A New-Trer MOIHXH. How they gleam, the jrolden y-*ra. On the anient eye of Youth ! In hi* ravished soul he hear* All the music of the sphere*. And tomorrow, then, is truth. " These to-morrows all are mine " O divine Years of youth ! In his dream How they gleam ! How they flee, tlie rushing vears, Past the halting path of Age! Sounds are in his startled ears As of clashing swords and spear* That a desperate combat wage In a flight more desperate still. " Will, oh, will None W staysl ?" V v ' Ah, tve Clow they flee ! IN t CLOSET. Once, when 1 was verv prair, 1 Mai denly lavaine heiress t> forty thotl lyuul dollar*. Let uie tell you how it j happened. I was only thirteen year* OM when my father became bankrupt and died, leaving my mother without support, and with five voting children on her hands. I wa the eldest daugh ter ; then there were three little !v>v* and baby girl. What were we h> do* It Nvas a terribly dark time. Mother had no acoimpliahment- that could Is tumuvl 'to account, and I had stadieil j hard, but was not old enough to be j truated with even ii infant school. 1 heaol it [iropheaized that my mother, being but thirty year* old, ami still beautiful, would marry agon—wn\l which filled me with anger and gru-f. How dared they say such shameful, thing* of mv mother? I hud the'heart to move mountain* i our aid, but not the strength to *weep a carpet. I showed mv mother my d-li cate hands and slender wrists, and cried, when we were talking over our affair*. "Never mind, Norry. Yon can help me in one way, if not in another," **id m'ted; tlio doors of red oak—their h in dies of brass ; ami the windows all h H) curious old inside shutter*. But mother fitted up one little mom for us children very pleasantly. It was an east room, and pretty high up, so that the window* overlooked the neigh- j It smug roofs, ami commanded a view of the harbor, with glittering water, t!*j*, and shipping. She cnrtaiued and carpeted it warm ly. and pnt in a lad for Bab-. *.{ nws a crib for Neddy, anil a trundle for the two other little boys. We called it the Nest. Here I spent most of my time. Here mother, soon looking wearv aud ouvvora, came to rest at times. 1 kept I Babv warm and happy, sewed, and wore a cheerful face while I thought sad thoughts about mother. She kept no M-rrant, but took rare of all those innn- 1 tnerable chamber* herself, ami it was ! • •aid, hard work. I never heard her clear, soft voire singing old tune*now; her white hjuids had grown hanleneil and roughened. My heart achnl when I fondl-d moth* r'a hand*, but I never dareii burden her > with my eompaasion. I saw, by her palo, harassed fa--e> that she had all she could War. sr.rt as it seemed to be her <•: ly iMmhirt to find The Ne*t comfortable, I did my duty there unfailingly, and said little. But it kept me pretty busy, mending for the little boys, who tore their clothe* at j school; amusiug Neddy, wh- > was sickly, • *uJ tending the baby. Baby wns onr eleiiglit and our dariing-r.-die WHS *. pretty and winsome. The Nest ha*l warr.v crimson curtain*, and a carpet of crimson and black. We had father's picture, and mother's look. Opposite the door that opened iDto the hall was another duor—the en trance t* a large closet, which was never opened, is it contniiual nothing but some r? -Ing* and barrels, xrut some old Minds which stood agnilu t tlie wall. Arthur and Frank used to play " Put Xewldj in." when he was mnafhty, ami ♦hrew over tbeir games. It WHS not a Very cheerful place. When we hail lived in this way six months. I hail not become quite used to it. As 1 sat by the table, mending little stockings, and miking little aprons, of an evening, it was so strange to hi-ar great booted tnen go [smnding over the stairs, and locking themselves in their rooms. Sometime* 1 could hear Mrs. Mackenzie scolding her maid. Airs. Mackenzie's rooms were next Thn Nest. They were very good rooms, and she was a very .mpoftiuit person, and kept a maid—a Milky girl, who seemed always in a state of revolt. Her mistress said she wna silly, but I never discovered that she was any sillier than any girl who had pretty checks, and likes tej put a new Ixmnet over them, and walk in the park. Mrs. Mc -konzie herself was very good looking. Eer feature*, though a little sharp were very regular, her eves were deep-et aud bright, and her hair was black too black, it seemed to me, for so sallow anil wrinkled a skin. She dressed very carefully, usually in rustling black ■ilk, and wore a gold watch wwth innu merable pendent charms attached. Bhe was so pleasant to mother that I could hardly believe my ears when I over heard her scolding Jenny so ruthlessly, and Jenny sulking and sobbing. I could only surmise as to her history for she never referred : Imt she had a i way of sneering at the whole class cl masculine lieings, which made me sus pect she was disappointed in Mr. Jlai-- Kenzie. Well, as I was saving, at the end of six months I hail hardly In-come used to the cliaiige. The children, poor j things ! did not mind it so inueh. One evening, after I had gone to bed, the thought of their future* pressed heavily upon me. Futlier had intended to bring his bov* up with great care ; now they would have to tumble up the best way they could. The clock struck eleven, and still I hail not fallen asleep. It was Winter time. Tlie stariight, re flected upon the snow, illuminating the j chamber. Suddenly I saw something creeping across the room. With a wild throb of my heart, I raised my head from the pillow. It was a strange figure, bent, and huddled in a loose white robe. Its head was almost entirely bald, and it had strange, sunken jaws. It crept noiselessly to the window. It aeemed to shiver as it stood looking to ward the distant glitter of the sea. The children were all asleep. Frank and Arthur in the trundle, Neddy in the crib, and Baby in my lied. I sat np, ready to spring to rescue any of them if they should IK- molested. The figure turned from the window, 1 went to the mirror, peered within, and 1 finally turned away, crossed the room, und entered the closet. I waited for it to come forth again, but it did not come. In tlie utmost ; suspense, I counted the minutes for ffve ; long hours. At daybreak I fell heavily asleep. How strangely I felt in tin morning when I arose to dress the chil dren ! Hail I seen a spirit, or was there a ghostly figure linking in the closet ? I was glad to get the boys off to school oat of harm's way. And when, in the course of the day, Baby, creeping about j the door, pulled herself up to the closet door, and rattled at the handle, I snatched her away. II was strange that I did not think of the figure reappearing, but on the next night I was awakened by a slight noise, and, to my fright, discovered the white figure creeping across the room again ! It went to the window, rubbed the frost from the pane, and looked out. Again I started up, fearing some harm would come to the children ; but after peering in the mirror, as liefore, the figure croaked the room, and disappear at the closet-door. With my heart beat ing almost to suffooation, I lay down k pgnin, Two more nights this same VOL. VI. flung h*p)etied. 1 Iteeaiue almost sick with anxiety and exeitemeut. I did net knew what to do ; but to whom could I go for help ? Every time that 1 Inked at my mother's care-worn face, 1 eon mu red the temptation to add this bur den to her anxieties, At length, one day, t summoned courage to look into the closet Mu re was nothing there. Then 1 decided that the Intruder was a ghost. Tina did net meinl matters; it was dreadful to he so haunted. 1 slept v t >n badly. Bometuucs I would fancy the figure present when p. was net. Again, I thin* it visited me wheu 1 was sleeping the tWp slutnlvv of exhaustion. Dae night I w as awki*ned by s J'ii-tv ing sctwm from N*hlj' crib. 1 sprang up. Thr strange figure was darting wildlv ataut tlie apartuu-iit, ( ami my little brother, sitting up. wide i awake in his erih, start si fesrfnllv al it. ' while scream after sswiufi )ssiusi from his pale lipn But i a moment the figure rushed into the closet, and 1 took tlie territii-d child into my tad. " What ass it--what was it, Norry ?" he ernsl. 1 told him he hail been dreaming The other children woke up, and mother cattie hurrying up from her room talow. hut I tehl them that Neddy had had a tad dream. and cried out in his sleep— that was all. If it was not troe\ I hard ly knew what the truth was. But 1 slept no more that night. That xftrfUtioß, us I sat sewing in The Nest, while Baby erept about the carpet, and Neildv WUA takfllg a up. there eanie a knock at the door, and Mrs. Mackenzie entered. She never took uy iiatiee of the little taya, but she sometime* made slight overtures toward Baby's acquaintance. "What was the trouble hero last night ?" she asked, submitting her jew eled limn s to Baby's a iuuration, while I she looked at me sharply. I hesitated. But why not make a eon-1 fidant of Mrs. Mackenxie ? Aftes obtaining from her a %olecm rromiao that she would keep my am-l, told her the whole story, {the listen ed with diep attention. " And so you thick it is a ghost. Miss Nora ?" she said. " { urn sure it is a gh-*-t," 1 answereil; "but I cannot tell mother that tlie house is haunted. for hr would ta frightened out <>f it, gad we have no place to go. As hftig as it does not hurt the children, 1 can bear it." j, Mrs. Mackenzie looked at me with an intensity which cmbsrriMni tue. •' Midi Nora Rayuor," sahl she, "you j are a brave girl, and you shall !••*;• niv tiling by your bravery ami your devo tion to your mother. This sj-ei-ch puzzled me coudiderably. But what was far more iyiiKWts'it, Uie ghost came no mure into The Nest. Mrs. Mackenzie reUiaiiied with it* a year, doing "is many favors, but at last sin- was taken very sick. To tlie l**t' she scolded Jenuv; but at ♦ she did. Whenl saw ht-f ui her lust sickness, 1 diacnarerrit liiat she wore a black wig— hf t head was entirely tsdd. Slu- wore false teeth, also, the removal of ahieh altered her apjx-nranee extremely. With- i out her corsets and padding, she hi a re wan 1 for her good t-euse." Afterward I hml a cunversution with Jenny, and related no rfriuige experi enee. " Law, Miss, it was Missis herself; shr was always a-walking around in her sleep at night. I've heard her snv that she one* slept in that room you call The Neat, and she liked it because you ran see the sea from the windows. But if you'd made a fussand exjiosed her with out her wig uu, slie'd never have forgiv en yon to her dying minute. Hhe thought much of her good looks. Mi-si* did. though she ws alw-avs a-scoldiiig me for priukin', as she called it, if 1 mi innch H* tied mv collar with a bit of rita bon." " But if it sen* Mrs Mackenzie who came into Tlie Nest, Jenny, bow did she get in ?" " Nothing so i-a*y. Then 's a door through." And indeed the.re was a door opening from Mrs. Mackenzie's nin into the closet, but concealed on tile closet aide by old blinds. I came into possession of my money immediately. We have a little home in the country uow. Frank aud Arthnraro studying professions ; Neddy is at ed --' lege ; mother has grown serene and hap pv again—her hands are fair, anil ahe sings us she sews, while Baby, grown sweeter and more winsome with years, ; does not even remember that we ever kept a lodging house. Mane) -making a Butt. Again, there are men bora with a geuiua for money-making. They have the instinct of accumulation. The tal ent and inclination to convert dollars into doubloons by bargains or shrewd inTcsuieuts are in them, just as strongly , marked and uncontrollable as were the ability and inclination of Shaki-six-are to produce a Hamlet and an Othello, jof Raphael to (mint his cartoons, of Beethoven t compose his symphonies, or Morse to invent an electric ten-graph. As it would have been a gross derelic tion of duty, a shameful perversion of gifts, had these hitter disregarded the instincts of their genius ami engaged in the scramble for wealth, so would a Botch ild, an Astor and a I'calx sly have sinned hud tbey done violence to their natures, and thrown their energies into channels where they would have proved dwarfs, and not giants. The mission of a Lawrence or a Cornell, equally with ' that of an Agossiz, n Bierstwlt or n Powers, is defined in the fuetilties God has given hini; und no one of them has a right to turn aside from the paths to which his finger so plainly points. Academies, colleges, hospitals, muse ums, libraries, railroads—none of which . could have been jiossiMe without their accumulations—are tlie proof* of their usefulness ; and tlioagli the millionaire | too often converts his brain into a ledger and his heart into a millstone, yet this starvation of his spiritual nature ia no more necessary in his pursuit than in that of the doctor or lawyer. Agassiz ia reported to have said, half scornfully, that he had " no time to make monev," having given himself to science, ftut Irow could he get leisure to study the secrets of nature if others hud not made monev for him ?—[" Hotting on in the World." "Tlie Law's Delay."—Tlie law's de lay, which so far back as Hamlet's day wna a source of so much vexation aa to make it a question with him whether it was best " to be or not to be," even now vexes and annoys. Eight years ago a j suit was tried in New York in which the sum of SIIB,OOO was matter of dis pute. A verdict was then rendered, but the matter was appealed from court to court, and at last the case was returned to the original court for retrial, where it is exactly in the state it was eight years ago. After eight years more of delay and uncertainty a decision may be reached. An English " Man-of-War." The Devastation ia the newest war-vessel of the British navy. She (the man-of-war) ia of 10,000 tons burden, and weighs also 10,§000 tons, is built mostly of Iron, and carries an immense armament of the heaviest guns. Bhe is also a ram, and is constructed to run"down vessels and oommit devastation generally. CEXTRE IIAEE REPORTER. Ku*la ami En*land. The difficulty between Rnmii and England in regard to Uie Khtvu Afghan istsn question Cannot but give rise to serious apprehension* that the |>-aoe of the w.-rlu a ill not ta of long duration Russia cannot retrace !>i ste|* in t-ii trwl Asia sny mole necauae, if *lic should il# s*\ tne half savage tribe* a Inch he ll*a hitherto iuibjivu*l beyond tile fail casus would rue ugmiut ht-r at. one man and involve her in R struggle cMUi|>*rod to aiueh thai |lh tlie t'itvasfiaiis nas msigtiificant. l.nglund, on the other hand, if she want* to picaelrv* be!' great | Indian e** fib longer lu>k on ; iran lit w!'„'e Knaaia is extending her •uie in \*ia and penetrating U>warel tlie tiulf of l'eraia. British prestige * a' stake, and, if England *!.iuinl slnra further sip* M tCeaim-ss towsnl Russia the b'df-Mihdui d people in the Northern part of the East Indies, a* well as the Afghans ami other mountaineer* over j whom England extends a sort of pro- : tec t > .rate that is rather irksome ti tlie in, J wMuhl pruliably tr>>at hi-e with as defiurit ' hostility tis Russia would Wis-t with at the hands of het recently subjreUsl van- . sari b wml the I'aueasus. Neither s'-lc ean iv-nipronuse any longer, oinl the great isdliaion tv'twcji the two {towers is rapiiUv drawing nigh. A conflict between England and Russia, s a matter of cxnra>, would not IH oonfiiuHl to the distant region* of Asia. England would have to seize Egypt in order to strengthen her imli tary FORCE* IU Asiu us rapidly as jiossible, and that would at OHM reoi>eii the dan gerous t>riental ipiestion. 11l fact, it may be sard that tlie breaking "lit of a war between Russia and England in all probability would decide tlie fate of Enropeau Turkey, and that decision cannot Is- reached without Austria mak ing a desperate effort not to he "lint out i entirely from the mouths of the IVanulm. And, besides, will France, wln-n all this occur*, Consent to retnaiu a* idle spec tator, with M. Thiers, who ha* alwavs emu tamed that his rountry never ahouul allow Russia to carry her eagles to the itolden Horn, at the heail of the Re public ? Will Germany, owing so much as ahe doe* to Russia on adsuint of the hitter's friendly neutrality during the roCenl war, remain inactive? • A BKtresslng Mbtake. the ilay lust week there arrived in New Orleans a large invoice of castor Imans (need in the mauitfuetnre of cantor oil) eonsigmvl tv; one of the leading dntg house*. In the et>nne of unload ing-, the sack* istntainiug the beans, were so skillfully - operated upon that by the time they wi-re placed in position 1 on the levee some of them leaked bad ly, und the castorht-axia were lying almtu on the levee in a )>n-fusion that !>ore strong testimony to the reckless spirits of several merry, saddle-colored son* of toil. N"t far from the location of the pile, an ugt i daughter of Africa "I'ln-d her busy cures," which eonaisted, in tin main, iu pre [airing first-daas uiamday lum-hts for the leve mullow lungers. uUtbrwino known a* InSg-skocsnH It will Is- lwinllv to iVt*tary to state that, although the-", lunches ur* ootisnler. d quite healthy, they are not exactlV what one would call for t ft flrsl-elass hotel —iu fhort, thrit r>knpuirt?nt i-art* are sliiu bono* and Is-aiis, deftly inter tuiugh-tl and M-rveil up withont much regaril for ceremony, except that which demands n good deal of lunch for the smallest ismsible snuuuit of filthy lucre. The old lady referred to, having iui eve to the maiu ciuuiee, no *-*>nvr espied tin- Is-ins bmg ills nit lIS-m. that it eurnsl to her that she wonld "guther them in" uft-r the fashion of the old sexton, and, by turning tliem to her own ins-, save a considerable sum in her household expense. No Sooner said tlmu dolie, slid chuck ling at her stroke of good luck, the fair dame Conveyed the spoil* homeward, where, in a shart time, she rooked them to s proper consistency, and, on Satur day last, tliey itp|H-ared in tempting form before the hungry vi s of her eus toiuers, who Wrestled their lunch on that occasion with a vigor and ferocity quite alarming to lu-hoid. Tin* consequence* were distressing iu the extreme, and involved the loss of half a day's time to each man. Brewing the Hair, The day of the huge chignon is over. That article is buried out of sight. Peace be to its aslie*! But that great mound on Hu- buck of the head was nut so disfiguring as the present style of leaving that part of the cranium an ut ter blank. Our researches iuto this subject have not quite satisfied lis whether this fashion is inpii-d from tlie Flat-headed Indians, the Chinese, or the Fiji Islanders; but from the fact that the hair is so bepnffed, la-frizzed, and beerirled in a mans on the top of the head, we are iiicliu>d to think tiiat we are indebted to the Fijians for this "tiling of lieantv." They adorn tin male as well as trie female head after this fashion; anil how tlie American ! male would look with sueli a head-genr, we do not venture ati opinion, but fre quent observation enables us to say tiiat tin ordinary stVle of hair-dressing at pre*ens, as arranged by the owners, ' is becoming to no American woman. This i* to comb the hair up to the top of the head, leaving a flat, straight, even row of hairs in tlie back, with n cushion, a coil, a ls>w, or puffs exactly on the crown of the head, and a mass of little frizzles iu front. The cushion or coil has nbtMin or a jet eni-ircling it. The hitter is most frequently used, and is wom without any reference whatever to the color of the hair, notwithstand ing the verv olivions fact the effect of tlie jet is almost wholly lost on blnck hair, and is positively ugly on flaxen. When the*hairdresser is rnlled in, this style is, of course, vastly improved, but no art can umkc it cither pretty or !*- coming. When women lenm to conform some what to fashion, und nt the same time to make fushion conform somewhat t* them, they will nil listk better than they do now. An urtistie arrangement of puffs, braids, etc., on the top of the head, in the present fashi -n, with smull er puff* in front, interspersed with a few little curls or frizzes, is a pretty ! style of dressing the hair, and with the j addition of tlie fancy combs now worn, looks quite distinguished, and would be becoming if some part of the structure were only carried down towards the neek. Jsome of the fashion plate* show ;neh designs with a coil, braid, or curls simply and gracefully disposed nt the back of the heud, and it is to Is hojied they will lw more generally copied.- The jeta are haudaonie oninnu-nta when arraiiged with an eye to the effects of color. As a rule, the circles of jet do not look well with ver- light or very diirk hair, but the buttei'iiien and other simihir designs are the prettiest hair ornaments we have had for some time, und with block hair or flaxen, only need the interposition of a little brigfit rih bon to make them verv effective. Tlie Indian Question.—A cold-blood ed, calculating geniun recommends that the " Indian question" be met liy adopt ing the English method of solving their difficulties with the South African Kaffirs and Hottentots. He says this is done by supplying the Africans with Birmingham guns, worth one dollar each, wllich arp exchanged by the sava ges for ivory and gold-dust. After the first explosion, the savnge needs no gun any more, and the question, so far us he is concerned, may be sufficiently settled. On the other hand, we supply our Indians with excellent breech-loiwf ers, which tend to keep our question in an open Btate. CENTRE MALE. CENTRE CO.. PA.. THURSDAY. JANUARY !>, 1873. Hun 1/ titten Equ in a la a Traielrr. Streets crosniiig each other at all all gl< except right angle*. Htreeia built up on Imth sides Willi plain, yellow buck houses for miles in length. Atreet* running under ro*ive viaduct*, built of granite aud iron. Street* crossing others ou arches of stoue. Streets Cotu llieueuig bn ml and well built, with magnificent edifices, diminishing iuto dirty lane*, the aMide of poverty and vice Streets commencing straight and ending in a curve. Streets curved at both ends ami crooked iu the middle. Streets ) mveil with block* of granite, others with aaphaltuiu. Exceptional Ktrn-ta laid iu Nicholson. Streets lit the West thugniiiceiii lieyoud descrip tion, through which the rich roll in elegant carriage*, attended by servant* in oateiitations liveries. Streets in the East where houest pwverty and hidi-ous \ ici- jostle ugtuitNt each other ill tlie daily ntrugglo for eiiatencc. Lane*, alley*, ilnik court*, obsctire passage*, by-ways, delusive roads, intricate |>atli* anil Uncertain short cilt*. all Mruiigely tv>nfllsed. Shop* in tlie East * here the ncivrMtiea of life ore sold in aul> divis ions at tl [H-iUlv apiece. ShoJ>* ut the West filled t< repletion with silk-, at a guinea a yard. A river spanned by s score of stone bridges, eucli as firm and solid ft* the earth Itnclf. Thousand* of public buildings, rare specimens of beauty, built by world-reuowued archi tects, long since passed away ; monu ment* like index fiiignw pointing to the *kv ; counties* factories with aleuiler cliunn- -, each one [Hiuring out a eol umn of black smoke to cast a gloomy iiall over palace ami shrine. Dock* imilt far inland,with narrow gates o|H-n* ing to the river ; dock# crowded with ahipa from every quarter of the glote- • innumerable )-M*ai-ngt-r tdetuui-ra *lnKt ing the atvhi s of the ffridgv *, sb-aui *hi|*i, *lii)>, bnrk*, schooners, barge*, mvHii, mud Nnits, [WojH-liers, tup*, dredging machines, war veasela, canal boats, und floating hospital* uiril prison* lying at anchor on the dirty water* below the bridge*. Thirty milea of river 1 ink. linedl with great warehouse* and crowded with mercliiUidise from th<- euite of the earth. Millions of people to mei-t ; omnibuses, cabs, cart*, street cure, drays, carnage*, wagon* rushing through the crowded thoroughfares, or crossing the bridge* from side to side. Ibuln-nils everywhere ; trains cro-sing the to) - of the house* ; engines dragging i-atwfe imles Underground; train* 'loot ing under the striH-ts, train* thundering ovprheml, while steam of unsi-en engines is cimuug through the iron graung* at your f< et. Flaming sdvertifci-uient# plas tered about blank walls. l'lati-glas *lio|> v, itidops brilisntly lighted fp-ai the OUt-lde. Giu |ahoe st| rudialit that ymi must wink when yon h*'k at them ; giu )iln<-i-s in which the poor, oilly working people spend for Is-er * hat tlo-ir children nwd for ft**l and clothea; gin palace* where cuunllewa women go with n tent* iu their arm* to drink gin with i.iggcd, bloated ineti. C'Jiurrhes without -qU:d in the world ; churcjiiv with gin palaces on iaeh snle ; churelies filled on Sunday* with well drea**-d, m tellige.d, contentisl Christian people; elmreh--* whieh are [dai-fnl on exhibition during the week for lure. Galleries of ivaiutn gw, haunts of vii-e, gambling sa loons, hott-U, theatres, museums, gar dens, e -arts, clubs, banking institutions, brew ei :es, colleges, M-hools, universities, prison-, tiuirk> t. *talte, p.dai-i*s hustled into obscurity behind dirty brick widls. Imuiel M wliob-side busiiu-ss done ill dark, narrow bins*. Building* of every conceivable size, quality, ami value *prend thickly over thirty five square mile* < f area, and thinly over fur more —•Und Loudon. Heir tu an Liirlisfi RarntiHrt at mulct Among the men brought up at tin city )*.!iec court *i the i'lth ef July, charge.l with gambling in e Chinese den ill Little Itouk* street, is one whose Anstniiian career ia well worth reeajiitu latmg, im showing Uie degtvdation iuto which, neii of high position fall wlu-n tlitre or.ee enter upon what is very truth fully, though vulgarly, termed a "lIMHM life." Tichbtinie, if he of Wagg* A'ag ga is '1 .ehborne, liuil some strange ex perienees while he resided iu this jmrt of the country, but his life ha.- hardly liet-ii a eventful as Uiat of Henry Trav er*, alias Thomas Gerald (iolding, alias Frank Ibtgg, abas Powell. Travera, w - ho is said to IM- heir to iui English baron etcy, si ems In have sjx-nt hi* Australian lite eii-fir within Uie four walla of the prison i-efl. He first appeared in this couutn in the year lfViS, having ar rived 1 y a shin called ris> Ulcoates, from I. indon. lie descnbeil himself as Thotnai Gerald Golding, a lieutenant in tin- roy d navv, and for some time he led what is called a fast life iu Melbourne. Towards the close of that year he ap pearetl to have run short of supplies, for on the first of February, IHKi, he was brough* nji at the city court* an two charges of obtaining money by fulsc pretene -s, for wliich he was sentenced to tiire< ami six months' imprisonment at Pent ridge. He was liberated toward Uie close of the year ; but he was not at large two or three months In-fore he had recourse to his old means of raising funds. Ou the 21st of March, 1867, he was a[q rehciidcd on four charge* of oh taiging property on false pretences, and received four s-nt-ne-s, nmonnting to sixteen months. He served this period at the stockade in Pentridge, but lie wns little M-nefited by prison diaeipline. H-> had triwii all he *ou)il to raise monev by fraud, but he had now got the length of his tetlier. A new idea seized him, luul lie <;une out as a detective. He went about for a time |M*rnonatiug one of the elever neople, hut the gann- did not answer ; lie was arrouted and one more sent t Pentridge for two years. I luring t his period he met with an s<-re dent wliich brought on paralysis, nml when he was onoe more set at lilH-r --ty he had to sei k shelter nt the Immi grants' Home and the Benevolent Asy lum. He left tlie Home, and took one of the female nurses with him, and the disgrace which he brought upon himself at the charitable institutions im|M-lh-d the manager* of those institutions to close the door ngaitlM him. Sometime ago lie sent a letter to his F.xeellency the Governor, asking his assistance, and in tlint letter lie represented himself to IM- the soil of Greu-ral Travera, then iu India, r.rnl as there happened to he an Indian officer iu Melbourne at the time, it is understood that his Exci-llency eommissiiuied liim to make inquiries as to Uie truth of the statement when lie returned to join Uie army. Should those ro|>orts eorreet, Henry Travera will one day be n baronet, and we shall have another piece of romance to record. Future Eclipse* of the Hun. Mr. Robert T. Paine communicates to " Hillimaii's Journal " a list of eclipse* visible in the United States during the remainder of this century. The first central eclipse will In- tiiat of Septem ber 23, 1875, which will ta annular iu part of tlie Htntc of New York and in four of the New Englaud Hfates. The duration of the ring on the central line will be three minute* thirty-nine sec- j onds. At Boston it will ta only two minutes twenty-nine seconds. The licit of country over which the annular eclipse will extend will la- 110 miles wide. Within it are situated the ob- j aervatories of Hamilton College, Albany, Harvard University, Amherst College, und Dartmouth College. The first total eclipse will be that of July 23, 1878, when the shadow of the niixm will pas* over British Columbia, Montana, Colo rado, Texas, and Cuba. At Denver, Colorado, the eclipse will be total nearly three minutes. 1 he l-lliniiaii Mtip t auuli That share aoener or later U eroaa the Isthmus reiiiieeting North and Botith America, at some point, there i* not a shallow of ilollbt. That the tide of commerce heiweeu Europe atid the Lunti-ru shore* of NiWtli and Boutli America on the one hand, aud China, Japan, the East llldle* ulid l - joti-rii Africa on the other, (a commerce, by the way, which, great u* it i* and long an It has eoiitlilUeil, it 1* but a te-gili uiug eouipareil to *hat it will IM- before tlie close of the ue*t half century,) i* to continue to lw< tieflevtcd tell thousand in lie* out of it* direct course by a few mile* tun*- or !•-* of inauulain and r.H-k i* entirely inconsistent with the spirit of the age. It i* only a question of time and money. Money i* tin- Archimedean fulcrum U|H>II W liiuh, if modi rn engineering can rest it* levi-r, it eun, jietUapa, !m. Uv tuote the wotld, but it i-iu limve anything In the world. What [vecuniarv interest* demand [Ki-iuiiary reaout'ee* will not fail to m'- complish; And it i* not a question of so very much money after all. A hun dred million* of dollar* sound* pretty large, but one get* usivl to lienriug it ; and the people of tins eouiitrv have ex pended that amount in kifling each other, in fiftv day*. By whom i it to la-constructed? It i very easy to answer by whom it ought to IH* constructed. Beerobuy Fiah ia said to have stated that this country l* comjM-ti nt for the enterprise without European **ai*t*nce, and it needed no aueh announcement to make tlie fact patent to all that we not oulv can but might to construct a ship canal across the lathmtta. Both eoiuuiereiul and im litienl n-MMtina make it ijuporitive that the Aitii-ricun nation ahoultl own aiulivui trol the great highway lift ween the two oenlis Mr. James Medeley, in a letter to " Engineering," evincing a careful eoii luderntum of the subiert, tviinpnN* some of the rouu-s talked of, and rm-mmemla a route scron* the Isthmu* i-f Fiiuaiua, near win-re the existing railway mm crosses, entering the Pacific by tin- Rio Grande, a little to the north of the town of Panama, where the railway now ter minates. It would necessitate a cutting for si-Tefal mile*, with a summit depth of lis) feet, rapidly increasing in depth from the summit each way, ad still re quire about eighty feet of lockage. A calm I aluiut the size of the Hnez canal 1* i"*tnnnted toi-ost, even at excessive prim - * for construction, als-nt one hutnlred mil lion* of dollais, the major jsirtioii of which would 1h- fer tlie deep cutting Mild Uie lock*. But it is not questionable whether locks are advisable ? Tliey ar-- certainly not desirable, ami wheu we euuaider that the work i* for all time, and will be of increased utility with each succeeding year, anything that increase* the expense, or iliuuuishe* the facility of ojH-rating it, should IH- avoided, even nt u very Isrgi-ly lncnased <- r of the tides, which unpenra to ire not only novel but praetieal and tuqiortaiit. The inn- of tidal wuti r powi r to drive mill* is common along our const*. The oolimit Y method i to KIHII #ff the month of a small inlet bv mtaii* of a dam having ajtiice gsb- t" admit the M-a water aliieli, by the n*- of the tide, enter* uid fill* the enclosure. By tin fall of the tide the euch-t-cd water dc rivi-s *uAcieut head to drive a turbine or otln r wheel, and so 'give motion to tlie mill. But when the tide aguiu rises of ctiurn- the hi-ail is ih-dtroyrel, so that the mill ean only run nlti-riiati-ly, during tw si-jiarale jHTijala of a few hour* each out of the twi-uly-four. It in this alternating and irregularity iu the hour* of motion, together with the jM-riiKle of entire inactivity, that pre vent the employment of tins SJHW-1.-H of motive power for general industrial pur- The improvement siiggewti-d by Mr. Gonb>n consist* in provnh'ig two water Imsius, 1 mtli of which are to lM>*liut off by duma from the sea. One of the basin* is to serve a* a constant supply reservoir of water, and it is to have a close dmn of such width and liight that the tide water, when it ha* risen to within one foot of its normal hight, will legin to |s>ur over the ilam and qutoklv fill the reservoir. Tlie dam of the other basin is to be provided with swing valve* which permit exit of the water ut low tide but prevent ingres* of water from the sea. The basin, we will now sup pose to lie empty. The water wheel is to IM- placed between the two ba*itis, *nd the fall of the water from the ri *er voir into the discharge basin will afford continuous motive power so long a* the supply* of water la*t* anil until the ri*e of water in the discharge basin destroys tin- head. But a* this latter basin is entirely emptied at everv tide, the head will IM- alwavs kept glial, preMipjamilig, of course, that the reservoir and the discharge basin are made of proper size, hi resp'-ct to this Inst juint, it is well known that basin capacity on our coasts is olmo'-t unlimited, and there are thou sands of localities where extensive water powers may la- thus provided and maintained at a comparatively small cost. We trust that Mr, Gordon will proceed to elalmrate his plan and place it before the hydraulic engineers of the country for dreenasion. A I'm■elide !.lqimr Lii>. AVe recently gave an account of a suit in Ilnvenport, lowa, by one Airs. Priest ly ngniust Joseph Hierb for damages for selling liquor to her husband. This has now Iwen .closed. After Hierb'• counsel had filed a motion for n new trial, by the consent of Mrs. Priestly to accept a homestead in Diiveiqsirt, valued at $1,500, and Hierb to pay all cost* of anit which will be about S2OO. The verdict of the jury against him was $2,520. His settlement i* a virtual ac knowledgement of tie- correctness of the verdict. The resplt of this suit will have a great effect in lowa. The People's Temperance Association, under whose nuapiees the foregoing case was pressed to trial, lias given the following public notice: To Whom it May Concern.—AVe be lieve it is now a well-settled fact thnt under Uie statues of low*, the owners of property, leasing tlie same, knowing the property leased is being used for the violation of chapter t>47, and nets amendatory thereof <>f the laws of lowa, said property is liable for all fines as sessed against JM-rsons occupying said premises." We propose hereafter to take such steps in all liquor prosecu tions a* will enable the (tburt not only to punish the tenant, but the gentle manly landlord lis well. If this hiter esta yon, make a note of it. Are you in danger? Htaiul from tinder. We mean business. Giles H. Tusner, President Peoplo's Temperance Ass'n. The President above named is a man who luia squandered a fortune, mid nearly ruined a strong, robust constitu tion by the use of strong drink; a man wh* in vears gone by wna prominent in his profession, that of the law, but who, about two years ago, reformed, togeth er with several of his associates, who banded themselves together and swore eternal warfare against the liquor traf fic in Davenport. The association now nlimbers about three hundred, and they mean business. The result is tiiat whiskey selling in Davenport ia nearly played out. lliiinarv tf tdteilLlng. Advi-rtisai* are arer flisuw, it waa at liret thought that all had escaped, some with alight wouada aud brtnsiw but MX of the gfeis and a boy cannot be found, and their bodic*. if they have not Leu consumed, will prolwtbly be found IM-UCIIUI Un* debris. AU day yesterday anxious inquiries wi re made to Cap't. Kennedy, at tlie Hiath Precinct Ponce Station, for the following ia-rsona, all of whom were doubthwa killed: Jane Ktewart, of 77 Charlton alre.t; Bridget MeGrath, ol .'t3l First avenue: Margaret Itmudiue and Marv Pmiahw, sister*, of 123 last Tenth street; Margaret Bell and Char lotte Bell, sister*, and James Bavins, a L.y aged tw. *lve. residing at 164 Brooma street. The girl* wete all employed a* binder - tuid sewcro. All of them have 10-eu iniasnig sinew the fire. The janitor of a building in the ueigh borhoc-d of the fire state*! Uiat lie saw a woman at a window waving a hanker chief and imploring help from the crowd la-low. Ins moment she was enveloped iu flame*, and was *een no more. The building fell iu fifteen nnmitea nfter the fire wo* discovered; and anoth er man i* said to have aeon a woman at a window gesticulating, when the walls fell ami crushed her. It ia fully con filled that hal not the fire escape to the Cox ton Building Jx-en in a neglected and incomplete condition, there weuld not have IMM-II Uie dn-a,000. which is but pax tiallv (viveird bv inunnc-. The aec- ond irtooi was occupied by the New York Newspaper Union. The third floor was occupied by Dun, Barlow Ac Co. as a printing establishment. Thr fourth, fifth and sixth floor* were occupied by Arch er, Anderson k On., bookbinder*. Two i r three adjoining building* were badly damaged. The total loss by the Are i* estimated at over $600,000, which is partially cov ered br iusuraniw. What he Knew About Threshing. The Titusville " Pre**" give* an ac count of a young man from an Kustern city, who hail lx-en visiting rural friends in "thin vicinity. After seeing a farmer thresh out a "flooring" of onto the other morning, hi- asked and received permis sion to swing the flail a few minute*, upon assuring the agriculturist that he was "perfectly familiar with the art of threshing." Expectorating upon hi* hands, Uie young man went nt the oat*, but at the "first pus* knocked the horn off from a new uiileh cow Uiat was leisurely chewing her cud in a neigh taring stall. The second awing caved in the head of the farmer, who tno nght lie wn* safe enough as long as he roost ed on top of the fiuining mill in the other end of the bam, but without dis covering the havae he was making, the city nrtist kept at his latars; the thinl |i!n fell upon the oats, the fourth kill ed a hen in a manger near by, and the fifth pas* of the deadly weapon was the best of all, for it came around lx-hind the young man ltoomerang fashion, and taking him under the lower jaw, knock ed him down, and thus put an end to the work of slaughter. The mere fact that the city "thresher" returned to consciousness an hour tafore Uie farmer did, allowed the former to get several mile* out of town tafore hi* effort* at threshing out* were discovered by his neighbor*. Taking Cold. When a cold settles on the onter cover ing of the lungs, it become* pneumonia, inflammation of the lungs, or lung fever, and m niativ eases carries off the strong est man to the grave within ft week. If cold falls ujHin Hie inner covering of the lungs, it i* pleurisy, with its knife-like pains and its slow,"very slow recoveries. If a i-old settles in the joints, there is rheumatism with its agonies of .p">b and rheumatism of the heart, which in nn instant sometimes snaps asunder the cords of life with no friendly warning. It ia of the utmost practical importance, then, in the wintry weather, to know not ao much how to cure a cold as how to avoid it. Golds always come from one cause, some part of the Imdy taing colder than natural for a time. If a person will keep his or her feet worm always, and never allow himself or herself to ta chilled, he or she will never take cold in a lifetime; and this ean only ta ac complished l>v due care in warm cloth ing and avoidance of draft* and expo ure. While multitudes of cohfc come from cold feet, perhaps, Uie majority arise from cooling off too quickly after becoming a little warmer Uian is natural from exercise or work, or from confine ment to a warm apartmeat. in I tine Ink*— Interesting Experiment*. The Ixmuty and variety of aniline dves has, for ■ long time, induced man ufacturers to use them for tlie making of inks. Formerly, red inks were pre pared from cochineal aiul ammonia, and Llue inks from Pruasiau blue and oxalic acid; but an esceediugly cheap rml llfk mav be made by simple dissolving a little gum in a vary diluted solution of undine rod. Thia ink may be immedi ately used, aud the solution must not be 100 strong, or the complementary color ! green I will appear. Violet aud blue inks with aud without a greeniah tint, are now much used. Tlie so-called bleu soluble is readily available for making them. It >a prepared like red ink, and the name ia the ease with the " patent violet." Aniline dyes may also be employed lor the preparation of sympathetic inka, which formerly were very much in vogue. Letters written with aniline red will dia < app-ar w hen exposed to the vapors of ammonia, in which case we obtain the colorless roaaniline, which is scarcely or not at all visible. After some time, es pecially if warmed a UtUe, the tetter* ap pear again in their original beauty. NiehoUe dust removed, there remain im perceptible pqrticlee, wluoh, however, are siittic-u-iit. if diaaulvi-d, to intensely color Uie whole sheet. To this end it is only necesoury to moisten the paper with strong alcohol, or with a solution of alco hol and acetic arid. TTii* experiment may tie carried nut by making roeea or other flowers from paper. White ruaea, ifeo*ered with fuchain tu the bum of dust, when immersed in spirit* of wine or other proper solvent, are immediately changed to Itf-aullful red ruaea. Hilkea rtblsm* may lie treated in a similar man ner. By dropping a few grain* of ani line dyea into wine glasses and adding a solve tit, variously colored liquor* may te- obtained by uieaiia that few person* are able to detect. A white liquid may lie colored red, aud decolored by sibling ammonia. In fart, many interesting ex peri met it* ean be perforated with tlieae ilVl'S Epidemic Beluduu*. There are plenty of stones at this kind. For mstouoe, in nunneries it is not at all uncommon, from the secluded life, and the attention being fixed upon one subject, a particular set of ideas and feeling*—Uie w*nt of * healthy vent, *o to speak, for the mental activity —that some particular odd propensity Las de veloped itself. For isi stone*-, tn a nun nery abroad, many year* ago, one of the youngest nun* began to mew like a cat, nnd nil the others, after a time, did the same. In another nunnery one began to bite, and the other* were all affected with the propensity to bite. In one of these instances, Uie mania waa spread ing like wildfire- through Germany, ex tending from om nunnery to auother; and they were obliged to resort to se vere measures to drive it oat It was act down in some instance* to demoni acal possession, but the devil waa very easily exorcised by some pretty strung threat ou the part of the medical man. The celebrated physician Boerhave waa called in to a case of that kind in an orphan asvlntn in Hoilaud, and I think bis remcily * a red-hot iron. He heati-il the' poker in Uie fire, ami aaal that Uie next girl who ftdl into one of UuMie fits should le burnt in the arm; tbi* waa quite sufficient to stop it. In SooUaud at one tune there was a great tendency to bre-ak out into fit* of this kind in the church- *. This was jtartic ularlv the rose in Hhetland; and a very wise minister Uicre told them that tbi ihrng could not l>e permitted, and that the next person who gave way in this manner--as he was sure* they could con trol themselves if they tileroed—should be uken out and ducked in a pond. There vi* no necessity at all to put the threat into execution. Here, yon see, the stronger motive i* substituted for the weaker oue. And the stronger mo tive is sufficient to induce the individual to put a check upon himself 1 have atud that it usually happens with the fe male sex, tlumgh sometimes it occur* with young men who have more or lesa of the same constitutional tendency. What ia nooeaaanr, is to induce • strong er motive which will call forth the pow er of self-control, which lias been pre vious! v abandoned. A Ten Thon-rend BolUr Bible. In Uie liookstore of Mr. Bouton, on Broadway, there ia now on exhibition what ia certainly the moat valuable copy of Uie Holv Bible ever compiled. It represents tlie industrious toil for thirty year* of an English collector of Biblical "prints, etchings, engravings, original drawing* in oil and water colors, and authoritative or carious editions of the Scriptures, and ia now roughly valued at $lO,OllO, though it real price may very likely prove to be nitien higher. The complete text used is that of Dr. Kit to'a etlition of King James's Bible; but this i* but a fractional jxvrt of the sixty huge folio volumea through which it is spread. Sometime* Uie reader will turn over fifty couserutive pages of il lustrations Iw-tweeu these scattered frag ments. Such subjects, for example, as " Susanna and the Elders." or " Bauiel in the Lions' Den," are enriched with scenes of illustrations drawn from every field of art—the convent missals of the mediieval ages, the strange, fancifnl, strikingly falsi- drawing of the Italian masters, "the grotesque works of Dutch and German painters, and the later and more truthful efforts of modern artists. In all, this wonderful monument of lov ing devotion to a worthy hobby inelndes no less than 30,000 illustration* of va rious kinds, some of them worth from fr'tO to SIOO each, and extracts from some thirty editions of Uie snored text. Such a treasure ought speedily to find a pur chaser in some of our few great libraries, where it would l>e an nnfailing spring of. dt-light and instruction to artists and men of letter*. /fr i'hrrrfut. —" Be cheerful," saVH the man who is easy it his circumstan ces, missing DO loved face at the table, nor by the hearth. But does he ever consider how hard it may be to l>e cheer ful when Uie heart aches, and the enp taurd is empty, and there are little fresh graves in the churchyard, and friends are few and indifferent, and even God, for the time taing. seems to have for gotten us, so desolate is our lot ? How difficult for one man to understand an other in such different circumstances! How easy to say "Be cheerful 1" How hard he "would flud it to practioe, were he stripped of all life's brightness ! Death of a Famous Cat,— It will be remembered thnt Uie late Miss Sarah C. Lewis, of Braintrec, Mass., in her will bequeathed the income of her house and furniture and an allowance of two dollars a week to Mrs. Josselyn, for the cure of a favorite cat, named Otta. Thiß novel bequest lias been carried out until this time, when the cat died of old age. The house and land now tacome t he property of the Univeraoliats in West Scituate, in accordance with the will of Miss Lewis. NO. 2. llcerher M tewd Nature. As to the miraculous power poMieaaed, by the apostles, of besllng the sir*. Mf. ifeeeher in a sermon said he would not attempt to aaalise it now whether it had analogies in our own time or whether it belonged to or was a part of the great scheme of nature winch waa poaay*ed by noma pmoni km! whWb would by and bv bring forth marvel* /uah a* of old. It waa m&nileal that in the days of the apostles there was such power,and that such fruit flowed from the exercise of it; that while it waa voluntary in many cases it waa In raany other in stances involuntory MM overflowing. Thus when Jesus waa touched by the woman she waa instantly healed, al though he did not know it till after the miracle had keen accomplished. So the apostles were filled with *ucsh power that people placed fluuapdjNf even so tliat their shadow might fall on them, and hi Paul's case they brought handkerchiefs to him that he might impart to them his womlrous power. Mr. Beertier said he had alluded to this peeaage in order that he might speak o f ooeeaiona and uncon scious influence of power that whitm we know and roe ap, and that which fol lows as the shadow follows the body,and which we do not intend to understand. Men give fresh power one upon another human life ia a )- rpetuei interchange of thought and infiueoqe ; eveiw strouf faculty carries with it s Went influence, witli its direct intended action also as indirect and unintended action. Is j these tlays and in thi* community tlsere was no need of speaking of the direct activities of Ufa ; they wee* potent *4 j pateut to all, but the involuntary set* j might well deserve inquiry. A man's voluntary act* might he | i prompted by secret motives, but thi# iinconacious'influence waa more in thr line of until re and more to be depended j upon. For inataaaft, a man aright make t iicn Is with a man whom be be did not j like for the sake uf advantage ia buav | ileus, ami hidden dislike would 1*" com j i-ealid, but hi* unconscious influence was as if he carried fetid odora about I his person. He raav button np hia coat I mid trv to hide them, but the odors do { not aak him whether they shall smell or not; they will swell stood. So a aalflsh man will make a whole room uncomfort able, although the man does not mesa *iiv harm, vet evenr one in the room will feel that something is going from him, something ia being drawn from | him bv this one maa'a artfiahnraa. Bo onmbativeuem in tte latest form U more iliHagreeable than in its active uuuufea- Uttiona. 111-nature stirs everybody up. A sourness, a morose, jieeriab pettrocas affects all about it, as a moist, cloudy (lav seems to suck out more moisture from na, and make us mow uncomfort able than a dry, cold dag, when the mer cury ia at aero. Wherever iil-naturod persons pi they carry diacomfort; awl yet they do not intend any wrong. They •ay we aw not reajxmafMe, we do no- j thing wrong. But a man ia responsible for hi* temperament, ao far as that emu be restrained from devb-i|c:n<-!i! hi cess of goodnrm may be the cause of diacomfort to thoa* urwUinl about it. There are persons that by temperament or by i-irmmatancea are lifted above the c- mimon infirmifii'* of peraona not ao will situated or endowed. If they hold this in spirit of noetmscioaaneas it, ia a aonroe of happinnaa; bat deliver me from a person who uaver does wrong and who know* it, deliver me from a man whose tongue-never makes any mis take*, and who keeps account of it all the time. If there be anything peovokiag poor siunerw, it is one of theae perfect pt-raoun who move altout UN and are a perpetual stinging rebuke to onr infe liciu-a. Deliver me from one of these perfect—-oonsaously MM- person*. I don't believe in swearing, yet I can understand what Theodore Parker meant when be amd that ho never liked Washington till to he hoMPd that he swore. Uughtor.f It Ist in one point of infirmity. There are pewoa* who carrv tlicmselves with such waxlike per fiction thai a *sh would relieve them; it wrould bring them nearer to the tmuiu sample of humanity. Good men also shed an influence aluwad of which they are entirely uncotiaciotm. The summer sun ripens the seed which ia planted by man, but it also ripen* a thousand nut*, said plant*, and flower* away out on the prairie, that were not planted by man. There is another da** of men who may be called the Inbriaatoij of society. When a train stops the engineer jump off. and. taking his long -necked can he pour* the oil into a hundred places ao that it can circulate all through the ma chinerv. We admire the engine and the mgioeer, bill who Uiiftks of the oil, and vet the imwer of the locomotive is larcelv due to the oil So there aw men who aw lubnoator* in society to keep it from squeaking A man that ; ia naturally good-natured w one of them, and ia a benefactor to society. And he tends also to make others good-natured, for if yon go in an imte blc mood to eat your breakfast, yon proliablv find that there ia another per son over opposite you fhat ia also ill naturvd. .laughter.)' There aw some men that seem uataralfy able to canv good nature into society, as spice wood i to carrv odor*. _ I sav. bleaa the gKid-oatured men. I hst 1 wish there were a great many moi* of them—men that have no rough points; men that jou csn. "cuahion on. I would not have all the world good natured. but there is no danger, not the least. < Laughter, i Bteeaed *re thev that move nround in society with such an liiflnenoe. Coming h<*te 4 teff"J they sat. " I hare not done much of >d the store, few the clerk that thev found perplexed and n Hewd by a kind wonl. It is sometimes a comfort even to look at a good-uatured man. I was ruling from Indiana one. night, and it was so cold I thought 1 should free*e; all at once 1 saw a bgW; * we drew near I asw it was a fire from a blacksmith s forge, and there were the gitwt logs smouldering- I waa so rttfd ttiat to tell tlx- truth 1 cried, and 1 wanted to get down and warm myaelf, but 1 waa afreid 1 should not lie able to get on agaia, but 1 felt wsruie-r for just looking at it, and 1 did not freere to death. (Laughter.) Ho there are men whose very presence seems to warm you, although you can not tell why it ia *ff It i* a good in vestment to have a good uatiun-, and to lie all the time exhaling'it, fpr you don t know how many will lie benefitted by it; there an l some of you here, T am afraid, that will never hear of Any. So wit and humor carry forth a pcrpetnaJ blewing If any haa irot wit don t snppreas it; it is c blessed thing to have every thing that stVikea you seem funny, for mirth almost invariably works wiui be nevolence; wit and humor work with the upper seutimeut* —they tend toward the spiritual, the divine. There ore men that do not suppose there is *ny mirth in heaven, but I say I doubt when a man resits the Old Testament if he thinks that Mr. Beecber oonoluded by urging his congregation to live so that an influ euce should go out ftoxu them to tlio community in whioli thej dwelt, bios sing not onlv themaelveirbttt til around them. Gone to Texas. —Such is the nieh to Texas that 2,000 wagons with emigrants are said to have panned recently through th. town ef Baxter Springe, Kansas, du ing one week, and 600 wagons went through a part o{ the Indian Territory in one day. The town ol Dennison, Texas, only two mouths old, has a imp utation of 2,0014 already. The Virginia Legislator® has just voted to make 22d ol February a legal holiday. j,.. - * 4 J* Farts m* fwmttm. rbmm #m !>&• ilplwbrt of tha 111 whereto _ th*y write m bills A | It is mi IBSBa faat among rufl food men that a new road is apod for at 1 least fifty k>peio#nta in the euuib) i ♦hrougia which It row tit* fl**t •****■ Maine hnabnndaeoma s trick m tall** tit. mere. A man tolls hi wife that be is going to Att*angutt*taß*ogowwougcA ongo fishing. Be than raqaaata airhl* ' friends to call at thabowje, his whereabout*. ha^turoajjie I poor woman is exhausted, and doam I •ipeak again for • month. At the Imperial Artmnti at <*•*# ; tinopte. an Iron-oted W awad! is M ready for launching. This is tha firs "hip of this kind tjiat ha* atw MJ i oonstraetad in Turkey after Turkiih plana with Turkish material and h J native workmen. ' Ons of the saddeat sights in this Mb •on of m veer, is s young man who haa waited outside th# church of an evening until ha ia chilled through, only to ma his gir! walk off with soma raaeal who ha. been msida si! the time, toasting bis sinful shins at tha atove. Fire of tha swasOeat words in tha En glish language liagin with B, whwsb is Snlr a Heart. Heme. Home Hap pineas nnd Heaven Heart is a hope- I,kv, and home it a be*rt-|>Uoe and & that man aadlv mitiaketh who would ex change the hsppineaa of boma ft* M>f thing laaa than Leaven. There aw, at preaent, ttiree**ub marine telegraph oaWea between Ameri ca and Europe. A new rnbls ia noon to b# laid by the French oompmj, nnd tdl another by the Great Western Telegraph Company, mahiag fivu i *"• The total amount invested in all then* cables will be thirty millions of dollars. A iliapateh from Tripoli (Syrta) •* uounees tha arrival in that city V { -evert 1 engineers sent from Constanti nople byM Preeaet to eon#ttit tha nitad proposed by Midhat Pasha. TWflioe wUJetmneet the Mediterranean and the Persian Onlf It will pass by Palmvm, eroaa the Euphrates, Maeopo* tarnia, the Tigris, and will terminate in Ibigdad, where it will owt the wad, already begun, from the P*w*n Gulf. The Dahlonegm " Signal" the following: "A fatioonahto bela waa promenading tha street* of Dahlon dga, when she attracted the attention of an old gnfond gentleman, wh wua at work when she jpaeaed hir* The old linkey stopped ni* work, an gazed in tently at her until aha turned tha em* aer, ifa, mare in pity than admiration he soliloquized thualy: • Wonder what is that aha got on her back? I apeok she's gwine to the springs for to git cur ed. It s a pity far her she's dat way. Hbe's party gtL Tha object glass of toe Allegheny OWrvatorr, at Pitteburg, Paanayt nou, whidi waa tr.s-u-novmlj stolen on • dark mght some'tima mro.lm.lmen found and restored to its place to good order. Its value waa $4,000. It was carried off by an intelligent agrt of a thief who probably expected that • reward would he offered for its scton, enabling him to make a little money by fha operation. He deposited it a • stable and his pal stole it from him. But ft finally eame into the pniaiiaeflMi of the pottos and it was earned bourn. . jii . j. m -r , As hngbshaaa*'* Opiate* af Wemem. A London writer has something to say <>n the great topic of the age—the rights and duties of voumo. Bis opinloii may not coincide with the wader's, but he talk* well and forcibly. Be think* thwa ia no denying the fact that women are not so popular among men as they need to be. Marriages are not so nu merous in comparison with th* |wjm*- tion, and, if we may infer acythina from the diroroe court, they cannot b* to anooeaefuL What is the reason of it all? Aw m-n mow exigent or are women less loving t Ia it our fault or their* * ho right-thinking man wishes women to be unuwaut or silly ; but no man wants to see their intellect cultivated to tb*- cluaios of their affection*, the deaden ing of their instinct*, or the amuhiltitou of their sense of duty. It is one thing to have for a wife n mew bmnlre* doil, whose ideas of life an bounded by fashion on right aide Mid plfeanw eo tha left, and another thing to have a learned mumror. whose heart has be come :itrot L e.l in favor of her bend, and who has thopped the charnetonaties of her wontanfaood in the dm-ma. It may be quite right and proper that women ahcawl wndemtand com anctions and the differential oakolu*. if they se strongly impelled that way, that they should even put enthusiasm into to* study of logarithms, and .find enjoymMt in digesting some of the atiffeat doc trines of politaeal eoonomy; but it ia better that they should Ve tendw to men and gentle to children, careful housekeepers kindly miatreeeee, wan toned leaders of society. It is good for them to have knowledge, but better to k.-ep love. Trt this is jnat what eo rnanv of the "advanoed women have not kept. The odd antagoniun to men profeoaed bv them, the painful fhwßcation of all the home-life, both ia lto affections and in its duties, which they deciare has created almost a distinct class among them, and it is not s lovely scene. Hiey aw enthusiastic for the franchise, and pswiooate for an equal share the eo called privileges of men, but they ere only aouraful of the disabilities and oh ligations alike of sex in all ihrt wd*** to marriage, the home, and cbilaren tn their regard for intelleetual ambition thev have ceaaed to wpert the erio t tonal aide of human nature; ens in their demand for free trade ia the wto of the world, for leave to share in all the specialities of the man's life, thev have forgotten thai part of their own L*PP' neas lien in ministering to his. ' his, then, ia the weeoa why they aw not so popular among men as they used to be. &Tak, instead of hetoaates nists, not lovers; can it be wondered at if meu have followed as they have been ! led, and have left off adoring a groupcrf indeterminate persona who only desired to he feared. This is one class of women who am unpopular with men, and deservedly so. Another is that of the women whose whole souls awl oentewd upon " getting on in society,'' and who regard men, as husbands, merely as stepping atones to that end. Marriage means with them n banker's book, ana the liberty accorded to the wife which waa denied tb the maiden. The man counts for nothing, provided always he ia not exceptionally stingy, tyrannical or jealous. Granted a moderate amount of liberality and * easiness of temper, and he may be ngiy, old, vicious, utterly unlovable through out What does it matter? Be haa money; and money ia the Moloch of our day. So the woman of this class paeaes through the sacrificial fire all her beet affeetiona, her poetry and aspira tions, her hopes, her dreams, and sella herself for so much a year sterling— " getting on in society ' being her re ward. It is not because the grapee ara sour that poor men dread and dislike this claasa of women; and it is only be cause human perceptions are eo very easily blinded by vanity and passion, that'the very men who pay the price ignore the worthleaanesn of the thing tney buy. Interesting Discoveries. The Moabite Expedition, according to a report recently read before tha British Association, has discovered on the borders of the desert east-south east from Heahbon the ruins of a mag nificent palace in an excellent state of preservation. A quadrangular wall of freestone, 51® feet on each side, incloses a brick palace, On the otherside of the only entranoe is an architectural front of carved work 180 feet long and 17 feefi high. This ornamental front displays animals, birds, flowers and men, chisell ed with great delicacy, and eight cham bers with valted roofs still remain. This palace is believed to have been erected about the end of the nixth oen tury. The basin of the Dead Sea was also explored, and it was discovered that whila the western side i* bed of marl, destitute of vegetation, the eastern side is well supplied with water, snd is cover ed with small plants and trees. Palm trees grow ] uxuriantly toward the north* extremityJof the Dead Sea.