A Song for September. September ti*s the woodland o'er With mt' T • brilliant color ; The world I# bright* than before flThy should our heart* be duller ? Borrow and the rearlet leaf. Bad thought* and sunny weather,— Ah me! thia glory and thia griaf Agree not well together. This ia the parting reason- thia The time when friend* are flung, Aw<wi>ver* wow with many a kiaa Their long farewell* are aighing, Why ia earth *o gaity dreeaed ? Thia pomp that autumn beareth A funeral acouia, where every guest A bridal garment woareth. The Fird Tailing. •' Yoal I aui off to-uioriow morn! Next week I aafl for Indv I And you"11 be glad when I'm gone— Say, shan't you be, Lnclndy Y" A Simmer flower, herself, the maid Stoa . 'mid the swiH-t ayrtugaa, A June pink in her hair's smooth braid, A rot thud in her linger*. T!ucVed from the ta',l bush ia tha vard, \\ h.we white floweru waved about her; Ar.d jwu-ting nev, r aoeainl eo hard As j.ist then, to her lover. Her lip began to grieve ; the ml t';x u her cheek grew paler, " It swms a strange choice. Tout," aha said, " For you to be a sailor; " And when the wild, black clouds I *ea. And when the sight* are windy, I—" " Bless your tool! you'll pray ftw ma; 1 know you will, Luciady!" The rosebud from b r band be taok, " lhi flow*," he aaid, "IU savu it. And keep it ptiseed within a hook, Reoieml ering who gave it. 44 I never eared, aa women do. For garden bed# and posies, But somohew -why, 1 never knew— I always love J white rose*. " Thev seem just made fbr weddiu'a • when I come again from Indv My bride, you'll wear white rose* than ; Come, wont yoaf-*ay Lucuidj!'* A sudden flame upon her check, Her eyes the quick tears filling. The an-wer gave she would not spots. Lest she m'ght seem 100 williog. For. " Tom." ahe aaked. " how can it be ? Here, ah my life, you're known me; No word of love you're said to me. No sign you're ere? shown me." And he said, " Tnie, bnl though I hain't, My lore, I've wished you knew it. And tried to speak, and felt too fa.nt At heart to dare to do it; " But when my mm 1 wa* fixed to go A sailor, out to lady. I aaid •TU hare a Ye*, or No,' 0 *ay it"* Yea, Lueicdj !* " Tes Tom! it's yea!" the whispered ; whan 1 learned that yon were going, I found yon had my heart; ti 1 tben *Tas your* without my knowing! Soft on her cheek fe 1. wet with dew, A roaedeaf from aliore her; A warmer touch her red lip knew— The first kiss of her lorcr I Thocyh stil'ed the *r ng m l hashed the laugh. And hot the tears are starting, What joy. that life can give, is half Bo sweet as lore'* first parting ? LOTE IN A " DOLLY TARDEA*." 1 b-Usjht tlie calico myself. So, you aee, there couldn't have been any pos-ibb mi-take about it. Nine yards, the regular Dolly Varden pattern—so the shop-girl tohi me at all events; -Treat islaud* of pink and llne morning glories, surronnd ed by rippling waves of preeu vines, and a hnintning bird the iie of life tangled up in each vine! "Isn't it rather—rather large f' 1 aaid I, dubiously. •• Dear rae, no sir!" said the shop girl, looking at me as if I hail been a South Sea Inlander, ignorant of ail the ways ot civilized life. " It'a email for the tosh ion." " It would make pretty curtains," said I, satiricallv. '*l> lly Vardens always comes in large patterns, sir, 7 ' aaid the girl; aid Tm qnit sure tbe yoong lady don't want any old fashioned thing." Nine yards ol French calico at forty : cents a yard—aud a good deal of trouble I ' and the pretty shop girl had in making change out af a five dollar bill. I remem-1 ber it all jtist as distinctly as if it wer< yesterday ; and particularly good reason I have to remember it, as you will per ceive when yem have read this full and track statement of affairs. 1 bought the Dolly Varden. and sent it out to Cedar Glen by express, and Millv wr> te back a letter full of ecstatic* anil exclamstioa points, containing tbedistinct assertion that " there never was such a lore of a pattern,"' and also tbe tact that she bad it "made up exquisitely," and that I was " the darlingest duck of a brother that ever lived." 44 Be sure and come op next week." wrote Milly. " 4 1 am sure you must want change, and little Joe ha* got the dearest pear! of a tiny tooth, and the trout baked in wine here are simply superlative, and there is a receipe for lobster salad drvssin. that Harohl says Delmoaiou can't excel. The house- is roll of nice people, and 1 fully expect you to fall in lore with Ariel Aubrey, a Southern beauty and heiress, who ia here with the St. Johns. And furthermore, Harold wants me to tell yon that the fishing is gloriow— streams as dark and cold as SITX. plenty of shade nod BO mosquitoes. And if yon could bring me up a piece and a half of blue velvet ribbon jot the shade of the morn ing glory in the sample I inclose-the Bazar ears it is the thing for the flounce of a Dolly Varden. But don't trouble yourself unless it comes right in yonr way." " Comes nght in my way," indeed ! Did Milly supjiose pieces of bine velvet rib'ton walked up Wali Street, or thrust themselves into omnibus windows? I murmured a gentle blessing on the on reasonableness oi womankind, and con trived toluse the "sample" ont of my pc ketbook. Wouldn't yon have done the same yourself? 44 But I'll run up to the Glen," I solilo quized. "Cedar shadows, and whistling blackbirds, and cool troni streams gurg ling their brown waters over mossy rock* sound delicious this tropical weather. And I really would like to see Mis* Aubrey although it is too hot to get up anything but a languid flirtation until the ther mometer falls below ninety." So when Saturday afternoon came round—with the stcple of o'd Trinity in a scintillating haze of heat and the very pine apples and bananas in Fulton Market seeming to wilt and shrink under a sun shine hotter than their own equatorial clime—l put a clean shirt, an extra dust er, and my silver incrusted dressing case into a valise, and just caught the Hudson River train as it steamed out of the Grand Central abomination. Everybody was on board; old Jones and his three daughters going to We t Point, Mr. and Mra. Freil Featherbrain en route for the Catskills, and Miller and his wife and plump twins going to a farm where "cheap board' was advertised, and where they blindly hoped to find " alll the coin forts of a home," as per prospectus. Everybody's baby was crying—and when one considered the weather, one could hardly find the heart to blame the pooi little pink no-ed mites. I have always contended that it would bo a good thing for government to board all the babies in en ice house during the heated terms; but one or two mothers to whom I have in cidentally mentioned the idea looked upon me as a milder edition of King Herod. I know I'd like it myself if 1 was a baby. What has all this got to do with the Dolly Varden? Wait and see. I am coming to it as fast as the Hudson River express train will take me. Wasn't it grand when we arrived at the Cedar Glen station, a lonely liitle Gothic watch tower among the woods, with pur ple mists hanging over the distant hills, and the noise of a hidden cascade some where near by, making one feel cool in spite of the 6tate of the thermometer! Wasn't it glorious to feel tbe close velvety THE CENTRE REPORTER. FRED. KURTZ, Editor and Tiv^ru'tor VOL. V. turf uniler onr feet, ami to breath# in the k*y recti! <4 **gen that freighted the atmosphere like win# I 1 could have tw>) my hat in the ait ami huiratd like a school hoy for wry lightac* of ln-art a* I stood hre on the plaltorui in the |>ink (,'low ot th* auu-et, with the train ih'tod vrinc away through a deep gorge of rock* ami iny>elt #.> to pcak, Imitated trotiDt all Street ami thrice heated stone paxcuiecu for three days at least. There was the n*ual crowd round the station: n hujre lumbering stage coach with • •itlen Hons#'' painted in tnring yellow letter* on the panels of the door, and three airv light buggies and wagon ette*, with Win skinned horvci champing their foam flecked hit.-, and ailwr plated harne s flashing hack the level evening -nnahine; girl* in floating nuisliu- and white Sw is* hats, and young meu in linen euit and Panama*; young matron* with brood* of children aw arming ot'oht them, and ladle# of a certain age, who had cvi dently come dowa because they Lad nothing elan to de. I looked carelessly around, a* 1 lighted tnv cjjar, with the eye of one who views ihe world from a totally Mbotc point ol view, but the next instant my jure was arrested bv—a Dollv Varden. IV identical Dolly Varden! I would have known it tuieng tciv* of dry-go< d*. mdes of calico, wit a it* blue and pink eaarmng-elonv*. and tbe im?ta<ihle huro min; biro* among the great grveu leaTe*. And there it wa*, tbe centre ot a group ot raucb-bepavered white and pink *nd*z.irv musim*, with an Alpine parasol over ii Lcsd, and a many-frilled huff foulard skirt itelow, looped up to give tbe slender feet ami ankle more play for walking. (You see I baven'i been shop pi 0( for nc-thirg. ler I don't believe the most ac complished fa*hiou editre** iu I'hrotcndom could "put in" the above technical terras in Better stv lo.) 44 It'# Mirty quoth 1. to my own p<r wnality—"Milly hcr*elt. She's contrived to mis* me ; aud now lor a lark !" Stopping only to ignite tbe ciztr and xtvcit a good blue wreathed start, 1 stredi torward, and moving as noiselessly as it tbe *ott gtxsS uuder my teet wo* of velvet, was at the side ol the Do'ly Varden iu an in*t*nt, with my arra round its utotmcg gloried, hu'uming-birded wa it. " BvX>!" cried I, in stentorian accent.-, lifting ibo alight figure off it* feet a* one would lift a child, and rubbing my unt-- tache. according to the most approved ashiou ol brot hcHj greeting, aero** a pa: r of rose-leal li|<*. Tnere wJ- a slight sen-am—a stiuggle— be Dolly Yardvn slid out of my clasp, crying out: " What i* the meaning of this intuit, Sir ? How dare you V' Aad then, to my ineffable, unspeakable, indescribable di-mav, I perceives! that the uei'herous b!osoms of tbelMlv Yarden had led mi- iuto a fearful blunder. For it wasn't Millv. aftt-r all ! Net Milly, nor anything in Milly'* sem blance, but a bcouiiful shady-eyea prl ol -eveutcen or tkervsbout*. with chestnut brown bir brushed IWAI lrom a loreliead ** smooth and white a* a calla lily h-ai hp* like scarlet sea-coral, ami a throat a* ■Render ami stately a* Diana's own! " How dare you. Sir i" reiterated thi indignant nymph,the shady eveasparklinr the rbcek* dyed ro*e red 44 I* thi* the conduct of a geotleuixn f" "I -I beg jonr paidon," 1 stammeied, iecling a* it my blood wa* turned to tire, nnd a* it my nerve* were tan* and needle*. " I didn't mean—that ia. I thought it wa rn y Mstet ! It'* all tbe Dolly Vat den, up on my word and honor! 14 "He's crazy, dearl" whispered one of ber companions, in a distinctly audibb stxto voce. '' Let'# call somebody ! Let's run away! Where's Mtllv ? Where'# the station -muster 1 It mast beanee*p-J lunatic! Oh dear! oh dear! where car. the keeper have grttiii to! We mut , keepchr-e together Ariel, be~anc —" i 44 Ariel This, then, wa* tbe fair I Southern beire** in whose eye* inv to -anguine sister bad expected me to -bine ! The name wa* not so common as to be readily duplicated. A pretty beginning thi* ? 44 Lx iie*!" I cried, deprccatingly, 4 * in tbe came oi Dolly Varden, uM you listen to me I" 44 There! 4 gaped the last peakcr, 41 1 told you be was crazy ! Ob, do let's run f " Ladie*," I Wgan, s second time, gra-p ing my xahse a* it it wa* a shield ; but mi intended oration wa* cut short by my iter Milly'* plump arms arouml my neck. "It's Joe!" she cried. * 4 And I not here to meet you ! I told them hew it would he, whec they inHtod on goinr around by the war of tbe < ccbante-J well!" ln*tced ot returning my i*tor's greet ing. I held her off at arm's-length, greatly to ber a*t -nishment, and surveyol ber with deliberate gase. 44 Yi-s, there tbey wrre. Blue and jink morning glouf—the leave# of green, and tbe humming-bitds peeping out here and there and every where! 44 1 knew it!"' said I, comnonedly. 44 Didn't I say it wa* all tbe Dolly Varden's fault 7" Miss Aubrey colored and umilrd, and began to look a degree or so lea# mortally offended. " You mistook me for Miss Harper 7" she hreitated. 41 Almost a fatal mistake " I said, fold ing my arms and trying to look penitential. • 4 But, ronriderini* Dolly Vanlcn and all the circumstances might I pray for Lir givene** 7" And tben and tbrrc I wept down on one knoc, and then and there wa* flret intro duced to Mis* Ariel Aubrey, and then for given by her. 44 P-r the sakrof Dolly Varden !" she -aid. laughing. 4 - But who on earth wa* to suppo*e that two ladie* would go and put on gown* exactly alike 7" 1 demanded, in my turn tiegiuning to as<urr.e an aggrieved air. •'Dolly Varden!'' corrected my i*ter. 44 Well, ii is rather a singular coincidence, and yet, when one conic* to think of it, it • thi mo<t natural 'hing in the world." And she twisted herselt around to look at ber prcrostfiou* pattern of a dre** with the utmost complacency. 44 Feminine logic !" aaid T. 41 Mis* Au brey, if you'll accept of rny arm up the bill. I'll promise not to ling yon again— without your permission." 44 It wasn't me, you know." eaid Mine Aubrey. 41 It waa the Dolly Varden." And now here come* the point of the whole thing—a qne-tion which I want the female world at largo to decide for tne; is it proper or allowable, or deHyueur, or whatever else yon cull it to l>e married in a Dolly Varden? Bicanre I think iti* the sweetest, prettiest, moat delicious gar ment in the world—aud Ariel says, "Non sense!" For how should we ever have come to this #tnge of wedding ring# and cake boxes if it hadn't been for my sistcr'B Dolly Varden? ___________ AFRICA.—In a recent letter to the Pall Mail Gazette Mr. Win wood Reade, has pointed eiit that Colonel Grant, in his Brighton speech on Livingstone's location in Africa, was certainly in error. Col. Grant baa said that in his journey from Zanzibar to Gondokoro he had met a ith neither gorillas nor cannibals. As Dr. Livingstone lm# met with both, he must Lave miscalculated hi# position and been mnch further to the west than he thought. Mr. Reade, on the eontrarv, shows that Livingstone's reported situation is two or three hundred miles to the west of the country traversed by Grant, #nd he there fore sees no reason for thinking that the former has lost his reckonings. Square tlte Circle. A O'trtepeuilnt of the give* the following iutereviug ittfoluti . The late deceased au'b r of 110 celebrated "Moou lloaa," K chard Adam* Liw-ko, I \tbe recent republication of which in the history •( the N. w Y<rk press, baa re vived it a-a auhject of eunvrn-atiou), ih i li.ul lieen nia - >v year* n scelnded invalid on Stafeu 1-lund, devoted to i mathematical studies, tvaa aurprised, a f, w month* before hi* death, by a visit from a litp Van Winkle looking genius, who announced hiuiaelf aa a weboolma-- : tor from th# interior of New Jeracy. lie -aid he hidrallml to nqueat hir. Locke ju-t to put him in <be nay of "squaring j the circle." He had known no jwace among hi* ueighbor# for aotue years past ; on account of that plaguey thing the | oqoring ot the circle, and at length they j had united to tell him that utiles* he I could do it he was unfit to keen (chord among them, and they would take t i-ir boy aa a ay. He add. u that he had called on tha Professor at Princeton about it, who said it was altogether out ct hia line, I and ho know of hut one mau who wa* 'ikely to do it and prove it to tlio satis faction of everybody, and that wa* the author of the "MoOU floax," who resided on Staten Island. "So now I've huut-l roil up," ho concluded, "1 liojwi you'll be kind enough to do it, or give me a certificate that it can't lie done." "Oh, certainly," caul Mr. Locke, "with great pleasure, aud I hope it will restore peace between you and your neighln r* ; write down your circle, and I'll tell jon how to square it in a uiounuL" "Well, "Squtre," said Rip "I don't know but one way of writing a circle, and that i* by puttiug down Situ degree*." "Very good," -aid Mr. Loike, "nothing better —that's it—uow a Id a unit to 3tio aud ihe circle is squared. It ia now 361. the square of 19, so you run take that to the Professor with my compliments." The astonished schoolmaster knew enough of figure* to know that such waa the uude ai .bio fact, and ho was very soon eeen taring long strides ou the north shore, with both bands deep in hi* |H>eketa, on hi* way to Hergen Point, to illuminate ; New Jersey with the discovery. SiNori-vK.—The N orris town Herald -ays:—We recorded the death of Mr. Charles Lyie, gatekeeper by lightning. We also stiiti-1 that no mark* were visi ble upon hi* body indicating that death followed from other than natural c.use*. We have -iuoe learned, however, that in preparing the lady for sepulchre, Mr Mowdav, the undertaker, could distinct ly see where the electric flnid had entered aud left the body. It ipprand to have Mnmeiio-d at tlic Iclt shoulder and taking a downward coarse, croax-d the breast to the right side, descending the right leg. lea mi g an abrasion of the skin 'w-tween two of the toes. But what is quite wonderful in connection with the matter is the fact tint upon the right bread wa- the print of a leaf found on the floor of the piazza at the dead man's leet. The leaf was from au ailanthu* tree m the yard, and with the stem measured about five inches in length. The rib veins and cellular texture of the leaf were perfectly printed UJHIU the skin, the whole having a red ap| oranoe. Mr. Lvle died in a sitting jHsture ufxm n chair, and when fonndjiis head inclined to one aide. A* hi* clothes were not disturbed iu the least, it would appear impossible for the leaf to have come in coutact with the akin. Iu comparing the leaf found with the impression on the body, the two were ex-clly alike in -ire aud development. How the im pression was made on the -kin is toe mystery. It may have been the result of a species of photography familiar to scienti-ts, but our roadirs would no doabt be gratified if somebody would rise to explain." THE Vr.KB "To BKKUC.''— i4 I begin to understand your language better." raid my French friend, Mr. Arcourt, to me; "but your verbs trouble me still, yon mix them so with your prej>o*ition," ,4 I um forrv yon find them troublesome," was all 1 could -ay. "I saw our friend Mis. Juues just now," cou'inuod he. 44 She says she intends t<> lireuk dotm housekeeping. Am I right there t" 44 15re-.ik up housekeeping, ihe mail have ald." 44 0, yea, I remember. Break up housekeeping." "Why does she do tuot ?" I asked. "Because her health is so broken •iuto." 4 'Broken d<Mcn, yon should NIT." "Broken dnrn, O, yes. And indeed since the i-mallqiox ha* bro ken up in your city—" "Broken out." "She thinks she will leave it f r a few weeks." "Indeed 1 And will she close her house ?" "No ; she is afraid it will be broken—broke*— How lo I say that?" "Broken into." "CVrtaijily.it is what I meant to say." "Is her son to be married soon?" "No; th.it engage ment is broken—broken—" "Broken off." **Ali ! Iliad not heard that. She is very sorry aliont it. Her son only broke the news down to her last week. Am I right? 1 am so anxions to speak the English well.'' "He merely lrr.k>• he news; no preposition this time." "It is bard to understand. That young man, ber son, i* a fine fellow ; a breaker, I think." "A broker, and a very fine fel low. Otuidtf." "8o much," thought I, "for ihe verb 4 to break.'" His Lrcx.—Noali Thorp P-kc wa* 73 years old when he died iu June last r *orth nearly half a million of dollars Ho came to New York from Fairfield, Conn., torty years ago. with only fifty cent# iu hi# pocket He worked on the same bench with Jonathan Sturges, tho millionaire, aa a journeyman tailor, in Fairfield. A short time after hi# arrival in New York, he entered a lotterv oflice iu Broadway with his little two-year old daughter Elizabeth iu his arms. While lie stood talking with the proprietor, his little daughter piek'*l up a ticket winch was lying on the counter, nnd putting it into her mouth, began lo chew it. The lottery man took the ticket from her, saying to Mr. Pike ; 44 Yon'd better take that ticket now. I can't roll it. 44 Mr. Pike relnetantly purchased the ticket, f-ir which he had |>aid one dollar aud a half. lie put it in hi* pocket and went from the pi TC feeling that he ltad lieen swindled. That night the number on Mr. Pike's ticket wn# culled, and a few days later he received a check for 91.500.-AT. Y. Paper. QUICKLY CHANGED.—Thi* "personal" ol old Blncber, from the "Recollections" of Lady Clementina Davie* : When the special messengers arrived to inform Blnchcr that Napo!eon had escaped from Elba, and that his s< rvie. s would be immediately required ia tho field, they were astonished to find him literally running round and round a large room, the floor of which was covered with saw dust, anil iu which ho had immured himHclf under tlie delusion that lie was an elephant. For the time it wa# feared that Blurher was hopelessly insane, or that ho was ao far suffering from delirium tremens that hi* active co-operation in the anticipated campaign would be im- Cible ; but when the urgent news was iglit him he at once recovered him self. and proceeded to give his advice in a perfectly sound state of mind, the tone of which wa* thus, us by a sudden chock, restored to him. A snake with ten rittlen bit a negro woman while plowing in a field in Macon County. Ala. When discovered the womnu was drad, her body lying upon the snake, whose fangs were fast ened securely in her breast. CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1872. Un The Torch ef Tut-ln-llay. A correspondent nt Tut-in-Bay writes: But to n turn to the long flout porch, a* a gr< at many do iu ri l life after the hops <-r the regular evening dance*, that is just u* ph a-aut and don't oot any thing. A gicut iiuniunt of fluting ia done. If u mau never lul auy prtslis position lo be "ajKwvnv" ho certainly would have a Lad attack nftcr ft short sojourn in this tttuto*p!icic. Although the man who keep* the fancy store **yi tin* is "a bnl at.isoufur engagement*," still there are and have IHOIU many adoa poratc COM born this yror. As 1 have watched I lnvo thought how well the liues of l'raid fill the picturo : "Our Icvc t.k# mail oth*r 1 -vee A IIIIV g'ow, * lilllc #lior, A Miksl *ud a fair of giovr#, Au t ' Flv usl <el" Opoo Ilia rivsr; tv'lllO ji-#ii>u*y ot Km* our * Hf, A>iuc hspea of dying brok.ru U *rtcd, A immature, * lock of L* r. The usual vows—and thru we parted." An amusing enno of this kind happnee 1 not long ago. A lawyer who had hi* office iu tlic Masonic Temple, bud a room on the ground fl r, w iili a witidou on the portb. Htsm after retiring, chairs were moved on the jiorth outride hi* window, an<l diri c'ly he Lc.ml v —low, but earnest voice*—principally a man'* voice, and a* he wariu .l tu hi subject it grew so loud that our frieu 1 was not only kept awake but could uot avoid hearing what was said. The rouup man wa* pouring forth the talc of hi* admiration—hi* ardert love, aa steadfast as the polar star, a* fixd a* adamant. Blie seemed to like it very wvll, but didn't say yea or nny. Ho the adorer went on to the same train—be happy that she wou!d li->t.-u, tbe happy that he would sjxmk. This connnucsl from twelve till two in tho w,-e hour-, when the fair oi c ui<le a move. Tbe wtetched SJKXIU Iwgged th*t she would te'l him hi* fate then and there, but sin- not. At lost she aaid, 4 'l will tell you in the morning " Imagine their horror ami surprise as n wild cry euao from Hie deeplmn law ver'n rooms 44 For CknTe sake don't •ame back before t-n 1 t' >iue Imek ai ten, aud I will be be here to hear tin rest" A QCTBXIT MATCH MITTX When Edward the Fourth vc on the throne of England, ho was so desirtous to secure every letter or di*patrh written by Margaret of Ai jon, that heroic wife of an unheroic kinp, that the peualty ol" death was awnrled against any person who, receiving a letter, or being in possession of a letter from Queen Margaret, delayed in surrendering tl< same to th* govern merit. One would suppose that ouch a penalty would b ad every individual hold ing such documents, tf not t surrender at least to destroy them. But human nature is jwrverse ; a!* bo'd. couragetm*. defiant. Many of Margaret'* correspon dent* hid away the letter* she had writb-n to tLetn ; some of these have la'ely been puLlUhed by ihe Caiuden Society. The volume is one of the mot interesting of the *er|e* published by that aoclety, and the letter* theni**-lre# are credible lo the writer. They allow her le* a* a fierccl* strng-zling, deeply sorrowing, terrildy avenging queen, than n* a sympathising woman, not o busy in iier own affairs a* to lack time for being interested iu tic afiairs of other*. She i ever rea !y to •ar a goixl word for a worthy man iweking advancement, and her h-*rt r> -ponds t< nppei!* from young maidens with whom the course of true love doe* not run smooth. For them, Q iceu Margaret write* with affectionate urgency to that sort of sire wlio is apt to *ay of a sailor to hi* daughter, whod* unwelcome to him self, 44 I can't iinngine what the girls can *ee in Mieli a fellow, to like him!" To such stern father# Margaret of Anjoti write* like a wise and affectionate woman. She may be called a 4 * ma'ebmak-r," for she eetn to have gone to the work ot. coupling with great alacrity, but we are sure that many a young couple. In those turbulent time*, owed lo her happine* and a harmony in their married life which roor Margaret never enjoyed iu her own. Temul'' It-rr. SroorwrtvK IMOTS—Tbe earnest and persevering work* of those who have charge < f the-children In *ome ,>f our in stilntea for idiots i* not onlv wonderful in it* results, bnt it is suggestive. Here is a child *ix or oeven vrors old, unable to walk, stand, talk, or taste, nnd hardly capable of noticing what happens around her. The snperintendent of an institu tion for the inatme'ion of idiot* take* this girl, and spends day* nnd weeks and months teaching her to stand in a cor ner. After five month* constant and dnilv labor lie i rejoiced to *ee that alie baa moved, of her own accord, one font, a hair nnd an inch forward! Therefore this patient teacher announces triumph antlv that the child may be en rod. And she i* cured, for in time ahe Iw-cntae onp of the liest dancers in the institution! Besides this, her mind and bodv im proves satisfactorily in other repet- Now if men and women can be found who will thus labor and toil for years, with unremitting attention and enre and solicitude, to awaken the dormant ener gies of poor little idiots, who at first give about as much encouragement to their teacher* a* might lie exp<>eted from a lot of clams or oysters, and auch snr nriing nnd happv results are thereby i brought about, what might not be ex ! tw-cted if onr intelligent and sane chil ; dren were treated with something of that I earnest, thoughtful, untiring cam which ! fhese poor idiots receive? We will not 1 di*cua the subject, but merely throw out tlic suggestion. WHAT SMOKOW OO Tirnoron, AND WHT. —There T# a vouth before N amok ing u eiear with keen enjovment. How did ho acquire the liabit? Wn*lio alwnvs a smoker? Assuredlv not. He associa ted with friends who indulged in the superfluous habit, nnd *9* induced bv tlicm to follow their example; nor did lc after a f w tentative effort# overcome the difficulties which the task iuvolve*. ne hod to persevere dilligentlv step by step; promptly de*i*tig the moment he was warned of a revolut'onary tendency within hia stomach. I'loiunro there is none during the period ot initiation, and the amount d- rivnl when perfection La* been attained is frequently qu< stionable. To some the diffien'ti s to be overcome are insuperable. We have not illustrated the foregoing to exemplify Hie habit a* being n pernicious oitc. We indulge in a weed occasionally and have no objec tion to smoking when nit carried to ex cel'. Wo Htntdv intended to point out thut whatever disagreeable impediments stood in (he w:vv, tho example, desirable of imitation or tlic contrary, would be followed.— Tinsletj's Mar/at me. THE MJSBIKO MEN OP TIIP METIS. —A bottle, was picked up near Wood's Hole, Mas*., containing a letter dated August 30, in which tho writer s.iys he was n passenger on the steamer Metis wreck ed on that morning, and thnt he was then on a raft alone. After stating that he had a wife and two children ho con cludes the letter as follows : It is so lonely to die withont friends n<ar you in such a plaoe aa this. Mav God have mercy ou me. I am a native of N< w castle, Pu., ;am not afraid to die. Tell my friends this. Ho, good-by, all. All alone ! *ll alone ! ( Signed ) Charles H. Paine. Hints fe IVIiM, An article oa " VYomou's Men," ia th* Stlur lai/ Riv rw, contains liu-so hint*. Nothing surprite* men more than ih* odd ign-ir.iu-'o ot' women concerning thvui; and half the unlippint iu married lif* at hast in England, upriugt from tht {U<>r*nre. A Lev cannot. Le made to un dcrstgnd the ditference bet wet n a mail's nature and requirement* and their oeu; aud they condemn all that they cannot understand. In those tew rational home* where men'* -port* aud gathering*, nudus lurbed by the presence ol petticoats, are not tn-ide oeca-ton* for suspicion er rcmon* alrjnce, the stock #t love and hnpplnost* with w hlch mnrrird life b gtn is more like the widow's cruse than el-ewherc; but unfortunately for b<>th husband* and wiv. *, these home* are ran*; w hits thy tire common where a game of billiard* Ui the oveiling i occasion for tear* or pout ing, aud deadly < ffetise 1* taken at rlub <1 inner* or a week's shooting. The conse quence of which 1* deceit uy dissension ; atd Mimetime* both. The woman'* ideal man baa nous ot the?-* erratic tendencies. Ilia Luouie-* done lie come* home with tbe docility of a a <ll bred pointer sent to heel, aud finde energy enough after his bard day 'a work for a variety of f flits ivtns which make him more precious in her eyes than all lite tad, the temper, the judgement, the up rightness he has manifested in hi* dealing* with the out*! te world. And the dome* ticity which she claim* from ber husband tbe demand* from her son. latchkeys are tier abomination, and the " ga left burning," i a* a beacon light on tlie wa> of destruction. She ha# the profoundest •Q-picion of all the men whom her hoy call* hi* fnend*. She never know* Into what lelscliief they tuay lead hliu, but *ke i* ure it is mischief it they keep hint sway from hi* home iu the evening. She would prescribe the same social rcs'raint* and moral regimen tor ber eon a* for her daughter, and she think* the energies of maxuline nature require no wider field aud no Latser rein. But though he like* tho* tame and tender men whein she can tie up close to hr apron string* and lov ingly Impri-on in Hie narrow domain of home, she uccuml>a without a struggle to the square jaw e l hrote of the Rochester type, the mau who dominate* her by the inrre force of superior •tn-ngth. and she is not too ■ v<-ru uu Don Juan, if only abe can flatter herself that ahe is the be*t lyved and the la*t. fhat these are the men most liked by women 1* shown both by their own novel* at.d by daily observation; and it seems to u tknt among tbe rosay sobjecta for ex tende<l a:u<ly ol late pro|-n*el for women, s l-tu-r acquaintance with men's mind's. * higher regard for tho nobler kind of man, and the ability to.accepl love a* only one of many qualities and not always th* •!ronge*t or the tnoet praiseworthy ot i,ia impulse*, would not be out of place. "GcxrniK OTO ORIOIHAI. JACOBS." — Few there are in thi# city who have not iu-ard the expression Hist hesd* thi* arti cle, an a fewer still who know from vvhehee it originated. About thirty year# ago two Jews, whose patronymic wa# Jacob*, kept a bogus and second hand jewelry #iere on the VMI *:de of Chatom -trect, near I'earl, ov*r the entrance of which w.o aim ply the name of " Jacobs. ' I'hny did a thrivingbnsine** for anumber of yaara, their customer* being principally shop girl*. vr*ant girl* aud laborers; but the pa; Liter*' personal ralstiona w ere uot ouiisble, and continued misunder standing* c,ri*ed them to agn e to e{>crate. The senior partner withdrew, and the junior partner retained tbe busim #*. In tha course of a few vret-ka the former secured the adjoinmg store, and opened an opposition e-tabliohmrnt, and over hit door he raised a sigu bearing upon it, "The Original Jacobs." In a few day* the time honored lgn of "Jacob*" #a taken down from the first store, and replaced by one bearing upon it, 44 Tbe Old Original Jacobs." 'lb# opposition a* it may b# termed, determined hot to l*e outdone, hauled down 44 The Original Jacob*," and raised in its stead, 44 The Go mine Old Original Jacobs," which ••cined to exhau*t the adjective, and so tbe stood until, like the famon* Kilkenny cats, they est each other np. One subse quently went into the old elo' bnsine#*, on the opposite side of th# street, and the other opened n etieap jewelry store on Broadway. The former partners after ward* *tink into insignificance, but 44 The Genuine Old Original Jacobs" passed into a proverb.— A R . }'. J'opfr. SKA Et-F.rn ANTR. l'cron gives tliia deecription of the sei elephant, or pro boscis s< al ; It lias the enormous dimen sions of twenty, twenty-five, aud even thirty f**-t in length, with a circumfer ence of from fiftceu to eighteen feet, Its color is sometime* grayish, some time* blue-grnj, and more rnrelv dark brown ; It is earless ; has groat whiskers, composed of strong, eoar*c hairs, very long and twisted somewhat like a screw, with other similar hairs over each eyo ; eyes large aud prominent ; stroug, powerful pawa. margined with five black mils, a very short tail, almost hid be t-M .-n two Ihil hoiixontal fin*. When iu n state of rejaise its nostrils shrunk and pendant, serve only to make the face to npjiesr larger,but, when he rouses himself, respireu violently, is slmtit to attack., or wishes to defend himself, the prolioacis become* eulongnted in the form of a tixtse to the length of nliout a foot. Female* are destitute of this organization, and have the upper lip even somewhat cleft. In Iwitlr sexes tha h iir is exceedingly eoarw and close, and hence cannot le compared in value with the finer skins of many other seals. I(ARLACIIB'S TIIUSPRH-STOHH. - Apropos of Libhielie. it wa after dinner at 0-re House thnt I witnessed his extraordinary representation of a thunder-storm simply by facial expression The gloom that grn luallv overspread his countenance appeared to deepen into actual darkness, and the terrific frown indicated tbe angry louring of the h-moest. The lightening commenced hy winks of the eye# and twitching# oi the muscle# of the face, succeeded by rapid sidelong movement# of tho inouth which wonderfully recalled to you the forked flashes that roomed to rend the #ky, the notion of thunder being conveyed by tha shaking of the head. By degrees the lightningboo me les# vivid, the frown relaxed, tbe gloom departed, nnd abroad smile illuminating hi# expensive face, n**nred you that the ann had broken through the clouds and tho storm wo# over. He told mo the idea in oompanjr with Signor de Beguis. be witnessed a distant tlmnder-atorm above tbe Are de Triouipbo— Recollect ions of J. R. I'lanche. HAPPY —TheMcriilcn Republican sava: 1 \u amusing scene was witnessed nt the d pat in this city a to w days ago. A la ly of about sixty summers had jnst married and was traveling with her Mpoitsn. She was so delighted that she wanted the people to rejoice with her. Ho meeting a friend there she said to her in a loud tone, evidently intcn led to l>e heard by all in the room, 4 I am married and am taking nty wed din' tower, and these aro my weddin' clothes, and that's my husband n-oomlnY and the old fellow seemed to be as delighted as bin wife." The Empr as Elizabeth of Austria h: I wr.tten to the women's rights club in Vienna: 44 Ladies, take my advice and keep away from politics. There is noth t jg but misery in it." A Woman'* Counsel to W<MB*B. " Shiiley D*re" gives otu useful lout* to women iu their paragraphs : ILiea a woman deserve r apr-ot wh calls the work "f her aex d rod eery ? There are woman who always ajwnk of it hy name, hut thev are usually inferior and anfleobwl, women who write *l*wt " musses" aud iuea* s" for print, prig* or gups of the f> miuui - gender, tiiwsonts iu siM-U'ty, egotistic at home. These rc the ida— who complain of cranija-d faculties mid heavy burdens, whose time aud ability are too precious to waste u w-cing that the aoup piquant, or the rtilrt* well oin-1. They bring out " last arttclea" iu uiauuacrtpt to smuc particu lar frietnla, ami Converge in u topic:.! way, uucouseioiia what a stuffy odor perviuli s their rtauu*, or how lle"kiugly matclied all the colors of their furniture msv he. t do not speak of the wotnen who neglect their honor* either for study or society, hut of those half-ueihh' women who perform comraoupLoc duties in a grudging, diMlsiutui way, all the time feeling that they waste, to u*c their formula, " ahilitir* which might be m> much better employed." They *hwt rooms, and meiul clothes, and laikeeuke, ami call tin* housewifery, and aay the noblest coiling* of women means no such frivolous pretense, but work geuiuneaud comprehending, washing of dixbe* end kettles, scouring of tinware, and black iug stove*, paring ot potatoes and put ting ou of coal, in abort, the wholw horrid round iudiapenaahle to bright houses aud goad fare. Many women may not bo called ou to do these thing*, hut every woman, princess or peasant, ought to know bow they should be done, aud have dexterity aud practice enough to do them. This i* woman'* nrovurce, which oil gentlewomen should learu, ja*t a* men of rank learn the acteaco of war, till they know how much send goes to a charge of gtiupowdcr, and how much labor gocato rquaring earthwork*. Many peoplo are saying tin* over in difli-reut ways—George Eliot and George Sand indirectly, in their heroes and heroines, who are never by any JMMI I bilitv, afraid of the uieancat labor ; Mr*, C'raik, Frederick Bretmr, and Mra. Stowu more explicitly. A NOVEL DEVICE.—Pigeon shooting from the tr*|<* has of kte year* become cn* Of Hi* standard sports with lovers of the trigger, and the announcement that a shout is to take place I* sure to coll together a crowd. While many attend to witness the trial* of speed.many other* equally enthusiast!# over fiae shooting remain away on tbe ground of cruelly, deeming such shoot* a wanton destruction ol poor, harmless birds. Many device* have from time to time been originated looking te the furnishing of something to take the place of live bird*. While seme have failed entirely and other# being un reliable iu theii working*, eur sportsmen have generally given all the go by and bad recourse to the live bird*. Though Yankee ingenuity is equal to altuoat any thing, it has been the lot of England to produce a device which in its u>rking* teem* to be the de*iratuin <b-#ir<d, a epe < unen f which w* were shown by a gen tlcmen of Ho* city who recently aent to England and obtained it. The invention consist* of a nest bra-* iocotnotiv* wbi* tie h*ped trap, fixed by a ground fork to the earth, wbieb by spring action, give* flight to a steel-winged bird, the motion of which through the air i* wonderfully natural and bird-like. The "Gyro" bird i!na distance* ranging from thirty to one hundred yard*. Tbe***Gyro" in it* fight, exhibits innumerable vagaries, going off with tbe steady flight of a pigeon, resting on the wing like a hawk, or darling swiftly forward in a straight line like s •nipe. thus affording tbe very best prac tice fot the education of the bond and eye of the shooter. It can by despatched by means of a I*ll and socket Joint to tbe trap, iu any desired direction, and it isa* aertcd that it i* for more difficult to hit the ' Gyro" than a live bird.— Syracvi* (A'. I*.) Journal. A FRENCH DRAM*.—The Pari* newspapers give d>>toiD of a most extra ordinary and complicated drama \ Inch is said to have taken place in Patio. Joan 11—, who had falb-u into needy < ircamotancoa after having occupied a good poaiUou in trade, engaged himself a* coachman to Monrieur L , an ex director of au insurance company, living in tho Avenue Tnidaine. In a few weeks Jean H iuitiated himself into the graces of the family to such an extent that eventually hi* master determined to dismiss him, lint the wily coachm in suddenly eloped with the eldest daugh ter of tho houno. Motia. L. searched mi aud wide, bill could h-arn uo tidings of hia lost chilvl, until he received a lettor from Jt'.UJ H. in which, after begging forgiveness for carrying off the young hidv, he nsked her father'# consent to tbetr marriHge as tbe only means of re- Siring the dishonor of the family. (His. L. immediately rushed off to the luldreaa iu die* ted in the letter to rescue Lia daughter, but before he reeched i*, owing to the heat and excitement, he was struck with ft fit of apoplexy ami died iu a chemist's shop. The sudden death of her parent struck the young lady with remorse, and *he returned home, when alio succeeded in obtaining her mother's pardon. As she did not ootne down to breakfast, tho servant went up stairs and found her dead on the bed. Khc had poisoned herself. On the sight of the body the mother went raviug mad, and is now said to b on tho point of death. LOST AND Fontr.—A enrir.na episode occurred at tbe Hamilton Gamp Meet ing in Mnasarhusett* recently. A haW about six month* old wa* found in a rail road car. It wa# taken to the pulpit nnd exhibited to the congregation ; and a childless, charitable conple. Mr. and Mr*. Ash worth, agreed to adopt the lit tle astray. It was christened "Hamil ton Ash bury Aahworth," and seemed to hnve got a good thing, when, unfortun ately or otherwise, the mother of the Imbe made her appearance, claimed it. and carried it off. It turned out that the baby had ben abandoned not by it* mother, but by a cruel, heartless, and most extraordinary grandmother. TUB NATHAN CASE.—Notwithstanding the moral ceriainty expiesstnl by the jrolice of New Yoik of lorrester's guilt, Iho prom eution of that gentleman has been discontinued, n# the technicalities of its evidence will not hear the test of criMs-examinntion. Ho end* tin dozenth fiasco in this famous case. Forrester himself, it appears, is in a fair way to excape his thirteen year's imprisonment in Illiuois owing to some reported flaw in the requisition from tho Government of that State. PRKSIBVINO FBOIT IN GLASS.—New ts tho time to preserve fruit. Tke best and cheapest preserve dishes aro of glass. The only trouble is they break so when being filled with hot fruit. Thi* is remedied by folding a towel, or making a mat of cloth about six tolds thick, com pletely saturating it with cold water. Set your glass jar on this mat dry and eooi, when the Iruit can be poured in boiling hot aad tbe glass will uct break or crack more than tin or wood. TERMB : Two Dollar* a Year, in Advance. An Aut Battle. I sin s pedagogue in the rural dhtrlcts of Nswtou Coauty, kit, and my school houM bad been lufesivd fer several months by s specie* of large black ants, much to the annoyance of the lilli* bare footed idiuhn aud there aeemed no way of getting rid of the pent, for like th plagues of Egypt, to kill oue. two would ertn P> aupp yIU pl*c. But what was my Btouiaiiment, a few tnornings since, on coming into my erhoul heuw, te find the floor literally atrewn with dead and dying ante,and upon ac!o*er examination, wa* at ill more aatonisbod to find that a tattle wa* raging among them in all it* fury, more sanguinary and latal ikon any I ever witne**cd (and I *aw man) a hard fought battle daring the late unpleasant nca*) or reud ol in the annola of hi*pry A much larger number were lying dead than ware left engaged, and I thereby enclu-ed tha the h ttle had raged with unabated ferocity all night. Moat of the combatant* eigaged, were grappled in a deadly embrace,while other* but recently commenced wer* * landing erect on their hinder leg* and sparring for the advantage with oil the science of the most experienced •werdroien or pugi lists. The un>*i fatal point of attack and the one fir which, it seemed, all contend ed, was the ligament which Joined the main body with tbe head, lhts vital member oace wind In the powerful nip per*. death succeeded without a struggle aud the victor wa* then ready aud esger fer another engagement. Ke undue advantage was taken by either party, and no two would endeavor to overpower a single one; nor was there any flinching or wavering iu a single in stance, for whenever two bellgerents met it was certain death te ene er both par tie*. Never, perhaps, were two artnioe more equally matched in numbers, strength ted valor; and consequently, at the ch-ae ef the bottle, which lasted two tiighls and a day, a* new recrolte contin ued to arrive every moment, there were but few left and probably none of tbe vanquished army, urns rivalling the valor of the heroes of the Alamo and the Spar tan bnud of Leonidaa. Observing closely I oonid see s slight difference ia the ap pearance of the contestants, one set bring perfectly blsck with a large bead, while the other was n orer brown, writh a small er head, though both about equally matched in size and strength. Dismem bered leg* were tnore numerous than the dead,and many a poor unfortunate though valiant here, being entirely deprived of hit supfHtrters as thus left, korv de com bat. to die on the field. The next morning I swept up the dead and dying of both art me* (for I would not disturb them while engaged), ouxmnting to thou (and*. It wa* a ls*oo for the phiicMMpher a* well a* the naturalist, and caused use to moralize mure than a little, the Brownites were undoubtedly the Tie tore as I occasionally see an old veteran of that specie* hobbling about on two or three leg* over the battle field, but a big headed black soldier wa* not te be seen. | Aw Eorron WITH A Pitnoro—Tbe editor of the Atlanta Wrtkij nay# : After ! all, an editorial life has some pleasant thing* about it. Our model subscriber u one of the pleaaantewt. He ha* #ub scriimd for Hie llVel/jr ever since it waa started and aavs hia suliacriptiou will close with hi* obituary otic which we Pwrfully promised to insert, free of charge.* He ho* known u ever since Ue rime when we w<rae little, abort, pink Irrane* aud our linguiMlic attainment* were of the moat limited description. ) He used to bring us sugar plums then ; with much tbe same manner tliat he i tiriugs us new au'weribera now. He dways said we were a bright child (how ircnibleoome this editorial 4, we" it, it makes us feel #• if we were twina), and when we tutnbhd promiscuously down -lairs—which bjppe.uod on an average about twice a |eek —didn't he always say that it was an unfailing *ijro Hist wo shouldn't grow up to be foolish ? He kept tho district school where thn voting idea# that now edit the Atlanta wwdVf had their first artillery ?*raetic?. It wo* from hia iuatroelioaa that wa first im> billed the love of pol.rsv llabio diction and good language generally that aston ishes the native* of Atlanta, and reduce# Ihe editor of the rival pajier to despera tion. When oar model sntwcribercomca to see ua, he knock* at tbe door {tentJy, comes in and stava about five minuto*. tolls ua hia bnaiucm in plain wor.ia.bsnds an a list of new aubseribem, pays liia bill without any objurgatory leraark*, says tbe HV-i/y always was aa ably eon ducted journal and oonstautly improves,, ia glad we're no successful, thiuka our i LET editorial calculated to do a great deal of good, sends kind remembrances to our mother, speaks a Yd'aioant "ord to the sub-editor, and goes with our bles sing following down the stairs. A Honsan CASTLB.—AggaUin, now a rtiin, aaya Henri Brown, waa onon a ] robber castle, concerning which there re many terrible traditions. One of the lawless chiefs entirely outdid the nnraery Bine-beard in cruelty. He wts in the' habit of taking a new wife cTery month, and yet he never had bnt one at a time. He'neem* to have been so con scientionsly opposed to polygamv that he always killed his last cotißort before securing a new one. He had the reputa tion of being extremely careleea ras|>ect ing the marital righto of others, fre quently seizing and carrying off the *?H>ua<is of even the moat powerful Ivarons, who, as is related, so far 'rotn Iwcomiug inccnacd, sent him valuable presents as tokens of their friendship and gratitude. Another of the outlaws hurled all his prisoners from the top of the rock into the abyss liencath, and ia rerordod to have murdered in thi* manner more than a thousand unfortunates in a single year. Thia fellow, according to aocouuta, waa a veritable monster.. There was no sjweics of iniquity or crime wtiich he did not practice; and though every effort was made to take him. dead or alive, ho in variably anceeeded in escaping. He *u supposed to have made a compact with hi* Satanic majesty, who. finally fearing he might be excelled by the bandit in wickedness, seized the scouu- , drel a he was trying to get awny from | oome of hia euemiee by climbing over ft ridge of lock, and bore Mm down to the Pit, the earth opening ana snlnbnr ou* flames nhooting up, as is nital and proper under snoh circumstances. The ridge, which resembles a wall, aud ex tends from the river to the summit of i tbe hill, is still known a the Teufcls rnauer, or devil's wail. TEAT.—A* fuel, tho peculiar proper ties of peat render it esjiecially valuable in metsllnrgy, giving out an iutenseheat with a good volume of fisrae, leaving no slag and but little ash. It ia almost en tirely free from tbe presence of sulphur and phosphorus, those deadly enemies against which the iron masters are wsgiug an incessant warfare. When proper ly treated by machinery, peat may le made hard, compact and dense, so that it will liear the severe usage to which it ia submitted in a blast furnace, and will produce pig iron of a very snperior qual ity, which, when converted into bar , may bo bent completely double without exhibiting a single flaw. MEALS AND HEALTH.—Take* them at' regular hour*. Breakfast should be en joyed aoon after rising, and before any laborious exercise. Eat no Lite suppers. Hevere physical or mental labor during the laat hour, either before or after meals, should be avoided when possible. . NO. 41. Human ftafMjr Valves. Hmall men are very largn in little dr oit*. While you ere measured only by your village yon tm possibly • pheno menon. But the town shrinks a* all, and ties Stole is really nukind in the swiftness ot our self reduction. The Iqrd of the village town meeting * lib s fluent Pmgue swells -luld-'uly into th- -ite of s state*Dian to the village eve. Off he gore to the Legislature, end be finds pieaty of peri. Higher etilt be iwa to Con ftmst sod hw is silent Tbe village wonders that it* great tutn ties dwindled so sadly, aud that bis eloquent von* is not heard. But the truth is that the Legislature auil Coutpreaa have lifted bis lid aud the vsteir *4 conceit has escaped. ll*, too, would have exploded in the village, but Use World baa Ibw asfoty valve. For tbe higher a MB riae* the more iu> medial wlv he is measur ed by picked met), lbs puWftfc we think, i often decern*!, and even ire . fer* gilt to gold. But the world kufcwe * great deal about ft* greatest men de spite the proverb. It doea not admire :-ihulwill, but it deifiea Shakespeare. 1 Tbe instinct of respect for W .alringtoa is aa true aa any other law of Mature- Lucy iuga vwwetly in the parlor, and w mile or weap as aha swats us w.tb to* otig. What more ooold Pasta d. or i Catalan! ? Ho Luey mast go to Paris and baa prima donna. But iheo it fa no longer Jane in tha next bonae, and Mra. Jones, who sing*in the choir, ffilb whom she ia to La measured ; it is frith ! Malibran, with Jenny Jind. And paly ; if *be be really one of tha great singers | will ahe stand the tremendosu teat ( It ia ao with your verse# my dear Corydaa. You have the poet of hpnor lin tU eountry paper. You are the poet jat the oattie show, and yours are tha tides on tha Fourth of July and the or igi • nal hymn* when tha new pastor ia or (butted. Uis undaraicod that you are a genius, and sueb a brisk fire of adulation ; is kept up under your boilers that Won ure perilously full of steam. It wiwld |be sad that wueh aa excellent boiler should burst for want of • safety waive, i And aa you have just published a neat t volume of the poetry that has bean com-. mended by lh paper in which moat of it first appeared as combining tha sub limity of Milton with the sweetnoao of Thomas Moore, your pressure of steam ia extraordinary. Really no man and no boiler ought to carry so muck; and when j vou find a safety valve in the great city ..ureal. Ton ought to ba vary grateful that you ho*e been saved from a catas trophe—bat 1 fear that yon am not A PSRISUX SIOBT.— Tha GamfU An rrikaaana narrates a story tha fasts of which it guarantees; Baptiste Coonert, I it aays, waa a valet in the service of the : Marquise d P , whose hotel is ait istcd in the neighborhood of tbe Champ# EU sees He wi discharged for an actul indetieaey, which showed alarming symp uitna of a tendency to vice. He ia now ihirty-aeven yaara and oet of employuiret. Tna morning before yesterday he preeent ed himaell at the house of hie former raft 'rees and begged an Interview with tha Marquise, which was at once granted, j '• Madame," said be, knowing her to be Itiud heart*) tod graeroua, "I am vary i poor and unhappy; take me into year service agate, I beseech you. I am ashamed ol my conduct, and will stone for It by future devotednem. 1 * He then ' threw himself at the feel of the Marquise, t wbe was affected by the tale, which he j had apparently learnt by heart, and took hha back at increased wage*. At 3 in the vfternoon, Mma. da P—— ordered her carriage and went to pay some visits, and <>a starting told the valet to take advan tage ol the opportunity to ioatal himself ia Id* uhl quarter* and await bar return, which would not ba till late at night. The rogue thoa befog left master of the situation, entered the boudoir and l*d room of his mistress, and commenced operation*, la a tow minutes, drawer*, ! teisaa and afe* were opened and cleaned i of their valuables In coin, bank notes, and jewelry, the whole of which Baptise slip i jted into a valise, which be had brought [ with him and disappeared. The theft was oot discovered tilt 6 oVrlock, but tha police Wing immediately pot epon the alert, the valet waa arrested in the w ait ing room of the St- Lazare Railway Sta tion, with tha valise in hia hand. Tbe value of tiia property stolen and thus for tunately recovered was about 140,000 franca. ITAKOIC GaATirrna.—Louis tbe Four teenth. who had uooe bombarded Algiers, ordered the Marquis de Que*ne to bom hard it a second time, in order to punfth j their Infidelity and insolence. Tbe de spair In whioh the Corsairs found them selves at not being able to drive tbe fleet off their coast*, which did them ao much mischief, caused them to bring all the French aUrea, and fastening them to the mouth# of their cannon, the different limb* of their body were blown even among the French fleet. An Algeria# captain, who had been token on a cruise, and verv well treated by tha French all the time tm had been their prisoner, one day perceived, among tbo#e unfortunate Frenchmen who were doomed to th# fat# juat mentioned, an officer named CboineuL from whom be had received the most singular kindness The Algerine immed iately begged, entreated, and solicited in the most pressing manner, to save the life of that genoroiu Frenchman; but all to no purpose. At last, they were going to fire the cannon to which Choieenl was fixed, the captain threw himself on the body of Ms friend, and closely embracing him" in hie arhia aaid to the cannonier, 44 Fire 1 since 1 cannot seve my benefactor 1 will at least have the consolation to die with him." Tha Dey, in whose presence thi* scene passed, waa so affected with it, barbarous and savage aahe waa by nature, that he now readily granted that, from dictate* of humanity, which he had just More refused with so much savage fe rocity. JOKES.— So, again, Scholasticn* and i hia friend, who, aa it chanced, waa bold, having oocasion to keep watch together, agreed to divide the duty between them, each in tnru sleeping while the other | kept watch, to be bv his partner awaken !ed when the time of his other watoh ar rived. During one of Hcholaatieus's -leaping times, hia friend played him the t rielMjf shaving .his bead. Schnlanticus, on waking, pet up hia Land, and feeling his Lead bald, cdled out in alarm, that " they had awakened the wrong person F' On another occasion, having a house to sell, he tiring* with him one ot the soneecf the wall "uaa sample of the ho ias." Ou another, seeing las doctor coming up Abe street, he lodes behind a wall, 44 being ashamed," as he says " to meet tho doctor—ft is so long since I have been ill." And thin a thievish slave continued to steal his wine by bor ing a hole in Ihe bottom of a jar, the mouth of "which Scholasticns had care fully sealed, and when a friend in ex planation suggested that, although the seal# at top were safe, perhaps the wine hod been alistrttcted from the bottom, "loufooir says Scholasticng, "don't you see that it is not the bottom of the wine but the top that is gone !" A Salt Lake City actress twoke, and fonfid a burgular in her room. She instantly sprang up and turned on the full power of her voioe in a blood-curd ling stage scream. Dishing down her jewel box, the burgolar left with standing I Part* and Fawie*. ▲ promising Jnng man ia all *"y srell; bettor have a payiog one. ( liforcfa gwnw will fhla yaar | realize an ag|refih profit of $30,000,000. A Lmo* vonng lady bus helped load and unload forty-one load* of hay tbi MMUKML A Chicago doctor araorta thai threw are 15,000 habitual ilnisikanir iu that 1 flit/- An experimentalising Californian got a htntdrad pound* of opium out of aa acta TfoHocreaso la the number af lanatlca j ia oatutat considerable ttocawwaatlirou|t.- oat England. | Haw Immf chopped op fine with £*• is a new. "feed" which Ctorenana oonsidwr a core or prevunlivo of djapepaia,aaw il aa of long diaeaauo. The Marquis of Bate ia the principal owner of a new line of steamer# from Cardiff lo Kew York. WUI hia *ih be Bate Jack*? A despatch from Ban FnuMjfoeo aays that MaSda Heron has been denied • abowaniM from the "aetata of the lata Henry Byrne. St Joe county, Mich., aa*ed ita re cords from fire by letting them be hid den in tbe wood*, and now offers to know tbe spot A man who has a red headed sweet heart addressed her aa "Sweet Ashore; loveliest of the fair." Sweat Auburn got mad about it It ia smarted that the Czar of Ectasia will demand the abrogation of the Treat y of Pari* for the narpoaw of co-operating with Austria and Pruaaia- A few brkld parties linger at Kiarera and their billing sod cooing, it i said by a bachelor who has jest returned, can be beard shore the roar of Hi# fall"- English b-a>ta and shoe* are now In great dwaenl in lb# Ara-rican market. Tbvy are wot handsome, but broad, own tortabU- and well made. An old ladr who beard that a young friend had loat a place by mi* dreneenor aaehiritably observed tuat "threw was alien a woman at tha bottom of ft," Hera ia tbe heading of one of tbe Canton, Mia*., papers aw net tonal article- "A carousal, an epiwtk. a cowhide, a pistol, sad a skedaddle." They pretend is Kew Ho-tford lhat a man there fell from a fence and di-lo cated his hip, but that in crawtiog away bs fail again and adjoated tha fracture. Tbeloageat bridge ia the world ia said to ba on the Mobile and Montgomery R*iir.^ j over tbe Tenses and Mobile rivera. It ia fifteen talks in length, and has tea drewa, one for eech navigable ehaaneL It ia related of Araasld. the Janaema*, that ha wished his Wend Hiebok to assist him in e new work. Kkhola replied "W are now old; ia it not time to raatr "Beatr exclaimed Areaold; '-have we not all eternity to rest is?" Describing the Inebriate Asylum at Ward's Wand, the Kew fork Trtb*i ■aye: •' Within the past four jean about one hundred women bate occupied rooms in the asyhun. Of ibaa* nearly one-third have been ladies moving ia tbe hkheet rirelea of society. Tbey were all middle-aged, and neerly all had been married.* Ttw beat ia Switzerland is reported to have been intense during the peat season. Cattle have gone to their etalls at daybreak for shelter; and the danger fromVraUnrbes has been ao intensified warned by iaatinet, the chamois of the mountains left their precarious haunts, and mingled with domestic herds in the valleys. A Kew Hampshire paper stye : • A man bom London Centre started law! Friday with a load of bay for Concord. Ilia wife adviaed him not to smoke lus pipe on the way, but he laughed at her. Prettv soon he came bach with moat ef bis clothe# gone, his hair and eyebrows singed, and the iron work of his cart in a bag upon his shoulder. Then his wifa laughed." ' An idre of the reel wealth and the eommand of the wealth of others poe •eaaeti by the great banker* of Europe, may be inferred from the fact that tha Rothschilds' subscription to tb* last French loan amounted to tSSO,O> 0.000. and that of tha Barings to One gentleman alone, a member of tbe ITouae of Common#, put down hia name through the Rothschild*, for 0,4)00. Off). A aariea of ©xpwritaenta iuatitnled to teat the average !•** in weight by drying, •bow* that corn lows one fifth, and wheat one-fourteenth by the process. From this the statement ia made that farmer* aril) make more by selling un sbriied eon. in the fall at seventy five cut* than tbe following MUDBX r at one dollar a bushel; and that -heat at $1 30 In December is equal to $1 50 for tha same in the following June. - Tbi- eati mate is made cm the bams of inter*** at seven per cent, and takes no account of the deprewiattons of vr rmin. These facta a worthy af oomideratiOL. A Twxxrr-Two YEARS- Cturex Tweaty-two year* ago, Jamra Steele, of this city. wbo*e father wa Samuel Steele, a well known coppersmith, sailed Irom New Louden nra whaltMbip rbat wa soon after the death ol Zachary Tayhw. It waa a good while ago—as thing* now go—an<i •neb a project as tbe Atlantic Ocean tele graph, or tbe abolition ot negro slavery by a uivil war, wvnld have stamped if* annun i ctator aa a wdd lunatic. Mr. Steele lelt the ship at Australia, and waa by his frtenda hers supposed to be dead. Ha sent many letter*, but none of them were received, and until this week—when he again mad* bis appearance in Hartfura, hiving arrived last week at Sew London — ba did not know ol tbe death of h father bio brother and other relatives. His ad ventures since 1850 among the savaacs of the South Sea Islands, and in Kew Zealand bare included a wild and strange variety, and bo has met pretty much everything bat death. 11a shipped on different whal ing vessels, and cruised all about tee anti podes, where Spring begins in September and Winter in June, He finally married an English girl in Australia, who has now inherited soma raonev, and Mr. Steele thinks ot buying himself a home here once more.— Bart/ord (Conn.) Tinas. FHTTTS.—A NIK through our market shows at a glance how prolific our fruit crop is. For the last ten years peaches hare not been so plentiful or of snch fine quality. The plumbs also are of the finest "flavor, and will oompare with any in the world. Our pears from Jersey and our own State equal any grown in Franoe. Grapes are in abundance, and will be more plentiful in a few weekr. A man who has sold (rrapes for years says that he shipped 875 worth of grapes i to'a dealer in the southern part of New ; Jersey, not twenty five miles from where they "were grown. The explanation of this anomaly is that the grape crop is bought np by speculators in tue winter, and that consequently sometimes the fruit can be bought in this city twenty per cent cheaper than where it is grown. Watermelons and mnskmelons area drug in the market—.V Y. P"per. DIGESTIBLE FOOD.— Food is not well digested that is not agreeable to the taste, and flavor is qnite as important in element as the quantity of nourish ment in a given article. What is not acceptable to the palate is not appro priated to the system. Besides, some thing more than nutriment is tequired act! a diet confined to the moat nutri tious articles would soon produce disease. Variety is indispensable. The stimulus of meats, the bulk and fragrant, juices of roots and fruits, und the carbon of butter and fat. are all requisite to healthy diet; and is not economical, whatever it oost ' in money, that does not keep the body in its best condition. The appetite of the healthy is the best guide in the mstter. A city geptlervan who had bought a place iu the country, rather aroaaed the neighbor* by appearing in bis meadow with a actthe in one band and u um brella in the other. When our inform ant came a W4V there wfre five d"ct<> s on the fence, sharpening their ku ves, and even the potato-bugs had dropped implements of labor and were watching the man's maneuvers.
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