A Jitrnim Ere Song.
Far off T lor* is lying ; hear it not ye xephyra,
Scarcely fff.ro I breaths my thought, for shou 1 ff
ye hea," it
Ye would haste to woo h.r*~ehc is only mine.
How fair ahs I* t Ye birds, hoar not, for awiftly
Would ye fly to her, see her whom I may eee
net:
Ye would ring to her for * horn my lyre i* mute j
IyO, whore she lie*! No, no, start uot no hastily
Yo flowers—ah.uild ye know where my lore ie
lying
Ye would go mad with J< eloney, grow wen end
die.
She sleep*. Oh, cease. you amonreua clouds,
whet, would you
Rota through the trembling eir to And end
lore her ?
1 dere not breathe her name mine ia ah* only.
Maud Midler,
Manff Muller on a summer's day
Raited the meadow, with hay.
Beucath her torn hat glowed the wealth
Of simple beauty and rustic health.
Ringing, ahe wrought, and her merry glee
The mooh-hird echoed from his tree.
But. when she glanced to the for oft town,
White from ita hill-slope looking down,
Tlie sweet song died, and a vagne unrest
And a nameless longing tilled her breast
A wish, sin hardly dare to own.
For something better ihan the had known.
The Judge rod* slowly down the lan*,
Sni.sulung his horse's chestnut mane.
He drew his bridle in the shade
Of the apple-tree, to grv-ei the maid.
And ask a draught from the spring that flowed
Through the tuosdow, across the road.
She stoop.nl where the cisil spring bubbled p.
And 6lied for luni her suial! tin cup.
And blushed as she gave it, looking down
On her feet so bare, ami hor tattered gowu.
"Thanks I" said the Judge, "a sweeter draught
From a foirer hand was never .piaffed."
He spoke of the grass and flow era and trees,
Of the singing birds and hnmmitig U-,- ;
Then h' talked of the haying, and won da red,
whether
The cloud in the west would bring foul weather.
And Mand forgot her hriar-torn gown,
And her graceful ankles hare and tirvwn ;
And listened, while a pleased surprise
Looked forth from her long-la shed hacel ayes.
At last, like one who for delay
Seek* a vain excuse, he rode away.
Maud Mulier looked ami sighed : "Ah, me!
Tha; I the Judge"* hnde might be!
•' Ho would dresa me op in silks so flue,
And praise and toast me at his wine.
" My father should wear a broadcloth cuat;
-My brother should sail a painted boat.
'* I'd dress my mother so grand and gar,
And the baby should hare a new toy each day.
'* And 1 feed the hungry and clothe the poor,
And all should bless me who left my door."
The Judge looked hack as he climbed the hill
And saw Maud Mulier standing still.
•' A form more fair, and a face more tweet,
Ne'er hath it been my lot to meet.
" And her modest answer and graceful atr
Show her wise aud good as she is fair.
" Would she were mine, and I to-day
Like her, a harvester of hay ;
" No doubtful balance of rights and wrongs.
Nor weary lawyers with endless tongues.
" But low of cattle and song of birds.
And health and quiet and loving words."
But he thought of bis sisters proud and cold,
And his mother vain of her rank and gold.
So, dosing his heart, the Judge rode on,
And Mand was left in the field alone.
Bnt the lawyer smiled that afternoon.
When he hummed in court an old love-tune;
And the young girl mused beside the well.
Till the rain on the unrated clover fell.
He wedded a wife of the richest dower,
*ho lived for fashion as he for power.
Yet oft in his marble hearth's bright glow.
He watched a picture come and go ;
And sweet Maud Mailer's hasel eyes
Lacked out in their innocent surprise.
Oft when the wine in his glass was red,
He longed for the wayaide well instead ;
And closed his eyes on his garnished roams.
To dream of meadows and clover blooms.
And the proud man sighed, with a secret pain :
"Ah. that I were free again 1
" Free as when I rode that day
Where the barefoot maiden raked the hay."
Bite wedded a mac unlearned and poor.
And many children played round her door.
But care and sorrow, and child lirth pain.
Left their traces on heart and brain.
And oft, when the summer son shone hot
On the new mown bay in the meadow lot.
Anel she heard the little spring-brook fall
Over the roadside through the wall.
In the shade of the apple-tree again
She saw a driver draw his rein;
And ganng down with timid grace,
She felt his pleased eye read her free.
Sometimes her narrow, kitchen walls
Stretched far away into stately halla :
The weary wheel to a spinner turned.
The tallow candle an astral horned.
And for him who sat by the chimney fire
Dozing and grumbling o'er his pipe and mug.
A manly form at her side she saw,
And joy was dnty and love was law.
Then she took up her burden of life again
Saying only, "It might have been."
Alas for maiden, alas for Judge.
For rich repiner and household drudge!
God pity them both! and pity us all,
Who vainly dreams of youth recall.
For of all sad words of tongne or pen.
The saddst are these : "It might have been!"*
Ah, well! for us all some sweet hope lies
beeply buried from human eyes,
And in the hereafter, angels may
Itofl the stone from its grave away.
A HRF.AT OPERATION*.
" Say, John.—didn't that woman go
away crying I"
" She waymffiing a bit," answered John
Gleddin slipping around from behind his
counter.
•'lshould call it crying,' 1 said George
Autin, the first speaker. " What was
if?"
" Why—fact is, old fellow, sbo pawned
a brooch here a few weeks ago, and just
now she wanted to redeem it; but the
time was mure than up, and I couldn't
do it."
"Couldn't do it ? Why not V
"Why—bless your soul! The brooch
was pearl* and garnet in one of the finest
settings I ever saw— tbe*pcaris pure orien
tal, and th'e garnet like a crimson ruby."
"And how much bad you advanced on
it 7"
" Ten dollars."
" And it was worth—"
" Fifty, at least."
" And very likely, it was a keepsake."
•' So she said. But it isn't safe to be
lieve the stories of the pcor creatures that
come to pawn jewelry. She had ber needs
and I Lave my rule*. She knew the rules
before she left the brooch, and abe had no
business to come oack for it after the time
was up."
John Gleddin and George Austin were
cousins. George's mother had been a sis
ter to John's father; but the mother and
the father were both dtad, and John and
cieorge were orphans. George had learned
the printer's trade, and was at present en
gaged upon a daily paper, while John bad
worked his way into a pawn-broker's of
fice; and, though only five-and-twenty,
had learned all the tricks of trade, that
caD cxtoi t money from the poor and the
needy. But John Gleddin did not do bus
iness under his own name. The man be
fore him had used the name of "Joshua
Murr," and this same name John used.
" JOSHUA SHJBB" appeared beneath the
three golden balls over the door; and it
was also upon the business cards; and fur
thermore, all his receipts and pawntickets
John signed "/. &Yu>r."
"I don't know, John,"said George who
was his cousin's junior by two years, after
a season of reflection, " but I think I would
rather plod on at my type-case than be* in
your business."
♦'Pshaw! You're soft-headed. I tell
FRED. KURTZ, Editor ami Proprietor
VOL. V.
vou, George, 1 em making money. You
have no idea of the profit."
" FW instance," said George, " vou have
made isrliap* twenty dollar* oi; that
brooch,"
M Ave, —thirty."
"Well, I Wouldn't have the weigh b of
that poor woman's cobs and tears ou my
conscience lor ten times the amount. So
yon can so* just ho% I led."
" Pshaw I"
Shortly afterward George Austin went
away to the printing• other and as it \*a
well into the evening John made prt>jara
tb>n for closing up. He bad put moat of
bis jew elry into the *a'e w hen the dour ol
his office was opened, and an elderly gen
tleniau entered—a pKtl looking man he
was, and very leapretahly dressed, though
his garb w as much worn, and considerably
soiled, aud swelled strongly ol *alt water.
"Is the proprietor in asked the gen
tlemen.
John nodded assent.
" Mr. Slurr, I think I"
John rvp>ated his asscntiug nod.
" I am caught in a tight place," said the
c< tit lonian with a grim ami ghastly smile,
| as though a jwwnhrokci'g shop was about
the IIKVNI uncomfortable place, he couhl
hare selected in which to escape from his
tightness. " 1 have just landed here in
| your city, ami discover that mv lugvagc,
bv the most ridiculous oversight mi uiv
tut, has gone on to New York. In Lou
| don I took a bill f exchange ou Boston,
and not only that, but a few* five and ten
lound mitts on the Bank of Knglaml, which
had with me, are by this time in the dis
tant metropolis. So lam forced (another
grim, ghastly -mitt to have recourse to an
establishment where credit may be laid
upon a tcady collateral.''
John lileddntßPWed politely, and said
he would le happy to lie of service,
i Then the gentleman tek from his pock
et a morrocco ease upon opening which
ho exposed a gold watch. John took the
watch, and tunics! to the gas jet, aud upon
examining it, he found it to !<• a master
piece ol one ot the meat rslsbrated Swiss
makers—a stem winder. full ruby j - welled,
of most etijutitt a4/mstmtal aud tiuish.
He knew that the first anst of that watch
ha I been not lees than thraa hundred dol
lars in gold.
" How much did raw want on this f"
he asked returning the watch to the case.
*' I waut enough to get me safely to
New York."
John started off upon the many and ex
treme risks of Lis Irtudne**; but the gen
tleman stopped him abruptly.
" I ask you to run no ri-V on my ac
count. I do not propose to sell the watch.
I only wish to leave-t with you a- securi
ty f<>r a very -tnall *\m. I have another
just like it,—l bought theni as present*
for two friends of mine, and would not
sell thetu far ten times their value. Fifty
dollars will answer."
John tried to rough down the idea of
advancing so much, but the cough stuck
in bis throat.
" For how long do you want the fiftv
dollars f"
" For—say—two weeks,* 1
Never mind the various dodges attend
ing the transaction on the part of the bro
ker. Suffice it to say that he at length
counted out fifty dollars to his rustonirt
aud took the watch; and the ,l trade,' 1 as
he termed It, stood thus! at any time
within two weeks the gentlemen eottld re
deem the watch upon the payment of
sixtv dollars.
'* Rather steep interest,"said the elderly
gentlemen, with a smile far more grim
and severe than any which had preceded
it.
John would have again explained the
enorxous risks of his business, but the
customer would not listen.
" What name/ 11 said John, holding his
pen over bis entry-hook.
" But it down Simon Smith*, it"you must
have a name."
So John |>ut it down, and then he put
the watch away, and the customer depar
ted with the fifty dollars.
After the roan had gone John Gleddm
took out the watch and looked it it again.
Hi* eyes sparkled eagerly. Suppo-e any
thing should happen to prevent the prompt
redemption of the valuable pledge? The
thought thrilled him through and through.
The days passed,—and a week passed.
The days passed again, and another week
had sped by.
At length the elderly gentleman re
turned, and a*ked for his watch.
" What name T'a*ked John professing
to have forgotten.
" Snihbs— Simon Suilbt."
" Ah, ye. I remember. I*t roc see.''
—And be looked over his hook.— *• Really,
Mr. Snibbs, von mint have made a mis
take. I have no watch ol yours."
* How, sir," cried the customer in blank
amaxetnent. " Did I not leave with you
a valuable gold watch as security for a cer
tain sum which I borrowed of youf"
John smiled blandly.
" Not exactly as you put it, Mr. Snibbs.
If j in will refresh your memory, you will
recollect that I bought Ihe watch,—that
for value received, you gave me a regular
bill of sale, — with the proviso, however,
that if, within two week* from the date
thereof, you should pay to me the sum of
sixty dollars in current fund*, the watch
should become again your proper!v. The
two weeks expired yesterday, sir!"
" But—sir 1 Will you—
John put up bis hand reprovingly.
" There is no need of going into a pa-eion,
my dear sir, you see just how the matter
stands."
From a tiwering rage. the old man de
scended to argument and explanation. He
told bow he had been detained in New
Yotk hv an unavoidable accident, and how
he had embraced the first possible oppor
tunity to call for his watch.
*' I had not worried much," he said, be
came I had not thought that any man
could he consumately mean and cold
bloodedly heartless and vile a* to rob me
upon such a pretext."
At thi'John waxed wroth, and ordered
the man to leave bis office.
And the old gentleman, evidently fear
ing that he should fie led to the commission
of some foolish outrage if he remained
longer withfti the villainous influence
clo*ed his liptightly together, and went
away.
On the afternoon of that very day, John
Gleddin Bold the watch to ar. agent of a
Philadelphia house for two hundred and
seventy five dollars.
"Hiyah?" he cried, as George Austin
dropped in during the evening. Plod on
at your type case, old fellow, plod on!"
"What's up, John?"
" The greatest operation 1 ever made, —
two hundred and twenty-five dollars in
pocket at a single turn of the die -inter
est on fifty dollars for two weeks ? What
d'ye think of that?"
"If money were man's chief end," said
George soberly,—"if money were the sole
source of happiness,—f should say you
were on the road. But you know my sen
timents, and we won't argue the point.
And, besides, we haven't time, f came to
let you knpw that Uncle Moses has got
home.''
" Uncle Moses!" cried John, clapping
L M hands.
"Yes. He Las but just arrived, and
called on me this altern sui. He wants
you aul I to come and see hiiu at the Tre
mont this evening."
" (If course we'll go and see him," said
John -tarling at once to put away his val
uable-, •' The old fellow inust be rich as
mud, and you and I are bis only relatives."
" He is certainly rich," responded George
quietly, " and we are his only near rela
tives; but I don't think of that. I only
remember how 1 used to love bim in the
old days, when my mother was alive and
be used to cheer and comfort her, and used
to play with me under the great tree#."
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
•• And 1 remember." added John, " how
lie used to till me that I ought to huve
tnv ear* boxed U cause I robbed bird's
nests, and itele apple* ami peaehnw frnii
the neighliors' g-ml on*. Hut (hat was a
lung time ago. I have forgiven hiiu for all
that. 1 say George, if he should take a
faUtcV t" us, we're ill luck, ain't we f \ oil
won t ->a\ an\ thing about aliOHl "
" A limit w hat ?"
"1 w a- going to svv about my business;
but never mind. (July those who have
been behind the socnos know the crooks
aud t urns.''
'■ You nee.! not tear than 1 shall say
anything to your disadvantage, John.
You'll tind I nole Mow* just one of the
jolhest and kindest hearted men you ever
aw."
And s John had locked his sale, and
finished his todet, the two cousins ot
I or lb.
I ncleMosca (ileddin had In-en brother
to John's lather audio Gootge's mother,
and tor many years he had beeu away in
Europe engaged in responsible agencies lor
American houses ; an I it was known tha*
ho had sum-scd a fortune, lie had war
ties! iu youth ; but his wife had died
leaving uo children, and he had never mar
ried again ; tha the expectant nephews
were not without foundation.
At length the young moll reached the
hotel, aud a, George had IKS-II there before
he led the w ay.
" l':K-le Alost--," he -sub upon entering
the room where a genial faced, smiling,
portly, elderly geutlciuan aro-e to receive
him, " this is John.—John, this is Lucie
Mo<es."
John looked, and turned pale as death.
Fncle M.SM looked, and Rushed like a
scarlet rose.
" How—this—John ?"
'•Of course it is John, sir," said tieorgf
in answer.
" And not J>* 'i '<>t Slit?"
"0," cried tieorge, thinking that By
inc aov ident I'Dele M>>es might have-ceii
John's face lieiieath the pawn broker's
sign, '* that is the name of the man who
was in business before him.'*
"And,* 1 added I'nele Moses severely,
"if I mistake not, it is the name under
which he now does buslueas for himself.' 1
John Gleddin could not deny It, Ibr he
saw, in his I nelc Moses, the nun from
whom he had so meanly taken the valua
able watch, lie tiled to say something,
hut the word-choked hllU ; and he stood
like a whipped car lietore his relative. Fi
nally he mustered up courage to a-k the
old man to forgive him.
"1 in-.y forgive you,'' answered t'nele
Moses, "out 1 ean nt take you into my
confidence ju-t yet. 1 think you hud het
ter go home ami sleep U|>n it. let us both
sleep upon it. I would rather not talk
of it now. The wound is tun fresh. 1 *
John lileddin was no more anxious to
stop than hi* uncle was to detain him;
ami without further words he took hisde
part ore. < Incc more at the office he thought
of the watch he had sold, aud of the two
hundred and twenty-five dollars profit be
had made: ami the conviction was furred
Upon him that his great operation wis
likely to prove a very heavy settler upon
his greater expectation.
And so it ultimately proved, t ncle
Moses Could not takr the dlb'mst, un
scrupulous nephew to hia confidence, nor
to tils lute ; nor could John muster the im
pudence to claim the lender regard* of one
whom be hail so meanly and so unmitiga
ted ly wronged and aiiu-ed. The result
was that the true-Siearted printer ere long
left his tr|>e setting to assume the wealth
which I oele Mows deemed him worthy
and wcH qualified to enjoy. What the
pawn-broker may gain in tfnie we cannot
-ay ; but if he ever regains the confidence
he has hxt. it will be when he has shown
by his work* that he regards truth and
honor a- of more value than the sordid
profits of such operations as hate hereto
fore suited hfs hands.— tsiiqtr.
Fifiuxi. ronSroxpßfli —The sponge fish- i
erv is actively carried on during De j
eerabtr, January, and February, fur at ;
other the place* where the sponge
exist* are overgrown with se.nw eed*. The
•tonus during November and December!
destroy and sweep away the thick marine
vegetation and leave the sponges exposed j
to view. The collection of sponges is not i
very productive in summer, twit is con i
fined t> the operation* carried on with
diving apparatus which can only be nsed
on rocky and firm bottomed places, or to j
the success of native fishermen who wade
along the shores, and feel for sponges with ;
their fe**t among the masse* of seaweed.
The sponge* thus collected by the Arabs
are also of inferior quality, owing to the
small depth ol water in which they have
grown. Sponges are either obtained by
spearing with a trident, diving with or
without the nssistenee of an apparatus,
and by dredging with a machine some- j
what similar to an oyster dredge. The
Arab fishermen, principally native* of
Marknah and .lerhah, employ boats railed
sandals, manned by four or seven |>er*onr,
one of whom only is the har|>noner or
spearman, while the others "manage, the
sails, dec. The depth of the sea in which
the Arabs fish is from fifteen feet to thirty
five feet. Although the Greek* are most
expert diver-, the majority of them use
the spear. They employ small and light
bonts, just sufficient to carry a spearman
and an oarsman. The boat is rowed gently
along, while the spearman searches the
bottom of the sea by means of a tin tube
of fourteen inches in diameter by nineteen
inches in length, at one end of which is
placed a thick sheet of glass This tnbe
is slightly immersed in the water and en
ables the fisherman to view the Imttom
nndistured by the oscilationa of the sur
face. The spear* used by the Greeks are
shorter than those employed by the na
tives and Sicilians, but with wonderful
adroitness tbey are enabled to reach the
sponges covered by sixty feet of water.
They hold in their hands from three to
four spears, and dart them so quickly and
with sncli precision, one after the other,
that before the first has had time to dis
appear under the surface the second
strikes its tipper extremity, and thus
gives it additional impetus to reach the
sponge aimed at. A new s|>onge is repro
duced within a year whenever one has
been removed.
BK CAHKFV —The fatal RESULT of taking
an overdone of hydrate of chloral, in the
case of the late Mr. Jacob Pecare, a law
yer of New York city, should act AH a
warning to physician* not to permit pa
tients to have such a deadly drug within
reach daring moments* of great pain.
Several instances nre on record in which
death ha* occurred from oversights of a
similar nature. The direct effect of hy
drate of chloral, even when taken in small
quantities, is to produce a sort of reckless
aess as to consequences, which no effort
of will seems able to control. Particular
ly has this heen noticed in the treatment
of neuralgic patients. There is renlly no
reason why the sale of this drng should
not be subject to the same restrictions as
arsenic or strychnine; for although it is
not likely to be used to so great an extent
as a tneans of committing suicide, it is
altogether too dangerous to be obtainable
without the order of a regular medical
man.
THE IKON FAMlNE. —Notwithstanding
immense mines and facilities for work
ing them, the production is infinitely
less than the demand. It requires fully
one-half of all the American iron pro
duced to build our railroads and keep
them in repair. The United States has
now 65,000 miles of completed railroads.
There is one thing that can always be
found—and that's fault
CENTRE HALL. CENTRE CO., I'.V,, FRIDAY, Jl LY 12, 1872.
Tlir lirdrr of ll ltuftnlo.
Few person* probably know how rapidly
the American bison ia disappearing from
the Western plains. At one time it is said
they were to ho # l\nind everywhere West of
l-nke Champlain and the IGnlsou River,
but for many y*ars they have been extinct
east of the Mississippi River. The war of
destruction, however, appears to go on
more bravely iu proportion as the* are
driven into narrower and narrow er limits,
ami it is not unlikely that the late of (he
European bison, which once abounded in
the woody wilderness of (kriuiny, north
ern tiau! and neighboring parts of the Con
tinent, hut which is now to lie found alone
and rarely in the forests of Lithuania, will
soon be theirs.
Some idea of the extent of this ruthless
daughter may he formed from the fact that
twenty-flve thousand bison were killed
durum the mouth of May south of the Kan
sas Hlui I'nellic Railroad tor the sake of tlieit
lode* alone, W bieh are sold at the paltry
price of $- each on delivery for shipment
to the eastern market*. Add to tilts the
thousand --a small estimate shot by tour- |
ist* ami killed by the Indian* to supply
hirat to the people <>ll the frontier, aud w*
have a sum total of thirty thousand a* the
victim* for a single month.
If the bi*<m were a wild and savage ani
mal—if to kill one required any especial
kill or bravery or nerve, there might lie
some justification for thineuormou* slaugh
ter. But the fact is that the bison i* an ;
exceedinglymild-di-posiiionedanimal. Hi
look- indicate ferocity ami malignity, but
hi* nature <!<** not correspond with his
j appearance. Even in the breeding season,
' when the common bull i frequently dan 1
gerou*, when the stag and the elk attack!
j everything that come* in their way, and
whuii most animals are pugnacious, the
bison will go by on the other side to avoid
a man. It is only when lie is wounded by
a blundering aim or irritated by a persist
exit pursuit that he show* light enough to
make hunting him enjoyhie. Reside.*,
the Indian |Hinie* are trained to dodge his
onset, when maddened beyond endurance,
so that the hunter who can manage to stick
to hi* horse has little to do but to sit still
ami keep tiring until he can make a fatal
shot.
Every one remember* how Prince Alexis,
under the leadership of General Sheridan,
participated in this "sport," to the intense
gratification of his royal father and to the
profit of the s|>ecll correspondent*. It is
doubtful, however, whether e*en a royal '
freccdent ran justify this kind ol *O-called
luntiug. However this may be in the ;
Eastern fttatiu. tiie following paragraph j
from the letter of nu army oflirer shows
that in tiie Western States this kind Wt
•' *|<ort " i* estimated at it* true worth, ]
while, at the sain* time. It* reference to 1 '
the number of person* who are following ! 1
the Russian Princeling's example confirm* ''
the apprehension that the American bison .
w ill noon become n* fabulott* au animal a>
Die dodo:
"' To h<sot buffalo' seems a mania. Men
come from London—cockneys, fops and '
nobles and from all parts of the republic j 1
to enjoy what they call sport. ftp"rt!!|
when no danger i* incurred and no skill
required. 1 see no more s[n>rt in shooting '
a buffala than in shooting an ox, nor *0
much danger a* there is in hunting Texas 1'
ttory of an English Aristocrat.
The Marqi i* of Huntington is HOD of'
the Duke of Devonshire, one of the
richest oLa>ur nobl< t. Thev wv that thr
Duke allowed hi-> imn. when the latter
wns jet under IUU-, one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars a y< or lis College
iHK-k't-money. The Marquis developed
early s fine arishirrat 10 taste for pleasure,
nnd for acquaintance of tb>'o|>porilt' sex.
To ain him from these occupations he
nu mrutr a tnetnher of th' ttovernnn ut,
and 1 believe that while playing at
statesmanship he haa really sown his
wild oat* ; indeed, he is nosr nearly
fortv years old. The story i, that in a
department of which at one time he was
chief, the employes petitioned for in
crease of pay. The Marquis, who is very
good-naturrd, received • deputation and
heard their complaint*. He inquin d
the amount of each man's Kalnry. lie '
counted it over mentally, so many linn
dnsls n year, and estimated the cost of
so mnnv |iirs of shea's, so many cigars,
so many Itonqnetn, etc., in the season,
lie saw that the thing really conld not be
done for the money. The exprension
that began nooverspread his face encour
aged one of the deputation to judi
whether Ids lordship did not think it
hard for n man to have to li\e and sup
port a wife nnd children on such an
allowam-e. The Marquis starbsl and
looked puflslcd, nnd the <|uestiou w is re
pea ted. "flood Heavens," exclaimed
the Marquis, "you don't mean to say
that you live on your salaries ? ' A new
light had broken in uiion him. He had
thought lie was addressing the scions of
wealthy families, who complained that
their official stipend would not i|ioot
their requirement* in gloves and opera
tickets. He learned iu utter ninar.ement
that they actually were rcsjiectable and
educnt-A Englishmen in the public ser
vice, who were eoinpelled to live on their
weekly pay.— London lstt- r.
A JEWISH FRITH VAL. —The Jewish fes
tival of Bhatraoth, the Feast of" Weeks,
ia a noted season among the Isrcalitcs.
All the synagogues and public places of
worship are decorated with flowers, in
accordance with the usual custom. Orig
inally this watt a festival of thanksgiv
ing for the abundance of harvest, which
lasted seven weeks and closed at this
time, ami, therefore, also called the
feast of firstlings,'' lias lost its origniil
Biblical character, but is now enhanced
by being regarded as the memorial dny
of the revelation on Kinni. Though the
public confirmation of Jewish children
on Klinbnoth is of recent growth, and
has yet been instituted by the reform
school, yet its impreasivencM and lust
ing influence on the youiig mind has
been go terally recognized.
F.ARI.T IIATMAKI.NO.-—••Rural," of tli
Chicago Tribune , ya there ait? at least
two reasons for cutting hay early, I M-I ore
the seed has matured so a* to gcrminstr,
for then we have the manure lull of grass
seed, whirh is not always pleasant, and the
hay will lie lens nutritious. We may not
get a* many pounds of liny to the acre, but
ttiis is more tlinn made up in quality. Then
the roots have not spent all their forces,
and an altcr-growth springs up to protect
the grnas-rools from lieing dried up by ex
posure to the sun and wind. Many mead
ows are spoiled in this way. The afb-r
- gives a large amount of antumn
pasturage that is most desirable.
PUBLIC DEBTS. —The public debt of
the United States is about three-fifths
that of Great Britain, jet the two nations
paj about the same amount of interest.
The receipts of the United State* thr
last fiscal year were $3H3,000,000 ; those
of Great llritnin in the same time $572,-
705,000; a surplus of Bttl ,ooo,ooo— six
times that of Great Britain. The U. S.
government annually costs $100,500,000
beyond Interest charges, Great Britain's
costs $224,600,000. All the pensions of
the British government amount to $5,-
000,000 ; U. S. pension accounts foots
up $34,000,000.
Josh Billings says there seems to he
four styles of mind: First, theui who
knows it's so; second, them who knows
it ain't so; third, them who split the dif
ference and guess at it; fourth, them
who don't oare which way it is.
The Texas Cattle Rambus.
I had an o]i|MM°tUuity to study a little
i the man Dors and customs of the Texas
I cuttle drivers, say-a letter writer. They
f do everything >m horseback ; and tin
, Inxao - or rinhi, UN it is more commonly
I culled hero, lasso being jirojK-rlr a verb,
I I tind. is a sort of thud arm to tiicui. it
i uaa desired to single out u half dogeu
horm-N from u herd of 25 or .'hi eoutiued
ill u sta'd -yard. So the horses were let
i; out of the yard, cornered by two herad
, men in a fetus- cornet, and then one man,
living Ilia fljvisoiitlio horse lie wanted,
dashed into the herd, (lung Ins ri.ihi,
and unfailingly secured the jiri/.e. In
| j one ease, the horite, uacd probably to
the o|ierution for these animals were
, broken—saw when In- was ''wanted," and
| actually stood still to la- caught. A vae
qucro cstuo in, after a night's watch over
cattle, slipped off his horse at the door,
tied the atiimul. and iu u minute was
fast asleep, standing up and leaning hi*
head on the Huddle. His nap lasted half
au hour, and wu* not hrokeu apparently
by the noise about lnm. A horse not
thoroughly broken hud nttaehed to its
headstall a broad leather hand ; when
the owner wanted to mount, lie *lip|*-d
this band over the horse's eye*,
ami rctnovi <1 it all soon aa he w as securely
HI the saddle The cattle range 1* divided
into r.iuehos, each of which has a fore
man, responsible to the proprietor for
the cattle on the place. Theae men re
j ccive, i am told, fro in 51,200 to sl,Hot)
l*-r annum, au<l tiieir food and neccaaary
traveling< x|cusea. Under them are vac
quero*. The inttlc range a- the* please
[overall enormous extent of land; when
• market cuttie are wanted, or when it is
' thought expedient todrive u Iwnd to uew
pastures, a foremau sets out witii from
1- t<i lHmen, on horseback, accompanied ,
by a wagon which bear* provisions aud '
tin blankets of the mm, as well as acook.
rhree horses are taken ah dig for each j
man, for the husim *.* is not easy. They
separate, and bunt up the cattle they
want—each rancho has its distinct brand
aud all drive toward one [mint, Meet
, ing there, wliich may IK- 100 or 150 utiles I
froiu their destination, tiny combine
forces to drive the whole herd slowlv to
tliepla-e where they are wanted. 'l'hi* ,
watebfulm-n lasts I Kith night au<l duv; !
and men an- up from 12 o'rh-ek at night,
until ti the uelt night, one half keeping
watch all uight; ami all of course Is-ing .
on horseback nil ilay. Tin- men receive
S3O |KT month, and own their sullies
and aOoUtreinelitS.
Ptrctux OnloartA.MTX. —The Greek*
| appear h> be miking strong effort* to
iiuivert the Jew* to (jiriffmnttv- On
I Sunday, the nth of May, aeeortling to
the IST >nt llcTti ii, a party of drunken
(Greek* s , *t*.'l 111*111 a |*>or |Miish Jew,
ill an obscure pari of Oalwta. smeared
hi* Ward am! hair with tar, mid act fire
jto tliem, luthcting cruel mid prolwbly
fatal Injuries UIHIU their victim. At
Smyrna there lius been a display of
(.'hristianity on ail uuwonta*<i scale. A
I r<-|*irt having been circulated that a
Christian child hint IH-CU killed by the
Jew* a* a sacritier ft their (turnover, a
fearful onset w:m made on them-Unhappy
j people. 111 vain did the priests from the
lehuteh-pulpit* proclaim that the child iu
question hal r-?r*vily Ik-cii drowned by
accident. Kverr Jew met trlUi *as bor
i riblv maltreated ; and after some hour*
of indecision. during which it wu* vainlv
! hoped that sober sense might prevail,
the excitad tiro. k mob, witii ail the ras
cality of the town iu its train, mudc for
the Jewish quarter, sacked the house*,
mupleml the iumutc*, and committed
other acl* of lirutnl atrocity. Many Jews
J at length turned on their assailants, and
then thcYury of the <sreek rabble knew
uii Imuuds. Neither women nor children
were spared ; and these Men** of violence
| continued day after dny, until the Jew
ish quarter was converted into a pande
monium of pillage, rapine, uinl murder.
At length the governor interfered.
Troo|* were called in, and Christianity
wu* brought under some sort of control.
A BtTTM THlCK.—Tallow tr-os, xnilk
(urn, pitcher tree* and bread trees are
found in various jmrt* of the world.
They arc no lon or wonders. lint a new
discovery in a part of Africa not frequent
ly visited by travellers ha* been ,an
lionueod that finite eclipses anything in
the tree line. It is a trc yielding butter.
According to M. C'hevanl. the product
consists of a small proportion of aroma
tic principle, 01. line *n<Htearine, very
much like inntton tallow. \t 12itd<-kr-cs
Fahrenheit it is liqnid l <*nihg tnVpid
at lUO, with globule* floating thruiigh
the mass. It is a l*fir aub*tituta|f<B
butter, yet there is an approximation so
that an amateur would pronounce it
strong—the regular hoarding nouae ar
ticle. .Silt improves, but tinner no sys
tem of treatment rau it IK tutrwluoud to
take the place of that churned fmtu milk.
When heated slightly the uew product is
easily eonvertiil into snap with a solution
of js'tosh or soda, and this become* in
odorous. Prolwldy this new article may
have some future eommereial value in
the manufacture of aaponneomts com
(Hninds and mixing with ordinary butter,
<>n the principle of puttiugsandinsiigiur.
(in MS HTORAOE.—Some idea of the
magnitude of our trnde in grain may lie
gathered from the following figures, rep
resenting the capacity for grain storage
ia some of the most important cities.
I'rior to the fire, Chicago had aevcnleen
granaries, with an aggregate capacity of
11,680,000 bushels. This uumticr ha*
I wen reduced by the tire to eleven
establishments, with facilities for elevat
ing and storing al>out 8,580,000 bushels.
Milwaukee has fifteen elevators, one,
the largest in the world holds 1,700,000
bushels. Buffalo has thirty one gran
aries, capable of holding 7.416,000
bushels. Brooklyn, representing the
jmrt of New York, lins at its Atlantic
docks and elsewhere, a storage capacity
for 12,760,000 bushels. The foreign ex
pert of flour and grain from the |*>rt of
New York for the four years from 1867
to 1870 inclusive, amounted to 5,711,409
barrels, a sufficient quantity to sustaiu
for a year a population of more than
18,000*000 persons, ami if spread to the
depth of one fot it would cover more
than 2,600 acres.
Cnt'Ei. Son. —A ease reported in Bir
mingham (England) papers says that one
Histin was brought Iefore a magistrate
in that city, charged with habitual
drunkenness and treating bis mother—
who supported him, u* well as herself, by
her lainir—with such violence as to eti
danger her life. On the particular occa
ensiou complained of ho had cotne
homo furious with drink, and after
threatening to shoot her and to ruu In r
through with a knife, hud stabbed her in
ihe arm, and thrown her into the flm
The mngistratc sentenced linn to thr.w
months' imprisonment only for this rough
recreation.
Tiir. WOMAN SLACOIITXR. —We knew n
man oueo, (he lives yet: we hope he will
lead this paragraph) who prayed night
and morning, preached on Sundays, and
was a rich farmer besides. His wife
milked the cows in all sorts of weather,
cut most of Ihe wood, built the fires,
churned and "economized," and died.<tf
consumption in the prime of life. He
put a weed on his hat, tried to resign
himself to the "dispensation of Provi
dence," when he ought to have been
tried for woman slaughter in the first de
gree, and sentenced to chop wood and
milk cows in the rain all the rest of bis
life.— Rural JYew Yorker,
What to Ito in Caw of Kuttstrwkc,
Now that the true nature of the disease
ia known, the 111<<1I10<I of treatment be
| eoniea must obvious ami we learn not
merely what to <lo, but alao what not to
do. An heat ia the ratine of the symptom*
common aeiiae point* to the abstraction ol
the heat in emue way a* the mode ol . tire.
Anil here agaiu vivisection co*>ea into
play. 1 have taken an annual, oaiottuoi,
paralyael by beat, apparently dying, ami
plung.d it into a bucket ol void water.
The temperature of tiie aulferer at once
rapidly tell until it reached the normal
point, and just in proportion that of the
water in the bucket rose. As the animal
cooled, it respiration became inure regu
lar, the unsteady whirr of the heart was
sttiled, by and by the eytlids were lifted
and out from the glassy eye came the
beams of new life. If the (teriod of uu-
ColiseiotisUeM had been short, the ani
mal was in a few hours apparently as
well as ever; if long the auimal would
recover sutKciently to recognize its sur
roundings and to atruggie for release
but when allowed to escape, the para
lyzed limb* and the slow imperlect pro
gression indicated the profound injury
j the nervous system had received, and
iu a few hours the animal would be
dead. The lessons of these experiments
; are too plain to be overlooked. What
1m er is to be done in this disease i to
lie done quickly. Clinical as well as
experimental observation enforces this
doctrine. There should in such canes,
iie no waiting for the doctor. The rem-
I ody is so simple, the death so imminent
that the g.<d Samaritan passing by
! -hould save his brother. The good Sa
-1 maritan mnt, however, have a cool
bead to lie useful. Not every man that
fall* uiironctous on a hot day ha* sun
stroke. There is fortunately one criterion
so easy ol application that any one can
use it. tin at once to the fallen man
<>|ien his shirt bosom, am) lay the hand
u|Kn hit cheat; if the skin be cool, you
may re-t assured that, whatever may be
the trouble, it is nut sunstroke. If, on
the contrary, the skin be burning hot, the
case is certainly sunstroke, and no time
should le lost. The patient must he car
ried to the nearest pnmp or hydrant,
strip|>ed to his waist, and bucketful! alter
bucketful] of cold water be dashed over
him uutil consciousness liegius to return,
or the intense heat of the surface decided
ly abates.— Itr. If 9&iim
The Tt li gruph
When the trie-graph lirtl invriitfd,
Mr. I'omat'll *oufht an interne* with Mr.
lit nuetl of the Herald a* I wilicited hi at
tention. He #i< met by the ttry (tank
atotement fiom Mr. iknroett that be
up(nM('(l t the aKWMuI the telegraph. In
Mr. Bennett'*own }Jf, h '•hail at great
ri|niii nlabliilinl lu< rl|imM < k nucb
manner that brciuld teat all ( hi* rivala.
ami if Ihe trl-graph w ere once aueceaalolljr
<-#tablihed he would !fe hit advantage.'
Within two year*. Mr. Cornell hd the
proud #ati#lartion id (k-ntom.li at ing to Mr.
lieiroelt th value of thi then new mode ol
transmitung imporUtot new*, I lining tin
year 1f45. mainly by the rtfort* of l'beo
.lore 8. Faxtoo and bit aaanciatr-a id ( tiea,
a roth pray DM organised for building a
l"legßi|d! line betnem New York and
llutialo. The aeetion Iwtwi-. n New York
and Albany wa# built under the wuprrln
tendency ol Mr. Cornell, and wa# opened
lor btiai ne*a at the end of 1 Ml'..
♦ •••v. Young'# annual me-ag wa tran#-
mittcl to the la-nUture the fir#l Tue
day of January, IMT, at mem. At thai
hour a HcrnjJ m<i**citgcr with a copy of
the numagr, It-It the capiUl rm boraehack
provided with relay# ol tleet hor-et at *h<rt
interval#. Riding at breakneck upccd a!)
night, he reached White IMaina (to whieb
point the Harlem Railroad * then inop
i-ration) the following foreoootl, where a
.prcnl locomotive w a# in w ait ng to bring
biro to the City. VI hat hi# eurpriae
to meet at thi# point newahoya welling co
pier of the New York Hry eras ol thai mor
ning containing line. Yoong'a w.e##age in
full, which had been uanMi.itted by the
de|ni-d telegraph. Thu* Mr. Rennet #
enterpriae wa# at a t-injle blow rotnpletly
annibilateil, and the leli-craph wa# aue
u —fully etablihed in p.te of hi# indif
ference.
A FA Titan's AUVI.STO A Bttiofc— Said
a young husband whose business specula 1
tions were unsuccessful, " My wife's silver i
tea-set the bridal gift ot a rich uncle, i
doomiul me to financial ruin. It involves! j
a hundred unexpected exjK-nses. which, in !
trying to meet made tne the bankrupt 1 j
am," His experience is the experience of
many others, who, ] wise, do not know
what is the goblin of the house, working
its destruction. A sagacious lather o
great wealth exceedingly mortified his
daughter by ordering it to lie printed on
her wedding canls, "No present* except
those adapted to an income of 81,000,''
Said he. "You inut not exjwet to begin
life in the style I am able, by many yearn
of labor to indulge; and 1 know ot noth
ing which will tempt you to try It more
than the well (mentioned hut pernicious
gifts of rich friend*." Such advice to a
daughter, is timely. It other parents
would follow the same phn, many young
inen would he spared years of incessant
toil and anxiety; they would not find
themselves on the downward road, because
their wives had worn all of their salary,
or expended it on the appointments ot the
house. The fate of the |<oor man who
lound a linch pin, and felt himself obliged
to make a carriage to fit it, is the fate of
the husband who finds his bride in posses
sion of gold and silver valuables, and no
large income to support the owners gold
and silver style.
I/>ra. JKAiorsT A*t POISOM so.—There
is something very touching in the details
of the Harriaonburgh, Va.. poisoning case,
now on trial at ihatT !w '- There waa
love and apprehension and jealousy on
the part of Mrs. Cameron, the deceased
wife. Outraged by her husband's atten
tions to another woman, she had on many
occasions prophesied nn early death to
herself, and the defense will attempt to
show that she threatened suleide and car
ried her threat into execution. Oppressed
with some mysterious foreboding, one
month before her decease she purchased
a quantity of white cambric and had it
made into grave clothes for herself. Her
conduct when taken sick seems to entirely
negative the theory that she poisoned
herself. She did not want to die; prayed
earnestly for life, and rhowed the greatest
regret at parting with her children. With
her last breath ahe chnrged her husband
with having mixed poiaon with the salts
which she had taken. From the testi
mony of the witnesses who were present
when aha died, she showed every symptom
of strychnine poisoning.
SHARP.— An illustration of the sharp
Yankee's propensity for bargaining, and
ever-ready inclination to settle a question
by a " swop," is given by a Connecticut
man's proposition for the settlement of
the Alnhama claims and the Cuban diffi
culty, as follows : That the British Gov
ernment give to the United States in
satisfaction for the indirect damages the
fortress of Gibraltar, and that, the United
States then offer it to Spain in exchange
for the fsland of Cuba.
A WELL-CONTESTED pigeon-shooting
match between Captain Bogardus, of Illi
nois, and Ira Paine, was sliot at Fleet
wood Park. Paine staking $1,200 to Bo
gardus' SI,OOO. The match was at a hun -
dred single birds, and was won by Paine,
with a score of 80 to 79.
At alifornia farm.
ft was my privilege while at Kanta Bar
bara, says a letter writer, to visit a repre
sentative or model farm. Perhaps an ac
> | count of the visit may not be uninterest
• I ing, and at the same time may convey •
1 better idea of the resources of the country
than any general description, tiuided by
a New York lady who has (bund renewed
health in this genial clime, we drove up
the beautiful valley tett or a dozen Utiles,
to wbete a wide opening in the coast
range of hills gave au extended view of
the hay. Entering a large gate at our
right. We passed along a well-made avt-uuc
at the side ola grove of magnificent live
oaks to the residence, visible milt * away,
of Colonel W. W. Hollister, and one of the
great wool-growers of this region. His
huge barn with cupola iiad afar off sug
gested to me the idea of another " mis
sion." This I found to be a raiaaion of
comfort and modern convenience to the
domestic animals its *p lou* room* ael
cotued, contrasting strangely with the low
adobe cells, the worthy padres provided
at their missions for their domestics—the
untutored Indian. The house wa em
bedded in a mast of rose*, carnations, ver
benas, geranium*, calls lilies, fuchsias,
gladiolus, and oilier rare flowers, while
iu interior indicated the culture and taste
of the occupants.
We were cordially greeted by Colonel
Hollister, the millionaire of Hants Barbara
County, whom I found a plain, hearty,
earnest man—a gentleman iu fanner's
dress, lit* cheerfulness and enthusiasm
won iusUut respect, and his frank hospi
tality made us perfectly at home. Pass
ing out to the site ol the mansion soon to
be erected on the crest of a beautiful knoll,
a charming view of sen and
valley and mountain, he remarked: " Nine
teen year* ago, driving my herds across
the plains, 1 left them, came up and sat
on this s|Hit for an hour. I then resolved
some day to possess it. I had to wait six
teen years, never once losing sight of iL
Three years ago it came into market, and
in fifteen minutes 1 bought it!" This
spirit is indicative of the man, and he
evidently intends to make the farm an
illustration of what California can produce.
The present house proving too near the
hay for his children, a rammer residence
has just been completed two miles further
hack, near the bead of one of the l<eauti
tnl can . one or valleys running up into the
Santa Inez mountain range skirting his
farm on the north. Re-entering our car
riage we drove over an excellent road
skirted by live oaks, through a first, ae
i ootid, and third gate o|euing and closing
to the touch of the carriage a heels, wind
ing round the adge of valleys, crossing
gullies, and cutting through the crests of
I little hills; past tields of wheat, barley,
snd corn, aod great orchards of young
almond and walnut trees, till we reached
a beautiful level plain hidden close away
1 tinder the mountain, and at the head of
which the new and ample cottage stands.
Here also, we enjoyed a beautiful ocean
view, and unsurpassed nearer visions ot
sloping hillside and rugged mountain.with
their many varied tint* of green. A far
ther drive of a mile np the valley—for
though we were apparently close under
Use mountain, the caayon opened fertile
and inviting far away on either side—
brought us to one of Mr. llollister's tea
plantations, for he is trying the expe.
ment of introducing tea culture to this
State, lie has imported not ooly the
plants, but experienced laborers, and re
marked that lie was trying the plant in
every possible situation as to soil and ex
posure that lie might determine to which
it is best adapted. The ground mole is
giving him great trouble, but be hopes to
conquer, and, if possible, be. said, " add a
new industry to the Mate, lor if I can
succeed somebody will take it up and
make a business of it." This philanthropic
earnestness is, alas, all too rare in Califor
nia.
Water bu been conveyed three mile*
and a half to one house, and from another
source a mile or more to the new <>ae.
An ample ranch barn, a carpenter's shop
of huge dimension*, a hlaornith'l and
other buildings are scattered about the
place, and a genuine Centra! Park omni
bus stands in the carnage-house for trans
porting the family to and fro between the
winter and summer residences. The wind
ing roads wrought out of the hillsides, the
groves of forest trees, valley and glen, and
rocky mountain side found thetr counter
part in my memory ouly in that glen of
l.lewellyn Park, at Orange, N. J., and it
seemed to me the proprietors must be
kindred spirits.
llarley is commonly used for hay in
Southern California, and should be cut
green, though it is frequently left till dry.
The barb can but prove injurious to horses
or cattle habitually eating it. Colonel H.
prefers wheat for hay, and cuts five tons
to the acre; or tin- Ncpaul barley or
Siberian wheat, which is without the barb.
He showed me representative stalks of
wheat ri|>ening, sis and seven feet high,
with heads of proportionate sir", and a
bunch of barley nuniVring IT" stalks
the product of a single seed ! His fields
were luxuriant with the bur clover and
alfillcria. the rich animal grass of this
region. The excellence of these grasses
can hardly be understood by the Eastern
reader. The burs are very full of nutri
ment, and equally gtd when dry.
Colonel Ilollister has an orchard of
7,000 almond trees, and will transplant
SO,OOO more this year, besides a gift
thirty or forty thousand last year to the
grasshopper*! He says the almoud yields
from forty to sixty pounds to the tree, of
the soft, shell, which sell at twenty cent#
% pound, or SI2 a tree. From one hun
dred to one hundred and flty trees are
allowed to the acre. This yield admits of
several discount*, and still leaves a gener
ous iocome. 1 saw here tomato plants of
three years' growth, in bIoMOM, and rip
ening fruit on the sainc vine; also, crisp
and tender celery, growing rank, three
feet above ground. It was in no. way
inferior, only different in color, to the
finest that ever graced IMinonico'a. Here
were the beantiful acacias, a flowering
tree, only two years old, six inches in
diameter, and near-by 1 saw almond trees
ot luxuriant growth, and in full bearing,
onlv three rears old.
Colonel Hollister has on his ranches up
the coast over fifty thousand sheep, and I
saw an elegant hunting-horn,manufactured
from the horn of the buck Grixxly from
whose back, in 186®, was taken a fleece,
of fourteen months ten days' growth,
weighing forty two and a half pounds!
Without taking this as a criterion, 1
muld credit the remark of our host, that
hero one enjoyed not only a perfect cli
mate, but tilled the soil with the lenst
labor and for the largest return of any
portion of our country. 1-and here is not
abundant in market, Large tracts can
occasionally be bought at 81(1 an acre.
As divided it will bring much more. As
1 left this inviting spot 1 veutnred to pre
dict that ten years hence the Santa Bar
bara Valley for sixty miles along the bay
will by reason of Its unsurpassed climate
and fertile aoil have become a very garden
in which this beautiful farm will stand
prominent as the gein of Southern Califor
nia, an example of what beneficent nature
and the skilled hand of one of her wor
shippers can do towards creating an earth
ly paradise.
Rye looks good.—Anienia Timet. And
it tastes good, too. —Daubury Times.
In a horn.—Berk si lire Courier. Where
upon the Time* remarks : We meant rye
bread, hut it is evident that the mind of
the Courier man is wandering toward
the stuff that biteth like a serpent and
stingeth like a book-keeper.
TERMS *. Two Dollars a Year, in Advance.
(ierman Htudents' FsneraJs.
The funerals of the student* at Hie
ilclburg killed in duels say* a correspon
dent Are quite interesting. All the
cur IMI student* collect around the bouw
of the deceased, and form in line with
blazing torches, till the lent word is
given to inarch. First coon* the band,
l-layitig the studi-uta' futi'Tu! march ;
(hen the officers rf the corpt to which j
tlii- dicrimd belonged, in ran disss, and
carrying the nworat which ttiey fight
ih in duel*; then the hearts, with j
coffin exposed. drawn by hornet in black j
; drapery ; am the coffin are placed the rap j
■ iiud aword of the dcooiMil ; then follow (
j hi* corps, tiearing torches; then the !
c-lergyuu-n and tmrents of the deceased,'
| ud then members of the other corps, i
bearing botches. Tbey all rntrdi to tba j
grave, and after singing the corps' HUM, j
they tury him. Ihcv thea march to the
3' u*re in front of the University. and j
ter aiuging another *ng, they throw j
their ton-he* on the ground in the form ;
of a cross and then march to the other j
side of the nvcr, to the house where!
they have their duels, wh- re they give i
three rlieer* - whether in honor of the !
lead student's wool having taking flight!
or no, I wou't pretend to say; but it |
• •ertainly seems vary ridiculous to me !
that, after having just buried one of
, their lrienda, they bould give three,
: cheer*. But this ia a* nothing when I;
! tell you that, after giving three cheer*.
1 tbey rush iuto toe house and drink and ;
dtiiik till about noun next day. when j
they are seen talking, or rather stum
liliug, along in the direction of home, in
u very uncertain and uudigtnfied manner, j
Some of these are alo seen embracing j
each otlier, vowing eternal friendship ;!
some are leaning over fence*, aud, at we |
call it on *hinboard, "delivering up!
their account*"; and some (1 am very
sorry to nay it, but aa I am telling all j |
about it, 1 might aa well U-ll the truth,; j i
are ao very diunk that they can't go home ,
in cither "of the three way* that I have
just written about, and fairly succumb
and lie down in the mad, and are taken j
home by the next policeman that bap- •
pens to appear. Of courwe, this con tin- j
tud drinking makes the students very
large.
EtraumSmrtfia —The exnafleusr of
Engli h servants is proverbial, and the
kind of hierarchy which existed among
them in this establishment—a country
house of a high-caste curie—was mil
! without interest to one mining from a
.•ountry where this useful body is im
|w<rfi*Uy repreaeuted. They were divul
-d into" tipjwT end lower h hmU, with
Wifii-tion in each. The upper began
with the butler, following in the order
named : the coachman. cook, groom*,
and footmen ; among the women, with
i the housekeeper, ladies' nuiik ami nwn
strwnwa. Almost the same distance sep
rates the tipper from the lower servant*,
mm that between the former ami their
master. They take their meal* in dif
ferent room*, and it waa the duly of tbe
kntfe-cJeiner to wait on the higher
branch of amice at their repa#ta. In
France, where cooking ia carried to aoch
perfection, the cook call* himself an
irtiat, and hi* place i considered at the
head of the people below stair*, which
seem* proper in a country where gentle
men-amateur* like Alexwdre Dumaa and
Brillat-Havarin take a hand at the apiL
lu the lower clan* were found the aa*o>t
ant cooks, scullion*. wnmcn-of-all-work,
stable-keeper*, and what net The two
hnutcbea did not associate with each
other. The butler had entered tbe aer
noe of thia family when a boy, aa knife
cleaner, and hia cane waa cited io illus
trabon of what conarientioua diacharge
of duty and ambition property directed
would do for a person in tbe humbler
walk* of life. It waa understood that in
momeuta of nnuaual expansion with the
lion tekeeper, he referred to hir remark
ably sneccwsful career with much pride.
He always appeared a model of grave
deportment and respectability, not sub
ject to the weaknesses common to men.
The world mww the outer man, but he i
beheld the intermediate man : for to
him were confided tbe krrs of tbe lag- _
gage, and he knew the condition and the ,
quality of the guest's undergarments, 1
together with the other article* not uau-!
ally subjected to public wruttny. * oa
eeeeed aa he was of thia knowledge, hit
calm, dignified gaxe waa enough to dis-j
turb one's equanimity. At thcexpifs-l
tiou of a week he informed me that my |
linen was out, as a member would submit !
a bill in Parliament, and aaked if he i
would be allowed to supply tlie deficiency
from his own wardrobe until the washer- i
man could be heard from, which showed i
him to he a man ready for all eontingen
ciea.—'iufuy.
NEW CSE FOB CAT*.—A correspond
ent of Land tirnd Water writes : "It
often appears to me that people for the
most part are not aware of the great ,
uw cat* are to us. Of owne, we know j
of their use with rrepect to mice and ]
rats, bnt do we generally know of their j
invaluable help they can give us in pro-!
tccting from birds our garden fruit and
flowers? The late heavy rains thi*
spring have given us the promise of
abundance of strawberry*, and In the
South, st least, the bloom is magnifi
cent. To keep off the birds how simple,
how rertain. bow small ia the cost of a
cat on a small chain sliding on a wire,
and giving the animal the walk up and !
down the w hole length cf the strawberry
bods. A knot at each end of the wire
readily prevent* the cat from twisting
around the post which supports the wire,
and a small kennel placed in the middle
of the walk affords her shelter and s
home (or br kittens, lu large gardens
a second cat is required, snd the young
ones, in their frequeut visits to each
other, greatly assist in scaring away the
birds. I have for more than thirty
years used, and seen used with perfect
Miccess. this easy method of protecting
fruit, and the very same plan equally
good in keeping hares and rabbits off
flower beds. After the first few days
cats in no way dislike this partial re
strain!, and when set quite free, after
a few weeks' watching, they will of their
own scoid continue to guard. The
kittens, more especially, attach them
selves to this garden occupation, and of
their own accord become the gardener's
best allies."
REVOLUTIONARY DAYS —At a striko
meeting in New York, one speaker amid
much applause said • The employers
talked of starving the working-men into
submission. That should never be, for
there was not a man on strikw but was
well able to take a pick and shovel in his
hand and earn hia living by digging
rather than satisfy the mercenary eapi
tulists. The iron-workers could, if tbey
chose, create a famine in New York for
how could the provision and material
lor sustaining life be brought in if it
were not for steam and sail ? They could
if they wished stop all the supplies; and
the time was at hand when that should
be resorted to. A greater battle than
that of the Revolution was at band, and
it would be a bloodier one. For in this
the working-men were fighting for dearer
rights than were then fought for —they
were now to struggle lor the sustenation
of the lives of those still dearer than
their own. The men before him were
marshalled as brave and as soldierlike as
those in that great Revolution of years
gone by, ana now were ready at the
word of command to strike tue blow.
AT a sale of horses in Chicago, abent
fifty animals w ere disposed of at prices
varying from SBO to $3,000.
I ' ' l " :l "' 1 !
Hop* may bad tinder flood*, but blqp
! mm only in sanshins.
In solitude WasH-knowledgw; in 'iiljWgj
it knowledgs of ©tbsrs.
A wealthy man in Milwaukee hefpl hit
! mother in the poor-bomm.
He wb© would know the height oi >oy
meet mind the depths of sorrow,
| a• fj o Omaha k" * nwn-tip
girl who does not cott nor swear." „ t
Minnie farmers are paying bow* m
cent ■ dozen lor gathering potato b§4>
A mono man oarer knows that ho it
mean ; he only thiodu he is oantiotis.
One-half the population of VtrgloU
| oily. So*., w below the uarface in the
miam.
II it claimed that the oewapspnr %•
respondents defeated Collar at Phila
delphia. •
The peiroletim bneineaa baa been run
into ihe ground from the imginniug.
, Pity, isn't it?
NO. 27.
Mulberries in Teonease are so poison
ed by the locusts thai bird* ami squirrels
j will not eat them.
In Detroit tbey measure the tempers
tore by the number of paper collars con
mimed per week.
A Philadelphian has purchased 7fi
acres of land in New Jersap, to be given
! up to raising chicken*.
Borne are lioro to lead end command:
i other* am* .surely detuned to follow and
obey.
At Ellsworth, Kansas Pacific R.ilroad,
28.000 bead of Texas cattle arrived in on*
j dev.
Human constancy : two fools promising
j to maka a straight journey over a crooked
' road.
I A Methodist church in Madison. Wis.,
Urielv got up an excursion to " Devil's
! Lake."
A Mia* Davis, of Norfolk, Vs., has
committed suicide becanneher brother is
; a forger.
The Empress Eugenit bad the phtat
; urn of seeing her nam* set op in an
! English newspaper aa the "Empress En
gine."
In the United State*, during a period
of twelve vear*, MM person* were killed
by lightning, and 430 more or leas in
jured.
The decline in the price of Erie Bail
way shares baa caused ths failure, in
London, of nrrscal heavy dsah-ty in that
stock.
If you don't look oaiwfaDy after tha
bits of von* tore, yon may one day be
tookiog sadly after the bits of yonr car
riage. ..
A Cbinrwe poem, written upward of
2,000 rear* ago, i said to pdvw that
America was known to the Cfetomnaa of
that day.
A "lock-oat" ww. begun at London
He th# builders of Ik > city. By Cbia act
20,000 journeymen are thrown oulcf em
ployment.
Acknowledging that we have been in
the wrong is only showing to the world
that we are wise* to-day than we were
yesterday.
Hc-never-weepa. ia tbe sunt of Red
Cloud's only brother, and some of the
i<apera disrespectfully apeak of him as
Old-Dry rp.
The richest heiress of Milwaukee ia
norm to msrry a widower with three chil
dren. The young fellows talk of gettb g
oat an injunction.
When a couple of young people,
strongly attached to ench other, com
mence to eat onions, it ia safe to pro
nounce thrra i tigaged-
Milton says the hearts of men tie their
eloquence. ' The r*aaon there is ao little
real eloquence ia that there it ao little
depth and furor of heart.
Daring th# bust week there were re
ported in Sew York Citv 632 deaths, twang
equivalent to an annual draft rate of 3.'
per LOCO of the population.
If B&xainebe found guilty of tbe ehar-
OT* brought against bna, the martml law
of France condemns hia to death.
There is no alternative punishment.
Probably tbe oldest city—or rather
the city containing the moat standing
relies of the peel in shape of houses,
building*, etc.—in Eeropc t# Antwerp.
Tbe death* of British sailors from
drowning at sea, by accidents other than
wrecks, are shown to be 3 US* in the throe
years end'ag Dec. 31, 1371, an average
of 1,011 per annum.
Among the most popular materials for
Kumoer are*a aro the plain and figured
foulards and crape de chine. A new
tint in these good* is called serpent
bine.
A few week* ago, during a storm, the
current of the Illinois river was reversed
and ** ran up stream" for some distance.
Tbe inhabitants are stiD parried to ac
count for it
A patron of theprras—bat gentleman
who paid five dollars for hi# ticket of ad
mission to the Boston Coliseum and then
read the newspaper* during nearly the
whole perfonnauce.
" Bulwer," a contemporary remarks,
" av* that poverty is only an i lea." It s
a very bad idea, and one we should not
care "to entertain. We proler the reel.
especially in property.
It is wort* in New York jwt to.Boo to
break a WIM under a ear wheel and
fTW to kill him outright. Decisions re
cently rendered iff the court# nettle this
proportion accurately.
A golden rale for young W/ to
converse alwavs with ber female friends
a* if a gentleman were of the party, and
with young men M if lier f male com
panions were present
the flights of birds hnre been com
pared. It tvaaid that a vnltnre can fly
159 miles in an boar, wild g*ae9o milee,
and r wallow* 92 miles. Common crows
make about 25 mites an hour.
Women al**va measure their strength
in the beginning against *>• a*®
on the CTO of loving. They make a
liravc display 6f battle at first. But
when they once yield, they yi • 1J forever.
A bereitved widow er " monrps hts
lews" in the following manner; *" Just
think. Onlv a few days ago I bouslit
her a whole bog of pllla, and abe hadn t
time to eat half of them before she
died."
, Old Scotch lady—" Tak* a sunff, sir?
Gentleman (with large nasal promontory,
indignantly--" Dolfoo* like a amifferY'
Old lady— "Well. I eanna jlst say you
do, tkough I maun say ye hae grand ac
commodations."
The Racine (Wisconsin) Adaoontt says
that if time la money, there are a great
many in that town in very easy circum
stances. They seen to have a great deal
of time on their hands that they don t
know what to do with.
A woman applied to magistrate for a
warrant against a neph'or saying. "She
called me a thie', your honor; c nt I
make her prove it ?" "P-rbsps yon
cm. " quietly replied the magistrate,"but
if I were yon 1 wo ildnV
A Chicago man dreamed tbt his child
w"ild be scalded to death. He took
ev®, y precaution against Mich a ca ai
t rophe, but precisely five week# and two
dat s after the dream the little boy was
ran over by a dog-cart, "and escaped un
injured.
Pure water will absorb many unpleas
ant odors. A pi> fall of clean, fresh
water from a well or spring, placed in a
room which has been newly painted,
will absorb during the night ao much of
the smell of the paint as to be totally
unfit to driuk.
As four or five darkies were passing an
agricultural implement store down South,
one of them, pointing to a cultivator,
said : " A man can jist sit on dat tbmg
and ride while be is ploughing." " Gol
ly," replied the other, "de rascals was
too sharp to tink of dat 'fore de nigger
was free."
An infant six montlis old, which was
tied in a chair and then placed in another
chair at a fourth story window, in Hart
ford, Conn., reached too far forward and
toppled headlong out. Happily, itaohair
struck a clothes line forty feet below, and
its lffe was saved, although it was badly
hurt.
* . . 2u9 mtZ 1 " " s?