And Yet.
X ww htm look it Linda'* wvy hair ;
I • him watch Owwlia'* winning *mil* t
1 ww him notie* Hand'* complexion fair 5
My heart U baating all th* while ;
And yet
I'm almoet earn ha lovaa ma baat of aIL
I we htm glance at Milly'* fairy feat.
And follow all thair movement* with a rail*;
I w>e him charmed by many maiden* *w**l.
My heart with dread faat baauivg all the while;
And yet
I'm almoet enre ha love* me beat of all.
P<* wta*n lw lakes my hand in both of liia.
And look* at me with hi* confiding amila,
My ewery donbt and fear are eet at ease.
Although my heart 1* heating all the while;
And—yet!
I'm enre, quite aura, ha lovea me beet of all.
Inexorable.
Pand the I'ulnul. the marraioua king.
To hia golden harp sang once and again t
IViwn through the agea I hear ht votoa ring,
"The year* of a man they are threa-wore-and
tan."
Bui what if tlie mail or wotuaa. • W aay,
Mae a heart of fire, and blood hke new wine.
Oaa find Hansen'* own bhna in a Summer'* day.
And in human eyaa ww a light dismal
The life that was given for seventy year*.
What if he wjuauder. it all in a acor* f
If. in arstent Joy* and agonUed tear.,
lie conaumee it all till ha haa no morw ?
Say, what aiiall become of the epeudthnft.
then.
Who bait live,! hie hfe, yet who i* not old -
Such long soar, left before three-eeora-and
len.
And the fire burned out, and the aehee cold!
Oh stately psalmist! oh marvelone king!
Through the dim agea I hear thee again ;
Without change, without pity. I stiil hear thee
**"l^
" The years of a man they are thrve-aoora-and
tan.*
BISHOP pons or TTAH.
Ki> Trial* Chrtitsaa* Thus.
Biahop Potts of Salt Lake City was
the husband of three wives and the hap
py father of fifteen interesting children.
Early in the winter the bishop deter
mined that his little cues should have a
good time on Christmas, so heconcinded
to take a trip down to San Francisco to
see what he could find in the shape of
toys to gratify and amuse them. The
good bishop packed his carpet-bag, em
braced Mrs. Potts one by one and
kissed each of her affectionately, and
started upon his journey.
He was gone a little more than a week,
•when came lack with fifteen beauti
ful mouth-organs in his valise for his
darlings. He got out of the train at
V ilt Lake, thinking how joyous and ex
hilarating it would be at home Christ
mas morning when the whole of thoae
mouth organs should be in operation
upon different tunes st the same mo
ment. But just as he entered thedepot
he saw a group of women standing in
the Indies' room apparently waiting for
him. As si HI u as he approached, the
whole twenty of them rushed up, threw
their arms abont his neck and kissed
him, exclaiming :
" Oh, Theodore, we are so—so glad
yon have come back! Welcome home !
Welcome, dear, dear Theodore ! Wel
come once more to the bosom of your
family !" and then the entire score of
them fell upon his neck and cried oTer
his shirt and mussed him.
The biahop was surprised and confus
ed. Struggling to disengage himself,
he blushed and said :
" Really, ladies, this kind of thing is
well enoagh—it is interesting and all
that, bnt there must be some kind of a
that is, an awkward sort of a —excuse
me, ladies, but there seems to be, as it
were a alight misunderstanding about
the—l am Biahop Potts."
•' We know it, we know it, dearest,"
they exclaimed in chorus, " and we are
glad to see you safe, safe at home. We
have all been right well while yon were
away, love."
" It gratifies me," remarked the bish
op, "to learn that none of yon have
l>een a prey to disease. I am filled with
blissful serenity when I contemplate
the fact; bnt really Ido not understand
why yon should rush into this railway
station and hug me because your livers
are active and yonrdigestion good. The
precedent is bail ; it la dangerous !"
" Oh, bat we didn't 1 they exclaimed
in chores'! "We came here to welcome
yon because you are our husband."
" Pardon me, but there must be some
little—that ia to say, as it were, lahould
think not. Women, yon must have mis
taken TOUT man."
"Oh no, dearest!" they shouted,
"We were married to y<su while you
were away!"
" What!" exclaimed the bishop, "you
don't mean to say that—"
"Yes, love. Our husband William
Brown, died on Monday, and on Tues
day Brigham had a vision in which he
was directed to seal us to you ; and so
he performed the ceremony at once bv
-th-th-tli-umler !" observed the
bishop, in a general sort of away.
"And, darling, we are all living with
yon now—we and the dear children."
"Children! childrenexclaimed
Bishop Potts, tnrning pale, "yon don't
mean to say that there ia a pack of
children, too ?'*
"Yes, love, bnt only onehnndred and
twenty-five, not counting the eight
twins and the triplets."
"Wha-wlia-wha-what d' Ton aay ?"
gasped the bishop, in a cold prespira
tion : "one hundred and twenty-five!
One hundred aud twenty-five children
and twenty more wives ! It is two uiuch
—it is awful r and the bishop sat down
and groaned, while the late Mrs. Brown,
the bride, stood round in a semi-circle
and fanned him with her bonnets, all
except the red-haired one, and she in
ber trepidation made a futile effort to
fan him with the coal scuttle.
After a while the bishop became rec
onciled to his new alliance, knowing
well that his protests would be unavail
ing ; so he walked home, holding aa
many of the little handa of the bride, aa
he could conveniently grasp an his,
while the red-haired woman carried his
umbrella and marched in front of the
parade to remove obstructions and to
scare small boys.
When the bishop reached the house,
he went round among the cradles which
filled the back parlor and the second
story rooms, and attempted, with such
earnestness, to become acquainted with
his new sons and daughters that he set
the whole one hundred and twenty-five
and the twins to crying, while his own
original fifteen stood around and joined
in the chorus.
Then the bishop vent out and sat on
the garden fence to whittle a stick and
solemnly think, while Mrs. Potts dis
tributed herself in twenty-three places
and soothed the children. It occurred
to the bishop while he mused, out there
on the fence, that he had not enongh of
mouth organs to go around among the
children as the family now stood ; and
so, rather than to seem partial, he de
termined to go back to San Francisco
for one hundred and forty-four mars.
So the bishop repacked his caipet-bag
and began again to bid farewell to his
family. He tenderly kisaed all the
Mrs. Potts who where at home, and
started for the depot, while Mrs. Potts
stood at the varions windows and waved
handkerchiefs at him—all except the
woman with the warm hair, and she, in
a fit of absent-mindedness, held one of
the twins bv the leg and brandished it
at Potts as he fled down the street
The bishop reached San Francisco,
completed his purchases, and was just
about to get on the tram with his one
hnndred and forty-four month organs,
when a telegram was handed him. It
oontained information to the effect that
the auburn-haired Mrs. Potts had just
had a daughter This induced the
bishop to return to the city for the pur
pose of purchasing an additional organ.
On the following Saturday he returned
home. As he approached his house a
•warm of young ehildrea flew out of
tha front gate, and ran toward him,
•hautinf; "There's pa! Here oomee
KKKD. TCI'HTZ, Kditornud Proprietor.
VOL. VI.
il>* .' Oh, pa, we're glad to ace vou!
Hurrah for pa f etc.
The bishop looked at the children aa
they docked around htm ami clung to
hia lag* and ooat, aiul was astonished
to perceive that they weie neither hie
ww the late Brown's. He aaid, " Vou
youngsters have made a uiietnke ; 1 am
nut your father and he aimled good
naturedly.
"0, ves, you ore though !" screamed
the little ones iu chorus.
" But 1 aay 1 am not," said the bishop,
severely, and frowning; "don't you
kuow where little story-tellers go ? It
is scandalous to violate the truth iu
this mauuer. My uauie ia Potto,"
" Yes, we know it is," exclaimed the
children—" we know it is, and ao ia
j ours; that is oar name now too since
the wedding."
"Since what wedding?" demanded
tlie bishop, turning pale.
"Why, ma's wedding, of ewnrse.
She was married yesterday to you by
Mr. Young, and we are all living at
Tour house now with our near little
brother* and sister*."
The bishop sat down on the uavemeut
and wiped away a tear. Then he naked:
" Who was your father ?"
" Mr. Simpson," said the crowd, "and
he died on Tuesday."
"And how many of his infernal old
widow*—l mean bo* many of your
mother are
" Only twenty-seven," replied the
j ahildren, " and there are only sixty
four of us and we are awful glad you
have come."
The bishop dnl not seem unusually
glad; somehow, he failed to enter into
the enthusiasm of the occaaion. There
appeared to be in a certain sense, too
much sameness about these surprises,
so he sat there with his hat pulltsi over
his eves and considered the situation.
Finally seeing there was no help for it,
he rushed up to the house, ana forty
eight of Mrs. Potts rushed up to him,
anil told him how the prophet had hail
another vision in which he was com
manded to seal Simpson's widow to
Potts.
Then the bishop stumbled around
aaioug the cradles to his writing-desk,
where he felt among the gum rings and
rattles for his writing paper, and then
addressed a note to Brigham, asking him
as a personal favor to keep awake until
after Christmas. " The man must take
me for a foundling hospital," he said.
Then the biahop saw clearly enough
that if he gave presents to the other
children and not to the late Him peon's
the bride relict of Simpsou would prob
ably souse down on him, fumble among
his'hair and make it warm for him. So,
repacking his carpet bag, he started
again for San Francisco for sixty-four
more mouth organs, while Mrs. Potts
gradually took leave of him in the entry
—all but the red haired woman, who
was up stairs, and who had to be satis
fled with screeching good-by at the top
of her voice.
On his wav home, after his last visit
to San Francisco, the biahop sat in the
car by the aide of a man who had left
Salt Lake the day before. The stranger
was communicative. In the course of
the conversation he remarked to the
biahop: " That was a lively little affair
up there in the city cm Monday."
" What affair ?" asked Potts.
" Why, that Wedding ; McOrath's
wih>w, you know—married by proxy."
"You"don't say," replied the bishop.
" I didn't know that McOratb was
dead."
" Yea ; be died on Sunday, and that
night Brigham had a vision in which he
was ordered to seal her to the bishop."
"Bishop.'"exclaimed Potts. "Bishop!
what bishop ?"
" Well, yon see there were fifteen of
Mrs. McUrath and eighty-two children,
and they shoved the whole lot off on
old Potts. Perhaps yon don't know
him ?"
The bishop gave a wild, nnearthly
shriek, and went into a hysterical fit,
and writhed on the floor as if he had
hydrophobia. When he recovered, he
leaped from the train and walked back
to San Francisco. He afterward took
the first steamer for Pern, where he
entered a monastery and became a celi
bate.
His carpet bag was sent to his family.
It contained the balance of the moutn
organs. On Christmas morning they
were dtstribnted, and in less than two
honrs the entire two hundred and eight
children were sick from sucking p.iHh
off them. A doctor was called, and he
seemed so much interested in the fami
ly that Brigham divorced the whole con
cern from old Potts and annexed it to
the doctor, who immediately lost his
reason and would have butchered the
entire family if the red haired woman
and the oldest boy had not marched him
off to a lunatic asylum, where he spent
his time trying to arrive at an estimate
of the number of his children by
cyphering with an impossible combina
tion of the multiplication table and al
gebra.—Max Adelrr.
A Singular Idea.
The enterprising individual who
earned a few dollars by charging sight
seers for admission to the house where
his father had been murdered, has a
rival in the London proprietor of a
music hall who hired for exhibition ten
of the survivors of the Northfleet dis
aster. Penniless aa they were, they
consented, and the very night after the
catastrophe, less than twenty-four hours
since the terrible tragedy'in real life
had been enacted, these ten men found
themselves seated upou a concert saloon
stage with the curtain rising and re
vealing thein amid loud cheers to a very
large and uncontrollably enthusiastic
audience. The eutertainment was re
peated again and again, the contraet
being for twelve nights. Crowds greeted
them every evening aud financially it
was a great success. It ia a singular
illustration of the freaks of fortune
that the calamity which shocked the
whole news-reading world and sent more
than three hundred souls into eternity
should have filled the pockets of this
saloon-keeper with money and bronght
upon the uncouth, ill-appearing men
round after round of applause for
merely sitting upon a stage from which
forty-eight hours before they would
have been ipnomiuiouslv driven. The
temporary victory over death makes a
man something of a hero after all, even
if. iUm certain that the victory is really,
at best, but a check.
Singular Stone.
The Sacramento Union describes a
curiosity found in a bed ot gravel in
that city, fourteen feet below the sur
face, while the discoverer was digging a
| well. It is composed of rock, hard as
flint, dark green in color, with white
specks, perfectly rouud and smooth,
about 3J inches in length, about an
inch in diameter in tha oantre, and
tapering to a point at either end. About
half an inch from one ond a hole lias
lias been drilled through it and a
groove cut from the hole arwind the
end of the stone, aB if it was intended
to pass a line through the hole and
suspeud the stone by it. The rock,
however, is so excessively hard that it
is almost impossible to scratch it, and
the question therefore arises as to what
sort of an instrument the aborigine
that did the drilling—which was prob
ably performed hundreds of years ago
—Used.
The Queen of Sheba's palace is the
latest archmological discovery announced
THE CENTRE REPORTER
Nwlft Justice,
A merchant left Bt. Petersburg to
travel acroa* Kurojie. In the eottree of
hia journey he arrived at Warsaw, Be
ing furnished with a letter of introduc
tion, he repaired k> the house of one uf
the eliief oititeus therif, and was uiol
courteously iwivwl. He stayed at
Waraaw fr a week, and hia hut spared
no pains to make the visit agre.-able,
and showed him everything worth see
lug iu the lowu. Indued, the viaitur
ww overwhelmed by au amount
of kiudur.a rarely showu tu any but a
frieuvl of long ataud<ag.
At length the pleasant visit drew to
ita close, and after breakfast tlie guest
expressed hia wish to see aottie jhht
parts of the town, of which lie hud
ficard. " But," said he, " 1 have with
uie a antall box of great value that 1 do
not like to risk in such place*. If it
were iuv own, 1 should not he so par
ticular, \>ut it was intrusted to me by a
friend, who raqueeted nie to deliver it
to u person in another town. It cou
taina diamonds and other valuables.
Would vou do me the great favor of
taking charge of it for the day ?" The
host, with his usual urbanity, williugly
agreed to this proposal, and the mer
chant departed with s light heart ou
hia tour of inspection, I forgot the
name, but let us say iu the " Semi
l>ials," of" Five Points "of Warsaw.
Next moruiug, after breakfast, he
cordially thanked his kind entertainers
for their zeal out hospitality, and added
that, as he was abaut to depart, he
would now resume his charge of the
box, which had never before quilted
his presence since he hail received it
from its awuer. The host and hostess
stared at him in well-acted amazement.
•' What box ?" asked he host " 1
rememlser no box—do you, my dear ?"
turning to his wife.
"No," she said, I have no recollee
tion of any box whatever."
"What was it like?" inquired the
host; " perhaps you left it in your
room."
But on the merchant persisting that
it was with the host himself it had IHH?U
left, on turning to his hostess, and trv
. iug to make her recollect the ctrcum
j stances, both (after appealing to each
' other several times, and fortifying each
other in their deuial,) became cold and
distant, and begun hinting that some
' thing must have happened to the mer
chant, to induce him to persist in so
strange a delusion. As the host touch
ed his forehead with a significant
glance, the poor man rcmeuil>ered that
he was in a strange city ; the gruund
seemed to be slipping from under his
feet : danger to himself loomed iu the
distance, and he hastened from the
hoii&e in alarm. Straight to the police
he went and stated his case. The of
ficial listened imperturbedly to the
whole story, and then asked:
" Von gave up this valuable box to an
acquaintance of a week's standing with
out anr witness or any written ac
i knowledgnient ?"
" He had been so very kind ; a man
s in his position "
" Bah! yon a man of business! bnt
yon have uo proof that the box belongs
to Ton ?"
" None whatever—except the key.
It is locked, and I have the key—here
it is," and he produced a small key from
his inner-pocket.
The official remained lost in thought
for some time, and then said:
" Well, I will do the onlv thing I can
for yon. The Archduke Constantino—
the Governor of Poland, is a stern,
harsh man, but he is known for his
rigorous justice, and if he believes your
rtory, he will Jo his best for you. 1
will take von to him at once."
No time was lost, and the merchant
soon found himself in the archduke's
presence and was desired to relate his
story. When it was concluded the
archdnke, after a few moments reflec
tion, rang a bell. An official appeared.
"Send for M ," naming the treach
erous host.
It was quickly done, and the arch
dnke, without preamble or question,
said to the guilty man:
"Sit down at that writing-table, and
write as I shall dictate to you."
The man took his sent and took up
the pen ; the archduke began dictating:
"My dear wife—all is fonnd out "
" No," said the man, springing from
his seat, " I won't write that. ''
" Then yon are guilty," was the
prompt alswer.
Puzzled and foiled, he resumed his
seat and wrote as he was desired.
"My dear wife—all ia found out.
Send the box by the bearer."
Then he signed it with hia name, by
the archduke's order, and a messenger
waa diapatched with it. The messen
ger found the laly at her toilet; when
•he read the missive sho turned aahy
pale, trembling violently. Then lean
ing forward, AHE drew the IKIX from the
recess in her toilet-table, and handed it
to the bearer, who, awiftly returning,
G'aeed it in the handa of the archduke,
e immediately handed it to the mer
chant, deairing him to unlock it; that
being done, he aki*d whether the dia
mond* were all there. Yea, the box
had not been opened ; they were exact
ly aa the merchnnt had left them.
Again the archduke rung the bell,
and to the attendant who entered he
said, designating the guilty man:
" Take him to Siberia ; he is not to
go to hia own home again."
The William Tell Story.
Few more interesting controversies,
both in a literary and an historical
point of view, have ever arisen than the
discussion which has recently been car
ried on respecting the authenticity and
genuineness of the Bwist legend in
which the archerv feats of William Tell
are described, 'the object of this brief
note is not to attempt to settle the dis
pute, bnt merely to state that the story
has penetrated the aretic eirele. In the
metrical traditions of Lapland aud Rus
sian Karelin, all the lending particulars
in the life of the Hwiss hero aro closely
reproduced—nnless indeed the story he
of Northern origin. In Lapland litera
ture it is varied so that the son "is the
active, and the father the passive, per
sonage in the tale. The latter has been
takeu captive hy a band of Finn marau
ders. The former—a boy twelve years
of age—threatens the party with his
bow from a position of safety on the
other side of a lake. The captors
dreading his skill, promise the father's
liberty n a condition similar to that re
lated in the Hwiss legend. " Raise one
hand and Hink the other, for the water
will attract the arrow," is the fathei's
advice. The apple is dnly cloven ami
the father released. The incident of
the jump from the boat is also recited;
and tho northern locality specified as
distinctly as the Lucerne of Hwiss his
tory. The legend in this form was dis
covered about thirty years ago by
Mathias Alexander Custreu, a native of
Finland. In the Finnish and Lappish
me rical writings he also discovered the
leading particulars of the adventure of
Ulysses with the Cyclops, "From what
original Bource," says a reviewer of
Castren's work, "or through what
channels these traditions have traveled,
it is probably in vain to inquire or dia
pute; the triumph of courage otei
numbers, of policy over brute force, lias
its charm for the rudest nations, and
from Jack the Oiant-Killer to WilHam
Tell the key-note of the strain is ever
the same,"— Gentleman'i Magazine,
CENTRE HALE. CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1*73.
Curiosities of t'onelenre.
Truly, conscience ia a queer tiling.
Existent in some sha|e, iu every hutuitu
soul, its oprratiolia are as uncertain a*
the wind itaelf, nud, Heeiutligly, far lens
subject to law. la it an lunate faculty,
or is it merely a product of education?
unks the metaphysician, and straightway
the whole body of abstract thinkers is
by the earn, in a hopeless effort to solve
the unsuitable problem, tin tlii* ques
tion hang# a good deal of truth doubt
less ; but it is not with abstraction that
• cart* U> deal. The human couacieuce
iu ite actual workiuga furnishes mys
tery enough, without going lieyoml its
outward mauifeatatioua. History is
full of elrauge doiuga, resulliug solely
from incomprehensible cranks of men's
consciences. Cwaar faltered wheu
about to Ynvade Ins country, aghast ut
the euoriuity of the technical crime he
was about to commit ill merely rroaniug
the stream which merely bouuded his
right, llut for his real crimes after he
had crossed, wo find no aigu of contri
tion in any act or word of his. lleurv
VIII sought the Pope's pardon iu ail
vance, when he wished to contract a
marriage forbidden by the canon, but
he had no qualms of conscience ut
spuming thepapaoy when he wanted to
dissolve the marriage in question. Our
own Puritan forefathers dared many
dangers, and endured many hardships,
for the sake of freedom of conscience,
and strsightwuv proceeded to persecute
(Quakers and Raptista who claimed a
like freedom.
We have outgrown many of th-se ohl
crrv.r*, but our couwiruren ur queer
thing* still. Straining at a gnat and
swallowing a camel, la aa true* a story
now aa it was eighteen centuries ago.
Almost every profession lias a ten
dency to work a pattern of its own into
ita follower*' consciences ; and so we
And men everywhere disposed to eon
done certain sins in people of their own
cloth, which are quite aa bad aa other
lapses from moralitv for which they
have uo toleration. We once heard an
eminent lawyer say, that in hia pro
fession there is especial peril—that the
necessity uuder which every attorney
constantly labora of drawing nice dis
tinctions between hia own and hia
clients'a responsibility for questionable
proceedings, and that, too, with the
weight of his own pecuniary interest
constantly upon the wrng aide, de
velops, in many case*, what is termed
the " legal conscience," with which
everybody is familiar. Theologians toll
u* that they find it necessary to guard
themselves constantly against the for
mation of " ecclesiastical cousciencea,"
which shall make a juggling with words
ataud for right tlanking, to the detri
ment of the moral sense. Ho subtle
is casuistry in morals, and so strong is
the instinct of aclf-preacrvatiou in all
organizations, that the clergyman's dan
ger in this respect in peculiarly great,
and the only wonder is that so few
ministers succumb to it.
lint most tempted of all, perhaps, is
the merchant; and while there are un
doubtedly sound consciences in many
counting-rooms, it can nut be d*uo-d
that mercantile morals sre often at ebb
tide. The apparent difficulty of com
peting, by strictly fair menus, withux-n
who sre not verv scrupulous, aud the
extreme esse with whicn unfair advan
tages may be taken in commercial mat
ters, makes "the merchant's conscience a
p*rj>etually besieged castle, unless, in
deed, it surrenders at diaeretion, and
adopts the code of its conquerors.
Wo once know a merchant, a plain,
blunt man, who would say of an article
winch a customer was about to buv,
"It ia not worth the money, sir. It
looks pretty well on the outside, but it
ha* several concealed defects. I eau't
sell it for less, and I have nothing bet
ter to offer vou, but my advice is not
to buy it. Mr. X —, on the next block,
has something very much belter at the
same price." Now, all thia WHS simply
what honesty dictated, and yet, so rare
ia this sort of honesty, this old mer
chant was known far and wide as
•• queer otd B—," and there was not a
few people who thought him craxy.
The Coal Combination Prlres AC
lanced.#
The New York Post says that the
publication of the scale of prices adopt
ed for March by tho Philadelphia and
Heading Coal Company, and the rates
of freight and toll to lie charged by the
Heading itailroad and Schuylkill Canal,
has infused new life into the coal trade,
and dealers are now beginning to make
contracts for the spring season.
Some opposition is still shown to
wards the new consolidation movement,
bv agents aud "middlemen" in this
city, but it is generally acknowledged
that longer resistance to the scheme is
practically useless, aa all the aveuuca
aud means of transportation are in the
possession of the leaders of the " pool,"
who, they any, can dictate whatever
terms they choose.
The rapid advance in the jpri™ of
coal, which has been brought alx>ut bv
the combination of mine-owners with
the great carrying companies, seems to
have weakened many opponents of the
movement, who are now anxious to
range themselves among the followers
of the Philadelphia and Heading Rail
road Company, in order that they may
reap the lienefit of the high prices,
which, it is expected, will prevail dur
ing the year.
Dealers who still refuse to have their
coal sold by the above company say
that they must toon submit to the ni w
order of things, or suffer many draw
barks, with probable loss.
When the combination was first sug
gested by the president of the Reading
Itailroad to the coal dealers of this city,
the officers of the Pennsylvania Coal
Company, one of the largest mining
corporations of eastern Pennsylvania,
refused to join it, and have since main
tained an entirely neutral position.
The following schedule of prices at
which coal will be delivered during
March by this company, shows, how
ever, a considerable advance over form
er rates : Lump, $4.50 ; Steamer, $4.-
50; Kgg. $4.70; Htove, $5.00; Chest
ant, $4.00.
This eoal is deliverable at Weelinw
ken, ami the freight to New York is
fixed ut 40 oenta a ton.
The regular monthly auction sale of
Scranton coal, lias ulso served to exalte
the conl trade, as it was thought that
the prices obtained would influence the
rates to l>e adopted for March by the
Wilkesbarre Coal Company anu the
Delaware and Hudson Coal Gompauy.
The attendance at the sale was very
large, and comprised many agents of
steamboat lines and owners of retail
yards. Ninety thousand tons were
offered by John 11. Draper, in belialf
of the Delaware, Lackawanna and West
ern Company. The bidding was very
spirited, especially for stove coal, which
was in great demand by retailers, and
sold rapidly, buyers being allowed the
privilege ofr purchasing five thousand
tons.
The resultof the sale showed an over
age increase of nearly twenty rents a
ton over the prices of Jauuary 29.
The Russian Government owns one
half of all the doily papers published
in that country; and it has recently
purchased a controlling interest in M.
KatkofTs famous Moscow Gazette, a
journal which is said to have s larger
circulation than that of all the other
Russian political newspapers together.
.in lurldrut of the " Xorthfleet"
Olaaatert
A very curiou# circumstance lias coihe
to light in connection with the loss of
the Northltoet. Captain Outea, who
was her actual captain up to within a
few hours of the stop's sailing, has been
fretting and fuming in the toils which
the Ticnbonie case co*t around hiuf aa
being an important witness agsiuat the
" claimant.' Captain Onto# ia the ouly
man liviug who saw linger Tichltorne
safe on board the lit Ha at llio, bound
for New York, aud he was subpomsed
by the counsel for the youug heir aa
soon as the claim of the popularly es
teemed Sir Roger was put in. When
the Northfleet was ready for sea, Cep
taiu Dates secretly feared deteutiou,
but aa lie had already made a deposi
tion which was iu the hand# of the
leading counsel for the prosecution,
lie put n I told face on mutters, aud went
on with hi# preparation* for the voyage,
as if uo Huh|Krna w ere hanging over hia
head. When the lawyers heard that
the Northfleet was about to nail, they
intimated to Captain Dates that he was
" wanted" iu April, and must not sail,
under heavy penalties. " Erne me
X'AW, or £3UO, if you like," said Captain
Dates ; " but I uls#t sail in the Nurth
fieet ou Haturday next" "No," said
, Mr. Hawkins, the counsel for the
1 Crown ; " we must have your body in
i court, and if vou at tempi, to sail you
will le arrested."
The Northfleet was to have sailed ou
Saturday, the 11th ultimo, aud on the
previous Friday, Ca;Uuu Datea, from
lufonnatiou received in the ahape of
sundry for formidable iastructious of
the law, said it woa impossible for him
to sail. After a hasty consultation with
his brother owners (I'aptain Date# had a
share in the ship,) it was decided te
i give the command to Captain Knowlea,
who had aailed with Captain Dates for
five years, aud of whom a very high
opinion was held. All the peraoual
effects of Captaiu Dates aud Mrs. Date#
were at the time ou lioard the vessel,
and were hostly removed to give place
to those of the new captain ana his
bride. Mr. Knowles had been engaged
for some time to be married, but had
aiwsya said lie would wait till he
got a command. The watting *u ao
long that about Christmas he determin
ed to tarry no longer, aud here with j
wonderful good luck, as it appeared to
the poor fellow, a command unexpeet
edlv tumbled into his hands, wheu he
had been married only a few weeks.
He and Mrs. Knowlea gave up the
apartments which they had juat taken
and furnished, and on a given day,
Mr*. Knowlea joined the ship at
Uraveeeud, taking up her residence in
the superior cabins which Captain
Datea had especially fitted up for him
self and wile.
The rest of the story the worhl knows; j
but there are some curious incidents
connected with it which arc worthy of
mention. About seven yer.r* ago, Mr. ,
Knowlea bring then chief officer, an
emigrant ahip outward bound front
laiudon was lying in the downs, when
hia alup was run into by a steamer and
cut down to the water's etlge. For
tunately, assistance was at hand, and
she was towed back safely to London,
and there underwent repairs. What
odd# greatly to the remarkable character
of the coincidqgcr isthatOeorge Ilroek, '
the pilot in charge of the Nortufb-et at
the time of her being run down, was
also in cluirge of the other eintgmut I
ship of which the vwv
chief male.
The loos a Dead World.
Among the illusions swept awav by
modern science was the pleasant fancy
that the moou was s habitable globe,
like the esrth, its surface diversified
with seas, lakes, continents, and islauds,
and varied forms of vegetation. Theo
logians and Mean/* gravely discussed
the probabilities of its being inhabited
by a race of sentient beings, with forms
and faculties like onr own, and even
propounded schemes for ojieniug com
munication with them, in ease they ex
isted. One of these was to construct
on the broad highlands of Asia s series
of geometrical figures on s scale so gi
gantic as to l>e visible from onr plane
tary neighbor, on the supposition that
the moon people wonld recognize the
object, and immediately construct simi
lar figures in reply! Extravagant aud
absurd as it may appear in the light of
modern men from makingfools of them
selves, stood in the way of actual ex
periment ; but the discussion was kept
up at intervals, until it was discovered
that if there were people in the moon
they must lie able to live without breath
ing, or eating, ur drinking. Then it
censed.
There can be no life without air.
Beautiful to tho eye of the distant ob
server, the moon Is a sepulchral orb—
a world of death and silence. No vege
tation clothes its vast plains of stony
desolation, traversed by monstronscrov
iees, broken bv enormous peaks that
rise like gigantic tombstones into space;
no lovely forma of elood float in the
blackness of its sky. There daytime is
only night lighted by a rayleas sun.
There is no rosv dawn in the morning,
no twilight in tlie evening. The nights
sre pitch-dark. In daytime thf solar
beams are lost against the jagged ridgea,
the sharp points of the rock*, or the
steep sides of profound abysses; and
the ere sees only grotesque shapes re
lieved against fantastic shadows black
as ink, with none of that pleasant gra
dation and diffnsion of light, none of
the subtile blending of light and shad
ow, which makes the charm of a terres
trial landscape. There ia no color,
nothing but dead white and black.
The rocks reflect passively the light of
the sun; the craters and abysses re
main wrapped in shade; fantastic peaks
rise like phantoms in their glacial ceme
tery ; the stars apfiear like spots in the
blackness of spar*". The moon is a
dead world ; she has no atmosphere.
Ojloa.
The island at Orion is very besnti
ftU, the scenery lOVO.IT. and the aoil pro
ductive in spices and many kind* of
fruit; indeed, it la said that it alAu>
might produce sufficient coffee for the
consumption of the entire world. The
natives, however, are far from pleasing.
They are generally of short Mature.,
verv effeminate-looking, apathetic, and
snelb liar* that it is impossible to depend
upon their word. If they may but re
pose for hour after hour under s tree,
\nth a piece of broad-fruit beside thom,
they see in te core for little else. The
men wear their hair turned up behind
with a comb, the lieight of the comb
denoting the rank of the wearer. This,
and the small features, gives them al
together such an effeminate appearance,
that it is difficult for a European to dis
tinguish f them from the females. A
visitor lately entered one of the schools,
and, seeing a row of boys with their
back* towards him, and each with a
coinb in his head, unconsciously asked
if the boys and girls were educated
together. One of the natives of high
rank was lately called on to give evi
dence at a trial, and swore such com
plete falsehoods, that he was imprisoned
for perjury. He applied to the English
Government, and, with surprise, asked
why he should bo punished for what
his people did. "My father," ho said,
" was a liar, and my grandfather was a
Har, and we are all liars. Ik is the cus
of my country. Why shonld I be
punished ?"
A Romance of the Peerage.
. The reailrrs of ttoinutd Warren's
' " Teu Thousand a Tear," an amtsaiug
' law story, torrihlv spuu out and over
! laid with religious sentiment, have
probably condemned the plot, iu which,
with the assistance of Messrs. Quirk,
Oaiuutou k Knap, a firm of rascally
thieves' attorneys in London, Charles
Aubrey, M. P.. who has lulicriled the
rich estate of lattou, iu Yorkshire, from
his fntlicr, has a law suit brought
against him bv a certain Tittlelrot Tit
mouse, then all but starving as a shop
man, at fik'i per year and his board, to
Tag-rag k Co., soft goods retailers iu
Loudon, which lawsuit ends in Mr.
Aubrey's having to surrender the estate
to the said Tittlebat Titmouse, with a
debt of £OO,OOO, on account of " the
mesne proffta," the legal terra for six
vears' back r-uta. Something in this
line, romantic and true, ia now on the
tup i iu the Scottish law eourta. The
fifteenth Earl of Egliugtoun and Win
toun, who, in 1830, revived on hia own
estate, in the west of Scotland, the
tournament of the Middle Ages, died in
October, I MM, and was succeeded by
hia eldest sou, who has been in poaoes
-1 aioa of the family titles and estates ever
since. These have been lately claimed
by Stephen John Pulton, who served in
the Crimean War aa a private in the
1 Royal Irish Huoasra, and toft the army
with a penaion of sixteen cents a day
for life. lie lately appeared in the
Sheriff's Court at Edinburgh, where he
made a declaration in regard to an ap
plioation to receive the benefit of the
poor'# roll, iu reference to hia contem
plated action. He may #ue if he please#
1 "in fortua txiuprrit, aa a pour man,
if he eau show hia jtoverty. We have
not heard on what ground# he challenges
the rfe /artu Earl of Kglingtoun ; but,
having eiammed the family pedigree,
a* given in Hurke's Peerage, conclude
that hia only show would be by imput
ing illegitimacy to the fifteenth Earl
the tournament man—who was born in
Palermo in 1012. Aa the Earhngtonn
estatea are worth ffiMO.OOO per annum,
aud the six years' mesne profit# would
amount to gl.3ou.otW, the prise ia worth
striving for. If won it will throw
Charles Aubrey's "Ten Thousand a
Year " completely in the ahade.
A Peculiar Sect.
Rattle Creek in Michigan ia the head
quarter# of one of the most peculiar re
ligious sects to be fouud in this coun
try. It i# called the Seventh I>#y Ad
veiitiata, and it# member# differ from
the denomination generally known as
AdvetilisU, in looking for the second
coming of Christ soon, without assu
ming to Ax on anv particular time for
hia appearance. They constitute e large
and wealthy portion of the inhabitants
of Rattle t'rrek, where they are greatly
reepeetod for their strict integrity, their
exactitude in tbeir dealings, and their
devout, conscientious adherence to the
nrinriplee of religion and morality.
They occupy a distinct quarter of the
city kuown ae the Advent Hettlement,
sLaeh is distinguished for th* scrupu
lous cleanliness which prevails every
wber •. They are strct ujgirniat*. and
an extensive "water eure, which attracts
visitor# from #1! part* of the United
State*, forms one of Uieir enterprises.
They have a large publishing bones
where denominations books, tract*.
periodicals and the like are printed,
emptying fifty hands. The most ain
gular thing about them, however, ia
the fact that all of the practical, money
getting tncml>er* of thia denomination
in Battle Creek are under the absolute
domination of a woman named White,
who profesaea to receive revelations,
aud ia regarded as the inspired medium
of eujiernatural communications. There
is net one of these Adventists who does
not place implicit faith in the revela
tions of Mrs. White, siul they unhesi
tatingly obey her directions in'all things
both spiritual and temporal. Should
she require one or more mcmtiere of
the church to remove from the city, or
to give up a profitable business, tbe in
junction is sctrd on without s murmur.
The Seventh Dsy Adventists olieenrc
Saturday aa their Sabbath, which be
gins on Friday eveuing at sunset and
lasts until the some hour on Saturday.
On Sunday their workshops and places
of business are alive with activity, and
sneh amusements ss they indulge in
are apparently enjoyed with unusual
sest on that day.
Blscmerte* of Tin in (jaeemdaud.
The most recent reports substantiate
the fact that tin fishls of unexampled
richness have been discovered in tbe
Kngliah colony of Queensland, lis*tern
Australia, the presence of the metal be
ing detected oYcr an area of 550 square
miles. Mr. T. F. Gregory, the mineral
land commissioner, states that, at the
preaeut time, only about 225 square
miles of tliie area have hitherto been
found sufficiently rich for working, but
there are many Instances of tiu being
fouud in paving quantities beyond these
limits. The physical and geological
character of nearly the whole of the
area de*erile<l is that of an elevated
granite table land, iateraeeted by ranges
of abrnpt hills, the highest limita of
which are about 8,000 feet above the
sea. Tbe portion of tbe district over
which the dej*mils of tin ore are dis
tributed is that comprised bv the water
shed of the Severn river. The richest
deposits have been found in the stream
beds and fiurial fiats, the paying ground
varying from a few Yards to five chains
in width, occasionally broken by roelty
bars; but even in these instances large
deposits are frequently lodged in the
pockets and crevices between the granite
boulders.
The probable yield of ore is stated at
ten tuus per lineal chain of the hods
on the various creeks. In some in
stances, this haa lieen found to extend
to thirty tnns per chain. Aa the lodea
and veins have as yet been but very
partially tested, it would be premature
to give any decided opinion upou them.
It is probable that they will prove a
source of great wealth, and pcrhapa
render Australia one of the first tin pro
ducing countries in the world.
The Chicago fMy Lota Swindle.
The Chicago Tribune publishes a full
exjiose of the swindle in so-called Chi
cago City lots which appears to have
already numbered its victims by thou
sand* and to le still sdding to the num
ber in the Eastern State*. It appears
from this account that one G. W. Scott
purchased a quantity of swamp land
about twenty miles from the Court
Tlousc st per acre, and sub-divided
it into lots which have been sold at ftiOO
each to hnndreds of people in this city.
The Tribune publishes a list of over
1,000 purchasers, besides many persons
in other sections of the country. An ex
amination of the plot of this snb
diviaion, which was dubbed the Boule
vard Sub-division, shows that the lots
ranged in aizefffrom fifteen by thirty-five
to nine by twenty feet; the streets aver
aged six feet in width and the alleys
thirteen inches. Letters aro being
constantly received from parties East
inquiring as to the value of lots in this
sub-division, which shows that some
parties are offering them for sale
throughout the country.
A recent work on gardening is called
" The six spades." "The rake's pro
gress" would not bs an inappropriate
title fer a sequel.
Terras: t-C-1.00 a Year, in Advance
President (i rant's laaagaral.
Kaixow Cmtwn*-— Coder Providence
I hsve been Called a second tiro# to act
aa Kiaontin otar this giwit nation It
baa bom ar endeavor in tba pant to
maintaiu all the lawa, and, ao fur a# in
HIT WWW, to act for the beat interest
of the whole people. My beat effort#
will be given in the tunc direction is
the future, aided, I timet, by my four
year#" experience in the office. Wlw#
in* drat torn of the office of Chiaf Exec
utive Wgnn.'the country had not re
covrred from the effect# of a great in
ternal revolution, and three of tlx# former
State# of the Union had not b##n reetor
ed to their federal relation#.
It seemed to me wiee that no new
questions shpuld be raiaod, ao long a#
that condition of affair# exiated; there
fore, tho paat four yeara, ao far a# 1
oould control eveuls, have been eon
aumed in Die effort to restore harmony,
pnbliveredit, commerce and all the art#
of peace and program. It ia my firm
conviction that tlx# cmlixed world i#
tending toward Republicanism, or gov
ernment by the jK-ple through their
choeen rrpr*-#enttive#, and that our
own great Republic ia deatined to b#
the guiding atar #f all other#.
Under our Republic w# support an
army leas than that of an* European
Power of any standing, and a navy leaa
than that of any of at leaat flv# of them.
There could be no extension of territory
on thie Continent which wonld call for
an increaae of tbia force, but rather
might such extrusion enable oa to di
minish it
The theorv of govern aseat change#
with general progress. Now that the
telegraph ia made available for oimmu
mcitiug thought, together with rapid
transit by steam, all parte at a oootb
nvut are made contiguous for all pur
pose# of government, and communica
tion between the extreme limlta of the
country easier than it wis throughout
the old thirteen State# at the beginning
of our national existence.
The effects of the late civil strife have
been to free the slave and make him a
citixeu, yet he is not possessed of the
civil rights which ciUxenahip should
carry with it. This ia wrong and should
be corrected.
To this correction 1 stand committed,
ao far aa Executive influence can avail.
Social eouality ia ot a subject to be
legislated upon, nor shall 1 ask that
anything be done to advance the social
statue of the o'lured man, except to
Sve him a fair chance to develop what
•re ia good in bim. Give him acres*
to schools, and when he travel# let bim
fhel that hie conduct will regulate the
treatment and fare he will receive.
The States lately at war with the gen
eral government are now happily re
habilitated, and no klxecaUve control ia
exercised in any one of thein that would
not be exercised in any other State
under like cirrumatanoea.
In the first year of the present ad
ministration the proposition came up
for the admission of St Domingo M *
territory of the I"nion. It was not a
question of my seeking, bat was a
proposition from the people of St
Domingo, and which 1 entertained. I
believe now, aa I did then, that it was
for the best interests of this country,
for the people of St Domingo, and all
concerned, that the proposition should
be received favorably. It was, how
ever, rejected constitutionally, and,
therefore, the subject was never brought
up again by me. In future, while I hold
my present office, the subject of acqui
sition of territory rant have the sup
port of the people before I will recom
mend any proposition looking to anch
acquisition.
1 say here, however, that I- do not
share in the apprehension held by many
as to the danger of governments becom
ing weakened and destroyed by reason
of their extension of territory. Com
merce, education, and the rapid transit
of thought and matter byte'egraph and
steam have changed all this. 1 lather
do I believe that our Great Maker is
pre)>aring the world, in His own good
lime, to become one nation, sjieaking
one language, and then armies and
navies will be no lunger required. My
efforts in the futnre will be directed to
the restoration of good feeling tietween
the different sections of our common
country ; to the restoration of our cur
rency to a fixed value as compared with
the world's standard of values (gold),
and if poasibl* to a par with it; to the
construction of cheap routes of transit
throughout the land, to the end that
the products of all section! msy find a
market, and leave a living remuneration
to the producer; to the maintenance of
friend 1 j relations with all oar neighbors
and with distant nations ; to the re-es
tablishment of our commerce and onr
share in the carrying trade upon the
ocean ; to the encouragement of anch
manufacturing industries as can be eec
nomicallv pursued in this country, to
the end that the exports of home pro
ducts and industries msy pay for onr
imports, the only sure method of re
turning to and permanently maintaining
a apeeie basis; to the elevation of labor, .
and, bv a humane conrae, to bring the
aborigines of the country under the
benign influences of education and
civilisation. It is either this, or a war
of extermination. <
War* of extermination, engaged in
by people pursuing commerce and all
industrial pursuits, are expensive, even
against the weakest people, and are de
moralising and wicked. Our superior
ity of strength and advantages of sirii
isation should makers lenient toward <
the Indiau.
The wrong already inflicted upon him
■hould lie taken into account and the j
balance placed to his credit. The moral
view of the question should be consid
ered, and the question asked, " Cannot
the Indian be made a useful and pro
ductive member of society by proper
teaching aud treatment ?" If the effort
ia made in good faith we will stand well j
before the civilised nations of the earth
and in our own conscience for having
made it. All these things are not to be
accomplished by one individual, but i
they will receive" my support and such
recommendation to Congress as will, in
IST judgment, best servo to carry them
into effect. 1 beg your support and en
couragement.
. It has been and is my earnest desire
to correct abuses that have grown up in
the eivil service of the country. To
secure this reformation, rules regulating
method* of appointment and promotion
were established aud have been tried.
Mv efforts for such reformation shall be
continued to the best of my judgment
The spirit of the rules adopted will be
maintained.
1 acknowledge before this assemblage,
representing as it does every section of
our country, the obligation 1 am under
to my countrymen for the great honor
they'liave conferred upon me by return
ing me to the highest office within their
gift, and the further obligation resting
on me to render them the best services
within my power. This I promise,
looking forward with the greatest
anxiety to the day when I shall be re
leased from the responsibilities thst st
times are almost overwhelming and
from which I have scarcely had a respite
since the eventfnl firing upon Fort
Sumter in Apri', 1861, to the present
day. My services were then tendered
and accepted under the first call for
troops growing out of that event
I did not ask for place or pesition,
and I was entirely without influence or
the acquaintance of persona of influ
ence, but was resolved to perform my
NO. 12.
rat to struggle threatening the very
existence of the ustiou. I perfivnied •
conscientious doty without asking pro
motion of commend, and without • if
reugoful feeling toward any section or
anj individual. Not withstanding thin,
throughout the war end from my <NMt
dulaey fur my present office, ia 1 to
Ute close of the Iftftt Presidential cam
paign, I hare been the subject of ftbnae
and slander scarcely erer equaled in
! political history, whieh to-day I (gel
that I esu dtsregaid, in rise of your
rerdict, which I gratefnlly accept u
my rindioatioa.
Marriageable Women.
One of the great social problems of
the day is to explain why there are au
many 'msirisfenblc women who neror
get married. Home say that it ia owing
to an exoeaa in numbers of women orer
men, in eonaeuuence of wlueh there
are not husbands enough to go round.
This, however, is disprorcd by statis
tics. Take the world through, and the
figures show that then aiw as many
men ia it as there ere women. Others
attribute it to the rxpetuureneee of
modern life. Men do not marry be
cause, it is said, they cannot iflbrd to.
Bfct the (act is, that no man who truly
loved a woman ever hesitated to become
engaged to her and eventually marry
her because of poverty. There are cold-:
blooded men, with no idea of say feel
ing for a woman stronger than a languid
admiration, who may be deterred from '
assuming what they regard as a burden j
in the shape of a wife, nukes assured
of e liberal income; bat nod are not
so calculating. Others, again, attribute
the evil to women's fastidiousness.
They expect too much ia a hatband, ,
end.* while waiting for an impossible
shadow, let the possible substance slip 1
through their fingers. This ia a libel
on the sex. da a role, they are bo more
fastidious than man are, and ate just as :
Nuseeptible as men to that enchantment
of love which invests its object with
every perfection, and covers up every
fault. So far as men sad wumea them- "
selves are concerned, they are as prone j
to marriage now as in any period of the
world's history. Nevertheless, there
the women are wanting tor husbands,
and not getting them. Every social
circle is fall of them. Tbey are pretty, j
they are accomplished, they aiw eenai- i
bla, and under proper training they .
would make excellent wives and moth
ers; bat they never get • chance.
What seems to be needed is a more
thorough method of bringing men and
women into social con tec* with each !
other. |
People yea Object te Meet.
Mr. Whmer, who never sees yoa
without saying how very fat you've
grown, or how pale yoa look.
Mr. Humdrum, who, when in society,
confines his coavsrsstioe to the change*
of the weather, and the rising price of
* coaL I
Mrs. Pwaddkr, who, if yoa meet her j
ia the Park, as pretty sore to ask yon to
carnr her fat lap-dog for her.
M Onsver, who raves about the maaic j
of the future, aad never says a word of
sens# about the music of taw present
Captain Bluuterham, who bellows o*l
vour name when he meets yon in the
street, and shakes yon by the hand till *
he nearly wrings your fingers off. i
Mr. Wbeeaer, who fancies that he ia ,
an invalid, and explain# to yon the
symptoms of hit latest ailment
Mr. Harduppe, who, upon the
strength of old sehool-feHowahip, will 1
never miss a chance of borrowing five '
dollars ef yon.
Mr. Borer, who even now discusses j
the merit# of the Tiebborne ease.
Messrs. bawboaee and Pilgnciic, who, 1
when they happen to meet at dinner,
invariably talk shop together, aad take
sway your appetite.
Mr. Jeremiah Doldrum, who thinks
he has a grievance against one at your
beet friends, and takes yon by the
button-hole in order to expWn it
Baron Munchausen, Jr., who was i
once eupturcd by Hie brigands, and j
every time he sees yoa embellishes the
incident
Mr. end Mrs. Cadger, who, if yoa 1
invite them for a day or two, always :
come provided with luggage for a fort
night _ _
Later Inventions.
Among my mors recent inventions f
are:
A printing press that seta its own ,
type, writes its own editorial* and stirs :
up delinquent subscribers. I* answers
verr well for a clothes' press, or a sub
soil plow, or a threshing machine, and ,
is warranted to press the question, or '
to press fsrarsrd.
A brick ship, to sail the mighty
waters of the great Atlantic. It has a l
grauite foundation, with a fine cellar,
and agood well; with s free-stone-paved
walk running in front of it at tlw rot#,
of ten knot# a mile.
A simplified pot-hook, which yoa can I
unfold, and it makes a nice spring bun- j
net for toot wife; and it is equally easy >
to turn It into an overcoat, or you eon
use it for a handkerchief or a standing
collar.
A compound toothpick, which will i
pick anything oat of a hollow tooth 1
from a shoulder of meat to a toothache. .
Ton uufold it and behold you have a
step-ladder; give it another twist, and '
then you have a one-horse dray ; reverse j
it, and yon have a cottage with three .
rooms and an acre lot
An umbrella, so antagonistic to water I
that, if you should fell in the river
with it, you would eome out perfectly
dry. It ia altogether nnneeeesiury even
to hold it over you in a storm. Fold it i
up and it is a walking eaoe, press on a .
spring and it is a coal Seattle ; tarn it
inside out and it is a plug hat; turn it >
again and you have a pair of books. t
Everybody gets dry who carries it
Paper Car-Wheel*. 1
The numerous usee to which paper
and paper-pulp are applied in the vari
ous departments ef general industry,
form one of the most interesting chap
ters in the history of recent mechanical I
and chemical progress. We have paper j
doors and window-blinds, paper billiard- j
balls, boats, and wash-basins, paper
clothes and curtains, and, not the least
important, as recent experiments hsve
demonstrated, paper car-wheels. From
an exchange we leant that a Connecticut
railroad is about to make trial of these
new wheels, which have been known to
car-builders for some time, though
their general introduction has been
hindered by the expense. These wheels
are msde by the following process:
Sheets of common straw paper are
forced into a compact mass by a pres
sure of three hundred and fifty tons.
The solid maas of paper thus formed is
placed in a lathe and tamed perfectly
round. After which, a huh is forced into
a hole in the center, under a pressure
of twenty-five tons. This paper wheel,
or disk, is now forced, under a pressure
of two hundred and fifty tons, into a
steel tire, with a one-half inch bevel
upon its inner circumference. Two
circular iron plates are then bolted on I
to the tire to keep the paper tilling in '
By this arrangement the steel |
tire rests upon the paper only, and is ■
thus rendered more elastic, a quality of i
great importance, as regards both the
safety and comfort of travelers. j
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Man's chief wisdom consists in being !
sensible of his folies.
Imtching nmtkaeea in Nevada are
band."
Our eonntrr. it la said, has bad but
one black eysd President. That waa
Qeneral Harrison.
Michigan never brags much about It,
bat dBfWW UMiifia "her prison
under life seqteuibea.' T: _ _
Tliev irniMMftayirt Win C" nit ed States
tteuatorshJp up a* pobtta auction in the
Kansas legislature ia the fatal*.
True liberty consists ia the fririkge
of enjoying our own rights—not in the
destruction of the rights of others.
The auto who tried toaweateh hiatra
with one of his wife's smites, has " fall
en beck on sugar."
ft Baltimere nnpli lif tbsircourting
,0 ad,-ccu sails, aA wera engagod be
fore seeing each other.
The man who ate bis dinner with tha
fork of i* river has sprained. bis foot
white attempting to apTionUin
tosi
Prayer wa* oflbred hi behalf of the
, Washington ai ■ iiirau rr in the First
CorariNrittoiial C'uureh of that city the
other day. ,
'f The mot baallfo! gilt traater heard
of was the young lady who blushed
, wbeh die was asked it she had not beeo .
, courting sleep.
[ It win never pay to start business in
} the belief that.-ratybodv will know who
> yoa ore and whtotonaeli, without being
advertised thereof.
♦ We're in e pickle now," esid s man
;in e crowd. I'A regular jam," said
} auotlier. • Heaven prseerre ge I" ex
, claimed an old lady.
The refund maiden of the period,
dremed te the faabtonable low-necked
party drees, look* like an oyster on the
Ull-shell-pale, puJpy sbd peaceful.
I The Hawaiian UastMe says thai strong
efforts are being mad* to revive the
j project of the radbrority treaty between
! the Sandwich Uknd* and the United
States.
An attack of toothache delayed a
Green Bey (Wto.)umtoling Muse hours.
jumping around crying.
| Advises from Ariaana State that Lieut.
Miohler. of the Fifth iteratev, fought
the Apaches at Touto Creek, killing
seventeen warriors One soldier, nameS
t George Html—i, urn* hilled.
A reduetomm the public debt of the
i United State# to the extent of five end
a quarter millions of dollars is the
principal feature in the Treasury state
ment lot the month of February
The Council of the Nevada Legisla
tors has passed S lull to remove the
capital fiura TOOK* to Ftramix, but it
waa thought tt would be defeated in tha
j landlord Las offered to
abandon dm sole of liquor if his towns
j men will psy hraia pear, thus as
ennting part of his torn. The towna
-1 people refoue, and threaten litn with
oroH*wution if he eoututuea the traffic.
The Massachnsette Legislature is pe
titioned to appoint s board of eosupe
' tent aeefcagtcal eaglnaerc sad arien
i tike men to devise eome sheep aad ef
feetirs plan lot ewelrunUing fire end
, water prauf Amws tor meatsmrile butid-
A farmer nop in lUisom, who thir
teen years ago sold a load of potrioea
in Main, sad by short measure made
twentv-five bushdtoout nf fuuto-four,
has just seat his old customer fI.SO, to
:: return the diahommt gain, 'Pith internet
st ten per esnt
This touching tribute to the late Mr.
Grafton, of Grdfct, Oi.. ia from the
Htaitter ol that piaoe: f'Hewaesfine
man in all erapacte; he wea owing us
seven doHsrs on that lastgAnteof seven
op: but we win tbaow that in toward
I Ifcif ittfMMj'EVirT fii M
1 Bslnmor. councumsm ineiated that
. the city to
placed betmslhSmrae periasmers, than
ruling In tfes ouw, beeanse eSmatimea
t sesidante aeaur as.them. - ;a .
The farmers and milkmen of South
Orange have L. 1J a puhbemeatang in
answer to the chawee made against
them of edUmg themstkuhdmeseed cat
tle. They dray the cbaigee, snd sap
there were lees than a dcxen cases in
the <mtis Uieeetiqi aad that all the
rr _.L. oare killed wd tmraed.
I A denhet not a thousand miles from
Bristol, Conn., was recently extracting
s tooth from a young man under them
fiuenee of laughing gnu, when he (the
ysung man) suddenly breams uneon
ma wna nt" nwm wwi
the dentlel calling St Mm top of hie
! voice, "Stop him, he is full of gaeT
Feeling is s much alower sense than
f right If a man had an arm long
t enough to reach the sun, sod were to
touch that body with the Up of his
finger, Imp wouKf new find pr.t whether
it were hbt or odd, as he would be dead
before the aenastom arrived at head
auartera, which would requir* one hun
dred years.
Up to January, 1871, the New York
Central Park has eeet the esty twelve
, aad a half million dollars; hat since
the park waa commenced, the taxable
propertv in three words n the imme
diate neighborhood of the park has in
crsaaed iu valuation from twenty-six
: million to nearly one hundred and
eigfaty-eix million dollars.
A minister hi Wilton, hewing hurried
j a young fellow, was asked whet was hie
price. The pastor said that the law gavw
him SB. •'Well,*' said the hridgrtwm,
"if the law gives yoa *2, there is fifty
cents, no that now you hare two dollars
and a half," and before that parson
I could shut hi* eyas the married pair
were off en their honeymoon.
-U UL.JJHBI T
Rkh leu tor the Senate.
Commenting on the prevailing opin
! ion that only rich men can get into the
United State* Senate, nowaday*. Hot
San Frtutcitco Bulletin goes over the
list of M wealthy" Senators :
i It has come to this that, as elections
i are now managed in a large number of
' the States, the candidate must either
I have wealth or he most be the friend
of some powerful corporation. No mat
ter how much ability one may have or
: how superior he may he in all that
I would make a good legislator, there
I small chance lor him without money.
If he is poor and honest, there ia leas
' hope for nim. The Senate ia filling np
! with inferior men, who, having readied
offio# corruptly, will theseoitee legislate
corruptly. If they were the tools ct
1 corporations before election, they will
be nothing lees afterward. The ih<d v
is with tha people, just where the evil
hu originated. If they are willing to
perpetuate this reign of fraud, then
t these is bo hope ef reform. The worst
men in the community will have a far
j better chance of going to the Senate
i than toe best The roomX exposures
of bribery will not mend matter®. Nor
can any reform touching the purity of
elections be expected te originate in
the Senate when so huge a number of
that body are more or less tainted by
election trfeks. The popular anathemas
go for nothing unieas in some way a re
form can be initiated right down among
the people.
The Bastes Feeteffiee.
Washington correspondents sag that
the Postmaster of Boston has received
an appropriation of #300.000 for Uiecon
trauation of the Postoffioe buildtog, as
trifi as half a million of dollars for the
additional aite. The Postmaster haa
been criticised for too much attention
to business not particularly connected
with the interior management of the
office he holds ; but theßoston Trim.
\ script thinks if be sneeeedsiu erecting
j a government edifice afte; sb magmfl
' cent plan contemplated, it will be at
I eoee such mi ornament to the ntetropo
l lie and present so mueh fa barrier to
j the spread of another wmllagratipn in
the business part of the City—should
| the experieuee of last November ever
be unfortunately repeated—that his
present labors will redound greatly to
1 the advantage of toe oommunity.