The Centre reporter. (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, September 20, 1872, Image 1
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.