Take the Paper#.
Why dait ww take tbe !>•£•*
TaeVrs the life of mraf light;
Exe?ei bnt ulaeriow time,
And thou I read for ro-
Subeorihe! raw cannot loa* a cant
Why OintiM von he *frid t
Par aaeh wins !* • *<*>> l*>
At imaraat four fold paid.
00, then and taka the paper*.
And py to-day, nor pay delay,
And mt word hoard, if fa inferred.
You'd live until you're fray,
An old neighbor of wine,
Wlnle dvirnt w.th a ivajti,
Deeirrd to hear the latest newt
While he waa pom* off.
I took the paper* and I read
OfaooHS new piUa in free:
He 'bought a boa—and ia ha deed?
No—hearty aa a home.
Romance.
Oh! ahe waa a maid of a Unchiue eve.
And ehe lived in a parrot raid and hixh,
And he was a threadbare whisk*, cl bean,
And be lived in a cellar damp and low.
But the roey hoy of the cherub wing
Hath many 'a ahatt Aw hia ahwidet string ;
And (he youth Mow, and the maid *U>ve.
Wera touched by th flaming dart, of leva.
And ahe wonM vaVe from her troubled aleep,
O'er hit tender bUlePdoax to weep;
Or ataad Uke a statue. eoM and fair,
And (u. on a lock af hia bright red hair.
And be who was late so tall and proud,
With bis atop ao Arm and bt laugh to loud.
Hia board grew loop, and hia the.- grew thin,
An he pined in eolitude over hia gin.
But one aoft night, in the ironth <i June
Aa ahe lay in the light of • olouaWaa moon,
A voice came floating aoft and olear,
To tae startled maiden'* liatebtug tar.
O thea from her creaking couch she sprang,
And her Untried treses* l ek she flung ;
She looked from the window tar Ivies,
And ha atcod ben wth—her whiskered uian!
She did not start with a foolish frown.
But packed bar trunk and sc * tapered down.
And there waa ht r low, tail ami tree.
In hia threadbare coat of ita brightest blue.
The star that raw in the evtuing abide.
Looked sadly do*n> cm a uoepnig maid ;
The sun that came m hia morning pride.
Shed golden hght on a laughing bnds I
A FIERY BLAST.
Not often—no oftener than necessary.
You see it has to be a special afikir; the
engines at the pumping stations have (o be
goiYig hard so as to lower the sewage, and
tine weather has to be chosen, for the sew
er* are risky enough without having danger
to run from floods.
They're bui t, you' see of the finest ami
"beet bricks to be bad. and, buried below
the streets, you hate some of the neatest
brickwork in Loudon. The object was to
get br irks of the smoothest and finest, so
that when built into a great tunnel or pipe,
there should Iw no stay to the water run
ning easily through.
My first journey through the sewers was
after this la'hion : notice bad come down
that about tour miles were to he inspected
—four miles sounds a good deal, but there
are two thousand miles under London—
and preparations were made. Five, men
were sent to open all the iron traps over
tbe wav* down, one of which there is anout
every five or six bandied yards, so as to
ventilate the sewers; and hav
ing been kept well going, fifteen of us start
ed early the next morning with shovel and
lantern, for the spot where we were to go
down.
Now fall half had never been down lie
fore, and there was a pood deal ol laughing
going on as we put on the india-rubber
dresses fitting tight up to the wrist and
neck, and with a great bood to cover over
one's bead and lace when a danger came
about which I'm going to tell you. When
we stood there ready in cur big boots,
though, 1 saw great, stout, six-foot men
turn as white and queer as could be.
" Take a nip of btandv each, my men,"
aays the foreman. * and %bt your pipe* as
well as vour lanterns. We may as weM be
>uy over our job."
There was plenty of brandy handed
round, and I saw that a good drop was
ready to be taken down.
u Dutch courage,"' 1 says to myself, and
then I too began to foel a bit uneomtoi ta
ble; for the grating was iaired, and I was
looking down a square well with (Cot-holds
stuck in the wall, and ou asking one of tbe
men how far it was down, be told me it
was sixty feet.
"Sixty feet!'' I didn't say anything,
but 1 thought. A walk of four mile*
through a great drain all that distance be
low tbe surface! 1 told you I saw some
men look queer. I know I felt so.
w Now then, all ready 1" says the fore
man. You go first then, Smith," be says,
speaking to an old hand, and stopping hack
himself—not to keep ftom taking the lead,
but as I saw at once, to see that none of
his men turned uil and shuffled off so early
in the job.
Judging from the unwilling way in which
some of tbe men cicpt down through that
iron trap one at a time, like the demons
and imps of a theatre. I don't think there's
a doubt about five or six of tbem having
meant to slip off; but tbe foreman was
right and came down last.
1 know my first feeling, as I stepped off
the last iron into a lot of black mod, was
one of wanting to go back, and that feeling
grew stronger as, almost pushed forward
by the next man. 1 moved oat ol the en
trance into the newer, and stood with tbe
water up to my middle, striking cold
through my india rubber clot hps, aud pres
sing against me as if to sweep me down
right away to the river. Tbe place was
for all the world like agreit cellar stretch
ing out into darkness, our lanterns glim
mering and glistening en the black water
that seemed to go stealthily whispering
along; and tbe faces of tbe men about me
looked yellow and ghastly, as they all
clustered together for safety like sheep in
a strange fold.
" Now, my lads," the foreman says, in a
cheery voice, " there's nothing to be afraid
of, without, like little children, you don't
like being hi the dark, so on we go."
On we aid go, very slowly, with two or
three of the old bands in front, and tbe
foreman at the rear; tbe men who had
made a bit of a laugh about being in tbe
dark, talking all tbe same in alow whisper
that sounded very hollow and queer.
I don't know whether I'm weaker than
other men, bat somehow, at every step 1
took, with the water bearing against me
and pressing me an, there was a cold fool
ing of scare creeping over me, and ] kept
ou think, think, think, about all sorts of
things that I should have felt better it I'd
been free of. First I got thinking about
rain; suppose it should ram and the gullies
run fast, tbe water would rise quickly, and
we should all be swept away.
I got tbe better of that by remembering
tbe side entrances, out of which we could
tarily get
Then there was another horrible thought
came to wony me, and an if it was some
thing putting it ail into my mind, so as to
torture me, there came at tbe same time
the recollection of my wife end little ones,
and I wondered what would become of
tbem if wc should be all overcome and
suffocated by the bad gases that floated
about over the water.
I started iust then at our foreman's voice,
for it was evident that some one had not
only been thinking the name, bat speaking
about it for the foreman says:
•' Ana suppose there was'gas about; we
bad the doors open to ventilate the pi ice."
The man gave a sort of grunt, and we
went (lowly splashing on, our lights flash
ing about in a dull yellow way. Now we
are halted to use our spades, at the mouth
of some drain, where there seemed to be a
little collection of sediment; and again at
another place, where we ceold feel that
there was mud under our feet; but it was
aoon sent sweeping down, for the smooth,
fine brick of hbich the tunnels were made,
kept back bat little refuge.
If we could have been kept on busily at
work, I believe tbat nothing would nave
happened: but as it was, wading along
through the foul water first one and then
another man got 'ow and nervous, and rhe
first notice 1 had of it was by seeing the
man in front of me suddenly go down, with
a hollow echoing splash.
"There, qu : ck! hold him up, two of
yon!" said the foreman, and tbe next mo
ment a couple of the old stagers had tha
limp, dripping form between them, and
were helping him to one of tbe dark
entrances which happened to be close by,
and there thev gave him some brandy;
and we stopped, and all bad some as well,
while they got tbe man out and into the
fresh air and light, which just came faintly
gleaming down trom above in a tiny streak.
Then we set off again, one less m num
ber, and for the life of me 1 couldn't help
FRED. KURTZ, Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. V.
wKhing that 1 had gone up a* well, and
thinking about what that man's fate would
hunt been it he had been alums I felt a
cold shudder go thiem-h me, a* 1 knew
that he w-atld have been drowned, and
•leu I thougot of the rats, and abivervd
' ajfutn as I trod upon something that fall
to me then like a hone. *
I krnw better though directly, for that
which 1 had kicked against was a hoe-han
dle which a man in front had let slip from
hi hand, he himw-ll slipping down directly
after, with a hardy splah, into the water.
Here, get him up!" cried the loreman
savawclv, " aud take him back to that
hole] w hat curs you men are! You're
as had as if there was real danger. Sup
pose you were down iu a flerv mine."
The men muttered a little, and then,
while two helped the nervous man out, we
all went forward, the foreman chatting
away cheerily the white, so as to keep the
others from thinking about what bad taken
place. He pointed out the overt! >w places
where, when the sewer got too full, a part
of the water would ruu down to the river,
and then he showed us how clean and
-mwoth the brick face ol the sewvr was
To this man he busily explained that tnc
faint, bad smell was not injurious; and to
that he related how many scores oi time*
he bad been along this same par* ot the
<ewer>; but in spite of all lus cheery ways,
and the occasional stoppage for a smoke
and a glass of brandy, the men were terri
bly neryous, and waded on in a slow, half
hearted way.
And it was dismal work. Now there
was a scare about some one's light going
out. and though we bad plenty more, the
men wire in a regular shiver of ausjeuse
till the lamp was trimmed and we were
going on aga:n. Then there was an alartu
of tats, because some one bad- seen hah a
dexen go swimming down the black stream,
alter scuffling out one of the aide draias;
and scon after one of those in front gave a
soft o! yell, dropped bis lauteru with a
splash, and swore that we were going
wrong, that we had lost our war, and that
we should never get out of tLe horrible
place alive.
He was a great, six-foot, broad sboul
d< red felkw who said this, but it was half
fobixd out, and his nerve was so gone that
the poor chap was as hysterical as a girl.
For a few moments 1 thought there
would be a regular rush hack, and if there
had life mut have been lost, crowded as
we were in that narrow hole, with hard
work to keep our footing a* the atrcam
rushed by us; for the sowers are round at
the bottom as well as arched at the top,
many of them being shaped like an e?g,
with the thin part at the bottom.
The foreman w as ready for them though,
and bo reared out at them—
* Stop ! llow can we be going wrong if
we follow the stream I That mast take
us right I"
This checked tbe men, who saw the
sense of what he said, and as soon as be
had got them once more journeying slowly
on—
" What big babies you fellows are !" be.
exclaimed, "you're as readily scared as a
fiock of sheep. You forget that there are
ways i ut all along here, where a man could
call for help tveu if too weak to raise the
gratings."
Nobody spoke, for the blackness of tbe
place seemed to oppress everybody, and
we ci aw led'ou along the wet,slimy, under-
channel. Tbe smell was bad. but
so bad as I had expected, and there
was very little work for us to d<\ the rams
of the past week having pretty well flushed
the whole length of the sewers ; but every
now and then some one stopped and tsgan
to sniff, as if be could tell that there was
toul air there—the foul gas that no one
can breathe and live!
I should think we had lwen wading on
for aboct an hour, when one of the men
ahead said that there was a very peculiar
smell on in front, not like the regular
sewer smells, but a strange suffocating
odor.
The foreman was twenty yards behind,
peering into a sde sewer, when this was
said, and be did not hear it.
" There'* been gammon enough of that
soft," said one of tbe new men. who had
had a little more Dutch courage out of the
brandy bottle than was good for bim.
"Look here; if the light will burn it's all
right."
Poor fellow ! he had only half learned
his lesson, and did not know that we were
traveling right under where the chemical
works plied their trade, sending all sort.-,
of poisonous refuse into the sewer to give
out explosive gases. Ashe spoke he un
fastened his lantern and took oat the
light, and at tbe same moment I beard
I be foreman behind—" Take care there!—
gas ! For God's sake, quick —every man—
hoods down, lor your lives !•'
I was nearest to bim and imitated btm,
on the instant dragging the Ind'ia-ruboer
hood down over my face, and dashing
dawn beneath the filthy water, but not so
quickly but tuat I saw what seemed to be
a blinding Hash of lightning run along tbe
sewer, making every brick distinct; tjien
the water was rushing over mv bead, and
1 bent down till I wav all but suffocated.
Once I raised my bead, snatched a breath
that was stiflinc in its foul beat, and then
I dashed down again and held out as long
as I could, knowing as I did that toe gas
had fired; and then from feeling hot I
shivered with cold, as I wondered
whether any of my mates were killed, and
whether I should get out oat alive.
• "This way" some one shouted, "up
stream!"
f turned in a dizzv way to follow the
voice, but as I did so I felt something
clutch my leg, and as I bent down there
in the horrible darkness—ten times as
'•lack after that scorching, blinding flash
—I touched a bar.d, helped some one to
•tagger up, and then, with the water
streaming off us, and the air chocking us
at every breath and making my can sing,
we staggered al ng.
How tar that was I don't know, for it is
all mixed up in a confused, troubled way,
and I was like one walking in his sleep
till I felt my hand seized, and some one I
knew directly after to be the foreman half
lead, half pushed me, and the man who
clung to me, into one of the openings ;
where, in a machine like sort ol wav, we
climbed up and into the light, when I
rolled down on the pavements, and lay half
stupid (or a few minutes.
The voice of our foreman, though,
roused me, and knowing what I did, I
went down again and helped him and
three more, ana auiong us we got the nut
up—four of them horribly burned by the
explosion, and the rest to scared that it
was a mercy tbey got out alive.
I said tho rest, but there waa one miss
ing on the foreman counting ns over; and
then, calling to ns to follow, he ran like a
madman down the street to the next open
ing, wbeie the secret of the explosion lay
before us; the trap was shut, and the
foul gas made by the chemicals could not
escape. •
I heard bim grind his teeth as be drag
ged it up, and after it the grating, when
it was as he hoped; the misting man—an
old man—bad mode for this place and
climbed up, we getting it open just in time
to save his life, for he was nearly stifled,
and did not recover for weeks.
This was my first sewer adventure, and
nearly my last, and all due to fomo mis
chievous person closing the trap left open
for ventilation; but I'e had an escape or
two since, for gases as deadly as those in
a coal mine collect, ready to flash off at
the first coming to light. I could show
you mites all blistered and drawn, and
distorted by the awful blaze ; but I think
you've bad enough for once of the horrors
of a sewer.
A doctor's motto is supposed to be
"Patients and long suffering."
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
The Year A. I>. 187fl.
It ia time, aaya u New York pa par, that
wo begun to aoou-tom ouraolvoe to tho up
pearunes of the figure. which together
iuiiicwto the year now In-fore na, and
which tuuat BOW bo iuvcnliod at tiio HEAD
tf every letter, iKirno on the front of each
tic n* paper, ami print* tl ou the cover of ev
en monthly or quarterly. So let u*. for
a fear momenta, look ahead and sec what
tho Js'cw Year ia likely to bring ua.
\\ e are to choose a President in 1873
*1 much ia certain—unless, indeed, then
should lie more than two oaudidates, and
no one receive a majority of the electoral
votes ; iu which ease, the Ihvaidcnt would
lie clioaen by the House of Hepreaeuta.
tivea in February, 1873.
The year just before ua ia not the cen
tenary of auy great event in modern his
tory. A hundred yean ago, our fathers
were atill somewhat angrily resisting the
arrogant claim of the Hritish Crown and
I'arliamcni of uuliuiited, uubalaueetl
power to tax them, without even the for
mality of askiug their leave ; but ouly
tho discerning few as yet foresaw the
bloody struggle that waa then immiuent.
One hundred years ago, pone* tvaa very
gtuieral throughout both hemispheres,
except that the Partition of Poland among
her three powerful neighbors had beeu
decreed and in tiated.
France aeouis a smothered but not
sloping volcano, just ready to vomit
dame an.l a-sties, yet not likely very soon
to trouble the repose of ber neighbors.
That her preveut government cannot out
last the coming year, is a afe prediction ;
but who shall tell what fashion of mon
archy elm 11 supplant the doomed Repub
lic ? The priests and ruder peasantry
would have Henry V. if thev Could ; the
army officers prefer Napoleon III.; the
manufacturers and shopkeepers lean to
wurd the House of Orleaus ; the workers
for wages constitute the main strength of
the Republic. That Thiers will soon
cease to be President, few doubt; beyond
that, all is blind conjecture.
Great Britain seems to bo gravitating
towarJ a republic in fact if not in name ;
but the obstacles to le encountered are
gigantic. Among Christian countries,
there remains no other whose social
structure is so essentially arirtoeratio as
hers. A hundred families own half ber
immense wealth ; the greater portion of
her soil belougs to a much smaller num
ber. A social revolution in the British
Isles may be the bloodiest and most de
strustlve that the world has yet seen. It
can hardly be initiated while the Nation
al Finances remain as sound and hopeful
as they now are, and a majority of the
rural tenantry continue attached to the
feudal lords by a tie of common interest.
Yet the day of strenuous effort for a rrd
icnl upturning in Britain cannot be far
distant The nnion of Churvh and State
is probably the nest bulwark of aristoc
racy to be assailed and subverted.
Spain hat mailt* more progress toward
daylight within Uio last ten venre than
any other cotuiery. Till lately a thrall
of bigotry and imbecile despotism, she
lias to-day a liberal constitution and a
parliamentary regime, and is rapidlv
gaining in popular intelligence ami pop
ular power. Her fearfully disordered fl
nauces and her enormously over-general
ed army arc the chief remaining obsta
cles to her complete renovation.
Italy is no longer a chaos of nouinallv
independent lmt impotent states aud of
foreign provinces, but a liberal kingdom
of twenty-flvo millions, rapidly growing
in intelligence, cohesion, aud" strength.
More newspapers are issued weekly in
any quarter of her arena than in the" pe
ninsula twenty years ago. She ut-eda
but peace and a policy which shall serve
to develop her material resources to ren
der her, by the close of this ceuturv,
oue of the Great Powers of£anftw,
Germany to-day is tlm strongest and
most infiuental among those Powers ;
lint her Emperor and Prime Minister are
both old meu ; so is liia military brain,
yon Moltkc. When these pars away, as
in the order of nature thev soon must,
the prestige of the monarch will fade,
nnd the Empire enter upon that work of
social melioration which haa already been
delayed too long, allowing Austria, and
even Russia, to take the fond of her.
I hese two great military monarchies are
likely to be involved lu deadly strife at
no distant day ; but Germany will stand
aloof if the voice of her people shall be
beard.
Mexico and nil Spanish America seem
to us a continual anarchy, whan in fact
thev are in moat respects what Europe
and Christendom were teu to twelve oeti
turies ago. A far wider expanse and a
sparser population are the roost essential
points of difference.
Oa the whole, we hope to be obliged
to chronicle little or no carnage in 1872 ;
yet the bloodiest years of the past have
been ushered in us peacefully as thin now
promises to lie. List us reverently trust
that whatever of agony and woe the New
Y<*ar may bear in its bosom may be over
ruled for good, and that the human race
may visibly, palpably profit by all its
sufferings and sorrows.
Ready for Anything.
A certain doctor employed by the gov
ernment at a frontier post VM not re
markable for amiability, and seldom
wasted much time in this "wale" with
out a row of sonri kind on his hands. A
citizen living about twenty-five miles
from the post requested his assistance
upon an iutem ting occnaio®, and the
doctor rode over to the ranch—a wretch
ed hovel about eight feet high, flat dirt
roof, and uniting parlor, bedroom and
kitchen in one room. The place breath
ed poverty from every pore, but the doc
tor h:id the mild assurance to ask one
hundred dollars in specie as his fee. lire
poor "Cracker" went into his hovel and
in a short time appeared with twenty
flvo dolldts, which tne doctor flatly re
fused in an angry manner. Again the
"Crocker" entered his house, und his
weak spouse drew out of a stocking two
or three dollars which she had carefully
hoarded for a rainy day. This was added
to the sum before offered, but tie doc
tor refused to take lets than his fee on J
abused the poor man in ronnd terms.
The "Cracker" paused a moment sally;
then again entering his hovel, ho quick
ly returned with a shot-gun and rifle.
An iron determination spread itself over
his features, and, as if he had exhausted
every other honorable means of settle
ment, be thus addressed tho now alarm
ed physician: "Doctor, we haven't nary
other aent fn the world, but yon kin hev
satisfaction! Choose your wepon." It
iR surmised that the doctor did not wait
for hia fee.
ADROIT ROOOES.—A hat and fur dealer
in Boston was recently victimized by
two rogmes. The fellowa were in the
store at the same time, and while one
was negotiating with the man in at
tendence for the pureliaae of a lint, the
other eeized a Russian sable cape, worth
aliout 875, and left with it. " Has that
fellow stolen anything from yon ?" asked
the buyer, coming to the front of the
store with the hut ho had been examin
ing on his head. " Yes," said the sales
man, "he has stolen a sable cape." " I
think I can catch him," said tlnef No. 2,
and suiting the action to the word, he
was gone in a twinkling, aud never come
back.
An impetuous and romantic lover
said to hissweetheant: "lam the oak,
and you are the vine. I drew you to me
with cprda of love. ' " Not so," replied
the blushing fair one; if lam the vine,
I prefer the ordinary twine."
CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1872.
Successful Adierllsiug.
We copy the following from a little
annual batted bv It. (I. Dtuui A Co. I
The objects to bo kept iu view by ad
verliaer* are :
1. That their anusuueemeuta shall
roach the class of people aimed at
'A Tuat they shall reach aa urany of
that elaaa aa possible.
A That the advertisement shall come
directly before the eye, and not be lust
ia a crowd.
4. That it shall be made as much to
the interest of the buyer to look for the
advertisement as it is for the seller to
advertise.
Iu Kuctvmful advertising--that is ad
vertising whiuh is so dispensed as to
make the above points -there i.s ouly
one other condition required, nnd that
is one which the advertiser uloue ean
supply—the gvxak offered for sale must
commend themselves, aa well for excel
lence of quality, as /or cheapness and
other advantages.
Some r.dvertiiers may be fitly remind
ed that it is not the mere spending of
money that pays, but the spending
money judiciously. Advertising liberally
doe* not mean advertising indiscrimi
nately. A live business home will no
more neglect judicious advertising than
it will neglect ita collections. Advertis
ing gives the impetus to trade, that tact
holds the helm. As s matter of experi
ence it is beyond dispute that judicious
advertising pays to an extent beyond my
ordinary comparison with its cost. The
progress of population an 1 settlement ia
so rapid that a " good old house" which
does not advertise ia in dauger of losiug
much sound custom. Home people
thing it tmiick* of dignity to say they
live without advertising.. They may Jim
upon this kind of dignity, bnt life ia one
thing, and success in life is another. A
good reputation in boxine*a means that
vou shall be vitHv as well a* favorably
kaow-u. A good advertisement it worth a
good price. A had advertisement is
worth nothing.
It is not unnecessary to caution the
advertiser nguiust postponing hi* adver
tisement until the purchasing seasoii in
upon him. He is very likely to do thi#
if hi* chosen median ls a weekly paper,
and the consequence ia that as burets
are then too busy to look after ndver-
Usemcnts, his money is thrown away.
The Yiiath of (harles Dickens.
The first light thrown on too child
hood of Charles Dickens by hia biograp
her. Mr. Fotster, reveal* what interests
without surprising us. People who suf
fer are com monlv the once who can de
pict suffering. "The pathos, not to say
the niorbid sensibility, of portions of
Dickens' writings tell an nnmisUkatile
story to all analysis of human character.
It now appear* that at ten rears of age
Dickens was a poor little drudge in a
blacking factory, lie went through pri
vatiou, insult and misery. Hi* compan
ions were coarse and aggressive and their
enforced society was torture to him. In
s letter of his own drat published by Mr.
Forater, lie writes :
"No words euu express the secret ag
ony of my soul as I sunk into the com
piniouship ; compared these every dsy
associates with those of my happier
childhood ; and felt my early hopes of
growing up to lo a learned and distin
guished man crushed in my IvrvasL The
deep remembrance of the sense I had of
being utterly neglected and hopeless ; of
the shauis I felt iu my position ; of the
misery it was to my young heart to be
lieve that, day by day. what I hod Warn
ed. and thou ght, and delighted in, and
rained my fancy Mid my emulation apby,
was passing away from me, never to be
brought back any more—cannot lie
written. My whole nature was so pene
trated with the grief and humiliation of
such consideration*, tout even now, fa
mous and caressed and happy, I often
forget in my dreams that I have a dear
wife and children —even that I am a man
—and wander desolately back to that
time of my life."
The picture is sorrowful indeed ; yet
we cannot look upon it without pree> iv
ing how mach Dickens' future ability
and usefulness to the world depended
upon his going through just such uo ex
perience. Poet* •' learn in suffering
what they teach in song," and the lesion
taught by the noveliesl must be gained,
for the most port, in much the same way.
Is DEAD. —Carroll SAnboru, the re
i nowncd burglar, is dead. He breathed
his last in the jail at Lawrence, Muss.
; Early in October, Sanborn get a mortal
wound in a fight with a constable named
Donovan. The latter was bent on arrest
ing his man, and succeeded. It is said
that Hanlnirn ms.le friends of all who ap
proached him while in jail, and that he
gave np freely all the property he bail
stolen. He "seems altogether to have
been a singular character. In all re
spects, SBVQ hi* mania for burglary, he
lived a pure and even nil exemplary life.
He touched no intoxicating drink and no
tobacco. He was scrupulously faithful
to his wife and tenderly attached to his
family. His clergyman and physician
concur iu extolling his amiable and at
tractive disposition and gentlemanly
manners. Tliey say that he really did
not care to accumulate wealth, and had
none but kindly feelings for his fellow
men. His sole fault was his inextinguish
able passion for midnight burglary, a
form of eolossnl kleptomania, wliiob,
strive a* he might, he could not control.
The unhappy man escaped the last dis
grace of being doomed to the State Pris
on. lie pleaded guilty to the charges
against him in the Superior Court ; but
he died in the arms of his wife before the
Bench had time to pronounce his sen
tence.
Tins DnrKMtNOB. The Woman'*
Journal give* this as a sketch from real
life. It certainly illustrate* a wrong that
should he righted : When Bcuand I were
children, I was the taller. When we
went to school, I studied more than he
did ; I gradnstod before he did ; I rend
more books than he did ; if we got into
an argument, I was pretty sure to get the
l>etter of him—in short, I was ahead of
Ben, and I patronized him I Hut Ben
got ahead at last He studied a profes
sion ; I crimped, snd frizzed, snd fussed ;
He went into business ; I dusted, and ar
ranged. and beautified, He is growing
rich ; lam growing poor. He can trav
el if hn chooses, be can invite nic to go
with liirn if he choosea ; lean sit at home
till I'm Invited. He is independent, I
dependent. Ben is a successful bachel
or, with the world lie fore him ; I an un
successful maiden, with no definite pros
pects. Ah, Ben, Ben, this will never do
—just wait, sir, till I tako a start I
Aw Awrrt, Trrmirr.—Hero ia a little
tale of old army days: Twenty-five years
ago the First Dragoons wns notorious
for the bibulous propensities of itn offi
cers. That arm of the service owed no
weak allegiance to King Alcohol, but the
First did him the best service. This
regiment was serving in New Mexico.
It is very dry marching in some parts of
that territory. The stations where even
water can be had ore thirty miles apart
Captain Givens commanded a detach
ment that marched to Los Angeles.
Upon his arrival there his friends crowd
ed ont to greet him. " How are you,
captain ?" met him on all sides. "
and hearty," replied he, " and I'TC got
on a thirst that I wouldn't take a thou
sand dollars for."
Small-pox is reported in almost every
town in Wisconsin.
IHrkeua on Canal Host
Tlioae of one reatlera who have, and
those who lmve not seen a c.<ual boat,
will appreciate tire description of thews
affair., givuu by Charles 1 tick ens, who
traveled on one. Of tba boat ami its
surrounding, (and of eotirvc it will be
understood that thin wan the day of
" packet lines " on the canal} lie says;
" And now I oouie to the ratal boat.
Meets your heart and soul, my dear fel
low, it yon could only see us on board the
•anal boat! Let me think, for a iuo- j
mant, at what time of the day or uight h
should beat like you to sae us. In the
morning t Between five and six in the
morning, shall I asv ? Well! von treeM
like to see me standing on tha deck, fish
ing the dirty water out of the canal with
n tin ladle olmined to the boat by a long
chain ; pouring tha same into a tin latnii!
(also chained up in like manner) ; and
scrubbing my face with the jack towel.
At night, shall 1 say f J don't know that
you would like to look into the cabin at
night, ouly U see me lying on a temp-ire
ry sholf exactly the width of this sluret of
paper when it's open (/ mtwtutij ii Ihi*
mat *g), with one man atmve ma and i
another below ; and, in all, right-mid-,
twenty in a low cabin, which you cau't;
stand upright in with your hat on. I !
don't thiuk you would like to look in at j
brenkfast time either, for then liiese |
shelves liave only j,wst IM-OO taken down 1
and put away, and the atmosphere of the I
place is, as you may suppose, by no j
means fresh ; though there are UJHIU the I
table tea and coffee, aud bread aud bub ,
tfr, and suite on, and shad, and liver, aud
steak, and potato**, and pickles, and Usui,.
and pudding, and sausage* ; and three
and-thirtv (atopic sitting round it. eating '
and drinking ; and savory bottles of gin, j
and whisker, ami brandy, and rutn, in f
the bar hard by ; and aeveu-und-tweuty i
out of the elglit-Utid-twenty men, Ml foul
linen, with yellow streams from half- $
i chewed tobacco trickling down their
, chins. Perhaps the beat time for you to j
j take a peep would be the present— dev.il
! o'clock in the forenoon—when the barber !
is at hia shaving, and the get: tinmen are.
lounging tibout the stove waiting for their
tarn*, and not more than seventeen are .
, -pmmg in concert, and two or throe are ,
walking overhead (tying down on the lug
: gage when the man at the hi-(us sbour-:
I • Bridge 1') and ! am writing this in the
j lsifies' cabin, which is a j>ort of the gen- j
j Uetnen's, r.ud only screened off by a red j
| curtain. InJeed, it exactly resembles'
the dwarfs private apartment in a cure- j
van at a fair ; and the gentlemen, gener
ally, repre*ent the spectators at a penny
a head. The place ts jn d a* clean and j
just as large as that caravan you and I
were in at Greenwich Fair last ysar. Out
side, it is exactly like any eaxal host vou 1
have seen uuar tho llogvut's Park or else
where.
" Yon can never conceive what the
hawking and spittiug is, the whole night
through. Ldst Light was the worst.
Upon my honor and word 1 was obliged,
this morning, to lay my (ur coat on the
deck aud wipe th> half-dnel flakes of
s]itUle from it witii my handJu-rcbief;
and the only surprise seemed to be tlmt
I should consider ii nece.vMrv to do ao.
When I turned in Lost night f pat it on a j
stool U-sida me, ami tin re it under ;
across-tire from fi*e men - three wppo- '
site, one above, and one below. I mak
uo oomplaiuta, and show ua duqeust. I
am looked upon as highly faoetions at
night, for I crack jokes with everylKujy
ti.wr me until we fh.II asleep. lam con
sidered v*ry hardy in the morahig, for I
run up, bare necked, and phiDge my head
into the hall frozen water by hnlf-jwst'
five o'clock. I nui respected for my BC- J
iivitv, inasmuch as I jamp from theVoat
to the towing-path and walk five or six
miles before breakfast, keeping up with
the lioraee all tbc.titne. Iu a word, they
are unite astonished to find a sedentary
Englishman roughing it so well, aud tak
ing so much exercise; and question toe
very much on that bred. The greater
part of the men will sit and shiver round
the stove 'aft'tiky, ralhVr than put one
foot litdoro the other. Aa to bavin y a
window qjKn. that's not to he thought:
of."
Hritnrte Uxnza Dirwci L-mat
Building in riiieago is attend"! with
difficulties. Frost and snow and' bleak
winds, however, have not broken the in
domitable aouraga of those who have
determined that the rebuilding shall go
on. Men muffled to the eyes drive the
long lines of tenia* which arc hauling
away tlio drbri* and bringing ia new
building luuterial; oarpenterw tiinydi
their chilled arms around their bodies,
and take up the saw and hammer again ;
masons heat their brick* with fornseee
ami warm their mortar with hot water,
and go on rearing (heir walls; and work
men of all kinds huddle srouud little
bonfires ut noon, and hastily out their
cold lunch, and then patiently go to
work again. By such undaunted "courage
hundred* of thousands' of loaila ol ddbri*
have already ligcu cleared away in the
"eight weeks just gbfe. and a host of
buddings, big and little, have been
reared, completed and occupied. One
day. with the iiiermry at zero and the
wiiid biting furiously, out-door work
w*a in a measure suspended ; but n\
soon a* the rigor states it will lie ns
sumed ; oud so. with occasional inter
ruptions, it will go on through the whi
ter. May the season be a inilfl one is
the frequent prayer of our rich aud our
poor. —Exchange.
Bcroo A HOT*!.. —ln his Washington
correspondence, " Oath " flows over the
rim in this style : " Did you bear o! that
chap who attended the sale of a hotel
recently at a town in Ohio ? HeJindn't
a cent in his pocket, Init he stood up and
bid lioldly, ' Twenty-eight thousand dol
lars.' It was knocked dowu to him, and
when the question was asked, * WJio is
the purchaser V this audacious scamp re
plied, ' The Pennsylvania liailroad. Of
course he was not required in jwraon to
put up the money from an imperial
linyer like that, whereby he was able, iu
the course of a couple of davs, to sell
the whole to another party for thirty -
five thousand dollars, aud door the dif
ference. The eonntrv is now full of
scamps buying hotels for the Pennsylva
nia liailroad." •
A Bawled REronrra.—The Purhlo
(Colorado) C.hvflain gives a funny ac
count of a Chicago newspaper man who
stopped in the flourishing young city of
Oreoly, and, being athirnt, tried in vain
to get a square drink. "He went up
one street and down another, be turned
the corners of alleys, ho spruqg over
ditches, lie explored sheds anil out
houses, but tho fluid for which his aoul
yearned could nowhere he found.' Ho
went Hnp-hazard into one building which
he thought might be 'a saloon,' and en
countered a prayer-meeting. In another
hall he found a farmers' club. Finally,
he received trustworthy information that
there was not a drop of liqnor in the
plaoo. He left, and wrote to his journal
that the town of Greely waa ♦ without in
habitants, without resources, and with
out commerce."
A Mrs. Smythe, of Indianapolis, Ind.,
now has ber fifth husband, and yet she
has never changed her name. She was
born a Smith, her first husband was
named Smith, her second Schmidt, her
third Smyth, her fourth Smith*, and her
present Smythe.
— -
A sweet school ma'am at Green Bay,
Wisconsin, rides to school every day on
a hand-sled, drawn by the big boys.
Advice to Worklngmen.
Henry Ward Beecber, in one of hia
sermons, spoke to the working classes na
follows :
There la a tendency among the work
i iug class to shorten their hours of labor.
1 sympathize with this and I alih >r it; I
sympathise with it in so far as it is one
of tun signs of advancement among the
working cUsse* of their attempt to aim
higher mid nobler, and I abhor it in ao
far at it is tending to make men feel that
wcrk is not a good thing for thsrn, that
they must shrink in equivalent and en
large iu reward. I don't believe the com
mon people a,e going to carve out inde
pendent fortunes by any combination ex
cept hard knocka, and a good many of
thrtu, during a good many hours of the
day. Oar fathers did so, and their chil
dren must learn that they have got to
work hard and long to achieve mores*.
I should be glad to have wages paid for
by the hour, by retail rather than by the
gross, but if men expect that eight hours
a day is going to be all that is necessary
for their support, tiiey are wrong. My
own iuipreation U that there are very few
men that can make enough out of right
hours a day to enable them to educate
the r children and lift their family far
higher than tln-v found it. Politicians
say a pi eat deal about the interests of
tlie wori ragmen, they arc praised a great
d.itl in the papers, and God forbid that
I, who have the bio id of blacksmiths in
tuy veins, should not think well of work
ingmen. But they should love work for
its own sake, and their children must be
brought up to feel that they must by work
! make themselves independent. Do not
I'Xpcot a division of your fat tiers'estate.
Bo houeat; manly I Cultivate a spir
jit of independence, and by tho sweat of
your brow work out your own salvation.
There is a pride in this, and a jif ,t pride,
and I honor a man who can say, •* I am
not indebted to fortune for my prosperi
tv ; I earned it by the sweat of my brow ;
1 baptized every dollar of it with that
sweat." Money so earned generally
stay s by a man, and usually has a man to
star by. (Laughter.) Do not rely on
luck. It is naked. Do you not believe in
lack ? Yes, he that has a good father
aud moth* r has good lock. He whose
father and mother whipped him enough
:i'l good lurk. He that lias common
■anna, hat good luck, lie that rises early
and toils late has good luck. Men that
do not drink intoxicating liquor have
good lu~k. A man that does not quar
rel, lint by kindness wins the love of all
around him has good luck. He that has
good faculties has good luck, but I never
knew a man that was weak and changea
ble that had good luck. Luck is in work ;
do not trust to any other Inck ; fools
trust to lottery, to superstitious luck.
Mr. Beecbcr then sdvised frugality, and
said that those were unhappy who were
so brought up that they did not have to
leonomlae. It sraa not" so much the vol
ne of the money saved by frugality as it
sraa the moral benefit of the habit, and
the man in this country that knew bow
to save was sure to become rich before be
died, unless he died very soon. . He
warned bil bearers against habits of self
indulgence, and inculcated the neoeasity ;
of salf-culture, closing by adjuring the !
audience In nil things to have a firm treat
in God, who would order all things for
the beat.
Oa the Flatma.
The routns rum illy chosen for travel
ncrtw" the Plain*. a_vs Gen. Custer, may
;be ouid to faruiah, upon an average,
I water every fifteen tniloa. la miM Tn-
I ataßtve, however, and during tlio hot
MBMon of the year, it ia nvceeaary in
j (daoea to go into what ia termed " a dry
oamp," that ia, to encamp where there is
' rip water. In such emergencies, with a
' previous knowledge of the route, it is
practicable to transport from the laat
! camp a Sufficient quantity to satisfy the
i demand* of the people composing the
, tram, but the dumb brutes must trust to
i the little moisture obtained from the night
' grazing to queurb their thirst.
The animals inhabiting the Plains re
: *oraWe in some respects the fashionable
society of some of our larger cities.
1 During (he extrcma beat of the summer
; th<ty forsake their accustomed haunts
{ and aook a more delightful retreat. For,
! although the Plains are drained bv
streams of ail BUCK, from the navigable
1 river to the humblest of brooks, vet at
certain seasons the supply f water ia
many of them ia of the most uncertain
character. The pasturage, from the ex
cessive heat, the lack of sufficient mois
ture, and the withering hot winds which
sweep across from the south, becomes
drie<L withered, and burnt, and is ren
dered incanablo of sustiiuinglife. Then
it is that die animals usually found on
the Plains disappear for s short time,
ami await the return of a milder season.
Wherever water is found on the Plains,
partieuiarly if it is standing, innumer
able gadflies and isuaquitoeu generally
abound. To sach an extent do three
peats to the animal kingdom exist, that
to our thinly-coated animals, such as tbe
horse and mule, grazing is almost an
impossibility, while the buffalo with his
htfgh sliagyy oust can browse nndis
turhtxl. The most sanguinary and de
termined of these troublesome maccts
are tlio "buffalo flies"; they move in
myriads, and so violent and painful are
their assaults upon horses that a herd of
the latter has been know n to stampede
a* the resnlt of on attack from a swarm
of these flies.
Hut bore again is furnished what some
rcaaoßC-r* would affirm is evidence of kite
"eternal fitness of tilings." In moat
localities where these Aire are found in
troublesome number*, there are also
found flocks of starliugs, a species of
blaokbird ; these, more, J presume, to
obtain a livelihood than to become the
defender of the helpless, perch themselves
upon the backs of the animals, when woe
betide the hapless gadfly who ventures
near, only to become a choice morsel for
th starling In this way I have seen
our herds of cavalry horses grazing un
disturbed, each hofse of the many hun
dreds having perched upon his book
from ope to dozens of starlings, standing
guard over him whils he grazed.
How NEW JBRSBY GOT OCT or TMI
Virion. —TbO origin of the allusions to
New-Jersey aa a foreign couutry is said
jobeaa follows: After the downfall of
Ore first Napoleon, his brother Joseph,
who had Iwon King of Spain. and his
nephew, Prince Mnrat, son of the King
of Italy,' sought refuge in this country,
and brought much wealth with them.
Joseph Bonaparte wished to build a pala
tial residence here, but did not desire to
Income a citizen, aa he hoped to return
to Europe. To enable hiu as en alien to
hold real estate required a special sot of
the Legislature. Ho tried to get one
Ease cd fnr his benefit in several states,
nt failed. He wns much chagrined, es
pecially because Pennsylvania refused.
After this he applied to the New Jersey
Legislature, which body granted botp
him and Murat the privilege of purchas
ing laud. They bought a track at Bor
dentown, and built magnificent dwell
ings, and fitted then np in the mast
costly manner. Rare paintings, statu
ary, Ac., were profuse, and selected
with care, and the grounds laid out with
exquisite taste.
TUB amount of the publio domain still
undisposed of reaches the enormous ag
gregate of 1,887,732,209 acres. Only a
comparatively small portion of this is
land that is available.
How lie ttftft • Fetch the Cootie.
JHUH L. A- Hope gives w taonng
account, in th* Loudon Sjmotalar, of the
••my ho wont to the .South Hen Island*
•'to fetch the Coolie"—Coolies being
wanted on the augur estates is Australia.
Mr. Hope any a:
The Australian labor market has been
at rnrion* times supplied with entivicU,
free and aawstad emigrants, Obinsmen
and Germans; hat it is only within the
lust few years that the introduction of
sugar-growing industry into Queensland
has turned our attention (o that Urge
group of islands, the New Hebrides,
lying within a week's sail of oar own
oolour, and crowded with an indigent
ami savage population. The ptanters,
in despair at tlie rretires character of the
English workman, became naturally very
eager to obtain a quantity of eh nap and
reliable laborers for the sugar season
men who eon hi aland the heat of the
nun. who would work together in gangs
without grumbling, and aWva all, who
would bind themselves to their employ
ers for at least three years. Under three
circumstances, several small ships start
ed for the New Hebrides in quest of men,
and the first arrival of woolly, stupid
looking Kanakas was regarded with
creat curiosity by all classes. • • •
I have often wondered at the imperfect
idea of cumber which a native Coolie
possesses—he grasps easily the idea of
one pig for one aie, bat three pigs for
three airs bothers him. I looked round
for a chief and tried to open the conver
sation with him, with a view to my great
object, recruits for Queensland, and com-1
raenoed an animated harangue, pointing
j out to him the advantage the men would
gain in going with me, and the strength
' they would add t# the tribe when they
brought bark their mnsketaand powder.
Tli. chief smiUsLgraoumsly, anil mani
fested a sudden fancy for my sheath
knife, whieh tiring in a moment of weak
ness given to him. he walked off. leaving
rue to a crowd of applicants fur more
i sheath-kuives of the same sort. I was
not a little mortified at finding out after
wards that he had not understood a single
word, being of a different tribe from my
interpreter. And so I learnt a great and
most important lesson, in all dealings
with the natives, and which f cannot
i help thinking might be profitably taken
to heart by charitable London ladire—
| " Never give .away anything without
value received, unless vftti wish to put a
stop to all trade and make everybody a
lieggar." Man after man shook his
head when I naked him to come over to
Queensland. The universal crv was.
"We are willing enough to go anj work
and get muskets and powder, but wa
should like to see some of our brothers
beck here first, to hear what they my of
your country."
It has never been my good fortune to
contest an election in the old country,
but I had beard that ** the woman once
gained, the man follows," is a maxim hi
canvassing, and acting on th plan, I
approached a mairooly-lookiuglaay with
a ring in her ooae and a baby on her
shoulder, and to make friends,
| upon which, drawing her gram pcttieont
! fringe close round her. she set up sneh
a piteous howling, that I concluded the
, progress of civilization hod not yet waft,
f-d the notion of woman's rights to those
distant regions, and that far from having
any influence over bar husband, she actu
ally seemed to be afraid of him.
In my exjffcnence of the bland*. T
found the invariable custom of leave
taking to be as follows: The intended
I emigrant would atrip himself of all be
had on, consisting probably oi only asm
bracelet, and sitting down on the bench, |
would howl melodiously in the middle
I of a circle of women, alter the payment
of which tribute to nature he would
step briskly into the boot, as gleeful as a
i child in prospect of a holiday. If asked
to bring the woman with him he would
indignantly refuse, evidently thinking
that lie was already well out of that mess,
and would In come quite reconciled to
lus new life before tin Southeast trades
had blown us over to Vale.
A Case of Lynch Law.
Not long since there srss an expeeos
robberv at Farmington, 111 An officer
arrested erne of the thieves named Far
rington, and wna taking him to P. At
! Union L ity a man was
notice.l hanging around the hotel in
which he was secured. Policeman tlfrie
noticed the man, and started toward'
him with a view to questioning him.
Boeing that be was about to be captured, |
tbe man stopped, and drawing bis pistol, (
fired, the bullet passing through Cline's
right lung, inflicting a wound from which
he died in about a half hoar. Another
policeman, Mike Moron, here took up
the chase and tired st the man, wound
ing liirn acriouslv. The man returned
the fire, his bullet striking Moron in the
shoulder and infltrting a painful wound.
The shooting having attracted a nntnbcr
of citizens to the spot, the man saw that
Ux< re was no chance for cecal* aud sur
rendered. When questioned a* to his
name, he said that it was Tolcr. He
refused to make auy explanation of his
conduct, aud, after beiug searched and
securely ironed, was placed in the same
room with Farrington.
The killing of young Clio* caused the
most intense excitement, bat no serious
outbreak tin anticipated. About four
o'clock in the morning, however, when
the townspeople were wrapt in slumber, i
a band of disguised men quietly rode up
to the hotel in which the prisoners were (
confined. Dismounting, they marched
directly to the room oecnpied by Far- j
riugton and Toler. Farrington jumped 1
from lied, only to receive the contents of
a half dozen pistols, killing him iustant
ly. Toler did not move uutil ordered to
get up end dresa. His irons were re
moved to allow of his patting on his
elothee, and then Obey were replaced. ,
Two of tbe mob had "to half curry and
half drag him from the house, when he |
was thrown across a borne, which wns 1
also mounted by a powerful-looking nun,
who, with the ethers, moved away in a
southwesterly direction.
Hearing the reports of tbe pistols, the
detectives who wore sleeping in the next
room, ran out in the hall. They were
met with cocked nnvj revolvers aud a
stern order to go back in their room.
Not complying with the request, the
mob caught and hurled them Hack abd.
fastened the door. The detectives beg
ged for the lives of the men, bnt no heed
was paid to them by the mob, who in a
very few minutes left the house. At
daylight several parties started in search
of Toler. About 8 o'clock his dead body
was found, suspended by the neck to a
limb of a tree, about three-fourths of a
mile from town. No marks of violence
were upon bim except the shot wound
received a few hoars before in the affray
with Moran.
Miss MART H. G SAVES has lieen or
dained as pastor of the Unitarian
church, in Mansfield, Mass. Miss Groves
is the first one of her sex to enter the
Unitarian ministry in Massachusetts,
and the second in the whole denomina
tion, Mrs. Cells Burleigh being the first.
THE proposed transfer of the Island of
Sumatra from the possession of Holland
to that of Great Britain was lost weak
agreed to by ths lower house of the
States-General of the Netherlands.
A Rochester girl declares she never
will vote. "Go to the nasty polls and
ruin my elothee ? The idea!"
TERMS; Two Dollars a Year, in Advance.
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It Alatks a Faylnr ißTertmeat.
Tbia uurwJy American atria of qr affirm
la the caption of a rtatintioal iitMa In
the Jan airy Ihrwr't - nl foe an
swer to it if In fir* affirmative. Tha
writer, Mr. W. H, Pall, btM studied fo
of the no* U-rrit rr with
uttentioo, and shows * that it poy* the
nation 8 par cent net per annum.
Br are aoma of Mr. DJl'i reasons
for Itto belief:
The annual receipts are definitely
known to amount to the f, moi
; from the r >|Metifo nourowi indicated.
The ealiraate* are all for gold valoes r■—
Imml rem*l of mI ads Set... 655,060 00
Tai en SS.iOO kin, te be
uka bv (>rMut rcyabUjeaa ,- MO,OMM
Bona* > '±i. .' UeaAt es ■Use .. I. At# 08
Haaaa an Ml (56 rtU per *aJM>.
of wfaito the yield is eaUtuaMKl _
at oos gallon fur each Mai kl lasl UJM
MoppS** sadaebmia lo to teretefe
•J W MUrce at aaat talaoda. .. l,tW
mows ***.
Value of aasl aaiaa store taxes. .. i,Wg
Pate from Yafcou Jiatrlet,anoaatly •
Otoar quarts nuts I km.,,,.. ie,eooeo
Pare tod lalt or (titkan Ctuiet, sc-
enrdiag to Tidosii '• report - 61 ,C**> 0
tan—i >toUl of aca-ouer trJ., ao-
Uot*U Jat o—-baif the arena* _ _
annual yield ef tto last 90 yean ISJOO 00
W*.nj. Jroty. awl 00 CI ' J).,.... 7,#00 to
.Stilt codfiati ia.6ii.twj nomub is ,
W7.D . ."..... ..v.. summ,
Ortlrer ot! 10 uuO goto a, SMS).. 10,** M
While ott aadhnpafiom kiaekea,,-
wstrr* redmaled at one-third the
wtota Behnmr lea csteb aeas
ellr- via., tef.Wet—•trt irtf linwa.
J1 I.l7a,twogalCoeoil Mo,SMM
1 leeerada . . TTTTT-TT;.....MJ0:. i
Hpara and 1u5ter................. 2,00000
Total annual product ........ ..HjMSWM
Mr. DaUa nays: The product of Lha,
1 -ea! fishery ia fixed be taw and the mgn
lationa of the (Wrote 17 of the Treasury.
The amount of oil actually sfrad ia not
i made public, but it ia wall known that
the arala afford, when tbev first arrive.;
1 about two gallons each, which ia iwdaead
: to one gallon toward the nd of the sea-;
bon. I bare tatimated it at one galion
' per seal. , -
The average annual yield of wea otter
for the lent twenty yean baa been 1,300
f kina; in 1868 over 2,000 were obtained
i I have estimated the auntial yield at 65®
kiua, which ia certainly Ukow the math.'
; The akina ami taiia are .old separately ;
' good akiua of both are worth 81H5, but
: have been estimated at 8100. The nap
ply of eodflah taken has nearly doubled
Muce 1866. but I have estimated the sup
ply of eodiiver oil at the old flgurev.
tiioughtt must have lamely increased.
The oodAah is aatimated at ita market
price, wholesala, at the rloae of the era
son of 1870. While the greater part of
the oil and whalebone taken in the North
Pacific ia from Alaakan water*, 1 have
cooaiderod only one third of it as being
the product of Aleaka, and cminuted its
value at the price fixed at the Saodrsch
lalanda, aa ia the custom of the trade.
The ice trade is given at the old figure*,
although it ia on the iuc; case aa & the
trade in sjwra. The ood-fiaherfe* hare
iucrenaed uooa the puwhaae it the rate,
'of fourteen peg cent, per annum, and
will doubtless continue to inar*aae.
The Alaskan oedar ia the ou\j timber
hi the wo-ld. which defies alike 810' rot
and the ship-worm. One-filth of the
wharves of Han Francisco annually mac
dumb to the ravngea of the teredo,
though built Of the beat Oregon pine;
and.it ia not credible, with an v
remedy within threu or four weeks' sail
of thm, that Sao Francisco mcrchauta
win opntiuue to neglect it A trade of
greater or (cm extent ia bound to spring
\ tip in Hm timber.
flow to tirra a Turkey. ,
The geoUrenan who, does the can iag
firmlv takes the oarriog-knifein hi* rigbt
hand, then pick* up the steel and tbaro-
ns the knife k Tittle thereon ; then, with
the left hand, takes the fork anil insects
it in the brew* of the fcuAev. on* tine
reck ride of the breast-bone, jmrt about
where the highest paint is. With the
turkey on it* hack; with tha fork wellia
the breast of. the bird ; with the head of
, the turkey toward hte left hand—without
any fussing, (.pattering, haggling, or t-aw
! ing—he cut* oil the first joint of th*
1 wing farthe* from him. Then he'cuts
away the second joint, giving fair plij
nod full sweep to toe knife, when ceases
the work of during from the breast.
Alter the wing be eat and carved, with
a nies dexterous inurement ha oats of!
the first joint of the leg, letting the drum
; stick fsll neatly down upon the side of
the platter ; then he shaves off three ot
four slices from the second joint, thai
! there mar be enotfirh dm* watt to go
, ijnuud. Then be cuts tha aecend joint
out, ull in a moo, artistic manner, being
careful not to take oat the fork or foottrt
his hold thereon.
After he has token off the wing and
the leg and duly cawed them, he Una tha
turkey, changes mxts with it, sad serves
the other ride ia the asm# way, "taking
cure not to spatter tha gravy or flip the
dressing all over the table and into- the
laps of the guests. After the limbs have
' boon cut away, in thin sUqpa he shaves
' the breast down ; with the point of fhe
knife earring oat all those little tid-Uts
I which people of good taste generally like,
i Then he cuts into the dressing, and, if he
I pleases, follows up to* work of dissect ing
i without having token the fork from the
breaat-boue till the bird is completely
disjointed. In order to do this well he
mast have a steady hand, a sharp knife
one with a stiff "back preferred. The
Eint wants to be keen and substantial.
e must do the work quickly—ia lete
, time than has been occupied tn writing i
I this much of this article, i i
Then he asks the first Judy on hte right
! what part of the turkey she prefers : if
she will have it with or without dressing,
grsvy, Ac., Ac. When she U helped he
asks't he first isdy on his left and faelpa
her; then the second lady on hte right;
toeq the second-lady on hia left, and so
on to the foot of the table. He then
helps the gentlemen in the same man
ner ; assisting hte wife (if he bus one),
who should W tested at the foot of the
table, last of all, exempting himself.
Never ent a turkey or meat of any
kind in chunks ; slwsya cut it in slices.
Never undertake to carve with a case
knife, or a dull knife, or one limber like
a piece of tin, for such A performance wiH
only secure for yon tip? name of a "botch'' 1
and' for your guests any quantity of
grease-spots aid just cause for com
piomt ' I ' ./ml ftti 1
*' T# rrre*iondentv.
Persona writing with the expectatioa
<4 having their letters publislicd m this
paper will do well to observe the follow
iugrules :
Write only when you have something
to say.
When you have tuid it, quit.
Write only on one ride or your paper.
Write plain, and as you want your let
ter to appear.
,i. Do uoi write with a pencil when a pen
can be had.
Leave ofl the lopg preambles which
occupy space and require time to read.
Give the facts—comment* will be
made here. . * •
- Moke your letters short, pointed,
lively.
Do not write 00 loots you are afraid to
sign. Cowards never make reliable cor
respondents.
Short letters, like short visits, make
long friend*. ' • •' - !
Oysters in England Lave reached th*
•normous pries of SBS a bushel, conse
quent upon the almost complete dredging
out of the oyster beds, and ore now such
a luxury that only the aristocracy mm Af
ford to eat them.
NO. 2.
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a . Mi. - - -j .' .a iia n. 1 .**. %. At-.-la t* VMt
A isi £ Wl att® w* PfifelW
wtc. fito4. Wtet ■
You toU up arat fiwm tte Baht
tw tea* moA 18* * teWMi
And t b* bM are and * •*> are kiiri,
Aad pm We tor mm to* heart el 1 to* temaa-
B* not into miu*.
Th* Area are a* toe steam,
Sw'uv-'a'ttel! teuateToMt of to* rerth—*
pat not into nun*. |
mMIM.iM.IUIU.IIMJ.. .11l I)
Facta sad F>H*M.
To protect the okret-Fot a fok on it.
The voice of nature-The mountain's
p Mb ''
If 6 small boy is a W. tea big boy •
ladder ?
Fee Simple—Money givan to • quack
(lotto.
How to tell toe weight of a flto-by
always applied in vein.
A ton of straw iisaksi eight hundred
and fifty pounds of pspw.
The rw 00 the north aide of Chiesfo
are now culled " Slab Town."
When does a ntu. have to keep hU
word f When no on will tale it
In putting the "beet foot forward,"
•alwaviime the right, nr it wiH be left.
I Ilaviey gens up aa beer eomea down,
, and a if who ales ia called mait treated.
Maov young nten are eo impr'widut
thai they cannot keep anything hut Ute
)t*mm JS< 2
A line of stapes ia now npntog tram
Duluth to Superior Ciif, eight 4MM on
th ice. ' *
' Uia all very well to any, "take things
as tocv com? but mtpptoe thing. d<2t
comet
The Bcv?uto Day B*ptiate h*ve a
!r -mberthip of abont 7,000 is the United
Statee.
f , "Matilda, what animal cornea don*
from the dandST* " The tain, dean—
Augustus."
Mexiao ia mid to be like the earth, ba>
(worn it has a revolution every tweaty
fottr hours.
Why is amen whooenH leara by ex
periemst hko a lenrell Beoaaae be is aa
Aodebntod anther says thatnalaMw
, ever oonuwmcad without the fln* pega
being an apology.
Th& lAtfi* ot dr^wnoM'
as much as formerly, many of them bte
ing made entirely plain.
Fteneh dreeemakera amy that an A mer
ictfko cw*i'>tat'r it wctfib ©ow U> thofii
tlian thrm <rf Owiro vu countrymen.
The bill approptiaiinsr W.0M.000 for
the constructioa of publw bnfldings la
dmsago baa paaeed bite Bfoowe of ton-
K *mora of uudremsd kid aw worm with
muff*, and kid gtowe. wtfehoet teitchg
and wi to four gH buttons, are the mosl
rtytoh for fall dram.
! A lady, wife of one of cur ffouuucnt
iusaas eppvatwl recently at a ball with
jiieoea, fresh from toe wiat
An old rhyme says t
" Tbtt* art five reaeam wky man ditch :
Good wto*. a tnr-zd. bww. Pat dry.
Or tart fX akfba **>+**+?•
Or any atom aaaaon why."
- A Hindoo oaee boaatod tost be had
never taken human life, when some one
vilk.*!•-italy showed mm a morsel, of h;
daily food ander a nuasosoone. The poor
fellow died soon afterward* of starva
tion.
• The earth! in Texas wffl die by tooe-
Handsic conaequeiiee of the severe winter.
It computed by a local journal that
the we* Texas caetie inters* bee test in
stock, iram the present cold snap, over
**>o,ooo.
No on* ever aaeae lady in the street,
nowadays with a clean, freto-tookin#
tin) detealabk habit of wmrtog the
dress ao long aa to wc-p th<- filthy *re*a
making them look slovenly and duty in
very Ismißar with n
physutea. was asked whether he bad em.-
partnership with him. "i,
yea," said he, "we're been together for
some time; I always carry the doctors
'work home when it is done."
I--to no ia Rockingham, Virginia, baa
feet u shaped exactly like toe human
baud. There are fingers and nails ell
carnplete; toe hand and foot being soft
■n.l fi,-- hr, sad altogether different from
any chicken root that has ever been seen
j t f4 •. IL.JJI.J x ujz i eMu
A Tteoy*" H'luax Ctnoa*.—Julie Vair
1* vs. Thomas Grace This is aa aetior
of the case brought to recover damages
fur breach of promiae to many. De
fence : That di-tvadant has ae*<* made
4 anr promise to marry the piaia'ifi ; that
it ia a conspiracy on the part of the plauf
1 tiff and her fwiilv to extort money tram
him; that the plaintiff first proposed
marriage; that be replied, "Too wouldn't
marry aa old man lime me, would yon 1"
when she replied "he wold, if there wea
ohly m.mev . notigh ; that be never gave
lie r anv wrvaente but wh* were arficited
bwtofc'plaintiff; that be never took her
to ride except when asked to take her
on occasion* when she was going the
same way; that aB be aid in relation to
marriage was when she, during the win
let of 1876, suggested that would be a
•good time to get married, he said that if
ha wMguanc to get married he should
prefer the Fourth of July, which wm the
only occasion o.f hia manifesting any
wwriutb of jawioe ; and that he has not
made-or beokan any such proouae as the
plaintiff alleges. The defendant submit
ted hia defence without introducing any
tesbracm* Verdict for plaintiff for
88,500. Defcodnnt takes an appeal—
Procidkncf (R, l) BtraUl.
% A HOLIDAT GAM.— A favorite game,
gcnaraUv played oa Cfcristmae-eve in Old
Hug land, is known by toe name of snsp
dragou. It is thus described : " A auan
ttty of rafeina is deposited in a large
bowl or dish (the broader and shallower
this ia the better), and brandy or some
other spirit is poured over the fruit and
ignited. The by standera now endeavor
to tnrna to grasp a raisin by plunging
their bonds through the flames, and as
this is somewhat of an arduous feat, re
quiring both courage end rapidity of
action, a considerable amount of laugh
ter and merriment ia evoked at the ex
pense of toe nnsueeessfnl competitors.
The ' Hong of the Snapdragon ' ia anng
(hiring the progress of the game, and it
ia usual to extinguish all the lights in the
roam, eo that toe lurid glare from the
iiwring spirits may exercise to the full
ita weird-like effect"
ill/. . xi i ' ______ 4 *
Why should potetoea grow better than
any other vegetable ? Because they have
got eyea and see what they are doing.
Liquos Umaxm*—ln the United
Eingdopi, in 1870, there were 190,899
taverns. In that year the sum of £112,-
886,603 was spent for drinks, which was
a lurger amount by more than £28,000
than was spent in 1858-61. There was
one seller of liquor to every 83 houses.
The amount of grain consumed to pro
duce the drinks in 1869 was 62,772,572
bushel*. This it is estimated would, if
made into bread, have produced enough
loaves to nave a road ten yards wide more
than 1.800 miles long. So aaya the Be*
G. H. Vibbert (aa quoted in the Boston
Jomttal).
• Coern/r BLUKDML —A rather costly
mistake is stated to have been made in
the office of a member of the Liverpool
Stock Exchange recently. The principal
perceiving on. thp table whatbeoppfcd
to be a quantity of waste papa*, hastily
gnlhemi it Up and threw it into toe lire,
where it was speedily burnt. Almost
immediately afterwards he found that
with toe paper he had thrown into the
flames Bank of England notes of toe val
ue of £l,lOO. The numbers of the notea
ore not known.
Open air and cold water are recommend
ed by a celebrated physician OS the best
cosmetics for the complexion.
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