Thy RN. Tb# splendor of U>* rose* fills The sUanr* of my kmoly room s Bat something in ttiotr beauty thrill* Mora than the brightness of their bloom. Tie thi* : thy dear hand gathered them, And grouped their loveliuee* for me. In every rnee who*# leave# I kiss, The wonder of thy love 1 see. Two, riding fair above the reat. Together eeem to breathe apart . And one of theee, enpremely bl**t. Lie* on the other'* royal heart. Oh. tbn* it is with thee and me : From ad the crowded world apart. My all of life—love'* eoetaey 1 only know it through thy heart. My roe* of men. the leaver flower Oa*t not from mil thy larger heart; Enough if in her waning hoar, Bhe may hut perish wive re thou art. Je Yous Alme. I will not say you'r* fairer far Than angel, that in heaven are ; I will not falsely flatter you. But i will tell you what i true— J* voiu aime, Man aim* eh*ri*. J* vou* aim*. I knew yon for a litU* while— -1 heard your votee ; 1 *aw you *mil*; And a* you moved among tiie throng, I looked, and learnt this two-lute song Je vou* aime, Man aime cberie. Je vou* aime. The night died out, the morning caste, The tag win set the *ea aflame; We walked together, 1 and you. And cod wave* whispered to the due - Je vou* aime, Mou aim* chert*, je TOO* aim*. Pint evening failed into night. The yellow moon turned small and white. And. fleeting o'er the trees, the chime Of curfew bells breathed out the rhyme— Je vou* atnte, Mou aim* cheri*. j* vou* aim*. Whan sails lb* ship that bring* me borne To friends, and Add* we u*ed to roam. Will it be well for me to stag Thi* po*y of a lover * ring— J* vou* aim*. Mou aim* cheri*, Je vous aime. MISS DOLLY CORNERED. " I shouldn't be surprised any day, Dolly, to David W iggin tying his horse at TOUT gat*," said Mr. Blount, roguishly, gathering up the reins. •• Nouseuse, brother ! any thing the matter with his own hitching-poet ?" retorted Miss Dolly, turning into the doorway. Mr. Blount laughed. Every body felt bound to laugh at Miss Dolly's crisp savings. She had kept her friends in good humor these forty years. " And whcu David does call on you," pursued Mr. Blount, more seriously, •• Ido hope, Dolly, you'll give him s chance to do his erraud. That *ll be no more'n fair, and the man won't be easy till he has treed his mind." " What mischief are vou the fore runner of now, J anies Blount ?" cried Miss Dolly, facing abont like a soldier in drill. " What upon earth have Ito to with David's errands ?" " Well, his wife's been dead a year or so," said Mr. Blount,suggestively,shut ting one eye, and squinting with the other down the length of his whip-** xtk, " and lately he's been ssking abo-* fou. Yon can put that and that together to suit rourself." " fiddle-sticks !" said Miss Dolly, energetically. " I sha n't sar have him, or don't have him—but there isn't a likelier man living than David—but I do say, Dolly, you ought to give him a hearing." And having convinced himself beyond u reasonable doubt that the whip was all right, Mr. 31ount tickled his sleepy horse with it, and drove away. " Oh, my sorrows !" ejaculated Miss Dolly, closing the door with an afflicted countenance, and sitting down so quiet ly for once that s photographer might have copied her then and there. Not that he oould have done her jus tice, for her expression was too quick and varied to be caught bv any trick of cbemicals, and without it Miss Dolly's physiognomy would have been rather characterless bat for her prominent Roman nose. This organ gave tone to her face. By which 1 would not be understood literally, as saying that she talked through it in a nasal whine. I mean simply that in a metaphorical sense this bold feature spoke loudly of energv. And Miss Dolly had always had abundant need of energy—else why the nose? Everv two years during her childhood she had been tip-toed into the east bed room to see a new baby, till, at her mother's death, five little brothers fell to her charge to be coaxed and scolded in to manhood. "Yon can't bring up them boyi," croksd a dolorous aunt, "They'll run square over yon, Dorothy Ai med*." Dorothy Aimed* vu Miss Dolly'i baptismal name, bnt it was so manifest ly too big for her that most of her friends would as soon hare thought of labeling a tiny homoeopathic rial with a quack-medicine advertisement as of calling her by it. "Let 'em run over me so long as it doesn't hurt 'em!" laughed Miss Dolly, skewering her flaxen hair with a gooee quill, ana tying a tow apron over her calico long-short, preparatory to "bring ing up" said youths. From that day forward she went cheerily on, making the beet of every thing, though it must be confessed she often bad odds and ends to work with, as people usually do have who are born with a faculty. Somehow she found time for all her duties excepting matri mony. If that was a dntv, it was one she couldn't and wouldn't attend to while her father and the children need ed her. Divers young men thought this a great pity,'among them David Wiggin. "Don't be silly, David!" said Dolly, when be hinted as much to her, where upon David went off straightway and married Olive Searle, the plainest girl in the parish. This happened thirty years ago, and now David was again wifeless, and again the current of his thoughts turned toward Miss Dolly, who still lived at the old homestead near the foot of Bryant's Falls. Her father had died some months before. Of the boys, James and Ezekiel bad set tled on neighboring farms, and the re maining three were in the West. Da vid's benevolent heart warmed with compassion as he remembered Dolly's lonely condition, and he felt that it would be exceedingly kind in him to offer her a home, eepeciallv as he owned as good a place as you'd find on the river, while the Blount cottage was fast falling to decay. He wouldn't let her former refusal of him tell against her, for, now he looked back, he really didn't see how she could have married any body at that period. She ought to be rewarded for the devotion she had shown to the family, and, for his part, he felt magnanimous enough to give her a second chance to accept him. Such was the worthy widower's state of mind when he asked James Blount, with mock humility, whether it would be of any use for him to try to make a bargain with Dolly. " That more'n I can tell," Mr. Blount had answered ; " Dolly's a puzzle. You'll have to find out for yourself." Mr. Wiggin smiled, in complacent anticipation of acceptance. Indeed, if it might not seem like a reproach to the memory of his lost Olive, I should say that the kind-hearted man rejoiced in this opportunity of making Miss Dolly's happiness. Benevolence was in his face, benevo lence was in his spirit, as he sallied forth at an early day to acquaint her with her good fortune. The broken harrow which he had strapped into the wagon to give the neighbors a plausible reason for his trip to the Falls was by no means typical of mental laceration in its owner. His feeling as be approach ed Miss Dolly's moss-grown cottage was purely one of thankfulness that it was in his power to provide her a better home. Not that he was grateful to his dead wife for leaving a vacancy there. Mr. Wiggin had mourned faithfuly for Olive yew end a day. FRKD. KI'RTZ, KiUtoraml Rropriotor. VOL. VI. Miss Dolly w&a out in tho garden gathering catnip. She never used it herself, but there were nervous old ladies in the village who looked upou this herb as tho substance pleasant dreams are made of, and Mtss lXilly vlrtevl it every year, and often left little bundles of it when she made visits of oousolation. Site had built a chip Are under the tea-kettle, and thou whisked off to pick an apreuful of the pungent leaves while the water was boiuag. There she was, stooping leneath tlie haves of a log-eabiu! sun-bonnet, and humming a lively fugue tune wheu Mr. Wiggm drove* up. " ■ I'OBW, my beloved. hast* away,'" piped Miss Dollv, cheerily, snapping brisk I v at the stalVs. " • Out short the hour* of Uyr delay j Fly like a youthful— " ' Fly like a youthful—'" struck in a whoeay baas. The sun-bonuet tipped back like a cart body. " Sakes alive !" cried Misa lXdly. not in the words of the hyuiu, as Mr. \Vtg gin strode toward Iter on hia slightly rheumatic legs. " I don't mean to put you out," laughed he, shaking bauds heartily, " but it seemed kmk o' naterai to take a part with you in Invitafiott." " You always had away of falling in at the most unheard-of time, I remem ber," retorted Miss Dolly, saucily, re covering herself, and going on gather ing catnip. She was fifty years old now, and hoped she had her wits sbout her. " You used to say I kept good time, only too much of it," pursued Mr. Wig gin, with a sudden inspiration ; " but I tell you what, Dolly, time never dragged with me then as it does these days !" " It is a dull season," said Misa Dol ly, with exasperating simplicity. " 1 suppose the grasshopper* have eateu most of your wheat, haven't they, so it 'll hardly pay lor reaping ?" "Just BO," assented Mr. Wiggin, dis comfited. He had not traveled five miles in the heat to discuss the state of the crops. " Walk in and ait down, won't von?" said Miss Dolly, with reluctant hospi tality. Her apron was crammed at last to its utmost capacity. She devoutly wished it had been larger. "Well, yes, I don't care if I do," an swered Mr. Wiggin, after a hypocritical show of hesitation. No hurry, though, as I know of," and he turned to let down the bars for Miss Dolly, who meanwhile slipped nimbly through the fence, cat nip and aIL " Bless my heart! I don't see but what you're as spry as ever vou was," said he, admiringlv, as he puffed along in her wake. "Still yon must be getting into rears, Dollv, as well as I—no offense, I iiope—and 1 was wonderiug whether or no it wasn't lonesome for you living alone here ; a woman, so ?" " Oh, I never was one of the lonesome kind," responded Miss Dolly, brisklv, seating her guest in the patchwork cush ioned rocking-chair ; " and, for that matter, hardly a day passes without some of James" • folks running in to see me." " Yes, I know ; but if you was to change your situation, wouldn't you en joy life better, think ?** Miss Dolly fidgeted at the green pa per curtains, and intimated that her present happiness would be complete if ■ the grasshoppers would stop feeding on her garden sauce. "That's just it," continued Mr. Wig- j gin, eagerlv ; " yon do seem to need a man to loot oat for your farming inter ests, now don't yon, Dolly ? a man that 'll be ready and willing to do for you, and make Von comfortable ?" "I don't know," said Miss Dolly, dryly. "The year before father died I did nave Silas Potter, and he is the most faithful creature living ; bnt what with the extra cooking and washing I hall to do for him, my work was about doubled, and when mud-time came I was glad to send him off, and hire by the aay. I about made up my mind that men folks round the house cost more'n they come to." " I guess we don't understand one another," said Mr. Wiggin, slightly disconcerted by this unflattering view of his sex. "f wasn't speaking of hired help, Dolly. Naterally yon u-ould get tried with that; it's worryin' to a wo man. Bat if yon was to have a com panion, now—one that conld give yon a good home, with wood and water under cover—" •"Shoo! ahoo!" cried Misa Doily, fly ing out after an inquiring chicken on the door-step. Mr. Wiggin dremJia red pocket handkerchief frtfrfajfis hat to wipe his glowing face. AL(ifty he hadn't felt the heat so all tfiMgh haying. " How's yonjjJrfKlth nowadays ?" asked Miss Dolly, frisking back with a look of resolute unconsciousness. "Very good; remarkably good! I don't know where jrou'll find a man, Dolly, with a tougher constitution than I've "got." "Ah!" Miss Dolly blushed like a sumac in October. •'Yes,l'm well," pursued Mr. Wiggin, perseveringly, "and I'm tolerably well to-do, with nothing to hinder me from marrying again, provided I can sec a woman to my mind." " There's the deacon's widow," sug gested Miss Dolly, officiously ; "she's a pious, economical—" "She's left with means enough to carry her through handsomely," inter rnpted Mr. Wiggin, quickly. "Now I'd rather have a wife to provide for —one that needed a home. In fact, Dolly, I have my eye on the little woman I want this minnte!" He had both eyes on her, for that matter, and Miss Dolly was forced to recognize the situation, whether ahe ac cepted it or not " I've managed to sugar my tea so far, David, without calling npon my neighbors," chirruped she, stooping to lay straight the braided mat, "and I might as well keep ou. I don't feel it a tax, as some folks would. But there's Martha Dunning, she's having s hard time to get along. Why don't you take her, David? She'd appreciate such a nice house as yours." "It would seem as if 'most any wo man might," said Mr. Wiggin, in an in jured tone, "all finished off complete, painted outside and in—" "She'd be delighted with it, I am sure of it!" broke in Miss Dolly, with an air of oonvictiOn, as she darted into the kitchen to lift the boiling kettle from the crane. "But you don't mean that you won't marry me, Dolly?" pleaded Mr. Wig gin, anxiously, following to the door. "I've been lottin' on seem' yon at the head of things in my house." "Martha is s grand manager," said Miss Dolly, coolly. "David needn't think he can buy me with a set of new buildings!" added she mentally, snap ping down the lid of the pug-nosed tea pot. "I never did have the name of being cropping!" "I tell yon, Dolly, I won t have Mar tha ; I don't like her turn I" cried Mr. Wiggin, testily, balancing himself on the threshold, yet not daring to step over it. Miss Dolly gave her undivided atten tion to winging the hearth. "You know you was always the wo man of my choice, Dolly," pursued Mr. Wiggin, us tenderly as he oould con sistently with the distance between them. "And we were both young—" "Pshaw I" snapped Miss Dolly, THE CENTRE REPORTER scorching her wing; "that'a beyond the memory of man!" Mr. Wiggu'k position was becoming painful. Ho gnuqied the doobput in oithor hand, looking wrot*'hod enough U> slay himself ou to* spot, aftor the; faahtou of Samson. Evidently ho had tn>l touched tho right chord aa vet. Mis* Dolly was not to ho won by tho attractioua of wealth afnl position, nor ovou by toudor allusions to tho past. Ho would appeal to her kiuduesa of heart. "I uaod t*> .boliovo you had some foelin', lXilly," satd ho tromuUmsly; "but von don't seem to have any for mo. Here I ain left alone in tho world; children all paired off 'thout'a Matilda, and she'll go before the anew flies; house empty—" * " 1 suppose you can have a home with any one of your boys, and welcome," put in Miss Dolly, faiutly, still fluttering about the chimney like a swallow. " Yea, if worse comes to worse, I suppose I can," assented Mr. Wiggin, mournfully, anything but consoled by this reflection." "It would break me dowu terribly, though, you may depeud, to give up my place that I set so much by, aud crowd myself onto my chil dren." No response save the clattering of the tonga. " And it's dreadful melancholy busi ness for a man at my time of life to drag along without a partner. I'm getting to lie ohl, Dolly." Mr. Wiggin brushed his sleeve across his eye* as a feruled school-boy might have done. " Ye*, I'm getting to be old, Dolly," he re peated, brokenly; "and it stands to rea son that I haven't many years to live; but I did hope we luigfit go dowu hill together; I lolly, you chirkiti' me up with that spry war "of youru that I al ways took to, suil I cam-in' the heft of—" Here Miss Dolly gave s little sniff, nothing worth mcutiouiug only for the effect it produced on Mr. Wiggin. In deed, had his ears been as old a* he pre tended, he would not have suspected her of being affected hv anything mora serious thsu a cold iu tne head. "Can't von make up your mind to have me, lXilly ?" pleaded he, crossing the threshold In his hopeful eagerness. " I don't see how I'm going to stand it if you can't." "Then Martha wouldn't suit?" said Miss Dolly, archly, making a great pre tense of wiping a cinder from her eye. " What s shame, now, when the needs the property so much 1" " Hang tlie property ! I'd mortgage the whole of it rather than not get you, Dolly!" cried Mr. Wiggin, with a vehe mence that quite closed her mouth. And so at last he had Miss Dolly cor nered. A Telegraphic Decision. A decision of some interest and im oortance to business men was delivered in the Supreme Court of Illinois, at Chicago, by Judge Breexe. The case aud decision were as follows : James E. Tyler telegraphed, October 30, 1872, by the Western Union Tele graph Company, to John Wrenn, of New York, to purchase 100 shares of Western Union stock. The message was transmitted and received " 1,000 shares." Mr. Tyler brought a suit in assumpsit for damages, and was award ed $2,60 damage a by the jury, being the cost of the message. A motion for a new trial was overruled by an appeal taken to the Supreme Court. In reversing the judgment of the Cir cuit Court, and remanding the cause for further prc swift to exempt the companies from li ability is a dictate of public policy. To such perfection has the art of telegraph v been brought that, thongh many mil lions of dispatches have been sent, the English and American court records only show some fifty cases instituted against companies for losses occasioned by their negligence. Under these cir cumstances their bold claim to exemp tion should meet with no favor from the courts. The doctrine to benefit the public must be that which the Court en deavors to establish —that s mistake in transmission is prima facie evidence of negligence, and that the burden is on the company to prove the contrary. If the company relies upon contracts to restrict its liability it must show a valid contract, freely entered into by the sen der, and for a valuable consideration paid by the company or acknowledged by the"sender. But even such a contract will not relieve the company from gross negligence.** A Diving Torpedo. There is now lying at the Brooklyn Navy Yard a torpedo-boat, invented l>y Abraham Halstead, of Jersey City. It is built of iron, about thirty-two feet long and seven feet wide at the middle. In shape, "it resembles a very fat cigar, its ronuded back only lying out of the water. Its appearance entitles it to the name of " Intelligent Whale," bestow ed on it by its inventor. In principle it is a boat-shaped diving-bell, the bot tom being open, to enable its occupants to work upon the bottom or sides of the vessel or other object to l>e destroyed. In each end is an air-tank, and when in use air is allowed to escape till the boat is entirely under water, when it is pro pelled by an ordinary propeller screw turned by hand. It has two rudders placed at right angles to each other, and can be guided up or down as well as to either side. The cask containing the explosive maybe taken in tow or carried in the prow, ready to be attached to the enemy s vessel, where it is to be explod ed with carefully graduated fuse, with an arrangement of clockwork, or with electric wires which are paid out of the torpedo boat as it withdraws a safe dis tance. The boat aa thus described does not greatly differ from other inventions of its kind. Its distinguished character istic is an apparatus hv which the car bonic acid gas exhaled from the lungs is absorlied and oxygen supplied. Tins process is, as yet, a secret. A recent experiment near the dry dock resulted very satisfactorily to the officers of the Navy Yard. Mr. Halstcad and his fam ly have, on several occasions, remained in the boat under water for periods of three or four hours. KILLED BT INDIANS.— The Leaven worth (bmmercial has intelligence from private sources of the murder in cold blood, by Cherokee Indians, of Mr. Deming and three other Govern ment surveyors, 120 miles southwest of Arkansas City. The men had gone a mile and a naif from the camp, and their bodies were found by their oom rades buried in the sand. Two others of the same party, with a provision train, have not been heard from for seme time, and fears are entertained for their safety. THE SUMNER RESOLUTIONS SETTLED. —The Massachusetts Senate rejected all amendments and accepted bv a vote of 27 to 4 the adverse report of the Com mitte on the petition of John C. Whit tier and others for annuling or rescind; ing the Sumner resolutions, passed last session. The House has already done the same thing, so that the matter is finally settled. CENTRE HALL. CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1873. Industrial Progress. The Stale of New York has one thou sand cheese factories, which mske eighty million pounds of cheese. He who long* sftor beautiful Nature catt best dtntorilie her, satd llottiue ; he who ta in the mulst of her lovltuess can only lie dowu and enjoy. France import* annually 7,000,000 tou* of coal, receiving 4,000,000 front Belgium, 2,000,000 from England, and 1,1*10,000 frm Germany ami elsewhere. " You exhaust my patieuoe," cried a doctor who was engaged iu a quarrel with his wife. " You exhaust your patients worse than 1 do," wu* the re tort. The Missouri legislature has passed a bill eutitling lalmrera to a lien upon a railroad wheu the contractors fail to pay them for the work they may have doue. The armies of Europe bsve altogether 10,(**1 pieces of artillery, of which Ger many has 1.7tV4, Kussia 1,730, and Aus tria OIK. Norway boasts only of 72, and Switzerland 400. Au extrusive deposit of iron ore lis been discovered ou on the property o Samuel Caldwell in Lycoming Co., IV a section supposed tocontaiu great min eral treasures. The Council of Toledo are altout to assist, by a loan, the building of a rail road front that city to Columbus, Ohio, mainly with the view of increasing the coal trade in the fofmcr and the lumber business iu the latter city. Iu order to check the over-production which is depressing the busiues*, the manufacturers of writing pajx-r iu Mas sachusetts contemplate limiting the production of their mills to one-half the usual quantity during the months of April and May. The dearneaa of British cosl has led to the organizing, in Russia, of six com panies. having an aggregate capital of $9,530,000, for the purpose of develop ing the great coal-fieldaof that country, which has hitherto imported over *OO,- 000 tona of coal annually from Eng land. A Southern Lumber Manufacturer*' and Shippers' Association waa recently established at Savannah for the purpose of promoting the general interest* of the trade. An insurance company was also organized in connection therewith, iu order to avoid jiaying tha high rates which the large companies require for insuring steam saw-milla. It ia proposed to establish a steamship line between New Orleans aud Braxil, which will, it ia expected, derive ample business from the coffee, lumber, and Western produce trade. It is urged that a line ought to be established also between the same port and Vera Crux, in order to develop the trade which may be expected from the owning of the railroad between Vera Crux and Mexico City. The Chamber of Commerce of Charles ton, 8. C-, following the good example set them by similar bodies in other cities, hare "prepared an elaborate re port on the trade and commerce of that seaport. Regarding the comparatively new trade in South Carolina phos phates, the report shows that six com panies, with a capital of $4,000,000, arc engaged there in making fertilisers and sulphuric acid, and that 250,000 tons of crude rock have been shipped already from Charleston. A remarkable discover? ha* l>een made by Willoughby Smith, the elec trician, to a British telegraph eonatruc tion and maintenance company, lie flu Js that if a bar of aelenium placed in the dark has a current of electricity passed through it, and be then subjected to the influence of light, either daylight or artificial light, it* power of conducting electricity is immediately doubled, this result ceasing the moment the light is withdrawn. It is proved that this effect is entirely due to the luminous rays, and in no way due to the effect of heat. Wool Growing in California. The importance which the wool-grow ing interest in C-alifornia has attained nsay be in a great measure a*cril>ed to the example afforded in the energy and pluck of oue man, who, in the face of almost insurmountable difficulties, practically demonstrated the feasibility of making the business of sheep raising exceedingly remunerative in that State. This man, Col. William W. Hollistcr, emigrated from Licking county, Ghio, some twenty Tears ago, driving before him a flock oi eight hundred sheep. It was an extremely hazardous undertaking to croaa the continent in those duyawith such a flock, and owing to the Jiflleul tica and hardship* he encountered on the way, when he arrived at last in Southern California the number of his sheep hod been reduced by more than one-naif. Beginning the business of aheep breeding in debt, he carried it on ao successfully that in time he became very wealthy, Itis fortune at present 1h ing estimated at not less than £3,000,- 000. He is the owner of over one hun dred thousand aeres of soil, with flocks in proportion to his lands. He savs that each one of the three hundred sheep he had remaining when he reaehed Cal ifornia earned him one thousand dol lars before it died. Col. Hollistcr thinks the different gradesof merino sheep the best adapted to the business of sheep raising on a large scale, because the merino is more gregarious and herds better in large bands, while its fleece furnishes the great staple for the cloth ing wools. The average annual increase of sheep under fair conditions in Cali fornia CoL Holliater estimates to be, with merinos, on a small scale, one hun dred per cent. ; but on a large scale only eighty per cent. The average annual yield of wool in his flocks has been about six pounds for each animal. Where the business is conducted on su extensive scale the owner is obliged to leave its supervision with subordinates to a groat extent, which acoount* for the falling off in the increase nnder such circumstances. The great enemies of California wool-growers aro wolves and the scab. Origin of Manna. Curiosity has been on the alert from remote historical times to discover some way by which the Inraelities were so abundantly supplied with a nutri tious food in the wilderness called man na, short of a miraculous dispensation. But no one has yet discovered any source of supply I waring a proportion to the qunntity gathered by tho so journing Hebrews. Several kinds of shrubs and trees yield something analogous, hut it is glutinous—a sort of viscid exudation—whereas that which */as found, every morning in tho desert was a clean, well defined, dry substance like a coriander seed, nays the sacred chronicle. Mr. Turner found a grove of tamar isk trees near Mount Sinai in the valley of Farran, which furnishes what the monks called manna. They were bushy, about 10 feet high, from which drops of a sweetish thick fluid ooze. If taken early in the morning before the sun is up, it may be kept in earthen pots considerable time. It is used in lieu of sugar in the convent. There fore, the disbelieving in the miracle must extend their researches still fur ther if any expectation is entertained of explaining away the positive testi l mony of the great lawgiver Moses. An Amphibious lley. A tsr|rs Ikmnnilrslri thai l.aiot Ant- SMlKts 1.111 t ulti Malar. A writer iu the Chicago '/Voir* states that he lio* seen the infant sou of Dr. Louia Mhultx remain under water twen ty-five minute* without Iteiug iujured. Sliuitx claim* that auy laud animal can le taught to do the same thing if taken iu hand immediately after birth, llis theory is that lefore birth the circula tion i* carried oil through the oval hole between the right aud left arterial oa uuU After birth the circulation is conducted entirely by the lungs through the pulmonary artery, and the oval hole of the heart i* gradually closed through disuse. The vital fuuctioua of the am phibia are almost identical with those of the land animals, includiug the hu man species. Their young are born on land and would become incapable of remaining under water, were they not frequently forced by theirdauis beneath the surfuce, and thus the oval of the heart is constantly kept open until it becomes one of the jiermanent funo i turns of the body Hhulta was convinced that all land an imals might acquire the same faculty, aud tested the matter by immersing four new-born pups iu water heated to blood temperature. He first kejit them be neath the surface two miuutcs, then five minutes, and they seemed to enjoy it rather than otherwise. When his child was born he stole it from the mother while the latter slept, and reckles*ly immersed it iu water at blood heat for four minutes, keeping his hand ou the babe * breast so that tue pulsation of the heart could be felt. Shultx states tlmt it waa twentv aac onds after immersion before the blood found iU war along the old channel, with a hounding perraaaion which at once startled him and reliered hia aua pense. Upon lifting the babe from the water it waa ten aecouda before the lungs resumed their duties, and the cir culation proceeded in the natural man lier. Shultx then dressed the infant and returned it to ita mother so quietly that she did not imagine anything un usual had happened. The day following the experiment waa related five times. It waa not for some time that Shultx informed hia wife of what he tuul done, assuring her of a certain fortune if she kept the mat ter secret. But the ahock prostrated the poor mother for two weeks. During the winter Shultx never neglected the immersion of hia child Ave times a day, from Ave to twenty-five minutes each tunc. The boy ia a blonde, and shows unusual physical strength for a child of six mouth*. He can already 'go round by the chairs," and hia voice ia uncom mon!} powerful. He appears to have much better con trol of Lis movements in the water than out of it. A few peppermint loxeqgee were tossed in different parts of a bath three feet deep, in pursuit of which the child eagerly went, and he waa fully three minutes endeavoring to secure them as he dropped them almost as fsst as he picked them up. Finally he came up with the candy appealing to betaken out. Mrs. Bhultx is not at all reconciled to the treatment of her child, but Hliultx tin oka he ia doing humanity a favor by initiating a practical method of obvia ting all danger by drowning. Singular Murder Case. One of the most singular murder trials on record has recently l>cen con cluded in Bordeaux. Some montha ago the house of a poatman named M ano, situated in the wild flat* of the Landes, *M entered in the night in the absence of the J*Hitman, and hi# wife, her father and mother and two of their children were brutally murdered in their Ixxla, tlie weapon used Wing a pickaxe. only person left alive in the house was Bernard Mano, a son of Uie poatman, eight years of age. There were several lunatics roaming about the foreets of the Laudes, and at first it waa supposed that one of these had committed the bloody deed. Some months after the murder the boy Bernard one day was sharpening s knife, and in answer to an inquiry said that he intended to kill Ins pa|ia with it because the latter had kill ed the boy's brother, sister, mother, and grandparent*. On thi# evidence Mano, who was not a man of bail char acter, wa* arrested. It was proved that the accused went to bed in the Poat Ofllce, twenty-four mile* distant from his house, on the evening of the murder. He walked habitually in making Ujs rounds thirty mile# a day, and if hs was the guilty person he must have got tin after having done his usual day's work and walked twenty-four mile* to murder his family without any apparent motive, and twenty-four miles back again after doing the deed, iftUting seventy-eight miles of pedestrianism during the twen ty-four hours. It waa shown that the IWT was addicted to lying, and in his evidence he contradicted himself. Hs said that the man with the pickaxe look ed like his father, but he could not be sure that it waa he ; that he hcanl his mother crying murder, and hid his face under the bed clothes. When asked by the man with a pickaxe whether he wa# a sleep, he did not answer from fear. The presiding Judge, according to the French custom, pressed the ei amination of the boy very closely, and after a good deal of coaxing induced him to repeut several times that the man he saw was his father, and that he did not divulge the secret at first for fear of be ing beaten. Bolely on the evidence of this hoy the prisoner was convicted, the verdict of the jury being "Guilty with extenuating circumslancee." Tne ex tenuating circnmstanees undoubtedly consisted only of the scruples of the jury in regard to condemning a man to death on such testimony, a method of compromising with the conscience quite customary with French jnriee. The sentence in this ease was imprisoment with hard labor for life. A Wonderful Baboon. Le Vaillant, the Affiean traveler, tells some wonderful stories about the in stinct of the baboon. He traveled with one for s long time as s guide. Its name was Snees. He know the shops where the best sherlwrt was to be got. Being short of butter once, Snees brought him s number of coooa-nuta, which he hail throws about till the milk inside had tiecomechurned. He watch ed by bis master's side every night, kill ing the mosquitos and fleas which swarm shout the banks of the Nile. He often helped Le Vaillant in unrolling the mummies and packing his trunks. Le Vaillant brought his baboon to Europe, and Snees showed his gratitude by saving his master's life. Thieves wore plun dering the house, when Snees ran to the alarm-bell, and never ceased pull ing it till the inmates were alarmed ; the thieves were apprehended iust in time, for Le Vaillant says when he awoke there were two gentlemen at his bedside, one with s pistol, and the other with a carving knife. The day Le Vaillant died, the sagacious baboon broke a blacking-bottle—whether acei dently or not is not proved—whieh blacked him from head to foot; but many persons, who knew Snees well, declare this was done pnrposely, from a desire of the faithfal nnimnl to show re spect to the memory of liis kind master by going into mourning for him, x The W recks of the Past. Au idea of the Comparative magni tude of the disaster to the steamer At lantic, may be obtained from the fol lowing statement of the prominent ma rine aeeidenta since DUO: lu Mr month of March, 1841, the President sailtd fruiu this port with a large nutulier of paaaeiigt-r* ; when two days out abe is supposed to hare encountered a terrible Kale, and waa never again heard from. Ou the 2*tb of April, 1847, the Ex mouth, au rmigrant ship from Ijondonderry, waa wrecked, and nearly 240 lives loat. A atill more disastrous wreck waa that of the ltoy*l Adelaide, which occurred on the Tougue Hand*, off Margate, on which occaaiou 400 lives were lost. In September, 1850, the Kdmoud waa lost on the weatern coaat of Ireland, and more than half of the '2OO passengers periahed. Upon the oocaaton of the loaa of the troop-ship liirkenhead in Hiuon'a Itay, Houth Africa, in Febru ary, 1852, fit of the crew and soldier* periahed. Agaiu, in 1853, just a year after thia, the Independence took fire on the coast of Lower California, and 140 peraoua were consumed by the fiatue* or drowned in the sea. In May of the use year 170 live* were loat by the wreck of th* William and Mary near the Bahamas ; and five months af terwards 348 persons, maiuly emigrant passengers, oa the Annie Jane, of Liver pool, periahed on the west alio re of Scotland, where the vessel was beached. The Favorite, on her way from llremeu to Baltimore, in April, 1834, ran into the bark llespcr, and '2Ol lives were sacrificed. In Mat of the same year 400 officers and soldiers were lost with the Lady Nugent, a troop-ship, which foundered in a hurricane, and in.the succeeding fall the United State* mail steamer Artie came in contact during a fog with the French steamer Veata, and a loaa of 300 lives waa the result, an ac cident which still ring* in the memory of many. The steamer City of Glasgow disappeared also before tbe close of this disastrous vear with 480 persona on board. In 182*5 the only serious ma rine accident waa the loaa of the George Canning near the mouth of the Elbe with ninety-mix passenger* on board. In 1856 the John, an emigrant veasel, waa wrecked on the Munch Rocks off Falmouth, on which occasion '2OO lives were loat th the *23 dof February of tha auooreding vear the well-known Collins steamer Pacific left Liverpool for New York freighted with 186 souls, and waa never again heard of. During the summer of 1857 the clipper ship Dunbar was wrecked near Bvdney, and out of I'll persona on tward only one waa saved. In September of the same vear the steamer Central America foundered at sea with 579 passengers ; only 152 were rescued. On tbe 13th of September, 1858, the steam emigrant ship Austria was burned in mid Atlan tic, and of the * 538 passengers but 67 were saved. In Beptemler of the same year 317 Chineso emigrants loat their live# in consequence of the wreck of the Ht Paul on the island of Rossel. Of the 419 persons on the Pomona, which waa lust on Blarkwater Bank, April 28, 1859, only 24 were saved. During the aaine rear the Royal Char ter waa wrecked off Moelfra, with a loaa of 446 lives. On the night of February 2, 1860, a new mail steamer, the Hun garian, waa wrecked off the coast of Novia Scotia, and all on board, 205, periahed. Ten years ago this month 237 out of 446 persona, passenger* on the Anglo-Haxon, last their lives when that steamer was wrecked off Newfound land. In Jsnnarv of 1866 the steamer London foundered in the Bay of Biscay, sacrificing about 220 lives. Among the more recent losses at sea that of the City of Boston, around which still hovers an ugfathomed mystery, and that of the Nortliflet, are still within the recollection of the youngest. Acw York J'ajtrr. The Advisee of Gold. The gold flurry in Wall street is the event of the day in commercial and financial circles. Home light is thrown bv the Mow York papers upon the cause or the aart from the unusual amount of ther precious metal our importers hire needed to pey du ties on these large importations, and partly also from the recent action of the Bank of England in raising the rate of discount But there ia, evidently, an other and more general cause operating, for gold has been rising steadily from 112 toward the close of last year to 118$, which it touched yesterday. The ex port of gold to a greater amount than the production of our mines lessens, of course, the stock in the country. Since the first of January wo hare exported This is at the rate of $53,389,272 a year. We do not know what the present gold production of the mines is, tint, probably, not over twen ty-five millions a year. The product of both gold and silver will hardly amount to fifty millions. Then the stock of gold in the Treasury is much less than it was last year, or than it had been from year to year since shortly after the close of the war. The demand for gold to take np the five-twenties, and to fund the debt, together with the amount re quired to pay interest on the debt, will keep down the surplus, though the ex cessive importations of merchandise will furnish the Secretary with a considera ble sum from duties. Nor do we see how the export of specie is to be check ed, while imports are sp excesaive and the balance of trade is so largely against us. Heretofore Government bonds and other securities have gone abroad to balance the account, but there is a limit to this resource. We cannot always pay in bonds. We must either pay in gold or by the export of produce, unless, in deed, our foreign creditors choose to let what we owe them remain on this side for investment. But drawing from us gold at the rate of fifty-three mil lions a year looks as if they preferred to have the hard cash at home. Nor must we neglect to notice the vast amount of specie taken or drawn from this ride by the thousands of Americans crossing to Europe or living there. THREE CHILDREN BCRNEP TO DHATH. —The daughter and son of a farmer named Shortgen, and a son of a neigh bor named Wadell, were burned to death near Read's Landing, Minn., March 2ft. They were encircled by prairie fire, and perished Iwfore they eould escape. When found their clothes were all burned off, and the flesh was pesling from their bones. INADEQUATE rest of Luoetta Meyers reveals to what destitution the working women of New York city are reduced. Three to four dollars per week were the wages she re ceived to support herself, child and others, and yet she was pronounced by her employer to be the best worker she hsd. Men receive as much in one day, and yet threaten to strike for more pay. Ntorle# of Florida Alligators. Wltlle I was at Lake Jsasup, says a Florida wrresjiondent, I want alligator hunting with Judge Emmons of Jack sonville. Wa found s twelva foot alli gator sleeping on top of tba wstsr about twenty feet from the shore, near a small grove of palmettos. The Judge pat a rifle ball directly through the alligator's skull. The ball made a terrible hole. The 'gator was aa dead as a mackerel. We slipped a rope around hi* shouldata and towed him ashore. While the mon ster lay iu the water and we were de bating as to how we would get his bead off. I jabbed a stick through the bullet hole down into his brain. A colored in an who was passing by said: " Boas, vou done be careful with dat ah gat tab. He no done gone deed yet. You better stick your knife in he fore pew to see ef he dead. He done do you some mis chief, Doss, auah, if he no deed." I took my knife out of iU sheath and ran it into the alligator's fore paw. The monster lashed the water with hie tail, almost knocking the Judge into the lake, and nearly putting oat my eyes. When I recovered my eyesight, I sew the J ndge, but not the alligator. The anil ma] had sailed off, stick and all, and left no track behind him. The largest alligator in the State of Florida ctut be found near Pepper Ham mock on Banana creek, at the head of Merritt's island. This animal is known all along the Indian river. Oapi. Dam mitt told me that this alligator is cer tainly over twenty feet long. Dummitt says that he has seen him in hia present quarters, off aud on. over twenty-five year*. The captain thinks him at least years old, and probably more. Over a dozen banters have spent days in try ing to kill him, but though soma have got shots at him none have been sue cesaful. His hide turns the bullets aa a duck aheda rain. Hia hole is under a high bank and covered with a growth of moss and rushes. I camped four days at Pepper Hammock, and this al ligator's rear kept me awake at night. It sounded like distant thnnder. One morning Dr. Fox, my companion, ran a wounded deer into the shallow bay fronting the alligator's bole. A large yellow dog called Buster was on the trail of the deer, and ran into the water after him. When the alligator heard the bsying of the dog he gave chase. Tha Doctor reached the bank and took in the situation. Aa he bad woundad the deer, and waa chasing it, and ex pecting it every moment to drop, hia rifle was not loaded. He began to shout londly at the dog, and then ran into the water* after the alligator. Tha monster heard the Doctor coming, dropped tha chase, and fled into hia hole. The Doc tor wsa much excited. He thought the world of the dog, and said that he had almost rather have lost a leg than hare loet Duster. If there ia one thing in the world that an alligator loves mora than any othar one thing it is a dog. The bark of*a dog will frequently bring a dosen alli- Crs to the surface of the water, ters occasionally take their dogs on horseback while crossing the shallow water or very swampy places. When an alligator hears the baying of a hound be always puts for a ford, if there ia one in the vicinity, hoping to catch the dug when he cornea that way. Young colored children are also said to be rare dainties for alligators. The greatest alligator hole in Florida is on the ocean aide of the Indian river, about twenty milee above Fort Capron. It ia situated in a fresh water swamp, back of a dense growth of mangrove*. This hole ia about sixty feet wide at the mouth, but it extends a great distance under the ground, and appears to be a paradise for alligators. It is about a mile from a little Palmetto hut, where a Georgian, named Estes, has lived alone over fifteen years. Estes protects these alligators and will allow no one to shoot them. Home years ego the father of. Capt. Watson of this place visited a marsh at the lower end of Lake Monroe to hunt stray bogs, The captain is a little man, willi sharp, gray eyes, and qnick of foot. While roaming shout over the marsh and hallooing for the bogs he was suddenly seised by an enormous alligator ana hurletk in the mod. The alligator caught him by the leg and stripped the flesh to the none. The old man was terribly wrenched, and for a long time hie recovery waa doubtful. It was six montha before he lefthis bed. This is the only well authenticated ease that came to mv notice in which an al ligator attacked a. man Some people think that while Watson was walking over the marsh he took the alligator for a log and jumped on him. It is certain that the animal seised Watson by the leg and nearly broke the old maa's beck by a blow from his tail. Alligators frequently fill their stomachs with ducks. Tnev find the spots in the marshes where the ducks huddle to gether at night and make a descent upon them. Frequently, while flocks of great fat raft ducks areswimming in thedeep est part of the river or lake, an alligator will glide under the docks and select those that suit him beet They are drawn under the water so quietly that the flock is not startled for some time, and the alligator manage* to secure a square meal before he is suspected. On summer nights the alligator crawls to a chosen spot in the marshes. The air is filled with millions of mos quitoes. The monster opens his enor mous mouth and keeps his jaws apart until the inside of his month is black with the insects. Then he brings his jswa together with s snap, runs his tongue about the inside of h>* month and swallows his winged visitors. He will keep this np until his appetite is satiated. The Boston Strikers. In the COM of Timothy Hogan, on* of the striking horse-shoere, for threat ening and asMulting Peter Pilkingtoa for going to work in the Railroad Com pany's horse-shoe shops, at Boston, Judge Pannenter- decided that the of fense came within the statute in rela tion to compelling persons to do nets against their will by threats,-the pun ishment for which is imprisonment in the State prison not exceeding ten years, or by a fine not exceeding $6,- 000, or by both imprisonment and fine. In reviewing the matter, Judge Par inenter quoted the following from the reoorda of the Supreme Court in a simi lar case: " Freedom is the policy of this oountry, but freedom does not im ply s right in one person, either alone or in combination with others, to dis turb or annoy another, either directly or indirectly, in his lawful business or occupation, or to threaten him with an noyance or injury, for the sake of com pelling him to buy his peace, or, in the language of the statute, with intent to extort money >r any pecuniary advan tage whatever, or to compel him to do any act against his will," and added: The facta alleged and proved in this oue are peculiarly offensive to the free prin ciples which prevail in this country, and if such practices oould enjoy impunity they would tend to establish a tyranny of Irresponsible persons over labor ana mechanical business, whioh would be extremely injurious to both. Judge Parmenter held Hogan in sl,- 600 on both complaints for trial at the Bnperior Court. ,—The ar- Southern planters find the production of peanuts more valuable ttaan either wheat, corn or tobeeeoi Terms: &2.00 a Yoar, in Advance. NO. 18. 1 aetata t* af the Atlantic Disaster. Lying ia one coffin among the un turned dead of the Atlantic disaster I were a mother and her child, about three years old, the Utter clasped tightly to the breast The child looked as calm as |if sleeping, lie body waa plaeed at the feet of ita mother. Strong men wept l as they contemplated this. The nation i ality and religion of the deceased can, lit is said, be eeaily discovered. Roman Catholics are easily recognisable from the Agnna Dei and beads which are ! found on nearly all. One remarkable incident in this sad history deserves notice. Among the , passengers was a stout, able Irishman who had started from the sod in great I spirits to " make bis fortune in Amer ! ica." As regards the " spirits," ha in dulged largely in them during the voy age, and ooutinuaUy announced to the passengers that the ship would surely go down. One day ha saw the land, be said, and went down and got his valise and was on the point of starting for the shore. Be had to be tied to prevent his going overboard. When the ship etrocx be cried out, ** Now, am I daftf' He then got to land, being about the fourth, and showed great nerve and ■pint, rescuing seventy persons by his own exertions. Some any he was the coolest and bravest there. One of the bodiee picked up proved to be an Irish emigrant It bad cm a quilted vest, and ia every diamond of the quilting was a sovereign, making in ail about eighty. Among the pa—igwri waa Mr. J store Borne, who, it will be reeolleeted, drew the only surviving ehild of (be wreck, Johnny Hauly, through the porthole, thereby saving his life. Mr. Burnehad taken paaaage from Liverpool for New York, en route for Philadelphia. Among hie other effect* on board of the A den tin was a complete est of upholsterers tools, with which ha had intended to earn a living on arrival at Philadelphia. These were loet together with all the money ia hie nosMaeion. Mr. Borne railed at the office of the White Star line. New York, end requested some as sistance from the company's office in order that be might either obtain a new act of tools or else bo enabled to keep bimae'f ia food until he could obtain work. Mr. Borne elates he wee told by the officiate that they could do nothing for him. He oaUed again, when the same official, in a very curt manner, re eid to hia seeond request, stating that had no time to attend to it, ana that be eould do nothing whatsoever to as sist him. n it. Nit. As a great luxury, the ancients, who knew BO method of refining the oil which banted to give then light, mixed it with perfumes, such as easenee of races end sandal wood ; but this rather detracted from, than added to the burning prop ertiee of the liquid, and all that wae ob tained by the prooeee was an increase of fragrance and diminution of light The dwelling* of wool thy men, who expend ed extravagant sums upon scented oils, vbo aid not hare borne eomparieon in point of lighting with the grumest hut room of a gas-lit public noose. The gold and silver lamps, hung by slender, well-wrought chains to marble pilasters, only yielded at their beet aland, taper ing* flams, that gave out an enormous deal of smoke, fluttering in the alight breeaa, and went out altogether at a gnat of wind. Neither was it possible to steady the light by doting the sper mine through which the air eame, for had Borneo or Oreeian houses been possessed of glass windows ther would have soon become uninhabitable. The frssoo-paintanga of Pompaiaa villas, the dedicate colon on the walla of urban palaces would, in less than smooth, nave been hopelessly coated with lamp soot At the end of an hour's confer ence of an-evening, a part? of noble Romans would have resembled a con gregation of chimney sweeps. A tunic dyed in Tynan purple would have ac quired a mounting hue in no time. AdaJterattag Tan. The praieeworthy desire of a Cler ken well (Eag.) grocer to " ed ranee with tha times " has brought him into aeriona troubla. Mr. Oeorge Brown, the enter prising tradar in quastiou, had advsr tiaed a startlingly cheap tea—a "noted mixture," in feet—et only eighteen pence per pound. A enstomer who had reaaon to quarrel with the quality of Ihia re markable article, submitted it to analy sis, and found that it waa reiy notable indeed. It eonaiated of "iron filing* and clippings, gritty matter, foreign stalks, and small fragment* of wood." A magnet wfaieh was threat info the mixture brought out of it e Urge num ber of iron particles. Mr. Brown's ad- Toaafo pleaded iswet emptor, of courae, end ashed the people of Clerkenwell whet kind of tee they expected to get for eightoenpenee e pound. The mag istrate did not swallow this excuse, and in aonaaqnenea sent the defendant to prison for six months under the new adulteration act. A Benevolent Beg, The OomAiU Magazine has an inter esting aneedota related of a large dog kept in Algiers by Miae Emily Napier, daughter of Sir William Napier. The dog waa sent every morning to fetch breed from the baker's and regularly brought home twelve roll* in a basket. At lest it was observed that for several mornings there wore only eleven rolls in the basket; end, on watching the dog, ha waa found to atop on hia way and bestow one toll on a poor, tiok and starring lady-dog, hidden, with her puppies, in a corner, on the road from the shop. The baker waa then instruct ed to put thirteen rolls in the basket, after whioh the dog delivered the twelve faithfully far e few days, and then left all tha thirteen in the basket—the token, as it proved, that hia aiek friend waa oonvalesesat, and able to dispense with his eharity. TBATXUXO OK BtntDAT.— Por nearly two ran tli widow* and orphan* of thoee who were killed by the Weatfleld disaster ia New York oa a Sunday have been trying to obtaia eome kind c* com peuaatioa foe the irremediable wrong inflicted upon them. Their tale has been told in every court, and the Court of Appeals will soon give final decision so far as damages are concerned. The company have made the same excuse throughout. They were common car riers. they claim; they had, therefore, no nght to oerry people on Bundays; bnt if people persisted in coming on their boats on Sundays and happened to be blown np they could not be held rt sponsible. SroxTAjrsops HYDROPHOBIA.— A man died the other day, of what the doctors called "spontaneous hpdrophobis." He was attacked by a dog about four months ago, but succeeded in chiving him away without being bitten. Not withstanding this, he had everr symp tom of hydrophobia, and died in the most frightful convulsions. This seems to verify the assertion, made by many writers, that hydrophobia may be oc casionally developed spontaneously in man, aa it is in the dog end wolf. A Georgia clairvoyant revealed the whereabouts of SIO,OOO recently stolen in Savannah, end the ungrateful |ov promptly had her arretted for the theft. And ah* confessed her guilt, too. •(•of Jap. T mum is supplying the'nortbeni ma*- kli with mutton. Report* from the Newfoundland m) fishery are satisfactory. A Utiea girt of fourteen yean in the mother of two children. Hi. re WW Wt ItllWf p—eufu on tb sts—S* Atlantic. fIWMhM taw f boootniny * fiiMm able beverage in Pittsburgh. la Ho*ton they o*U foundling boa* pitete asylums for anonymous infante. A Lawrence young lady want* to know why moa never notion way bat large foot, their the country. Another depoeft of brown hematite in in or* baa been found In South Hhaftabuiy, Vermont, seer an iron ftdr naoe. A father la nader arrret la Worcee tor, Mae*., for whipping a one yea* Old child for an hour and dislocating ita thigh, A New Orleans paper made a horrible April fool joke on the distorted and terribly beaten body of B. Rasa Elsear petto. The farmers" organisation of lowshaa nominated a ticked of its own for State offlecn, and the farmer* promise to elect it A recent lumberman's circular esti mates the number of railroad ties in present use in the United Steles at 15©,- 090,000. The praetiee of hiasmy a dramatis performance was first introduced at the Theatre Francsls on the 18th of Janu ary, 1656. It ia the general belief that a decent, respectable man is safer on the oatekirte of the Modoc camp than on a New York street oar. A building in Middietowa, uenseea cut, fell, burying a large number of per sons in the rains, sad killing or injuring most of them. At St. Paul, Minn.—the place whither they send people to be cured of eater rhsl diseases—a man recently sneesed hie spine out of joint. One of the latest Pari etna fashions ia a band of black velvet worn around the hair, upon which are sewed gold flies, bees, and other insects. Six or eight tetters matted ia IMS and 1870 were recently found on a car on the St. Paul and Pacific Railroad that waa being repaired. George Bid well, cam af the men al leged to hare beta implicated in the frauds on the Bank of England, has been srrested in Edinburg. Fashion is rarely useful. It acorns utility. That of wearing the hair lootie ly down the hack is now going out just as fly-time begins to dawn. Arkansas newspaper correspondents ia the Legislature make assertions and beck 'em up by saying: " I've got six ballets which says it's an." The Mississippi buraeenee kilted two person* and damaged twenty housea in Canton, and killed cue negro and de stroyed twelve bouses at Jackson. Said a woman to a doctor for wboaa he waa weighing two grains of calomel for a child: "Pinna be so mean wi it —it ia for a poor fatherless bairn." The celebrated Mike Walsh had coca said that he would rather be President of the United State* at a dollar and a a day than cany a bod for that, Misa Faithful thinks that many American girls who profess to be highly educated, are merely "dipped into a weak solution of accomplishments. A retired soldier, who walked up wards of 4,000 miles during our etvil war, says that the hardest March he ever eipurieaoed waa the one just gone. Oongreeamen ought to fed their oats. An Indiana farmer has diaeevered that it will take Sfi,ooo bushels of them to pay the annual salary of a Repreeente- The town of Berga, ia Spain, oep tured by the Cadiste, in said to have been saturated with petroleum and burned bv the insurgents. It had 6,000 inhabitants, a hospital, and several eon rants. 13m wont instance of haaxtloea tri fling is getting upduns on HUM led ta per, with an embossed monogram, the raperecriptkm being in • delicate fe male band. The *'Pub. Does." printed by the Government in 1872 cost the producers of thi country the enormous eon of *MSii.Q&L4O. They were worth about $45 U told. A fashionable Sew Tork gentleman think* that if ladies would only nae their powder-pulft mote speriaglv, men would get through the season with only one daeae-oasi. An eastern clergyman suggested, Sun day, to some young * ladiea M in hia congregation that they should vacate Ifai r peuin rather than interrupt the services by talking. A Dubuque tcataior formally gave, devised. and beqaeathed Ma wearing apparel to hia wife, for the ruaaon that she had been accustomed to wear em during her married life. A woman ft Spain lately fare birth to a consolidated twin with two heads and four leg* proceeding from a ugla trunk. One of the heads waa stillborn, but the other lived two hours. A girl of thirteen recently brought to market at America* On., a 600 pound bale of cotton, the result of her own un aided labor, from rite ploughing of the soil to the picking and ginning. It occurred to a Tennessee orator, not long since, to close an eloquent perora tion bf referring to the corpse of a murdered man a* "lying waiftped in the soliloquy of hia own blood." The dogs in Detroit do not hare many chances to berk and bite, aa their na ture dictates, because the playful young Detroiter* throw snuff in their ere#, and they can't see where to get a hold. The proprietor of e haunted house in Atlanta, Ga., offers it rent-free for one month to anv one who wishes to try it, haring hitherto faded to find a tenant who would stay in it longer than firs days. - A Danbury man who ha* been visit ing in a place where the oemeterr was provided with many private vault*, is very much pleased with the idea, aa it enables a man to visit hi* own grave and weep. The folic wing notioe was recently posted on the premises of a vary rich Kentucky farmer: "If any man's or woman's cows or oxens gits in these here oats, his or her tail will becut Qjff aa the case may be." The question of opening the Japanese ports to all foreigners hinges on the condition that they will submit to the native lews. One system, based upon the Code Napoleon, has been rejected by the Mikado. A Michigan editor has learned how to avoid the pangs of hunger. He bought &H elastic rope of * health-lift mail and , tied it around his waist, giving It an ex tra twist now and then, when the attack was a severe one. A duel between an OpelikjL (Ga.) editor and " another citizen** did not > take plaoe last week, because the other citiseu recollected at the last moment that he had another appointment which he oouldflH possibly postpone. The Supreme Court of Massachusetts has decided, in the oasee of the Union Mutual Fire Insuraaoe Company, of Boston, that neither the expiration of the policy nor its cancellation releases the holder from liability to assessment for all fosses which occurred while he was a member of the oompany. ' Among the presents at an old-fashion ed wedding in Indiana the other day was a gallon mug filled with beer. The bride drank first, and then all the women present followed her example. When it came to the men there was nothing left. The bridegroom filled an old-fashiosed, long-stemmed pipe, took the initial whiff, and then all the men took a long pull each in his turn.