SemHhlnr Hot. Th* pavMsent* sre all htwint hat. Tha *k shore Is hrssan, And ererv bstd m good *s d*<l Tl) ran aa set its ray* on The lean, Isnk-lookmß skeletons O-o stalking pale and gloomy; Fat man. lika matting lump* of lead. Sand hotter fatxAw throng h ma I wake from dream* of Polar ioe. And wish myeelf where Hall ia, Or any other fmaen plsot That on Una rad-hot hall ia. Peace, As s tale that is told, n a vision, Forgive and forget; for I say That ihe trns shall enjoy the derision Of th false till ths full of ihs day. Ay. forgive as you would be forgiven • Ay. forger, less the ill yon have d-uis Be remembered against you iu Heaven Aud all ths days under the suu, For who shall hare bread without labor ? And who shall hare rest without price ? And who shall hold war with his neighbor With promise of peeoe with the Christ! The year* may lay hand on fair Hearen; May place and displace the red stare. May etaui tham, as blood stain* are driven At sunset in beautiful bar*: May shroud them ia black till they fret its As clouds with their showers of tears ; May grind us to dust snd forget as. Msy the year*. O the pMAeee year* I , The precept* of Christ are beyond them ; The truths by the Nasarene taught, Wqh the tramp of the age* upon them. They endure as though ages were uau&ht; Hie deserts may drink up the fountain* The fcweet give piece to the plain. The main mar give place to the mountains. The mounts.ns return to the main. Mutation* of worlds and mutations Of suns may take place, but the reign Of Time and the toils snd rexahsns * Bequeath thorn, no. never a stain. Go forth to the Aside sa one sowing. Siug tongs aud be glad as you go. There are seeds that take root without grow r.\, **• And bear some fruit whether or no. And the suit shall shine sooner er later. Though the midnight tweaks ground on the morn. Then appeal you to Christ, the Creator. And to gray-bearded Tune. Ilia &r*t-born. Joaurui lluia THE MISTAKE ABOUT BARRATT. One dajr in early winter, socio years ago, I was v-alking np the main street of Stamton, a town with which I waa entirely unacquainted, never having visited it before. I knew of but two persons living in the town, and of the personal appearance of one of these I had no recollection, not having seen him for twelve or fifteen years. The other I did not remember ever having met. My presence in the place waa caused by peculiar circumstances. My father, a country clergyman, dying when I was but eighteen, left me the village home in which I was born. I remained there with my mother and sisters, only leaving when it became necessary for me to attend medical lectures in a distant city. I waa bat twenty-two when I graduated, and with an extensive country acquaintance I hoped and expected to soon build up a thriving practice. In less than a year after I had pnt up mv little tin plate upon the front gate. I did a very foolish thing. I indorsed a note for an old schoolfellow, who was starting in the drygoods business, in our village. The note was far three thousand dollars, payable in nine months, and was held by a man who re sided at a distant place, I knew not where. This person, Samnel Bingham, had accepted my indorsement on the strength of a letter I had written and given to Claxton (my school-friend), in , which I stated my property was worth five thousand dollars. Bingham stated that he had known my father when he waa in the habit of visiting our village, and that be also knew me, and so was satisfied with the indorsement. When Claxton returned from his sue- cessful negotiation, and told me that Bingham (who I supposed was a farmer) remembered me, I was surprised ; but as my father used to have a great many visitors, it was no wonder that I did not recollect them aIL But three months after that Claxton had an opportunity of buying for cash some auction goods at extraordinary low rates. He borrowed one thousand dollars, on another note at three months, with my indorsement! Before one month had elapsed, Clax ton was entirely broken up by the rascality of a much older man, whom he had taken in as his partner; and when the thousand-dollar note fell due, I could not pay it, and my place was sold. It brought under the hammer fifteen hundred dollars! That beautiful old house, with ita lawn, its gardens and meadow—worth, as I had often been assured, five thousand dollars, now sold for just enough to pay this wretch ed note, to take mv paor mother and sister to the borne of a maternal aunt in the city, and to enable me to take board in a distant village, and there to en deavor in an humble manner, to bnild np a practice. I might have staid among oar friends, bnt subsequent oc currences made this unpleasant even to think of. Bingham, hearing of the failure and the sale, came to our village, one day while 1 was in the city, and finding that, when his bill came due, there would be absolutely nothing for him, fell into a tremendous rage, which was visited principally upon me. I was a scoundrel and a cheat to indorse anoth er note, and one, too, which cut out hia; and to all the representations of my friends that I had thonght my property ftlly equal to th<*payment of botn notes, if it became necessary, he gave not the slightest credence. When I returned, he had left; bnt I heard all this story, and soon found that many persons believed that I had treated Bingham very badly ; and that, if he carried out his threat of making me pay for this at some future day, he would be but serving me exactly right. So I set up my sign in the village of S- , and I now had been practicing for nearly six years. My sister was married, and my mother was living with her, in the city. As a matter of course, I had not lived so long as this without falling in love, and if yon had seen Annie Tange, you would not have been surprised at the fact. Her father, the squire of the vil lage, had long been my friend, but I propoc£d for her hund, eighteen months before the time at which I com- menco my story, he had told me plain ly that, although I had a good practice, and had, what was for a physician of my age, a very fair balance in bank, he could never consent to his daughter's j marriage to a man who did not own a house to which to take her. Acoord ingly, being very much in love, and not of the most patient disposition,l boaght a house and lot in the village—a foolish piece of business ; for, during the two months that I had owned it, I had been in continual fear that Bingham woold hear of it, and make his threatened descent upon me. Claxton, who was now in bnsiness in the west, and with whom I kept up a correspondence, had urged me not to think of paying Bingham, as he would be fully able to settle the debt himself in a reasonable time ; and as this was entirely just, I had given myself no further thought about the matter, until Iliad bought my house, and then I thought & great deal more abont it than was pleasant. Now, however, it wanted bnt one month of being six years from the time the note had fallen due, and then, by the laws of my State, the debt would be outlawed, and I would be safe. In FUIvD. K'I'HTZ, Kilitor and Proprietor. VOL. VI. two months t were to l>e married, and in one month I was safe! And thie safety meant a great^deal; for, if Bing ham should eoine down upou my real estate, and also bring all the obloquy njsui me which auch action would wr taiuly occasion, niy career at 8 was at an end, aud my marriage would lie Terr indefinitely postponed, to say the least. Two dsva before this early winter day of which t trrite, I had received a letter from my father's brother, William. It hail been directed to me at our old home, had been sent to my mother in the ejty, aud been forwarded by her to me ; for, as 1 corresponded with no one in the old place, and had been in the city some months before coming here, the postmaster did not know my address. The letter was consequently three weeks old. It was written from 8 taw tun. and read as follows: "Dbar Gborok: For ten yea.u I have not written to any of your family. I need not disguise* the fact that wheu your father diet! I had no other tie to any of yon. But I have heard lately that yon" have embraced my profession, and are practicing, I suppose, iu the old village. Now, lam growing ohl, and shall soon give up work (either with or without my own free will,) and it might reasonably be supposed that I would surrender to you, the only other doctor in the family, and my brother's son, my practice. Bnt lam much op posed to bringing strangers into a circle of patients, if it can be avoided, aud I have a young assistant, who ia better qualified than any on* else to take my place. Besides, you are far better where you are. But it may, perhaps, be in my power to help you in some other way ; and, at any rate, I would be very glad if yon cau get off for a few days, for you to pay me a visit. It is to in vite you to do this that I now write to you." Your affectionate uncle, "William Barkatt. " When I got this letter, I determined to start off directly, and an my way I stopped in the city to see my mother. I had left mv practice in charge of a i brother physician, residing a few miles from the "village, nd consequently, feeling easy in regard to tke matter, I thought of spending a day eg two in the city before seeing my uncle. But my mother strong)? opposed this. " Your uncle William," said she, " is s strange person, and although I never liked him, and was probably the causa of his estranging himself so entirely from ns, I must admit that he frequent ly behaved in a very kind manner to vonr dear father. And he never prom ised anything, either, bnt some tntling help—which often in the days when your father was struggling to get along, was of the greatest value. He paid the mortgage off the old house, as a Christ mas gift, before yon were born. You may depend that if he wishes to see you, he intends to do something hand some for yon, and you should not lose another hour; especially as the letter is three weeks old now. lam very certain that yon will remind him, as saon as ha sees yon, of his brother; but Is hope yon will not meet that Bingham." Until this I had not known that Bing ham lived in that town, hot, neverthe less, I set off immediately for my un cle's home, snd found myself, as I be fore stated, walking up the main street of Stamton, looking for the comer of Elm Avenue. Aa few of the streets had their names posted up, I was about to step into a store to ask for information, when a large man, with a heavy red beard, passed me, then stopped, and stepping back, put his hand on my shoulder, * and said: "Your name is Barrett ?" I stopped, utterly astounded. WM this Bingham ? Should I deny the birthright of my name, or admit it, and stand ruined from that moment ? Bat suppose it was one of my uncle's family, a denial would be a pretty piece of bus inesa in that case ? I must confess that I was greatly tempted to tell a falsehood; but, spart from the meanness of such a thing, what good would it have done ? All this, which it takes so long to write, passed very quickly through my brain, but still it caused a hesitation, very perceptible. ** " Why, it t* Barrett," said the man. " Of course it is," said I, for I could no longer refrain from acknowledging the fact; " but I must say, sir, that I am not acquainted with yours." " Don't vou remember Jim Coleman ?" said be, taking my hand and shaking it heartily. Jim Coleman, indeed ! Jim had been a schoolmate of mine, (much older, however, than me), with whom I had always been a favorite, and who had got me out of many a scrape. The revulsion of feeling was so great, that for a moment I could not speak ; hut, then, I gave him a much heartier greeting than I fear he would have re ceived under any other circumstances. " Trying to find Dr. Barrat, ah ? your uncle. Well, T never knew that. I'll show you ; but you must stop in at my place first. It's all on the way. Tarn right around this way." Anil, taking my arm, he led me off in the opposite direction to which I hail been going. On the way he informed me that he had been settled in this place for about three years as Conveyancer and real estate agent, and that he was doing very well, and hail a large and useful acquaintance in the town. When we were seated in bis back office, talking over old timci, I happened to think that this large acquaintance of his might be of no use to me if Bingham was included among them, and he thus learned my location and condition. I therefore told Coleman, as an old friend, my whole story, am! tiro fears I had hail in coming to this dangerous town. "You never saw Bingham, then?" said he ; "never were in his office ?" " No," said I; " I never saw him to know him, and certainly was never in his office." "Weil," said Coleman, "you're in it low." 'rm . f fail)? jumped a* he said this, and Jim laughed immoderately. " Why," he asked, " didn't you see the sign as you came in?—'J. It. Cole man, late Samuel Bingham A Co."' "Late?" I cried. " Yes ; he's been dead this three years and I bought out his business. As to Claxton's note, I paid the heirs twenty five dollars for that, among a lot of other bad papers. You can have it for what it cost me, and if Claxton can pay to the old man's folks tke whole amoont, with interest, he ought to do if." f : zn< . M I bought the note instantly, and was of the opinion that Clnxton should take my friend's advice. I was also of the opinion that the sky was very blue, the air fine and invigorating, the naked trees truly beautiful, and all Nature (and Art, too, far that matter) perfectly charming. When I left Coleman (a splendid fellow, always coming in just when I wanted him,) he still had the remains of the laughing tears in his eyes; and my uncle mast have thought I was a fine, lively, and thorongldy good-humored fellow, for he used his jien and paper so handsomely, after my departure, that I now visit my patients behind a three-minute horse, and Annie is the leader of the fashions in our vil lage. Over 200 New England spinsters went to Utah last month in search of frac tional matrimony THE CENTRE REPORTER. The Walworth Tragedy. Mr. t harts* O'l'umoi '• IMva far A.^ulu.l Dr. Gray waa the closing witnraa for ' the defence, advancing the theory tliut | epilepsy ia a fruitful source of homicidal frensy, aud supporting Mr. O'Couor'a ; hypothesia that the prisoner was. uu der the ©ircilttutaoee#, irresponsible by | an affirmative answer to the hypotheti cal question. Several witnesses were ! then called by the District Attorney in ' rebuttal, including the murdered man's ' publisher aud several physicians, who draw widely different inferences from voung Walworth's conduct from those of Dr. Oray. Mr. O'Conor then sum med up for the defence, peakiug very rapidly for several hours, and making an earnest plea for the parricide a life. The unpleasant weather prevented the usual large attendance of spectators when the Court opened ; but toward the middle of tke dgj the number in creased until every mm was occupied. The interest that Una centered in the fate of tlgv youthful prtsonr since the drat day of the Uial Wa not abated in the leai. ■*' Mr. O'Conor in n turning up for the defeucg oou tended thai the killing was neither a grOM, vulgar murder nor a parricide I thai if any offence was com mitted it was not marked with circum stances of premeditation and malice. It waa tot ifo first time that a child had al^n'lis parent, but he trusted they would not find he hail wickedly killed life Dither, lie invited their at tention to th" Thursday previous to the ahootmg| when told that his uncle wished htm to go abroad. Considering himself the sole protector of his mother, he said he would thiuk about it. The belief was no doubt present tu bis mind that he would in some way arrange the matter. Was there anything in his acts tending to show that he meant to get his father in bis small room, shoot him and go on a trip to Europe ? He went to New York, called at his father's and, not finding him in, left a note for him. A sort of fatality attended the fath er's course. Had he reached home reasonably early he would have got the letter and" seen his son in the evening. But he gets up before suurise and goes to the hotel. His sou did not expect him lor be was sound asleep. Mr. O'- Conor reviewed the testimony of the killing, and then came to the prisoner's declaration to Coroner Youug. The seal of policemen and others was apt to lead them, not intentionally, but none the less injuriously, to warp the truth. The prisoner only meant that he came "to settle the family difficul ty," and the Coroner understood that that was all that was meant. The fath er's violeuee was discussed. Frank never knew him as a parent, had never received the recognition or care which builds up in children those feelings whose violation by such a deed makes us shudder. Could he poasibly honor suoh a father* Mansfield Tracy Wal worth was the exact opposite of all the otkar number* of the Chancellor's fam ily. From him Frank inherited a pre disposition to insanity; and his father's conduct, along with certain physical in juries he had received, drove him into epilepsy. Mr. O'Conor quoted various sutiiorities to show that uo man oould be guilty of a crime without willing and intending to do it If there was a doubt in the anae, in view of the good charac ter of the prisoner, the doabt belonged to liim. The District Attorney was bound to prove that death occurred oy the act ef the prisoner, knowingly and inten tionally done. U uder the Roman law Mansfield Tracy Walworth was s parri cide at heart when he longed for the death of his wife and children. There was no need of any reasoning to children to prevent their slaying their fathers. There was not a single ease on record where a child had wick edly killed its father. He could ouly (•call the stories of Jtdipus, Orestes, and Beatrice Cenei, besides a case in Scotland some hunJreds of years ago, where a aon was convicted on the evi dence of his father's blood flowing when he drew near, and where a poor woman was convicted on merely circumstantial evidence, and died protesting her inno cence. He appealed to them, in view <J the purity of this hoy's life, his love for his mother, his high and noble char acter, not to stain the annals of the State bv a declaration that this boy had wickedly and designedly committed this fearful crime of parricide. Riches and Pleasures. These truths arc well illustrated in the anecdote told some years ago of two men who were conversing about John Jacob Astor's property. Some one asked if be would be willing to take care of the millionaire's property—ten or fifteen millions of dollars—merely for his board and clothing? "No!' was the indignant answer. A Do you take me for a fool ?" " Well," rejoined the ether, "that's all Mr. Astor himself gets for for takingcareof it; he's fouiui, and that's all. The houses, the ware houses, the ships, the farms, which he counts by the hundreds, and is often obliged to take care of, are for the ac commodation of others." " But then be has the income, the rents of all hia large property, five or six hundred thousand dollars per annum." "Yes; but lie can do nothing with this income but build more houses and warehouses and ships, or loan money on mortgages, for the Convenience of others. He's found, and you can make nothing else out of it." 11 a rich maa wishes to be healthy, says Sir William Temple, he must live like poor one. Isank Walton tell ua that tlu-re are as many troubles on the other side of riches as on this, and that the cares which are the keys of riches hang heavily at the rich man's girdle. How many men, on reaching the pin nacle of wealth, find, as they look down on their money-bags, that they have only purchased one set of enjoyments by the lossof another equally desirable? " Do you remember, Bridget," writes CJhurleß Lamb, with a tender retrospect to his poverty, " when you and I laughed at the* play from the shilling Billery? There are c< good plvs to laugh at now from the boxes. Many Bir Epicure Mammon, as he sits down with jaded appetite to his lobster salad and champagne, thinks with keen re gret of the Bimple repasts which titilat ed his palate when he was poor. The great railway king, Hudson, fessted with dukes and duchesses in their big house at Albert Gate, looked back with many a sigh to the days when they ste sausages for supper in the little hack parlor tiehind their paltry shop in the city of York. Nothing in the abstract seems easier than to get pleasure out of money ; yet to many persons nothing is appureutly more difficult. It seems delightful to be able to buy every thing you wish, without a thought of the cost; yet who does not see that the pleasure must pall in the degree that there is no difficulty ? Dr. Holmes, being asked by a yonng physician what sign to put on bis door, replied, "The smallest fevers gratefully received." An exhibition is announced in Paris of specimens of the art of "paddling." and of other methods whereby artificial beauty and unreal charmß are success fully imposed upon credulous and de voted men. fTItE 11ALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1873. CE Utah and the Mormons. \% k*( (tub*? siiarv* baa la u) about Bishop Sharps, of Salt Lake city, U. T. , one of the leading lights of the Mormon community, uow in New York city, talked with a reporterof the H'orfrf about the present condition of the Mor mon Church and the present condition of Salt Lake city and the adjoining ter ritory. lhshop Sharpe said that every thing wna progressing very rapidly and satisfactorily throughout the country, 'hair Church waa stoodily increasing, snd the country was In-coining fully de veloped. Every day brought some new discovery of larger or smaller mines of silver, gold, and lead, aud capitalists and workmen were taking up their real deuce in various parts of the country. In answer to the report that Brighani Young waa about to reaigu the presi dency of the Mormon Church, the Bishop said there was no truth whatever iu the rumor, but that it sprung from the fol lowing action of Young: Several months ago Mr. Young, being overtaxed with work and having attained the age of seventy-two years on the Ist of last June, determined to give up the offices of I'resident of the Utah Central Rail road, the 11 tali Southern Bank, the Mercantile Institution, aud other offices to which he had been elected. He had no idea of giving up the head of his Church, but would remain in thai posi tion until he died. AH the above insti tutions parted with Mr. Young reluct antly and allowed him to uomiuate his own successor to each of the offices. The present population of Halt Lake city is 25,0tX), auu throughout the Ter ritory the increase of population has been immense during the past twelve months. In reference to raining opera tions, Bishop Kharpe observed that a large number of miners, both American and English, had gone there, and also gentlemen who held large fortunes and who wished to work some of the later discoveries. A new mine, very rich, he understood, hod just been discovered tu Mono, and a number ef Califorman capitalists had purchased it on specula tion for ffihO.OOfi gold. Manufactories of oil descriptions were being built by New York and other merchants ; refin eries wore being constantly erected, the largest one being that of Messrs. Bil lings, of New York, who sent silver to thiscity at Wproof. Churches- Roman Catholic, Protestant, and Methodist— were also established throughout the Territory ; but the heat of feeling exist ed between the Mormon people and those whobadeometo reside with them. Indeed, according to the Bishop, scarce ly anything desirable is lacking at Bolt Laic city. Ben. Caos and John Buy. Ouv bore a striking resemblance to Gen. Letts C**a, and while he was pro prietor of the National Hotel in Wash ington, the Michigan Senator was among his favored guests. Guy dressed like Cass, and although not as portly, his face, including the wart, was strangely similar. One day a Western friend of the hou*e came in after a long ride, dusty and tired, sad, walking np to the office, encountered Gun. Cass who was qnitely standing there. Mis taking him for Guy, he slapped him ou the shoulder, and exclaimed: " Well, old fellow, here I am ; the last time 1 hung my list np in your shanty, one of your clerk* *ent me*to the fourth story ; mt now that 1 have got hold of you, I insist upon a lower room." The Ueueral, a most dignified person age, taken aback by the startling sa lute, coldly replied: "You have com mitted a mistake, sir. I am not Mr. Guy; I am General Caaa, of Michigan," and angrily turned away. The Western man was shocked at the unconscious outrage he had committed ; but before he had recovered from hia mortification, Gen. Caaa, who had passed around the offioe, confronted him again, when, a second time mistaking htm for Guy, he faced him and said: "Here you are at last. I have just made a devil of a mis take; I met old Casa and took him for J on, and T am afraid the Michigander as gone off msd." What General Cass won Id have aaid may well be imagined, if the real Gny had not approached and rescued the innocent offender from the twicc-asaailed and twioe-ange.red States man. —From Anecdote* of J*ubtic Men by John Forney. Novel Way to Raise the Wind, A prominent citizen of Detroit is the father of two mischievous lads, aged about twelve and six years. The boys had embarked in some speculation or frolic, and to complete their arrange ments an expenditure of about fifty cents was nec*M*ry. They made ap plication to patrr '/ariilia *, in proper form, but were not successful in raising the requisite currency in thst quarter. They set Jtheir wita to work. The frac tional currency they must have, and to raise it this novel expedient wss hit up on: A sack was procured and the street anxiously watched for the "rag-man." In due time the accumulator of defunct apparrel made his appearance. The younger hopeful was speedily disposed in the sack, the month tied, and this bundle of animated rags being duly weighed waa disposed of for the sum of sixty cents. But here one of those ac cidents that always will happen at the wrong time, marred the whole clever scheme of the lad*. The bundle was roughly pitched into the junk dealer's wagon. In its fall it came in contact with a piece of old iron. Suddenlv thero was a scramble, and a sqnnfl issued from the interior of the sack. A lively panic ensued. Tl.B elder lad scampered off with his ill-gotten gain, with the rag-man in hot pursuit. The money waa recovered, the lad in the sack issued forth whimpering about his bruises, the man who so nearly escaped being the victim drove off; the boys retired, no doubt meditating on the poet'a proverb: "The best laid schemes of mice am! men (and boys) gang aft aglce." A Fatal Prescription. The evil often produced by the inju dicious prescription of intoxicating liquors for patients has recently been forcibly illustrated in Springfield, Mass., as the Republican of that city says ; " A nmn who three yenrs ago wn* a con firmed drunkard, owing to a strong in fluence which was brought to liear Upon him, abandoned his old habits, became a sober aud industrious man, and was given the position of floor-walker and f;eneral superintendent in one of the argest dry goods houses in that city. Three months ago he left to visit his friends in Scotland, and (as he expressed it) to show them what a man he had made of himanlf. Ho eloquently did ho urge the temperance cause at hia old home in Scotland that hia family aban doned the habit of placing wines on the dining table. This gentleman started a few weeks ago to return to this city, and was taken sick on the home voyage. His physician prescribed some kind of liquor, the taste brought baok the old appetite, and ho has been beastly drunk much of the time siuoe. He iB now at home, but entirely unfit for business, and his friends in their de spair talk of taking him to an inebriate asylum. Hog eholera has appeared in Illinois, aud the people are becoming alarmed. Husslaa I'ollry In Asia. How Central A.l I* balng llratlnally k*l l |i by lb* Hwaatan* —\V It) ltn sta o SCaatly lou<tu*r* tbla Territory. Thus. Knox in a magazine article ou the encroachment of the Uussisns into Central Asia, says: It ia the fate of the Asiatics to bo iu perpetual quarrels,and that greatly favored the Russian schemes. Now the Enur of Bokhara waa at war with Khokaii, next there would be trouble between Khiva and Bokhara, and again Kbokau aud Khiva would be at each other's ears. Unruly sous made unpleasant family jars, and subordinate hoods of tribes were constantly in re volt. Not a year passed without expe ditious of some sort, and frequently there might be s doxen of them in as mon▼ months. The ruler might go out to cliaatiae a refractory neighbor, leav tug his son or brother as regent during his absence. Kvery thing would be serene at his departure, but on liia re turn, especially if h<- came back defeat ed, he would very likely find the gates of his city closed against him, ami the regent cenverted into an actual ruler. Sometimes a commander would go over to the eusmy, and sometimes the enemy would go over to him. Aasaaaiuatiou waa uut uncommon, and occasionally an ambitious son, tired of waiting fur his father to die, would administer poisou to the old gentleman, or insert a knife into his jugular vein. Every occupant of or heir to a throne waa anxious to achieve the fame of Gengia-Khan or Ti tnour, and beoome a " World Con queror," and was rarely fastidious about the means of achieving it. And so it weul ou year after year, and the wily Muscovite watched his opportuni ties, snd never neglected to embrace them 100. In 1826 the re died at Bokhara <eity) Emir BatJ, and immediately after his dratb hi* son Husein ascended the throne, aud became Khan. His younger brother Nasrullah was ambittoua of honor, and an he caused 11 use in to be poisoned, after a reign of leas than three month*. Another brother, Omar, | came into the field as a claimant, natu rally thinking that he had ae good a right to steal a throne aa any body cl*e Nasrullah raptured Hamarrand, and then marched upon Bokhara, which he besieged and took. Omar fled to Kho kan, where ho died of cholera aoou after. Nasrullah waa determined to hare peace, and ao he executed in cold blood three of hi* younger brothers and a great number of the adherents of his former rivals. This waa sufficient to secure the quirt which he so much de sired, and he announced that he was de termined to follow in the footsteps of hia father—whom, by-the-way, he was suspected of hiving poisoned—and make the happiness of his subjects and the strict supervision of religious observ ances the great object of bis life, lie was a pious old scoundrel, and while in dulging in the greatest atrocities he always prated about hia love of Islam ism and his reverence for the Prophet of God. He made hia ministers faith ful to him liy helping them to amiss fortunes, but as soon as they lisd gained a sufficient amount of this world's goods he ordered them to be beheaded, and appropriated the property to himself. Hr was a model family man, aa be hail a facetious practice of murdering his wives whenever he tired of them, and consequently was not regarded as s "good eatcfi" in the matrimonial line. He kept a secret police so numerous and ao watchful that nobody dared say any thing against him to his moat inti mate friend, and it ia said tint atone time a man dared not even think any tkiag except good of the emir. He bad all the vices that were ever possessed by any ruler aincc the days of Adam in any country on the face of. the globe, anil the story of hia indulgences would hardly be united to the pages of anv modern publication. Those who of feuded him were burned in ovens, flayed alive, flung from towers, or otherwise disposed of. One of hia favorite enter tainments waa to bind a victim hand and foot, and then throw him into a cell or box which contained many thou sands of sheep- ticks. The suffering* of | the poor wretch would be horrible be- : yond description. It was while Nasrullah occupied the throne that liussia, having absorbed the wide region between Bokhara and the valleys of the Obi and Yenisei, made I her appearance on the border* of hi* territory. While occupied in the most disgraceful profligacy and tyranny, Xasrnllah had been constantly at war— now with Khiva, now with Khokan, and now with various trilie* and division* of hia own subjects. Though no man in liis resell dared breathe a word against ium, his [lower had lieen greatly weak ened, and hia subjects were discontent ed with his rule. He hsd sent several expeditions against Khokan, and though some of them were successful, the ma jority were defeated or given np through treachery. Wbils one of the expedition* was re turning defeated from Khokan, and another from Khiva, Nasrullah heard that the Russian outposts were on the right bank of the Jaxartes, a river form ing the northern boundary of Bokhara, and flowing into the Aralßea. Russia hail several times attempted to negotiate with him, and had sent embassador* with valuable presents, but in everv case he treated the embassadors with disrespect, and sometimes threw them into prison. Two English embassadors, Colonel Stoddart and Captain Connolly, went io Bokhara, and were murdered by the emir, the former after four years' imprisonment, during which he was fre quently tortured, and the latter, more fortunate, after an imprisonment of aliout a year. Htoddart was at one time promised his freedom if lie would ac cept Islamism, ami to save his life lie consented. But the treacherous emir continued to torture hiin, and on the 17th of June, 1812, according to the ac count given by M. Arminius Vntnbery, the two victims were ordered out for execution in the open aquare of Bokhara. First the heiul of Htoddart waa struck off. Then the executioner paused be fore Connoilv, and the emir told liirn his life would lie spared if he would embrace the faith of Islam. " No," aaid Connolly ; " I prefer to die. Htod dart became n Mohammedan, and still yon have executed him. Complete your work." As Nssrullah advanced in years he seems to have Woome more blood thirsty than in his youth, if such a thing were possible. He fancied that conspiracies were going on around him, and consequently lie doomed hundreds to death. While in his last illness news reached him that his brother-in law, who had long been in open revolt, had ruptured one of his fortresses. Hardly ahlo to speak, he oommanded that his wife should lie brought to his bedside. She begged for mercy, but the dying tyrant could uot he moved. With his lost words he ordered that she should be beheaded, and he drew his final breath while gazing on the blood which flow el from her headless trunk. He died in 1880, after a reign of thirty four years. Dr. F. W. Lacey, of Connecticut, re ported the loss of a package containing something over $40,000 iu money and several valuable pai era, at the Shcrmsn House, Chicago, recently. Much search was made, and one morning the head night watchman fonnd it in the reading room, where it had lain undisturbed. The Clerkship Mania. A few days since a gentleman in a Western city had ill. .1 tu the Uurn inu Sew* on advertisement for " A clerk, salary moderate," snd the same day re ceived thirty-six applications for the position, which number was groatlr in creased the two following days, These applications were from youths, young men, and even middle-aged men, many of whom were willing to work for a salary just sufficient to pay their board. This is only an iaolated eaae ; during the post six mouths many such have occurred, but one is sufficient for our illustration. We regret to aay that these are bad omens, showing the ten dency of the young men of the times. All are after "clerkships," no matU-r what the compensation, the advantages of prumotion- I ~anything to get behind a counter. Now, under the most favor ahle cirrumstaucsa, in fivs cases out of six, what does s clerkship mean ? To be brief, it insatta always a clerk, aud never a principal. The best way is to start right in your career with the world —to commence by acquiring a knowl edge of some business in which you can rise to a position of honor and in dependence. Enter into it with an am bition aud the determination to make a success, and with average talents, in dustry, energy, and aelf-reliance, you will not fail. To whom are <re indebted for our greatest snd most useful inven tions ? The intelligent, industrious mechanic. A brief sketch will aptly illustrate the general fate of seekers of clerkships. A young man eutera a store, or an of fice, at a salary of four or five hundred dollars a year ; in a few years, by elose attention to the business of his employ er, he msy be able to command a thou sand or twelve hundred dollars a year. Whether he receives five hundred or s thousand dollar* s year makes no differ ence, as a general rule, in the amount be saves. He must "keep up appear ance*," snd as he advances in his posi tion, he finds that bis persona! expense* are also increasing. Finally, after years of hard labor aud oftentimes of faithful, honest services, he is without warning throw n out of employment. "Business is dull, and we can't afford to keep you any longer," is the only satisfaction he geia, aa lie goes out into the world with out a dollar, to look for another clerk ship, for each of wbtoli there are hun dreds of applicants. This is the time Ihst the young man realises the mistake he has made and wishes be had "learn ed a trade." He sees, now, that any expert workman, among the trades, re ceives more money thsn be has ever re ceived as a clerk, and besides is inde pendent. If be is sober and industri ous, he is never "out of work." His expense# are only half as much as those of a clerk, and he save# money to begin for himself in a few ycara, in a business which he understands jwrfectly. Such a man ia on Ute high road to prosperity. Young men who have not capital to invest in a line of business in which it is necessary to serve as a clerk to obtain knowledge of the buaineaa to fit them for the position of proprietor, should avoid clerkships as s delusion and a snare. I*naro a trade—avoid tempta tion, and be independent Effect of * fat*s Bite, A lady in Han Francisco ha* recently suffrml neatly frnin a w.,uuil indicted in br thumb by a favorite cat. The animal, which i* nearly ten "year* old, had been ill, and it* miatrea* determi ned to administer a dote of castor 01L Pussy, however, struggling violently under the infliction, and, veiling the lady'a thumb in her mouth, bit directly through the nail, and held on with each a fierce grip, that it waa with much dif ficulty that the thumb waa extracted. The Attn aayi: " At first it appeared t hat the wountl waa of little consequence. It did not bleed much, and little pain was experienced. Boon, however, a red stripe waa noticed alowly moving up her arm, until finally it paaaed the el bow, when a swelling commenced to form. The catastrophe bad occurred at about 8 o'clock in the morning. At 4 in the afternoon the swelling had be come of alarming magnitude, so that she called in a physician. This result eel in a consultation of several physi cian*-, who agreed that they had a esse to treat that waa full of diuiger to the patient. It was decided to administer one of the moat powerful antidotes known, which was given three times in s teaspoon. She soon became so much affected by the pain she suffered that her reason left her for awhile, but after the third toaspoonful of medicine had been given, she was declared out of ilauger. When water waa offered to her she drank it freely, thereby reliev ing the anxiety of friends anil atten dants, who feared that hydrophobia had set in. She is now alowly recovering from the effects of the bite and the se vere remedies applied. She will not trust her pussy any more." Klfrrl of a Bream. After quoting the account of a dream which is said to have influenced Hi mm Powers to liecome a sculptor, the PridgeiKirt (Conn.) Standard relates another incident of the kind, where the Juration as to the life-profession of the reamer was decided. It says : "An aged member of the Episcopal Church who was well acquainted with Rev. Dr. Berbanns, of Newtown, said that when a youth, and before he hail ever seen any minister of that denomination at tired in his clerical robes, he dreamed of seeing some one standing by his l>edside dressed in a peculiar manner. The dream left astrong impression upon his mind. Some time afterward ha at tended an Episcopal elinrch, and to hia great though agreeable surprise he saw that the minister was dressed in robes precisely the same as those he hail seen in his dream. These circumstances de termined his future course. He became a conimunicant and ultimately a min ister in thst church. In his old age ho resided in Newton, and there are doubt less many in that town, if not through out this and other States, who remem ber him ss a faithful and devoted pastor." The Ilealthfulness of Lemons. When people feel Uie need of an acid if they would let vinegar alone, and use lemons or apples, they would feel just as well satisfied ami receive no injury. A suggestion may not oome amiss as to a good plan when lemons are cheap in the market. A person should then purchase several dozen at once, and prepare them for use in the warm, weak days of the spring and summer when acids, especially citric and malic, or the acid of lemons, are so grateful and useful. Press your hand on the lemon and roll it back and forth briskly on the table to make it squeeze more easily ; then press the juice into a bowl or tumbler—never into a tin ; strain out all ths Beeds, as they give a bad taste. Remove all the bulb from the peels, and boil in water—a pint for a dozen bulbs—to extract the acid. A few minutes' boiling is enough ; then strain the water with the juioe of the lemons ; put a pound of white sugar to a pint of the juice ; boil ten minutes, bottle it, and your lemonade is ready. Put a tablaepoonful or two of this lemon syrup in a glass of water, and have a cooling, healthful drink. The most useful Thing in the Long Run—Breath. Terms: a Year, in Advance. The Brook! t u Mystery. irrtil as 1 l **hui* *flh S*iSor*H mt UmSiUli t Sink taM. Ths Goodrich mystsry lissbeen solved at last by the ootifeamon of Miss Kate Htoddaru. On Thuradav morning, March !W, in Brooklyn, N. V., she shot Goodrich, fulfilling the threat mails in the letter received by the Hon. W. W. Goodrich, a brother of the deceased, a month previous. The letter, which de scribee her wrongs and suffering*, waa written in a plain baud, every letter being well formed. There waa not a single erasure in the whole letter. When it is considered that ahe had written this seated on her trunk in the basement of the cheerleae bouse in De graw street, on a cold February uight, it is most surprising, exhibiting a nerve and determination which it had not been supposed a woman poaaeaaed. It is as follows : BROOLTX, February, 1873. Ma. Goo MUCH : Hik : I propose to tell the truth. Will you listen ? For the past eight months I have been living in the second house of the block of new buildings in Degraw street, the third door from Fifth avenue. I have lived there unknown to any one exeept Charley. About one year ago I was married to him secretly, for It rusted him. I loved him so trhly that his word was law to me, aud he wished for noone to know of our marriage until some fu ture time, on account of property; the reason oonueoted with it lie did not fully explain. I was very foolish, for I was aloue in New York, with no friendaonly him. I have learned since then that the clergyman who married na waa no min ister at all, only a friend of bia, Reuben Hmith, a doctor, I think, who Uvea in the city. In December last, s month ago, our baby waa burn. Before that, and ainee then, Charley ha* treated me with the utmost cruelty, disowning all the ties between na Several days ago a woman with ringlets came here to one of the houses after s stove be had for her. I was at the window snd noticed the con versation between them. When Charley came into the house he told me thai we must part, that there waa no marriage tietween us, that he had tired of me, Ae. This woman with the ringlets is his new love ; he acknowledged that. Oh, it seema aa if it oould not be the same world to me now, all ia so dark and des olate. My heart ia completely broken. To lov. and atnrugglo on alone 1 have got to do, and I cannot without assistance. The reason I write this, and the circum stances under which I write, am most painful. I have been trying to work. I have been -mt work in a store all this week. To-night (Saturday night) I come here to my lonely home and waa very unexpectedly accosted by a man just as I was unlocking the door. He asked me if I wished to see Mr. Goodrich ; I told him ves and asked him who he waa. He said bis name wot George Baker; that he bad been employed to watch the building, and that my trunks and clothes had been taken into another house. I was quite bewildered, and I bad not the slightest idea that Charlev would ever treat me in this manne*. 1 followed the man into the house and saw all my things thrown upon the floor. It seems like some dreadful night •are. To-morrow is the Sabbath, and where will 1 stay or what will Ido ? I have no money and DO friends. I am seated on my trunk writing this to you. My hands are so stiff with the cold that I cannot bold my pen ; for that reason it may not be easy for you to decipher mv horned writing. A*t 8. SarrausT Eva., Feb. 15. This letter did not have the desired effect Goodrich became instead more determined to caat her off. She en treated him to allow her to remain with him. On the night preceding the fatal morning Goodrich, on his return from a visit to Lnoetta Meyers, was accosted by Kate. They quarreled. He strove to shut himself up in his room. She followed him there and essayed to break open the door with a chair. When she arose in the morning the quietly followed him down the stairs to the frant '.basement, baring already possessed herself of his pistol, She was partly dressed. Goodrich, unaware of her presence behind him, walked to the mantelpiece and took a match. Kate stood st the door. As he bent over the Baltimore range to start the fire with the match, she crossed the room, and saying " Charley," looked full at him. He turned on hearing the name. As he did so she discharged the pistol and sent the bullet crashing through his temple. He tried to rise, but toppled ' over on the oilcloth. As he lay in death agony she stooped over him, and repeat ing a verse from Byron'a "Giaour," dia i charged two more shots, the bullets en tering, one through the left temple and ! the other behind the left ear. After he had given the last sign of life she seated herself near the door and gased on hia :IK sly. She stayed in the house all day busying herself with the fixing and ar ranging of the body. The pistol with" which she shot him and his gold wstch and chain and ring *bc put into her own pocket. The wal let containing S4O, she secreted in the liosom of her dress. Frequently that day she bent over the dead body and kiiUed sway the hlood ss it flowed from the wounds. That night she slept in the house with the body. Early the next morning, after placing a black - liandled pistol at Goodrich's side and again wiping and kissing the blood from hia face, she brushed back his hair with a wet towel and started for her workshop in New York. In the evening, on her return from the city, she was startled by the shouts of newsboys announcing the murder of Charles Goodrich. She bought a news paper and stood on the comer amid a group of policemen, newsboys, and others reading the account. Having finitdied she retraced her steps to the ferry and crossed to New York. When questioned by Chief Campbell eonoern ing her motive in returning to the house, she said : " I wanted to see that no harm lefell the body." On Friday night she lodged in a house up town. "On the following dsy she procured a habitation and remained in New York until the second week in April, working all the time where she liad been employed previous to the death of Goodrich. About the 12th of April a Mrs. Taylor, a widow, who lives at 127 High street, Brooklyn, near Jay street, two blocks from the York street police station, was called upon by Kate, who desired to hire a furnished room in the house. The house is a three story brick and basement. Mrs. Taylor the week before had lost a daughter by death. She was lonely, and becoming predisposed to Kate," readily let the room to her. On the following day two trunks arrived at the house. Kate had given $2 to Mrs. Taylor to pay the ex presaage. After Kate had lived in the lionse about three weeks she purchased a piano on monthly installments. During her stay in the plaoe Kate never reeeived visitors or letters. On her return from work she went to her room and stayed in the house until morning. Kate was employed steadily making fancy straw hats in a store in Broadway until two weeks ago. Then she began to take the work home. When NO. 31. hiring the room Kate gave her name aa Minnie Walton. Mrs. Taylor described her aa a perfect lady. Kate frequently went into Mrs. Taylor's room sad took a cup of tea with her. At these times she was very communicative, but never alluded to any trouble. Abe said that her folks lived in Trenton—her father and stepmother. Mrs. Taylor said aha w* * regular attendant at church. Aam m law of Mr*. Taylor often read for her. Kate on his beginning to read from the newspapers, arose from her chair and mazing aa exeusa waat out of the room. A day or two ago aa she waa going out of the room on the son-in-law attempting to road they re quested her to remain saying," It is about the Walworth murder." Bhe re plied, "Oh, don't read that; I don't like to hear of murders." Kate never made any attempt to oon eeal herself. Bhe never wore a vail, and went in and out whenever she wished. Mrs. Taylor, in bar conversation con cerning Kate, said* that she waa v*rv clean and testy. Her dresses were not expensive, but were neat. Her room was always tidy, A married daughter of Mrs. Taylor,'not knowing her name, called her at times Walton, Waltham, and Watson. Kate answered them all, never correcting the mistake to the pro nouncialion of "■ she had as sumed. Kate refused to give any information to the police when questioned, but the uext day site confessed all to Chief CampbeiL Bhe aaid, after reciting tbe story aa narrated above, " I killed him 'for love. I could not part with him." She explained everything unreserv edly, answering all the Chiefs questions except the one concerning her residence. Bhe refused to tell where she lived, say ing, " If you find out you will discover in my trunk evidence that will bring me to the gallows." In the afternoon an officer of tbe York street polios station reported a boarder absent from 12 High street He described tbe absent prisoner. It answered Kate's description. Chief Campbell was informed. Mr*. Taylor visited the station, and before seeing Kate beard her voice in the Cap tain's room. Bhe Instantly identified her aa tbe ooeupent of a room in her bonse. Tbe Chief visited tbe room and ex amined it There were two trunks, a piano, and a small music bos in the room, the property of Kate. Tbe trunks were opened. In the first were the gold watch and chain and ring and seal of Goodrich. The pistol with which be waa shot and the pooketbook containing 240 were also in it Tbe pistol lrns en ivory handle. Tbiee of the chambers were discharged and three loaded. A large package of letter* from her mother in Marlboro', Mass., were found. They were addressed to Lizzie ML King. The letters speak of the solicitude of her parents for her moral and material welfare. Two letters making arrange meats for her meeting with Goodrich from him were also in tbe trunk. A Hovel Sign, The head of an enormous bison, put up over the bulletin board, at a certain railway office, attract* much attention. A good story is told in connection with the patting up of one of theee boards in a Chicago hotel. The proprietors were grumpy fellows, and it was some time before tbe agent of the line oould get permission to put it an. At last, however, he succeeded, and it waa huog op in the office. Some wags belonging to the other roads, knowing the ctrenm- to have it down. that evening three of them walked into the office and asked, one far five pounds of beefsteak, another for some calf's liver, and the other for tripe. "This isn't a butcher shop," sboated the irate landlord. "O" it isn't, ehf said one of the wags ; "then you'd better take in your sign." Next morning the aged! of tbe line got a note from the proprietor: " Come and take away your old bull head. I won't have it in Uie house." Death from Orar-Exertiaa. A young gentleman, by the name of Foote, a graduate of Yale, died recently from the effect# of over-exercise at row ing while in College. Wilkie Collin's theory that exceaaive physical training ia destructive of the vitality of the sys tem has been a good deal derided oy critics who are at least aa capable ot judigng as the distinguished novelist. The case here cited, however, is not the first to prove that Mr. Collin's theory is scarcely so wide of tbe truth as his op ponents profess to believai Healthy development of mind or body would naturally seem to depend upon giving all the faculties ana muscles regular and moderate exercise, without over working any. What constitutes " over working " is the question, end that, we fancy in most cases, must be settled by the individual himself according to the effects produced upon him. Occupations and Products. The Stockholder has been overhauling the Census volumes to some effect, ana has made a careful examination of the statistics of labor. It gives the follow ing table of the persons employed and 1 the product per head in agriculture, ' manufactures, mining, and fisheries in the United States; gwgt JPNuriltir# JhMtftlritPVff- JMfF | HrrtwNw a.M" fus ! SunlKUw • J.WMSS Sl* Minion, qoarrjlnf. * IM.SJS • **S l-Uhorte. USI Total ot product, S4.33S.MMO* A vera** product per brad In all puraiuts 3&.T1 In his speech at the Cobden Club, in England, the other day, Mr. Weill arid that if the production of the country was divided among the people, the aver age per liead would not exceed $175. The Stockholder infers, from the vari ous figures it gives, that taking into consideration the cost of living, capital employed, coat of superintendence, and all other elements, agricultural labor is more productive than any other in the country. It also regards labor as more profitable in this country than in any other part of the world. Money Orders. Few persons are aware of the grout convenience to the public of the Money Order offloe. Among the most recent of all postal improvements, it is our only national bureau that pays a profit to the Treasury. The Patent Office is self-supporting ; but the Money Order Office nets an annual profit of over one hundred thousand dollars. It is only eight years old, yet it transmits fifty millions a year in sums averaging about eighteen dollars each. And these moneys are sent over all this country, Groat Britain, Germany and Switzerland ; and : through Switzertand over nearly all civ ilized Europe, for Switzerland is the oentral banking honse of the world'z money orders. A rail mill is being constructed in Louisville, Ky., at a oost of half a million of dollars, for the manufacture of rails by a new system, which is said to do away with manual labor. Before the iron comes out a perfect rail, it is passed through thirteen sets of different rolls without a half, and is turned over five times for aide rolling. The iron for a rail is taken from a heated furnace and transformed into the proper shape in thirty seconds. Conway, N. IT . lim now a UK), mora than hall M nab population aa ia 1788. Tbe d reusing "<* *l Jast ing of *ll fNßtaßtf ; *1 is ••Mom worn out.* Two license* to eeM opium k Hone la la were rwuUywUH aacbcm, and were bought lor 1518,000. During • bull-fight i Mjkg* th* people roM against lb. ewthoritiea, and asverai councilor* were *e**MfaatacL The " Orangemen' " oared** if Ww York and ia other u laminated wilbool notable unpleasant occurrence. Imitation meerschaum pine* are ww mad. oat of potatoes , dl ' o *4 * sulphuric acid, and aftefkard dned under great preaeurn. A letter mailed ia Main* Oct. 21, 1*571, reached the poaWffice in Cam bridgeport, Uan., to which it wae di rected, a few dajra ago. Rev W. H. H. Murray wffl deliwr the oddrnaa at the annual fair of the New England Agricultural Society in Bottom in September next. Somebody neke why ilkthnt an seldom if var etraek by lightning, the eolation of which conundrum lethal erery orcbeetra hd a conductor. The Cbioeee hav* bean raorgai,:rn* their army, which now number. 300.000 men, armed with EofficM, Remington end Oolt's riflea, with a ftiß equipment of rtfiad artillery. A Boenoa Ayrea paper aaya that few itiM in the world are progressing mora rapidly than Montevideo, and that it wul ia a lew yearn rival Hew York in commercial importance. Cincinnati ia confident that it containa enough kerosene at .rehouses and wbm key distilleries to take the ahine oat of OUcag* and Beaton in the matter of great fires one of theee days. A projected duel between two proud neat citizens of Wilkinson oouiity. Mi* sisai ppi, recently, was pre mated by the police. Perhaps the principals wore dinappou.ted, ""I perhaps not. A Portland, Me., fruit-dealer received a bite the other day from a young tar antula that bad been brought from Cuba in a bunch of banana*. The wound was very painful, but hot fatal. It hna been decided by the Poatinae ttar Gene-Til thai nothing shall be panted on a postal card, such an ne* spa per clippings, AMI The Department agrees to eary only the eard and what ia written on it. In digging a well ia White Plains, Nevada, recently, n stream of water of boiling heat was reached at a depth of eighty-two feet This is probably the first artificial well of boiling water ever WlhiiA A Tray lady had returned to her laat week, without any explanation, an enameled breast pin, which she lost twelve years ago. Her faith in human nature nas been increased eocr apond ingly. The fate of the Kentucky man who purchased his coffin at auction a dozen year* ago, and waa recently entirely consumed in a lime-kiln, is said to have delighted the hearts of the toeal under taker*. It ia suggested that persons who go about with their Gaahmere shawl* turn ed inside out to show that they are genuine, should adopt the custom of walking on their heads, to show tlriilaka their boots am soled. Mr. Thomas Alien has offered to give the Atbenmum. in Pittafteld, Mass., 290,000 for the erection of astoae build ing for its uses, provided his associate trustees will see that an equal sum in raised to endow the inetttntaoa. The culture of rice is prohibited with in one mile of Savannah, the radius be ing known as the 'dry culture limits." Twentv-three squatters were arrested tho otier day for violating this prohibi tion, and ordered to destroy the grow ing crop. It it related that a Frenchman took lodgings in Paris moeutty, on* of the conditions being that he should be call ed every morning and told what day of the week it was, what waa the condition of the weather, and under what form of government be lived. A conscientious Pittsburgh man promised his wife the other day that he wouldn't drink another drop a* long aa he bad a hair oa his bead. That very night be bed his head shaved smooth, and then got drunk with a proud con sciousness of having faithfully kept his promise, "Saratoga trunk on the brain," is now fully recognised by the medical faculty aa a malady peculiar to the fashionable women of New York. A brilliant im becile aaya that the trunks have aa ad vantage over the women, inasmuch, as they wear their .own locks, vhich the women don't The women of Pittsburg arose at four o'clock a Monday morning recently, in tending to do the week's washing early ; but just as the clothes were thoroughly soaped the Water Oommtarioner# cut off the water, and during tbe rest of the day tbe women held meeting* with Mrs. Nexdor. The public debt statement shows a redaction daring June of 22,145,159 89. Coin balance. 287,507,402 68 ; Currency balance, 29,783.529; Coin certificates, $39,460,000; Special deposits for the redemption of Legal Tenders, 231,730,- (100 : Legal Tenders outstanding $356,- 000,000. That was a very touching incident— that of the little school girl who refused to define the word down aa "a low, vul gar fellow," and for her stubbornness was punished with tbe fernle and de tained in play hours, sll to no reforma tory end. The little child's father proved lo be s clown in smrcus. The costume of a young lady now adays is a curious mixture of styles. The arrangement cf the hair is Greek, the raff is Elizabethan, the jacket probably Louis Quatorse, the fan re presents the Trianon epoch, and the jewelry ia probably Moorish or Etrus can. C hicago politeness ia thus depicted by the Post; "During dog-days thr true gentleman* may be recognised by tbe alacrity with whieh he gives his seat on the sunny side of a street car to the first handsome young lady that gets on board, while he goes out on the shady platform for a smoke." Several members of the Elm ire," N. Y., Farmers' Club state thai in their experience Alsike clover makes one crop of nioe sweet pasture in a season, but the second growth amounts to al most nothing. The President said that hay from it, when bright, was no better relished by oows than damaged red clover. The departure from England of the Brazilian cable expedition is anticipated in the most recent London newspapers. Double interest is attached to the event, following as it does so soon after tbe start at the fonrth Atlantic cable * squadron. The cable in question will be laid along the coast of South America, from Para to Pernambuoo, and will form part of an extensive line of com munication with the Brazils. Other sections will be laid in due course from Pernambuoo to Bio Grande, with a station at Bahia, and from Para to St. Thomas' in the West Indies. The New York correspondent of the Chicago 7W6uine writes; "Speaking, the other day, to a gentleman well ac quainted with public men, on the sub ject of their capacity and habits of work, he remarked that the hardest worker he had ever known was Caleb Cashing. Cashing told my imformsnt that, for twenty-five years, he had spent seventeen out of every twenty-four hours in intellectual pursuits—reading, studying, or writing—giving himself bnt seven hours for rest and recreation. Cashing has an extraordinary constitu tion and the most vigorous health, and receives such pleasure from absorbing ftental occupation that it ha* oy long habit become second nature to him. He is now seventy at least, and of late years, being regularly employed aa a sort of Government lawyer upon in ternational eases at Washington, he has taken life more easily, aa well he might at his advanced age.'
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