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 pr<ceeding*, Judge Breexe held
that " the ' conditions ' of the company
have evidently been designed ao as to
relieve the company of responsibility.
Content to receive the compensation,
they shrink from fulfilling the obliga
tions. That the courts should not l>c
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 a<lvat)re and who are manipula
ting the movement. From an editorial
in the Utrnld we quote:
We have noticed from time to time
the vast amount of imports during the
past few week*, end now we learn that
they amounted last week to nearly four
teen millions of dollars, over three and
a half millions being the value of dry
goods, and a little less than ten and a
half millions of general merchandise.
• • • The rise of the gold premium
may be accounted for 4N>art 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.