Wbw Uf Alls all ths lionid sir,
And wl*a theweodavlvh masis rfat;
tip allThs wakening flnwen rslo ioe,
. -AnAbMs tsmiiNl'-nw of voet wwk
" • OMh* W ih VMa i> fcnmniwV b*t
In wron.t UM Hrssss of Spm* to kill;
VTbsn garden* with iwftt** *tw *,
And when the languid uasate i-tlll;
o<<m* whoa U> ojwowA ImiM disclose
TUe fiery wf the <wH4>lowi ross.
dental" trio wtefi the Summer fade*,
When all **• rsssV*ww>lt¥ m dead
* iWtM StatuMa Votes Oh* enditeMWj,- chides,
*.'■ CAntem m* VftCnTHs Raj /
• • fttti Mite th tOor of ?oUul griof.
C"BM cJi4v wlmn all wamtbis lust,
w hou Autumn U> ftMa Wmtenyieldfci
* ' COmo whoa the Wtwr odg of ftps! . ,
ttlirouxH tl tie yerdym ot U WUi
* wßowtVuhn In cie* it dark and 4ML ~,
xhyprdkoao* than la-doub* Uses.
Suaihy Jtaslnp*.
Owes hither. frienflt y>a hithar, friends!
B,> grret the jqt *>• ' *
I want t.*We (■tn. v;y
For Ha Haunnado tHlnd irtmtm
Now ohiu4H| no to twfigv*
ThAphraolo uUS \ %
I® Whet tha joyfUmrl-.cne* tha baaid^
aiffiuaKlhjwtri ,l ~*
Coma kneel br ®e, olbandotl knaa;
To rnunt stoop low if Ye would see,—
j^awwiisa^iaajo?
Two tn un I that aha* out all uio sky:
Ij jttli fWwti was;
aW '*.*
■wmm-apwwhwiteanesWeA -IL_l
Or lot is waittug mujja of loC **' \ -
And thsqce wo pasa out of oar Bight k „
•I IHtb liianr to MB, .
the rtirtuu ai^t.
Aatf oft wAanabaiAndw flltt ha plaoa,
. | teste with dam opoa t fwa T
IM tlttahmta cmhraot
BafMd thwatadaAu atdaa day,
IjMO airw ofhtwiwa aUaat wm play, * *
JSftpyU—lM* away, 'j
*®*r Watdt rwaa no knotr hdra
it* with ma: Aran foci lVs\ near ;
, Sa taadtwiy aha* cocuo to choar !
ATidlhoKi In aacrct lift ta tsi,
T*k(>wl> A>w< r u Ulki aha la ad. a a-l
a-l its laaTea tabaavaa oauproad.
At tbd paai-o wityn my troait * I
Ail ktonov pWduoqa rockt to nil;
1 Ufct Vnd haUt b*a rJf g*m ,
Mf t 7t>paß
•"if eOYFESSIOX.
tJ •
I never knew til! this moment bow
strong-ft'the yearning w Licit impels one
wise am Jimm "with bope'ah# l#e tOpAr
Mt htihwM VyW> some ear, even if finkim
pathetic. For lree I titmot, though Tam
Jvtfa 4d* without IMtkt m txue accauftt,
n not .oßaoe* on record, knowing, that
three mil! ke garbled reporti^mtkifikmy
flwm blocker then it ia i k> not ex
a world ffhich has no goal for me in it. The
pWfefoTC eon never be mine; BIT prefer
skani! career is closed. I couhl
bnilK)ir thF 'xbarne j tfr ratfilr, It is tie
Iteming to beer it, of becoming &-
uis.4 Ui infamy, which is too fib-gust ing.
The court-uiertiai meet* to-tnorrow— •
would meet, ! mean, if there jrerq aqj out :
to try. lem under sirest in my qnaners;
fewiyi in . Is ro *• Ifr* \ k*taMMdlA*v f, * f
lT peiff ilMm§ Mrl\ IKRf Mfi Hjfnr, Itr ,
refwadiunfovhM the sword. "My revolver
tied
Ttsema tor* paper-weigbte* I fill "these
sheetZ, , i
...Thornier doe* vte rea*iaber..th*t lea
4erty where bre tin* met? A deli affair, I
rimn-d that it would be, bat it peeved the
hajifdert-evening of nt life. ! was en en
sign then, fill! of youthful hope end coufi-
Metite. 4 I her that night end ever
riacq.' jour oagagt-meat was a foolish busi
"Kfes, Tort bed. little means and no pros
pects, end at court*: her parents disapprov
ed qf it. was with that they
yff re pereaaQM to/proouM.lbeir aaatal to
our marriage when I got my company—a
remote contingency, seeing that 1 cooid not
-ewen/parclur raj-tim fttojkOlfcbt ittil
dwi endwiwrt 4 Lion by a wtsnderoil piete
oflaek; bofas for risirig hMier, there wis
fo JBgjftXjOl khitCTfr; nfl iifiZhs
jhexa was a war. Ivj fikehr to rem dale
lieutenant to the end oi lft*ftapter. lam
aloMy "Ondwof hkelr to be interrupted.
knoww nle here at 4** depot; II
anyone did, be wooM not fce+onxiou* io
dtitn ae<fnAntai*-e.
When the man who acts as my servert
the oiaaer. I told him I sh onj/i
noC want hkuitiß tomorrow mwruiag. rod
Svc him a shilling 5 that will keep fifi* at
ectotee* . I
Hotwi.atmigeat vres thtt she remained
true to me year after rear, while my rem
anent was abroad! Surely women ba*<
-been maligned. That I should be fait Hal
was no erdoder at all ; my near 'relations
were dead, and a man must eiiag to- some
thing. Tv
It was pt Brusofe,ui the Wertx Gallery,
that I onoe saw a picture which is distinct
In my kmi*.* The suicide baajnrt (red.
.with on effect grotesquely terrible; his
good angel-i floating away, with sorrow,
fad, averted fecq; Lis bad angel, stern of
look, offers a second weapon—needlessly,
a Bat ail shi< haa nothing to dd with my
ywwsAit purpose, which is to write flows
Vtro^ t gepftjr.t or the circumstance*
•wfllqh have bfougfcf me to my present go>
out night at CibraljflL
ifd pad spent niaoy solitary houra in had?
nec last letter, and ia repining
against that poverty which formed an iron
bascicr between us. till 1 foK ready to do
any desperate thing for money, and wished
that the did firt>les_ about contract* with
evil wlrt true, and that! had the chai*-'
of making ooe. I had been my rounds, bat
amble toletoafa etill % or guaTd-roora,!
vet adored oat again along the fortifications,
alone. There was no moon, but by star
light 1 could the out-
IfMVtf -rte JTWWI ahum kMM tSM-the
form vf.a gn which was close tome, be
cause tfie latter had an antra shade throw*
or m- it by the .parapet. I don't know
what esada ma notice this, hat i did, and
mooed my position to try bow ranch better
•Ibtfflirf sec the gutt #hen I wis faring the
enbrtwirf. It is astoniuLing what little
jplay with fbe attention wlten the
maw i*brooding, As I was poering about
the eon, a voioe istan it startled me:
-e 4 ifr. Singleton, sir! for God's sake have
mercy l , and do not eali the guard! I see
yoabave discovered me, and throw myself
"on your pity. //It is life Lam trying fcc
give mam chances, sir.'' If.
i loan not imagine why I did notseixe the
man* and giro the alarm st onee. I knew
who h vfUP—ne Taylor, a deserter who
had lived: for months on the mainland with
. a bapd or Spanish thieves, and who was
identified by an English nobleman, travel-
a public diligence a littlewhl.e back,
as concerned in lira robbery of it.
• iHe lied-been-apprehended'and faandUd
. over to the gpfrison authorities ; and wa
due of tie passengers had bdev killed fo
tfae.Wgair, and there vrea aonclutive eri
deuce that Taylor's band had fired the Ih
tai shot, his fears for the result of Ilia court
martial #ere well founded. '
Some Stfnnpe infetuatiob'now made me
hesitate and parley with the fellow.
.. y Hoar"did you escape?" I,asked.
n By the window of the cell,' 1 be replied
in tho Mine low, earnest, eager tones.
•M>b, sir, if yon knew the difficulty I had
—the despair with which I worked—the
mad jov with which J found myself £ree(
In afiother five minutes t ahoal<( hare been
safe, ouly yon aaw me. J was born a gen
tleman ; 1 can cot hang like a dog. Have
pity P
"Why appeal to me? you know mr
duty."
" It's a hard service for you, sir, in the
army, for I know your story. I coold
6how you how to purchase your step. Ay,
sir: I have treasure buried in a secret spot
(fat yonder, let me go and—No, no! don't
give the alarth; I see I have ollcuded yon,
butt iwn mad. Llften, sir; there is a lit
tle wayside inn fife miles c the road from
Algeei'ras to Tarife; bebiau t theie is an
orange grove, with a small pond iq the
centra; a drain pipe, dry now—ah I"
His pleading and my fiesitatiom were
put an end to by hurrying f.nt in<l epq.
fned shoute,
KURtZ, Editor and Pioprietor,
"Not tbeyeP' •*OomJ" "JyUMft, run
*h paranot and lal hitun-ll dtvp, the depth
beiR aiKHit cnwlea (bet. The action
aoeiutd to Inwak a wpell. awl to a desire to
atone for neglected duty, w as added a feel
ing of becnopai numV afatmt the tuan
who had *oiht to guile pic, 1 ctiied jm
SSp-rW IS
*We shall hate hjia ret, then, air; he
in a trap, and eihnbt reach the tea with
i einllensre
IfiikA SumL or ni Drv. ,:
Tl*l| a shot, f'msntljr aoofher obaDanyc;
another ahol fnrtlur on. Then a (mute,
and a shout, " f think he's down; but it's
too dark.''
We jM a Iwatfwo, ami fount! the fugitive
lying in a heap, vase less, and ke was ear
ned to the guard-root* and laid out there,
Uran and tuition loss. There was a patch
id Vh>od on his brsast, and a larger one at
his liack. , .
The assistant surgeon came presently,
grumbling. " I bad three lives, and Uiers
ware sidy four Mi in the pool. I wish
you would shoot your prisoners more con
veniently, Sinrletoiw rsV |ys tM fellow is
shot |u f.-piWruheio was
the good iu sending (or me? Got any soda
and B. in the guard room f*
• t* i ■ • • •
1 cannot give any ides at tha state of my
jasitid after that aWht; I saemed to live,
waU, (oik iu feverish dream. One thought
hsfi takan pcsaessiou of mv bisin, sad-tor
men ted me day and night; I tried, honest-
JIT tried, to shake it ofl, and could not. If
i Taylor's storv thould have been true; if a
tiwssur* rwoilv were eoneealed in that
gone*. tv6o could tell the owners.
determined to end all this, lhere was no
iu I no fyh* nr toga grove, or drain;
1 Arouia tetflly mysflT cTlhs fiction.
So i got leave, and set out with a giddy
brain and burning pufee for Algeciras,
where I hired a horse, aud rode along the
jfiinta road.
To of what J had said to myself, it
seemed quite natural to uw wh*u I came
to a solitary inn, with xa orange grove
behind it. I dismotufted "at the door,
directed ray home to be baited, and ordered
a fiottlv ot wine. Then, baring drunk a
few glasses, I went out at if for a stroll,
and penetrated into the orange grove.
There was the little pond, and after a
short search, I found the dm drakijp>j|p.
I looked carefully round ; oof w tjfar wis
near, so removing mv eoat and turning up
uiy tbirt-tleeve, I knelt down and thrust
my arm as far up the pipe as I could. I
telt somethpw tharo. bqt ct uld not grasp
it until 1 aftyta tile at the exit,
and then igot hoid cit a bundle of a Ban
dana handkerchief, knotted up in a bundle,
and on owning it I found jewels.
I got back to Gibralter, but have no
remembrance how; and I must hare locked
up the jewels in my desk before 1 lost eon
"me— ob, that it had, quite!—l lound the
accursed valuables there, safe.
When well enough to travel. 1 came to
England en sick leave, returning through
Paris, where I disposed ol some of the
jewels. Others I got rid of in London,
timidly at first, then more boldly. They
were "numerous and valuable, for though
doubtless the me* i dealt with had good
bargain* 1 soon lodyed money enough at
•be agent's for the pnrcbasc of my step,
ami' that just In ciue to save being passed
over.
A relative ol mine had lately died, and I
attrfohted this accession of property to a
' fefftrr.* '
I rtifled mr conscience with sophisms,
wis happy, liar iatber adhered honorably
itq hit promise, and now that there was a
proqpeck of nrr speedily fitting my cotu
[ pany,welcomed me to his bouse, snd treated
me," as did the rest of the family, with
great cordialitv. All my hopes were on
the point of fulfillment. Ah! I cannot
[ dwelL upqn those weeks. , •
Tbcy fled, and I tqenfi to London to
make preparations for our msrnsge, and—
bow shall I write on ' It would be im
porib!*, were It not thst the liarriN of
this old friend who once saved mv liie
jrhen I Kanuxi.it, (dropping the Maori
who stood over me with uplifted spear,)
and who w!lLgt{ feJb **♦. a life, arc
charged—t hf*i ppllroapfwd. I
1 went into the shop of Faoet & Watcrs,
the great jewelfty. who bad already/pur
chaflffl IM *4*7 '.u|llh)*f My btltfos, in
order flo dispose of three emeralds wbicb
were cut in a very peculiar way, and which
I bad tbyMfonroo* *ef iroayd for sale.
Mr. FaMlAiJSklf^hot'Jnr parttHT, was
Uikiag to an elderly gentleman aslrn
tered. and directly he aaw me be said—
riHere is Mr. Singleton, my lord; you bad
better speak to him about the matter
yourself. Ms J I troublejKKartf step this
way.sMri'flfogTbtoti k drall pre
•mtiracnt at my heart, I followed the
rttber fwo Into a priratc room.
>- I km tb Earl of A-—said the
stranger. ' I bowed. *' .May I ask whether
you sold this diamond ? '
, "Teembit *, 1 sold this firm several."
i but this has a particular flaw in
it * ace."
yxfiy what right do you question me 1"
I asked. . ,*
"By the right of s man who hid been
robbed. You have disposed of several
valuable Jewels to Mr. Facet, which were
once set in my Orders aud in Lady A—-'#
ornaments, and which were* seized by a
blind oi Spanish brigands l>etwec* Seville
and Cadiz. Yon have told Mr. Facet that
they were I fit you by a cousin ; I reouire
the name of that cousin, the proof of Ma
death, means of discovering low my jevrejs
came into bis bands."
"And if I refuse to afford yo* any sid T*
!•' "Then I aha If be under the painful ne
cessity of sending lor a policeman."
" h'uajl I bragen it out V was the first
thought which paised throagh my reeling
brain. But a moment's reflection showed
me bow stupidly useless that would be,
apd. I told hua the eaact troth. u i
Lord A— looked tMdilr at me, Mil
said—*' Hare yon any of the jewels in your
" Yesand I prodneed the emeralds and
several smaller stonos.
44 Will yoni lire Sfy-JWF* ,Bd d *
drcsseo of the dealers to whom you have
pqrted with the others, and kelp me to
recover them t"
•' Yw."
* Then on those conditions, and provided
I receive oerisin details tending to oonflrai
your story, I will not prosecute youJ I
know the colonel of jour regiment, tad
win write to him for information about
where yon yourself were at tbo date of tho
attack on tho diligence. If his answers
are not satisfactory, I kold myself free
from thq promise not to prosecute-; lot I
cannot compound the murder of an old ami
faithful servant, and my valet was killed.
In the meantime I suffer yon go at largo."
u Bat if you mention the affair to mi
colonel, I am • ™' ed man P'
"I cannot help that; you must take
your chance."
It was thus that Lord A kept bid
promise to bis ear, to break it to the sense*
he has not brought me before a eivit tri
bunal, but -his information has neeessistqd
this court-murtial, and so signed my death
farewell for rmr 1 j, •,.
| ******
There vat as explosion, but it was not
tbtt of ft wJoWf pfetoi j awty tbft moro-
- " - TT * 7 i#s *iv ' * '•* •
h i • f> j j.jiN nwwTbi'W • ,u ' i4l Ml 1,1 ,h **' trjpfliitoG un* *d . .
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
tng gun. an I Arthur Singleton, lietitvuant
in the Royal Rrowiw, ataited up from the
taUo in the guard-room at which he had
been sleeping with bia bead ou hit anna,
crying
'* By Jove, what a horrible dream 1 have
had! - and xxlut a lot* one ! And yet,"
he added, luokinf at his watch, " 1 cauutit
have l<*u asleep many minutes, lor the
Buard was turned out a quarter of an
boor ago! 1 do believe I hare passed*
lifetime while the gun wraa firing. Qum-r
things, dreams!"
lie sat down to write thia one while it
was Irvsh iu his incmorv, ami finished his,
task before he was relieved. The resold
may be interesting to psychologists.
I .1! 11 .ll ■
Shot with Cork,
A lady residing on Second atroet re
tired enrlv, us usual, the other uight, in
good health, and with a feeling of se
curity regarding her personal sufety, uot
droaming of the pivixiwity of thuiger or
the probability of injury from deadly
weapons, whieli aim afterwanla supposed
were at the time pointing at her Iroui
the window just opposite her bod.
While peacefully repcuaug and enjoying
the ivmfort and iusury of a ouiy roam
os a wiutur'a night, aadd.-nly tber# wus
a hiirj> report at the window, the whir
of aeme kind of missile phasing through
the room, and a sound as of a anot strut
ing the person of the lady, followed by a
sharp slinging sensation between the
shoulders. A vream jiiereed tha air and
stortlod tha members of the houvhold.
who eame running to the chamber and
frinnd the kdy fainting.
Cold waU-r" was freely uaed. when the
lady recovered and cried out that she was
shot, and a boy was despatched in haste
for a doctor on Third street. The phy |
sieian tilled his pockets with probes and .
forceps and knives and what-not. for (lie (
stirgsral visit, and went mailing to thi
rescue, thinking, probably to save a
poor suffering creature's life. Tha door i
was opened, anil be hurried into the l
room ; but instead of finding the patient
writhing in pain and agony, he wav over |
whelmed with surprise, and perhaps a |
little disappointed, to t'uid her laughing ,
and lihnJung, as if enjoying oue of the
Uwt of jokes. Before be could ask any |
questions, she hastened to explain that'
after ha was sent tor a memoer oi tue
fiuuilv examined her shoulder, and no
wuuud was found. She then remember
ed that she hot! left a few bottle* of tie
in the room near the window, and further
investigation proved t hat one of the corks
had popped out, striking her in the back. 1
which she thought was a bullet shot
through the window. Tt was an amusing
affair to the doctor, who likes a joke as
weH as any one, and he joined with the
family in a hearty langh at the wounded
lady's expense, albeit he was a little dis
appointeu in his antici|>atioa of a apleu
diii case of cutting, slashing Aud probing.
and—bia usual fee.— Lmvrvilic Courier
JburnaL
Suicide of * Jealous Young Wile.
A most dbtresfcing esse of suicide oe ,
curred near Otuport lud. A youug and s
very estimable gentleman named Davis, I
who had been married but a short time, '
and whose* marital relations had been of;
the most delightful character, received an ;
invitation to attend country spelling-1
match a few mile* distant frotnnie resi
dencc. He informed his wife of the in-1
citation, announcing to her that he would !
attend, inasmuch as he liad many per
sonal friend* whom he would meet there.
It seems that the wife was greatly ex-,
cited at this announcement*, aud it has ■
since transpired that this exeiterndd was -
the result of a foolish fit of jealous/, 'she I
imagining he onlr desired to attend the '
school that he might flirt with some of |
his former young lady aoquaiulancM. '
She told him if he went she would blow ;
her brains out, aud lie would find her a •
corpse when he returned. Mr. D.. how-.
- ver, treated her Vhreat as a bit of bodin- 1
aifo, at>i giving it a second thoiraht. 1
This was in consequence of the plwfcant
life they had so for lived together, their,
happiness never having Uoen marred by i
an unkind word, or, us fax ns he know, i
even thought He therefore mounted 1
his horse and rode to the school-house. |
He returned about ten o'clock st night, ■
wheti, uodn entering his residence, he,
was horrifie.l to find his wife lying ip a
pool of blood nphn the floor, a pari of
her Anil blown ofl. bhe had too Mir-1
fnlljr executed lier threat The wound i
was inflicted with a revolver, wltieb, from 1
the powder murks upon her face, mart!
liave been held close to the forehead. ;
The lady was an inteHigent, handsome i
wotnm. Her rash act has almost driven
her husband to insanity. They had l*en !
married but five -week's, and were ajjiar
ently greatly attached to caoh ofligr.
The tod affair has created profound sor
row throughout tbc entire neighborhood,
in which the unfortunate faintly lived.
Maw Y*a*'s Dat. —Most of the news
papers Uironghont tho country, says a
New York paper, spuak favorably of the
Several things' am indisputable. The
custom of giving wine, spirit*, and punch
to caller*, doc*, every year, result in a
great deal of inebriety, "especially among
young men. There ia But restraint or
none stalk ad tlw day fk-otqarate* too
often Sito A drntiieft lUrhrnalia, fcr
which, we are pained to *ay, women are
mainly Jde. yhpla mqral
law or the matter is suspended, and
nobody seems to deem it at nil discredi
table to be tipsy on First of January.
U our matron* and maidens will but
think seriously of*thr dangers t > which
ttmng men are thus exposed* tl ey will
surely consult their own hajmn ssa ami
aocini well-being by demons&at ng that
genial good wishes are qui to consistent
with a respectable sobriety. Ome's health
and good fortune may surely 1* drank
Mnoroely without an accumpwgyifig--hic
cough ; odiaft flen<L although
ho may not r<M about tlicdnlwing-room.
TUB DIPTEIIKSCX.— Diamond-digging
in Brmth Africa, as in nil El DbVado*,
is s sort of lottery. For instance : three
brothers workod separately,but near each
other. One of them for a year's work,
realized about fifty dollars over ex
penses ; the other brothers realized ten
thousand dollars each. Yet the work
requires men of robust health, steady
habits, and plenty of patiehce. The ad
vice generally by tlioec who know is that
no man who already has remunerative
employment should engage in the work,
and no man should go to the fields with
out reserving money enough to take htm
back in ease of failure.
In Chins, the Emperor's physicians are
liberally paid—so long as his Majesty con
tinues In good health. But the salaries
are suspended from the beginning of his
illness, and it has been remarked that the
hoar relative of the "San and Moon"
generally enjoys uninterrupted health, i
Here is a Missouri paper's notion of
the high calling of journalism : "We a
compelled to make this week's issue
almost exclusively a local and advertise
ment paper ; bnt took out for next week's.
It will be one of the gayest, fiercest, hot
test papers that ever went forth from as
American news-raggery." 11 • j
" Tell the mistress that .1 havs torn ths
! curtain," said a gentleman lodger to a
female domestic, "Very well, jx ; mi*
1 treas will put it down M root,"
CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1872.
Indians as Gamblers.
In California the Imlians gamble some
' tiling after this fashion Tbcy all aa
imbled iu a large sbantv, *utting in a
| l irelo around a bright tiro to Urn uum
Iter of about forty Mien, squaw* and
mipcHiaes. They flmt proootxljtu moke up
a slake for the great game of tlie eteu
mg. Oua ludisu would lay down half a
dollar, tlieu another of the opposite par*
►trrwvfw* cquEßfamaw ofn ouu
; eover it.
Auothtfr WWfll4 lAYefosuk jiie hlankut
. tieosf, by an
ijjlmr, and po on, RUtil they hod a stuko
| worth playing fur. Tbv whole stake
ouusUted ot SH, in half dollars, about a
phtg-hatiul of shell buttons and a large
heap of clothe* and blankets, eomo of
them very good, altogether ptolmbly be
iug worth $150; '
They gwmUe with four pi. ce* of bono
about tqo iuolio# long, two of which ore
smooth and two marked with rings and
strings tied around the uiddla. The
gome is conducted by four old and ex
peri, need fellows, two for each party,
squatting'.on their knees on opposite
shUd *f the fin*. Thny have be tore thcin
a quantity of fin a dry grasa. and tkey
roil up aach piecw of bone in a little
ball, with their hands first before them
•ml then behind them, ami the opposite
party guesses in which hand is the
marked hone. When one guesses the
right Laud ho vays " we" (auinWr one
righk) when he guesses ths left he says,
••ten." (number two-left). They have
twelve small sticks for counters, and
when ail are on one aids the game is
•tided.
Generally, oaly omj man gue.wes M a
time, oud it he guesaes right (or Udh of
Iho players Umv simply toos the bonus
sevwvs the fire to him and hit partner,
and they commence rolling them np. If
he gucaw riffht fur one and wrong for
the other, Gm one whom he gur***d
right is Out' and atop* playing, but
his partner roll* up for unother trial and
tha guaoarr forfiits to them one of ths
omit.*9. When nil the co mi tern am won
by otoa couple'the gnm- it doue, and
every Indian takes out of the stoke the
article he depoaitcsl and thu oue kid on
it so that every one of tin winning party
.-times oat with prceasely-doublo wimt lis
west in with.
AH this is very simple, but it took ma
nearly two bour to penetrate iutg the
whole mystery at it, such a wonderful
•mount of juggelerifl*, mammertea, man
ipulations and incantations do the In
dians eueompsMi it with roaud about.
As soon as the Indians eommenco rolling
tip the bones in the hay, thy fall to
whipping their arms bock and forth, W
furc will behind them, staying their
bodies backward and forward, and chant
ing t " ILk-mso, ha-man, ha-man." or
•• ki-yi, ki-*i, Iti-vi," or something else,
each" chanting wliaterrr-raits bioi, but
leaping perfect time with his compan
ion*. Then pretty soon tliay bold np
their hands to their breast with their
elbows akunbo, twist their bodies
around, as if they were in mortal agony,
and red ore their* chant to a mere grunt,
"Eh-nh, uh-uh, üb-ufi," though they
grunt in perfect Uuie with the twisting.
A Fright fat Death.
A little girl six year- of age mot with
a horrible death at Huguenot, X. Y.
The mother of the child hearing screams
rushed to the sitting-room and discov
ered the little girl enveloped in (tones,
and an English bull-dog, tearing her
burning garments off ber with his paws
uad teeth. He hail already token over
bolt of Ixtr clothing off. oad, it is lie
licvcd had he been left akin® he w.wtld
have saved the HtUe girl's life. The
mother crazed at the sight, rushed for
ward and dnsped her child to her bos
om, and held lier close, Uius baffling the
efforts which the faithful dog made, al
though singed and burned dreadfully
himself, to tear off the clothing. The
girl wa horned to death, and the mother
fearfully burned'. The dog that exhib
ited inure than human sagacity in its
efforts to save the child, had been her
constant companion, having tieen raised
with her. Since the burial of the child
occurred, he waudcxs from room to room
as if searching for her, uttering a plain
tive whine expressive of hie grief. He
takes no food, uud it is believed that be
will pine to death.
Hint.- to Young Hen.
These words of wisdom are from a paper
in tha last number of Lomiar* Society :
After all, in looking out for a wife,'a
man must consider how she will show at
the fireside, rather than at parties. You
can learn so much of literary and acholic
tost ON, the favorite liooks that are al
ways in hand, the music that is regular
ly studied and sung, the kind of asso
ciations, and the general order of tastes.
It is by far the lieat way of getting up a
flirtation, which is not
, done and benignant Love-making ts
an uncommon pleasant employment for
the winter nights. Yen may talk of the
perils of young men when they come "up
to town j hut there Is no better safeguard
than giving such young fellows the asso
ciations of home ana swwt woman.
Parents make an immense mistake tak
ing too severely monetary a view of the
young fellow's prospects. I never knew
a voting fellow under ever sc dun a cloud
who, with purpose an I ability, could not
work out his way into tha sunlight.
Better even the long engagement, or the
early marriage, than many other sup
positions that might be put.
SHOTCE or A Brroiouooif.—ln a Mis
souri town a voting man named Chuff?n,
blew liia brains oat with a revolver. He
had won the affections of a young lady,
aadtheday for eelehratlng the wedding
nuptials was set. The ceremony was to
take place at the residence of the bride's
parents. The duy arrived and the invit
ed gnosts had assembled, and at the ap
pointed hour everything was in readiness.
The bride was dressed in her wedding
attire and nothing seemed lacking but
the groom, who did not make his appear
ance according to promise. After en
daring lengthy anspenae, a brother of
the intended bride, went in search of
vonftg ('baffle, and found hint in his mm
house lying on the. bed, with two bullet
holes through his forehead and a revolver
grasped in bis hand. Ue lay face down
ward and the lied clothes were saturated
with blood. Hia wedding suit, annotat
ing of blsek alotli, was found in a trunk
in the room. * ,
Tunc Honrtons or HATABA.— Further
particulars of the recent murder of tlie
young students in Havana are developed.
It ia well known there that at drat only
fonsof the lada were condemned to death,
bnt the court considered that nninlier too
small to satisfy the demands of the vol
unteers. The two Bermudez brothers
were draWn. One of the Judges, Apoli
nsr del lUto, exclaimed : " This is hor
rible ! How ean we snatch two sons
away from one mother ? M and one of the
Bermudez Brothers was condemned to
destb, the other to the chain-gong.
Young Verdugo, who was shot, was with
his mother at tbe church of Nostra Seno
ra del Pilar when the supposed desecra
tion of the grave* took place, and anoth
er victim, the little fellow Llera y Medi
na, was with his family ia Maatanras at
; fhe time. "
NEW LOJJDOK is fitting out another
wbaUag fleet,
A Wallk's Hlstary.
i A small boy was lately picked up bv
11lie Dubuque police, and gave the fol
■ lowing history i
I do uot know my ago, bu* I was horn
iiu HabuU My tsir<wta ore both dead.
The first I can ivum iuh'* I began
io pick op ny livniM Vw *ud
thery, just where 1 could flvnl it. I some
1 times got n lltfle foqd by dfiiug cjpirtsa
for people, and ycrimionolly some one
wonld give me an okl <at. or a pair |ff
shoos, whan f had any. I picked up
where they bad boon thrown away. I
ucvqr , took any food or clothtw i
without leavo, I uovqr wgyt to subool.
I slept around in barns uud sheds, and
sometimes in dry goods boxev
for t#o Winters I slept" In a
swat! hut, with on uM man. a f-wmlloa
in the wood, and these I got
unto and such as I could
find, ivud full which 1 naught in
Uip river. But I bvml for two j4utamers
in a large hole jiu Urn bank of the river
up ton aids Qidaiio, in a place called the
" cut-off" We had flhdrtttc tltaos and
Itveil Hko klugs, riftfWi and prairie
chickens, ducks and potatoes. TTiere
was two boys wish ma who run away'
(Tutu Uolotia, Ona of tlieoe boys was
named Marfiu. 1 d't know where lie
,is now but out time h and I had a Hue
ride iu the caw. W wsut diwn to Duu- ;
Jeith oae day, and when nogqe was look
ing, wc git in a wheat car, *>on after U|e
hrakemau or aomctvody came and locked
the oar, and we voile all the wsv t fatten
(so; nod it was a long ride, hut we eat
lots of n heat, you bet! When the nun
opened the car at Chicago he looked
strange at ns, and then aware some, but*
we got out and ma away. I had a pretty
tough time is Chicago' I stayed with a
negro faxmiy when 1 was there. The
Ix'TS aru pretty bod. hyyf iq Chicago.
When I left there I cam out to VVtseou
; sin wilh a cirdua. I went in io do chorea,
I to help fold up tents, Ac., and when we
i were iu Dartingtaa f gok twdly hurt m,
my arm wtwa I was leantiag towimitu r
soil It, and was sirk. Then I cook) not
wotk and thsy euohk'd me, sud kioknd
mi\ audi ran awsj the nvxl Joy. Titen
i I got on a former's team oua .rod? to
Council Hill, and then walked on the
railroad to Dubuque, and a man aoou
got me and put mo in the Poor !l<>iuw,
and I have lieeu there two year* Ift
both my feet frozen sotuo tune, 1 don't
know when it was.
A Xlmbaippl Excration.
At CiMnada, Miss., Frank M.ITS was
hung for the murder of his wifa oy4>i
son. some tiuio since, lie ronfntaed the
crime, as well as the raurd- r yf his four
tear old child, Although fie "kept np a
brawn face until tfao day of execution,
at that time the murderer entirely gate
out, and prosed himself aa errant eow
ard. In the mortaag, when the jailor
went to awaken him, ho found ly
ing on the mattruea with 14 body drown
up in the smallest |>uasih]e apace and cor
crcd, as was hw face, with Lluk<-(a. At
the time he was seemhjpdy rteopluc, but
his manner of brraHring allowed that it
was feign, d. He alee attempted inaaa Uy.
Ho rafused to more acid it waa necessary
to mo /owe in drawing lwu. lie was
carried down stairs and placed in a chair
in a wagon, which also contained his oof
fill, a rough stained pine coffin. He was
ironed and closely guarded. After a
pravcr, the was about Alsys
neck. <uid the set drawn close a behind
the rigid ear. As it was being affixed
May* lor tbo first time said "Oh, L -idy !
oh, Lordy " ! in an almost unintelligible
toftc of "vofeo. Not soother word was
uttered by him. Standing him up on the
trap two men held him ere. t, while his
arms and lega were srootety fastened
and lbs white gap drawn or his face.
Then the sheriff gave the sign si and the
rope waa cut A cluteh at the phtfarra
t curds with hishands as he went through,
a few eonrulidrs grasps—and all was
over/ Just three and a half minutes af
ter the trap rope was severed the last con
traction of his muscles was noticed.
Surgical investigation afterward proved
that his neck ws* -broken, and it Is sup
pnsed that he suffered little at nA pain,
as death was almost instantaueoan.
While struggling jnsl aftpr passing
through the trap a load armun was
heard from a young woman in the crowd,
who threw up her hands ami fell sense
less. She was the sister of him whoso
death she waa then witncMinc. Bol>*
were to be heard proceeding from all
-(uartors of the crowd, which iturnedi
idely dispersed.
Our !fc.ighber Mexico.
As'evcry reader of the papers may beadily
judge for himself, our neighbor Mexico,
is iu a deplorable abite of civil war. In
fact the whole country is in one state of
revolution. This does not teem to tie i
divided Iwtwrcn two parties or two
cbicf*. but into many, although the
grand objact of the revolutionist* papers
to be the rejection of Benito Juarea as
President of the republic for. another
term of fonr years, upon the ground
" that he lias already lite.vidcd over four
teen years—a period lenghtened con-'
trnry to the sjierit 'ff wet the letter of
the constitution, and that be has just se
cured liia nominal and illegal re-election
by using elements which pertain to the
whole nation, and by violently 'Mumping
out the rights of a fine jieople entitled to
free suffrage."
While the rcvolutionliata arc divided
nmoug themselves as to who will be
Jnnrer.'socroasoT there is no doubt of their
unitv against the President. It is a fact
to whieli attention should be called that
the military men now engaged in this
revolution arc the, arae men—general*.
colonels and officers of lower grade—who
sustained M. Jan res in the content
against the French Intervention and
who most distinguished themselves in
the engagement* which took place be
tween the liberal forces and those of tha
French, Austrian* and Imperial Mexi
cans
The revolution appears to be general
to a frightful extent. Armed bands are
scouring the country, levying contribu
tions aud committing outrages of every
nature. The whole country is flooded
with " proclamations," issued by chiefs
of these bauds, aud our unhappy neigh
bor is suffering more severly than aver
before. Press gangs are everywhere en
gaged in forcing men into the "armies,"
and life and property are nowhere safe.
Soi.ro FIOUBEB,— The papers are no
ting the high prices paid to foreign sing
ers. None of these figures, however,
come up to what Barniun paid Jenny
Liml. She received $208,675 for nine
ty-five concerts, which give an average
of $2,196 per eoneert, or $43,920 ( for
twenty nights. He also paid all the ex
penses of Miss Lind, her eomponionand
servants from England, and all their be
tel and traveling expense* up to the last
concert, besides furnishing her always
with a private coach and homes. The
receipts of the concerts varied from SB,-
000 to SIB,OOO a night, Ten concerts
realized over $140,000. This was, in 1857,
when a thousand dollars was more than
a thousand now-a-days. '
It is the fashion for a bride, after the
reception, to slip on the oldest| black
silk trees aha owns, and with har new*,
pads husband slip down the bask stair-
SAM sad out of the basement door, where
they jump into a earriage, and ara off on
their wadding tour, without bidding any
one good-bye,
i Sinrular C'Ate.
The foil"*** TioUbon* out m Eg
, lrtuil ha* called Die stuaitioa of the
press t<> a ftiinilinr eats that uoeurrad
orur thriw hundred years ago. It it MI
! bitevestilig that we glte It trt our raad-
I er*. It eem* that In IM* Martin
< IttarTßi 4 native of Diaaay, belonging
to Loo nl*e* of wall to-do poaimttt pro
prwbiw, married * girl, by name
traiule Jo ftuk. Tbqjr ** AWf
year* of age at tliia time fpd it wa woo
year* before Martin'* son *aa boi to
tliein. Hi ft ton. prov.id to b' I very l*d j
bow. H< married, however, and it wan,
believed hod Uled down and reformed.
Bobbing hi* father and leaking detection
ihe ran away, diverting hla hemic. Mead
while hia father Jittd, Wring lira mutate
utd four daughter* in the hand* of a
brothnr who nwuuged ii in tin; name of
1 Marliti. At the end of eight rear* the
| Inet Martin or one whom every one at j
I'unoe reeoguixediusaA, reappeared, and
• waa welcomed by hi* wife ihrtrande, by
hi* hi* uuaic, and by ait hi*
.friend* and aajiiaint mm*, living with
, them for three years without smiling •
, shadow ttf aupun'u- Hia wife, who had
; been warmly attached to her husband
■ before his disappearance, wa* overjoyed
' at hi* *hpp< >■*-<! return, cfung to the new
I eomer with redoubted sflHtton, and IK>MJ
I him two children, one *A whom dual in
Ictula* an#- Heewwlly, Imwever, a
*ol<Us happened to go through the
village of Artiguee, who, at a private in*
u-rvi.-w, communicated to Ih-rtnmd the
startling iOtelf!genoj tilftt her real hus
-1 band, Martin Guerre, vtasHvintfin Flau
! <(wthat he Irwi Seen a ecudior like
! huutuM, and had lekt a leg, carried off
, ig a! cannon-ball at the llitUs of Hi.
Laurent No notice was takes of this
ciudai M it w* bciifvod to W and all
parlies liviwil happily for three rear*
alien a JugxiL arose between Martin
and hie imcta" fcbout the property, and
t violent (jtumh -took place, the auric
i froqwonay awfeiwtti&g the nephew,
i Uaaie Futm and teat of hia eoos-iuidaw
, cmWwtrwd to pnrv**l on CtrUwudo V>
[ JXar'tti a* an impostor. But
• so withstood all ,tuv*f nafumeute, And
to every dAubt urged Wrmfist the man
now*' |VTwuiatTOi her noabanfi, shh in-1
*lMitly replied that be must * either he
Mart lis Cittern- or the devil its his akin."
tier imprisoned husband was presently
Moaned o bad, and on hie return to
hi* village he was again received by her l
with every tuark of conjugal attachment
But oh tne fHPnwinp day, early in the
siftrmiag. km undo ivrrw. with his fottr'
j Mma-io-iaw, took* into Martin'a house
with arms ui their hand*, and. prof on* •
ing to Ml by poyrcr i attorney in the
* lVs name, wrested Martin, charging
hlttf with fr*>l |od deception. The
| power of attorney, however, aa it ww*
i piowsd, was onhr sigaed br Bartrande in
the evening of thai same tlay..
A ii-ng trial ooauwl ui which may wia-
I oesnra Uw*HrtelW- the idiuuly of Martin.
, wbijo oUwr* asaoited Umt ho waa an
imiKwtur. Hi* wife would not or could
5 nrl jlvc criflchcc eithftf for or against
1 the man. her mttfd having boccme won
fnacd by thia {mrpiexing state cf affair*.
|. JavaiffMnc. however, comhfncd to hh
htt* the Judgiw <■> g** their aeatonc*
linffvor of tho ivuongr, when a man
•udhnghimaelf Martin Guerre, and with,
a wooden lag, answering the d<wcription
'givfu by the aoldier to Bartrande, ap
, lu court He waa immediatciir
< arwwtcd and <ynffnid to a roll, depriv
ing him of ail ccatraaaimtioa with tha
outer world, and. being amnatly examin
ed. hv antared into ad the parucular*
i rv#p-- ting his family, ku village, and
acouainL:i< o with tfouaidmralda accuracy,
* but yet 'not with the mlauteunaft, with
♦ the promptness and certainty which had i
ibedh 1 driphtyed by tha flnrt pritoner
i thrpogkoot the transaction. Tba two
Martiu% wore then coafrontad. sai both
i stood dm teat of ctoawexamihition with
, firtaaos* ; nut itws obacrved that the
. aaw comer, although consistent and
! positive, whs ia uwqacnt instances, and
especially in mattcva of domcctic and i
t-onjugai concerns, lea* glib and explictt
j than bin advetoary. They war* plied
wpaxatoiy withpu<tioas on topics which
j bad hiUwrto never baa a alluded to in
, the Iri.tl, but ths ftsuwert wara arpudly
ir.uly and. fully satisfactory on cither
' side, Wilis- MH-S wer* thi callad—dlrst,
the brother*, nwkt the tistar* of Martin
(iuerrc. wlio, M they entered ona by ona
i and cast a glanoo on the aaw coiner,
threw their arms around hia bsck. btlrat
ing into teal*, aalluig him tkair raal
broUnjjc, and uliig lee purjoa a thoa-
Kufd tunes for liafing allowed Uiainaalvaa
to bo Qie dupe* of a grass deception,
which bad ftquftllv (hiPosad upon all
MhHr nwiiftbolw. 'Bartran io' hrnna next,
and in her ensa also the ffrst rigiit of the
! mau wdfii tka WoOdes Icgsoemed to cause
the acalea at onca to faD from her eye*.
, *bc sai|k ouhar kie<w before Uia &ua
. baad she liad ao gricroasly mid yet so
unwittingly wronged, and she urged in
her exculpation the astonishing resem
! Mance between him and tha villain who
had dawivad her, and the readfnos* with
; which hia own sister* and all the village
of Artigut hail falle* into Iter awn
1 union. The earae revulsion of fashng
manifested itself in all the WIUMSM* who,
were bronchi in In succession, especially
in those who had been foremost in ae
knowledcing Ins first pretender and to
give evidence iifiMs favor. The passion
■tearwnt and flawing tears of the lov
ing wife carried roUTietvm to the hearts
cl tha judges The man with the wood
en leg was reinstated iu all hie rights aa
Marfan Ourrre. and tfc* impoator,
Arnauld de Tilh, wa* eondemned to be
hau£cd and burnt. Before he was led
ont for execution he avowed that he
had served ss a soMier with Martin
Guerre ; that he had lived with him on
sucb terms of friendship an enabled him
to gain possession of all his secrets, and
that upon his return from the wars, hav
ing accidentally fallen In with some
person* who had mistaken him for hit
friend, he hail conceived the scheme of
taking that friend's name and plaae—a
scheme which had at first succeeded to
the full extent cif his expectation.
;n*. ' ; I >•
Ait IOEORAWT Do®.—An eld farmer
went out one day looking over his broad
scree, with an ax on bis shoulder and a
small dog at his heels. They espied s
woodehuek. The dog gave ebaso and
drove him into a stone wall, where ac
tion immediately cominebced. The dog
would draw the wopdehuek partly out
from the waC, and the woodehuek wottld
take the dog haek. The old farmer's
sympathy getting high on the tide of the
dog, he thought he must help Mm. So,
putting himself in position, with ax
above the dog, be waited for the attrac
tion of the woodehuek, when he would
eut him down. So an opportunity offcr
ered. and the eld man struck, tint the
woodehuek gathered up at the same time,
took the dog in far enough to receive
the blow, and the dog was killed on the
spot Forty years after, the oW man, in
relating the story, would always add :
"And that dog don't know to this day
but what the woodehuek killed him.
According to report, the Bois de
Boulogne, which was devastated during
the late war, is to be replanted with for
est trees of fifteen year's growth. Of
coarse the difficulty and expense of
transplanting matured trees is vaty grant.
TBE Herman expedition to Yenexuela
will be commissioned to enforce the na
tional claims against the government of
the South American republic,
A Chinese Mnperstltlan.
They tfU • stranga rtory about Chineae
superstition It will be remcmbarad
that a large portion ot the kingdom was
flooded not lug since by a break in the
levee of the river T-a-ahui-h*. As dam
age was Uirest*- nod hw, a mimwogar
was sent from IVkin to iuapact Uu UiroaU
aued tqsit. Ha found a small hoi", and
grary sign ot coming disaster. But in
the hi !u it as a large fili, This was da*
ojsrad to be a god, and ibe conclusion
drawn was that it Would W impioua to
try to stop Sim passage of A# watai*. as
it was plainly the will of Heaven that the
bank ahoahl give way.
When the catastrophe bad aatnaUy oe
ourred. and ea<-ooiaive attempu to fill
the breach had failed—the rushing
stream having swept w!-v and reads
swav— the talc grew. It was then said
there wore two fuLa, one of which had
gone np the country, while the other re
mained about tha opening, end that of
course it would be useless to do anything
until the wandarwr returned. A few
days later Tau tai of Tteut-ain, in hia ca
pacity of conservator of riwara, Ao., had
none to the break in the Eudio, on the
West of the city, to sacrifice to Yuen-
Shen, a fabulous tortoise or fish, who is
1 supposed to eontrol tbewaters. He went
m Kfeat state, accompanied by other oflb
ciala Tttblea ware placed upon the nv
er hanks, a tablet, ineense urn* eandle
sticks, and all other neoeseary parapher
uidia planed in their proper place*, and
then this strange eemoony began. Be
sides tha actual worship, the principal
business was a long pravar oflered by the
Tsu-tai, who recounted the sufferings
caused bv the flood, the fruitless efforts
to top the various breaks in the
banks of ths rivers, snd besought the
fl*h-god to allow them now to be repaired.
Tha works at this spot ware then reoom
menAed at ouee.
Unfortunately, Ynen-flhea does not
secan to have been entisfit d, for before
long the waters again asserted their pow
er and swept away all the material gath
ered to resist them. Then the Ton-ten
grew angry and paid another visit to the
breach. ineense—no offering*. Can
non took their plsce and the magistrate
roundly rated the god tor hia non-com
plianoe with hia wishes. Didn't I tell
yon so and no, and yon paid nq attention ?
Von don't core for the trouble caused to
so many thousands of people, Ac., Ac."
Bang! hang! bang! the cannon were let
fly st htm, and the worthy magistrate
went horns feeling that be had done hie
duty! There eon 1* little doubt, wheUi*
be made any impraanoa on Yuen-KLen
or not, that ha has to a certain extent
~ icd ia convincing the peppW that
he is not rsponsbl for the flood, and
in coafirming tha popular superstition.
An Eight-Hear Uw.
Oov. Hoffman of New York, In his
message, speaks as follows of the Eight
hour law :
In 1870 what is commonly called the
Eight-boar law waa enacted by the Leg
islator® and approved by ma. It pro-
I. hd, among other things, that eight
hours shall constitute a legal day's work
upon all the public works of the State,
and that any public officer who should
violate or evade its provisions might b®
remaned by the Governor wr by the
heads of departments to which such of
See?'was attached. By this Act the
Legislature intended to hold out the
promise, on behslf of the State, to labor
ers who nugfit be employed on any pub
lic work that the? should receive a full
day's wages at currant rates Iff, sight
hoars work. The spirit of the promise has
been kepi; yet no esse has ari*#B where
a removal of a public officer conld legallj
be made. The laborer understood the law
to provide for a reduction of the hours,
bnt not of the wages of labor. The
State ought not, under the forms of law,
to deceive aay portion of its people.
Its practice should be in aoeord with its
prof. Winona. It demands a general obedi
ence to its statutes, and should itself set
the example of conformity with its own
laws. While the law stands upon the
-urate book the professions embodied
in it should be made good by such
amendments to it as will render the ful
filment ef its purpose certain.
i Fuumta nt Oaaaos.—The fact that in
| the waters of Oregon and of Washington
Territory, a* well a* of Alaska, salmon
cannot Va captured with the artificial fly
nor, Indeed, token at all with the line
fa a disappointrabnt to aportaman who
have tried the experiment, and the sub
ject hat beon dwelt open aa exhibiting
a strong oontraat between the habits of
; the Western fish and theae of the North
Atlantic. It ie alao maintained, and
generally bclievwd; fchut of the myriads
of talmon that aaeend the Western rivers,
few pr none retrace their eourse to the
nee, bnt succumb to tlie fatigue and
dangers of the ascent, and to the exhaus
tion produced by the spawning operation.
Certain it ie that the ahoree oi the Col
umbia and other great stream* during
the salmon eeasou are lined with dead
fish throughout their entire length, fur
nishing rood for innumerable hawks,
eagles, hurnund, crows, etc., aa well as
for mammals of various kinds. Quite
reeendv, however, it has been ascer
tained that while the salmon will not take
the fljr. as stated, in the rivers, they will
do so in the salt-water outside their
mouths. _ „
lira em HoerarenAwe —We wil!
give to intellect, and te all virtue*, -the
honor that belongs to them, and still it
may be boldly affirmed that economy,
taste, skill and neatnem in the kitchen,
have a great deal te do in making life
happy and prosperous. Nor is it indis
pensably necessary that a house should
be filled with luxuries. The qualifica
tion* for all good housekeeping can be
displayed aa well on a small scale aa on a
large one. Skillful eookiug is ae readily
discovered in a nicely baked potato, or n
respectable johnny cake, as in a nut
brown sirloin, or a brace of can rot-backs.
The charm tf good housekeeping is the
order or economy and taste displayed in
attention to'little things, and these little
things have a wonderful influence. A
dirty kitchen and had rooking have
driven many a one from home to seek
for eomfort and happinasn somewhere
else. See to it, all ye whe are mothers,
that yonr daughters*!-* all aeeompliahed,
by ah experimental knowledge of good
housekeeping.
VERT oOl.— The Saraioffim* thus sea
sonably effuses : O, bud' this is dice !
How we lovn widder add the beautitui
adow—the rigging of merry bells—the
log ieiglea on the eordiees—add, ax
"Jacked" so fldely eggapreasea id :
"The frosd apod the widder pede,"
all eebbide to redder this, the widder
season, the Host rharbig, lovely add
beauditnl of all the aeasods. Dode you
tbig so ? Whad if wud has a liddle cold
.id din hoed, so that one's dose stubbed
up t Tou eaddod expect that this world
I will have dotbig id dit bud fud, cad you?
A Texas paper nays: "We have been
asked why we stopped publishing tbe
list of marriage licenses issued by the
dark. Because a great big stnnd-up-\n
the-mud out there in the sandhills said
we published bis daughter as married
when she wer'n't, aud that he wo n jd hit
us on tbe head hard enough to J our
ankles out of joint. Is the
satisfactory ?
Mr. Moffat of Ohio fi 7e d te mU a
bullet out of his gun. He succeeded
Agedei -- 1 '
TERMS : Two Dollars a Year, in Advance,
Marriages la itpu.
Mat of the Japanese marriage* j
a visitor, ara (1m result of • femtlf ar
rangement, prepared a long ** "
1 advance, una usually ckaractorixod by
| that practical good amass wtiiah la one
iof tin* national trait*. Tb* bride baa
! no dowry, but the receive* a very ivb
■nd complete trouMao. But It la nee
i taaarr that sbs abottkl hare a apotiras
reputation, ft gentle and amiable cbarae
! u*r, m proper t-Jucation, and skill to ram
dtirt a Lou*-bold. iV-uniary eosridcra
t tioua are of secondary importanee, and
they rawly take ths for* of awwy.
When a fathsr, mho baa a* mala cbild,
gives bia only or aldoat daughter in mar-
L. h husband la called tbe adopted
■on of u5 family, taken tba same name,
and inherits t hi \nda or barioeae of bia
father-in-law. . . „
Tba wadding generally rii* j"* 0 "
wban the bridegroom baa attain** b*
twentieth your, aod tba brida la la bar
sixteenth. Early In tba mornlaf of the
appointed day, w trooaaoan of tbe lat
ter i carried to tbe bridegroom'# hoeae
and toatefully arranged tn tba rooms
prepared for tba festival. The tmagm
of the goda and tbe patron aointa of tba
two families ara also anapendod there,
before a domestic altar adorned with
flowers and buapefl with offering* Lao
qunrod tables support dwarf oedara and
figures respreaenting tbe Japan em
Adam and Ere, accompanied by ttr
venerable attributes, the centenary
uraoa and tortoise. Finally, to #ompl*te
tl* tableau by a loan* of morals and
patriotism, there are always to be fannd
among tb* present* a few peonages of
edible sea-weed, mussels, and dried fish,
whieb suggest to tbo young couple to*
primitive nourishment and ancient
simplicity of tbe Japaaeos people.
Toward noun, a splendid proaoaainn j
•mters tbe hah* thus prepared; the
votmg wife, clothed and vailed in white,
advance* escorted by two bridesmaids
and followed by a crowd of relation*
neighbor* and friends, in festal cos
tumes glittering with brocade, aaarlet,
gsuxe, and embroidery. The twobri Asa
maids perform tbe honors of tbo hoass
I arrange tbe guest* order tb* eonraea of,
j tbe collation, and flutter from one group
! to another to see that all are aorrod.
They are called tba male and female
butterfly, whieb insects they a* ox
peeled n represent in tbe style and orna
ment of their garment*
"In place of oar sacramental Fas,
they bare recourse to an expressive
s.vuiUiL Among the objects displayed
in tbe middle of tbe cricle of guest*
there is a metal rase, shaped like abasia,
and furnished with two spoors. This!
utensil is elegantly adorned with bands
of colored paper. At certain signal, ono
of tbe ladiea of honor fills it with aski ;
the other takes It by tbe handle, lifts it
at bigfa u the lips of tbe kneeling bride
and bridegroom, and canscs them to
drink from it alternately, each from tbe
spout oa his or bar aide, until tbe liquor
is-cxhaueted. It Is thus that, as buv
tmnd and wife, they mutt Ugetoer drain
the cop of conjugal life, each drinking
from one ride, but both tasting the same
ambrosia or tbe aame wormwood.
Tb* poor clmaoi—one may say, tbe
masses of tb* population—are generally
free from the social vices wbkih are eu
coaraged among the higher nlssira by
tbe license allowed to them. Tbe bouse
holds of the shop-keepen, artisans,
laborer* and cultivators of the auil,
exact the constant care and toil of tbe
father and mother, the union of their
effort* in order to provide for the needs
of their familie* There are wwidi-d
couples who labor and savs heroically
for yearn, in order to paur tba expenses
of their marriage festival.
Then is one rather amusing custom,
however, whereby this expense may be
avoided. A couple of respectable oeop) e
have a daughter, whole acquainted with
a good voting fellow who would oe an
excellent husband for bar, except that
he lacks the neceswiy means to give her
the customary wedding-present* and
keep a free ta&e for a week, for the two
famuli cs. Tbe parent* coming home
from the bath one fine evening, do not
find their daughter at home. They in
quire in the neighborhoodnobody baa
seen her, but the neigh bora offer to assist
to find her. The parenri eraser* tb* offer,
and toe procession, constantly increas
ing , names from street to street until
it reacliea the dwelling of the lover. The
latter, protected by his closed screes*,
in vain pretends to be deaf; he is at
last eblitred to yield to the demands of
the crowd. Be* opens the door, and the
lost daughter in tear* throws herself at
the feet of her parent* who three tee her i
with their malediction.
Then, the tender-hearted neighbor* ]
moved by the acuo* intercede; the
mother relents; toe father remains
hanghty and inexorable; the interaeaaioo
of the neighbors increases in eloquence,
and the young man promises to Jm the
most faithful of sona-of-few. Finally,
the ran stance of the father * overcome ;
he pardons his daughter, pardons the
lover, and calls the latter ina son. Ah
st once, sa if by magi* caps of saki cir
culate among the crowd; every one
takes his or her place oa tbe mat ting of
he room ; the two outlaws are seated in
the midst of toe eirele, drink their bowl
of saki together, the marriage is pro
claimed ia the praaenee oS a sufficient
number of wituesss* and the poke#
officer enters it upon his list the next
Bridal trips are unknown in Japan.
Instead of Wring the newly-wedded
pair to themselves, way pretest is em
ployed to overwhelm them with visits
nd invitation*, always accompanied
with feasts and prolonged libations.
TRIALS or SCOAH-BEKT.— In Mar lasts,
a package of sugar-beet was sent from
Germany to the editor of the 7YtAww,
It was divided in half-pound parcels, and
sent to ten different States for trial.
fid ward Pools of East Steoudsbourg,
Penn., was on# of the experimenters,
and he haa aeat a box of hu beets, with
a statement of the soil, cultivation, and
yield. The Held was a gravelly loam, in
a region where blue limestone is com
m.wa, a strong soil quite well dressed
with stable manure, and thrae bushels of
wood ashes. They grew to the average
aiae of about thrae inches across the top,
sad the yield was at the rate of 200
bushels per acre. Some of them have
bean sent to the Agricultural Collide of
New Jersey for analysis, the object bring
to learn the percentage of sugar.
Mr. Wells of Connecticut. Mr. Elder
of Ohio, Mr. Daws of New Jersey, and
other farmers to whom seed was sent,
are requested to report as to soil, cul
ture, manuring, rise, yield, and if they
will send a smalt package for analysis so
the relative amount of sugar ean be
known, the experiments may result in
some advantage. The problem is to find
out what parts of the country will grow,
not the biggest, but the sweetest beets.
Th* YKAB 1872.—The year 1872 aon
tains fifty-two Sundays. September and
December eaeh begins on a Sunday.
Januarv. April and July, on Monday.
October is the only month beginning on
[ Tuesday. February begins and ends on
Thursday. Consequently we have five
Thursdays, which will not occur again
! until the year 1900.' In the year 1860
f February will have five Sundays, which
1 will not occur again until the year I*M
The yew 1871 began on Sunday and wul
i end on Sunday. This will eecur again
, jr 1882, an 1 every eieveolb yew there
aft*,
lost, a vessel.
Fifty-one peraou* wars eon rioted tori
year of violating tbe postal lam
A destructive fire httectmrredrt ¥b
do, at which 600 Louses www destroyed.
In Nebraska are said to
average three home bi a hall la length,
A Scotch minisfer refused, baptism to
the child of a man who aalla milk en
Monday.
Song of tbe New Yo* ear horn in
stormy weather : A heart bowed dowa
by weight at' whoa P "
Quadrat say* be don't mind the naked
nose tbe trees aw putting on, but b*
mottoes the earn is shocked.
In tbe opinion of lh London Jinn
Mr. Cateear* served hie government
seriously but in judiciously.
When a young ladiea receive pweente
from geuttomn tbey inform " mamma, f t
if shelnquires, that it was a "phitopen*
pro<llll , -f.
NO. 3.
Gameo jewelry is ell the jag* this yeas ||
and lockets ami ear-ring* and
brace lafe,mdepmfyM*4&dMmMMl
aud pearl*
Oregon housewives are said to define
eodato be that erettoff whisk you wit U
hfecuita to make them get ep and bump
themselves
A snowy owl from the far north •* never
before seen u tide vicinity," bss been shot
during December is every State from
Maine to Texa*
"RaWde m the aseond degree "is
what they null it In Kansas, wheufls woman
hangs herWf and the rope break*
Flattery is like a flail, which. If not
adroitly need, will bos your own ears in
stead of tickling thorn oi the corn.
Paradoxical as It may aero* be who
reals and staggers most in the journey of
life, takes (to ttmfghtost cat to perdi,
Hon.
A doctor was adted to dupe# tbg
" Landers. w He deciimJ; tot lb
praaaad a wiUiagnces to lance toe dan*
eer* * ■ ,
" Have yon much fltb in your lag f
asked a person of a flabarmau. ** Ya*
then'a a good eel in It," w* tbe nttbac
ftllDDtifV rc&lf.
Yonagmen mutt be rarefulW they
visit a lady oftonartfcae once a week,
or twtoe a month, as it la a year 'that lbs
todtos ara privileged.
An exchange waste to know, since
wo-r-k Is proooeneed wbl, Why p-o-t-k
fa net pronto u<w4 pirit f Tbnra qnsw
thiSStoiy. "it Wm!7|Mpii£C jof
4,800, but expects an increase of 10,000
next year by immigration.
Men ara requanHf Übs tea; tba real
strength and goodness ara not properly
drown out of toe* antil they have bean
fer a abort time in hot wafer.
One of the Chicago papers lifueet* that
they eouM not bane kept their greet
fin until tbe arrival of ths Grand Daks
l^bryts
A new style of far ut known by the
name of welverin* and will b* it is
•aid. as popular .next season a ssaWtia
• a t\aim
us mii>
During the period of twelve yaara,
from th*Wnßi of 185S to the close
of IflTO, t,T,iO9 Geemsn unmtgrants
arrived in this country.
* 0, Amy] never to wear
a ring on your third fine * nuJesa yw
ara rraOy eugagedL Msnrasa asys it
often preveata a good offer!"
About a par up* n deaf and dumb
couple in New Jersey ware married.
Lately tbe wile gave birth to a child,
and can now both bear and speak.
At a Chine* funeral In San Franciaoo,
a hundred carriages wwe to K*>™h
twenty profeMßonisl mourners, and five
wagon loads of provisions and flower*
A man being founded La Orome, Wi*,
with seven ttshs in bia beck, tbe Coro
i-x * jury brought in a verdtot of "pwb
abiemarder." Avery csntiousjory.
.9 affvetotion; nothing indifferent, for
that is silly.
An effort to being made to rwrtoeth*
old faehioued brocades tor evening UMr
ettea ; and when made into a court train,
trimmed with old costly hoe, they sra v.
ry riegant and stylish.
" Black bee drew** over Itohtieotorrd
silk skirts ere vy feshionablc this year,
but are vesy rare, as they oort from HS,-
000 to •fl.ooo in gold, and it is not eveiy
one who eon afford that.
Stolt £iSE^mS*toe wiUc'to'geo
e rally the greatert tool
Four curb depending from the top
of tbe bead, where ttwy are toafemed by
a knot of Mack vein*, or bow of bright
ribbon, to toe latest fashionable style for
dressing the hair, for young ladle*
Some people see en icataiu* of attri
butive jetties in the feci feet CeL Aab
tnon of Mississippi committed suicide
with toe mme pistol be used onee in
shooting a South Carolinian in a dnel.
Tbe latott style of dearo-rards used al
Gilto and jmrtiea ara in toe ahmm of a
book, bound in an imftttton ofoiwna
leather vritb a small gilt papml attoehed
to one ride by a narrow red ribbon.
Tbe visit of an American squadron to
Japan aroma to Jare arot that country
into ertadeu Admiral Rodger* and bis
officers were presented at Court and en
tertained by the dignities several days.
A man in San Franrinoo who bad not
heard of the Chicago fire, arrived there
last week. After looking at tb* ruins be
touted to a atnmgmaad asked : "How
long did the rarthqnake last, old sport ?"
A female thus cruelly applies an old
saying:
' "Iftttrtuira never erase Statt*
And w), kfe binW
%SXSUmS£-
The Methodist Episcopal Church for
the year just dos<~tts toetoe
membership at 1.229,210, and probations
imjm, heiagao toetemw of *®be"
of hC.JAL and a decrease of probations
A lady yrh© refused to gb> riter bear
ings eharitv sermon, hed her l>oektt
picked aaabe waa kavtog tottb On
m.imfr the she said ; The
person could not find the way to my ~
pocket, but tbe devil did."
A proposition to light toe stretta of an
Indiana " city" waa opposed by the Com
mon Council on the ground toat thieves
would be enabled to see when thev were
watched, and oooaequmitly it would be
impossible to o&teb them.
A lady bad her dross trimmed with
" bugh* before going to a ball. Her
little tlaiurhU'r wanted to to know if the
bugleTwould blow when she danaed.
eOn no," said mother, "papa will do
that when he aeea the bill!"
The Indiana in upper Michigan ara
employed to carry packages of nitro
plvcerine on their neks. As none of
them have stumbled yet, they ara not
aware of the fato that is at the same
time before them and behind them.
Christianaburg, V*, is in eeatodea over
a venerable turkey gobbler who baa
build<d for himself a nest and ib now
gravely sitting upon four apple* It
. presumed that his action ia intended as a
, pave satire upon the woman's ngbto
, bnsinesa.
mv . ,lj , -, Jt : mrtA nij.
The subject ef sympathies anci mu
petliies is extremely curious. Boyle
fainted wbwi he heard the splashing of
water. Schager tinned pale at Hie sigh t
of water cresses. NSWKM became fever
ish when he saw a fish. Aiffibon tail el
a clergyman who always Muted when
he heard a certain verse in Jeremiah read;
of a lndy who could not endure thejouch
of silk, satin, or the velvet skin fa
peach ; and of an" officer who could not
bear the sound of drum.
Stephen Pearl Andrews states clearly
enough that 41 the Abeolatoid and Ab
straetoid Eleoicntiswius ef Mac eebosa
or reappears by analogy within the Be*
latoid end Coneretcdd Baboriaam''
We really don't ksow vbtffe* tO **
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