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 ha<l resembled her daugh
ter, how oould her husband find any
thing to admire lU me?
•• My darling Eleanor," raid Mr. Eus
tace, uud pausisl. It is amaxiug how
affectionate people may become when iu
distress.
*' My dearest girl, this is "
" Mrs. Eustace, 1 believe," raid Elea
nor, holding out her baud to me with a
faint sweet smite. " Shall you like to
go to your rooin first ?"
I followed her up stairs, leaving a
very dazed-looking husband iu the hall
below, lu all the appointments of the
room ' raw the delieaey of Eleanor's
taste. " You have beeu too good," 1
said, takiug up a vase of tea-roaes to
hide UT embarrassment.
" Not at all. Y'on will be HIT guest,
vou know, until you can guide tW house
lor yourself."
" I will be anything, if vou will uot
look so tenibfv resigned. You may
scold me every day for marrying your
father, if only you will like me a little
at last."
I wus in unite a little flush of emotion,
but the ineffable calmness of her man
ner, as she had reduced everything to
its lowest terms and left not a super
lative iu the world, steadied me in a
moment.
" I think I shall like you verv well,"
she remarked as she left inc. When Mr.
Eustace came up stairs, he was very
happy.
" Don't you see, Lizzie, he aaid,
"how much better it vu to let the thing
come to pass naturally than for me to
hew a scene with Eleanor beforehand ?
She had probably heard of the marriage
from outside people."
" I suppose no," I said, allowing Mr.
Eustace to plume himself on his delu
sion, since it amused me and did not
hurt him.
Eleanor not only submitted to me, as
to a necessary evil, but to the seven
other spirits worse than myself, in the
shape of my brothers and sisters, who
overran the house like an inundation,
carrying all before it
It never entered their honest heads
that they could beotherwise that hearti
ly welcomed.
They fraternized at once with Hugh
Eustace, and by dint of sheer good
nature and stupidity they aometimes
made a breach in Eleanor's reserve.
They dragged iiaviland in their
train at last, to see the oddest girl in
the world.
"You will not like her," I said ; "s|ie
is not at all your tort, but I will not
havevou tease her."
" How can you tell what is my sort ?
Because you are lately married, you
need not take it upon you to know all
men by these presents."
" Eleanor is very silent. You must
not expect her to talk to you."
" Does she never say 'Yes?* with ah
interrogation mark after it ?"
" Never."
" Then take me to her quickly lest I
be snatched away before mine eyes have
looked upon this miracle of women."
Havi land's manner was as perfectly
subjugated by the yoke of Eleanor's
serene quietness as I could desire.
When we " speered " at him for his
opinion he professed to be disappoint
ed ; but he came every dav, with an ei
cuse or without one ami studied her
with the eye of an artist. A faint little
flush sometimes roee to her cheek when
she met his gaze. He was with ns one
day when my sister Anne suddenly laid
hands on Elanor's hair, and with a dex
terous tarn or two laid it in loose waves
about her head. It was always " Ma
donna-wise " before.
" You have no idea," said Anne,
" how lovely you look when your hair is
loosened up this way—mora '/f
you know. Isn't it so, Haviland ?"
" Excuse me," said Eleanor, drawing
herself gently but completely away from
Anne. "It is a weakness of mine that
I cannot endore to be handled in that
way, except "
" Except what ?" said Anne, bewil
dered.
" Except by those whom I love very
much."
" Would von not also make exception
in favor of those who love you very
much ?*' asked Haviland in a low voice,
regarding her intently. It seemed to
me that everything stood still for an
instant, even the hands of the clock.
A burning blush spread over Eleanor's
face.
" There is only my brother," she
burst out with a sort of cry, and went
quickly out of the room.
"I'declare!" said sister Anne, look
ing after her with month wide open.
"O Haviland, how could you? She
will never forgive yon," said I.
" I don't want to be forgiven," he
said lightly ; but he went away quickly
to the station, and did not come near
us for three whole days. Eleanor re
paired her foriilieati' ** and received
him with the same dead calm of cour
tesy. He resumed his daily sittings
with ns, but he threw no more stones
into the deep waters of Eleanor's na
ture.
Nothing could be more desirable than
that these two slioald love each other.
I longed to beg Eleanor to look into
hia eyes, and see the interest written
there, but the wordß were never spoken.
I left tliem alone together whenever I
dared, aud forbade any of my tribe, on
peril of banishment, to make the least
approach to a joke on my match-ma
king. I said a word or two of my hope
to Mr. Eustace, but he was utterly
skeptical. " Eleanor is too cold and
calm to love any man, and too con
seienti >ns 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<<ru face of the Rocky Mouu-
Ituus, ami ow, too, wheuce wo may
draw a far better |Ualitv of meat than
ha* ever been aeut u* \y Texas Mr.
Fred. J. 8 tan ton, •peaking of " North
ern Colorado," says :
Colorado is divided from uorth to
south by a strong lino, 41? mile* of
which is on the east, and comprising
the plains, and the remainder the moun
tain region. This is agaiu divided by
what is kuowu aa '* The Divide," a
spur of tho Hierrns which ruus from
wrest to east, thus forming a natural
divuiou kuowu aa Northern and South
ern Colorado, the south fork of the
Platte llivcr, forming tho great artery
of the northern portion, as the Arkansas
forms the great artery of the southern
portion. The great l'latte River and its
aiHueuta is the great source from which
we gain our magnificent system of irri
gation canals and ditches. The great
Platte basin, in Northern Colorado, is
one of the most grand areas which the
world can com template. The grass
region extends from the boundary of
Nebraska and Colorado on the east, and
from the Divide through Wyonuug on
to the Laramie platus on the north.
These grassy parterre* fur they are so
—rivaling the wavy aud brilliant colors
ou the prairies of lowa and Illinois,
have from time immemorial sustained
couutlesa herds of the buffalo and the
roaming nomads of the plains. The
grass is green ami brantifnl in Bum
mer, hut in mid winter has the ap|*-ar
ance, as well as more than the nutri
ment, of well stacked and cured Partem
hay. Perennial and never-dying, it
forms the food of the animal aa well in
midwinter as it does in midsummer.
There is no necessity for cutting aud
curing and stacking'; the hay-making
of tho East is scarcely known here.
Tho line of demarcation between the
dead and rotten grasses of the older
states and the lire, readv-cured liar of
Northern Colorado, is plaiulv to lie dis
cerned as you travel on tlie Kansas
Pacific lUilwav. Aa soon a* you step
beyond the Colorado eastern boundary,
you step beyoud the etlicrial atmosphere
of the savannas into the more humid
cue of the continental, aud theu as you
approach the Atlantic sea-board, tlie
ocean atmosphere. Over tins line of
demarcation, the humidity of the atmos
phere rot* the grass, and, unless nit,
cared, and properly taken care of, it is
valueless for feed.
For our water we rely, like our neigh
liors in Southern Colorado, mainly on
the water* of the streams for our irriga
tion. Northern Colorado has more rain
than south of the Divide. Here, the
sod of grass is thicker, it grows higher,
and is equal in nutrition to the most
highly-favored portion of the known
world. The shelter for our rattle is
ample, aud the great stock-men choose
our northern plains in preference to stiy
other portion of Colorado. Go to the
Estcs Park beneath the shadow of that
old primeval monarch of the ug>-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 UM<ks, correspondence aud other
papers belouging to Horace Greeley in
PMMMvaatou of the American Institute.
or several years the great journalist,
while President of the Institute and af
terward, made its congenial rooms in the
Cooper Union building oue of his daily
resorts, lie had a desk there and used
the Institute rooms saan uptown offloe,
iu which he transacted much of his
business. His " History of the Ameri
can Conflict," whieh he began writing
in what he called bis "den," in room 51
in the liible House, woe finished in the
<3ouper Institute, and many of his news
paper and magazine articles were also
composed in that place. His death left
the Institute in possession of inauy of
his books of reference, valuable letters,
etc. These are Ui |>e 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<X. B 42
Rradln*. fs •" Osrssnull, K. H. .
M.u. h < hwnk, I*. ... 24 rmtav*. M<t 1
WMhtnsfam, D. C 1 llnlUmor*. M 4 4
X> 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*.