Bub j. Oar Rnmmrr morning Raby rwr, . To lav nnon my ; 1 kissed her Httte ftwie, sod arid, "We have an wnH gaoat That Snmmer-time wis* glad and gajr With habv Uttfrh and glre; The dearest thing in all the work! My darling war to me. Bnt when the friwit-wtaiilatoiichad the flrtwrer*. Uke them rhe drooped away, And died within iny inkling rtu One aad, sad Autumn day. We made her httle narrow grave Clone hv the garden-wall— It aermed that some time ahe would wake. And for her mother rail. I planted rone and briefly Reside her grave in Spring, And robin* nestled there, and learned Their little oner t ring. It i* a aaered rpot to me. That grata no green ami low; Ah I Heaven cannot be fcr away From Baby's grave, I know. Trouble at Twenty. IXxo this seem strange to yon, my own boat Iriend. That I. who yesterdsv gave back like one Too snrelv lapsing to the straggle V eml, YWdav -sti draw down rapture from the snn, A ltd drink the biasing Woe above iv head, • And flit my sight upon tlie tfcfck-riogsd hills. Till their' sniu-cntcty-slrcngthciMus U sutv fills My heart and strike* a spring into my trvad f Mv youth baa risen np in me tike a sea. To swell above the fainting want of him Whose fkee and life and hive are far Irian me ; Am' on this sea a short swift while I swim : I loft hi* picture un-hroucht-furth to-day, The better to har ont the I dank of lift" Without hun yielding youth an evencr strife With sorrow ; and casual victory by the way Has come to wath. This thiag but feebly comes. This, strength to cast aside the kuawing pain; For swift and sudden • burning chorus hums. Aad whelm* the short resistsiH-e of mv brain ; Aad off I rush, and set the trembling key Within the kick, and snatch the picture onl. And drink the light the features shed about, And hug the banished pain again to me. You sec me now with rapid feet, and eyes That take the sun's broad laugh and laugh it hack; _ But all too soon the weakness will arise Weak a ~-h to strike anew the toilaocn, track : The da nee will tly my feet, the light will fall Out ct my eyes, and I shall fetch in haste His fsee ouce more, and hold the pain em braced The precious pin. the worst, beat thins of *h. M.XETTE, THE QUEEN OF THE RING. The manager bad tendered the services cat the company for a benefit to a hospital which needed hunk, and there was every prospect hi a fashionable, as well as a crowded house. Ninette, our equestrian queen, had entered more fully into the spirit of the scene than any of us, although we were all more than anxious to make thr* affair a great suecws. How I loved Ninette! So oddly, too, that sometimes my own love almost be wildered me; Its persistency having no hope in it, yet its hopelessness having no dcspur. It was a love that never was moved by her indifference or acorn, and never weakened by her coutemnt. She was proud of her own beauty awl of her power over us all, and she never attempted to hide this—never domineering over the female performers, who were all older and plainer than herself, but domineering roost despotically over every male performer in the cirrus. But she did it so prettily and bewitch iugly that I was not the only one who had laid his love at her feet to be trampled 011 at her giriish pleasure. I had but poor health then, and this was one source of Ninette's merry sarcasm. We moved into the dimly-lighted build ing which surrounded the tent, and looked in at the performance. 44 The circus is crowded," Ninette whis- Eed, as she sauntered out with me. 44 1 dly eTcr rcnicnibei our having such a crowd, Ricardo." "And 1 hope we never shall have R again," 1 panted, unbuttoning my coat. "The place is stifling." "Oh, I hope we shall," she laughed, merrily; " I should like to see hundreds turned away from the doors, ami no room left inside even for one child more." I went into the ring amid the deafening applause of the crowd, ami, bowing slightly, walked coolly across the ring. 1 thought nothing of the mass of faces rising in rows, but 1 remembered that Ninette could see me. and that she had said I was helping in a good cause. I felt that I had performed as 1 bad hardly ever performed before, ami the long applause was again and again renewed as I left the ring. What would Ninette say ? Would she congratulate me ? Passing through the dimly-ligbted building outside the tent, where the horses waited, I caught sight of two figure* stand ing aside in the shadow—Ninette and a gentleman, an army officer wham 1 had met that morning—talking low and ear nestly. I h|d often noticed him in the circus, and noticed his evident admiration of Ninette, still I had never seen him out there among us before, and I started as I came op to them in the gloom. Ninette carelessly turned her eyes upon me for a moment, then went on talking; coquet tish ly am! flippantly it seemed to me. I took her horse from the man who wa bringing It forward, and myself led it toward bar. " Are you rewdy, Mile. Ninette V I asked, my voice trembling against my will. "Ready? Why?" she inquired, with slow contempt. "Allow me. O, [way allow me, Made • moiselle," exclaimed the stranger, starting forward. And Ninette, smiling, put her foot into his hand. Seating herself in the saddle with the utmost ease, she carelessly, as it seemed, backed Black Hawk against me. " Signor Ricardo," she said, haughtily, 44 Is this the spot where the gentlemen of our company ' usually rest between their exercises in the ring T* An ironical answer rase to ay lips, but I withheld the words. 41 Stand bark, if you please, Signor. Must you always follow me 1 always haunt me ? Stand back." With a quick change of voire and a bright shy smile, she bent to take her little gilded whip as the officer handed it to her. j '■ Thanks, Monsieur le Capitainc." Ami while she bent gracefully, and seemed to be only stroking the neck of the splendid black horse, she reined him in, skillfully 1 ami imperceptibly, until he touched my : shoulder. 1 turned away without answering; and for the first time Ninette performed with- j out tny eyes following her graceful motions. <Tbe strange gentleman moved to the open ing into the tent, but when she rode bark, flushed and triumphant after her success, *be came forward again eagerly. She drew up her lissome little figure with a dash of odd pride, and turning Black Hawk rapidlv asidc, sprang to the ground unassisted. Her part was played for that night, and, while the loud clapping within was con tinued, she walked slowly out into the darkness; her long ctimson habit over her arm, her little cap pushed from ber bright, I excited face, and her eyes raised to the young officer who walked beside her. After that, all is a burning confusion in my brain until one evening when I awoke to consciousness in the hospital for which I had been performing, and heard the physi cians (who had seen roe fall, and had at tended pityingly upon me ever since) whis per that all would be well in time. 4 Ricardo, dear fellow," said the manager, coming forward softly, and bending to whisper to me, " Tbank God all will be well. The worst is over." I hardly know when the knowledge dawned upon me, or how; but as I lay there—my old companions clustering round me—l knew that 1 bad performed among them for the last time. I knew that life had most wonderfully and mercifully-been spared me; but that I should never walk again. Ido not remember tb-t the knowl edge came with any sharp or bitter pain ; 1 think it was a quiet, hopeless conviction from the first. Ttioy had given me a small room in the hospital to myself; partly to spare others the sight of my suffering; partly, perhaps, because I had hurt myself in their cause. So the days and nights passed on; and slowly, slowly brought me a little ease at last. One morning Monsieur, entering my room with a brighter lace than usual, told me Ninette had come to see me. I fell the blood rush into ray wan face as 1 took - her little warm hand in both my own. " Oh! you are so much better, Ricardo," she said, her small lips trembling a little as she looked at me. "We shall soon have you back in your place among us." 1 shook my head slowly. "Never again, Ninette." " Why?" she asked in feigned asto/h --ment. FRED. KURTZ, Editor and Proprietor. VOL. IV. " I ahall never walk again anywhere, I think, Ninette; certainly not w the vitiiat ing wire. I know I must he a -be iame all niv lift?; and I'm trying, aa 1 lie here, to gel accustomed to* the* thought, and to feel preralrd.* "No I no!" ahe cried, ouickly. " Dont try to get aecu-t timed to it, Rieardo. Tiy to think of getting well, and that w ill help you to do *o'' "Will it f Then I will try,'" 1 answered, struggling with my sadness. " When lo you leave here V ''Leave here t 0, I don't know. Not till you ate well, I should think. Why, Rieardo," -he added, as I Mailed incredu lously. "dont you know that to-uight we are all going to neribtni for your benefit / You've not heard, you say f Why, what has Monsieur found to talk to veu about, then, for be talks to me of uotluug else t I wish I could have Ivrought you one of the enormous bills, headed ' Rieardo'a Benefit,' in letters a- large aut myself. You always were loud of reading your own name in the bills, weren't you P f '• Yes—with yours," I answered, intently watching the bright lace. " Well, you would have seen mine, too, to-day, iu letters almost larger, for I'm going to—ride." " Of course," I answered, with a taint smilo, while 1 wondered a little at the sudden change in her voice. " What audi ence would there be if you did not, Ni nette ?" 44 None," she laughed. " You must wish me Miccro* before Igo away. But here's Monsieur cwue to di*mi*s me. I've been telling Signor Ricardo," she added, as the manager joined us, 44 various particulars of his benefit. How very willing we all give our service*, llow all the town is patron izing us." " And did she tell you," asked Mou situr, with a pleased and excited look, •'haw 1 offered to double the price of admjssion if anyone would promise a nov elty f and how she herself immediately proposed to perform her Moorish feat f I'll show you one of the handbills. Here it k: "Mile. Ninette, the equestrian tiueen, on ber magnificent steed Blurt /fori, will 44 0, no, no! yon most not let her," 1 exclaimed, in hasty bar. 44 Oh! Monsieur, it is most rash and dangerous." Monsieur smiled as he put the handbill hack into his pocket, and Ninette arose with a vexes! glance across at him. " I)o forbid her to do this," 1 cried again. "Mile. Ninette is such a superb boree woman," the manager said, "that if she feels she can accomplish it safely ami bril liantly, I feel it too. And it will make to-night's performance an unrivaled success. She has done it before, you know; and a gorgeous and unprecedented triumph it was." 44 It is a willful risking of life," I faltered, the tears starting in my weakness. 44 1 shall be miserable." " I shall not," laughed Monsieur, rising. 44 1 have too much confidence in Ninette." " Don't thiuk about it at all, RiclWo," Ninette said, giving me her hand as she prepared to leave. " I should never have told you myself because I know how invalids worry themselves about the safest and most trilling things. I have tn ado up my mind to do it, and Black Hawk under stands that same entirely." "Oh! do not venture it, Ninette," I whispered, ap|>caiing to her in bittemear nektnes*. '• Say yon will not." 44 No—for 1 must," she answered, laugh ing lightly, though she spoke with odd, steady quietness. Then I covered my eyes with my feeble hands, and let t he tears flow on. " I shall come in and see you before the per form once," Ninette *aiii, after a little dismal pause. " Will von, Ninette V I asked eagerlv, as 1 battled with my cowardice. "Will yon come in just as you go 7" "I hardly know about that," she an swered, with a quaint, shy smile. Monsieur bad left the room then, and Ninette was standing opposite me, about to follow him. "Ninette," I said, slowly, as I feasted my eyes on ber sweet face, "when I saw you first you wore an old black habit, quite rusty, I remember; ami yon had a hat in your band, with a long scarlet plume almost touching the ground. And how ever I have seen you since, yon have al ways been to me as you were that day— and you always will be, dear." "I remember that old velvet habit," she laughed "It Is a superanuated aiticlc now ; and—what did you think of me then, Ricardo /" "Just what I think now." She laughed again, but her step wa soft and lingering when she left me. Until evening I lay and thought of ber ; picturing the beautiful little figure that would come to me iu its gorgeous theatri cal drw. The twilight glided slowly in to my silent room, and then I lay and lis tened breathlessly, for I knew she mast come soon now. Yet so noiselessly she entered at last that even my waiting ears could scarcely catch the light step. With out a word she shut the door behind her. Then she stood looking at mc; her red lips parted with an irrepressible smile, and her ayes brimming over with fun. But she vt< clad in no gay, unusual dress ; she stood there holding up in one hand the old black habit; from the other dangled the little hat with its scarlet plume; and her head was only crowned with its bright, fair curls. "Ninette," I said, breaking my wonder ing silence, "seeing you so, I feel as if, through all the years that I lie helpless. I could dream that you have been to me all that I wildly dreamed you might be when I saw you so for the first time. Thank you for coming a* you are; but you will have to change your dress again, you ride in such a different costume." The color rushed to her check*, and her eyes grew hot and dark. " Yes, very different; but cannot you think of me always a* you see me now, Jtieardo—as you saw me first 7 The peo ple are passing the hospital gates in crowds" she went on turning and looking through the window ; I expect a fuller house than we ever had in England. It is for your sake, Signor." " I wish I thought so,"I said very earn estly ; " I wish I did not know they go to .see your wild and daring leap, Ninette. How terrible it will lie to witness—for those who love you ! " She laughed a low, quick laugh, but did not turn to me. You are.thinking of Captain Attendant, I dare say, Ricardo 1 But you need not, for 1 have never spoken to him since the night you—fell; and 1 never shall again." ■A wild, proud joy sprang up in my heart. " Ninette," f cried, "my darling, turn your face to me. I am so hdpless here, and shall so soon lose the face 1 love. Come to me for these few precious momenta" Verv gently she came up to me, and laid her cool hand on my forehead. She bent ber head, and as I laid my weak fingers on the soft curls, one deep sob shook the little kneeling figure, but when she rose her eyes were very bnght behind their glistening lashes. She did not say a word of farewell to me. With a strange, brave, struggling smile, which would have vanished with a word, she hes itated a moment; her checks flushing, and her lips wistful Then quite suddenly, with just the slight gesture with which she acknowledged the plaudits of the crowd, she left me. 1 lay and listened as the carriages rolled past the infirmary gates; and presently, across the river, 1 could hear our own bami strike up merrily. I could follow in fancy the whole performance as I lay with the programme before me, and the well-known airs to guide me. At last, with a quicken ed beating ' of my heart, 1 felt that the time was come for Niuette's appearance. THE CENTRE REPORTER I knew the very tune with which thelunid j would greet her. Ah ! there it was ; but j drowned almost in a loud prolonged applause Then—knowing he wa* perbmning I lay there quivering tu every limb. It was just as one of the h*|<ital physi cian* and a nurse came Into my nann that a great shout nee on the other side of the river, and rolled joyously across to me. My blood burned in my veins, "That is to greet her alter her leap," 1 said, -|*-akiug aloud and rapidly in my iti i ten -e relief. "Thank tlod; it V* over." '* I, too, am glad it is over," said the phyaiclau gravely; "such a feat should never have been attempted." " And yet every one lias gone to sec it," I ntisw<Avd, |<assionately, as the nurse turn ed my (lillow. " Why did they eucourage her f" "Such thing* would lie done in any case," he answered, "at least we Judge an; though |a<rha|is ar do not try it ; lor cer taiuly every on* has gone to sec this leap to night; all our own household, lik-every one else's. Yet how can'we help disap proving such a dangerous act, pcrfimned too by a young and beautiful girl, w hose lite must be one long temptation to display —if to uothiug worse I " " Listen!" 1 cried, in sudden terror, pushing away the nurse, and starting up with panting breath. •' Bid the band stop then—suddenly 1 Hark! it i* all silent." I rvmember faltering incoherent appeals to Weaken to the circus; and 1 remem ber Bow they tried to soothe ue, laying me back upon the bed. ami diawing down the bliud before my wild aud staring eyes. Rut in that hush ai;n*s the river I knew that I bad had tuy death blow. They brought me no tidings lor days. They kept mo in darkness nil bin and without. But when at last my braiu was calm a-raiu, and my eyes had lust their rest less fever, they told roe some few pai ticu lars of that fearful night. Ninette had performed her dauntless feat with dauntless success. While she stood daiutily upon his neck, Black liawk took his leap smoothly and safely. But the astonished crowd had not been satis fied with this; with a persistent cry they had summoned ber again ; and summoned her m mv name. "As the seat* for to-night have been taken at double pricw," she had said laugh ingly, to Monsieur, " 1 owe the audit-nee a double appearance." Ami so she had ridden in again tri umphantly, and springing lightlv upon the neck of her home, had prepared again for her wonderful leap. , Then came the hush—though no one ever cuuid tell me exactly how it had oc curred; seme saying Ninette was unusu ally excited by her brilliant leaf ; and some that she was tired. She fill—fell with a light, sudden fall, which would not hare hurt her, perhaps, but that her tern pie struck the boards which separated the front row of spectators from the ring. Thank God that there had l>eeii n •strug gle ! There was one deep red stain upon the soft, fair curl*; but no anguish on the young dead face when they lifted it *0 gently. In the rare, sweet dream* which visit me as I lie here, I always see Ninette just a> I saw her first--just as I saw her last. And when 1 awake, I am almost glad to see, in the faces round me, that the tune is drawing very ueir when I shall see her once again— London Society. The Power of Lightning. The concentration of power iu a stroke of lightning, acting through nu incon ceivably small interval of time, may jKr luips be realized after examining it* work of destruction, yet it* inductive action on the earth'a surface is not less wonder ful. Prof. A. M. Mayer made ah ex periment, some time since, which de monstrated the extent of thi* action. |He connected the wire-of a galvanometer with the water-pipes of Baltimore. Md., and joined the other end of the coil to a gas-pipe of a boose in the south-western j jwrt of the city. Thus a vast metallic i system of electric nerve* stretched three mile* towards the north-west, to the I reservoir, and about as many railed to the cast and south-east, over the eity. A thunder-storm was raging at the time in the north, at so great a distance that only the illuminations of the rlotid* told when a flash occurred. Yet whenever that flash took [dace, the needle of the galvanometer was instantly deflected through ten or twenty degrees. S.v nc irly simultaneous were the two occur rences fluit no difference in the instant of their manifestation could lie detected. Shutting himself up in a dark room containing the galvanometer, he signaled, wlicn the needle moved, to an observer of the storm, who also gave n signal whenever a flash occurred ; and the ex change of signals was always found to be simultaneous. It was ascertained on the following day that the storm was more than twelve miles distant, thus showing tliat over 500 square miles of earth's surface was effected at each flash of the lightning. 44 Llttle Hoy." I was much touched says a correspond ent writing for the ruins of lYshtigo with the story of Joseph Lasne. lie was a fanner iu the Bush, with a wife and five children. They had fought to the last, and left only when the flnincs flash ed clean over their building. Lasure carried his three-year old boy, and his wife a fcabe. All kept together, with the flames striking them at every *toi>, for 30 rexls. The wife could go no fartli er, and dropped with her stifled balie in her arms. The father had now to drop his little three-year old, who was picked ni> in turn by the elder boy of thirteen. 'Die brave boy carried the little fellow for nearly a quarter of a mile, when both sank down together. Little Floy, nine years old, and their only girl, stood it the smartest of all, and kept ahead of her father for half a mile, cheering him on with bravo words, when nil tlic rest had perished. She hail now to pass over burning grass, when her dress wns en veloped in flames. "Oh, if I could 01.lv have saved that girl!" said tho grief choked father, anil his story was ended. A young lad, next neighbor to Lasure, who was sived, had mueh to tell of little Floy. Hhe was the smartest scholar at school. Hhe read finely,in the sth read er, and could spell down all tho scholars She was small of size, exceedingly bright, beautiful, active and sweet tempered. All the living in Sugar Bush will rcmcm l r long and speak tenderly of the little heroine. IJusiNKKsis Paws.—lnvestigations re cently made by such adherent* of the Commune as txxrkroy, Allnin, Targe, Murat, Bonvalet, ami others, who are memliers of the present Municipal Coun cil of Paris, show that while the business of restaurateurs, shoemakers, tailors, and many other tradespeople yet feels the effects of the siege in diminished receipts, the occupation of milliners and makers of artificial flowers is utilise remunerative and prosperous as ever it was. These two tradix are prosecuted exclusively by women, a (act which, coupled with the fuct that they exist exclusively for wo men, may to somo extent explain their E resent well-being. Attempts were made y other countries during tho war to compete with France in the manufacture of flowers, but they were without success. A PETITION has been sent to the Presi dent from the citizens of Arizona asking him to allow Gen. Cook to puisne the Apache campaign uninterrupted by Peace Commissioners. CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., I'A., Fill!> The Everglade* of Florida. Tlu Evergladca art" just a submerged pruirio, and (hey exhibit the manner tti which tint great Wiatitrn prairie" were formed. !>rttiu the Kwrgtmlim, (it could l*e done,) niid the present i-damla would be lull*. Submerge a prairie, and its hills would become island*. No tree it found on the Evergladca, Woanae they are eouvhuitly covered with water; 110 tree* are found on the prairie*. I >eon use they went loug covered with water. Time will come when this vast plain will lie clear of water, and then we shall hate a large surface, like the prairies, clear of tn-ca, and tlttitd for cultivation by man. iu these little Everglade island.* the )KUUI flourished, and also the orange and every other tree of Florida. The eastcr-oii plant grow* up to be n large tree of several years' lifts. The arrow root and sweet-potato patches mi rely re quire that stirring of tuc ground u.-oes sary in removing the full-grown roots to cause the younger ones to grow and keep on growing. It is n<a!ly not necessary to plant uwrr than once. It is a laay utau's paradise. No wonder the Indians wen* unwilling to move to tin* Wat ; it was uot tin* graves of their father* th* > were uuwilluig to leave, it was their potato and pumpkin patches. Their pumykiu is small, roundaud sweet ; they cut it open, put iu a raccoon <>r opossum, cover it with ashes aud bake it in the fire. The lniutcrs think it a superb dish. Another plan is to take a fish ju*t off the hook, and without sealing or cleaning, wrap it up iu gn*eti leaves aud bake it iu the tame way. Hunter* use a wet newspaper. It is done when, if you tear a piece of the wrapping, the skin and M ales oouie off with it. You tear off skin and wrapping trom one side, and eat the flesh, turn it over aud -at the other, and throw bones aud inside away. Indians iu small number* arc still found near the Everglade*. They do not like the whites, ure not sociable, but there is a talisman that will move thciu out of stoicism into cordiality, then* is a sesame that will O|H>U an Indian's heart and mouth, uud that is whisky. They are the only savages who have never invented an intoxicating liquor ol their own. Th. ir only i!n of civilisa tion is to get drunk. Hide into their own country, put up with a Chief, give him whisky uud promise him more, uftd he and his are at your service so loug its your whisky lasts. What Men have Wed for. Colonel Montgomery was shot in a duel about a d<>£; Colonel itnnaer iu one id suit u servant ; M r . I'Vatlu rstono lit <>ue about a recruit : Storm 's father in on* aUuit a goose ; and another geiitle mail in one about all aore ul aurhoxicx ; on" officer was challenged for merely aaking kin op|M>uciit to enjoy tlie aiviiil goblet ; tuitl another wan compelled to tight nlwut*!! pinch of snuff; ISenerul I tarry was challenged bv a Caption Smith for declining wine at dinner on a steam boat, although the General bad pleaded iu Ul cxeiMtlut vine invariably made him kirk; ami Lieutenant Cowllicr lout his life iu a duel Imiim' In- wan rcfuootl ulmittnttee to a rlub of ptgtoti tboultm. In 1777 a dud ooeurred-iu New York city, lk-twii-H Lieutenant F<utlieratooe liatigh, of tin- 7<Uh, ami Captain Alel'hcr -on, of the 4'i.l British regiment, in re gard to the manner of eating an mr of corn, one contending that the licit fat ing was from the cob and the other that the grain should !*• cut off fn>m th * cob In-fore eating. Lieutenant Fealhcrstoiie hAugh lo*t his right arm. the lull from his Riitiigouiat'a pistol shattering the litilb dreadfiiHy, ao niilrh so that it had tola- ampiitaUsl. (iraliam, Major Nnuh'a assistant editor on tin- National Advocate, lost his life in 1K27, at the iluclling ground at Hotmkcn, with lkirton, the aon in-law of Kdwasd lavingston, in a simple dispute id* nit "what was trumjsT' in a ptmo of cards. How THKY Fixrn HlM—Albany start CMI a jMvuli.ir kind of a relief fund a fin days since, and tho reeeilrt of which in likely to afford any tlnnp imt satisfac tion to tho recipient. It appears Uiut a gentleman was rii|iiwtol to contribute something to the Chicago fund. At And he called the fund s swindle and then gave ten dollars. The exclamation was merely a ltsslr one, and the gentle man evidently .InJong* to that class of person* who always grumble, although possessed of the kiudest intentions But mark his punishment. His lrnrd criti cism was made public by an evening journal, and penny contributions wca i railed for to reimburse him in his un willing outlay. Tlu- result was that lennies came pouring in from all parts of the city, county nnd state. As soon as the thousandth penny was received the whole sum was put up iu a package and sent to the gcutlemnn's office. Worse punishment is rarely inflicted for a hasty word. HKS.H IN FUCK OR Dons,—There is hardly a family that does not throw away enough table scru|tft to keep nt h ast a down lieus ; and many that keep a nuisance iu the sliApc of a dog, that does no good, but cost* more than a dozen good hens. One dog in a neigh borhood is generally a greater trouble to the ncighl>on< than a flock of hens would ho; for if hens are well feed at home, they will rarely go uwny. But who ever saw a dog that was not a j**st, run ning across the newly made garden, and sticking his nose into everything. Kill off curs and give the food to the liens,and you will And pleasure as well ns profit in so doing. Wc wish there was e tax of 8100 on every dog kept in the country. These that are of value ns watch dogs, could IKS retained, while the host of snarling, dirty curs would givcidaoe to some more useful nnd less troublesome pet. Br AM, MRJUU.—A shrewish wife, unite sick, culled her husband to come and sit by her bed-side. "Thisisn sad world, my dear," said the wife, plaintively. "Very coincided the man. " Were it not for leaving you I should love to quit it." "Oh, k iny dear," eagerly reanonded the fellow, "how can yon think I wouhl interfere with your happiness! Go by all means." The lady got well How THEY I>ii> rr.—There are more ways than one of resenting an insult. Several Prussian officers in full uniform were present at a concert in AmHterdain. not long ago. The musicians struck up " Die Waelit tm Hhein," when the audience t><>k it iuto their heuds to hiss. The bund in order to allay the tumult, glided into the Dutch national air. At the fir*t strains the Prussian officers un eovered their heads, rose and stood dur ing the remainder of the piece. It is significant to learn that, in con sequence of the famine prevailing in Persia, the exportation of dates from tluit country ha* been prohibited by the authorities. In England alone wo an nually receive from 12,000 to 15,000 tons of these dates, which are consumed with considerable appreciation by the chil dren of the {K>or. — The Grocer. After the great tire iu London, iu 1060, Parliament enacted that every house should be built with independent walls, aud all iu front raised to equal height, and those, walls should be of stone or brick, aud that uo muu should delay be yond seven years. Mi one lu a California Rambling House. " A tu uncut, if von phase," quietly remarked an almost beardless desperado. Covering bis pile with a llrui baud, aud filing dangerous eyes on the burly deal er of iiionb' wboui bo mlilnsmw: "you can stop there." •• Well, air." " Well, excuse me, but I think you drew two cards." " I la'line not. I'll take your pile if you please the kerwajo takes it. " rwo-canls!" Your money!" Ami in each rase the words were ac companied by a quick and quiet move ment which disclose* a revolver. With the apjiearaueoof these two new disput ant-*, poinded, curt, of brief but sharp agd downright speech-there i*quick bnt fluMleasstir uiuoug the spectators around the table. In a moment a clear space is formed, in the tuidst of a still circle of (lushing eyes, compressed li(is and clench cl hand-." Y'ou may count twenty d liltcrtiUdy en? you hear a breath or **• the slightest movement. " Well, air " " Well ! " " Your money! " '■ Your earth?!" L'p at? i?s u bystander—some cool, .-toady Wetonui, ex|M*rt in the game uud versed tu the law of difficulties—u man of awful nerve, wluar tynqiaiium, n?t-tu touii'd to the crack, no pistol shot aWnis " Oentlcnicn," nays lu>, " try arbitra tion first." Another ipiick change of euontring uud responsive glances between the dis putants. Not * word, but the eyes of each plainly *>av "agreed." llotli throw them selves brvk in their chairs aud withdraw their huuila from the table, with tlx- air of nteu inviting examination, aud rr*s olute to abide the result. The veternn call* up two brothers of the Green Cloth coin | a*tent to act as umpire ; and three minutes, fnuight with mortal .lauger, an* |maaed in deliberately oouuting the cards na they lie on the cloth, aud nam ing them slowly—like the tolling of a boll, or the measured pronunciation of a d. ath scut once. Except that there has ln*cu uo nuim* but tbe itiwultaitoou* click ing of two pistol locks. Tbe dealer and his young r.s-o-ri* are seemingly iiucon eertietl for the event " You are wrong, uiv friend," savs Veteran. "No cunt w:v*> drawn here. Mistakes will hapiM-u to the mat careful gentle men." Front that derision then- is no appeal. Hi finger on the trigger after that would have cost the young fellow ni* life. So pistols go back to their resting phtees, hands an- shaken wnas the table, drink- for the company at the expeitac of tlie " btK-ker"—U be who plays agaimt the lunk i* called and fhe gnrne proceed* with n b -t'.i-j understanding. Ilistorj of the Cent. The old red cent is rapidly juasiug away out of the Ultitod States currency, aud it w ill not 1- long before it will only 1h- know u iu memory aud numismatic collection*. Its history is a matter, of sufficient interest for pn-si-rv.ition. The cent was first pn ptwnd by ItoU-rt Morris the great flmuieicr of the revolution, and was named by Jefferson two year* af tcr. It Is-gwtt to make ila appearance from the mint in 171)2. It lain- Uic head of Washington ou one siij- mid thirteen links oti the other. The French n-vo lutiou soon created a rage for Fn-neh ideas, which put on the cent, instead of the bead of Washington. the bend of the (OHldeas of Liberty—n Freneb Liberty, with flowing locks. The chain on tin reverse wusu-placcd ly the olive wreatli of peace. Put the French Lilx-rlv was abort-lived, and an was her |>ortrait on tlu- cent. The next head or figure stic ecssling this- the staid elaasie dame with a fllht a round her Iwir-eanie into fnidiion alHiut thirty or forty years ago, au 1 her fiuely chiseled Grecian feu tares have lawn but slightly altered in the lapee of time. TK Comer. Enckc'a great comet, which make* n tour to the region of the sun once in Miami three year* and at quarter, is now on it* way thither, and w ill reach the jtcrihilicu some time in January. It will very soon come within the ken of the astronomer*, but person* who have only their eyes to see with will not have the pleasure of Is-holding the erratic visitor. It " rounds " the siui at a di*tunee of thirty-two million mile* and then darts off into space, and liefore it turns to roan- back reaches a |>oint of thn-e hundred aiql thirty-seven million mile* from that luminary. This comet is an olip-c! of eij-msl intere*t to schol ar*. owing to the fact that the pericsl of it* revolution is gradually diminishing. Tlii* is supposed to prove that the re gions of apace are filled with a material either capable of retarding the motion of solid bodies, the ultimate effect of which will lie to destroy th centrifugal force of the planet* and allow them grnd unlly and imjierccptibly to glide into tlie ami. It will take a long time for the earth to rt-.u-h that destination, but Eneke's comet periodically reminds n that such is it* final doom. A Voirr FTIOM I'TAH.—The chnraeb-r of the petition from Utah, TiO ftn-t long, and signed by ulmnt 2,5tXl women of that Territory, luis lnen unintentionally misstated. Listeml of being aguinst polygamy, it is in favor of that institu tion, and was sent to the Executive Man sion at Washington by Delegate Hooper. The petitioners sav that their hnsband* fntlu r, sons, and brothers, are new be ing exposed to the murderous policy of a clique of Federal officers intent on the destruction of an honest, happy, industri ous, and prosperous people, aud thev therefore ask tor the removal of the Fed eral disturbers of the jieacc, or at least to stop the disgraceful court proceedings, or send candid and trustworthy men to Utah to investigate the question of the coiiHlitiitioiiul righti and lils-rty of the people. The |N-titionera express their ap probation of jHilygamv. asserting that it was sanctioned by Christ's teachings, aud that the institution is licing i>er vcrted by Federal oflloera. A NOVKI, GARDEN. —The young King of Bavaria Ims an immense garden on the roof of his palace at Munich which is naiil to rival the celebrated hanging gardens of Scmiraniis. In the center of it then' is a lake with fishes and swans swimming in it, and (his is surrounded by woods in which there are various animals and birds, and also rock-work and grottoes. The rocks hod to lie hol lowed out before transporting them to the roof, the !letter to enable the build ing to Isar their weight. There is in the center of the garden a sort of tent or pavilion of great magnificence, which no one but the King ever enters. The apartments under the palace roof were formerly occupied by the ltulics of honor, but they have 1 won converted into B tallies, because too much time was re quired to hoist hones to the roof when ever the King wished to ride or drive through this fairy-like resort. THE cost of the war in Cuba during the past year has been $62,000,000, and the Colonial deficit for the year amounts to #11,000,000. The Spanish Govern ment asks for a credit of $20,000,000 for military purposes. Miss Carrie Monfort, of Boston, known as tlut "Pat Girl," recently died of dis eased) f the heart. Bhe was uino years •Id,"and weighed nearly four hundred pounds. AY, NOV EM HER 1 In the Flaw*. There ia a melancholy interest attach ed to the incident* of the flrua in the Northwest. A eorespoi:dout who Was ;at i'osliligo when that village waa liurn ed say* ; The sharp air of ottrlv Ooto lier hud aent the (ample in from lite even ing ehureh aervieea more promptly than usual, although numbers delayed h, speculate on a great noise ami ado which set iii ominously from the wrest The housewives I,Hiked tremblingly at the lire# and lights within and the m*u took a hist look at the (MMsihilitiefl without ; for mtpiy it was truly a laat glimpse, 'l'he noise grew in volume, and nunc nanrer uud nearer wilh terrific crackling and detonations. The forest rocked ami tossed tiimultitnnvlv ; a dire alum fell ui>on the imprisoned village, for Ihe swirling blast* cam > down from every aide. In one awful instant, lief ore ex-' |M*-tation could give share to the horror, a great flauic shot up in the western heaven*. and in eotiiiUea* fiery tongue* struck downward into tlie village, piert*- ing every objest that sbmtl in the town i like ar, <l-!i<,t bolt. A deafening roar, iuirigle.l with blasts of electric flame, filled the air and paralysed every aonl in the (dace. There was no beginning to the work of ruin ; the flaming whirl wind swirled in an instant through the to vn. Moved by a common* instinct, for all knew that the woods that encircled the town were iiu(a'ueUwble, every itabita tiou was d©-cried to the flames, and the gasj ing multitude flocked to the river. Tfin-e bttndml people wr-dgvd them selves in Iwtweeii the rolling booms, swayed to and fro by the current, * la-re they roaat.d in the hot breath of flame that hovered nlwwre them, and singed the hair on eorh heail momentarily ex jxmc.l aliove the water. Here des^wir ing men and women held their children till the cold water came a* an ally to the fl.iiii.w, and deprive! them of strength The wretched throng neck deep in the water, and the still more hapless beings stretched on the heated mtiids, were piem-d and blistered by tlie*e bunting , particle*. They seemed like lancet* of red-hot steel, ja dfinding the thickest covering. Long after Utc flames had died out, when then- ws no more to feed on, the hot saml* rendered moving slsmt an exquisite torture, ami long into the dis iii.d midday the anrvivorw were confined to the narrow circuit near the river. As the dav won- on, help conn- in slowly from the northward. Several railroad mings had iwiipil annihilation, and one gang, led by an ex-priae-figbtor nomad Mulligan, came with promptness and .-fficiency totlie rva-or through miles of burning prairie and blockaded roods. When the work of rescue ls-gan it was found tluit a great numtier had (wspxl by the lied of the river aud the northern road to the port, aud, as the day ad vnnod, hulf-nakixl straggler*, unkempt and blackened, liegwn to stream into the -parse settli-ment. A* the molten muds IBook 1 off. tlie wofii! work of rorognition , U-gitn. P<x ring into blackened facrw, i mothers, fathera, brothers tr mbliugly sought out missiug OIH*. Some, in the imnM -euirealle anguish of Uie moment, had dashed themselves : against the sands and 1< t ont the life with their own hands that the licking flame* covwtad. Men, too distant from tlie river to hope for rescue or safety, ha<l cut the tlinwl* of tiieir choking children, and were found in groups sometimes uncwrred by the flom<-w. In the Ktnet*, fall twenty corpse were found with no np|iarcnt injure or abra sion. Fatuous tnde*mtui, in the sudden 1 nodi of fi.rtne, ha.l thrown their valuables into wr-lls for security ; every well in 1 the rity was turui-d into a flaming pit, | and the scry waters half evni*rnUxl by the heat. Survivor* attest that women and children, cut off from the river*. ] were put into well* and covered with Iw-dding. 1 linve looked into everv Well in the ash covered Hiwrinr, ami then- i* no possibility that a living thing could have eudunHl the flames that boiled and seethed in tli cm. Hon Hut Iron Ma; br Handled. Mono. I. Fontelle. President do In Sociote des Peicnccs Physi<inei et Chi- i miqnes do Paris, Ac., has leH the follow-1 ing on nxxtrd ; " About tlie year 18lW one Laonetto, a Spaniard, astouiohed not < only the ignon nt, but chemists and i other men of science, iu France, Ger- j many. Italy and England, by the impuni-1 ty with which he handled rwl-hot irtm j and nvtlton le.wl. dmnk boiling nil, and i performed other feats equally mini-! cttloua. While lie wn* nt Naplc-s ho: i attracted tlie notice of Professor Somen-' torn, who narrowly watcheil all o|>erationa ( and eadoovorod to discover his secret. | He olaicrved in tlie first place, that when ! liionetto applied n pieeo of n-d-hot iron , to his lmir denw fumes immediately rose from it, and the same occurred wlu-n lio touched his foot with the iron, j Ho also saw him place a rod of iron, | nearly red-hot, Is-tween hi* tooth with-1 <uit burning himself, drink the third of j a tableapoonfnl of boiling oil, and tnk-' ing up molten Lwul with his finger* place it on liia tongue without appnr nt ittcon- j venienco. oomentern's efforts after per- j forming aevend ex|erimeuts ujx-n him self, wen- finally crowned witli snocesa. ] He found that bv friction with sulphuric acid, dilnteil witli water, the skin might Is- made insensible to the action of the i heat of red-hot iron; a solution of alum, : evaporated until it became *;>ongy, ap- i |>cnred to be still more effectual. After i having rubbed the parts which were thus rendered, in some degree, incon bu*tible with hard soap, he discovered : on Uic appliostiou of hot inn that their , insensibility was increased. He then de- ■ termincd c'n again rubbing the |arta with soap, and after this found that the I hot iron not only occasioned no pain, ! but that it m-tually did not burn the | hair. Being thus far satisfied, tho Pro-, feasor aiqdiod hard soap to hi* tongue j until it iH-cnmc insensible to the heat of! the iron ; and after having placed an j ointment composed of soap mixed with | a solution of nhun upon it, lsnling oil { did not burn it While the oil remained ! on the tongue a slight hissing was heard, similar to tluit of hot iron thrust into water ; tho oil soon cooled, aud waatben i iwidlowed without danger. Several : Hcicntjfle men have since successfully re-' peatcd the experiments of Professor j Sementc m " ON THK RAMPAGE. —The " wild steer" steers wildly through the streets of St. Louis at all times of day. One is rc ported reoeutly to have " cupsixed two men, killed one, tossed a couple of chil dren in the air, butted through a show window, knocked down the triune of u shed, gone through a bar-room, broken up an auction, broken a man's leg, nui saeked a liarlier shop, IUUI swum the Mississippi ltiver." ODD MATEIUAI.. —In the village of Mun ford, New York, there is a chinch in process of erection, which is being bnilt of u petrifaction taken from n swamp near by, and consisting of leaves, roots, twigs, muck, etc., together with lime stone. The blocks are so cut as to show the material of which they consist, and the building, when completed, will be a decided curiosity. It is said that the International Society is alarming the European monarchal, Prussia and Austria being in a partic ular flurry about it. , 1871. Away Oat Weal. Tin* following extract, taken verbatim, from a private letter, dated Cache, Ne vada, will it is fwiml, Und to creates prejtn.HK- eg tin-t thut calm rwtr* at t— " J'loohe is U- county scat of Lincoln County, a mining citmp" * year old. It** on the (Ireut A merman Desert, and situ ated UHwecn bare mountains, looking over a lux dry plain, Water bus to be brought eight nnlas bv wagon, and is okl at six Cents a gallon. There arv ttlmut l,3tW people hern, the haK of whom have been In Htxte Fii*m i and highway robbers, Ac.), and Urn r.-.l ought to lie. Our graveyard ha# II graves, of which but two arc filled bv death from natural anisec The rest at) died with tlu-ir hoots on. ftbot mo-ily-, some cut. One *huoting scrape took niece in the IMUIV, in whiidi Mike Gsscy killed Tony (omain, alter rucci ving Oos sin's fire, There is no law. Any one feeling aggrieved aocks redrew generally with his pistol, ft'e been a rtoae gamcl for me h VOOI times ; I got cut In the log once, but lam licri* yd. I xh-ep with n bull-dug, a floury iifi and a ain shooter. The luium (silver)employ about tKJb men, about a hundred ere in busi iiesa, and the mat are blocktruant* of the w oiwt kind cattle - thieve*, renegade Mormons, and men who ere banished fiotu society by I heir crime*, end reedy for anything. It's &U inilos to railroad or telcgm|ih ; wo have three dUgc* a week and one mail. I've done wry well bete, and would have made some money but two of nir partners iu a claim were killed, aud I can't go on along. My life ha* ban attempted twiuc by the party who kiH.nl my imrUu-ts. I .lout allow any malt to aram lae if I can have a show; but when it gets down to eases where you dure not ait In- a window or by an open door after dark, it# time to jutuu the setae. If ever I gut bock to California, I think I'll stay there; any way, I've got enough of this kind of liv ing. I'm tired of necking e six-shooter around night and day." Hut it isn't as hopeless a* it *cenvs— ; the future of thia placid little village; for iu a few weeks wi tha uativos will be diapoacd of—" ahot mostly ; some cut " and then virtuous new aftk m can be gin tbe settlement again. A Printer's Preverbo. Never vended tbou an article for pul>- licntion without giving the editor thy name, for thy same oftcntinwM WNIW publication to wurthhsa* article *. Tlioti diotikl'M not rep si the door of a printing office, for be that* snwer*th the rap sncereth in bis sleeve and loaeth time. Neither do thon loaf l*>t, oak uinw tioua, or kuock down type, or the boys will love tlu* like they do shade trees when thou kuvcth. Thon dionM'st never read the copy on the printer's caw, i r the sharp and hooked eouUiuwr thereof, or be may knock thee down. Never inquire thon of the editor for the news, for behold it his Ituaiaos# at the appointed time to giveth Tliee without aeking.- It is not right that Utou should'*! oak him who i the author of an article, for liia duty tvajtun-th him to knp such things to himself. When thou dost enter into hia oflce, take heed unto thyself that than dost not look at what may be lying opeu and cunnrnvth thee not, for that is not! tm -t in the aigbt of good breeding. Neither examine thoa tlie proof sheet, for it is not ready to meet thine eye, that tliou may st undcrstAud. • Prefer thine own town paper to any other, aud sulwciibc for it immediately. Pay far it in advance, and it si tall be well with thee and thine. To a l'ottug bill. Tou think you love the man who is coming this Bandar night to visit von 1 And he acts as if he loved yon ! Suppose liedcelaras himself, and asks ywi to be hia wife. Arc jm prejwred to my to him. *' I love Mid will trust you through Kfe with my hspnine**, and th* lives MM! weal of our children ? He is jolty, gay. Mid. handsome, and all the dsrts of ('lipid w twinkliag in hia eyes, bat will thoae eyes always find eipressiori from the love of n true aonl ? Tonight he says many pleasant things. ;uid draws pretty pictmcs of the futnre. I Doea he go to-iuorrow to work, which gives promise of the fulfilment of your j desires in life. Do hi* ambitions and achievements ut ! iafv yon ? tWi his every-day life shine with the uoble endeavors of *n trust worthy man f If yon think, aod desire a companion in your thinking—one who aon unlock the dcepcat depths of your mind—to what strata of humanity doe* he belong in the scale of excellence and morwlitv ? Is he doing all lie can to build up fn turc unefulmwa and happiaeos, iu which . you can share and feci blessed ? These are the questions which the ex- j 1-erienoe of after years make many wo- ] men weep in liittemeas of sonl that ; they had not thought of before they aa sweml " To*- w A SiMirtAK AixMPKirr. —A eiurioas ami somewhat startling accident necurrcd in j Brooklyn.N. Y. An ordimwy runm- boikw burst and the hot wntor very liudiy scohl-; od a lady and several ohildfeu who nt re in tlie kitchen. On examination the' Iwili-r wna found to be v-ry tliin. ! Plnml-crs have lieen in tlie hi bit of re- J pn-cnting that this elan* of boilers, or. ! tuorc properly sneaking, hot water reser voir* might 01la {se from a defective supply oT water, but oould not explode . —a theory under which thousands of ! families have restod in con fid iug security. 1 The present instance i* fatal to tlii* notion of the constitution of range both ' crs, and it is to be hoped that it will he core/ully iuvotigatc-l. Nothing wnuld j iwlti more to the discomfort of the average j American hoiu-ehold than a lurking suspicion ooneernlng the safety of its j kitchen, esjiceiallyif the siMpirhih should gain jMi-css to the minds of the olrcoily unreliable oook aud lauudreca. NATIONAL PKWTH. —The debts of nil the states and kingdoms of Europe, as nearly as can he learned, at the present time, including the roecut increase in franco, amount in all to £2,500.000.000, or nearK £12,500,000,000. The dchtof the United State* on the Ist of September, 1871, less cash in the Treasury, was $2.174,000,QU0; making ft total of $14,774,f1Qt',000. CrnioarrrKa or THE this SITS. —Among the curious social facts developed by the eunsus statistics is the apjieoranoe ou the rolls of Pennsylvania of cue family with seven pairs of twins, one family with six jair, and another fami ly with four {taii-s. The mother of the last group had six other children, and was only thirty-eight years old. An ingenious wife in Des Moines, afflicted with a snoring husband, has a guttu-percha pipe, with cube-shaped ends ; one she puts over his nose and mouth, and the other over his curs : thus he consumes bin own noise, as a Rtovo does its smoke, and wakes up in stantly. _ WEALTH. —The following figures show the wealth of some New York people Cornelius Vanderbilt, £25.000,000 ; Alex ander T. Stewart, #20,000,000 ; William B. Astor, $16,000,000; William M. Tweed, $12,000,000; George Law, 1 #5,000,000; Daniel Drew, #3,000,000. j - i . a k tty. x - TKBMB : Two Dollars a Tear, in Advance. A Chinese Batik, , | In Singapore, **• a tote impcf of , that place, * giml number of Chinamen j > j suddeuly fill**! the There Mum iliave ! < u a thou jin.l of them, ronton.'' ,! along frum flu' (UnwHrni of N<srtb Bridge r*ul, in regular rank*, four to *4* drip, j armed with spears nad swovda. They were in regular OhJnene fighting trim, j naked to th* wauO; their tails wove tightly eoitod round thrif head*. Oud j their up sags at Urate hip*, road; for the charge ; and noma wore one, some two w.r j., stuck iu their wtoi fllotliSL tl. v rubbed Ktomtily on, at the diW quiek. There were" several ennapieutms iiveiera tanning aAuagatete the main ! body, armed with only a sword in one band, and a hundkreohiri r price of , cloth iu Ilia other, with which they gate , signals fur advance or retreat, etc., and (Mtp a# iu the direction of their onaota. AH wan conducted in dead alienee, fro thing heard save the heavy damn of | feet. Ait rm aeuddeu another formula! 4* ! x*ly of m.-n, wraiL>rij aruiedand eqoif >p i *d, and lad. appeared ranking on law (the opposite diro-k<'tt. wfrau the M 9 j parti#* immediately nunc into ruuiarin, I charging nod alternately wwjr, •and Iheo charging again repeatedly, 1 Several were seen to fall, font tney wpre imincdlately earned off by their efrm • radea. H<-vral Ban could ''ha aaen at the upper windows of *lm houses in North Bridge toad, id the cud of the (treat, isuwug signal* a* to the police, j etc. The eomfoaUntf mast have Is-en in hot r ,nflwt for nearly thrwe-gu&Hk re |of aa hoar, when atgttala were gi* n : from the :du> ■uareed windowa; where* upon the wlmic of the combatant* sud denly disappeared aa if by magic- Moat jof Uatm *numbed into the naighfooiing shops, and the whole field of operatipn* | became a* upiet a jxra-ibk. AIMT brief period a poflre pram waa moo (Mvpitig round a corner, w if to ace if . the euast wa ohaur or how the land lay ; I and after the lapse, say of a quarter of :an hour, a number of unarmed penoa i made their appearance, booti*|"WbpM f —whore's the row * " but aa usual, they 1 were too late for the fair. Many of the 4 fighting men, who had evidently Just : hud ankle their w< ramus, and altered ; their trim, with a Mathews-tike celerity. ■ might be seen taking aigna at the potiae, and inquiring what waa the matter. The whole engagement waa oonduutrd 1 in a dead silence. which would hare lav 1 come a charge of Britiah Ceenadiers with srU *Umtr ajlremm aa the enemy, in WeiliugtonVdajra, naud totem it. The combatant* were, ixv-.nliiig to all so <* urate, Tw ffhew men. font divided into ' two rival chma, the Say Tana and fS*J ' Eyoo Abe latter word signifying *he<*|> or kiml*. The eUnldng and knocking iof aiieare wae aHkmAhiag to be n an in i*l, Vait otherwise Urn fighting ptueaoded in sileiKVi. . A New lllastraUea of aa Old Proverb. Th- BodAD Journal aaja; A friend i just returned from Chicago related to us tliia morning an incident of hia visit which is good enough to find a place i here. He was riding iu a honmear down j Suae Mtrurt from.jthe Poat-ofike, surrey ; uig tho rtuaa, along with a namber of : gi iitk-iuva w bone long, nteiul faeea told j uiuniniakably that UO7 belonged to the • numerous eumi of "wiffprre*," when suddenly a man at his elbow gave utter moe, withrmt Laving preriouidy vouch j nfai a single wiml. to the old Eastern j proverb, "Tfaete i* no gram loss with i out Mtme small gaaa," hot faea lighting . up with s lauila at the apiianrntly nappy thought which suggested the exclama tion. Our fi icnd't curiosity was arouacd and ho blandly inqnirevl of the stranger hwliat asKunuxve be bml for bis faith in ! view of the tibekesred ruins all about thorn. •* Why, fM see,"* gtrefuHy re marked this new* Mark Taply. turning a beaauug cuuntcaauoe on our friend and umaking in a load tune, which attracted j the attention of every one in the ear, " Yon see, strangtsr, I lost my house, 1 ffi.oot t worth of furniture, and just abbut every cent Iw as worth, bat I got rid of , 1 an infernal oM cook store, which alwiqps < i smoked sad wonhl not hsdm at all. and 4 which compelled my wife to asnd war i broad to the noighooa to be baked.! j Wall, sir, that stove was dona for in the! ' great firv, and now I fool more than f i ever sure there is n > great lorn without t *ome imiall gain. Just think of it, I j ! might hare had a new stove, and then there would have Imvn ao much added to my losa." And with an audible chuckle . over thtt comforting refb otkm, he uulcd the bell XVJMV stopped the car, and with a gtnceiul *avv of liii hand at our friend, lisapoeared among the raids—jareibly, I s in search of the remains of that " infer- i nal cwok stove." The Age d the (.Wif. HIP U'hcf entertained hy some geolo- *! gists of the present dfrjr that the • uf oar gloK reaches score* and even hun dreds of inQliohs of years is vtay ingen- 1 iously ponfuted by a recent writer in one !of the fnreigti scientific journals, a prin- j ' cipal objccttitm to the belief in question , Whig that the snn could urt have lasted 1 Mich a icagth of time without being 1 i burnt not It is found, for instance, that the heat which falls oa a square , foot of the earth's surface exposed to the vortical rays of tho sun is equivalent to HS.4 foot-pounds per oeaond—or. about , ! revcti thousand horse power per second j is radiated from every square foot of the , sun's surface. If the sun consisted of coal it would be burned up in fire thou sand years. But a pound weight falling 1 to the son hom an infinite distance wonld j produco six thousand tunas the heat gen erated by a pound of coal If—aa is ' scared? probatdc— tlie snn be supposed to ksve been originally a nebalous mass 1 tilliug tlw whole solar system and an in ilcfimte space beyond it, the total amount ( of heat the gravitation of , the particles into a condensed globe ( wonM suffice to uuiintaiu the sun's hedt . for over twenty millions of years, even , Ml p posing them to lie very hot, the heat , generated wonld suffice for more than , three times that period. Such a heat could be generat*l by the collision of two j great globes like the snn. Too Dnr.— A farm 1 ifoorer attempting ' to drown himself, an Irish reaper, who saw him go into the water leaped after him and brought him safe to ehore. The fellow attempting it a second time, the . reapvw a second time got him out ; but the laborer, determined to destroy him self, watched au opportunity, and hanged i himself Ix*hind the larn-door. # The Irishman observed him, bat never 1 offered to cut himdown. When, several i hours afterward, the master of the farm- 1 yard asked him upon what ground he 1 \iad suffered the poor fellow to hang 1 there, "Faith," replied Patrick, "I 1 don't know what you moan by ground. ! I knew I was so good to him that I fetch ed him out of the water two times ; and < I know, too, he was wet through every 1 rag; and I thought he hung himself up , to dry." j 1 OKM THEK.— Only when a mistress 1 knows how to cook a dinner can she | truly lx) mistreas in her own house, j She'wlip can at once put her own train- , od hand to the machine in any spot where a hand is needed, never comes to be the slave of servants. There is much suffering in the Bab 1 Joaquin Valley, where the crops have 1 wholly failed * for ttfo seasons. One I thousand persons are neediagfood. The 1 citizens of San Francisco are raising funds for their relief. * • t NO. 45. 'asTEC He*tiaUl bosk ta kM -hvia.., • k ■ Ti.t Mb (ban Lew's "to aMNfwmr, Wo hii llqr esriasast he b%h. # Awl M my paaawtt M 1 art "*. : Bst ah m? lift b® Wwh St. hssdsff IM tofty bwxisa towart il.y fts, , Awl bs MOMwCe .jxxx-hW.* stw.4. To look 'to {rate* awl boi, to tbso. Thine eras shsUb* th# t* Mlf :?II s TV WB slwh to m MMMMW FRMMFLL Waal Ham i srajra, mi mmM rigtitt, ? , fbe wsraaitna o-l* "f bstf ton; Awl I wflT lowtolhy Wsloons torn In/anc's red resre, rM *w wsm. Bet ttma thysdf AaH wd roia. Aow.l * j Pram tUi pure rank* hr store ; B .; , Bat ki*ll> tkjAc * awl ffrtir th? sreum, ! •Queen f mf heart aw! MM of tore I A tixmarrtt n tki raatai cxalto, Ao'l I s woeirch -a) thv torn' Facts sad Paariea, L Loaves hare tholr time to fsll—jaat now. Frowns blight young children as Eroetjr nighto blight young plant*. Who ever oswaaybody near a fire who didn't want to play poke* ? A ifotftmr'a motto to auppoanl to ;• " patient? and long aufiEming." • . ** Crime, sheer off." as the rata arid to the man who waa ratttwg off his wcxA When a maa turns teetotaler does ha aecremrily acquire a pail eomplexioa t A delicate parrel to be forwarded by Sal fi young lady wwqipod w| inher aall. It to a mistake to suppose that the ana n supported in the heavens by its A teamed writer aasartn that, after sfi, cmorgy quite as often drives off dtooaaa us it brings it on. la a libel suit again* a ncwapajrer at Little Bock, Ark/for tdO,'AW. the ptoro tiff attained in dsaaages. Tb* champion sexton of a town in Maine bos dug n thousand graves, and officiated at- twelve hundred funerak. The first daily mrawpapcr in Ttoginia was printed in 1> and its snhserip tion price was fifty doltow per annum. The to tost style in wedding card* is very long and narrow, of heavily gtamf - with • monogram -or stompod hi stiver. Seven charvhra. m* ooorenta, eight (cbooto, two asjdams, and two baapitala belong) ug to lbs Soman Calbidtea were destroyed by the Cbi<wi lire A Chinaman's seeount of' the CWaigo caSamttrteaa fellows: "Mellisan Iltoli Ijoy take keloseuatemp and milk eow; com kick over lamp; up go Chiesgo. OmaibuMw were first bftmgbt into uaa at Paris in IW, sad two yaani afterward mrivc oatnttmms were started in Los don 'by J. BbiUibeer, a uoaehdd|lto§ A civil mil against William M. Tweed and other ty offictoto of New fork for several million# of dotkn has here ' begun by Mr. Charles (POrnor at Albany. Two Keolntkera solved a disimto aa to the of a eslf, by placing the animal midway between 'their retidenrea and seeing which one it would go to x .ml. One of ttra eoato ami to the Boston Young Men's Christian AsstxtoAioa, to be forwarded to CSikwgo, was labelled ** My wedding eout" The bteetatyle of bridle bead dress to 1 srreatli eompuseded smalt white ostrich tips. Tlx bridal vail is trimmed with vines of lilies of the valley and jrana mine, A vduog man having a late raffmad djaasbw in bis mind has broken hia en gagement with a young tody, bemuse she ran a train and to negUgont about herawitak. Th< Chicago lake crib to two miles from shore, nod vet the krepar had to keep th. top of Aw building t-nliiraaliy wet- to prevent its igniting on the night of the fire. Bix \YiaA Point cadets have bore Ato miraed for hazing, and the nothoritrs pcritiveiy refuse to revoke the dismtosab from the Aaaapcdto Naval Academy for the same offence. An old Baeh. lor, who !<eata his lootfe atate with much equanimity, nay*: "It to better to be toughed at for not bring married, than be unable to laugh be cause you are." A railroad employe, on being nudged with a contribution box while asleep 'in chuneb, the oaber day, writes up enough to remark, "I work c this road," and ' returned to his nap. New li.iy cent ami dollar revenue . stamps have just made their appearance. ' They .are made of linen paper, eoioced 1 blue, witli usroß work, and boar a litbo -1 rsraph of (hsorge Washington. A young lady requeated to be released from her marriage engagement on the 'ground that when mnt.nu-tod she be ' lievcd her km* a "duek," hut has f dure found him to be n goose. The arrivals of vseredbs at Boatre, dure tg nine months of the prevent year, exceed those of the same period, last rear, by 447, showing a considerable ■ increase in the foreign commerce of that city. I Man* cooking schools have recently lieon opened which are well patrouiaed by our aoeiaty young todies, in view Joubtleas of a time when it will be neces sary, as well aa convenient, for them to be thoroughly ported upon such matters. Mrs. Leaiy, of Chicago, stoutly denies the story that the gn at fire was caused by the upsetting of a kerosene-oil lamp in her stable while she was milking her cows. Kh# says the stable must have been fired by incendiaries. She always mflfra by figyjjglit t l One cord of wood cut and split fine and corded np beneath a shelter while it ia yet green, will furnish more heat after it has became seasoned than two cords of the same kind of wood which has Eg Ixsea continually exposed to the ultmcnate influences of storms and sunshir e. "Mack," of the Chicago Republican, is joooae under his misfortunes. In pointing out the differenee between Theodore Thomas* fugacious fiddlers and Nero, he explains that one fiddled while Rome burned, and the others roomed while their fiddlers burned.. The children's parties have already commenced and promise to be as num erous as they were last Winter. Physi cians affirm that tote hoars and late sap per* rain the health and slowly under mine the constitution of these little ones, and careful, loving mothers shoakl be warned in time. Experiments made on hoard au iron built sailing veaaal, provided with iron rigging and lower yards of steel, and with two binnacle ooiunsmes on her poops, and a third placed between the raizx-D and mainmasts, the lower part . of which was all of iron—the deviations of the needle were respectfully fifty-six, twenty-four, and thirty-five degrees. The following eharaoteriHtie funeral item is from the Kansas City (Mo.) firara : "The funeral of Mike Williams, shot by Wild Bill, at Abilene, bxtk place in this city on Sunday, Wild Bill paid the expenses of the funeral." The Chattanooga Timet adds: "Mr.WWi- t liams, we have no doubt, deeply regrets his inability to thank Wild Bill for his liberality." A young lady sitting at a window, tossing in her hand what might have been a baU of white yarn, attracted the attention of a middle-aged chap on the street, whose gallantry prompted him to hold up his hands for a <uteh. She ac commodated liim. The article proved to be an egg, and alighted 011 his imnm> ; but it is not to be supposed that the * lady knew it was a bad one, A Louisville wife, wishing to get rid of her husband at short notioe, sent bim into the cellar with a kerosene lamp for a pitcher of cider. She gave him just time to get the cider in one hand and the lamp in the other, and then shouted " She had calculated well. The doomed man sprang up the steps, ibe lamp fell, and—the woman was free.
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