life Is Uw. For pain and death are only for Lore'* aake. They wonkl M be if Lot* itsatf were ad. And whoeolorea, to him they tiSsire Tew! And nothing elee! Only tbM NfW may be No mere delusion, ne mere nightmare dream. Or dream of bttne. from which a man aball wake— Ah! thia ia why death la and town# U; And dust and aahea ah all ha foe ail time, As truly ae thia whole greatumvaco. Truly ae God ia, who ia all Idm! Not to create Love ia this world aaads fleeting; Where there ia no wutM at all, Love would exist. But it would alumher; now Si wake* h glows. It lore*, yet eeea no longer what it ess . It ia the beet blind spirit # the world. Which, all unscon itself, lovoa on forever. After the Apple. Behind me clang the golden door* No strength of mine may ops again: Before mo stretch th# wiki, wast* shores These hands to harvest fields must nam My last look, turning to the skies Of Eden that I I,we to-day. Sees but the hchunng* of your eyes. Like flaming aworvls to bar the way. You aland there, in your innocence. A snared, indignant at such end: J ndguig a paiuuon too intense For unformed souls to Comprehend. From you within to me w ithont A distance as from sea to sea Outlsroadens- the abyss of deals 'Twill dream ami wake ihal ueeda katsi be Yet think not, howsoever wide. That gulf shall not he spanned at last; Nor fancy slier* less Jeops divide The exiled ful are from the past. The path aiy feet have irodbefore Or soon or late you too shall tread; 1 may not walk your Eden more. But you will come to me instead For. various of ta-te. I www That, since oar common nxxher * fall, Hhaio fruit up ii that saU-saste hough Hath t ipeued for the Up* of all, And hang u low or hang it high, AnJ be the flavor sour or aweet. For yoa ia turn the lime draws ugh To pluck the apple and to eat. Till then peach an c lis weH yrsir eywa Should scathe me with tbeir ignorant Go shelter in your Paradise, And leave me bars among the thorns. But when yoa toe. without the gates, Look, shudc.ei.rg, oer the desert I are. Then tura -and pantos one who van# To make a pathway for you there. "IMViiXU t (1(1 IRS FOR TWO. "Smokes, does he! The abominable wretch f* exclaimed Mrs. Volant to hor friend, Mr*. Wash Burn, the young wife who had just gone to housekeeping. "He smokoa. bat he ia not an abom inable wretch—l am aure he is not," replied Mrs. Washburn, a little startled by the hard name applied to her hus band, whom she both loved snd os teon! ed. " Not a wretch?" " No, I am sure he is not." " Yea, he is ; any husband. especially one whs has been married only a year, and won't let off smoking whan his wife desires it must be s wretch."" " No; yon overstate the case. He is everything a husband ought to be—so kind, so devoted, so indnlgent. But, then, Ido wish he would not smoke." I " You must break him of it—the cruel monster." "Nay, do not call him snch hard names, I love him with all my heart, though he does smoke." " Well, I suppose Ton do ; young i wives nre apt to be foolish." " Foolish !" •' Yes ; he seos, I dare say. that yva ore him, aud ao ho takes advanUgv of Ton." " Why, Mrs. Volant, don't TOO IOTC ▼our husband ?" " Well, I suppose I do; there ia ne need of telling him of it 1 make him , think I don't care anTtliing about him. Why I can manage him as en*y aa I oonki a kitten." " I don't like that; I think there cught to be lore and confidence between man and wife." "Pooh!" " Yon cannot be happy with kim." "I should cot be if I became hh slave." "lam not his slave." ' " Don't you believe it ? When yon have been married a* long as 1 have you . will get rid of s ims of theso seritimenlal notions, which answer very well for tho first year or ao, but become very incon venient after that" " For my part, I always mean to love my husband aa mnch as I to now, even if it is sentimental." " See if yon do ! Hush nds must be carefully managed or they will become tyrant*. Now, my husband smoked j the first year after marriage ; but then he was a little careful about bringing his cigar into the house, for 1 toM him, tip ' and down I wouldn't have it" "I should supposed he womld have rebelled." "He did, but not at first. One night about a vear after we were married, he brought home a whole bundle of cigars and put them on the mantelpiece. ' Taking one, he coolly lighted it and proceeded to read the evening news paper." " That's the way my husband does." ' " I was downright mad at his impu dence, but did not say a word. The next day I bought a monstrous great snuff-box, and filled it fall of rappee. In the evening he lighted his cigar, • aa before ; but no sooner had he done so than I seated myself opposite to him, and drawing out my snuff-box I took a generous pinch, at the risk of sneezing my head off." " How funny!" Mr husband did not think ao. He looked at me with astonishment. " You take snuff?" says he. " I do; at least I mean to learn," I re plied. *. * L i " It is a filthy habit," said he. " No worse than smoking," said I. We debated the matter n long time. ' and at last he gave up the paint, and promised to throw away hiaaigartill would throw away my anuff. " And he never smoked any more ?" , asked Mrs. Washburn. * I "Yes; he began onoe after; hut J took to the snuff again, and he gave it np " " Are yon sure he don't smoke wow?" I " If he does he never lets me see him. My sitting is not smoked I np as yours is." " It was a glorious triek.'.' " That it was, and I advise you to try it npon Mr. Washburn." . " I couldn't take a pinch of snnff anv more than I could swallow an " Smoke, then. There are some little i cigars sold at the apothecary's made on I purpose for ladies. They are mild : that they wouldn't make- you mok, though even if they did yon wouldn't mind BO they cured your husband of I smoking." " It seems too bad to play auch a 1 trick upon him ; he is always so kind; and permits me to do just as I please," said tho. tender-hearted Mrs. Wash burn. 1 * " What else could he do ?" " It looks kind of mean to me." i " Not a bit." Mi! " I don't know as it would succeed* • "Nonsense! I am sure it would. 1 He never would let you smoke, for these ' husbands have an awful horzor of any impropriety in their wifes." " Then he says ho has always smoked j and can't leave it off." "Pshaw! The old story." "I am almost tempted to try it." J "I would." . | "It seems so nnkind, though, that I have hardly the heart te try it" I "Yon are notional, my dear Mrs. Washburn. When you have been mar ried—" * ' The remark was broken on by the abrupt entrance of the "abominable wretch " himself. Mrs. Washburn rose I as he entered, and, in spite of the abominable edor that his breath Mast! have exhaled, printed a kiss upon hie tobooeo stained Japs, AO M • * " *■ K I l\T/„ l\(htorun your head hut they will attain it. j lit her eye Mr. Washburn had only otic fault, aud that was the villajuous habit of smoking, which all her c!o --ouenoehad Invn ixiwerlcsato overcome. She didn't " put her foot tlowu," as her friend, Mr*. Volant, had done; for poor, gentle-hearted creature—she could not tlnnk of provoking a tiuarrvl with him, and had about concluded to make tlio beet of it aud let him stuoke in twaee. But there was something so irresist ibly funny about Mrs. Volant's plan that aim determined to try it, aiul ae -1 eordingly, on the afternoon of the next day she sent t\e Irish girl to tho apotli , ecary's shop for a hunch of "Bagdad jcigoia." Disposing a few of them in • hor work-basket, ready for the momen tous occasion, her mind pictured the ' scene that would eusue when she should ' fipht one of them. It was so funny that she laughed out loud at Rie idea. Wouldn't he be surprised to see her, who had teased hiui so much to leave off, smoking herself. Would not his ! eyes stick out when he should see her puffing a cigar at her sewiug, as he did when he read the evening paper. I Sii# was so pleased with the plan that she eould have put it iuto execution, even if it had been only for the sport it promised, independently of any good result which might dow from it. i Wouldn't he be mortified, and would the not win the day and glory over liis defeat ? Wouldn't he be glad to promise her that he wouldn't smoke another ci gar as long as he lived ? She was so delighted that she could hardly ooutaiu herself. Mr. Washburn came home to tea, and, as usual, when he entered tho house he gave her a kiss and tender greeting. They were seated at the tea table ; Mrs. Washburn was so full of mirth that she cathe near scalding herself with the hot tea when she poured it out. Her mer ry, grhschiavoas laugh rang pleasantly in her husband's ear*, who, poor fellow, could have no idea of the terrible or deal through which he was doomed to jams. When tea was over, the astral lamp . transferred to the light-stand, and Mr. Washburn had stretched himself into a comfortable position in the large, easy rocking-chair, with his legs lazily re , posing in another chair, the everlasting , cigar was produced, lighted, and begau Ito diffuse its fragrance through the room. . Mrs. Washburn- could hardly con trol her inclination to burst into a tiugh at the* mere thought of what she was about to tie. Seating herself at the side of the table, opposite her hus band, she took from the work-basket, with an air as grave and solemn as a ' judge, one of the " Bagdada." Placing the filthy roll between her ruby bps she j glanced at her husband. " Now, Mr. Smoker," thought she—it would have spoiled to have said it— ! " we will see whether you dou't aliaudon that nasty habit." Mr. Washburn happened to glance at her, bnt, oontrary to her expectation, he manifested no suprise, and went on . reading the Transcript. "So so, Mr. Smoker," thought she again, "you think I am joking, do ! wu ? 1 will-soon convince you ;' and tha lady took a paper aud applied a light to the cigar. Mr*. Washburn was rather inexperi enced in the modus operandi of lighting a cigar, and she was unable to make it ,go". She lighted another taper, and ivafled away with all her might; but the Bagdad Was as resolute as the great caliph himself. She persevered till her 1 extraordinary exertions again attracted the attention of Mr. Washburn. I " You are lighting the wrong end, |my dear," said he, with the utmost nonchalance. | " How provoking he is!" thought Mrs. Washburn, " why don't he remon strate ?" ) " You should bite the twisted cud, , and then put it iu your month," con tinued the husband, turning to the paper again. Aided by these directions the ladv t took another cigar, which she sneceed 'ed in lighting. The first taste of tlie tobacco snu-ke was horrible, but ahe 1 determined to be a martvr for lier hus band's sake, and takiug her sewing, she j continued to'puff away as she plied her needle, til] a certain uausc& compelled her to abandon the experiment for that 1 time. Casting the Bagdad into the grate, she liegan to wish she had not listened to Mrs. Volant. ■ " What is the matter, my dear ? Wasn't it a good cigar? Try mine ; they are Minute Cliristos of the first quality and the imperturbable Mr. Washburn offered her the choice from | hip case. j " No, I thank yon, my dear; I will i not arnoke anv more to-night." y " But what a the matter, Mary ? You are as pale as n sheet?" "1 feel a little faint ; I shall he bet ter in the morning. " And Mrs. Wash burn was obliged to leave the room, j p.jfir woman ! She was sick all the ] evening. Bnt the next dnv Mrs Volant, who htwl called to learn the success of i the experiment, advised her to try i again, assuring her that it would not make hex sick the second time, t Mr. Washburn had a couple of his intimate friends at his house to play a game of whiat the next evening, and the devoted wife resolved to try the effect I of a smoke in their presence. When the party were seated Mr. Washburn handed around the cigar case. ""Won't yon smoke, my denr?" asked he, tending the cigars to his wife, j, "A will ; but you know, Joseph, that I never smoke your cigars, they do not | suit my taste." "Whew, that was cool." ! Mrs. Washburn lit a Bagdad. "Ia .it possible you smoke. Mrs. I Washburn ?" asked Sir. Barnes, aston ished at tho singular spectacle of a jjroman puffing away at a cigar, for all 1 the world like u loafer in a barroom. "Occasionally, just to please my bas eband," replied Mrs. Washburn, after . ahe hud Mown out a long breath of blue 1 smoke. "Yes, Barnes," interposed Mr. Wash ! burn, "it is more sociable you know, to t have company when one smokes. We j are generally alone in the evening and ; she is ao kind as to smoke with me. Ah, Barnes, teach your wife to smoke, lit is w pleasant to smoke with one's , „ T . The lady was thunderstruck. Was it I possible that he had no more respect 1 for the proprieties of life than that? i She smoke ? She had already acquired : the reputation of being a smoker, with out having produced any of the desired Washburn threw the lighted i Bagdad into the stove. She had almost Otied with vexation. "Not smoke, my dear?" aaid her hus- Ibacd, THE CENTRE REPORTER. "1 think you enu bo sociable to-night if 1 don't smoke." "IKj smoke, my dear i it gives mo so mnch pleasure to "see you enjoy u g<*o had, Joseph. Mr. Washburn laughed outright, and, throwing down his esrds, cxp'atned the event of the preceding evening, "I will own up; 1 did it to break him of the habit ; 1 give it up," When the gentlemen hail taken their li ITS, Mix Washburn explained by whose advice she had ailopteil the plan. Mrs. A ohuit haa the reputation of lieiug a perfect shrew, tier husband is a laughing stoek for all State street. She is a bail adviser. "How slick you have turned the joke u|*on ml MM Mrs. Washburn, htugh iug heartily, "To tell the truth, I overheard some of vour conversation when the plot was laid." "Oh, ho, you did ; no wonder it fail ed then." "I did ; hut, Mary, are you so very much against my smoking ? I love the weed, but I love you more," anil Mr. Washburn kissed her tenderly. "Nay, 1 will say no more about it. Perhaps 1 was selfish." "Not selfish. 1 will leave it off, my dear, for your sake. "No, no ; 1 don't want you to do ao. If you nre so very fund of smoking 1 ■ will" never *av another word almut it." Aud Mr. Washburn has smoked hisj : cigar in peace ever since. A Dangerous Place. A correspondent speaking of the South African diamond mines, says Foreseeing the tremendous amount of labor that would be concentrated in and about the claims, the surveyor* made twelve roads through the kopje to which each claim-holder gave seven feet and a half. Si) between every two lines of chums there was a road fifteen feet wide. Of course this portion of the ground was to remain untouched until some future time, when, the rest of the aoil being worked, these alone remained to dig into. Put— alas for the anticipations of the authorities and the intentions of the diggera I—the roads were not left intact. They were undermined, gouged, aud encroached, on, uutil tbev became to care in. Huge , slicea would "break away from the wall*, nud with a dull thud, and surrounded by a choking Uniy dust, would crush into the pit below. Perhaps a faint cry would be heard as the horrified digger, looking up, saw his cud at hand; or perhajw more likely his back was bent, and, eager to see the sparkling gem , turn out before his gaze, he was cut off from the living world without a mo ment's warning. Another day a gaping crack in the roadway is ominous of an nccident. The diggers look at it and say, " It's no wider to-dav than vcater dav " Oh, it will stand are j safe enough ami so they descended the shaft, unmindful of their peril. Ten minutes alter a heavy loaded cart crawls that way, its great wide w heels cutting deep into the ground. It reaches this crack, a wheel enters the seam, and a moment more tha digger lelow and the driver abova meet in • eternity, while a crowrd of Caffrcs make a " lioorav" over the affair as they pull their mutilated bodies away from the coufused mass of wood, iron, and dirt. Next day the claim ia wild, and people forget the last accident in the still new er horror* which accumulate. Tho dan gerous condition of the mine haa caused many to sell out and leave, for as it ia at present worked (July 1H72), no man can descend into the claims without peril to his life. In the end the only plan to work it safely will be to form a joint-stock company to work it out niece meal, for four or five thousand eon . flictiug interests are ' unmanageable when concentrated in the area of lour teen acres. The Teaching of Grammar not Allowed. " I have been tend in'my J arte r Nancy to skool, and last Fndav I w<*it over to the skool to see how she vm gettin' along, aii J I need thing* I didn't like by no mean*. The ekool-master wa* Inrn in' lier things entirely out of the line of eddyration, and, n* I think, improper. I art" a while in tha akool-bouse, an' heered one class say their lesson. The lesson that Nancy #'d was nuthin' bnt the foolishest kind of talk"; the rdiehst word she sed was ' I love.* I looked right at her for bciu' so improper, but she went right on and sed, ' Tlum lore eat, and he love*.' And I reckon you never lieered such rigmarole in your life—love, love, love and nothin' but love. Who sed one time, ' I did love. Sez I,' Who did yon love ?' The akolars biffed, but I wasn't to be put off, and sod, ' Who did you love, Nancy?" The skool-master sell he would explain when Nnney had finished the lesson. This sorter pacyfled me, and Nancy went on with her awful love talk. It got wus aud wus every word. Hhe sed. '1 might, could, or would love." I stopj>ed her again, and sed I reckon I would see about that, and told her to wnlk out of that bouse. The skool-mnstcr tried to interfere, but I would not let him say a word. He Bed I was a fool, and I nokt him down, and made him holler in short order. I talkt the strnte thing to him. I told him I'd show how liede lnrp my darter grammar. I got the nabors to gether, ami we sent him off in a hurry, and I reckon tlmrl he no more grammar tcachin' in these parts aoon." A Fortune Missed. Colonel Michael P. Walsh died in the Shasta county, Cal., hospital on the .list of December last. He was born at Waterford, Ireland, and was within a few days of seventy-eight years old at the time <4 his death. At the ago of twenty-two he came to the United States and enlisted in the militnry service of his adopted country. Jn 1832 he went to Chicago and purchased eigiity acres of land, for which ho paid S2OO, This he kept for one year, when, the new town not coming up to hi* sanguine ex pectations, and thinking It wis Trot a very healthful nlnre, he sold the lot for the amount lie uad pohl f<>r it snd emi grated to n plaeoof more flattering pros leets. He went to California twenty years ago, and soon t. 173. Noletl I'olsouers, IVir I*U fvisoulns Mum - Sir Thorns* Over Kurr Osur fkugij • Hui* La Spars-Ax** Tslsu* The Msriluonru ile BiutriUuie. One of the must terrible crimes, one of the worst sorts of murder, is the de struction of human life by secret poison. There are shade* of guilt recognized even by the law, but the taking of life bv jkiisoiis, so slow in their operation that the gradual ebbing awav of exist ence rcaomblea the natural decay of venrs, is usually uu*iisj>eoU)d, and must he persevered in for some time, uutil the fatal result be produced. Tn a fit of pas*ion, or when under the influence of auger, or any other tempor ary feeling, human lifu may be sudden ly taken ; lnt stx'ret poisoning indicate* steady and reticent persistence in a de liberate design -such a*, in fact, noth ing but continuous malignancy could have oven conceived. Happily, this most terrible of crimes has declined very much withiu the last two or three hundred years. It is rcjieatedly mentioned in the (Sreek and I-atiu writers, but did not become a regular art until th" seven teenth century ; though in 1529, in the reign of Henry VIII, the English l'ar liameut passed a law declaring the em ployment of secret poisons to be high (treason, and appropiating boiling to death as its peculiar punish merit. A century later, m the reigu of James 1. some cases obtsined an unuappy no toriety in London I The wife of the Earl of Essex, a woman of great beauty, loose conduct and bad heart, was offended bv some reflections cast upon her by Sir Thomas Overbury, an author and courtier, and induced Robert Kerr, Is-rd Rochester, who then was en far too intimate terms with her, to remove him by secret poi soning, which he did. Home time after this, when Kerr loat hia favor at court, he waa tried and convicted of the (mi aouing, but received a pardon from the king. It was believed that tins was done to prevent his making some crimi nal disclosure# against the king himself! It was in Italy and France, however, tluit this rrtnie was longest and most effectually practiced. Throughout Ital , tsu history, front the time of the middle agea, secret poisoning casts s rrimaou hue upon every page. Men who shrank from assassination did not hesitate U> employ |>oisoti to remove their enemies or rivals. The Kouiiui family of Rorgia uaed this so largely that their name re main# associated with it. Ca-sar Rorgia had a ring from which started s sharp point, charged with poison, winch on such slight pressure as shaking hands, pressed itself iuto the flesh of the vie-1 tim, snd however slightly the skin might be abraded, leaving only s slight mark as if a inn had scratched it, the poison enter.*! into the victim's system snd death was the result, without leav ing a sign or mark of the cause. It will be remembered that Lord Lyt- U>n iwho is best known in tins country aa Lytton-Bulwer, the novelist) iutro- i duccd a ring of this kind into hi# ro mance of " Lucretia ; or, the Children , of Niglit," and by its use, tho criminal i heroine, then not knowing his idetitity, poisons her own sou. It may be added that Cmaar Rorgia'a fatlier, a highly distingnishtxl and greatly wicked man. who wo* believed to have " removed " nianv jwraons by foul means, invited an old friend to sup with him, intending to poison him by poisoned confection*. The guest, however had s warning of danger, aud made a point of seeing his bust's carver, who confessed that it was intended to destroy him, but consented, for a bribe of ton thousand gulden dn csts, so to arrange matter* that the box ! of poisoned confections was placed l>e fore the master of the feast instead of before the guest, and the deceiver boiug , thus deceived, the poisoner was poi- j . soiled. In the middle of the seventeenth cen tury, the large and increasing number | 1 of young widow* in Rome led to suspi- ' eion and inquiry, and it was discovered that the husbands had died suddenly— that a secret wwuety of young wives em- ! ployed an old fortune-teller, named Spa- 1 ra, to supply thvni with a poison, limpid, tasteless, and clear, which would destroy life slowly or suddenly, at will. The use of this poison continued through several years, until at lost Spars and thirteeu of lier fair clients were arresbil, tried, convicted, publicly whipped, and hun£, many others, of the highest rank m Borne, being banished anil flfied. Fifty vears after this, it was ascer , tamed tliat a similar system of crime was carried on in Naples, the chief pro moter of which was an old womau named j iToffiuiia, who largely manufactured the Hparn poison, and aohl it extensively, even sending it to various parts of Italy, under the name of " Manna of St. Nice* ' la of liari " (.the title of a miraculous oil said to cure rheumatism), bnt beat ' known, in our day, as the " A<|iin To fana." On analyzatinn, it is said to have consisted of crystals of arsenic dissolved , in water. It produced its effects slowly, by the gradual weakening of the nppe tite and the orgausof respiration. After six hundred peroons hail perished by this poison, Toffaniawas arrested, tried, | ■ convicted, and strangled, in 1710. From that time, secret poisoning has hardly been heard of in Italy. In the reign of Jjonia XIV. secret poi- j soning was carried on to a large extent in France, the criminals being married women, and the victims being in moat cases tbeir husbands. The suspicions of the Government being excited from certain information, two Italians, named Kxili and Gloaer, were sent to thri Bns tile, charged with having made and sold l the poisons, G laser died in prison, but Kxili became acquainted there with Seigneur de St, Croix, tlieu a prisoner, and taught him how to make the poi- j sons. St. Croix was the lover of the Mar chioness de Brinvilliers, s lovely and wicked woman, and hadlieon sent to the Hostile at the request of her father, j who was pained at his daughter's dis grnce, though, unfortunately, such oc- j curreneea were very frequent, then and there. On his release, St. C'roix told Brinvil liers thnt he had learned how to make poison, whereupon she resolved to de stroy her father, bnt first experimented , with thedeath dealing liquid on the sick eoplpo in the hospital of the Hotel Dieu. ( She resolved not to lie detected, and devoted eight months to the dosing of I her father. No suspicion was aroused, and therefore she removed her two I brothers and sisters by the name means. j Next she tried to poison her lltialmnd, but he eaeaped by taking antidotes, sup plied to him by Ht. Croix, who dreaded that he shoald be compelled to marry the widow. St. Croix died, iu 1672, while he was preparing poison. His mask fell off, and he was poisoned by the fnmes. Among his pspern were documents in-1 culpnting the marchioness. A domestic servant, named (Jhanssce, who was in their guilty secrets, was arrested, made ( a full confession, and was broken on the wheel. The marchioness escaped to | ! England, bnt was eventnaHy brought hack to Paris. On trial a "general eon- 1 fession," in her handwriting, found i among bar papers, was brought Againat I her; but aha declared it hod been writ , ten during toe insanity caused by a | fever. , I Thg torture, freely administered two j centuriepback, forced a full confesaiop front Iter, aud aim wits beheaded, oil July 10. 1070, Louis XIV, established the " Oham , bre Ardente," to try jmisoning cases. Two women, named Lnvoisin and La vigoreux, wlio told fortunes to young hells and young wives, and secured 1 their fiililltui. Nt bv providinglliem with "succession iMiwUcrs," were detected, and burned aitve tu I'aris, in February, aud fr.uu tlurty to fvrty of their aoootU|>lioca were haugad in various parts of France. But not until after one hundred persons had died cm the gallows, or at the stake, was tho eriute wholly suppressed.— 7*r. If. She I tun Mark, m it. , Mining and Manufactures. Tin niiuos are auid to have been dis covered tu I'tain There was recently discovered near Staunton, Yo., s large deposit of red hematite iron ore, probably thirty feet w i.le and extending several miles. The durability of asphalt aa flooring haa Iteen tested in the Northampton (England) cattle market, and the decis ion is against it. it was found that the treading of the cattle soon wore it away, and that it would speedily become necessary to replace it. It was accord ingly decided to lav the floor of the market with brick In place of the as phalt. A Itoaton rreliitcct has Ween in the • habit for many y.-arw of bedding his roofing slates tu hydraulic cemeut, in j stead of haviug then; nailed on dry in the usual way, which leavea them sub ject to be rattled by the wind and to be broken by any accidental pressure. The cement soon sets and hardens, so that the roof becomes like a solid wall. The extra coat is ten or fifteen per cent., and he thinks it good tconmav. It afford# ■ (grant protection against tire. The actual east oI a sewing machine ia from to f7, or with table and all complete from $lO to fjfl. At retail the price is 460 to §175, tho difference being clear profit. The Xatfonat Oil Journal draerihes a yolcatiic well-burner for increasing the I production of oil wells. The process of using this volume well-burner is as follows; A alow-burtung composition, consisting of nitrate of soda, nitrate of [totash, and eharooal, placed in suitable cases, is lowered to lue bottom of the well, and then iguited by electricity. The part* of combustion which are not carbonic pas are thrown out into the well through proper venta, heating the whole surface of sand rock, dissolving the parafiine, and thoreughly reatoring i the original poroaily of tle oil-bearing ruck, thus Uriugiug llic well back to nearly its first pnslucfiou. Thia pro ccas is attended with no danger either to |>erson or proptrty, as there is no ex plosion. Water-pipe# are now lined with glasa. i A space l.etwtvai the metal and the glass is filled with a layer of plaster of I an*. Tho glass is thus protected from breakage. Sixty mauufacU>riee supply us with j corks. The value of the corks used in this country annually is estimsU*l at 42.250.00 U. * It is proposed to mantifscturc the pro- Jncts >f t lk* gas well* in the western I (wirt of this State, Pennsylvania, and Ohio into carbon black, and a patent has i just been issued for s process by w tins may he ocouomically done. If ail the iuiiiicotr production of thia natural gas can by a cheap process l>e converted into an article of extensive commercial nse, it will certainly be a large source of profit to the oil regions. A Bold Exploit. The following is from the diary of the late Mr. Adolphu*, the barrister and historian: "May Btli, IH4O.—We hail a dinuer party, among them Mr*. Mathews ami Curron, who told an amusing atory of au agent to a nobleman in Ireland. It wax known to *nme ritffianiin the neigh borhood that he had collected a Urge •tun for rent* da* to hia cmploTcr. lu the middle of tho uighthc heard thieves breaking into bia house. He jnuiiied out af bed, and arming himself with a carving-knife, stood behind the door, and dosed it, xo thnt only one could enter at n time, which one would lie shows in the moonlight while he re mained in the shade. Four of the thievex entered and were despatched one after another, thoae without not knowing what happened. The fifth xuw a g'eaiu of tho blade in the moonlight, seized tho man, and a tremendous scuffle ensued. The agent struck several blows with hfs weapon, but made no im pression. ITe was got down, and his antagonist orer him, when, feeling the knife, he fonnd the point was bent. He had the presence of mind to prexa it atmngly against the door, oo as to turn it liadt, stabbed his adversary dead, and, as be was jdone in the house alio could have no assistance till the niorn iug, retired to bed. 110 was knighted for the exploit. Some one said to him, ' I wonder yon could go to bed while there were on the floor the corpses of five persons whom yon had killed ?' His answer was, *lt did make me Terr un easy ; 1 could not get a wink of sleep for nearly on hour!' " IVOBT. —The various substances in cluded mnfef the term ivory are the tusk 1 of the elephant, the walrus, the narwhal and the hippopotamus. To these we ' most add the fossil iv<>ry so often used !in ancient carvings. This wss obtained from Silierin, where the tusks of the j mammoths am found slung the bauksof the largo rivers. It is a euriou* fact that the largest tusks of ivory now pro cured would uot furnish pieces as large as those used in the Middle Ages. ' There is every probability that the an ' rientw softened the ivory nnd could then enlarge* the pieces. A fifteen century i reci|ie in the British Museum directs that the ivory should be placed in muri atic acid, anil it will become soft as wax. By beiug placed m whito vinegar it hardens again. The Greeks used ivory ! to decorate thuir conchas, and nlsotheir shields and arms. Greek sculptors did not think it beneafh them to workinthe j art. A pocrom'S STOUT.—X good, but we know not how reliable story, is related of a venerable doctor of the experiment al and eclectic school of medicine. It was one of hfs rules never to have any thing wasted ; and therefore when any i prescript iota rrmsuiod after the patient iuul died or recovered, he would empty it into a bottle kept for the purpose, that became the receptacle of a hetero geneous compound that science rould not analyse. A yonnger member of the faculty noted this as a very singular fact, nnd he naked of him the reason for it. The doctor hesitated a little and then replied that though in ordinary eases he knew well what to do, there were instaneea whereall his medical skill failed. At anoh times it was his custom to rooort to the big bottle, and leave na ture and accident to accomplish the cure, " Aod will you believe it," said he, " some of my most brilliant success es have resulted from it." A Sap DISASTER. In Richmond, Ya. a span of a bridge fell. At the time a large nnnjhor of workingmcn were on the bridge nnd went with it into the water. Ten of the workmen went down withthesfMin; three of these were never seen to rise again, and are supposed to liave been crushed by the falling tim bers. Another f rid tea a short distance down the river &|id soon sunk forever. Kisns, the Child Murtkrsr. It* Conbiwi le Itrml Mw4m. lal all the above crimes is brief snd indefinite except as to tho Joyce children, which wss made to IJepuiv Sheriff Henry A. Drew, who arrested Rim and had himiu charge ten days Iwdore he revealed to him the seerct of the murder of Georgi* ana liovermg. Mr. Drwwjuiya that after Evans liad ooufessod uie murder in* questioned him as to his whereabouts for tbc last fifteen year*. "Finally," says Mr. Drew, " I traced him to Rhode Island, and then to Roxbury, Massachu setts. Mention of iioxbtirr, and the similarity of the two murders suggested to me for the first tuue that he might have perpetrated the murder of the Jovce rhildreu, of which I hail then hut •a Jim rocollection, and of the circum stance# of which I have now but very little knowledge. I then in terrogated him on the wubiect, and the question* on my part snd the replies on liis were deemed by ma of ao much im portance that I immediately reduced the substance of the conversation to writ ing." The following csvers tho mam points of the couleaion elicited in re gard to the Joyce children; (Jucation by Sheriff ljrew Well, Frank what um tell me, you luuat tell me now ; tell me all all about it; were you in Roxbury or were yoti in Man chester—tell mc iust as it is * A. Mr. Drew, 1 was right there when that boy and girl were killed. Q. AVas he st abbed or not ? A. Yes, he was several timea Q. Did the girl make much ado f A. Yea Q. More than the boy did ? \ Y('it Q. Why did she ? A. She* was raped ; don't ask me any more, I have now U>W you. ty. Wo* the set committed before she was killed? A. Yea, Mr. Drew ; I won't say any more , I have told all about it now. g. Well, Frank, 1 guess yon have; but one tiling more: Was tliegirl braised much ? A. Yea ; I won't answer another ques tion. Mr. Drew—Well, I won't aak yon any more. Mr. Drew lUlei that Evens farther Mid that the house where the rhildren came from wax an the left-hand aid* aa you went into Boston from Itoxbury, sud was a two-story house. Mr. Drew aaid to him, " Now, rrank, it was a little cottage-ho use on the right-hand aide as you go toward Boa- Urn ?" Evans replied: "It w* a two-story house, on the left-hand side as yon go into Boshm from lioxbury." The following affidavit is corrobora tive of Sheriff Drew's statement: I, Azoriah Waldron, of Stratford, iu the County of Stratford, State of New Hampshire, depose aod My that I was keeper over Frattkhn 1). Evans at Heury A. Drew's hotiso ; that I hail a conver sation with Evans in regard to the Joyce children ; Evans said to me, " I hope they won't bring that Up till I get through with this ; if they do, what will tliev do to me F* I answered, " Thev will hang you twice." Kvau Mid, " They cannot kill me but once." A SARI AH WALDOO*. Sworn and subscribed to before me, Hknkv A. DREW, Justice of the Peace, Transit of Venus. In the astronomical world, the coming event, although yet nearly two years distant, is the transit of Venus. Ex tensive preparations are making to utilize to tho utmost, for the advance ment of astronomical acienee, this rare and interesting phenomenon. The transits of this planet lake placs at in tervals of eight, one hundred and five and one-half, nnd one hundred ami twenty-one nuil one-half year*. The last transit having occtired on the 3rd of June, 1765, the next, after an inter val of one hundred and five and a half years, will greet the eyes of expectant "astronomer* on the 4th af December, 1874. Venus is the larger of the two plnneta having their orbs within that of the earth, and appenrn to terrestrial lieholders the most brilliant and magni ficeut of all; the star par rjrcelfmrc of beauty, poetry and love. But not aa a matter of sentimental, romantic or es thetic interest, nor yet with reference to the fact thnt no human era now ex isting has ever witnessed this phenome non ; nor ss s matter of mere scientific curiosity is the coming event so much discussed and so much prepared for. Accurate olmervation af this phenome non will furnish data of the first im portance to astronomical science, by which the distances from the sun of the earth nnd other planets, and their re sjiective magnitudes may be precisely calculated. Tnr.MOBS CAI-SKD BY TOBACCO.—The trembling which ia one of the usual symptoms of acute, is alar a common result of chronic moot sin. A very dis tinguished Parisian physician lisd hands which shook so much that he could not write. Whenever ho remained without tobacco for any length of time, these trerablinga disappeared. Another cone, mentioned by Blatin, is noteworthy: A man of forty-five years consulted him respecting violent nnd numerous attacks of vertigo. When he felt one of them approaching ho was obliged to lie down wherever he might lie, in order to avoid falling. In the country, where lie had plenty of exercise, they were ICM fre quent than in the town, where his occu pation was sedentsiy. Cessation from tobacco, and a tonic regimen, auickly restored him. A physician of fifty-two was afflicted with similar disagreeable symptoms, and was also cured by absti nence. Habit had become so strong that he could not resist, at times, tho temptation to slight indulgence. Find ing that these returns to tobacco were immediately followed by his old painful attacks, he renounced it forever. Terms: &2.00 u Yenr, in Advance. No Friend#, No Home, No Moorj. A U.srtl*** DsajkLf -Whz *of Mlis Oal las TSrosT—Hi* TiwuMss Roger Meehiui, who was found at tl*e Grand CVuUa) Depot with his throat eut, lies at Bellevue Hospital in a crit ical condition. Mr. Mochau is over sixty years of age, but is confined in ouo of tho cells. The ugh suffering from weak ness, with much exertion he related his story as follow# to a re|orter: Mr, Median married hia wife, who was a Mra. Elizabeth Btirke, in Ireland, 23 years ago, nod emigrated to thia country at that time, loud November Mr. Median waa aick in Bdlevu*- Hospi tal. While there las wife called and teld him that her daughter by a former husband, hail bought for her a house sud three acres of land in Woolford, Carroll county, N. H., and that she waa going to tki their three children and go there. The oldest child waa 14 and the vouugeat 9 yoara old. They always livej peacoahly together. Mrs. Median a*kel her husband when lie got well to follow her to Woolford. Mr. Median, when he left the hospital, went to work to earn money to enable him to join hia family. He says he worked Kurd, but did not have money enough until Tuesday, the 4th iust.; thenhe had saved fid ith that oatu, on the night of the 4th inst., lie left New York to joim his family. Thia he did against the wishes of another step daughter who reeidea in thia city. He arrived at Woolford at H o'clock the fol lowing evening. There he lraroed that Mrs. Median livcl two milea from the village, and he decided to remain at the hotel for the night and meet bis wife the next morning. On Thursday morn ing lie starU-d for the home of his wife before eating any br akfasl, aud wslked there through tile deep snow. By some means his step-daughter, a maiden of 31, whose name is Margaret Day, snd who ia the servant of a wealthy gentle man living near Woolford, heard of hia arrival, auid got a man named Thomp son to take her to her mother's house. She was there when Median arrived. He knocked at the door aud Margaret oueued it. When she saw who it waa she said: " Yew can't eome in here ; this is my house, and then slammed the door in las face. Meehan uv> he was amazed at such treatment, a he coald not imarina the cause. rvt he eat down on the steps and cried. After sitting there a few mo menta he again nipped at the door and aakrd hie step-daughter if ehe wouid please giva bim a glass of water. The unfeeling girl replied to the entreaties of the poor old man, earing, " You will get no drink of water here ; go away, and go haek where you came from." Meehan says it teemed a if there waa a fascination that held him to the apot, and though he waa thnudcr-atruck with her unnatural treatment, he could not leave. Eighteen years ago he had (laid the passage moucy which brought this step-daughter, her brother, and her nncle from the old country, and as he could not remember having ever given her any cause for inch treatment, he felt heartbroken. While he was indulg ing in surh reveries the man Thompson, who had brought Margaret to the houae, approached Meehan and aaid, "Come, 111 gire you a ride back to the village in my sleigh. What is the use of your waiting here?" Meehan says he then felt, as he could not sec his wife and children, he did not want to live any longer, and aaid within himself, ** I'm done. I'll never go back to New York alive." He then drew pocket knife and deliberately cut his throat. The blood flowed freely from the wound, ond he fell in the anow and ice from exhaustion, at the threshold of hit step-daughter's house. Thompson, when he saw whattheold man approached and wound a handkerchic. around his throat, nearly choking him to death. His wife came out and cried bitterly, her cries attracting the atten tion of the neighbors, who Ix-gan to gather. The old man was still lying in the anow and ice, and iwgging to be taken into the house. The neighbors standing near attempted to comply with liis appeal, but the heartless Margaret stood in the door and would not allow him to enter the house. Finally the people became indignant, and Meehan was taken into a farmer's bouse, where his wound was dressed by a doctor who had been summoned. Two of the farmers tried to induce him to consent to go to the hospital in the village, but he aaid as he could not see hia wife and children be did not wish to remain in the town. He says that he wanted to conic to Bcllevae Hospital, where they knew li ra and would treat him kindly. As it was found he had severed a prominent artery in his neck, a wealthy gentleman volunU-cred to de fray his expenses, and tako him to New York. Meehau. with Mr. Barker, left Woolford last Friday looming. Arriv ing in Boston. Mr. lhrl er took the old man in a carriage to the New York de pot. He gave bim hi* supper; after which, Meehan said he oould go alone the rest of the wav. He says when he arrived here, at 6 o'clock last Saturday morning, he was so weak he became be wildered, and knew nothing until he found himself in Belle vac. He charges that hia step-daughter has influenced his wife hi desert him. and sobbing bit terly, said, " I'll never see my wife and children again ; I don't want to get well." At this moment Warden Brennan en tered the cell and said, " How are you. Meehan ?" Meehan—Oodble&ayou. Wanton ; I'm verv weak. The poor old man then begnn to cry *ii.l the reporter left him. Warden Brennan says that Meehan dwells upon hia troubles so much that at time# he ia out of his head, and he is eloaely watched all the time. He cut hia throat in a terrible manner, and it is probable that inflammation will set in and deprive him of life.—.Wee l'ort fhjar. A Mermaid. The Lou Angeles (Cah) hlrprr** de scribee the "mermaid" now on exhibi tion in that place. It was canght by Captain Eastman, of the schooner Itos coo, embalmed by Dr. Lyford, and kas been exhibited at Han Diego. The body i about three feet in length. The eyed, in largo sockets, were pricked to iet out the water, in the embalming process. The mouth ia very broad, with twenty-eight curved and singularly shaped teeth. The nose is a combina tion of the Roman and the snub. The brow is deeply indented with heavy brain lobea ; long and broad earn adorn the queer-looking head, and short, woolly hair covers the head and aides of tha face. The cerebellum and Ad am's apple are very prominent. The arms are long and terminate in long clawa, consisting of fonr fingers and a thumb, with the sharpest of nails. There ore eleven ribs extending around the body and meeting at the breast. Here the fishy portivin of the thing be gins. It is covered with scales, the spine having the dorsal fin, and the fish continuing in the nsnal development to the tip of the tail. There ia great excitement in Salt Lake City owing to the President's proclama tion, and the Mormon leaders and press exhibit considerable fear, while the people ftjre quietly awaiting results. NO. 10. The Public iladrrgarteu In Boston. Hit re hi a oliM-ming account from the Huttt ou Ttat rllcr of the manner in which the Public Kindergarten in that city is conducted:— Twenty lovely little children wore i>Uring in • ring st s lire!/ play ; one little lot was pussy, another s moose ; *ud, sfter singing together s pretty couplet or two, the cbsse IK GUN. Mom* of the children who took turns in the running wefe more sgile tbsn others, and one little fellow had the wit to turn | ami meet the mouse who was running , round and round outside the ring when he found he wae a tittle too far behind her to make it probable he ever should catch her. It wae the occasion of some pretty little storiee at*it mice, which ' were told after they all returned to their seats to rest, and while they were taking turns in a very orderly manner in taking a drink of water for refreshment. The I plsr showed by the discipline attending it that the children were well in hand by the teacher, whose very sweet voice ' was alone enough to diffuse harmony among them. It wae the day for mould- j ing in clay, and they were all eager for the lesson ; but by accident the register had been left open all night, so that the j clay waa too dry ; and the explanation of the fact waa accepted eery pleasant- j ly, and a block lesson substituted. The pt rrnmnt l of the school iaalaoaomewfud j different from that of former year*, and this is due to the correct views of the teacher, who did not think it right to i make a public school what is conven-. tionally called select Bhe went into the neighborhood herself, and induced the arttaana and tradespeople to send their children. A prettier set, or one more , easily managed, could hardly be found, ] and the moral and social training of the j kindergarten is eminently conducive to , refinement and self-government. These . children have one advantage over those 1 of a wealthier class, that their ante- j school education has not been given by j nursery girls, but by mothers. During the shrrt stay I made in the ) school the children learned the meaning j of some expressions used in building, ■ and illustrated them with the blocks in > their hands, so that they will doubtless j he remembered always. They also. learned aome self-government, without any sharp reprimanding. They were not restrained from speaking, but were allowed the proper, child-like freedom of giving utterance to their impression*, j giving the teacher an opportunity to 1 correct their speech, and they were j readily brought to silence by her gentle ! remark that it wae not proper to speak ; when the U scher was speaking. The j young lady's motherly, sympathetic ( manner wae quite charming to eec, and j as I know she enters intelligently ae I well a* enthusiastieilly into the idea of the soul culture that ia to accompany the pleasant tasks given to little fingers j and minds, I enjoyed my visit very ■ much, and waa only astonished to sec ; empty seats that twenty more children I might occupy without crowding in this ] large and pleasant room. It ta to be f hoped that the exertions Miss Peabody ; is now making to spread the genuine schools of Froebel's system will enligkt- ; en tlie apathy which has not yet been , overcome upon this important subject j of early education. The New Postage BUL The following u a full text of General j Farnsworth's bill to farther amend the ; Ewtal lava, aa it passed the House of j rprceentatives: He it martrd, except book, maaraaine, and newspaper j manuscripts and corrected proofs pees- j ing between authors and publishers, and excepting also oorreapoudooce or ! postal carda, on all printed matter which j is •<> marked as to convey any other or < farther information than is conveyed by > original print, except corrections of mere typographical errors, on all matter j which is stint in violation of law or reg ulation of the Department respecting i inclosnrca, and on all matter to which i no specific rate of postage is assigned, j postage shall be charged at a rate of two ' cents for each half ounce or fraction j thereof, and this provision shall include j all letters commonly known as drop, or j local letters, delivered through post- j offices or their carriers ; and magazine j manuscripts and newspaper manuscripts nrc hereby declared to belong to the thinl-clssa of mailable matter. SEC. 2. That from and after the first, day of January next, under such regu- ! latinos and in such manner as the Post-1 master-General shall prescribe, postage provided by law to bepaidttpon printed matter or mailable matter of the second class shall in all esses be prepaid and collected at the offices respectively where such matter shall be mailed, ana the postage on daily papers not exceed ing four ounces each copy in weight shall l>e charged and collected at the rate of fifteen eents per quarter; Pro vided, that weekly newspapers within the respective counties where the same are printed and published, and none other, may pass through the mails free of pwtage as provided in the eighth clause of section 184 of the set to revise, consolidate and amend thestatuees rela ting to the Postoflkw Department toe. 3. That any person who shall take any letter, postal card or packet out of any postoffice or branch post office, or from letter or mail-carruir, or which has been in any postoffice or branch postoffice, or in the custody of any letter or mail-carrier, before it shall have been delivered to the person to whom it was directed, with the design to obstruct correspendenee cr pry into the business or secrets of another, or shall secrete, embezzle or destroy the same, shall, on conviction thereof, for every such offense forfeit and pay a pen alty not exceeding §SOO, or be impris oned at hard labor not exceeding one year, or both, at the discretion of the court. DEATH or A CLOW*. —The death of Joe Pentland, the cirena down, in the Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island, present* one of the saddest of the con trasts of this checkered life. Alas! poor Yorick ! For years had Joe worn the motley and played the fool in the little garish world "whose sky was the flapping canvas. His mild jests, al most as rapid as the lemonade that passed around the front row of seats, delighted thousands of infantile minds both old and young,and yet Joe's intel lect, not overworked, one would think, by the demands of his profession, be came clouded and muddled, more imbe cile it fact than it could eTer be in its best days in the ring, and he died in the gloomiest of all death chambers—a ward in the insane asylum. How rr is Doxx.—The man who an swered an advertisement to the follow ing effect says his curiosity is satisfied now: "If you would like to know how to make home happy, send a postage stamp and 25 cents to P. 0. box No. —, Cin cinnati." He did send the necessary cash, and soon received the answer: " If you are as big a fool as we think yon must be for giving us your money, yon can make home happy by leaving it and going West yourself." And yet that man is not happy. Mr. Monkey, of New Jersey, who still lives, invented the "monkey wrench," Items •f Interest. " - Tie* iMraw gwt m hand jg no w Unjr & totfl iMt will d iff n ant in Detooifwill live him a dollar for a genuine mm Bunker Hill. The nailers' strike at. Wheeling, Weal Vs., has ended, after several m withe existence, and tiie nail mills of that city have resumed operations. An infsntehihl trf Mr. Jamee W <**!. of LamiingbuJX. !t weok from the bite of a rat, MHMUMI wwa* it waa sleeping in its cradle. Charleston papers itemise a resident of that city wbnhws mstualW reed the Bible all through. He did It for a bat, , in a little over two days and i half. The prisoners in the Miawwtn Peni tentiary reosive a pound of tobacco apiece every month at aa expense to the Bute of between $3,000 and $4,000 a year. It is reported that a number of French residents entertain the project of establishing s oniony of immigrants from Alsace and Lorraine in 4be neigh borhood of Hew York. The Klieebstk Ucrald thinks an aged couple of that city odd beesuae they ara Imtn woQ educated, both get drunk, and allow their pigs and bene to live in the same room with them. Hie question is being debated, "Why not have Old Men's Christian Associa tions f" That's so. Old men some tunes shuad more ia need of controlling j influences than young men. Hydney Smith one# commenced a charity sermon by saying: "Benevo ieaee ia a sentiment oummoa to human nature. A never sees B in distress without aaking C to relieve turn. A Baltimore physician, no* in Vienna, has invented m instrument to cure cross and squint eyes. It baa been intro duced into the hospital at Vienna, and is well received by the profession. A Battiurrrmn who wae refused a night'* lodging in • station-bouaa the . other evening iiqpediately secured the desired accommodation by going out and throwing bricks at a railway train. The greet wrestling contest between Homwhuif, o# New Toik, the cham pion of America, and Lang Dolan, of i Brighton, Mesa., for SI,OOO e aide end the championship of America, took place at Brighton. Them wee e large , attendance. Lane was the winner in two straight beats. Whan Lee met Meade on the Phlin Sunday of 188$, near Appomattox Court House, he natd with trivalty no common, amid crushing misfortune, "Why, Meade, what are you doing with gray ia ywwr heard F* " Toa have have a gi**l deal to do with it, retorted his conqueror with a short laugh. A Newfoundland dog not long since placed himself between Ms master's child and the open grate toward which it was crawling in Nashua, N. H-. and remainded there, though scorched and blistered, until persons earns into the room and rescued the child. And somo body poisoned that dog the other day. Germany proposes a school reform in the matter of using slate*. It ia urged that they are noisy, hurtful to the eyea, and halo to form a had handwriting. A substitute is proposed—snelaatic, light, paper affair, m wiueb ink can be itaad, and iron which it com be removed eas ily. That good, mo Car, bat eon the ink alao be eaafly removed from the h.nit, and clothes u{ the unskilled little users? A Peoria man arose the morning after a storm and found hii dog kennel buried under a drift M kigb m a church. H worked for half on hoar to dig hie dog out, and then went down town and told kia elctks what be had done, oddir. "A merciful man is merciful to lua beasts." But after he had left home the neighbors aaw hia wife and daugh ter a hoveling path* through the snow, and carrying in ooaL A hint: A Hartford toper appealed to ' a merchant of that eity for the where withal to bur u drink. The merchant, 1 being a temperance man, could not oomplr with ais request; but the fel low's imploring manner and condition touched aim. *' Well," apid the per- Hiotent fellow, " if you can't give it to me, couldn't you tend that jrentlett.ia ten cents (pointing to a clerk, ami ha oould give it to me." It ia needkaa to say that the chap got hie ten cento. A t>qdqn farmer has devised a new dodge, lie took a load of very poor hay to the residence of a gentleman in Ottawa, and informed that gentle man's wife that he hod been directed to i leave tlae hay in the yard and receive from her S2O in peyment She sup posed it waa *ll right; butthehuabaad.ou kis return, was disgusted to find that he , had a load of hoy that he did not wont and had never ordered, and that hi. wife had paid for it three timen as much 1 as it was worth. Henry Boykin. colored, of Columbus, does not rejoice in the beat of reputa tions. His evidence in Court was im peached, end several negroes swore that he had an immense quantity of truth in him, as he never let any out One negro said he had heard another negro sav he was "the grandest of liars;" another, that "he wouldn't trust him the width of his dooranother, that " he was the Imr of Georgiaanother, ♦>,.* • his reputation for falsehood was nationalanother, that "he was a'fore day coon liar." Routine end tarn (red) areas predem inant in w>.Hfs, N. &, as elsewhere. A lady of that citv desired the removal of a dead cat Upon inquiry, she was in formed that ahe must tell the senior al derman of the ward, who would tell the mayor, who would tell the health in spector, who would tell a policeman, who would tell the dead-cat man, who would come and cany away the animal! All this would take time, and possibly the oat still remains upon the premises. It would hsve been easier for the poor woman to have buried it at once. IV §eath of Ex-Go Termor Geary. John W. Geary, whose sudden death is announced, was born in Wistmore land Co., Pa., in 1820. After serving as a merchant's clerk he entered Jeffer son College and after hit graduation he became a civil engineer. Doling the Mexican war he served as Lientenant- Cotonel of a regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers and was slightly wounded at Chapoltepec, where he commanded his troops. On the same day he com manded the regiment at the attack on Bel en Gate previous to the capture of the city of Mexioo. After the capture he was* made a Colonel and placed in command of the city es a reward for his gallant conduct. At the elose of the war he removed to San Francisco, where he occupied the offices of Post master, Alcalde and first Mayor. From July, 1856, to March 1857, he waa Gov ernor of Kansas. In 1861 he raised and equipped the Twenty-eighth Regi ment of lVmisylvenin \aluuteers, was made a Br oiler General in 1862 and was appointed Military Governor of Savannah when that city was captured in December, 1864. In 1867 he wee inaugurated Governor of Pt nnsylvania and held that office until succeeded by Governor Hartranft this winter. THB Crass JJEKSCB.—TIie census of Cuba has recently been taken, and Gen eral Sickles, receiving the result from the Spanish Government, has transmit tal it to Washing too. The total popu -1 ition of the island is placed at 1,399,811- there being 768,176 whites, 238,927 free colored, 363,288 slaves, and 34,420 Asi atics. In 1867 the population of Cuba was reported to be 1,414,508, so that in the five vears that have elapsed there is a decrease of 14,706. The insurrection Sroba bly interfered with getting aoonrate guree from some portions of the island during the past year, so that we may look upon the statement as only approx imately correct. If those young men had not continued making love till after twelve o'clock, to those sisters in Dunbar, lud., the other night, the house, which has been set a-fire by a lanatie, would have been burned down, and perhaps many lives lost So there is some good in levers after 1L