Slighted. Tfci thing that yon h*v# eoklly dons Bem* hat a trifle hi your eyi*, And may!)*, it yon knew my pain, Tboy would hut gresfra with turpi As one who 1 rush** (torn a roee gome nntall brown crsstnrv nested thara, To make it ittsr for the ve Of her who ehnll it. awaatnoM wear, Berk* little of the Midden pang Of the poor tenant dispos****.*!. Throat from the pale pink palaoe where It* inetgmfloanoa was bleat. Bo you from oot my life Kara ewept One frail ilhition. flower-eweet: If 1 am poorer for the lorn. You ah all not know it when we meet! The Ruined Library. But a little apark. In the rnlent dark, To the tack of a bcokoaee crept; It had work to do lu the momenta few While the abaent reader. slept. Through e hollow way, Like e etar at play, It stole. Just os> midnight died. With ita elondy smoke. Like a traitor's eloak. Half torn by his haste aside. Flashing swift and gay, Through the cobwehe gray. It leaped to the joist and beam ; Faster and taster. Through lath and piaster, It flashed with ita evil gleam. Through the wall at lost; Breathing I KM and fast. By the rush of us entrance faulted. It upheld us light. Over psgea white. And smutched them with crimson hand. Beaten thoughts and true, Ancient words and new, Graveu gold by a thinker wrought; Cadenced silver songs. Argued rights end wtougs. Opal caskets to shriue a thought. Little recked the Are * What -onifKiscJ the pyre. Whether Shakspeaiw or Buiiyan huniesl. As he opened wide V domes glorified. And their dainty edges turned. So the werk went on. TUI the ghost ly dawn. Looking in at the night-work done. Saw the Terror stayed. And the dead books laid On the held where the spark had won; Saw the scholar's grief Over smoking leaf. Over ashes, for which might be BftninMwa none. Through their shrouding duu lu the dawu quivered dtfully. MY STEPDAUGHTER. "I suppose you hare broken the mat ter to Eleanor?" I said to "my widower " only three weeks before we were to be married. " I could not do it after aIL We may as well surprise her, and it will be all over at once," said Mr. Eustace, strok ing that handsome beard, which had been one of his great attractions to me. " I verily believe you arc afraid of your own daughter.' Your long delay Is a great injustice to her, and it makes me unhappy, yes, miserable." " I am sorry, but I rather like vonr scolding, Lizzie. I have always been umd to silent, self-contained women, wno would not move an eyelaah if the hufttrens fell." " Is Eleanor one of that sort ?" " Yes, the oddest girl in the world. I wish she had a little more nonsense abont her." • * I have enough for two." " I give thanks for it. You are - DOS too bright or good. For human nature's daily food.'" " The compliment may be veil meant, bat it sounds doubtfal. I shall never trouble von with perfection. Do you Chink oar marriage will make Eleanor unhappy !** "No—yes—l don't know," said Mr. Eustace, on the rack with my perverse questions. " How will Hngh like it?" " Oh, he swears by Eleanor; he will take his cue from her." " Then I shall make two wretched by going into your home." " What is the use of talking about it? We love each other, and that's enough," said "my widower" crisply, in what I suspected would be his married tone. Mr. Enstaoe staredss late as any young lover, and I hoped most heartily that his daughter did not ait op for him. I scolded him no mora on that even ing,. but when he waa gone I crept very silently to bed with a little aiater, and did more hard thinking upon the case of Eleanor Eustace than I had ever spent on her father. I had a vision of the tall, pule, dignified girl (I had seen her once in chnrch) suddenly dumb founded by the sight of an actual step mother. It was not too late to renounce him for her sake, but oould Idoit ? I waa the eldest-of five sisters, nearly all grown np, and beginning palpably to crowd me out of the home nest. Sir. Eustace wis the captive of my bow and spear, the first and only one. We were a family of hcartv, not to say boisterous manners, terribly prone to call a spade a spude. I was already twenty-eight; it would be a fearful ordeal to be the old maid of our sisterhood. And, after all, Eustace would be sure to go further, and Eleanor might fare worse. Bat at least I might have the grace to warn her of her fate. I rose np in the small hours and lit a candle, in fear and trembling, for I think this must have been the first deed done in secret in our houae. I pat pen to paper without waiting a moment, lest my courage, like Bob Acres', should all ooze oot of my fingers' ends : " DEAB EUE4OB ECBTACK Your father is going to marry me three week# . from to-day. He will not tell you, and I feel that I must. I believe it will be almost as hard for me to enter your home as a second wife as it will be for yon to receive me. " Ever your friend, "LIZZIE MOBTOB." I posted this deed of darkness before daylight, and on the second day the answer was handed in to the breakfast-. table with other letters : "Mr DEAB MISS MOBTOB Your kind note of the 18th is received. " Youre sincerely, " EIJEAXOB ECSTACE." That was all. I had sent her a bit of my heart and she returned a atone. In my anger I tore tno dainty little note into shreds, and cast them into the fire- < place. My little sioter picked out the pieces and tried putting them together tike a dissected map. She made ont the nam" "Eustace," and announced it trinmphantly. " Did he want you to elope with him beforeyour wed ding elothes were donef' asked Haviland Morton, our naval con sin, who stayed with us between voy ages. " I suppose you would sooner give him up than do that f" "I should hope so," said mother, severely, with an eye to the younger girls. " Secret marriages never turn ' out well." "I am mot so certain, saving yonr presence, auntie," said Haviland. "It seems to me all that girls marry for in these latter days is the fuss and new dresses. It would be a delightful thought to take to sea with me that my love and I belonged wholly to each oth er, and nobody else knew it. I would not have so niuch as a pair of white gloves to distract our attention from the beauty and glory of the main fact." We all made up a face at Haviland's absurdity, and I went to try on my new dresses. I said no more to Mr. Eufttaee of his daughter, thinking all the more; and the wedding-day came Tike ail days, if you wait long enough. We were mar ried at neon and Mr. Eostaoe drove me Fit ICD. K I liTZ, lvlitor and 1 > iH>prit>tor. VOL. VI. in his ferriage the ten miles that lay between my old home and the new. As we approached the latter, he grew ab sent and reeUcaa. I knew l>| u fellow feeling that he wan thinking of his daughter, hut I would do nothing to re lieve him ; he deserved half an hour of misery. Eleanor came te meet us as her father opeued the door, a girl who might have sat for Tennyson'* Isabel; ——lk* wvrkl bath ** a.ttother Of nuh i ftuikhrd, v butriirit purity. My first feeling, us 1 stepped serosa the threshold where another womau had ruled before me, was a very meek oue. If Uiat womau hans to marry without it. I should like to see the man who should be bold enough to hiss her. Walking up to the cannon's mouth would be nothing to it." I wanted to see him, too ; but as the days went on and Haviland's departure began to be talked of, I was forced to think that he waa not to be that bold man. Eleanor was very busy npon Hugh's outfit; he had been at the Naval School, and now had conspired with Havilaud to soil in the same bliip. The Winona was under repairs at St. Bo's, and Mr. Eustace and Eleanor went there with Hugh, stopping at the hotel for a. week to buy the last things and *y the lost words. Eleanor came home so wan and hag gard that for many weeks tfaere might as well hove been a ghost in the house. It was very difficult to offer consolation when none was asked or expected, but I could not altogether refrain. "I had no idea you loved that boy so much," I said awkwardly. " You are very good, but I'm afraid I cannot talk about it," was the discour aging reply. " If you can love a brother so much, how you would worship a husband," I said, trembling at my own bravery is thus walking over her boundaries. Eleanor actually laughed. " Do you know," I went on, "I think THE CENTRE REPORTER. llavilanil was just ready to fall in love with von if you had given hitn the least crumb of encouragement." " l>id he tell you so?" " No, lut one could see it with half an eye." •' Von are vary clear-sighted in such matters, perhaps." " 1 have lived longer than you, Ktea nor. and 1 know that a man cannot go all the way to a woman ; she ought to take the least little step toward him." " 1 could not do that," sstd Eleanor. •• Oh, I know it, and so you have let the best fellow on earth slip away from von!" ( " ' Nature made him and then broke the mould,'" said Eleanor with a smile, " You did not know him as I did." " 1 dare ray 1 did uot." " Kut when he comes home again, if he i m the some mmd. will you try to like htm ?" "Yea, I tliiuk 1 may rafelv promiae thaL" The tears came to wy eyea in mv ear uestuese, and *ll at ouce I iouud Eleanor crying too, like any other woman. "My dear little stepmother," she raid, •' you have my father'* worries and your owu to bear ; I will not trou ble vou to carry miue." llteu she left me, and I could uot help thinking that *he might love Ilavi land after all. Eleouor come slowly out of her sor i row for Hugh's departure uud we set tled into the quiet routine which seem ed ltk#ly to last forever. The Winona was spoken of at sea occasionally, and verv thick letters come for Eleanor, of which she would read a page or two aloud and keep all the rest for her own hunger. Nearly two years went by, and we began to speak of Hugh's return. A sweet cheerfulness that 1 had never seen be fore in Eleanor seemed to crop out of her glad heart I was very happy with Imy stepdaughter. There was not a cloud as big as a man's hand in our sky when Eleanor pointed out to me with trembling finger a line in the newspaper. Her eye* In-sought me to tell her that she b*d read it wrong. It was a telegram ; the Winona hail been struck in the night by an English , steamer, and aunk with all on board. As she rose up and fled away with her grief like a wounded animal, the lines of her face were drawn and settled like those of s middled-aged woman. " How does Eleanor bear it ?" waa Mr. Eustace's first questiou, his own grtef fading ont beside hers. " Come and see,' 'I said, leading him into her room, where she lsy, pale and quiet, and unable to speak of her loss without tears. I left thehi together, but it was use less to hope that they could comfort each other. " She bears it better than I expected," said my husbaud, rejoining me after a few minutes. " If she would only rave and tear her hair, it would be a great relief to rnv mind, but the calmness is unnatural/' 1 said. " Not, with her. She is not warm hearted ; she does nut feel things an we do." I did not contradict him. Where would have been the use ? But it struck me all at once that the first Mrs. Eustace, who waa said to resemble her daughter, must of hail a very louely life of it. The ill news was soon verified, but Eleanor had believed it from the first. She went about the house at first as she had always done, but loss of appetite and disturbed sleep gradually told upon her strength. She learned to hold her hand tight on her heart as she mounted the stairs. One little industry after another dropped from Iter weak hands, and without comment on my siJe or hers she soon lay every day aud all day on a sofa. She never railed herself ill, and would lie for hours in silence, with a far-sway look in her eyes as if she were gazing seaward. My face must have expressed a little of the yearning pity that over looked my heart. " Is it for me you are unhappy ?" she asked doubtfully one day. "Yes; I find" I have not fortitude ! enough to bear other people'a misfor tunes. " "Yon may easily bear mine. I have been very happy since I knew that my waiting would be short. " You have had but a dull, lonely life, Eleanor. I cannot wonder at your indifference to it" A sudden rosy brightness transfigur ed Eleanor's face, and for the moment she was more lovely than I can tell. " You are wrong, believe me," she said. " I have hail mv share of happi ness ;no woman conlil have more. It was like some great tropical bloom, long in coming and soon gone, but it was unutterably perfect I looked at her with wide eyes, and the drawbridge of her reserve fell in stantly. She lay still for a long time, and I csuld hear the thud of her heart beats. When I was leaving her, she showed me a key on a chain that she always wore about her neck. " Some time you will use this to un lock my desk/' she said, " and find there what I cannot say to you now." Not many days after, sne went out of life as calmly as she had passed through it- In her desk was a large nacket of let lers, bound with a strip of paper. On this strip was written the precious secret wnieh she could not part with while she lived. " Bury me with these letters on my heart, anil write over my head only this, ' Eleanor Eustace, be loved wife of Haviland Norton.' " She had said on niy wedding day that she thought she might like me very well, and I have reason to believe she did so, never any less and never any more, wliile I grew to regard her with a passionate admiration. For a long time after her death, life, alone with my widower, wu a very tame affair indeed. Length of Whale*. Mr. heoresby, a very high authority on this subject, declares the common whale seldom exceeds seventy feet in length, and is much more frequently under sixty. Out of three hundred and twenty-two whales, which he assisted personally in capturing, not one exceed ed fifty-eight feet, ami the largast of which he knew the reported measure ment to bo unthentic came up to only sixty-seven feet. Two specimens of the rorqual or razor-back whale have been oliserved of one hundred and five feet in length. One of these was found floating lifeless in Davis Straits, and the skeleton of the other was seen by Chtrke in Columbia River, and must, tail and all, when alive have measured one hundred and twelve feet. Other specimens, have measured a hundred, and many others from eighty to ninety feet. One cast on shore at North Ber wick, Scotland, and preserved by Doc tor Knox, was eighty-three feet in length. These instances seems to es tablish the average and extreme length of these huge animals. But with con siderable credulity in earlier accounts Boron Cavier, the eminent naturalist, says stontly, " there is no doubt that whale* hove been seen at certain epoch? and in certain seas upwards of three hundred feet long, or one hundred yards in length." CENTRE HALL. CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1873. Colorado Our Future Source of Ueef. At tlio grest convention of stock breeders lately held in I>eiiver there wait an interest show n which iudicatea that when Texas fail* in h#r supply of stock we shall havo a large source of land supply na.lv for ua iulhe territory on th ruat<-i. Long's Peak; there George W. Brown, Esq., our former banker, is wintering his 1,600 head of tine cattle, without the oust and trouble of rutting and cur ing hay ; from thence through Boulder, Weld, and Arrapahoe Counties, are counties* herds in the valleys of the Platte, Cherry, Box Elder, Kiowa, the three Bijous, and Beaver Creek, down to the head-waters of the Republican River. Stretching along that distance we hear incidentally of the following herds, most of whirk here to-day have their repreaentativea: John Hitson, 4,- 006 ; Major George, 7,000; J. W. Hcff, 9,000; Brown k Isithrop, 1,600; J. S. Maynard, 1,200; L. 11. Cole, 1,000; Samuel Hartrell, 700 ; W. W. Roberts, 700; J. L. Brush, 1,500; Wilson Bros., 3,500; Bartels k Co.. 1,000; J. M. Wil son, 600; Hughes k Kerr, 1,000; E. W. Whitcomb, 2,000; W. 11. Cranmer, 1,400 ; James Hart, 1,900 ; ('apt May, 1,200, besides the hundreds of smaller herds ranging from 100 to 400. There has not teen a day since last April when our countless hoards of cat tle could not, on the native hills, pre serve their full weight and excellent condition. The grass now is much more nutritious than the new voting grass in early Spring. Here, with us, there is n distinction between the up land and bottom grass. The upland is finer and more nutritions, and rnna to fat and muscle ; the bottom product is coarser, and fetches a less price in the market. The hitter is like the Kentucky blue-joint ; the former composed of the bnffalo and gramma grasses, are un cqtinlcd for untrition among the most cultivated clovers and grasses of the older-settled portions of the globe. The price of hay in the Denver market varies from 815 to 920 per ton. The Colorado stock-man scarcely cuts a poind of hay, ••ven if he has five thousand head, unless he has a pony or horse which he houses ! and keeps continually in use. Northern Colorado has the advantage j over any other portion of this section of country in her uiagnificeut railroad system, and the easy access to market and for shipment to the fnr east. We have the Kansas Pacific Bailway.through : to the Missouri : the Denver Pacific I Railway, connecting us with the Union Pacific Railway; the Colorado Central i Railway, connecting us with the Central gold and silver region ; the Boulder Valley Railroad, opening the ooal-fiekls of that region to us ; the Rio Grande 1 and New-Mexico Railway, bringing the products of Southern Colorado to the | markets here in onr midst, and three j others in course of construction, all making a focal distributing point at Deuver, the metropolis of Colorado. Aud, Mr. President and gentlemen of the Htoek-growers' Assoeiatian of Col orado, yon have a country and a range ; superior to the far-famed grazing ' grounds of patriarchs of old ; and the I natural resources, wealth, and natural advantages excel any and every one of I those older-settledHUtes of ourglorious Union, whose pre-eminence is only the ; result of the accident of birth. If we arc in onr infancy, if we are in oar swad dling clothes, those swaddling-clothes ] envelop the form of an infant Hercules. The Erie Railroad Dividend. The Erie Railroad Directors have ordered a dividend to be paid of 3) per cent, on the preferred stock, and 1 j on the common. The Auditor made the following report of tho year's business ending December 31, 1872, Gross earnings flS.fM.O9d Working expenses Interest on fnndnd and floating debt 1.*14.018 Rental of leaned linee and guarantee of bonds 1,933.719 Total to be deducted from gross earn ings... 10,607,711 Nat result for the year 9,096,386 I.ene dividend paid on preferred ■took in July 295.792 Hurplus of earnings on hand of 1.277.5U3 The amount included in working ex penses, which was paid for new work and iron, was 81,000,000. No allowance was made in any form for the securities and property refunded by Jay Gould. The Directors, in conaideration of the above statement, passed a resolution declaring a dividend of 8) per cent, on preferred stock, and of lj per cent, on common stock; also, that tlic stock books be closed for transfer from the i Ist to the 16th of March. Freaks of Electricity. Many are the marvelous freak* aud jests played bv electricity, sometime# ending in tragedy. Among the most remarkable is that of strikiug a person ' dead, and leaving him in tlieexact posi tion occupied at the moment the shook was given, just as if he wore still alive, aud yet so thoroughly oousuiued as to he nothing but a mass of cinders. Thus we are told that at Vic-snr-Aiaue, France, in IH3B, three soldiers sought refuge from a violent thunder-storm under a linden-tree. Some peasants, seeing them stand motiouleaa loug after the storm had passed, sud receiving no response to a pleasant saiutatiou,touch ed them on the shoulder. The bodies instantly crumbled to flue ashes ! Yet tlie moment before there was no evi dence that tlie lightuiug had touched tbetn. Their clothing w*a not torn, and their faces wore a natural appear auce. The following remarkable cir cumstance was witiieased by Pastor Itutler ; On the 27th of July, 16tl,ten harvesters took refuge under a hedge ou the approach of a thunder-storm. The lightuiug struck and killed four of them, who remained as if suddenly petrified. Oue of them was just put ting a bit of tobacco in his mouth, another was foudltug a little dog on his kuee with oue hand and feeding him witli the other. M. Cardan relates that eight harvesters, taking their noonday repast under a maple-tree during a thunder-storm, were killed by one stroke of lightning. When approached by their couijianions, after the storm had cleared away, they teemed to be still at their repast. Oue was raising a glass to drink, another waa in tlie act of taking a hit of bread, a third waa reach ing out hit hand to a plate*. There they sat as if petrified, in the exact position in which death surprised them. The following harmless freak of elec tricity ia recorded by Flammariou. On the 10th of September, IH4T>, during a violent thuuder-atonn, a house in the village of Halagnae, France, was struck by lightning. A large ball of fire dea oeuded the chimney, and rolled across the door of a room IU which sat a child and tliwe women. No one waa hurt. It theu rolled out through the center of the kitchen, passing close to the feet of a yonng peasant, and disappeared through a crevice in the wall. Its erra tic cotirwe ended in the pip-sty, the harmlraa occupant of which it deapitc fully slew, without setting ou fire the straw on which the creature lay. The bommeree of Chicago. The followiug statistics of the trade and commerce of Chicago during the past year are taken from the advanced sheets of the forthcoming annual report of the Chicago B<>r. I of Trade : Receipt* of flour for the year, 1,532,- 014 barrels; shipments of flour, 1,361, 328 ; number of barrels of flour manu factured here, 187,968. there being only two large mills left by the great fire, and none built since. Wheat. —Receipts, 12,724.141 bushels, agsinst 14.439,656 bushels last vuor. Corn.—Receipts, 47,366,0*7 bushels, against 41,583.139 bushels lsst vear, or an excess of over 13,500,000 bushels over previous year. Oat*.—Receiptor 15,061,715 bushels against 4,789,411 bushels in 1871. Rre.— Receipt*, 1,129,086 buahels, against 2,011,788 bushel* !a*t Vfcar. Barley.—Receipts, 5,251,750 bushels against *4,069,410 bushels last Vtw. Cattle. Receipt*, 684,0.5 head, against 54.1,505 head last year. Hog* (alive and dressed Receipts, 3,488,528, against 2,652,549 in 1871. The total value of live stock received at the Union Btock-yard during the paat year is estimated at $75,475,000. The total amount of dutiea collected at the Custom-bouae during the year on foreign import* is $2,114,764. The total value of domestic produce exported to Canada bv lake during the year waa $5,250,000. The receipt* of lumber during the rear reached the enormous aggregate of 11,183,659,283 feet, and shingles 610,- 824.420. Altogether the trade of this city for this year largely exceeds that of any previous year. To s Cold-Footed Lady. Madam, says Dio Lewis, allow me to prescribe for yon. I have had a long experience in the management of deli cate women, and believe 1 can give yon some important advice. For the pres ent 1 prescribe only for yonr feet. Ist. Procure a "quantity of woollen stockings- not such a* you bnv at the stores under the name of lambs' wool, that vou can read a nsw*pa|>er through, but tit* kind that yonr Aunt Jeruaha in the country knit*" for yon, thick a* a l>oard, that will keep vonr feet dry aud warm in spite of wind aud weather. 2d. If you want to be really thor ough, change thorn every morning, hanging the fresh ones by the fire du ring the night. 3d. Procure thick calf-skin boots, double uppers and triple soles, srid wear them from the first of October till the first of May. Make frequent ap plications of some good oil blacking. 4th. Avoid nibliers altogether, except a pir of large rubber !>oot*, which may lie worn for a little time through snow ! drifts or a flood of water. sth. Hold the bottoms of your feet in cold water half an inch deep, jnst be fore going to bed, two or three minutes, and then rub them hard with rough towels and your naked hands. 6th. Now, madatn, go out freely in all weathers, and, lielisve mey not only will yonr feet enjoy a good circulation, but a* a consequence of the good circu lation in the lower extremities, yonr head will be relieved of all it* fulness aud your heart of it* palpitations. Yonr complexion will be greatly im proved ana your health made better in every respect. Freezing to Death. That to be frozen to death must lie a frightful torture many would consider certain from their own experience of the cffecte of cold. But here we fall into the usual esror of supposing that the Buffering will increase with the energy of tho agent, which could onlv be the case if the sensibility remainei the same. Intense cold brings on speedy sleep, which fascinates the sen ses and fairly beguiles men out of their lives. The "most curious example of the seductive power of cold is to be found in the adventure* of tho botani cal party, who, in Cook's first voyage, were caught in a snow storm on Terra del Fuego. Dr. Solander, by birth a Swede, and well acquainted with the destructive deceits of s rigorous climate, admonished the company, in defiance of lassitude, to keep tnoviug on. "Who ever sits down," said he, "will sleep, and whoever sleeps will perish." The doctor spake as a sage, but felt aa a man. In spite of the remonstrances of those he instructed and alarmed, he was the first to lie down and die. The same warning was repented a thousand times in the retreat from Moscow. Alli son, tho historian, to try the experi ment, sat down iu his garden at night, when the thermometer had fallen four degrees below zero, and so quickly did the drowsiness come stealing on, that he wondered how a soul of Napoleon's unhappy baud had been able to reaist the treacherous influence. A I'stbetlc Krone. Hir Hichard Hteele rays: The first souse of sorrow I ever knew wan upon the death of my father, at whieh time 1 was uot quite five years of sgn ; but wo* 1 rather amazed at* what all the house meant, thou possoaaed with a real un derstanding why nobody wo* willing to play with me. 1 remember I weut into the room where the body lay, aud my mother sat weeping alone by it. 1 had my hattledoor in my baud, and fell to lieatiug the coffin and calling papa ; for, I know uot why, I hod sotne alight idea that he was locked up there. My mother caught me in her arms, and, transported beyond all jiatieuoe of the silent grief she was lie/ore iu, she almost smothered me iu her embrace, and told me in a flood of tears, " papa could uot hear me, and would play with me no wore, for they were going to put him under the ground, whence he could never oome to see us again." She wsa a very beautiful woman, of a noble spirit, and there w dignity in her grief amid all the wilduea* of her trans port, wliirb, methought, struck me with an instinct of sorrow, which, before I was sensible of what it was to grieve, seized mv very seul, and has made pity the weakness' of my heart ever since. The mind iu infancy is, methinks, like the body in embryo ; and receives im nressious so forcible that they are as hard te be removed by reason, a* any mark, with which schild is born, ia to be taken away by any future application. Hence it is, that good nature in me is no merit ; but, having been so fre quently overwhelmed with her tears be fore I knew the cause of her affliction, or oould draw defenses from my owu judgment, 1 imbibed commiseration, remorse, and an unmanly gentleness of mind, which has since ensnared me in to ten thousand calamities; and from whence 1 can resit no advantage, except it be that, in such a humor as I am now in, I can the belter indulge inyaelf in the softness of humanitv, and enjoy that sweet anxiety which arises from the memory of past afflictions. Russian Costumes. All the guests at the Cmriatmaa festi val are dressed in their holiday clothes, but the caprices of fashion are banished from their garments aa much aa from their social pleasures. The costume of the old-fashioned Russians is not more distinguished for its richness than for its antiquity. In the provincial dis tricts the son dresses as his father and a* his father's father did before him ; and even female taste and vanity ven ture not to introduce an innovation in the cost ame which ages have consecra ted. A large beaver cup. a pelisse of aablc or fox akin, a richly-embroidered kaftan buttoned up the front with sil ver buttons and a girdle of rich Persian silk, or of a red kind of woollen stuff called knmwatsch, is the uniform of each wealthy male guest. The marned women wear the kok'whmk. a kind of head-dress made of scarlet silk, em broidered with colored silks or pearls aud trimmed with lace, from which is suspended a white fatu, or abort veil. Their dress, called aoraphan, resembles in ihape a clergyman's gown, and ia made of rich gold or silver brocade, buttoned up the front with a single row of buttons ; the sleeves, which are very long and wide, are of white mtulin, and a stiff muslin ruff encirelea the throat. A woollen cloak trimmed with sables, richly-embroidered mittens, sad delicate slippers with high heels, complete the costume. Their trinkets consist of gold chains, necklaces, and bracelets of peat la aud precious stones, and ear rings of the same. These last mention ed objects form the most important items in t^ 1 dower of rich maidens, and the greater their antiquity, the of tcuer they have descended from mother to daughter in the same family, the higher they are valued. The "fair nuudeus" wear the seraphan and the ruff like the marned women, bat the rich tresses of their own hair, wound round with a rose-colored ribbon, con stitute the only hcad-dreaa allowed to them. —lktgrmia, An Hoar from Labor. Take an hour from labor and give it to something else. But don t carry those precious sixtv minutes and slam them down upon a drinking bar, getting nothing in return for God's gift thsn poison and death aud ninnlcr. I>on't take them to the gambling hells and ex change them for chances to win a few dollars from other men who have left their families, their wives and children, to gamble awav their small earnings. You but help to'build up the fortune of the unprincipled man who owps the "hell" and deals the game of moral and pecuniary destruction. If yon have an lionr to spare from labor, give it to reading and the enjoyment of home. Cheer your wife in her dutiea, select pleasant stories and read them to your children. Try the habit of domes ticity. The beat lounging place is your own house, and the best club to join is vonr own fsraily. Stick to that idea, iuid work up the "spare hour by improv ing it to the intellectual advantage of yourself and household. If you prop erlv bestow your leisure from toil yon will in the end find that toil itself will not be so great a burden. Br study you will discover wherein lies the mys tery of your toil, and means will !>e opened to yon by which the business you are eugsged'in will aa*nroe almost an intellectual amusement. An hour s day amounts at the end of the rear to 365 hours. In that space now many valuable books may be read, how* much pleasure enjoyed in your own home, and how blessed von will be in the gratitude of your wife and the intimate and cultivated love of your children. A Man Without Muscles. A faro-dealer in this city altout four vears ago was compelled to relinquish his profession by o paralysis of his right fore-finger. The nerve cell (in the spiual e<>lumn) which supplied the joint had died from overwork, and the roua cloa of the finger gradually passed sway through disuse—atrophied, the doctors call it. The dead cell in the spinal marrow in some way, by contact or sym pathy, destroyed its neighbor, which controlled the same finger on the left hand. The atrophy extended over both hands, up the arms, to the chest, shoulders, and neck. At the present time them is not a muscle in those Kortions of the man's body. The arms ang useless aud absolutely fleahleas— mere akiu and bone. The iuterooetal muscles are gone, and the man can make no respiratory movements requiring their action; "the neck ia (esophagus, trachea, and spinal eolnmn clad in sain, and that ia all, the prooesses of the lat ter standing out as plainly as in a skele ton. The head,nuaupported, hangs down on the chest, as if it Mjere me.rely tied on. By a movement of the lions the man can throw his head over so that it will full resting on his shoulders and back, but otherwise than thus, mechan ically, he cannot control its motion. What parts the diseaae will next attack is a question with the physicians at Bellevue, where the case was shown yesterday, but the result is hardly doubtful. Breathing is done now whol ly by tho diaphragm, and must oease if tnat ba attacked.—V, Y. Paper. Terms: 52.00 a Yenr, in Advance. Mr. Urtwlev's Estate. Messrs. Htryker, Htnart and Do Witt have beeu appointed a committee to su pervise the collection and preservation of the UMe carefully collected aud transferred to the custody of the executors of Mr. Greeley's estate. The books and writings used by him which were the property of the Institute are to be deposited in a handsome cose. This will stand in a conspicuous pari of the rooms, and over it will haug an oil portrait of Mr. Greeley now being copied by Carpenter from the artist's origins) in possession of the Lincoln Club. The correspondence, manuscripts aud miscellaneous papers Mr. Greeley left in his editorial office have been put under seal in his old desk to await the disposition of hi* executors. Many of the letters were written by distinguish ed persons, and are of historical value as relating to the anti-slavery straggle and other important event*. Harrogate Coffin, of Westchester County, appointed Messrs. William M. Skinner, of White Plains, and John E. Williams, of Greenbarg, appraisers of Horace Greeley's estate. The Surro gate also sent letters tentamentary in the estate to Isaiah T. Williams, coun sel for the executors. —,V. J'. /*apcr. Imparl tie* la Milk. It in stated of Prof. Law, of Cornell University, that, haringowdar during the hot weather observed a peculiar ropr apjiearance in the cream, which bad riaen upon the milk which waa sup plied htm by a milkman, he waa led to examine it under the microscope. These olwermtioiui resulted in the dis covery of numerona living organism*, of a 'character quite foreign to *<>* l milk ; a careful survey of the dairy where the milk wae obtained disclosing nothing wrong—the dairy-house being well kept, and the eows apparently in good condition. Bat, on looking through the psstarea, it was found that the only water to which the eowa had aoreas waa that contained in a stagnant pool. Submitting some of tHi water to a similar microscopic examination, he discovered the same class of organ isms aa those found in the cream. The presence of like organisms waa also de tected in blood taken from the cow*. In firder to arrive at a more definite re sult, he next obtained a specimen of good milk,free from all organic impuri ties, and into this he put a drop of the water from the stagnant pool. In a short space of time the milk developed an infinite umnber of these living or ganisms, and became similar in charao acter to that obtained from his milk man. Results so clear and conclusive merit the attention of oil dairy-men ; while the manner in which they were established illustrates the valueof care ful observation, followed by persistent ami intelligent research. Artificial Coal. There in an artificial eoal establish ment in France which produce* the large amount of two hundred thousand tons annually. The machine need for this purpose is said to lie capable of producing ten tons of the fuel per hour, with a motire power of eighty-horses, the whole machine weighing about six ty-five tons, with all it* accessories and gearing, including the steam engine. These coal bricks are slightly heaTier than natural coal, and their calorific ef feet is found fully equal, and, in some cases, crcn superior to the latter. The process of washing removes about five per cent, of the weight of the coal dust representing incombustible impurities, and the compressed fuel leaves only six to seven per cent, of ashes. The fuel thus produced from mere eoal dust is sold to the different railway companies and the navv, besides a great quantity for household use. for which purposes it is admirably adapted on account of its regularitv "of form, great cohesion, entire cleanliness, and high heating ef fect. Cold Heather. January, 1878, departed with a "cold snapevery body felt it to be, like every other'"oold" snap," the most se vere of the season. Thermometers in sll sections ran down to a very low fig ure, as the following records of Janu ary 30 will show: TWn> 4 *<4nw I How * *** <•.<♦# Mtrv j t Rlunrtiock, V T I Canasa. Ooon. laralt. ji. Y XT' r*U vans*. Cons... Miuloon. X. T , IVmidener, K. I. 14 Xrwburf h, X. T.. Jkwten, Mm • llrfiM. Y. Bnuwwtck, Me. Wllkwbtrrw, *s. l*ncu, X. U w ... amnion, r Concord. X. tt ... Hmtr*. P 14 Bn4l M*r*s, Conn W GW-u Oerw, L. 1 In New York the thermometer mark ed one degree below xero at five o'clock in the morning, and the average tem perature was nine and one-eighth de grees. The Mormons. The tribulation among the Mormon leaders in view of the probability of decisive Congressional aetian against their institution is becoming daily more manifest. Already a removal from Utah is discussed. One of their organs says the strong arm of power is to le invoked to make them move on ; bat whore shall they go ?—where is it desired they shall next pitch their tents? The priesthood is understood to l>e seriously contemplating the possible neoesaitv of another pioneer expedition, but it is not generally believed the saints, as a body, oan ever be indnced to abandon theirpresent homes. There is no doubt Brignara Young and his ad viser* are endeavoring to secure a new country for a kingdom, and it is inti mated that negotiations have been re newed for the exclusive possession of one of the Sandwich Islands. Aw Oua MKDAL. —There is a gentle man in Washington, a native of Penn sylvania, who many years ago reprsented that State in Congress, and who pos sesses the only original medal of George Washington now in this country. There were onlv fonr struck, as the die split upon the* fifth. The other three are said to be in possession of the crown of Great Britain, the Czar of Russia, and the King of Belgium. This has the date of 1797 on its face, is a correct likeness of Washington, and showing the date of his resignation and his re linquishment of the Presidency. On tho reverse is a coat of arms, including a tomahawk and a quiver full of arrows. It was left to this geutleman by a Mr. Philpot, an Englishman, whom he pro vided for and nursed in his last hours. It is the work of on* Halliday, of Eng land. NO. 11. TV Vienna Exhibition. It in gratifying to know, says n Now York paper, itunt the catalogue of Ameri can exhibitors t the Vienna University Exhibition will be much larger titan al mar previous industrial fair of thin char acter. Uuixi paring the number of American exhibitor* who displayed thair various good* in the laat Pnria fair, with the present one in Vienna, in the former eaae there were bat 250, at present there are inacribod on the boolta of the commissioners the nanet of over 700 American manufacturer*, who are prepare* 1 to send thair choicest works to Austria. Ho lor, all the disburse ments, from June last to the present time, amount to (00,000. This money has boon advanced by certain member* of the commission, and although (300,- 000 has lately been appropriated by the United Btataa, as yet no official notifica tion of the fact has been presented to (Jen. Van Buren. To-day, the Ameri can manufacturer has been made sensi ble of the great advantage to be da rived from the exhibition of his articles in Vienna, and the demand far speae now is largely beyond the means of the noturoieaiooer* to gratify. England has, at present, secured five times aa much spare aa that asked for by American commissioner*. The United fjtates might have obtained a similar area, but were uncertain whether they could ob tain the means to pay for ii As it is, the delay in making the appropriation has, in a measure, caused extra ex j lenses to the United States commis sioners. For the additions! maehuterr , a court will have to be covered with glass, at a coat of fully (2ft,uoo, besides an extra building to be erected in the park. The Unite*) States has furnished two vessels, stationed now at Brooklyn, ; ready to receive freight, but there being I aa yet no money to pay for the handling I of the goods, there are new nearly 700 packages stored there, and only some fifty eases have aa yet been put on board. Some of the clauses in the ap propriation bill are peculiar. One u that not over (50,000 see to be paid in salaries. Out of this seven scientific men end eight artisans are to receive SI,OOO each, but no tingle officer is to re ceive more than (5,00a For oAoe ex penses alone Great Britain has appro priated £5,000. How the meagre amount of (200,000 is to pay for the j expenses of so vast an undertaking is j difficult to determine. Out of this must : come cost of buildings, railroad freights in Austria, (from Trieste to Vienna,) ex- < peases for loading and unloading goods, office rent at Vienna, hire of clerks and cast of decorations, boiler*, and an in finity of other expenses, not counting the printing of s voluminous report, to be published when the exhibition is over. The display of goods will be of the most varied kind. Particularly notice able will be the agricultural depart ment, which will cover a space of 11,000 j square feet, the total area devoted to j the United Htatee being about 70,000; square feet. By estimate baaed on former exhibition*, it is thought that the number of exhibitor* at Vienna will be 64,000, and that 150,000 persons will j visit the fair each day, and that during the six months the astounding number of 78,000,000 people will visit Austria, of which 300,000 will coma from the United Btates. Keep Tour Girls Heme Night*. I have a word to say to good hard working mothers who oon't know half that goes on in this world—mothers who bake, boil, wash, iron, sweep, and scrub all ilav, and go to bed dead tired, glad that their daughter* are voting yet, and can enjoy themselves. Do you know where your girl* go in the evening ? " Oh, yea," yon say; "to see some young friends; to spend the evening with Betsy and Jane atxi Fanny." You think so; but ore you mere t Other people are as sure of their daughter*, and if you take the trouble to investi gate, you will find, perhaps, that Bally Ends her time after dark in running streets. It is s fact, aa any one with the ordi nary power of observation can discover, that the daughters of respectable parents in ordinary ranks of life, who are not properlv watched by their elder*, flock the streets after dark now a day*, and are discreditably bold in tbeir manners. That they even "flirt," as it is called, and allow* strange young men to speak to them and offer tlwfu refreshments, and that each girl keep* the secret of the other, that she in turn may keep her*. In this country, the poor man's (laughter should be *as much a lady as the daughter of the millionaire. At least she should be well mannered, pure and honest, as, we are proud to say, most of them are. The mere contact with boldness sul liee purity. A bad companion has more influence than s good one, and boldness and bad company throng the city's streets st eventide. Keep your girl eut of them. If she hsa a legitimate invitation out, know all about her eeoort, or make her father or brother take care of he* on the way to and from the house to which she is to go. If she has no escort and no male relative, it might be best to do as an English mother would—go and fetch her yourself. Never let her contract a habit of stay ing all night with her girl friends. It i an idle sort of way any how, and takes her ont of your control. If von have been lax in your disci pline,'your girl may pout s littlest first, and find home somewhat dull; but if she lives to be a woman, and to marry, she will thank yon at last—thank yon from the bottom of her soul, as she looks hack on the aad fate of some of those girls whose mothers had not pru dence or authority enough to keep them home of nights.—" Aunt J>oUg, in the ledger. Method of Warming (Jrreßhoeees. The London Grocer suggests (hat greenhouses, containing hall-hardy plant* and in which no regular method of heating exists, mav be wanned even daring a hard front by lighting and dis tributing a doren or ao common oil lamps, at convient localities. In select ing these lamps they should be chosen with rases large in proportion to the sise of tle flat wick, in order that they may continue burning all night without refilling or other attention. It will be readilv understood that, whether one or many "lamps are used, the total amount of heat given off is proportionate to the quantity of oil burned, provided the combustion is complete. And in using a lamp, all the heat of combustion is utilised ; none goes up the flue as with stoves or Are places. THE PRKLIMINJIBT QUESTION. —The professor of natural philosophy in a certain college gave the class a problem to think over during the night and an swer the next day! The question was this: "If a hole were bored through the centre of the earth from side to side, and a ball were dropped into it, what motions would the ball pass through, and how would it come to a state of rest?" The next morning a fellow was called np on this philosophical problem. " What answer do you give this ques tion ?" sasked the professor. "Well, really," said he, "I have not thought of the main question, but of. a prelimi nary one. How are you going to get ! that hole through ?" Facte aai Fancies. New York sawdust in bates ooutinaea to bring large prices in the Went Ho author or man ever excelled all tha world in mate titan ewe faculty. The Rntro tunnel in Nevada has i reached a distance of (.MB flat into the bowel# of tha mountain. A man lias bcea sent to the Michigan .State prison far three years lot burning his barn to gel the insurance. A poet modem examination revealed ttnrtv-two large nails to the atocuach of an lowa horse that died of tha apisootic. Resolution and steadiness excel lent qualities, but it is the application of them upon which their value de pends. Wolves are very plenty in loWa, end the farmeianan*! atop out of their back doom after dark without falling over these animals. Popular glory Is a perfect coquette ; her hirer* must toil, feel every Inquie tude, indulge every caprice, and per haps at laat be jilted for their pains. A Philadelphia woman having mar risd off her ninth and laat daughter meekly folded her arms and died. "My life work is done," were her last words. Fashionable milliners tells us that the Spring bonnet will be a modification of the style now la vogue, and thai long training vines are to be the moat oou spkmoua trimming. Wit loses its reaped with the good when seen in company with malice, and to smile at tha jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a prin cipal in the mischief. Geo. Driver, of Chicago, who has just been sentenced to be hanged for the murder of hie wife, was convicted on the evidence of his two children—one fourteen, the other nine, . " Why do you spend so much money on your wife's funeral T' asked a man of a neigSiUir. " Ah, air," was the re ply, " she would have dona aa much for me, and mom top, with pleasure." Key's poem of the "Star Spangled Banner" was originally "sat up" for The HaUimore American, tram the author s MB., in 1814, by Samuel Hands, now editor of The American fhrmer. Memphis males appear to have a keen setiae of humor and No be fond of play ing practical jokes on their fellow tee ing*. One of them attached to a street car lately refused to budge aa inch un til all the man In die ear got out to push behind, when he dashed off at full speed, ! leaving them sprawling on the ground. " Ok, General Sherman f* exclaimed a : lady bent upon exacting admiration even of that outspoken bora, " toll me whom didyou see in your travels inEu i rope yon liked better than mot" and she rolled up her eyes at him. " A great many people, madam," brusquely uut eaixfidly replied the chief officer of the army. Tha reviser* of the Hew Testament have got as far in their work as the fifteenth and sixteenth chapters of St John. It is in the fifteenth chapter that it is mid that the servant kaoweth not what his lord doeth, and another evangelist than John has spoken of no tot or tilt he of the law being changed. Nevertheless the revise** are said to hare made and to be about to make j many noteworthy ehangm, Diamond Gossip, The glowing subject of diamonds is fruitful with inexhaustible reminiscen ces. I heard of • man who -was once breakfasting with Lord Macaulay, when the conversation turned on the suferjeet of the regalia of different thrones, and Maoaolay went from diamond to dia mond with his marvelous memory. He would, of eonisa, speak of the famous Pitt diamond, which was brought by an Englishman into Europe and placed by Napoleon in the hilt of the state sword of France; of the great Austrian diamond; the great Russian diamond, and of a perfect mountain belonging to the crown of Portugal, which is said to bo worth nearly six millions. There is a counter-statement that this is merely s fine colorless topsx; and the Portu guese sovereign does not submit the case to any scientific arbitration. Ho diamond has s more marvelous history attached to it than the Koh-i-noor, which has been recut, with increased effect, since the time of the Exhibition. I dare say many a diamond hunterwon j dei* whether his rare happy lot will ever alight upon a gem that shall be re nowned aa the great gem of the regalias. Almost conn ilea* are the atone* thst might be told shout diamonds. Tha Diamond Necklace belongs both to his torT and romance. In the " Moundone i a popular novelist has apparently made some use ef the histoir attached to the diamond purchased by the Empress Catherine. It was like a pigeon's egg, and famed the eye of an Indian idoL It was pillaged by a deserter from the French service, who had managed to get himself installed aa a priest in the idoi-aervioe. The empress gave him neariT a hundred thousand pounds down, and a large annual income. The famous Austrian diamond, once belong ing to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, was long thought a bit of rock-crystal, l ng of a IwauUJul iemon-jellow color. It was sold from a stall in the market-place of Florence, and fetched a few peace. Then there are stories about the cutting of diamonds. Aa infinite deal depends ou the cutting. The Koh-i-noor is said to have lost three- fourths of its weight in the rutting. A late philosopher wan ted a piece of diamond for a philosophi cal purpose. He saw a large mass in the hands of a jeweler, which seemed hopelessly deteriorated by a large flaw which occupied nearly the whole of the interior. He paid a large sum, himself superintended the cutting, took as much aa he wanted, and having the rest properly cut and polished, sold it back to the jeweler for double the price he pftid for it* And vet one might well moralise en the diamond. It is only carbon, after all. It is scum calcined to ashes. It is simply a bit of charcoal, which will yield to the ray* of the sun and pass away in a noxious vapor. It was long suspected that the diamond was in flammable ; and the philosopher Boyle showed that, under great heat, it was dissipated in acrid vapor. It must have shown a considerable amount of philosophy when people sacrificed their diamonds for the cause of science. The Bankruptcy Law. The following amendment to the present bankruptcy law ef the United mates, introduced by Senator Wright, of lowa, is probably all that will be ac complished this winter, and even this may not pass: On all proceedings in bankruptcy commenced subsequently to the first day of January, 1873, no dis charge shall be granted to a debtor whose assets shall not be equal to 50 pear cent of the claims proved against his estate upon whioL be shall be liable aa tiie principal debtor, unless the as sent in writing of a majority m number and value of his creditors to whom he shall have become liable as a principal debtor, and who shall have proved their claims, be filed in the case at or before the of hearing the application for discharge, provided that the provisions of this act shall not apply to those debts from which the bankrupt seeks a dis charge which were contracted prior to the Ist of January, 1873. WORK AN© WlN.— Whatever you try to do in life, try with all your heart to do it well; whatever you devote yourself to, devote yourself to it completely. In great aims and small be thoroughly in earnest. Never believe it possible that any natural or improved- ability can claim immunity from the companion ship of the steady, phun, bwd-workum qualities, and hope to gam its end. rhere is no such thing a Btich fulfill ment on this earth. Some happy talent and some fortunate opportunity may form the two happy sides of the ladder en whish some men monnt, but the rounds of that ladder must be made of material to stand wear and tear; and there is no substitute for thorough going, ardent, sincere earnestness. N 1 v er put the band to anything on which you can not throw your whole self; never affect depreciation of your work, whatever it is. These you will find giL den rule*.