The Test of fYftnflshfp. I once had an intimate friend, Ho dear! His calling I cannot defend. I fear: For Ue sang but one song TUo weary day loug 'Twas '• Anynmlwralleratomend -to mend ! Anvumtaivllorstonieiitl!" Bat though hi* profession is such. 1 know I'd not hie acquaintance for much Forego; Neath hut ragged old veet Beats a heart in lit* lvrce-i, Which Human misfortune can touch. Human misfortune own touch For once when by showers I was caught. My friend Was prompt an umbrella, unsought, Tv> lend: And from that very loan Shrank the beet friend I've knowu. Save " Anvumlwrefierstomend io mend 1 AuyumbereUe.-vtomeiid 1" - 7\m Hood. The Doctor's Story. >• Uood folk* ever will have their way ttood folks ever for i: must pay. But ww, who are here ami everywhere. The burden of their fault* most hear. We must shoulder ol hers' slisme Flight their foHiee and take their blame ; Furgw*he body, and humor the must; Doctor the eyes when the ecu! is Uiiul; Build the ooiumn of health erect Ou the quicksands of l gleet; * Alwgfw shouldering others' shame Bearing thsir faults and takuig the blame 1 n. Doaoou Rogers, he came to me j Wife is a-gutu' to die," said he. " Doctors great, an' doctors email. Haven't unproved her any at all. " Fhyaic and blister, powders aud pills. And nothing sure hut the doctor*' bills! % '• Twenty old wwmen, with remedies new. Bother my wife the whole day through ; '• Sweet as honey, or hitter as gall- Poor old woman, she ialisw em all; •• Sour or sweet, whatever they choose. Poor old woman, she daru't refuse. 9 " So she please I whoe'er may call. An' Death is suited the beet of all * Physic an' blister, powder an' pill- Bound to conquer, an' sure to kill m. Mm. Roger* lay in her bed. Bandaged and blistered from foot to bead. Blistered and bandaged from bead to toe. Mis. Rogers wwa very lew. Bottle and aaueer, spoon and cup. On the table stool bravely up; Physics of high and low degree; Calomel, catnip, boueeet tea: Everything a body could bear Excepting tight and water and an. nr. I opened the bßnds; the day was bright, And (rod gave Mrs. Rogers some light. I opened the window; the day was fair. And God gave Mm. Rogers some air. Bottles and bhstem, powders and piita. Catnip, boneeet. syrup, and squills, Drugs aud medicine*, high and low' I threw tbetn as far as I could throw. ** What are roc doing?" my patient cried; *" Frightening Death." I coolly replied. " You are crazy!" a visitor said: I dung a bottle at her head. v. Deacon Roger*, he came to me ; " Wife's a-comin' around." said he. " I wily think she will worry through; She scolds me Just as she used to do. " All the people have poohooed an' slurred - All the neighbors hate had their word; '• Twas better to perish," some of 'em ear, Thau he cured in such an irregular way." n. " Your wife." said I, " ha* God's good care. And his remedies—light and water aud air. " All of the doctors, beyond a doubt. Couldn't have cured Mr*. Roger* without." vn. a The Deacon smiled and bowed his head ; " Then your hill is nothing." be said. " God's be the glory, aa you say! God blees you. Doctor! good day! good day!" Till. If ever I doctor that woman again. 11l give her medicines made by men." - H'ifl. if. Carlton. FIDDLING TO THE WOLVES. In semi-civilized countries, where the. winters are cold and long, the wolf may be foand almost everywhere. He fills id the gaps of desolation. His savage, grinning head appears through the broken glooms of the wilderness hideous, gaunt, and fierce. He has no sympathies, and will give none. Yet there is one droll incident with which my boyhood is familiar, which seems to indicate in the wolf a certain susceptibility to softer emotions, and I will relate it" here: In the earlj days of the settlement of South Kentncky."there was great trouble in midwinter with the wolves. Old Dick was a colored fiddler. He was a very important old gentleman, for no merry-making could take place withont his presence. Now Old Dick had very strongly de veloped the most marked traits of the fiddler the world over—namely, punc tiliousness and punctuality. Upon either of these points he was* peculiarly irritable, nay, even ferocious. Nothing caused him to so far forget " th* pro prieties " in his own person as the in tervention of any unusual or accidental causes of delay. On the occasion of a grand wedding festival among the colored gentlemen of the neighboring plantation, some six miles distant, Old Dick was, of oourse, expected to officiate aa master of the ceremonies. It bad been an unusually severe winter, and a heavy snow lay npon the ground on the eventfnl even ing, when, having donned his " long tailed bine," with its glittering gut buttons, and mounted the immense shirt-collar by which the dignity of his official character was to be maintained, the ancient Apollo sallied forth, fiddle in hand, to dare the perils of the dis tant way alone; for the younger darkies had all gone to the frolic hours ago, with a haste and eagerness altogether nnl>eooming his importance. The moon was out, and the stars twinkled over head, as the old man trndged away over the crisp and crackling snow. The !>ath, which was a very narrow one, led, or the greater part of the way, through the dark shadows of a heavy forest, which yet remained as wild as when the Indians roamed in it,and was untraversed by a wagon-road for many miles. The profound and dreary solitude of the way could not have failed to impress any one unless he happened to be en tirely occupied by one absorbing thought, such as now held the body and soul of the old man in his anxiety to reach the seat of operations in exact time. He was goaded at every step by the maddening vision of the expectant ranks of sable gentility rolling the whites of their stocking-"feet upon the floor, impatient of delay ; for the truth was that he had lingered a little too long over the polishing of those brass buttons, and the setting of that immen sity of collar, and he first became con scious of it as he came forth beneath the meon and perceived its unexpected height. On he dashed, with nnrelaxing ener gy, heedless of the black shadows and hideous night-cries, into the deep forest Wolves were howling around him in every direction, but lie paid no atten tion to sounds that were so common. However, he was soon compelled to give more heed to these animals than was by any means pleasing or expected. He had now made nearly half of his journey, and the light opening ahead through the trees showed him the " did FTUvD. KURTZ, Editor and "Proprietor. VOL. VI. clearing," a it #us called, through I which his path Ir old Dick, who began to realize the horrible danger, as a dark object i would brush past hia leg* everv few | moments with a suappiug sound like the riug of a steel trap, while the yell •ug and pattering of the wolves iu errased. Dick knew enough of the hab its of the animal to lie aware that to run wrould insure iustaat death, as the j cowardly pack would be sure to set upon ; him tu almdy ou the inatant of observing any indication of fear, ilia only chance was to keep them at bay by preserving the utmost steadiness until he could reach the open ground before him, when he hoped they might leave him, as they do net like to attack ia such places. He remembered, too, that an old hut still stood in the middle of the clearing, and the thought that he might reach that haven gave him some comfort The wolves were becoming more au dacious everv minute, and th poor old tiddler could see their green eyes glar ing death upon him from all the thickets around. Ihey rushed at him more boldly, one after another, snapping as they went past in still closer proximity to hia thin legs—indeed the frightened tiddler had at length to thrust at them with his fiddle to turn them aside. In doing so the strings were jarred ; and the despairing negro took some hope when he observed that at the sound tlie wolves leaped aside with surprise. He iustantly drew his hand harshly across the strings, and. to his infinite relief, they sprang back and aside as if he had shot amongst them. Taking advantage of this lucky diversion in his favor, and as he had now reached the edge of the clearing, he made a run for the hut, raking his hand across the fiddle-strings at every j ump, until they fairly roared. The astonished wolves paused "for a mo ment on the edge of the clearing, with their tails between their legs, looking after him ; but the sight of his flying form renewed at once their savage in stincts, and with a loud burst of yells they pursued him at full speed. Alas for the unlucky fiddler! had he been caught now, it would have boon all over with him, even had his fiddle shrieked more uuearthly shriek* than that of Pagan ini. Luckily the old man reached the hut ; just as they were at his heels ; and slam : rning the rickety door behind him, he had time to climb out on the roof, where he was comparatively out of danger. I say comparatively, for the perch he no* occupied was too rickety to make it de sirable, except by contrast with the im mediate danger from which he had es caped. The wolves were now furious, and, thronging the interior, leaped up at the musician with wild veils. The poor old sinner was dreadfully frightened, and it j required his utmost activity to keep his legs from being snapped by some animal more agile or enterprising than his con freres. Wild with terror an he was, poor old Dick had managed to cling to his fiddle through it all; and remem bering that it had saved him in the • woods, he now, with the sheer energy j of desperation, drew his bow shrieking i across the strings, while, with his feet kicking out into the air, he endeavored to avoid the fangs of the foe. Instant uilenoe followed this outburst, and Dick continued to produce spasms of sound such as a man in his hysterical condition would naturally conceive. This outbreak kept the wolvea qniet i for a moment or two; but old Dick soon learned, to his increased horror, that even wolves are too fastidious to stand bad fiddling, fer they soon renew ed the attack more furiously than ever. This was too much for the instrumen talist, and most especially when the head of a great wolf wna thrust np be tween the boardß of the roof, within a few inches of where he sat. He gave himself up now fur a gone darkey; and with the horrified exclamation, "Ureas j God! who dare ?" he fell to fiddling " Yankee Doodle" with all his might— unconsciously, as the dyingswan is said j to sing its own requiem. With the first notes of the air silence commenced ; j Orpheus had conquered I The brutes , owned the snlMluing spell; and the ter- 1 ror-stricken fiddler, when he came to— astonished at the sudden cessation of hostilities—beheld himself surrounded ! by the most attentive and appreciative j audience he had ever played to ; for, the | moment there was the slightest cessa tion of the music, every listener sprang forward to renew the battle, and set his pipe-stem legs flying in the air again. Bui he had now learned the spell; and, so long as he continued to play with tolerable precision, was compara tively safe. The old fiddler soon forgot his terror in professional pride. He was decidedly flattered by such intense appreciation; and, entering fully into the spirit of the thing, played with a gusto and effe<*t he naif never before surpassed or even equalled. Even the wedding, with its warm lights, its sweetened whiskey, was forgotten for u time in the glow of this new profession al triumph. But all pleasures have their reverses on this earth ; and, as time progressed, he began, with all hia enthusiasm, to feel very natural symptoms of cold, fatigue, and even exhaustion. But it would not do—he could not stop a mo ment before they were at him again ; and there they persistently sat, that shaggy troop of connoisseurs, fidgeting on their haunches with lolling tongues and pricked ears, listening to their charmer for several weary hours, until the negroes at the wedding, becoming impatient ora>armed about the old man, j came out to look for him, and found him thus perched upon the roof of the tottering hut, sawing away for dear life, while he was ready to drop every instant from sheer fatigue and the freezing cold. They rescued tne old man from his un comfortable position, while the linger ing forms of his late audience told that they most unwillingly surrendered their expected feast. Ever of Thee. A London periodical aaya that the late Mr. Foley Hall, the author of " Ever of Thee I'm Fondly Dreaming," was a gentleman of wealth and great in tellectual endowment. Admired and petted, he led a wild, helpless lifo, in which hia wealth melted away, until he had not wherewith to buy his daily bread. The woman he had loved dis carded him. In the deepest distress he composed this charming song. A Lon don publisher gave him one hundred dollars for it—a mere pittance for auch a spendthrift. He wrote other success ful songs, but in a moment of weakness, depressed with poverty, he forged the name of his publisher; and, notwith standing the most strenuous effort in his behalf was made by his friends, iu which the publisher joined, Foley Hall was thrown into Newgate prison, where he died, broken-hearted, before hia trial commenced. THE CENTRE REPORTER. fulling up a Family Stole. ! Putting up a stove is not so difficult in itself. It is the pipe thai raise* four fifths of tlltv mischief and all the dust. You may take down a Stove with all the ' care in the world, and have your wile put away the pipe in aseourc place, aud j yet that pipe won't eonie together again us it wan before. Yon find this out alien you are standing ou a chair with your ariua full of pipe and your mouth full of soot. Your wife is standing ou the tloor in a position that enable* her to see you, tie pipe, aud the ehair, and here she gives utterance to those re marks that are calculated to hasten a ■uan into the extreme* of msauity. Her dress is pinned over her waist, and her bauds rest ou her hips. She has got one of your hats on her head, and vaur lineu coat on her back, and a pair of your rubber* ou her feet. There is about five cents' worth of pot-black on her nose, and a lot of flour ou her ehin, and altogether she is a sjwetarle thai would inspire a < eu tuixiug it, she stands safe ly on Hie floor, and bouthard* vou with such domestic mottoes en- *'What's the use of swoariug so ?" "You know- no one has touched that pipe." "Yon ain't got any more patience than a child." "Do be careful of that chair." And then she goes oft', and reappears with an armful of more pipe, ana before you are aware of it, she has got that pipe so horribly mixed up that it doea seem uo pieces are alike. You joiu the ends, and work them to and fro, and to aud fro again, and then vou take them apart aud look at them. Then yon spread one out and jam the other together, and meunt them once more. But it is no go. Y'ou begin to thiuk the pieces are inspired with life, and ache to kick them through the window. But she dosen't lose li er patience. She goes around With that awfully exa*|*ruting rigging on, with a lengtti of pu* under each arm, and a long-handled broom in her hand, and says site don't see how it is some people never have any trouble puttiug up a stove. Then you miss the hammer. Y'ou don't see it anywhere. You stare into the pipe, along the mantel, and down on the stove and off to the ft.sir. Your wife watches you, and is finally thoughtful enough to Inquire what yoii are lookiug after, and an learning,pulls the article from her pocket The* yon feel a* if you could go out doors and. swear a hole through a block of brick buildings, but she merely observes : " Why on earth dou't vou speak when vou want anything, and nut turnaround like a dummy." When that part of the pipe which goes through the wall is n, she keeps it ap with her lirsom, while you are making the connection, and stares at it with an intensity that is entirely nucalled for. All the while your position is becoming more and more interesting. The pipe don't go together, of course. The soot shakes down into vonr eyes and month, the sweat rolls down your face and tickles your chin, as it drops off, and it seems as if your arms are slowly but surely drawing out their sockets. Here vour wife cwmes to the rescue by inquiring if vou are going to be all day doing nothing, and if you think her anus are made of cost iron,and then the brsom slips off the pipe, and in her endeavor to recover her hold she jabs yon under the chin with the handle, and the pipe comes down on your head with its load of fried soot, and then the chair tilts forward enough to discharge your feet, aud you come dowu on the wrung end of tlmt chair with a force that would bankrupt a pile driver. You don't touch that stove again. You leave your wife examining the chair aud bemoaniug its injuries, and go into the kitchen and wash your skinned nml bleeding bauds with yellow soap. Then you go down street after a man to do the business, nnd your wife goes oTer to the neigh)Kir* with her chair, and tells tliern absut its injuries, and drains the neighborhood dry of its sympathy long before you get home.— fkmbury Afetrt. What to do In Emergenry. Here is a useful hint on the best method of action when the clothing of any friend is on fire—an accident which all arc liable to. Seize a shawl, or blanket, or any woolen fabric, hold the corners as far apart as you can, stretch them out higher than your head, aud running boldly to the person, make a motion of clasping in his arms, mostly about the shoulder*. This instantly smothers tho fire and save* the face. The next instant throw the person on tlil- floor. This is an additional safety to the face and breath, and any remnant of flame can Ik? put out more leisurely. The next instant immerse the burnt part in cold water, and all pain will eeaae with the rapidity of lightning. Next get some common flonr, remove from the water, and cover the burnt parts with an inch of flonr, if possible, pnt the patient to lied, and do all that is possible to soothe until the physician arrives. Let flour remain untill it fall* off itself, when beautiful new skin can be fonnd. Unless the burns are deep, no other application is needed. Tlin dry flour for burns is the most admir able remedy ever proposed, and the in formation ought to be imparted to all. The principle of this action is, that like the water, it causes instant and perfect relief from pain by totally excluding all the air from the injnred ports. The Deacon'?. Swill Barrel. Just outside of the house stood fath er, the deacon, tngging away at a lump of ice in the swill barrel. •• Baut down in tlio water, the veanel can't mat. But it took me a good while to find it out; lived aeventy yeara tiefore I knew it," and hia eyes twinkled know inglv. "Why, that'a on tbeaame plan," aaid I, "of putting a spoon iu a glass jar when you are canning fruit; if you do that, the jar won't break." " Sumo philosophy exactly," said he, as he gave the ball of ice a kick and aent it rolling off down hill. THE POSTAL CAKDS. —Masonic and other associations propose to make out their billß for quarterly dues on postal cards, which will be sent through the postoffice to the members, and when the members return these with the money, the officers desire to receipt them or stamp them paid, and tkeu, by placing on each a one-cent stamp, send it again to the members through the postoffice. An official decision is soon expected on the question whether postal cards thus cancelled and renewed can bo aent through the mails. CENTRE HALE, CENTRE CO., l'A.. THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1873. The Lab of Stortns. t'ltr W kllllSK SoiriH.nl, ami lla l l • •■tun lu Tcll TLTC III.< HUM F (ruler. Observations of the weather during the past few year* have established our knowledge of the important meteorolog- I icul fact that all our storms are accom panied bv the phenomenon of a circular wind. The fact i now much luoro widely known than its cause. The ac i companytng diagram will enable ottr reader* to understand the latter: Si y.a>' 1 ■ ■ >. ' The secondary cause of s storm is a reduced air-pressure over any particular part of the earth's surface; which is indicated by a depression of the mer cury in the barometer within that region. Hence the central district of a storm is technically railed '* uu area of low bar ometer." To wants this region the sur round iug air rushes in to restore an equilibrium, and that rush of air is kuowu as wind. The resultiug circular motion, around the central point, is due to the rotation of the earth upon her axis, from west to east. It is essy to calculate that the velocity i of rotation at the equator, 21,1)00 milts in 24 hours, ia 17.3 mile* per miuute, while at the pole it is nothing, lu the latitude of 4t> degrees it ij> 13j miles ; in the latitude of 45 degrees it ia 12 j miles per minute. The earth carries the at mosphere along with it, aud the velocity of the atmosphere at any point is tbr ve locity of that point, whirli decreases with an increase in the latitude. It is evideut that, if mass of air at any poiut In moved northward of southward, from any cause, it wdl preserve /or a time the eastward velocity of the point from which it started ; just as a stone thrown from the window of • moving railroad oar is carrn d forward by the impetus of the ; train. Hence, a mass of air moving southward, in this hemisphere, will lag ' belti ml in the rotation, while the relative 1 motion will tie faster th.m that of the ' surface if it move northward, bcoauae ! of the change iu velocity of the surface . due to the latitude. Now suppose the top line of our dia gram to represcut the parallel of 45 de grees of latitude, and the length of the horizontal arrow indicate the motion per ' minute on the parallel. Let the lower line represent tlie parallel of 40 degrees; then the length of the arrow near it will indicate the velocity of the air there per miuute. Iu each case the surface, and its superincumbent air, moves in the direction of the arrow. If sa area of low barometer be at 0, nearly midwav between these two parallels, the sir will move towards that area from every jtoint of the compass; and the result 1 is indicated in the diagram, where the dotted lines show the tendency, i and the full lines show the direction, of, the aetunl movement. A mass of air coming from the north at X, moves eastward with a velocity 12 miles per minute, while the storm-centre moves 12} miles per minute. Hence, the mov ing air drags behind at the rate of 1 j mile per minute, or 30 miles per lionr, I and takes the direction of the arrow, towards the circumference of the small circle, instead of it* centre at U. Simi larly a mass of air moving northward, from 8, lias an initial velocity of 131 i miles per hour greater than that of the rentre of the storm ; and moves in the direction of the arrow from 8, instead of the dotted line. Similarly, we may show that the mime deviation occurs ia the enof tha air coming from every direction towards C; and the conse-. quence is that the air moves round the j Centre of the ares of low barometer, iu a direction contrary to that of the hands of a watch that is laid with its face' upward. The vertical motion resulting from all direction* towards s storm-center is even more decided than indicated by the diagram, which onlv represents the secondary tendency. The central rush is opposed, or counteracted, by the elasticity of the several volumes of air as they approach cnch other ; and their impetus esrries them around in the direction of the movement already established, so that the whirl extends nearly as far from the center as the distance from which the winds blow. All tho air that tends towards the storm-center ninroa round it in an ap proximate circle ; in just the same way that water courses round in a funnel, for a similar reason, and in the same direction, the only difference being that the central eolnmn of air moves up ward, while the central column of water in the funnel moves downward. A knowledge of theae facta enables us not only to tell the direction of the storm-center,hut often to know whether it ia approaching towards us, or re ceding, or ia passing ua at a harinlesa diatance. If we face the wind the atorni-center will always he on tlw right hand ; er if we turn ss that the wind blowa from left to right we aball face the alorm-center. If, at the same time, the mercury in the barometer con tinues to fall, we may be sure that the vortex is approaching us ; while, if the barometer rises, we may count on ita having passed by. Tin- general direc tion of the movement of the center ia from west to east ; but it rnhv deport several points from the cardinal lino. The preceding generalization of posi tion apply to the Northern Temperate Zone. A little consideration will help un to understand that, in the Southern Temperate Zone, the direction of the movement ia the opposite to that of storms in this region ; the winds blow round the' vortex the same way that the hands of a waeli move. In the Torrid Zone, within what are tech nically known as the " doldrums " (the limits of true cyolone action), tlie difference between the lengths of the successive parallels of latitude is so small that the conditions of rotary mo tion are present but feebly, and not ut all ou the equator. It is evident that this knowledge ia of muoli greater practical value 011 the water than ou the land; added to which, storm* mows with more regularity fin the ocean than ou shore, the motion in>t being interfered with by irregularity of surface. Ou laud oar theoretical circle often become* an irregular ellipse, but ou the ocean tlie circular form is very nearly preserved. The manner may avoid serious dsuiage, and |ierhapa total loss, by a knowledge of these facts of Ntorui motion, by a tee nag as nearly as may In* away from the vortex. This may be accomplished by keepiug the starboard side to windward, ami getting out of the track if the atorui-center be moving towards the first uoled place of IheveaseL Some of mr ocean-going sea uieu are already educated np to knowl edge of these facts, aud ail appreciation of their value ; and there can be no doubt that a more thorough disartntua tiou of the principles of storm acieuee will result in a material diminution in the annua! percentage of loss by ship wreck—Pints (blbirt, in the Chieayo IV Hants. The Infant !lt|ipopot say: 'Dou't tie frightened, I am all right; you don't know all alaiut me vet!' The little beast had remained, without Mowing or takiug breath, actually uuder water fur nearly twenty minutes. The parent* have never been known to be under much fver three minutes. I sus pect Nature baa given this wonderful power of remaining so loug under water to the young hippopotamus, firat of all, to enable it to stick—when the water has beeu clear, Mr. Bartiett has fre quently Been it auck uuder water—and, secondly, in order that il may be eou cealed from its enemies, though I am not at all certain but Uiat a large croc odile would seize and swallow a young luppo)Mitiiins as a jack would a roach. It would lie superfluous in me to at tempt to describe this little animal, be cause every oue ought to go and see it. It ia about the atxe and shape of an or dinary hacou nig, but the color is some thing'uf a piukisb-slate. He knowa his kcejx-r very well, and when he has had hia dinner is as playful as a kitten, pop plug and jumping about hia den, an J throwing up uiottthfula of hay, like a young calf. When first born be was small enough to oouie through tlie bar* on to the straw outside his den, but aoon he had grown so much that he could not get through. He used to put his head through the bars and allow I'reseatl. the keeper, to rub his gum*. The tusks of the lower jaw were just beginning to cut the gum. Ilia bock teeth have not come yet, but they ore obliged to tie very careful about his diet, for he lias already (when I write, in January) begun to pick a bit at the food prepared for him." Fgg* of Four Years' tirowth. The reproduction, says Prof. Agassix, does not go on constantly. It is periodical, and this peritKlirity varies •n different animals. Borne animals re quire s long development of theiuseves In-fore they produce eggs. Others lay eggs vary *rly in life. Fowls begin to Uy the first year after their birth. Fresh water turtles do not bear young before their tenth or eleventh year, sometimes not till their twelfth. In our common black aad yellow dotted fresh water terrapin, and in the j tainted terrapin, the egg* require four years of growth before they are laid. Take a seven-year-old turtle of this kind; it will contain only very small eggs, all of nuiform size. An eight-year-01, turtle of the same kind will have two sets of eggs, one larger, one smaller. One of nine years will ltnve three sets, the ohlest set being the size of s small pes. A turtle of ten years will have four acts of eggs, and in that year she will lay for the first time, and give birth to tho most mature set. Other animals require but a few weeks to bring forth their eggs to full maturity. In onr common jellv-flshos, for distance, with rose-colored ovaries, the eggs begin in Mny. In July they are all laid, and the voting begin their inde oemlent life. The season of laying dif fer* greatly in different animals. Rome lay their eggs in spring, others in mid summer, others, as the trout family, salmon, ami the like, in nutnmn. The irregularity of number is another astonishing feature of tliia problem of reproduction. It would seem that some kinds of animals require a far greater nnmlier of individuals for the main tenance of the type than others. Borne animals mnltiply by hundreds of tlion sands—nay, by milfions. Others bring forth a single new being, or at the most two or three at a time. Bome animals bear but once and then die. Others, more tenacious of life, bring forth new broods for a long period of years. These various conditions of growth, duration, nnd ripening, these extra ordinary differences in the power of multiplication and reproduction, are no doubt, a necessary part of the economy of the whole animal kingdom. There is nothing variably or capricious alKint it, and we must not forget that whoever would account for the origin or successive introduction of the different types of organized being* which have followed one another upon earth must inelude in his explanation the whole scheme by which characteristics are continued and transmitted. BRJKNC TAITETA BILK. Lustrous smooth taffeta silk ia now.the first choice in black silks for summer dreaaea. Thia is far lighter and more pleasant to wear than gros grain ; does not catch dust, or cut and crease readily. It ia not yet the mo a yard upward ; the quality moat imed by modistes coats $3 ; it may be found as high aa $4 or $5 a yard. Professor Wincliell says that the earth is constantly cooling, and in doing so, ia absorbing water ; and that in time it will not only drink up the ocean, but even the atmosphere, after which the earth will go revolving through space all cracked, scorched, and winkled, without a living thing upon its surface. It will take millions of years to do it, but the Professor says it will be done. Gen. Fry of Sheridan's staff, who is familiar with Modocs, says they have no pure Indian blood, but are inter mixed with half-breeds. Diggers, and mongrel outlaws generally. , Mad Dogs. "The bark." says All The Tear Hound, " which ia peculiar to madness is the symptom most easily recognized by unprofessional jwrwons. That bark hint lost its usual strength ; its tone is mournful ; it ia hollow, stifled, degen erating into threw or four half-uttered howls, producing a plaintive and auigu lar effect OH the ear. The first symptoms of canine mod news are a sulleuueas of temper aud an iuvolualary restlessness which manifests itself by a continual change of position. Instead of being snappish or aggressive, the dog tries to hide himself. During this first period he doe* not always refuse his food or his drink. "Moon, however, he tiegiua to loathe lxth. Then comes on su irresistible de sire to bite ; to gratify which he tears, crushes wtlji bis teeth, and swallows all sorts of tilings which are useless as food. A young dog certainly will tear things for fun, hut he will not swallow them, whereas post mortem examinations of mad d..g show their stomachs to be full of stirks, straw, wool, stones, and other indigestible substances. Consequently .-very dog post puppybood, who cannot lie prevented from dragging alxmt and destroying tlie carpets and cushions in 1 the bouse, ought immediately to be placed under strict surveillance. The Home precaution should be taken with i dogs who show themselves unusually aggressive toward other animals of the Miune species. Indeed, s symptom of madness not to be neglected is the im pression made on the mad dog by the dog in good health. Immediately the sick animal pwrccivcs the healthy njie, a fit of rage is the consequence. At Alfort this very test ia had recourse to in doubtful esses. When the patient is shown another dog, if truly mad he doea his utmost to get at him, and if allowed to do so, bites him furiously. "Curiously enough all animals of whatever soecies, when suffering under canine madness, are similarly affected by the presence of a dog* All are equally irritated, and manifest the same desire "to attack the dog ; the horse with his feet and teeth ; the ram aud the bull with their horns ; even the sheep, gone mad, butts at the dog. Mtill more run susly, the anger of the oiling animal seems especially directed against the species of animal by whicb tlie disease was communicated to it. For instance, a home inoculated at Alfort from a mad sheep, contracted the disease in itsmost exaggerated form, since he tore the akin of his own frvleg* off with his teeth. But when a sheep was put before him, he was immediately seized with a par oxysm of rage, and the poor creature in no time vu bitten to death. " The tendency of human patients to bite has been imagined, or enormously exaggerated. There is no case of tlie disease baring been communicated from one human being to another. The friends of a sufferer may therefore fear lessly and charitably nurse him, with out employing any greater precaution, or any more violent or barbarous meim*. than the strait-waistcoat during the crisis. His mind requires support and calming, as much as hia body. Moral remedies are moat efficacious ; indeed, material remedies, it may lie believed, derive much of their influence from 1 their moral effect. Every effort should be mode to divert the patienl'a attention from the fixed idea which masters him. Even superstitious fancies have ren dered good service. A Remarkable Strike, The details of the great strike among the coal a*d iron workers of Booth Wales are just becoming known in Eng land. They show that the strike was, in nearly every respect, one of the most important in its nature and extent that has occurred in any department of England's vast and complicated indus tries. A few figures, based on the esti mate* of the London Timet' corres pondent, and believed to be midcr rstlier than above the truth, will aliow the magnitude of the interests involved and the immense sum at stake both on the part of the employers, and on that of the workmen. Bixty thousand men, bova and girls were engaged in the s'rike. They earned, on an average. 9 i each per week. The strike lasted about eleven weeks. The total wages lost bv the strike reached the enormous amount of 94.000,000. The trikles nuions paid toward the support of the strikers upward of 9200,000. The average weekly product of the mines and eolleries affected by the strike was 107,000 tons of coal," 11,000 tons of finished iron, 1,600 tons of finished steel, and 1,000 tons of raw pig-iron. The total product withheld from con sumption on account of the strike, esti mated at prices lielow the average im mediately preceding the strike, reaches, in moue'y value, the sum of 910,000,- 000. Then* figures illustrate the un paralleled scope of the strike in its im mediate effects. When it ia remember ed that, as a consequence of the strike, all local trade was almost immediately and completely stopped, and that all the dealers who furnished the strikers with clothing or food, and the landlords who furnished them with shelter, were unable to collect more than a small fraction of the money due for these, and that the industries dependent on the coal and iron of tha district were almost entirely suspended, it will be seen that the indirect effect of the strike was hardly less tliau its direct effect. Aiding Railroads. The experience which Milwaukee, Wis., has had of the ingratitude of rail road corporations may be worth some thing if kept in mind by cities that are likely hereafter to be called npon for contributions to " encourage" the building of new lines. In his inaugural message to the Common Council, the Mayor of Milwaukee thus feelingly re fer* to a bnml transaction to the amount of $424,000 with the Beloit ami Supe rior Railway Company : "It ia difficult to repress a painful resentment when apeaking of theae lunula. The city, through ita aworn representatives, is sued tnc lunula, hut never received any equivalent for them. They were thrown npon the market at a period ef financial depression, and passed into jiurchaaera' handa at heavy depreciation. It waa only natural that the city, in indigna tion, ahould proteat aud diaown them. Fraudulently planned and disgracefully executed, they are a shameful transac tion in our municipal hiatory." A Singular Story. A singular atory comes from Ken tucky. One morning last month a young girl waa found by her parents in her bed, insensible from the effects of chloroform, tied hands and feet with the aheetß, and wound up in the bed clothes. On the window waa a piece of paper, on which was scrawled several mysterious intimations, including theae: " I'me hired to do the job, and cum lots of miles, hut yer looked like an angel and I carn't do it but some one will, for the villains have found out yer where abonta and will kill yor for yer fortune wkat is left yer by afeller that yer be friended when he waa on the cars sick, he died and left all be had to yer if yer was alive on the first of June, if yer was dead it was te go to two other fellers." The perpetrator ought to be caught, if only that he may be sent to school. Term*: &2.00 a Year, in Advance. Ike East Biter Bridge. Hew II U to be Abcbere*. In New York the anchorage for the great East River Bridge will be situated in James street, between Front and Wa ter itrreti In Brooklyn it will be situ ated at York street, near Meroem and I'ruapert streets. Work has already (men begun in the latter city, and is progressing with great rapidity. The ground upon which tlie masonry of the anchorage will be built is 125 feet long and 187 feet deep. The masonry, when finished, will be 70 feet from tlie surface of the earth. The ground is excavated to the depth of 25 feet; and in order to prevent the caving-in of the soil and the undermining of the adjoining buildings, timber frame-work has been placed within the opening. Two longitudinal rows of piles were driven into the earth at the bottom of the excavation, and divided into three spaces, from 37 to 40 feet between them, the piles being so placed sa to make seven transverse di visions of from 13 to 25 feet each. Heavy lines of bracing extend between the p'tlas making 21 rectangular di visions. It will bio seen, therefore, that dear spaces for work are afforded, 25 by 40 feet long, and 13 by 37 feet deep. Mix derricks will soon be placed in posi tions to cany the stones to every part of the ground. In passing over the towers one of the cables extends over each end, and the other two over the middle, so that the anchor plates with which the cables will be connected by a cbaui will be correspondingly pieced on cither aide of the reus of the anchorage, and in the middle. The anchor-plate* are immense pieces of iron 2} feet deep oblong, 171 feet di ameter in one direction and 16 feet di ameter in the other. When placed npon the masonry they will resemble a great apider lying upon his back with 16 legs extending in every direction. The legs are made with flanges flaring so as lobe held by the masouiy which will surround it. The plates are connected with the cables by two immense flat iron chains. The chains are each composed of ten links, each link being about 16 feet long, except the opper one, to which the cable will lie attached. Tbis will be 20 feet long. Each link ia made op of nine flat bars, the lower bars being wren inches wide and three inches thick, and the upper once nine inches wide and three inches thick. These bar* weigh about half a ton each, making the weight of each link four ami a half tons. The links are joined by heavy turned pins which paan through eyes placed in their extremities. Each chain will weigh about 60 ton*, and tli* two chains wh.ch bold one end of each cable will contain about 100 tons of irou, so that in the Brooklyn anchorage alone the weight of the cliaina which oonnect the cables with the anchor plates will be4oo tons. The whole support of the bridge depends finally upon the anchorage, and the power of the anchorage consists in its weight or resistance to outside pow er ; but weight acts only in a vertical direction ; therefore the anchor plate* which are the final ends of the cable chains are placed at the near and low est end of the pile ef masonry, with their upper surfaces homental. The pistes have 16 openings through their centers made to receive tha nine bar* which form the links of each of the two chains, and which are fastened by pins S laced in the under aide. Of coursethe rat set of links passing through the openings in the plates will be planed vertically, bat from this point the chains begin to carve until they reach the point where the cables unite with them horizontally and 60 feet above the surface, thus describing the quad ran lof a circle. That portion ef the anchorage containing the plates, along the whole width of the rear, aud SO feet length wise from the plates, will be built of solid masonry. The remaining portion of the anchor age will consist of three walls running longitudinally and supporting the chain*. A wsll will be erected on each aide and a doable wall in the center. After the chains have been placed in position upon the walls, masonry will l>c added ; the walla will be earned up and arched at the top to form the road bed of tb# viaduct , H9 feet si ore tide. The chains and plates will lie forever hidden from view after they have been placed, and the final appearance of the anchorage when completed will be an immense piece of solid masonry. Pioneering In WWIMI Kew York. A correspondent of the Tribune MT n recent story brought to mind the scene* of pioneer suffer;ng that were forced on his notice in Cayuga county after the cold season of 1816, when the corn crop almost entirely failed. He says : My nncles had just bnilt a mill at Union Springs, and the hungry men from Menta used to come up the Seneca River in dug-outs, both to boy and beg a little coarse middlings or barley meal. They lived in the woods, and hod cleared and fenced just land enough to plant a little corn, and the failure of this reduced them to starvation. But they had plenty of trees and made com fortable log-l'onses, made sap-sugar, and could feed their only cow on browse. Our farmers could not earn three shillings a day. Money was so scarce that no house in any village eouid haTt been built if all the labor and material had not been Ixmght in barter. There was emphaticallv no money. When I came to this village with a store of goods, in IX2I, wheat was the only arti cle that sold for money, and the price had been down to 31 cents a bushel the rear before. 1 have known a farmer to leave his latter a week or more in tb post-office until he could thresh wheal to sell and pay the 18 cents postage. Hundreds of farmers then drank neither tea nor coffee, and the wife paid for her calico in batter, at eight cenU per pound, and the poor merchant bad to send it to New York, where it often sold at a loss over transportation. I have seen a string of teams come in to a dis tillery in Oneida county, loaded with potatoes, which they gladly sold for 12} eenta per bushel. Now you eouhl not hire a farmer to haul the" potatoes six miles for the same money. Yet I can not see that fanners are' nny happier now than they were then ; tbey had le --me acclimated to privation and self denial, and it was as second nature to them. Many lived in puneheon-roofed houses, built almost without a nail, but the latch-string always hung out for the benefit of those whose necessities were greater than their own. These poor Mentz farmers never had three dollars, and yet some contrived to pay for a small farm, while others weut further West to scratch poor men's heads the remainder of their days. Those who paid for the land had smart wives, who, in the beginning, helped their husbands by spinning for pork and Indian meaL An eminent London oculist was re cently requested to operate upon two grizzly bears at the Zoological Gardens, For cataract Chloroform waa admin istered, and the operations were suc cessful, but unluckily one of the pa tients recovered from the anmathesis too quickly, and eonsiderably mauled his keeper. Home time afterward the same oculist was asked to operate on one of the tigers, but he respectfully declined the proposal, saving that he must draw the line somewhere, and he drew it at a grizzly bear. NO. 22. The OM and UM haw Journalism. Curions and comical period, Bays Henry Walteraon, in MI editorial ad* drees, when Richard Smith wore unbe coming rouodaboata, and William Hyde ioatitated the black art of lelliag newa pt|rrt on the Itanka of the Ohio; when Walter Ilaldeman kept books for George D. Prentice; when Joseph Me* dill nil. <1 a preas at Cleveland; when M. V. Potter wheal-barrowad the forms at liia paper through the atresia; whan Greeley, Raymond, and Bewiatt were obaeure, and the preen flarifled iUtelf in the pernm at ball a lioialnd forgot ten wurtbiea who wrote fierce nonaanae and fought dnela, and hiccoughed Fourth of July omtlona awry day in the year in eiceedinglr had grammar. Jouraaliam in thoae daya waa a aort at luebnoua knight-errantry; a big j considerably drunken and blood stained. Now and then I torn back to it and contemplate it, and whenever I do to I begin to cboke up between a laugh and a cry; it was so funny, it was !so tragic ! I have had the advantage, j and I may aay the happiness, to be In timately associated with a great man of i the new school of journalism, and the very greatest man of the old school, and to mark, b comparison, the ideas and methods of both. The eomperison, instructive in itself, shows the changes which have come into the life of the American press within e quarter of s century. Lu the old time the journalist was s mere player, a trotting and fretting his hour upon the stsge, sating a part by command of bia liege lord, the party leader. He was about as much in earn ! est in his role of "organist'' as Mr. 1 Booth is in his role of Bieheheu or Hamlet; that is, it soiled him and be adapted himself to it. Bs was the | politician's squire and the party's hack i —neglected or rewarded according to j the caprice of his master. That was , Prentice. With all his gifts—bis wit, ' sagacity and courage—Prentice lived 1 the life of s slave. Hcalising the fact j always, ha only realised the cause to i ward the end. Hahlrman, *n the other hand, set out in life at a different gait; he was aclf n-luuit, a singular compound j of mad<-sty, industry and went "alow," and trusting to bit Own ; necessarily crude resources and ideas, I the ideas and the resources of a Pio ; ocer, he began and fought just as Me ' dill and Potter did, a good fight with partisan and subsidised journals, win* ) uing it in the long run, as a matter of ! course. While 1 rejoice in the genius of Prentice and am delighted by it, prowd { of the mark he made for ua all, 1 cannot find words strong enough to urge the i self-repression, the patient and sober industry, the heroism of Potter, Medili tod Hsldeman. I bad never flattered myself with the notion of how much 1 ' knew afioat the practical handling of a ; uewspaper before I became the com- ( j paaion of Prentice, and I never had the conceit so thoroughly taken out of me j is when I became the companion of I Hsldeman. Will of the Late Emperor Xapoleoa. The following is the true will of the late Emperor Napoelon, for which let j tors of administration are now applied for. The estate is sworn to amount to leas then £120,000 storting, and this um ia subject to claims which will re {dace it one-hsdf: I < "This is my wilL I commend my son and my wife to the high anthovf , lies of the State, to the people, and to I the array. Hie Empress Eugenie poa ' teases all the qualitiea required lor oc pabty c any form. After dinner lie would spend an hour playing chess with his private secretary. He was excessively fond of| chess, and played a strong but not very scientific game. At Br. m., Le was at work again, which often lasted far into •he night. Thia was before his paralysis in the summer of 1870. An Atlantic man dreamed, the other night, that he nearly killed himself by a fall, and the foolish fellow straight way went to work washing windows, and, of course, fell out and fatally injured himself. —iej. * MKbWtapNi. Hwwr ibry woman till yon knou where her druse cods nod her tool be- IBM. Twenty Ihnwaad eoal miner* in Leicestershire, England, here struck work. . Sir Samuel Baker end wife, reported kilted In Africa, were alive at latest | date*. The Americas eeetioa of the Vienna •Exhibition is said to be in a atal* of ; ehaoa. New York aavrduet ia boxes continue* to ttring fabnldOi pri I >*• l ■.act w .„.,a • a a a - , - ,* a* ai w WwjMrt', or more than one-half.are in the United State*. la ecuntm* wbre government management rxi*t there are altogether abont 10,009 mil of railwsv. The Belgium Government baa the greatest interest ia railway*, that ia to as*, it hn* toe greatest proportionate ownership, la Austria thaw are 7,000 miles of railway, and Bnaaia poaseaaea 8,000 miles open traffic, and 5,000 more ia otHtiaaof construction. No incentive ia wanting to aeek for tin deposit* in the United Sutra, to jadge from the smell quantity pro duced, and the increasing demand thereof. It ia aeti mated that toe annual consumption of tin in A aaerica and Europe was, in 1898, shout 22,000 tons ; in 1870, 24,008 tons ; in 1871, 27,000 tons. This supply was derived from four sources, which last year prod nerd in all only 31,700 tons, made np as fallows i- * agUah tin, 10,500 teas i Bancs tin, 9,000 tons . BtrisiU tin, 9,So(f tons ; BftteUm tin, 2,700 tone. There ati'l crista greet indecision re gard ing ton beet mean* of naval defense. Some engineer* woedd rely on great guns, slid maintain that there ia prac luwllv no limit to the powers of a gun, while there is a very narrow limit to the weight of armor that out be carried. Others bold that by hawing one plate of 4# or 9 inches on the outer surface ef the hull, and another of the same thick ness further in. that the heaviest shells would do very little mischief to vessels secured in that way. Good advice is given by The (Momgo Journal of (bmnwrtw to Western far ; mere who complain of the high rates charged by railroads for conveying pro duce. It aavs : Diversify industry ; develop local resources ; encourage manufactures near the farm ; make population denser ; create on your own sou as msuT centers of commerce as TOU can ; do everything IU your power to bring consumers to your doors. Ail this witt fake time, because you have already gone so far in the wrong direc tion. This, however, is certain, you are, by your present course, but adding force 'and momentum to the cause of your present trouble*. The effect can be stopped vnlv by removing the cause. Strike at the root of the whole evil. Careless Use ef Pols***. Persaos who profess to see no danger (in diatribnting poisons in pantries, nursery-closets, and other convenient i places, to kill rata and mice, may possi ble take warning from the fats! comae ' qnenCM which recently attended a milk | poisoning experiment at the farm-house of a Mr. Oooper, near Deoatur, 11L Miss Cooper, it appears, purchased a considerable quantity of stryohnine, de pesited it in abasia of milk, and placed the basin upon a shelf in the pantry. During Iter absence with the other grown members of the family at the lounentl of her brother, a Jura. Met oalf, who had kindly consented to fake care of the younger children, two in number, went into the pantry for some milk with which to quiet them. _ Igno rant of the contents of the bssin, she took it from the shelf, drank some her self, and wave the remainder to her charge. The unfortunate woman died in great agony some hours afterward; the lives of toe children may probably be saved, but not so that of Miss Cooper. She was so shocked at the result of her carelessness that she im mediately became alarmingly ill, and ia not expected to recover. — ' ! i Slaughter Without Suffering. Our Dumb Animal a describes the method adopted by the Antf-Unielly Society for depriving a creature of liie without inflicting unnecessary pain, i For ah iree, a sponge, say six inches in diameter, thoroughly saturated with chloroform, ia dropped into a bag large enough to bo drawn over the nose. It is not desirable to have the bag "air tight f for, if so, suffocation is likely to ensue. In two or three minutes the horse is unconscious, and in eight or ten minutes dead, without suffering. For dogs and cats a similar process, using a small sponge and bag; or those animals, with toe saturated sponge, may be put in a box admitting some air, when they soon "go to sleep." Seventy- Ave oenta worth of chloroform will kill a horse, and 25 a dog or cat If one saturation of the sponge dots not com plete the work, repeat. BEAT Hrw.-—The occupants of a drinking-saloon in Cape Girardeau, Mo., were startled lately by the entrance of the wife of one of them, bearing a co* ered dish. Placing it on the table, with the remark that she supposed he had not time to come home to dinner, she departed. He removed the lid, and found a slip of paper, on whysh was written : " I hope you will enjoy yonr dinner ; it is the same kind youx/amily has at home." TTttt Ban AOCOTTST —The bank ac count of a merchant who advertises is like the barrel of meal and the cruse of oil that belonged to the widow of Zer epta—the more he takes out thq more remains within.