Too Presuming.
Said shs, " Frsy toll ras, if jroa Ml,
Why mm *o bashful art ?
They fall ia lore, and dream, and sigh,
And worship u* afar ;
But when they strivs to toll the tale,
They etutter, heaitete—and fail!
" We ladies like a man, yon know.
One not afraid to apeak - "
And here t thought a blush appeared
Upon the maiden 1 * cheek.
Then to myaelf I aaid, "I as*
Thie maiden* heart belong* to m."
Then ont I apak*: " Oh, ltd/ flair,
My bo&rt, my life ia thine I
And since I boldly apeak tny lore,
Pray wilt thou not be mtne V
" Nn, Sir!" aaid ahe, with wondcnaj star*
Strange, how preauming JUH men are I"
Thinking Aloud.
at mewKHT*.
Tea. it's best I ahoutd go away ! TU laara him
to hor ftir a while—
Forever, marine -who carta ? H"U miaa my
old wan amile.
And perhaps the handa that hare alwaya twen
ready to do for him.
But 1 wont l< a block in hia way I I fan •>*
though my eye* art dun.
Thirty -two year* come autumn lVc been hu>
own true wife.
W*Ve had our differing* aometimee, but now
a action* strife.
Ft* worked and planned, and helped bm to
all that he own* to-day, (
And he'a seemed like a part of me alwaya, ever
eincc we were children at play.
flow happy we were that winter we bred in the
little log-house!
Only two room* and a cellar, bnt everything
sung a* a mouse.
And Neddy, our Aral, was bora there, and
John waa so glad he cried.
And my heart, it just ran over with a wifc'j and
a mother'a prulc.
He wrote our frienda in X*w Hampshire how
well we were getting on,
t of all the crop# he raised, the beat was the
little One.
And 1 laughing !- fooiiah old woman— my dull
eye* all allow
Over a comething that happened thirty long
years ago!
The children have grown up and left ua; two
in the graveyard lie.
The others have married and settled. We're
alone again—John and I.
And he loved me till thia bad woman can. > here
to break rav heart.
And now it ia beat that I leave him—better for
ce to part.
She it a wonderful aingcr—ahe makes the old
house nrg.
And there's something about her reminds me
of a wild bird on the wing.
And her face look* good and fconeet; yea- in
■pile of her aril ware—
For the sake of my dead daughter, IU aay that
much in her praise.
*• Friendship," I think they call it. He was
always a handsome man.
And he has good k anting, and argue, as wed!
a* a lawyer can.
Hia years sit lightly on him, while I am thic
and gray;
Bnt my apir.l ia young, and it lores him. And—
so—l will go away.
m go to my Jtar old Hampshire— 111 go to m;
mother a grave,
lad HI Set my wck heart break there in one
great soUbrng ware.
The tea little ream that are left me will drag
their season on,
Till death shall come, and in heaven maybe
ITI find my John!
Here's shirts and stockinga to last him—pro
viding I never eme hack;
And Biddy will see to the house. There's noth
ing that hell lack—
Falsaa. w heir he ha* his headaches, he may _
well, he always said
That no medicine ever helped him like my
hands upon his bead.
IH take this picture with me. It looks as hi
did the day
We stood up in church and were—o\! •' Weil,
wifey, what is to pay ?
I thought I heard yon a-enrin'! So, don't you
budge— not an inch—
Till yon teli me what's the matterl Old wifry,
what ia the pinch I
" Cr.ria* over this scarecrow—no wonder! look
at his hair!
Plastered over his temples!—his—well—then
r~ there— there—
I heard it all my sweetheart, and what an old
fool I've been,
To l. t you think I was travdin' straight to sncb
meanness and sin 1
" She's only my brother's daughter, and she
no, you needn't apeak!
She's ia lore with a decant young fellow, and
will marry him this week.
Brother Tom—yoa kaow the skinflint—is dead
set against—there- there-
Ton shall finish your cry in my bosom ! I hain't
been, dear, quite fair.
" I shouldn't have told you. But secrets are hard
tor a woman to keep 1
I knew it would fret yon, Jaaey, end rob yon
of needful sleep!
"Sosuch thing?' But, sweetheart, I can prove
it tc yon, you aeo.
For yon faib-d to keep this secret—tV depth of
l<our lott far me f
BOTH SIDES OF THE PICTURE.
Two women sat together at sunset in the
porchymrd of a white cottage that stood under
its "ancastral tree," among its ft :ld.< of wh'-st
and eom, like a port's vision of a quiet mat
ing place for aome weary, suffering hum in
•out.
And one of these two women had eyes to
•ee. ears to bear, and a heart tifeel arid ap
preciate it ail. She was a tall and stately
lady, apparently some thirty rears of age
not exactly handsome, but with a grace of
air and manuer•peculiarly her own. The
careful toilet, the nameleM* qjr of elegance
and luxury, the pale cheek, the soft white
bands, betrayed the city dame. While the
weary glance of her dark blue eyes, which
even the quiet of that sunset hour could not
drive away, showed that time had not dwelt
gently with her aud her heart's Idols, but
had thrown thein, scattered and ruined, at
her feet.
Her companion was aome five years her
junior, and many times prettier -a little
round - faced, apple - cheeked woman, with
dark-blue eyes and dark-brown hair, and a
rounded figure that was set off to the best
advantage by the afternoon dress of tiated
muslin that she wore.
At present the handsome face was almost
spoiled by a querulsut, discontented expres
sion. She was contrasting her own hand,
plump and small, but certainly rather brown,
with the delicate "lender white fingers of her
dty friend, all glitteriug with rings.
"Just look at the two!" she said. "All
that comes of making butter and ch'-ese, ami
sweeping the house, and dusting, and wash
ing dishes, and making beds ail toe time.
That man told the truth when be said that
woman's work was never done. I know
mine never is. Oh! dear, dear ! To think
that van. Margaret, should have married a
eity merchant, and be as rich as a princess
in a fairy tale; and here lam planted for
life, plain Mrs. Hiram Parke, and nothing iu
the world to compare with yoa. I am sick
•f being onlyafarmer's wife."
Margaret Von Howth looked down at her
grumbling little friend with a smile.
"Jenav, it seems to me, as we sit here in
this quiet plaae, and look out o\fr all there
pleasant fields that art- your own —lt seems
to me that you are almost wicked to talk
like that."
"I dare say you would never like it, Mar
garet. You would never wish to change
situations with me "
"Perhaps not Cut would you not like to
ebange with me f"
"Yea."
"And you be Mrs. Yon Howth instead of
Mrs. Hiram Parke?"
Jenny hesitated. She loved her handsome
hus'>an l dearly.
"Well, I don't mean that I want to give
up Hiram. I only wish he was a city mer
chant instead of a farmer, and as rich as
your husband is. that is all."
"And that is a great deal. Jenny, if yonr
wish could be grouted, do you know what
your life would be?" said Mrs. Yon Howth
coldly.
"What yours is, I suppose. What any
lady's is in your position."
"But what is that life ? Do you know ?"
"How should I?"
"It is a weary one, Jenny, with mere
genuine hard work In It than bs all jrentreat
ing f butter tad ehesss."
"9 ! Margaret."
"And O! Jenny, Mieve me, mv den-,
there arc no pe< pie 03 esrth who work bar 1-
FRED. KURTZ, Editor and Proprietor
VOL. V.
•r than the tashtooahlo who have only ihcir
anmteiucau to provide for .t long. lout;
life o(* more amusemoat. l a dog's lli'r, Jem ,
at the M,"
"I aliould like to le convinced f It by
actual experience." said Jenny, doubting!)
"So 1 said and thought once. 1 have been
convinced that it fe all vaultt sad vexation
ot spirits, mv dear."
"Rut how f" persisted Jenny.
von 11 v* iii the la-klouabte world i,>u tuust
do a* the lashlonabh- war Id does. Y.u iuu*t
rise and dres*. and hop, and lunch, and dress
again and drive then dreas again audappwvr
at cetlaiu toll*, parlies, (Muwrit, exact h. as
yotir frieuus do, or he voted Its tin, and out
of the world altogether. You, my poor
Jenny, who are by uo means ibod of fine
.Reuses, what would vuu do at a UshtonaM*
watering-place in the holiest day* ot August
witli five change* of toilet between morning
and night, am! a French ladv'a uiaid lo tyi
anniso over you all the timet"
" florrers f" eiacniated J*an>
"Rill* that you must go to in spit* of fa
tigue ; partus that you must go to in spite
of the heat; calls you mud make on people
yon dc|yst ; 01 Jenu>, 1 would far rather
'• at Louie with the butter and cheese, if 1
were you."
Jenny was *ilent Here wa* the side ol
the brtchi picture ah* bad never seen or
dreamed of before.
"You love your httkbaud, Jwuny?" said
her friend, after a time
Jenny opened her eye* wide.
"Loie him ! Why. isn't he my husband ff
was the reply.
Mr*. Von Howth laughed.
"Some women in society might think that
a reason why you shouldn't love him ! ' she
said, dryly. "And he love* you also *"
"1 should die to-morrow if I thought he
JU not."
"Tut, child ! People leave this world when
<od wills it—not before. I dare say you
would survive bis unfaithfulness Many
| women before you bare lived through such
things "
"Don't talk of it, Margaret; I could uot
'rear it. Why. he is all the world to me !
ami yourself toing judge, bow could 1 bear
to lose bim !"
"Then don't wish him to bs a city merch
ant, my dear. 1 dare say there are many
good men in the city— uieu who lov* their
wire*—bnt, on the other hand, there are so :
many temptation*, especially in society, that I
I sometimes wonder, not that so many d
go astray, but that so many remain true to
themselves and their duty."
She spoke absently, ani her eye* had a
far-away glance as if they dwell on other ,
things.
Jenny ventured a question.
"Margaret, is yours a happy marriage '
Do you love your husband f And doe* he
love you F*
Mis Van Howth started, and then turned '
pale.
"I would hav* loved him, and made him ;
* good wife, but be never loved me. He ,
placed me at the head of hU house because hv
thought me ladylike and interesting, that j
was ail. He told me once, though not very
plainly, that he had no great love for me.
and since then we have each taken our own j
•ray, independent of the other. I scl lom see
him at our house in town. 1 have my car j
rixge. my diamonds, and my opera box. Iu !
the season 1 go to Saratoga or Newport, while :
he favors Long Branch with his presence.
We are perfect stranger* to each other ; we ,
aever quarrel, and 1 suppo-t jf 1 were to die i
to-mcrrew he'd be an inconsolable widower
or a week. Jcnnv, yon will not wish to
-tiange places with me nsraio Yonr husband j
night change as mine has done, exoo-ed to
the same temptation. Thank Heaven you j
oave him as he is a good, true ma*, who
oves you ; and never mind the butter and
-heece. Jenny, so long as your bappincca i.
made up with them."
She rose from her text, and strolled up the
garden path.
Jenny did not follow. She tat on the eb-p.
lost in thought. The riddle of her friend*
afe was at last made clear to her. She had
•ften wondered why Margaret, in the midst
>f all her wealth and luxury, should seem so
-ad ; she wondered no longer now.
To he the wife of a man who bad no lore
than this for a proud and setnuMc woman ?
Jennv turned with tears iu her eyes to meet
'he stalwart husband at.he came from the
Held.
"Well, little woman," he cried ; and then
die got the hearty kire fur which she was
looking.
Yes. Margaret was right. The batter aud
cheese were of little consequence when loVe
like this made her task easy to endure
And the rosy-cheeked lit tie woman bent
foodly down over her "Hiram," as he tlung
bimselidown on the porch seat, and Canned
bim, brwtsht him lemonade, and uiade liim
thoroughly happy and at test.
Poor Margaret! Happy Jennv ! Never
igaln would she wish to be more—only a
fanner's wife.
XXWSIUPKKS. —Their value is by no
means appreciated, but the rapidity with
which people are waking up to their ne
cessity ami uelulness is one of the signifi
cant signs ol the time*. Few (amities are
now content with a single newspaper. The
thirst for knowledge is not easily satiated,
and books, though useful—yea. absolutely
necessary in their place, fad to meet the
demands of youth or age. The village
newspaper is eagerly sought and its con
tents e. eagerly devoured. Then comes
the demand lor the county news. Next
to the political come the literary and then
the scientific journals. Lastly, and above
all, come the moral and n llgious journals.
The variety is demanded to satisfy the
cravings ol the active mind.
Newspaper* are also valuable to material
prosperity. They advertise the village,
xmnty or locality. They spread before
the reader a map on which may be traced
character, design, progres. II a stranger
calls at a hotel, he first inquires for the
village newspaper; if a friend comes from
a distance.the very next thing after a fam
ily greeting, be inquires for your village or
countj newspaper,and you fivl discomfited
d you are unable to find a late copy, and
confounded if you arc compelled to say you
do not take it. The newspaper is just as
necessary to fit a man lor his true position
in life as food or raiment. Show us a rag
ged, barefoot loy lather thin an ignorant
one. Hi* head will cover hi* feet in alter
life if he is well supplied with newspapers.
Show us the child that is eager for IIPWS
papers. Ife will make the man ol mark
in sfter life if you gratify that desire for
kDowiedce. Other things bein r equal it
is a rule that never lads. Give the children
newspapers.
PrritoLßCM OILM. —ln a recent report
on these oils, Professor Chandler gives
the following as the cheapest process lor
making an oil that will not flash, thati*,
emit an inflammable vapor below 100° F.
1 Run off the naphtha down to Ik,
instead of 65° to 02°, the usual point.
2. Then expose the oil in shallow tanks
to the eun, or difluse daylight, for one or
two days. The increased dispunao of
this pln of refining would not reach
more than three or foui cents per gallon.
This addition would lie cheerfully paid
by the consumer, to insure liiuiM If and
his wife and children, from horrible
death. But the refiner sa/s, I cannot
get the advanced price, because the con
sumer does not know my oil is safer than
the cheaper article. This is trne, and
our only hope is in strict laws, rigidly
enforced, which will make it a crime to
sell an unsafe oil.
fwDiAse.—The Pi-Utc Indians arc a
practical people. One of their medicine
men said that when ho died, if the Indians
would cut him to pieces the pieces would
unite again immediately, aud he would
ascend into the heavens in a cloud of
smoke. tTliis was too much for Indian
curiosity to stand, and a bystander dis
patched the doctor with a blow of his
knife. The body was then cut to pieces,
hut, much to the disgust of all preaent,flie
remains of the poor wretch refused to
move, and were left on the ground as foed
for the wolves.
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
Cornering Farm Products
; There may have been in the past a
liuio when a speculator could appro*)
Iml| vih MM IMIIMy It the cM. I
! amount of wheat, corn, *r pork which
could ho thrown ujh'h the market, hut
I that doe* not exist now. The area ol
i cultivated larnf is so much greater nud
the crop*so tirtn-h mere \ari<*d that uo
! such estimate can now he made. The
| Western pe pie have learned a lea-on
I from the exjwrituiee of the past, and
j they now so vary the good crops of their
faitus tint most of thctu are uo longer;
i absolutely dependent upon the one grain,
j corn, or wheat There is a point of price I
beyond which the farmer thinks it good
economy to eat some other food and sell
this or that article. There i* a point in i
price beyond which the fanners knows \
it >s useless for tutu to hold his product.
Then the multiplication of railroads en
ables the formers rapidly to concentrate
their salable articles at any one point
where the price may 1h highest. The
great wheat corner of Chicago was an
; instance of these facts. Never before
i was a speculation gotteu tip with so little
j foresight. Ibe earth uiay IK> said to
i have groaned with the httrdriaof grain
j and fruits she waa hriuging forth, and j
j the very men engaged in this wild op- j
, oration are among those who boast that!
, more thau one-filth of the railroads of .
j the United States ex uter ut Chicago. It
may truly lie said that from the four
quarters of the earth the golden grain
euuie pouring into that city as the price
per bushel touched 81.55 ; for wheal was
i even shipped back from Buffalo, and
i the vast resources of the railroads be
j came vrondcrfullv apparent. It is stated
[as an instance of this that uu of these '
great lines brought to the city iu one
j day 1,(500 car-loads of grain. It would
seem that with such experience and such '
I resource* plainly evident, the Chicago'
I operators would lie slow to enter the tiehl'
| of speculation in any agricultural pro
. duct, but wo have from there the iatclli
' gene* that they are now engaged in the '
[ eflort to corner pork.
The prospective success of this new . <
corner is based upon the fact that Chi- '
1 cago demands iu*ss j>ork to be of a cer
tain staudaul; that there are now only j
'about 121,000 barrels in the city, and |i
that all in Cincinnati is controlled by i
three firms, and that these two stocks
.ire the large proportion of w hat ia in I'
this country. Tue true standard for I
judging the proapccta of the success i f '
.my comer is the certainty of n demand, i <
Iu this light the preseut Chicago corner i
is evcu more illy planned than the one no < '
lately collapsed! The corn crop throngb- j i
out the whole country is very large, and i
in most sections the wild mast is excel- j i
lent. The patato bag has been, com- , i
paied with last year, almost harm less to
that great food crop ; the producti >u of i
molasses from vanons sources has ia- <
creased ; the time of the Tear when ; i
work ceases is at hind, and the number , 1
of hogs in thec*uutry has increased over -
2,000 in the last yeur. There is no other
so cheap mode of transporting a bushel I
of com to market as when condemn d i
into fat of a hug s sides, hence with 1
abundant corn it can readily be seen that -
the farmers of the \V. st will rapidly turn
their corn into hog flesh, and iu view of 1
cheap corn and high priced |K>rk will j 1
spare from their farm stock a few more ; i
than originally intended for this purpose, j i
This will m iken plethora of pork sup- t
ply ; but it may be contended that it I
w ill not le put np at Chicago standard. •
or rather that the rule"* of the clique
will contend that it is not of prime qual
ity. On this point, firstly, St. Lmis will
bur if Chicago does not, aud thence the
American market will lie supplied.
Again, buyers may choose to niAo a
Mumlanl of their own and not take ns n
finality the dictum of the Chicago clique.
In a<y event we can see for this new
combination no lietter fate than that met
by the attempted monopliaers of wheat,
and possibly iu its culmination an injury
totbecommcrci.il interests of Chicago
and the truusferment of some of her
trade to her rival on the Mississippi.—
X. 1". Pajxr.
A PLEA FOR TIIK LITTLE FOLKS Don't
expect too much of them ; it h s taken
forty years it may be, to make yon whnt
you are, with all the lessons of experi
ence ; and I will dare say you are a
faulty lieing at best. Above all, don't
expect judgmcut in a child, or jiatience
tinder trials. Svropathizc in their mis
takes and troubles ; don't ridieule them.
l>mcmbcr not to measure a child's trials
by your standard. "As one whom hi*
mother eomforUth." said the inspired
writer, anil beautifully does ho convey
to lis the deep, faithful love that ought
to be found in every woman's heart, the
unfailing sympathy with all her children's
griefs. Wnen I see children going to
their father for comfort I am sure there
is something wrong with their mother.
Let the memorus of their childhood lie
as bright as yon can make them. Grant
them everr innocent pleasure in your
|>ower. We havo often felt our temper
rise to see how csrelessly their plan*
wero thwarted by older persons, when a
little trouble on their part would have
given the child pleasure, the memory ol
which would last a life-time. Lastly,
don't think a child hopeless because it
la-trays some very liad habits. We have
known children that seemed to have been
born thieves and liars, so early did they
display theso undeniable traits ; yet we
have lived to sec those same children
become noble men and women and orna
ments to society. We must confess they
had wise, affectionate parents. Aud
whatever else you may be compelled to
deny your child, by your circumstances
in life, give it what its nioi-t values
plenty of love.
SECRET KEEPERS.— Never tell a secret
to any one it vr*i can avoid it. Keeping
•secrets is a.duty but few persons have
learucd to perforin. There are none so
fond of secrets us those who do not mean
to keep them; sncli |Krsonscourt secrets
as a spendthrift courts money, for the
purpose of circulation. It is foolish and
unwise to tell your secrets to people
who have no particular interest iu your
wellfare. There are many persons who
seek to gain the confidence of others, iu
order to have something tu talk iilmut.
It is always best to keep your own coun
sel, except in such matters as yon feel
incompetent to decide for yourself. In
such instances it would be well to seek
advice from sncli persons as 3011 nro cer
tain you can trust and rely upon. Go
to some true and tried fiiend, who knows
fully the circuinstances in which you
are placed, and you will often find them
of individual aid to you in forming an
opinion, or settling some doubtful point,
but unless you have this object 111 view,
keep your secrets locked within your
own breast, if you wish them to remain
unknown to the woild.
A FAULK. —Several monkeys were con
fined iu one cage, being separated by
bars. When their food was placed bo
fore them, every moukey but one neg
lected his own food and sought to rob
his neighbor, wliilcnn old fellow of more
wisdom than the rest quietly ate from
his own diab. " Why do you not do
like the rest ?" one of the thieving mon
keys asked him one day. "Are you
more honest than wet" "I do not
know übout that," replied tbo other;
"but honest er not, I find that I am
fuller fed when ; attend to my ewn
dish, while mudh of your food is wasted
j in your scramble after what doe* not be-
I long to you."
CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1872.
Alice C'ary.
Tin* beautiful tribute U the memory
of n gifted Wv>man, w I lose iwwt and
kmiW utterance* will long live in lit*
heart* of lite pwijile, wo take from the
C'lrisittiH f'iii ON :
"Considering the multitude of lior
literary engagement*, end the ijnunlity
of verse which rlio gaie to the pre** dor
tag the twenty
i amount of mental flßr which she uiut
bum performed w*indeed great, And
i vet, busy tu> wus her life, Alice ninny*
; bad a half hour for a friend—seeming
greatly to enjoy these break* in her
I working hour* ; while, to the applicant
for ndtice or assistuuce, ahe ever lent a
willing eitr.
"Thin road in en* of sympathy opened
| the gate* to a wide wort of eharttv, and
J during the last years of her life slio be
i name, in a confidential wnv, the dispenser
of aid, encouragement ami advie# to nu
! extent which even
i hardly realise or measure. Wus it a
woman out of work ? Alice placed work
:in the williug hand*. Was it a sick
family in need of food or attendance •
Alice wus the good angel who brought
peace into the sad room. Waft it a young
girl going astray ? Alice, the gentle,
sympathizing sinter, won the wandering
; feet into sober paths. Was it a disap
- pointed author w ho eame to tell her story
of disappointed hones ? Alice, from out
j of the store* of tier own experience,
drew lesson* which oomforted and en
eouraged. She was, indeed, a very Sister
of Mercy, and when ahe died, tears were
abed for her at many u flreside, in many
a lone chamber, wberw her memory now
in something very sacred and sweet "
deferring to Iter death, tlie writer
adds :
" lu life, the sisters were inseparable.
Their love for each other was very beau
tiful to behold. Tnlike in many respect*
they were alike in affection and when
Alice fell sick. with her last lingering
and intensely }maii>ftil iliueaa, I'hutbe
was almost her nolecompauion and com
forter. She watches) carefully through
days. week*, mouth*, of such suffering
an, happily, it i not often our lot to
witnesa. The disease at first assumed
the form of inflammatory rheumatism ;
then developed into sciatica, which grad
ually drew the liip-soekel apart, Belief
was obtained, in the momenta of arutrat
agony, only br morphine, injected ; and
her bodv finally became* tUx**of puuet
urea indicted by the steel of the inject
or. It wi* I'lueW* hand which gave
the leaser pain to soethe the greater
torture, ltrave in her duty, ahe would
press the cruel probe iuto the nbrinking
tit sh ; and tneu, when sleep followed,
she would steal away to her own room to
soli her own nerve* iuto subjection.
" Death can iu at last, llow greats
relief it was to the sufferer cannot be
expressed in word*. To Phatbe it was a |
real joy—for her beloved one, after sol
long agony, had repose. But who can
say what loneliness was in her heart ?
That beautiful home, ao full of nvtocia
tiona of the dead, how inexprearihlv sad
mtit have been its very atmosphere i
Left to berelf—eourt'ng no compauion
ship even with her must intimate friends
m l ined to dwell with the dead
Earth, and life, aud friends, were no
longer tis they were; .and though'she
seemed to otUer cheerful and resigned,
it was only tooevidrut that I'lkclm.' longed
to follow her*Miter gone before. She
had not long to wait, for, i reaix month*,
she, too, fell asleep.
Ponoxtn Bmuj'.—A couple of
joiiug I idles from the country raui into
I'corio, 111., a few davs ago for the pur*
|KMO of attending the Norni.il School,
ami having obtained room* on the hi off,
took powssioD of tin-in. They had not
been in possession long before they
found that the rooms were infested with
mice aud rale. They therefore procured
aome arsenic, and in the evening oue of
the Indies spread a piece of bread with
butter, and putting on some of the
poison, covered the whole with aome
sugar. Instead of immediately putting
the deadly viand where the annuals she
wished to kill would be rnoet tiki ly to
get at it, alio foolishly laid it on the
table and prepared another piece of bread
for herself in the same manndT, of course
omitting the arsenic. This piece she
laid on the table beside the other, and
taking up a book, drew a chair bewide
the table and commenced reading.
Absorbed in reading and ytf eonsoion*
that she was hungry she, without look
ing up, reached out her hand aud took
what she supposed to lie the huriniews
food, llut sh had taken the wrong
piece as she suddenly found, and a phy
sician was hastily summoned. 110 re
mained with the suflerer all night and
the nest day until he thought she was
out of Jtiuger, although very sick.
NEW METHOD or STOBIXO GRAIN*. —
A plau has lieon submitted to the French
academy for storing wheat in portable
sheet iron granaries, in which a vacuum
i maintained equal to at least from three
to four inches of mercury, this Iwing
found sufficient to destroy ull insect life
all hough a more perfH*t vacuum is pre
ferred), and to insure the evaporation of
ntiy moisture in the grain. '1 lie appar
atus is of cylindrical form, placed verti
cally with convex top and bottom. The
top is provided with an owning through
which the inlet of grain is led, with n
waive pipe through which the air is ex
hausted, and witli a gunge by which the
degree of exhaustion is indicated. The
gram is removed through nn opening in
the bottom. 11l an experiment, where
living insects were introduced in large
quantities with the grain, it was found
that they were r.ll killed liefore doing
tnis diief, aud at the end of fix mouths
the wheat was found to h > in ns flue con
dition as at the outset.— N. 1". Dattg
BvUetin.
DiAyrn>f. Late advices indicate
that the African diamond Held-. ore
already becoming exhausted, nl that a
rise of from ten to twenty per cent, in
the pric * of diamondajbas occurred there.
Hundreds are said to bo leaving the
fields, broken down by disappointment
and want, and many seekers have re
turned again and again ty research the
foixnkcn hillocks. There is one connota
tion to those who may lie disappoint) d
in their search for gems in our Western
Territories ; the land it-self is a mine of
wealth, ond is precious stones do not
crop up, there are precions metals and
minerals enough to reward both miner
and capitalist.
TKDIAX TROCBLES. —Private advices
received from members of LieuU naut
Wheeler's exploring party, iLited Fill
more, Utah, state thnt their operations
arc delayed by hostile Indians. Lieu
tenant Denwiddie, Second United States
cavalry, in charge of the escort accom
panying the party, had au engagement
with tlio Uto Indians, near Beaver, in
which uino Indians were billed and many
wounded. On reaching Desert City, n
town of about one hundred and fifty
houses, they found that place deserted
by the inhabitants, they having fled,
with their live stork, to regions oi safety.
JOHNSON'S DEFALCATION. —The exami
nation into Johnson's defalcation in the
U. S. Hub-Treasury Department shows
thnt the amount will figure iui as high
us 8l8e.(XX), and perhaps #200,000 of
this meney Johnson hai some little, if
anything, ms losses in Pacific Mail stock
being fully #200,00; i. Bo leaves hts
family poor.
Nome Old-1 luie Frnalt e,
Tli old Or ramus allowed akoeu a*ue
of humor *v. n iu th* wnnui work of
jitiniahiug ofl'eiises, if w* may bwlieva a
'nook lately jinUinlitil in Berlin:
The author describee the punish
ment* which were inflirto I, in various
pat to of (iwrmauA, in roiuo o.tc up to a
very recent |xrioi, with the ohject of
humiliating the eftlprit, and oAoosiug
him to public ridicule. A common puu
ihbtnettt was that of going iu prMmiun
through the *'ret of u town or village,
iu a Ureas covered with image* of sword*
whip*, rod*, and other iimtrumcuU of
<*or|Mirttl chastiM-mcnt. In Hmw, women
who had hcateu their hushauds were
nude to ride backwards on a donkey,
holding hi* mil. ou which occasion* th
i animal waa led through the atrtcU by
the htulMud. Tliis custom existed in
Uarmstadt up to the middle of tiro sev
enteenth century, and w*s ao common
(hut a donkev aus kpt alwaya ready for
I the purjHoe tu the capital and the neigh
! boring villages. If the vrouian struck
> her husband iu audi a manner that he
could not waril off the blow, th donkey
waa led by the man who had charge of
' him: if not, then by the husband him
self. At St. licar, a luiilcr wna ullowcj
a certain quantity of wood from the for*
' est beitiiigiug tfie town, in return for
which he was lvotiud to supply a donkey
to the municipality whenever required
(or the rbatiscineut of a scolding wife.
Another very old custom was that of
puutohiug a henpecked husband by re
moving the roof of hia house, on the
crouud that a man who allows hi* wife
to role at home does not deserve any
protection against wind and weather.
If two women fought iu public, t icy
were each put iu a sort of dosed sentry
box which oulr left their bead* exposes]
and theu post.nl opjxiMte to each other
in the market place, where they
remained for an hour, face to f cc, but
unable to use their hands or feet. A
common punishment foraco'diug wom> n
was the "shameful stone," which wus
hung round their urck*. This stone
was usually iu the i liajw of s Ixvttlc. At
Hamburg, lihcler* and slanderers were
compelled to stand oo a block, and slttkc
themselves three times ou the mouth n>
a sign of repentance. Thi* custom still
existed thirtv or forty year* ago. Iu
some towns t "? : i imef .1 stone*' ws in
the shajx- of a lo*f, whence the German
saving, "a heavy hit of hreati" (e
r* iircrrr 6io-s brvtl). At l.ulwck it *n
iu the shape of an oval dudi; and iu other
I dares in that of a woman putting out
ler tongue. Borli -tones were usually
very heavy; uceortling to the Uw of
Ih>rtmtiud and Hallierstadt (1548) they
were to weigh a hundred-weight i hoar
who were wealthy, could purdiaac ex
emption from this puuishmeut with a
bag full of hop* tied with a red ribbon.
LXWTKH'M JOKES Attorneys will hare
their joke*. Here is onaby judge Colt,
■if Couucctic-ut: Being ouce opposei! to
Mr. S——, then a late member of Coo
er.-Hs, be remarked as follows to the
jury upon a point of disagreement IK
twecn them : " Here my brother 8
and I differ. Now, thta is very natural.
Mcu seldom me things in the name light
and they may disagiee in opinion iipui
tbe simplest principles of the law, and
that very honestly, while at the same
time neither can see any earthly reason
why they should. Aud this is merely
lieoaiise they look st different side* of
the subject, and do not view it in all its
1 •earing*. Suppose, for illustration,
that a man should come in here, and
boldly assert that my brother 8 's
bead (here he laid his hand familiarly
upon the large cbuckle-h*ad of bis op
ponent "is a Jesuit/ 1, on the other
baud, should tantnUin. and perhaps with
equ il confidence, that it is a head. Now,
here would lie a difference— undoutrdly
an honest difference—of opinion. We
might argue alout it till doomsday, and
never agrse. You may often are men
arguing upon subjects as empty and
trifling as this 1 But a third person com
ing in, and looking at the neck and
shoulders that support it, would say at
once that I had reason on my side ; for,
even if it was not a head, it occupied the
places of one, and stood white a h>-od
ought to lie." All this was uttered in
the gravest and most solemn manner
imngilia' le. The effect was irresistible,
and the joke won the case !
RCTORTIXO. —The Washington thmdoy
Hrrald is fearful of the ftitere j mrnulis
tie enterprise. Here is as imple order
to n Tnbvnt reporter, which it looks for
ward to with trepidation: "Mr. Scribbler
it is currently reported that Tom Tip
pler's whisker has strychnine in it; go
down to the \intik and draw £SOO. nnd
devote yourself to the slndy of Tom
Tippler's whiskey; take ten or twelve
drinks a day for four or five months; if
you live, yonr salary shall be increased
25 per cent.; if yon die we will debit the
TYihtnr with a metallic cofiin aud a first
class fuoer.tl." <>r innyhtip the order
will be this: "Jack Ketch.thc hangman,
is said to be s cruel bungler. Yon will
go and do something to get yourself
hung, and we will hnto a half dozen
reporters to criticise on the operation.
The old mother will he pot on a half pay
pension nnd your successor shall marry
your sweet heart.''
A NEW FEnnt.ir.rji TRAD*.—A writer
in Tht London Tint'* relates Uiat in the
mummy pits ut Backhara, Egypt, he saw
iniiny persons busily engaged In search
ing out, aiftiug, and sorting femora,
tibiie, and other bony lilt* of the human
form, which almost crusted the ground
thereabout. Nine camels were employed
to War these in nets to the riverside,
where vessels waited to carry them to
Alexandria, whence tbev were shipped
to English manufacturers of manure.
The trade is brisk, and is said to have
been goiug on for years, nnd may go on
for many more. It is truly a strange
fact to preserve one's *kol#'on for cen
turies, in order that there mny be fine
Southdown* and Cheviots in a distant
land. But then t jypt is always a place
of wonders.
The German Ayric l'nrist says that a
great portion of the flavor of fresh bntter
is destroyed by the usual mode of wash
ing, and ho recommends s tfioiough
knenditig for the removal of the battel
milk, and a consequent pressing is ■
linen eloth. Butter thus prepared ac
cording to thin authority, is pre-eminent
for sweetness of tistc and flavor—quali
ties which sre tetaincd for a long time.
To improve manufactured butter, wears
advised by the same authority te work
it thoroughly with free"h c r >ld*isilk, and
then to wash it in eletr cold water.
SMALL POX. —The India Afrdical (inert
t* reports some enses of small r>ox cured
by the external application of carbolic
acid. The persons concerned were very
reluctant to submit to the treatment,but
after one or two cures with the ncid and
one or two deaths without it tie reluc
tance vanished,and now the carbolic acid
is reported to lie iu great demand Tie
acid was applied to the face and ban la
and uext day the erruptions were fouud
to have scabbed and dried up. The cures
were effected in a few days.
When John Adams was ninety years of
ago he was asked bow be kept the vigor
•f his faculties up to that uge. He re
plied : "By constantly employing thm.
The wiud of an old man Is like an old
horse ; if you would get auy work out of
it you must work it ail the time."
The Itoudon Baker*.
The London Bakers' Htrikn Committee
re*. ded that tlio neceaaary mvtioe*
should he delivered to the eraployeiw in
order that the strike uiay begin. In the
meantime the men have issued an ap
peallothe public ia which they say:
For years pus', as the world is well
aware, tb# condition of .the journeyman
baker has been a disgrace to hia employ
er, a shame to humsuity, and a scandal
to civilisation. E luration. sciem-e, and
philanthropy have achieved much for all
other claa-es, hut in bla case they have
don* little or nothing. He i* still the
outcast of the industrial yat*-m. the
l'uriuh tif the social circle, the oulr arti
san who is deprived of hia rest, denied
his Sabbath, and doomed to toil in cou
fined dungeon*, the hatid atmosphere
of which is as fatal to life aB the poison
ous br< ath of the back hole of Calcutta.
Government inspectors have derouueed
the evil* surrounding him as most bane
ful and drmoraltxiug; and medical men
have atflrme.l that he ia a prey to the
moat debilitating uifluene ■*, and hi*
term of life the briefest of all claxMes
iu a acntcnee, that lie is murdered hv
long hours and excesaivw toil. For bim
there is no rcsiuta. llis existence is
that of a dog. He scarcely knows what
it ia to enjoy a night's rcpese. His sleep
is a "pitch" in the heated bakehouse, his
bad the hoard upon winch the bread was
made, and when h* roes front his hard
couch, hi* sweat and teats literally min
gle with the ingredients of which the
staff of life is manufactured, and which
the public are compelled to cat, Th*
Sabbath cuims. but ootnr* ti" tiabbaih
day to him, and thus, yar after year,
he drags out a miserable, monotonous
existeare, laboring sixteen, eighteen snJ
tweuty hours a day, at a wage which a
sweep or scavenger would refuse, until
his health fails, aud a premature death
terminates hia sufferings. Will any
Christian man say that th* operative ba
ker ought to be satisfied with such an
iniquitous system? When all other
trade* arc obtaining increased pay and
reduced hours, is lie alone to be con
demned to sleepless night*, rnwivc
toil, low wages, disease, nud death? Or
taiulv not.
Tha "appeal" admits that th* men
may be vtuiqtitohod, as they are poor
and their employers are rich, hut (they
sayj bettor they should be ieduced to
dock Laborers and scaveogcre than si leu t-
Iv submit to ah mdaa* more degraditu:
Aian that which the E "yptians imposed
upon the IsradiU-a. lb-Iween bondage
aud starvation there is little scope for
cliuice; but of the two it is better to
die from want than to linger on a miser
able existence in slavery, a curse to our
selves anil accursed by our fellow men
They have, however, faith "in the great
heart of humanity,"
RrvxtNO nc I>EBT.—There it nothing
that make* a man more contemptible in
hit own ejrathan owing tnooev when
1u- cannot pay it He feel* that lie is in
a false jH>Mtion ; thai iustcaJ of ranking
with the portion of wdrtt
he ought to take hit position with the
mmneat i !aaea, for he it walking about
mider false colors in other people's
clothes, feeding, surreptitiously from
other pimple's table*, bring in homos,
lodging, and using furniture that do not
belong to him, und that if be wera to
act like an honest man, and par for what
he has. he inn*t dross leas, cat plainer
food, and dwell in back streets : be
would then he a far more respectable
man than the""*- imp who willfully Itu-tin
debts which ct tiie time he kliosa he
cannot par. Many an honest man is
brought into .Hltold embarrassments br
an extravagaw and thoughtless family, 1
and by tbe rwrnicioiis v>trm of long
creilit retail ui'-ivbant. Nun
thU systi m vA buying <>u credit is sim
ply rtiiuotia, and reaJly creates habits of
extravagance ; it seems ao easy to look
forward to meeting a -payment which is
six mouths' distant ! K<-ep ont of debt,
uiy friend, l'ay cash for ererr article
wuich yon or your family require, and
regulate your expenditure according to
your income, t-iu.-tiug nothing to the
future which the present cannot proeide
for. Better a little privation now, than
debt and ruin hereafter.
A HAIA or TOKTTR*.—Junius Henri
Brown, in a sketch "Down the Danube,'
aaya : The*Kithhau% or Town-hall, of
Ilatisbou, a gloomy aud ungraceful pile,
was mostly built in the fourteenth cen
tury. The imperial diet held its sessions
tliere from 1063 to 1800, and the saloons
of the diet have not licen altered, and
still contain the benches, ana chain*,
and tables used by the embassadors.
The di-mal dungeons in which prisoners
were tortured are aliown for a fee ; and
on going into them I noticed the beach
of ttie judge, protected by au iron grat
ing lest he might be killed—as he de
setved to lie—by Ihe miserable wretches
in whose sufleriug he delighted. There
are the ruck, the wheel, the thumb
screw, the spiked heimet, the burning
pincers, the fiery cowl, the straining
cord, the lioiic-eriishcr, the fiery furnace
aud all the implements of torment which
we blush to think were freely used by
onr ancestors a little more than a century
ago. The collection of devilish devices
for producing pain is larger at Kaitsbon
than at the Nation 1 Museum in Munich,
or the Arsenal in Venice.
Tim HRAT. —Ia it possible to convince
the public that the post summer was
really a vcty comfortably cool one ? It
may lie. since September breezes liave
now cooled the blood, and the rtmtn
brnnet of heat is not hent. Certain statis
tics, which purport to come from the
United Stn'ea Armory at Springfield,
indicate that the summer of 1872 was
not so very n-msrkable for heat. The
avefugu temjerrttiire for the four month*
of May, June, July, nnd August, in 1868,
was 68 degrees; for 1860, 65 degrees;
1870, 70 degrees; 1871, 66 degrees ;
187*2, 69 degree*. The average for Jnne
this year was ft'J 1-3 degrees, while in
1870 it was 72 degrees. The average for
July was 74f degrees, while in 1870 it
was 75 degrees, and in 1868 77 degrees.
The Augu-t average this year, up to the
28th, waa 75 degrees ; in 1870 it was 74
degrees, and the other years two or three
degrees less. •
A Us* ron OLD Mritnt.-Tktre is no
economy in using old muslin where it can
te exposed to much wear, bat for some
purpose* It i "as good as new." A lady
writes Heart'i and Home that for years sbe
has made her partialiy-woin sheets into
simple window curtains. From the cen
ter of the sheet sbe tears the worn portion;
this leaves two strips, eacli of two and one
half yards in length, and from three fourths
of a yard to a yard in width. She then
sew* the two selvedge edges together, and
turns the raw edges back to for in a feain.
A<l around Uncurtain sbe now sticbes at
übout an inch from the edge, narrow strips
ot some pretty and washable cambric or
calico (or a trimming, putting an extra
row of stitching through that on the up
per end, to ipake a place for a tape to be
run in.
The national debts of the principal
nations of tbo earth, wo believe, now
rank about as follows: The United
States, 82,458,559.000 ; England, 83,758-
420.000 ; Franos, 82.613,oO,000; Ra*hi,
$1,260,809,089; Austria, 81,210,000,006;
Italy, #1,008,040,000; Bpuin, 8T08.700-
000 ; Prussia, #325,560,000; Cauada,
872,600,008 ; Switzerland, #778,400,
TERMS : Two Dollar* a Year, in Advance.
Ksarelwdj's Hand.
TUr' a -oft UttU band, with Just one r
rtaga—
There'* a doiau at dim and MM other,
thing* s
Aiid the baud la u white, and aa preHy. 1
lowt,
X itiruiu at tUo Uidi on iba new-fallen :
•now.
It ia ult, i* wsm, and Ita pressure ia swrel, j
When, hjr chant-* or flagcra Uppea to j
■Mil,
I And Iba lad* who <>rua It ia pretty and frss - j
Kieept ia the promise she's Joel made u> tot. j
Tta a band to bo fondled, and petted, and j
klaaad,
When racaeed in white kid, on •msety's Had; j
Wis a band Ui be held, and ba levsd, with tb*
reel,
When tbo glow's thrown aatda and IfcMSsbody'*
at r**L
Tia a band in sdwreity, sorrow, nr sore -
When ibo brain burn* with bvar, or chills u> j
iba air—
T.a a band to smooth wrinkles and banlab tbt
pain,
Whcu Ugbu arc burnsd km, and life"* brcatb
on tbo nam*.
Tla a baud lor tbo d oath-bod, to ukr lb* Uat
pledge,
Wlu-u iba grave ywno la>*Uiag, at lb Dnatb
at ita edge—
With a future unknown, and Iba bnngristt nod
Ia watting to bide aU tbal'a not gone to Ood.
'Tta a band (ur Ua bridal, to give aii the tbraat j
rbat a Ufa baa lawn given, aa stans una i< ;
■MI
IViib tbe heart, and (be life, and tbe faith, and j
the name,
And all tbe food tribute ita owner can elatnt. J
f89988H8889HR89
A Western Incident.
A target ahool waa a grand thing among j
, the rough pioneer* ; there were some }
visitor* from beyond (he tnoncUina, an 4 j
each rifleman waa particularly anxious to j
hsplav his ott accomplishment before
the strangers. Mtka Fink vrns among:
them—the very prince of marksmen, i
Hut on thia oomai4.it he wa* unusually
quite aud retirent.
After exhibiting their nkiU by "cut-;
ling tbe center," to tbe satisfaction of
Use visitors, it csae to Fink's turn to j
perform the gtaud final feat of the oeca-'
■ion.
This rousi*ted in netting n tin cup on !
the head of one of the party, and placing |
him at the distant* of lift; pace*, about- j
ing the cup ofl the heal of the person j
supporting it. Mike ae usual selected ,
Joe Ktevena aa cap bearer. All knew
hie skill, and no one would have bout*- j
I *d to have performed the service. They j
did not know, however, that but a abort j
lime before thia Mike had fallen out;
with Joe, and had patiently waited the I
time for hi* revenge. Joe accepted tbe j
honor with alacrity.especially gratified at j
Mike's oummeodatery remarks, a* he re- j
unrated him to perfotm the service. .
1- ink expressed himself confident that*
he conld " ping the foremost side of the ;
cup, provided Joe would hold it up, for j
be alius liQd kind o' stidy like."
Tbe distance was measured—the cup- j
bearer took his station; the shiuing hel- j
met was placed upon his head. Mike ,
took bis •* peg," pricked hi* flint, prim- j
ed his firelock, poia.nl bis rifle, took aim ,
end fired. The ball crushed through tbe j
brain of his former friend and comrade,
and Joe Stevens fell prone to the earth i
and expired without a groan. Mike's
vengeance was satiated, lint Joe bad a
brother there that day.
He, as well aa the other person* pre
sent knew that " Mike Fink had played
fouL" Scarcely has tbe the light smoke '
wreath from Mike's fatal rifle vanished '
into thin air, when Dick Stevens, the j
brother of the murdered Joe, brought j
his uneriing rifle to liaar upon the mar-;
deter, and in an inatanta ball waa crash- j
ing through the skull of Mike Ftuk, and
he fell dead in his place at the peg from i
whence be had sent the measenger of
death to a fellow being only a K*J|
seconds before.
A deep and wide pit was dug, mod into
it llic rud btcki'Mxlnira lowered the
lifeless form* of murdered ami murderer
aud there—through long age* forgotten
—the two silently moulder to dusL
What "A Boj" Enows About Lobsters.
Whea a lobster shakes hands with you.
you always know when it takes hold, and
are exceedingly pleased when it pets done.
They here small features, and lay no
claim to good looks. Whew they loco
inote. they resemble a email boy shuffling
off in his father's boots. They are back
ward, very. They even go ahead back
ward. They occasionally have a row
like people, and in the mrtit lose a mem
ber, but have tke faculty of growing out
another. The prvcewa is patented both in
this country and in Europe, which ac
connts for it not coming into general use
with the human lobster, to to apeak.
A lobster never come* on ehore nnlesa
he is carried by loroei. They are afflicted
with but one disease, and that is boil*.
There is more real exoitement in harpoon
ing a whale, or in having the measles,
than there is in catching lobsters. The
fisherman provides himself with a small
hen-coop, and places in it for enticers
several dead fish. He then rows bis
boat to the lobster ground (which is
water), and sinks his coop to the bottom,
and anchors it to a small buoy (one from ;
eight to leu years will do), and then goes
home. When he feels like it again, aay
in the course ol s week or so, he goes j
hack anil pulla his poultry house, and if
he has good success he will find the game
inside the coop.
As an article of food, the real goodness
of the lobster is in the pith. Very few
persons relish tbe skin, and physicians
sav it is hard to digest. We, therefore,
take the lobster and boil it until it is
ready to eat. Nothing is better for colic
than boiled lobster. It will bring on a 1
esse when cucumbers have failed. For j
a sudden case, we advise them crumbled j
in milk. Eaten at the right time, and in
proper quantities, lobster stands second .
to uo fruit known.
I NPIAN SCALP DANCE.— A correspon
dent of the Denver A'W snys, ufler tbe
etiquette was over, the llanache Cues
showed ua what was their pleasing cus
tom whenever a good and glossy scalp
fell into their hands, by dancing a scalp
danoe, shouting, screaming, drumming
and y riling, while an old, bagganl aud
wriuued squaw kept the old Ducks to
their work, by joining in the breakdown
and wotking* assiduously in tbe semi
religious o'iservance. It was all a weird,
strange and uuusual sight, and the dirt,
the creepers and the stolid indifference
of the average Indians disapjeared en
tirely from the mind, and iu their place
came up very unpleasaut imaginings, of
very lively shinning around, should that
pack of ferocious, and yet very tame,
I yenas tnrn loose upon you. Tliey used
up all the breath aud powder and muscle
they had, passed in re-view again, and
went off oroning some very unmusical
air, and all was quiet
YALCABI.E lloasEs.—At s lite sale of a
horse-breeding establishment in England,
one horse, Blair Atbol, the head of the
stud, brought 862,500 in gold, and was
£urcha*ed lor Germany; the old French
irss Oladiateur ssld tor 885,000) another
horse, bought tor tl> tutted States, was
•old for 810,660. Tbo whole atud of 278
horses, mares and coils, bronght over bait
a mrilion dollars.
NO. 42.
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Marrying a Title.
An American eorrespoopMl writing
from the old world, says :
I could mention ipor* than ten or
'twelve distinct eases whew Amnrieao
girls have given np a bapOT home in
exefcauge for a most miietwae existence.
Their fortune* have been squandered in
moat eases ; war of the Udws have been
i deserted ; other* have obtained a di
vorce ; but all of tham arc heart-broken.
The cause of all th it wretchedness H to
; I* traced to the denim of gratifying a
feeling—a vanity; to flourish aa Madame
I la Marquum or to imagine herself a prin
cess. The twelve or more caaee of which
I possess positive kuowlodge of facta aie
i n<4 all. Not that every cam relates to
the marriage of an adventurer t bat re
; gnrd these marriage* even In the most'
! favorable light, and It I* aafe to asinine
that rnder no eirenmetancea will an
| aristocrat take an American woman to
hi* bosom aa bis wife. It ha leap Into
tbt dark. Certainly there ia no mason
why a girl should not marry Iba nut aba
likes ; bat it is wise to remember that it i
is tbe instinct of fallen men to hate
equality. Tbe young lady msv be equal
with him who she hives, bat then arises
the question whether the man's home or
friends will suit her. U the latter look
ouktndl v on her what nnotteraVJe misery
mast follow t The American girl dis
covers too late that the ha* been allured
by the sounds of title* or a desire to at
i tain a social position of which she pre
! vioasly knew nothing. Her marragn
Ertion seenrej tbo tide, bot the but- j
nil's relatives are and pathetic sod
; bar vanity is rewarded byattfaof misery
and alights But no taming *
heeded, tuid I will add only one mow
' narrative before I close.
A year ago an American lady married
i in tbe south of Fraoai a Polish Count.
I She waa daly cautioned, but she wonld
' lie a Cbuntee*. Married fa dn form,
the pair act out on a wedding tour, but
I before a week's travel was cwnaume.l, on
j reaching Vienna, the lady became aware
that though a Countess -die waa bound
to a swindler. But for the timely infcer
. session of the American OOMBI the
; Countess wonld have bee# subjected to
•>ad!e wconrivnee, inasmuch aa the
• husband bad conspired with his oreAt
lora to bring pressure ou the family °f
{the American lady for the purpose of
extorting money. These many eaaea of
girlish mistortnne, while none of them
j took so deadly or terrible at first glance
|as tbe evil that baa befallen Miss Bon
ville, have roused eqnat heartburning to
families and misery more enduring than,
we are happy to say, hers u likely tobe.
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A rioter WITH Warn*.—The Autumn
tnatxetirres of the English vokinteets
have given an instance more than ordi
narily ludicrous. The advance of the
volunteer* under Lord Math Kerr waa
stopped, and the entire division held for
j some time in check, by what does the
reader suppose f A awarm of wasp#.
| Three winged warriora,diatorbed in their
peaceful occupancy of a barley-field,
: charged fiercely upon the invading foe.
The ('<' in manuer-fb-Chief wna sorely
| wounded in seven places. A flank move
rnent naa frustrated by tbe active aasail
! ants, and the mat of the division seemed
I imminent, when a forlorn hope succeed
ed, under cover of a heavy bombardment
of turf, ia shutting up the enemy in
their fattnem. In palliation of tbi*
undignified and altogether laughable
discomfiture of Lord Kerr's it
mav be taid that a swsrtn of waspa is a
foc not to be dispised. Tbey will tredtly
sting a man to death. Only a few day*
since a child was so killed, almost in
-tsntlv, at a place called CUeveagas,
in France ; and even soldier*, only play
ing at war, may be excused for shunning
so unpleasant an insect But does not
th# Incident suggest ita own moral?
Why shook! not thia fierceness be util
ized in the service of patriotism ? A
regiment or two of wasps trained to act
as skirmishers wonld give a moat unwell
come reception to the future invader.
HORSES —Some curious statistic* as to
the production of boree* in Russia are
green by the SfiHttiiy Statistical Miga
i rise of St. Petersburg. The total num
l*r of boTsea in the empire, "are the
writer, u twenty millions, which is
equivalent to twenty-lire per cent of the
j population, while in Austria the number
of horses is nine per cent only, and in
North Germany eighteen per oenh To
I estimate the wealth in hprees of s eoun
! try frum a military point of view, how
ever, it is nceeaaary to make the super
ficial area, sod not the number of inhsbt
| tants, the basis of the a leulation. On
I thin principle it found that Rns-ia baa
160 horses per square mile. Austria 313
and Germany 690, o that Russia w really
far from being so well provided with the
means of transport as either Austria or
Germany. The production of boms in
Russia, too, is decreasing ; it has within
the last twelve years diminished by eight
iwr cent The'geogrsphical distribution
at tle Russian horses, adds the writer,
!ig rery unfavorable for military pur
ttoaea ; the? are most numerous 11 dis
-1 tricte audi M Siberia, wbich aw the least
likely lo be the theatre of a campaign:
in Siberia the number of horses is equal
to that of the people. The province*
which are richest are in the east and
southeast; those which ore Purest are
in the south and southwest. The govern
ment of Perm, where a new breed of
horsea had been introdoced by Peter the
throat, bad no fewer than 757,000 of
thcao animals on the Ist of January,
1871.
Ottivass SnKtr.—On the tnsin-deck of i
a China stoiiner arrived in New York. |
abont amid-shipa, tru an iron cage con
taining specimens of Chinese abeep, said
in be mnch finer than an/ raised in this
country. They are peculiar from the
size and form of the tail, and excite mnch j
cariosity. They are abont the sixe of an i
ordinarv American alieep. The body is i
white, the face below the eyes being ]
anally black. The tail is about a loot
and a half long, and ie in the shape of a
fan. flat, and abont nine inches wide at
the extremitv. Much curiosity was also
excited by some Pekin dogs that were
lazily rolling on the deck. They are of a
! pure black color, and the hair is long at d
silky. Tbe nose is long and narrow, end
in* in a peak, and the whole bead re-em
bles very tnuch that of a wolf. Anotbtr
cage contained five Cbineae pigs, jourg
and very small. The color is speckled,
white and black, and the hair, which is
bristly, covers the white spots only, the
black being perfectly smooth. These
specimens have lwen sent to a gentleman
in New York, who, it is understood, con
templates the experiment of acclimatizing
and raising the s|>ecies.
CONDENSED ROMANCE Romance in
Utile; party named Matehett; doctor;
resides in Illinois. In 1865 he was pac
ing through Chicago, and while waiting
for train at tbe depot saw a lady with
a child in her i nut also waiting for train.
Child was suddenly seized with violent
sickness. Mother seriously alarmed.
Doctor rushes to assistance. Child re
stored before train started. Lady's
heart won. Expressions of gptitnde.
Doctor went off on his trait)."" L;\dy
inquired name of preserver. Found "it
out. Years elapsed. A few months ago
the lady died in Aberdeen, Scotland, mid
in her will bequeathed to her benefactor
the sum of 8100,600. Money deposited
in bank. Matehett tickled.
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Pacta Mi ftodn
Tbe Waahingten Treasury employ*
1,190 women.
Preebyteriau property ia Philadelphia
la wortn over
It la nvoposed to tax dogs ia Selena,
; Ahk, to pay tbe dty debt.
A cow has bee* poisoned by eating
peach leave* is Alexandria.
In tbe district of Bohr, Belgium not
one illiterate miner can be found.
The rinderpest has appeared among
the cattle In Lincolnshire, England.
J. Bona Browne has contracted to pay
*600,000 for 20,000 arris of California
•alt ma rah.
A nan ia not like •chicken; fie# older
ha gets, the tenderer be becomes. AU
tbe young ladies please note I
Some of the Michigan pas!vet are
so diy that farmer* hve to feed hay
already.
A home baa been known to go through
the baa of* field eorrootly and without
miming an oat.
A New York firm put up youug'ehad
after tbe manner of aarehnea, labeling
them "shadine*."
Beam am ousting a great deal of trou
ble among the Wisconsin fanner*. They
are getting numerous and bold.
Tha library lottery drawing has been
postponed at Louisville, Ky., till Uw
7th of December.
From IMP to 1971 in the United States
926 steamboat ramalH e* took place,
with a low of UTS lives.
The fames of loafer matches stran
gled a premium boll that ws being trans
ported in a Kentucky freight car.
Immense belt buckles are coming in
fashion. They are of gold sftd silver,
and are worn at the aide In a rosette..
A Kentucky pioneer baa just died who
saw, when twelve years old. only one log
cabin on the spot where Louisville now
sbtoda.
Two new journals will shortly be pub
lished which will support Santa Anus a*
a candidate lor th* Freaidency of
Mexico.
Coal ia higher now in London than it
ba* been before for forty year*. In
1691 tbe price was about one half what
it ta now,
Tbe French Government baa uatd to
Germany 97,600.000 femes, which com
pleted the fifth half milliard of the war
indemnity.
A St Loot* mi recently made a com
fortabl* bed oat of one thousand five
hundred dollar* government sht per
cent bonds.
Ia lowa, women bold office* aa notary
public, four are county aoparmtenoenU §
of public schools, and one ia State
Librarian.
Eighty odd year* ago the winter waa a
fearfully cold one at Nan tucket, and fa
peeple paid fifty dofiamacor* for wood;
*e say* tbe chronicles.
A French soldier at Lyons Mew out
hi* brain* because liw comrade* jeered
at him for spotting their dinner, which
he had cooked. m
A Japan aa* student at New Haven
sent a polite note to his nrofemor, re
questing permission to kill a student
who had insulted him-
The subscriptions to the Italian Opera
in Mew York, amounted to 960,000 JOT a
season of thirty nights before a ngi&
advertisement appeared,
i A Loudon gentleman, Mr. Thomas
H'dme, ha- bequeathes! to the British
society for the prevention at cruelty to
fifty-five thousand dollars.
The crop* in England have but a
poor prospect this season. Intelligence
a brought from time to time of great ' V
damage done to them by wind and raw
and ooattnned wet weather.
The high price of cad hsann increased
the upnun of running the iuradiira
cotton w.ilU that it lute been decided to
reduce the number trf bourn of lsbor in
them while the present high prises in
maintained.
The French aathontiee and General
Manteofle! commander of the German
troops in France agreed that the equ
ation f the Depart men ta of the Marue
and Hante Marae commence on the
15th October.
Billings Bare that he once knew a m n
who woohto't ewes set a gate post with
out haviug the ground antiyml to arei f
it porerered the proper iogredieak lor
post holes.
C. H. Goodspeede, who was fleeced
out of 3.000 bv gamblers at Chicago,
tursa ewt to be Homy Stone, the confi
dential clerk of w Hartford, Coon., b.ak,
who robbed the bank of §s,otw and
started for California.
A few weeks ago the creek under the
great Natural llndge is Virginia sudden
ly disappeared, and subsequent inreelt
gatios demonstrated the fad that tie
at cans empties itself is to the cart.:
through a nnmber of oiMj-fotmod
fit-uree of unknown depth.
The greatest smoker in Europe has
just died at Rotterdam In bis will lie
esj>tw*d a wish that all the amok era of
the country be invited to his funeral, and
that they smoke while In procession to
the grave. At the toot of the bier
tobacco, cigare and matches were placed.
Among the clever hits of the pargraph*
iug of the period, the following is quite
the beet : " Elias Williams of Buffalo,
Missouri, blew into the masxle of hit
gun to see if it was loaded. Could Mr.
Williams communicate with hia friends
in this world, bis spirit would gently
whisper, ' It was.' "
Caleb Shercer, a wealthy farmer of
Omawattomie township, Kansas, in a
supposed fit of iorunty murdered hia
daughter. Mrs. Wallace, and mortally
wounded his own wife and his son-in-law,
Wallace, The latter, while defending
himself, struck Shercer with a club and
killed turn instantly. - t
Forty thousand eight hundred and
eighty "one men lost by death, of wbich
17,537 died in battle, 10.746 died from
wounds received in the engagements,
310 perished by aoeideuts, 30 by suicide,
and the rest of the nnmber by disease.
This is what it coat the Gesmans for the
conquest of France.
It is said that the fiist wfllow tree
ev* planted in thia country was set out
on the line of Third avenue, New York,
one hundred and eight years ago. It
was a willow twig which came in a
package of figs from Babylon was stuck
into the ground, and iu two years be
came quite a large tree.
Nathaniel Nilea, ex-speaker of the
New Jersey Assembly, has been prose
cuted by the New Jersey Railway Com
pany, and a suit for libel was begun
in tbe Supreme Court, the damages
being laid at 85,006,000. The alleged
libel la an article which appeared in the
Naiio* over the signature of " Jersey."
The Meriden Republican is responsible
for this : *'A mau in a neighboring town
ties hia cat up by tbe tail in the back
yard every ni ;bt; in the morning he govs
out and collects th£ pieces of soap,
having pots, soap dishes, old brushes
aud vanous other things thrown into
the xard by disturbed aud angry board
ers in tbe adjoining houses."
" What a nuisance 1" exclaimed
gentleman at a concert, as a young Io
in front of him kept talking in a loid
voice to a lady at bis suit " Did y u
refer to me, mr t" tlireatingly demand" d
theop. " Oh, no ; I meant the musi
cians there, who keep up such a noise
with their instruments that I can't h< ar
your conversation," waa the stinging
reply.
There is a Russian at Old Orchaid ,
Beach, Me., whore fondness for the at a
aud everytiuwg connected with it s
eccentric, to tbe verge of mania. He
driaks two or threesgullons, it is said, of
sea water daily, eata sea-weed by tLo
handful, and bathes four of live times a
day. Ham very healthy aud robust, fat
as a sea Wand has a round, red jovial
face. /
Goldsmith Maid, the famous trotting
more, is said to be stolen property, ana
a lawsuit for her recovery is impending.
It is said that about five yearn ago the
stables oft great Kentucky stock miser
were burned down and c very promising
voung mare stcden ; and that the grew at
wh® had charge of her baa Just seen ti *
celebrated maid, and is ready to take a
oath that she is the stolen annuls