nvill fall on that day. MELON WINE. How true it is that it takes every body to know everything. Pumpkins -. f .tci.'i ioits watermel ons grow spontaneously in Arabia. Perhaps they develop more, richly there than in Persia, where they are extremely good. They abound in great plenty, im mensely beyond the demands of con sumers and the prudent lookers ahead cut a hole through the rind, while on the vine, down into the pulp. It is then closed with wax. Under a genial sun the core soon begins to melt away till it disappears, leaving the shell nearly full of a delicious fluid w hich is called mellon wine. Like the drink of the gods, it is not to lie compared w it li any Other beverage on earth, say the consumers. A hint here for an ex periment the coming season. MONSTER GRAPEVINE. A little way from Windsor Castle, tho ont-of-fowii residence of the I'ueen of Fndand and belonging to the royal domain, there is probably, if not the largest, the most prolific grapevine on the globe. In the first place, it is eighty-three, years old yet vigorous and thrifty as in youth. The trunk, large and rank, divides into two branches a few feet from the ground, j which are trailed in different direc- j tions for rods. One entire glass house j is given up to the protection of the veteran, which was reputed to have had fifteen thousand bunches, plump, j full and inviting, when Ave saw it in August. In green house chronicles j that vine is without a parallel. The ! annual yield is equal to a phalanx of ordinary vines iu their lest condition. STAGNANT AVATER. Thf. imitression that still water in pools and canals where there is j scarcely a movement, is ex m moi dangerous, and especially when cover ed with conferva-, admits of a ques tion. At the Hague, the capital of Holland, threaded with canals, m which no current is jiceptible, tliey arc so densely cai'ietcd with a thick Teen scum, strangers turn away from I them ill fe r, as though they were p. i- Terms, S2 per year, In advance. NUMHKR IK soiling the atmosphere. But no sueb : apprehension as bcini; l'-i-,r, ,i wit Ii h.-datious pasino; up through the deli cate covering. So much for fact. With us a green pool near a dwellii.g is de nounced as a iiuiance retpiiriug im mediate destruction lccauc it will generate disease. Skim oil" the purify ing conferva', and that which excite apprehension and disease from thr stagnant surface would soon work dis tentions ctlccls. j MAKKF.TAIU.F. tlsff. nu ii-, iimi uir in llie liorit -,orr after U ing taken from the hook or out of a net. When the fishermen have caught a freight, then they sell the lot on arrival at the wharf. Coiieipieiit ly the fr-h have Ken dead ser.il hours. Their decay is exceedingly f-lprd. So no one knows in btixijij- :i dinner whether thev are precisely froli or not. Ice water and ice keep up :i jH-arances long enough to sell oil" the day's stock. In Chinese markets fifi are swi'nt- iiiing alive in tanks, so a consumer makes a selection. That excellent cus- torn is In-ginning to le introduced in many Euroiean cities. Some attempts have been made here, but it is rathev troublesome, so fishmongers continue to consult their profit rather than the stomachs of their patrons. That is natural enough, and perhaps in such a variable range of tctnieratnre as we , have hereabouts, fish do not begin to decompose for a day or two, properly cared lor m shambles. Arabians ou the shores of the Red Sea are proverbial fish eaters, but few of them ever see one alive. As soon as caught the fishermen kill them for fear of violating a precept of Mahom cdanism, if brought alive to land. Cat tle are also fed on fish all along the coast, as they are in Iceland. On account of the phosphorns and iodine in a fish diet, the first being con- ly nutricious. i nose who suimist on it largely are healthy, strong, ener getic and active people. What says science to that ? USE OK COFFEE fklEKK IT tiRotCS. That little or no coffee is consumed in those far olf Eastern countries where it was first discovered, and from whence It has leen diffused over the habitable glole, is one of the curiosi ties of history. Throughout Yeman, the original home of the plant, coffee lierries are barely used at all. There is a prejudice against them as to heat ing. The native name is bunn. The fa vorite drink is prepared from husks j of the coll'ee bean, slightly roasted, and then pounded, or rather marked, ready for making a decoction. It has a tea ta'io, and rather grateful to the palate, under the term kischer. What an Old Man Has Xotickd. I have notir-od doit all men are honest whvu well watched. I have noticed that purses will hold pen nies as w ell as ponml. I have noticed that merit is always mea sured in the world by its success. I have noticed that in nearly all things money is the main objeat in view. I have noticed that in order to be a rea sonable creature it is necessary at times to be downright mad. I have noticed that some men are so honest that necessity compels them to be dishonest iu the end. I have noticed that silk, broadcloths and jew els arc often bought with other pcot lc's money. I have noticed that whatever is is right, with a few exceptions the left eye, the left leg. and the left side of a plum pudding. I have noticed that the prayer of every selfish man is "Forgive us our debts," i while he makes everybody who owes him j pay to the utmost farthing, j I have noticed that he who thinks every , n.an a rogi.e is y certain to seeone when j ilc i.;.avcs himself, and lie ought, in mercy j to his i.cigLKr, tosurreialer the rascal to justice. 1 have noticed that money is the fool's wisdom, the knave's reputation, the joor man's desire, the covetous man's ambition, j anJ tlie idol of all. I have noticed that all men speak well of men's virtues when they are dead, and that tombstones are marked with epitaphs of the " ood and virtuous. Is there any particular cemetery where the bad men are buried? A oe.nTI.emas in North Carolina built a fire in his house on his wedding day, twenty-five years ago, and has kept it burning night and day ever since, and declares his intention never to permit it to die out whilu he lives. Josn Billings gives the following ad vice to young men : "Don't be discouraged if ycr imibtaeh don't grow ; it sometime8 hapleiis where a iuustach duz the best njthiiig else duz bo well."'
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