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That make tho Asj Hie day,
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5n purple*, ml. an J green*;
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And weak frv m root to root;
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Bvioro the fru.t u trust.
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B. .'ore the bread M bread.
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lint, .jtc of all tho din.
It M tb# patient holding out,
That make, the .inner win.
Make itn- y,.ur ntoilo then, at .tart,
"Twill hojji to smooth the way.
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BALLOOX.
1 u fitting quietly ia rur room one morn
ing, when a note irvtttt my old friend, Lou
Lhomioro. was brought in. I was very tend
of Lon. *, indeed. all her friends arv : though
she stilt remain*, like Holmes's aunt,—
" Tha aole uagatbmd rose
On bar aarvstral troe."
She lives far up in tha country, hut occa
sionally cornea to Boston an a lisit. He*
note wis as follows
Dui Hxwr.- Here I am at the Hob at
the west end of it: is that the hubbiest part.
1 wonder? I am coming am to see you on
Thursday. I meant to go to-day ; but 1 can't;
Tmal! used tip.--*'dear tuckered out,'' as
Aunt roily used to my. " What has done
itWhy. my new drem : and sueh adit*!
It will give you ate to aee bow my hark is
liGtcimd up and puffed out. I'm a regular
lodlooo ; a SMhion-plate ; a anything that is
huge and hideous,—* camel or dromedarr.
for example : only they, poor things i we're
born with humps on their barks, and 1 waaii't.
" ifovr aune it so dt forsncd? ' In an evil
bow I iitened to the rorcf of the tempter,
and put myself into the ban Is of a city dress
maker.
•• .-'he's very stylish,- ijuoth the tempter.
Little wrecked I in tny ignorance thai
meant ; and 1 went to her rooms in sweet,
confiding simplicity, bearing ia an innocent
looking drews pattern under my arm. I hud
three teemm will: Mrs, Cuttit, a most impoa
ing personage, of whom I stood in moral
terror : and at length emerged, tnurocorwied.
1 went in slim ; I came out stout; I went in
plain ; I oame ut Lamp- bucked; 1 went in
with lortr duiliiro in my purse ; ! came out
with just enough to p IT MR tare home on the
stre.f-v*r.—the oUlapee having been trans
ferred mom my pt-raon to my j*nr* with in
credible celerity and ruse.
Verily, fashion *' doth make cowards of us
allvan. and puff-bolls also! I wish I had
the courage to go through the world in a
pored g.wn without a pinch or puff or pucker
on it; hot I haven't; so lam a balloon, that
by some incomprehensible machinery is raac-d
into moontainou. ridges. Surmounting these
ridges at right angles to my body—if then
be a body inside this corrugated globe, of
which I am in serious doubt, to say nothing
of an immortal soul—projects a ian-shafx-d
be fringe-.!, be-pnekered basque, looking, for
all the world, like a spread turkey-tail. On
the top of this projection a good vised trunk
oonhl 1* ctanf >rt*My seated ; only it might
tall in! I wonder if a pappoose couldn't t
inserted somewhere : I do so long to blend
the useful with the ornamental!
Now, Hepaiiwh. you are a sensible married
woman. competent to give good advice ; and
I ask ran. what am I to do • Go round the
world in this harlequin guK*. or give the
whole thing a gnwt smash! I should be
gisd to preserve a modicum of self-respect ;
bat how can I, Inside of a balloon '
I shall appear in full spread on Thursday
to stand the day. 1 can't sit down ; but "l
atewU like the lean of a bed-prat *nd a cord ;
Imig tgo up, you know Tin then, in
every fibre of my stiffening. Tours truly.
THE Gsjut Expakdzc
I sat laaghiag over this ; when in walked
Hester Gmywood, another oW friend. After
the firot Mdctalioa. she slowly twirled herself
round, and sank into a char exclaiming:
" Behold the woman who dares!"
Ah ! I saw; she, too, had on a new drees.
It was of silvery-gray m&. made with one
shirt, without a particle ol trimming on it,
and a sveque just hound with a bias fold oi
the same. Yes. she had dared. It was really
a refreshing, sight; and she looked perfectly
bewitching in the q taker-like costume But.
than, Hester Gray wood is such a pretty little
creature, she can ♦ help looking lovely in
atything ; and she knows H. so It does'not
require so great courage in her to dare. Yes,
she looked charming. Yet. on • a second
glance, there seemed a kind of barvne* about
her. as if something were wanting. Was this
be-jatjse I had looked an long on mountains
of frippery that my eye and taste had both
been corrupted ? Tan year* ago we all wore
snch plain, single sklitr, and considered our
selves elegantly dressed ; why should they
look mean and skimpy now ?
I read Lou's note to Heater, and she prom
ised to join us at dinner on Thursday.
" Extremes should meet," she said.
She slaved on awhile, and we had a little
talk on dress, and tiie bondage fashion Im
poses ; ar how the ta.*te of che com mupit t U
corrupted by the overloaded, ungraceful styles
in vogae now, and oo many other thing*,
such as eeoeible women do talk about when
they get together.
'* One of the greatest evils ol this absqrd
overloading," said Hester, "it that it so
fearfully overworks women. We hear a great
deal about the hardships of the poor ehlrt
niakers in our titles; and they are to be
pitied, I know. But there are other women
to be pitied too. Look, for example, at my
neighbor, Mrs. T. She is a fair representative
of a large class, and not an exaggerated case.
Her husband is a hard-working mechanic,
who earns a good living, and ought to lay
np something for a wet day ; but he can't
support a wile and six children in luxury,
especially as four of them are girb. Mrs. T
is an ambitious woman, and nays she will
have her children 'decently dressed;' that
means fashionably dressed. Bhe can't afford
to hire her sewing done; so, in addition to
all her housework, she makes their dresses ;
and if you have seen Grade, the ejdest one,
you can judge what that implies."
"She's a very stylish-looking girl," I said.
" Yea: ami her mother is vary psond of
her, as b aakurnl. She is just seventeen;
and what Jbad rful oostimes she does Moom
out in ! They an all afloat with pufls and
ruffles, quills and frills. tHI there's scarce sn
inch of unirirnmed space about her. And
Clara and Nellie go by to school every room
ing, cacli with another set of furbelowed
upper skirts and under skirts, basques and
sacks, while baby Belle—bless her dear little
heart!—is all afloat, tjo, with tiDy ruffles on
her tiny skirt."
" Isn't she a darlinjf?" I cried.
" Yes, lovely, with her blue eyes and ap
ple-blossom cheeks ; but wouldn't she be
just as pretty in a plain white dress with s
bit of edging round the neck and sleeves, if
it were the fashion f And the pretty Grade
—ls the charm in her, her lovely complexion
and fine expression, or in her furbelows and
fringes?"
"In her, of course," I said. "Children
and young girls are never so pleasing as when
simply dressed."
" Certainly ; and our taste is corrupted
when we do not see this. But there's poor
Mrs. T. thinks it absolutely necessary to fol
low the last fashion-plate ; so she works like
a slave from morning till night and her
stwirig-ujadiine is often going till after mid
night. No wonder she looks broken down,
and lias neuralgia and a diseased spine. She
has done the work of two women, and it is
the hardest kind of work, too. Every inch of
those interminable yards of hemming a*d
FRED. KURTZ, Editor and Proprietor
VOL. V.
hitvllng, g.thvrin# and tautening, psiar*
through her ttager., to nv uethlug of the !
- -driving and titling, and Imaling and rtp
1 -•!*. 1 wwndvr the woman t alive. I don t
believe there Is a vaornau iu the city harder
worked "
" Put why <l> u'r th. daughter, help lin *"
" Tl-oe# in whool haven'i av time iluuse
doe. ait she can ; hut with her cwlU and caller*,
ptutidng an.l pic-aking, cro>|ottlng and ro
ourtiing. it would W cnid t-> expect her t>>
do more than make the gl&iuewt jrlivui el
her uuiler-e!oUia.
" Put It's *bird," 1 Mild, "for. mechanic'*
wife to go Into *uet extrwv.gan -e "
" 1 dou I know a.a ineehauic . wife can
be tipevted to l*e more seuslUle th.u aitv
other woman." said Hater drylv. "A te
form niut l-egiu somewhere eW, 1 fancy.*'
"1 .uppone no, ' 1 a*hi with a sigh ; hut
the whole rabjKt I* full of difficulties "
'* All of which might 1* overcome if women
had S spirk of indrjwndettce. Here U a tan
cttde evd for them t * grapple with, now that
ihey hare wakol tip to a sense of their strength
and capabilities."
•* Yes; they may as well begia a reform
her#, as of the nation at the baJlot-l>oX," I '
isaid, laughing. " Put how to do it It the
Faction. Is there any sUmlard by which
rev* can be btdgd and regulated "
" Not now," aud llenler ; " but 1 Iwlievc
the principle, of art, true art. might he a|>-
plievi to drees a* to other thing* ; that thrie
ts an essential, intrin.ic Iwauty or ugliness iu
oar garments, entirely irmpevtive of fa.ht.-n.
In other word*, that it is one thing to be well
dreewrd, and another to be fashionably
dressed "
*' Yea." I said ; " but what is it t-v t-e well
dressed ?"
• I can UH yen what it Isn't," said Hester
•• It isn't to wear a huge protuberance on
your head or vour back, wtiih. If yon had
bee* born with it, would have been ooodJ
ered a shocking dek-rrwity. It isn't to con
ceal all the hiiew of the human figure, or to
! make it one n ountaiu of trimming, when
! trimming rhould always bs sabervieut. add-
Ir.g grace, and defiuing outlinea. Aud then,
too, it must he something permanent. It
can't be the changing tiling f:*hiouabl<-
dreasing is. Art wvuhlu t make a balloon of
us this month, aud a -scanlily-draped statue
the next; she wouldn't tilt u* up on heels
that agonise oar toes, and pitchb. dowa stairs
to-dsy, and to-moriow see us ou the ground
like *o many lore-footed Indians "
'That would le comfort," I said. "It. 1
when a dress was nude, it wonld stay made,
and lock well till it was worn out, ii would
lemon half our labors."
I '• Well, Hcpsv, I believe tho eood time i
coming— the time when we shall have a
higher civiliaatiou, and break the chain*
f.ohion fetlers us with now. Then we shall
distinguish between true beauty and dv/ormi- |
ly ; and our milliters and drrsomaaers will
be #rfw*M, and not mniutft , and, instead •
1 lopping and streu hing u* all on one iron bed,
they will study adap'ation to age, complex
! ion, and character, till we come out of their
bands individual, aa wetl as comfortable and
attractive. When we think of it. Un t It
strange how It ever came alxmt that we Wt
ourselves all be worried into exactly the
same shaped garment*, no matter how rlif
! ferent we are in sise and figure
" Very strange and utwurd," I said ; and
Hester went away.
Exactly at one o'clock an Thu relay fhe
Great Expanded arrived. She wax a good
deal puffed out truly, ar.<l mule all manner
of ftm of herself. Whrn Hester Gray wood
came in, wearing her untrlmmed gray silk,
she made a low obeisance.
•• I do thee homage, thou most herok of
womankind !" site cried. " I cast mvseif in
the dost at thy feet, I envy, I adore thee,
thou woman who darest!"
Kitta!h we got a little quieted ; though
naturally enough, our thoughts still ran ou
(bm
" I am disgusted with myself," said Lou;
44 1 really am. I don't want to he fashion
able; 1 couldn't afford it it I did ; hut my
tastes are ail pis in and simple. 1 amsi lcr
such an ever-loaded, puffed-out concern as
this not only ridh-uloua. but vulgar ; yet here
I am wearing it ; and I k# ray self-respect
in consequence. But how could I help my
self? How in the world did you manage.
Hester, to get a sensible dress mad- *"
"Jast by my horribly obstinate temper."
said Hester, laughing. " First I had api label
tattle with Mrs. t'uttit. and came off victori
ous ; then I ran the gantlet of her twenty
sewing-girls, who opened all their forty eyea
in holy terror at the trying on "
" I should as aoon think of fighting Her
cules," said L*>a. "There'a no plant where
1 am so thoroughly cowed as in droasmakers'
rooms. I don't dare to peep or mutter.''
" Yea; —amiable people like you rather
eubmit than make a fuss."
"Hut they ought to make a fuss," said
Loq ; *' it's sheer cowardice in my case, not
amiability. Every lady's dress should be an
eip***inn of her own individual taste and
character—but look at nt! we arc all turned
out just alike, like so many ninepins."
"Well, what is to be done about it ?" I
asked
" Why not form an anii -fashion society."
said Heater, "and get all sen-ible women to
pledge themselves to drets according t* their
o*n ideas of propriety, without regard to
fashion ? ' I'uion is strength,' and organized
effort the order af the day."
" Capital!" cried Lou—" we'll draft and
sigu a declare! iou of independence ; apd you.
Hester, shall pit dawn your same with a
great dash. John Hancock-like."
" I'll make out the list of grievances,"
said I.
"Easy enough to do that." said Lou;
wornout mothers, bankrupted father*, neg
lected bat>ies, disgusted husbands"
" Hold there r' I cried. "11 u-hands arc
as fond of dress as wives, so far as my aspen
em* goes."
" Why do they keep up such an everlasting
fault-finding with out extravagance, then''"
Well, my deir, men are not always
severely comnstent— they arc eloquent on
that theme, I know ; but put a plainly-dressed
girl n one side of a man, and a fluttering
piece of millinery on the other, and ten to
one be will be enchanted with Ihe latter
•lohr. Seymour is not the only victim of "pink
and white tyranny."
"Then men are in u measure responsible
for the evil," said Hester.
"Bo I tell Tom," I avid. " Let every man
who approves of simplicity and economy de
vote himself to the plainest-dressed girl in
the room, turning a cold shoulder on those
who wear diamonds and such like sinful
'thirfits, and be will do more to effect a refor
mation than by years of preaching. Girls
like to please nice young men, and no harm
done either, just as young men like to please
nice young girl*. The influence is mutual
and wholesome. I*l yonng men frown on
extravagantly-dressed yonng women, and
yonng women scorn on dissipated, fast yonng
men, and a vital change in manners and
mmals would soon follow."
At this point in our dlscuaaion I beard
Tom's step in the ball; and with him came
Prof. Downing, an old m*nd of his, whom
he had asked to dine with us. The professor
U a fine-looking man. besides being learned,
agreeable, and a bachelsr. b'ow, Tom and I
never make matches ; but, having had such
a good time together ouroelves, we do some
times wish certain of our friends would take
a fancy to each other; and the night before
we had spoken of the professor and Hester,
saying how nice it wa* he should happen to
be in the city just then to meet her.
Moreover, knowing his refined, almost
severe taste, and his dislike of all display, 1
had all the morning inwardly chuckled over
Hester s untrimmea dress ; it was exsrtly the
thing to suit bis fastidious taste. How lucky
It was she wore n!
The dinner passed off delightfully. Tom
was In his most hospitable mood ; Ix>u and
Hester brilliant; the professor genial ; and,
the soaps, salmon, and roast lamb, all lieing
.done to a turn, the hostess serene. The
learned professor and the pretty Hester could
not hire come together under more auspicious
influences ; and Tom and 1 had great com
placency in our little plan
A few days after, Tom told me he had
been drawing the professor ont a little on onr
guest*.
"And what did he say at Hester ? ' I asked
eagerly.
•He said this: 'Miss Graywood is cer
tainly quite pretty ; bat what a pity it is she
doesn't dross better! Your friend, Miss Liy
enaore. seta her a good example there.
"The horrid man! and he pretending ts
have classic tastes 1" I cried. And (will you
believe it ?) Ton: and I are now both quite
sure that the professor who detests fashion
and frippery, who admires only " chaste de
signs" and " classic outlines," is actually in
love with Lou. And the balloon did it! yes,
the balloon did it!
Oh, the consistency of men !
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
FfTrcU of tho Uo-I.mi Calamity ou llntl
ae*s affairs.
Tlie N, Y. Krtn*ng /V*t good
authority in tiiiauoi.nl ami commercial
aff.iiM— satrs :
It i. forltiuito, at l\vt *o far aa
inuediat# I'lloeta are MIQOI mod, thtft
tho .ad now. of the Itoaton eoudagoaUou
ronohad us on Hunday, ao tint a day'#
n-fleetiou could nitorvono lu-fore l>ut
ncs logan. Had llio blow rone more
suddouly, n dUgatroin and kidt'iprwd
muio uiitflit bnvo folloivod Immaliatelj.
As it is, lurnnoss men lrivo had Ume to
rtvovor their prrsi-iuv of mind and to
a considerate surVoy ot the situation—
in a word, time has been given for the
exeiciae uf their reason. The lossea l>y
the tire cannot fail to lie lurge, |but we
twlieve that they have IHH-U greatly
exaggerated liy the sensational part of
the proas. An attempt has al*o Iteen
made to draw a parallel between this tin*
and the Chicago fire, but the circum
stances, i>t least so far as they War
on l>n<incs*, aiv very differ, uk Chicago
owred nearly everytinng to the East, the
debts being, in part, ordinary meieautite
obligations and IU pari in the sharp of
real estate mortgages. Iu fact Chicago
was originally built up on eastern capi
tal, and ita business was in a large
measure conducted on Eiatern credits.
It has Wen rebuilt, to a largo extent, by
casttrn and English, or Canadian capi
tal. Moston, on the other hand, while
old and rich, ia a creditor city With
iu current bnsinesa and in investment
operations. The losses, if we exelnde
those bv the shareholders of insurance
companies tu the .Middle States and the
foreign insurance companies, wfll fall
most heavily on llostoo itself and on
Sew England, in the hitter on the
manufacturing districts and ou ailie*
identified with insurance interests. If
snch a calamity had to overtake any
citv in tho country, none was Wtter
able to bear it than Boston, and particu
larly the section destroyed, which in
cluded, iu a business point of view, the
wealthie-t and moat solid part of the
city. A good share of the real estate iu
the bnrut district ia owned bv wealthy
estates as au investment; and perhaps
no like amount of property 1* the
United States was so free of incum
brance. The principal dbtniluiuce, in
a legitimate way, which onr market for
srenrities here will fed, will be caused
by sales of the securities of insurance
companies ; and these sale, as ha* been
demonstrated in the past, will extend
over a considerable space ef time. A
good part of those securities are govern
ment bonds, and it has been intimated
that the Treasury will, in case of need,
bny an exira amount of hemls ; tn a
word, will give relief to the money
market if necevsary. If we are to bare
tumble, which, however, can be averted
by wise aud firm action, it is the opinion
of sool heads that the trouble will come
rather from the foreign markets than
from the Boston fire. There ars good
reason.-!, bowrever, to Where ik.it every
means will lie used by the Treasury to
restore confidence sod steadiness to the
markets, and that the worst is rast.
Loss of Life at the Boston Fire.
Hundreds of persons were injured,
. but only n few fatally, iu the progress of
tbo great conflagration, a latter-writer
describes a terrible scene which took
place nt th*-furnishing store of Hickman,
on Washington street, where the walls
had been wrapt in a deadly embrace by
, the flames, and had t>ecomc weak and
tottering through the ioteuae heat At
length th-y foil, and three men were
buried up to the shoulders among the
heavy fragments of brick and sfone.
I The terrible physical agony of their
cries of which they suffered
filled the frightened crowd with horror,
but at first no one advanced to their
succor. After a few moments two or
three men crossed the street to where
a portion *>f the wall wax still ovarhang
, iug the sj*ot where the poor victims were
begging and shrieking for help, and
tried by the utmost exertion of main
strength to pull sud wrench them out of
the horrible vice, but these efforts only
made greater their suffering, and the
bricks and other debris were still falling
at every moment. The men rcliuguisli
ed the perilous and fruit less risk and
retreated from the dangeiou* spot, and
shortly afterwards, in frightful paroxv
isms of paiu and with cries that will
ring in the ears of many of the spectators
to their dving da.V, the crushed masses
of humanity gave tip the breath of life
and were a moment afterwards buried by
another crashing fall of the wall. A
fireman named Martin Spencer, belong-
I iug to the Medford force, was injured by
I the to)>pliDg aver of another wall on
Summer street, with a serious cut in the
| head. Mr. Daniel MlfWhll. of the
firm of Charles Crosby & Co., No 4ti
Water street, and an employe went into
the building when it was blown up.
Strange to relate, Mr. McClellan escaped
with only a blackened countenance and
the natural shack to his nervous system
consequent upan such an experience.
The employe also gat away, but the
extent of his injuries are unknown.
Wanted to Arrive.
A seedy-looking individual walked into
the Crawford House in Cleveland, a few
evenings age, and stepping np to the
register, seized the pen and registered bis
name at the loot of the long list of the
day's arrival*. It was a noble name-
George Washington Ilotts—wiitten in a
firm, bold hand, and with n big flourish
underneath. „ It was plain that the seedy
man was accustomed to making a flourish
in the world, if it wero only with a pen.
"Ifave a room?" inqnired the clerk, in
cidentally m-tasuring the man with his
eagle eye to see if he wouldn't fit in one
of his sky 110 uioir*.
"No," said seedy shoitly, picking his
teetli with i. splinter toothpick he had
selected from the well assorted supply
always found on the counter.
"Supper then, 1 suppose?" added the
clerk, preparing to add an S to the end of
George Washington Botts' name.
"No, Sir, no sapper," said Mr. Botts,
with severity; "I simply want to arrirt.
A-r ar, r i-v-e rive, arrive. I want neither
room, supper nor anything else, but I
particularly desire to arrive. It is a long
time since I have arrived at a hotel—a
very long time" (his voice choked a little),
"and I thought, if you hadn't any objec
tion, I—l would like to arrive once more
before I died."
Here he was compelled to hide his emo
tions in his coat tail, in the absence of a
pocket handkerchief. The clerk, always
reaily to do a good action, generously
allowed the unfortunate individual to ar
rive, and George Washington Botts.
hastily dry ing his eyes with a pen wiper,
wgung the captaiu's hand in mute though
heartfelt gratitude, and then stalked
gloomily forth into darkness and the
night.
II is interesting to find that the so
called silver mines of Athens, from the
Crofits of which Pericles is said to have
nilt the Parthenon, arc now attracting
special attention. The mines of Laurium
are some veins of argentiferous galena
running between the mica schist and
limestone formations of the promontory
of Laurium, stretching from Senium to
Athens. From the remains of the ancient
workings, there are naw being obtained
about 9,000 tuns of bar lead, Towered in
value by beiug very antimonial, which
contains above ten ounces of silver to
the tun.
FENTHK HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., FRIDAY, DECEMHEK 0, 1872.
finding of a Ib-raarkablc Lawsuit.
A very remarkable lawsuit, which has
been for some tiiuo pending in the
court* of Kentucky and lndiaua, was
twought to a termination away or two
ago by the agreement of the parties to
the nut to a com promise,
Some vcirs tigo a (lornnm gentleman
named iliutavus Schuruum resided iu
Louisville. He \\*s the poaatwsor of *
IN n idcrabU- amount of property, lived
in good style, drove fine horse*, sported
A footman in livery, and claimed to be
u Oertnml uobh men. He was married
to u tb-t aura young holy, hud a young
and interesting family .and to all appear
uucra wus pretqieroua utul happy. But
as in aoinativ families, there was a ghost
iu this one,the secret of whose cxiateuce
did not come to light until the death of
the principal actor in this little social
drama.
tinstavus was a resident of Aix In-Cba
pelle, a little city in Rhenish Prussia,
pin surd the business uf cloth mamriae
tliter,and was what might le conniderad
well off, hi* real and |M>rßouul estate
iH'itig worth about fItKI.OOO. He loved,
or thought lie hived,a lndv uauted Amelia
f.beihardino (toll, daiiglrter of one of
the royal counselors, and in 1*45 he pro
posed mairiage, was accepted, and the
marriage ceremony wo* performed iu
thut year. An ante nuptial coutraet
was entered iuto between the two, ac
cording to the emit Najoleon, which
was in force at Aix-lu-ChapeUe.by which
In case of the death of the htwband la
--fore the wife.slie liecaine entitled to one
eighth in fee simple of his entire estate,
and one-fourth of the eatata duriug her
life time, besides having a community
of interest In all acquiaitions to the com
mon fund after marriage, which commu
nity of intereat would entitle her to
one half.
The two liTed happily together for
tome time, or api>oreitly so. The life of
the wife, however, was soon rendered
wretched by the discovery that another
had supplant. 1 her in her husband's
jff.'etions- This however, was uot ex
actly the case; it was she iu reality, who
had taken the place which nature had
aligned to another. Scborwan had in
his employ a numlwr of factory girts,one
of whom, Catherine Bengeis, waa pos
sessed of more than ordinary beauty.
The impressible young bachelor, was
smitten with her lieauty, but the iuexor
able laws of society governing the little
Rhenrih province in which he hvod held
over him a terror of proscription which
prevented him from doing that which
hi* heart prompted. He loved Catherine
Bengels and hi* love was returned, but
he married Amelia E. Go!l,wiio brought
to him a proud name aud an extensive
dower. But for the crime which Sehur
nun had caminittcd against his nature
b was amply punished.
ilia married life was unhappy, while
his love for the lowly Cathari Ik-neasnw
became more intense, now that it gel*
impossible forttiem to le legally united.
They mot clandestinely, aud the inter
course coming to the knowledge of the
unhappy wife, she became depressed be
yond masure, upbraided her haaband
with kis perfidy, and threatened divorce.
Thia rendered th? husband desperate,
and, op ""illy avowing his attachment,
took Catherine Bengals into his domi
cile. Becoming discontented with this
condition of things, Sehurman derided
upon emigrating to America, and came
to this country. He returned in IM9,
and gathering together what property he
could, departed iu 1851 for the United
States, iu eompanr with Catharine Ben*
gels. Before Lis departure, his wife in
st'tuk d suit for divorce.
On the arrival of Sehurman in Amer
ica he proceeded to Louisville, where he
took up his residence, and sued for a di
vorce from his wife Amelia, which was
granted when he imtucdiatelv married
the woman who had eloped with him.
Gastavus H<-human purchased real
estate in Indianapolis and Lonisville,and
by his tact aud biisineaa management in
creased hi* wealth to over a million ol
dollars. At the time of his death ho bad
seven children, two by liif first wife and
five by his secoud wife. In making his
will he left hi* I'nissiau property IE his
two German hcire and his American
property to his American heirs
The first wife Amelia, learning of the
death of her hu*baud, obtained posses
sion by legal process of the Prussian
estate, and sued for her share, as per
marriage contract, of the descendant*'
estate in America. Her son, Gnstanu
F. Sehurman, represent.-d her with pow
er of attorney, and the ablest lawyers in
tlie city were employed to prosecute the
cose. The pleadings wore voluminous
and a* n vast amount of property was in
volved, great interest was manifested in
the result. It apenred, however, thit
as the ease progressed the plaint ill weak
ened somewhat in enforcing her claim*.
Being in a foreign country, aud copies
of proceeding* in foreign courts Wing
frequently rendered necessary a* testi
mony in the American oouita, she be
came wearied and finally agreed to a
compromise, in lieu ef all claims, for the
sum of one hundred thousand dollars.
The Old Soldier.
The players are seated in a circle ; on#
walks round holding a pen, pencil or
anything he pleases to use, representing
an old soldier.
He hold* it up and say*. "What will
you give this pt>or old soldier ?"
Tim person aaked must not use the
words, white, buck, ves ar no, in her
answer. If she does sLe must pay a for
feit. We will give an example :
Frank hold* np hi* "old soldier" and
naks Htisie, " What will you give this
old soldier ?"
Susie replies, "A watch."
" Flense don't give that; my soldier
needs a coat."
"I could not give him that." (She
avoids "no.")
"What will you give him thon; a
hat ?'
" I think I will.*'
As only three qncationa ran be nuked
each player, Frank passes on to Louisa,
having failed to make Susan pay a for
feit.
"Louisa, what will you give my sol
dier ?"
"A pair of mittenn."
" What color shall they lie t"
"Gray."
"Gray mittens! O, do give him
black ones."
" No, I cannot."
"A forfeit, Louisa, please, you said
' no.'"
Thus the game goea round the circle.
BROCEM IN Lipfc.-rOlive Logan, in
her new lectare on "Successful People,"
was, when she |>oke in Philadelphia,
somewhat "personal'' in reference
rising newspaper man of that city. "You
h ire," snid she, " in Philadelphia a mnn
who is the living emt>odim<mt of some
of the principles of my lecture. At
eighteen ho bod a fixed purpose in life,
occupying an obscure position in a news
paper ofllre, without influence of any ac
count. He said, 4 1 will one day own
this establishment.' It was regarded as
an idle boast; but he had energy and
persistence, and to-day he does own aud
control it, If I would hold up one of
many successful men as au exampl
to the youth o( this city, I would men
tion one whom you all know and honor
—Georgo W. Childs, of the Ledger.
Success may not bring happiness, but
the day will come when judgement will
sit upon our actions, and he who has
achieved it worthily shall receive the
grandest crown from the King of Kings."
Clrrumstauce. Altar ( #.
In hw ropott as Hcuretaiy of tho Wis
consin Ktato Society, Br. J. W. Hovf
gives t xprcMion to aomo very scnsilde
viowa on the importaiw of rofpirding
.|>cc*l ouii-btious in agricitare. That
n m iu living a thousand iniloa (rotu any
.tifiioieiif market, ami wuk no tue.uis of
traiwi|Mjrtation but -rag >ua drawn by ox
team*, bhouhl devntu his energies to tho
raising of potatoca or tin nips; that a
farmer having elevated lands and dry
piMtiit'f, ouly fit for sheep hi-oelitip,
should devote himself wholly to tho
hreeiliug aud r< sriug of short boru cut
tle ; or that a man located wituiu 'AO
uiih s of New York or I'uiUdelphis, aim
U{K>U HTUILA admirably adopted to the
prvnliiction of vegetables au J small fruit,
should sear every square vsrd of it to
wheat and rvo ; this should strike any
thinking and intelligent person a* the
height of alntmiity. Aud jtl blunder*
equally seuseleas are made by not a few
farmers, and me persevered tn from yet*
to year. Again, one would aupjwjac that
when an intelligent farmer raw all his
neighbors uud every body else's neigh
Una turning exclusive attention to pork
raising, that it w*uhl he a good time for
him to raise coin, meanwhile emitting
nothing essential to sternly and uniform
success. But olwrrvaliou proves thai
such u.en are rare, and th# result is that
very soon everybody has mora hogs than
his own crops will supply, and corn ha*
gone up quite Iwvond reach fer profitable
feeding. l>r Hoyt says he once knew a
farmer in Ohio who started out under
the guidance of the rule always to do
I just what lus neighbor* pretty generally
' did Hot do. He was not far froui l#ui
a philosopher. The neighbors are still
plodding aud grumbling. The philoso
pher has added farm to farm, owns his
thousands in bank atoek, and finds no
difficulty in keeping bis tem|>er. Another
farmer has flourished nemly aa noil in
the practiee of doing what his neighlvota
| did, but doing it first. He *rm* the loader
;of faahion in sgrieultnre, and was always
ready to discard the model be had givc-n
about the time the majority adopted it.
; i taring the late low prices of wool, when
so many slu-* p-men became disgusted,
and either alaughterod their flocks or
sold them out of the State u t a sictifler,
1 one large wool-grower persevered, and
when the detected wool-growing interest
began to look up a little he wa* ready to
take advantage of the risa, wlale others
were buying back new flodia at a second
sacrifice.
The Valley of ("hamenniv.
Oar ride of thirty mile* was nearly
ended, writes a correspondent, aud we
were entering the Valley of Chamounlx.
We were greeted here by the tinkling of
hells around the necks of the cattle. We
had heard that music for aorae lime, hut
now there was a pastoral melody upon all
sides.
It is said that the finest herds are pro -
viJed with a harmonious set of bells,
which produce a tnne as the cattle walk
home at milking-time, resembling the air
of the national Swiss anthem, and that
this tnne so powerfully excite# the feelings
of tlie Kwisa heart iu a alranga land that
it ia forbidden, upon pain of death, to be
played ia the Swiss regiments serving
France, so many desertions have followed
the awakening of home longing* in the
hearts of those who have heard It.
We entered Chamounlx tire! hot very
happy. The fatigues of mule-riding would
have been noticed sooner but that our
thoughts were diverted by the continuous
panorama we were passing. The | roprie
tor ol the Hotel d'Aogletcrre met us most
pleasantly, and we were taken at once to
oar rooms, and soon alter met again at
the table d'hote.
The gay appearance of the dining-hall
would make you sooner think you were
in some favhionahlo circle ia London or
Uaria than at tlie foot ol Mont Blanc, in
a valley where man had not yet brought
the Iron horse or electric spark.
The sight of laces aud diamonds, draw
ins-room airs and all the paraphernalia
of tlie city took of the keen*** of Alpine,
rambling*. After dinner we walked upon
the terrace to loek over the glaciers and
snow-ficlda ol Mont BUoc.
One could hardly help recalling hia idea
of the appearance of Mt. Sinai, as it was
filled with the glory of (tod, for the set
ting sun had glorified everything. The
labor of tlie journey was forgotten In the
excitement of oar emotions, and we could
but wonder with David in tke midst of all
about us, what tr** man that God should
l>e so tnindlul of him.
It seemed as If the sun were loth to
part with the werld, and had allowed his
colors to rest most lovingly upon the
snows that capped the summits, which,
changing from gold to rose color, made
one vast illumination of beauty ; and
when night cast a vail over the whole, we
lingered none the less entranced, remem
bering what had been there, and with
something, pet haps, of the feeling we have
when wo must hide from our eyes what
has given us a sweet jey upon earth.
After planning to ascend the Montanvert
to cross the Mcr de Glace, the following
Jar, we hade each other good night.
A NEW l.svavnow.—Necessity I* the
mother of invention, and the horae
necessity caused a fearful strain ou the
inventive powers of the lngvuiou* popn
lation of the United State*. It is now
nuuounced that a n*w engine for pro
pelling street-cars has Iwcn invented, so
compact a* to occupy no more apace
than nn ordinary base-burning parlor
stove, and which does not iutrvdc upon
passenger room. By the peculiar ar
rangement of the various parts economy
of fuel is accomplished, the smoke itself
is consumed, and there is no soot, cin
ders or noise. The engine ha* the
power of five horse*, and the ears, which
urc of the usual dimensions, can be
controlled, a* to stoppage and propul
sion, quite a* handily as though drawn
by horse*. The power ean lie increased
at plcnstire up to capacity of a tnenty
flve horse power engine, thus enabling
it to ascend grades of four hundred feet
to the mile. The engineer can " slow
up" in the space of thirty-two feet when
the car* arc going at the rate of twenty
five miles an hour. The engine is placed
upon the rear platform, so that the win
dow* cm be left open in pleasant weath
er, without the annoyance of smoke
or cinder*, as there is none of either,
while any dust that might le raised
is left behind, thus conferring a vast
amount of pleaanre and comfort upon
the passenger. The testa made thus far
have been most satisfactory.
LATINO THE J.ANANA.—A eorrcspin
dent says : There i* away we have of
eating bananas in the East which is
worth knowing, thus—take a soup plate,
strip half a 'lor.cn bananas, and with a
silver fork mash them up, adding suf
fictent sherry and sugar to make the
whole of about the consistency of a
thick soup. When so treated there is
a flavor which may almost vie with that
of the most delicions fruit in the world
—the Mangosteen. There is a great
difference in bananas [abroad ; the best
I remember eating were at .Singapore,
They were also particularly good at the
Cape do Verd Isles ; In china and Japan
not so good, the slightest pink always
preferred
The Duke of Bedford has given Mr.
Boebm an order fer a statue of John
Banyan, to be presented to the town
in whose jail the " Pilgrim's Progress"
was written during its author's thirteen
years imprisonment.
A Manimet'i Nhlp.
That the Ib-vaalatiu the new Earliab
ship of war, i* a success, eo far aa atie
has been tried, ia now rdmßted. The
{Mmderons inonater which sijuata upon
the astonished waters with a dead weight
ef 1(> 000 tons, takes any ordinary wave*
witn stolid iudiflcrence, whether she
receives tbrm end-on, or upon bow, beam
or quarter. The (trodigious hill of foam
which her stem piles up wheu under
way, washes, as was expected, elcan
over her lorward deck, and Ac ia often
submerged aft} but her tnaasivn mid
section rides quietly enough, and tboee
on board her when anchored in the rol
ling tide way at Hpttliead, aay thai she
was "steadier than the houae ashore."
She turna with great readiness aud in a
a small circle, ami her speed, as proved
in sis trials along the measured mil*, is
not only equal to the promise of her de
signers, but it exoood* expectation. The
mighty engines driving this island of
irou with an indicated power of 6.&0U
ho race, with seventy-seven revolutions
per minute, got fifteen knots aud a half
oat of lbs ship, and her mean rate at full
atcam is thirteen knots and three-quart
era. Here, therefore is a craft which ia
vulnerable on!y to a v<*ry few guns, has
the swiftness uf a mail packet, and the
bandinet*—thanks to her twin serews--
of a lug. while she could utilise theae
qualities to hurl uj-oa the aidt* of an
opponent the awful force of oil her ten
llumsiud ton* moving with the velocity
of a spear. On board this remarkable
man-of -war there are no lent than thirty
four distinct aud separate engines, auJ,
indeed, the value which she represents
is as serious as her fighting rapacity
What remaiu* to be learned is the Mia
vkir of the ugly giant iu a real Biscay
gale; and whether or no the rid
which she carries aft will or will not,
prove a mistake in a heavy following tea.
With stability assured to &P, wrlth no
top gear to sot her over, aud with decks
which ran be hermetically sealed, she
would be safe eoongfc; but whenever
she does roll, or pitch, or scud, the riv
et* and fittings in her bnge body will be
shrewdly tried. Except the Russian
monitor Peter the Greet, nothing float
ing could resist or even challenge such a
veoeel nt mice so strong and swift. The
torpedo, no doubt, mar yet be ao devel
oped aa to make the Devastation, aud
all her terrible sisters impotent against
a defeudol coast. On tha-high seas at
present she has no superior.
The Marriag* (Vrrmony.
1 have aeeu very UUBT nw of the
anppoaed ran't-afardtomarry disease,
and examined mxaj, and alwaya found
the symptoms to prove another com
plaint altogether. The diagnosis had
lcen utterly falae. It vu a <lom't-mot
to-many trouble that vaa afflict ng the
patient. Thia was tlie elory : Formoea
had dwelt is marble hails, and clothed
luraclf in acres of purple and fine linen.
Marriage with her means twentj thou
sand a year. So I look at my two thou
sand, and e*7 tiford-io-mmrry. Or the
dory wna this : i'alehr* m*k*r to dwell
in marble Italia, and dothe ber-elf in
acrea of purple and fine linen. Marriage
with Aar, therefore, tueane twenty thou
sand a year. So I look at my two thon
aand, and can't afford U marry. Formula
wise aud truth-wie it iathia : " Pooliah
girls wish to live idle, pampered and
fashionable livee. and fooliah young
men are seeking after fociliah girla."
In such a complication, marriage loses
ita meaning, aud it ia very natural for a
young man to say, I can't afford to
marry." The truth ia, he caunot afford
to marry after the style aforesaid, and
he does uot wish to marry in a sensible
style, to which hi* two thousand would
say Amen.—But there are other than
foolish girls in the world. There are
gufa, modest mien, industrious habits,
and nneetflsh hearts. Yon are not apt
to Aud them in the highways er in con
cpicuoua places. Tuev make the heat
wives IU the world, wiiilc the Hsratnga
thing mikes the worst. Leek for them
at home, not in ooeitty —that fixziog,
bubbling caldron, where pride, vanity
ami vapiditv, seasoned with vice, sputter
into assimilation. Find litem helping in
nursery, pantry, or kitchen ; not saun
tering with bra ECU stare on a frequented
promenade, or dawdling among French
novel* in the boudoir.— Hottofm fVosfcy.
The (ireat National Obvnatary.
Of the great nntionsl observatory, a
Nevada paper says : "We understand
that I*rofe*sr>r Davidson ha* determined
npon Pollard's Peak, Summit Station, as
the proper place for the national observ
atory. kis peak a located Irs* than
a utile from Summit Station, whieJi is
cvea thousand aud forty-eight feet
above the sea-level.and the highest point
of Hie Cent-sl Pacific Railroad. Castle
Peak, seven mile* from the summit, was
examined by Professor Davidson with
the view of making it the place for tie
oWcrtatory, hut the atmosphere from
the peak was found to be too hazy, and
the mountain itself too difficult of cccesa
to make it a desirable place for agro
nomical, barometrical,and atmospherical
ol>**T ration*. Castle Peak has the
advantage in nltitnde, a* it is nine thou
sand sewn hundred and sixty-four Let
above sea-level, or one thousand nine
hundred and sixty-four feet higher than
Pollard's Peak. The latter, however, is
easily accessible, lieiug less than half a
milo from the railroad, *nd the atmos
phere from it* summit ia remarkably
clear, and for thi* latter reason it has
been selected by Professor Davidson.
An appropriation of fifty thousand dol
lars baa leen made by Congress for the
erection of the necessary building*, pur
chase of telescope*, aud other necessary
instrument*. The telescope to be used
will be second in size ta none in the
United States. Once established, the
olwervatory will be a permanent fixture,
and will receive an annual appropriation
from Cougresa of from twenty-five to
fifty thousand dollars."
Be Economical. —" Take care of the
nonuiee." Look well to jour spending.
No matter what comes in, if mora goes
out you will alwars be poor. The art is
not in making money, but in keeping it.
Little expenses, like mice in a barn,
nit'D they are many, make great waste.
Hnir by hair, heads got bald; straw by
straw tho thatch goes off the cottage,
an.l drop by drop the rain comes into
the chamber. A barrel is soon empty,
if tho tap leaks but a drop a minute-
When yon mean to save, begin with
your mouth ; many thieves pass down
tho rod luue. The ale jug is s great
waste. Iu all other things keen within
compsss. Never stretch your legs fur
ther than vonr blankets will reach, or
you will soon be cold. In clothes, choose
suitable and lastiug stuff, and not tawdry
fineries. To be warm is the main thing;
never mind the looks. A fool may make
money, but it needs a wise man to spend
it. Remember, it is easier to build two
chimneys than to keep one going. If
you give all to back and beard, there is
nothing left (or the savings bank. Fare
hard and work lianl while von arc
young, and yon will have a chance to
rest when you are old.
It is said that the Mikado of Japan is
going to England to look for a wife. The
young emperor is tall for au Asiatic,
about five feet ten inches high, of digni
fied bearing, slightly built, of darker
complexion than the majority of higher
class Japanese, with a thin, composed
face, somewhat Mongolian in cast, full
lips, and dark eyes.
TKUMB : Two Dollar* a Year, in Advance.
What h#p Wrm Poor.
M Fate ia against ma. I in* tor could
succeed ia anything. lam doomed to
poverty. Hate 1 in near tlit. meridian
of life, a Urge family upon my bauds,
aoita and daughters just at that age alien
tlier become particularly expensive,
and need much money spent upon
litem to lit litem for the positioiia
I wish tit<*ui to ocoupy ; bat I nave not
got it to attend unless 1 involve myself
drefM r in difficulties a Inch have mlaeya
encompassed me. What ia tba rv**on I
am poor T"
Hucli are Ibe eompUinU of hundreds
of meu in onr mid.-4 alio are struggling
as tliey struggled all tlielr livea to main
tain a style of living they fancy necea
aary for tin* bappineaa of themselves and
families. The main points ia to make
other* lielieva they are pooaessed of
greater wealth than they really are—ae
to be though! poor would destroy all
the corn f or U of real wealth, did they
poasevt thriu. Ileuoe they labor and
plan to deceive their neighbors even aa
they ore deceiving themselvaa TbU ia
an inlatuaUon which leads such men
down a life of poverty aa wall of
intense misery.
With out limited or amtll incomes
they will spend money lavishly before
the" public tn the dress and ornaments of
their families and tn their houses,
followed by ac aqua] panutnonioeaaase
towards themselvaa and their business
conveniences in private. Hpeadiag
more than they receive, they are con
stantly in debt, and to maintain their
credit among their Inenda and debtors,
occupies much of their ttme, and
muuopohaea the beat energies of their
minds, and thair capacity for making
money ia correspondingly weakened,
and what ta clearly the road to fortune
ia overlooked tn the search for a path
oat of the entanglements of their vloun
tary position.
The habit of spending money twice
over, via. : once in anticipation of its
receipt and again when it is received, is
the cause of moat of the poverty in tbo
world among the intelligent classes
aa no one can practice it without besom
ing involved pecuniarily, and il persisted
in it willcntail hlc-h>ng poverty.
But let such a man atop wbare be is,
forget the Mrs. Uruudya and their gos
sip, strike out for himself s new path,
never use a dime unless it is in his
pocket, snd only nine cents of it then ;
saving the other and putting ft on in
terest. Let him learn that his children
can enjoy themselves fully aa well and fit
themselves for life much better without
the many fashionable pleasures, so com
OUD, ao expensive, and aa useless ; let
him, in fact, live independently and free
from debt, and my woid for it, his com
plain la of Fate will cease. Accumula
tion, though alow at drat, will soon as
sert itself ; and the feeling of embarrass
ment and constant anxiety, sitting likes
weight npon the mind, destroying its
elasticity and power, will give way,
and a time wilt be given to the brain
which will enable a man to see clearly
before him, and ten to one fortune
dawns upon him before he isawareof it.
If many wives would seek the cause of
the sober looks they see npon their
hushaods' faces, and would know why
his locks bleach out ao rapidly, let them
inquire into his pecuniary mat era, and
if possible draw aside the vail, behird
which he shelters his pride even Inc,
hut wife ; and if abe.finas that he is liv
ing beyond his income, let her see ts it,
as she values her happiness and that of
her children, that she support his arms
and his heart in the carrying out of any ;
resolution be can be prevailed upon to
adopt, to turn the current conveying
him on to destruction and misery. By
this means much misfortune may be
averted.
Habit* of the OpOMum.
The -dweriraa Xatwmlut hat the fol
lowing interesting | concerning
the habit* ef the opossum : The ani
mal ia widely distribute*] in the United
State*. It dwell* in hollow toga, stamps,
and in hole* at the root* of trees—does
uotTurrow, bnt takes possession of holes
already made. Into (new he will carry
lea res" nam? his tail for the purpose,
and provide himself with a comfortable
bed when bad weather threaten*, it
does not hibernate, but hunts it* food
at all season*, is slow of foot and not
very wild. It will eat liaeon, dty beef,
ami carrion, any kind of fowl, rabbit*,
any kind of small game, almost til the
insects and fruit* of every Tariety. being
esjxfially fond of mask-melon*: and it
is eaten in turn by mint people, the
flesh l>eiug considered delicious. This
has a flavor resembling that of the flesh
of a young hug. but it is sweeter and
lews gnivs. Negroes and others are ex
ceedingly fond of it; however,
hold a very different opinion, and will
sooner starve than eonaume it The ani
mal is habituaUj incautious, and when
attacked seems to possea* little power of
resistance ; literal! v suffering itself to lie
eaten alive by the turkey buzzards,
while it lies oa its side and protests
against the proceediug by a succession of
grants. Exceedingly tenacious of life,
it will survive a severe crnnebiag by the
dog*, when it seems as though every
hone in its body had been cracked. Al
though sometimes found concealed under
the floors of houses and out-buildings,
it refuses to be domesticated, and is be
lieved to dwell bat a short time in any
one place.
Swiss Working People.
The wircs reeeived by the operatives
of Switzerland are very meagre, bring
from thirty-three to forty per cent, low
er than in England, and from ten to
fifteen per cent, lower than in France.
In |thc French cantons the operatives
are better paid, but the expenses of liv
ing are higher. In Switzerland weavers
receive from $1.92 to $3.12 per week;
dyers from $1.68 to $2.64 per week; silk
spinners from $1.92 to |2 4t per week;
printers from $2.89 to 83.60 per week;
stockiag weavers from 82-40 to 4.32 per
week. Gas workers are paid 72 cents a
day, powder makers 96 cents; tool and
furniture makers GO cent*; paper makers
50 cents; brewer* and cigar makers from
38 to 75 ceota; vine dressers from 38 to
52 cents; and agricultural laborers from
24 to 38 seats. Smiths, joiners, tailors,
g&rdeneis, book binders, shoemakers,
and carpenters, receive from 38 to 56
cental day; and watchmakers, bakers,
wheelrighta, and ordinary mechanics re
ceive from 20 to 34 cents a day. Mower*
are paid 70 cents, and gunsmiths from
72 cents to $1.14 a day. The average of
wages ia very low, and only in a few
cases amounts to 72 cents a day. On
the other band the cost of living and the
prices of provisions *e very moderate.
Male workmen coa obtain board and
lodging at from 81 to 81-32 a week, and
female operatives at from 84 cents to
SI.OB a week. In country towns the
price is much lower. In the northeast
ern cantons, where mechanical weaving
is carried on entirely by women, the
girls are lodged, boarded and clotbed at
the coat of tne manufacturers in estab
lishments. Mutual aid and co-operative
societies abound, while charity and pau
perism are almost unknown.
Unfortunate cattle owners on the
Mexican frontier will be pleased to learn
that a ktter has been written to Matam
oros by President Lerio and the Mexi
can Foreign Minister, statin# that the
Frontier Commission will strisrtly inves
tigate complaints ss to cattla stealing,
and that the Mexican Government will
uid that of the United States in putting
an end to all disturbances.
NO. 49.
A ItriM
A very ri-mariable oomrounieaUcra,
entitled "The to* fflgh-
Und Inch,' to published in Land **d |
W.dtr lor Beptomber f, ami oonlgius a
circumstantial account, apparently eon-
Mtlcied verd>s, by Frank Rowland,
•f * remarkable beast In L*"b Heuro.
Thin, according to tbe arttoto, M seen j
by the writer en Iwo occasion ill August,
when tbe weather *M still and hpt, and I
lb® M*a like glass. The animal resem- i
bled a serpent, and iU length wnn enti
untied at about ninety-six feet. The
l*>dy was thrown in a nuoeeaaton ot uu
duiatione or carves, eight in number, in
•dditioe to the bead and neck. The
motion of Ut animal wan canard by die I
undulation of than* curvea, and aa ■
trrtnely rapid; in fact, it mad® a Li
siug ruab through the water quite audi
j Ida from th® resselof the oWrVor, the
I *ea being quite •till, and ne wind bio*'
lag.
'ill® party o bear ring the animal was in
a tail-boat, aid at one time within one
hundred yard*, at which distance, by
mean* of opens -glansee. it eoald be aeen
very diatinctly. When nesreat, the a®a
ooold be plainly noticed running off it*
neck and tbe back of it* bead aa it do®
from a low flat rock which haa been sub
merged by tbe wavea. The carroa into
which it threw itaeif were supposed to
be tor the porpaae of exposing at ranch
of tbe body aa poaibla to the air, as
when muring rapidly It appeared to be
perfectly straight. Some of tbe party
thought that the tumult of wale* about
the neck was caused by a leaking motion
aa of a mane, bat nothing of this kind
was clear It distinguished* The hand
appeared dot, and Uie obserrei* could
see distinctly the chin. Morn# thought
they could liitriuguish a black flu stick
ing up, but of this the? were not certain.
In tba distance tbe color t black
Tbe writer colls attention to the doe®
! resemblance of this animal in its general
i character to the see-eerpent so frequent
ly reported as existing in the Norwegian
fiord*, and states that tbe reseaiblaaoe
heretofore noticed to a string of iwwrals,
one after the other, was rcry staking.
Tbe idea of this being a school of nor
posas was considered entirely absurd, as
tbe water was perfectly clear, and the
undulations were occasionally quite fixed
for soma seconds. Tbe elongated bead
and neck were always manifest. Oc
casionally the greater part f the body
would sink below the snrfeoa, fearing,
the head and neck exposed.
Mr. Bockland, in commenting upon
this communication, refers to rations
drawings, figures, sad descriptions of;
early writer* as being corroborated in
ererr respect by the account Jtui given ;
and he thinks that the coasts of Norway
and of Northern Scotland are certainly
inhabited by tiring creatures which, for
the want of a better natne, may be called
great sea-snakes.
The Red Sesu
A writer in tbe Londpn Xm remarks
that the Bed Sen is father noted for be
ing hot, Irat the greatest beat ia said to
be in Angnt mod the early days of Sep
tember. There mm burning desert* on
each side of the mem, mnd the hot air from
them is most intense in this month, and
most o>me bj whatever wind may chance
teblow.
Sleeping on deck becomes the fashion,
and every sight increases the number
of what seems corpses laid out In row*.
At last, sa we get near the middle of the
Red Sea, the ladies find it impossible to
exist in the cabins below, and ther hare
their beds brought on deck. Wiping
the perspiration from the face and neck
is the only poeaible occapation. If von
try to write, great drop# gather and
come down with a splash on the paper as
if from a thunder cloud. Men wito bald
heads seem always to have a crop of
pearls coming up through the akin. All
the pores oi the body seem like perpet
ual fountains of water. The siglst on
the forecastle is very striking at night.
There are the crew of Lascars, and the
seedv Wallahs, or negroes, who do the
stoking—noor fellows, they come up
from their fiery Cnhenna gasping, at
times fainting, in this climate. The
stewards also take refuge on the fore
castle, snd it is the only plsoe for the
second-class passengers, snd among
them there arc two Chinese women, a
Malay woman, snd a group of ayahs
from Ceylon, Madras, nd Calcutta.
There are twe Jews from Singapore, an
English groom in charge of a horse, and
a few others, a different class, who can
net afford to pay first-class fare. All
come on the forecastle, except a lady or
two, who do not like he thick crowd
ing of the sleepert, i*r the whole place
is a mass of human beluga. The beat ia
far toe great for fun, singing, or even
conversation. Everyone laya himself
down to rest, and remains there abaorb
e.l with l;i< oun M/n&ations till sleep
gives him complete repose. Where
over there ia a spot where a man can put
his body the place ia soon filled.
The "Fat" Mteep.
Soma twenty-five yean ago, * ben I
was pastor of a church ia . I took
occasion on© evening to attend a social
meeting in the church in that place. A*
ia their custom on such occasions, one
after another rose and gave in hia or her
experience. After some time a man in
humble circumstances, small in stature,
and with an effeminate, squeaking voice,
rose to give a piece of hia experience,
which WJMI done in the following manner:
" Brethern, I hare been a member of
the church for many year*. I have seen
hard times ; my family baa been much
afflicted, but I have for the first time in
my life to see my pastor or any of the
trustees of this church oroas the thres
hold of my door."
No sooner had he uttered this part of
his experience than he was suddenly in
terrupted by one of the trnsteee. an aged
man, who rose aud said in a load, Arm
voice: .
• My dear brether, you must put the
devil behind yon."
On taking his seat, the pastor in
charge quickly rose, and also replied to
the little man as follows :
•• My dear brother, yon must remem
ber that we shepherds are sent to the lost
sheep of the house of Israel."
Whereupon the little man rose again,
and in answer, said, in a very loud tene
of voioe:
• Yes, and if I'd been a fat one, yon
would have found me long ago."
The effect upon the audience can be
better imagined than described.
MOVING WEST.— Rather the most novel
mode of emigration by rail, combining
economy and comfort, is mentioned „bj
an Eastern eotemporary. Attached to a
through freight train was a common car,
containing a man and bis wife with all
their fnrmtnre and household goods, be
sides their family horse and carry-all.
They were emigrating from Boston to
Nebraska, having chartered this freight
car to take them through for 8300. I
they meet with no uncommon deten
tions, there seems to be no reason why
they may not make a pleasant trip of it.
If successful, this may be the inaugura
tion of still another new way of doings;
and the time may be near at hand when
iroigrant cara, fitted up with special re
ference to the accommodation of emi
grant families, may be set a running over
our Western railways, and become as
familiar to the public as sleeping cars or
Pullman's palace!
I tent* of Interest.
Tims la thaabryaattsof atarnlty.
The bent lan for a poet —lncptralloft.
How to put a home " on his mattfe"-
Shoe hltn.
Neckties of rery gay roloca arc once
more fashionable.
Dubuqae i said to be tbe beat-drained
city in the United tato*
BUI Shanks says that caurttblp is
blitt, but matrimony is bttatn.
Tba tools are to l>e rumored from the
bridges over tba Thamoa at London.
„ What is that which go*, up the hi
and dowa the hill and 7*t never mores ♦
Tbe road.
Bailrosds bars now three gauges—-a
broad gauge, a narrow gauge, and a
mortgage.
Dobbe thtaka that Inataad of giving
cridittA whom crtdit Is dsi the cn*. hsd
butter b© mM,
Tba best oonundrum out : In ray first
, m, second sat, my third and fourth! atof
! A ns* To
An ETantalle, Indiana, motbar lately
■irriflevd her own Ufa in taring bar
child from tbe flames.
The remnant of the Seminole tribe in
Florida is di rided into three families of
j about twenty person* each.
A liltl® girl was fefely to
t death in Micbiian by two boys, while tm
! Iter way home from school.
A Chicago young man was yeeently
quits smitten bp e neighbor's wife, fihe
►mote trim with a roiling pin.
i ASt Louis girl haa inherited
, 000 from her betrothed lorer who wae
an officer in tbe Spanish army.
! Trieing to define lora is Uka tricing
taw kno how you cum tew brake thru
the tea; all you kno about i* UyuMl
and gat ducked.
Prince Raman, eldest son ef tba
Kti<-dire of Egypt, who has finished his
Oxford career, will seon depart on a
three tears' tour around tbe world.
Tbe gilded gambling saloons at Em*
art cLaed, to the grant indignation of
many <dd habitue*. The royal degree
forbidding further gambling wa read
on the Iffith of September.
They will here the goepel preached in
peeoe at Torirrilfe.Tenn.. if the* have to
fight for it. A genUeman named Starkey
was promptly shot on the spot for dis
turbing a meeting there.
The trioaeom cannot tall what beoomcs
of its odor, and no man can toll what
become* of his influence and example,
that roll away from him, and go beyond
bis ken on their perilous mission.
Btriage toaav, Louis Najtoleon desires
to take up bis 'abode in Germany, and
has asked the German Government if
be might do so. Be was answered that
bis presence them wonkl be unwelcome.
The effects of the suppression ef the
liquor traffic ate already visible in Dan
burr. A woman who one month ago
hardlr knew when to get bread for her
children, now haa a oompfete act of new
jewelry,
At one of the New Tort up town
churches a slate, containing a Hat of
the weddings to he celebrated during
the week, ia bung in the vestibule every
Sunday for the benefit of the young
ladies of the omgrcgatkn.
A painter bring asked to estimate the
ooat ot fintontr a certain house, drew
forth pencil sod paper and made tbe
following calcufettott : " A naught ia a
naught j three into fit# twice you mn*t;
I'll paint your house for fifty dollar*.
Sergeant Bates, the American wbc
suited to walk from Glasgow to London,
bearing unfurled the flag of his eountry.
is on his Journey, arerywhare he Is greet
ed with the cheers of the people. Here
ports that bs haa in no way hew molest
ed.
Those beautiful Httle creatures. Hying
squirrels, are now bred in oagts by the
itinerant dealers who display them in
the thorough lares. The oore bred in
captivity are perfectly tame, allowing
themselves to be handled even by te*n :
germ.
Poor Carlotta," the ex-Empress of
Mexico, is reported to possess a fortune
of $5,000,000. Which will be inherited by
her brothers, the King of Belgium and
the Count of-Flanders. Her fortune
was inherited from Leopold I. of Bel
gium.
Fatti and Nilreo® are now ringing in
opera at St Petersburg, and the friewfly
rivalry between the two stars creates a
pleasant exeitenrent They do not eome
into immediate collision, although wring
with each other in favorite role*on alter
nate night*.
•' Ma, why doatycw speak T* asked
little Jake. " Why don't ycm say so thin'
funny V"* What can I say ? Dost
vest "see I'm busy frying doughnuts f
Bay something funny, indeed ! " Wai.
ver might say 4 Jake, went yer her a
cake r Tha* 'ad be funny." #
Borne practical joker suggested through
the firisafclk Ammo #a that robbing the
(ward off with a pumice stone (a file
would answer the same purpose)was a
much better wav than taking it off with
a rasor. Some fellow had the Derve to
try it, and tbe remit; was that he got
his beard off, mid skin, too.
By an agreement between the two
governments, the thaler of Germany
will be considered as equivalent to
seventy-five cent* in United Slates coin
;of gokl value. A remembrance of this
will be useful in the interchange of
money orders between the United
Steles and the German empire.
Oulooel Titus C. Rice, a recluse who
, had heen living on an old barge at For
tress Menrec since the war. committed
suicide bv shooting himself through the
, head. Some twenty year# ago he was a
prominent eituseu of Htchmond, Vs., and
i colonel of the famous " Black Horse
! Cavalry."
I The father of a bey whose veracity is
not so marked as his had, asked the
! teacher why it was his arm didn't have a
: better acquaintance with figures, ana
was considerably electrified when the
! teacher teuderif observed, " I really
j don't know, unless it is because figures
won't lie."
Mr. Cornell continr.es to lavish meney
upon his university. He has commenced
I the building of an extra workshop for
i tbe purpose of supplying the manual -
labor studeats with increased means of
' earning a support. It will be provided
; with machinery and an expert foreman
■ aa teacher.
A smart lad in San Antonia, Texas,
recently took his stand by the side of a
blind organ-grinder, and, hat in hand,
solicited alms. When his hat was nearly
filled by the sympathetic paeaeea-hy, he
walked off, leaving the org mist grinding
away, utterly ignorant of the whole
transaction.
The Prus&ian Government has decided
that the dames an Bacre Cceur de Deu,
an Order imployed chiefly in the relig
ious instruction of Catholic girls and
children, ia to be considered n akin to
the Jesuit Order under the lak> act, and
the member* are consequently to be
expelled forthwith.
When a man thinks that nobody care*
for him, and that he ia alone in a cold
and selfish world, he would do well to
ask himself what he Las done to make
anybody care for and love him, and to
warm the world with faith and generosi
ty. Generally those who complain the
most have done the least
THE CIXT OF ROME.— Since Rome be
came a aeat of government it baa, like
Berlin, greatly increased in population,
and the demand for houses necessitates
the formation of entire new streets. In
the excavations and levelings now being
made the most interesting discoveries,
have been made. Not a sewer is dug
nor foundation laid without the work
man's pick coming upon rare objects of
art or the debris of monuments ; among
these are mosaic pavements, tombs,
marble and bronze statues, inscriptions,
pillars, bas-reliefs, etc., the remains of
aneient monuments, known and un
known, and an abundance of tools,
medals, jewels and other small articles.
A better field could scarcely present
itself just now to the study of the
arcseologist and antiquarian, for the his
tory of old Rome is "written in her soil,
and every step upon it reminds the
traveler of Byron's fervid exefhmation :
" Stop 1 for you tread upop aa empire's
dust.'