From tke.German of Heine. Where shall est the wanderer jaded In the grave at last recline ? In the South by palm-trees shaded T • Under lindens by the Rhine? Shall I in sons deaeri sterile Be entombed by foreign hand* t Shall I sleep, beyond'* life's peril, By some seaoaaet in the sands 1 Well I God's heaven wilt shine as brightly There as here, around my bed. And the stars for death-lamp* nightly Shall be bang above my head. Farm, Garten and H nunc hold, Fowt*.—Fowls to b* fattened, should he shut up In flocks of twelve, in a light airy pen, Ave by six feet ; feed them three time* a day all they will eat (no morel on nodded horse feed. Mix with this plenty of powdered charcoal. At night throw them all the corn they will pick up. Fur nish plenty of gravel and pure water, and in one week they will do for market. The yellow legged fowls will always look best when fat. To TAN SKIXS AND LEAVE THE FM ox.—Remove the legs and other usele*> parts; so.ik the skin soft; remove the flesh and seal, the skin in warm water for an hour; take for each akin, of borax, Bxltpehjr mid glauber salts, eaeh one half ounce; dissolve with soft water suffi cient to allow it to be spread on the flesh aide of the skip; apply it with a brush, double the ekin together and put in a 000 l place for twenty-four hours. Cntr.vTs.--A receipt for cement to stop cracks in glass vessels, to reai*t moisture and heat, is thus given iu the Scifntiic .Imtnc.m : Dissolve caseine iu eold saturated solution of borax, and with this solution paste strips of hog's or bullock's bladder (softened iu water! on tbe cracks of gl*s, and dry at a gentle heat; if the vessel is to be heated, coat the bladder on the outside before it has become quite dry, with a paste of a rathe r concentrated solution silicate of soda and quick lime or plaster of Paris. PITS FO* POTATOES.—Pits for potatoes should be made on dry soil and where there ia no danger of water standing in the spring. Our own plan is to make a deep dead furrow with a plow, and then throw out the aoil ou each side so to make the bottom of the pit about three feet wide. Cover the potatoes with four or five inches of straw, aud then throw a light oo.it of soil, about sufficient to cover the straw, leaving some ventilators at top. Just before winter sets in, put on another coat of straw and cover it with earth. This second coat of straw holds dead air between two layers of earth, and will keep out the severest frost.—Jkiria&urut. PRESEBTKD OJU.NO* PUL, CIeeu tiful in the Netherlands, otood in the miriot ojJro*d pasture* and green mead ow* that had been reclaimed from the sea. Over these fertile field* many an eager eye was soon to be east, in the hope that the waters might be aeon again rolling oTer the land once their bed. From the first, preparations were made for a long siege All the food was put into the hands of the authorities and doled out by weight, halt a pound o! meat, and at much bread daily to a man, and a due proportion to women and children. The Prinoe of Orange im plored the cititena to hold out for three months, assuring them that within thai time lie would devise some means lor their deliverance. He had no lotee with which to raise the siege, but he held a position which would enable him to cut through the dikes and allow the ocean to reclaim the land which had been wrested from it. I ''Better a drowned land than a lost land," i exclaimed the patriots as they calmly de i voted their fertilo fields to desolation. The waters that should fiood the Spanish camp would also hear supplies to the town. \Ye need not dwell upon the mere fighting during this siege. It was a repetition of the scenes of ilarletu and Alkiuaar. Ktrly ! in August the sluices were opened and the waters began tlowly to rise. The bread in the citj was gone,the oulv food lelt was malt cake. On the 21st a letter reached ; the Prince from the city, stating that they had fulfilled their proaiise. They had* held out three montba—Two with food and one without Their malt cake would last but four day* longer. The Pnuce lay ill ola fever; but trom the sick ' bed he directed all the operations. Five miles froru Leyden was the great dyke, called the LanJ Scheiding. The piercing of the outer dykes had already laid the ten miles between this and the ocean under water. The besieging forces lay between this Land-Scheidmg and the city. If this dyke were cut through, the Spanish mtrancbhients would be flooded, and it was supposed that the water* would float the boats of tbe deliverer*, laden with provisions to tbe very walla ot the be leaguered city. It was now tbe lith of I September and till the starving town ! held out. On that night the Land-SehekJ ing was pureed, and tbe boat* passed through the gaps. But it was found that another dyke thrwe buartcrs of a utile be yond, intervened. This had been left urn guarded by the Spaniards and was also breached. Yet now tbe water* diffused ovei so large a space rose but slowly. A strung east wind also was driving them back toward tbe tea. So passed a week Irusn the time of tbe opening of the Land- Scheidmg, and tb boat* lay aground three miles lrota the city. But on the 18th the lud veered and* blew a gal* from the northwest. Tbe waters ro*c; tbe armada was again afloat, and came within a mile and three-fourths of the eitv. Again the wind veered, toe waters fell, leaving tbe boats fast aground. In the narrow space between the town and the fleet lay now the beleaguering forces. Tbey knew that the town was at its last gasp, and taunt ingly called the defenders cwt eaters and dog eaters. "It is trua" they replied, and so loug as you hear a cat mew or a dog bark, ye may know that wc hold out, and wnen all has perished but ourselves, we will devour our own left arms and fight you with the right. When the last hour has come we will aet fire to the city and perish in the flames." Still the fleet lay stranded, and the citv vanes pointed ever eastward. Until the wind changed the waters wonld not rise. At last on the second ol October, a violent equinoctial storm arose from the west, dashing the waters in iipon the lanu, over the ruined dykes. The vessels were again afloat for" the city walls. Two strong forts lay in their way which might have disputed their advance. But the Spaniards were panic stricken at being thus invaded by the ocean, and poured tumolluoualy over,the narrow dyke which formed the only path to the firm land. The Wild Zealand sailors,almost amphib ious leaped from their vessels upon the retreating masses, and drove them from tha crumbling dyke into the sea. So, on the morning of the third of October, Leyden was relieved. On the very next day the wind again shifted and drove the waters back. In a few days the land was again bare : and the work of recon structing the dykes was begun. TH DIAMOND WEDDING. —In Bohem : a the sixtieth anniversary of the wedding ia termed the '-Diamond Wedding." Formerly it was kept on the seventy-fifth anniversary. It may be imagined few couples live to see their seventy-fifth wedding day come round, and probably that is the reason why fifteen years have been taken off. In the last week of car nival this year an aged couple celebrated their Diamond Wedding in the Roman Catholic Church ef the Holy Ohost in Prague. The husband is eighty-five vears old and the wife eighty-three. The old man—a cooper by trade—has lived and carried on business in the same house for sixty years. The church was crowded, for, in addition to the interest attached to the wedding. Cannon Stultz, a much beloved and popular clergyman, gave an address, alter which a mass was read. The old couple were led to the altar, as a mark of respect, by masters of the trade of coopers. Knee ling down they repeated the promise made to each other sixty years ago, and then they re ceived the priest's blessing. Many per sons of distinction were in the church, and made the aged couple various pres ents in monev snd other useful articles. A banker in Prague presented them with six ducats. These coins sppeped to please the pair exceedingly, particularly the old ladv—perhaps they brought to bra- mind the wedding present which in some parts of Bohemia the bridegroom is bound to provide for his bride, and these coins threaded upon a ribbon, she wears upon her forehead. There ia a couple in Prague of higher rank in life, who have been married seventy-four yeara and, should they live to sec next carnival, it i said they will celebrate the veritable diamond wedding of olden times. There seems to be every possi biiity that they will be able to carry out their intention. Mormon Sunday Schools. The Mormon Sunday schools are uni que of their kind. The text book em bodies sanitary as well as religious teach ing. Here is a shot direct, for instance, at all spiritious liquors, and all smokers or ebewers of tobacco: "Q. Why are not hot drinks good for tnan ? "A. Because they relax and weaken the stomach and indeed the whole body. "Q. Why is it not good to smoke or chew tobacco ? "A. Because these habits are very filthy, and tobacco is of a poisonous na ture, and the use of it debases men." Some of the Mormon hymns else sre queer productions. Not all of them, however, as some of the best hymns of Watts, Cowper an 1 the Wesleys are in their collections. however, would we think of our Sabbath schools ringing, in halting verses, the hope " That the children tnsv live long. And be beautiful and utrong— Tea and coffee, and Tobacco they despise; Drink no liquor, and they eat But a very uttle meat, Tbey art seeking to be Oreat and good, and wise." Here is another jingle, the verses of which run smoother:— " The Mormon father loves to see, Their Mormon families all agree; The prattling infant on his knee Cries, 'Daddy, I'm a Mormon.' " That will probably satisfy our readers. Tux CANADIAN HORSE DISTEMPER. The Toronto Globe says the disease that has been so widely spread among horses in this district appears to have run its course, and now snows considerable abate ment. Dr. Smith informs us that this is the case in the principal stables in the city. The disease now appears to be extending eastward. There have been very few fatal cases, and of these it may be said they were the result of a want of ordinery care of the animal, or, what is less excusable, a resort to quack nostrums and practice. These are entirely useless in a disorder like the present, widen must run its oourse, and requires simply atten tion and ordinary treatment dur ng the •oatiaauge of the few. How They Nave In Germany. Each German has his house, his or- 1 chard, his roadside trees, so laden with fruit, that if he did not carefully prop up. and tie together, and iu many places hold the boughs together with wooden elanqw, they would lie torn asunder by their own weight. He haa his corn (slot, hi* plot for maugel-wiirtcl or hay, or potatoes, for hemp, etc. He ia his own master, and he therefore,and every branch of hia family, have the strongest motives for constant exertion. You see the effect of this iu his industry uud ha* economy. In Germany, nothing ia tank The produce of the trees and of the eriw* are carrritd to market. M uch fruit ia driod for winter use. You see wooden trays of plume, cherries, uipl sliced apples, ly iug in the aun to dry. You •* string* ot tliem hanging from their ehnnilier windows iu the aun. Tito cows are kept up for thu greater |u*rt of the veer, and every green thing is collected for them, livery little nook where the grass grow* by the roadside, and river, uud brook, is carefully cut with the sickle, and carried j home, on the heads of women and chil dren, ill Ivukots, or tied in large cloth*. Nothing ot any kind that can possibly be made of any use is lost. Weeds, net tles, nay. the* very goose gras-. which ',-overs waste places, is put np and taken ! for the cows. You see tbe little ehulren standing in the streets of the villages, iu the streams which generally run down theui, busy washing these weeds befoi* | they are given to live cuttle. They care i fully oolfeet the leaves of the marsh It runs, carefully cut their potato tops or them, sud even, if other thiugs fail, ! gather greeu leaves from the woodland*, i One cannot help thinking Continually <>f the enormous waste of such thiugs in • England—of the vast quantities of grass : on luuiks, by roadsides, in the opruiuga , of plantation*, iu laaes, iu church yards, where grass from year to year springs | and diet, but w Inch, if carefully cut, would umiutaiu many thousand cows for the poor. $ To pufi.ua still further this subject of German economy. Tbe vory enttiugs of the vines are dried and preserved for winter fodder. The tops and refuge of the hemp serve as bedding fuy the cows; nay, eveu the rough stalks of the pop pies, after the heads have been garnered tor oil, are saved, and all these are con verted iuto manure for the laud. When these are not safaoior.t, tha children are sect into the wood* to gather ino-s ; and all our readers familiar with Germany will rememlwrto have seen them coining homeward with large bundles of this ou their heads. In autumn, the falling leaves are gathered and stocked for the tame pnrjmsa. Til'', fir ropes, which with us lie and Sot in the woodi, are carefully collected, and sold for lighting Urea. N* Homes for funerals. The following article from a Buffalo, N. Y., paper, shows bow serious the horse distemper LS in that district: — Nearly all tha fcvery-ttabie ksegwn iu town have closed their barns temporari ly, and it is almost a matter of impossi bility to obtain a carriage or oonreyance of any kind from the livery men. It does not follow {hat all the livery horses in town are sul!ermg from the discaw, but it is a fact that the great majority are, and the owners are acting on the wise principle that " prevention is better than cure," and are taking extra care of their horses, whether sick #r well. It haa become a matter of diffieulty to ob tain horses even for funerals, and thfise which have turned out have been more or less affected with the diseaes. The horses belonging to the street railroad company are almost all affected, but at last ac counts only two were dangerously akk, the others suffering but slightly, al though kept in the ban* and tended very carefully. The company have tak en five cars off the line, and made the time seven and a half minutes instead of six, as formerly. The prospect is not cheering, and the company will proba bly have to make still further reductions. The Buffalo Omnibus Company have ceased uring their horses altogether for a few days, bat intend to resume as soon as fresh horses can be obtained. The animals belonging to the Company are either sick at their barns on Green street, or at the farm of Mr. Tyler. The dit esae appears to be particularly prevalent among the horses of public hack men. There are something like ninety licensed hack men in the city, and we were told on Saturday evening that out of this large number there were but three hacks running. The staiels are deserted, and passengers are mostly obliged to walk to and from the depots. NORTHWESTERN WOLVES.— Most fer ocious is the Northwestern wolf, an ani mal of wonderful strength and stipacity, found in Northern Oregon and the Brit ish possessions. As a general rule the bear and buffalo will not attack man; but iu spring the wolf flies at every liv ing thing he sees. Horses are his usual prey, and them he pursues with almost human cunning. When a band of wolves discover a horse, they encamp at some little dis tance, all the troop squatting on their hams except two old fellows, who sally forth toward the borae. He is frighten ed at first by bis visitors; but they gam bol so plensantlT in the field, and look so innocent anil friendly, that by de grees his terror subsides, and he con tinues to graze. Then the wolves slowly seperatc. sue going to the front of the horse, the other to his rear, and both frisking about as amiahlv, and apparent ly as unconcerned as before. Slowly and cautiously they approsch the doom ed steed with equal steps; when they are within springing distance—they can cover over twenty feet at a bound—both dash at him together, one at his head the other at his hamstrings. Horses are proverbially helpless under some circum stances; this is one of them. The most the poor creature does is to turn round and round uttering criea of pain. In a few seconds the wolf who attacked him from behind—this !>eing the main attack —has cut the sinews of bis legs, and he falls helplessly to the ground. Then the whole pack come rushing down, howl ing, snd each eager to tear a morsel from the living carcass. There is little left for the vultures. POOR CVRATES. —Rev. Robert Collyer relates the following anecdote in illustra tion of the poverty and struggles often encountered and borne by tho poor curates of London: "I had, in the sum mer of 1871, a talk with a clergyman in the churoii of .England, who was then rector of a church which gave Li in a vSry fair living; but before this he had been a curate in London with a very large family, as ministers generally have, and an income of less than a hundred pounds a year—not more than eighty if my memory serves me. It wns desperate work, he said, to make ends meet—so desperate that there came a time when I there was not a jienny or a crust left in | the bouse or a pint of milk for the bairns. 'Then.' he said, "I sat down to think what I should do; and when I made up my mind about the course I must take, I went up to my wife (as noble and true a woman as ever this world heard of) and said, 'My dear, we have done our very best and thie is the end, Now, I will tell vou what we must do. We are citizens of Loudon, have paid our rates and taxes right along, and are entitled to all the help.there is. Wc will go to the poorhotise ;to-morrow morning and ask them to take ns in. We hove a por fect right to go there, and we will go." She said, "That is right," and began at once to get ready for the poorhonse, but that day I got a letter from some one, inclosing five po inds. There was no signature; I don't know to this day who sent it, but that five pounds saved us from taking that step, and tided us over to quarter day." POOH CHILD.—A lame girl, who had not, for fourteen years, once left tbe third-story back room in which she lived, was among those who participated m the late children's excursion iu Phila delphia. When carried to the park she asked what the grass and trees were, and had to be told the names of the most common objects. She lay on tbe prase all day, drinking in the air and sunshine, and was seen to weep softly every little while from pure joy. The Exodva from Alsace. An English paper tart the roads In Al sace especially from Mod to Nancy, these laat low day* have been amh aa to wall the groat popular emigration* or olden time*. Couveyanco* 01 all aorta loaded with furniture and lotenniugled with po dratnana followed each Other without interruption. The greater tHvrtion, prtused by the latal date, and larking tho TO fan* of transport, have only taken part of their la-longing* with them, while not a few have been only able t* bear away aa much aa the w loaf barrow could contain which i they trumiied lafwc th m. A a till larger [number bate lelt their hearth* and home* with aoine clotbea hung ou the end of a I stick, the wile carry I tig the youngest of the rlUtdi vti and thereat trudging en be liind. In Met* there aie only SOVSMICCU re •Tint* remaining all Uuflt lor nervier; and at übertial, tn AUxoe, a town of fl.Oflt) In habitants, lhare are only three, of whom one alone t* qualified for service. Ali tter trurn Mul house t fortnight reducing the papulation ol ilie town to 10,000, exclusive of |jie'.is,ooo German troop* who k.ep watch and waid over them. Kve-i in Havre, which ,dee-t not seem a very Itktfy place ro haw ny largo uuiuher ol" Aleatlaua and the number who tiara choaeu the Frenoh nationality rvMhw 1,400. These facta aie evidently making an impresaion upou the | Germans by revealmg fotbem thodlfficul ; lie* of the ta*h they have undertaken. ! The North German Hajtiie, putting the beat taceoti the matter, *qys : " The con dition of the RJaaaa Lhiirucou now will be the touudaifen of it* further develoj*- nient, thqneed of its luturc paoaptiity-'' But whan It Sddi *fhat "Germany we* without regret those lung train* ol e*Uw who iu the laat days have turned their back* on the Km pi re and set their face* toward* France, wbith-r their Interests and sympathies lead them," tho assertion ia belied by it* owu words. It consoles iteell with a glitnpae of the far oil future, wheu "the grandchildren of those who to-day still contemplate with sorrow the change in their national life will sometime gratefully bless tho day of flaw Versailles preliminaries and this very lt of October on which they have Ugt-n delivered tram foreign rule and from Toreigu agitation." In the meautime, we am told lit-rmauy does not expect sympathy with the new rulalnms from tbe inhabitants; but the Gaverninent may claim their confidence, hicb will increase trom year to jear until at laat "Irom generation to generation lovt sud trust will grow ui~e and more.' 1 All this, however, u ouiy visible to the eye of faith and not to that of sight. An other German paper the Strasbourg OamUt professes that it never expected the assim ilation of Elaass-Lothriugeu with the German mother country would be instan taneous, that a population of 1,600,000 skuoid in s year or two lay aside the characteristics that hava been stamped on it by education and trammy, ly thousand fold" personal association*, and by living historical memories.*' It relias, however, upon a section of the population that has lifter loat its Gertoan sentiments, wtfict) forms tbe nuclfus of a German party, tut numerous, indeed, but exemplifying the best elements of our national party- Nev ertheless, the Strasbourg (Aiiiftc acknowl edge* that tbe majority still remains in a passive or even hostile attitude to Germa ny, a fact which neither causae it surprise uor alarm, since frrnn th* outset it looked for nothing else. The Germans, it i# evi dent, are not, at all events, deceiving themselves—aa in like eircuuisUneot the French would probibf/do— regarding the immense difficulties oi tho task lying be l-re them. A GENTLE R**nca.—"The Ret. Mr Martin of Belliugton, Maine, a man of decided talent and worth, was also some what noted for his eccentricity and humor, which occasionally showed them selves in bis public ministration*. In the time ol "tne gn at land speculation* in Muiue, several of bis parishioners and ehureh-nieiulxTs were carried away aith the mania of buying lumber tracts. II r. Martiu resisted th speculating spirit, and more than Once rebuked it in his prayer-meeting, he noticed tbt several of his prominent men were absent, and he knew at once tbey were going te Bangor to attend a great land safc. Af ter a hymn had been sung, he said : 'Brother Allen, will you lead us ,in praVt-r ?' "Some one spoke up and said, 'He is gone to Bangor." *'lfr. Martin, not disconcerted in the least, called out, ' Deacon Barber, will you lead us in prayer ?' 'He has gone to Bangor," another answered. " Again the pastor asked, " ' 'Squire Clark, will you prav ?' ' The 'Squire has gone to Bangor, 1 ' said sotne'ouc ; aud Mr. Martin being now satisfied, looked around up on the little assembly as if the same re ply would probably be given to every similar request, and very quietly raid, • The clmr will sing UANIW >n, ana then we will dismiss the ineCtibg . • PNMX OF INFANCY.— It ia not bsrd to destroy the life of a shild. The vrnity, or imprudence of a food mother often causes the calamity she would have given her life to avert. For instance, what sn army of children have been de stroyed by the absurd custom of expos ing their 'necka ad arm* I . And this fashion is tolerated because it ia "so prcttv." To illustrate the danger to which a child is thus exposed, it uonly neeessary to say that many children have been cared of habitual coiigh and hoarse ness by keeping their arms and hands warm.' Another fruitful saurso of dan ger to the young, is found in the foolish indulgence which will not withhold from them colored candies. An English chemist recently made an examination into the quality of those sweetmeats, and found that out of thirty-five different kinds, obtained from twenty different dealers, twenty-eight were colored with material The poison moat commonly user! is tome preparation of lead. The diseases canned by lead poi son are among the most terrible which are produced by anything. This experi ment will serve as a warning to parents to practice greater care in providing sweetmeats for their children. If tbey are to lie nscd at all, it is safer to make them at home. Then you know what they contain. Hie WATCH. —It came to the knowl edge of Frederick tbe Great, King of I'rusria, that a corporal of hia body regiment, a fine young fellow, wore a watch-chain suspended from a leaden ball, merely from a wish to appear con sequential. Frederick, wishing to be convinced of the matter, accosted the corporal one day on the parade. "Cor poral," said lie, "you must have been a prudent fellow to hive saved a watch out of your pay." "I flatter myself that lam brave, sir," replied the man; "the watch if of little consequence." The King taking out a watch a*t with diamonds, said, My watch points at Ave. How much is yours?" .Shame and confusion first appeared in the corporal's face: at length, lie drew out hi* bullet, and answered with a firm voice: "My watch, sir, shows mo neither five nor six, bat it tells mo that I ought to lie ready, at every hour, to die tor your Majesty, the King replied: "In order that yon may daily see one of those hours at which yon are to die for me, take this watch," A CAREMWS DISTRIRITIOR. — The Treasurer of the Hall aud Elton Mann nfneturing Company, of Wallingford, Conn., often brings packages of money from New York or New Haven to the firm, and whon he has business North goes through on the express train with out htopping throwing the package ont to an employe stationed near the track to receive it The treasurer came np on the noon express train, and finding his colleague in waiting, threw out a pack age containing 86,000. He didn't throw it quite far enough, and it was struck by the train and ripped open, the green backs being distributed with great loose ness. The money was gathered np ad far as possible, but at last aocounte 8600 was missing, V 1 ' n 1 ' " Nlgbt* In Algiers. A writer In the (fmikmitn't .Vupuini ehats pleasantly about what ho saw In Algiers : Any of tho street# ascending (he hill fnnu the I'laoe do Chart res—which may almott bt> donsidurwl aa tho ex train* limit of tho Knro|>oan town—will lead named lately to the Mahomedan quarter. Hero will he found obscure and frequently vaulted narrow thoroughfares, resembling alleys, iHirdeied by houses, where ibe monotony of the bare plaster walls Is only I trek en st wide intervals by autall case ment* crossed with iroo bars, and low arched doorways. There are no gardens or vendure, and hardly a foot of even sickly looking vine or fig tree dying amidst the rubbish of lt cross way a ; tiieie sre tuosques so surrounded by building* that Itey qui hardly be seen, vapor bath* whither people go mysteriously, tbe men •t night, the women in the day time. In a word, the MaUoiucdaii quarter ol Algiers it a compact and roafuaetl uu-r ol masonry, where almost every vestige of lite is hidden, and where it seem* a* If it were torbiddeu that gaycty should he heard. The door* of the bouse* are never opened hut half wsv, and (hey then close again by their owu weight. Krerytliiug looks u*(4nou* shout these curious buildings, which sre admirably adapted lor their uia*tyr*' love of aerroajr. The smalt case men fa looking on to the street are barred, •ud every kind of precaution it taken againsteuiiosity from without and indis cretion from within. Inside these bare, dismal-looking walls and massive doom, resembling the gatea of citadels, are the t*ro great mysteries of the country namely, tbe personal fuftuna of it* iuhsbi taut*, ami ite wotaea, f neither of which inucu is known. Money hardly circulate*. ilt ia outy seen ptastug (rout the baud ol an Arab to an Arab hand, aud i* only used to purehae the ordiuery daily necos -iftes of Ilia, and jewelry. The women go out lull seldom. In public they arrluvsria- My riusely veiled, and tho baths, which are their usual placet of resort, Irt Inviol able. I'aasiag along tiice lonely alleys, txwide these silent dwellings, una hears noise* which ar* almost imperceptible to the fauinati car, and whisper* which might be mistaken for sighs. At time* it i* the sound ot a voice coming through an aper ture in tbe wall, or ascending from the terrace on the roof of the bouse ; at others it ia the whimpering ol* ofcibl c.ipLiiHl*K tu a ((range tobgue," whose H-p mingled with sub* ha* no signification lor a foreign ear ; at others again it is the strain of an instrument, whose unique note, slowly marking the measure of an unheard song, seems to aeoompany a dream. It is thus that tbe captive console* herself, dreaming of a liberty whir h she has new had. and which she cannot understand. 'Theie is an Arab proverb which saya: '* When a woman has seen the guest, she cares no more for her husband," and upon this precept the whole system of conjugal life among Ma homed an* if based, l'bgir houses, whether they bo agreeable or not to those by whom they are inhabited, whether their intertora be luxurious or poor, ire prisons. They are like iron aafes, of which the avaricious masters hare the keys, and witbtu which tbcj lock up *ll their secret*, so that uu on may know what they possess. D*R OLD GRANDMOTHER.— " She sit* by ilie fire—dew old lady '—with nicely crimped anil plaited cap-border, and the old-faabioned spectacles ; u pleasant a picture of the Home Grandmother as ANY living heart OUUKL wish to HOC. Bhe is the oricic of the family 5 the record of biriha, deaths, and marriages; the narrator of old revolutionary stories, that keep bright young eya big and wide awake till the evening log falls to antics. What should wr do without the Home Grand mother * How nuny little faults she hides ! What a delightful ' special pleader' ah* te, when thee aitoh trvmMuv over the little ernng favorite's head ! ' Are you punished often ?' in quired a fl*-n-Inured youngster of his ourly hesded playmate- *Ko ? Was the prompt ana half-indignaut answer 'HO! I've got a grandmother! * I>vo that good woman, Bit at bef feet, and" It-am of her patient lessons from the post. Although she know* no grammar —perhaps ran not tell the boundaries of distant states, or the history of na tions—she has that, perhaps, which cr eel* all learned lore. She has lifr't tris (km. She has fought life's battle, and has conquered. She has laid her treasures away, and grown purer, stronger, through tears, and sorrow, and suffering ! Sever let her feel the sting of ingratitude. Sit at her feet. She will teach you all the dangtrs of life's journey, and tell you how to go cheer fully and smilingly to the gate of death, trusting, like her, in a blissful here after. " Every reader, who is so fortu nate as to count among his c hildm't " household gods" a good gmndmothrr, will see, in this graphic little sketch a reflection of an influence which is onlv second to that of tin* mother of his off spring. ' How A* INDIAN COMMITS SnaDß. Rome time since an Indian by the name of Solomon Kau-ba, was found lying in the road, near the Coldwater bridge, in the vicinity of Mount Pleasant, Mich., with a fatal wound in the throat. He was brougnt to the village, and a post mortem, elimination held. It spitear* from the testimony that he left home about davlight. to go to a camn of hun ters on the Pine river, near Millbrook. He,had gone about four miles from home, on the direct route to his destination. When found, his body was yet warm, but life was extinct. It seems that be unalirathdd his knife, which is a bowie, with s blade about eight inches long and one-and-a-half wide, and with one heavy stroke thrust it into hi* neck, just above the breast-bone, the knife passing down ward and a trifle to the left, to the depth iff about five inches, and inflicting a wound In the aorta, about one-half an inch wide. The blood in the road indi cated that he had walked about six rods after the fatal stab before he fell. He had sheathed the knife and held it in his right hand, bit hand resting on his bresat. There were no signs of a scuffle, and no traces of ioul play. BKNTON AND HIB FAMILY.—In a speech of Tom Benton, delivered some time ago. we find the following extract What is a seat in Congress to me ? I have sat thirty yenra in the highest branch in Congress ; hnve msde a name to which I ran add nothing, and 1 should only be anxious to save what has been gained. I have domestic relations sorely lacerated in these times ; a wife whom I never neglected, and who needs my attention now more than ever; chil dren, soma separated from me by ex panse of oeeans and continents, and others, by the slender bounds which sep arate time from eternity. I touch the age which the Psalmist assigns as the limit of wanly life. ®nd must he thought less indeed if I do not think of some thing lieyond the flitting and shadowv pursuits of this life, of all of which 1 have seen the vanity. " What of my occupation ? Ask the undertaker, that good Mr. Lynch, whose face, preacnt on •wtnany mournful occasions, lias become pleasant to me. IT' knows what occupies my thought* and my cores : gathuriog tho bones of tho dead—a mother, a sis ter, two sons, a grandchild ; planting the cypreaa over assembled graves, and marking tho spot where I and those who are most dear to me are soon to be laid!" BADLY THRATED.— Some of the Com mune prisoner* iu the citadel of Port Louis lately wrote a letter to the Cormitre giving some account of the way in which they are treated there. Their food con sists entirely of dry vegetables, and, combined with sea air and want of tobac oo, has given rise to diseases of the gums ; scurvy is prevalent in its worst forms, and the whole medical treatment prisoners receive consists of pills of bis muth and sloes. Iu the infirmary the buds are without sheets, and are, in faot, nothing but pieces of tout canvas. The snflering is naturally great, and no mea sures haro been taken to lessen it al though the Secretary of the Interior has been memorialized about the matter. Jane Howard of Dubuque, wants $4,060 because John Collins said she would car ry off a stove if it wasn't too hot and too heavy, people should be careful bow they oeaverse about stoves, The l.aurn Fair Affair. That Laura Fair business In Han Fran claeo ia not settled yot it taenia. Latin abet aud killed (Vltteiidcn, and after a lengthy trial wus turned loose to make a havoc in the well. Her first movo was to commence suit against her mothei for 810,000 loaned her ; tho seoond was to dodge the late Crittenden'a ton who was following her with a pistol, evident ly in tending to serve her aa ah bad served hit futiier. Laura's mother loat her CAM and hud to jmy over the money, and there in open court, Mrs. Lane, tba mother, took laudanum, creating a aenaation Fliyaician* and stomach pttmpa were sent for and in a short time the uiolhsr wo* out of danger. When latum came to the court room nud found her mother recovering from the t-fleet* ol the JMUIUMI, the follosriug very pleasant conversation took place: " Well I mother," Ixiura exclaimed in a pass innate tone. " What's this 7 Good gracioua ! do you want to bring more disgrace on us I Haven't we made seusation enough tliat you should go aud do thia 7" '• Hush ! child," exclaimed the moth* r in a low, feeble voice, "I've nothing to live— for !—l—wanted—to die f" and with thia she fell into a violent fit of weeptug. "Well," said Mrs. Fair—her anger now rising to the highest pitch—" then why didn't you take enough ot the stuff to ffuihh you, and make one job of it 7" At thia s|H*ecli the ladies in the room Were horror-stricken, aud one or two of them bantilv left the room. " t)h, Laura, don't be angry," mur mured the woman, " but wbv did you drag me into the court, aud why did you put that dear Uttle child ou the stand to swear against its grandmother 7 Oh, Laura you ari> killing me—yon are lull iug me. I want to die ! (turning to tlie attendants), why didn't you let me die 7" "Look here," replied Mr.v. Fair, in her wild, pasaiouate way ; " if you art going to die here before all three peo ple, I want you to swear that my child sjtoke the truth on that stand. Yon know she did, and yet you aud your lawyers tried to make her out a liar !" " Well, she's out of danger, aiu't she?" asked Mrs. Fair of the doctor. The doctor aaid he hoped to, " Well, 1 don't tee that I can do any good; so I'll go," she said. And after a few more pleasant little passage* between mother and daughter, the latter vanished and did not again appear on the *ooß*, Once during the evening she sent down to the hotel to aoe how her mother was, but that was all. Mrs. Lane kept on improving, and noon she was out of all danger. There were some doubts ex- Ei reused by many aa to whether Mia aoi< had really taken poiaon. It was thought she had merely got op tbe scene as a mean# of getting her daughter to Aier in the hope of effecting a recon ciliation. In the aray of sensation Laura Fair and (aouilr are hard to beat. Jack Mir and litter. The bra re Colonel Miller was asked at the bloody battle near Niagara Falls, if he could take a certain battery. 'Til try," ia hi> answer, and the exploit wraa aoon scoom pushed. He was oulkc tur of the port of Salem, Massachusetts, when Andrew Jackaon became President. Sotne politiciana in whom the General reposed confidence, wished him removed and one of their men appointed in hie plane. He waa represented to Jackson aa incompetent and a political opponent. There seemed cause for his removal, and the name of the other tnan waa aenl to the Senate. Colonel Benton asked to have the nomination laid over, for he waa certain that Uio Prt*i J nt had been imaled. He called upon Jackaon, and asked, "Do you know who is the collee tor of tha port of Sdero. air, whom you are about to remove?" "No," replied the President; "1 cau't think of his narto ; bat 1 know h i% su incompetent man, and a New England Hertford Con vention Federalist,for G and li—— told me so." "Sir," said Benton, "the incumbent is General Millar a brave aoldier on the Niagara frontier." The President, excited with emotion, said, "Not the Oeneral Miller whe said "I'll Uy," when asked if be could take that battery at Bridgeware "The same,'' □tended Benton. Jackson pulled a violently and when the servant ap peared, he said, "Tell Colonel Doudson 1 want biw. quick. Donelaon," said the President,** aoon as he entered, "1 want the name of the fellow nominated for coDkctor t Salem withdrawn instantly. These politicians are the most remorse less scoundrels alive. Write a letter to General Miller, and tell him he shall hold the office as long as Andrew Jack son lives. Star—lU write it uvsclf ; the assurance will be mere gratifying from a brother soldier." That promise was faithfully kept. A NATION or Luus—The island of Ceylon ia very beautiful, tb* scenery lovely, and the soil productive in apices stid man j kinds of fruit; indeed, it is •>aid that it alone might produce rnffi cieut coffee lor the consumption of the entire world. The natives, however, are far from pleasing. Tbey are gen erally of short stature, very effeminate looking, apathetic, and such liar* that it :k impossible to depend npon their word. If they may but repose for hour after hour under a tree, with apiece of bread truit beside them, they aecu to care for little else. The men wear their hair turned up behind with a comb, the height of the comb denoting the rauk of the wearer. This, and the email features, gives them altogether snchan effeminate appearance tlmt it ia difficult for Euro peans to distinguish them from females. A visitor lately entered one of the schools and, seeing a row of boys sitting with their back* towards him, and each with a comb in his head, unconsciously naked if boys and jiris were educated together. One of the natives of high rank was lately called on to give evidence at a trial, and awore such complete false hoods that he was imprisoned for per jury. He applied to the English govern ment and, with surprise, asked why be should bo punished for what his people did. "My father," he said, "was a liar, and my grandfather was a liar, and we are all liars. Jt is the custom of my country. Why should Ibe punished? M. ABOCT AND Ilia " LITTL* ON**."— M. About, in one of hit letters, written daring his captivity in Strasbnrg, after the recent fall of the city, describes the occasional visits of bis friends and rela tives, of his children's visit, he writra : "Oar two eldest (daughters came one day with their mother, and God knows with what impatience I awaited their arrival. But their presence, after all, only saddened us. Itiese two children, ordinarily so lively, seemivl quite stupe flqd at the sight of the prison bars. The youngest sat hers. If on my knee, hid liar head in my bosom. and remained thus for nearly an hour without prattling, only replying in monsyllables to ques tions put to her, and solely occupied in keeping back her tears. 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