Empty. Your IMT crib ia la the EARNER yet; I alt aad watah It, }*wt m day la ded. Tern eantiol press act)a, my ranlahad pet, It* pillow with yonr drowsy gulden head. You cannot reach plump ami* to art my ktaa, Or dart about with may, naked feet. Babbling aoft syllables of that and thie, A tiny night-gowned fairy, blithe and tweet. ODM and for ail yon hare lain down to rent, Not to rtae np because of birds or beam*, - ■ Once aad for an, with white flowers on your breast. To a! am her eoHlv and to dream no dreamt. Bapty the home where fmlienonte and fair. Your precious pretence made to bright a part; Empty your little crib, your clothes, your chair, But emptiest of all your mother's heart I Nothing Carrs. Ay, nothing cares ; the buds peep ent Through the glory of waving graasas ; lbs Ume-trer tliags Its passionate brvstk To Uie light wind a* it paaatea. The rosea cluster, crtiuson and white, In afitnoot glow and bloom; The snnabiae lends its careless light To the cradle and the tomb. The wild birds sing "mid the wedding chime*, Or the mourners' sobbing prayer*; Tho seasons keep their stated time. Life pa seen; nothing caies. Our Joy oauuet soften the keen gray skies. Or the sung of Sue glittering fort ; Our cry cannot aaddeu Uic Spring's sweet sighs On the merry breeacs tomed ; Our woe dose not cloud the Summer's flush, As it gladdens e'er land or sea; Our triumph sinks down w hen the Autumn hnah Claims its gravs tranquillity. Oh ! never a touch of sympathy Great Nature's magic wears ; We strive and stumble, and moan, and die ; Life passes ; nothing care*. Oh! love them, while our days are bright, Beauty, and fife, and Sowers; Let them give our Summer added light, let them bless our few bright hours ; And when the certain ehadows creep Over the path we go, Let ua turn away from it all and weep. And bear, aa we may, cur woe ; Asking no comfort from outward things, That hut Jar aad mock our prayers. For a Rlier truth experience brings— We die, an 1 nothing cares.' TALERU3i*S LAST GIFT. My darling stepped out trora the little inn-window en the wooden balcony, draped with vine-leaves and heavy bunch es of half-ripened grapes, which overhung the door of the os teria. It was a lapis lazuli night, such as only known in Italy. Below us lay a great water, calm as the bay of coetcntmcat wherein to our lives had now glided. Stars trembled there, and the moos swung her full fed lamp on the very edge of the ripple :hai wash ed the shore. There came a heavy odor of orange-blossoms from the gardens above us. blent with the leaa rare odor ot tobacco frem the pipes of ostlers and wayfarers seated around the door below. The murmur of their voices was all that broks the silence. Between the Mttria and the lake ran the doaty high-road, where the diligence halfan 1 onr ago had passed, and stopped there to ehange horses. But there wss not much traffic saving a cart or two, oxen-drawn and laden with maixe, and a curious old vehicle, half gig, half chaise, bearing a notary from the neighboring town to tho bedside of some village Dives, cumbered in his last honrs with the disposition of his wealtb,(so the waiter informed me) Saving for these the dost had slept nndisturbed, in layers several inches thick, npon the read, daring all the honrs we had been there. And now the night had come, and even such un frequent traffic would cease. But, contrary to our expectations, as we stood there hand-in-band npon the balcony, listeniog to a cicala in the dasty roadside grass and a frog in the water weeds, and the hum of the smokers' voices below us, there fell on onr ears the distant cracking ot a post-poy's whip, with the familiar accompaniment of jing ling harness. A minute more, and in the white moonlight we saw an open travel ing-carriage coming rapidly toward us. There was a rush among the smokers to the front; the postilion worked np his whip to a state of frenzy as he neared his goal, and finally swung himself lightly to the ground, sa he pulled up exactly "nn der onr window. The carriage was occu pied by two persons—a gentleman and lady. The brad of the calecJu being tin own back. I could see the man's face very distinctly in the moonlight, which wss as clear as day. I thought I re cognized it; so, perhaps, did my com panion, for she drew yet closer to me, and I felt her little hand tremble in mine. The doubt, if it was one, lasted but a minute; the lady threw back her vail; the small black-lace bonnet framed— it dkl not abroad—that carved ivory fao on which tho moonlight flooded. God forgive me! I, had reasons to know It to well; and so had she who stood be side ma. My poor little darling nestled close to me like s frightened dove, and she palled me quickly back under the shadow of the vine-leaves, as she mur mured—" O Valerian! that woman again! That woman here /*- " My darling, what are ynu afraid *ft She can do as no harm. Depead on it, she >■ not tronbiing her head about we.* "Why does she come beret Ob, Valer ian. wp were so bsppy!" "Hoebt Let ns hear what tbey any.'' " Bring out the litre de* etrangtrt. We will see who has been passing this way." It wss the gentleman who spoke. " Joat. the romantic spot for a love-rick couple," laughed the lady ; and her flee musical laugh fell on my ear like a dis cordant peal of bells. "I should not wonder if there was some one staying her a." We saw the greasy strangers' book handed to them by their courier, aid the lady, by the light of the moon alone, turned over the pages and read the names written there. A dear little early head was bidden on my bieist, and a small voice whispered, plaintively: 44 Yon won't go down to herf Yon won't see her f Promise me. Shell try to take you from me. is she did before. I shall die if yon go. Valerian 1" 44 Never fear, darling. She bewitched me once; I was thad then, I believe. But have I not something better cow f While I hold my treasure here in my arms, what to me are all the fairest women in the world ?" 44 Ah! yon didn't think so once," she sobbed; 44 and I know nothing can resist her—nothing! Even now, yon cannot take yocr-ejes off her. Ah! Valerian, if she drags yon away frotn me tfiis time—" 1 pat my hand across bar month, and listened with hungry eyes and ears. 44 Men Ditu /*' cried the lady, clasping her hands and laughing. "Look here! —what a rmcontrt /—read this: 4 Mom, Yolrriar, peinirt Parit, arte sa fttmm.* Only think of hit being here! I hxv# not seen him since he threatened to bLw out bis brains." a A "Poordv||! Yon treated him very badly, Oor&J Who did hf marry V 44 O, some little Englfeh model, to whom be had beeaengagodforyeßTs—ever since he waa a child. I wish bar joy of him. Hare yen a mind to'see them T Shall we stop the right hcref Yon wanted a ■ketch or the lake: he shall make me half a doxt-n " 44 That sort of fellow's a bore," said the gentleman, lighting his cigar 44 Betides, you'll have U make the fellow believe you're in love with htm again, in order to get your sketches: and it Isn't worth it. How can yon ever have found anything werth it? Gratified vanity, eh. Yon twisted him round yonr Httle finger, the yeung fool, all the time I was in .Russia, Well, I hope yon lonnd it amusing. always think society of that second-rate sort a nmifanco." 44 He was really very tolerable. The whole thing rather amused me, far a time —until he began to take it grand ttrietix. When he grew dnll and taciturn, talked of nothing bnt death and despair, of coarse I was oWiged te shut the doMr in hiaiaca. It would rather Interest me te see him again, though," added the lady, carefully bpttoning her flora. 44 Let as send for him/' I And this was the WOBMJB fer wheqjk ene FRED. KURTZ, Editornnd I'm],riot or VOL. V. abort year ago, 1 would bare UU down my lito for whose sake I bad cad aside the treasure wbicb, undeeonring aa I was, I had found nettling in tuy heart onco mere; Blind fool that I bail been f Ob, tor thoae wasted, worae titan wasted, hour*! I felt, in that moment, bow one burning drop of shameful memory may embitter a whole cupful of preaent happl no**. Wee were there no justice under beaveu; while faithful uteu, whose love baa never swerved, are forever severed, thia aide the graxe, from all they have best loved on earth. Was it tny darling's avenging angel who had brought this couple here to-night, that my ears might testify to the baseness of her who had se. duced ins from my heart'* ttrst allegiance t Thia ia what 1 heard the husband reply: "i-V.i cktrt, it would be dull work for me watching you try to rehook your flab. No doubt you would succeed—you always do. But I put it to yon fairly—ref-cv qut oe'a raut fa pet's*/ You, who have had tiupcrvr* at your feet—you may leave your poor artist in peace at last, eh, to the miserable enjoyment of his model wife. She punishes him enough for his infidelity before marriage, depend on it." "Nodoubt; and 1 should like to have seen my friend henpesked," replied the Isdy with a smile. "It vu just because he was to different from all the men of one'a own set that I amused myself with him, nto* cier, during your absence. I knew yow would never hare tolerated him in the house—as he never plays hrirti; bat as you wore in Russia, it was rather an amusing change often all the Uittt men of the Jockey Club, to listen to thit passionate sentimental painter, with his talk about Christian ark and his enthusi asm about the oolor of one's hair sad the turn of oae'a neck, and las utter absence of all conventionality. lie was quite re freshing, I assure you, until he came to be a bore. By the by, you never saw the picture be did of roe, in the dress I wore at the Princess Mathilde'a W eosfnsi/ f If we stayed here the night " Here the fresh horses were brought out; and in the imprecations which ac companied the tugging at the rope harness and tLe shoving of the beasts into their places st the iole, 1 lost the remiinder of this sentence. " If I have my luck, before we return to Paris I'll seed to the fellow and boy his picture," snic .ke husband; but to-night, remember that Sch wartzonlieiui is to meet as at Oomo." " And he plays at scurf* !*' I will get the miasmrc from Valerian, however without your buying it, mo* <mi." "Yon shall not have Jong to wait," I murmured; and disengaging myself from the arms of my darling, who* fol lowed me, pile and bathed in team, I en tered our little room, and run to n case which stood near the bed. Among a number of other miniatures was one half-finished, which I had not looked at for months. I seized a sponge full of water, and passed it several times serosa the hard, beautiful, white face, that looked out at me less and less distinctly, until nothing but the faintest shadow of a face was left. Then I wrote with my pencil acmes it: "Valerian's last gift." I ran into the balcony. They were just starting. Tho padrone, surrounded by his satellitee, stood cringing and cough ing at the door; the postillion was al ready in his saddle, thecourier climbing deftlv into bis rumble. I took my aim just as the whip went " crack" and the wheels, with a sudden jerk, began re volving; the bit of ivory dropped straight into her lap. She was startled, sod looked quickljr up. Our eyes met I was leeaing well over the balcony this this time, with my arm atound my an gel's neck ; and it was with no feigned fervor sf passion that I pressed mr lips to hers. The carnage was rolling out of s : ght in the moonlight and the dust, . hut I could just catch the scornful smile ' on that pale sculptured face, under its ' black lace bonnet, before a turn of the I road hid the woman from me—for ever. Yes, for ever on this side the grave ; for I learn that she is now dead. It was a painful, lingering end ; some interna! , torture eating away her life, and with it her dcarly-sherished beauty. What com fort had she in those last hours, when ber husband was playing erarte at his : club, and ber admirers had all deserted j her, with no baby-fingers clasped about her neck, no children's voices to cheer the love forgotten silence * Was the j solitary woman haunted by the memory of lives she bad ruined, or hearts she hat] ! burned up and laid dcaohite ? Why have I written down the story o those few moments in a bdronv ? Be cause I look back to tbem with thank fatness, as to the crisis when my eyes were fully opened. I know myself. I know th-t until then, blinded by the woman's beauty, I never really aaw her as she was But for this, there had been times barfly when I might have regretrial that my little angel laaked the Athenian grace sod brilliancy that in another exercised so fatal a spell oYor me. AH it is, 1 thank God for the helpmate he has given me ; far her sweet trusting nature, for the hesren of her face, which always brings me peace when 1 look into it. And when I see her baby curled Hke a rose leaf on her bosom, and her two Btnrdy boys, who clean father's palette and mimic father's pictures in chalk upon the stjidio wall—ah 1 well, I is.v to myself, t!fte b nothing the Sch wart zen lieim palace contains, nothing than poor dead woman's life ever compassed, that I would take in exchange for the joys my wife has given me ! I A CASH OF OBI'KI.TT.—CoI. Freeman- I Ue of the Cold stream guards Las for ijßtsbed to the London 1 inua a eorres t pond en re between himself aud the >! Secretary of tlio Dublin and Glasgow | Steam Packet Company which curiously '■ illustrates the rigid adherence of the t ordinary English official to regulations, LI and his incapacity to discover any cir f i cumatancea which might sanction any ' I deviation from them. Corporal Sinclair II of the guards, while in the last stage of ! consmp''>a was refused admittance iu ' J to the cabin of one of the Glasgow and Dublin steamers, on the ground that it was against the lules of the company to 1 allow a cabin passage to non commis i sioned officers or private soldiers so long as thev wear the Queen's uniform, al though no objection is made to admit persons of the lowest grade in civilian dross. So the nnfortunate man was i obliged to take a steerage passage, the i discomforts of which greatly aggravated | the mata/*y from which he was suffering. In reply to e remonstrance from Colonel Freemantle a$ ainsl this inhumanity, the .Secretary of the company Bays* that Corporal Sinclair was informed that if lie would cover his uniform with a civil ian Overcoat he contd obtain a cabin passage. But as the corporal p >ssesae<l no such garment,'the permission was of httte avail, and he became a victim to red tape. The absurdity of the whole thing becomes apparent when it is con sidered that the shabbiest civilian in England conld have obtained on this oc casion what was denied to a brave and deserving veteran. At a recent Lima exhibition a clock made by a Peruvian was exhibited, qnit6 wonderful in its way. It was fifty feet seven inches wide. It mark* the weeks, the seasons, years and centuries; it shows the eonrses of the sun and moon, hoists up and lowers daily the flag of Pern, and presents pictures eoramemovative of the great events in the history of Pern. It strikes the bonis and quarters of hour*, and plays oertain tunes at stated periods. THE CENTRE REPORTER. A Kentucky Romance. Not far from the forks of Etkhora lived tke pretty little widow Fauutleroy, and one of her foearest neighbors waa Owners) l'eyten. The General had looked upon the little widow very much at he did upon Ida blooded horse Powhaltan " the tiueat horse, air, in the Blue Grass re gion." The pretty little widow Kauntleroy had been a widow more than a year, while the General, having a great regard for eti quette, had waited patieutly tor that time to elapse iu order to declare himself. Hut the widow with her womans art, kept her lover at bay and yet kept bun in her train, lie had escorted her to ttiis barbe cue, and when returaing had expressed his satisfaction at the prospect ot General Combs and the success of the Whig party. The widow took aides wilL the Democ racy, and offered to wager her blooded saddle borne, Gypeey, or anything ele on the place, against Po what tan, or anything else she might lancy on the General'* plaee The General's gallantry would not allow him to refute the wager, which he promptly accepted. By this time they had reached the north fork of Elahorn, and were about to ferd it (bridges were not plentiful in thoae day*) wheu John Peyton, the General') only sou and heir, came up at a sharp gait behiud them. The widow turned and bowed to John, and rode on into the stream, but a little behiud her companion. The east bauk was very steep, and required the horses to put forth all their streagth to reach the top with their loads. As luck would have it good, or ill, the widow's girth broke just at the commencement of the steep parr. The lady, still seated on her saddle, slid swiftly bark into the wa ter, while her horse went up the bank like an arrow. John Peytor leaped from his horse, and in an instant caught the floating ldr and I saddle, and, before the General had re ■ covered from his astonishment, was si ' the top or the bauk with hit burden. The ! little widow was equal to the occasion, for she begged the General te ride on and atop ber horse, which had now begun to understand bis part ia the mishap, and was beginning to increase his gait toward j houte. The General did as he was hid, and soon returned with the horse. In the meantime John Peyton had secured his ( own horse, and when the General came back with the widow's horse the and John were laughing merrily over the ridiculous sccldent; but what further passed between them is only known to 1 themselves. John Peyton repaired the broken girth, fastened the saddle again on ibo horse, placed the lady in her seat, hade lur good evening, mounted his horse, and taking another road down the Elkhorn, rode rapidly home, leaving the General to es oort the widow. It Is not necesary to relate how he en tertained his fair companion with ponder ous anecdotes of Mr. Clay and other famous public men; bat when he reached the Fauntleroy place he accepted the lady's invitation to dismount and take tea with her. Atter changing lier wet cloth ing the pretty widow entertained her guest with her brightest smiles and some new songs. The General was delighted, and expressed his delight, as Kentucky gentlemen of that day would have done. " Yon are the finest sougtress, madam, in tba Blue Grass region." When he bade her good night and shook i hands with her on the porch, the wicked little widow gave his hand a little sincere —only a little—but it thrilled like an electric shock through his great, ponder ous frame, while she laughingly reminded him of his wager. That night, in his dreams, the little widow Fauntleroy was , repeated so often, and in so many be witching forms, that he resolved to pro pose tq her at their first meeting, nor did he dream that he could be refused The next morning s letter from his to bacco factor, called General Peyton to j Louisville, and bofore bis return the poli- j ticsl contest in the Ashland district was ; over, and wonderful to relate, John C. j Breckinridge, the young Democrat was elected to Congress. General Peyton was both astonished sod indignant. 44 Mr. Clay'# district, sir, the fines' Congressional district in tlie Blue Grast region, ha* disgraced itself, air," was almost his first remark to his neighbor, Colonel Beaufort. To his son John he cominnnicaied his intention to bring Mrs. Fauntleroy to adorn the head of his table. 44 Sir. she is the finest lady in the Blue Grass region, and I hope, sir, yon vill always respect your future mother." John, with a quiet smile, assured him that be was pleased with his choice. This pleased the General highly, for he had been a little afraid Jehn wusld object to a step-mother youager than himself. Tlie next merning the General oidered Poahattan brought out and led over to Mra Fauntleroy's. Calling John he re quested him to go with him to call upon Mrs. Fauntleroy. " The Whig party has disgraced itself in Mr. Clay's di-triet, sir, and I am com pelled to part with the finest blooded horse in the State to pay my wager with that lady, sir." The black boy had led Powliattan to the hitching rail ia front of Mrs. Fsuntle roy's yard, asd, baring tied him, had gone into the quarters to tell his brothers and sisters of their mistress's good luck in baring won the famous horse Powhnttan. When General Payton and John arrired they found the pretty widow and two young lady friends in the yard admiring Powhattan. The ladies were in high glee and after the banal salutations the gentle men were invited to take seats on the porch, which they did. Madam," said the General to Mrs. Fsnatleroy, 44 1 hare come here like a true Kentucky gentleman, to pay the wager I hare lost. Powhattan, madam, is right fully yours." "But, General," said she, "I believe the wager was conditional. It was the horse or anything else on the place, was it not!" " Madam," he replied, "you are correct. Dot there i nothing on my place eno half in valne to TowhatUn. I cannot permit jon to select an inferior animal." The pretty widow blushed to the tips of her fingers when she said: " You have another and snperior animal here—your son John; if he wonld but nse his tongue, I think 1 shall cheose him." There was a moment of silence, then a Imgh, in which the General did not join. He rose, and in the blandest manner bade the ladies good night. To John he said : •• Sir, you will remain.'' And that was the way John Peyton came to marry the pretty Widow Faunt leroy. General Peyton never forgave his pretty danghter-in-law her practical joko. In after years he need to say: " Mir, she is the finest lady in the Rlue Grass region, but she lacks taste, sir." As ISCPOKTAJST Bcrr.—A snit of some importance and interest to the the public is pending m the Marine Court of New York. The widow of tbo late Avery D. Putnam, who waa killed with a car-book by Foster, haa brought suit against the street Railroad Company for damages resulting from the lost of her husband. The evidence is the same as upon the trial for the murder, which, it ia claimed, shows that the conductor and di ivdr, by the exercise of proper dili gence, could have prevented the assault, 'and she legal ground ia taken that the Company is liable in damages for the negligence of its employee, CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1872. " I Make No MKtakev." A first-rate story is told of a very prom inent man, who lived iu Detroit forty yeais ago, and who at that time owned more sleamboat stock than any inan in the Western country, besides other wealth to a large amount. Like many ef the pioueera who acquired rreat riches, he was very ignorant in all that book* taught, hut his learning is more like wisdom, and, in coinmoa with many who have lived and passed away, but left their mark behiud tliein, he knew what tree weuld make shingles by loekiug at it. He had, at the tiuie of our story, .last completed a splendid new warekoua* at Hutfalo, and wanting a anitable clerk to take charge of it, he advertised for one in the paper*. The next morning early, a candidate for the position presented him self, rather too flashy a young man in appearance, but the following coovarsa- I lion occurred: " Young man, when you make a mistake in any of vour books, how do yeu correct i it*" The young man explained, in a vary prefusa manner, how he should proceed to make it all right. "A ijood way, no doubt, le do it," ro ' plied the old man, " but 1 shan't want you." Very soon another aspirant pot in an appearance. A similar question waa asked ' lam, and in a long aud eloqnea manner he pointed out the remedy in all such ; cases. All the reply waa: "Young man, 1 j shan't want you." Some three or four othera droeped in , during the day, and to each one the satna t question was put, and they all had sotnr smart way of covering up errora ia their | books. The old gentleman wo* entirely ignor ant himself of the art of book-keeping, hut he had wisdom in all things, which it mre than a match for learning. Just at the nose of the day a plainly drvtsed man nith a bright eye aeda brisk step called for the situation. "Take a seat, air," said the old geutle maa, "I want to ask you one question. When yon make a lalse entry ou your books, how do you go to work to correct it?" Turning upon his questioner a cold, sharp look, the ycung man replied : " 1 don't make that kind of mistakes, Mr." "Ah 1 my dear sir, yea are just the man I have been looking for all day," and in a j fee* momenta after, the man who corrected ! his blunders by not making thatn, vaa in- j stalled in the office. Five-Slant*( bats WKb Yonng Ulrk. And now, girls, aavs Dio Lewis, let us ' rvturn to your drees. In a previous "-hat *■l spoke of one feature of tour dre which I venture to my must l>e changed lieforo yon can have a eleur heed, good digestion, and a healthy liver. I wish now to apeak of the drees of tho middle of tho body. Every one of us lives iu pnqiortiou to our breathing. If we breathe strong, we live strong; if i our breath is weak our life ia wuk; the quantity of air we take into our longs is ttie measure of our life. Now, go with me to the bail room Here we are. Notice that couple: they are dancing. Watch them. When they ntop olwcrve their breathing. There! ha has takeu one deep breath, filling all the lower part of hta tunes, and now lua breathing ia tqnirt. But notice her breathing. See how the upper part of her chest worka£up and down. Watch ker tea minute*. That panting "and* pumping will go on. What do yon suppose is the reason for this difference? Do yon ftippooo the Creator mode a woman's lungs so defi cient iu size that she has to work that way to get her breath? Among young children there is no difference iu tire breathing of boys and girls. If we visit a farm where poisons of both sexes are engaged in outdoor labor, with the same freedom of Ureas, we shall not find the women breathing in that peculiar wav. No, the working and pnmping of thit chest are owing to ber ureas. The low-1 or part of the lungs ia the large part. There i where most of the breathing should bo done. There js where the man does most of bis breathing. But she has so squeezed and contracted the lower part of ber lungs that very little breath can get down there, so that the small upper eud D compelled to do moat • of her breathing. It is that lil'le uppvr end which U working away no.hard un der ber ribs now . When a lady deuces, inns, or goes p stairs, she suffers thumping ol tho heart and labored breathing, noibecanse tho original con stitution of her breathing apparatus was' faulty, but beoan*s -the so compresses the lower, larger part of her lougv, that she in like a person who has but a single lung to breath with. There is a lack <t breathing room and of course (ho breath ing is labored. # u With knife oo !corset-string, every, woman should cry out, "Giro me liberty cr give tne death I" Perfect freedom for lungs, heart, liver and stomach is indispensable to good rn*piratiou, circulation and digestion. Without auch freedom, living is not living, but dying. . < Railway Disasters in England. There can be no doubt that railroad management in England in mere uniform ly, thorough than In this country. We have, it is true, somd roads which are managed with a skill and care and fere -ight and liberal expenditure hprdjy aur passed by tbe English roads, but wc have too many other lines so bunglingly man aged as to be hardly fit for transportation of cattle, to say nothing of human beings. But admitting that the English railroad management is, a* we said, more uniform ly thorough than onrs, it may be ques tioned if it is not too highly rated hero. | It is easy to account for this over esti mate. We hear of our own accidents, or af least the most of them, wsllfe we hear, as a general thing, only of the most terri ble of the disasters happening on the En glish roods. But that there is at times almost as gross mismanagement on some nf the En glish roads as disgraces certain of onr own is evident from the complaints put up br the people there, ss well as from the official reports. Captain Tyler'a Gen eral report shows that the number af so cidents on English roods had Increased from one hundred and thirty one, in 1870 to one hundred and seventy-oue, in 1871, although fortunately tbe number of pas sengers killed by causes beyond their own control had decreased from sixty-six to twelve, while there was also a decrease in tbe number of passengers injured. MORTALITT or CHIDREN.— A very dis tinguished Paris physician says: ".I be lieve that, during the twenty yrars I practised my pofinsiou, twenty thou sand children have been carried to the cemetaries A sacrifice to the absurd cus torn of exposing their arms. Pat tlib bulb f n thermometer into a baby's month and the mercury rises to ninety degrees. Now carry "the same ta its little hand; if the arm lie bare and even cool, the mercury will sink to fifty de- Srees. Of course, all tho blood that ows through these arms must fall from ten to forty degrees below the tempera ature of the heart. Need I say, when these ourrenls of the bflSod flow back to the chest, the child's vitality must be more or less eompromiaed? And need I add tbat we ought not tab* warprised at the frequently recurring affections of the tongue, throat, or stomach?" AbbetUford tu IfiTf. Taking ail eonditions and siraum stances iuU> account, I hardly know of any place Ural ia fraught with such thrill tog ant! puthetie associations. Myron's Ni'Wbtciiii is nut half au luournful an il lustration of the futility of smaller am bitiuna, au>l it ia nut half an profoundly steeped in the jHTaonal associations of genius. There's the study in which the great roiuuueist wrought; there's the faded hl urni-chnlr F leather in which lie used to ait; there's hi* library he Ailed with the books he so loved ; here lire the historic spears, and awurda, and' ooraeleta. which he delighted to collect around him. Yonder is the full-longth painting of the much-loved aon who kept the great uuua of Sir Walter Boott for so abort a tioie Iwfura the living world. All the race arc gone now but a great grand-daughter—a girl of nineteen —and she ia a Roman Catholic— (think what Walter Scott would hare said to sneh a family prospect ?) and perhaps when ahe marries the name will wholly pass away. Sir Walter's grand-daughter, the lust survivor of the family, married Mr. Hope, a great Rudimentary lawyer and a ltoraau Catholic; and he, inherit ing Abbot taford through her, took the naue af Scott in addition to his own Mrs. Ho)>c Scott died many years ago, leaving the ope daughter 1 hare men tioned. Mr. ITone Scott' married a second wife, who also died. Thus there are two of Sir Waller's dearest hopes un filled. He hoped to found a great, broad spivading familv, and a name identified with vigorous Protestantism, and the line has run down to one girl, and she ia a devout Roman Catholic. Well, all IhtM-c thoughts and many others reader a visit to Abbottsford rather a melan choly pilgrimage, with all the glory of the memories that cling forever round the bouse. . Bat it is hard indeed lo keep up any feeling of reverence or md ne*, or even interests, when you are marshalled through Abtiottsford exactly as if it were Mrs. Jarley'a wax works You are shown into a waiting room, where you havcta remain until the at tendant has got through with the pre vious party or gang of sight a-e ; for they will only tske one gang at a time. Then, when your turn comes, yon pay fix peace each ;*tbe guiding woman takes a wand in her hand and leads the wsy. She peiuts out everything, and mum* each relic in a measured, monotonous, ice-cold tone, like that old wearied school-mist rest going over some doll task iu her dreatps. "Chair of Srr"Wa! tor Holt; desk of Sir -Walter Scott; portrait- of Hir Walter Scott, painted by-—"any one you like-—" portrait of Lady 8.-nit's silver inkstand, presented by the Sultan of Ju(key-; sijver snuff ; box presented by tlie corporation of I IMlingullth ; pistol that once liehmgcd ( to Prince Charles Edward ; pair of gar ters. said to have belonged to Mary Queen of Seotts ; misrellam •us collec Hon of wea|>tma, owners' names un knowu." Ho you are lead along, ashame d of the whole tiling, womb-ring what Kir Walter would have thought of it if bo could only Laveforaevn, and finding that every raj of decent emotion is dying jont of you as jou drudge through jour ! measured and soulless ceremonial. At 1 the lime oor little gTtmj/ had git half | way throng?!, it might hnve been Wood's Museum, so far as moat of us were con cerned. 1 vow ii I were the hair of a grant man, I would not have this sort of thing, 1 would rlopo the house and the relics against all strangers, or 1 would have them to see and gaze and meditate ,"without the preliminary sixpence or the J accompanying clack of "the guida. Parts a Humbug. The Iter. J., ii. Barclay ventures to dif fer from t|i papular estimate. Pie write* to the Lutheran Obterrer 'lf there b ny unmitigated humbug on ths face of tho earth It is Paris.' People rislt it be cause It Is the fashion, and learn to mur der a little French and to praiee delightful Parte, as they pronounce it, hecuse it is the fashion. Pap* has its beauties ; it is s fine city, but there Us wearisome same ness about its streets. Uniformity be comes Urcsdme. Tolfortn, as a rule, In heigfit, uniform In style, the Mansard rohf H-everywhere prevalent. No one can erect an edifice nntl! submitted to the Royal Architect, who Insists on certain rules, one tnsn power, the curse of na tions and churches. There is not in Paris, exorpt her Opera lion*e, a sinrls building equal to Bennett's lit raid office or the Park Batik, sate In extedsiveness, and yet we are of the conclusion that when European vldpnrs are going ints eestacles aver the second city of the world It h the taahioa, and that explain# and covers n grsat deal. If Paris is over-estimated, much more is ber army a swindle. The Prassi&a victories lessened it considerably in our estimation. W# saw, probably, xtLO .0 of the flower ot tbe army, via: the Versailles troops. Thsy were wplkisg scare-crows; titer were the slou.hiest, dirtiest, worst dressed,' meanest drilled troop* I ever daw on parade. Our cherished dream fs gonethe days of the Old Onsrd are over. Ibe spirit of the great Napoleon .will turn sorrowfully away. Icbabod is written on ths banners of France, for. tbe glory hath departed. A word qn what is hit of the old army. We wont in llie broiling sun tp. the Hotel dt-s Invalid?*, the asylum of the old soldiers of Nayoloon, and the place where his'ashe* repose; hnd so we compared France, net with other* but with herself. In the hospital and aronnfi tins grounds we saw Vetrerans ot ninety years of age. who pat to shame the best blood v>f modern . France. Men who, fought through the suns,of Egypt and the snow* of Kpesia, grizzled andweat)ierbeaten. hut still erect as pineq, broad shouldered, stern old soldiers, whq recall \he glory ot the Old Onsrd—the last lingering light*, of a ones powerlal nation. We could not but think of what these old men must lisre felt for the humiliation of their land, how they must have bled at the degen eracy of the moderns. "And what is the matter with France! Wherein lie* the secret of ber overthrow! It is contained in. two words—ignorance end licentiousness F' IMPROVEMENTS II CASTINO MKTAIA— The invention ol Mr. W. Seders, of Philadelphia, Pa., relates to A novel me thod of discharging the molten metal 1 from the furnace er crucible In which it has Icen melted, and of coating or trans ferring the same Into moulds, or into an other furnace or crucible, without pierc ing any part of the earth or bed of the furrir.ee, or removing the eraoihle from tlm furnace in which it has lifen heated, ana without exposing the molten metal during its tranrit to lue action oi the oir, thereby avoiding the oxidifcihg effect of the Air thereon, and preventing the coa vejanco of air along with the metal juto the mould. In carrying out this inven tion the transfer of the metal is effected threngb a pipe or conduit by the agency of atmospheric pressure, ene end'of the Maid pipe or conduit dipping down below the surface, of tho molten metal iu the furnace or crucible, whilst the other end is iu direct communication with the mould, so that on exhausting, or parti ally exhausting, the air from ibe interior of the mould, or group of -moulds, the molten metal will flow freely therein, be ing foreed along the pipe or conduit by the pressure of the atmosphere upon the turfnes af tho metal in the furnace or eruaibk. A French society has desida<Lihai it prolongs the lives and increases the hap piness of dogs te moke them work. A Spanish Herso Hare. A Udy ouvsponfrtit writes (row o*ll - I never will target my tight of • hora lid, ami I guru you wight like to hoar it. u it ru a lingular ou It waa iu 1862, on tbo oay of the fYata #i San Kafaet, a day held in the hifbrst revafcuoe by the Spanish people, who teatity thait revrrcuee by drinking, gambling, and bote* racing. The festivities are kept on for three daye, and bootha ate creeled, aud cawpa are fumed, and the whole Spanish pojuUtion cougtagate—men, women, and children—and the old priest of the nearest mission lends the airing grace ol his pres ence te the occasion. Formerly tbry added a boll fight to tha list ol amae tueoU on that day, but the Americans made an maris abjections that tbia part waa left off. The place tbia year selected for tha festiaitica waa down near San Lo renio, and large bootha were on eaery aide, filled with people, mostly Spanish, though many Americana were present. At noon a herald rode up and down, (■reclaiming that the races for the after noon were about to begin, and in a trice tiie bootha weie descried, and the track was lined with the cipeetant crowd. The race track was merely a leael road, a mile in lenelh, aud straight, not in a drele, as we hare oar*. The horse* were all Call • iornta and Mexican mustangs. Some ol tf.em wera magnificent, aid the lidcia weie resplendent with silver jingling orua menu down their pantaloons and birder mg i heir jackets, and their crimaon aasbea. which, with jcweli-d-baudled kmres show ing tluongh their folds, gasa them tha ap pcatanre ol the baudtowe dark pirates • read of. The men merely rode up without preliminary, aud dashed down the track, no effort being made to time tue boracs. The one who reached the goal tint took toe prise. They all run their horses— never trot them. It is astonishing to see the feats if agil ity the men perform while their horses aie at full speed, tor they will reset, dewn and pick up a ball dollar from the ground, sod never miss. Chicken* are but id in the ground, leaving only their heads stick ing out, and neu will ruh past like tbe wind, and suatrh the head off wary time. This is looked upun as the tunny part. At last tbe ladirs' races were to take place, and several rode up and rode tlir races without any mishap, which was wonderful, considering that they rode bare backed and at lull speed. After several roots had taken place, won repeatedly by a Urge, handsome acnortta on a cinnamon-colored mustang, another girl made her appcaranoe on the ground on a black mustang, whose delicate, springy step, arched neck and flashing rye snowed it* blood and fire. The girl herself was a perfect apparition of beauty. Her eyea were larga and brilliantly black ; her mouth ripe, with full, intensely red lips, and her rich black hair kuog far below ber waist. Sho was very small, and exquisite ly proportioned, with tiny, arching bpauish bet, and she was dressed in white, and wore no hat, but bad a quaint silver chain around ber bead to Mod back ber bsir. Doiens wai mot beautdul at any timr, but litre on bar magnificent borvr, every motion grace utwquaJcd, and w.t'u tba hot blood flushing in tier checks, she certainly was u n*ar what might be called radiantly beautiful at nusaible f.r any oe. Riding up to tbe pule, abe Aung out bar challenge to the victorious rider, who smiled con temptuously at bar and her borae, and ac cepted it disdainfully, and in a moment both bocsea were flying over tba ttnirac. Tuey were both well matched ia point of steed; but Dolores bad tba finest borae and it waa a delrium-preJucing aigbt to MM Lim gather tor the great leapt which carried ibetn to tba end of tba goal before I write ft, Dolores ahead. Then they turned and came back to tba starting paint. Dolores still In advance, looking wildly tnnmpiiint,wi(b two spots o< Are on her cbeeka, at tne ton* plaudits, when liar bone stepped into a gopher hole, •iisbilv stumbled, and lost the race by ba|f a length. Dolores tode slowly up to tbe pole, jumped Irom ber horse like s flssb, tod drew ber dagger beiors sny one bad the slightest ideaol ber intent on, and plunged it up to tbe bat in ber horse's neck. He shiveied a little, looked mourn fully at Lrr a moment, then Icll at bor feet dead, tbe blood staining her wtiite dress. That broke up tbe H pestc." Dolores rode .iff immediately, and somehow even tbe Spaniards did not care to stay longer, and that was my first bono race. Taw a and I'Mitrj. The New York 7Vi bunt has a genial ar ticle An tbe moral influences ol country life, compared with tbe influences ot an oehsr kind which beset tbo#e In the city. In November, society in the city draws its breath, looks over its accoutrement* nd provision* for a new campaign. The season, has opened, it says, solemnly, through its organs of ths fashionable press. Which does not mean as one tnigbt suppose, that the world had been made afresh; but only that the opera bouses are open ; that there is a certain vim in the drama that was lacking from Jane until October, that two or thro* noted women are ready to receive the beau moods, and define its business end inniigjor the next three month*. Oat*M* ot tiie cities, bowsver, the sea son So* a different and broader meaning. What are one or two opera houses or blazing boll rooms te the legions of quiet homes which warm and make baman the oonntry from sea to sea ? The stubble changing from bronze to yellow, the burn ing sumac lighting its tercb in the hedges Site cold bine mist lining out the water ceurses in the landscape, are ths signs jnst now of lh* beginning of the universal "season," the closing in ol domestic life about the home centre. • # • We who live in cities, in the midst of the chatter of tree-love and doily foul tamper ing with fonl things, are apt to underrate the integrity of domestic life in the silent bock ground of the nation. We forget that every Messalma who hecomee a pub lic nuisance, every single cose of adultry or divorce, signifies unnumbered happy, modest home* of which we never hear. We urge tho importance to day, in every one af these homes to which we have so cess, of keeping straight and clean through, this season and every other their fealty to the old notions of raarrUge and a Chris tain tamily government. There lie* their strength now and that of ths whole peo ple hereafter. PACINA HOUSES. —Ia Barbary, pacing horses are held in such high estimation that the method of making a spirited trotter skaekle like a boat in a chop aea la reduced to science. To make them rack easily, a ring of lead covered with leather is put round each hoef, a cord from each weight ascends and is fastened to the saddle, front and rear; neat, a strap rnns horisontally frem the fore to the hind foot on both side*. Being rather short, It is impossible to make a long step. Restraint compels the aaiinal to practice a new gait to progress at all. At Koon aa a habit is established of going ahead thus tethered, the desirable object is fully and permaneatly accomplished. A HEBREW CUSTOM. The Hebrews break a wins goblet at their marriages, as illustrative ol an important canonical truth —tbat Is, to impress upon the married pair the divine ordination of tbe Creator, as laid down by the Leritieal law, of tbe in doasoiubility of tbe marriage eontraet, tbe difficulty of dissolving tbat contract being couaideied as insurmountable es tbe im possibility of replacing tbe shattered frag ment* of the glaia. All powerful aenls lure kindred with each other. Scene* Among Ike German*. A writer from Dresden, in the Chicago Inter-Octai, leys that the forced service in the army la the main cause ef the great emigration, and ao great hat it been this season—over SO.OOO—that soldier* have been detailed to gather tha crowi, and dwelling* are absolutely not to lie found, muaitn and frame tenia being thrown *p In llerlin to oeoua tnodate the ineomtug population, who are giving np their little butnae with the firm intention, aa soon as they can get passage, of finding other* in a country where they imagine no want exist*. Iu Germany the child of but few years of age is aet to labor, either in currying the universal korb (basket), suited to their siae, upon their back, dragging their wagoua through the street*, or working in the field. Tb* korb holds a'out one and a half bushels, and it ia girl* or women alwava who carry them, either unloading coal boats, for which they receive five pfennigs for two full bakeu (aboutone and a quarter cent#), or bringing them to market filled with produce, and many time* have I seen a full-laden one placed upon the rounded back of an old woman by a bnrlv man. who walked by her aid# tangoing and Iking while ahe toiled along with her heavy load. Women almost invariably make the mortar and carry it to the builders. They drag about the streets ooal or other mat ter in wagons holding nearly a ton, upon one aide of the tongue themselves with a strap over the shoulder, and upon the other a dog. They dig and plow in the field*, at time* harncvaed with an ox. They break the coal in pieces and carry it up to the houses and assist in sawing wood, which ia done on a standard three feet high, one at either end of the aaw, while the man splits it ready for thorn to deliver. Tbe ]*>a*autry are nnsoutk In their appearance, aud rough in their manner, paying ltUia attention to tbe graces of fife, aud yet have a delight in flowers and music, which baa no lack of food in tbia lam] ol beautiful art. Their diet ta simple, consisting mainly of black bread, made soar purposely, sausage, and ooflee or beer. Freah meat they have but seldom, and the workman aeema to thrive on hie lump of bread and cheese aud potatoes, which be eats at least fiva times a day, and washes down with the beer made at home, brewery beer being too expensive for his daily use. They hare, afbw all their harvests, a feast, to which all neighbors resort, gayly dancing tbe evening away. In one of our country walk# we iunocent ly walked into a stable where tbe women, aa natal, were threshing, and tha men idling abont, as it vras not their work. A fine waa demanded from us as from otliera for tbe entertainment which was to follow. Jam now tbe potatoes are all gathered and merry-making* are fill ing the country round. Their pleasures are simple, but their life ia hard, with no pro<q>ect of change, and America, the heaven for women and children, and field of future prosperity for men, is longed for, and every exertion made to reach it A Humorous Fire-Incident. The Are, my* a Boston paper, sraa i prolific in amusing incidents, even j daring its momenta ot supreme** horror, and Uie Indicrous vent cheek by jowl with the aerions to alar greater extent than it is possible to conceive by those who kcrt themselves aloft from tbe scene. Nut the least laughable of the ! incidents to which we allude was that in which a middle aged lady played im -1 l>rtjut parte. She waa somewhat on the skadj tide of forty, tall, thin and ; liony of aspect. Her sandy hair was ' screwed op into numberless rigid carls on either side of her face, and a crunched ' Itonnet fluttered defiantly down her back and was only prevented from falling off , Ity the ribbons br which it was tied round her neck. Her rusty black draw | had been evidently harried on at a mo ment's warning, as it was buttoned and | hooked in a style of labmathine per ' plexity. She pushed ber way through ' the excited crowds, while the fire was raging at its highest, wringing ber hand.* and shrieking frantically for "Clara," who implored, wept, atormcd and moan ed for "Clara," enlisting everybody's sympathy. "Will nobody put out s band to rare the poor thing ?" she em. plored in almost frantia accents. "Oh. dear! Ob, dear ! Mr little darling will be burnt to death !" Even the moat hardened felt for tbe agony that seemed to be urging the p**r woman to mad ness. Firemen stopped their work to ask ber where her ' Clara" was, and several crowded around bvr with proffers of assistance if she would only be ex plicit. But not a coherent explanation could be gained from her. Bhe contin ued to wring ber bands and to ruonn, "Clara, Clara ; my poor Clara." In the meantime a thrill of terror went through tbe multitude at the idea that some human creature war in deadly peri! of living burned to dcatb, and no intelli gence of her whereabouts was to be gained from the balf-demeuted woman before them, who rqpked to and fro. nebbing and refusing to be comforted. Presently, with a wild shriek of joy, she darted forward shouting "Clara ! Clara!" and stooped down. Croueliiwg in tbe corner was a large white eat. with sin col fur. which,'with curved hack and swollen tail, stood biasing and spitting with fearful energy. As the old lady stooped to pick ber (tailing np, the ung-atefnl cat flew at her, leaving tbe marks ol her claws on her face, and darted off in mad terror amid the jeers, laughter sad hootings of the croud, her frantic mis tress darting after her with the bonnet living enaign downward like a signal oi distress. TUB SWOUD OF WALLACE. —A curious fact, MTI the Pall Mall QattUn baa joat come to light iu connection with the al lege.l Wallace Sword in Dumbarton Castle. It would appear that some months ago the Grampian Club.through their secretary, applied to the War Min ister ta obtain the a word for the Wal< lace Monamrnt on the Abbey Craig, near Stirling, that it might there be ex hibited to visitor*. A reply baa been received from the War Office staling that the late Duke of Wellington canted the aword to be examioed in 1925, and that it was found to belong to tho period of Edward V., and to have been iu all prob ability used by that monarch wlun he entered Cheater in state in 1475. The result it that Mr. Ccrdwell has given in structions that the sword at Dumbarton Caatle should no longer be exhibited ss that of Sir William \\ all&ce. That such HI; order waa not issued in 1835. when the discovery was made of the real character of the weapon, may probably be ascribed to an amiable wish on the part of the authorities of that period not to wound the susceptibilities of theSoot ish nation; but ibe postponement of the revelatioo which will now tome as a rude shock to onr northern neighbors, was really an act of crnel kindness, since it led to another fifty years' expenditure of 1 ervent patriotic emotion over a weapon which, instead of being a genuine relic of Wallace, was the sword of an English king, and an Edward to boot. Never talk of ypur parentage, for if it la honorable you virtually acknowledge year claims to rest on the merit of others; tideg good lie* at length come eut of Naaareth; or If it ia neither your conver sation can be Interesting only to yourself. TERMS : Two DolJars a Year, in Advance. QablM Culture It ha* often been aaarrtod that there to > evidence of benevolent design ia the ' distribution of natural productions, nod ■ that tha maladies incident*! to nay given region are moat effectually dealt with by the use of those remedies which the 1 country itaeit afford*. Th* trees of the 1 obiuona family faroi*b a notable eseep lion. They are Indigenous only la err 1 tain part* of Boetb America, while the malarioas fevers which their alkaloid* alone can conquer are not by any mean* confined to those districts, or even to that continent, The terrible scourge known in this country M fever and ague is not only general throughout the South and West, hat prevail* in nutty Idealities in the and Middle States aad la Europe aad India. The oalf known specific to quinine; and oar reader* will be interested in the story of Ikftewiy and the measure* adopted to cultivate in other lands the tree from the bark of which it to made. The tree* sometimes attain a great magnitude in South America; bat a* aa after growth sprioga from their root* when they have been felled, the* often appear only aa large ah rub*. They are all evergreens, and the flower* which in •oat kind* are white aad ia othera pur pltoh, are very fragrant, sad r-uemble those of litoe or privet The bark to known by v&rioe* names-•Pernyiaa bark, Jesuit's berk. China, quian. qu'equina, cinchona bark, etc. With regard to the diwmvary of its medical virtues, tradition affirm* that the natives of Peru had for age* b. en ia the habit when aick, of drinking the water of a bitter to ream, until at tot soma canons person discov ered that this water derived its qualities from the bark o' a certain tree the trunk* of which were washed by th* current This bein;j knew* to make a decoction of the berk was of noon* a simple me thod, an J ia moat eases more convenient than going to the river to drink. The name Cinchona area given to the genu* by Ltnnmna in eomphment to theOmnt em del Oinchon, the wile of a Spanish v>c roy of Pern, who. ia 1638) first ear ned it to Europe. The Jesuit mission aries afterward curried it to Rome, and thus it acquired the amine Jesuit*' bark. It was also called De Logo's powder, after a cardinal of that name, who was particularly active ia wibo ending aad dartnbntiag it. It attained grow.; celebrity in Bpain and Italy,but.runoualy enough, the Protestants would have nothing to do with it. Falling, however, into dis use ia Earope, it was again brought into notice by Btr Robert Tolbor or Talbot, who introduced U into England in 1682, aad aoon became fsmont .'or the cares be affected by it* means. The new rem edy was adopted by the moat celebrated physician* of the age, and its use soon after became genera 1. Quinine to vary insoluble in water, end to therefore generally used in the form of sulphate or distil phate, whieh dis solves readily in alcohol and water, and to prescribed in almost all the case* to which the bark was auppocad to be ap plicable, the use of the bark itoalf being almost entirely discontinued. California AgrieuUare. The agricultural resources of Califor nia am almost fabakms, bat it requires peculiar methods for their aacceasful de velopment The rains being tote in Oc tober. The grass to green all winter )onr, a plowing commences on the fint of December; wheat, barley, oata and other crops are sown as soon aa the land can be got ready; and towing and ptontieg are continued aa tote aa March. The farmer ha* that three or four mouths to put in hto crops. South of Sao Francis co frost to raftwly known. Rosea bloom throughout the Winter. The flower garden to constantly fuU of flower*. The acacia*, the pepper trees, the live oaks, and many other shade tree* keep their foliage green the year round. Indian corn is planted from March to May, and harvested a* late aa December. Wheat and barley are commonly sown for hay, and cut before their heada fill in April or May. When the hay crop to col, eoro ia planted oa the same ground, ao that two valuable crops are obtoiaed from the same field. After the middle of April the raias cease, and the whole harvest aeesoa to absolutely without rain. Thus the far mer to not hurried, aad the harvest pro ceeds with nooc of that haste and anxictv altout the weatber which troubles the Eastern farmer. The amdl grains ate usually gathered by ft machine called # "header," which clips off only the bead* of the grain stalk. Wheat, oeta, fthd ltorley are threshed on the field, put into bags, and left rithcw on the field or along the railroad, few week* often, in the open air, and until the crop is noki and shinped. The grain doe* not aareat nor is it liable to injury fro* th ex posure. Ha*, too, is baled or stacked on the field, and left then until it k wanted. Potatoes an left in the fround long af ter they are fit for digging. Thus it in evident the farmer has, iu the long, dry California Summer, an immense sdrau tape over his Eastern competitor. He needs fewer hands, he is not hurried, and be requires no costly granaries or barns to shelter the products of his fields. Nor does he need to put away tnueh food for his settle. A quarter of an now of beets, replanted as they are used, will support two cows daring the whole year. Work horses receive barley and hay, bat sheep are never fed; market cattle fatten in the pastures, and horses not at work get no food unless what they pick op in the fields, in Winter as well as Summer. The alfalfa, or Chilian clover, which is now beginning to be largely sown, does well to feed to pig*, to cows, and even to gow horses, snd bean enormous crop* a low ground or where it can be irri gated, as much as fifteen tuns have been taken from an acre; it is not eut from December to April, but yields from six to eight cuttings in the year. CatUe snd herses are nor© easily kept in good condition iu California than elsewhere in the United States, and the farmer needs no such substantial stables aft in the Eastern States. . , Loaorvmr OP FAKMICJW. —In late address before the Farmers' Club of Princeton, MAM.. Dr. Nathan Allen aaid that according to the registration report of death in Moasachuaseta, published now for abont thirty years, and pre served with more aocnracy and complete ness than anywhere else in the country, the greatest longevity is fonnd to be oh Uinod in agricultural life. In the ten different occupations, as given in these reports, the cultivators of the earth stand, as a class, at the head, reaching on an average the age of eixty-flve years, while that of the next elana, merchants, is only abont forty (501) years ; that of mechanics of all kinds, abont forty eight years; and that of rhoemakcrs, about forty-four years. Thus there is an advantage of about fifteen yearn on the aide of farmers as eompared with mer ehanta, as they reach an average age bat little short of the threescore years and ten allotted by the Psalmist to human Ife. RAISINS TAXU BT MoaeeeßT. The old-fashioned process ol raising taxes by means of patting np to contract the monopoly ot tb# uisnnfaetnre of a particu lar ai tide ot daily uae is In tores in Prance. For the lucifer match msnopoly, it is said, five tenders have been mads, one ofleriog 20,(#0,000 Irenes a ysar lor the exclusive privilege of making matches (or Franco. H— BMWliift'f ©rang trop to httovy. 4i fl*vfnl thing ia the long ronphmth. Fern mm bt sfv,Q to fSr hr na tional debt JF Right principle* will by mo means suit wrong practice*. The height of iOl port! ncaee-—A afcing • Jew what hi* Christian mm to. is Contentment to th* trne philosopher's •lon* ; neither have been iliv#red. T.tagblng END offer* to tough again *t •my man la the Ueioa for WOO a Lot jourexpenaea be en eh a* to leave a UtUno ia yoerjpockot Beady money to a Mead la need. Wbteh travel* f astern, beet or cold! fleet, of sourm; because yon can catch I Add. Why, If you ere relied loudly, most yom wear a wig I Because you Are to>/ei After. Whet did the spider do wham be name oat of the ark f Ha took a ly aad west home. When doaa as frtoVmaa moat rv-e ruble sSeotehmea t Why, wkeo he's kilt as* 1 tirdy. A prairie fire ia lowa eeptared and ; oonaamed 600 out of a flock of 1,000 < ebeep. All the difrreooe.—The ancient* nroed their dead; the moderaa earn their 11 v iag. Kin never eomee done. One evil thought lead* often a aad and dUgraeefal end. Vanity to never at it* full growth till it BfM-eadeth into affectation, aad then It to complete A tody ia Lanearier, Pa., totol* died of fright on the breaking out of a fire la aa adjoining building. A dairyman aaya ropy milk be* ia hto herd of tea followed the free feeding of bran when gram ia failing. A bill for the imppr**>ioß of religion* corporation* ha* breu introduced ia th* Italian Chamber of Depatto*. Mm Crittenden, rhom Laura Fair deprived of support, baa been obliged to take boarder* to eean a livefbood. An lowa dog Hutched himself with sack farm, under a lent her jHK after a rabbit, that H required three man to get him oat. The fleet automation of aa Ant'rieea balls cm watering the Cathedral of Ml> lea was. - Ob, what a church to get mar -iadiar A little girl ia flaerameoto, Cal, lately bad a been lodge ia Iter throat, aad her windpipe bad to be split open for it* extraction. NO. 50. 1 The British* Admiralty ta aboot de ipatsbmg tbe eamtts Challenger, ©t 1.904 tons, on a tctootifio expedition around tba world. At a county fair hi Stillwater, Minn., Ilia* Ida Viodoa rweitid a valoabin ring as a premium far hatug the band •ouest lady on tbe ground*. The wife of Dr. Benjamin P. Hardy, a prominent physician of Baa Franeboo, took chloroform to cure neoralgia, and died from the efleet* of the done. Wendell Phillips aaya: - Pot an American baby, six months eld, on ble feet, sad he will immediately aey: 4 M.\ Ciisirmaa,' aad call the aest cradle to order.'* The rumored resignation of 1L Thiers proeea to bare been a canard, although in the pro—at eondittoo of aftaira ta Prance such as event la not at all improbable. Farmer's children are tbe hope and tbe lit# of a nation. If they grow up intelligent, moral, patriotic, there is hope for tbe country for a continuance of lima A Western stockbreeder wants a price far a sheep weighing 830 pounds, fhia it just the season when we expeet to hear of heavy weather from that part of tbe country. An item is going tbe rounds stating that a Detroit Bailor refused to ship on ooard a vessel after seeing a rat swim ashore from her, and that tbe vernal want down tbe very next trip,, A man of loam Falls, who has a linse kin, asserts that, with wood and corn n about equal parte, tbe fire ta better, and scarcely more expensive, and that tbe lime ia somehow vastly better. The man who produce* the largest yield to area cultivate.!, with the leect expense, and increases tbe fertility of his sou, is the moat scientific farmer, how ever ignorant be may be ef the fact There is nothing which contributes OWN# to the sweetness of Bfe than Mend •hip; there is nothing which disturbs our repose mure than friends, if w* have not the discernment to cboom them w-IL A man in Kent County. Michigan, baa been engaged fur a long time in mak ing pore strained honey out of the joiru of baaswood, and commua sugar, and the people tbetvaooute have just found ttim out. * The thickncs* of rock intervening be tween tbe central and eastern sections of the Hoossie tunnel ia one eight at a mile. The aound of the drilling at one of these headings ia distinctly heard al the other. Three-fourths of the diißcul'ie* and miseries of men eotne from the fact that most want wealth without earning it tame without deserving it, popukrity with temperance, respect without virtue and happiness without holiness. A man will (He for want ef breath a five minutes, for want of fleep it en lUya, for want of water in a wrek, for want of food at varying intervals, de pending on constitution, habits of lite and the circamsuoors of the occasion. An IndianaooUa girl si afitictai with a mania for stuffing small articles into her ears. The doctor who ia treating her has washed out five pieces of Straw, two of coal, an apple MM, two small chicken bones, a piece of gravel and a black beetle. The results of many of tha strikes in England bare been to introduce female labor into titnatioat whrro previously men bad been employed. Thus large numbers of women we now employed by tbe London bakers in piece of men who have struck for various reasons. . The father Of the boy whose veracity ia not so marked as his back, asked the teacher why it waa his sou didn't have a better acquaintance with figures, and waa considerably electrified when the teacher observed, 44 I really don't know unless it ia because figures won't lie." A Kansas county court has decided that an Indian trader who took a squaw "ftcr tbe Indian fashion was thereby legally married to her, so thst the chil dren inherit his property. The decision will sffect a great many persons in tha| Weat, and tbe case will he carried up. ' The oldest inhabitant in eastern Tc7.as has never seen such a dry season as this. Small streams that were never known to oeaae running before are now nearly dried tip, and Trinity la to low it can be forded in many places by horsemen ana crowed by footmen on logs and rocks. Gentlemen, where do you think that beefsteak comes from f* aaid tbe land lord, planting his thumbs in his waist coat arm holes. ' 'From near the horns," was the qoiet reply of ona of the board ers. It is singular, but that landlord has not put any conundrums to those board era since. At a philosophical lecture, lately de livered in New York by Prof. Pepper, the lecturer having dipped his hand in ether, pat it in bailing water and the w out an egg; he then washed bis band in concentrated ammonia and stirred melted lead with his finger, to the aston ishment of most of the audience. A reverned gentleman at Newcastle one-Tyne, England, is glad to have found"® reason for commending the wasp. He says this generally maligned insect proved very serviceable in his bot-bousee the past season, clearing oat tbe mealy bug—even leaving rips grapes untouched in pursuit of this great peat of the vine. A second Davy Crockett baa been el ected to Congress. He cornea from tba Third District of Tenaessee, and his nams is Bill Crutohfleld. Me is said to be as ugly "as an old shoe,"and though a man or rbeana dresses like a median a plain, blunt man, untutored bit fall of sense, and one who always " business." /
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