Engaged for Money, • with Wt a riftgl* thought, Twe bstrt* thai heat u owe." Ah, sT**' There may be oeh a thing indeed, Bet far me, f must confoaa. Two aoula with not one single thought In eonrmon. i the okee Juet here ; Two heart* that beat in different time, And mine—iadrffcrent quite I fbar. Ah, ine I there waa a time when I Imagined loe wee *oteething true, When Mfp wae aWiahitw oVr and o'er, And Jura for tnr farmed ever new. The river-bank whereon we eit To-day, with pttleee dull and eh>w, Wae once the tryeting-fdaee where-two, WttilahttpeAband*. atehetl the watera flow. Bui aff fwo soon that dream was o'er; I learned a lesaon hard, though true; The romanee of Utia Ufa i short, And love, I And, w ahorter too. Be new ny hand Pre given away; *y heart—well, 'that remains my own. I wender if the old man dreama 1 marry him Aw wealth alone t CICOIL I **- ' ; That eh a little joyona-hearted gut, to aee whom it a blraatag. That hvea a square or two flwm ma, upon our qoic.' atreet; Her merry &e in bright beyond the painter aweet expronattig, And tiippingly m dactyl* mow her tiny, twinkling foot. She aeenn aa if rite had nerer known a ohUdiah care. And the eoft October eunahine ia tangled in her hair. Above the dm of noiey girl a I catch her radiant laughter, Beneath the dnaky Undent en the long, long anmmer dare. And aee her foremost in the romp, with dozens running after— The flret beam glancing through a cloud chared by a trodp of raya. Tit but a poor aunilitude- -tho braveat would not do— For music, petfuma, tterlight, all eecm eoan moaplaoa for Lout At morning, when, with many book a, I meet her on the way to Her vhoot, I often wonder what they teach my Utile friend; The leeeona ehe herself might teach are wiser for than Piste— Simplicity and truth, the meant to e-mpam wiaeri end; But nrorii I with the privilege at tutor I might claim To aak her aoftly oftan-roua ? and hear bar > aaewvr/attne. And wmetimee when at church I aee her hvppy, trustful fratores, A Under, wayward thought will come be tween me and the paalm. That like to aueb a Utile child muet al we emng creator,* Inrimpie-miudod faith .ppear, withpaeaiona h'imbed and calm. Before the Eternal Troth ahall break upon our gigtit go din— Fee auch an one the Savior eaw, and bade coaae unto Bin \ I Qt AIEB DETECTIVE. We were five passengers in all—two ladies on the baok. seat, and a middle- , aged gentleman and a Quaker on the mid- j diss and myself in the front ~ the two laJTe? might have been mother t and daughter, aunt and niece, governess and ehar*e. or might have sustained any othavtwiatieaship which made it proper ' for turo ladies to travel together unattend- ' ed *r : ,: Tin wtiiddic-agerf gentleman was sprighly . and talkative. He seen struck up an . acquaint AE cewith the ladies, towards whom in his teal to do he rather overdid | the agreeable bowing, and smiling and ( chatting over his shoulder in away pain- ■ fully suggestive at this time of life, of a " crick" in the back. He was evidently a gay lothario. The Quaker wore the uniform ol his sect, and confined his speech, as igany a parlimentarian would save his credit by 1 doing, to simply "yeas'' and ''nays." As tor myself. I make it an invariable 1 rule nf the road to be merely a looker on and listener. Towards evening I was aroused from one of those reveries into which a young man, without being a poet or a lover, will sometimes fail, by an abrupt query from 1 the talkative gentleman : I 1 * Abp you armed, air P "I am not,"l answered, astonished, no > 1 doubt, visibly at the question. j' " I am sorry to hear it," he replied ; 1 1 " for before reaching our next stopping :. place it will be several hours in the night, j 1 and we must pass over a portion of the j road on which more than one robbery is j "reported to have been committed." * The ladies turned pale, bnt the stranger did his best to re-assure them. ""Sot that I think there is the slightest danger at present," he resumed, " only when one is responsible for the safety of! the ladies, you know soeh a thing as a J pistol to rench would add materially to; one's confidence," ■ " Tour principles, my friend," address , log the Quaker, * l I presume, are as much opposed to carrying as using carnal { weapons V' \ " Yes," was the response. " Have the villains murdered qn y of their victims P the elderly lady nervously inquired. a Or have they contented themselves; with—with plundering them t" addfd the joupgfr in a timorous voice. { / " Decidedly the latter," the amiable gentle oian hastened to give assurance; " and we are none of ns prepared to offer i resistance in case of attack, so nothing I worse than robbery can possibly befall ua." Then, after blaming his thoughtlessness in having unnecessarily introduced a disagreeable subject, the gentleman quite excelled himself in efforts to raise the spirits of the company, and had succeeded • M well by the time night had set in that all had quite forgotten or only remember ed their fears to laugh at them. . . „ Our genial companion fairly talked himself hoarse. Perceiving which he took from his pocket a box of newly "invented cough candy," and after passing it to the ladies, he helped himself to the balance and tossed the paper out of the window. He was iu the midst of a high encomium of the new nostrum, more than half the efficacy of which he insisted depended on j its being taken by suction, when a shrill whistle was heard, and almost immediate ly the coach stopped while two faces, . hideously blackenotl, presented them selves, one at aach window. " Sorry to trouble you," said the man on the right, acknowledging with a bow, two lady-like screams from the back seat, but ' business is business,' and ours will soon he over if things go on smoothly." " Of course, gentlemen, yon will spare, aa for as may be consistent with your disagreeable duty, the feelings of these ladies," appealed the polite passenger in his blandest manner. " Oh, certainly 1 they shall first be attended to, and shall not be required to leave their seats, unless their conduct renders it necessary. " And now ladies," continued the rob ber, the barrel of bis pistol glittering in the light of tha coach lamp, " be so good aa to pass your purses, watches, and such other trinkets as may be accessible with out jruoh trouble.'' The ladies came down handsomely, asdf •r were ao further molested. 1 One by one the rest got out. The mid dle-aged gentleman's turn came first. He submitted, with a winning grace, and was robbed likad a Chesterfield. . My oW£ affaire, like the sum I lost, are foaming. The Quakers turn came next. He 1 qtrietfy handed sftkr Ms jfocketbook and watch, and wfidn asked if he had >">7 other valuables, said " Nay." * A Quaker's word is good, eVen among thieves; so after a hasty "good night" the robber thrust his pistol into his pocket and, with his two compaplons, one of whom had the reins of the leaders, was about starting. "Stop!" exclaimed the Quaker, in a tons more of command than of request. "Stop! What fori" returned the other, in evident surprise. "F* f w two reasons,'' was there ply, emphasized with a couple of Derrin ger's cocked and presented. " Help I" shouted the robber. "Stop!" the Quaker exclaimed. "And if any one sf your sinful companions ad vans* a step to thy relief, the spirit will V surely move me to Mow thy brums out." . -The robber at the oftaette window end FRED, KURTZ, Bdi tor ami Proprietor VOL. v. the one at the leaden' head th. night it a food time to leave. " Now, nt in friend," aaid th Quaker, StflT hovering hi* man, " and take the middle seat, but first deliver up thy pis tol." The oil er hesitated. **Th#e had bettor not itelay, 1 feel the spirit move in my forefinger." The robber did as he was directed, and the Quaker took his place hjr his side, giving the new comer the middle seat. The driver, who vra* frightened out of hie w its, now set forward at a rapid rate. The lively gvntiuman soon recovered his vivacity. Tie was eepeoiallv facetious on the Quaker's prowess. "You're a rum Quaker, you are, W by, you drnu't quake Worth n cent." "I'm not a Shaking Quaker, it that's what thee means." "Of the ' Hickory,' or rather tbe ' Old Hickory's stripe,' I should say,'' retorted the lively man. But the Quaker relapsing into his usual monosyllables the conversa tion flagged- Sooner than we expected the eoseli stosped where we were to have sup|>er and a change of boreue. We had deferred a redistribution of our effects until we should reach the place, as the dim light of the coach latup would have rendered the process somewhat difficult. It was now necessary, however, that it should bo attended to at once, aa our jovial companion had previously an nounced his intention of leaving us at that poiot. He proposed a postponement until after supper, which he offered to go and order. u Nay," urged the Quaker, with an ap proach to abruptness, and laying his hand on the other'a arm, "business before pleasure, and for business tliere is no time tike the present.'' •' Will thee be good enough to search the prisoner ihe said to the men, still keeping his hand, in a friendly way, upo Q the passenger's arm. I did so, but not one of the stolen arti cles could be found. "He must have got rid of them ia the coach," the gay gentleman ruggcMed, and immediately offered to go in ses .-ch. "Stop!" thundered the Quaker, tight ening hit; grasp. The man turned pale and struggled to release his arm. Ia an iastant one of the Derringers was levell spcr the following pleasant gossip about Kaiser William: "I don'*, know whether it be the effect of victory, luit certainly I uever • inch a satisfied looking people as these Germans. Their complacency is absolute ly eiasperatiug, and ( do not wonder that sanguine Frenchmen are driven almost wild by the sight of a Prussian helmet. A settled 'rock of ages' expression about their faces expresses eternity rather than time, ami to associate death with such linpertuhahle life seetus almost impossible. As to the Emperor, he carries out the idea of everlasting life by being as active at seventy-five as most men are at titty-five. He is sun, moon and stgrs to every German man. woman and child at Ems. "That the Emperor's mind is eminently [ -radical shows itself constantly, and that ie dislikes ostentation is proved by his life at Ems. Dressed quietly in a suit ,f "pepper-aml-salt,' he appears among people accompanied by a member of the court; drinks his water at the spring Rke every body else, shakes hands wi'.n his friends, bo vra to every body and i'i*cour ages ceremony of all kinds. " When the Ksiser first went {„ £ma he sent for all the physicians, rec citing theui most cordially, and sitting on t he end of the table during the en interview. Upon taking leave of the he aaid : 'Re member. gentlemen, th when you meet me you are not to kr iOW rue, for 1 am a poor man and eanno t at r,inl to buy many hata.' Thia was a polite way for telling the gentlemen lb a t St was a great bore for hitn to return Mutations and that he bad rather not b , recognized. No physician of Ems wi' , he found remsvlug his hat at the s?'pr.iat-h of the Emperor. *'Hi j ref.-renoe to poverty ia not ttnfre qoei 4 t. Upon tlie birth of ono of the Grown Prince's children, a eoutier with whom he chanced to be walking drew the Imperial attention to a trinket, remarking that it would be a suitable present for the happy mother. 'Ah no,' replied the cautious Wiihelm. 'that would be a bad precedent, for if my daughter goes on ailding to her family as she has begun. 1 should eventually be ruined. I sin too poor for such extravagance.' "Not long ago he received a beautiful gold and silver escritoire, as a token of gratitude from a wealthy banker whom he had ennobled for largely endowing a bos pita). Gazing at the superb gift Wiihelm remarked: 'My subjects are better off than 1 tin. I cannot afford to make my friends such costly presents!' 'I dined with llis Majesty yesterday,' said a Ger man, whose position ia aot higher than that of a hotel treasurer. 'lie is very frank and friendly." "The Kaiser frequently give* dinners to tbe officers stationed near, or visiting here, and in tact any person in the Gov ernment emplov, either civil or military, is eligible to this distinction, which is considered ample compensation for ex ceedingly meager salaries. The Kaiser ia very like his photograph, only be ia not as good looking as represented. Erect anil soldierly in hia cairiage, portly, but not obese in figure, he resembles an English country gentleman, era solid, shrewd man of Boston. What bis chin lacks in force bis head makes up in obstinacy, while there is sn extreme thickness of neck and breadth of cerebellum that in dicate unusual fighting and a bull-dog tenacity. I should say it would be difficult to pound a new idea into his head or an old one oat.'' 1 Nation of Pigmies. To the south of Raffs and Sum, there i* a very sultry and humid country? i with many bamboo woods, inhabited by the race called Dskos, who are no bigger | than boya ten years old. that is, only four feet high. They have dark, olive colored cotupiection, and live in a eom- Eiletely savage it ate, like the beasts, laving neither houses, temples, nor holy trees, like the Gallas, yet poaaes sing something of an idea of a higher being called Yes, to whom, in moments of wretchedness and anxiety, they pray —not In an erect position, but reversed, with the head on the ground, and the feet supported upright against a tree or a stone. In prayer, they say: "Yer, if thou really dost exist, why I dost tbou allow oa to be slain? We do not aak thee for food and clothing, for we live on serpents, anta and mice. Thou has made us. Wliv dost thou permit us to be trodden under foot?" | The Dakoa have no chief, no laws, no weapons; they do not hunt, nor till the ground, but live solely on fruits, roots, mice, serpents, ants, honey, and the like, climbing the trees anil gathering the fruit like monkeys; and both sexea go completely naked. They do not marry, but live indiscriminstivc lives of animals, multiplying very rapidly, and , with very tittle |*arental instinct; the mother nurses her child for a short time only, accustoming it to eat ants and ser pents as soon as possible; and when it can help itself, it wanders away where it will, and the mother thinks no more about it. They have thick, protruding lips, flat noses, and small eyes; the hair is not woolly, and is worn by the women over the shoulders. The nails on the hands and feet are allowed to grow long, like the talons of vultures, and arc used in digging for ants and in tearing to piecea the serpents, which they devour raw, for they are unacquainted with fire. The spine of the snake is the only orna ment worn around the neck, nut they pierce the ears with a sharp-pointed piece of wood. I* Rcsma. —Little grain is raised In Russia, above St. Petersburg, and that little, so damp is the climate, must be kiln dried for preservation. In some localities barley is sown as far north as Moaen ; but it is only three or four times in a century that the season is warm enough and long enough to bring it to perfection, and it is usually cut as fodder for the cattle. All these latitudes depend mainly for their cereals upon the richer harvests of the south ; but their rivers are stocked with fish, myriads of wild-fowl find a home in the woods and by the lakes, mushrooms abound, and the swamps are filled with cranberries and whortleberries that ripen despite the frosty air. Hie wealth of this region, from, the Gulf of liothnia to the Otiral, is in its forests and ifilhcnee. The people are wood-cutters, hunters, fishers, workers in metals, char coal-burners. preparers of tar and pitch and potash, makers of mats and of various utensils from the bark of the linden, and of coarse linen and cordage from the flax and hemp of their low-lying fields. A VKBT BAD CASE.—A Detroit woman with the rheumatism censulted a clairvoy ant, who went into a trance and wrote the following startling description of the case: M 1 find your case is one that baffles scill. The discs is complycatcd; the spine is mutch diseased; have hurt it by a fall. The liver is ulsurated, cause you to rais a thick mewcnsa. Your lied syrnpcthizes. Yon hav spcls of feeling dizzy, and the sorufulaiu the blood, which has destroyed the -Vitality, causes some tendency to dropsy. The throat is affected with Katarr in the hed. Yon can, with proper treat ment be helped. I hoap this is not too late to Benefitt yon; if you want treat ment I will attend you at wonca." According to the Gazette de Cologne, the consumption of opium in the United States has latterly increased to a fright ful extent, the importation of the drag having angmen ted from 4,078,744 ounces la 1870, to 5,041,046 ounce* in 1871 CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., FRIDAY, NOV EM HER 8, 1872. The Holland Dutchman. Ths aut craving anythiug more. The rain fi'jod* the land as far a* the eye can reach, sj&d he view* it with the happiness of the turtle. Hi* boot sink* deep into the sat urated grass, and he ha* the air of one who walks over the *od of a compact lawu. To watch the rich vegetation growing out of the greasy, porous soil, the grazing of the pluuip sheep and the great black beeves, and the spiral smoke of his pipe—this is the cup of pleasure full to the brim. The tropical riches of the hills and valleys ot Java become a vague tire a in; here the Spanish castle has' been reached. The Javanese life was pro bationary ; this is the realization—the house with a canal dug aronud it, a garden teaming with vegetation, a drawbridge with an arch bearing a Biblical inacription or a Hollaudie proveib. Here is abound ing platitude of soil and speech ; here is happiness. The soggy lethargy it the Dutchman's buckler. A shrewd Yankee invades the kingdom with a "patent," selects his man, and talks to him with his habitual clear ness and vivacity for several half hours. The article ia good, labor-saving, money making, and such as the native should have. Why does he not take It f With dull, iuipwwive expression he replies that he does not want it. The New Englandcr tries to make an impreasion on other minds, bnt without effect; then he hasti j ly packs his trunk and leaves for other fields. This ia the fate of sn aggressive nature on Dutch soil, and the Yankee does not abide. Let tbe invention or im provement be wbat it may, " he does not want it." It is the llollandic " nun j>c samts*." In the canals, whieb are drains as well as public highways, no dredge beats are used lor keeping the depth requisite for navigation, but the mud is pulled up by band in leather pouches attached to long poles. I spoke to a burgomaster of the saving ot time and money, and tlie greater efficiency there would be in uslug the ■team dredge for this purpose. Then what would become ot our laboring men f" answered he. " They would be thrown out of employment and would become a charge to the community." He was LEFT.—A genuine touch of woman nature, as well as human nature, pervades tbe following Ironi a corres pondent in Detroit: "A coiuf-wtable old couple sat a seat or two in front of us on the railroed during one of the hottest day* of last summer. The journey was evidently one of tho events of their live*, and their curiosity excited the at tention of llie passenger*. At a way station the old gentleman stepped out of the cars to get a drink, or to buy a doughnut, sou heard the bell only in time to rush to tbe door of the eating house and see the train moving off with out him. The old buly iu her seat had been fidgeting, and looking out of the window In her anxiety for bi* return, and when she saw hi* plight, hia frantic gesture* for tbe train to stop as it swept farther and farther away, she exclaimed: " There! my old man'* got left! heb**li there, see lie has!!! Wa'U," ahecontiuu od, settling back into her seat again, •I'm glad on't—it's always been "Mam my, vou'll get loft! mammy, you'll get left!" all mv life long; and now he's gone and got left, and I'm glad on't.' "Her candid reflection on the accident, and the evident satisfaction she felt in the fuel that it was the old man and not herself that was left, was greeted by a round of laughing applause. Not a few of the ladies In the car were delighted that it was the old man and not the woman who had 'caught it' this time. For once, the lord and not the lady had made the blunder, and 'gone ami got left-'" MIUTOBT TnAixiKo IN Fiuxro.— It has l>een decided to transfer the super vision of all the youths educated in the lycrts, or French public schools, to mili tary rtj*tiUurt, or tutors. The tutors, as the French desigation partly indicates have, till now, been drawn frum the pro fessors of the Sorl>onne, and entrusted with the care of tho collegian* during the hours of study. Their duty is to watch over the discipline of the estab lishment, and to attend to the education of the pupils by making them repeat or rehearse their work prior to tho public examinations. The new tutor* will be composed of retired officers snd adjutant* selected by the Minuter of Wsr. Every college will have n captain as general superintendent, whose special duty it will be to preside over the preparatory school. lie will alsohavo to inspect the drilling exercise of all tho ptiails. He will be second In authority only to the proviaor, or master, and receiver, be sides bis retiring pension, s salary of 1,600 franos, with roard and lodging in the college. Under his immediate or ders will be placed six lieutenants, who will receive a salary of 1,000 francs, with an indemnity of SOO francs for board and lodging. Deride* these officers there will be six adjutants, whose duty it will lie to superintend the sleeping rooms, passages and gymnastic exercises. They will receive a salary of 800 franca, with hoard and lodging. In short, the rising generation will be handed over body and mind to the military arm.— London ItU graph. TOGETHER.— After the action near Breslaw, in Silesia, between the Prus sians ami the Anstrians, which preceded the battle of Lisas, and before the two armica met in this latter contest, a French soldier in Frederick's service, who bad just deserted, was stopped, ami conduct ed to the king. "Why did you lcaro me?" said Frederick. "Because," an swered the soldier, "your affairs are too desperate." "Well replied the king, "go back to yonr colors. Wo shall bav# another battle soon; and if I lose it, come and And mo out, and you and I will deaert together:" SKAIM. —The snail cultivators near Paris have their pastures well stocked again, we are told. The penaants in the Champagne direct drlro a thrifty busi ness by catching all the snails they can anJ selling them to the regular snatl growors, who shut them up in a fatten ing park and feed them on various dainty ealads until they become too large to ¥iss through a ring of regulation sine, hey then send the snails to Paris, where they aro eaten as a great delicacy, under the name of Champagne oysters. POMOWONS CAHDY.— Tbo English peo {le arc again suspicions of tho attraotivo ooking sweetmeats which load their young ones into tenotation and bring them into trouble. A Newcastle chemist has been analyzing some of the stuff and has published the resnlts, and as a mat ter of course the people are shocked, and wonder how the confectioners can do ae, forgetting that if they did not boy tha oandy with tha brilliant colors, it weald not bt made. Hints to Housekeeper*. The woman beat fitted to make lite ! fireside happy, is ahn whose mtud is will Mured with practical and useful knowledge, is accomplished without af (Delation, retiring and modest without prudery, frank, free and gay, without frivolity, and thinks her husband the greatest man tho world ever saw or is cverr likely to see. Faith in the latter involve# a thousand endearing qualities in u wife, which we have not time to enumerate, lu a country like this, w here there ie no established order of aristocracy, where fortunes change hands so frequently, there are Iwt few 'amities, the female head of which is not required to attend to the economy of the household; to be a good housekocfier ia therefore, to be reckoned a principal accomplishment in the girl for a wife.' If fortune happily apcurwe her from tbe necessity of partaking of the duties of a housewife, the knowiudgc of direction will tie invaluable, for servants are al most uniformly earcleea. Indeed, when we consider the selfishness of human na ture, it ia perhnpa unreasonable to ex pect hirelings to guard the internets of! their employers aa faithfully as they would their own. A great deal of waste I occurs in the kitchen, therefore—for ifa atauoe, iu the boiling of meats. Tbe ! cook will throw out the water without letting it cool to takeoff the fat, or scrap* the dripping pan into the swill patL Now the grease is useful iu man* ways It can be burned in tamps, mixed with lard, or, when no pork baa been boded with it, made into candles. Hits of meat are thrown out whioli would make hash. Route are burned that wuaUi make soap. The flour is sifted in a wasteful manner, or live bread pan left with dough sticking to iL Pie crust is laid bv to sour Instead of making s few tarta for tea. Cold puddings are con sidered good for nothing, when often time* they might he steamed fur tin next day. Vegetables are thrown away that would warm for breakfast uieeir.; Apple* decay fur want of looking over.! Dish cloths are thrown where mice can deetrvy tlu-ui Soap is left in water to dissolve. If Bath brick, whiting, rotten stone, etc., are used, much is wasted uselessly. So much for prsrtial illustra tion. All the instance* of eareleaanaas we have enumerated are trifling in themselvea, but, together with many more which*ronkl be mentioned, make a formidable whole. Thus the mistraaa of a house will often allow her husband's money to be wasted, thinking, the while, that because she dresses more plainly than some of her neighbors, she is a moat superior economist. TBI GMUT On*lß AHTUHT. —A Ro chester paper aay: • Those who liav* been led by fate* statistic* and spacious arguments to fear that the great grain trade of the Northern! is in danger of being diverted from it* natural channel of transportation and will And its way te the *cabord. via Montreal, the Miasisaip pi Itiver or other routes, would do well to pause and reflect befurv regarding their opinion as definitely fixed. The reoeipta of grain at Buffalo np to the present time are no leto than last year, making due allowance for the Utme par donrd; Is it where the raMiagr* grew so fast That they burst triih * noise like the thunder's blast ? n Is it whrre through the rich deep m< llow soil The beets grow down as if lioriDg lor oil ? Is it where the turnips are hard to beat. And the cattle grow rat on nothing to eat ? U it whore each irrigating sluice la foil !>v water melon Juice ? la it where every thing giowe to such mon strous also That the biggest stories appear like Hea ? Tell me, in short—l would like to know la this wondrous land railed Colorado ? You're right, old boy, It id! THET Pin IT.— -Away out In the north western oomer of America dwell a hardy people who are full of resource* and are seldom to be balked in their purposes. A man of mature years in Vancouver who had a wile from whom he had been sepa rated, lately bestowed his well-tried affec tions on a girl of fourteen, and as the girl's father took the liberty to object to her receiving them, the preoions pair went to work to prove that the old man was crazy and incapable of managing his own affairs. The girl swore to this state ment and a guardian was appointed who readily consented to the proposed mar riage. We may be wrong in colling atten tion to sueh a dangerous precepent, but forewarned it forearmed. A Gambler Hatted by a Child. A man nwg)y fifty years old, named Alexander Dewing, living on Labroese street, and owning a vacant lot in the KJxth ward, worth got on spree aboat a weak ago, and fell info the hands of two rascal*, who deserve at least a ducking. One of diem is a yaung man named Kidder, a machinist, and the other a stranger in the aity, but a friend of Kidder. When Iteming stalled out ha had about fOO with hitn, and hia intan tlon wa* to purchase a cow of a iuan on \V pud ford avenue. |le was met by Kid •lar, aaketlfo drink, and then the two sat down in a saloon on Michigan avenue and began tu gamble. Ho infatuate! did fum ing become that he did not return home hut once iu four daps. Kidder won bis money, watch, and then two notes of hand for fl3 and til? each- i When Denting had nothing more to I put ap he gave his own note of hand for 920 and lost '.hah This was Saturday noon. One of the men got a blank dead, filled tt out with a description of Denting'! real estate and then filled him ap with liquor, lent hitn one hundred dollars and offered to play him for the property, they to ran the chances of the wifc signing. Tbe man accepted the offlsr, and before dark had lost the money end the deed. Then, while the stranger lent him money to keep hits playing. Kidder went to Darning's house Mid presented ths pspsr for the wife to sign. She is not sols to rpad, and, ha told her that it was bar husband' life insurance policy, and that sbe most sign it or she could never get the mousy in cat* af his death. She was abonl to alga, when one of her children read tbe words "Warranty Deed" aloud, and she caught the idea of what the ens eal was about. She seised a chair, am! in a moment sent the scoundrel out doors. Not oonteul with this, aha followed her two blocks, clubbing him at every jump, and tbeafgot bar neighbors to bring bun. husband none. The two men started for, an officer to have Kidder arretted, when he handed over the watch and agreed to refund the money, but ran away Saturday night without eo doing.—iMraU Fret Prtn. Tux MCTT*SO.—Tbe Signal, published at Ventura, CaL, thus cumwritei the valuable potato of Utia horse: Tbe mustang or uative Califoraiaa liorae, like Ute lodian. will soon be num bered among tbe thing* of tbe past. With all hia defect*, he baa qu tUties and point* of rare value, and that should be preserved. He can thrive and subsist where the American or English blood would starve, is fleet and sure footed aa tbe mule, while hia power of endurance under saddle are anrqualed. He is small of stature, but aa symmetrical aa the Arabian; wild by nature, and often vicious, but always spirited, and, with proper training and kind treatment, fre quently exhibits al! the sflcctiountc sen sibilitie* of the best breeds. It !a no uoeommon feat for him to carry a good rider one hundred miles in a day, and it ia claimed that manv of them oan go much further in that time. We have specimens that at the age of sixteen were aa gay and fiery a* thq best blooded five rear oMs, and that would kill most ■nduriug of them on a short or long Journey. A saddle bones they are pre ferred ®jr all who know them beat, as they are also for all light work. It has always seemed to us passing strange that no attempt has ever yet been made In California to preserve the admirable qualities of this ancient flock of homes in their parity. To permit them to ig nobly perish,"as now eecm* likely, would lie as singular as unfortunate. Whoever undertakes and succeeds ia bringing him up to a higher perfection, or pre serves hia present merit*, will earn a name and a fortune. Crete HS is Gxxava.-On# of the ooeer - Mt ut (io(Tew custom* is their manner of conducting their auction*. When a man bid*, a wax taper ia lit, and liia bid holds Rood aa long aa the taper last*. A taper la lit for ensry bidder. Of aouree the lat and bigheat bidder haa the best ehanoe. A long-aide of the auction should be placed the other queer custom the Oeneveoe have, of making the world, as tar a* in them Ilea, to stand still for a couple of hours in the middle of the day. Nothing can keep yonr ordinary onsen of Geneva from throwing every thing aaide at noon, and going to dinner. The hanker locka up between twelve and two, going on with bnahieea in the after noon. Even the coachman, that yoti hare taken by the hour, will want to leave yon between twelve and one. The fact to, there haa been nothing on the Geneves* stomach bnl bread and ootfee aiace the night before. It is unquestionably the tneagreneaa of their breakfast* which makes them ao prompt to disappear between twelve and two. A RettAßK*Bt.a Riven.—The Platte, to a remarkahle river. On our way through Nebraska says a correspondent, we followed It for nearly three hundred miles, flowing there nearly east, and now, having crossed the first range of the Kooky Mountains, we find it again in the Laramie Plains, hundreds ef miles nearer it* source, here flowing nearly north, whenoe, alter a long distance, it swings aronnd, passes through a gap in the Hlack Hills and make* iu way east ward and southeastward through Wyom ing and into the western part of Nebraska, where it is Joined by the South Fork, and to thenceforward the main l'latte River mentioned above. Some idea of the sise of the territory we hare in thto region may be formed by tho fact that the Platte and its tributaries drain a region of country larger than all New England, New York and Pennsylvania. Ht# Covvimows.—Napolean had earn eat idea* of life, to say the least. "Do you dread tha war as endangering ray life t" he asked. It was thus that In tha times of conspiracy, attempts ware made to frighten ma abont Georges, lie was said to be every my track : thai the wretched being was to fire at me. Well! suppose he had. lie would at the utmost have killed my aid de-camp. But to kill me was impossible. Had lat that time ac<*>rtfr>?t*hed the decrees ol fate ? I feel myself Impelled toward a goal, of which 1 am ignorant. The moment 1 have reached it, as soon as 1 am nolooger of service, an atom then will suffice to put me down. But till then all hnman efforts will avail nothing against me. Whether lam In Paris, or with the snny, is there fore quite indifferent. When my hour comes, a fever, or a fall from my horee in hunting, will kill me as effectually as a bullet. Our day* are numbered." SIMMER IT*AT. —The last summer sea son has exhibited unusual conditio!* throughout the world, fhe heat has been excessive through the northern hemi sphere, In America, Europe, India, etc., so much so, indeed, as to involve a great loos of life direotly by sun-stroke, and in directly by a greatly increased mortality from other diseases. Exceasi ve rains have prevailed in various parts of the United •-intes, while others have suffered from unusual drought. It is many ytars since there have been snch terrific exhibitions of tli under and lightning, many individuals and large numbers of domestic animals having been killed, while tornadoes of great severity hate been vary prevalent. TERMS : Two Dollars a Tear, in Advance. "■tii <4% * . Ml'Jl Uktii i: d Ihe Row* or aalneea. Th* ReeUta of NapUs oootaias the fol lowing account of the loss of two gentle men in the orator of Vesuvine, who with great temerity insisted on being lowered down to the dark egvern immediately below the otiflee of the crater i *'A party was formed to ascend Mount Vesuvius in Urn Caff* di Europe. The party consisted of tw<> American*, three Englishmen, and one Frenchman. They took oaiiiages from the eaffe for Ilesina, reaching there at half-past eleven f>. V. Having pro cared horses, guides, and other necessaries, they started for the burning mountain and began tbe SMeut, on Laigl (JarogUo leading as eieerone, ami arrived at the base j* iltt typwnjnurt cone further than Which haregf do not go. His tourists then began ue ascetfl over tbe hillocks and boulders at lavs until the vicinity of the crater was reached, when Messrs. Jamas Wilcox and Francois La Mieur, aa American and a Frenchmen, Insisted on being lowered down to the cavern which fa formed below tbe month of the volcano. Tlie guides, who provided themselves with ropes for that purpose, ootnplind with the request of the foreigners and lowered them down. The mo an Lain being per fectly quiet no danger was anticipated j but when one of the party above tbe crster called out to the rash adventoram, no gnawer was returned. Thw guides growing anxious, crfed, " GenUnuian, it would be better for you to hold on to tbe ends of tlie rep,*. Still the ropes re mained alack, and no answer came from the sulphurous and mirky oavrra below. Twenty minuter passed and the adven turers were yet silent. It wae then pro posed that one of the guides should he lowered down and bold on to the ropee until he had investigated the appearance of the cavern base, lie had hardly en tered when he ertad out loudly; U 6u! ■a ! non c'a nivote ehe una pietra etretMs gima!" (" Up ! dp! th are's nothing here but n very narrow roek U*) As far as any living person can tell the rest, the unfortunate stnmgera, the vic tims of their own imprudence,were buried into "tlie mysterious abysses of Mount Vesuvius. In thia same month, sixteen years ago, two Eag'Ubmen of birth and iortuna, and a French comedian committed the aame terrible error. Tbe earn# ambition which urged lb em to scale the icy heights of the Mstterhornaieo nerved them to search insidious Vesuvius while It slept, and they were either lost in some labyrinth of lavs and ashes or emcahered *y vapor of snlphor. How Ah Sit Keep* th* Day. Tbe San Francisco BmlUtt* says It ia the custom among Chinese bona* ser vant* to stipulate with tbmr employers for a portion at Sunday, on which day tho* visit their countrymen in the Chineea quarter, talk-over the news from home, have their heads shaved, go through with their genuflections and salaams in joss houses, smoke opium, Ac., some of them closing up the day's performance* by gettiag rid of their week's wage* in the Chinese gambling houses, which are so thickly located along Dupont street The sidewalks swarm with these gregarious beings, wlioee nature it is to nndJle ia flocks on, the surface and burrow in hands beneath- Their dens are hives of industry n giomerabon of odors nowhere b> be found outside of a cellar reeking with the fume* of a crowd of Chinese. For the sake of the delegable pleasure to be fsnud in such places, John frequently refuse* to take good aituations in the emiutrw; like Bridget, he must be in town, where he can at least once a week see hi* "cousin." Tbe Chinese have, baste of uncles and oousina— especiallythe latter—are counted bv the ■core. They regard aa cousins those several remove* further than a white man evar thinks it worth hia while te inquire. These ' cousin*" are generally friend*. all belonging to the same com mercial company, and when they meet on Sunday, the jabbering it energetic bejrond description. All day and late in "the night John keeps up hia round of visits among hia cousins, but manages to be on baud Monday morning, ready for work, which he generally performs cheerfully, and with fidelity. Holland a It Iv BafTon said Holland vras the lowest country of the globe, bat be waa mistaken The greatest depression in the earth's surface is fonnd In the plains about the Deed Sea, thirteen hundred feet below the level of the Mediterranean. Had he said the lowest in Europe, he would , doubtless have been correct, as a large 1 part of the land is thirty feet beloer the surrounding sea level. The greater part of the ooantrv to oompoeed of the mud of the Rhine, as the soil of Egypt has been formed trrza the deposits of the Nile. What haa not come from the many-mouth ed Rhine to the gift of the sea. Holland dikes against the sea from without and the rivers from within, and theae streams present the same difficulty as the Mtosto •uripl—the gradual rising of the bed from alluvial deposit, and the consequent neces sity of additional diking. For a number of years the water of the riven, like a wild beast in leash, has been led to the sea by embankment, but thto does not always prove sufficient. There are Franoh scientists who have a theory thet Holland is gradually and con tinually sinking, and will ultimately dto> appear. Thto opinion rests on researches made at three separata point* of the coun try, which show, according to these geolo gists, that the level haa undergone oen* siderable depression. The prooese to to •low, however, should the theory prove true, that the inhabitants of th present and following centuries will hardly be disturbed. There to an old legendary prophecy of like tenor hovering about the fishermen's villages on the coasts, that the sea will one day take back what was once taken from it. Bat.before such a submersion takes place, the ingauuto of man may doubtJeea be relied on for find ing some means of averting the disaster of AUantis. ' IIOBSB POWER.— The term horee power bears among engineers three very different meanings, being, however, generally auali fied by the adjectives nominal, indirect, or actual, each of which refcra to certain special data upon which the estimate of power is based. Nominal hone-power is generally estimated from the diameter of the cylinder, the length of the stroke, multiplied by a certain standard velocity of piston and pressure of steam. Asjcach engineer decides for himself what this pressure and velocity shall be, the stand ard varies with different makers, and for all practical purposes a statement of the diameter of cylinder and length of stroke would convey a far clearer idea than any , mere expression of nominal hone-power. MADNKSS. —When George the Second proposed giving the command of the expedition against Quebec to Wolf, great objections were raised by the ministry; and the Duke of Newcastle, in partionlai; begged His Majesty to consider that the man was actually mad. Mad, is he," said the King, "well if he be I wish hi# madness was epidemic, and that every officer in my anuv was taiaad with iv', <.Xt :j% . ' .1, f i if IKfU *1 NO; 4>. >li ~n ~it \U* ni j >j-j I->- ■ m An fmltoa Iraisw. The Lneknow Thm telU u that w litfle While ago a gcnttouiau, ilwniwd a. of ••rathar pwyomoastng apvaaraope. same to that plaoa, brtoging wflh him Hteia of httroduction to sevenfi pe€.|>to ia moderate uircumntanoes. with these ueopto he lived, sod having r< pn >• * hiiuwif as k gentlemsn of promooe, be ing sefie owner and jjumaaaor *f on* lakh and fifty thouaand rupees, ♦ treated with the at moat dofeme .• and rourtoar, and farther, wee permitted to mln the affecttona of a young trifese only ucraoual Httrwtio! - apjHmred _to be ■ profusion of valuable jewelry I Art ertt sUntiy sported. The young lady *- plained that her father wee ai extra ea ~i-. .i:i . <■: atattooertat some thing toes than a thousand mfito !■ Ooaao, and pomessieg an IfrUei im mgaaarnhto extent mnfiaoelotuyle val oe. to which he waa the hem**. A match was very soon arranged, and the yeuog couple, as happy as <"-!?!- and iJwrtWjl combined could make (hem, mar| ried, and left Luc-know on thialf vrthSf tour a few days ago. And hart the toky to ha a happy one, should *' fortunately, thia is not the ead of the tale. The: gt-nUi-inan took pfe bride to Boxsr, where it turned out tbat he was . imaged in the truly detechdte and highly remunerstive profeerton ef fire man on the Eert India Ilealw*|, drawing the munificent salary of forty CUpeea a month, and It was with feehaftS of *n atterud anguiah that he foil it hi" dirtg to inform the lady that n>e lakh and a half of the rupees were in the hands of another party, who obstinately n fused to give up the mewv on the gronod of his being th* rightful owner of it The bride ben the,diwpiH-cuunent wfth stomal equanimity, and informed her LusbaadL with unfaignrd rtsglwh .4frrt A similar^difficulty exirtecl with ! regard to her father's estate near Cmmo. The estate was there ail right of course, but H was encumbered to eaeh a® (xteut that it was imjxwkMbto to get at tt The na ture of the enrumbranoe, t<., -wee ' tnemrty jM-caUar; an old acmuwtor tort another estate on ton of it, iff be ob stinately refused to take it off. fiend the whole of the valuable iewlry. rthirit had proved ao excellent a bail, had k< re turned to the hnde'aaartelr and th* other ladiee from whom it had heeri hearowed for the occasion It is said ttmt the pur lieer their oornmon disapfwiniment with a very good grace, and are sa, happy as can be expected under tbi ctvoum stances. " t ~ • j) , '1 A Mngolnr KaraMW - ' I The fftottl Batfkmttm * Mecawm journal has been publishing *tjf iu favor of polygamy, and gritag >-ten e* of b*pptnM ;a the pjural marnsgirtfrfr. A an te some of the the Wl Lake Tdbuu teQs the ionowtng which is couched for as strictly trurr'- j A lew tvsrs ago there lived is tho town ofßpsmtii Parka man who was blessed with a loving campeoion. She wait 'the wile of his parly years, kind, tovtaf and ifTsctiomate. She burly idolised her hus band, bis love for it r r: ( ; <-,u .!. They lived ouly a those do who lore each other with true affection. But the Bittern wort ronthmally advtong the boshaaa te take another wife, teßtng him it M the only tras road tosalvamam -1 t "Bat," said he; ' ray poor wife will fl* i may. She could never be sattcited wito that state of nie." "What!* said the bishop, tate ysa. pnte 1 tend V s br gowmcd by yottr wifel,. Aw you going to loaeaalrrttoo that you may pleaae voor wife? It mm damaed foolery hke tLat that ptayrd (he d*vi with man in thofisst .plana; fee pleasing a woman would (brew away your a)ratfe%] Kg ! 1 advise von to take anotbvr wife as qaick s pnsdbie or rim dread the fii wifr of the Loid." ' sti Hearing thw, the poor fellow was pre vailed upon to take another wife. He did ao. and as he said, his poor wife became traatic. Alter a<"T*nt,; with arirt far a few months she bveamc hopttetaly insane; than her lot* tunate to the molt deedly hatred. She was cootinnsUy swearing vengßanoe against her hashand. In thej coarse or time her husband died, and his 1 funeral procoarioo pa*vuc her door, the ran i t ett^and,foil owing tbr fct-aw, thmar itawea I at it the whole way to the grave, cursing > the deed man as the earn* rt all her Iron ; bta. In a few months, aha heart# pawed i IWITi W >| i The TVfrmte add*: *Now let the reffott iv# and honest Mormon answer what torn it that poor distracted wile curaed and •toned because of her blighted lilet We% it not -polygarayT" - : 11 ■ - ■ Bona Dam*.—Among the names > registered at the Tonal* th* other night was tost of a youth about 15 yearn of " who had been arrested for dniiik s cnne*s. But he was not drank; nor had he been drinking.' . H* waa, tmmmat, i in good, sound health, but gave all th* I external iadieattoßß of Uiac intoxicated ! when arttstod by a police officer. ITpo* urotesting to U* keeper of th* Tombs | that he was not mt^xseated* it wae re vesled that the unfortunate youth nao ! lieeu born a natural dttrakard ctr rather 1 that he had always acted like such a thing. He said that although in good health, ha had never bean able to wuik without staggering. His apeeeh w* l* unlike tbrt of persona in a decided strte of intoxication ; and when excited he a ouUl mutter and reel. The unfortunate youth was detained until the next day, and waa not rent to the courts to be gased at through judicial apeeteelvs. A subsequent iareatiirdian of Hm' b prove® thgt the l*d had been telling the truth about himself, bat his condition revealed a demonstration of the natural law ttat the child is a fair copy of hia parent*. It appears that prior to .mar riage the father had Itoou a eefiret Bat cis turned mehriJta, S"d whemtha farts became known to the woman thus sud ttouiy and ftmutpeotec&y, the wept in the most.tattiblc manner. ,Ahmort wrt-h-'-n --heartod, she conlemplatl the ifofartv miserv in store for her. Months passed awitv." when H was discovered that the child, at thres years of age, arte* strangely ; and at the end of six months i the unhappy woman realised all her j forebodings. The effeotproduced ttpon the mother was not without its taftaanc* upon the fattier, however- Kealizuw, in the midst oT tears of liftter utiguyh, the sin tbat hud been visited upon the child, the man reformed. He has now several bright children, and most ex emplary ones, tooi ibey are. Bnt the boy that was brovtght tot* the Tombs was not drank, but had had entailed upon him a life of V- Poptr. 7 0 - - L - llebhijws.—The Jemttk ifssKWfsr says there are "nothingarians" jn the Jewish as there are in other religious oomiauai ttes, and Uujr include bnukera and law- Sera ,and such like who will hot close leir business places on the Sabbath or holiday". The Hfetttcffct think* that there are not lam than eighty thousand Jews to New York because the New Year holiday* found upwards of thirty .synagogues crowded to excess, and there were at least twenty temporary shrines opened for the solemn season, all full, to repletion. In the eastern section of the oity, from Fourteenth to- tiaventieth street, there-were tea mind(ilatla fitted up as qynagogwete sad all were 1011. The majority ai those attending these tem porary fante seldom viait the synagogue they M rnb! inpabHo worahtdp^ foot is agate* ermrymux. ***** Tha present fasblanSbV qptxuin takes -off horfbonnet with a roml^ Wan WttHate-lfa®®* pocket hattdlMf* ehtef (he oi%toij pa wiper t Ofctofe Hi aatwmd *f thpgruM chaos* predating fltotaa-trf th* VMMu A loving swain In Maine dofiicatod a napkin ring " Tomy almort rtfe." The Gaadsa Wi oountaittfarir eg* from their man-teg* not their birth. If e t>t>er end a quart of wMskey were left together, which wiuld b drunk ftrrt t m aa alias, of the W.' n. u exposition wee only 160 pounds. A party of me in CaMwrtl, Kansas, lately disposed of eleven hsrae tbeivee stone toll ewoop. • A at#* on the ooleide of St. JLonie tiitokiaa good-by. to 'To nli e good broil—tear® a letter from one of yoar old sweethearts where your wife can find It. Stream has horrified the twinging back with hum fro® Iketon the viae of tohaano-obewing. A Kaoaas pioneer attended Banrem's ■how end eenf Uiet the Mummy wasn't *' nothing but e jerked lojoa. Adrire* from Porto Btoo, vie Havana. Oct. l'Jth, state that the anger crop Una year promisee to be abundant A woman recently died in England from inflammation produced by a email uteoe of atttaheU frying into her aye. The Doyleetown Demoreat my*'. "When autuma merriee winter the wefrr ding rakes ere frr-etad." How sweet! ' An aequrintmoe of toe Mobile Tr^*** t-SSptaftt®? 1 Letter* from Newfoundland any it is now pretty certain tbat the oateh of cod itt be leee than two-thttd* of lart year. A Woman in Jersey County. 131.. challenges any man in the ooonty to n plowing match with her lor #lo® a aide. Lightning to impartial in its dertrue- § tteT ft ZflmrSTton <**•**•• farmer end (ho pntooe o# the Spanish king. Why to a aelfiah friend like tbelrttor Jj 1 Benna*, thought th* first in Jg pitv. be in the tort ia help. Jurteneeh stoknoas is wfmrtod western town to "make the j.hysicmiis ha" This to rstber an indefinite J statement. ' j . A new style of eardrop screws tote the toU of the tortared member, so that toe lart or diamond tests upon the wee if with ne support. • l - i The efforts mad* to outtasate the tea plant at CaJUu*. California, have en- Srrir failed. Nwlyanoftbeptonte.it to stated, ate dead. i Wore rem baa fefiea in New Hemp 'fbuHt H- A young Engliah aabool girl was tote lv 1 whtepfd with a birch rod on her naked person for receiving a love totter ftpoffl a voting man. A Londoner war recently sentenced to four months iasgrimmmont with hard labor for burning out a oafs eyes and knocking Its teeth down its throat ft to reported that some of the ferti ieksWe mtfßnen are realty becoming atoamedat the toigo number of todies who make toeir own bonnets. U to a enrimm toot that attempts at midd from Waterleo Bridge have in camaed alnee eoah wide pablioity was given to the death of Alice Btoncne 0- iirid* % There tea mas in CWnmbns ao fond of laoti vwftoat toils said, after paying a man altuLhh walks down hope with mm ao as tone aw the money as long as It 1s esrimated that fee annual lorn to lOssoari from insect depredations amounts to 560 000,U00. This estimate was made by the gfeudeni; t the Stole Hbrtienltarrt Atciety. EboT wood weighs 63 pounds to the ouhat- fcKJk; liguuntrifae the same ; hie- Torr, 52 podncte; birch. 45 pound, j bw4. r.ydllow pine, 88; cedar. 38 ; white pidhM; and cork, 15. lira, Elisabeth HOl, of Geneva, N. T. .bed reoentiv from congestion of toe atomach, produred by a p*t of cloth Am !ufis square which she had swal louetf. - n As you begin to rtart up toe fires, look well to your chimneys, that they are not # eraektd, and am thai no pipo-hoiea are wstepped, or filled with combustible matter. , It to reported tost two third* of the priceta in Paris era randy to follow example—as soon as they can Ami the eeaemtirt American widows wi(hs7v^ptooe. A hot wa,ter mitraiUenr has been in vented tad wit In nee In India. It is intended ft# shipboard, and can give at • abort mag* a very murderous broad aide of amWxng steam. It to aaidtbe odors of Oolong* are not such as We might expert from the name, / and by a like unfitaem, the eioeedmglj / dirty cite of Antioch doe* a consider able business In step manufacturing. Although th* number of new steam- * beats now budding for lake and river navigation in the west and fouthwert is not equal to that of former yean, vet the aggregate tonnage exceeds any for mer ycanr work. An oU tody of nearly eighty having reoeatjy hanged hertelf in Kentneky, the coroner's Jury una divided in opinion ooaos ruing the nice ptyehfllogical dis tinction between temporary insanity and a "fit of hanger." Chicago's last wonder of smartness la a bov who began bnstoess aometime ago by aeliing a aqwe Prt> d • ot envelopes,and now ownsastationsrv store a paper rohm and a printing office, and prepMW to adit a weekly paper, lit Jfaai before geing to befleet two pig's lent and a etdd apple pie. In leso than an hour you will see a make larger than it a hawser devouring light blue haired child ran which Lgve just escwed from a monster with sorrel eyes and a red hot overcost. m The engineer and fireman of a Tennessee train, at foU apeed, lately had a fight which malted adversely to the engineer. The fireman then suddenly reversed the ctagtee with eueh a shock that several can pgr* smashed and the train delayed several hours. * Lord Kinnaird has informed hie tenant ry in Perthshire that he will make a re duction itrtbe rent of hie farms oommen- SHWtowkh Ike Isas which Lis tenants have sustained by the badness of the har vest. Nito the View of carrying out this totentioa, he will take into Ms counsels two of Ms tenants. ' . Heme ef the uHre feehioahble todlee of New Yortt have iotrodueeda new cue torn, or rather readoptad a trtfiy old ono. When an a*|uatotanoe catami te ao un fbrtunate as to find the ladies cmt, instead of beihg asked to leave hie card, he la re quested to inscribe his name In a hand some visiting book] ' The Amherst Standard is ifeiponsible for the following : "One of epr sopho moreshfts devised a new wky*f tolling had news. He writes home to his father, ••I came near losing thirty-setpn doUars tost wA " Anxious paren| writes back that that the mpoey was not lost, and wunt to knoWhow near. By return mail, "Came witoiuVma of it, lost thirty-aha;:"'- 5 2. -• w -3S&'