Sere* Tear*. Beven rwi since w* mad* up oar qusmi I I rmmlw ihr little low room. And the gwdrn out of the window, And the second rose* tn bloom. Ton hod suftevd, it may tin been bravely, Bat never pone passed without twee; And if any atonement wore needed. It wm there, (n the look of roar face. The dark eyea too wet to be lifted, The ewev t hps which quivered with pain, Hotted ell out: foryitvwcw t Oh, darting, What need, whan I here you again f Beven year*! and life rieae against na. And drift* na a till farther apart, And the old timid anguish of silence Bete e eeel on the Itpe and the heart. • Bat I think of the teere that were hidden That day in the htUe low room, And the garden out of the window, And the eecood roses in hloora. Fair Helen. Deep-set and darkly glowing eyea Look out from Helen'* youthful face, A chal engw to the ertnd Atea : HhV-orphamd by the tVxttiie*. That heart of Are, that girt of grace. She aland* on warning'* ahining brink, And wist* not what tho day may bring . 1 hireling Air li e, her pulse*drink The promise of the hi.nie which Unk The pa*t onto her flowering spring. She fesr* not alt the itumi that throng. Hhe laughs when tightuui; cute the cloud ; Strong in heraolf, in nature alrong. She fccts her energiee belong To storms, aa they a* wildly proud. lewa of the ma.deu than of Are; lee* of the woman than of wind : Hew lb >ughl in brilliant jet* elpirv, Or mrer nan and ekvud aspire, " n nML and leave the world behind. la nothing nark and trail. She comes spoil as an when June Sends o'£ w> some health-giving gale. Freshening the heart, while all the rale Forgets the languor of its moon. A HIGH CALIJ Mi. It waa done away with low? aco. Gov cmoMnit took it up. raid it was daugcrous, ■ad put a top to it. Perhaps it as dau gervut, and perhaps govottin.rut was right ♦to put a atop to it. Bat I didn't like it then, tor it was my bread, and moat t>\e pouuds a work to we; and wbm it teas topped, ni> profession was rtntwd. * I don't look like it now,tor you *ee I've made flesh, and am clow on titty; teen or twenty yeais ago, when 1 was in my tk&hiuc*- f could bare shown you such a figure and such muscles as >ou wouldn't see erety day. Mc and my brother were a regular pair, just the same height, and woodcrfully alike. It was a bit oi gam mon ; but it took wonderfully iu the bills: and our manager raid it would lie utter madness to announce ourselves as Benja min and Thocua> Ilutclunes; so a* used ta bo in bhie letters all over London, " Les f teres Pnmncaux ;" and the people came to see as from all parts. We acre enp.ed, you see, at the Royal Conduit Gardens, and did the tnpeze Work. Now, I dare say you'll find plenty of people who will sy it was known V'ug hef re; but don't you belie re Vm. I'm tbe man who invented the trapeze—at least, I'm the bey; that is, I invented it wbm 1 wa> a bov. on the swing in our bark gar den, the one we made und< r the old apple tape, out HiefbrrV clothes-lice, and rubbed till it broke all to bits, and let Tom flow? that heavy that be put out his shoul der Too ace it was from experimenting on that serine, hanging bv my Vgs, by one hand, bv two bands, and upsidedown that 1 sowcu rts gf all those wonderful trapeze exploits that haespm-ja* sav in the bilk " thrilled expectant audiences in every nerve and fibre of tbeir lorms." Tom turned very sulky after he put bis ♦boulder out, and he would't try any more trick*, till he grew jealous of "seeing me get handy at them, (he was a queei fellow, was Torn, and never could bear tor me to be ahead of him.) aud then be set to when I was'nt by, and worked ,au lard that ne go: to shorten the rope, and to bng by one toot, quite clever. I hau'nt known anything a'siut it, he'd been so sly ; so tnat t was quite took aback one day when, afterfiguiine about uiy bovish fash icn upon the tope, be aiiKkered at me a bit, and then, to my great astonishment: "Get down." he aays; and" be set* to, does atl I have done before, and a great deai more too, till be ends by banging by one' ley. when, crash! tbe rope snapped* and down came poor Tom on his Lead ami ah"a]de<- with a roo-t terrible bung. Up got Tom, aud tiew at mc like a tiger, because I was laughing—and I put it to you, cqald 1 help it I—and then we bail a • WgUlar ftmd up fight, which was not end ed uutrl our Mvry charged do-am ou us • with a clothes-p i op. and caught Torn by tbe throat with Lbs big preng, so as she held him against the wail till be promised ! He wouldn't fight any mote. Tom didn't , keep bis promise, tor h" was a terrible boy . fa* fighting, and many'a the up and rtow n ' aet to we have had together. Wee betide ■ any boy, though, who touched me! It didn't matter how big he was, Tom al ways took my part, and thrashed him. From doing things on the rope, we took to tumbling a little on tbe ground, tryinz ou mires in knota, walking on our lytaiis . and t shall never forget tbe day that 1 Cut threw a aumeisault without touching the gruad with my hands. That day was. a masked one for roe; first because nf tbij pride I felt a I nn in tbe field and vpunit over; second, because Tom was so jealous that he took a run and a jump, and camc dewn on bis back, tnak ng it ao stiff an now tor Uilgoga lift and think it over. For mv part 1 thou? In id propoainc a tia pste at the top of die two highest scaffold poles we can get." | 1 started a bit as he *aid that; and )u*t 1 then tho lialljou rosebud went away swift >lt and lightly over the trees, while 1 watched it thougbttully, lor I had got au hdi-a Info injr kefd, r Tlfcxiext moiuftig t talked it over with . Tom, w ho agreed tit in a minute; aud we shook hands over it slowly; for our utindv were made up. When the manager engagtd us first, he 1 said our nauic wouldn't do a bit. The lantipulfiii-.' name, be aaid, was bi right* Hodge. The consequence was, (as 1 have wiid), we went in for French; *o the announcement of the "Grand Trapeze Aet" id "Lev Fteres Provencaux "was adver-I tiwed all over London. How well 1 ictuember that bright Junei day, when, going forwanl in our grand i drewses, all tubus, satin, ruff, and spangles,' we wvrv gri-eted with a ruar of applause, and saw that the (lanlcn* were crammed ' with people, in the middle ot whom was the great tialloon ready filled, and swinging anout as H jugged at its ropms. "How do you feel, Tom V 1 said looking at him. " Brave as a lion, my boy," he says stoutly. "It's no more than doing it twenty feet high." " Tiue," 1 said ; "and it is a* easy- to be drowned in sixty as in x hundred feet of water." The next minute we were holding the. trat-cze bars clo*e to tbe balloon, waiting the signal for it to rise; and now, for the first time, I felt a sensation, and 111 tell j you what gave it to me— tbe people, in- : stead of cheering us as soon as we to rise, kept perfectly silent; and* th*' seemed to go right through uie; for you must know that what we had been adrtr t'sed to do wis to perform our rope and bar trick* tight under the balloon, twenty Icet below the car, and that without aurthing „ ... ;r .L i.i i. i- to rave us if we should tnak - a slip. There was no time lor fear though; and i the next nihpijt| think rep had done t tjfce about '"ambntn; and all tbrv ugh that month there I was ringing in my ear* the words of a wo- ] man who said out loud on the second ume we went up; PAb! they'll do that tc# to ' mv* Suppose 1 thought to myself, we do it once too often! But then came the thought of the money, and that drove' away a great dcaLbf the timidity, as I U lil ttyacH that a man unglrt pikefiich an tics for his wfiole life and never tall. W ell, as I said, we bad been doing it about a month, when one evening wc took our place* as usual. It was an extra nfgbt. aud the largest balloon was to a>rend; our rope . was to lie lengthened to thirty fret, af at j tl.at distance ULsr the car'te were to, ? -Mlag • *. itasMiai. You may tae ire oug'.f ta Hfejbeei, if ta it by tha lime; litre art tilings i ttia-jgk Hfld i Vlu never aefr utu# re, try bow you will; and this was one of tbero. Tbe bands were playing away their best; the people were eagerly looking at the half a dozen aeronauts u lio were to ascend; tl* signal w as giveu, agd ifcs got in. Then the balloon was allowed to rise to high that our trapeze swung clear, when f bung from it oy my legs, holding a crw*- bar in my hands, over which Tom threw i his legs, and huog downwards; and then away we went, op through the soft evening air, so slowly tL.it Tom's bauds touuiied thcioppfi®-'>i the l iia-treo, as he, wa*ed < about a couple flags. OHr custom was to ban; quits still till we were up four or five hundred feet, and then i to begin our twining and twisting; and so we did u<>w. whan Torn pitched away the and we went through oQr tdrks, ris ing higher and higher, with the fares ol | the dense crowd getting mixed Into a eon fused mai>, and the strains of the band growing fainter and feinicr, till all be j low was quite tntu&lcd in a hum. We had only one more trick to do, and that wan to cart loose the bar, and each man awing by lit* own rope. I had loosened my eni, the per* pint ion -.learning me the while, and Tom had done the wrac, when swinging round idsards me with a boiri ble white lace, he"exclaimed, "Ben old roan, I'm going to tail." It"* no UM? ; ] couldn't tell vou what I felt then, II L. tried ever k> hard, only that in half -ecoml I it Toip lying a horri ble crushed corpse far below; and I (elt an paralysed that I thought I should hare to let go uiy own and (alien myself, i could act, though, and did, tbr in a flash I had given myself a jerk forward, and thrown myself against Tom. flinging my leg* round him and holding him tightly; hod then tired s* I was, I felt that I bad double weight to sustain, for Tom's rope was swinging to and fro, and as my legs clung round b.s body, his bead hung down, trot I knew be must hare tainted. How I managed to bold cm I can't tell now, for though weak with all I had done. I manage-i to give a horse cry for help, and the next moment I heard a cry ot horror from the basket work car- Then I (elt the tope begin to jerk as they began to haul us up, and I managed to ahrick out, " No! nofur if they hanled any longer tbey must have jerked poor Tom from my hold. I have often asked myself whether it was half an hour or only a few seconds be fore 1 saw a big rope lowered with a big running noose, and then I've a misty no tion of having set my teeth fast on the rope, as I felt a dreadful weight, as ot lead, dragging at me. Then I felt that it was all over, and I knew that I had been the death of poor Tom, for lie bad seemed to fall, as I felt the rope by which I hung jerk again violently. 1 saw the earth below like a nup, and the golden clouds np above the groat not covered ball, and then mist THE CENTRE REPORTER. • warn before my eves, and all see turd black ' and thick as night. j When I eatue to, I was lying on my luiok in the car. with a man pouring brandy le! ween luT lips. My first words were grasped out in a hu?ky tone, for 1 did not 1 know where I was; and thru 1 remember bursting out into quite n shriek, as I er.ed: " W hrrvHi Tom f" "Here old wan," he aaid, for they had • managed to drae u* both into the car ; and lot the next hour we at there shivering, saturated with cold persniratiou; ercii the turn in the car being silent, unnerved, as I aupfioee, bv out warmer escape. Tom wanted to go again, but I would'nt let him. "I did not tremble," he said ; "it was only a sudden fit of gidiues* through being untvell. 1 went up, though, many time* after ward* .ih-ne on horses and on bulla; aud ' I meant to have had a car of Hying swans for a grand bit, when government stepped in, and put a stop to it: and a* 1 said be fore, very sorry I was, for it was my Be ing. - A Knowing Hr*e. Philip Astlev, of London, was un doubtedly the bct horse tumor of bis day, and as a judge of what may lie called "trick hoMP-flesti," be baa never jwr'iatxs been eqtilled. Ho generally obbiiuetl his stu-l from Suiithffehl. cor ing, as ho aaid, "little fo- ahaue, make, or color ; " temper was tho only consid eration. He rarely gave more than five ponuils for each. For this price ho ol>- t toinrd his accomplished liorne " Billy," a groat twpnlar favorite, playful ivh a kit fen with those ha knew, and deeply verged in all Iho learning of the circus. , "Billy" could tiro off pistols, take a tea- ' kettle off a blazing Are, lay tho cloth, ' wrrange enps nnil saneer*. and invito the clown to ton. All agreed that bo con Id do everything but talk. Bit one day i "Billy" W:*s arrwtel by tho Sheriff, nt i on account of any extravagnom of his own, but owing to the mi-conduct of a i groom one Sanuder*, to whom ho had been Jeut Sanndera had la'n many j years in A "tint's employ, aid had l>or f rowed "Billy" to exhibit him by war of private *|wvuUtion. This terminated in the impriaonimmt of 8-iunders in the Flci-t, ami the sale of "Billy" to the, highest bidder. For three years the favorite was lost eight of. Accidentallv one day tw > of Astliv'* "ridera" discovered "Bill*" drawing a curt in Wlntechapel. There could 1> no que* tion of the fact, for npon bearing a pe culiar clicking together of the nails ot the forefinger and thumb—one of the l aigna or aonnds A*tley had alwiva em- i ployed in traiuing his stud—"Btllv" had i prickeil up hi* ears, p tun ceil and danced ,in a very remarkable ntann r. The re ; cognition was mntml. "Billy's" present proprietor was well content to fart with him at a moderate price, "for, as he explained, "though toe's the liewt-tem fn n*l creature breathing, yet sometime* he de*reit<4 nuude were not (o occupied, he took ocoaniou to till, the vacant space with earaost and uu eqnivooal exorewituus of hi* candid opiu ion m rejfant to the place aud it* in habitants. His dc-eriptiou of l>ttudeti is lusrdly calculated to attract iiumigrs , tiou to that particular tuirt of Kiruc , county, lie calls it a Chicago burned | into a cru*t by tbe firoa of misery ; a San Frunciaco shock'-d bv the earthquakes of me:inns>s into grabbing after |H-pnie* and cold vietuals; and declares that if i (tbhriel's horn is ever beard within it*' precincts it* touud will be drowned out 1 by tlie clamor* of its hungry taroplei thinking it an invitation to n free lunch, j He iiathetically alludes U> his own trials i while emh-avoriug to ew-ape starvation, and recites the melancholy eiperteucc of some of his |tredcccaor* who had la-en deluded by fair promise* into the dh-astroua experiment of publishing a - u<-w-|>ajH'r "in the foul graveyard," * • n warmug to printers who may hereafter be enticed to hurv their talent in so tin- j promising s field. And finally, with! sardonic gle he directs the attention of his readers to a cat which he tells thrui represent* the ideuticsl traiu of ears in j which he intends to leave for nuy place i on the known earth which will bike him ut of sight of the dead thiug* that walk the streets of Daudce. If the editor's prudence was equal to his disgust, he did not wait to olisrve the effect of his val edictory upon tin minds of hia fiatrons. Bird Track* in Stone. A oorrespoudent of the Providence Journal, in au r jele on foasil bird tracks iu the l ouuecUcut Biver Valley, aays: We liuve only to go to the Connectietit valley, iu (lie northern part of M is-achu setbt, to find in the slab* of aamlatone frcqntntly qnarried there, the imptiutn of more than fifty specie* of birds with some quadruped*,''which trod the shores or waded the shallow* of that ancient estuarv, the head of which was probably near Tttruer'a Fail*, filling what is now the Couiictiticut valley to that point. ud opening into tho ocean. These birds, j long since extinct us living being*, did indeed leave their " Fi-Sprl&u la ISt MOds ot Usu." and so well iloea a part indicate the whole th.it thise may also be photo graphed from their tracks, as Agassi* draw* a flub, he has neTer seeu, From a scale. Some of those bird* were small, their stops being uot more than three or four inchua long, while oilier* were six feet. Think of the bird* which took such strides! The footprint of one ia seven-' teen inches long, and another makes a trick, if tiie iiuprusoion tuude by what ia thought to have been a kind of heel be included, two feet in length aud a step of six feet. 'These tracks wore flrst brought to the notice of the world in 1836, by the 1;U President Hitchcock, although they had ] lieen observed a year before. Although hia statements were at first received with acopUcism, they ore uow as well verified as anything in geology. Specimen* of track* from the locality named are to be seen in the large geological cabinet* of the world, ami are found in many small private collection*. A Strange Case. The Fulton (N. ¥.) Time# is reapon*i bki for a statement which goes to prove that, iu some in.ianc.-s, a transfer of property to a wife in order to owaj*- payment of emliU-ni, may be no better than "piuipiuf, from the frying-pan into fire." Four years ago a certain gentle- ( man, now n reddent of Uticn, according to his own stat-m-nt, was made the victim of a conspiracy to auch an extent that lie w.tß obliged to tryna experiment of this kind. Forged rliccks and notes were so freely circulated throughout the .State, that it would have taken the pro ceeds of his entire estate to have paid them off. In this emergency, he aasiga cd all he |*xser correspondent finally hesnl of hi* distress, and visited him. The | result was un elaborate article, descrip tive of a chamber that for sqiudidncv. was only equaled by that of the iiixanc recluse who existed iu a single apartment for twenty-two years, without ever hav ing allowed the light of day to penetrate it The nephew of the unfortunate j gentleman has since brought nn action for libel again*! the editor who published iho account, not for nn obvious reason,' the Grand Jury refns"d to indict. Con sidering that the gentleman aud his wife hud enjoyed forty year* of almo t unin terrupted hspptners In-fore tin- deed ot asaigniiH-nt was perfected, the subsequent conduct of the latter seems all the more . ankinu. TAME CODFIHH.—Mr. Buck land, in n recent number of Laud and Wetter, give* an interesting account of a visit |>aiv liim to a poml containing tnrre cislflsh 'at Port Ivognn, Wigtouabhx*. Thcprop < rty in question IN longs to a gentleman by the name of McDougall, and cousists of nn auipithcatre aUmt one hundred feet in cliumeter, hollowed ont of the solid rock by the sea. All egress from this is prevented by n barrier of loose atone*, through which water passer, freely. On approaching the shore of the pond codfish of great sire were seen ; and when a servant woman who had charge of the fish approached with tome mussels, the surface of the water won perfectly alive with struggling flub. They came to the edge, and after a little while permitted Mr. Buflklaml to scratch them on tho hack, and play with thein in various wnya. Among other experiments tried by iiirn was that of holding a mussel in nil hand, and allowing the fish to awullow his hand iu the efhvrt made to obtain the mussel. These fish furnish the proprietor an am ple supply of excellent food, the finvor being considered much superior to that of the cod taken iu the open sea. When ever needed for the tuide, n selection can readily be made from the most prom ising of those at hand, and the fish se cured without any difficulty. YAKITT.—At length it is proved that man has more vanity than woman. This is the way it cause to jinas. A curious investigator waMwd *hile A thousand men passed a looking-glass use I as a sign on the sidewalk in Broadway. The re sult of his observation showed that nine hundred and ninety-nine men glanced complacently at their imago as they past ed. The other msn was blind. Four hundred and fifty-two women tiassed during the some hour and a half, and none of them looked in the mirror—all of them being engaged intently examin ing each other's appearance and drees. The Two trlriili. I have two friend# two gluriotia fuonJa iwu braver could uoibe, Aud tit) light when iuMuifLHo.lv Uj<7 mel to laugh with lux. „ „ | 1 he Ural waa ahot l>jr Culiai tbiavwe, two year* ago, la Bpein i Ilia aeeuo I drowbed In AHcante - while 1 alivw remain. 1 lore lu kc their dim-white foriua oome float-. iug through the uigbt, , And gnrna I>< xoc ihvm lull away tit early mum- | lug Ught. The flrat with gßMitira in the I'u Jar land il-ad | lug a lordly life, • Aud the evcond haa married a iuermaid him. She rwoeived no an i ewer. " What can you iniaa here I" ahe contin ued. " Can all the othere together love you more than Imy aingle aelft lio I not auiflce f We are rich enough, eo that you Htt i cot work ; but if you absolutely uiual do aoiiiethiiig—well, then, write { romancea and read them to me alone." The young man again replied with a kiaa. iie tlieu atepprd arrow a ditch into ' a etubble field and picket! up a alraw, left by the gleancra. It waa aa unueualiy fine and large at raw, yet attached to iiw root, and entwined by lite withered ata'.ka of a paraaitical plant, npon which a eiiigle i little liower might be diacerned. "Waa that a very rare flower you 1 found ?" aaked ihe little lady. ( "No; it WMtcoiuuua biud-weed." " A binJ-weed V' " Yee, that ia ita vulgar nam a. Tha , j botaniata call it Cowro/refar arrtttt. The peasantry name it foi-vinea; in aotnelo-!j calitiea it ia called tangle-weed." He j j pauaed and gated thoughtfully oa the atraw. "Cray what interesting thing ie it, then, l' that you have discovered f" " It ie a romance." J " A romance f" •'Ye*—or a parable, if you like." " Is it in ths fiower t" "Yes; the flower and—the straw." " Pl*a- tell nie the story about it." " Hut it i* a aadono." "No matter for that; 1 should like to hear it very much.*' She seated herself on the edge of ths grassy bank; her husband did lbs same, I close at bar aide, and told the story of the straw : At the outer edga of the hurley field, near the ditch of the highway, grew a j young, vigorous barley sh>>ot. It was taller, stronger, and darker than tb* other*: it ooutd look ov, r the whole field. The first thing it notioed was a little violet. It stood beyond, over the other edge of ths ditch, and peered through the grass with ita innocent aturg eye*. The jsun shone, and the balmy wind breathed over toward the field from the road, where the violet grew. The young straw rock ed itself in spring air and spring dreamt. . To reach one soother was out of the ques tion ; they did not even thiuk about iu The violet we* a pretty little flower, but j it clung to the earth, and soon disappeared among the growing grass. The barlev, ou the contrary, shot up higher and higii ' er each day, hut the dark green shoot still above all the rest. It rejoiced already in a long, full ear before any of the others bad nommenced to ahow their beards. All the surrounding flowers looked up to the gallant ear of barley. The ecarlet ;toppy blu-hed a deeper red whenever it swung over it. The corn-flower made its aroma stilt more piquant than usual, aud the flaunting yellow field-cabbage expand ed ita own bold flower. By-and by the barley atraw blossomed in lit manner, k swayed about, now here, now there, in the baliny atmosphere ; sometime* bend ing over the corn flower, st times over the poppy, and then over the tare and wild ' field-cabbage; but when it had peered ' down in their chalice# it swung back again, straightened np, and thought, "yon are hut a lot of weeds after all." But in the gr*s* t the ditch flourished a hind-weed, with it*small leafy vine*; it bore delicate snowy and rose-eolored dowers, and emitted a delicate fragrance. To that the barley straw bent longingly | down. " You gallant straw," it smiled; "bend I yet low er. that I may embrace you with my leaves and flower*," The straw essayed to do it with its best will, but in vain. "I can not," it sighed; " but come to me, | lean on tne and cling to me. and I will raise yon above all the proud poppies and conceited corn-flower*.'' " I have never hail any ambition to rise lin the world, but yon have been iny run stunt dr-am ever since I was budding, and for your sake I will leave the green sward and all the little flowers in whose company I grew. Wa will twine our selves together and flower alo*tfar M ch other." Thns said the hind-weed, and stretched its tendrils into the field. It clung ten derly to the straw, and covered it with its green leaves and modest flowers ap to its topmost blade. It wss a heautifnl sight. The two seemed to suit each other to perfection. The *trnw felt now really prond, and sliot np higher and higher. " Do you wish to leave fflt* f sighed the weed. * Are you diary already P* smiled the straw. "Stay with im*—cling to me. Why do yon rite higher?" " Because I mutt. Hia my nature." " But it is not mine." "Follow me, if you love me." " Yoo won't stay f i know now that you do not love inu any more." And the weed loosened rts tender arms and sank to the earth ; but the straw con tinued to shoot ever upward. The bind weed began to witbar. Its flowers grew more and more pale. "I have but lived and flowered for you. For your sake have I sacrificed my spring and iny summer. But you do not notice my flowers—you leave my little buds to wither in the air: you think upon any thing else but me and the beautiful summer— my time!" " 1 think *jm the hornet: my Unit hat alto ite claim." Presently the rain came. Great drops fell upon the delicate leaves. "My time is soon over," wept the weed, and closed its little flowers to hide the cold tears. . Tears are heavy. The straw came near •inking under its burden, hut it felt the importance of keeping itself npright; it straightened up, gallantly facing the storm. It grew stiffer in the body—harder in the Joint* It was on* of tha dark days. Th# heavens were grqy ami th* earth dark ; it had been raining for a long time. The waed lied grow u downward into the earth, a* if it would hid* itself front tbe storm. " lieud down eee utors as yo did in day* of jury, when my lo# was all and sll to you," Lugged the w e-i,iug flow or. "1 cuti hot, ( da: v not,' groaned the straw. " And I, who have beot a thousand tiras* be voer sake—l, who now bend uiysalf to tli* verv dust before juor feet," w ailed th at ad, groveling en tha earth. Thau full a ooupia of large rain-drops upon tho blsdes, tho weight was too nineh. the Lrsvo straw yielded, the weed pulled it down, and both straw and weed sank down on the wet tarth, never more to rise sgsin. The harvest came. All tlie golden corn was boond in sheaves, and brought to the barn with song and joy. Hut that which once ►> gallantly had reared iu head abov* all the other* remained prostrate on the stubble field. The grain was mouldy and the straw withered. Of the beautiful vine, whose lev-tug embrace had been so fetal, only the dry, blackened stalks remained Thus ended tbe romance of th* barley straw. Tbe young wife bad tears in Iter beauti ful eyes. but they were th* balmy tsar* which strengthen, not the scolding ones which crash the soul to the earth. She wound her srtns around her husband's neok, end whispered a single word in hi* ear. it was, "Thanks." Tfien she plucked th* last, half-withered blossom from the bind-Weed. "It is a flower of memory that 1 will take with ma, when I to morrow return with you to the city sgaln," she aaid. softly, ss she hid it in her bosom. "Love is good, but labor end love dVw better. Pleasure is perfect only when it harmon ims Willi our |teruiauetrt interest*, a* It ia also true that no delight ceo be ondurieg which interferes with duty." Beck an Flepetneßt. Botn# months ago a comely hat Imperii utou* youth, hiag in the rural districta, not more than a doten leagues from tlie southeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section lflo. town 340, sou tli of range 42 east, fell deeply and iuextricabiy in love with a fair maiden whom he met at a spelling school, a paring bee, or a candy pull, or some of those intense gathering* where impressionable young people so of ten meet liieir destiny. Tie passion of tha voting man waa re ciprocated by maiden af<>r said, but the • obdurate parent who waa ambitioua fur hia daughter, and had a fair quantity of men*, did not reciprocate worth a cent, I and caused aach a degree of caloric about , the houac when the young rasa called that it waa aitremely uncomfortable for tho lutereated parties, and reaulted in a partial j discontinuance of the viaita, except when • he paternal obstacle waa away from home. This, aa usual, increased the intensity of , the young ]rtiea* lading*. and there got to be bo much muchness about the matter that the yontsg lady waa seat into an ad joining county to "hoard out "a hill of thirteen dollar* due the obstacle f-w a twelve-year old steer sold tha year before. The young man dioovered thi movement, but refused to be bereaved, mentioning to Ids confidant that he kaew a trick worth two of that, which original remark show* that he had genius if uot stamp*. There Was an elopement brew ing right off. tha bore idea of which thrilled him with excitement to a degree that caused i hi# friends to regard him with alarm for ( the safety of his reason. He pursued hia i inamorata, however, to her hiding-place. ] Her father also repaired to the same neigh borhood. unknown to the ardent Romeo.' Vou will obaarve that the plot ha* eon-1 Aderabl* thickening introduced into K.) I Tha lovers had a meeting and reaolvwl i upon flight tha first dark night, for which | Utsy had not long to wait—just forty-sight, boars. At tb# given signal the trembling, youth was beneath a deeignated window, with his paper collar and a clean handker chief carefully packed for a long journey. The window opened and a head appeared. Jiiat around the comer ot tha house there , also appeared two head*, one of a man . and the other of a dog—a abort-nosed, brindle dog—no poodle. "Are you all ready, lovs I" asked the lpver in a stage- whisper. If# jiwt heart! " Bite "etn Pick! " a rn#h j through Ike rear-hush, and suddenly deci < ded to postpone the elopement until after the holidays *nd, disdaiuing to glance at | tha obstacle, departed, conscious that bis girl and a portion of his trow sera had beeu i ruthlessly torn from him. A Bad HpHb In Hi. Louis n order hoc l>een passod by the Board of Director* requiring that .til the pupils of the public schools shall be vacciualnd. Below will be fern ml i copies ot a few of the vote* which (be chiidreu c irriei to their t-acher* io rela tion to the matter. They are literal eopie*, with the exception that the mnn are deft out. Bridget H baa bad the amall pooks last year no eke doaa not iiead to be TAXI mated. Minn bad the email Box. Charles ha* Now need of being faxe nated for he Had the email pox all rady. Louim Nf ust net Waxenaigh She got Wnxinergboti About Tree fan ago. I testify that tuy son Willie ia wax ainnatcd already. i Do Not Pnrfnr to Have My Children Ynxiuab-d Now. Mr*. G. Excuse Mr*. sebert she does not want virgiena waxon* 4 ed. My Daughter waa spcakiug about vaxi nuting I thought it w.is no use ahe ia been vaxinating three timea already. Please let him lie vexanatad. Mr. Teacher you may get Stephen B vaccinated. A. B. B. haa had the small-pox ;fo further information call at No.— Sir : I hereby certify that Emile T is twice vuxeinnted. A list embracing thirty-eight differ ent wuys ia which the word " vaccinate" waa apellcd in these notes from the parent* haa been prepared, and there are sixty schools to near from yet. " Gorao WEST"—AND GIVING IT UP —-The Baltimore Amrr ein makes thi< statement : Those who have a hankering after the cheap lathi* of the far West, should give attention to a fact reported by a gentleman who says he haa lcen in the United States Land Office for five years, that about one baif tho homestead entries made are abandoned, aud the laud entered by others ; in many cases tlie en try is abandoned three or four times be fore coming into the possession of per sons who bold it permanently. Proof of six months' abandonment ia sufficient to have the entry eanceffed. Thia alone, and there is no reason to donbt the fact stated, should eonvince those who have but small means how poor are their chance of success in regions where, if there are neighbors to be found, every one has as much as ho can struggle uuder in his ef forts to effect a clearing, and hence if alokness aiul accidents of any kind should overtake the settler, what an amount of sorrow and trouble, sod finally a loss of nil the labor that may have been per formed, mast finally attack those who seek their fortuues in those desolate re ghotu. v Most of New York society men have now adopted the plan of going to tied as soon as business is over, rising and dining at ten iu the evening, and tbon going to cntertoiumenta in condition for dancing all niglrt. Ilemriy (iirls. "How did that houmly woman con trive to get married ?" ia not unfre •pumtiy rvemrkod of some good douea tic creature whom her husband regards m> tbe apple of his eye, and its wboaa | plain face lie seea some hing better than tHMsnty. Pretty (iris who ore vsiu of , their charms are rather prune to make I observations of this kind { and con acioustmaa of the fact that flowers of lov#- Hucss are often left to pine oo the etem while weeds of homvlinew go off readi ly, is no doubt in many oases et the bottom of the sneering question. The truth is, that most men prefer homeli ness and amiability to beauty sndea price, Handsome women r apt to ovar-ralue tLemoclvaa, ami in waiting for an immense bid occasionally over step the market Their plain sisterw, on the oontrary, a ware of their personal de flcieuciea, generally lay them wives cut to produce an agrno*bis imprewnoo, ami, in most lustanoes succeed. They don't. j aspire to capture paragon* with prince- II v fortunes, but are willing to take eny tiling respectable and love-worthy that Providence m*v .throw iu their way. j I The rock ahead ot your haughty Juno* > I and eoquettish Ifehes—is fastidkms. ! They n-ject and reject, until nolrwly cures to woo them. Men don't like to lie snubbed or to be tnflud with—a les sou that thousands of pretty woman do learn too late. Mr* Hannah Moore, a very excellent and pious person, who knnr wh rcof she wrote, recommends every unmarried sister to if-oept the offer of the first good sensible Christian lover who falls iu her way. But ladies wboae mirror, ad.-d by the glamour of vanity, unsure* them ibey were born (or con quest, pey no heed tostmh advice. It is a noteworthy fact that homely girls gen erally get better husbands than fall to tlie lot of their falsa sister*. Men who are oaugbt merely by a pretty faoe and figure do not, as a general rale, ausoun'. . to much. The practical, useful, thought-: ful portion ol mankind is wisely conumt with unpretending excellency. ] BbiIon and the Pyramids. Rome remain* (thongh very alight onas) are still to b found. Even the "bang ing gardens" of Babylon, u onoe de scribed by Diodomt, have been racog nised in tne mound nailed El Kaar. To 1835 Hu Henry liawlinson oarried with htm to England many relio* of ancient Babylon, all of which are now in the Bri'ub Museum. The town of Zitlah, with 7,000 inhabitants, ia now ooasider - 151G, when Uw conquest of Seltm, together with the newly diaeev -1 ered route to Asia by the Cape of Good Hope, jt an end to ita wealth and com merce. Among ita ruina from 3,000 to 14.0U) inhabitant* now dwell and earn a | Livelihood by exporting t< baron, cotton, wool and wood. Nineveh waa daatroyed by Are about GOS B. C., and the alalia and statue* found there ahow the effect of iutenae heat. The etcsvutioa* ex | labit ia say baa-reliefs representing war and hunting. The duoovenea of Lay ard and other* in the neurhlmrbocd ot Mosul,the auppoaed site of Nin4veh.aince 1839, have in a manner diaiutened and repeopk-d a city which, for eeutnxfe*, had seemed to be blotted fr*m the map of the earth. In 18*7, Layard published ni* "Nineveh and it* Remain*," and iu 1H53 vwve an account of hia aeooad visit The tliree principal pyramid* are situa ted on a rock at the luot of some btghi mountain* which bound the Nile. Tbe first building of them van commenced, it ia ani>poaed. slxnt 1500 B. C. The im-eteat i* avid to hare been erected by Cheojia, 1082 B. C. Ccm ton HronorsußU..—Franklin Dyro, a highly respactible and intelli gent farmer of Galena, Maryland, (riven the following aa a aure cure'for theute of a mad dog. As will be seen, be fans Wwted it with tbe mow gratifying results: Elecampane ia a plant well known to most person *, and i* to be found in most of ooj gardens. Immediately after be iug bitten, take one nod a half ounce* of the root of the plant- the green root ia perhaps preferable, bnt tli* dry will answer, and may be found in the drug store*, and waa na>d by me—slice or bruise, pot it into a pint of milk, boil down to half pint, strain, and when cool drink it, fasting at least six hours after ward. The next morning repeat the doac, prepared as the lust, and this wilt be sufficient. It ia recommended that after each doae nothing be eaten for at lm*t six hours. I have a son that was bitten by a mad dog eighteen yean* ago, and four other children in the neighbor hood were also bitten; they took the above dose, and are alive and well to this day. And I have known a number of others who were bitten and applied the aame remedy. It is supposed the root contain* s principle which, being taken up by the blood in ita eirmlation, counteracts or nentrslises the deadly ef fects of tlie virus of hydrophobia. I *eel so much confidence in this rimplc remedy, tfaat I am willing you should give my name in connection with this statement. United states Preside its. The following is a list of persons who have filled the )maition of President of the United State# with the yean they were elected for. George Werfangten ... a | Joh Adams ITVT-lfkO Tlionise Jefihreon j lftM lOTT Jsme.Uadi.on Jsnve Men roe J ; tm-lttM John (Julncv A iinu 1V1828 Andrew Jackson j pot!!!* Martin Tan Barea IKS7-U44 Mstnson and Tyler. IMI-IM4 Jsines JX. Polk UMS-IMB Taylor and Pillmore mtM32 Franklin Piere. Jsuea Buchanan 1857-IHOD Lincoln and Johnson., ] riyitcs B. Grant lh9-W7J AIOTBCK DEFEAT row JUARK*.—JUS govornaicnt troopa of Mexico, uuder General Pesqniera, Governor of Sinaloa, were roobti in that Htate by (ieu?iul Marque*, with Uie loss of four pieces of artillery and many prisoners. General Guerre and General Naranjo, with eight thousand revolutionists, attacked the city of San Luis Potosi, driving the government forces within their barri cades, cutting of! reinforcement* and supplies. A conducts with a million and a naif of dollars reached the frontier near Cainargo, guarded by 500 revolu tionist*. This ia the first specie which has arrived ont sinoe the commencement of the revolution four months ago. CONVOCATION OF THE ECUMENICAL COUNCIL.—It is reported that the Pope signed a degree convoking the Ecumeni cal Council, the place of meeting to be either on the Island of Malta or in the Tyrol, as ahull be hereafter determined ; and that when the oonjydl meets the Pope wiU leave Borne. TERMS : Two Dollars a Year, in Advance. Upcealatirs Bar-gates. • | Iu oi< of lbs Urge oily thoroughfares - j of Loudou, where several fine r.kl wrecks ■ of mansions testify to the pristi JO spUo -11 dor of the scene, not mtnr years ago • 11 block of those ancient seats of gmnJenr i u to I* sold. A psrobsacr wtMfti) r b : ms-!f ;w< will cmll hhn Alph*. ilia ) | offer of tea thousand pounds wsa takes, • laud the money vu to be pa:' sit his s ■ joirtaiu number of dys, Ou his way 11 hnms Alpha meets lieu, and informs -1 him of what he had bought, bat sot n# •! the jmoc paid. "Do you mean to hasp tha proitorty, or sail it V asked Beta. • j '• I don't mind parting with it lor twenty - thousand pounds," answered Alpha > Beta triad a little fend tig ; but b knew r tha vnlee of tlta property, and he ulti tiiately gars the aois demanded for it. 11 A day or two after, Gamma receives a • note from Beta, to state t'wt ba ha* : certain booeea and knd is hia pass** I, ai m, which he is half incLosd to pari i with ; will Gamma go and look at it for ' himself, and make as oiler if ha it in clissd to purehass t Gema went; kb practised eye saw the raise of what wa for sale, and tha future profit that ooald 11 ha made of R. Gamma and Beta hoc toogbduetMMos over the matter; ba< result >M tliat tha former agreed to girt thirty-fire thousand pounds for Beta'* property, whieh ha was half radioed U > part with ! Thsa far all west on is a ouainaaa-lika way. Alpha gare bis eheel to tha original seller for tan thooaaoc i punnda, sod took Beta's for doable tin money ; while Beta received Gamma i check for thirty- fire thou mod pounds, and pocketed tha difference. All timer ttanaseUona were accomplished in shoot a week or ten dart. After a little fur ther lapse of time Bete meets Gamma and sympathetically sake, "What an yon going to do with that property V "Well." replies Gamma, in a cool, ie difft-rvnt sort of amy, "no aaeone thought I didn't care about keeping it - < and so I hare let it go at a aacnfic F I '' Would it l>a impertinent to ask whs' yon call a sacrifice f" " Not at all," wa the frank reply of Madid Gamma. "1 , let it go dirt cheap. oooaiderißf its ran' value I I was aattefled with obtaining fifty thousand pounds for it !*" •• Oh * were yon really F" gasped Beta ; "de lighted to hear it 1 1 told jouyon would i make your money oat of the 'pure Use* j when you bought the property of ate.' | "Bare you any more to sell V asked Gamma. The last was, in fact, well con tent with the way ba tamed his bargain . BeU laughed, and eiptoaaed himself satisfied too. He harried off to Alpha, and said to bio, " Now that the beinneaa u • cloead and dona betweaa y<>a and ssa will yon tell me what was the original ! price paid for the property TOO sold In ;me t" " With all the plnasnra in life," answered Alpha. " I gave ten thonaand pounds for it." "Now 111 tell roe something in return. Yon know I gave ! you doable that sum. I sold at a profit of fifteen thousand pound* to Gaatflss, •if whom Delta has purchased it for fifty thousand I" Alpha had rasped cent pe> oent., but his heart sank within htm. Be calculated the b are est he might hare gathered, and became depressed and al top, tiicr oat of tone. A fixed bat set J a pleasing melancholy seemed to eo ihrond htm ; and when he is naked for < a subscription that amy help to alleviate , some wide-spreading devastation, b ; smiles a sad smile, shakes hia head slow ly : and apologetically remark*. " Htv< yon forgotten that I lost forty thousand I round* in a (peculation some Uma ago f He is positive to this day, that if he liad met Delta first, instead of only doubling hia Uay, as be had done by, en oooa ten ng Beta, he would hre muf tiplied it by fire. Be forgot hia roal gam in hia hypothetical loss, and ever since he hma refused to be oomfortea -1 em pit Bar. ■ ■ A Lh4m Newspaper. The London Time* was started in 1785, under the name of. ib* Da*h Uuirwtai R'yuttr, bat changed iU title to the 7im/( ia 1788, " because being • not usyllabie no of U*t<- can corrupt it* meaning." Mr. John Walt#*, grand father of the present proprietor, who bean the tame name, was sole founder and proprietor of the pane*. He via succeeded by hie eon John Waiter in laua. who at onoe l*egaa to display that sagacity and liberality in oonduoting the > Times which hat since given it a power unparalleled in the records of journalism. Steam was first applied to the printing of the paper in 1814. the first number so printed appearing in Nov. 29 of that year. The machinery baa since been greatly improved, and at the present dsy i the 7W is printed at the rata o! 18.- UUO to 22j0iXi copies per hour. The praeent editor is Mr. Thomas DeUne, whose father was also a manager of the 1 paoer. Hi writes nothing himself, but oonflnes himself, so it is said, to correct ing the compositions of bis snbordinetea | which he often altera and interliaea to sack an extent that the authors can scarcely recognise their article# when they appear in print Dr. Daseni, now editor of Frater's Mtgatine, was for many years assistant editor of the Time*; bnt Mr. Mowbray Morris is really the con trotting spirit" of the establishment. He engages its writers, correspondents, and reporters, and is believed to shape the entire policy of the j..:raaL It is rejioited that Mr. Delaae gets "8 salary of 825,000 a v or. The income of the Times from advertisements alone is about £290,000 annually. Its daily cir culation in 1834 was 10,000 ; 23,000 in 1844 ; 51,000 in 1854 ; considerably over 60,000 in 1860; and is now about 66,000. All ExcutrnojiAi, PLACE. Certainly Kxalianon mast be an exception to th< retl of Bolivia, if w# m believe a Ift tor-writer, wbo MTI a robbery or a theft it of eery rtrt occurrence. So perfectly safe are the mailt in the wildcat part o! tbc country that arm* are quite nunece* •are. In one of my journey* across tin Bofivisn Ande*. I got ao tired of carrying a revolver in my belt that I put it in un of my aeddle-bsg*, and on. my arrival at lite Pacific coast I found the chamber! and barrel* full of bread and oheete. In Southern Bolivia I once met a train ol mulct and attes, tome twenty-five in num ber. They were In one of the wildcat part* of the country, and a hundred inilei from theirdestination. Every ooe of them carried two tilver bar*, of about £l5O value each. The*# bar* were simply thing in hide thong*, and rented uncovered on the back* of the animalt. Naturally 1 expected to see an escort, but what wai nv surprise to tee only an inofleusivi Old Tudian and a small boy alowly walking on foot and driving the train! A MONO TEN Pancreas—Among othei incident* of temperance reformation now unusually active in different parti of the country, we hear that in Cam bridge, Mass.," the printer* employed by one of the largest book -manufacturing establishments In that dty bare formed a temperance society among themselves, and it ia intimated that those employed in some other establishments will follow this good example. There isn't s kinder hearted, mora beucvok-nt, more indus trious class of mechanics in the country than that which journeymen printer* constitute ; nor is there any which has found a bitterer foe to permanent pros perity in strong drink. To this we mo&l cheerfully add our firm belief that nc men, when onoe they get started in tb right direction, can do better eerrice oi more of it in the battle fox total absti nence. —2f. 7. paper. , A 1.1 tils Mease. ttmaHutemsasa. • On iy that— Chsaal slew* the home By aii to satisfy him. 1 The railroad men down Earl we qaia siaga new station agent, who made e requisition for "red oiT for rignal lamps. led from Adrian, MMrig*n< i.*** ,w I ponnda of batter, and M.2 77 pounds ot A young lady gf Philsdelphi* went ot deign-riding wearing a fashionable boa tot, and froee her wskwi nasnity. * * A cynical lady, nfibw inclined to flirt, ti mass men we like a cold—very • -1* caught, bat rery difficult to get rid of. A gnng of burglar* in Tadiaoa worked dl night at a eooaty tntaanrer'a safe, and sere rejoiced to find ffl.lo in it* roomy A man died suddenly from iotcmpar- UMC, and a Wastmm hwy iotuH that • deoeaaed omne to bin death by drinking between drink*." A tree which was cat dawn last wm* n " contained two huahela of beets ind three bnodrsd pounds of braitiful ranaparaot honey. An undertaker's office in IndiaaapoUs reecottr bore this cheering inscription *u the front door: " Gene for s deed naa—bank noon." Four Isdiea and one gentleman ween •wferom lately in a Plymouth County Kwmtt—the first instance of tha kind a Usssacbnsetta. New Hampabow has 79 82 mikw of railroait. built at aa cxpoeaeof fM.TM,- 117. Vermont has 711 J, built at aa •xpeose of |8&,493j13. California U going into the tree buai icos in earaeet Bho has hired a State Tee-plan te* at a coal of fifteen thousand lollsrs a year and qpsnaag A little bey in Minnesota, has men scalded to death fay an explovion wodnecd in a hot saiaee-pk which threw (he ooatents over hia laoc sad amok. A California statute, after passing through tha hands of a rrriwog com niaaion, dedans • aO marriages of white xwwonaanJ negroes or -malsttocs vwd. A child in Buffalo, the other day. tied i crape on the cb-or knob to tee If tha nu would come to take them out -dine, as it did the family acton tha rna editor of tha OatritlO Bmmmwr has received the following: "Yon an respectfully invited to a Spriee oa Wed uaaday area, meet at , Bring *oae neadebeeae and car >ly." • A man in A Kansas City hotel a abort time ago blew out the gas oa retiring, uid soon after be ntriied down stairs full of indignation, to ascertain if the rasa "ghat factory next door." An lowa msn fingfod his wife tanner rifullv heosnae she took en old coat on vhidk a dog was sleeping, to protect her % uara feet fsom the eold floor while she good by the atove to drew herself. A Liverpool magistrate roaays to eura the draakaids hroaght before him. not fin. o. each, but bv collecting the names and •Ureases of the emptoycrl of each and threatening to pablwh Use Bel At BewecrttOwu, Ohio, a deaoemte voting man named Oww dark, hv-.ng at that pbw* wbot hia aiatee With a rifia hecanae aba threw anowas him. The ball passed throngb the girl's right thigh l oat below the top joint, thence nearly through the tefttoigh. Clark was ar rested. A soldier was sentenced, for deserting, to have hia ear cot off. After undergo ing the brutal ordeal, be was ordered out •f the eoort-yaid to the tone of the "Rogue's March." He then turn**!, and. is mock dignity, thns wldr*