And Art. MW him look at T<tnd* waty hair \ I *e him watch Cecilia* winning mil . re him notice Hmd * complexion fair; My heart with dread IK beatthg all *h"* And yet I'm iimott tiuv lit lovee me Iwt of HI I MM> him glauee at MlllvV fairy feet. And follow all their movement* with a amile 1 m him charmed lW mam maiden* ewect. My heart with drmdfaat lieating all the while .And yet I'm ahiKwl nre he lovee me boat of all For when he takea my hand in both of hie. And look* at me with hie eon (Ming amile. My every doubt and hear are ret at eaee, Although my heart in heeling all the while; And—ree I I'm euro, tjuhe euro, lie lovee me heel of all Mary, The took. It is strange what a world of romance. What a "wiklenug, watching spell. Hangs shoal Mary, the cook. Why. it's music to ait in ker silbuoe. And (pta not ashamed to tog) It's heaven to catch but her look. She rubbing the lamps, well might ms.UWu The stoniest slave of Alad.hn - - In short, tf eon want to know sweetiarwa And deftness and magical neatness You've only to lotA At Mary, the ct*A. You see, as we're off on a picnic, Stwne dutice must fall to the gtrW; So Mary la boiling the tea. Ah. who wouldn't be an aid kettlw To mirror those tumbled curls. Aud slug near Iter heart fur glee 1 t 'barley and Kale, by the hevehee. Are opening pickles aud poaches ; The others are making a table; While I, like the fox ui the talis. Sit vauily anil look At Mary , the cook. She's " steady " I'd swear it. Ami " soberJ Well, no by that mtsehioioa* laugh! " Willing t" A fcik>w can't tU. Though she knows how 1 long to ask her. Or guemea it more than half. Which answers nearly as oM Mm'.' 1 ask her? (Bui. ah. what tftuaftj') " To go a short way ir. the country," And always be— Jove 1 If she flushing Over that fire—or— Mushing ? Wbat tf I nw and " took " Mary, the sxk! Mine! by the grand old beeohee! Mine 1 by the ps-ktes and peaches! Mine! by the rippling brook! Mine 1 by the sunect sj4cudor ! Mine; by the starlight tender! Mary, the cook! THK TORN (TRT UN. The date was that of the civil war be tween the Parliament and King Charles L The two parties had takea up arms, and were vigorously earning on the conflict. The king's army had been de feated several times, and those of his adherents taken with arms in their hands were leil before judges appointed by Cromwell in every town, to be con demned as rebels. Sir Nicholas Newcastle *(** one of those judges. He was a man of austere manner, but without fanaticism; Lis de votion to the new goverflVnent was well known, and Cromwell Lad a special es teem for him. His weakly constitution did not allow him to serve in arms for the cause which he thought the just sac, but he waa looked npou as the most ac tive and able, as w eft as the most vigor fHialy just magistrate in the country. One'eveuiug Sir Nicholas was at supper with his family and a few of his friends, when a band of soldiers arrived with a royalist prisoner, whom tkey had just succeeded in capturing. It was an offi cer who, after the rout of Oniric*' ;irmy, had been vainly trying to reach the coast, ami there find means of escape to France. Sir Nicholas ordered his hands to be unbound, and another table to be placed near the fire-place. "It is my birth-day," said he, " and I wish to finish merrily the supper which I have begun. Give refreshment# to this chevalier and the guard*. At F resent I would be his host, in an hour will act as his judge." The soldier* thanked him, and sat down at the table near t!eir prisoner, who did not appear to be much afiectrd by his position and fell to on the pro visions set before him with as good an appetite as any of them. Sir Nicholas returned to his place at the head of the Urge table and resumed the conversation that had lieen inter rupted by the arrival of the soldiers with the prisoner. " Wei!.* I was telling yon," he contin ued, " that at the age of 15 1 was still so | teak ami puny that every one scorned my feebleness and took advantage of it to ill-use me. First, I had to endure the bad treatment of a step-mother, then that of tnv school-fellows. Courage in Ixiys is ofiy the consciousness of their strength. My weakness made me a coward, and "far fp>m hardening me, the roughness and harshness to which I was exposed made meouly more shrink ing and sensitive to pain. I lived in a continual state of fear, but above all I feared the master's cane. Twice I had suffered this cruel punishment, and I had preserved such an accurate remem brance of the pain, that the very thought of a third infliction made me tremble all over. I was at Westminster school, as 1 have already told you. The forms were taught in a large room to gether, and were sejwrnted one from another by a. curtain, which we were ex pressly forbidden to touch. One Sum mer <lay drowsiness had overcome nie for a moment in the middle of a Greek lesson; then a slight noise starting me ou(u>f my nap, I only saved myself from falling off mv seat by catching at the curtain, which was close beside me. It gave way at mv grasp, and to my horror I saw that I had made in it a tear big enough to see the next class through. The two masters turned roupd at the noise, and at oace perceived the damage that had been done. The blame ap peared to lie between me and the lx>y next the curtain on the other side; but my confusion soon pointed me out as the culprit, and my master angrily or dered me to come and have a dozen blows of the cane. I got up, staggering like a drunken man: I tried to speak to ask pardon, but F-ar had glued my tongue to my mouth; my knees trem bled under me; a cold perspiration broke ant on my face. The instrument of punishment was already rained over ma, when I heard some one sag: "Do not punish him. It was mv fault!" "It was the boy on the other side of the curtain. He was at once called for ward and received the dozen blows. My first impulse was to prevent this un just punishment by confessing the truth; bui I could not summon courage enough to do it, and when the first blow had been given I was ashamed to speak. When the flogging was over the boy passed near me with bleeding hinds, and whispered to me with a Bmile that L ahall never forget: "' Ho not meddle with the curtain again, youngster. The cane hurts.' " I sank down in a fit of sobbing, and they had to send me out of the room. Since that day I have been disgusted with my cowardiae, and have done all I can to overcome it. I hope I have not been altogether uitenceessful." " And do yon know this generous fel low ?" asked one of hif guests. " Have yon ever seen him again ?" " Never, unfortunately. He was not ! in any form and left the sehool soen afterward. Ah! God knows that I have ! often wished to meet with the gallant fellow, who suffered so much for me, : and I would give years of my life to be ' able to shake hands with nim at my j table." At that moment a glass was held ont | toward Sir Nicholas, who lifted his eyes ' in astonishment. It was the royalist prisoner, who laughingly proposed a j toast: "To the memory of the tora curtain at Westminster! But upon my word, Sir Nicholas" your memory is not RO ac curate us mine. It was not twelve blows that I received, but twice twelve—for haying exposed another to punishment, KURD. Kl'liTZ. Ivlitomntl lYoprifto VOL. VI. aud not Ml once declaring myaelf to bUnt." " You an* right: now I renietulier! l>ut in whit M ait nation! in what a aervioe!" exclaimed lho judge. " In the service of my king. Sir Nieh olna. I wmm not gotug to l>e the rtrst of niv family who hud pluvisl tho traitor. My fMtlior ha* already iliwl in arms, mid I expect no better fate. Novorniuul; I only *k one thing: "(KHI ear® tho kiujj!" With theae words tho royalist return ed to his place aiuoug tho soldiers, Mini continued liis n-past, J hut very uight, Mftor having given era that the primmer wna to be well treated, he left home without earing where he waa going, MK) WIS* gone three dava On the fourth day ho arrived, and ordensl the roydit officer to In* hrought lielore him. " Are von going to settle IUT affair at length?' 1 naked he coolly. "It t* time to do MO, wen* it only for humanity'* Make. Thev tn*at me ao well at your honae. Sir Nicholas, that before I shall oouie to wish to retain my life. ' "My friend," said the judge, with a grave face, hut in a voioe trembling with emotion, " twenty year* ago you said to me, • l\> not meddle with the eurtaiu, youngster. for the cane Lurta!" Here ia your pardon, signed by the Lonl Protector: hut IU my turn 1 say to von, "lVinot take up arms against the Parliament, for Cromwell ia not eaav to deal with." Funeral Festivities. I o*n imagine what i going on iu Honolulu now, say* a letter writer, du ring tlii* month of mourning, for I waa there when the late King'* sister. Vic toria, died. David Kalakatia (a ehiofi, Comwaudcr-in-Chiof of the Household Troop# (how is that, for a title?) is no doubt standing guard now over the closed entrance to the "palace" grounds, keeping out all white* but officers of State; and within, the Christianized heatheu are howling and dancing and wailing and esnysugou in the same old savage fashion that obtained twfore Cook discovered the country. 1 lived three blocks from the woodeu two-story palace when Victoria was beiug lament ed, and for thirty nights in succession the mourning pow-wow defied sleep. AH that time the christianized but mor ally unclean 'Princess lay in state in the palace. I got into the ground* one uiglit and saw ftonie hundreds of half naked savages of both sexes beating their dismal tom-toms, and wailing and caterwauling in the weird glare of in numerable torches; and while a great baud of women swayed and jiggered their pliant bodies through the intricate movements of a lascivious danee called the hula-hula, they chanted au accom paniment in native words. 1 asked the sou of a missionary what the words meant. He said they celebrated certain admired gifts and physical excellencies of the dead princes*. I inquired fur ther, but he said the words were too foul for translation; that the Ixjdily ex cellencies were unmentionable; tliut the capabilities so lauded ami so glorified hail better lie left to the imagination. He said the King was doubtless sitting where he could hear tlieap ghastly praises and enjoy them. That is, the late King—the educated, cultivated Kameliameha V. And mind you, one of his titles was "the Head of the Church;" for, although he was brought up in the religion of the missionaries, and educated in their school* and col leges, he early learned ts despise their plelteian form f worship, and had im ported the English system and au Eng lish bishop, and bossed the works him self. Yon can imagine the saturnalia that is making the night hideons in the palace grounds now, where His Majesty is lying in state. Tr\a Cons a* Milkers. Here very few farmers have barns or even sheds for stock, writes a Texas farmer to an exchange. Last Septem ber I reached this place. tl am a carpenter), and could get neither milk nor butter for family ns-\ J accordingly bought a cow and calf, paying therefor 815, gold. The calf was the cow's second offspring. At the flrst milking the cow gave mc one pint of milk. 1 gave her some corn shucks, which sbc ate; bnt on offi ring her some corn she would not touch *t. I then bought some bran (at 10 cents per bushel), mixed it with salt and water, but she would not go near it; she would eat nothing bnt grass and corn shtM'ks. I mixed bran for her every day for three days before she would taste it. Hhe then licked the salt from the top, of ronrse getting sotue of the bran. The next time she ate altont a quart of it.- Then I gave her some shelled com and bran mixed, of which she Anally ate henrtily, and her milk increased in one week's time to two quarts per milk ing, fgone gallon per day. I now feed her.one bucket of hrau, seven ears of corn, and two bundles of oats night and morning, ami now get three quarts at a milking. We put the milk in a crock by the fire and let it set there over night; in the morning we pour the morning's milk inte what we obtained the night lief ore, and at night churn the whole, and get from 1 to 1{ pounds of butter from the two nilkings. From my limited experience, I judge this cow to be No. 1 for Texa*. I have lieen told that it did not pay to feed csws here in Winter; I find there are very few who do it. fjst week we had very cold weather, rain and sleet for two daya. During that time there were from thirty to fifty head of cattle standing in an open lot near my house, and not a mor sel of food did they get in that time, except the dried brier *talkn in the lot. Iteatli Rate In Cities. In 1871 there were 26,976 deaths in New York city, which, on the estimated population for that year—966,ooo—show a rate of annual mortality equal to 26.2 per l,oot. In 1872 the deaths number ed 32,647 ; the population is estimated at 970,000, and the death-rate is conse quently 33.6 per 1,000. The figures give Brooklyn, in 1871, 10,259 deaths. Its population for that year we estimate at 410,000, showing a rate of mortality of 25 per 1,000 per an num. In 1872 the figures are as follows: Number of deaths, 12,648 ; estimsted population, 412,§00 death-rate, 30.7 per 1,000. For Philadelphia, the returns give the following results: In 1871 there were 15,485 deaths, a population of 685,- 000, and a death-rate of 22.6 iht 1,000. In 1872 there were 20,500 deaths, a pop ulation of 696,000, and a death-rate of 29.4 per 1,000. j The Boston returns yield almost pre cisely the same results as those of i Philadelphia. In 1871 there were 5,88 deaths, a population of 258,000, and a I death-rate of 22.7 per 1,000. In 1872 i the deaths numbered 7,900, the popula ' tion was 266,000, and the death-rate i 29.7 per 1,000. NOT TOO PABT*TLAB.— Emmeline— ' Dear me ! that is n charming song. It's quite new to Mo. Have you ever heard it before, Algy?" Algernon— " Yiae, think I have —one of Arthur Snllivau's, 1 believe —something about lies— ' ' c sidbw-white lies,' or ' Tha snow lies white'—l don't recollect which, pnd it's all the same !" THE CENTRE REPORTER. Inst MI the Frontier. A* a romantic element ill our eurreut national history t!*• red-men have lost nearly ail the idyllic character with whit'l'i the genius of Cooper graced hi* aboriginal uMi*, aud degeuerutcd into tlie conipirntivcly commonplace mid truculent sucowdsueuui of mere ki-1 knapping. Wwilf MIW ft* pitiless, inexorable wicmndißiwi'* "f the white man, these unhappy ghosts of the old reuuuiN) eon uu louger affoial to indulge in the idealities of friend ship, love, and revenge; and hence the modern p-twous! ejiinode* of tin ir steadily weakening and frantic death tight involve more of pitiful, d" I*pair ing laat rv*ert tliati of dramatic or pic turesque heroism. The iy>turc of wo mcu and children as hostages against present or future discomfiture is the event most commonly yielding what little is left of Indian "romiwiee in tin se days, ami such an occurence is the le --> ginning of the following savage story from the To|H-ka (Kau. i CbiitmoHUtalih; In IH<S a predatory hand of Cotuaiiolics, raiding from the sonthem aihls of their i own Territory into Llano County, 'l< v., visited the place of a wealthy cattle dealer named Friend, and, after various outrages, captured and carried away a hoy of eight years old, sou and grainl soa of the joint proprietors of tlie house. The older Mr. Friend and his sou, knowing the Indians habit of de taining white children as prisoners un til one or more of their own warriors might lie redeemed frww captivity by exchange, did not believe that their lost lad would suffer any serious vi.i leuee, and accordingly resolved to re lax no measure for the child's recovery while they had life and means to foil, u the flying savages. Father and grand father were together in the pursuit at the start; hut, us the story is told, the former seen to have died or been .li-t --aided early in the long journey, leav ing his father to continue the march alone. So for several year* this old man devoted his whole time and means to trailing the captors of his grand child; uever tiring under any diacour :igcuieut, nor turuiug Iwck for any obstacle, t hvoeioually hearing that the band he sought was here or there in tie vast trackless f> rains or woods of the Indian Territory, and had amongst it whitc-faced hostages a little boy, he rode ami tramped onward indefatigable over 15,000 miles, and" spent at lea t $5,1*10. Continually breaiuig their en campments and moving by circuitous ways further toward the Northwest, the savages, as has lieen indicated, elud ed their aged pursuer and all his d - tective agencies for four years; in the meautime treating their young hostage not uukiudlv, though training him to forget civilisation. In the fall of lie t year, however, a party of white troop*, under Major Me Kinney, came sudden'y npou them not far from the Kan. •- frontier, and MI a sharp battle kills l many and captured others. The cap tives of this affray were taken to Fort Still, and thither followed the remnant of the routed band to redeem their squaws and children with the white l*y. Thus was the latter restored to his grandfather at last, though in such bar barons guise and assimilation of manner as mnde him seem more like an Indian th&ii an Anglo-Saxon. When lately on his way homeward with the old man through Wellington, in Kan sas, he had learned to rememlier his proper name and regnitted some facili ty in English; but his walk, bearing, and ideas ore still those of his late Bss.e eiates, he delights IU talking in tlip Comanche tongue with those who enu converse with him therein, and months if not years must elapse before he c; n have lw<en snflleieiitlv rehabilitated in civilixatiou to lose tlie wildtiess of his experience in the red-man'' wigwam. State of Trade in Brest Britain. Extracts from the yearly circular* of prominent broker* sav the cotton trade was not so good in 1872 a* in the pre vious year, and the rates obtained w re not even remunerative. Spinners and manufacturers commence toe new year well under contract. Business for the present will lie mainly influenced by the quantity of imports, and the pre nt scarcity is likely to bo tided over with out any enhancement of price*. As to the sugar trade, it is stated that the consumption of 1871 by Europe and the United States was increased in 1872 by alsiut 2 J Jier cent. It is expected that the uow crop will lie at least 14 jer cent, better than the last, while stock*- are accumulating, and depreciation in prices is certain. In regard to the timlwr trade, it i* said that the forest* which are being cleared for supplies grow continusllv farther from toe seaports, and an on- Imucemeut in prices is probable. . The petroleum trade is in a satisfac tory condition, and business is certain to increase. legislation, however, is required, ss English merchants are only allowed to inqiort oil inflammable nt 120 degrees, while those of the Continent can import it only 110 degrees. The wool trade is in an unsatisfactory stpte. The import*, for the first time in its history, have fallen off. The de ficit haa evidently gone to the United States. Hud to Pay for It. The unit of Jean Pieot against Is. Rich, to recover $15,000 for personal injuries, came on for trial in the Twelfth District Court of San Francisco. Pieot allege* in his coni|ilniiit thnt defendant was the proprietor of n gmcery attire, and used m hia business a yonng, wild, and vicious and that, on the 11th day of Beceml 1871, while plnintif! was walking along the sidewalk, the horse (carelessly driven by an employee of defendant, who was too young to be intrusted with such an animal) rail against him, and so severely injured him thnt he was unable to attend to his business ; that he was forced to employ a physician and purchase medicines at a cost of <3OO. Defendant, in answer, denies that the horse was wild and vicians, or that he was carelessly driven by a person too young. He also denies, that plaintiff was so serionsly injured as to incapacitate him for business. Defendant alleges that he was using n kind horse, gently driven; that the horse became suddenly alarmed and ran awRT with the driver, and that before he oonfd be stopped by ordinary leiman prudence and strength, did irfrike plaintiff and inflict apon him certain mjnries, but not to the extent alleged in the complaint. The defendant had to pay £l, Jilo damages. Vbrt Conn Qt-ARTERM. —Eight freight trains were suawed in during a late storm between McGregor and Austin, Minnesota. The snow was packed in so tight that the snow ploughs had no ef fect on it, and it had to be shoveled out. All that could le seen of trains was here and there the top of a brake pro truding alaive the snow, and nothing but the smoke stock of the engine mnrk 'ed the whereabouts of the same. The thermometer ranged from 20 to 25 de grees below zero, the wind blowing s perfect gale. The drivers of the relief teams were badly frozen. COINCIDENCES. —Stokes shot Fi*k on the first Saturday in January. 1H72, and was convicted of murder in the first de gree on the first Saturday in January, lfffJ. Fisk died on tha fitli of January, 1672, and Stokes was sentenced to death on the 6th of January, 1878. CENTRE HALL. CENTRE CO.. PA.. TIIIRSIIAV, JANUARY 1873. "Sweet Heine" in Hanger. A writer iu the fiumr Journal tells the following story, related to him by Pavue himself: Payue had strong sympathy for the red mun's right* uml home, mid without thought of exciting snger expressed his kindly feelings to any one and every • ■lie. It was at the time when the people of thurgia, of the Indian country, had sufhrat bv massMcrea and liight tires ami murder, till they could endure the outrages no longer, andlYesidrnt Jaek soti was favoring the removal of the triltes to the west of the Mississippi. Trarelliug alone as Payne was, with out much baggage, so simple and out spoken iu his manner, it was not long before he excited suspicion as an In dian spy, and when tliey reached the next stopping plan it wus whispered als.ut that lie wu* au enemy, in sympathy with the Indiana who had aooften com mitted such terrible outrages upon the white pululation as to exiuqx-ruto every one to bitter enmity to them and all* their friends. Not dreaming of the cause they took Puvite, lied Ins hutids behind him the most girlish man in the world and marched him off between two strong, fllllv armed men. lie saw his situatiou, and la gan to tremble audlcg and protest aud explaiu who he was, but to no effect, till they j marched for jwrhaps half a Uifle through thicket* and fields, jiassmg towyd an ttnusuallv lighted and respectable aje peuriug log cabin. It wsut quite late in tlie night,still the inmatesseemed to be moving, and us the |arty approached nearer thev heard singiug ; finally I'avue could distinctly recognize the music of " Home Sweet Home. He protested aud tried to break loose and gi-t to the house. They held him back. One of the guard went to the house, iu compassion for the prisoner, to get *cme water, for he hail fainted. Meeting an officer from the house winch proved to be the beadoiuurters of •mule of the United State* soldiers Hot long there- he said they had brought one of the spies of the Indians "who claimed to have written some song about • Home', which 1 never heard tell on." The officer's curiosity w* excited, who, hcarmg the Song at the same time, went immediately with the guanl to *•• the prisoner, whom he found stretched on the grotftul. " What i* your name?" naked the officer. " John Howard Payne," said the • prisoner ; but only s little over a whia- I* r. "(iooil heavens !i* it possible?" said the qffiscr. *' I'nbiud him immediately, and tiring water t once, or I'll blow the brains out of iwry one sf ye ! Here, Payne, take some of this," handing him u rude ramp tl-uik, while he raised his It. ul witli his own hands that he might drink. Soon Payne, half dead, was carried to tlie hou*c. There the whole matt, r waa explained, and eur hero was soon iu as comfortable a rosin as could be obtained, surrounded by officers ami ladies, who did everything in their jmwer to calm and nnufort the author without it homo ( heated the l,alien*. W'm. Cluck, the wilcrannlerer, tuider Kcutetise of death at luilianapolis, eotu mittcd suicide, thus escaping the im'* lew*. A lot*al paper says: Jim Taylor, fellow-prisoner of Wil liam Cluck, entered tlie latter's cell a few- minutes In-fore two o'clock and found the wretched man in the agonies of death by poison. Taylor at once gave the idann to tlie jail authorities, who call. I in physicians. In order to give the doctor* opportunity to do the pa tient justice in their treatment, lie waa removed from the cell in which he lav. When first brought out in the passage way n stomach-pump was brought into requisition, by means of which it wa* hoped to remove the poison swallowed bv the living mini. Emetics were *!*• ....,:i. !. re !, but without effect, and Clis-k died in about half an hour from the tine he was first seen under the Mi ll e me of the fatal drug. There were t>r< -nt at the time n ntunlwr of his fel low-prisoners, tin- jailor, and one of the phv ic'ua*. W*' diisl calmly, and seem-d •luring the lust few momenta to Ih in but little pain. The corpse wa* laid out and lrt*sed in a plain black suit, and in an hour or two after it was placed in a coffin bv the undertaker. An inquest was held over the Usly of the suicide, but the evidence produced merely shvwed that the man died of poiaon morphine. The crime for which Cluck was con demned to die was instignt.il by ieal oii'-y. Horn m England iu IKW, Cluck *i as a r> iideiit of East Telitiessn- at the breaking out of the late war-a widower with two children. He went to ImUann and nlifted i:i the Seventeenth Indiana lufantrv, and while on duty as a soldier at Manchester, Tenn., in 1864, be mar ried hi* victim, a Mr*. Clementine \\i -t, the mother of one child—a Imy. The two he remitted t# lislianapolis, and the w .irlteing over rcjigne.l theni and made the eity the place of his |>cr lnanent reidcucc. A oouple of y.*nrs later he )■ irnt, to his surjtris.-, that his wife was not a widow, as he hail sup posed, bnt the ex-mistress >f one Frntik Wit, who wan*not dead, a* believed, lint ntill alive nnd in correspondence with kfhmcutino. This knowledge, to gether with after suspicion* of adultery on her part with two citizen* of Indian apolis, drove him to hard drinking, nnd when drunk lie would unmereifcilly abuse her nnd her son, and onee he even attempted to kill her. I'nable to put np with the hard treatment, alio at hud left him nnd went to the houne of a Mrs. Wright to live, applying to the oonrta on April '2d, 1872. for a divorce. Cluck nt onee heard of tliia application and 1 eonme frantic, making many threat* against her life, getting drunker than ever, nnd then fining to Mr*. Wright'*, revolver in hand, forced, and with many blow*, compelled hi* wife to start with him for hi* home. On the way the woman tried to eseajie, when 01 nek chased her and *hot her aeven time*, killing licr. Some of the shot* were fired into the bndv even nfter life ha<l departed. Cluck then made'a weak lint unsuccessful attempt to commit su icide by cutting hi* throat with a com mon picket-knife. Arrested, impris oned, and cured of hi* wound, he wa* tried for murder in the §rst degree, found gniltv, and sentenced to be linng on Friday, I>eeeiuler 20th, and was sub sequently respited to January .'hi by ' Gov. Baker. I How CODFISH ARK Umamtn. —No part •f the cod is regarded a* useless. The head is sometimes cooked and eaten, mow frequently, along with the intes tines, it is converted into manure. In France an excellent fish-gunno is niadh from the offal of cod and other fish. From the swimming-bladder isinglass is made almost equal to that yielded by the sturgeon. The roe is exported to France und used there ns a ground-bait in the sardine fishery. The Norwegians give the head, with marine plants, te their cows, for the purpose of prodncing s greater proportion of milk; and the Icelanders give the vartebrw, ribs mid bones to their cattle. There is no other fish so useful to man as the cod. The convicts at the Joliet, 111., Peni tentiary average days wages of 55 cents each, making segars. I lie Agrieiilliiral burrrilla. < My neighbor, Ham. tUiuiJaun, tins sold but and i* going Weat, 1 here lout b i n a plain, holiest, industrious Ot-flnnii—- I lutis LoiU'iistciti---banging around Simpson for some tiun- try ing to pur ■ chase his farm. At lust Hsu* got it. Simpson thinks he sold it at a bargain. I hiubtlcsH Hans thinks he got it ut a bargain. I had an errand down to Simpson's the other night. 1 lia>l not heard that he had sold lus farm; but upon inv entrance nt> tlie house, 1 saw by tlie look on the faces f the family tli it some unusual excitement wus out lliat'lllg tlielU. " Well, Crumple, you're going to lose me for a ueigltlHir," wn* HIIIII*OII'S lirst words after 1 had got settled ill the spiut-lsittoißed elintr his daughter Sal ly handed me; and the whole Simpson fsrnily lisiked ut me us if they otp-oU-d 1 would jump out of that clour on ac count of the news, with n auddrmie-s and force only equaled by on cxplosiou of nitro glycerine uuihr tuc. Hut 1 did * not. I siuiplv naked, "How's that*" "I've sold.' " Hold what ? Hie farm." "To whom?" "Huns." That was the whole atorv. 1 didn't licol any further explanation; but HHIIJIHOII pro ceeded I* any: " You *•> the 01.l farm is eompleb run out. 1 can't make the twe end* uieet the lieat of year*. I've got tired ' of tumbling orontid the stones, ami I'm ' going where there's some virgin soil that will produce something. So 1 struek nj a trade with Hans, lh-has l>eeii after it, off and on, for a year or more. I wasted per orre for the old place. He offered me $25. Finally lie offered uie S9O; and after oonaideriiig the subject I told him 1 would take it if he would pay me cash down. Hadn't OUT idea he would do it; but he said if 1 would throw in the stock and farm im plements lie thought he could nose the money. 1 Anally told him 1 would; and what do you think. Sir! He luuiled out of his greasy old ) units pocket u sl,(**t bill aud handed it to me to bind the bargain, and aaid as soon as the popus were receipted he'd pay me the balance, which he has done to-day. I feel kind <' sorry to part with the old place; but the thing is done, and there's an eud on it! What d'ye think? All this tune my Crumjile nature had lieeu rising within rue like an inspira tion. Here was this man Kiiupsou who inherited this farm, one of the finest iu the m-ightiorhood, who had skinned it without scruple until it wonld scarcely raise white under his system of treatment. And he lliwl got to leave, or mortgage the farm of hi ancestors, to live on! Thwti here was Hntis, who enine into thi neighlMirhood with In* lot of little one* and hi* frnu five rear* before, with oulr hi* ami hi* frnu'* Mroitg il willing I. ami*. economy and industry. They had rented a worn-out farui which thev had Anally purchased and paid for, and aaved $3,000 with which to pay for Simpson's lit) acre*. H<> in uti>< r to •' What d'ye think ?" I was ready to rea|M>nd ; and I did in thi* wise. "What do I think ? I'm glad you're going, neipldxir Simpson ! I'm jflad liana ha* gut the farm. l(t< drwrvi • the farm; you don't. He ha* pot hrnina and indtiatry ; you haveu't pot either. Under your management the farm i a diaprace to the iirig!it*>rhood. Han* will make it a credit Your farm lying nett to mine, depreciate* the value of inv land 10 per cent. 1 shall IK- Use richer for your going. 1 am phul you are going. You should have acan Simpson's and hi* family'* face*. Thev grew cloudy aiul long. Simpson *; id : "You re pretty rough on au old neigh lnr, Crumple, now that he'* going. 1 thought von and 1 had alway* |v u friend*. Vve tried to lie a g**t and ac commodating neighbor. You've been a ge* *1 one to me, and I'm aorrv to leave von ; but if you are glad I m going, Via not aorry either, " Simpson," I aaid. " let na undendand each other. A* a neighbor, *o far a* neighborly intercourse i* concerned. I've no fault to find, and am *<>rry you arc going. In talking almst you a# a farmer—you are and alwaya have been a ]MM>r one. No man with anch a farm a* youra ought to want to coll-.-at least there ought to lie no mwity for *>•!- i ling. But you are not a fanner. Yon haven't got a aingle quality eaaaentinl to make a gol fanner. 11l the flrat place, von d"'U-*t the liiiaine**: TOO don't take iuiv pride or interest in it; yon don't care whether your land improve* tinder cultivation or not; yon want to get till off it yon can without taking the trouble to pay anything bark ; you skin it year after year, and cry out against the *< a son*: von denounce every mau van deal with aa a sharper or swindler ba caiise yon do not get the price* for your product* other ix-ople do ; and vet yon do not seem to know that the reason is that your product* are poor in quality and put on the market in miserable *hn|>e ; your shirk has been running down ever since your father died : you I haven't built a new fence and acarcely repaired an old one ; your manure ha* not lieen hauled out and judiciously used on the farm ; your pigs have lath ered TOUT neighbor* more than they have lienented yon : vonr cattle have become brenehy, anil I have had ta shut them up in ray stables in order to keep tliem ; out of mv grain ; you have distributed from your fence comer* more weeds than nay farmer I know of, and thus given yoiir tidy neighbors more trouble than your favors to them would compensate. ' tii short, it i* time for yon to move. ••Yen ought to have a virgin farm ! It will take yon but a few years to stripit 1 of its fertility ; then you'll have to move again, and keep moving. Yon belong to a very large class of farmers who are a curse to any country- The fact is you nre not, never was. uml never will If a farmer in the right sense of that word. Yon are only a guerrilla. You live by robbery—robbery of the soil. And it is not right, neighbor Simpson ! Yon I had lietter seek some other Veeation now that you've got the "ash to start with. Yon like horses ; joti know homes ; yon ' ean talk horse from daylight till dark \ you can,t be foiled with horses; yon like to trade horses ; you hail better gi into some smart town and start a livrri stable. You'll make money at it ; yon'l never making any money farming; yon'l grow poorer and ponrer the longer vol j attempt it." Just then Sally Simpson elapped hei hands and said: "That's so. father Haven't I told you so ? Mather and 1 : have often talked it over ! Mr. Chnp pie, ami you are just as right as eon be • and father knew* it too, if he wouldonb | say so. 1 know you toowaH (anil yon'vi ! done us too many kindnesses for us eve: to forget them), to believe fliat vou kv< talked to father in the way yon have nu of any unkind feeling, ft t's true, ever word of it, father, nml you ought t< thank neighbor for talking just as In thinks; I do; and 1 den't think n hi II the less of him, either!" Then Sally burst into tears, and Mrs i Simpson drew a long breath and sighei in away that indorsed all Sally hni i snid ; and Simpson got up and earn ► i over to me and said : " Crumple, 1 <h ; j believe yonr right; I only wish you hoi • | talked to me in that Btyle ten vonr I | sooner. It shan't make a bit of differ • i enee in our good feeling toward oiiei ! other, old fellow ; and I'll never forge how yon once saved my boy— - | " 'twere, rttere ! Simpson ! enough fl i I that. It's all right. If I ean do any | thing for you before you go, let m know," and he shook my hand with a Mining grip us 1 passed ant ut the hack door. The Sandwich Islands- The uativea of the islauds number oulv about HU.Utin, u'.ul the white atsiut 3,000 chiefly Aittrrifkns. According tv ('apt. Cook, the natives numb- red AflO,- Oi*l, leas than a huudre<l years ago. Hut the traders brought labor aiut fancy di sease* iu oilier words, long, delltier• ate, infallible destruction. For nearly a century the native* have been keeping up a ratio of nlMiilt three birth* to five destlis, and yon 'an see what that must result in. No doubt in fifty years a Kanaka will be a curiosity in his own land, ami as an investment will lie su p rior to s circus. 1 tun truly sorry tliat the** jwople are dying out, for they are aliout the most interesting oarage* in existruoe, ThelV language is soft and musieal, it has not a hissing sound in it, and all their wonls end with a vowel. They would call dun Fink Jimmi tMcki, for thev will even do violence to a proper name if it grates two harshly iu its ua j lursl slate. These p ojdc used to go naked, but the missionaries broke that up ; iu the towns the men wear clothing now, and in the country a plug hat and breeeh-elont. Nothing but religion ami education could have wrought these mliitiruble changes. The women wear a single loose esilioo gown, that falls without a break from ueak to heela. These usitveA are the simplest, the j kiiideat-hewrb'd. tlie mwst uiioelflsh creatures that bear the image of tlie Maker. Wlu-re white iuflnmee ha* not' changed them, thev wrifl make any rhaiiee stranger welcome, and divide their all with him a trait wiueft has never yet lieeu found to exist amongauy other pvople. They live otilv for to day ; tomorrow is a thing Uiat does tmnlile them at all. I had a native Imy u> air employ iu Homdulu. a graduate of a missionary college; and he divided his time between translating the Greek Testament and taking aare of a horse of mine, Whenever this boy could collect ; his wages, he would go and lay out the eptire amount, all the way np m>m fifty ' cents to *a dollar, in poi (which ut a jaiste made of the tor" ot, aud is the national dishi, and call in all the native ragamuffins that came along to help bin) j est it. And there in the rich gnuis, uu der the tamarind trees, the gentle aav- ( ages would ait and gorge thenwl ves, till it was all gone. Sly bov would go J hungry and contented for a day or two, and then sonic Kanaka whom he had * probably never seen before, would iu- j vite him to a similar feast, and give him a fresh start. . _ I Plying F***. The /'<if/ JA/tf (<a:rttr thinks it t* j wortii the oonxidemtjon of those ulio ar* wearied of the usual British sp.™*. *nch as hunting, shooting, fbihing. pigeon, and the like, whciln-r a new and pleasing excitement might not be found by the introducttoo of fiymg foxes into I England, ami in chasing them in bal lo> m*. From an account given by tin* JUitytU Ttint * of s tame flying fox kept bv a gentleman in that district, it seems that these animals sro qnite intelligent enongh to enter into the fttti of being liuntcd. but at thcaame Urn* an snnsble that they would Iw unlikely to turn and rend their pursuer* The flying fox mentioned by the J'ntt't, upend* much of the day on * piece of stick hung up in a room. He can turn somrrsstilts, and js-rform other tricks, but strongly objects to any one resiling in his )roa ence, and dives all he can to prevent rt by flvtnp to the jx-rwon tliu* employed and crawling on the l*K>k. He will an swer to hi* name when called by his owner, but is alwara suaptetous of sUauger*, living U them st one- and smelling thmn all over. He never bHea, though blessed with a formidable set of til th. When balheil, he ttae* his w-jng* as a towel. He is extremely rosthMw, hi* head and ears never being still, and his sense of smell, a* well aa of hearing seems verv scut.-. He never show- any desire to fly aw*y, though he eon I<l do s> if he hked st any moment. At uigbt he sometimes utters load cries, when lie is immediately visited hr a troop of friend* and aequßintanees—no many, m deed. attending the summons, that the whole verandah is festooned with flying foxes. The I'rlnce Imperial. The voQDK Prince N|K>lsin Knp-w Louis J rat; Joseph w Wm on the 1 "ilb of March. JSfW, and i* therefore on of the late Ex-Einperor of the French iw drowing toward tho completion nf hie seventeenth yosr. If WM intended that ho should ww*f a military ednestiou. and while Mill an infant was placed in tho muster mil <f the French Imperial Gnardmiaa privnte. It was deumrdj as a compliment- to tho army that ho should at least inmibmlly go through all tlio gradations of tho aorvieo. He sides receiving a military adu oution he received hysons in two or lime handicrafts, the last of which was the sotting up of types in the imperial printing office of* Paris. Tho veung Prince nlwavs twins tho reputation of toing intelligent, good tempered and very much at tacked to hia friends and chosen companion*. Tho late ex-Emperor was a most par ticular and thoroughly practical render in his way, would not allow his selling aooeiiluntisn, or pointing to ba inter forrod with in tho least, A compositor, who was employed in tho connection of some of tho Emperor's slips of n work ho had ill protresa, communicated some facts of interest. Ho said the voting prince was a capital compositor, that he liud IV case of the beat mahoganv oases, a small imposing surface of slate, and the prettiest little press in the w*rld. QARDEMKO M THE EVKXINU or LtrK.--A writer hi Th< Onmhttt Vaj/artoe rc©om | mend* to one in the nntumn of hi* life, to take to gardening, if he hn* not al , ready experienced it* pleasure*. Of AII oceupafion* in the world, it in tlie one which boot combines repose ami activi ty. It in not idleness; it in not stagna tion; and yet it is iwrfrt quiltwk. i Like all thing* mortal it ha* its failure* j and it* disappointment*. and there are < aome thing* nanl to understand. But ; it i* never without it* reward*, and per- ' hnp* if there were nothing hut success ful cultivation, the aggregateenjoyment would l>e lea*. It in letter for the <x msional shadow* that come over the eoene. The discipline, too, is most salu tary. It trie* our patience and it trie* our faith. But even in the worwt of aeaaon*, there i* far more to reward and encourage than to dishearten and din appoint. There in no day in the year without something to afford tranquil pleaaure to the cultivator of flower*, something on which the mind may rent with profit, and delight. TAKTNO rr Lnr.nAi.nr.—ln all policies of life insurance, these among a hptft of other qnestiona ooour : " Age of father, if living ?" " Age of mother, if living ?" A man in the country, who filled np an application, made hii* faMier's age, if living, 120 years, and his mother's 108. The agent was aiunaed at this showing, and fancied he had got an excellent subject ; but, feelingsomewhat dubious, rem nrked that the mini came of a very long-lived family. " Oh, you see, sir," replied the applicant, "niv parents died many years ago, hut, *if living,' would be liged as there put down." "Oh, I <eee," said the ngeut. .fitl' Term*: 04.00 Vear, in Advance. Hying In Exile. Tlie "Man of Ilecember" having gone out with the snow of January, ft will set ptsiple thinking about those "beat laid pbuia of mice aud men" whioh "gang aft a-gley.*' Rovalty in France, since He Launy surrendered the Hastile to the mub, has Iwwn very uufortuuute. Indeed, since that day French kingu aud emperors have doue well to provide place* for themselves on foreign shores, where thsy might die iu peace in oaae of accident to the machine of govern ment. Th fpUi of Limit XVI, furnished thrm with a proper incentive to thin course ; fur king* aa will aa omnia oner* 11'itu tirri&rn h good den! to bo pared Ivurwomil acquaintance with the (judlo itie. Louis XVI, indeed, onoc tried to • ik'hjh* from Prance in diagutoe. Ho made otio night's journey from Paris in • a coach, but waa r-i-oguixeil and arrest ed at Varcuut-a. Jie wanted to die in exile; but tbcv brought him back a primmer, to die a roar and a hall after on the scaffold. The people (fazed n the captive Kin# iu lilnw, which muat have been Tory difficult to Frenchmen, j Hut there waa a reason Placard* were pouted everywhere with the laconic in scnptiou— Whoeot-ver applauds the km# all all be whipped ; whosoever in* vulU the King alia 11 be hanged." The obliterating wave of the revolution soon flung one man on the rock of jiower, ' who had the alnliLv to stay there until the atorm aultaiued, and who (lien ruled the new Prance after the deluge with the cold iron of hia will and the , glittering ateel of hia military gwitua. Ilie citizen (Vtnaul la-came the citizen Emperor, ami Ntpohoa Bonaparte, , adored by the French, ami hated and feared by all else, waa the arbiter of Europe. Then came the decadence. France could nut fight all Europe for i ever. Knocked out of time in < ll , Napoleon waa aeut in exile to Elba, Again he roae to try conclusion*. Wa -1 terloo waa the place where the laat round was fought, and the aound of the great gladiator's fall awoke an echo which reverberated aa far aa the rock iof St. Helena. There it died out, and Napoleon I. died an exile along with it. Tin* u No. 1 Here we may look back to the hue direct The aon of Louis ( XVJ, like hia father, would not be per- i mitted to die in exile, ae the mor Pan- i phin, the phantom Louis X\II, lis ap|>eara from pnaon or die* there in 1786—blotted out anyhow. The aon of the Conueau, the young, sickly King of ItuiiK*, i* UkkiU to Viouui flitfjr W lU?r* liki, ia made a phantom Duke, and piuea and diea in exile in the gloom of Hchon brnnn. * Thia ia No. 2. la>ui XV 111, who mme into France when Napoleon went to Elba, in 1814, ran into exile again for one hundred day*, when Napoleon rrltirtied again iu 1815, an 1 th wayward fates, on account of this thorough scare, allowed him to die in France in 1824. He waa the only French monarch of the eentnrr who got the chance, and he availed himself of it Charles X, who aneeeeded hi* brother, •jfjot sent luting after the glorions days id July, iu HSkt. He went u> Holyrood. in Scotland; then to the Caatle of , Hradchin, in lVagtie, and then to (biritx, far away in iHrri*. where he died, in peace and piety, in 183*1. This m No. U. All this while "pear-headed" Louis Philippe, the wUzen King, waa ! working lu# way along to IK4B in his ihUI which has made him in his I zenith and his eclipse slwar* seem s flgarp. Th* tcat ISW waa • 1 -baking-op tiro.- all over Enrope, and when the fvarrieade# were shaken up in ■ Paria, he found that hia crown was shaken off hi* head. I*l that his iM-sd did not follow the rrowu, he fled, axl another of the "smiintcd wss ad d.-d to the list of thdic sovereigns whose light urn* snnflVd oat in exile. Thiw is Nd. 4 He dud quieilv st Claremont, in England, in HKW, alamt twenty milea I from ObiMtknwt, where Napoleon 111 , died, in pain and exile, yesterday morn ing. This is No. & The two mes who Wore th<'ir kingly or imperial crowns for almnt eighteen years each hail many experieners in common, earlybardshipa, 1 later luek anil final disaster. We cam, thewrfore, count up five mon arrlnral wrecks from France alone in this nmoU* ntli iSZlltil f —three Nsjne h-oua, (*tie liourKm. aiut one Orleauist. Who shall Ive the next? (h.vcrnment hr the tveople i* denounced by raonarcb ia't and imperialist alike as unsafe; pi or eminent by the annotated seems, however it may be for the people, rather unsafe for tlie kings. < arlyle celebrates the First Na(*ileon's "whiff of grapc sbot;" Hugo fells us of the Tlijrd Na poleon'r roup if rtat. Were Waterloo and Sedan. St. Helena and Chiiw-lhurst, mcr- ly result* f these two event*, it m.vv b<- fair to ask 2 We con only point to the sueeesaion of events and leave the question to Providence. We can be sure, however, that the sardonic spirit of history is just now counting tin one hand (tie name* of tlie five French crowned heads that elided their uneasiness in exile. "Then happy low lie down."—A". J". //- mtii. Reflection*. Though the days are lengthening. ■ and the ran is returning, and the nm- ! mor joy afar off is advancing, still the ; cold of winter is yet to come. The | groat imttlirr of storms sing* in tho north; snows an yet to l>c piled and drifted; hitter days are yet ta come; j the whole weight of winter is due after | the days liegin to lengthen: frosts will j gripe the ground, and not let go: hut j under the atorraa, through the anows, tieuoath the cold, under all the winter. ! is nevertheless, the silent deliverance j which is surely coming. You cannot I vet nM< the effects; no flower blossoms, | "no hud swells, ns dew softly speaks to you: yet along the early and late hori koii ia'a circle of eresent light girding the earth, and as snro ns God's decree it is bringing summer with it. and every day nearer. Therefore let those who mourn in harsh troubles, and are over whelmed in storms of adversity, know that, though winter yet lowers, the great eauseof their troubles may have changed long ago. Let these who are in sorrow : mucin Iter that, as the year goes on storming and thundering, deliverance ' may be coming, though they see it not, Yoiir days may woar more gold in the morning* and more at night, though the midday is full of snow. Nor does relief i ramie to ns at once when we repent and i turn to (b>d. God may be gracious, though he comes to ns robed in dark < ness and clothed with storms. It is a journey of release teward tho spring, when winter ia coldest and darkest I Read the year by faith and not by sight " TOXINS" TO* N KRVEH. — An interest ing discovery has, it is stated, been mode lately 6y an Italian. He has hit 1 upon a method by which nerves may l>c ' turned like harp-strings, and brought in ito harmony with each other. His theory i is that nervous systems, like musical ' instruments, are all liable to chum e of i tone, and this change is of little ini.<ort t snce if all tlie nerves change togethi r, as ' bv attention to diet and temperature the , evil may be corrected rn mnwt, but when, owing to accident or uneven wenr, , i the general harmony ef the nerves is de ' j stroyed, a disconnected notion is the re ' suit, oiul a special mode of treatment is I requited, of which he professes to pos- I | sesi the key. He calls himself a "nerve [ ■ tu'ier," and contracts to keek nerves in l order by the month or year. .A.4. re7;n4 w <*- Texas Cattle. The man owning a Urge stock of amir tie in Texas, **v the President of the Western Texas "Htock 1 taming Aseori*- | tion, conducts hi. bwinaw diftwotly, though like their mark* and brand*, no two manage exactly the Mine war. The extent of counter over which tueir oat tie range depends upon the aire of the •took ; one of 75,000 head would range | in moat cases over an area of country fifty miles wide and one hundred miles long, though tune may always be found u-v<>ud the limits. Sfo*t of our large stock-raiser*, an they sell their beeves, invest their surplus money in other stocks of eetile rontiguouu to. or within their rsnge, and much depends upon these purchases us to the se or shape of the Territory. They slwsys have a central ranch at which they keep s j sufficient numlier of brood-moras to supply all demands (for horses. This plsoe" is known s* " hesd-oasrtew ; M they generally he** otherer sub-machos, id which they keep two or more men, •toing whst theyesu in driving up, mark ing sud branding young stock, gsther : ing snd selling beeves, and looking out generally for the of their em ployer. As in the other caee, nothing ; ts done during the winter month* with the cattle, except to get up and aU the j beeves to supply the home demand, the imcking houses on the coast, and the ' New Orleans market. When the spring opens, and the gnsa ia snfflcieutly high Ui support his bones at labor, the stork - raiser employs his hands, gets up his homes, snd prepares for operation*. Twenty-five men ere shout as many ss | can work to an advantage in one gang, ' and for this number, one large fwur- 1 mule wagon, laden with provisions, rsmp-eqipege, s verv little baggage, snd about one hundred horses, make up the "outfit." Of course the osttle about the central rsneho are tint gath • red in, marked snd branded, and as many of the c-slves kept in the pen ss is desirable ; the large stock-raiser, or s number combined, having * series of jiens located with s view to permanent j water throughout his range. The party, j thus equipped snd provisioned, eatsb-1 liah their first camp at one of theee , pens, and the busiaees df the season ia considered fairly commenced. Th< wagon, snd one tiisn to cook, being si- j ways kept at the camp, another with j the assistance of s " bell-mare " keeps | the extra horses under herd, while the ; balance of the party ride over the coun try, in every direction, and drive up all! the oows with young rslvea belonging to their employer. If it is the wish of - the ewner to gather beeves at the aam ' time, they are driven along with the cowa, kept in the same pen at night, and herded during the day. The calve* | ore generally branded in the morning : snd turned * out with the oows, snd ■ nothing more is ever done to them un til the mole portion are of sufficient age to gather and sell for beeves. I men tion this that my readers may estimate for them**! TO* the oust of raising s bed upon the prairies of Texas. The beeves which are being gathered, are kept in bond until the drove is suf ficiently large, *ay eight hundred to a J thousand herd, when they are turned , aver to the speculator, and the proprie tor receives from twelve to fifteen then-, sand dolhira in gold, and immediately commences the gathering of another drove. _____ A M ITr. Paper-hanging* for wall* are known to everybody. Uis now proponed to use haugingsmsde of metal; and an aoeount of this new invent ion, which comes to us from Puu, ban t<*n nwd before the Soeietv of Arts. Tb metal empleved is tinfoil, in sheets about sixteen £<**t long, sod from thirty to forty indies wide. The sheets are painted, and dried at a high temperature, and are then dec orated with many different patterns, sueh ss foliage, flower*, geometrical fig ures, imitation* of wood, or landscape*. When decorated, the sheets are var nished. and again dried, and are then readv for sale. Tinfoil is in itself nat urally tough; and the ooats laid upon it iu preparing it for the market increase the toughness. The hanging of these metallic sheet* is similar to paper-hanging, except that the wall is varnished with a weak kind of varnish, sad the sheet applied there to. Thus in this ways room or a house may he newly painted, without any smell of paint to annoy or harm the in mates. Moreover, the tinfoil keeps out damp; and ss the varnish is a damp resister, the protection to the room w two-fold. Experience has shown, also, that cornices, mouldings, and irregular surfaces may be covered with the tin foil aa readily a* a fist surface; hence there is no part of a dwelling-house or publie building whieh mar not be dec orated with these new sheets; and, as regards style and finish, all who sawthe siieeimens exhibited at the reading of the paper were made aware that the highest artistic effects eould be achieved at pleasure. The Chinese Sew Year. Of all the world, the deapiaed, the j ignorant, and the old-fashioned heathen i Chinee has adopted, says an exchange, among much of what seems to u child- j ish absurdity, the most enlightened i custom that" ever blessed humanity. Other people settle their accounts at the vear's end; so does the Cliiiuunaa. 'Other*, variously according to their various conditions, kick tip their heels iu joy; if the Chinaman kicks more ob streperously than we do we can afford to tainton him because he is only a poor heathen. He bums paper money and joss-sticks liefore senseless stocks and italics; he lets off firecracker* innu merable. and rejoices to be hid in a cloud of gunpowder smoke; he drinks —and whose fault is that, we wonder— too much of Mclican man's bad whisky out in California, and thapolice do fol low him. But if a poor Cuinaman can not pay his debts—from time immemorial while ire have been building and pulling down our debtors' prisons, establishing and breaking bankruptcy laws, ana committing divers tfiher civilised follips to secure each of us in his rights of property—the depraved Celestial has forgiven his debtors every New Year's eve. and started again with cleaned balance-sheets. In the mother country, however, it is deemed so disgraceful for s Chinaman to be nnable to square ac counts at the year's end that the high spirited debtor frequently ends his woes by suicide. It is noticeable that this barbarous and heathen practice fades rapidly on eur Western coast in the light of the grand American civilization. To RXHOVK BPOTS rnou Canrrrs.— Mix well half an ox's gall with one quart of water; wet and rub the spot with this. Then with a clean scnib hing-brush, warm water and soap scrub well the spot, and wet and half wring a clean floorcloth in clean cold water, and rub well out the soap and gall from the carpet; rub the spot with a dry coarse cloth until it is nearly dry, then pin a thin brown paper over the spot, to pre | vent dust from settling on it while wet, iuid leave it to beoome perfectly dry. j If the spot occurs near the side or end of the carpet, undo a few taoks and slip under tho spot a thickly-folded coarse towel, to absorb the water which runs through and to preveut the wet carpet from lying in the dust; after ■ washing the spot, remove the folded ! doth and slip in & place a piece of brown paper, whioTleave till the ear l-pet is perfectly dry. Ftoto —i .Isaolte \ * Austria wants an mti iiiMMiJiMtt thai of Prussia. The total number of snkß^Vwat Isft Liverpool during the ymiW f<* America was |M,O<M. There are In the" Moose chnsetts Stale of whom 3U are Utidar thirty jeers of age. " m Mr*. Dr. Bextletfc, **togat#u, Miss., raised en two acres ' worth four eantp ipouM, or 1300. he "Lucy Faroaoa." at Pittobgrg is lb* largest in the Doited produce* about 580 tons of ply ifos, annually. " . "** " An lowa man bought a chair of 0 dol lar store the other day, ®&d bafo| night ka fall through tho same and bra*** couple of hie.ribs. The oonfeasee to being a ! little astoniehed to eee " how patiopi- ( sing A# new school of eoepudu selsnee is to the Almighty. H j The D. 8. PosUoffloe Department has 1 1 decided that neither firms, families. or aompanies can combine to. rstitasid use the same post-offioe box. . „ A great draught exists lg Northern Wisoonsinr, where the forests srrso dry that fears of another great Sanfisgration I ara entertained- The * dry. ' . Dyspepsia btokd is mode with three quarts unbolted wbeotmoal, one quart lukewarm water, one gill of freek one gill of molasses, one taasjoanfol of seJenhee Daring the first nine months off lI7J England mode sway with gallon* of epirita—l,lfiß,gt9 gallons more than she drank during the oorras ponding time in 1871. Over seven thousand ksngorog hides have been worked up into en* ooots fot the young men of Ban Pranoiseo. They Kftj 4 to SMI th* patoat Irnmm* m s drees boot for hops. • I wish yon would pay a little ettea ! tion to what I am saying. **i" ro **® on into lawyer at on exoopersting wit new. " Well. lem paying aslittta ee , I con," was the calm reply. The vein best way to clean a stained steel knife ia to cut a solid potato to two, dip one of the pieces in brmk dual, such ee ia usually used for knife-mean ing, and rub the blade with it. Those who believe nothing eftoag siske other* belieye most; as the best actors in our theatres are those who re ; tain the most perfect command ever their feelings, voice snd countenance. Tea Biscuit are made by working into a place of light dough or cresm torts* biscuit one oggond a pit®* of butter Roll it out as inch thick, cut it www with the lid of • dredge-box, snd boko. According to* St. Paal paper, noses, ears and fingers, which have bean tores en off while to a froren and crisp con dition. jusy be picked up to lsig# titles from the id#wslk* of that frosty city. NO. 5. Than ere now published in fkfP"**®** Bt*u 8,482 periodic*!*, ef h® hPJ are > Mined daily, 105 tri-weekly, I*® mi.wwWy. wy. ly, 91 semimonthly, OS? monthly, 4 re monthly, and 56 quartefiy. A mrral pet ha* a lady of Conn, in tb® shape ol • butterfly. wMeb nestles in hr hand, efcgbte upon ha* •boulder or hair, or, byway ol variety, hide® in the knot of ribbon at hm throat, waen be fsels like a nap. Fort Ontario, Oawagjo. K- ¥., i >* charare of a sergeant and three privates. The other day the aeargeant mt one of the men into the gusrd-boase, set another to guarding Him, and put the remaining ono in charge of the flrt Two men exert themadeaa to no pur •joae one is the man who trie® to hare the but word with his wile: and the >ther is be who, having had the lar word, tries to totke to ooaJin thai hui I is in the wrong. A French chemist baa devised a new form under which raw heel may b ad ministered without being disagreeable to either taste or stnelL It consists of the lean meat chopped find*, and cut j in an air current aim pulverised. The wife ola railroad empkge in Ah ! J ant* thrashed a barkeeper lor aellmf Sum whiskey, treated the master of the p4hii shops to a similar oom for giving him money, and took the inbn ated ihdividoal borne by one of Ma earn. The Chicago Tribune hayine boasted that one of its earners has fallen heir to ?ir.,o(Krooa, the tottivilte tW Journal sare that if one of their earns, ihould pav the alighteet attentmn to ee con tejnptabie a bequest, they would die ! charge him on the spot. Mrs. Imogen Brown has been engaged to sing forenoon and afternoon on Sun days at fit Bartholomew's Church, Sew York, at €3,000 a ream In tha evening she is to *mg in Christ Church for another SI,OOB, thus realising from her beautiful voice and culture about SBO a Sunday. A divorce baa recently been granted to a Hi; dostan woman for the arngu : lar reason that her huab*bd nninten tionally exercised crrrr her such anorer powering en amerie influence tt at when ever she waa in his presence aha i®m** .1 lately fe 1 int a sleep from whiah there "was no waking her. Two doctors met, when una arid. " Hare yon heard bow our friend Dr. Wilson is?" "He died yesterday, re plied the other. "Howl" cned the nrst; I did not think ha was so ill aa that." " What could you expect T amd the other, in a tone of disgust "He trusted to his own trestsosnt. A ayetem of oondemrej gardening fnr ' ladies— Make your bed in the morning ; : sew buttons cm your husband's ahirtj; do not rake any grievances; protect the Toung sod teoaer branches of jour family; plant a entile of good temper ■ on Tour face, and oarefuTiy root oql all angry feelings, and expect a good crop | of happinea*. j P. .returned home a borrowed hoi a* to the owner with a note, saying, " I re turn bv the bearer, your Horse. Ton nee I spell him with a capital H because he-atarte off so capitefly;*'and he re ceived in reply this: " HorsF, all right; I apU him with a capital E because, however capital he may etartoff, be oomce to a atop with the greatest ease. The Vermont Legislature jpaased an act at it* recent session to prevent trie careless use of firearms. The first aec tion reads aa follows: "Any person who shall intentionally, without malice, point or aim any firearm® at or toward anv other person, shall be guilty of e misdemeanor, and shall be ebbject to a fine of not more than fifty dollar* and not lees than fire dollar*.' The wool product of the entire world, or rather that which flnda ite way into commerce, amount* to about 1,K13,3w,- 000 pounds. Asia, including Boasts in Asia, produces 320,000,000 jwaig Great Britain and Ireland, 260,000,000 pounds; Germanv, the Netherlands and Belgium, 198.000,000 pounds: the Uni ted States. 110,000,000 pounds; Austra lia, 130,000,000 pounds, to. The officer# of the Masonic bodies of Omaha, Neb., warn the FratenWv add tha public against a uchema ' under the name of " A Grand Cfiit Coa -1 cert for the purpose of aiding a board ' of trustees to erect a Masonic Temple ' a t Omaha," and state that it it earned on without the sanction or consent of any of the Masonic bodies of that eity j or State ;*and that lotteries and gift en ■ tennises are oontrary to the pnnaiplaa . of Masonry. • -J—t nt T.nnasdicr /- A correspondent of the UMWi" r quinr from Mtftic township, gives w account of s dream which happ<*edto a young muned woman in that township, a short time since: " A married ladjs residing in an adjoining township, who has been afflicted for two WSWB with I cancer, and had been tnted b^minent physicians without obtain::>g leuef, dreamed that a stranger cam% to the i house and gave her some medktne, with ! directions, which he said woni# effeo tually cure her. Neat day on, going t a the door and looking out she saw- pe identical man of her dream approaching 1 the house. He offered her ajytle of medicine to cure her canoer.- 'BitJtook it and followed Wnoirection*tial no * . nearly we*." . A
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