The Journey of Idfc.
Psnssth the waning moon I walk M night,
And nmss on human Ufa. for all around
Arw dim. uncertain shape* thai chest tha night.
And pitfalls lurk in ahada along tha grooud,
And broken gleams of brightness, hara and
tliara.
Glance through, and leave nnwarmad tha death-
Uka air.
Tha trampled earth raturna a ccund of fa ,
A hollow aound, aa if 1 walked on tomba ;
And light*. Uiat tell of chaerfu) homaa. appear
Far off. and die like ho]<e amid Uta glooms.
A mournful wind acroaa the landscape 01 aa.
And the wide atmoa|diart i full of sighs.
And I, with faltering foot*tape Jotimey on.
Watching tha stare that roll the hours away.
Till tha faitr. light that guides me now ia goua.
And, like another life, Uia glorious day
Shall opeu oar me from tha empyreal height.
With warmth, and ocrtauity, aud bouudlons
light. --BBTAXT.
A Woman's Dream.
" Wilt Uimt begin thy hfe again
0 woman of the whitening hair ?
Berome a child, with shining train
Of angel children ia the air ,*
Wilt feel thy mother's kisses press;
Thou cradled warmly at her feet ?"
'* What ?- tlnd my vanished Hden ? Ye*.
Ah ree. my (h>J! It was so sweet!"
Wilt then in blissful faith reetune
Thy sire's feud shelter aa at old.
While, breathing innocent perfume.
The w lute flowers of thy heart unfold?
Hack U thy venial happiness
Fly like a bird on ptnious fleet f"
" Might but that joy continue - yes.
Ah yss, my God 1 It was so sweet 1"
" Wilt thou nnlesni thy sorry km.
Ami slyly peep life's leaves between.
And. feeding ycuugeel hopes cnoo more.
Forges the winters thou hast seen
The dauued tanks, the dove of peace.
The m wrung freshness round thy track;
Shalt these return " "My tied, ah yes 1
Ah but the wayside graue give ta.k!"
" Have, thsn. thy I ih' Thy step* terrace!
Flowers. |x-rfuuw>, song, he thine once more
Yet shah tune lead thee to lue place
t>f toxr* as surely as lebwe.
Rekindle jvuwuon'a fires and view
Their ever baleful radiance !"
" What, light th.ee earth-born dames anew ?
Ah. no. ay Se* ;ot! Take me hence 1"
The IlushandN Lesson.
'"The clock key," said Mrs. Farquhar
pressing her hand to her bewildered
oiow. "Well, I declare I can't exactlv
remember what I did with it"
" Tiiat is singular; verv singular, in
deed ! oracularly observed her husband
a fussy, bald headed little man. " And
how am I to wind the clock without a
key, 1 d like to know? I never forgot
Mrs Farqnhar. Did you ever know
me to forgot? And the long and the
short of the matter is, that I shall have
to bar a new clock key—a new dock
key, Mrs. Farquhar, just at this Uu*\of
all others, wh ?u oar expenses are so
o-ver-whelm-ing."
" A man with a wife and six children
cannot ex peat to live for nothing," said
Mrs. Farqnhar composedly. •Starch,
soap, candles, flannel— *
" Vea, yes—exactly so," said Mr. Far
qnhar. * But I hare no time to argue
the matter this morning-"'
_ '"And if you had," mercilessly per
sisted Mrs. I arquhar, "vou might argue
from now until doomsday without al
tering the state of affairs. Here is TOUT
hat, my dear : and don't forget the
Kiregor e, and Willie's shoes; and
arrvV nat, and the plumber's bill."
The ong business day lapsed slowly
away, and Mr. Farquhar returned home
just as the gray shadows of dusk wore
closing in, greatly rejoicing.
"Fifty dollars clear gam," said he,
robbing his palms together as he sat
down by the tea table. " Jones bor
rowed it of me a month ago, and when
I heard he had sailed for California I
put it down as a dead loss. Never ex
pected to see or hear from the man
again; and when he turned up to-dav
with a new fifty dollar bill, I give yon
my word it seemed jnat like a present."
" And what are you going to do with
it?" said Mrs. Farquhar, who was fas
tening the baby's bib.
'.'l don't know—l hsven't thought
yet. I might go to Washington with
Allen and Ferguson, and the other fel
lows. "
"kou might," said Mrs. Farquhar
dryly; " and I might have it for a new
cloak. But I think it would be rather
a more sensible way of spending the
money to pay the doctor's bill."
Mr. Farquhar laughed.
'• \\ ell, my dear, I don't know but
tnat you re right, said he, "and I guess
you may go around aud pay it to-mor
row."
The arrival of Master Tommy and
Miss Lizzy, frosh from the nursery,
broke up all further financial dismis
sions, and Mr. Farquhar thrust the bill
uto his vest pocket.
About midnight, Mrs. Farquhar awoke
her hnsb-nd to tell him about the
burglary next door.
"Eh" said Mr. Farquhar, a little un
easily. "A burglary? At Mr. Mor
ris's? And what was taken ?
" Watches—silver clothing—overy
thiug, said Mrs. Farquhar, lowering
her voice to 9 mysterious whisper. "In
the dead of night, while the family were
all asleep. Lemuel, dear, are are you
sure you recollected to bolt the front
door aid pat np the chain?"
"Of course I recollected it," said Mr.
Farquhar a little crosslr. "I make it
WJ business to recollect everything.
Go to sleep, inr dear, and don't fret!"
And just as he was sinking off into a
delicious slumber, Mr. Farquhar be
thought himself of the fifty dollar bill.
" Yes, my vest po he meditated
"just where the t rig scoundrels
would be mest np' •<> iay their bauds
upon it. I wish I had sent to pay the
doctor's bill to-night, instead of'post
poning it until to-morr >w. Halloo,
though; I have it!" as a bright inspira
tion flashed into his drowsy brain.
" Nobody would ever dream of looking
is an old boot; it will be safe there un
til to-morrow, and Til get rid of it as
quick its I can."
Mr. Farquhar went to bod and slept
the sleep of the righteous. And the
next morning, totally oblivious of the
whole proceeding, he arose and put on
his slippers in a beaming mood.
" What's that, Bridget? a beggar at
the door?" he demanded.
"He says he's no shoes, sir, said
Bridget, "an' the toes of him are on
the bare ground entirely."
"Poor fellow! And it's a sharp frostv
morning too," said Mr. Farquhar.
*' Give him my old boots, Bridget. I
was going to have 'em half soled, bnt I
guess this man needs them more than
I do!" -
" Where are they, sir?" said Bridget.
"On the floor, by the bed up stairs,
ltun quick, and don't leave the door
open, Hun, that's a good girl.
The beggar man took the boots and
went on his vaty rejoicing, and just as
Mr. Farquhar was bnttoning his over
coat to depart for the regions of down
down, Mrs. Farquhar entered the room.
" Don't forget to give me that fifty
dollar bill, Lemuel, before you go—for
the doctor you remember."
Mr. Farquhar's hands dropped to his
side—his face turned a dull tallowy
tint.
"The—fifty—dollar—bill," repeated
he mechanically. " Good Heav ens! it's
gone!" ,
"Gone! Gone where?"
Mr. Farquhar made a blind rush at
the door, as if to overtake the beggnr
who had shaken the dust of the thres
hold off his feet two good hours ago, and
then stood still. It was bad enough to
lose the fifty-dollar bill, bnt it was still
worse to be compelled to confess it to
his wife. Yet what loop hole of es
cape was there?
" I've lost it." said he doggedly. " I
put it away, and I forgot all about it!"
Mrs. Farquhar's eyes sparkled mis
chievously.
"I thought you never forgot anything
my deal-," said she.
"I am a fool!" confessed Mr. Farqu
har—" and a conceited fool too! 3ut,"
with a piteous inflection ©hisvoi£e,"l
would like to have paid the doctor's
bill. The times are nard, and— But
never mind. I won't get that newoVer
kt ■■* *
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FHKD. K I* HTZ, Ivlitoraiul Proprietor.
VOL. VI.
coat I was thinking of. Thta cue ia a
little thin, but 1 date *:tv I con make it
do."
"Yea, you will get the new overcoat,
Lemuel, dear," laughed Mr*. Parquhar
producing a alip of crackling hrowu na
pe r from her pocket. "Here'a the llitv
dollar lull."
Mr. Fiuquliar caught at it tike a hun
gry w.ilf at a piece of raw meat.
"Mr dear lloasio, where did vou find
it?"
" Where you put it, my dear- IU tlie
boot. I heard you get up in the uight
and go prowling arouud. 1 perceived
in the tnoming thnt nw hau entirely
forgotten Hie whole transaction, and "l
myself took m ' bill out, befoiw the old
hoots became the |>rey of the beggar.
Hero it is, aud all I have to n*k of you
ia to be a little mora careful next time."
" My dear," mud Mr. Farqultar, "you
are a trump !"
" And now," his wife roguishly ask
ed, " are we quits about the clock
key?"
Mr. Parquhar thought they were.
A French lire Hug.
Iu December a young man of talent
and education wxs guiUotinad tu the
public iqain) of l'aai, France, in the
presence of * great multitude of iteophx,
He to a fire bug, aud duriug Ui# two
or three month* preceding his capture
had lit the skies of all Normandy with
the light of burning villus, farm houses,
luy ricks, and barns. There was noth
ing in his character aud position to at
tract suspicion to him. lie was au as
sistant taller in the Caen branch of the
Bank of France, and was noted for the
deourom and blameleasnssa of his life.
An intrigue with a stock jobber.tho pi
vot of which was that he the (teller,)
should communicate confidently to the
jobber information which his position
in the hank enabled him to acquire, and
share the profit of stock speculation
founded thereon, led ultimately to a
quarrel. After the quarrel the young
man took fire glasses of absinthe, and
when night came set fire to the stock
jobber's villa, destroying it and all its
contents, including the wife and infant
child of the occupant. Although on
the following day, when told of the oc
currence, he manifested more emotion
than a Frenchman usuallv exhibits when
his neighbor's house am) wife burns up
he was no more snspocted of having oc
casioned it than the Emperor or Bishop
Dnponfoup. From this time forward
an incendiarv mania possessed hint.
He resigned bis position nt the bank on
the plea of ill health, and set off on a
leisurely journey through Normandy,
leaving the night skies behind him red
with the glare of tke flames he haul
secretlv kindled. Nobody suspected
him. was an invalid banker, pale,
interesting, well attired with plenty of
money, anil irreproaehablj credentials.
One night a farm laborer, sitting at a
rear window of a farm-house making
love to one of the maids, saw a flicker
of fire at the foot of one of the straw
ricks. He was courting economically in
the dark, and this strange flash, darting
mysteriously on the night,made his girl
scream and his personal stock of hair
stand up like au electrified mop. But
he rushed oat courageously and caught
a man whom he proceeded to pound
with much energy and constancy, at the
same ti ■ • raising an alarm of fire. His
furious 'dlowings immediately assem
bled a'.i the inmates of the farmhouse
as well as the neighbois. They found
their captive to be a well dressed person
with his pockets full of patent matches
and divers ingenious and mysterious
appliances for exciting combustion.
When taken befare the Mai re of Qie
neighboring village the fire bug im
mediately made a frank sud full confes
sion, and' the sequel thereof was,as we
have related, bis execution in the mar
ket place of Caen amid the curse# and
execrations of the citizuis. He had de
stroyed twenty-one houses and fourteen
lives.
lienor Not Sought For
It appears that, when a lady becomes
the wife of a Chinese Emperor, her
family never sets eyes on her again.
She ascends into the cloads almost as
lit*.ally as did the Bayadere who tie
came the -spouse of Bramah. Hence,
the honor of the Imperial alliance is
not coveted, but rather the reverse, by
the great Chines# families ; and, by
conseqnence, a little gentle coercion
becomes necessary. Thus, if the charms
of any special veung beauty are noised
abroad, a vermilion wlietcommands her
appearance at the Palaoe. In the case
of the Emperor who has just been
several times married, seven hundred
lovely girls were thus brought together.
Their attraction* wore carefully inspect
ed by two Empresses #f China, who,
after deep consideration, told off the
fifty moat approved and let the rest go.
The fifty wero then examined with still
greater care, aad, by a similar process
reduced to thirty. A like elimination
brought the number, %r successive
stages, to twenty, ten and finally five ;
and from tdieso the Pearl of Love and
Queen of Beauty, the future Empress,
was solemnly picked out. After so
much labor and trouble the marriage
ought to ho a happy one if it is not
Prompt Change of Mind.
A few days ago, a tall, rough looking
mountaineer entered the Union Rail
road icketoffi#e at Denver, and through
mistake, purchased a ticket for New
l'ork via the Kansas Pacific Hne, when
he wanted to go over the Union Pacific.
He did not discover this fact, until after
tho ticket had been paid for, and on
nslring the agent to change it, tho latter
refused to do so.
'You won't change this ticket, won't
you ?"
* No, sir," replied tho agent: "if
yon want a ticket over the other route
yon will have to buy it."
Very quietly the stranger twisted bis
ticket into a small roll ; very serenlf- be
drew from his pocket s six-shooter
about the dimensions of a mountain
howitzer, coolly and deliberately be
stuck that twisted ticket into the muz
zle of that six-shooter, and sticking the
ugly thing through the window of the
ticket office, and almost iato the agent's
face, and speaking in a tone that left no
doubt of bis determination, said :
"Stranger, t Liar's that ticket; take it
yourself and change it, or I'll blow it
clean through you. '
The ticket was changed immediately,
and the mountaineer walked away, say
ing, "I jest thought I could induce him
to change his mind a leetla."
Wonderful.
Although tho eyes of some animals
are incapable of motion—as the fly, Ike
beetle, and several other insects—yet
tho Creator has shown His wisdom and
goodness in furnishing fheir eyes with
thousands of little globules, and by
•losing their eyes more in front of their
bead, so that these little insects can see
almost all aronnd them without turning
their heads. A gentleman who has ex
amined the eyes of a fly says, that the
two eyes of a commtn one are composed
of 8,000 little globeß, through every one
of which it is capable of forming an
image of an object. Having prepared
the eye of a fly for the purpose, he
placed it before his microscope, and
then looked through b#th, in the manner
of the telescope, at a steeple which waa
299 fset high and 750 distant, and he
said he conlfl plainly see .through eVery
little hemisphere, the wh'qje 6teeple in
verted or tarried upside dflwn.
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
Hint* to Smoker*.
There are ibouMUili of tueu who
would ho willing to übaudou the uee uf
toliacoo,provided they could Jo o with
out inconvenience. Thoao who tuakc
kite attempt uauallv find that after a
ilar or two of total ahtiuence, they suf
fer frotu au irritability o/ the nerves,
which seriously interfere* with their
comfort. They therefore return to thetr
cigar* witlt reuewed *ct. and poatuouc
the period of thetr einnnoipahon from
tobacco until "uaxt Christmas," 01
" the beginning of the new year."
Tbereare, of course, philanthropic op
poueuts of tobacco who prof or to the
smoker systems of their own invention,
by the a Joutii u of which he can easily
aiiaudou tobacco without the slightest
inoouveuieiioo. Oue system, proposed
by a popular writer, who is hitusolt s
reformed siuoker, lias the merit of
cheapness and simplicity. He aasutra
lus clients that they will never feel the
want of the abandoned cigar, provided
that ujHiu the first dtiv of abstinence
they will take a glass of whisky when
ever the hour at which they have been
accustomed to smoke returns. On the
MsouJ and eudi succeeding day, they
should diminish their allowance by one
glass. In a few days, remarks this
benefactor of bis race, the habit and de
sire of smoktag will bo entirely broken
up, and the supplementary whib| can
be discontinued.
Now this plan uiav work very wll in
cases where the smoker haa been iu the
habit of consuming only oue or two
cigars per day. Suppose, however,
that he is accustomed to smoke say tea
cigars daily. I'pou abaudoaing this
habit, be will proceed to drurk ten
glasses of whisky duriug the first day,
mue duraig the second, and so on. la
other words, he will drink forty-nine
glasses, or nbout four quarts, of whisky
duriug the first week of his aluuidou
ineut of tobacco. Doubtluaa he will
emaucipate frout cigars, but he will
have made good progress in the gloomy
and uncomfortable directioif of a drunk
ard's grave.
This view of the matter is oae which
"undoubtedly presented itself to the
miud of a vouug maa who, until Inst
week, resided iu Indianapolis. He
wished to adandou tobacco, but did uot
desire to adopt whisky. Ho therefore
hit upon the liappv expedient of sub
stitumg ice-water hr the latter bever
age. Duriug the first day of his re
formatory process, he drank, these gal
lons of ice-water, aud still feeling the
desire for hia accustomed narcotic, he
ate a quantity of frusen meat, aud
washed it down with a moderate liba
tion of two quarts af buttermilk. He
went to bed with the cheerful belief that
he had discovered an infallible antidote
to the craving for tobacco, and doubt
less expected on the following day to
reduce hia ration of ice-water by at
least a *llll. It is unfortunate that so
promising an experiment accidentally
failed. On the following morning he
did not feel very well, and in spite
the aid of two physicians he rapidly
grew worse and died.
The moral of this anedote seems to
be the ice-water, when drank by the
gallon, may sujiersede the carving for
t< m icco, but only at the cost of the
drunkard's life. Whether the ice-water
remedy is preferable to the whisky
treatment may be left to the decision
of the an ti-tobacconist*. Those who do
not find that moderate indulgence in
smoking is running their health, de
stroying their moral ix-rceptions, and
breaking up their business, will prob
ably regard IK>UI immediate suicide by
ic£- water, and ultimate death bv aleobol
as undesirable substitutes for the morn
ing cigar and the afternoon pipe. A'x
chanyc.
A Breach of Promise Suit.
A young man engaged himself to a
girl. became dissatisfied with her con
duct. and at last, by dint of constant
quarrelling, found Lis affection worn
out. He told her no, and naked for lus
release, which ahc gave him, an on liou
eat girl ought. And then, because four
mouths after he seen fit to marry some
body else, the girl who haa released
him marches up, presents a process at
his head and couly strips him of his for
tune of $2,500, while the svmpalhiriug
bystanders applaud. '£bero is no
thought, apparently, for the other wo
man who is ooncoruud m tlie affair, the
actual wife, who in thus put in danger
of want, perhaps, to gratify a rival's
vanity. There is no chance givcu to
the poor wretch to hesitate between his
money and his happiness by marrying
the woman he has ceased to love. In
all respects this is certainly a model
breach of promise suit, of a sort that
we trust to see long confined to the lati
tude of Indiana, where the incident we
hare related took place only a short
time since.
Old Time Architecture.
It would be amusing, says the Amer
ican Builder, or m#re truly perhaps the
reverse, to note in what manner u aver
age architect or engineer of the present
age would deal with some of the prob
lems presented to the old masters, for
instance, such a one ns that successfully
solved by the Saracenic builder of the
justly celebrated tomb of Mahomet at
Bcjapore, India, which was as follows;
Given a building 135 ft. sq. 0:1 plain,
and 110 ft. high, required to cover the
same with a circular dome 124 ft. in di
ameter, and weighing some 12,0(10 or
14,000 tons. It would be curias to ob
serve how many hundreds of tons of
iron our men would consider it imper
ative to throw into the work. The Har
aeen, knowing the capabilities of his
material, ca'ted for no iron work, but
fearlessly trusted to his mnsonary, and
skillfully corbelled out the square walls
at the top to meet and support the cir
rtlar dome, and to such a bold extent,
that at tho angles of the building the
proieetian of the corbelling measured
no less than 4G ft.
An IsoHftiocß IJIITATIOK.—By a very
simple proocss, cur American slate is
now into a beautiful snli
stitute for marble. Tho nrayh blocks
of slate arc first pinned down to th
required thickness, and the patterns are
then dm-iwu upon the slabs, which are
cut into the proper shapes and polished.
The mnrhleizing is the peculiar feature
in tho operation. The material is pre
pared in a vat, and the slab in let down
upon tho conqtosition, which adheres
to tho surface of tho slate. Tho slab
is next baked in an oven for one night
and then aeoeives a coat of varnish,
manufactured for this especial purpose,
and after six repetition* of these pro
cesses it is finally removed and polished,
the surface presenting a beautiful ap
pearance. So finnly United to tho slate
is this coating, that it cannot bo scaled
or clipped off without taking tho slaty
particles with it.
LACK POIXIVAISES. —Lace polonaises
are among tho dressy articles lately im
ported. A French fancy is to make
these entirely of stripes of white inser
tion, either of Valenciennes orduchesse
lace, alternating with stripes of black
velvet ribbon two inches wide. The
garment is fhen edged with white lace
laid over black, and is worn with a boljt
and sash of black velvet lined with
white silk. This makes § very pretty
over dross for the black and light col
ored silks that are worn to dinner par
ties and email receptions.
CENTRE HALL, CENTRE Co.. RA., THURSDAY. FERRI'ARV RL I*7:*.
Happening to be lu Oueeustowu, Uro
laud, otio evcuiug in July lust, 1 was in
vitcd to attcud a grand ball. 1 lind
been doing soiuo uf llie interior dis
tricts of Ircluiid, and as., so tired that
at first 1 was rutlicr inclined to exouso
myself. Hut before deciding, l naked a
question or two: " Is tt a big tiling ?"
" Never saw nuytbiug so grand iu
town."
" AY hat class of women ?"
"The fltal class, tlie wry best from
Quocustowu, fork in hot, the most
beautiful wotueu in tlie world."
1 knew bow tbe comaiou women of
Ireland looked I had seen hmidfi da
of tlieiu al>out Killaruey selling " niouu
tuiu dew and goal's indk," ami iu fact
fur some time had seen almost nothing
else. but I had scull the common class
.ally the nervanta, pddl.-rs and pea
saute. I had uot aeou the aristocracy
I make up my uiiud to go. 1 thanked
the gwiitleniun, and began at otiee on
my hair and clothes.
The number of Indies was shout one
hundred and fifty. Their dress was
like that of American ladles ou sinular
ocean ions, only a tride more so—aloeves
a Isttlo shorter, and the cotwage a little
loiter. The ladies were remarkably
self-j>ssrsaed, quiet and graceful, ami
I think on the whole averaged prettier
than I have ever seen (or the number
on such an occasion.
Sum* of our naval officers wore prw*-
out ui their stunning uniforms, ud
were honored with marked elteutiou
aud the acctel smile*.
I have written aM tlu* rigmarole iu
order to ray something tthiul the l>Lyl
oal development of those lr:h ladies.
The Irish girl* we have seen iu Amer
ica have full cheat*, targe, fine arm*,
and are altogether plump and vital.
When an American lady has shown me
her arma—ouiulle-dip*, No. ft—-and ha*
asked, " How can 1 get auch arm* **
Bridget's ?" and I have said, " H'orA—
ux>rk a* she does, aud you will have her
arm*," the Jady ha* generally *atd,
" Oh, that i* not work, that comes from
cliront*. I tell you if I had beeu brought
up in Bridget'* climate, I ahouhl have
had her fine bunt, but this terrible, dry
American air lake* all lh juice* out of
as."
My ourioaitv wo* on tip-toe to <-e
how lri*h holies, brought up ui tin*
uioist, eveu climate, but without work,
would look.
I have aaid there were one hundred
and fifty ladiw* preaent. They were
certainly vary fwetty and very prettily
dressed, but now, takiug the witae**-
atand, I testify that I have never in
America seem one hundred and fifty
young women together with arm* *o
•mall and chest* so tint and thin.
They belonged to the idle clues, and
all the world over women of the idle
class have spindle anus and tliiu ohct,
unless they IXKwme merely fat, which,
with their weak muscles, is a sad ctu*
b arras* mcnt.
Klegaticc, education, rank, aspiration,
ambition, prayer,—lheae will not pro
duce a strong, full, muscular body.
They are aot the appointed means.
hlrercisr, tserciat work, work ! this
produce* strong muscle*, full chosta
and phvaical beauty. Hurl ta the ap
pointed means. —iHo l.itria.
A Bee Men.
Dr. Campbell, president of Rutgers
College, having discovered, bcucalli two
horse-chestnut tret * in the "campus,"
great numbers of carpenter-bee*, each
with the head detached, directed the
attention of Kcv. Hamuel Lock wood,
the emiuent naturalist, to the fact, and
a s*ie* of careful observations acre
made, with moat interesting result*. It
was first noted tii at these bee a were ail
of the same species, aud were, more
over, all males or houoy-gslherer*. The
case at first appeared ou* of wantou
massacre, the merciless executioners
being common Baltimore oriolea. Ou
making a more thorough examination
of these headless trunk*, it wa* discov
ered that every body was empty, the
insect having been literally eviscerated
at the annular opoasug made at the neck
by tho separation of the head. The in
teresting fact di*cio*od by these obser
vation* is, that these birds bad learned
that the bodies of these particular bee*
—the stingless males—were filled, or
contained honey sipped from the blos
soms of the horse-chesluut L and so they
watched tho insertt till thoy were fully
gorged, then, darting down upon them,
snipped off their beads, aud always at
one place, the artienlation, thus show
ing themselves acqusintod with the
anatomy of their victims as well a*
their habits, and takiug advantage of
both for the gratification of their love
for sweets.
YAI.CZ OF A GOOD Rirrrinn.— A
young man had volunteered, and wa*
expecting daily to be ordered to tko seat
of wur. One dav liis mother gave liim
an unpaid bill with the money, ami ask
ed him to pay it. When he returned
home nt night sho said : "Did you pay
tluit bill?" " Yes," he answered. Iu
a few days the bill was sent iu a second
time. " 1 thought," sho said to her son,
" that von paid this I " "I really don't
remember, mother, you know I have had
so many thing* on my mind," " But
you said you fiid." " Well," he an
swered, "il I said I did, I did." He
went away, and his mother took the bill
herself to the store. The young man
had been known in tho town all his kfe,
nnd wlint opinion was held of him this
will show. "I am quitesnre," she said,
" that my son paid this bill swma days
ago; be has been very busy since, ntid
haa quite forgotten about it, bnt he told
me that day that he hnd, and he says if
lie said then that he hnd, he ia quite
sure that lie did." " Well," said tho
man, " I forgot about it; but if he ever
said he did, lie did."
TUB NKKVH TRFKE. —-An interestasg
discovery has, it is stated, been mode
lately by an Italian. He has hit upon
a method by which nerves may bo tuned
like harp strings, snd brought into
harmony with each other. His theory
is Hint nervotts systems, like mwsioul
instrument*, are all liable to cliango of
tone, aud this change ia of little im
portance if all the nerves ehango to
gether, as by attention to diet ami tem
perature the evil may bo corrected cn
masse ; but when, owing to accident or
nnoven wear, the general harmony of
the nerves is destroyed, n disconnected
action is the result, snd n special mode
of treatment is.required, of which ho
professes to possess the key. He
calls himself s " nerve tuner," and con
tracts to keep nerves in order by the
month or year.
Orxß.—Hhnt-guns make such nioe
playthings for children. It in such fun
for them to aim at their little play
fellows, to play war and doer-shooting
with them. 6f eonrso they are not
loaded—oh, no! but sometimes they
have away of going off whether they
are loaded or not, and it is safe to say
that coroners and undertakers hava re
ceived ns many fees on account of these
"empty" plnrthinffk, as they hare from
paranne. A little fellow tried to frighten
another little five-year-older by pointing
his father's gun at him. The coroner
thought the eMld might have been
frightened at one time, but he waa cool
and collected enough whon he called to
see him.
There are 90 woolen mills in lowa.
IrUh ladle*
A singular L&porlmoat.
The following history i* given of an
iron bull uuw in .Sacramento, C'al ;
Tho ball is about three feel in diame
ter, and weighs 1,710 pounds. It was
tiikfu from a hole near Washington,
Yolo county, a long time ago, and there
i* H curious history connected with it
Many years ago I. Nelson Tnderwoud,
who wiu noted as a loot urn ou spiritual
■ sin and who Iwilievcd that diamonds
eould lie iu*uu facto red by SOIUC chemi
cal or scientific process by which carloti
could be crystaluecil, tried many expert*
incuts to accomplish tins end.
Finally he had several iron balls, of
wluoh this is one, east, and he and other
members of the 1 hamoud Maiiufaotur
•ig t'ouipauy, which he organised, took
tho halls over the river, near Washing
' lon, and tried an ex|ierimeut.
These large spheres were nut entirely
solid, but each contained a vacuum in
the ceuter, in which the carbon waa de
posited. By use of ehemioala and the
application *f a powerful galvanic bat
tery, an intense heal was to be created,
by which the diamonds were to he pro
duced. 1 nke the recent diamond scheme
of Nan Franoiooo, * few favontea only
Were offered the op|H>rtUuity to take
stock in the coiupauy. They all so
compauu-d the disiviTCrer to the rear of
Washington, where a tetnjiorary build
ing had been constructed for tho ea
peri maut.
Kvcrything was adjusted, aud tLa
put lies fortunately retired several hun
dred feet from the building. Tha bat
teries were connected by w ires, so that
Underwood with his friend* could msm
tain a safe position.
The full i-ewer of the batteries waa
applied, ami in a few momenta an rx
pl.iaiun aa terrific a* that of an ordinary
steam boiler occurred. The iron globe
waa broken into fragments, aud oome of
the pieces were scattered several hun
dred feat. Everybody was frighteuod
but no bod r was hurt. Thia ended the
•erica of Underwood's exjierimcuta. It
is possible that the vicinity of Wash
ington is as well soiled with diamond*
as the t'-olorudo diamond fields, but
they don't lie upon the surface and
sparkle IU the suu. I'uderwood died
several ycarw ago, and a* nobody oeems
inclined to carry on the business of
diamuUihmakmg, the remaining iron
globe has been dug tip aud will be con
verted into old iron.
The Horror* cf a Hlerm.
A guntlcman from Blue Karth oountv,
M iun., tells of an instance where, in
driving along after the great storm, a
team of horse* was noticed a little oif
the beaten track, and on examination
tli* horse* were fouud frutcn stiff,
* landing on their feet, and looking per
fectly life-like. Hitting ou tli* seat in
an erect position, with the reins in hia
hand, was the driver, dead, and iu the
K>ttom of the sleigh, covered un with
blanket* and straw, were the bodies *f
seven peruous, all dead.
One instance is related of a farmer
who was at the town of New Uln ou the
day of the storm. Not apprehending
danger, he started to go to the town of
Nicolclt, a few mile* distant. This wa*
on Tuesday, at about 2f. . Nothing
was heard of the man until the next
S*v, when some af the citirens of Nieo
lelt, who came out to see what damage
had been done by the storm, discovered
the top of the head of a hotwe sticking
out of the snow. An excavation was
made, and the tuiaaiug man was fouud
sitting in hi* wagon with the reins in
hi* hand, fruxeti to deatli. The horse
was also dead. Tho man was found
ouly about twenty rods from Nicol*tt,
whir* his journey would have termi
nated. It waa supposed that ho be
came bewildered iu the blinding snuw,
aud hud fruitlessly travelled around in
a circle, a* is afteu the cos* under auch
circumstances.
A sod case is that of a voting man re
turning from Canada with hi* bride.
At l'omuie de Terre tho father of tb
young mau met the couple, and they
started for their home, near Fergus
Falls. The storm aame on, and loaiug
their wav the two in<*n left the bride :u
the sleigh and started to find the road.
Nothing has since been heard of Uu-ni,
sud they undoubtedly perished. The
mi u not returning, the brido left the
sleigh, aud after wandering about for
some time came to some logs, where she
took shelter, where sho was fouud two
days afterward so badly froscn that she
can't live. A man aud a bov living
northeast of Morris went out on Tuesdsy
to get some wood. The team was found
on Friday, but no tract* of the men.
A Norwegian named Flndcrland left
Morris for home Tuesday, since when
neither man nor team has Wen seen or
heard from.
A Banian lie Incident.
J>r. Ralph V. Aulick, a son of Com
modore Aulick, di'd very suddenly nt
his father's iu Washington
some vontbs ago, Hie famijy lelie*iiig
at the time that he was unmarried. On
the following morning a voting lady j
employed iu the Treaaurv Department,
known a* Mia Oler, on (ic&rujg tho an
nouncement of his death read from a
newspaper, fainted, sod it was soon
made known that the deceased was her
hnsbard. In Ootaber lost, the will of
the dc oased, mail* iu Philadelphia in
May last, was ftlod in the Probate Court, f
by which he left his property,consisting
o i ten shares of Cincinnati <las-light
Company's stock, worth nearly 930,000,
to his widow. The father of deceased
filed a caveat to tho will, and tho Judge
ordered that issues l>e made for trial at
the Circuit Court. The counsel for the
caveat* >rs, after prol imi nary remark s, sa wl
tkut the family had come to the conclu
sion not to iutorpose further objectwms
to the probate of the will. 'J"ho counsel
for the widow said that there was now
no course to take but to obtain a ver
dict. A jury was accordingly sworn, j
and the issues being rend, they returned
n venliet that tho testator w:ui of sound
mind at the time of making the will,aud
that it wa* not procured by fraud, arti
fice, or nnduo influence.
Ten Cows for n \Tlfc.
Corners ore not confined to Wall
street, New York, or to Htnte street, j
Boston. Neither are they made wboily
by dealers iu stocks and bonds. Tho
Zulus of HouUi Africa do uol need a
missionary to teach them to be shrewd.
Though a strong snd robust people,
they nave a decided weakness for wo- |
mankind. They have as many wives as
they havo means to purchase, snd, un
like many in civilised countries, they
bnv not with gold, or houses, or estates
but with cows. Twenty, thirty, or s
hundred cows are given for a wife, no
cording as the girl is young and beauti
ful, or otherwise. One bold Znlo oper
ator with large capital once bought np
ell tho young and desirable girls in the
market of the whole region, snd com
pelled all who wanted to buy to pay ex
fiorbitant prices for wives. Of course
there was much distress, anil this diana
trons state of things nttracted the nt- j
tention of their government, nnd the
r ecu re nee of it was prevented by a
law, which fixes the legal price of a wife
to lie only ten eows. No man can col
lect more than this by law. He may
receive fifty if he will, but he can force
ne one to pay more than ten.
A new process for preserving moats
cohßists in dipping tho moat in melted '
butter and then packing in salt
An IntrHlgmt Kh-pltanL
la July, IHIO, tbo largest elephant
cvtur seen iu Kugland vw sdmrUaud aa
"just arrived." Henry Harris, the
manager of Convent tiardm Theatre,
pureltaa. J it for the stun of pine hun
dred guineas. Mrs. Heury Johnson
was to nde it; and Mtaa Fucker, tite
Columbine was Is play up to It. Young
happened to lis uu uiortnug at lite bos
...'lien, adjoiuiug the theatre, when his
ears were assailed by a strange and
unusual uproar within the walls. Ou
asking one of the carpenters Uia cause
of it, he was told "it was something
going wrong with the elephant, he could
not tell what."
It hod been arranged thai Mrs. Hen
ry Johnson, seated on a howdoh on the
elephant s back, should pus* over •
bridge, in the centre of a numerous
group of followers, aud it was thought
expedient that the unwieldy monster's
trnclabihty should be tested, (hi ateu
ping up to the bndga, which waa alignt
and U-mporwry, the sagacious brut#
dfew I wick his fore feet aud refused to
budge. It is well kuowu as a fs<4 in
natural history that the elephant, aware
of its unusual bulk, will never trust iu
weight on any object which is unequal
to its support. The stage manager,
seeing how resolutely the animal resist
ed every effort to ootapel or induce it to
go over the bridge in question, project
ed thai they should sUy proceedings
till next day, whan he might be u •
better Mood,* 11 was during the repeti
tion of kfee xt>erimcnl that my father
liaving heard the cxtnuirditiary sounds,
determinad to go npou the stage and
see U he could ascertain the cause of
them. The first sight that met his eyes
kindled his indignation. There stood
llie huge animal, with downcast ejaa
and flapping ears, ntceklv submitting to
blow after blow from a sharp irun goad,
winch his keeper was driving ferocious
ly into the fleshy part of hi* at (be
root of the ear. The ffwr on which he
stood was converted into a pool of blood.
One of tha proprietor#, impatient at
what he regarded aa avuaeleaa obotiuocy
kept urging tlie driver to proceed to
stiu severer vxtrcmitiea, when Charles
Young, who waa a great lover of ani
mals, expostulated with him, went up
to the poor iietirni sufferer, and patted
and car eased him; and when the driver
was about to wield Lis iuat rumen* with
even more vigor, he caught him by the
wrist aa iu a vioe, and staved his hand
hx.ni further violence. While an angry
altercation waa going on between Young
ainl tlie man of color who waa the driv
er, Captain Hay, of the " A she!," who
had brought over " Chuny " in his ship
and petted him greatly, came in and
begged to know what was the matter.
Before a wurd of explanation could be
the much-WTvmged creature spoke
or hnuaaif; fur as soon aa he parcelvad
the entrance of hi* patrtsi, he waddled
up to lurn, and with a look of gentle
appt 01, caught hold of bis hand with hi*
proboscis, plunged it iuU> the blacdiug
wound, and then thrust it before his
eve#. Tlie gesture seemed to say a*
Cilsinly as if enforc.-d by sjieecli, "See
ow these cruel men treat "Chuny."
Can yon approve of itf The hearts of
tlia hard eat present were sensibly teach
si by what thev aaw, and ainoug thorn
that of the gcffllemsu who had been so
energetic in proposing it# harsh treat
ment. It was under a far batter im
pulse that he ran out into the street,
purchased a few apples at a stall, and
offered them to him. I'hnuy eyed him
askance, took them, threw them bet wean
hi* feat, aud wbeu ha had crushed thctn
te pulp, spumed them from him.
Youug, who had gouc into Convent
Garden on the same errand aa the gen
tleman who had proceeded Lira, shortly
after re-entered, and also hold out te him
some fruit, when, to the astonishment
af the bystanders. tlie elephant ate every
morsel ;* oa<l then twined bis trunk with
studied gentleues* around Y oug's
waist, marking by his action thut
though ho had rcacuted a wrong, ha did
not forget n kindness.
Earlj,(lrefnlmnler* in America.
We have precise information sa to the
visit* of the early Greenland oolouists
to the continent of America. It was
indeed doubted at one time whether
Old Greenland itself was not a creation
of Scandinavian romance. But the
actual remains of the colony have been |
brought to light, and modern discoveries
have verified the ancient descriptions of
the oouutry, it* climate, aad products.
Beaidea tlie foundation* and walla of
houaos, now overgrown with dwarf wil- j
lows and actirvy-gr\ss, large churches
and portions of' graveyards hsve boon
found in the situatious mentioned in the
ancient Icelandic records. Iu one plain,
ouoe a meadow, but now overgrown
with dundclioua and juuiiier-brush,
many fragment* of bell-ffiotal, part* of 1
i church-bell*, wore picked up by the
natives and hoarded a* speeimeua of
geld. Rum* inscriptions have been
found as far north as the Woman Island*
in latitude 72" 55 \ and the most reoent
expeditious hsvo ooufirmed the exist
ence of all the natural landmarks men
tioned bv the chroniclers. Their "vein*
of gold 1 ' are shown to 1H deposit# of
iron pyrites; the warm winds in winter,
whioa"*ecm so marvellons to the auoisnt
colonist* have been described by Sir
L. MeOlintock, sad tlie hot springs of
. Gnm-tok confirm the old Norsemen * ar-
iCount of the boiling fountains st which
the monks in Greenland cooked their
food. Greenland woa colouucctl ot the
•ml of the tenth century, and tlie sut'
tlement prospered for 40t) rears. After
the devastations of the l!l*rk Death,
the settlers had to recede gradually be
fore the advance of the Esqninwax or
"Hkrtelings." and a valuable account of
the etate of the country just before the
tune when intercourse with Europe
ceased ia to be found iu JPurcfia*' J tl
grim*. Ivor Hard son, high stowurd to
the bishop, was sent to the northern
purta of tho colony to drive back the
Esquimaux. "There," fiio wrote, "is
*till standiug a church where formerly
our bishop dwelt; but now the wild
Skrudings have all that land, and there
are many cattle but no people. Christian
or liealhou, but all have been curried off
by the enemy, tlie Bkrielings." That i*
the last Unit" was heard of the doomed
colony, and no one knows tho fate of
the lnat haudfuls of settlers. Ihuiinh
writers have been fond of imagining the
migrations of their countrymen to the
iec-bound roccwios of tho coat coast of
Oroeulaml, whero thoy arc supposed to
remain "carrying on s perpetual war
with the savages in revenge for the ruin
of their ancestors." But this is a mero
fancy which baa lieen gradually dis
proved, and exocpt in the books *f the
antiquarians and tho vagne rumors of
the seas, the memory of Old Greenland
ha* long sine* passed away.
A CoMrmcvr CLERK. —The Washing
ton correspondent of the Norwolk (7a
rntte says; " It was left to the cxpert
neas and vigilant scrutiny of a Ooiinee
ticnt lady clerk in the Treasury to de
tect the 8500 bogus note which hail es
caped tho detection of bank officials,
and l>een sent to the Treasury for re
demption. It came from Chicago, and
is said to be the most finished bit of
counterfeiting yet discovered. It was a
S5 and SIOO bill evenly split through
the eentre and pasted on to n hack split
1 from another bill, and so Eicoly adjust
ed that the five took the place of the
one in the figure mark and printed tho
word as perfectly as in tho genuine bill.
'lt is to be retained as a specimen of
I mosaic work in counterfeiting,"
TVririß: S2.CO u Year, iri Advance.
la the Mottktj World.
It was a Wild aud dreary fart of lit*
country, My* a writer iu a Ute Loudon
uiatjiuuue, in tho plain* of India, while
journeying, that one day a friend and
•elf eat down under the shade of an
umbrageous bauyao-trwa, and we were
enjoying a meal of various adiblea, to
1 he washed down by a glass of Baaa'
>••(, whan wa were disturbed by the
arrival ami the ooiee of a troop of large
black-faced inottkeya—tha branch**
overhead literally awarmed with them.
They looked on ua aa interlopers, no
doulit, ami for aoroa time their gesture*
an MtwiittK that we were am
prvheusive they would dispute the
ground with ua. But after a time things
•reined to settle down, and wa went on
with our repeat in peace We had iusl
riaeu from our meai, and were etroliing
forth trom under the ahada, whan, to
our aurpriae, one of tha moukeya, a
young one, fell down from a high brwuoh
at our feat. It wua quite dead. The
clamor that arose above ua, on the oc
currence of thia calamity, waa deafen
ing. The whole assembly of monkeys
clustered together for a ooufab. Long
aud lotfi were the chattering* and varied
the grituanoea of the tribe, each indi
vidual vyiug with the other in the loud
ucaa uf Lit tongue. Their look* and j
gealuro* made it apparent that they
uuperid ua aa being the aauae of the
death of their juvenile ooturade; and
had we had guua iu our hand*, or any
other murderous weapons, we sbotdd no
doubt have been aet upon amLgnal
treated. But we were unarmed; and
the good souse of the moukeya seemed
to tell them that there muat be aome
other culprit. Havmg oome to thia
conclusion, one monkey, apparently the
•enter and leader of the whole tribe,
separated bimaelf from the rest, ran to
the spot on the branch whence the
young monkey had fallen, riaiaincd it
carefully, amclt the branch, and then
glided nimbly down one of the pillar*
or pendant root*, with which the ban
van-Ua* u o richly furuiahed, and
came to the oortiae of the monkey, took
it up, examined it minutely, pait ou
laily tho aLoulder, where there waa a
wound- not a gsa-tbot, but one aouie
what smaller. Instinct immediately
turned suspicion into a certainty. He
placed the eorpae on the ground again,
and turning bn> g* in every direction, j
endeavored to pusree the foliage in hie
•.■arch for the murderer. After a little
while something seemed to rivet hie at
tention ; it wa* but ftir a moment—the
neit instant he had mounted the tree,
sprung to the spot, and with one hand
had aoiaed a long wiiip-anake, with
iv& htoh he hastened to the ground. Nof
occurred a moat carious scene. The
whole monkey rabble, following their
leader in hi* rapid movement, were on
the grevmd almost as soon aa be; and
then, aa many a* eould, ranged them
selvtM on each aide uf the snake ; each
monkey put hi* hand on the reptile,
elntcluiig hold of the akin of the bank
tightly. At a given signal the cnaou
tioncrs dragged the body of the writh
ing snake backward and forward on the
ground, till nothing waa left of the
murderer but the b ok bone. The mode
of elocution waa at woe* nmm*rr and
effectual; aud in tho way in which it
was carried out, wc main fasted the
clear understanding which the monkey
language convey*. It remind* me of
flic lingo of some of the i'aharoe tribes
of Himalaya*, which consist* of a string
or fucocouon of sounds like A.-Aa-eeo-1
/<oo—fMN-Ahi—equally unintelligible to
ua a* the chattering* of the monkey, j
but very well understood by the "hoo
neom*ns, M by whotn it is used : even as
the monkey* can comprehend one an
other.
Fngllsh Labercra in Brazil.
A pwtj of over <>a hundred English
agricultural laborers, who were induced
to emigrate to Brazil iu the exportation
of greatly improving their condition,
appear to Lave been much disappointed
with the results of their experiment*.
These laborers wen aiianw fully deceived
by the persons who induced them to
emigrate. It was represented to them
that when thev arrived in South America
they would \>e received by Brazilian
officials and conducted to the colony of
Citnanea, where tbey were all to live to
gether in a htmiv and prosperous com
mauitv on until farms to be granted by
the Government, who would find tools
and seeds in addition to an allowance of
two ahillingsa day until the gathering
in of the uwt harvest—the food to be
" chiefly duck, fowl and eggs." If they
wished' to work for wsges, instead of
holding farms, they were to be paid four
shillings a day for the first six months,
and eight shftlings a day afterward.
They were further told that the soil was
rich in gold, lead and other minerals,
" tons of which were dag up almost pure
and abandoned, beeanse the road to the
Crt was not completed." Itmay reiulily
imagined bow tempting were tliete
prospects to the poor laborers, who had
been reared in abject poverty, and bow
cruel was their disappointment when on
arriving in Brazil they found themselves
obliged to live on blsak beans and rice,
and to huddle for shelter into sheds
poorer than the meanest cottages in Eng
land, while the fine stories of farms and
profitable occupation were discovered to
be as illusory as the promises of abundant
dtirk, and gold lying around looaa for
want of transportation.
Motoric* ami Miseries of the lottery.
Au English mathematician, familiar
with the theory of probabilities,
demonstrated tliaC in a psirtieular year,
tho chances wore 84,900 to 1 against a
particular number winning the A 10,000
prize; 11.800 to 1 against s £5,000 prize;
and 6to 1 against any prize at all. But
all suob warnings were of no use. A
banker's clerk wo* one d*v found raving
mad in tho street; he had bought a
ticket bearing a favorite number, and
was robbed of it; on the day of the
drawing of tho lottery that number
onmo up s £30,000 prize, and grief and
rage were too much for him.
One Mr. Harnu*. s grocer, bought
biur oouseoutive numbers; feariug that
this would be uulucky, he exchanged
one of them; but by an annoying freak
i of fortune, the rejected number turned
up n £*lo.ooo prize, which fell to the lot
i of cue Uapt. Young.
About a fortnight before the drawing
of one of tho lotteries, three friend* de
termined to buy a ticket among them ;
but not l>eing able to agree upon the
number to be selected, they requested
a little girl to decide for them. She
fixed upon No. 10,080. They did not
dike it. She refused to amend her
choice, declaring her conviction that
the number would prove a lucky one.
Whereupon, setting tier down as a silly
gtKise, tfieT bought another ticket; but
No. 10,000, as it happened, did turn
np a prize of £20,000.
The owner of White Conduit House,
some sixty or seventy years ago, lost his
all by lotteries, and became impover
ished. Meeting a friend one day, he
said he had a presentiment that a par
ticular number would be a great prize ;
money was lent to him to buy; it came
up a prize; he squandered the treasure,
and aiod a beggar.
A despatch from Alexandria, Minn.,
says that authentic reports hsve been
received of seventy persons who were
frozen to death in Stevens, Grant, Doug
las, and Otter Tail counties. Others
are still missing, and believed to be
dead ; many more crippled for life by
freezing hud* hd feet,
NO. r.
BOSSJSM Winter Amusements,
Tit* grand amusement of all in Bus
sis is tUI of the "uie-UUla." Tber an
Uiu ustrucUd: A strong acsffbniiafl
is raised to the height of thirty feet,
• ilk a lauding at the top, aaeeaded bj
a ladder. Prom tec top of Uia landing
a tibpmg plane of hoards i laid, about
twelve feet ill width and ninety feel
king, descending la a very acute ataxic
to toe eurfaoe of lb* froaen river. Ttl*
utolined plane in supported by wooden
piles, decreasing to height, and tee
udoa are protected by a parapet of
planks. Upon the down-aiding plane
are laid square slabs at tea, k>e to
gether, and litem water ia poured all
down the nl<>p. This water freeaee—
lialf a minute or o of a Buaataa winter
i quite enough for that -and the In*
olm- then proses** a broad sheet f
pure ice. From the bottom of llua in
cline the anew ia cleared away upon the
lerrd aarfaae of the froaeu river lor the
tbatenoe of aix hundred feet, and tw- lve
leet wide ( the aaxne width aa the inclin
ed plana). The aideaof thla level eoafw
are ornamented with dark green Ore and
pinea. Each one who wialuat to tiidtigc
in the national amusement provide#
himself with a peculiar sort of t tedgw--
more like a butcher's tnty than anything
da eaeeuda the ladder to the lauding
at the top, scats httnaelf ia hie tray on
the edge of the glittering incline. Off
he goea I--and away he iheeia down the
alope ef ice. Buab velocity doe# he at
tain lief ore arriving at the bottom, thai
ha ia not only named along the ill bun
died feet of this icy leva! below, but
clean up to the top of a second MM®
like the fleet, with another alope on the
other aide, down which ha eJuwia with
the same raj iditr aa before, and away
again to an eqavl diateaoe on the level
below.
A Kuooeaaion uf these fair-goers, fur
mantted, seated in their eliding-traya.
balancing themselves aa they eut along,
one cluss upon the other, yet no chance
uf overtaking each other (onWe* by
eorae very unlucky amd very unusual
upsrti. presents a to"#* peculiar and
extraordinary soeoe. Wbeaever im
balance does happen to be lost by *
■ man, down h* geoa all the same, to tee
continual peril uf hie limlis or hi# neck,
and it ia impossible to predict where
abouts bia headlong earner will be Um
ped. Bova eomctiawe —boys will, to
anrteing—by way of e delightful in
orvas* of tec danger, skate Uke a flash
down the bright it.elincl plane, bakno
tng themselves on one leg !
Prehistoric Man.
An interesting lecture was delivered
by M. Broca at th last meeting of the
French Association for the Ad vanes
meut of Science, LcM at Bordeaux. The
subject was "The Troglodytes ci the
Vcxere." It is curious to see bow rioee-
Iv palstoatulqgisto nuy follow up the
course .-f time through tee agi-s c.
which there ia no other record but m
occasional bone or bit of flint. *.
Bruce shows thai the inhabitants of Die
Vallev of the Yeaare, which flows
through the i' rigoal, lived briore the
modern epoch (dial which uumediatriy
followed the qnarternary one), because
the cerem* they illustrated do not eon
tain a u&gli pulultwl llmi LiWlwi.
They were cotemporarieo of the inaiu
rnotn, since they fought, and even ate
him; thev also knew the lion end the
hrena. and themftre flourished at a
time when the rwmdsex had not yet
made its sjipcarance. But some of the
different stations iuhatnted by them
also shew that the letter animal did ex
ist at their time, whence it must be in
ferred that thia human race witnessed
both the disapearaaee ef the old fanna
and the advent of a new one; in other
words, that it lived throughout a space
of time during which the climate of
France changed from African beat to
Lapland cold. How many centuries
this reprceoato it ia impoaaibla to de
termine; bat there is evidence of the
modifications the soil has undergone
during that period. The Cxvorn do
Meustier, at the time of its discovery,
was filled with allavial earth, contain
ing neither bones nor flint iaatramento.
It ia only below this stratum we find
such reliou. Hence tee Severn must, in
prehistoric times, have been sabject to
inundations; it must therefore bare
IHHJU but little above the level of the
river, whertseaal the present moment it
is no lee# than '47 metre# above. Hence
it has taken the waters more than 4,000
years, at the lowest, to effect an erosion
of 81 feet
Lime a Preserver or Hoed.
Lime ia likely to he need largely as a
pre server of weed. It has lately betu
discovered that vuaselawhich earrv lime
last much longer than others. For a
block psvomeut it ia arid an application
of lime can be successfully made. In
frame bouses, the apace between the
la S and aiding could be filled cempartly
with tunc, and the usual decay pre
vented, at no very large expense. In
regard to limo in connection wuh ship
timber, the experience of an old ship
builder on the oowt of Maine, pub
lished in the JfecAovtirV Mapizinr. is
of interest:
He had been in the habit of filling up
the space* between the timbers with
hard stone lime, and ramming it in.
calculating that slight leaks would cause
the lime to expand and fill the crevices.
Long observation# had led him to con
sider lime a good preservative. A
coasting schooner, built of Maine tim
ber, unseasoned, and loaded with lime,
had gone ashore and bilged. Being
raised and repaired, the schooner re
mained sound for thirty years, with ex
ception of the wood that bad been used
in making tee repairs. It had been
noticed also that the vessel* carrying
cargoes of lime generally lasted longer
than others. But the mest striking case
wss that of a platform of pine planks,
used to mix mortar on. and that had
been employed by father, aon, and
grandson, ana being BO longer needed,
was suffered to remain on the ground,
and became overgrown with grass and
weeds After a period of sixty years,
having occasion to use the ground, the
planks were removed, and found to be
as firm and hard as when first laid down.
The Firrt Newspapers,
Hudson in Speaking of the Press,
gives us the following most interest
ing Uhle of every newspaper per enter
prises :
.Yum*. 7W. Tsar.
0 Piiutuig Introduced...Maysncs. 148 i
l-*aetu Nursmlwrg 1T
t-Ou-ouiol* Cologne 14*9
S-Oasette Vomos. 1570
4 I>is Frankfurter Ob
•rprwteraUa Zsltung.Frsnkfort ....1615
0-Weekler Newe5.......L0nd0n... 16M
6 Gazette de Franes... .Paris 1631
T-Poetneeh I roikes-Tid
niug Bwoilen 1644
S-Memirius I'oliUeae... LMth, Scotland... I#M
-( ourant Bssrleia. Holland. 1656
10-1-uMic Oocurrsnoes. Dublin, Ireland. .16530
11-PueV Oeturreases.. . .Dublin. Ireland. .1700
ia-Os*etts. Bt.Petersb"g. 8u*.17P3
13-New Letter ... D0*t0n...... 17M
14-Oraoets de Msdiid Madrid, Spain 1704
15-Mercnrv....... >J' ... .Philadelphia, Pa,1719
16 -Gazett Now Vork 17S
17-Gazrtt \IV*
IH-Oazette .Charleston, 8. C..1731
19-Gazette . Williamsburg, Y5.1786
20-Gazette..... Calcutta ..JIM
Ten bushels ef boiled potatoes, mash
ed snd mixed with three buirils of
finely ground com will make a*
much pork as double tee quantity fed
in a raw stoto."
way from alu has been
wricked with tWifity-ilx person* on
j board. r j
A gift employed fa a Haass* City
candy stiff* baa jMlw l hair to Alt|) # ow
i Th# fWetrirt, 111, beet stigiur fsjbirr
TESs ***** BSie ' n *
j Aa advartl—it fur an industrious
' lad in Wilmington, H C„ brougot but
375 riaiminf to be such.
' In three yearn not fewer than ona
hundred and forty-one murders were
committed hi New Tork city.
Whole herds of eatUe were caught in
the atom fa Minnesota, and' wemfroreu
! to death.
Them are thirty-nine life eonvicte in
the Illinois State Penitentiary, thirty
seven of whom are murderes.
There were over 14,000 persona een
toi ced to imprisonment for drunkec
mae ia England and Walea l**t year.
The Eeghak navy ia aboot to discard
i the open nock shirts, which from time
immemorial have given British sailors
the bronchitis.
i A youth at Fail Biver skated into an
other *hc other day with so much vigor
that he burst a blood vessel in bis head
sad died the nest day.
The bailer of the steamer Julia ex
ploded near Enfale, Ala,, scalding thir
; teen persona. Two of them were killed,
one mortally injured, and another has
not been found.
Ossia E. Dodge ia the defendant in a
soil for divorce, ia St. Paul, Minn. He
ia flftv two, and bia wife twenty-right;
! and she alleges brutal treatment and
i mania! infidelity.
A shrewd old Yankee said he didn't
believe there was say downright i-nre
for tamaraa ia a man "bat,** be added,
.|i„ known eeeoad wife to harry it
*°JTA. Brown, a eitixen of Delphi, la.
and CBerk of the District Coart, ia un
der arrest for attempting to Are the
bttildiogi in order w ' *lwy tbi
f rideoees of an alleged defalcation on
hie part.
Nine railroad corpora uot* in Ma*#*-
chusetta last year di'idod tea per eeut.
two divided mac, three divided eight,
three divided seven, undivided six pet
cent, seven divided leas than six, and
twenty-live mad. no dividend*. The
average net income from the year a do
ings was 6 S-10 per cent. oa the invest-
Aa old bachelor editor thus, in hie
•pite, comments on a recent i -.alight
incident: "We left oar sanctum at mid
night last night, and oa our way home
*aw a young lad* and gentleman hold
ing a gate oa its binges. They were
evidently indignant at, being out so
late, and we saw them bite eseh other
several times."
The ordinary weight of a full-grown
liriß buffalo ia about 1,500 or 1,600
pound*. They do not, however, yield
the us proportion of *rnilnbl
an- the teine ©ovine, their rkine bring
heavier boaca larger, and five-quarters
more massive andweighty. Old fellow,
with horns full of wrinkles, would in
cline the scale at 4,500 pounds.
The famous Morrison's pills. It grains
each, consist of aloa, m of Urtar.
and mdocynth; another kind of this pill
contains £be same ingredients, besides
gambit HolkW. pills, about
rqsally famous, am compiled of aloe,
myrrh and saffron. Brandreth s pills
.how man of podophyllum, thickened
jtrieari pake-berrica, saffron, dorm, oil
of peppermint.
A diminativ* price of masculine con
ceit was nicely put down the other even
ing. Hews* detailing to a lady how
<*Te of our moat noted briria bad token
bis arm on the avenue on Sunday even
ing. "I dont know what people would
have thought, r Wg%"
the air oTa lsdv-kiiler. Oh ! don %
Jam yourself, Mr. —-," was the reply ;
" they probably took you for her little
The five teste of friAhip--Leud
yonr friend a good nmbr- lk, and live
to see it back again. In vi> him to yonr
clnb and treat him to cold *.
find that Us foqnyaa you. Ask him to
post a letter, and b-arn that within a
week be has actually done so.' Oat a
Mb to his new billiard doth without
ruffling his Twad upon his
gontyloe, and nc bim smiling at yonr
clumsiness. -
An engaged youag fentridan jot
rather neatly oti ol t liUlt ecxnpe- witli
his intended She taxed him with
having kissed two ladies at some party
t wiiioh she was not present He own
ed it. but said that thau united agea
onlv made twanty-ooe. lhe rimpte
minded girl tho-,ght ef too and eleven
and laughed off her pool. He did not
explain thai one was nineteen and the
other two yearn of age. Wasn't it art
ful ?
The Russian peasant# are veiy super
stitions. Tbcv cross themselves on all
mwuibn*, and the name of Clod, rever
ently uttered, ia canetontly on their
lips. They never enter a room without
bowing low before a holy picture, which
hangs in one corner of evety room in a
Russian houae. Thej wear, universally,
amulet*, (usiudly I twill CTOBH, or swrod
medalh to protect them from harm and
evil spirits, m whose existence thej im
plicitlybelieve.
Fueeli, the printer, hsd a great ilia
like to the species of conversation
known as " tottk." Once, when sitting
in his room among some trifling visitors
who were discussing the westher and
such like interesting •nbjeeto, be
burnt forth with a—"We had pork for
dinner to day." " D* ar < Jb. Fuaeli,
i what aa odd remark," exclaimed one.
••Why," replied be, "its as good "
! anything you have been saying for the
j last half hour."
To ad vertise is to remind your fellow
t citiseni of yoar existence, a fact they
, ate not under any special obligation to
' remember, from the mere fact of having
seen vonr signboard. Unenterprising
i and dull peiwde are to apt to fall into
obscurity. If a man can make *
ueaa he can unmake it. He will be
j prettr sure to do it, if he fails to use
i the strongest aid in kt# reach— the logu
' paper Hide yourself in your shop
amd yonr business will hide with yon.
A newspaper of lowa gives rather a
, discouraging account of what the far
mers in those " diggings " are doing, or
' rather not doing. Here ia the Price
Current: A pair of winter booto costs
two loads of potatoes; a night a lodg
ing, a load of oats; the wife wears five
acres of wheat; the children each ten
ncres of corn; the price pf aa overcoat
is a good four-year-old steer; of a Sun
day rait, tirenty fat hogs. The farm,
too, wears a mortgage that is worse
than hard-pan to the soil, and the an
nual tax rots the roof faster thaii rain.
In the case of Colonel Evans, who
was lost on the steamer Missouri, a Cal
ifornia exchange inform® na that the
Mutual life Insurance Company, of
San Franeisco, has paid his widow the
amount of hia policy, "genteouslv
waiving " an asserted right to withhold
payment for a year and a hair in all
eases where the body of the diseased
is not recovered. If there bq.gpy law
granting such * right to insuri< com
panies, it is one which is not geiarally
known to poll * v-koldera, and oast which
should be repffp-od on the earliest pppor
tunity. j.
A Missouri eoneroomlent offers this
sensible advice : " bete is a mistake,
whieh many people make in naming
West, and thri is t ey put all their
I monev in land, rirpecting to rtdw grain
and sell it to make money 4<r wapport
tlieir families, and make a start at the
West, forgetting that they have*, start
at the bottom, test they are ttt* new
country, that they have averythjng to
bny, and that
uu grain at the market nere,
while, if tev had been eonriaf with
leas land, and put their moneyuk®^.
1 in a few rears they could have bought
all the'land they wanted. **
. ;ii- atotals x* ti " *;•