The Djing Rosebud.
Uow oft. while yet *ll infant flower.
Mr onwiKWi ehweV I'va toJ
Against the preen bars of my bower,
Impatient of tlio ehaJe.
And preeinp up *nd }eapinp through
tta email md proStotw vists*.
Kiphe.l for the lonely liplit and dew
That bIMMd my aider eietet*
1 saw the eweet tore*® ripplinp o'er
Their leave*, that loved the play.
Though the light thief shite all the •!<
Of dew-drwp gums away.
I thought how happv I should to
Sneh diamond wreaths to wear.
And frolie, with a rose's glee.
With sunbeam, hird, and air.
Ah. me—ah, woe is we. that I,
Kre vet my leaves unclose
With all my wealth of sweets must die
Before l am a rose.
YYaiting for \ou, Jock.
Winter s agoing;
Tlie streams are a-flowing ;
Hie May-flowers hlowing
Will soon be in view.
But all tilings seem faded.
For my lieart it is Jaded.
Waiting for you, Jock,
Waiting for yoti:
Oh. but it'* weary work.
Waiting for you ! *
As eoon a* the day'* done.
My thoughts to tlie M eet ran ,
1 envy the red sun.
That smVr from my view.
On you it'* a-shiumg.
While here I am puung,
Waiting for you, Jock.
Waiting fot you;
Oh. but it's weary work.
Waiting for you
I sigh when the day brains ;
The |iiuful night seema
To cheer me with sweet dreams.
That War me to you.
Each mora as you flee me.
The faditig stats see rnc.
Waiting for you, Jock.
Waiting for you;
Oh. but it's weary work.
Waiting for you'.
Vto, retail. fly to him.
bnig aver tugh to lum ;
Summer winds sigh to him;
tSd hint be tru'.
Where he sieeie on the prairies.
Oh. wbtaper. kind fairies.
*" Waiting for yon. Jock.
Waiting fnrro*!
Ob. bat it's weary work.
Waiting for you!"
A HEAVY BURDEN.
Robert Hodgkins had lived in the
village, next door to Samael Rollins, at
least a dozen years, and no doubt the
two neighbors would hare been on good
terms together; but, unluckily for the
poacv of Robert Hodgkins, Samuel Hul
ims hvi a peas ton on account of a bad
wound which he had rewired wher.
fighting as a seaman under Admfhtl'
Nelson at the battle of Trafalgar.
Vvery week when Hodgkins went to pay
Us rent up at the Unliouse, he muttered
and grumbled all the way there and
back, because his neighbor could afford
to pay his rent so much better than him
self. A:t envious, discontented spirit is
one of the worst qualities a man can
foster in his bosom ;■ it makes him mis
erable at home and abroad ; it sours his
sweetest enjoyments, and plants sting
ing nettles m all his paths along the
journey of life.
For a time Hodgkins growled and
grumbled to himself, but afterwards his
discontent grew louder, till, at last, it
became his favorite topic to lament his
own ill lock, and to rail against those
whose aioney came in whether they
would or not, and who had nothing else
to do but to sit in an easy chair front
morning till night, while lie worked his
heart out to get enough to support him
self and his familv.
It was on a Mondav morning that
Hodgkins, who was sadly behind in his
rent, walked up to the tanbouse to Mr.
Starkey's, to make some excuse for not
paying what was due.
Hodgkins entered the tanhouse, and
was soon reproved for not paying his
rent by his landlord, Mr. Starkey, who
told hint that his next door neighbor,
Samuel Hullins, regularly paid up every
farthing. " Yes, yes," "replied Hodg
kins, "some folks are born with silver
spoons in their mouths ; Hnlltns is a
lucky fellow, no wonder that he can pay
his rent with such a {tension as he has
got"
" Hullins has a pension, it is true,"
said Mr. Starkey, "but he carries a
pretty heavy cross for it. If you had
lost yonr leg, as he has done, "perhaps
you would fret more than yon cfo now,
notwithstanding yon might in that case
have a pension."
"Not I," replied Hodgkins, "if I
had been lucky enough to lose a leg
twenty years ago, it would have been a
good day's work for me, ir I could have
got as much by it as Hullins has con
trived to get. You call his a heavy
cross, bnt I fancy that Uia pension
makes it light enough to Iran ; the
heaviest cross that I know of is being
obliged to work like a negro to pay my
rent."
Now, Mr. Starkey was a shrewd man,
and possessed a great deal of hnmor,
and well knowing Hodgkins' disposi
tion to repine, he felt disposed to con
vince him, if possible, that the lightest
cross soon liecome heavy to a discon
tented spirit
•' I tell yon what, Hodgkins," said
lie, " I am afraid that voa are hardly
disposed to make the best of things;
however, as yon think that yonr neigh
bor Hullins' cross is so very light, if
you will undertake to carry one much
lighter, you shall live rent free as long
as you abide by the bargain."
" But what sort of a cross is it that
yon mean to put upon mv shfulders!"
inquired Hodgkins, fearing that it
might be something to which he could
not agree.
" Why," replied Sir. Starkey, fetch
ing a large lump of chalk and making a
broad cross on Hodgkins' back, " that
is the cross, and so long as you like to
wear it, I will not ask yon for a farthing
of your rent."
Hodgkins at first thought that hia
landlord was only joking, but being as
sured that he was quite serious, he told
Mr. Starkey that lie must look for no
more rent from him, for that lie was
willing to wear tuch a Croat at THAT all
the day a of hia life.
Away went Hodgkins, chuckling with
in himself at his good luck, and think
ing what a fool of a landlord he had got
to let him off so easily from paying Ttis
rent. Never was he in a better humor
than when he entered his cottage.
Hodgkins having seated himself with
his back to the cupboard, his wife had
not seen the cross on his coat; but no
sooner did he turn ronnd to pull up the
weights of the cuckoo clock, than she
cried out with a shrill voice: "Why,
Hodgkins, where have you been* ?
There is a cross on your "back a foot
long ; you have been to the public, and
some of your drunken companions have
played you this trick, to make you look
like a regular simpleton ; come, stand
still, and let me rub it off, or every lad
in the village will be laughing at you."
Let it alone," said Hodgkins, turning
quickly ronnd ; " I won't have it nibbed
off. Go on mending your stockings,
and let my coat alone. "Bat I won't
let it alone," replied his wife ; " do von
think my husband shall play the fool in
that manner? No, that he shan't; 111
have every bit of it off before you stir
out of the house."
Hodgkins knew very well that his
wife was not easily turned when she
had once Bet her mind upon a thing, so,
striding across the cottage, he hastily
made his escape, banging the door after
him with all his might. "An ill-tem
pered vixen !" muttered be to himself;
"I would have told her of my good
luck had she been quiet, but now she
6ball know nothing about it."
"flalloo, Robert!" cried old Fal
lows, the bricklayer, as Hodgkins
turned round the corner; " who has
been playing yon that trick? Why,
yonr back is scored all across. Come
liere, and I will give you a dusting."
KRKD. KURTZ, Editor mill IVopriotor.
VOL. VI.
"Mind yonr own back, and let mine
alone " saul lbxlgkins.
" Mr. Hodgkm*," cried little Patty
Steven*, the huckster's daughter, run
ning after him, "if you please, there
ha* somebody been making a long score
all down yonr coat; mother will rub it
off for yon if you will come back.'
" You and yonr mother had better uiitul
vottr red herring* and treacle," replied
llodgkinx, sharply, leaving the little
girl wondering why he did not stop to
have his coat brushed.
No one else noticed tlie cross on lLslg
kins' back till he got near the black
smith'* shop, where Iho butcher and the
blacksmith were talking, the butehet
cutting a piece of elder, to make skew
era, and the blacksmith with hi* * run
across, leaning on the half door of hit
ahop. " Yon are jn*t the very man 1
wanted to see," said the butcher, stop
ping Hodgkins j bnt before he had
spoken a dot Son words to him, old Peg
gy Turtou conic up, in her red cloak
and check apron. " IK-ar mo !" cried
old Peggy, gathering up her apron iu
her hand, "why, Mr. Hodgkins, yonr
back is quite fright; but stand still a
moment, and I'll soon have it off."
When Hodgkins turned around to tell
Chl Peggy to be quiet, the blacksmith
roared out to ihe butcher to " twig
Hodgkins' back." "He look* like a
walking finger-post," cried the butcher.
"Ay, ay," said the blacksmith ; "1
warrant ye his wife has done that for
him, for spending hi* wages at the Malt
Shovel." There was no other method
of escaping the check apron of Peggy
Turton, aud the laughing and jeering of
the butcher and blacksmith, than that
of getting off the ground as soon as pos
sible ; so, calling poor Peggy a med
dling old husay, and the other two a
brace of grinning fellows, he turned the
first corner he came to, feeling the cross
on his back a great deal heavier than he
hail expected to find it.
Poor Hodgkins seemed to meet with
nothing but ill luck, for just before he
got to the school all the scholars rau
boisterously into the road, full of frolic
and fun, waving their caps, and fo low
ing Hodgkins, shouted as loudly a*
theT could brawl, "Look at his bk!
look at his back!" Hodgkins was iu a
fury, and would jerhap have done
soli.- mi*chief to hi* yomip tormentors
had it not Ixn n fot thir sudden appear
and of Mr. Johnson, the schoolmaster,
who at that moment came out of tlie
school-room. The boys gave over their
hallooing, for Hodgkins directly tohl
Mr. Johnson that they were "an impu
dent set of young jackanapes, and ever
lastingly in'mischief."
Mr. Johnson, who hail heard tlie up
roar among the boys, and caught a
glimpse of Hodgkins' back, rvplied,
mildly, that he would never encourage
anything like impudence in his schol
ars, but that perhaps Hodgkins was not
aware of the cause of their mirth ; he
assured him that he had so large a chalk
mark on his back, that it was enough
to provoke the merriment of older peo
ple than lxis boys, and advised him by
all means, if he wished to avoid of be
ing laughed nt, to get rid of it as soon
as possible. Hodgkins said peevishly
that hi* back was "nothing to nolxah ,"
and muttering to himself, walked on,
feeling his cross to be heavier than ever.
The reflections which passed through
Hodgkins' mind were not of the most
agreeable description. It was, to be
sure, a rare thing to live rent free ; but
if every man, woman, and child in the
village were to be everlastingly torment
ing him, there would he no |>eace from
morning to night. Then again, even if
his neighbors got used to the cross on
his bark, and said nothing about it, he
knew that his wife would never let him
rest. On the whole, the more he con
sidered about it, the more was he dis
posed to think that the bargain was not
quite so good a one as he at first had
taken it to he.
A* Hodgkins went on towards the
Malt Shovel, he saw, at a distance, his
landlord, Mr. Starkey, and directly
after, to his great consternation, bis
neighbor, Samuel HtilLius, came stump
ing along, with his wooden leg, in com
pany with Harry Stokes the carpenter.
Now Harry Stokes was quite the village
wit; and Hodgkins dreaded nothing
more than to be laughed at by him, in
the presence of Samuel Hullins. His
first thought was to pull off his coat,
but then, what would Mr, Starkey say
to that ? Not knowing what else to do,
he took refuge in the Malt Shovel, but
soon fonnd the house too hot to hold
him, for when those who were drinking
there began to laugh at the cross on his
hack, both the landlord and landlady
declared that no customer of theirs
should be made a laughing-stock in
their house, while they had the power
to hinder it. The landlord got the
clothes-brush, anil the landladv a wet
sponge, and Hodgkins was obliged to
make a ha*ty retreat, to secure his coat
from the Rponge and the clothes-brush
of his persevering friends.
When Hodgkins left home, he in
tended to go to a neighboring village
about some work which he liad to do,
bat his temper hail been so ruffled by
old Fallows, I'atty Stevens, the black
smith, the butcher, and Peggy Turton,
as well as by Mr. Johnson and lib
scholars, the company at the Mall
Shovel, and the landlord and landlady,
thai he determined to get home as soon
as he eould, thinking it better to 1m
railed at by his wife, than to be laughed
at by the whole village.
If you have ever seen, on the first ol
September, a poor wounded partridge,
the last of the covey, flying about from
place to place, while every sportsman
ne came near bail u shot at him, yon
may form some notion of the situation
jf poor Hodgkins as lie went back tc
his cottage ; sometimes walking foal
that he might not be overtaken, some
times moving slowly that he miftht uoi
overtake others. Now in the lane, then
in the field ; skulking along a* thongl
he had been robbing a henroost, ant:
was afraid to show his face. Tlie crost
by this time had beeotne almost in
tolerable.
No sooner did he enter his cottagi
door, than his wife began ;
" And so you are come back again
are you, to play the tomfool ? Hen
have been half a dozen of your neigh
bors calling to know if yon are notgoni
out of your mind. If ever there was i
madman, you are one ; but 111 put tha
coat in a* pail of water, or behind tin
fire, before I will have such autici
played by a husband of mine; come
pull off your coat! I say, pull off youi
coat!"
Had Hodgkin's wife soothed him, lit
might have been more reasonable, bu
as it was, her words were like gunpowdei
thrown into the fire. A violent qnarre
took place, words were followed bt
blows, and dashing, smashing, ant
crashing resounded in the dwelliug o
Robert Hodgkins.
The fiercer a lire burns, the soone:
will it consume the fuel which supporti
H ; and passionate people, in like man
ner, exhaust their strength bv the vio
lence of their anger. When Hodgkini
found that there was no prospect o
peace, night or day, at home or abroad
either with wife or amongst neighbor
and villagers, so long as he continue!
to wear his cross, he of his own accort
robbed it from his back.
The next Monday Hodgkins went ti{
to the tan-house betimes, with a week'i
rent in his hand.
"Ah, Robert," said Mr. Starker
shaking his head, "I thought you wool!
soon repent of your bargain. It is i
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
pan! thiug to encourage a contented
disposition, nud not to envy others, nor
umioccsMarily to repute nt the troubles
a Inch thai has been pleased to lay upoti
tta. Let thin little affair be a lessou to
us both, for depend upon it, we never
commit a greater mistake than when we
imagine the triala of other* to be light,
and our own croasea to be heavier than
those of our neighbors.
••o >!liu*e e'th fouteutruoiit in great s*l"
The Shah and III* People.
The Shah of Persia ha* arrived in
F.tgbiml. Extensive preparation* were
made for hia reception, anil Great Britain
propose* to show Naaar-ed-Diu the full
glory of her kingdom and the extent
and source* of her prosperity. He goes
to Buckingham Palace, where he and
his suite w til le accommodated. There
will be a grand review and a march
through Louden, which last ts really
the most effective means of impressing
the Khali with the force at the command
of the Queen. No city in Europe can
turn out so large a crowd, and Loudon
is but a fraction of Ktiglaud. The
Persian King will visit Manchester and
Birmingham, and there behold some
what of the impulse which labor gives
to empire. There is deep |K>litical
significance iu tlie visit, so fur as Russia
ami England are concerned and the
Government of each of these countries
i* exceedingly anxiotu to secure the
good will of the Prrace, not lns-ause he
is powerful, but because he statu!*
closely related to their dominions in
Asia, ami because Persia is a field aoon
to ha opened to railwrays aud manufac
tured good*. The Shah has eorne with
a liberal purse. He has some $"20,000,-
000 put by for his traveling expenses.
"I'he-e, however,are tionie chiefly by the
Governments to which he pays visit*.
He will, doubtless, scatter largess with
a liberal hand, aud make many pur
chases. The Shah wear* a robe wuich
is valued at $1,000,000. He brought
an assortment of wive* with him, but
they were too much for hi* Persian
temper aftc/ he reached Europe, so he
sent ill em all back from Moscow, to
raise a breeze in the harem, aud vilify
their absent and unreasonable lord.
The absence of these gentle dames will
be a relief to the good Victoria, who has
a keeu sense of propriety. The Shah
is very rich ; he has absolute w-ay, and
he absorb* the revenues of the country
and adds litem to hi* private fortune.
II is poor subjects are crushed by jtoverty
and public burdeus, and within the last
two years thousands of them have.
perished from famine, while luxurious
rulers have added to their hoarded
treasure and mud no heed to the want
and misery which devastated the King
dom. The Shah, in August, 1871, re
turning to the capital, was met at the
gates bv "thousands of howling wo- I
men," wkowtre dispersed by the police.
He issued an order that bread should
lie sold at a nominal price, bat the
bread did not come. He then ordered
the Vizier of the town to be put in \
chains, tlie chief baker to bo cut open,
and the other bakers to bo roasted in
their ovens. Strange as it may seem,
bread by this means, was made no
cheaper, and now the Shah is wander
ing around to see with "how little wis
dom" ether lands are governed.
How the I*robabllltles Are Cast.
At the seventy odd station* in tlie
United States the observations are
mmle sit times daily with each of the
instruments named in regular succes
sion aud at the same moment of time.
The first is made at seven o'clock in the
morning and the last at ten o'clock at
night, three of which are forwarded to
the central office at Washington, from
which the "probabilities " are east at 10
A. M. , and 1 A. M., constituting the morn
ing and evening weather report*. The
headquarters here are connected with
all the telegraph companies, and work
at stated times in long circuits in re
ceiving cipher messages. The cipher
system injures accuracy and brevity—
one word giving the degree ami fraction
of a degree of temperature instead of
being fullv written out—and is used to
make up the meteorological condition of
all the station*. These cipher mes
sages commence to come from five to
eleven r. M., and when finished are ta
ken into a transluting-rooin and read
aloud, when three clerk* write them
out from memory, so familiar have thov
become with the cipher, one on n rough
map and two on the manifold hnlletins.
When these report* are all noted on the
map—the condition of the thermometer,
the state of the barometer, tlie direction
of the wind, the condition of the
heavens, tc., —a careful study of the
entirp country is made by Lieutenant
Craig or Professor* Abl>ee and Maury,
and the svnopsis of the weather made
for the New England, Atlantic, and
Middle, and tlie Western and Gulf
States for the post twenty-four hours,
and the probabilities indicated for the
next eight hours. These aro in turn
placed on bulletin-maps and arc tele
graphed broadcast to the daily papers
by the Associated Press.
Politiral Intrigue* In France.
Tilings in France remain stupidly
lull on the surface, probably because
all parties are working in secret to cir
cumvent and outwit each other. One
of the fine schemes of the Conservatives
is to get up aplebieciirto decide wheth
er the government shall be Monarchical
or Republican. They imagine that, it
all the Imperialists and Monarchists
and anti-Thiers men will unite in voting
for the Monarchy, they will find them
selves in a largo majority, and enn set
tle the little matter of whether the na
tion shall have a boy Emperor or a King
among themselves afterward to their
entire satisfaction. But already the
various factions have begun to count
the chickens before the eggs are fairly
laid, and the people who might vote for
a Monarchy with one man at the head
of it decidedly object to going for n
Monarchy in I he abstract, without know
ing whether they nro to have the old
clothes of Louis Napoleon, or a royal
commonplace in the person of Cham
bord. " Show ns the man," they ex
claim, very naturally. They don't pro
pose to play blind-mnn'a buff any more
when a throne iathc stake. Meanwhile,
M. Thiers has shaken hands with M.
(lambettn, and henceforth the Republi
cans will be one. This is a decided
gain ; and so long as the file of public
danger keeps the Republicans pressed
together in a common interest,idea, and
policy, their cause is safe.
IIAIH Oll,.— Tlie following oil is rec
ommended as an excellent compound
preparation for the preservation snd
growth of the hair : Take, of purified
beef marrow, ssv, four ounces : of puri
fied lard, two ounces; concrete oil of
mace,four onnces; oil of aloes, lavender,
mint, rosemary, sage, and thyme, each,
two drachms; balsam of toln, four
drachms ; camphor, one drachm ; al
cohol, one ounce ; place the alcohol in
a glass mattrass, and by the heat of s
water bath, dissolve therein the balsam
of tolii; aild the camphor and essential
oil. On the other hand, melt together
the marrow, lard, oil of mace, and, as
it congeals, add the alcohol solution
made, and stir the whole well until it is
entirely cooled. Lubricate the head
with the oil once or twice every twenty
four hours.
CENTRE lIALL. CENTRE CO.. PA., THURSDAY', JULY 17. 1873.
Nanisna Kajr
\\ t.t IX riltlr Ml >• or !<■ I'i.nluiU
•ml l'lu,|raila.
A few days since Judge J. P. <>"Sul
bvau aud tiovcrnor Fnbi-us, of Maiuana
Bay, arrived IU New Y'ork from Han to
Domingo City, stopping at Huuianu and
Porto Plata. These gentlemen are both
engaged 011 business in connection with
tlie construction of a new railroad from
Samaiia to Santiago, as well as devising
the best means for developing the
resources of that portion of the country.
The writer called upon Judge O'Hulfi
vau to learu what were the present
prosjiecta of Mamaini Bay and Santiago
*inoe the Banians Bay Company had
taken po**c**iou wf that portion of the
island. Judg O'Hullivan stated a*
*OOll a* the proposed line is completed
nasseugeni ami frieglit will lie rapidly
conveyed from Humana Bay to Santiago
and oilier parts of tli* island, whereas
it now take* days. The expense of
traveling will also be greatly diminish
ed. At present it exists at least SI(W iu
gold to travel from one of these point*
to the other. To get from Kamaua Bar
to Santiago takes from three to four
days, and the journey is anything but a
pleasant one. Mr. O'Sulllvaii said also
that during the past twelve mouths the
population had greatly increased
throughout the island, owing to ail in
influx of people from all nutious, and
there* was every reason to think that it
would continue. He couaidrra the
climate a good one, aud not unhealthy,
a* acme people tielieve it to be. The
principle products raised are coffee,
tohacext, indigo, and sugar, while of
fruits almost all kinds can be grown to
great advantage. There are large quan
tities of mahogany to be had, and
several American merchants liuve com
menced the cultivation of cotton. For
lattor there will be ample employment
as soon a* matters can be brought to a
satisfactory condition and commercial
interests between the island ami other
countries established. Mr O'Hollivan
consolers an acre of land near to a sea
port on the island worth at least twenty
acres of land in New England. There
is one continual spi ; ug there, and with
proper farming two cre|*. at least
might be raised. Living is also cheap,
particularly if a man occupies his own
house. Most j>ersous subsist ou fruits
of different kinds, and meat is very
cheap. Haul Mr. Hullivau : " Twenty
dollars iu gold will buy you a whole
bullock, ami 1 have bought half of a
lamb for $1 and $1.60." The poorer
{M<ople live for a mere trifle, growing
almost all that they consume. Wage*
are from $1.50 in gold to sl, accoreling
to the work done, though at present
there is but little demand for skilled
workmen, owing to the island not Wing
thickly settled. The population of
Hautnigo and Samana Bay, with their
vicinities, is estimated at about 30,000
inhabitants.
The writer al*n called upon Governor
Fahen*. who said that the affair* of Sa
mana Bay were in a thriving condition,
and that "he believed Hatuana Bay would
owe day IM* the leading port of the YVeat
Indies. He remarked that General
McC'lellan, while President Pierce held
office, predicted that would be the case,
and said it was one of the finest harbor*
iu the world. Governor Falnm* said
the Companv intended to do everything
to further tlie development of tlie re
sources of the island, but that a* the
company wa* new, a great Aral had to
be thought about to make it successful,
and so far aa their operation* have
extended their object lias been achieved.
On the question of annexation with
the United Htate* Mr. Faben said the
people were anxiously looking for that,
as they believed it should be to their
advantage in every respect.
Another Strange Ca*e.
The jmpers of St. John, N. B. are
commenting upon the final unmasking
there of a prominent mercantile citizen,
for a long period a h>cal criterion of all
that wa* honorable in man. Many
years ago he came thither to a dry-goods
"clerkship in a thriving house, bringing
a reputation for moral fastidiousness
which his whole future manner and
practice publicly substantiated. Ab
staining rigorously from every form of
equivocal self-indulgence, scrupulously
decorous in his language, tireless in his
husiucss duties, he advanced as rapidly
in enviable social appreciation as in Ins
interests as a tradesman, and, u|xra ac
ceding to a minor partnership with his
former employers, married a lady frein
one of the Inrnt families in the city. He
became a father, a substantial citizen,
and a fall partner. After a while his
business associates wished to sell their
shares and retire, when it wa* found
thai lie had accumulated enough inde
pendent capital to purchase the greater
portion of the concern and become chief
proprietor. Thenceforth he waxed
richer and richer ; his credit was good
for any amount; he was the modet man
' of trading and social circles ; and so un
til a few weeks ago, when some unrelat
ed circumstance prompted one of his
latest partners to institute a private ex
amination of the books f their partner
ship and the firm preceding it Thence
the discovery, that for more than thir
teen years this universally respected
and trusted merchant had been a secret
brigand to his employers, partners, and
every one else whose property he conld
reach. He had been a* regular in his
stealings a* in his other and Imtter
known habits; systematizing and hiding
it with a genius worthy of the noblest
human attainments, and putting the
steady dishonest profit* out in invest
ments so unconspictioiiN that they had
attracted no suspicions attention. As
a consequence of this diaooveiT, neces
snirlv made public at last, he is now n
wrecked and ruined man, having sur
rendered to his old employers aud sub
sequent partners his whole fortune, to
escape prosecution for felony.
Y'egetable Perfumes and Health.
An Italian professor ha* made some
very agreeable medical researches, re
sulting in the discovery that vegetable
perfumes exercise a positively healthful
influence on the atmosphere, converting
its oxygen into ozone, and thus increas
ing it* oxydizitig influence. The es
sences found to develop the largest
quantity of ozone are those of cherry,
laurel, cloves, lavender, mint, juniper,
lemons, fennel, Wrgamot; those thst
give it in smaller quantity are anise,
nutmeg, and tlivme. The flower* of
the narcissus, fiyocmth, mignonette,
heliotrope, and lily of the valley de
velop ozone in closed vessels. Flowers
destitute of perfume do not develop it,
and those which have but slight per
fume develop it only in small quantities.
Reasoning from tliese facts, the pro
fessor recommends the cultivation of
flowers in marshy districts, and in places
infested with animal emanntions, on
account of tlie powerful oxygen influence
of ozone. Tlie inhabitants of such re
gions nhonld surround their dwellings
with beds of tlie most oderiferous flow
ers.
"I say, old boy, cried Paul Pry to an
excavator whom lie espied at the lx>t
tom of a yawning gulf, "what are you
digging there?" "A big hole," the old
hoy replied. Paul waß not to be put
off iu this fashion. "What are you
going to do with the hole?" he asked.
" Going to cut it tip into small holes,"
rejoined the old boy, "and retail them
to farmers for gate-posts."
Our Home Department.
U hoi o U ■•!*! u Kalllor ••> •ot lit* l.w *1
U*|>artuicul at o *>Ha|W|wr.
Tha local inure is the most important
feature of a new*pa|>er, suys Colonel
Calkins iu las addre >• before the \V'i
couaiu Editorial Convention, for the
vast majority of readers. It is like so
cial gossip, and it has a pungency and
attraction, if well told, which a record
of the most im|Mirtant remote events
does not pusses*. If the reader know*
|>t<rsonally *ll alnait the facts which are
descritMxi, ao much the Iwtter ; for the
account of a dog tight which he, him
self, beheld, or the rejiort of a meeting
which he attended, or ill which he par
ticipated, will be perused by him with
greater merest than he would feel in
the most thrilling description by au eye
witness of the capture of a Modoc chief
taiu. A man will read with abaorbiug
interest every line in a description of a
fire* at which he was present, and the
latuutoat detail* of which he already
knows ; and if he can find au audience
to listen, he will read it again to them
aloud. If he took part iu subduingthe
fire, the account will possess a double
charm and ravishment, aud hia eye will
kindle, aud hi* cheek will glow as he
fights anew in print the battle with the
tlaine*. To nee in print what the eye*
saw occur yielda an indescribable pleas
ure to the human mind. Aa we live
again iu our children, we live over again
the eventful moments which the uews
puper reproduce* before us. Whatever
men atop in the street to talk about, or
women meet at the tea table to discuss,
is of sufficient importance for the local
columns of the newspaper. I hare seen
a local editor, (who diu not understand
his business), enter breathlessly the
office in which lie was employed, and
describe orally, with animated elo
quence, an eveiit which he had seen, or
which rumor had conveyed to him, and
which he would never think of writing
up for the paper, until told to do so.
We have also, all of us, known men who
would have Iteeu invaluable journalists
if tlioy had poa*es*ed the faculty of
writing out their observations for the
printer ; for they find out what every
body else wants to know all about, and
they will tell the newa of the town by
the"hour to curb-stone listeners ; but
tbey fail to comprehend the duty, or the
utilitv, of putting what they know where
it will do most good. The talk of the
streets, the counting-room, the shop*
aud social circles is the best material
for the local editor. The ablest editorial
article on the events of peace and war
will pass unread, or without comment,
while a paragraph about tripleta born
in the humblest neighlniring family will
be in everybody's mouth. Every man
takes a greater interest in the absence
of his friend or aequaiuUuiee from home
than he would iu the absence of the
Queen of Great Britain from her do
minions A bark in New York may be
come insolvent and ruin thousand*, but
we will barelv mention it, while, if a
•tore across tlie street i* locked up by
the sheriff, we will talk aliout it all day.
An army mv lc slain in battle on the
other side of the globe without exciting
one of onr emotions ; but we will all get
tip, and run to look mid lie shaken by a
(ampeat of feeling, if a drunken roust
about is knocked down around the cor
ner. We feel an interest in the world
around us far deeper and more enduring
than that which we feel iu the world at
large. Onr home, douientic wonder ia
the real nine days' wonder. This oual
ity in human nature gives to the local
department of the newspaper an attrac
tion, if it is well edited, which no other
department can acquire.
Cotton and Sngar Culture in Eg;pU
A gentleman in Itoston has recently
received a letter from A friend in Egypt,
who makes some interesting statement*
concerning the growing material pros
perity of that country. The develop
ment of the cotton trade has been very
rapid, and the year just closed has t>ecn
one of the most successful in the pro
duction of that staple known to the
Egyptian planters. Tlio whole crop of
the year is estimated at two hundred
million pound#, which at Liverpool
brings price* ranging from 10 pence per
pound for common to thirty-five twnee
for the liest Bea Island, there being
Ashmoor and Galini as intermediate
grade*. The traffic in cotton has been
taken out of tha hands of speculator*,
•nd committed to commission houses.
The writer touches upon the enterprise
of the railway that is to unite Soudan,
Abyssinia, and Middle Africa with
Alexandria, Cairo, and the Red Sea, and
indicatea the great development of
country which is expected to result from
it. The Viceroy has recently largely
increased hia sugar interest* in Upper
Egypt, and while he hitherto plan toil
oulv 15,000 fedara, or acres, of land
witli sugar cane, he now has 150,000
under cultivation, each fedar yielding
under good management one hundred
cantor* of gray sugar and twenty-five
cantors of molasses, a cantor being 98
pounds. It ia no wonder that the Vice
roy ia the wealthiest monarch in the
world, when all his revenues, of which
this is but a small part, arc so immense,
but the gentleman who writes of him
say* that there can be no doubt " that
the actual Government of Egypt is the
best she has had for manv centuries
(mat, and that nothing is neglected to
develop her resources."
The French Indemnity to Germany.
Here is the briefest statement of the
French indemnity payment that ha* yet
Wen made public. The Journal Offi
ciet, the French Government news
paper, declares that of the three milli
ar\s which remained to W paid Ger
many, one was entirely discharged last
autumn. The second ha* been already
paid. The third and last milliard (the
fifth of the entire indemnity) will be
delivered to the German Treasury in
four equal payment* —on the sth of
June, sth of July, sth of Augnst and
6th of BeptemWr of the present year.
In return, the Emperor of Germany
ha* engaged to evacuate, on the sth of
July next, the four department* —
Vos'gcs, Ardennes, Mouse and Meurthe
et Moselle—as well as tlio fortress snd
arondisscment of Belfort. The evac
uation is to W affected within four
week* from that date. As a pledge for
the two last monthly payment*, the
fortress of Verdun *nu the military
dintriot around will alone continue to be
occupied until the fifth of BeptemWr.
They shall be evacuated within two
weeks from that date.
IDs VIEW or THE MATTKR.— "I give
and bequeath to Mary, my wife, the
sum of one hundred pomids a year,"
said an old farmer. "Is that written
down, master ?" "Yes," said the law
yer, "bnt she is not so old but she may
marry agniu. YVon't you make any
change in that case ? Most people do."
"Ay! do they? Well, write again and
say": 'lf my wife marry again I bequeath
to her the sum of two hundred pounds.'
That'll do, won't it, master?" "Why,
that is jnst doubling the sum she would
have received if she remained unmarri
ed," said the lawyer. "It generally is
the other way—the legacy is diminish
ed if the widow marries afterward."
"Ay! but he who takes her will deserve
it.
Artificial fruits are much used for hat
trimmings this season.
I'unishiuettt In Delaware.
t li* U hl|i|iiS| Pest, •! Plllnrjr •** ll*
Usllswa.
A correspondent who visited George
town, lMuware, writes as follows:
About the centre of the town, which
uuuibcrs between eight hundred aud
nine hundred inhabitants, stands a re
spectable Court House, fronting north
directly to the southeast stands a com
im>n looking pump, as I supposed, but
upon more careful examination it proved
to be the far-famed whipping post, for
which Delaware* is so widely reputed.
The post in question is sn old one, and
has <ioue good service iu its dsy ; it is
about seven feet high. The prisoner ia
made to hug the post, ami his hands are
handcuffed to it by means of iron pieces,
a Inch firinly hold the arm against tlie
post. A hole iu the post allows a place
for the pillorv, in which, under the law,
the prisoner has generally to stand lie
fore being flogged, supporting on his
neck and arras a weight of about fifteen
pounds. There are but few peraous
whose constitution can stand thi* pun
ishment one hour and live. Btiil the
iieople of the town claim these rites of
barbarism are the only remedy they
have against filling their jails with a act
of worthless rascals who would prefer
to let the county supj>ort them than to
work themselves. Directly in the rear
of the Court House, about one hundred
vsrd*, stands the jail, a substantial look
ing two-story building, the yard of
which ia about thirty by forty feet, and
is enclosed on three side* with a brick
wall sixteen feet high and on the third
by the jail building. Within this yard
is' the gallows erected for the execution
of Green, alias Burton. Thi# structure
is also worthy of our forefathers, and
would hare probably answered excel
lently fifty years ago'aa a swift means
of transit into the next world. It i*.
however, somewhat behind (or ahead ?)
the inventions of the present age. It is
made of two uuluirked osk saplings,
sixteen feet high and six inches in diam
eter. These are erected about eight feet
apart, and across the top ia placed and
bolted flrmlv with wooden bolts an oak
log, hewn about aix inches square. In
the centre of this a large iron book i*
placed, to which the rope was tied.
Piece* of timber are nailed from the
uprights to the jail walls, about two feet
distant, about eight feet frjm tlie
ground. Upon these cross-piece* ate
placed three sixteen feet pine planks,
thus forming a platform. In front of
this and directly in the centre of the
gallows is the trap, which is about two
by three feet. Two large hinges attach
it' to one of the planka forming the
platform, and it was supported by three
pieces of timber sbont one sud a half
inches thick, extending from the
ground. To the centre piece wa* at
tached a ro{>c. At the conclusion of the
services and after the cap bad been
drawn over the face, the two outside
post* wvre removed, and at a given
signal the remaining one was suddenly
pulled out and Burton was launched into
eternity.
A Russian Emperor.
Ivan IV., of Russia, one of that
country's notable •mperer*, was justly
•uroamed the Terrible. He possessed
the ferocity of a wild lHa*t, aud on the
•lightest caprice would condemn hi*
subjects to death. In a single year
sixty thousand men were killed by hi*
orders, inanv of them by the moat cruel
torture*. One of his favorite amuse
ments wa* to bend down two small and
supple tree* bv the united strength of
half a hundred men, so that the tojs
of the trees would lie brought together
at the ground. The victim would then
be led forward, and hia feet would be
fastened, the right to one of the tree*,
and the left to the other. At a signal
the straining pressure would be re
moved, and the elasticity of the wood
swung the man into the air, where he
was generally torn in two. Burning at
the ntake, tearing the flesh with hot
pincers, roasting in oven*, aud the like,
were among the jovial fancies of this
Muscovite ruler ; aud to ahow that he
had no fastidious fondness for his blood
relation*, he murdered with hi* own
hand hi* son Ivan, who had been a
sharer in hi* pastime* and erneltie*.
A modern jurv might acquit him of any
intentional crime, aa ne professed re
pentance aud sorrow for what he had
done, and in hi* old age determined to
enter a convent—a piou* and p raise
worthv resolution, which death pre
vented him from fulfilling. Despite
hia cruelties, he did more for the great
ness auil glory of Rufeba than any of his
predecessor*, and it wa* in consequence
of hi* cruelties that hi* country twguu
that career of conquest in Asia which
is slilj progressing, and has let! to one
of the most important political ques
tions of the day.
Young Men and Marriage.
The Rev. Howard Crosby, P. P., in
an article discussingtlie obligations and
duties of young men, uses these words;
" The true girl has to be sought for.
She doe* not parade herself iui show
goods. She ia not fashionable. Gen
erally she is not rich. But, oh ! what a
heart she ha* when yon find In r—so
large, and pure and womanly ! When
you see it you wonder if those SIIOWT
"things ontoide sre really women. If
yon gain her love, yonr two thousand
are a million. She'll not a*k for a car
riage, or a first-class house. She will
wear simple dresse*. and will turn them
when it is necessary, with no vulgar
magnificat to frown upon her company.
She'll keep everything neat and nice in
yonr sky parlor, and give you such a
welcome when you do come home that
you'll think your parlor higher than
ever. She'll entertain true friends on
a dollar, and astonish you with a new
thought of how very little happiness
depends on money! She'll tuake you
love home—if yon don't you're a brute
—and teach you how to pity, while yon
scorn, a poor fashionable society that
thinks itself rich, and vainly tries to
think itself happy.
Now don't, I pray yon, say anv more
"I can't aflord to marry." Go find the
true woman and you can. Threw away
that cigar, burn up that switch canc, lie
sensible yourself, aud seek your wife in
a sensible way."
Kesurgam.
A strange ease of resuscitation lately
took place at the hospital af the Yal de
Grace, at Paris. A man had hanged
himself in a garret in the Rue St.
Jacques, aud having Wen cut down and
examined by the medical men, was pro
nounced dead. The clinical lecturer,
however, desired to try one last experi
ment, and he opened the chest ana at
tempted artificial respiration, but with
out success. He then applied the pole
of an electrical battery to the pneumo
gastric nerves, and passed a strong cur
rent nt intervals of four seconds. Soon
after some signs of respiration appear
ed, and in five minntes the cardiac pul
sation was perceptible. The epiglottis
was tumefied, and the tongue had to be
drawn out with pincers to leave a pas
sage for the air. A few ounces of blood
were obtained from the medico-cephalic
vein, the dilated pupils contracted, the
signs of life Wcame more and more
manifest, a few drops of alcohol were
given, muscular contractions Wcame
visible without electricity, w-armth re
turned to the feet, the pulsation in the
carotid arteries recommenced, and the
patient was Raved.
Terms: &2.00 a Year, in Advance.
The Shah u( Persia.
Ill* Mod MoMWoro on* Hia
llow ll* Uokt, atol*. awA **•.
11l an interesting letter to the New
Y'ork 7W, l>r. William H. Kuaael
(the historian of Bull Itum gives some
iiersoual information about the Mkah of
I'ersia which will not tend to raise that
{Hitentete in the opinion of cultured so
ciety. It seems that the distinguished
< Iriental monarch is net only proud, but
unpuuetual, ill-mannered, and rather
immoral. As s matter of choice, he pre
fers to eat with hia fingers, and eaunot
l>e persuaded tlxat anybody in the world
is the equal of His Hublitne Highness.
Vet rumor has not been up to the mark
in describing the incredible richness of
his jewels. Mr. Ituaae! asys : "No
one was prepared to see, rnorta/ibus
orulis, a diamond nearly twice the size
of the Koh-i-noor, or " Mountain of
Light," (now in the possession of the
Queen of Eugland, once Runjeet Ming,
the Lion of Lahore's greatest glory i,
stuck in front of a man's sword-belt,
and fire diamonds, each larger than that
jewel of jewels, m eettelon upon his
coat, from waiat to shoulder. These
stones are scarcely cut, and do not ahow
as they ought-but they are of surpass
ing purity. The Shab'a sword-belt is
a treasure house in itself. The sheath
is studded with rubies, emeralds, and
diamonds, which shame their setting of
purest gold. The front of his coat is
garnished with rows of hrilliauts in
ntrail of lace. The collar and sleeves
are crusted with them, and hia orders
are of the moat precious jewels. His
spurs flash Like sunbeams. All this on
the person of a man who has nothing
noble in mien or face, although be is
al>ove tlxe average height of the Indian
Mussulman noblesse."
As to the personal appearance of the
monarch, we are afraid that hia picture
has flattered him. For the keen-sighted
journalist says : "He is not much at
his ease with "European barbarians, and
it is ludicrous to see him standing alone
in a crowd with a clear spaoe ronnd him
and no one to talk to, for he balances
first on one leg and then on gnother,
' like a hen on a hot griddle,' and does
not know what to do with them or hit
hands. When he turus his back and
the spectator calmly surveys his ex
terior, freed from the distracting influ
ences of his diamonds, tha Shah does
not present an imposing appearance.
I admit that the backs of most people
fail to impress one, bnt his Majesty's
tailor has rendered his rexert quite ab
normally ridiculous by making hia frock
coat wiUx a multitude of fine plaits like
those of s Highlander's kilt or of a
lady of Queen Bess * time over the
hip, and so all round. His face is sel
dom aiiimated, and there is something
incongruous in the position of his re
spectable gold spectacles, a la Thiers,
on his aquiline nose, under a Peraiau
cap, and, over all these, diamonds."
Hia personal habits would not render
him an acceptable visitor in cultivated
circles, whatever "shoddy" might think
of him. At least so the writer seems
to suggest tn the following paragraph :
" In spite of his jewels and external
splendor, the Mhah-in-Hhah is, accord
ing to European notions, a savage in
many ri*sjccta—proud, wrilful, sensual,
and "arbitrary. If punctuality be ' the
politeness of princes," as it is said to be,
the Khali would, in consequence of bis
utter indifference to engagements, be
one of the most ill-mannered men in
the world. He kept the parade at Pots
dam. ordered by the Kaiser, waiting a
couple of hours. He kept the Queen
for half an hour at the ratlwny station
waiting for him. He would not go to
breakfast when it was announced, at the
time of invitation, but walked about in
Die garden, and tlien. seeing sn srbor
which pleased him, desired to htTe his
breakfast brought there. When he sst
at dinner yesterday ho put hia fingers
in his plate and ate with them, and if
lie came on a piece of some dish which
he did not like, he took it oat of his
month aud threw it down—not on the
ground, but on tlie Queen's < Empress's)
dress."
As to tlie morality of the royal visitor
from Ispahan, our readers will regret to
learn that " there has been some trouble
in teaching the Shah and his followers
that women arc to IM> treated with re
spect, even though they go about with
their faces uncovered, and one of the
most useful lessons they will cany back
from Europe is tlist which will teach
t beni to consider their wi vc* their equals,
and not their slaves—if they earn it
There ia a great * if,' for tbey do not at
all approve of all they see here."
On tlie whole, therefore, our people
have no great reason to regret the
Shalt'* determination not to come to the
United States. Our manner* and morals
will be the better for receiving no ex
cuse for their disregard through the ex
ample of a monarch. A single wife,
knives and forks, and business punctu
ality, are institutions which we are not
a* yet prepared to part with.
The Prison Ship Martyrs.
Since 1808 the bones of American
soldiers and sailors who died on board
the British prison ships have l>een lying
in a vault on Jackson street, Brooklyn,
near the Navy Yard, where they had
been deposited with due ceremony by
the residents snd the Tammany Society,
or Columbian Grder. Aa the city grew
the walls of the vault were encroached
npon, and several futile attempt* were
mmle to procure funds and a site for a
more suitable monument to the memory
of the martyrs. The present Park
Commissioners have erected a mauso
leum for the remains on the green slope
of Washington Park, or Fort Greene,
facing Myrtle aveunc, and just above
the parade ground. Tli* structure was
erected st a coat of 96,500. The body is
of Portland granite, emlwliobed with
pillars and fretwork of polished Aber
deen stone. It is 10 feet high, 30 feet
long, and 15 feet wide. The style is
partlv Egyptian, ami the general ap
pearance is graceful and appropriate.
Two wagons sud teu laborers conveyed
the thirteen coffins from the vault to
the mausoleum. Upon each coffin is a
{date Waring an inscription. Upon the
tomb the following inscription will W
cut: "Sacred to the Memory of onr
Sailors, Soldiers, aud Citizens, who
Suffered and Died on Ward British
Prison Ships in the Wallabout during
the American Revolution." A toll shaft
will probably crown the tomb in a
short time.
Execution of a Woman for the Murder
of Her Husband.
At Hariua, Canada. Mr*. Workman
was hanged in the jail-yard for the mur
der of her husband in February last.
Great exertions were made to procure a
commutation of her sentence, but with
out avail. The unhappy woman, up to
the time of her execution, declared that
she did not intend to kill her husband,
and that hia death was the result of a
drunken brawl. She could not regard
herself as guilty of murder. She as
cended the scaffold with a firm step, and
manifested fortitude and nerve which
astonished all present. After the prep
arations were finished, she expressed a
hope that her case would be a warning
to wives who have drunken husbands,
and to husbands who have drunken
wives. Rev. Mr. Thompson then utter
ed a fervent prayer in her Whalf, and
with this prayer of faith and hope on
her lips the arop fell, and the poor wo
man was launched into eternity. She
died almost instantly.
NO. 29.
An Infernal Machine Heal by • llu.band
to ku wife.
In stories of luliaa cunning and
malevolence one often reads of destti
drating botes being arut ostensibly aa
appreciative preaents to prineea and
other* in authority whoae extinction is
deemed desirable. To-day fortunately
there is not much risk of one's Wing
the recipient of eo fatal a gift; yet aa in
taucr of this romantic way of attempt
ing assassination has but recently oc
curred near Ediuburgh.
A Mr. David Marrea, a contractor,
not long since sent e l*>i to bis wife,
'who lives at Kaughton Hall, near Edin
burgh, at the Biue time writing to her
in the name of her mother that a bos of
wearing apparel had loen forwarded,
and could be found at the railway sta
tion. Mrs. Macros suspected that her
husband wis the one who had sent the
bos, and wis apprehensive aa to its
contents. She therefore had it opened
with great care by the employees of the
railway company. A loaded pistol at
full cock, with a cap on the nipple, four
and a half pounds of blasting powder,
and broken glass made up the contents
of the box. A string was fastened to
the trigger of the pistol in such away
that on an attempt being made to open
the lid the string would be pulled, the
pistol fired, and the powder thus
exploded.
Mr*. Marrea preferred a charge of at
tempted murder against her hatband,
but when the case was called before the
High Court of Edinburgh, on the 2nd
of June, be failed to appear, his bail
bond was forfeited, and sentence of
outlawry pronounced against him
This treacherous method of assassina
tion is even worse than poisoning, for
while in the prearrangement of the de
stroying agency there is shown the long
deliberation which is an element in ail
cases of poisoning; there is shown, too,
in a case of this kind, where an infernal
machine is used, s terrible disregard far |
the lives of many others besides that of
the hated individual
A Great Library Under the Hammer.
The Perkins library waa disposed of
at auction at Han worth Park, near Lon
don, during the first week in June, and
the choice lot#, aa a rule, seem to have
realised considerably above the eetimate
of booksellers and bibliomaniacs, 'lbe
two Mazarine Bibles, the one printed on
vellum and the other on paper, formed
the great feature of the Salle, the foruer
fetching SI7,(MX) and the latter §13,450.
which is far ahead of any sum hereto
fore paid for any printed book. The
copy of Faust and Sehoffer's Bible of
1462 fetched §3.900, and that of Miles
Covsrdale's (1535) $2,000. The first
folio of Hhakspeare, on the other band,
brought only $2,925, or several hundred
dollars leas than the price obtained for
a copy no more perfect than this iu
1864. * The Caxton editions sold full up
to the estimate. The illuminated man
uscripts were in great demand, and
Lydgate'a "Sege of Troye" was
knocked down for the handsome sum of
$6,600. The " Hundred Tales of Troy,"
by Christine de Pisan, brought §3,250;
the " Evangelisterium," a MS. of the
tenth century, §2,825 ; a " Romance of
the Life of Christ," Ac., of the four
teenth century, $2,000; "Horn ad
Usiim Rcmanum," a vellum MS. of the
fifteenth century, §2,000; and the
" cEnrres Diverse# " of Jean de Menu,
a splendid MS. of the fifteenth century,
on vellum, copiously illustrated, $3,450.
These prices will serve to illustrate the
zeal of contending collectors and also
the abundance of money in England, in
which country moet of the bibliograph
ical treasures brought together by Mr.
Perkins seem likely to remain. We are
not swam that any work of special
value waa purchased on American ac
count.
The liolrhkUt Re rolling Cannon.
We take the following from the
Antericmt ReffMer (Pari*): "On Satur
dav last, a trial wma made ol one of Mr.
B." B. Hotchkiss* Revolving Gannon,
at the Government proving ground, at
Yeraaillea, in the presence of the French
Artillery Committee, the representative*
of the Marine Department, Haron Fred
erickax, aid-de-camp of the Raman
Minister of War, and Colonel deLaasa,
militarv attache of the Italian Govern -
m-nt " Forty loaded shell* were fired
with perfect success. Fifteen shota
were fired in fonrteeo and a half seconds,
all exploding perfectly. The gun ia
remarkably simple, having very little
mechanism, and that very solid. It
haa no breech movement, the cartridge*
being introd need into the barrels through
an njiening. then revolved in the barrels
in front of a solid breech and fired.
After the discharge of the cartridges
the empty case ia extracted by a simple
extractor" The ealilier of the gnn ia
fortv millimeters, firing easily aixty
explosive shells per minnte, of one and
a quarter poanda weight each, and it
gives very long ranges. All the military
men present expressed themselves satis
fied. 111 the most flattering terms, with
the trial. Mr. Hotchkiss proposes, by
the nse of canister shot for this gun. at
short ranges, to fire 3,000 balls per min
ute. Hi* is, probably, the moat simple
machine gnn ever yet constructed, and
requiring less attention to keep it in
order than any other. The gun fired
on Saturday, has been made for the
Italian Government, which ordered it
some time since, and extended trials of
it will soon commence at Turin. Mr.
Hotchkiss expects to go to Loriens, to
prove another of his guns before the
French Marine Department at Havre
which has ordered one for that pur
pose."
Doing Penance,
The wastes of New Mexico are likely
to Iwoome as fanions for penance and
self -torture as were the deserts of Egypt
in early Christian days. A recent trav
eler in that region SSTS that while at
Elisabeth town, New Mexico, last spring,
his attention was called to a gang of
forty men, who were carrying heavy
wooden crosses, and whipping them
selves. Some were stripped to their
lower undergarments, except a cloth
which covered their heads to prevent
recognition. They were walking alowly
along, and the blood was trickling from
their lacerated backs. One stout Mexi
can, bearing a heavy cross npon his
galled shoulders, was'being whipped by
two attendants. He staggered along
until close to a church, when he fell to
the gronqd with the cross npon him. He
was then raised to his feet, and bis arms
extendejl by lashing them to a stick
which crossed his shoulders. These
penances are repeated every Lent.
Food for Cholera.
Near Nashville is s spring which hss
been corrupted by the deposit of 200
cart-loads of filth. Persons who drank
of this water were taken with a disease
which ripened into cholera. The first
victims resided in the immediate vicini
ty of the spring, and used the water.
Not far from this is a large brewery,
which daily gives off a disgusting stream
of refuse matter. The foul current of
liquid filth is conducted through a por
tion of the city in open ditches, which
empty into sewers which are in bad re
pair, and at various points there are
Holes through which the noxious effluvia
escapes and poisons the air. Nearly
every case of cholera has either been
near the spring or on the lino of the
sewer.
1 Vests ef Interest.
What ia the difference between a jailor
and a jeweler I—0n watchsa sella, end
the other sella watches.
Capt Jack has confessed to Shack
Nasty Jim that he ia the teal author of
"Betsey and 1 Are Oat." V
The round Josephine Waisfi la being
revived for the high-necked dresaes by
the inodiatee.
Buffs arc now wont of such Elisa
beth ■• dimensions that win* are neces
sary to keep them In shape.
The most stately drees ef the season
is the "Prineeeee," an improved modi
fication of the "Oarbrtelle."
An lowa merchant won't advertise in
the papers, but paints ou the fences,
' 0© tow Allen's for yer drigooda.
The New York ft tat* Editorial Asso
ciation, held this year at Pooghkeepeie,
decided to hold the next animal meet
ling at Lock port, N. Y.
The genuine Signor Blitx, the old and
popular magician, nays there are no lees
than thirty-three persona who masque
rade about the community under hie
fl
A sanitary commission recently ap
pointed to inquire into an extraordinary
outbreak of typhoid fever in London
traced every case to the use of impure
water.
In Illinois there are 274 tobacco fac
tories, employing 2,684 persona, using
a capital of tl.9M.ffiM, and turning out
§4,319,716 worth of the finished article
per fesr.
The Philadelphia jury in the case of
Charles J. Cloak, for the murder of hie
wife, on the 15th of March last, brought
io a verdict of murder is the first
degree.
A Kentucky neper, in reporting a
wedding, asya that the bride wee not
particularly handsome, but the father
threw in aevon mules, and the husband
was nslisfhsl
The Grocer in Augusta, Oa., who sold
a can erf potash fbr condensed milk, ia
to be prosecuted ae aoon as his unfor
tunate pstrwu recovers sufficient cool
ness to employ e lawyer.
During 1872, the Lake Champlain
iron mines yielded 875,000 tons of ore ;
871,474 tons were extracted from the
Missouri iron mountain, and over rue
million tons were mined in the lake
Mufx-rior iron region.
There ate caaee ia which a man would
be ashamed not to have been imposed
upon. There ia a confidence necessary
to human intercourse, sad without
which men are often mors injured by
their own suspicions than they could be
by the perfidy of others.
Somebody, we suppose, must bear
the brunt and be saddled with the re
sponsibility of the great Boston fires;
and it aeeaas natural enough that it
should be Mr. Damrell, the Chief Engi
neer. A petition for his removal oa
the ground of incompetency, is in cir
culation.
It ia estimated that the number of
miles of railroad in operation in the
United States is <8,000; that the coet of
the same, on a liberal oaleul ition ef
850.009 per mile, wae §3,400.000,000;
that the gross earnings last year were
8568,711,250; and that the gross value
of the tonnage exceeded §15,000,000,000.
These means of transportation are the
growth of forty-two years, for in 1830
the first railroad track wae laid.
A terrible tragedy occurred near Santa
Rosa, on the line of the Northern Pa
cific Railroad. Charles Hoefner and
Valentine Scbeiner were sleeping to
geiher ill ft ftlOfft* Hoefner dreamed
that aw was robbing the store, sod
shot Schemer, killing him. The men
were on the moat fnendly terms, and
after an investigation Hoefner was dis
charged from custody oa the grout d
that the shooting was accidental
"Lame!" sighed Mrs. Partington.
" Here I have been sufferln' the bsaa
mies of death for throe mortal weeks.
First I wsa seised with a bleedin' phre
nology in the hampahire of the bruin,
which wm exceeded by the stoppage of
the left ventilator at the heart. This
gave me inflammation of the left borax,
and now I am sick with the chloroform
morbus. Tbere ia no bleaain' like that
of health, oartieularlv when you're ilL*
There ia aa Irish woman of gigantic
strength in St, PanL One morning aim
lifted a barrel of auger from the ground
into a cart The next evening she pre
sented her husband with twins. Two
days after she did the washing for a
family of ton persona. Not so fortun
ate was a Missouri girL She washed all
dsv, made a supper of twelve hsrd
twiled eggs, and then danced all night
It is mentioned that her funeral proces
sion was nearly a mile lung.
A common crime in London ia to en
tice away children, atrip them of their
clothing, and then leave them naked in
the street Twelve such cases were ro
oentlv heard before one magistrate. Iu
one of them a mother who had hunted
frantically through the streets for her
child, waa so fortunate aa to encounter
him. at eleven o'clock at night in the
hands of a woman who waa dragging
him towards Westminster Bridge, ex
hausted and stripped of nearly all hia
clothing. The persevering mother res
cued her child and arrested hia ab
ductor.
According to " Burleigh," the way in
which Dr. Storra, of Brooklyn, com
menced to preach extemporaneously,
was this: His congregation, though small,
was respectable and wealthy. He found
new men coming to Brooklyn and draw
ing large congregation*, and he said
that something must be the matter with
himself if he ooald not draw. He re
solved on a new departure. He laid off
his gown, left his notes an his study
table, and went at it. The experiment
more than met his expectations, and he
is now one of the most effective preach
ers in the country.
Freemasonry hss gained a somewhat
notable success in Braxil, where the
government has wsrmly espoused the
order in its conflict with the priesta
and clerical party of the country. The
Premier gives assurance that the Ma
sous will be hereafter relieved of religi
ous persecution. South America, the
least enlightened quarter of the civil
zed world, has for many years been the
only place where an open contest haa
been waged with the Masonic order,
and it is probable that the clerics have
begun to see the futility of any further
warfare of that kind.
An old gentlemen went one day with
his gnn to shoot partridges, accompan
ied by his son. Before they approached
the ground where they expected to find
the game, the gun was charged with
a severe load; and, when at last the old
gentleman discovered one of the birds,
he took a rest and blared away, expect
ing to see the game fall, of course, but
not so did it happen, far the gun kicked
with no much force aa to knock him
over. The old man got up, and, while
rubbing the sparks out of his eyes, in
auired of his son, " Alphy, did 1 point
le right end of the gun at the birds ?"
Mr. Christopher Shearer, a fruit far
mer near Reading, Pennsylvania, has
probably the largest refrigerator in the
country" It is filty-flve feet square, and
holds, "when filled* about one hundred
and forty oartloads of ioe and four thou
sand bushels of fruit* Lost tall Mr.
Shearer placed in it one thousand seven
hundred bushels of apples, four hun
dred and fifty bushels of Bartlett and
fifty bushels* of Lawrence pears. His
brother, who is the owner of an adjoin
ing farm, also stored one hundred
bushels of apples in it, some of which
are still there and as solid as when they
were taken from the trees.
Mr. Gail Borden, of White Plains, N.
Y., the preparer of condensed milk,
has made some experiment* forthe pur
pose of determining the correct weight
of crude milk. He took the milk of
several oows, and mingling it together
and thoroughly oooling it, he carried it
directly to the U. 8. Sealer of Weights
and Measures, who measured and
weighed the milk by accurate Govern
ment weights and measures. The result
was that a quart of milk so measured
and weighed on delicate scales was
equal to 2 lbs. 2f ox. The tests were
made with different samples ef milk at
different times, but without materially
altering the weight