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."
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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.