Odlj On*. Til" not for tnsn to trlfls! Ufa l brief, Ant fin if here. Onr kf e is but the failing of * leaf. A <trvij>i>lnß tear. W# have no tiro* to f port away thf hour*; All moat be cirnc-i in • woilJ like ours Not many Uve*. hot only one Uav we ; One. only one; Bow sscrod should that one life over be— That narrow apan' Day after day tilled op with blessed toil, Hour after boor still bringing in now spoU. Down by the Rrook. Down by the brook weut F.ffle and I, Down by tbo brook 'neath ths forest trea*. Whan thf air with thf breath of tiowara a* aweet. And Uie long grass awayad u> the summer breeae. The brooklet danced in tha sunbeams bright. And murmured ite own aweet snug of glee. Wlitle over our heatta the merry Urdi Were filling the air with melody. Ah. me ! I wonder if eeer naw Her thought* go hack to that dear old tuue. When under the tree. a!.ue we eat, Hearing the ripple*' dreamy rhyme I And dipping her hand in the water* bright, How taaily alio with Uie rtpplra played 1 And the dimple* bid ui bar aoft, fair c'teak Aa I watched her there heath the old tree*' shade. Alas, for tha rows we pkghtsd then 1 Her heart was fickle, and nun# was strvmg, The love alia gara on that summer day I.a*ted only the summer long' Down by the brook, heath the grand old tree*. Kffie and I no more may go. And only the birds in their leafy nests Shall bark to the ripples' dreamy flow 1 DISH THROUGH FIRE. It haa just lately been completed, that long hue of railroad across thu great island ol Australia, but young ss it is. many a wild scene haa Won witnessed there already, and many more will te or* a long time elapse*. For it mustbe borne in mind that the population of that far-off land is an incongruous one, oonaiating ot many races of people, strangeiy intermixed and mingled. I had visited the mining districts, Botany Bay—that famous city of con demned criminals—Melbourne, and Sid ney. These are the centres of iuterest, aud the only ones. All the rest are mere appendage#, sauce for the pud ding, of butter for the bread. I was done with my sight-seeing, and now nothing remained but to while away a week or two, and then embark on "the next ship which might be outward bound for America. I had not taken a trip over the new railroad, and deter mined to spend my leisure time bv do ing so at once. Accordingly I purchased my ticket, mounted the train, and seated myself for the journey. The iron horse snorted, and mated majestically otT from the station, as if he considered it beneath his dignity to tarry longer at that point. The road lies through a wild tract of land, though the years to come will probably see it lotted with neat village# and Sue farms, for Australia is a growing land like our owu great West, aud emigrants are even now rapidly settling np the hitherto barren places. The scenery is such as would naturally cliarm the traveler with an eve to the beauties of nature. It is everchanging, panorama like, now showing the level and unbroken plaiu for miles upon miles, now displaying the gigantic mountains, with their crag gy peaks reared upward until they seem to meet and kiss the sky, as the clouds hold them in fond embrace. On, on, on we thundered, oyer the narrow rails, seldom finding occasion to stop, but pushing forward, with an in cessant rattle ana jar, for the other ter minus of the iron road. We had just passed a train that was madly dashing eastward, with its burden of human be ings, and were abont to strike upon a portion of track which lay in the midst of a long, level prairie. Far ahead we could see a dense column of smoke rising heavenward, as if the whole island was on fire. I could not explain this strange thing, but kept my eye fixed on the cloud, as 1 leaned far oat of the window, that I might are for myself what was np. The conductor happen ing to pass, I -topped him, and called his attention to the matter. After view ing the hnge billows, as they rose one above the other, for a minute, he drew in his head, and remarked: " The train that had just passed as has evidently fired the dry prairie grass by a spark from the locomotive. If that he the case, and I think it ia, then we shall have a liTely time getting through the fire, but go through it I will, for I'nf bound this train shall not be the first one on the road to fall be hind time for a trifle," and he went for ward to speak with the engineer. We reached the prairie, and found it as the conductor had predicted, but the fire was burning away from the track and not towards it. Inhere appeared to be nothing in the way of our onward oonrse, and the locomotive, jerking its pistons in and out of the cylinders like lightning, and grinding its hug* drivers against the rails which guided them in their course, kept piunging ahead, and each moment nearing the sea of fire which lay to the right of the track. Hissing and leaping its tongues of fork ed flame licking up everything which came within their reach", that great furnace was blazing along the road for a distance of two miles or more, and making rapid advances in the direction of the wind. We bad all crowded to the platforms of the train, eager to wit ness the magnificent spectacle. Every eye was bent on the darting flames. Spreading in three different directions, the fire was some distance in front, be hind, and to our right, and it seemed as if one end of the column was run ning a race with our engine, for it gain edontu every minnte, and kept far in advance. Suddenly the wind changed to the north, and now, roaring like a tornado, the terrible sea of heat, and smoke, ami fire, came rushing towards the train. The ends traveled faster than the cen tre, seeming to lie eager to elasp us in a hot embrace, and like a general mar shalling his forces around atroop which he desired to exterminate, so that col umn of flame now moved around as, until we were encircled by it as by s belt. Far behind, it had crossed the track, and just ahead of as the black rails lay in its very bosom. There was but one chance for" escape. Through it we must dash, and that quickly, else it should devour us in its mad mareh. ! The engineer, a fellow accustomed to danger, and possessed of nerves like gave a wild yell from the brazen throat of his iron charger, threw every thing wide open, and waved hia hat from the cab window at'us in the ears, as we darted like lightning towards the enemy which lay in our path. The drivers spun round with the spaed of the wind, and the very earth itaelf trembled beneath the tread of our giant as it spurned the rails with its iron reel, and swept forward en its way. One moment and we were in the very midst of the fire. The ties were burning fierce ly, bright tongues of flame shot up all aronnd us, and kissed each other over the tops of onr car, and the red bft rails bent nnder the weight of the train as it sped onward through the gaunt let of fire. It was, indeed, a fearfnl moment. Every door and window was closed, to keep out the devouring element, yet the atmosphere of the coaches was* as hot as the air of hades, and the glass windows shivered bv the excessive heat, kept crackling and' adding to the tu mult. If a rail should break, or bend too much, all would be over. Our lives were worth little at that moment, and few life insurance agents would have granted us a policy on any considera tion. This terrible state of affairs eould not last long. One of two things most KRJvD. K t HTZ, Kditorun*! Proprietor. VOL. VI. happen ; wo vottM nit her aoou he safe ! IT through the flames—or stopping in tWir Miilst be ilevuntvd by tlicui in their firroe plnv aroui.. ua. The rnrtuab iu tbo poaches ana melt ing, the woodwork of the.antes, tops, ) am) bottoms of the cars, wwa almost hoi enough to iguite, atul already the out siilcs were smoking, when we suddenly emerged into cool, pure an, beyond the belt of Are. Hastily door* nd wiedowa were thrown open, though uiattv hatuli were blistered in the operation, and we rushed out again on tlie platforms to get some chance of breathing without inhaling the fumes of boiluig varmah and smoking wood. The last coach of the train was discovered to lie on fire, and it* occupants were thronging for -1 ward into the other cars. But we could ' not check onr speed to extinguish the tlames yet, for our old enemy was giv ing ns smart chase, and pressing sharp ly on our rear, seemiugly bent on onr total destruction. Three miles further up the track stood a watering tank, so the conductor said, and toward this we hiuri-il on. We were ruuuiug rapidly, and it did not take us loug to reach the place Here we cnuie to a atsud still. The locomo tive was plentifully supplied with leath ern buckets, and these we at once began using dexteriouslv. Water was plenti fully dashed on the burning coach, un til it was thoroughly drenched ; tlie j other cars, badly heated and charred, were also cooled, and then we rsited from our labors and aurveyed the train. It was terribly damaged. Every plauk waa more or less burned, the sides were black with smoke, the paint had melted and ruu in streaks down the aides, and many of the moulding* had been so warped, that the nails had pnlled out, and they had dropped off along the road. The car which had come ao near burning up waa a perfect wreck, being more than half destroyed, and totally unfit for further use until rebuilt. But its remains sat firmly on the trucks, and we concluded that we could safely carrv it on with us to the eud of the road, where it would be delivered to the mechanic* for reparir*. The engineer and fireman—brave fellows, who stuck nobly to their pot-fa amid all the danger were considerably singed, on account of their exposed position—for the cab, being open behind, had allowed some of the dames to dart within and make their acquaintance. Had not our for ward motion caused a wind which blew the flames away, they roust almost cer tainly have perished. As it was, we all felt that weiiad been miraculously sav ed from a frightful death, and fervently offered np our thanks to the Deity who had so mercifully preserved us. Having now taken on board a plenti ful supply of wood and water, we found the fiery sea again approaching us. Prairie fires travel faster than most people would think possible, the dry grass affording a first rate fuel, and the wind generally driving the flames be fore it But we were in no special dan ger of being overtaken by the devour ing element, though such a catastrophy was by no means impossible. However, discretion was evidently the better part of valor in our case, so we entered the cars, and were once more dashing for ward to regions of more safety. We soou left the prairie far behind, struck upon a hilly, barren portion ot the road, and through this continued our journey uninterrupted to the ter minus of the line. Beaching there on time, alive and well, we felt quite at ease again, and were in excellent spirits. On my return trip over that same road I had another hairbreadth escape, the particulars of which I will give you in my next article. Indians as Israelites. A correspondent of the Phrenological Journal , writing from the South, gives the following statement: " Among the points of resemblance which seem to give plausibility to the theory that the American Indians are descendants of a remnant of tho lost tribes of Israel, is a custom of theirs agreeing in its main features with one described in the book of Leviticus. Ac cording to the Indian usage, the nearest of kin had a right to slay the murderer wherever be found him, during the in terval that elapaed from the time tha deed was done till the Green Com Fes tival ; bat if tb murderer eluded his pursuers up to that time, and then ef fected an entrance into the sacred circle of the dancers, he was safe from the Avenger of Blood. This Avmger had it also in his power to grant the mur derer a respite. An old white settler, who lived in this country before the Indians left, tells a story of one who was thns respited for a fortnight, at the end of which time he was to meet the Avenger of Blood at a designated spot, to be pnt to death. Every day during the interval the doomed man approached the rendezvous and sang his death song, recapitulating his deeds of prowess and his immortality of glory. At nine o'clock on the fair spring morning of the ap pointed day the victim and executioner appeared under the shining green leaves of the beach, in the heart of the dewy forest glade. The white hunter had concealed himself near, and looked on eagerly, half expecting to see the vic tim sue for mercy, or tho stern execu tioner relent from his parpose ; bat no! he first placed himself at the right dis tance, crossed his arms on his breast and looked calmly in the face of tho Avenger, who, coolly taking aim, shot him through the heart !" Treating Broken Arm* and Legs. Some twenty-fire years ago a peculiar method of bandaging broken limbs be came popular in Europe. It consisted in nsing, in place of dry bandage, one saturated with boiled starch, and when the limb was sufficiently enveloped with many thioknesses, splints were tied ex teriorly to it, so a* to keep the whole in the right shape when drying. The next dav, when all was dry, the splints were taken off, when the bandage was as hard is atilT pasteboard, sad formed a perfectly-fitting and inflexible enrelop, which kept the injured fragments per fectly immovable in relation to one an other ; Hps is the only requisite for the perfect healing and uniting of the parta of a broken bone, which takes place in at most six weeks. This treatment has been thoroughly tested, and found very successful in cases of broken bones in calves, aheep, goats, chickens, etc.; and now the papers mention a modification of this idea in the case of the broken legs of horses. The leg ia carefully set and is covered thickly with plaster. When the plaster has " set," or harden ed, it keeps the limb as immovable as if it had been made of iron. Thus treated, the broken leg will knit to gether in a brief time, and become as good as ever. u|■ - • DISTINGUISHING POISONOUS PLANTS.— At the Field Meeting of the Albany Institute, Dr. George T. Stevens, the botanist, gave a general rule in respect to distinguishing poisonous plants of the Umbelliferous order. He ssys it is safe to premise that any of these plants growing in wet places arc poisons. He instanced a case where several children in one family were fatally poisoned by eating the roots of the Water Parsnip, mistaken for Sweet Cioely. On the other han, the Caraway, Dill, Coriander, and Anise are examples of the whole some, aromatic plants of this order, all growing in dry places. THE CENTRE REPORTER. A Sad Stun. Tltr T.iid.r A|>t>ral of • Ilc.erl.il I'auill) Postmaster Hilling*, of Hunt* Clara, (0l i, has received the following letter, which he has had published iu order t< reach the niisnuig ma i if possible, ll , till* its owu sad story? To thr Po*ttna*Ur of N'mifd (tara:— Will you be no kimi as to mqtiiro il tin re i* such a man as George Bav in your city ; or where he is if he has lefl Siuita Ciara? He is about thirty-nrveii years of age, dark eyes cud hair, not i very tall, aud is a car|>enier by trade. < He is my dear father, and we have no( hoard a word from lain for more than two year*. Ma is left with fire child ren, nud I auijt he oldest and am fourteen i year* old. {sometimes ma thinks he u dead, but 1 dreamed, the other night, that he came home to us, and it has made me think so much about him that I cannot help writing to you, for I can not givj up all bopea. Oh! dear Mr. Postmaster ! will yon do this favor for a poor, homeless girl t nud vou shall have many warm thanks. If you can see him, or hear where he ia, will yon le so good as nend him this letter? Will you please answer? Yours, truly, The following in the letter enclosed: Mr Dtan, Daan PA—How can I tell you how sail my heart in 'while I write to you, not kuowing whether you are dead or alivo. Do you love us any more? Why ia it that we do not hear from yo® any more ? If you are sick and discouraged. we will try and help you to d-me home, aud then we will work and take care of you. Oh, how harii it is to live as we do, now that the children are all separated ! Willie is at the State Reform School in Lancaster, in thia State, and ma doea not have to pay his board; a man iu Berlin has adopted Frank ie as his daughter, and a rich farmer in the country has Ltbhie as his child, and Henry is at Fredericks burgh. 1 mm working for wages in a small family in Massiilon. Ma has learned the dressmaker's trade, aud sews by the day iu this city, ami helps me all she can. She ha* been trorkiug in the city for the last two weeks, and will be there some time. It is hard to have no home, no pa to love us—and oh, pa, do take pity on us, and oume hack ! We will all receive you with open arms. And how happy we will tie to have you with us, as you have been once. Oh, PA do write, aud tell us if you lore us stilh Your sorrowful daughter, Fmm i A. Bar. Massiilon, Stark County, Ohio. Could anytning lie more touching than the fervent, earnest appeal of the young girl ? A Little Fun With Hopkins. Some years ago, says Max A-Uer in Saturday Sight, a new fire company was organized at Reading, and the luem licrs one evening thought they would have a little fun at the expense of Hop kins, their foreman. They decided to rush around with the engine to Hop kins's house after dark, to throw np tti ir ladder*, pull oat their hose, climb on hi* roof ana scare him with the be lief that his dwelling was on fire. But that wry day Hopkius moved out of then onsp, mfa Presbyterian clergyman moved in, without the company being aware of the change. So alxnit eight o'clock the humorists dashed out, aud went through all the lnovemeuts, get ting ou the roof and sphuduug water around, and creating a terrific disturb ance generally. A rival company noti cing what was going on also hurried to the aceue, and without understanding the joke, attached their hose to a plug, smashed in the front windows, ana be gan to empty a two-inch stream on the family of that Presbyterian clergyman. They squirted into all the rooms, split up the window-shutters with an axe, broke down the front door, ran out the furniture, tore off the shingles, aud bawled through the trumpets until the lured gsr! hail convulsions on the kitch en stairs. The first company tried to explain, hut the iiew-c*mers thought an eflort was being made to get them ont of the way, aud a fight ensued, and presentlv firemen were sliding off the roof, and pelting dowu the chimneys, and bleeding over the entry carjiet, and having boisterous encounter* with span ners and brass horns on the stair*. And tho next morning that Presbyterian divine and his family moved out. They said the pi are seemed to be too ani mated and sensational for a quiet, do mestic circle. They wmuted a house where there was more calmness and peace ; where they could have more security fo* their privacy aud pianos, and for their front door* and shingle* and peace of mind and window-sashes. River Whirlpools. Among tha many phenomena of the Colorado river are "swirls," so called. They occur everywhere, but only at high stages of water. A bubble rises from the bottom and breaks with a slight sound on the surface. The water at the point begins a rotary motion, so small that an inverted teacup might cover it. Larger and larger grows the circle, till a surface of forty feet in diameter is in motion, spinning round a funnel-shaped hole in the centre two or three feet across at the top, and coming to a point in the depths below. Ofteh a large tree floating down the stream is caught and its foremost end thrust up in the air twenty or thirty feet, whilo the other passes underneath, the exposed end to be slowly drawn down again and to disappear. Three soldiers, deserters from Camp Mohave, passing in a skiff through the ravine immediately below tha fork, suffered their craft to run into a swirl. One of the crew at the first intimation of dan ger, threw himself ovcrbonrd beyond the charmed circle, and as he swain away, be turned his head and saw the Imat spin round snd round, until one end being drawn into the vortex and the other upheaved in the air, it slowly sank aa it revolved into the turbid bosom of the river, its human freight to be seen no more, for the Colorado river does not give up the dead—no corpses lodge on its shore*. Last Slave Sale of Jien Jersey. The We.*t Jcr**i/ Prc*t\\ as tliia bit of local history with reference to Glouces ter County: A few days ago we listened to the recital of the circumstance* at tending probably the last sale of slaves that took place in Gloucester County, nearly sixty yesrs ago. A free colored man became enamored of a colored girl, a slave, belonging to a family in that county, and desired to marry her, but as the law would not permit the mar riage, Le determined to buy her. He applied to the owner, who agreed to sell her to him for lialf a crown. The money was never paid, however, but this fact was not developed until y< ars after, when, by an accident which befel a daughter by this marringe, she became a charge upon the county. This took place within a few mouths after the death of the owner of the girl'a mother, and the executors of the estate sought oounsel in the premises, and were told, in advertising the personal effects of the deceased, to conclude it with these words: " Together with all the person al property of said deceased. This was done, and at the sale, which took place in the year 1815, the father Of the girl bought his wife and four chil dren for forty cents. The descendants of this family are now living in Salem county. OK NT HP HALL, CENTRE CO.. l'A., THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1873. Preparing for the Cholera. Ulalnf*ctaMl* (a U* 1 **il. j Now that the olioleru is in wur audst, eveiy precaution should be uaed. A sell known phyaieiau gives the follow ing hints: Prepare the following solution, keep ing it ou hand during the warm months: 10 lbs. copperas dissolved in 5 gal*, water, to wlueh add half a pint of crude curboiio acid, or half the quantity of pureacul; utir Una well together, when lit i* ready for use. One pint of tins aolutiuu should be poured into every water-closet pan or privy seat, and double the quantity in the ordinary yard prlyy, twice daily. For decompos -1 ing innaaes of filth which may not be j immediately removed, saturate well with this solution. For outside drains i connected with the house, pour in a quart daily, or oftener, if offensive. The chamber Teasels should always have a small quantity therein before use, and immediately after use. All soiled clothing or Ixxidiug should lie at once removed from patient and placed in a tub having sufficient of this disin fecting solution to saturate them; should lie allowed to retnaiu therein for an hour at h®*\ after which they should undergo a thorough boibhg for ; half an hour or more. Handling such articles is far more dangerous than handling or attendiug the patient; and especially ao afters certain periixi has elapsed. Hence the necessity for their immediate sore, lie fore the virilizing priuciple developed | by decomposition has time to develop. Should the patient recover or die, the apart incut or room should be imme diately closed, uuJ thoroughly fumigat ed * follows: Placing an iron dish in the centre of the room, upon some bricks or some thing by which fire may not lie com municated, put therein 2 or 3 lbs. com mon sulphur, pour over it a small quan tity of alcohol, aud, after seeing that the room is tightly closed, set the alco hol ou fire and let it burn slowly ont. This liberate* dense volumes of sul phurous scid, which jiermstes every crevice snd fibre of bedding ami cloth ing. Aliowiug the room to remain closed 3 or 4 hours, it may then be thrown wide open and thoroughly veu tdated. All soiled clothing aud beddtug must then be placed iu tlie disinfecting solution and treated as before mention ed. Never put away the araalleat piece of cloth, clothing, shaeta, bedding, pocket-handkerchief* cr any textile fabric until it has been thoroughly dis infected and boiled, for this disease baa been transmitted and commuuicated month* aud years after by beuig thus transported. Plant* and Hutlth. There aro van cms impressions aa to the relations of plants and flower* to healtli, and the editor of Hygiene has taken the proper method to codect facta. . The following circular explains itself, aud we willingly give place to it, with tha request that replies lie made to Ed itor of Hygiene, care of O. P. Put nam'* Hons, 4th Are. and 23rd Street, New York. " In v.ew of tha recent discoveries of Prof. Mantogaua, of Pavia, Italy, con cerning tne production of oxone by certain plant* and fruits, and tlie prob able hygienic advantages to be derived , from tl.e-cultivation of audi plants, it is desired to obtain the txperieuee of nnrxenrcnen and florists concerning the following points: "I. What is the popular opinion of the effect of odorous plant* on health ? "11. What plant* are believed to effect the health by tlieir odor* ? * 111. What plants are believed to exert iojurioua effects by their odors ? "IV. What diseases are believed to be affected by odorous plants, and how —favorably or unfavoraldy? "V. Hare yon noticed any exemption j from di*ca*ca aa fever and ague, or other malarious diseases, by those in floriculture ? "VI. I)o yon know any instance of the health of a neighborhood having been beneficially affected bv the culti vation of flowers? If so, wiiat diseases were modified or checked, and what were the flowers and plants to the cul tivation of which the result was attri but< d ? " Answers to the forrgoiDg questions, and any other information touching the subject, may be made as briefly er ** elaborately *ns yon choose—the object being to elicit snch facts as exist, and the publication of which, it is believed, may do mach towards increasing tbe cultivation of flowers for sanitary j reasons, if for no other. " A copy of the Hygiene, containing ' the result, will bo mailed to those who j contribute by their answers to this effort. On a Mission. Brother Badger was rather taken aback a few Stindsya since. Brother Badger i* senior deacon of the crack i church of Rayliridge, snd Brother Badger owns s great deal of property in llajhridgc, and is very loud in hi* praises of the town. He would advise everybody, and everybody's relatives, to come snd settle in that peaceful, moral, and beautiful municipality; and to further so laudable an end, he wonld sell them land npon which to build houses. It was Monday evening, and at the close of the urayer-meeting Parson Logos, who iz the settled pastor of the crack church of Rayliridge, informed his friends that Rev. Mr. Swan, of Lake side, would supply his pulpit on the following Habbalh ; and he gave aa a "reason for the exchange that ho himself should bavo no time to prepare n sermon as he was goiug on a mission to the Heathen. The assembly were in oonsternation. They loved their pastor, and did not wish to part with him. Brother Badger arose and addressed the minister openly. He was surprised ami pained. " Wherefore ?" asked the pastor. "That you whom we ao lo\e ami re spect, should make ready for doing such a thing without giving us more warning." " Doing what thing, Brother Badger?" "Going off to the Heathen, sir. " Why, bless you, my dear brother, J am not going out oj town f" Women Sent to Prison. A few days since seventeen women, living in the village of Ascott, England, so Emily Faithful tells ns, were sum moned inr threatening, intimidating, and molesting two voting men who had lieen induced I y a farmer to work on a farm from which the laborers in a body had seceded because he would not in crease their wages from 12 shillings to 14 shillings a week. Two clergymen, in their capacity an magistrates, heard the case. The evidence was conflicting. The unpaid justices had full scope for mercy, hut the women were condemned —seven to ten day's imprisonment, the rest to seven days with hard labor. The working (>eople rose en matne through out the district; the police station was assailed; but with the first ray of light a prison van containing these victims stole out of Chipping Norton and de posited them all in the oounty jail, to gether with two babies at the breast, while a score or more of motherless ehildren were left behind. A llomauee iu lteal Life. A foreign eorre*|M)iideiit relates the | following story: " Paul Mtarns, the late clerk of the Alabama Reconstruction Convention, ha* b-m sojourning in Eu* rupo. At Ito Uie he made the acquain tance of iaeippi (Iriu, otic of the wealth , irst aud moat influential Hungarian noblemen, who waa about to depart for Naples, where hi* family were passing the summer. The handsome American had made a moat favorable impression U|MIU the royalist, and was invited to accompany lain to Naples. Iscippi dees, the Count of Temesvar, found las lady in very feeble health, and the physician hail giveu up all hope. A few weeks afterwards the Countess died, aud Paul HUrus had meauwhile so en deared himself to las aristocratic friend that another invitation waa tendered and accepted to accompany the Count to his castles in Huugury. Only a short drive from the City of Temesvar liea the leautiful castle of ltadowils, the an cestral seat of the Gczaa. It was pre sided over by the young Countess Paula, a lady of the pure Hungarian type, the only child aud heir of laeippi Oraa. The youug American warn quite strickeu by the intense beauty of the lady, and liefore three weeks elapsed, the two were aa friendly aa if they had grown up together. During the huutiug sea son distinguished guests arrived at the castle, among whom Prince Esterbazy, of M<>ravia, waa the most prumiuent. The I'riuce was about thirty years of age, and had lately been promoted to a eaptaiuevof theduarUs. Major-Generai Prince Estcrhazy, the captain'a father, and Count Gets, had been the most in timate friends for almost a life time, aud both desired to still stronger tie the bouds of friendship by uniting their two children. This waa the main object of the Prince's visit, for the necessary preliminary arrangements hail long ag , lieen agreed uixm by the two parents. Panl Btarua had meauwhile cared noth ing at all for the distinguished guests, but hail mainly passed his time in study tug modern languages. To his utter surprise, Count Gexa insisted upon his joiuiugthe dinner party one certain day, and the old geutleutau was quite enthu siastic, when he continued: "We have a great surprise for our friends U-day, and you must witness the proudest event of my life." But the surprise was quite different from that expected. ( aptaiu Esterbazy proposed and was flstly refused. A bursting bombshell could not have created a more profound sensatien, thau Countess Paula's dec laration that she would never marry the Captain. Some augry wenls follow ed, and Captain Esterbazy alluded to American intruders and Iteggarz. Some blaster about a duel followed. Finally, Paul Starns left tor Italy. Over a year had aince elapaed, and the Countess was in so feeble health that a journey to j Italy had beea strongly advised. She hail peraisteutly refused to see any of 1 the Esterbazy family again, and Count j Oeza was inconsolable w? en he saw the sufferings of his only child. At Rome, j a sudden change overcame the Count eas ; she regained her health, and Count Gsza was not a little surprised when hr waa one day informed that she had seen Paul Store* iu the theatre, aud that she , would msrnr him or not marry at all. j On the 12th of May the wedding took place." Bhirnlrlan Inscriptions la Brazil. Some time since it was stated that certain inscriptions had been discovered tx Brazil, which, upon examination, proved to be l'hceuician, and to record the presence tlie re, five centuries lx fore Christ, of Phoenician oolony. In the New York Evening Jhtet the circum stances of tho discovery are given aa follows: " Viscondc de Sapercahy, a member of the Emjieror's Council of State, re ceived, throe mouth* ago, a letter from Parahyba, inclosing a draaing of die inscription upon a stone which the wri ter's slave* had come upon during their agricultural lalxirs on his farm, and wiiichalrawiug hail been taken by the writer's son. a young roan who could draw a little. This copy was turned over to the Historical Socirtv of Rio, and by it to Senhor Ladialao lietto, Di rector of the Rio Museum, for an ex amination. On examining it, he found the letters to be pure Fhosmcian. " Tbe inscription is of a commemorate stone-—a rough monument erected by some Phmnician* of Bidonia, apparent ly exiles or refngees from their native land, between the ninth and tenth years of the reign of a king named Hiram. These rash or unfortunate Canaanite*— the patronvmic which they hare uaed to designate themselves—leit the port of Avonizaber (now Akaha), a port upon the Red Bea, and sailed for twelve gionlnnes (lunar months) along the laud of Egypt—that is, Africa. The number of vessels they had and the number of males and females composing the ad venturous expedition are all set forth in a concise and seemingly elegant style, those particulars being placed interme diate lietwccn the invocation—some at tho lieginning, and the others at the end of the inscription of the Alonim Valo nnth—that is, gixls and goddesses, or tujteroe miftrraeguee, as is the Latin translation of those well-known Pani cian words. Tbe inscription it in eight lines of most beautiful Phmnician let ters, but without separation of the words, without the vowel points, and without quiescent letters—three great obstacles to the interpretation, to over come which a mere knowledge of Bibli cal Hebrew is insufficient. " Writing to the finder on the sub ject, Houhor Netto expresses the opinion that the voyage w made during the reign of the second Hiriun, who suc ceeded Solomon's ally oa the throne of Phmnicia. He explains their crossing, of which they themselves appeared to ho unaware, by resort to Maury's obser vations on oceanic currents, Yiike Ca bral, in fleeing from the storm reigning from the Cape of Good Hope up to Henegarabia, tluv steered into the high sea, and, aeiced byjthe famous equatori al current, which sometimes flows with extraordinary swiftness, they unexpect edly came upon the Brazilian shores. Senlior Netto writes to Ernest Renan and to Father Barges, giving them aome words of his version, and asking their advice how to make his efforts of the moat service to science," Resuscitating the Browned. A ease of restoration from apparent drowning has lately taken place in the city of Brussels, where a man had fallen into the water, anil was only recovered after considerable time. Dr. Joux, an eminent physician in the city, immedi ately initiated the neoessary measures towards bis restoration, ami for three hours applied all the remedies that oould be thought of. No evidence of lifo manifesting itself in this interval, Dr. Joux proceeded to apply plates of iron heated to a white heat, to the upper parte of the body, near the more vital organs. After a short time, to the as tonishment of the assistauts, faint signs of breathing were observed, and in the conrse of half np hour the man came to life, and was finally fully restored, the only inconvenience sustained being the severe cauterisation which his skin nec essarily underwent. A sacrilegious horse broke into a Pittsburgh church, and kicked nround among the pews and things till it run up a bill of SBOO for damages. Daring Attempt to kidnap a t'a-hler aud Rob a Bank. The town of Chilloothe, Mo., was thrown into a state of great excitement one uiglit recently by an attempt ta rob the saving a bank iu ilist place. Hunth Retubo, a large, heavy, pow erful man about M year* of age, lived about seven miles smith of Chillcuthe, aud was ostensibly a farmer. He had a wife aud two sous at home, aud a bright, interesting daughter at school tu town. During the war he waa active a* a loyalist in marauding aud bush whacking among the families of those who were on the other side. After the war he liecame an active and prumiuent politician, hut strange ru mors begsu tu float about coucert ing him. He emploved a good many hands, and rented portions of his farm to ten ants, and many of them were believed to lie hard characters. Finally, he laid a plan to rob the sav ings bank by capturing the cashier iu the uigbt and forcing him at the point of the pistol to opeu the vault of the bank aud deliver the contents. In mak ing his arrangement* with some of his gang, he discovered that he was over heard bv a young man named Brunk, who had once been in his employ. He then made a confidant of Brttuk, who agreed to aid in the enterprise. He, however, acted as detective, and re veaLd the whole scheme to the cashier, Mr. McWilliams, aud the aassistaut cashier, Mr. Cooper. After some delays the execution of the plan was attempted. Rem <o drove to town in his wagon ia compsnr with Bruuk and two other*, named Monroe and Manseau. Renibo loafed alxiut and made himself agreeable nutil eve ning, when, uuder pretence of going out of town a couple of miles to stop with a friend, he hitched up his team, aud with his companions drove out into the country. After going a short dis tince, tkey concealed the horses and wagon among some undergrowth, and between teu aud eleven o'clock m the night proceeded towards Mi-Wtlliams's bouse, which waa about half a mile out of town. They had thoroughly disguised them selves' by blackening their face* and wrapping black crape around their heads. In the meantime Ma Williams hail prepared for their reception. Six well-armed men had been concealed in the bank, and eight more, including the officers of the bank, were with Mc- Williams in his house. The night waa dark and starless. As they approached the house Itembo said: " Now, bora,, we must tie Mc Wil liam* and wife, and take them into that woods there in the rear of tbe boose. We will then leave enough of ua to hold the family under guard, and the balance of us will, take Mc Williams down town and make him enter the vault silently, under penalty of death, open the vault and get tlie money. Then we must kill Mc Williams, cer tain." The party then approached the house. Itembo, Brunk, and Mansesa going on the portico. Mc Will isms was called for. with the announcement that a friend was there and wiahed to sec him. At that time window shutters were thrown open, and the detective. Brunk, sprang into the window, aided in ao doing by a largo box previously placed beneath it by Mr. Mr William* to aid him in entering. As be entered he fired at Remlm, and * vera! other shots were fired bv the men within. Remlxi fell am! died immediately, having been shot four time*. Monroe immediately ran, dropping his pistol in his flight. Matiseau tired two shots, one of which made a alight flesh wound on tho inner side of Mr. Cooper's right thigh. Tlie men iu the house started in pursuit of the retreating robbers. Monroe and Manseati were followed to their home*, were both captured, brought to town, aud lodged in jail, both of them confessing their com plicity in the affair. Rcmbo's body waa brought into town and placed iu a room in the court building, where it was looked upon by hundred* of citi zen*. It was afterward delivered to his two sons, who are not suspected of hav ing had any knowledge of his plan*. Monroe snd Manseau are both poor men with families. They were both led into the affair by Rcmlxi, li* bad some pecuniary claims against them, and threatened to cause them trouble. Negro Jurors. A correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial has been in the Rod River Country, where the black population so largelv preponderates, and Uie juries are selected from both races. He says: " I asked a white man who had had con siderable jury experience, bow it work ed. He aaid "it worked tolerably well after a fellow got nsed to it," •' Did it take much effort to get nsed to it ?" I asked. " Yea, sir, you bet it waa the coil fonndeat hardest thing to get uaed to ever you heard of, I haven't got used to the smell yet. Of a hot day in a close room with* a lot of fat niggers sitting on s case, it's pretty hard. But we have to submit, lor if some of ns white peo ple didn't go on the jnrv it would be all niggers, and that would lie ruin." "How arc the juries divided?" I asked. " Oh, just ns it happens, so there is some of each race on every jnrv. Some times there's only two nigger*, some times four, sometimes six, and some times ten." " How are they about agreeing upon verdicts?" " They are better than the whites. The niggers never hsng a jury. When I am on a jury with them, ami the snit is on an account, for instance, I just figure up the amount, and aay: 'Boya, here, Jones owes Smith so much and so much and so much, giving the figures, and Hmith owes Jones so much and so mnch, giving figures, which leaves Jonea behind with Hmith so much, and that's what we must render judgment for.' Theyall agreeto it,although they don't know any more about figures than a hog does about theology." " I'll any this for the niggers," he continued, "they are not stubborn on a jury at all; but so far aa my expe rience gies, they are always anxious to do the right thing between man aud man " " When their own color is involved, how is it ?" I asked. "Just the same. They do not shield their own people. They'll hang a nig ger for murder just as quick as they will a white man, and a good deal quicker. Sometimes I think they aro a little teo hard on their own race. But I suppose they fear we will charge them with par tiality. On the whole, a nigger makes a pretty fair juryman." " Was thero 110 great opposition to his serving in that capacity ?" "Oh, yes. thunder was to pay for a while. White men said they wouldn't sit with a nigger, they would die first, and all that, but they had to swallow the doae, and have now got used to it. There is nothing like being used to any thing, is there?" Wagner, when he goes to the Maine State Prison under sentence of death, will flud ten others there in the same oondition. The last hauging in Maine was in 1869, aud any or all of these ten oould be hanged any day that the Gov ernor saw fit to order the execution. Terms: it Yoar, in Advance. The Value of Books. Following ia an extract from tha very able ail dress delivered by Hon. WiUisui Cullen Bryant on the occasion of the dedication of the new Library Building at Princeton College. He aaid: To form an adequate idea of the value of books it is onlv necessary to suppose a state of things which should cause their sudden destruction. Ido not recollect that any author into whose works I have looked has ever taken the trouble to imagine and describe the condition to which the immediate annihilation of Ixioks and manuscripts would reduce the human race. It may be said that such an event ia altogether impossible. Nay, not ao—improbable, I grant— im probable, if you please, to Uie utmost limit of improbability—but still possi ble. Let us suppose the white ant, the insect peat which in Bouth America de vours and destroys books and manu scripts with sueh fearful voracity that, as Humboldt avers, tbey have not left in an extensive district a single manti script ohundred years old, to become unexpectedly numerous in all civilized countries. Let us suppose it to multi ply aa strangely aa the augar-anta in the West India island of Grenada, when*, coming from nobody knew where, they invaded the plantation* in w-at armies, forming dams serosa the stream with their drowned bodies, over which the living onea crossed to the opposite bank, devouring everything before them which hml vegetable or auiraal life, desolating the fields and gardens and threatening to drive the human race from Grenada, until in 1780 the beneficent interposition of a terrific storm of wind and rain an nihiiated the vast mass of insect life and delivered the island. Imagine the white ant, produced in like numbers, by means aa mysterious, inTsdiug the haunts of men everywhere, creeping into our libraries and publication offices, and consuming every printed page and every manuscript, and everything on which the press or pen can leave its trace. Into what confusion and diamay would society at onoe be thrown ! The reader of the daily gazette from that moment would find himself ignorant of what waa going on in the world, and would long in vain to learn what had happened since yesterday. In the crowded city he would find himself a hermit The reader for entertainment would miss his accustomed refreshment; the inquirer after knowledge would find no path open to his researches; the daily teacher of Scripture would look about him in vain furtbeaacred volume. The tribunals wonld be forced te grope their way to justice without statutes or law books ; the advoeste would hare no precedents on which to found his argu ments save those which lie might possi bly remember or invent for the occasion. All the recoriks of the past, all the lee suns of history, all the discoveries of science, all the conclusions of philoso phy, all that the poets have woven into song, all that has beea written down of moral and religion* truth, would be loot and tie as if thev hsd never been, save such portions of these priceless tress urea as might lie retained in that treacb erous repository, the human memory, and how soon bv the process of oral transmission might that portion become changed and corrupted slid encumbered with spurious additions! Is the places of worship half remembered litanies wonld lie stammered, half-forgotten hymns given ont in halting metre and siing to tune* imperfectly recollected, and mutilated paaaagea of H*dy Writ repeated to unedified congregations. In such a state of Unnga we should tiecome deeply sensible of our immense obligations to the past. For it is to the past that we owe what we are both in body and mind. The past sges have moulded the age in which we live to the shape it now wears ; but for the paat, man would be helplessly in a avsg state. Every advance in civiliaatiob, every shining example of actiTe virtue, every wise or sacretl precept of human conduct, every triumph of art and skill, i evervthing, in short, that stores the ■ mini) with wisdom or instructs the hand or enlightens the conacieuc ia of th past, and books are tbe repositories in which they are laid up for the use ol mankind from generation to generation : Destroy the volumes in which they are coutauied, and you blot out the past ages, with all that they have done for j us, and the human race would drift hopelessly into barbarism. A Hood " Uncle.** "Uncle Cook" is a Boston philan thropist whose charitable propensities are specially moved by the woes of the criminal classas. He ha* lieen for some lime Chaplain of the Suffolk County Jail ; and in that capacity has done much good. But his great w<-rk has lieen in the Muuicipal Court of Boston. For the last ten years this faithful man has lieen a constant attendant at Uie Court, watching specially after the in terest of the unfortunate women who are there arraigned. His success has lieen very marked, and, in not a few instances* be has reclaimed those who have been called " bopeieaa cases " for many years. The Court, recognizing his usefulness, often places these unfor tunate women tinder his osre, on proba tion. During the year ending June 1, he took in charge, in thi* manner, four hundred aud thirty-two persons, be coming personally responsible for their good deportment. Of this number, 88 per cent, have proved not unworthy of the confidence which " Uncle Cook had intrusted in them. Some of these were victims of intemperance, who have lieen saved to a life of usefulness, through Uie untiring zeal of thia good man. OUiera were young girls, who were saved or rescued frora a life of shame by " Uncle Cook's" care and Christian' kindness. It Is Better. Better to wear A calico dress without trimming, if it bo paid for, than to o*a the shopkeeper for tho moat elegant ailk, cut and trimmed in the moat be witching manner. Better to lire in a log cabin all your own, than a brown atone mansion be longing to somebody else. Better to walk forever than to run in to debt for a horse and carriage. Better to ait by the plain nine table, for which von paid three dollars ten rears ago, than send home a new exten sion black walnut top, and promise to pav for it next week. 1 tetter to use the old cane-seated chairs, and failed two-ply parpet, than tremble at the bills sent home from the upholsterer's for the most elegant par lor set ever made. Better to meet your business acquain tances with a free " don't owe you s cent" smile, than to dodge around the corner to escape a dan. Better to pay the street organ-grinder two cents for music, if yon have it, than owe for a grand piano. Better to gaxe upon bare walls than pictures unpaid for. Better to eat thin soup from earthen ware, if yon owe yonr butcher nothing, thau to dine off lamb and roast beef, and know that it does not belong to you. The retiring editor of a Kansas paper " valedicts " himself as follows :—" If I have said anything through the columns that lam aorrv for lam glad of it. IV. my friends, I thank yon for yonr lib r ality, and to my enemies, you can go ito the devil.' NO. I)aacJ eg Dsrrtshse. A V.ry KMIIIH Cmrtmmmr- Friday being the Mussulman Sunday, says a correspondent in Egypt with Own. Hherman, onr party went to see the dancing dervishes, to do which they had to drive to the old pert of Cairo, and found there a frame building in shape something like a church. This was quite full of Arabs and some Eu ropeans, through which a passage was made, and a kind of bench n-rur- rf, upon which the party stood. Around the in side of the building ran a gallery, one portion of which wee inclosed by lattice work, behind which tbe native ladies sat A railing inclosed the centra of tba room, and inside this, seated upon the floor, were about ball a do ten priests, who wore high, comical hate, sod long coats gathered at the waist by • seal. Around the other aides of the incioeura were some 'tarty Arabs. Tba eternise had already commenced, and these Arabs were throwing their beads over the right end left shoulders alternately, keeping time, and bringing Lbeir breath out at each movement with a puff. Tbe time was marked by tbe thumping upon a taml oarine, and also by tba beating upon what looked Libe a ooooa-out shell euvrrad with akin. In the front of these were two men who, with arms held out straight from the body, kept up a con tinual turning around without moving from tb-ir places. After a short time this set of performers gave place to an- , other, many of whom had very long hair. Before commencing they gave to one of the priests their gowns and turbans, which were placed by tbe priests, who were seated. A priest who was quite an old man took nia place in front of the performers, and by keeping time with his banda art the party in motion, and a general bowing of tbe beads com menced. This was encouraged by a kind of chant, and the motion gradually extended from the bead to the body, un til finally they all bent nearly to the floor, and then throwing themselves backward, with tba bead turned up ward, gave vent to a puff, tba long hair of those who worn it covering and un covering tba face in each movement On* of the worshipers chanted some thing which seemed to have the effect of greatly exciting tba derriahea, who continued to increase their movement i until it became very rapid, and the foam began issuing from the mouhte of sev eral. A man, and s boy of about twelve, each of whom wore a comical-shaped hat of felt and a gown which was kept inflated by the motion, were spinning around during this time, their heads thrown to one side, one arm raised with tbe elbow bent, the other held straight out from the body. They soemed to turn with great ease and rapidity for twenty minntea, walking off at the end of that time without any apparent ill effect. The most excited uf all these was s negro, black as night, who finally became eo deranged as to throw himself on bis hands and knees, and violently beat his head on the floor, while some other# fell down and stiffened them selves, each one being taken can of by the priests, who restrained them from injuring themselves. It mast have been hot work, for the perspiration ran from the faces of tha spectators. The Ut( DMtnwtin Worn. A severe storm baa visited the West ern State*, inflicting the damage record ed below. In Ohio, the storm was felt in its greatest severity north of the city of Cincinnati, which fortunately escaped its fury. At Springfield, Cedarville, Columbus, Port Washington, and the intervening country, it was very severe end destructive, railroad bridges Ix-iug washed away, telegraph poles loaded, and crops washed away. Six miles of canal were destroyed between Athens and Saline. Telegraph communication was so seriously interrupted that out of 32 wires centering in Cincinnati all but two were down. In Indiana, trees being leveled all the way from Richmond to Logans port, there* is reason to fear that heavy lost in the aggregate has been suffered. The moat serious loss of life has been in Wisconsin, boats having liecn eapsixed on Green Lake and ten persons drowned. The course of the torm in that State was Ave miles wide ; hundreds of seres of grain were pros trated. and railroad travel interrupted by fallen trees. Minnesota has escaped without serious damage, and although there was an immense rainfall in Illi nois, no seriou* losses are reported therefrom. In Missouri the storm has iwen felt with greatest severity between Hannibal and St Joseph, s steamer at the Utter city having been dragged from her mooring*. In Marseille, Kentucky, many building* have been unroofed, and general damage suffered. The losses iu New England are comparatively light, snd limited to Massachusetts and New Hampshire, A New Cm *f Postal Cards. The Courier dee State Vnie is suthor ity for the statement thst the adoption of the postal card system has greatly increased the traffic in sympathetic inks, s department of trade which has hitherto attained only insignificant pro portions, as s minister to clandestine correspondence between irrepressible misses snd Polish counts in braided .xiata. Of coul%e, in tbe use of the li quid as ordinarily manufactured, there is no secresy whatever, bnt merely a momentary pretence of it. Citron-juice ink. for example, calls for nothing more than the ordinary heat of the hand to develop it in red upon ordinary paper; while the sympathetic ink of commerce is made to reveal itself by means equal ly simple. The latter is generally oom posed of one part sulphuric acid to twenty parte water, and thongh per fectly colorless when held against the light, yields an intense black when held before the fire, or subjected to a heat current. The principle is very simple : the portions of the paper impregnated with acid ore carbonized at a compara tively low temperature. If the statement of the Courier is authentic, there is, then, room for con siderable invention in bringing this crude idea to a kind of civilised per fection. Utility of the (lame Laws. The rapid increase of birds in the vi cinity of every house is one of the most striking facto observed by residents in the oouiitiy. The Norristown (Pa.) /Vce Prest remarks: "One of the first things that strikes the visitor to the oountry is the vast numbers ef birds of various species that inhabit the groves and build their nests in orohards and trees in the imme diate vicinity of farm-honses and other residences. * Some years since it was a rare thing to see a bird of any kind within the borough limits, there being a constant warfare waged upon them by the sportsmen, and the robbing of their nests and the destruction of tliedr young by mischievous boys; bnt the protec tion afforded them by the game law has enoonraged them to build their nests and thrive and multiply in our yards and gardens, which are made musical by the boats of birds that visit them daily. Bobbins, blackbirds, orioles aud'blnebirds, ars regular squatters in the midst of the din and noise of a bnsy town, and tha sparrows have increased I so rapidly thst all fear as to their per manent naturalisation seems at an end." , J —" Itwi bii The position of (Mate Geologist of Kentucky] has been Accepted by pt flhaler of Harvard. An utiit hu been painting herrings with red paint end Uie%iote, and they were sold for ajwekW trot*-*"' A wnuit girl in Fespe Haato, led., Hm 91,175 in the bank. nil s**-d from her email weekly -earnings. The Androscoggin Mills imileiee m making French calicoes. C*e and tbJWU quarter yarde of which make a pound. An ecsentrie chafactrt la fine"Pmbb eiaoo in variably walka the atrwet with atiok of candy projecting fmm hi# month. Middle fielJ, Maaa., sympathises with the honeymoon of a newly rnsrrica oonple aged respectively aeventy-etghi ana enmity. A man in Park county, Ind., shot himeelf rather than appear an a witness egainet certain peruana whom hie testi mony would rum. Three horaee belonging to en lowa farmer hare died from the effeota of eating potato-topa on which Periw-green had been thrown to kill the btige. Tbe Hnngariena are tbe finest looking follows at Vienna, eeyea eorraspondent, averaging fully lira inches" more in height than the Aaatriana. Professor Watson, of Ann Arbor, and Professor Peters, of the Washing Ob servatory. ere respectively to reprint the United Bute# in China and hew Zealand daring tbe transit of Venus neat year. After s pretty full discussion of the cost, *Ci<*it*ney and durability of differ entkinda offence*, a Michigan farmers' club concluded that e goad worm ml femes is the best end cheapest fence that farmers can build. As s schoolmaster eras em ployed the other day, in Bcotand, in teaching a sharp urchin to cipher on the elate, the prtrdM-iotis pupil put tbe following question to Lis instructor: •• Where dis s" the figures gang till when they're rsbbedoutr The fruit-growers if Delaware held a meeting at Dover the other day. at which tbe estimate of tba peach crop of 1873 was given at 3,184,730 basket*. This estimate is over 100,000 basket* more than that of laat year, when tbe vield was 500,000 basheta mora than the estimate. With en equal margin, the crop this year will be very burgs. Washington'e Headquarters at Morris town N. J , wd st suction, was pur chased by x-Governor Randolph, Mr. W. V. Lit / rwood. of Morristowa; George H*Wy, end General If. Hal steed, of Newark, for 835,000. The in tention of the purchasers is to hold it for the State until tbe Legi-Uiar# meet*, when, if so desired, they will transfer it without profit. Baying smart things without regard to their exact fairness is one thing, to say them oaly la the interest < of the truth is quite another, and far mora difficult Journalist* especially, often let their itch for writing pungent para graphs lead them into giving false im pressions. The good writer is the one who pate a matter in its truest light rather than the one who flashes the most wit sroand it A Worcester mu ebim to kan eon stracted the smallest steam engine in the world, with a boiler holding three drop*. The engine, boiler, governor and pomp* stand in a apaee aeren-aix teentha of an inch square and five eigbtbs of an inch high, and contains one hundred and forty-eight diet met parte. The longest screw M one-eigh udh of an inch, and the smallest about trie-thousandth of an ineh in eise. Efforts will be made this antomn by the Epieoopaliena of Boston to com mence the erection of a eathedral in that city. The new Bishop will proba bly give hie earnest support to such an undertaking. At least on# million dol lars will be required to erect each an edifice on eonte central location. As a cathedral would hare a daily morning and evening service constantly main tained, it needs a very central and con venient location. An Ohio paper states that some of tho Article* of commerce sold as lard is real IT corn meal larded. Tbe process of miuafMtaK is to melt the lard and then add the meal, tUmng the mixture well together. When meel is sixty cent* s bushel, sod lsrd twelve sad s half C.Ota a pound. It is evident that the profits to the manufacturer must be im mense. The Yankee wooden nutmegs sad bees wood bams oompure favorably with this specimen of rascality. Always marvelous stories will be told to support impossible theories. At Irooton, Ohio, s young person was drowned. Search wis going on for the body, when an old woman appeared and* asked that an unwashed shirt of the boy should be thrown into the river, declaring that it would disappear direct! v orer the piece where the body was. S'eed we aay thai it was thrown in ; that it did disappear, and that the body was brought up just in that spot with a grappling book? The eu/dnt terrible of a Washington family, whose sister Elixa is a shining bell*'in society, was allowed * seat near one of the distinguished guests at a dinner-party given by his father, the other diy, tod in th midst of th* idct* riment, be startled the company by pro posing the conundrum, "Why is father like the devil r A painful pause en sued, snd aa no one ventured to answer, he shouted out, "Because he ie the father of Line!" Probably no boy in the country was ever put to bed quicker than he on that occasion. A Rhode Island farmer, driving into Woonsocket a few mornings ago with a load of produce, bad occasion to cross a railroad. He heard a train coming, bat thinking he could cross before it arrived, he whipped up his home into s run, snd struck the track. Unhappily there was s slight miscalculation on his part as to the tune and distance. The engine smashed liis wagon, killed his horse, scattered liis garden track, and threw him about fifteen feet, though fortnnatelv not injuring' him severely. He says "that hereafter he will let the train go by. Two men earns from tbe extreme northern part of Rhode Island the other day, for the purpose of digging for gold and silver in what is called Quaker s Hollow near Salt Lake, Wakefield. These two men, with strong faith in dreams and fortune-tellers, worked, as men only work for the treasures of this world, through the heat of-the day snd into the evening, but how much treasure they succeeded in digging from mother (sith is not known, bat they were seen to drive at a break neck pace through the village late in the evening in a cloee carriage, and some say that they had a large chest filled with the filthy lucre. It seems, even now, that when any _ man either loses his wits or desires to acquire s little notoriety, he goes to the nearest police station, deliver* himself up, and declares lie is the murderer of Mr. Nathan. This has become so oom mon in many of the towns and cities of the West that th* police consider such a self-accusation as the precursor of delirium tremens. One of the fancied Nathan murderers went to the Leaven worth (Kansas) station, the other day, with the stereotyped story, which so ir ritated the polioeman in charge that he told the fellow " that busiuess is played out," and forcibly ejected the self-im- . agined assassin from the premises. The young ladies of Vassar College include horseback riding and rowing among their other accomplishments. On the bosom of the little lake at the foot of the College bill there is quite a cluster ef boats, and the fair browed, saney eyed girls make themselves mnch at home on the water. They pnll an easy oar, and in the boats look the pictures of grace and beauty. There is common sense in the management of Vassar. In teaching the girla to take an interest in physical pastimes, the professors do much to counteract the effects of tight lacing and skise confine ment in tho study room. The girls who practice rowing will make stronger, better and purer women than thoee who are reared after the fashion of hot hooae plants.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers