A Confession. I met lier on the car* Mty- I'vi often met her thorn before. Slip ha* an aroli, pnohannng way Which Women envy, tiicn adore. Bho i* not yonnp -i>o more am 1 Indeed, ray tward is Une * wiiow; Bnt Tun* hae slyly her lit, Nor left a on her brow. Her eye* are blue aa heaien'a I4ue ; Her forehead with the lily viea; Her oheeka hare oanglu the rone'* hue. Her hair the minuet* gulden dye*. We meet and chat, and w heu are part Peril | we kin*. Hut neither tU*! And then for hour* within my heart There'* tuumceweet a* chmung bell*. Our talk'a not of indifferent thing* Of Hooka and picture*. Hint* and flower* Rui thing* akin to weddiug-rmgw. Of boy* and buninen*, girl* and dower*. Indeed, it i* mo*t grave and ataul. As doth become our tune of life; For we are |rawing into nhade. And I'm her huaWml. nhe'a my wife. The True Nobleman. No ajrn, no rudeness, no pretence. No lack of plain good common nenee; No boortßh maimers to aimov. No rietoua moral* that destroy True maiihnem and grve; He wear* upou hi* face A gentle, honest air, Am! no deceit ta there. Hi* true sUms.Ainl not his dress. Oommend him. and ht* manhuees VVttM the good favor of the few Who know turn well, and know lam true. Ho leans not MI the hrokeu roe,l* Of anrsetral renown, and deeds Utw father did king ream ago. Ihne Hkxvd m (oral rein* m*> flow. AMI Leeu still a prisoner. I was so quiet, and my keejiers believed me totieUo tractable and harmless, that when I was taken for my daily walk it was not thought necessary to confine my arms m ftraiglit waistcoat, and I wras sometimes taken for rambles outside the asylum grounds. One day nr keeper, who was very f f.md of ttont-fishing, wished to have an hour or two's fishing in a stream a few miles distant. Of course his piscato rial pursuits had to be carried on with great caution, and without the knowl edge of his master ; and I was always bound over to secresv. I was always well pleased when a fialung-day was pro j posed, as these were the only pleasant days I hat! ; and I hoped that some day or other I might by their means get an opportunity of escaping. On the morning in novation we got to the stream, after calling at a friend's bonse for my keeper's rod and tackle, and my keeper began his amusement, making me keep etoae to him all the t time. As we walked along the bauka of the small river we came to a deep pool, a favorite spot for trout, and uiy keeper 1 set to work eagerly. As he walked gently along, keepiug his eyes intently fixed "on the water, iu expectation of a rise, his foot caught ou the root of a tree, and he stumbled forward, and fell i liead-first into the deep water. Now was my chance ; and without waiting a moment to see whether he could swim or not, I turned and fled, without kuow ing or caring in what direction I went. Toward evening I found 1 wras within a few miles of my own place; and, im pelled by an inward impulse, 1 walked | toward it, intending to take one last look at it before leaving England. 1 had often thought over what I would do when I gut free, and had decided to 1 first make good my escape to anolliei j land, and then take means to recover my rights, and punish my brother for his unnatural conduct. When I got to my house it was dark; but the new moon abed a w j loved and was wedded to ? No, I , : would go, and leave her in happy ig [ ' norance. i' But before doing so I would write to him and warn him not to betray her, ns 1 ho had done me. I wont to Liverpool, ; and finding a ship about to sail for Mel • | bourne, engaged a steerage passage in - I her, paying for it liy the proceeds of a valuable ring I had on my finger, und , ; of which, for a wonder, I hod not been [ nibbed in the asylum. It is many years i now since I left England— ham many I r' do not know, nor do I wish to remem ■ | her. My brain has never recovered the , treatment I received so long ago ; and - jat times I lose my reason, and have i several times attempted to destroy my -1 self—l have never any wish to injure I I others—and I have been four times in i i the Yorra Bind ; but with kind, judi i cions treatment—very different to what •! I received in the private asylum—l have : always soon recovered and been dis t ! charged. i j A kind friend —the only person who i | knows who I am and where I am—often • | writes to me ; and through him I hear i j that my brother is a kind husband to ; her whom I still love better than any i ! thing on earth. Ho lias given np all I his evil ways, and is one of the most r respected inen of his county, a justice i of the peace, and a great promoter of > charitable institutions. -luiai. L r A machinist died lately at the ago of . fifty-four, in Rhode Island, who had ; been unable to do any work for twelve i years, and who hod never received over , $1.50 per day wages, and yet he left a j snug little fortune of $15,000, all from I his own earnings. He was not pennri - ons, was married, bad one child, and 1 educated her, lived comfortably, and s dressed neatly. He merely saved small 1 sums, beginning with S2OO when he be i came of age, and added the interest of - his deposits to the principal. CENTRE IIAI.L. CENTRE CO.. I'V.. THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1873. Effect of a KuUiriiiake'* Hlto, A letter from Cornwall, N. Y., aays : Oil Saturday, Joseph liulse, a wood cliopper of this place, was bitten by a rattlesnake. While on Storm King Mountain, five milea up, he encountered a ser|eitt, aud wanting one for a friend who had rheumatism —the belief of liiauy herealniutH beingthut snake grease I* a cure for it-he ehaaed the stoke, which took refuge in a wood-pile, ami Hulne seized htm by the haek of the neek, but so near the head that it con trived to turn and plant one of its fangs iu the iudex finger of his right hand, liulse held fast to his suake, neverthe less, *taiu)ieii its head off, and t! en spent half an hoar in looking for white ash leaves, which are believed tojbe an an tidote for the tHii*on. He found none to suit him. however, and started for Cornwall. He was bitten at 7 o'clock, and it was II o'clock when he reached the village, and Dr. Reattie was sum moned. At this time the arm and finger were very much swollen, and very gangren | ous, the action of the heart hail almost ceased, and the man seeuied like one in a state of intoxication. Dr. Beat tie hastily cut the fiuger open, and admin istered two quarts of whisky in twenty i minutes ; laudanum and ijuiuine were also given in large quantities, and not withstanding the loss of three half pints of blood from the finger, the pulse lU ereaaed, and Hulse became perfectly conscious. He is, after eleveu days, in apparently good health, with excellent appetite, \>ut as black us any African. Tlie black is occasionally streaked with blue, purpl and green, which appear and di*ap|tear alternately, lie is in the hands of Mr. John Brooks, and may be seen by ariv physician or other |enion who is desirous of making au investiga tion. A IVlrked Joke. A cruel hoax was perpetrated on Mr. C. Trimble, of No. 28 Kossuth-place, Broadway, Brooklyn, E. D., and others. It appears that the Victory L<*lge of Good Templars, of which Mr. Trimble is an old mefflwr, had some difficulty with some of the new iueiiilH*r*, among out of their annual electiou, which tHk place six months ago, ever since whieli time the disaffected have been endeav oring to break up the lodge and obtain possession of the liHlge-room furniture. At length a meeting of all member* in goo 1 standing was called to lake place at Mr. Trimble's house at 730 o'clock. This waa advertised, and some parties, supposed to lie the disaffected, sent |M>stal cards around to different persons who hail advertised for {KsiiUons, or missing property, or for other thing*, that if thev would call at Mr. Trimble's at 7 30 o'clock (on the evening appoint ed for the ineetingi, their wishes would be met. Upward of fifty of these cards were sent, and tlie result to Mr. Trimble waa electrical. At the time given out for the meeting, men nnd women were *,-en pouring toward the house. They literally filled it. Mr. Trimble, not taking in the situation, nervously asked what ws* wanted, tvune wanted situ tttihn*, some loans, sums lost property, and ouo detective wanted information in relation to the Oyster By murder. Home of the women hod gone a loug, weary way with children in their ami*. Some had come from Statcu Island, Breslan, Readout, and other places. The parties who perpetrated the hoax are *n|ecled, ami no expense will be spare*l to briug them to justice. fetching Squirrels oa a Ftib Hook. I have ranght with a hook and lino, sav* a correspondent of a lfcmton paper, nearly all kinds of fish. Ixwides turtle*, frog*, duck*, and other fowl, but while fishing for trout in tho Wellingsley brook in Plymouth, Mo**., I discovered a uew field of sport. While I had jual taken ont a splendid trout from under a 1 ruck, and was nbont baiting my hook, J saw a good sixed squirrel jump upon the rock. My pole was of g- erty. Not three minntes later, how ever, he was capering along tho fence aa if nothing hail happened. Population of Panada. There are returned 022,719 fnmilies in the Dominion, the total population showing a slight preponderance of male*, who numlwr 1,704,311, to 1,721,- 4AO females. In matters of religion the Catholics are credited with a total of 1,492,029, to 1,993,732 "Protestants," which means "not Catholics," embrac ing every shade of belief and unbelief, from Judaism andHpiritualisni down h< deism and atheism. As to the origin of the (>eople of Can oil a, it seems that '2,- R92,703 of the inhabitants are *et down as iinving been "born in Canada," leaving only 590,996 foreigners. The more detailed nnd infinitely less trust worthy table is ns follow*: French, 1,082,940; Irish, 840,414; English, 700.- 309; Scotch, 549,940; Germans, 202,991; Dutch, 29,602; 1ndian5,23,037, Africans, 21,490; Welsh, 7,778; and Swiss, 2,902. After all that has been said al>out the intense national spirit which the forma tion of tho Dominion was to create and foster among the people, it seem* tlint there arc no *ueh folks as " Canadians" officially recognized. Indeed, all through the Dominion, when the word "Canadian" is used, it is applied hi tho inhabitants of French origin. BADI.T TRKATKD. —A man in Han Francisco recently wss so unfortunate as to be robbed of sls. With the old fashioned idcA in his mind thAt the police and the Courts are ordained for the purpose of enforcing justice, he complained of tho theft. Whether he recovered any portion of his money, or whether the thief was detected or Ennished, we do not know ; bnt we do now that the poor fellow who made the complaint lias just been released after seventy-eight days' confinement, having beeu locked up as a witness all that time. There is in Paris a woman who has for the last fifty years supported her self by un industry of whien she enjoys the monopoly. She supplies the Gar den of Acclimatization with food for the pheasants, which food consists en tirely of silts' eggs. These she collects in the woods, and receives about twelve francs for what she brings from each of lier expeditions. These last three or four days, during which she sleeps on the field to watch the insects st dawn, and to find her way to their treasures. Hhe is almost devoured by the ants, of which she tnkes little notice, but at the end of her haryest time, which is from June to the end of September, her body is in a pitiable condition. Captain Jack's Civf, The Boston Transcript publishes an extract from a private letter giving an account of the first visit of a while man to Captain Jack's cave : " 1 directed Bogus Charley to take the lead to the famous eaves which no white lusti had ever visited, ami to see which was the object of iuy expedition. Bogus was in doubt whether he could fiml the trial, it had been so loug since he was there—some two years. But 1 told him to make the trail, aud we started off in stugls file, Bogus on the lead, the'n myself, IX, J. and the en listed men. 1 had a carbine, C. aud J. pistols, and the soldn-ra Springfield breech-loaders ; Charley had no weap ons, so if he meant treachery he would be the first victim It was intensely hot, and after tumbling and scrambling over rocks for four hours, Charley came to a halt, saying he had loat the trail. I ordered a rest of a few minutes, and then told Charley to try sgam. "We were then almost to the middle of the lava beds, which were from twenty to twenty-five miles long by from seven to nine miles wide—that is to sav, we were about four miles from our startiug-poiul iu a straight hue, though we had traveled about seven. Iu about half an hour Charley, as he raised a erest,discovered a juuijier tree, which was the mark he hail been looking out for, and informed me that the eaves were within three hundred yard* of that tree, which latter was distant from usalniutfive hundred yards. We made the last quarter-slretati in a hurry, and sure enough there was a cave. Charley descended first, aud then turned to me, as I began to de scend, and said, 'Leave your gun.' "I gave mv carbine to one of the men, and deaoeuded alniut thirty feet. Char ley and I proceeded to the mouth of a cavern, and as I went in Charley said, 'You first white man ever come here.' 1 entered the first cava, which I fouud to be three hundred feet loug by forty five feet wide aud thirty to thirty-five feet high, lighted from the top by two hole* iu the roof extending to the sur face of the ground ; there were side galleries and tunnel* running from the floor to the outanle surface of the ground in all direetiona. Eagle neota adorned he ceihiig*, aud mountain sheep track* dotted the dust which lay several inches thick on the bottom of the cave. Ktslactib-s hung on the sides. This was the first eavc and the largest. After passing through this, we earns iuto dsy light again, into another crater, on the* opposite side of whieli waa a hole large enough for a man Iu con veniently enter. Charley went iu first, aud finding it dork, we got some sage brush to burn for light. A* we had no means of keepiug a light,and the bottom of cave No. 2 was strewn with large nicks, difficult to elimb over and among, we weut as far as we oouh! aud then turned back. The thml cave was op posite the entrance to No. 1, and upon examination presented the same features as the others. The first care eutered was tho largest. We then turned our facos lakeward, fouud our traps un molested daring our absence, and had dinner." Herpmt* In India. An English writer, evidently not hsv ing before his eyes the recent debate hi l*arHament in regard to the great des truction of life in India by wild beasts, or else retneinberiug that abont tieup* there are aorao 66.1Wit000 |H*>ph\ and that, therefore, 10,1)00 in a veat killed are not uurny, writes to the London J\me* to asy that tigers flee, rather than seek, the dwellings of men. This is certainly natural, -ctng that an ordi nary man-eating tiger wants but one man at a time, and can afford to tie and wait by the side of any road through which "there in traffic until some lonely and therefore, eligible person come* along. That tigers learn to do this there is no manner of doubt, but vet it is true, as the correspondent . a gentleman of rohl and reserved bearing. He wan very attentive to her. But, unfortu nately for Madame X. the devoted En dilbnfl del not love her for herself, but for her jewels, and he was in reali ty tlie chief of an organised baud of robbers. His plan was well laid. In the month of January last year he induced the hue hand of Madame X. to have the ceiliug of his apartment frescoed, and recom mended to him Jor that pnrposeau Ital ian painter, who, Hir Joshua said, was au excellent workman. The painter, a ruetnlier of the robber band, came from Milan, and improved the time he was at work in the room by taking an im pression of all tbe locks. A month after this, Hir Joshua suggested to the husband that his wife's diamonds were uot in safety, and that Madame X. ought to buy a jewel-case for them, at the same time remarking that he knew a very good English maker. The new jewel-case waa accordingly made in London, and the diamonds were placed in it At the end of two months later, on the warm recommendation of Sir Josh ua, permission was granted by Madame X. to another of hia confederates, a Munich jeweller, to cop.' the designs of some of her jewelry, ostensibly for the Empress of Germany. The plan was then complete. A valet tie chamber, in the employ of Sir Josh ua, opened every dsy the jewel-caae which had been provided with a secret and mvisible opening in the back of the case. It was only necessary to press s button and a secret spring opened tbe box. In this way all the diamonds were re moved one by one, their places being supplied by imitation stones, which were made with such illimitable perfec tion by the Munich jeweller that they exactly resembled the genuine dia monds. Madame X. did not perceive any change, and the robbery was only discovered by chance. A few days ago one of her intimate friends, s lady wno was going to London, borrowed from Madame X. a splendid solitaire. "Take good care of it," said Madame X., as abe gave it to ber friend ; "It would be worth fifteen hundred thous and francs if it did not have a tittle de fect," The lady wore the diamond at the Covent Garden Theatre, and while there one of the best known jewellers of Lon don. Mr. It., wss in her box. She called hia attention to the brilli ant, saying what a pity it was that it had a defect. Mr. B. examined it and could not de tect any flaw. He asked to be allowed to ace it by daylight on the following dav. He diil wo* and pronounced it an imitation dia mond. Tbe English polioe were notified. Sir Joshua, fortunately, had been ar rested two days before Uiis iu London, n suspicion of being concerned in the BiJwetl forgery case. He was exam ined by Mr. Williamson, the chief of the detective*, abont the diamond rot>- ►ery. At first he denied all knowledge of the affair, but afterward, thinking that tho truth was known, be related all these interesting details, and gave the Address of many of his accomplices. Fij/aro adds that the whole band was then in London, and probably all would be captured ; that the friend of Mad ame X. had not dared to reveal her ter rible kas to her, and that she would first learn it fmm the London police on the someday that it waa published in the column* of tbe /Ngaro. Love by Wire. The report of Mr. Hctidatnore. the Director of Postal Telegraphs in Great Britan, contains a romance of the most original description. After saying how successful he found the system of em ploTing male and female clerks to gether, and how much the tone of the men has been raise.! by the association, and how well the women perform the rberking or fault-finding branches of tlie work, he goes on to speak of friend ships formed between clerks at either end of the telegraph wire. They begin by cliatting in the intcrrala of their work, and very aoon beoome fast friend*. " It is a fact," continues Mr. Honda more, " that a telegraph clerk in Lon don, who was engaged on a wire in Ber lin, formed an acquaintance with and an attachment for "—mark the official at vie of the language—" a female clerk who worked on the same wire in Berlin; that he made a proposal of marriage to her, and that she accepted him without ever having aeon him. They were mar ried, and the marriage, which resulted from the electric affinities, is supposed to have turned out aa well as those iu which the senses are more apparently concerned." Nor must the pmduent reader ruu away with the idea that these young persons were very rash or that thev married without due acquain tance. For it is a fact that a cliffik at one end of a wire can readily tell by the way in which the clerk at the other end does hia work " whether he is passion ate or sulky, cheerful or dull, sanguine or phlegmatic, ill-natured or good-na tured." "OXR OR THK OI.DK* TIMK,"—The oldest white inhabitant of Minnesota has been heard from. Hi* name is R. H. Spalding, and in a recent letter he say* : " I claim to be the first white child born in what is now the State of Minnesota. On the 2flth of February, 1827, I was born inside the walls of Fort duelling, near St. Peter's. My father, Stephen Spalding, run a canoe with me in it, in 1828, to St. Louis, and from that day to the present I have never returned to Minnesota. Born in Minne sota, raised in Missouri, and graduated iu the Rocky Mountains, I have caught more beaver than all the NevHionse traps combined. I feught in the Mexi can war, and God only knows liow many Mexicans I killed (though I don't know as I killed any.) On the 10thof Angust, 1859, 1 discovered the first gold ever fonnd on the west slope of the Rockv Mountain* in Colorado. The mines I discovered were good, but my owu were good—for nothing." A BOSTON HTOBT.—South End gossips about the story of a lady who recently returned from Europe. Two years ago she married a Boston physician and bestowed upon him a fortune of $20,000, with which the couple took up their residence on the Continent. The hus band has deserted his wife, it is said, and squandered her fortune for the benefit of a titled foreigner, in conse quence of which she has returned to her relatives in a town on the line of tho B. nnd A. R. R. The parties are all very well connected, and the nar rative excites great surprise and oom ment. The Ironmonger says that stove-lns ter is blacker, more brilliant, snd more durable when mixed with turpentine than with any other liquid. Termi: 52.00 a Year, in A-dvance. Dead on the Can. A UsslMi (Ms* t |MIS a Hallway Train —A VnisUi IISISSS. 1 have tba saddest story to tail yon, my dear t/lohe, that my pen has ever trsoed. You may have seen the brief statement of the foot in other papers, but we were in the midst of the sad scene, and it is terribly vivid yet. Ktart tug for a trip to Uhioago and Ht Loms, our party were in the gayest of spinta, which nut even the puurtug nun we found at Omaha oould dampen, fur our transfer train was very comfortable. At Hpoon Lake, on the Missouri's eastern shore, our Pullman e*ra were waiting for us. There was a little con fusion and delay in securing our sec tions ; then hats and water-proof* were doffed and consigned to our African porter, and we settled ourselves for quiet chats till the dining car bnuging our supper should be attached. In and out among our seats, with child hood's inuooenl courage, there flitted a baby girl, whoae sweet face tempted us all to pet her. The words she tried to say were sometimes English, ofteuer French, and her nurse evidently be longed to Is belle France. Tliey were on their way thither, but, she said, " pauvre Madame was very ill in the compartment," pointing to the one little state-room in the car. We asw s tall gentleman passing back and forth with an anxious lock, but we little guessed bow near tjig shadow of death was hovering. At Galesburg we saw the invalid as we pasted through the car, and Die palid face shocked ns oil —with the pinched,drawn look about the mouth, and the half-abut eyes au fixed and glassy. It waa pitiful to hear the husband's anguished calls; to see bow utterly unconscious she lay, and to feel that she was fast " drifting out into that unknown sea that flows all round the world." A physician was with us, and no effort was spared to keep the fluttering life, which in health must have been so brilliant Tbe face was exquisite in its chiseling,the dainty hands were strangely prefect, snd on the pale Augers gems glittered snd fleshed ; costly raiment lay in heaps about her, and evidently her years bed been passed in rare luxury. It was herd to stand beside her now snd wstcb tbe life fsde, to touch the fore head and find it damp with the chill, prophetic moisture, and to feci that with the roar and rattle of the train abont us we must know that death stood in our midst The car wsa very fulL In one corner s group were busy with cards; in another section men with bronzed faces were talking of Texas stock ; little children ran about in merry play, and the darling so soon to be motherless nestled in the arms of her sobbing nurse, with a grieved, wondering look that was very pitiful. I think we shall noue of ns ever forget the moment when tlie physician's verdict waa given, and we whispered it from on# to another. Tbe ladv was a Catholic. No priest was on the train.aud the poor husband's frantic, prayers as be hew! the crucifix aloft or pressed it to the paling has, were touching beyond all worda. Tlie servants knelt beside their master, kusx mg the lifeleas hands, while we stood near hashed snd a we-stricken ; and when the last fluttaringsigh had passed, no mother's hand could have keen more tender than the stranger touch that closed the eyes an 1 folded the hands in fiual rest, with streaming team on his black cheeks, our porter came and went, doing all that could be done. The conductor was unwearied, and the gen tlemen on the train attended to all the wtd details that were necessary. "We are apt to think of " railroad men " as bluff specimens of American manhood —keen, shrewd and avaricious—bnt we who were on that train, and who re mainded till the party *tartcd for New York the following day, will never for ft the gentle kindness of the Chicago, urlingtou snd tjuincy officials. Mr. Dovle. the Gtneral Passenger Agent, ami Mr. Htrnog. the Superintendent, put aside all other business and de voted time and thought to the strioken group, as if they had been of the - r kindred. Fatigue was unheeded, every detail was arranged with the tenderest forethought, and the poor Count was relieved of all care, while the stunning force of tbe sudden blow left him almost distracted.— Oor. Jtoetun Globe. A Michigan Lumberman. A paragraph in a recent Michigan pa pel haa elicited from the Psntioc Ga zette the following respecting the landed wealth of a citizen of that State : ** Dr. David Ward'a great wealth rests in his immense amount of cork pine lands in Michigan and Wisconsin, amounting to over 150,000 acres, every forty of which he ha* been over himself, making a careful estimate of tbe number id di mensions of tho tree*, and noting all the characteristics of eoiL His land was nearly all selected from close ob servation years before most people bad an idea of their ultimate value, and the very best taken ; location upon streams anrf facilities for running the timber to market were carefully considered. So that to-day he owns the finest tract* of really available aud valuable cork pine in the United States, and the most of it. His pine lands maybe summarized a* follows: On the >tagin*w, 30,000 acres ; on the Manistee and An Bauble, 90,000 sere*; on the Chippewa, in Wis consin, 30,000 acre*. Total, 150,000 seres. In addition he owns 20,000 acres of tbe very best hanl-wood tim bered lands for farming in the central and northern part of the State, 1 resides all hi* valuable property in Oakland County, and 18,000,000 feot of logs afloat. Placing the same valuation upon hi* pine lands alone, an other per sons are selling detached tracts in the vieinitv of his, and it aggregates the sum of $6,500,000, and we may here say that that amount of greenbacks stacked up would not obtain the deeds of his piue property alone. Tlie difference in l>ine land is very great, as between cork and other qualities, and acre by acre the cork net* more than three times aa machos any other variety." In Wis cousin fully a dozen lumbermen boast that if their pine lands were laid out into strips a mile wide they would reach across the State, or over two hun dred mile# in length. Fancy Aprons and Blouse Walsta. Pretty aprons of Swiss and organdy musliu are being made up aa additions to house toilets. Those trimmed with pockets of embroiderv, edged with Val enciennes, are very dressy. Bretellos or fichus to match are sometimes worn with these aprons. They are composed almost entirely of Valenciennes. The belt is oovereu by a ribbon sash, the ends trimmed with Valenciennes. Bows of ribbon of the same color and shade ornament the pockets aud form shoulder knots. Hwiss muslin blouse waists are worn with colored skirts for afternoon and demi-toilet in the evening. The ad dition of a black Chantilly laoe fichu or sacqne produces a very dressy effect. A oolored sash should always be worn with a black Bkirt, when a lace saoque is worn over a white waist. Ladies of a decidedly matronly appearanoe, how ever, should never encircle their waist# With a colored sash when the waist is white and the skirt black. NO. 33. Visiting In India. The ft rut thing I ud told to do after i having got a roof over my bead it to array myself in uniform, gird s sword on my thigh, take card, in my band, and call on the General and bis staff; also the Resident or Chief a Commis sioner, or whatever alee ha called him aelf, and bia ataff. That done. I may get into plain clothe, and, having pro vided myself with a list of all the ladies in the place, commence my round of visit*. 1 lulls** it ia considered the more strictly correct thing to do for a married man to call by himaelf and make a kind of rooonnwisaaane. The husband of the lady called upon then does likewise, and, if they are both sat isfied, then their wives call. One rule i always observed, and that ia, that, mar ; ried or single, the new-corner calls first. ! I am, moreover, told that the only hoar* \ I can make my calls in are between 12 and 2— the hottest in the day. I *n|>- ix*e tin. is by way of making it all the more mentoriooa and complimentary, in the as me way pilgrims make them selves a* uncomfortable aa they can by patting } ing under the chin, giving him the ap-1 pearauce of suffering from toothache. He has very little other clothing. The horns ia a fearful-looking old screw, mere akin and bone, which, when not jibbing, however, goesalongat a decent para. A large bundle of grass, tied on to the roof for the refreshment of the aforesaid screw, completes the turnout I step in, and we start The door will not remain shnt; it is continually firing open, and aggravating me. The heat is intense ; the dust blows in clouds ; the perspiration poors down me; my be ■* us i fully- -starched collars become very limp, my lavender kids arc ruined. At last I arrive at the first of my list The servant comes down the steps of the veranda for my; raid, and aaya, "Missis can't see"— the Indian equivalent for " Not at home." I remember on one j occasion, when the servant was told to j say " Not at home," the truthful crea ture asms to the oarriege door, end de-1 livered himaelf of the following: j " Missis saying she not at home—ebe in i bed. Bar." Sometimes you will be told ! the reason she cant sec, entering into | very minutely into details that may I bring a blush to your modest face. One friend of mine, irritated at going from house to house and getting the eternal , "can't see" for reply, at last requested I the servant to inquire if Missis had aore eyes, However, at several of the houses I visited. Missis could see; and i then I found out that what are consid- ered evening Arrears at home are sup posed to be the correct thing to wear, i ootti by callers and called upon out here, Home even went ao far aa to have flowers in their hair. The gentlemen re vet have not got to wearing swallow-tailed coats and white ties, but they may do ao in time. Old lodiana—men who have been long in the country—are rattier given to calling in white uni forms; and, aa far as coolness is con oerned, they hare undoubtedly the beat I .f it. Perhaps they do not possess any 1 plain clothes. An officer, who had I been thirtyyreuw in the counter withoui i • moe going' borne, told me that seven > ream lx-fore be purchased a suit of plain clothe*, or, aa he called them—he waa a Scotchman—"ooevil clothes;" that he | had oulv worn tbem once, and was afraid of doing ao now, aa be thought i they might be out of faahion, and that ' the young officer* would isugh at him. [ Aa there were nearly 200 houses to call at, it took me the greater part of a week i getting through all my visits.— Once a H'efh Perils of lUUooaing. The late Prof. La Mountain was a brother of the La Mountain who with Wise made the longest aerial voyage on record, which waa from St. Loma, Mo., to the eastern part of the State of New York. La Mountain has been making ascensions for the last eighteen years; was connected with the signal service daring the war : haa made between one and two hundred ascensions—all except the two last with gaa for inflation. In the fall of 1870 he came verT near losing his life at Bay City, Michigan- Having made analtitnae of nearly three miles in dense fog, and getting com pletelv chilled, he endeavored to de scend. but found to his horror that the escape valve would not yield, having froaca to ita surrounding*. Pulling with all hia strength, the rope parted above his reach. He then concluded to ascend the ropes from the basket to the canvas and cut it with his knife, but oa searching hia pocket* he found to his dismsy that he had left it on the ground at starting. Nothing daunted, he climbed the icy. slippery ropes with his freezing band*, ana on reaching the canvas tore with his teeth rents suffi cient to let the balloon descend. On nearing the ground, the wind mean while caiTving him rapidly toward the lake, he found himself over a thick forest of pinca, but wss powerless to stop his descent The bssket striking a tall tree, he was hurled, braised, bleeding, and senseless, to the ground, but after some hour* revived sufficiently to crawl to the nearest farm bouse, where he got assistance. His balloon at lonia, where the fatal accident happened a short time since, waa made of cotton cloth, filled with oil ; was old and rotten from repeated heatings, but was by him considered safe, ifc made a successful start; but when some six or aeven hundred feet from the earth the balloon collapsed from a rent in one side, and fell rapidly. He detached himaelf from the basket when about one hundred feet from the earth, and struck squarely on his feet, breaking the left leg in three places snd the light in two. No other bones were broken, and there were but few bruises. His death was caused by concussion of the brain. Fish Cultare by Farmer*. Some of our contemporaries, saj the Ledger, are very enthusiastic in their recommendations of "fish culture by farmers." This is no new branch of farming in some localities. The farmers of Long Island and of the Eastern Coast of Massachusetts hare been engaged in Ash-culture for many years past. Their favorite species is the menhaden—a variety of herring. They do not plant the spawn in ponds, as is now recom mended for trout; but plant the fish themselves in the fields. We have never heard of any young fish being produced from these plantings ; but the crops of beans, corn, potatoes, cabbages and the like, are said to be large and profitable. Many farmers will be as shy about ex changing the menhaden culture for trout, as the oldrstof the speckled trout are about taking the hook. A Minnesota blacksmith drank some ice-water one hot day last week, and died in a few minutes. ful filthy condition, Connecticut'* hey crop 4a not omry light, and the , <:*l|ty l wmy good. afS&tEtftteW Hund school. -German authority JUaa ptehibit* 1 the importation of cattle trow Knaeia. be cause of the prevalence of the rinder pest. Adopted at a late meeting of the Pa trons of Husbandry : Resolved, that every woman iftfipiiaMptO the ia mar riad." ramstluwHtegv* as Iki lectins Re public. - a . Eastern salmon fishermen my that the catch this season haa been the moat pleatifnl for twenty yearn. Like reports have come from Oregon. , Bright lads those ancients. Byweur ine sandal* thev not only saved their sraHk al shoeblacks and keep dour at eon doctor*, j A Cinomnati brefrer'a wife papered 1 her trunk with teetly keg revenue stamps, and the brewer is In jail for the way he took on about It A little baby ia an my thing to love, but a big baby ia a vary hand thing to lava, aaya a veteran obsetver. especially 1 if you have married her. If any person has doUMe whether ad vertiaemente are rend r not, let him j put something ha doesn't wish known ut an obscure part of the paper. 1 A Minnesota paper say# :If pitching ■ fish from the la*m with an ordinary j Unowned hey-tork is any indicate*! of good fishing, than we have good fishing | here." ! The export of lote and rfioas frwi f the United States in 1830 was I.W*- ! In 1880 it amounted to ft 456,834, an .ncr.-**e daring that pariofi of over seven hundred per mat A hill has been u tocidueed into the British Parliament for the amendment of the jurv law, ao thai the agreement of eight oat of lha iwaive t for every spoon and fork.. | l>f4, vanished. The detective theu quietly opened a carpetbag which he had "ttth him, and revealed to Jeamea's ? azc the missing articles. The detective-had himself got in at the window and swept off all the plate. It was rather a dangerous experiment for him, but a very instruct ive lesson to Jeamee.