At 111* lilt
C itao one#, J nut once, dear low, wh#a I Mil
M-
Ah, Ood, I wonld it wm Una honr to-night—
And look your !*•( upon the fro ion foe
That w* to you * nimoiert brief delight.
The Mien I Up* will not entre*t yon then.
Nor the cyee res you with unweloome te*r*
The lew, Md voice will utter no complaint,
Nor the heart tremble with it* restless fears,
I shall he •till—you will forgive me then
For *ll that I hare been, or failed to be—
(lay, a* you loot, " Poor heart, ahe loved me
well,
No other lore will be o true to me."
Then l<nd and kiae the lip# that will not apeak,
On# little ki> tor all the doar laaJ days,—
Say onoe, "Ood reet her soul 1" theu go in peace.
No haunting ghast shall meet yon in roar
waya, .
The Confidante.
A letter, T.M.-T for me to wad ?
Ah t tell-tale biuahea, what secret now
lam but teasing. There, never heed,
Nor Ulur ith furrow* that tilde brow.
Yes, as I thought. Tie the old, ohl tale ;
He lovee you dreams of you night ami day ;
With hope he brightens, with ,lred turti*
pale.
Truths, dear sister, or babblings gay,
Love lives trover, if heart-born rvat;
But fades like the rosea I've now just
clipped.
When told by one who yonr peace would steal,
Then flit to BOOM blossom u honey-tipped.
To you eaeh word here is troth's own mint:
To we, onoe cheated, there's room for
doubt ;
You, sister, could giv# him your love a#n<
stint
Whsi? tear* and trembling ? a dawning
pout?
Well, darling, b*l *e then, aud cyuie thought
Khali fade away in yonr love's sweet sun ;
He ia not worldlv, nor fashion-taught ;
I would uot dareou new light begun.
His words are manly; an honest ring
Sounds in each sentence. Ah. Lucy, live
Long in the love that can nsver wing.
Whilst I—well, yea—l have yet to give.
Mviirs LOVE.
"Marian f*
"Marian Hoi brook. Where can that
girl be ? Idling away her time, I'll
warrant, over spotted butterflies, or
sumthin' like it, and them currant*
onght to be on a ate win'."
Standing up. in the white door,
wreathed with it# exuberant scarlet run
ner, the good lady shaded her weak blue
eyes with one brown hand, and lacked
long and earnestly across the garden
expanse—the lows of thrifty plants—a
sentinel column of hollyhocks, red and
white, around which the bees were
droaning, clumps of cinnamon rosea'
showered down with every breath of air, |
four o"clocks, and stunted geraniums, i
to the thick he<lge of currant bushes, 1
farther on. Still no sign of the dimpled
little maiden, in the pink snn-bonnet,
who had gone to pick currants for Miss
Follingsbic'a tea.
The sun went down behind the rye
field, near by. whose spears gleamed
like splints of gold or bronze ; tnc blue
bird flew- away to her nest ami Marias
went up the path between the hollyhocks,
sifting the currants through her taper
fingers wishing she was a great lady, j
like Miss Foliingshie, pethaps, with
braided hair and a silk gound from year .
to year, and never hear her bondswoman
(dead Samuel Hisgins' spouse) lecture
and scold, aud tell her what au idle
baggage she was, and not worth the salt
in her porridge.
"Mariana Holbmok, youll surf in be
the death of me. 1 could a'picked all
the currants from here to Jersey and
made jam of 'em."
"I suppose Miss Follingsbie is quite
tuckered out in this time, and thinks
we dou't intend to give her any supper
to-night"
Mrs. Higgins, elbow deep in enp
eaxe, dusted the floor from her arms
with her checked apron, took away the
pan of currants, about which there had
been sneh a to-do, and waited for an
explanation of some sort None forth
coming, she returned to the cup-cake
vigorously.
David Higgins. a tall, comely youth,
in soiled linen, and signs of weariness
on his brown entered the kitchen
door, and silentlyraatched the two, and
followed with his eyes the deft little
girl
"Mother, I don't want to interfere,
but don't you think yon are sometimes
too severe with Marian ? She is not of
your blood, yon know, and she u so very
vonng. I believe she means to do what
is right.* 1
"Of course ahe means to do what's
right," MrsL Higgins said, apologetically,
making an end of her cake, and clearing
away all evidence of its construction.
"I never said, David, t'aat she did, aa
far as such shiftless critters know. Bnt
Marian is a great trial to me. I pity
any man who is to get her for a wife";
he would have to be good natured and
rich to stand her ways. She's destruc
tion itself."
Marian pat the finishing touches to
the table, shining with its old-fashioned
silver spoons and sprigged china (an
heirloom in the honored family from
which Mrs. Higgins sprang), and bath
ing the flashed face in a great tin basin
of cool water, dried it on the wholesome
linen, which imparted a deeper pink
than carnation. Once more the brown
locks were bound np, and. snatching a 1
re* <,nd yellow trumpet flower from the!
▼if ! t about the door, Marian went back
► >e best room and poured out Miss
} mgsbie's tea, wondering why she
I remained all the years of her life
i' strictest servitude at that homely old
farm house, the only home she had ever
known. To l>e sure, it had not been so '
bad as it might. Very many young
people were in worse straights than she,
and she was not peevish or without con
tent in the main, and yet of late she had
.begun to realize the something lacking
in her dgys. She had thought so more,
mnch more, since Miss Follingsbie had
comedown to spend her summer. Yet
she was not so idle as to envy anv
woman whom a gentle fate bad placed
far above her in a social scale. She
„ enly hoped in a far-ofl way to be near
akin to such, one day in her life.
Miss Follingsbie soon finished her tea
and had gone away to her airy chamber,
while all the tedious business of setting
things to rights filled Marian's hands,
her ears were lent to catch every strain
of sweet song which floated in from the
room above.
Mrs. Higgins, quite {"tuckered out'
with the many things to which she bad
given her mind and hands daring the
long day, had retired, as was her custom,
while the crickets were chirping their
first lays.
Closing up the botu;e softly, Marian
took a path through a white gate which
led to the east meadow, whose fragrant
stubble and morning-glory vines were
thrown out in bold relief by the summer
moon, just climbing the heavenly track.
Marian held her breath and exulted in
tba utter stillness. Pr&ently a broad
shadow fell athwart her own. She
bad taken the same road as David
He walked like one in a dream, his
lian *s clasped behind him, his eyes
troubled.
"Marian !"
"Well, David, I suppose JJone may
make a turn in the air without the
chance of trespassing. Is not this a
Sirt of Rye Fields—belonging to Mrs.
iggins, and am I not part and parcel
of the whole ?"
David cast his eyes over the smiling
land and heard the night air sweeping
through phalanxes of supple grain, the
result of his own labor.
He put away from him all show of
lightness and insincerity.
" Marian, things cannot go on aa they
have fer very leag. I have so often
longed te tell you many causes for being
a changed man, as mother says I am."
"I knew I could trust you with this.
She is old ; I wish to keep all thorns
and hindrances from her path. She
eould not understand; you can and
will."
With a qniek motion peculiar to her
when vexed, the girl threw np her hands
and covered her face.
"O, David, please don't. If it's any
thing bad I don't want to know it; yon
don't know, David, how many things
there are to worry me—little things I
. could never feel like talking to any one.
So please, David, don't tell me, lam
FRED. KURTZ, Editor and Proprietor,
VOL. V.
sure to prota not worthy (if your eon-
Adetnw—tit Wast tuioUrw* now.
1 fee! aa though to-night I could uot
hear iiuotlior jot."
Ikirid gently put out n l*rso brown
hand, and, mtetftenug rt.e girl'* face,
looked into the blue eyes with a new
and expressive sorrow dou n deep in his
own.
"Marian, has any thing gone wrong
anew ? I hope you don't miud mother;
folk# at her time of life mmire forbear
ance. Your life is alt Iwfore you, you
know."
Marian looked out to the wept where
the black shadows lay, and almost
wished that alt the years which were to
be, had been known and passed.
"I have no complaint to make of
your mother, David, ahe has Iwsn the
only woman friend I liave ever known ;
she has not understood me, perhaps,
but that may not be her fault. No, I
don't know what it is that makes me so ,
but 1 feel that I should love to go awav
from here—at least for a little time."
"Oo a any from Rye Fields home
without Marian !"
David's hands dropptvl Dermic** at
his side. After all th<<ee years, he be
lieved that if he spoke then she could
almost find it in her heart to hate him ;
and so he kept silent.
It was not possible that anything he
might aaj could make a change in her.
What had he to offer against that gay
world from which such aa Miss Fol
liugsbie came down into peaceful coun
try places, sowing ambition and discon
tent ?
" Oood-night, Marian. Yon had bet
ter not star out; the dew ia falling
now." And he was gone. *
Marian went slowly up the homeward
path, thinking that if ahe had permitted
David to spcaJk be would have told her
of a hopeless passion, as a man could
tell any woman friend whoui he knew to
be disinterested, about a passion for
another woman.
Marian did not doubt all this, and her
heart held a new ache as she went softly
up the stairs to her owu little chamber,
and lay on her white bed very still un
der the pallid moonlight, and went back
stop by itcp over the eighteen years of
her life, seeing iu many thing* changes
she should have made.
| Jtorly in September, when the bar
dterries and shumaohs stood scarlet
through the long, dry days, and the rye
fields were shaven clean, th ie was a
breaking np at the old farm house.
Miss Follingsbie went back to the city,
taking the happy Marian, whose testacy
at the thought knew no bounds, albeit
she had grown paler day by day witb
some hidden thing. Mtas Follingsbie
promised to assist her in many ways;
first, she was to remain with her as com
panion or ifi no capacity at all, as long
as she liked ; after that, "they would see.
She might return to Rye Fields perhaps
—if she choose. Things went on much
the same apparently at the old place,
mornings, noons, and nights, over and
over, until the maple leaves were bitten
and red, and the little garden, where the
hollyhocks and currants had blossomed
and grown, was a barren desert.
Mrs. Higgins, in her checked apron,
swept, dusted and baketl, finding as
much fault in the absent Marian as when
she had beeu under her eye aud hand.
The greatest change was visible in
David. His color vraj ; quite gone; he
had fallen into the habit of walking lor
hoars alone in the short evenings, com
ing heme ID the edge of night, going to
bed without any supper, and risiug at
daylight to begin again hard work,
scarcely speaking a word to any one.
" Well, if I didn't know David better
and there ain't a single girl.abont that
he makes np to, I'd ssrtiri aud sure
think the lad might be in love.
An awfni thought flasliod through the
I good ladv's mind, and she allowed the
grav woolen stocking she was knitting
to fall iu a great tangle on the stone
hearth.
" Well, I never. I shouldn't wendcr,
now, if David biggins waru't a grievin
his appetite away about that city girl,
Miss Follingsbie. I rally believe it,
though I should have thought David a
man of more sense than to hanker after
a woman that never gave him a thought.
He'll get over it, and it'll do him good."
Still David went his way and made no
sigh, yea or nay.
• •••••
"O, dear Miss Follingsbie, how mnch
I owe to yon ; without your aid I might
never have known anything more about
myself. To think I had friends, kindred
and a fortune waiting for me, and I so
near all these years and not to know of
it. How strangely things come about!
A something comj>elied me to leave Rye
Fields all at once. I wonder if it was
what is called fate.
" I shouldn't wonder, dear," Miss Fol
lingsbie said, with a smile at bar young
friend's enthusiasm.
" By-the-ty, Marian, speaking of Rye
Fields, I just remember Wiut a friend of
mine down that way now, wbo knew I
spent hist summer there, writes me that
tne place ia to le sold away from your
friends. It seems it is the foreclosing
of a mortgage or something like it.
Young
was,) has fallen into ill-health, and a
great change has come to tbera. lam
sorry indeed, to hear it' 1
Rye Fields to be sold.
Poor David, and he had so labored to
make his home. Then, that foresha
dowed trouble was perhaps what he bad
meant to tell her that night, and she
would not hear him. Cruel, ungrateful
Marian, David had been such a friend
to her.
Marian (onr little girl whom we first
saw behind the barberry bush in a pink
sun bonnet,) sat in her elegant bondior.
in her city home, seeing on the bine and
gold walls nothing of the pictures hang
ing there. Only a stretch of meadow
shining in the sun—the smell of ripen
ing grain—the quaint old honse with its
sanded floor, and last, bnt most of all,
David in sickness and distneass.
A business man from the city went
down into the country and bought the
old place, offering a price fabulous and
far beyond all competitors.
David was quite beyond any words.
He meant to stay until the owner came,
and then—ha did not know.
His mother, quite broken down, bad
fallen ill under her great, trouble, and
bemoaned her altered drsnmstftnees bit
terly.
The day before the new owner of Rye
Fields was expected, a letter came for
David. He sat like one on whom a blow
had fallen. It was not to be believed,
and yet it was true; he held it in his
hand—a paper strong and good, and
making him again master —sole owner
of the lands about him.
David waited now feverishly. Then
Miss Follingsbie and Mariam came.
This one grand surprise swallowed up
all others. He had not expected ever to
look on her again. He had heard of her
good fortune, and felt thai after that
there conld be nothing in common be
tween them. David and Mariam went
down through the meadow, over the
tender green things just springing into'
life, until standing on a spot they both
knew well.
" Dear old Rye Fields! I conld not
believe my heart was so full of it until it
was about to go into new, strange
hands."
" I am elad it is yours, Marian ; there
is no one in all the world I would prefer
to see the mistress here- 1 '
David trembled and seeing thatjhe
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
stood on the brink of the golf betweou
them, aid no more.
" You menu. I supioae, David, that
yon are too proud to accept live Field#
of me," said Marian, |>a!o and diatrw**-
e,l. " You have lived all you life here ;
it is right for you to remain. It would
kilt your mother to tike her iuto a new
home."
" Marian, it is with me now a* it was
with you a liUlo while ago oil (hi* spot;
I feel the air oppressive horn, I must get
away. It haa never seemed the same to
tue since that day. Can yon solve this,
Marian * You, a woman ! It cannot be
that you mock the pain 1 feel ; I oauuot
toll you the years that you have beeu
growing fast in my heart; I do not know
of a tune when the thought of one day
making you my wife did not teem the
holiest, happiest prospect man ever had.
I love you, Marian, hopehwsly, i know,
but then that knowledge take* uuthing
from the hard truth."
David spoke iu aheer desperation ; it
was not natural in him to hide hia feel
ings. Now that she kuew it, she could
refuse hi# love, (as he had po doubt she
would,) he could bear it better than uot
kuowiug.
" Then it was uot Mia.* Folliugsbie
you lovt-d O David, ycu can't think
what a little uinny I have been."
" Darling, Ood willing, we shall end
our day# ut Rye Fields, where I first
knew how sweet life really is, aud also
how bitter, for 1 thought that your heart
was not for me."
David held his pretty Marian, his very
owu. close against that heart she had so
doubted, thanked that One who,
seeing bis great desire, had led him by
sure though devious ways up to it.
Miss Follingsbie spends all her Hum
mers at Rye Fields, and though she is
uo longer Mb* Follingsbie, Marian Hig
gles declares sometimes, in a spirit like
that of the old days, that she could And
it no difficult matter, even now, to tie
jealous, she was so long iu finding out
who was David's love.
A Tumui 1 ! TAXX— Travellers' tales
| tire not always to IH> depended upon, and
| so therefore this traveller's tale, ua rvLat
i ed in a paper in Upper Alsace, must be
j taken for what it is worth. He savs -
i lii journeying from PAIt to Basle I saw
1 at a distance of about two hundred paces
from me a large dog leave the road, and
! enter the brushwood. The dog belong
ing to my compauion, a native of Ahiaea,
was about to follow the strange dog, but
was recalled by his master. "No, no,
von must leave him alone, be is on duty;
it does not do to int< rrupt business." I
looked to him for an explanation of the
mystery conveyed in his words. He then
told me that dogs were trained to bring
smuggled goods, such as watches, Ac.,
from Switzerland into Alsace bv means
of a kind of saddle fastened to the back.
Themamerof training the dog w as this :
The dog is well fed at home, and theu
after aw bile led across the border of the
village where he is to receive his load.
He is shnt up for some days without
food, and moreover beaten by a man
dreaiwd in the nniforra of a custom-house
official. As soon as the dog is act at
hU*rty he naturally starts for home at a
double-quick pace. On the way. that is
ou the highroad, which he is pretty sure
to take, |>eople are stationed with whips,
or gnus loaded with peas, which are
fired at him.until he learns to take refngr
from all strange men in the brushwrxxl.
Two or three such lessons are sufficient
to make the sagacious auimal compre
hend what is required of him, ana he
then becomes the best contrabandist
going. Six dogs can thus support their
muster.
INTIMATE AIXICAISTANCES, —Of all dia
itgreeabl" people who cumber the earth,
the most to be dreaded are intimate ac
quaintances ; the jieople who thiufc
themselves justified by virtue of having
known you a certain length of time, and
having been, by circumstances, thrown
into close connection with TOO, in med
dling with your affairs in an utterly in
excusable way. People who enter your
room when yon are absent, and help
themselves to any thing they may hap
pen t > want, just the same as if you
were present; who allow you to search
for the missing article until yoti are dis
couraged, and in your own heart accuse
the servants of stealing it, and then
walk cooly in some morning to return
it, without dreaming of apologizing for
the unwarrantable lilerty they have
taken. These are the people who look
over your shoulder when you are writ
ing letters; who borrow your last new
novel before you have cut the leave* ;
who, when you present them with
tickets to a concert or any .dber enter
tainment, quietly ask for your own re
maining one, that some friend may ac
company them ; who always call u|>on
you just nt meal time ; who invite them
selves to your country house in the sum
mer and yonr town house in the winter ;
and whose requirements—whether it be
for your dinner or the perusal of your
love-letters—are always grunted, for the
reason that the superlatively cool im
pudcDce evinced in asking, leaves you
so astonished and bewildered that it
never strikes you there can be any other
resource.
SCMMEB He MOBS.— A party who pro
poses to publish a new Houxckcejier'f)
Gnide sends to the Boeton Commercial
Bulletin the following extracts from the
forthcoming work ;
Plain sauce—an interview with a Sara
toga hotel clerk.
To make a good jam—ask any horae
car conductor.
To boil a tongue—drink scalding ten.
To make a good broil—leave a letter
from one of your old sweethearts where
yonr wife can find it.
How to make an Indian loaf—give him
a gallon of whisky.
A plain loaf—a visit to the prairies.
How to make good puffs—send the
publisher fifty cents a line for them.
How to make pi—jostle the printer's
below.
To "boDe" a turkey—take it when
the poulterer is not looking.
To corn beef—feed yonr cattle at a
brewery.
How to select a foul—ask the umpire
of a base ball match.
A plain stew —a trip in an old-fashion
ed street railroad car on a warm day.
How to dress beats—a horsewhip ia a
good thing to dress In-ats with, especially
if he be a dead bent.
A JOLLY TIME. —Some qneer customs
came into play on the occassion of
Nilsson's marriage. After the wedding
lweakfiud, as M. and Mine. Rouzand
stepped from the door, a cupful of dry
rice was showered on their heads from a
window above, and as the carriage
drove off all ot the old foot coverings
about the place were thrown after it
One enthusiastic gentleman threw a
broom on top of the carriage, and the
crowd shouted themselves into a very
hot and hoarse condition. Whea the
bridal party renched the hotel, the bride
sang, at the request of some friends,
soma of the songs she had learned in
this country, accompanying herself up
on the banjo which was presented to her
whila in New York.
A domestic servant in a Michigan town
has turned out to be a Pennsylvania
heiress who was abducted from home in
her orphaned infancy at the instigation
of her designing next of kin.
CENTRE MALE, CENTRE CO., PA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1872.
Neapolitan Htreet Srrur.
! We took carriage* at niue o'clock to 1U-
I siua, u drive of lour mile*, aud otie of
exceeding intercut if you wish t see Na
! plea life. The way ia round the curving
i*iy by the sea; but ao eoutiuuously
built up ia it, and ao enclosed with ltt|<li
walla ol villus, through the open gates of
which the got Jen orange* gleam, that
yon aeeui never to lea re the city. Tb
i streets and iitiaye #wnrra with the most
vociferoua, dirty, multitudinous life. It
i a drive through Hag i-'air. The tall,
whitejojellow houses fronting the water
six, seven, eight stories high, are full &&
lieebives; people arv at all the open win
dows; garment* hang froui the boleoniea
and from polea thrust out; up very nar
row, gloomy, attending atreeta are
crowds of strugghug, human shape*;
tuid yon see how like herrings in a box
are packed the over half million people
of Naples. In front of the h -uses are
the market* in the open air—fish, vege-
Laklea, carta of oranges; in the aun ait
women spinning from distafifs or wcaving
fishing nets; and rows of children who
were never wuaheil and never clothed
but once, and whose garments have
nearly wasted away; beggar*, fisherman
iu red caps, sailors, priests, donkeys,
fruit venders, street muaiei ms.carriagea,
carts, two-wheeled break-down vehicles
—the whole tangled iu one wild roaraud
rush aud Imliel—a shifting, varied pano
rama of color, wire—a pandemonium
such as the worm cannot show else
where—Vuii is what one sees on the mud
to Hosiua. The drivers all drive iu the
streets here as if they held a commission
from the devil, cracking their whip*,
shouting to thidr horse*. aud tlashmg
into the thickest tangle with entire re k
lessncss. They have one cry, ►. J
alike for getting more speed out of their
horses or fur checking them, or in warn
ing to the endangered crowds an foot.
It is an exclamatory grunt, which may
be partially expressed by the let ten
"s-e-ugli.'' Everybody shouts it—mule
driver, "euaehee," or cattle drivel; aud
even I, a passenger, fancied I could do
it to disagreeable perfection after u time.
Ont of thi* throng in the streets I like
to select the meek, patient, diminutive
little donkeys, with enormous panniers,
that almost hide them. t)ne would
have a woman, seated on top, with a
child in one panier aud cabbagiw in the
other; another with an immense stock
of market greens on his hack, or big ban
ket of oranges, or with a row of wine
casks and adhering by some unknown
law of mlhesion, to the sloping tail.
Then them was the cart drawn by some
diminutive donkey, or by au ox, or by
an ox and a donkey, or by a donkey ami
horse abreast—nevet by any possibility
a matched team. And. fuuuiest of all,
was the high, two-wheeled cu/ccAe, with
one scat and top thrown back, with long
thills and poor horse. Upon this vehi
cle were piled. Heaven know* how, be
hind, before, on the thills, and under
nsath the high seat, sometimes ten, and
not seldom as many as eighteen people
—men, women, and children—all in
daunting rags, with a colored scarf hen
and there, or a scarlet cap—perhajis a
priest, with br< aid black hat, in the
centre —driving along like a comet, the
poor horse iu a galop, the bells on his
ornamented saddle merrily jingliug, and
the whole load in a roar of merriment.—
"SaunlrriHff." by C. 1). It<rr/er.
LCTUTIC AsTLeim—PK&SOKAI. KM
aitTT. —The New York /Wger savs con
siderable public discussion has recently
I wen indulged in eoueeniing the facility
with which peraous of sound mind, but
alleged to be insane, can be shut up in
lunatic asylums and kept there despite
all their efforts to get free. As a proof
that these charge* are groundless, the
manager of a lunatic asylum in this city
states : "Before a patient can enter the
asylum, it ia necessary to obtain a lunacy
warrant from a Justice of the Peace or a
Police Magistrate of New York City,
which can only be issued upon the evi
dence of two physicians." This, then,
is the only barrier lietween a man in
Xaw York City and a lunatic asylum!
Let any two phyaiciaua certify to a
man a insanity, and a magistrate wib
issue a "lunacy warrant," and the victim
will be locked up with madmen and
kept from all communication with any
body except those who procured his in
carceration. When one remember* that
there are physicians in New York who
are among the basest villains of the age.
snd that the warrant* issued by magis
trates are usually tilled up by underling*
and signed by the Justice as a matter of
course, it is frightful to think what
abuses mavis- perjietrutcd in this matter
nuder the solemn forms of law. A radi
cal change is needed in this whole busi
ness. No man should lie sent to n luna
tic asylum on any private process what
ever. The application for a commitment
should be made in open court, after
reasonable notice to all the relatives on
both aides, and also to the counsel of the
alleged lunatic. And if he has no ooun
sel, then the court nbotild assign him
one. as in tlio case of criminals. The
personal liberty of the citizen, CHiierially
of one who is not even accused of crime,
cannot be too carefully guarded.
ANOTIIKU CAT-HAT STOST. —Animals a
war with each other by nature occasion
ally show affection for each other. This
generally happens, however, when one or
both are in the tender state of existence.
Youth and innocence seem to go together
A correspondent of the Newport (Ken
tucky) Lmiyrr tells the following curious
story : 41 tjonie seventeen years ago we
owned a very fine fetnalt cat, which one
morning brought a large addition to her
family. Her progeny were short-livod,
being consigned to a barrel of water,
where they fonnd a watery grave. I'uss
daring the day wns in the deepest distress,
and refused to be comforted. In the
evening we found her on the bed, purring
and showing by her every movement that
she was perfectly happy. Puss being a
pet of my wife, alio would not sutler her
to be removed. Before retiring, I lifted
Stlie cat, and underneath her were nest
, unconscious ot any danger, three half
grown rats, and thero they lsy for some
time, until one by one they were dispatch
ed. 1 often since regretted the killing ot
the rats, as the resalt might have been
pussy's domesticating them. Bat she never
forgot It; never after this would alio
molest a rat."
PERSEVERE against all discourage
ments. Keep your temper. Employ
i leisure study, and always have some
work in hand. Be punctual and method
ical in business, and never procrastinate.
Never be in a hurry. Preserve self
possession, and do not'be talked out of
conviction. Rise early, and bo an
economist of time. . Maintain dignity
without the appearance of pride; man
ner is something with everyiwdy, and
everything with Home. Be guarded in
discourse, attentive, and slow to speak.
Never acquiesce in immoral or pernicious
opinions. Bo not forward to uasipn
reasons to those who have no right to
ask. Think nothing in conduct unim
portant or indifferent. Rather set than
follow examples. Practice strict temper
ance, and in your transactions remem
ber the final account.
Yucatan people have u very expensive
method of treating wrecked vessels.
When the American steamer Lizzie
Webster was driven ashore on the coast
some time since, one-third of the cargo
was taken by the Government, one-third
was taken by the people as salvage, and
the other third was stolen.
A Scene In a t'lly Cenrt.
"lauiisa Mseder ! William Maedsr !"
shunted Db rk Johnson in the Court of
General He* ions yesterday.
A p*le, hunchback woman, with a
Italic iu her arms, stepped slowly forward
aud took htr seat upon the wit nee*
stand. Bhe was dressed in a suit of
black, and her largo eyes look >1 out
idteouely upen the three justices and
the steaming crowd of spectators.
A respectably dressed and gentlemanly
mau stepped from the prisoner's lien to
the I tar. His eyes fairly started from
his head as he looked towurd hia wife.
"Louisa," l p murmured in a soft, heart
broken tone, but no answer eauie from
the witness stand.
Justice Cox conducted the examina
tion, Turning to the deformed woman
he said :
"Where do you live ?"
"No. 21 City Hall Place."
"Have you lieeu beaten ?"
"I have' been beaten very often," was
the plaintiff*# answer. "IU always
trio** to kick me iu the IHMIJ, but this
time he kicked me in the face."
"Louisa," came iu teuder tones from
the bar.
Louisa turned and met lur husband's
gaze. Bhe burst into tears. Turning
to their Honors she said :
"Please put him under l*il to treal
me well."
••Where did you get that scar ca the
nose ?" asked Justice Shauley; "did he
hit you there ?"
"Yc, sir : please put him under
bail."
Justice Cox tamed to the prisoner
and said :
"William, the Court find# you guilty j
and senteuces you to the penitentiary I
for one mouth."
William's fortitude forsook him. He
began to weep. Two officers took luni
and forced lm from the room. The
poor hunchback wile anil mother sprang
from her scat, and with deep amotion
exclaimed. "Please, air, don't do that."
Three little girls, the oldest not more
lhan eight years old, ran up to the bar
aud lxgau to cry foe "papal" The
prisoner had by thia time beou forced
half way across the ltridge of Highs.
The act us was too much for the Justices.
Mr. Cox spoke :
"Bring that man back." He returned,
tear* of genuine grief in his ayes.
"William," said Justice Cox. "in con
sideration of your wifa and children the
Court will au-pend judgment an vou."
Then followed a tableau such as a j
court-room seldom sees. " Th# prisoner i
took his children in his arms and kiaaed
them lovingly. His deform*! wife hung |
on his arm, and the family went from j
the room, in which many aa eye was
wet, and many a sympathetic heart had j
twen touched. A', i. 6'n.
POBBINA TUB MAX*.—A little church
in lowa, st a place called Tete dee Morta,
wa* lately the scene of such an exception,
and tlio uproar created by it appears to
have been intense. A young couple were
in process of being united, when a gentle
man rose in the church mud forbad* the
marriage. He proceeded, amid extrapr
diflary excitement, to set forth the "just
cause or impediment," which, In hit view,
rendered llie propose! union inadmissible.
The lady, it appears, had been prvviott*!*
engaged to himself, in proof of which the
jilted one forthwith began to read in a
loud voice some of her love-letters whioh
he drew from his pocket, and which were
couched in a strain of extraordinary
warmth and eloquence. tin this, the
friends of the bride, naturally averse te
publicity being given to her gushing
effusions, set up an indignant ontery, and
tried to silence the reader. UU friend*
on the other hand, stood by him tnd
insisted he should go on. A violent
altercation ensued, which the clergyman
vainly sought to suppress, ntid at last the
churoh became what a Dubuque paper
calls " a perfect pandemonium" of shout
uig and recrimination. Willi infinite
difficulty, the combatants were got out of
the sacred edifice, only to continue the
row in the church-yard ; but the main
object of the Interruption was, at all
events, secured, tor the marriage was
•t.'pped, and is now said to be indefinitely
postponed.
How rr WAS Foroirr,—Among the r*
minisconcrs told of the Franco-Prussian
war is the account of a curious duel be
tween two subordinate officers of the
French army. "Yon intend to light a
duel, eh?" asked the commandant.
" Yes, Colonel. Words have passed
which can only t>e wijicd out by blood.
We don't want to pass for cowards."
" Very well, you shall fight, but it ranst
lie in this way: Take your carbines,
place yourselves in a line facing Malmai
son, where the enemv is. Yon will
march upon their garrison with equal
stop. When sufficiently near their
posts yon will fir* upon them. The
Prussians will reply. You continue to
advance and fire. When on* falls the
other may turn upon his herla, and bia
retreat shall be covered by on# of my
companies. The matter was arranged
as tli* commandant had dictated. At
twenty paeec from thc'walls of Malmni
eon. one of the adversaries wsa wound
ed staggered, and fell. The other ran
to him, raised him up, and carried him
off on his shoulders amid s perfect hail
storm of balls—both, thenceforth, wugc
entitled to the greatest honor and respect
from the whole regiment.
Tnit MATTER or SIZE. —If a greyhound
were a* large a* an elephant, and had the
power and strido that would correspond
with hi* size, he would kill liimstdf in run
ning a mile. The material of hi* frame
would not stand the strain. The draught
horse is never a race horse. Beyond a
certain weight, the los* of the power of
fleetness begins. Nature puts her ma
teriala into the best forms tor securing
her objects. The swallow is swifter than
the swan. Ship-builders haw found, to
their sorrowful and disastrous coat, that
above a certain rise a ship is profitless
Taking into consideration the material of
which ships are made, the modea of
handling them, and the needs of com
merce, two ships, possessing the nggre
gate capacity of the (treat Eastern, are
worth twice as mnch as she. The state
ment will doubtless be good for all time.
There is a limit, fixed by nature, in this
matter of size, ou all.the instrumentali
ties of human commerce of every sort,
beyond which results are unsatisfactory.
There will never bo a railroad with a
twenty-five feet gauge; there will never
be aaother Great Eastern.
BCOORSTIVE. —The following pleasant
news for wine connoisseurs is contained
in s letter from Carlsrulie: "Just as
usual, several cart-ioads of bilberries are
passing through our city en route for
Wurtemberg, where they will undergo a
process of pressing, and be sold to the
wine dealers for coloring wines, etc.
Many a wine-drinker thinks, while he
quaff* his red wine, that its tint has been
derived from the glowing sun of Bordeaux
or the Upper Rhine, whereas, in reality,
it is indebted for it to the pine forests of
Odenwold.'"
Juvenile society at the watering places
is more high toned than ever this season.
Gentlemen of under eight years of aye
are plenty, but ladies who are old enough
to discard long pontaletts (i. e. from four
to seven years of age) ore few, and as a
rule not inclined to mingle with those
who do not move in their set.
Lttf'i 11 uc.
My 11 Mis room is softly Ut
And tinted by Iko moon's (air t*aa ;
'Mid ailauM shadow* dimly flit,
A MI the VAJFUETWM ufa drowm.
The passing hour# I give no heed :
What matters it bow fast they speed ?
KuH long enough the night will be
Fur solitary thought of thee.
Ortitly gliding o'er the wall.
Moonbeams on my pillow fall,
Rlmuber** promise in the ray ;
But I turn mv head away,
Longing for the sweeter rest
On the jaikiw of thy breast.
In thine anus so kindly folded,
To thy heart so warmly pressed,
By thy tips in kisses moulded
Mine so tenderly caressed.
*****
Ah, how swiftly doth thv heart
Hurry 'neath my Ust'ning ear;
Ntilde, faithful, generous heart, ,
Hurries it that I am near?
While to clasping fingers' end*
Fast it* thrilling current send*
Oeutle force to bold me here.
B her® the heart U, there is home ;
Where the home i, there is rest.
Well thou knoseet, ere I apeak.
Where Ilia home mr heart would seek;
Thus, upon thy faithful breast.
Here, and only here, 1 rest.
The bar of Juggernaut.
Tbw lodian correspondent of the Lon
don /Vwir* recently wrote a letter in re
lation to the Juggernaut festival in
which he said he thought the cruel oere
uionius hitherto iu vogue were no longer
common. Iu reply to this another gen
tleman writes;
Some twenty-five years ago, I wa
mamiging a large estate in Lower Bengal
iH'limging to a Himlo gentleman. In
the ehiel village of this estate there was
a Bath, or Juggernaut car, which hav
ing boootae dilapidated, underwent rath
er eiteuaivo repairs. These oars are
supported uu a number of wheels which
arc invisible externally. On the day
when the Buth ought to proceed on its
journey, the huge multitude found it
impossible to move it As I afterwards
learned, the pricata had locked the
wheels. For two or three days the peo
ple tried to move it, but in vain. At
ilint it began to be whispered that a hu
man sacrifice was required to mauguruU
tUe ncwlv repaired car. A day or two
more, aud 1 was told that the victim had
iteA procured in the person of a leper,
who had sold himself for the sum of £6.
I was also told thai the Larugah, of Ku
penuteudvnt of l'olire, hid been luuid
aomely bribed, ami thai be would report
to toe magistrate 'Accidental death.' f
did uol believe all tlua, especially as my
informant was a wouian who, 1 thought, i
might have been imposed upon b> what
we call 'bazaar gup,' or common gossip;
but in two or three days more I was it
funned that, to the joy of the whole
c.muirv round slxmt, the Ituth ha<l at
fast moved, but that uu fortunately, a
IMKW KAWR falling under the a heels had
Cm 2m*£T£ deatli. It was. how
erer, a purely accidental occurrence. for
after a most searching inquiry, the I>-
had so reported. After this ex
jH-riouce I maile a practice of wratehing
tlio Hatha, of which there are a great
mrtny in Bengal, and invariably found
wheu one refused to be dragged by the
people, as the smaller car of jourcorrcs
poudmit did,its first motion was attended
with a serious if not a fatal accident.
Your correspondent thinks th* fact that
the man wbnae thigh wa* crushed drank
gin proves that he could not be a fit sub
ject for a Uiudo sacrifice. It appear*
ho docs not know that all those who
awing at the Cburruck Poojali arc per
sons of the very lowest ce*te, or rattier
no mate at all,"who are paid by wealthy
Hindoos to do this penance in their
stead. The fact of the man's being an
outcast,, is a very strong proof that he
was a purchased victim, and this is atill
farther confirmed by the native-like at
tempt to divert the suspicions of the
Sshebs by tlio loudly expressed blame
of (ho god for punishing him. Another
suspicious circumstance is thst the po
lice had got themselves ami the station
magi .tratcs away from the 'smaller ear,'
so thst there might bo no interruption to
what was about to happen."
PrtuTto* op J>mrnrnc Arm n*
Vnmn Aß. —The following process ford*-
tectmg the fluoth part of free siUpharic
arid ui vinegar, it is stated, is aufficieut
lv accurate for all practical punx*aa.
A fluid ounce of the vinegar to tie ex .
a ruined is, by ivaporatiou upon a water
bath, reduced to about half a drachm,
or (uc consistency of s thin extract;
when quite cold half a fluid ounoe of
strong alcohol is to be thoroughly in
corpora ted; the free sulphuric acid will
lie taken up bv the alcohol to the exclu
sion of any sulphates; the alcoholic
-liquid solution should staud for several
hours and then be Altered; add to lite
lUtrato one fluid ounce of pure distilled
water, and evaporate off the alcohol by
the application of a gentle heat; the re
maining liquid is again left standing for
si-vera) hours and again filtered: to the
filtrate, previonslv acidulated with n few
drops of hydrochloric acid, a solution of
ebloride of barium isjadd*d, which, if
sulphate said be present, will yields
white preepitato.|
GIARAATAR. —Until you set foot on CJib
raltar, yon can form no idea of its im
pregnability. Very properly its real
strength cannot be seen from a ship in the
tiay; only when you land do you find that
the sea-wall bristles with heavy guns,
and groans beneath piles of ball; only
as you traverse its tiank do you see bow
formidable breech-loaders peep from
every available chink, and powerful mor
tars lurk behind every convenient em
bankment. And not until you, penetrate
the body of the rock, do you get anv just
notion of the marvellous piece of military
engineering exhibited in its "galleries."
There are tunnels excavated from the
solid rock, parallel to its onter side, bnt
some thirty feet therefrom, and large
enough to drive a carriage through. They
are in two tiers, and comprise a total
length of nearly three miles. At evert
thirty feet or so along them, spasious
embrasures are outhewn, that termin
ate In commanding portholes which
look to a spectator outside the rock like
swallow's nostliolea in a sand cliff.
BacKma tip MR. RKROR. —Within the
but two months Bergh's men have turned
out fifty-eight teams of disabled liorees
from cars on the Central Park and East
and North River Railroad, commonly
culled the Belt Road in New York city.
The drivers oay that there is hardly a
team in the stable fit for the work of
dragging a car load of paaaepgers. Two
of the driver* were summarily discharged
because they refused to drive the sick
horses, which they turned out of harness
the previous day.
A mother was standing with her little
three-year-old daughter 011 & piazza.
The stars wero shining brightly, and the
mother said : "Daughter, what are those
bright spots iu the sky ?" After a
moment's hesitation the little one said ;
' 'Mamma, ain't %\v little gimlet holes
to let the glory through ?"
The Chioago police assert that almost
every man arrested has concealed weap
ons.
Tmi lUnmrr of Vwfih—For n
time Vgtuee naa a colon** of Pad tie, Mid
governed by consuls sent ont from the
parent city. In 487 a.i>. the Venetians
organized the ludapeudent republic,
elected a laxly of magistrates styled
tribune#, and enacted their own law# ftvr
i the gov <ru went of the common wealth
The tribuoea were elected nauoally,
each island being entitled to one. For
more than two centuries they maintain
ed a form of government essentially re
publican. Iu 007 the people, being per
suaded that a chief magistrate was ne
cessary, instituted the office of doge, or
duke, with a tenure for life, but elective
upon the basis of merit. Me was em
powered to appoint his own minister*
und to make war and peace, which gave
him the virtue ooutrok of the state. Aa
might bare been foreseen, the ducal
office inaugurated an nslstocracy, and
worked a radical change of institutions.
Three doges were elected in eucoeastasi
Paolo Lues Anafesti, Marwelo
Tagallino, and -Fabrinio Uroo, who
reigned from 897 to 737, when the peo
ple rose in revedution to recover tbsfur
lost liberties. Fabrissio was assassinat
ed, and the republican form of govern
ment was restored. The experiment of
popular institutions, however, failed,
and at the end of five year* (h# dues!
government was restored by the election
of Peodato Hps to aa the fourth doge.
From 1055 to 1797 Venice was governed
by doges, in conjnoetion St a later day,
with a Senate, a Council of Three, and a
Council of Ten. In 1797 ?fapoleon de
posed Lndovico Mania, the last of the
ioog lute of V eneUan doges, and the re
public of Ycnioe cowed to evict.
A BAKKKL JOWL—'The Bolton Cm
mtrrial liulUtm teih this story : New
Yorkers M a general Iking are pretty
shrewd, bat sometime* thqy are caught
when trying to plaj a ahxrn game.
Agreeable to an order from a New York
firm, Messrs. Hoop, Stare A Co., of this
city, shipped one hundred barrels in
prime order to them. In due time eame
a letter, saving that the barrels ware not
as represented ; thai, in looking them
over fifty of tliem hail been condemned ;
and that while the price weald be paid
for the good onas, only half prion* oaid
lie allowed for the balance, and the Bos
ton house could take them or leave them.
Hoop A Stave knew their goods wore
drat quality, and, after consultation, a
plan was agreed upon to settle the mat
ter. The next day a tmivrt brwsoue in
dmdnal entered the New York house,
and wanted to buy a "lot of bang-op
barrels." The Boston shipment was
shown him. the ir! extolled, the
repntation of the Boston house landed,
and the bar gin finally concluded, at
a small margin, for cash ; the barrda,
however, to be subject to the buyer's
order for three days. "Ah ! by the
way, what firm may I-" "Oh ! yea,
ha," ha taking out my card—" my
name is Stave—Hoop, Stave 4C0., of
Boston—tad 111 find a customer for my
laurel* in the coarse of the day. It is
needle** to add that Mr. Hteve returned
to Boston without being obliged to find
hia customer.
WELXJXOTOX'S SnuTWT.-ODt certain
Acromion during- Wellington'a campaign
on the Pyrenne**, Uint " liteat Cajrtain**
being displeased with the dispositions
General Picton had made for receiving
the assault of Marshal Soalft. who men
aced him in front, ordered the plan to be
entirely changed. But the difficulty waa
to delay the attach of the French itfitfl
the change cwnld be eieefc-d. This the
"Iron Duke" accomplished in peraon,
in the following manner: Doffing his
cocked hat and waring it in the air, be
rode furiously to the head at a regiment,
as if about to order a charge. There
upon aroae a tremendous eheer from the
men, which waa taken up by corpa after
oorjw until it reverberated along the
whole extent of Picton's line. Aa the
roar died away, Wellington waa heard
to remark musingly, aa if addressing
himself, " Soult is a skillful but cautious i
commander, and will not attack in form
until he has ascertained the moaning of
these cheer*. This will give time for
the sixth division to come up. snd we
shall beat him." It turned oat aa be
antici]iatod. Soult, naturally enough,
supposed those tremendous shouts an
nounced the arrival of large reinforce
ments, and did not attack until too late.
lla<l he struck at the right moment be
would have won an easy victory ; aa it
was he met with a bloody repulse.
FA*T-ROW* FAKMIHO. —Major Moore
tolls na in hi* journal how a well-to-do
farmer rode straight to the poor-house
on a fast horse. The nnitnal was a really
fine one, and gave ita owner great de
light, aud nothing would answer but an
exhibition of him through the profes
sional*. Me pat np his money and
won. This gave a higher flight to his
ambition, and induced a holder opera
tion. Success rewarded his adventure*.
He neglected his farm, imperceptibly
| acquired liabita to which he had before
been a stranger, and, spurred on by
)*i*t success and the machination* of
the crafty, whoee aim is to fleece the
green and ntiwary, placet! his farm in
joopardv for the purpose of raising
money to stake on the result of a race iu
which his pet horse was to coutend for
the prize and mastery. The profession
als lind now got the over confidant
fanner in the precise position desired,
and the reanlt was, as they intended it
should le, the defeat of the fanner's
horse ami the ntin of his owner. The
animal changed hands, and ao did the
farm. It was all down hill with the
farmer after this. His family was
broken up and dispersed, while he,
reckless and maddened by disappoint
ment and remorae, found a premature
grave.
THE DIAMOND I'KVKU.— A former rcai
' dent of Arizona, who is thoroughly
j familiar with the >-called diamond
I regions, asserts that Arizona diamonds
are nothing more than peculiarly bril
liant quartz crystals. Of these he has
repeatedly collected large quantities,
for the amusement of the little ones
of his acquaintance, among whom he
hiui tlina lavished incalculable weath—
provided quarts crystal* and diamonds
are synonymous. Even were the ex
travagant stories of the mineral wealth
of Arizona to be literally true, it would
be madness for any one to attempt to
reach the diamond region except
in company with a well-armed and
abundantly provisioned caravan. The
country "is completely barren, and
swarms with hostile savages. If any
man wishes to risk his health, and waste
his time, in digging for diamonds.
South Africa can l>e reached by him
much more easily than Arizona, and in
South Africa it is certain that diamonds
have been found, however few and far
between such lucky discoveries may
have been.
DISFIGURED.—A sad skiry is told in
Paris apropos of the death -of Mile. Char
ton. Bho made her debut on the Paris
boards when only twenty years ot' age—
a fine looking girl, with a fixe voico and
dramatic talent. In an alternation with
her lover, occasioned by his jealousy, he
threw a bottle of aquafortis in her face,
which so disfigured it that she never
again appeared in public. Just before
her deutn, Mile. Ckartoa received the
sum of 100 flanes from t'a§ Government
to relieve her necessities.
TERMB : Two Dollars a Year, in Advance.
i Pearl*
I Pliny, the historian phßqlofW. who
• lived in the flret eentnry, and who, so-
cording to Pliny the younger, left, aoth-
I; '"ft in nature or art without an iudnstri-
I, ous examination, says of pearl*, that
• I • they take life from dew-drop* ; that
they are aoft in the •**. and only harden
, when exposed to the air; that they ***te
' and ootne to nothing when it thunder*,
• 1 etc., etc. ; bat to imagine this, haa long
■! been eonaidered chimerical in the ex
treme, though the world at large kttowa
' hot little of their origin.
■ The pearl ia born clear, hard and
' white, and ita mother—a tesUoeous fish,
j several times the <dae of a common oys
> bar— uaually produces ten dr a doxsn of
i throe delicate gems. All other ptedoaa
i ! atones grow rough upon the rocks thai
j wall " the chamber* under ground," but
, (lie pearl needs no cunning devi® of
art, no iudootry of man, no catting, no
I polishing, to give to it aoft, rare luatre;
for nature has perfected the pearl, and
; (.picador u ita birthright.
Binee the discovery of paarie by tho
j ancients, nearea of centuries ago, human
hfe haa been reokleaaly hasarded. nod.
often lost, in gaining jroaaeasioa of
i these jewel* of the see, and still the
j search continues, and still Arnel de
j manda his occasional sacrifice, and will
j not be denied.
In some parts of Europe and America,
, Imt mostly in the Indian tea*, the pearl
oyster is funod, and, after being torn
• from the roeks by the diver, it is ceiled
from ita home and buried in tha sand,
where the beat of the ran corrupts it,
. and where it soon opens of itself, re
: the faces of its children —the
I pure white pearls.
, Jvbo call the shining color of
, pearia, truier— from their being snppos
ed to be made of water, lienor the
i pearl pendants of Cleopatra were said to
•oo inestimable both for their water and
] site. j
Every one knows the story ef that
voluptuous queen's extravagance, in;
her entertainment of Antony, in Tarsus,
I where it was rumored she was the pod-
I list Venus, and where she won tha
anger laid on the possibility of
pending more than a million of livres on
one supper ; but perhaps me may war
know that the pearl diaaolred in Vine
gar, and swallowed by Octavia'a rival
i at that extraordinary banquet, was one
' of two ear-jewels rained each at fhfyf
' thousand pounds.
The other pearl, which, owing bp b
interference of Plancua, who aeoidad
the wager, was saved from the fate of
ita companion, was afterwards carried
to Rome, by Augustas, and consecrated
to Venus. Ita sice was so great that it
was divided, and served for pendants in
the ears of that goddess of female beauty
and of love. Paula had, ptwiobs to
j this, been dissolved in like manner, and
drank for the sole purpose of making
! the expense of meals enormous ; but
ancient history records few instances of
the kind, and modern none. * >
\
| A Fi*h Stout Enow Fa**®.—' The
/sums/ dm Debau tells the story of a
wonderful fish, which, in spite of the
seriouanaas with which the facty a®
, btsUd, appesm almost incredibli A
carp has;out dial atChanfaUy, in Franca,
atlW extraordinary age of three liwn
■ deed and eeventy-fftie yean! Only think
of a fish in oar day which was sporting
mite native pond st the time that the
Moors were being driven out of Granada
jby the Spaniards ; which first saw the
lightsome five years after Columbus
I first put bis foot upon American soil;
< before glass was in nee, or the art of
printing invented ; twelve years before
I Henry VIII. ascended the British throne,
and twenty years before Martin Loth
' cr'a name" was even heard of! Yet
! this ia what we are gravely told. This
; extraordinary fish belonged to a Mr. i
<} , a wealthy merchant of Cbantdfy,
who bongnt it about a year ago for |
1,300 franca It was born on the estate .
of the Count de Cease in 1497, under the
reign of Francis 1., and haa daring its
long life belonged to thirtj-two different
masters. It bad naturally become quite '
an object of history, went by the name *
of Oamtsßs, and measured ninety-seven '
centimetres in length—between nine
teen and twenty inches of our measure. 1
There is no knowing how much longer
this creature might have lived, as it did
not die a natural death, bat was killed i
in mortal combat with an enormous pike. J
Mr. O's little son was present at the '
fatal battle, but, seeing in it only some- i
thing to amuse him. he neither interfer
ed uor called the domestics to separate <
the combatants. i
THE CATTLE DISEASE.-— The owners of
live stock in Australia are greatly excited
over the discovery that the foot and
mouth disease has made its appearance
among the cattle in that country. Al
though the disease is rarely fatal, the
fact that it renders animal* unable to
travel for water or t* ssek food invests
it with an importance that it would not
elsewhere possess. It is foremen that
if it should extend among the Australian
herda of wild cattle, tcirible ravages
mnat be expected, for as they cannot be
approached to be fed or watered great
numbers would certainly die of thirst, if
not of starvation. The Australian au
thorities are taking the moat vigorous
measures to stamp out the disease. The
farms on which the infected animals,
were found have been placed in quar
antine for ax months, and a commission
is engaged in the work of seeking out
ami Jest-roving all infected cattle.
M KMHTSU IT.— Whenever a large turn
of money ia mentionwl, aome absurd
t>ertios, who never had auch a sum.
reckons up what it would weigh and
what time it would take to count it.
Here ia what one of the gen'.lemen aaya
a) >out the French loan of 130 millions :
• With 46 sovereigns to the pound troy,
this loau in gold would weigh about
1,100 tona; and told forth coin by coin,
at the rate of a pound sterling every
second, fonr years would be consumed
in oountiug it till down." Aa it has been
sultaeribcd for some fourteen times over,
if lie had to count it, and began when he
was old enough to be trusted with a
sovereign—say ten—we ore glad to think
by the time he had counted every second
of his life—(without deep, eicept be
counted in -his sleep) —we should hear no
mqrn of him and his valuable services
to humanity.
FRAIL STRAUSES. —It Is easy to realize
the consternation among those on board
of a steamer in distress, and the hurried
rush tor life preservers. Our Sound and
Hudson River boats are among the most
beautiful floating structures in the world,
and at the same time the most eminently
deceitful. Pacing their spacious and
splendid Interiors the passenger forgets for
a tune how frail the separation between
bim and eternity, yet when the signal of
an aocident is announced, the resounding
blow of a collision or a heavy bump upon
a sunken rock, then, indeed, all on board
wake up to the terrible realization of the
vessel's pitlfbl weakness. They are in
truth mere shells, and no wonder may be
felt that a schooner coming in collision
with one of them should break through
her light and brittle frame and render
her at once a total wreck.—AT. Y, Herald.
A little island in the Connecticut near
Wells river is a geographical curiosity.
0/ie can sit down at a certain point on
island and bs in two States, tores
count I®* and 'our towns at the same
time.
_ - —Lil?
j My fafoeeam of Wossom*, dainty and sweet,
My liHy, my ross, sy pearl 1
fOMis to my arm*, my toby 1
rt (tew* are or sr th gna*
fbst nods to the buttercups, rida* yowhair
Aad all the hand* Of tt Aadowa, psrpts sod
iiVjlwfhi'Widte Jttss-
WhHhcr awsy, my hahy 1
Kissing your wse white hand,
And tomtog It heek, Uks a Attm of aasw,
IVwnrd the fuses otastefta* tow
By the ttmoe where ! etendj
Cams to asysrms, y baby I
My ixinoy beautlftol gift t '
ywsftpsi—tern with Masse sweet
For your dMptetM> sod ywir dlmplad tost,"
MyWy,Myresn,myprortl
/ fft - Facta and Faadas.
ft taks* 38fi4 sergeants da villa to kssk
J Pari* la safety.
Nebraska ia negotiating for 40,000
Russian immigrants
A young man of 24, in New Bedford,
has a son ten years old.
New York Is fond of fruit, and haa paid
§8,100,000 for ft this summer.
Apples can be bought for tea centa a
bushel ia soma parte of Illinois.
A Jewish temple that haa eeat §OO,OOO
is ttwujy completed in Milwaukee.
fifteen cents a basket is what they
expect lot potatoes in lowa this Fall.
Tims will by and by bang np hi* scythe;
that to, be will when he shall he no
mover.
The Hindoos only drink water. Other
people would do wau to do as the ilia
doo do.
A turtle's head that had bean oat off
for several days lately Ml a dnck'a nock
and killed the few! ia Tqlbottoa, Gs.
In Liverpool, Eng., it to stated Ms pairs
of pants wars made by a woman for
NO. 38.
The IMI Gats route to Set Tot* city
; will JEoropoaa stealnow ooa ban
drodsnficaaf dmUnea.
I Tlw tfajton Smm **m* to be oa the
famw. Itaaji: "For Preaidaot, Or ;
for ViawPteddent, "
f%t££&i*i r^,u
oaf it Willi tWO IMMI lw£tߣ lH OppoCSU
diroetiMtUq(tsU|p4]Mr J W-Ui
An Mhtois ffinu'firt tuft in tiw> night to
if tlTwomrt w tfbd fell
dovf stain and tmfca lua wok.
U jAM&j9&%m* hj to entire
.-flank afalMp. Jumps* wto tba window
of atk. Wutrttors tits Other day.
Th chtspsni oast li door la British
Columbia. Too MO hoy a whole aerate
4fmew telteie ,
Older awptos eU foe tee oante a boahsl
w Sir* 01 Pr ° b "
Two newspaper eUttdr® ie Montana •
- &s<pkh^^2£?
eearDAolliAHM. >
i - iTMfi jinn twt * wetter a far of 25
i>n a elaetnar it Dubuque, lowa,
tart work, a £•£**** shot him. A
wanihtß fc> eitortiouato waiter*
At a faneral of .little child fee Had
•on, K. Y.; the' other day, the cornea
was drawn to the **•*• la the baby
cart in wbtofc* had ridden when .live.
Is MaamchwmtU, forty per eept of
the popnlaiten are deposit- r* ie saving*
WHf ■*
of a total :hf kM%' 1,467,030 inhabitant*.
FhidSvwwoW man, "Bom* folk, are
, so conn .*l. •• -• • s-ottt the weather,
bftlauielwaje thaokfol when I wakr
' np in the morninp and find any weather
jLji mv> immm j
*B—' NowYerfcrtetretiree were then-
I jlwe tyiwTfnflijp stealing fI,OOO worth
~{ J-W.rv ir->m a lady who employed
theft. - H'e the oW idea-thieve, to
aateO tlnevee. sdl >* .
Xh* knowing once toll ns that tba
onlv any log.? pure post wine, bio go
to "Oporto, raire the grope* P" the
wine, pot if ftto the cask yourself and
ride ad ft dUibkwtjr home.
The foltowfag la a rather queer adwer
li van at. taken fmaelaotTilk paper ;
Wanted—TWe day, twenty-five perrons
to lecttirti ate on morality. Resmnabl*
wage. will be paid,—Will R. Mcßath.
A berhrtir wye that if yun hand a
* urwapaper with a scrap cut out of
not a in. ofit will be read, bat arery
bit" of interest 4bi paper possesses is cen
tered in finding oat what the Biasing
*sp contained.
There if ajrell In Indiana which keeps
time ttte dfeekwork. At precisely two
o'clock, Tughfand day, it throw, op a jet
of water. H fa now over a thousand
feet deep* ad is still being bored with
. view to ultimate oiL
" A .harp old gentleman travellingont
West pot a teat beside hie wife in a
orowdad railway ear by requeuing the
joang man who eat by her to please
wttef 'that woman while be went into
another ear, at die bad fit*.
A tumble disaster baa oonuiel at
Oporto. The steamship Perseveranaa
went ashore there In a fog at tiia en
trance to the harbor, and was totally
lost. Thirty parsons ca baud perished
before assistance could, roach them.
The Ml rates la aow common in Illi
ooi. ]>*pafa i "Notioe : All women wlio
do not wish their husbands to frequent
mv house for the purpose of drinking,
will obhga e by lea ving a note at the
post-office, boat 83. (bigoed)—.
Some alarm i. felt at the prevalence of
conflagration* in Bohemia. Har,iiy a day
has passed since the middle of July
without soma dertrurtive fin in a village
or town of the proviso* It it found
ti,t incendiarism is at the bottom of it.
In couwqueDoe of the disappearance
of a child abducted by gypsies and not
T ei discovered, the German Government
proposes to lay a bill before the next
Farliam.'ill seriously wrtroting the
liberty of wsmdering grpeies and vag
aband troops. mi .>
A street gymnast of Bttia, known as
Samson's Iron Jaw, whose specialty was
to tack up weights with his teeth, and
throw thtm prar his head, raised a bar
rel with ids teeth and in attempting
to dispose of it In the same way fall
dead with a broken spine.
Punctuation is • wonderful thing. A
mn telegraphed to Burlington for a
school, '"'Shan I come or is the place
filled f* The answer property was,
*No 1 Place filled on the 17U. The
telegraph operator received it, "No
place filled on the 17th. He went for
it and was minus traveling expenses.
In a regent .debate, a member of the
California Legislature exclaimed: "The
honorable gentleman from Calaveras
County is undoubtedly a person of great
abilities a man of talent—a natural born
genius; bnt there is one thing I defy him
to do, andthnt is, to bite the bottom out
ot a frying pan without smutting his
nose."
France has 4,500,000 acres of vineyard,
producing, gallons of wine
annually, or an average of 900 gallons
per acrt. Of this enormous yield of
wine bardlv more than two-ninths are
exported, leaving about 700,000,000 gal
lons to be drank by 38,000,000 French
people, or 18 gallons to each person
annually. * *
The Emperor of United Germany lost
his stick the other day, and advertised for
it in the daily newspaper, as any old
burgher might have done; a trifling feet,
which indicates the fine trait of the Ger
man character—perfect simplicity. The
okl sovereign had attached himself to that
stick, which was given him by an Alsatian
peasant on his return from the war.
Two marines, named Welsh and Don
nelley, were taken from the United
States frigate Worceater, sent to the
State Prison at Weatbersfield, Conn.
They wa4rie&ai sea for using disrepu
tabla.huiKuagn px an officer. Tbey were
sentenced to seven years' imprisonment
each, but the sentence was commuted
at Washington to four years eaah.