fAnd Vol, I m him look M Idnds's wary hair; I sea him watch Cacilia's winning "nil* : I *e* hun notice Mand'a complexion fair; My heart with dread is heating all th* whit* And yet I'm almoet aura ha love* MM Hart of all. In** him gance at Millr* fairy foot. And follow all thoir movement* with a annt* 1 a*o him charmed hy many maidcu* ewost. My heart with dread fai heating ail the while And vet I'm almoat sure It* lowa mo Hoot of all "For when ba take* my hand in Mi of hi*. And look* at mo with Hi* eonftding omfla. My ovwry dowht and faar are not at oa*e Although my heart io boating all tho wlula ; And—yoa! I 'm euro, quite auro. ho love* me hort of all Machine Made. I More of truth than poetry will he fetuut iu the following:] A carpenter'* duty i* plain; A oohl4er for food sell* hi* sole; Ttie Ittrt'cr. who's ne'er ,-rw**e.t the main f . Stall pusee* from pole unto pols: The brick-maker. bloodthirsty elf. To kiln * l>eeii addicted of old: Tlie pilferer goes for the pelf; An elder's a* efl young as old; Tlw weathercock-maker* are vam Of thq vune* they e\| to the I4ast s The hrtkisr* man ne'er wdl refrain From "blowing hie *xic* to the Is*I; A lawyer's existence i* hi icf . A printer 'gainst i ice shoahl l-e proof. The hiuider will *mv come to grief Who commence* n> huili *t the voof ■. The nuller make* mißi.cn from mil!*; !i alt trade* can moi . v lie maie. Itut i>c*v*i*per* si.ffei fona hill* Which seldom or never are psud. The story of a Singular tha meter. On a drive with Home friend* over Pomfret Hills, Ct.. the other dav, wo called on a singular character—a rnsn who is 80 year* old, who is deaf, dumb ami Mind. Whether ho would have boon dmuh or not had he Invn bloMd with the sense of hearing, it is impossi ble to tell, luit his glimmerings of in tellect are evidently rather feeble. The man is a,-11 developed physically ;is of ordinary bight ; has a stout thick neck, and looks strong :uid robust ; has never eaten anything but milk ; has never tasted w iter uor a particle of food but nnlk. Thirtv years oil clear milk, ami with a neck like an ox, ami apparently a muscular system to corresjnind. Can we say now that milk is for babies and calves, and not for strong men. This man had a full set of strung double teeth clear round, and every one of them had to he pulled out, as he tore his clothes to pieces with there. As he didn't use them to chew milk with, he probably thought he must make some Use of them, as they were evidently made for something, and his clothes furnished excellent material on winch to exercise them. Another peculiarity of '.iiis strange being is that through all his life long he has chewed a rag— or rather, I should say. has gummed it since his strong teeth were taken from him. From in fancy his mother has had to place u rag in hie mouth as soon as be b>ul taken his food. She said he gave her no peace till ahe put it back. He distin guished stranger * from the neighbors and those whp had visited him before. I took hold of his hand and h • took it in belli of his and seemed to lie consid ering: then he pawed his hand np the length of my arm, ami patted his head ami chest and made a singular gut tend noise. His mother s.iid that was his way of expressing joy—of allowing that he was pleased. His principal enjoy ment seems to consist in having his mother get through with her work and sit down ly his ride. He hns a swing in the room, in which he spends a good part of the time swinging. Sometimes when his mother steiw ont, he will look the door so that tuie can't get buck again, which shows th.it he has some wit about him, or trickery at least. He is always very wakeful at night, and rouses his mother ont of bed many timea in the night. She says he has lived thus without a good night's rest for 30 years, with the exception of (Saturday and Sunday nights. Every Saturday night he calms down like a lamb, aud keep* that night and all the Sunday after in the strict letter of the old " blue laws " of Con necticut. His mother attributes this hebdomadal to the fact that she change* his clothes on Saturday night. But it is probably owing to the mere fact of change from the ordinary routiae. This slight ripple of change ia a change to him, ana the rest a sort of weekly land mark in the dreary, monotonous blank of his life. Perhaps through the cloud and mist of his vacant mind he welcomes this slight ripple, snd thus in his twor way computes the fiight of time. What meaneth it to such a mind as this ? To wake and sleep, to draw the breath, to take a pint of milk. The snn goes round, the seasons change, but naught of this knows he. Sntions arise and nations fall—'tis the same to him. One dreary round, forever blank—will death improve his state ? The bird that flies, •lie fish that swim*, baa better life than Km. Ijovc Lore. January.—The Ist of January ia one ml the earli<st days in the year voa can take a wrife on, if yon want to. If yon really want,two, though, yon can't, lie cause it is not legal. February.-Feathered songsters choose their mates. This month they pick them, presently they will peck them. Go thou and do likewise. March.—Don't Wlievc the woman who says she will give you'her heart this mouth. It ia not given—it's Lent! ApriL—The Ist is All-Fool's Day. This is the dsv to make promises of marriage, and accept accommodation bills. Go it! May.—Trusting maidens, don't W lieve in a chimney-sweep's suit this month! The fellow will most likely wash it all off on May-day. June.—The longest day occurs this month. Take care it doesn't come in the latter end of your honey-moon. July.—Every dog has his day this month. Bachelor dog-days are nnm- Wred. August.—The first mail, 1784 ! Poor fellow! SeptemWr. Michaelmas - day this month. Wise geese keep close. OctoWr. —Old Michaelmas-day used to fall on the 11th of this month. Hoary-headed and unmarried old gand ers chuckle at the thought of their es- cape. November.—Mothers of large families should get their Guvs off their hands, if possible, this month. DecemWr.—lf yon have net lieen hooked Wfore midnight on the 31st, yon are safe for this year at least. Odor of Kattlesnakc*. A writer in Chain her'* Journal, refer ring to the peculiar and offensive odor given forth from the lxxly of a rattle rtxake when the reptile is enraged, re calls a remarkable instance of escape, which may be credited to a knowledge of this met, coupled, however, with presence of mind, which fully attones lor the rashness of the act which called it into exercise. Dr. Hamiltyn Ko, having opened a box directed to the su perintendent of the Zoological Gardens, London, put his hand under the layer of dry moss which appeared, to see what was there. He touched something alive, and the emcil told him it was a rattle snake. Had he withdrawn his hand rapidly, he would have been bitten to a certainty, since the odor is only appa rent when the animal is enraged. Knowing this, he had the presence of mind to stroke the reptile, wnicb allow ed him to take his hand gently away. So powerful and permanent is this oder that, when a shake is irritated, and made to bite the rake or hoe with which it is intended to kill him, the implement often retains the odor for months. The man King, who confessed himself the murderer of Pook at Greenwich, England, has been found insane and dis charged. VOL. VI. Historical and lYr-onal. Lnuia XIV. wa in 1691 not much In born! the prime of life, ami ho w atill tti ail Uio strength of In* glory. Ho wa fifty-three yearn eld, ami undoubt edly at Uio head of Kuropo, Spuiu 1h tug decadent, Ucrduuiy divided, and England only Iwgitinuig hor reaction against Uio vassnlsgc of t'harles 11. and hi* hrothor, nmlor Uio leadersbiii of William of Orange. Ho hud gained all the im|H>rtant triumph* wliioh had giv en him the title of " Ureal," ami the taiut of found iu aome of which lut* Wen so bitterly expiated by France in our own time. He aa* mooter of French Plunder*. Fruueho-Couite, ami Burgun dv. lie had inflicted horrible authoring* upon Holland ami tleriuany. He had taken Luxeml*>urg, *ttleu Straabnrg, and bought (otaal. Hi* ambition was . known to la- *ttll nuaati*tVed ; hi* de sign* llpm the Spanish crown were fore seen ; and henee Europe was now en gaged in tho confederacy which *hook hi* kingdom to its foundation*, ami prepared humiliation for hi* gloomy old age. The influence of the men of gen iua (hi* support of whom constituted his oharni iu the eve* of Voltaire) was still unrivaled, although some of the greatest >f them had pe*ed away. Hi* (wrsoual deopotiam retained all its uu tiueationed ascendancy, ami was >ne of the dangerous legaoie* which he left to his family and to Fnuue. Iu private life Uio kiug had n>w become what we may call a respootable sinner, ami was gradually sliding into a ouasi-devout condition—half conventional, half foun detl on fear of the devil—under Uie adroit management of Madame de Main tenou. That ladv had lawn a respecta ble sinner herself, and was a penitent after his Majesty's own fashion, having passed from a decorous demirep into n private Unacknowledged wife, and add ed to the perfumes of Versailles a tinge of holy water. She ruled over Louis' passion of religious fear, as the Valliere, the Moutespan, the Fontunges had over another passion, and, as far as we eau **•**, with quite as little excuse. by calculation, amusing by study, with the cunning of Becky Sharp varniahed over with the gravity of a court which was always pompous in its gayest times, she suited the mature Louis admirably. And she got her re wan I for betraying the Moiitesjmn, persecuting tho Protes tants, deserting Fenelon, and so forth— not the declaration of marriage which she hoped, bnt the privilege of nursing a morose, melancholy, disappointed, and meanly-timid old man, round whose nook she hail bung relics probably as false as her cores**'*, ami whom she tied from forever when he had the death nit Ue iu his throat. Of all the mis tresses of Loui* XIV., we confess that the one we like least is the legal one.— Lbrnhill The Farmer's Vocation Perpetual. We need not fear that the human race will ever cease to nave a delight in the cultivation of land—the raising of grnin ami fruits---in planting trees. Men al ways did delight iu the pleasure of ag riculture. It has IH-011 the chosen pur suit of the ablest and wisest men in all age*. The pleasure* of the husbandman have been the theme of j**-t* oml ora tors in every language ami in every laud. These pleasures, Cicero tells us. an- not checked by any old age, ami make the nearest approach to the life of a wise man. And he tells us that Homer introduces Laertes, soothing the n-gn-t which he felt for his sou, by tilling the land and maun ring it. Mareu* Cur l us, after he had triumphed over the bsm nites, over the Sabines, over Pyrrhus, spent the closing period of h:* existence in agricultural pursuits. Cinoiunatu* was at the plow when it was announced to him that he was made Dictator. "God Almighty," says Lord Bacon, "first planted a gar-leu; and indeed it is the purest of pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and.pa laccs are but gross handiworks. Addi son savs a garden was the first habitation of our first parents la-fore the fall. It is naturally apt to fill the mind with calm ness ami tranquility, and to lay all its turbulent passions at rest. The philo sopher Boangbroke was never so nappy Pope tells us, as when among the hay makers on his farm. Asnl not alone in the refinements of rural life will there be an interest. Fanners hold the world together. There may be year* when thev seem to be of less consequence. Trade or manufacturers may allure some of them for a time. But there will ever l>e latent in every man's breast a hope to end his days on a farm. An E-saj I'pon torrect brnmuiur. A searcher after trntli writes to ask us which is grammatically correct, to say, '• the house ia building," or "the house is being built;" " the street ia paving." or " the street is Wing pavel ?' - There ia a wide diversion of opinion upon this subject ; but we are inclined to favor " ia Wing built," for the following rea sons ; Suppose yon want to express an other kind of an idea, would you say, for instance, " Johnny is spanking," or " Johnny is Wing spanked ?" The dif ference to yon may aeein immaterial, but it is a matter of considerable im portance to Johnny ; and it probable that if any choice were given him, he would select the former alternative. You assert, we say, that " Hannah is hugging,"'which, by the way, would W s very improper thing for Hannah to do, it would W positively scatididoiia, in deed. I*recisely a similiar idea ia con veyed if you say, " Hunnnh is Wing hugged," because it ia a jieeulinritv of the act that it ia hardly ever one-sided ; there is no selfishness about it. And it is the asma with kissing. " Jane is kissing," is jnst exactly as if we should aav, "Jane ia Wing kissed; and the sensation is the same. It will not be necessary, however, for our corresjsin dent to attempt to prove this lnat men tioned fact bv practice. He must take our own word for it. UnleM he does so, we alioll answer no more questions in Syntax for him or any one else. Our duty to conserve the morula ml the com munity, not to start jieople to playing private games of Oopenhagen. The girls in the first class of the High School in Portland, Maine, have made a decided movement in favor of sim plicity in dress. The class, between thirty and forty in number, have al most" unanimously agreed to adopt for school wear dresses of plain, substantial, and inexpensive material. Fanciful ornaments and jewelry are to be used onlv to a limited extent, which is speci fied and fully understood by the girls. Many pupils in the lower classes are following their example. Any move ment to cause the young girls in Amer ica to dress simply is worthy of highest commendation. It is painful to see those who are fresh and young, and who are ostensibly occupied in gaining an education, so dressed as to show plainly that their thoughts are largely speut upon outward adornments. Wc heard this with surprise ; but as is was not to be accounted for on ordin ary principles, we could hardly believe the fact as he related it, much less give any account of it, unless he should please to make the experiment be- 1 fore us, which we were unwilling be should do, Jest in his weak condition he might carry it too fur. He continu ed to talk very distinctly and sensibly for about a quarter of an hour respeoi I THE CENTRE REPORTER. The tW of math. The dread of death is universal ami instinctive; and vet how many rush into its arms * Suicide is s most impressive fact in this connection. The disap p*uutcd lover, the discouraged adventu rer, Uie siinpeclcd elerk, the child wounded in it* self-love or fearful puu tehiucut, faces Uie great enemy and in vite* his blow. Every now ami thou the coiutuunitv is shocked by suicides so unprovoked and so frequent a* al most to |**nmade us that tho natural fear of death i* p-*ing sway. Tho in cousi*toucv l* easily explained. I ami llacou auyn Uicrc i* no |*u>*iou thai wdl not overmaatcr the terror of death. For (Mtsaiou l* thoughtless; occupied wholly with an immediate Buffering, it ui*k< * lto estimate of any other kiud of pain ; absortieU in an instankineou* sorrow-, it tak*-* no other airm* into account. The litiml entertains but sue paasiou ut n time, whether it IKI joy or fear. But men arc not always or generally under the influence of passion. Ordinary life l* cnlui, calculating, con*id<- rate, and it is to ordiuary life that death is so terri ble. It is the thought of death is terri ble, uot death. Iteutb is gentle, pcac*'- ful, painless; instead ef bringing suffer ing, it bring* an end of Mift'ermg. It is misery's cure. Where death is, agony is uot. The prv*<e*ae* of death uie ail friendly. Fhe Hear asjKVt of death I* gracious. There i* a picture some where of a fearful face, livid and g!u*t ly, which Uie beholder gaze* on with horror, and would turn away from, but for a hideous fascination that not only rivets his attention, but draw* him elm ser to it. On upproaelung Uie picture the hidtHiUKiies* disnpficars, ami when direcUv confronted it i n>t any more *oeu; the face ia the face of an angel. It i* a picture of death, and the object of the artist wan to impress the idea that the terror of death is in apprehen sion. .Theodore Parker, whose obser vation of death was very large, has said he never saw a }*-r*on of any lielief, condition or experience, unwilling to die when the time came ; and my own more limitc*! observation confirm* the trutli of the remark. l>eath is an ordi nance of nature, and lik* every ortli nanee of uatnre is direct**! bv benefi cent law* to tieueficeiit ends. What must be, l* mads welcome. Xeeeeaity i* beautiful. Poor People. There are various kinds of poverty. Pcojde perishing with famine an* poor. People that cannot procure fuel IU the winter, nor sufficient clothing far warmth and comfort, an- poor,- People that are coiu}K-lled by their circumstan ce* to live in squalid ai-nrtineut*, iu ill- Ventiluted alley*, arc poor. People thai are infirm in health, and need a warmer climate and have no means to go away with, are poor. These are poor iu their own view, and iu the view of all man kind. People may In- said to Is- abso lutely poor, too, whose intellectual na tures have begun their development, and yet who cannot procure !>ook*, or access to libraries, or entrance into schools aud college*. But, after all, it is "style" that inakas many people js>or: the show in which other people live. The house that was well enough furnish ed before, becomes mean when the next iicighlKir furnishes her roouis with more expense and elegance. Bricks or wood weru good enough, till another's brown stone front went up. And the sidewalk ami the hone-cars would answer .very well, till a neighbor's horses pranced along the street, with glittering hnrw-Hs and glanciug wheels, ami a black coach - uiau with silver buttons drove ap to tin door. Aud the same is true in circum stance* of mncli humbler degree. Con tent is known to live in the cottage, but takes its leave after it has once visited the " mansion." "Style" is the world iu many people's thought*. I* uot this arrant follv, good people ? Is our own house the less comfortable because that of our neighbor is larger ? Are our own blessings the less appreciable because his apparent!? outnumber them? Oot ujsin such folly ! The strong-minded ami the wise never find themselves poor, however small their means am] however cultivat•*] their tastes may lie. The world of God's rreatiou is so much larger, so much fuller, so much more to them, than nny work which man can create, that they never have a want be yond their maan*. Cannot yon l-c as wise as thev ? 11M- Pwtlrpatien of tka Buffalo. Secretary Delano take j a new and in structive new of the i|Tcation of the i>ros]>cetive extirpation of the him in. With a heart loan uiaregajd of the rights of the noble sportsmen, who feel tliat thev hare lived in vain if they have not proved their valor hv < hnsiug buffalo cowa on the alojH-a of the R*cky Moun tains, he suggests that the sooner the game ia disposed of the tMtter for civili zation. His argument ia that the In diana will eoutiuue more or leaa intract able while the liunting-gronuds remain; bat, aa they Iwvome convino*d that they can no longer rely njam the supply of game for their support, they will turn to the more equable aource of subsist enoe furnished at the ageneiea, ami en deavor to live ao tliat the supply will lie regularly dispensed. Stripped of ita verhiage, this meana simply that the only way to civilize the red man ia to atarve him into anhmiaaion. However philanthropists mav regard tliia sugges tion, it ia underlaid hv aontething more then a modicum of truth. With a few exceptional cases, auch aa the Cherokee* nnd Creeks, the Indiana have shown no di*|>oaitiou to abandon their vagrant hahita; but, following the wild herds from which they have derived their sul>- aiatenoe for centuriea, they hnve wan dered westward year by year before the white man's advance, preferring to pick up a scanty, cluuise subsistence, rather than to stoop to manual labor. Thus binon and savage are travelling rapidly the road to extinction; nnd the child ia horn to whom both will he almost as much an object of curiosity in our country aa the eleplwnt ia now. Mill: I'aint. —ln Every Man Hi* (hvn I'aintrr we find the following : " For painting in rooms where the smell of oil of turpentine would be objectionable a preparation may le mode n* follows : Take eight ounces of freshly slacked lime and mix it in an earthen vessel with three quarts of skimmed sweet milk. In another vessel mix three and a half pounds of Paris white with three pints of the milk. When three mixtures are well stirred up put them together and add six ounces of linseed oil. Mix these well and it will be ready for use. This preparation is equal to oil paint, and is excellent for walls and ceilings. Any shade may be made by t)o addition of dry pigments." The latest pets which the Purisini ladies affect are monkeys. Those charming little animals are to take the place of the inevitable poodle, and are said to take kindly to the attention and affection lavished upon them. They are adorned by dainty silver collars but on their walks are left unchained, us each " respectable monkey is attended by two footmen, who guide his wayward steps and keep him within the bounds of the civilization of which he may one day. form a part. We do not know whether Mr. Darwin, or a (jeak of fashion is to be thanked for this trans fer of affections. CENTRE IIA I.E. CENTRE CO.. PA.. THI'RSDAY. .lAXI'AKV 2'i. 187:1. Tried aud True. The inexhaustible romance of ctuigra turn, of which in umderu days our coun try is almost alwuys the objective |*tait, lnis it* latest recorded illustration ai u ouict little st#rv recently nuulo public tnrvitgli the circunistaiicea of it* grutt fying taiuclusiuti- Hcvcral years ago, in one of the mid land counties <>f England, the sou of a l*>or clergyman became einuoored of a young lady named MUM, who lived IN tsmdou, but was nt that time paining the summer with her aunt, one of tlu> minister'# parialiioiicr. Miss M<** was most graciously dii*ise*l toward her rural adorer, uud us ue was n gentleman by birth and a welcome guest in the nio*t resectable country house* the *o ciety of the village recoguircd, there was no incompatibility in the affair. l'|M>n her return to Loudon, however, (lie young lady, whose father an* a wealthy merchant, received *o little sympathy from her family in the affair of the heart which she had to disclose to them, that she felt impelled to write rather diaconnolately to her lover on the subject; nml when he, ujsin hastening to the metropolis to present himself, was received witli lvjicllunt eolilueaa bv the parent*, the prospect for the lover* seemed uupreiiusiug enough. Not to be thus dismiaaed, though, the clergyman'* *■ 'U obtained a private in terview with the reluctant merchant,and stoutly asked why he was not eligible for the nlluuiee he desired. The blunt answer was that hi* worldly circum stances were not suitable. He was jxx.r tutd likely to remain so, and should se-k a wife adapted to his means. 1 teeming the concluding piece of advice gratu itous, the lover took leave of the father with no great cordiality; but upon bid ding adieu to Ins lady-love, u*krd her very earnestly if she would promise to wait for him until he should have gained for himself the means and jsisitiou ee essary to change the parental decision. The answer was as affirmative a* earn est, and, without further explanation, the rejected suitor mud a hurried good by. Mi** Mo>>* heard no more of him until nearly thn-e months thereafter, when a letter bearing an American niark mnozid her with the information that he hud crossed the Atlantic to *-ck the npi*iinted fortune, ulel had high kojH-a of soliciting the fulfillment of her promise iu alxutt two veara. A half-brother of lii# father was a uieroinuit ai Leavenworth, Kansns, and had ga.iti him countenance and g-iieral a**i*t.vnce bv which he was sanguine that he could not (ail to speculate *ue ci i-iully in city paoperty. Only let her remain (oitlifu! to lam and ill two y.-*i* her father should tK-e him in lamdon again with plenty of money in In* pock et*. She answered appropriately, with a faith in the future a* unworldly u* his own, aud from thenceforth their letters passed i irk other ou the ocean by every hllUlirr. The story of American fortune-making by immigrant* h* not much variety. Occasionally the dmun i at leant prt ly realize*!, but a* u general thing de ferred hope IK the burden of the *oug. The young Knglialimau iu Ku*ii* won always j lint alMiiit to il<> la tter, but the titue of actual golden consummation neti r eliauce.l n> c<me. .Two year* ami three yearn and four rolled on, and at ill he rcmaiu"d ou thia aide of the "en and wrote hojnful lett* r. I hiring thin time hi- father, the clergyman, dled, leaving an rotate w lueam*' to the widow ami daughter that the exile could not think of going back to hi* old home n* poor an when he left. Hnt the father of Si Ikk Mo>s departed this life also, and about three mouth* ago the truc-hearti*! heir er * wrote to her finally dexjamding lov er that, n* he conhl not go to her, ahe had decided to eome to him. Accordingly, the spirit***! young lady, di*r>*gnriliiig the still urgent objectiona of lier kimlml, ami leaving a Ixmdou borne of luxurv ami refinement, cross*-d tin* Atlantic alone, an*l on Sunday last arrive*! at a hotel in I/eaveiiworth, wh*r' her yet iinjux-nnions lover was to, and of course did, m***t her. Tin y were married on tin* saun* day, atnl it fiiay IM* added, that tln-ir journey will be bark to the old country. A serious tenijs*r nry sacrifice was involved, of course, in tin* fair voyager's IM11 trip to tin* coun try oil such an errand; but, n* already noted, *lie is now an heiress; her array of traveling trunk* is *q*ok*-n of us sonn*- tliing wonderful, and the reunited lov ers will return to their native laml, as husband and wife, in tin* glow of a ro innnee to which riclies will give all nec essary gentility. Kli IVrkin* ui defect lir Hue*. It pains me to hear of MI lunny pe*iple being hum**!, on account of elevator* and defective fiues. Tin* other day 1 laid a plan lwforc the Fire 1 nspcctors, which, if carried out. will remedy the evil. When 1 called on the Imqieetor of Ruildings, Mr. McGregor was trving s*mie experiments w-ith Professor Ryn dall. They were trying t*i il>*tro*-t the heat from the fire, MI lU* t*i leave tin* fire perfectly harmless, while the heat is to be carted off in flour barrels !> supply ctHiking-stoves. Tlu-n they trieil experi ments in eonrentrating water. t> bo need in the engines in ens*- of a drouth. The hitter experiment proved eminently successful. Twelve barrel* of water w* re cvnjio rated down t<> n gill, and this w:m s*-al*'<l in a small phial, to 1M- diluted ami 11****1 to put out fire* iu eases where no ('rotoii wnter can he had. In some raa<*H the water is to Is* evnjsirsted and concentrated till it becomes a fine dry ixivdrr, ami this can We carried around in Ilu* vest jmM'ket of tin* firemen, ami is t<i 1 ><• blown ii|Mn the fire through tin horns—that is, it is to extinguish the lire in a horn. 1 examined the powderizod water with great interest; took a horn—in Ins hands—and pro**eed<**l to elucidate my plan for constructing fin'-flues. I then told them how the holes of tlia flues should lu* constructed of solid east inui or other non-combustible material and then cold corrugated iron, without any ajiertnres, poured around them. "Wonderful!" *xclainied Professor Tvndnll and Mr. McGregor in a breath, "nut where will voa pine*' the flues, Mr. Perkins?" "My idea," I replied, drawing n diagram on the wall-paper with a piece of charoon!, "is to have these flues in every instnnee located in the adjoin ing house." " Magnifleent! but how about the ele vator ?" " Why, after putting them in the next house too, I'd seal them up water-tight aud fill them with cotton and let it freeze. Then I'd turn them Imtlom siile np, and if they eaught fire the flames would only draw down it into the cellar." The lending actors at the New York theaters are hy no means bodlv paid. John Brougham has a weekly salary of 9000, and a handsome income besides from his many plnvs ; Mrs. John Wood gets SOOO ; Rose Horace, 9600 ; Stuart liobson, 9160. These nre nt the Grand Opera House. At the Fifth Avenue Tneater Miss Davenport ( whom Bonci cault pronounces one of the liest light eomeuy actresaeß of the day) gets 9150; George Clark 125 ; James Lewia, 9125; Plessy Mordauut 9KO ; Jenny Lee, 900; Emily Weatayer 50. There are very many others receiving salaries ranging from S3O to 900 u week. Most of these are prudent, maney-aaving people, regn , lax visitors at the savings-banks. Hluki'n uu Trial. Tilt* trial of Edward H. Ht<>kri, fur the murder of James Flsk, Jr., ww ruUlnwl in the Court of Oyer ami Teriuim r, In - fore Juilgc |lt>*rilui*ii. Til® prisoner hIIMM-lf WM placed Oil till* Hlttllll oil Ilia ow it In-half, and hi* examination lusted all duv. He explained at length the circumstances of hi* business relation# with Fiak, their Biilnnnjueiit litigation*, uiid the various legal proceeding* which nro- front them, lie nurruted the pro gress of the lil>el suit instituted ugumat Flsk to .loKeJillllie Mansfield, and hav ing stilted how he left York*ill® Police t'ourt on the morning of the shooting, lie detallsd his subsequent movement* up to the time of lii* arrival at the (iraiul Central Hotel. He was induoed to enter the hotel by seeing a lady in the window UIKIV® he thought lie recog nised us u friend he met ut Saratoga •luring the previous summer, and he endeavored, hut without success, to bring a friend, Mr. Bailey, with bint. After entering the hotel lie found that the lady was not the person whom he supposed, uud he turned to go away; he had got down three or four steps, when he *aw Kisk inside the second door; Fink pulled Ins pistol out, and witness sprang to the l-!t to la- out of riuige. The witness hen- dest-rils-d Flsk as hold ing his pistol with laith hands, and said he immediately U*k his pistol out of his right-hsud eat pocket, slid tired, bisk cried " <Mi " at the first shot, and at the second lie turned jmrtly around and said he was shot, and sceltled to drop his pistol; had no premeditation to kill Fisk, and had no tiuie to think; saw Flsk # pistol distinctly, and Imliered Ins own life to 1H- HI danger and he instant ly took out his own pistol, cocked it, and fir-d as rapidly as possible, aiming at Fiak, but not thinking of killing, and not taking any particular aim. He de uied the testimony of Thomas Hart that he crouched a if waiting for some one, olid UeVer Useil the wonls, " NoW 1 have you;" did nut go into the ladies' parlor, ami dropped hi# pistol sot there, but at the head of the stairs, did not say " 1 have just come in;" Fi#k did not iden tify lain as the man who shot him, but sitiiplv said, when lie w* confronted with him, "That is Mr. Htokes, Wit ness deacriliod tllst 1 i*k Was a desper ate, uuserupuloiia, vindictive man; that he had made threats against his life, ami, in cou#eiueuoe of these threats, he was always apprehensive of violence through la* agency; Fisk boosted to lam thrft his touch was cold ami i-lammy, that it was dangerous to cruea him, ami that iKinuon 11. Eaton would not trouble lam any more. He deuied the testimony of I'arker that he said " Fik was a black-tnailer, ami that he would shoot him;" he had no acquaint ance with Barker, and the statement wa an invention. He repeated the ev idence cnuceriiiug the cast* given nt the last trial, ami was then subjected to a severe cross-examination. One lie-nit of Housekeeping Nothing rob one of that sort of iierwoual vanity which youth IK K> apt U> feel HO Hooti aa keeping house. If one never did that, it might le that the vaiu-glorioUK iilea that it IK a great thing to lie the identical I which one happen* to be, would never la- properlv inodi fied ; but a abort experience of bouao* keeping prove* conclusively that one IK only of importance Mvmuiof to one'* relation to each < .ther folk. There is a potato mall who plainly thinks that if yon do not take potatoc* of him your mission on earth remains unfulfilled. There is an ice company winch feels that your deal my i* to bur ice. There is a gas company, to which yon are nntnlver twenty-four, Mich a street, ami can only prove your identity bv depositing a certain sum of money iu the cximpaiiy's ham!*. You are " the )M-IAOII that is Wing painted" to the painter ; and hi* notion SxHvwnea literally true, if you cuter your domicile in a hurry, forgetful of his |<>t* ami brushes. You nrc so much meat s w.-ck t<> the butcher, and so many dollars a month to the cook. In yourself you an- nothing—aad or glad, tired, tormented, er iu a state of Wsutitndr, it matters not to any of these people. You are the lug machine that winds the house up, winds fond and furniture into it, and winds money out to pay for it all. (11l for the golden dream* of early voiith, when dinner was as natural a blessing a* sunrise, and one never thought where the tin pan* ami tea kettle ean. from ; when, in a white dress and blue saah, one could r*'|*sc ll|Htn a sofa, heedless of the rattle of iCe ra rt wheels or the howl of the milkmen, unconscious of the awful days ahead, when everi new arrival of the sort would IM* succeeded by a howl for " missus," ami when one would W responsible for the sweetness of the butter, and the plentifulness of the green isa at that enrlv season when tliey shell out small I.r,Uj< r. The Find Carpet. 1 was *nee very mneli ainii***l st an nn*cil<>te an old preacher told of him self. It IMY tired some sixty or seventy Tear* ago. He had l*eii rniM**l in the hnckwonds, and knew but little of the wars of the world. Having been ad mitted into conference he was sent to a cir* nit, and IIJKUI a certain occasion was invited to dine with a wealthy man. CarjM*!* were not near so common then a* they ere now. Most people had their floors scoured very clean, and nice white sand sprinkled over them. l'hia wealthy man with whom the young preacher dined, however, lisd a carjet ; Suit it Was not large enough to cover the FIIM*r, so their was a naked space all around the room alMiut thr width of a chair. It WHS llii* first carpet the preacher had ever s***n, and he thought that it would not do to step on it; so he took n seat near the wall anil drew hia f***<t around on either aide of hi* chair, so as not to touch it. After u while ii servant came in, and spreading down n piece of linen in the middle of the room, placed the dining ttilile on it and began to set it. The preacher was greatly troubled ; he did not know how he was to get from the miked plaee where he eat to the piece of linen on which the table stood. He knew he could easily jump it if he had a fair chance ; but flow was lie to man age with the chair between his feet he diil not know. Hut then the thing must be done someway; so, when dinner was announced, he rose from his chair, and summoning all his energies, lie made a desperate lonp, and to his great joy, miule the trip in safety. Krlr Spcrulntion*. —J ay (build, just previous to the HosUm fire, says a reli- j able New York authority, sent a prom inent Hroad street speculator to London, with letters of credit to s large amount, and orders to quietly buy calls upon an immense number of shares. The stock in New York had been depressed by Gould about 1(1 per cent., and was made to look very weak on purpose to induce the English speculators to sell calls at cheap rates. No telegrams were sent by cable, for fear of the operation leak ing out, and the market for Erics was kept down until the return of the Now York agent, who came back by the steamer City of Brussels two weekH ago. ' When the culls were all secured the trap was sprung and Erie shares ran up 10 jer cent, within two days. Gould a profit in the London market nre esti mated at $5,000,000. Disaster# of the Year I**2. It is lamentable that, as if to make up for the absence of war the year 1H72 was one of almost profound pence—storms, flood*, earthquakes, fires, railroad collisions, aasasiuatifn# *l*uudcd iu all part# of the world, and carried off a great number of people. Kttrlkquakf, h'tmxls, itr.---January t there were violent thunder-atoms, with shock of eurihquake, iu England: 16th, the great earthquake at Huiemacha, Caucasus, occured, killing 137 people, wounding 11, ami destroying the city; 26th, there were reported terrible flc*i# in England which caused immense losses of property. The next day l gall the famous suow blockade on the Northern Pacific Hailroad. The part of Jaiiuary and the liegiuutng of February were extremely cold, ami many persona in the Northwest died of exposure. February 8, three |*eraoits were killed iu I tell by eliortaona suow slides, 2,000 f.M iu height; the 14th, a frightful storm iu the Northwest, 8110 cam Idock - aded, and many person# reported as perishing froiu cold. March 3d, suo* drifts were reported in Nova Scotia thirty feet deep; 2fth and following day*! 7,000 shocks of earthquake were felt iu California, l,3oomiles of country were shaken, forty jieople killed, ami 4(1 wounded. Oaxaca, Mexico, was vis ited by uu earthquake which destroyed part f the city on tiie 27. April 3, j Antioch, Syria, was destroyed by an earthquake," by which 2,000 person# were killed; Bth, a great flood in the Ohio River by which 125 boats were sunk. An eruption of Vesuvius—the most terrible for two centuries—occur ed on the 25th to the 27th, causing the death of 200persona. June Bth, a great tornado occured iu Ohio, bv which 160 houses were blown down ami 80 person# more or less injured. The summer in the Northern States was charartt-nicd bv tiie lute use heat which occured at sliort intervals and coutiuucd long. The first snow fell at lllaudford, Mass., on the 3lst at August. September 28, Osceola, Ark., was nearly destroyed by u hurricane, and on the following <lay then- were great gales and immense lows of property on the lake*. October 24th, disastrous freshets on the river I'o iu Italy rendered6o,(KM families homeless. On November 13 and 14 terrible gales in the Baltic and North seas, eighty ' ship* and hundreds of lives reported lost; tiie damage between (2,000 000 and (3,00(1,000; 26th, great gale# ou the F.uglish coast, causing great damage, lieeember 4, the Po was again (busied; Htli to 19th, hurrtcaue in England and Irelatul, towns flooded and 449 lives 1 rt |s>rt<*l l<N>t in t*u day*; 19th, the Heme overflowed and Paris was partly under w uter; 22m1, the greatest inundation of the Tluunew in twenty yeara ieeured at Loudon; 26th, great a now-storm in N-w York, travel almost #fcoppd. Tiie following days the atorm continued in the West. h'uilrtnid at'. —A railroad train at Upper Alton, 111., wa* teleon|ted on February 7, wvru person* killed and tbirteen wonuded; June ±l, an accident on the (iraud Trunk Km 1 road at Belle ville. Ontario, scalded aixty-flveperwou*. of whom twenty-tlrree died; Itiwrnler 21. twenty person* kille*! and forty wounded by an ac*mlent at lorry, I'a.; the following day three jx-raona were killed and aeveut-en woniidii! by an ac cident nor IndintiapoliK, J ml. /Ir**.—March 4, SI.<100,(100 tin iu Philadelphia; 'JOtli, lius*eldorf Art Gal lery, Germany, destroyed: 191b, Javne's building and "five printingoAcea i I lnla delphiai burned down; lo*, g1,000,000, July 5. 1,000 houses iu Constantinople burned; JOth, great petroleum Are at Hunter's Point, L I.; loaa, $1,500,000. August 12, a cotton factory in Geneva, Switzerland, burned; loaa, $2,000,000. September .'l, part of Canterburv Cathe dral burned; nth, 12<<houses in iScroatx, Switzerland, burned. October 2, the Esctirial, in Spain, damaged by fire ean*ed by lightning. November 0-10, the great fire m Boston; more than eighty acre* of ground were burned over; twentv to thirty lives are reported lost, and th* money value f the property destroyed is estimated at more than 11 10,000,000. lh-cember 10, the Fifth Avenue Hotel horror—eleven women roasted to death; 24th, Barnum'a Mil *eum destroy**! by fire; same afternoon, fir** in Centiir street—seven lives lost. of ,S'/i i/m. M*r**h 4, ship Great Republic lost at sea. May 17, Cunarder Tri|xdi wreck**! on west coast of Ireland. June lfi, steamer Gaudevea exploded her boilers in Marseilles harbor with a loos of fifty-five lives. July 5, shir Rothsay. from Calcutta, hist at sea with seventeen persons. August 13, steamer Bit * die Mil her voyage from N* York to Aspinwall bnroed at sea, nineteen live* lost ; 24th, steamship America burned at Yokohama; loot $1,000,000 and several live* ; 31st, steamer Metis lit HI the Sound ; fortv-eight |*ers**ns kill***!. November id. eighty ships ami hundreds of smaller vessels lost in the Baltic and North seas from hurri canes. December H-19, fifteen ships driven ashore on the English and Irish coast by n great hurricane; 443 lives lost. />**< n*r* of J/'M nod Animiul*.— January 1-#, 230 persona die*! of small- JM.X in 'Philadelphia ; 12, small-pox RE porUgl as spreoding in all part* of England, Ireland ami Scotland. March 22. Miiall-jxix in New York and vicinity. April <>, 43 persons rejiort***! as dying in a week of small-pox in Montreal. June 11, cholera appears in Southern Russia.- Week ending July fi, 1.M9 persons die*l from the effects of the terrible h*st in New York.; 19th, rinderpest attacks the herds of England ; 20th, cholera spread ing in Central and Southern Russia. August 20, cholera in India and West Russia. September 17, fatal cattle plague npjM-nrs in Nevada. Ootolier 1, the great horse-plague appear* in Ontario, Can., ami in the two months following i* is said to have attacked 5,0110,000 horses ; 10th, 3,000,000 per sons are said to have died of famine and plague in Persia ; 25th, 30,000 horses iek of the cpiaootic iu New York—the following days witnessed a great mor tality among the sick ones; 30th, cholera appears in East Prussia; Hun gary, ami Ireland. November 2, the horse-plague reaches England ; 3*l, cholera in Vienna, Prague, and Berlin ; IHth, 80.000 Russians have died since J ntiunrv lof cholera. February 5. iittempt ed assassination of President 'iliiers by shooting; Earl Mayo, Govcrnor-Gen cral of India Hssassinateil at Port Royal (Imlin) by n fanatical native! 29th, attempted sssassination of Queen Vic toria by a Fenian named O'Connor. July 18, attempt to assassinate the King and Quen of Spain in the streets of Madrid. MAN ANI> MOHKBT. Mr. Darwin has written a new hook, the subject of which is Thr HrprrmUtn of Emotion in Man and Animal. For the purpose of proving the connection between the two species he states that both men and apes " pout" and " turn the cold shoul der" as an indication of displeasure. And he tells how it is done, in order that all jnveliue apes or hnmans who like may practice the pont without mis take. He says that " the pouting here referred to consists of the protrusion of both lips in a tubular form, sometimes to such an extent as to project as far as the end of the nose, if this be short," and that "pouting is generally accom panied by frowning, and sometimes by a booing or a whooing noise." 11l the ( ondemned ( ll ■ Edward H. Htokes, sentenced to death i for the murder of Jumna Fiak, Jr., ia iu cell No, 4, of the Tombs, in New York. [ It is known as the condemned cell and ia i on the ground floor of the oondemned i , row. 'ln® cell ia stamt ten feet long by aix in width The last occupant of the j room was Foster, the car-book murder er, who was removed to Ixetter ouarter when the stay of proceedings iu his case was granted. Home seventeen con demned men have ixvupinl it since ]Nso,and the last occupant who suffered | the extreme penalty of the law was the , negro John 'Hiomas, executed sometime more than a year ago. The cell looked liare and cheerless enough yes ten lay, ' but will be carpeted ami lltlnl up for the present occupant, who will be made as comfortable as j*unable. It is se curely fasteneil with a net work of iron grating, the interstices of which will j wwclv admit of the insertion of a j man's Auger. It contained only a chair at the rear end, on which was laid a bundle of eiothing, another chair near it,supporting a small black valise; a bed near the door, and a small table directly in the doorway. On the table was j placed a bottle of cordial and a tumbler with which the occupant occasionally j refreshed himself. In his hand he held a lead pencil, and ever and anon he : would write a mysterious something with it on the walls of hi# cell, and then ceasing abruptly, would draw with the pencil alwtrnctedly. In conversing with the writer.of hi* case and bis prospects, Htokes protested bitterly at tiie crowds | of jieople that lined the streets yester- j day morning as he drove from the j Tomb# to the court-room to be senteue- j ed. "One would think," said ha,"that I the day was a holiday and that I was a j procession." He also said that owing to some strange idea entertained by the i " prosecuting lawyers" that they were | ia personal danger from him, he was searched bv the officer# for aay weapon that he might have about him ere he < entered the court-mom yesterday. He j indignantly disclaimed entertaining any feeling of peisotuU hostility toward his , prosecutors, and aaid instead that he j pitied them, l>eeauae he was convinocd ! that when they had fully recovered from 1 the excitement of the triaPthey will tie t sorry that they have succeeded so well j as thev have in their work. " AH three men," said he, " were not . only IBV lawyers at one time, but my j persons! frienila, and though they have • forgotten that fact now, they will re- ! memlier it hereafter. I teU you before ; (Kid tliat I am happier to-day in my : condemned cell than thorn- three tnen J are out in the wride City of New York. j1 1 at least was Fiak's open enemy for i years. Thev were tnv friends, my ad- j i viaers, up till just a fittle while ago. I ; . dare aav they mean nght enough, but < they will find some day that they wen- j 1 ternblv mistaken. Bosch Ido not fee) ■ so badlv about. He gave me fair notice ( of a fight i though a rather sudden one), j and what he ha* done since he has done i openly. But FuUerton ha* striven to i stab me in the dark, and Fellows lias • acted as though he had never been t under any obligations to me. Still I \ believe 1 owe the verdict against me t more to Beach than to any one man. I t hope be is well pai.l, for iiis money t < this bitterly and with intense feeling i i it will lie every dollar of it blood j i tuoneT." ( The pnsouer also uud that he ww perf*rtly convinced that Mr*. Fisk had nut been in BUT *T among Ulnar who bad " hunted aim down." HP waa cer tain she had not spent WIT money ; against ltiin, but that Jar Gould was the moving spirit of the prosecution. He aaid he w prepared to (lie, if die he must, knowing that Jay Gould hail . killed him. He attached the greatest importance to the fact that there had been to many murder* in New York of j late, and aaid. " After all a jury i a tmrt of the public, and I happening to te the one tried at tliia particular time, waa the one whom the public mind aelert<>d aa an example. Had wiv other { man lieeii in mr place he would hare had to aerre aa thia ' example ' instead of rae, but * I waa generally supposed to l*e the richest of the lot, and all that aort of tiling, why of course I have had to serve a* * ronspiewn* example. Now, it mav be, 1 did wrong in shooting at Mr. at all—though God knoars I WW had any more idea of killing him than I had of killing you—but ul the murder* thai hare been committed since then have nothing to do with my guilt ! or innocence, and should never liare I wen for a moment considered in refer ence to my caae one way or the other. And although 1 fully believe that the nrv tried to do their duty, and although denv altogether that aiiy of the jury wen- \ aoight up bv Jay Gould or by any body clue, yet I *fo believe that, uncon acioiisly to themselves, |*erhaps, they were influenced by the pressure of the public sentiment. Mr. Stokes profeenes to he entirely satisfied with the effort* of his counsel save in one instance, in reepeet to which he said : " Had I really started out that Saturday afternoon to shoot Mr. Fisk, aa the pmsecution claim I did, would 1 not naturally hare gone to the Erie Railroad offices Resides, how on earth was I to know that he waa going that afternoon to the Grand Central Hotel ? or how w Ito know when he | would be then 1 ? Besides, I deny alto gether that I ever had any idea of going to the Grand Central Hotel that after noon all. I have always been in the habit of riding in a carriage in prefer ence to walking aince I have been in the City <>f New York, and have also been in the habit of designating any place I wanted to go to by some prominent ob ject, hotel or theatre, in the ncighbor liood. Consequently, having an ap |N>intmciitthat nfteruoon with my friend at Great Jones street, near Broadway, I told the driver of course to go to the Grand Ceutral, though my carriage never stopped there, and i met mr friend afterwards in the street. 1 tab von the whole meeting between Mr. risk and myself that Saturday after noon was the moat accidental tiling possible." With regard to the testimony of - Cnrtirs, Mr. Stokes waxed bitterly ear eastie. " Thot man," aaid he, *' swear* j he was on the third floor of the hotel when he hoard the shooting ; ran like . lightning ; he knew just where to run, | to the landing of the private staircase, j rushed down to Fish's assistance, help- j ed him up the stair*, sad yet saw nobody | all the while ; did not see FannieTnrn- i er at the head of the stairs ; saw, in | fact, noliodv, though of course the hotel , must have been crowded. Nobody on ! earth saw the meeting Wtween James Fisk and myself but onr two selves. What the boy Hart saw was nothing nothing btrt imagination and perjury." •' As for our side," said Htokes, "re suming his self-control, "we hail any umonnt of testimony offered to us that did not appear on the trial; but Mr. ! Tremain doubted it, and so he did not > use it, and I sustain his course. I do not fear death more than most men, but it ia hard to die like a dog on perjured testimony. It was strange, very strati *e that Captain Bvrnes should ask l)e J Corley, the parlor-man of the Grand Central, for a written description of the | pistol which he found. Whv did he want a written description of what he I found himself ? And where is that de scription? And "why was it not pro j duced at the first trial ?" As regards the portion of the Judge's charge which stated that it was Mr. Htokoa's doty aa ft eltiwm to have avoid ed Kiftk. ha said, " Why, thift is ft cow ardiee theory. Because ft man has in jured yon, therefore you moit ran my from him every time you ee him. What noufteoM I Because you have bean in jured yon most take to your legs evwy time you meet th villain who ha* in jured you. That Min tbe law. because it in not human nutore. Besides, I did try to avoid Fik aa it waa. hot I hadn't Uma. It waa growing dark when I aaw Flak >ming up the *t*ir, and before I knew it we were engaged in conflict." Should a ate* be granted on the at ceptious taken during the trial of eouna another mil will be allowed him. He will be cloeely watched in Ida cell by the official* up to • week before too time eat for execution. hlgtrts la Algiers- A writer in tlw VentMhan't Mafftuu** ' j chats pleasantly about what he aaw in Algiers Any of the streets asoanding ; the hill from the Ptaep da Chartrea— which may altnoel be considered aa the extreme limit of the European town will lead immediately to the Mahometan quarter. Here will be found obscure and frequently vaulted narrow thorough- I fare*, resembling alley*, Ivmlered by houses, where the monotony of the bare plaster walla to only broken at wide in tervals by quite small ceaeucnU crowed with iron bars, and low arched doorways There are no garden* or verdure, sod hardly a foot of even sickly-looking vine . or tbfkree dying amidst the rubbish of j iU crows-ways ; there are mosque* so "unrounded by buildings that tncy can j hardly be seen, vapor hatha whither people go mysteriously, the men at night, the women in the daytima. lo a word, the Mahometan quarter of Algiers j is a compact and confused m*re of ma sonry, where almost every vestige of life > to hidden, and where it seem* aa if it j were forbidden that gaiety should be ' heard. The dears of the houses are never opened but half way, and they then cloe again by their own weight. Every thing looks suspicious about these curious buildings, wnich ore admirably ; adapted for thi-ir masters' love of eeere ! ey. The small casement* looking on to j I the street are barred, and every kind of precaution to taken against eunoaity from without and indiscretion from ' within. Inside these bare, dismal-looking ! walls and massive doors, resemble the gates of citadels, and the two great mysteries of the country —namely, the personal fortune of it* inhabitant*, ami j its women, of cither of which much to known. Money hardly circulates. It ; i is only area jiaaaing from the hand of an Arab to an Asab hand, and to only ' used to porch see the ordinary daily | ueoewaitiea of life, and jewelry. The j women go out but seldom. In public j thev are invariably veiled, and the baths, - which are their usual place* of resort, are inviolable. Paaaing along theae j lonely alleys, beaida theae silent dwell nigs, one bears tfftise which are almost imperceptible to the human ear, and whi*pen which might be mistaken for sigh*. At times it to the sound of a voice coming through an sogrtnre in the wall, ordeeeemliiig from the terrace i on the roof of the house ; at others it i* i the whimpering of a child complaining ' < in a strange tongue, whoae liap mingled i with sobs ha* no signification for a I foreign ear ; at others again it is the ] •train of an instrument whose unique 11 note, slowly marking the measure of an unheard song, aeems to accompany a dream. It is thus that the captive con- ( soles himself, dreaming of a liberty ;, whieh she has never had. and which ahe j cannot understand. There ia aa Arab , proverb whieh says, "When a woman , has seen the guest, she cares no more for her husband," and upon this precept i the whole svatem of conjugal life among Mahometans to baaed. Their houses, whether they be agreeable or not to tlioae by whom they are inhabited, whether their interior* be Insurious or poor, are prisons. They are like irou j •afro, of which the avaricious masters ' have the key*, and within which they lock up all their secn ta, so that no one 1 insv know what they possess. vdo a tiding Mesmeric Pswrr. A eurion* nw of mesmerism it re corded bv the civil surgeon of Hoßhun gab.id. A roan* wwnan named Nuu nee. inl tweuty-four, ** married some twelve ywu* ago ; she, however, did not go into her husbaud's botxae for j two rear* afterward. After "taring j with him for eight dav* ahe suddenly h*ritnic intt&MMtb wa wßuuned ®o for two or three dav*. She was taken back to her mother, and aoon got welL Then j follow* a verv remarkable history. Dar ing the next "four or five year* she never , ent red her husband's nonae without falling insensible and remaining so. He was very kind and attentive to her; she liked him, hot when he came into her presence she at one sank into (his Mate. This went cm till she became emaciated and exhausted, and at last her parent* applied to the Court for a i separate maintenance for her. While she was in Court her husband entered, end * site instantlT became insensible, sad was sent to the hospital, where the case was carefully attended to by Dr. Cullen, in March, this year. While in this state her pnlse was even, breathing j soft, her bodv pliant, bnt she could eat ; not hi tig. Experiments were made to j see if there wa* no trick about it. , While she waa in bed, her husband was muffled up, and made to walk through! the ward. She said she felt he wsa near her, and she was by no means well, bu had not seen him anywhere about Next dav this experiment waa repeated, and j she sctuallv became insensible aa be- I fore. When the hnaband left the place j she recovered. The experiment M to the influence of the husband's preeenoe was tried in all sort of ways. He waa made to pasa behind her, and to be near her in a separate ward, but this hsd no ; effect, but whenever, he was brought to look on her fare, though muffled up, or disguised aa a policeman, aa a sepoy, and so forth, she was at once influenced. The experiment continued for about a mouth, ami the conclusion was that the husband mx>nscKwial % v ineamcrixed bar. Hieeonrtwuneto the conclusicm that it was impossible that she oouM lite with him, and afeparat* allowance was ordered. The husband was asked to try if he conld not remove the effect, seeing that he had the power to onus© it, but be was quite frightened at the I idea of having the power, and eould not control it in any way. A* INHTTUMCK Qnxno.v.—A novel I and curious question of life insurance is likely to arise in Delaware. Professor West, of Dover, had his life insured for $25,000 for the benefit of his family. He hns confessed to the killing of a negro named 6oooh Turner, and to the horrible manner in which he disposed of the remains. His apparent object in the murder was that the mutilated body of the negro might be mistaken for his own corpse, and the insurance companies be defrauded out of the $25,000. The question arises, if West is hanged for this murder, will the com panies be compelled to pay the amount iof the insurance to his family ? If the ' insurance holds good, it will be to the interest of the companies to sac that j the murderer gets off with some lighter I penalty, such as imprisonment for life. Provisions are so scarce in Core* that | the natives willingly pay two young I women tor a bushel of grain. u. i .s'aSfMd; * * t. ' •- J f Items of latere*!. | " Let aese of all "-Kara-eat*. whieh at ended IST Strang* wraatful hiatortoa during the peel year. The OoMiwioßw of Intanal Ba% Boe wiahee Congress to peae • MQ ■ 'preventing the manufacture of tK#t tiort wine# without payment' of tax y stem pa." Miniature conaervatorire are ft good idee in drawing room furniture. Tky era of glees, about tha aiae of a piano, and are supposed to contain chelae • plant* and flowers. Young Willie (to whom deer-Oraadpe hes in at offered half a dollar). " No, thank yon. Grandad. . Ton stick to U a bit longer, and layt - out at Interest,*n.i 1 111 get all the mote when you pop on, Old Men. " Fnople who believe the currant ikories about intelligent doge, will read with pleasure thet e lost dog .in Norn. having seen hie meater'a advertisement ■ in one of the local print*, promptly '* went home. l * ! A parent in New Albany, Ind.,wi o I had fifteen daughter*, has poironed hto '■ -tog, taken the lock* off the doore and '* bung rape ladder* over hie doovymrd y fence by the donen, and atill the pre l* vision bill is aa ever. !J Urn Plorenee Birney, ft daughter of , General Birney, baa been warning to , set type in the office of the Dedhem I (Mum. > Vas*tu for the pest six months, I and last week she went South to assist ; la editing a newspaper. * A maiden of sixty lately dtodia Ww*- a more land, England, and left §OOO,OOO to fa MBit emsninio bad capforwi b n mfc- II tura affection* The will to now Uteg eon tested on the ground of irregularity, incapacity, nod ignorance. An ill-need husband around the tola (Kan.) Rtx/Wer office makes this obese* ' i ration; "it Boaaa B. end her conferees 1 1 get shut up in prison for illegal voting, f | wa know iota oFman wbowQl urge their ' wires to try rating next time. | A worthy farmer tn Georgia, who wee , carried home on a litter the other day, ! solemnly asserts that nothing but a twenty-ton anchor can hold a aorval i , mule down to the earth after she baa stepped in a yellow jacket's neat. The troops whisk here been operating against the Apaches near Camp Verde, in Arixoaa, have had many Woody en counters with fc™, killing many war riora. capturing many prisoners, and seizing large quantities of Indian sup plies. A wedding was recently broken op ut Columbus City, la., tn the following manner ; The preacher asked if any onn had anv objections; the young Udy , said, "tee; I don't want to merry him." The expectant groom folded hie broad cloth end aiknUy stole away. The California Fiah Oommiseiooera ; have appointed an agent to go East in April, and bring back lobsters, eel*, whitefiah from the lakes, wuß- Sed perch, black baas, and other vaio le fish from all over the United States, to be propagated in that State. •'.Mary, my desir," aeie n utmng una -1 bend to the lady that oa-nefl turn, ''if 1 torn Mormon and many another halp mate, ahe shall be a Mary too, for your own dear sake !*' "Be content with one Mary, my dock." said the loving wife; "in ay opinion another would be merely a taper-new-Meiy." " Faddy, what's your briinf," said a !c ntlemau to aa Irish guide, caxionft to isoover what his religion was. ** flh are, ver honor, Tm of my landlady's beliet "What's that, Pat?" he inquired. ! " Wtar, then, I owe her five bail-roars' rent, and she believes thai 111 never pay her, and that's my belief too." The President of Franca usually dines ! aa follows ; A plate of soap, the wing of a chicken, a few leaves of salad, ft i gliu* of claret, and bonbons orf libitum If he wishes to dine heartily toe add* : a mutton-chop. Instead of Champagne lor liquors, be indulges in humorous conversation and spareling wittieissu* Stanley was engaged to deliver one hundred leeturea in this country for fifty thousand dollars. He delivered two in New York, in the very heyday of the excitement consequent upon his arrival, and then the manager waa eon tent to pay the fifteen thousand dollars be had pat up for a forfait end termi nate the magagement. Mrs. Lvdift Sherman, who waa eon rieted of the murder of her husband by poison in New Haven hunt spring, mads a confession of bet guilt to the jailor. She says that she poisoned Sherman and his two children, as well aa her first husband, Struck.several years ago. She denies that ahe killed her aeeond husband. Dennis HurlburC A man in Yoangston, Ohio, bed thirty dollars one bitter cold day tost week that he oonhl walk to Warren. He spoiled a forty-five dollarsait of olotbea, a fourteen dollar pair of boots, paid • doctor ten dollars to thaw out his eara, and was arrested at Warren aa a sus picious looking character, and Locked up two day* in jail. He woo hit bet Boasrell once asked Johnson if there 1 waa no poaaible circumstance under ' which suicide would be justifiable j "No," waa the reply, "well," afty Be* well, "suppose a man had been guilty of fraud that he was certain would be found out." "Why, than," Mva Johnson, "in that ass* let him go j to'son* country where he to not known, and not to the devil, where he to i know." A toper got eo much on hto atotnapk the other day that ssud organ repelled ■ tf- ■> load. An he leaned against a lamp ! yv -t vomiting, a little dog happened to i stop by him, whereupon he indulged ; in this'soliloquy : " Weil, no*, here s ft conundrum. I know where I ate tha baked beans. I remember where X ate that lobster, I recollect where I got that rum, but I'm hanged if I can recall where I ate that little Taller dog. The Toronto Glob* gives a touching account of a lamentable accident whieh recently befel a flock of 1,000 sheep at Pernm in Upper Canada while being ! driven over a long oorered bridge, 500 feet above high-water level. When shout midway between shores the bell whether observed an open windqw, and, recognising hto destiny, made a strike for glorv and the grave. When he reached 'the sunlight he at once appro mated his critical situation, and, with ft leg stretched toward each cardinal point of the compass, he ottered a plaintive " Ma-a!" and descended to his fate. The next sheep, and the next followed, ] imitating the gesture and the remark of the leader. For hours it rained sheep. I The ere while placid stream waa incarna dine with the life-blood of moribund mutton, and not until the brief tail of 1 the last ewe, as it disappeared through the window, waved adieu to the wicked world, did this melancholy movement eeaas. A New Invention In Telegraphy. NO. 4. When Sir William Thompson in-rent ed his reflecting galvanometer, and showed its usefulness for telegraphic purposes, he insured the success of un der sea cables, whatever their length. Jfcth this instrument, the movements of the little reflector enables the clerk mMM off the message by careful watch top But recently Sir William Thomp son has invented an instrument—the intent siphon recorder—srhioh, as its nafts indicates, writes or reoords the nvwaagtv sureceived, on s strip of paper. It is as essential oondition of such an instrument that it shall be very light, and the siphon, in this case, made of capillary tut ng, is not thicker than a horse-hair. Indefffl, so small is tha mire, that the ink will not flo'v therein of itself, bat squirts out when electri fied. The siphon w oonmeisd with a ooil of oopper-wire, an electro-magnet, and an ebonite disk, armed with pieces of soft iron, -which being attracted by the magnet, is keps rotating, and regu . lafces the current lowing from the bat tery and the cable. Acted on by this ' current, the ink,- *aa already stated, squirts from the siphon, and writes a j succession of delis and dashes, which represent the Idlers of the alphabet. To an unaccustomed eye, the writing is i a confused unmeaning scribble; but a j good telegraph clerk will read it off as if (it were ordinary writing. Thus a mas : cage will deliver itself from the other side oi the Ocean, thousand of miles die . taat; nnd telegraphy has achieved an other triumph.— Chamber ft Journal
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