The Last Goed-Night. " {foot-night, my leT. th* way is dark, Far thee, and me. Only a single step beyond Can either see. " Onr paths diverge- nay do net weep, (led knoweth beat. Kiss me good-night, and let me ateep, I long for rest," •* All worlds ars bta who cares for ns ; 'Twerc sweet, dear lore, To go together from tin* home To that aboTe, But all onr Heavenly Father "a way* Are surely right, In life or death we'll trust in him, 8o love, good-night." •'Still I am thine, and thon art mine, In Heaven aa here. Mi thinks the veil will not be thick Between ns, dear. * Thon wilt come toon, werk while 'lia day And serve the right. Remember that I wait for thee— Pear love, good-night." An Empty Seat. Mine i* the sorg of an empty ne.-t: Others will bring you braver songs ; But mine must niter my heart's behest. Though 1 siug it to heedk as throngs. My steps were over the.blanohed W-ave* That had taken the frost's untimely kiss ; Not long ago we'd carried tli. sheaves, But the season was all at.ass. With hanging head and with loitering feet Tosrard the open land I went, Through places that summer had made so sweet With a gtamonr but briefly lent. I trod upon something soft and dry. For my ewe were ftill on the flaming west; And ju! where the grass was thick acd high Was lying—aa empty ursl. Oh, the V.M. ns of faded sprsv.g; Oh, the memYtes of song, Of br Hiding Ureasi, and of glancing wing. To an empty nest alone! And the thought that suddenly came to me, Close to the water, facing the west, Was of some singing that used to be In another forsaken nest. There were two birds that began to sing Low in the field of yellow core Not for the heed then* song should bring, But for km of the dewy mora. Birds of one feather and sister turds, Crowded out of a roof-tree nest. Hatched wtthm sound of lowing herds, But living away ftrvrn the west. Birds of one feather fare host together: Singing, they built them another nest, Sat in it and sung in the worst of weather, Each hiving the other heal. Bat we who listened one morning knew That only one bird was left to sing: Thai never had sung apart, the two, And we talked of a broken wing. Now, should you chance lo pass that way, You should vainly listen for any song ; But what regrets for the vanished lay To this empty nest belong! SILAS (•KIMRRIN'S TRAP. 4 * It's a plain case," Mr. Grimgrin said. Against whom would there mot have been a plain case, Mr. Grimgrin judging I - No doubt he is guilty ; but what are the facts ?" inquired Miss Thugge, in whose theory of justice striking came betore hearing. " They are very simple," Mr. Grimgrin answered : 44 presented an altered check at the Oxide Bank this morning—in jail tor forgery this evening. 44 But there may be some explanation," timidly remarked a young lady, at whose simplicity Mr. Grimgrin smiled, and Miss Thugge sniffed. •* lie should have made it at once, then,' said Mr. Grimgrin, 4 ' instead ot standing dumb before his accusers. After explanations don't go for much in such esses." 44 Poor Edith !-it will break her heart," the young lady could not help adding. " Pooh- !" said Mr. Grimgrin ; as yon will find cut some day, heart-breaking is only a figure of speech." Leaving the rest of MissTbugge's part* to laugh, and the young lady to blush, at Mr. Grimgin's sententious observation, let us go back a step. Ernest Jasper, whose arrest for forgery was just now the subject of conversation, had hitherto borne an unblemished char acter. He and his brother George, out of moderate saleries, after supporting their widowed mother, managed to lay up something every year, and each #as look ing to a happy time—not far distant, he hoped—when certain tender engagements would no longer need to be deferred. The course of truthful love never ran smoother than in the case of Ernest Jas per and Edith Wade. Too trusting to allow mischief to be made beiweea them, and too generous to make it between themselves, what could disturb the even tenor of two such lives ? George Jasper was of a different temper from his brother. With a heart as true, be was more impulsive and passionate. It is such men that are easily incited to jealousy, and who act rashly "under it. When George Jasper and Mildred Heath plighted their troth, they would have staked their lives on each other's loyalty. But evil tongues csme between them. Stories which should have been scorned—and were so at fiiat—in time began to be listened to. Then came quarrels and reconciliations, time and again repeated, till at last it was insinuated to George that he had a rival iu his love. He demanded an explanation in a tone so imperious that Mildred's pride took offence, and she answered it with silence. They parted in anger, and George'a visits ceased. A few days later, a 9001 aote from Mildred imlormod him that all was over between them. In his bitterest moments he had not counted on this. It came upon him like a thunder clap. His first impulse was to fly from the scene of his misery whither he cared not the further the better. A letter, received through the post office, announced to Ernest his brother's departure. " Leaving on you," the letter went on. " the burden of our mother's support, I enclose you my employer, Mr. Winter's, check for all my savings over the neces sary expenses of my journey. I cannot tell you where I am going, for I do not know. To you and our mother—the only ones to whom I have the right to offer it —I leave my fondest love. Farewell." It wa* the check thus enclosed, which on being presented by Ernest, was tftined to have been altered to a larger amount. On being questioned, Ernest offered no explanation. Instantly it flashed npon him that he oonhl not speak without compromising his brother, and his silence was construed as a confession of guilt. He was at once arrested and committed for trial. Silas Grimgrin was a post-oflice clerk, moral beyond bis years, and with a con science tenderly alive tothesin6 of others. We have already seen how little lenity poor Ernest received at his hands. Silas Grimgrin had just rctarued from Miss Thugge's party, and, in his bachelor apartment, was regaling himself with a cigar and divers reflections on the vanity of human wishes, when a knock annonnced a visitor. 44 Come in," said Silas, glancing over his shoulder. Stooping to clear the door-way, a young man entered, a fellow-clerk of Silas, at least six feet two in height, with a good natared, but not particularly bright look ing countenance. " Good-evening, Mr. Grimgrin." " Good-evening, Dance," said Silas, " Pray, lower yourself on the sofa there, for your head must be dizzy at that height" Mr. Bunce smiled at the joke; it was an old acquaintance. " What do you think of Jasper's case?" he inquired, after a pause. "There can be but one opinion," Silas answered. " I have mine, at least," said the other. u And what is it, pray ?" 44 That he is not guilty." " Then who it t n said Silas sharply. " You /" retorted Bunce, planting him self befere the door, and displaying a badge, at the sight of which Silas trem bled. " What proof have you of such an accusation 7" said Sila?, recovering his presence of mind with an effort. 14 Ample," replied the other. " Num- FRED. KURTZ, Editor ami Proprietor, VOL. V. erotu peculation* In the office hero, Imlawl ilio authorities to place it under surveillance; and, for a month past, I have oecnpled the post of detective under the guise of a olork. Two days ago, nneWrwl, as TOO thought, ron abstrant ed a letter illlwU'i! to Rm**t Jaaptr. Next dt you returned it. An examination whieh I, as Well a* Ton, know how to make, proved that it contained a check - the aame— lor by a process of toy own I was able to read its contents —to-day presented at the bank by Jasper, and now in my possession." " Hat all that," argued Silas 4 M does not prow that 1 either opened the letter, or altered the check." w A* to the question of a letter's having been opened," said the detective, " an exjvert is not easily deceived. As to tho alteration of the cheek, Mr. Winter, the drawer, is ready to swear that George Jasper inclosed it unaltered in his pres ence, and left the letter with Idm to mail; and /can swear that when it rame to the hands of Ernest Jasper, the check was in its present state." Silas tiriiugrin stood mute and sulleu. '• There is another charge against you," resumed the detective. Silas started. u To-day you opeued a decoy letter containing money. The guilty man made a movement as if to escape, but the towering form of the detective blocked hi* way. In an instant the snap of the handcuffs on his wrists was heard, and a brief search brou>*ltt to light the identical bill taken from the decoy letter. The poor wretch's courage failed, and he confessed all. Ue had stolen Georgr Jasper's letter, not as lie had others, foe gain's sake, but to subserve another pur jHse. He too loved Mildred Heath, and had been mainly instrumental in breeding difficulties between her and her betrothed. To fix upon his rival the stigma of an infamous crime, seemed a sure way to secure the field permanently to himselt. The fraternal devotiou whieh prompted Ernest Jasper to sacrifice hi* own to his brother's reputation, was something a nature like Silas Grimgrin's was alike incapable of understanding or foreseeing. The widow Jasper, Edith, and Mildred were all weeping tears of joy at once over Ernest, just released from prison, when George burst in among them. '* What! yon here, Ernest I" he ex claimed, " I saw your arrest announced ] in the papers, and hurried back at once." A word explained all. And then George met Mildred's eyes looking so tearfully ami lovingly into his own, that, forgetting all, he wav about to clas;i her in his arms. " But that letter 1" he said, drawing back with sudden con traint, " What letter!" 44 The one in which you declared all was over between us." Mildred's surprise was a sufficient answer. 44 Then that w.is another of Silas Grim grin's forgeries !" cried George, instinc tively guessing the truth. Two happy weddings speedily followed. Aud we are pleased to be able to add that, as a husband, George Jasper isn't a bit jealous.—LcJvcr. REFrsisa TO Rrs OVER A Child. — There is it hoise at present in the Isle ol Man, possessed of such singular intelli gence anil amiability of disposition that the sooner ha is bought from his owner and transferred to London the better. This good-natured auimal positively re fused to run over human creatures, and will throw himself into the most intricate contortions rather than injure a hair in their heads. A few davs ago, according to to the Manx Suu. tlie horse in ques tion was proceeding through the market place in Douglass, harnessed to an " in side car." While thus engaged in the performances of his duties, a child, aged two years, the son of a fruit dealer, ran across the road in front of the car, and was knocked down by the horse. Our own London horses, encouraged by their drivers, would have made short work of the hapless infant ; not so, however, the Manx horse, which was observed to nitfle a sudden pause, move its right forefoot alxiut, and having placed its hoof lightly on the child's breast, to again lift it up, putting it dowu l>vthe child's side with out injuring it. The bystanders imme diately extricated the child from its per ilous position, and the horse resumed its journey, carrying with it the respect and admiration of all who witnessed the scene, among whom it is stated, were two gentlemen of high position in Dou glass, hose names, if nesessary, might be given. THE VICTIMS OF WAR. —A German new-paper presents the following very in teresting statistics in regard to the wound ed of the war of 1870—71 : Out #f 3,45s Germans wounded around Metx ainety live and a half per cent, were Injured by the Cbasscpot rifle, two and seven tenths per cent, by the artillery, and only eight tenth" per cent, by cold steel. Among the Fiench wounded twenty-five per cent, were wounded by the German artillery, seventy per cent, by small arms, and five per went, by cold steel. These figures in themselves tell a very reinirkable story. The same paper pretends that in the whole course of the w.r twenty-five thousand French were bit by the German artillery, so that on comparing the number of shots filed the contusion is inevitable that for every three discharge* of a German cannon at least one Frenchman was killed or more or less injured. According to the statistics of the German wounded the following proportion has been established in an official manner: Ninety per cent, of men were bit among th<- infantry; fivo per cent, iu the artillery, and two per cent, in all the other blanche* of the service. DIAMONDS.— Messrs- liittar, Le verso n k Co., diamond brokers, of London, have sent a communication to the city editor of the London Timet, which, if true, will throw discredit on the Arizona mines. They state that a few mouths ago an American came to London and bought a large number of diamonds in the rough, regardless of weight or quali ty, and that these stones havo been used as specimens by the alleged Jiscovcrcrs of the diamond mines in Arizoua. General McC'lellun declined any public reception in San Francisco, and ' ays his visit has no connection with the diamond mining company. He knows but very little alniut diamond matters, and is not even certain tbat the diamonds exhibited came from Arizona. The United States Treasury balances are: Currency, 87,213,41-1; coin, 875- 321,906; including 829.785,200 coin cer tificates. STRANGE SCICIDE.— A distressing c*e ol suicide is reported in the Paris journals. M. Lcmond. proprietor of a large por celain ard glass warehouse, situated No, 88 Rue du Faubourg du Temple, had been married for some years. Ills wife feeling indisposed, a doctor was sent for;she then became worse, and her husband then de termined on having a consultation. At the close M. Lemond begged the medical men to inform him as to the real state of the invalid, and was tcld that the malady was mortal. lie grew suddenly pale, went in to his room, loaded a pistol, and dis charged it into his heart, filling lifeless on the floor, his wife expired soon after, and the two funerals were to take place on the same day. Two families in Kentucky have been poisoned by eating jelly made in a cop per kettle. * THE CENTRE REPORTER. The Belfast Riots. In an editorial article on the disturb ances in Kcllnst, the Luulou YVues makes the Mlowiug reflections: What is the occasion for all tins kurv, | rum and bloodshed? Prwperly spcdting, nothing at all. Belfast is, indeed, a city of two camp. Tho i'rottvdauU dwell in j OOr quarter aiitl tho Kouiau Catholic* in another ami their line* are as sleatly de . lined as the German and l-'renchfrontiers. \\ hen war ha* broken out betwrecu tliein as ; tu this instance, au edict ot expulsion i* l-ne in the year IS7I amounted to nearly a hundred million (94,95.1,*50) gallons—an increase of more than seven and a quarter millions over the preceding year. Philadelphia also exported 59,000, 000 gallons in 1871—an increase of six millions over 1870. The total export of last year from these two porta, therefore, was more than one hundred and fifty mil lion gallons, to which must be added the enormous home consumption, to repre sent the total yield of tke wells. It is a perfectly natural course for the produc ers to stop work—too much petroleum on the market at one time sends prices downward and shrinks the profits of the business. Ergo, production most be su* peuded, before the consumer arrives at the point where he pars cheap rates. Two hundred of the petroleum men ac cordingly, have banded themselves togeth er in a non-producing league, mutually pledging a total cessation of work at the wells for a period of six months from the first of September next. The "extremely low price of oil" is assigned as the reasou for tnis agreement, and it is further un derstood that each well-owner who may fail to keep bis pledge, shall forfeit the sum of $£2,000 for every well opened dur ing the stipulated period—an ingenious device to secure a steady diminution of product and an equally steady advance in prices. The chief argument used in de fence of this scheme is the impossibility of conducting business in the petroleum market at the present scale of prices—and the result will be the instantaneous in crease of the fortunes of dealers who have large stocks of oil on hand. Tboy will hold on till the last moment, sell at the highest figure, and reap a handsome profit without trouble, while the smaller men in the trade will go to the wall, and con sumers all over the world he subjected to the payment of enhanced values, while nature continues to pour forth lavish sup plies. How TO FASTEN ROBBBB TO WOOD AND MET AD.—AS rubber plates and rings are now-a days used almost exclusively for making connections between steam and other pip* a and aparatna, rnncli an noyance is often experienced by the im possibility or imperfection of an air tight connection. This is obviated en tirely by employing a cement which fastens ulike well to the rubber and to the metal or wood. Snch cement is pre pared by a solution of shellac in am monia. This is liest made by soaking pulverized gum ahellac in ten times its woigbtof strong ammonia, when a slimy muss is obtained, which in three or four weeks will become liquid without the use of hot water. This softens the rub ber, and becomes, after volatilization of the ammonia, hard and impermeable to gosscs and fluids.— American Ar.'um. As OI.D LAW. —If a law which it was fonnd necessary to put in force iu the seventeenth century iu England wcro to be resumed to duy.it would cause un im mense downfall to chignons. It was as follows: "All women, of whatever age rank, profession, or degree, whether vir gins, wives and widows, tluit shall from and after this date, impose npon,seduce, and betray into matrimony any of hit Majesty's male subjects by sccDta,paints, cosmetics, washes, artificial teeth, false hair, Spanish wool, iron stays, hoops, high heeled shoes, or bolstered hips, Bhiill incur the penalties of the laws in force against witch-craft and the like, and the marriage, upon conviction, shall stand null and void. A physician exnminiug a student as to his progress, asked him, " should a man fall into his well forty feet deep, and strike his head against one of his tools with which he had been digging, what would be your course if called'm as a surgeon?" The student replied, "I sli old advise them to let the man lie and fill up the well" CENTRE HALL. CENTRE CO., PA., FRIDAY, SEPTE.M HER 27, 1872. kidnapping iu Mt-xlci*. A late number of t'J* M <le after leaving the water. In former times much inconvenience was experiene id hv S:atn Islanders in getting their ' vessels loaded in time on sumrrer morn j ings. Jhey would have to begin at mid night to suit tne tides, becanccone pecul iarity of the delivery of oysters is that they should lie on a hard, clean surface under water during one shitting of the tide to clear themselves of mud. From this substance of course they obtain s part of their food, and when first raked from the bottom they hare much of it within their shells. If left a few hour* on a ch-an, hard surface tinder water, where tliey can draw in only water, they j clean themselves, and thus present no unpleasant morsel of mud to the consum er. The custom was formerly to put them on a sandy beach, or if that could not be had, a hard intid or soft meadow l>ttom. where the high tide would over flow them. The fishermen wcro often nincli put out waiting for those high tides, shifting a little as they do every day. Finally a man named Thompson, who is still a lsrge dealer, invented a remedy for the dilliculty; he built the first " oyster-float." These receptacles might be called " oyster bathing booses." They are seventy-five feet long by twenty two feet wide, and hold from fire to nine hundred bushels. They are made of logs and plank, the latter half an inch apart, to permit a free passage of water. These sfTtirs save time and labor and greatly equalize the work. For ia the wannest weather even the oysters which arc laid on them from four to twelve inches deep may remain thus for days without detri ment. The planter can go now to his well-replenished Host (which ha* been fill ed by his men at their leisure a day or two before) just in tiuie to load up and take a favorable wind or tide for the city. A WAUNISO.—Not long ngo a steam boat was burned to the water's edge on the Bt. Lawrence River. There were n good many passengers on board, but careful arrangements were made for their escape, mid as there were plenty of life-preset vers, every person on board waa saved except one—a lady. The cir cumstances causing her death were de tailed to us bv a friend, und we give theui to our readers, believing that they mny be useful to others if they should be placed in similar danger. Most of the passengers, according to directions, after putting 011 life-preservers posited down through the gangway, nail sailors with ropes were slutioned at various points to give aid to any who should need it after going into the water. There was time enough to do everything needful, and so panic. The lady referred to, instead of passing through the gaugwuy, was seen to jump into the water from Mitnn other part of the steamer, and im mediately sunk, head-foremost. When her body was recovered life was extinct. It was found that the life-preserver had lieen put on most carefully, every strap and buckle fastened securely; but in stead of putting it close up under the armpits, she had arranged it so low down Hint on jumping into the water she at once lost her balance. This sad exjperi encc may serve as it warning to others. SINGULAR WILL. — Perhaps a mora eccentric will wax never made than that of ane Mr. Bates, of Norlhumliorland, F.tig !and. He possessed a very large property. By i clau-ein his will he bequeathed the aum of SSOOO to (blank left for name) the |K-raon whom he uiight have wished to marry. In case that jierHon did not sur vive him, the sum was to lie divided be tween three daughters of lalxirci-s living near Mr. Bate's estate. The good man having died, n Mis. Wilson brought evi dence that she wax the one ho wished to marry, as he hod repeatedly proposed to her when she wns in service as cook. The three girls opposed her claim. Finally a compromise was effected, whereby the SSOOO was equally divided between the contending parties. GOOD StmsnmnrE FOII CHICKEN PIE.— Take cornd beef , cook it tender; when cold slice thin ; have n emst as for chick en pie ; put iu a layer of meat and one of light bread, and so on until your dish is full; then sprinkle a littlo pepper and salt, and piece of butter the size of an egg ; fill up your dish with boiling wa ter ; put on your top crust, and bake moderately one hoar. IN Tin: UI.D MOULD. A Look Into Holla ml Diamonds, and how They are Polished -Characteristic* of the Amsterdam Women, etc., etc. At ft r. M ., wc took tho steamer to Moordyk (passing through one of tho I many rhxtiucis, arms of tho KM, in fact, which form a jwrfucl net-work of inland navigation iu this part of the Nether* lands) where we arrived by 7 o'clock, aud there entered the ears and by 0 r. u. wi-ru comfortably locatoil in the Hotel St. Autoitie, at Antwerp. Iu Holland the I tws of nature may lie said to bo re versed. "In no cthir eotiutry do the keels of the shijva tloat alKivo th' ehim-1 neys, and nowhere IM doea tho frog croaking from among tho bulrushes, look down u|>ou tie swallow ou the j housetop." Near Utrecht our ongiu* ; gave out aud we were obliged to wait two hours to procure anotbvr, an it was nearly 10 i*. xt. befor* we reached the | Amatol House in Aimterilam. Hooil calls Amsterdam "a vulgar; Venice." It is different from any city we have yet vuitnt, and it was viewt-d wi'.h the same eager inture.it v felt when wc landed in Liverpool. Iu Venico the canals bath* the walls of the houses that lino them ou each side, aud with the exception of the Grand ('anal aud thu Uiva Hchiavoni, the strut* <>f water jire gloomy thoroughfare* w hose int< r t is chiefly hiatorirml and political. But the canals of Amsterdam, with quuy* on each ride, l>oti!cr#d on one side with trees aud on tlie othwr with bright aud cheerful buildings, and unlimited with the roll of vehicles and throng* of people, prw-u-ut a very different aspect. There are canals in both cities, but there the r< sctublau*c oewsm a. The morning after arriving was busily and agreeably occupied iu viaitiug differ ent parts of tho city. Our first vi-it! was to the Palace of thv Ku-g of Hoi- j lttU'l. It is a lur* stone structure built niion 14,(4)0 pile*. It is very comforta bly fitted up, and the ball-room one of ' the finest in Europe. We ascended to , the tower uiu liuui it had an vxtcuded view over the Znyder Zee and the flats of Holland, with Haarlem and Rotter- ; da ui plainly ill right. We afterwarvi visited the picture gal- ; h-ry tn the national museum, and in it - iw a fine collection of the Imtch school j of painting, among which were some; admirable works of art by Rembrandt,' Guy|N Ifon. Teniers, Van Djke, Ru- ] ben*. l\ ouTermann, and HeJtalkeu. All these artists, whose school is known I wherever art ta mokru of, find hero j illustrations; and iu Mime case* tbi-ir moat celebrated works are to bo seen j bam only. We to t vi*itef vit-wing the establishment, took lis up to the fifth story and presented us to the superintendent of the works, who in : the most iNiliU* inauuer explained and , showed us the differi nt pruccHses by which the diamond is polished. l>ii • tiioiid cutting has long In-ou a speciality I of Amsterdam, and was at one time ex clusively confined to that city. The | diamond mills are imarly all controlled j by Jews, an l nearly ten thousand men are employed in the different establish ments. The mill in which wo were in 1 employed six hundred men and buys. After showing us a quantity of rough diamonds, wi- wen- then taken to a large room filled aith tables, in the center of . each one was a revolving metal plate on which tin- diamonds an* polished. l>ininotid dust is placed on these plate* which resolve two thousand times a minute, and against tbia disk the stone I fastened firmly on an amalgam of zinc i and quicksilver, is held until the proper facet is ground smooth, and so on until the rough stone is made into a aparkhug j gem. In the oflieo we wen* shown glass models of th° most celebrated diamonds that have ever been cut by Mr. Cos tar. mnong which was that of the Koh-i-noor, 1 before and after it had boon cut. The remainder of the afternoon was spent in the /oologies! (Jardeus, which were filled witli rare auiuiala and kept ia j the most admirable order. We then j drove back to the hotel, making a cir cuit of the city, going by the quays and ; dykes, those peculiarities of Amsterdam that are to be found in no other place. It ia a quaint old city, whose stn*ets (many of them) are canal*, and whose canals are streets. Canals here, there | and everywhere, straight canals and crooked one*. Its carts an" mostly canal 1 boats, and its canal boats are mostly 1 carts, though n few wiieclcd rarU an* I tolerated in its few pared streets, bnt the , drivers tire not allowed to ride on their ; carts, tliev must walk with their horse*. ! The people are remarkably healthy look ing and the business men as bn*k and j active a* yon will see anywhere. 'I he women arc clean and tidy in their j Appearance and wear singular-looking j head - dresses consisting of a hand of j silver or other nietu! across their fore i heads, and nt each side of their heads an odd cork terew kind of nil ornament of the same metal as the hand, whieli projects from two or three inches. The immense docks that wo passed were filled with shi|s from all nations and wo were struck with the vast nuniU rs of vessels thut were the homes of the fami lies of the masters or theownerr.. Home of them had boxes of flowers, including the Dutch tulip, around the companion way, and over the sides of ot hers, hand some, rosy cheeked, well-dressed girls, wlro had completed their day's work and donned their "Sunday go t meeting" clothes, watched the passers by on the quay. The novelty of the scone made this drive along the docks one of the most interesting features of the duv. After dinner we spent the evening in the garden attached to tho Crystal Palace, which was just Imck of the Amstel House, and listened to nn excellent con cert Riven by the principal musicians of the place, for which we paid five guilders. Sinco we arrived in Europe we have been wandering in a maze of shillings, francs, centimes, liros, sohlis, florins, kriutzcrs, ailbcrgrosckeon and thai era, and here in Holland wo lmvo met yet another series of coins, known by the inhabitants as ducats, rix dollars, guilder and atuivers. For the sake of tho suflering tourist I bono a year will net elapse before the decimal system of the United States will bo in u*e nil over tho continent of Europe. Every traveler must have a vivid remembrauco of tho never ending an noyances sud losses resulting from the variety and multiplication of currencies. At each frontier ho finds nil hi* previous financial knowledge, "conned with cruel pain," aud costly battles with rapacious hotel keepers, guides and coachmen, utterly useloss. Almost every town inflicts on him its own particular grief in the shapoof some distinctive and fnvrtrite coin, more be wildering than the last, until much of the time that should have been givi n to the Koenery or customs of the country is spent iu breaking his head over the hopeless complications of the ooia of tho country in which be may happin to la-. Tout Hood suggests au excellent but expensive wny of avoiding trouble about the currency of the differ- I <-ut Countries through whieh you p*s ! and that is, "when you arrive at the ! frontier of another country, Ui throw uwav all the coin of the oouutiy you are leaving, you uiay have on haud, and start fair with w new supply of the coin uf the : country to which you are going." At 1.45 r. u on the following w# ' left for "the Hague." It was but • abort trip through a flat, canal and ditch covered country. The v;ut no-adows, clad with the richest Verdure, were covered with cattle m arly every one of them I icing milky white with jet bhu-k spot* on different part* of tbeir I iodic*, and whose high condition attest* au abundant and wholesome nutriment. A little more than an hour after leav ing Amsterdam we were oomfortablv quartered on the Hague at the Hotel I'ttulex. After lunch we took a drive a round the city aud there was a great deal Unit was interesting and worth see ing. The streets were clean and neat, but there waa little or no busineaa doing and iu fact the place looked aa if it waa asleep. We drove by the "I'alaoe in the woods." which ia occupied by the King of Holland, on our way to fkhevcniugcu, through one of thu must magnificent for<-its we have seen any where—the color of the foliage wa* exquisite in the extreme. Wa found a groat number of people at Rebeveuingau, which ia about I twenty minutes drive from the Hague, aud is the Saratoga of Holland. It is I situated on the German ocean, and is! the favorite resort of ibe Dutch geutry. j The day was cool uud eheerlcas with'a stiff brcoae blowing off the ocean, scatter-! ing the fine, white nand iu every diroc- j ten and giving the place a hard, barei unliDspitatiia look. 11. M. t are! of Itvdrophelila. The "Popular Bcletice Monthly, in speaking of a man who was bitten* by a mad dog says: "The wound was at once cauterized, but lit due tlule hydropho bia was developed. The attack itself was characterised hy the usual hydro phobic symptom*; great difficulty of breathing and of swallowing, distress at the pH of tile stomach, convulsions, frightful struggling and howling, wild expression of countenance, frothy dis charge front the mouth, and oti oue 0.-casion a strong po|*cmdty to bite. The paroxysms succeeded each other at interval* of alsiul ten in ii HI leu, and jietvepUMy grew worse as they contin ued. hliorily after being called in, the attending pliysiriau began the admin istration of chloral-hvdrute in twerity grain doses. After the third dose, the violence of the symptoms began to moderate ; the fourth dose was follow ed by still greater improvement; and the filth dose put the sufferer to sleep. Sleep wa* kept up by giviug the same dose at longer interval*. K lib due and proper commitment as a lunatic. The matter came up before a Justice, Sheriff Hutlrr bringing the prisoner down. Judge Bacon nppeared for the asylum and District-Attorney Garvin for the people, Mr. Howe. Hum's counsel, in sisted that tho return did not set up, and in fact it w* not pretended, that the !>ri*oner was now insane, and that there ore ho must We discharged. Judge Bacon argued that having been a*xeusod from the puuishmcnt of a grave crime on the grouuds of insanity, lie should not be lightly held to be naze, and that before that was done a formal inquisi tion, and not the off hand proceedings of halH*ns corpus, should be held. The Court reserved its decision. LAPLAND MAURI VOBS.— It ia death in Lapland to marry n maid without the conseut of her parents or friend*. When a young man has formed au at tachment to n female the fashion is to appoint their friends to meet to behold the two young parties run a race to gether, The maid is allowed in starting the advantage of a thin! part of the race, so that it is impossible exorpt will ing of herself, that she should l>c over taken. If the maid overruns her suitor, the matter is ended; he must never have her, it being penal for the man to reuew the motion of marriage. Hut if the vir giu has nn sffectiou for him, though at the first alio run# hard to try the troth of hit love, she will (without Atlanta's gol den balls to retard her speed), pretend some casualty, and make a voluntary halt before she cometh to the mark or end of race. Thus none are competed to mar ry against their own wills: and this is the COUNQ that in this JWIOI country, the mar ried people are richer in their own con tentment than in other lands, whore so unny forced matches make feigned love nud cause real unhappiunoss. The Court Journal tells a story of an earnest ami much esteemed highland minister who once delivered a vivid nud impressive discourse on the glory of Heaven. The apathetic congregation seemed wholly unaffected, wliou the speaker in a sort of desperation shouted: "1 know what sort of heaven you'd pe wan tin'. You'd pe wantin that all the seas would pe hot water, that all tho riv er* would tie river* of whiskies, and that all the bill* and mountain* would po loaves of sugar." The congregation cn enioyed the notion amazingly, and taikod of the long journey with consider able pleasure all tho Sunday after. THADINO. —Tho German Emperor has just sent the Order of the Iron Cross to n Frenchman who jumped into tho Mo ■alle and rescued a German soldier from drowning. Tho Frenchman returned tho cross, respectfully rpgretting his in ability to accept any mark of distinction from the German Emperor. He claims the liberation of tho Inst French prisoner who is still detained in a Prussian prison. "Your Majesty owes me a mnn, for I have given one to you, and I claim the payment." The JHilk Question. The question of pure milk ia now of greet importance iu New York City. A city journal aaya : The supply of pura milk to the poorer classes of thu city in place of the chtdk and water of the past is a matter of nwl moment. The object uf the convention to be held is to the effect tins as well aa other ends; and in doing this the farmers do not propose to sell milk at any higher rates than heretofore, Imt to get higher mica for their own milk and to sell it in its native purity. At present the farmers seldom get over 3 cents per quart for their milk, aud also have to furnish its transporta tion to thia city, while it ia resold here at Bor 10 rente per quart, and then retailed at still biglu-r ratea. The farm ers claim that it ia impoatibla for them to make auy profit at the low rate of S ecu ia, wh eh by various losses of oars and delays of payment* i* really reduced to 9t ceuta. Hence they propone to take the matter in their own hands aud to deliver the milk direct to the eonaumers at the usual retail rate*. We need not argue the interest the city people have in the matter; it is | evident, and they cannot afford to be idle while this move Is going on. With out their co-operation the phut cam ! Unrdlv be a success. Already the milk ' middlemen arc saving to the formers, " The city customer will not buy of you." If the city resident ia sincere in bis de sire for pare milk, he mut urge on and aid this new movement; otherwise it will fail, and the present supply of milk that is not milk, bat a little of chalk, a little of wit, a great deal of water, aud a small port urn of the "pure Orange county," will lie kept up with increased force.. Up to this time the move tias been entirely iu the bands of the coun i iry people, while the reallv greatert need for the reform is upon the part of the inhabitant* of the city. The meeting on the 24th will afford them an opportunity of showing openly thir appreciation of the movement, and they should before that time give th* farmers earnest en couragement through the public print*. The association which projioae* to carry out this excellent plan ia acting under a charter from the State of New York, and i* cothpoeed of farmer* of high standing and property in cvwry county which sends milk to this city. Its Pram deut is J. B. Hull inter, of Vermont -, Vii-e President, J. K. McNaughton, of the name State ; Tre*#arer, T. . Gold, of West Cornwall, Conn.; and Secretary, W. L. Benedict, of Orange county, N. Y. The*- gentlemen pro|K*e a company with a capital of 81,0(10,000, in 20,000 shares uf 850 each. They will wit hout doubt easily taise that amount them- WITCS, and will only aak the people of New York for their patronage ; but when it i* remembered that over 500,000 quarts, of the prcMut so-called milk are sold in New York everyday the immense profits, even at small margin, became plainly evident SWINDLING AT FAIRS. —A eorreon j dent of the New York Sun says :—Three or four years ago the annual fairs on tha Hudson river, as well as throughout the -late of New York were invested by three-card moot* mem After much dif ticolty they were finally driven away, Chase same rascals have turned up again, this time with a new game which is far more cutieng—that's the "trick wid de <*rds." They are fleecing the farmer's j son* and farm laborers with an envelope j game. On the Amenia Pair Grounds no | less than twelve of the** swindlers were | at work at one time, and one of them | 1 mldly asserted that they averaged filftO |KT day each. Each has a trunk or box j tilled with small cakes of soap and boxes of envelopes. On the lid of the trunk, which Is turned up, at* rows of figures, ! nd under each one of the majority of ; figures are the figures, oriels.. 81, s3* 85, j signifying that if the pcraon purchasing | au envelope finds a number inside which i correspond* with the number over the oOcts., 81. 83. or 85. he is entitled to the -urn underneath it. Of course nine cases out of ten s successful number is never I drawn. When, however, the interest in I the game lags, because of the failure of almost every one to draw a prize. Hie boss swindlers give a wink and a can- < federate stops up to the box. He hesi tates and stammers, hut finally bauds ! over 50 cents, and to his feigned surprise, j draws a 83 prize. This confederate ia attired, as pre all the confederates, in a latlercd straw hat and heavy shoes, torn >-oat and pantaloon*. "You see that; soap uiau, ' said one of them to ua as we stood looking at the swindlers on the Amenia Fair ground ; " that fellow is the gamcst man yon ever sag. Ho had an ear bit off ia Reddy the Blacksmith's saloon. He ia making a pile of money hers to-day." And so he was. Even while we were looking at him be bad three colored mca before him, to all sp in** ranees farm hands, and from the three he took 827, and tbev did not re ceive a cent. The vwices of the scoun drel* a* they jabbered WWayfor customers could le heard above everything else. For two days they held foil sway, aud their roc ipta nearly equalled those ef the entire fair. The police drove the scoundrels away. "STOP MT PACER !"—lllustrating tha fearful consequences of thia highly retri butive measure, the Philadelphia Pes' tells the following upon the Ledger of that city; This tearful treat reminds us of a story about Mr. Bwain year* ago, when he was the proprietor of the Ledger. Hy his course in regard to some public mat ter he hail offended a number of reader#, one of whom he met on Chestnut street, and thus accosted him; "Mr. Swain, I've stopped the Ijrdge r." "What is that sir?" "I've stopped the Lethjer," was the stern reply. "Great heavens!" said Mr. Swain, " my dear sir, thia won't do. Come with me to the office, this must be looked Into." And, taking the man with him, he entered the office at Third aud Chestnut street*. There they found the clerks busy at their desks; then they as cended to the editorial room# and compos ing room*, where all was as usual; finally they descended to the press rooms, where the engineers were at work. " I thought you told tne you had stooped the Lvf /er," said Mr. Swain. "So I have," eaiti the oflenited subscriber. " 1 don't see the stoppage. The Ledger seems to be going on." "Oh ! 1 moan to say—that is, that I—#h—had stopped taking it" "Is that all!" exclaimed Mr. Swain, "Why, my dear sir, you dou't know how you alarmetk me. As for yeur individual subscription I care very little. Good day air, and □ever make such rash assertions again." NOTICE TO THE SURVIVORS or THE METIS DISASTER. —AII persons claiming damages for any loss, destruction, dam age, and injury caused by the disaster of the steamship Metis, on the 30th of August, are notified to appear before the District Court of the United States, and make due proof of their respective claims, aud liefore John A. Orsboro and George F. Betts, at their offioe, No 41 Cham tiers Street, they baiug Commis sioners of said Court, at or befoie the 17th day of December, 1872, at 11 o'alock A. M. —AT. Y. Paper. A KOLANII ron AN OLlVEß. —Although no phrase is iu more common use, few are acquainted with its origin. The ex pression signifies the giving of an equiva lent. Rolar.d and Oliver were two knights, famous in romance; the wonder ful achievements of the one could only be equaled by those of the other. Henoe the phraae, "A Roland for an Oliver." TERMS : Two Dollani a Year, in Advance. The Itoad la Nlberla. ■ Daring 111* rei|?o of th* Czar Nichols*, • and wa presume there b;*ve been but feu ' obaug** tiice, the nobility i> liuwii 1 ! poaaontcd maov privileges, and t hoan not Itaii ipirtriilnd, et# exemption from 1 corporal punishment, ad in ordinary ' case* tb< Wing eouvcyed t Siberia in 1 atead of proceeding tliitUer on foot. • The unfortanat* individual* sent te 1 otruggla against tba inelemauey of i bard climate, and tbe brutal it* oi ■ bardar taskmaster*. ware divided in lit 1 classes; thoae merely transported and tiioaa transported with bard labor. Tbt journey from Kiew to Tobolsk took ooc iaur. obiiat tbe oon*iets wboaa destine on waa tha miuaa of Nertebinskaehkmi reached it—if the* did reach it—andet two years. For tbe bones of many oi tbaai tbat perished ot oold, of ill uaafe, of sickness, were acattered over fhe in ter miual>le 1 tun*tan ateppea, to a*r*e a* finger poets to the melancholy eon*oy* that follows! tbe tame desolate route. Tbeae oonvaye generally et nsisted oi one hundred to two hundred and fifty persona, men, women and children. An armed Oomek oa horseback then fol lowed tbe convicts, chained together in gang* of twenty, with a CteeacK inter venting between the gauge, and a po*s of thoae very irragular cavalry men cloned tba procession. Tbe caar wa* merciful to women; they were not chained. Tbe aick were gently treated ; they were allowed to ride in Vehicle* witn iron rings round tha ; f necks, like wild beast* in menageriaa. Entire ailaneo reigned in tbeae proeea tiona; tbe oaly feeling notice*We waa tbe daU apathy of despair. Daring sleep no sue eoald move without causing more or leaa severe pain to hi* mate. Daring meal* tbe convict* crouched round Area guarded closely bv tha Cos sacks. Each column marched two daya and then rented for one day. Beyond NUhni Novgorod, whan or dinary edifices became few and far be tween, long low isolated building* were constructed to serve aa pens for tbe herd* of human cattle. Moreover, guardhouse* were established at irregu lar distances to relieve tbe escort. The officer in command waa responsible for tba prisoners. He wa* like the captain of a ship at sea ; be was absolute master over all, and could inflict any punish ment abort of immediate death. Some officer*, however, were occasionally found who remembered that tbe prisoners had once been men and women with souls of their own, and who did not feet any aspecial delight in inflicting upon them unnecessary physical suffering*. One of these convoys waa calculated to arri*e weekly at Tobolsk, where sat a govern ment commision, charged to distribute tbe convicts according to tbe require ment* of the public service. About ten thousand passed annually through Tob olsk. What It is la be a Widow. A writer in tbe Home Journal thus fit tingly rebuke* tbe flippancy and thought - lea*u'ee* of r. Wilkin*, in his official report to the California Legislature, on Insanity, refer* to the warm b*th M * favorite method of treatment in Italy, and in tome parte of Holland and France. He states that he often taw a dozen patients in one hath-rooin, with their heads alone in sight, the bathing tab being covered, excepts bole for the head ; there they usually re main from one to three boors, in some instances six or eight hours, and occasioo allv for days at a time. Dr. Gudden of Zurich kept a man thus immersed for five davs, on aceonnt of a high state of excitement connected with bed sores. The patient ia represented to have slept well a portion ot the time, and to have been cures! of the sore*, no exhaustion or ill consequences following, TJie case is also related of a man scalded by steam, and not insane, who was placed by Hebra in a tepid bath and kept there for three weeks, uutil a new cuticle had formed over the entire surface; the water was kept at sn agreeable temperature, and the patient recovered without inconvenience. A GOOD STORY.—A thrasher tolls thi" story: "Old Schmidt likes to see folks thnt work for him get up early. So when wc were thrashing there one fall, he had an alarm dock hung right over onr be*!. Charley West who did the driving on the machine last year, had never heard one before, and going to bed with no other light than that of the moon, neither of us took much note of our surroundings. The next morning about au hour before sunrise, the alarm went off rattle-te-smash, making noise enough to raise the whole neighborhood I was lying awake at the time, bat Char ley jumped out of bed like a wild man, shouting 'Whoa! Whoa 11 WHOA!!!' Then, as he began to comprehend the state of affairs, ' By George! Sam,' said he, 'I thought I could see every cog fly ing eat ef that aid drive wheel.' " The caterpillars have made terrible ravages among the cotton fields of Ala bama, laying bare whole districts. It was once feared that the crop would be entirely destroyed, but the planters are now more hopeful. It is estimated, however, that the crop will be ten per oent below the yield of last year, and, without the aid of high prices, will not I pay the cost of producing it. Grape leaves fried In batter'are a Western dish. California * biggest tree la oaly forty five feet la diameter. The timid man is alarmed before th* danger, the coward daring it, end the brave man after ft. London letter-carrier* Work right hour* a day, and, on an average, travel twenty miles daring that time. Tbe farmer* of Minnesota will have not leas than 30,000,000 bushel* of ear pi a* wheat to pat In the market. One thousand dollar* per acre i* now considered a very low rats for ooal land*, well located, containing the mammoth vain. Ladies and gentlemen promenading together of afternoon* this Fall, • commanded by fashion to walk arm In aha. A dispatch from Bombay reports thai tha cholera is raging in many places in In dia, and there are numerous deaths d*tig£ from the scourge. We heer a great deal about labor WW farm, but there aeeots to be a greater need of reforming some of those fellow# who don't labor. A powder mill explosion occurred st Honnslow, Middlesex County, Eng., killing four person* instantly mid injur ing several other*. A correspondent Inquires, "If bread i# the staff of fife what b butter I" The salt we got was forty cents a pound. That's all we heard about it. Necktie* made of leather, with gilt buckle*, an said to have been proponed an the fashionable novelty for gentto meo'a wear the coming winter. Mr. Jam** New, of Norwich. Ct., named bis first born Something; H waa Homcthing New. Tbe next he called Nothing; it being Nothing New. Tbe price of coal ha* advanced atOl higher in England, and 30,000 miner* of the Midland coal mines are preparing to strike for an increase of wage*. Tbe rinderpest has appeared in Eng land at several places in Yorkshire, an precautions have been taken to prevent the qwsdisf of the disease. A wag, in what b* know* about farm ing, gives a plan to remove widow's weeds; be says a good-looking man has only tossy, "Wilt than," and they wilt. It is rumored in Paris that Miss Nellie Grant is to be married to M. Puvergier de Haoraune, author of a work on the United States and son of a distinguished historian. Three ruffian* in Bangor Mopped man and asked him tor a chew of to bacco, and while be was searching for th* weed knocked him. down and robbed Urn of sirs. Patrick Morrimey. who murdered his mother, expiated hi* horrible crime on the gallows in the jail-yard at Buffalo. The execution waa coti