Memory. Itoy lit* again. *w hispyr km. fh* Mm f wo* sad baorsasr ; Ihsy MM* tgsti, kr*'i wttheved *www. Revived W* Magic aasmary. Thar Hva t *Nr bailed dsrtlag* From nut thsir long and solemn slevp, And star-iiks in Ufa's darkened *kia A geutU radiance ivtr knap. O mUi>ry, kind memory ' And whan my eaada of Ufa ara ran. And bare no mora my form Uy aaa, Kay I retain, at least to one. On radiant 'iring* of memory, •nek to mr anfoigott tn home, Back to one loved and lor ug Ueart ; If thus I only I ope to oome. Can now I'm ready to depa t, O aaamorr, kind memory ! The Flawm' Her el. Called the flower* to one another. - Sisters. ace that flaming bough I Summer's gone, our lovely pother ; Step-dame Autumn ruletb uow. She hangs out bar splendid l<anner ; Rings bur mice upon the breeaa , Wind* arftb sonorous praises fan bar , And aba iaauee her decrees. " Frost it ber olwdient servant; Droop our hands before hta nod; Tender bloom* or bloeiviine fervent Die at touch of bis cold rod. We must nek! to htm *ith meekneat. We have had our happy day ; Ail our strength to bint vraakneea t W a cannot dispute bis sway. ** All our beauty, tender, titkl, All aur coh, sweet or strong. At bis look grow dull and livid, And we <Be—a Ufeleea throng. But before bis chills subdue us Let us banquet proud and high; Rummer's Ufa yet pulses through us Let as praues her ara we dte!" - , a ■-■ <.ji 11 & L. AS OLD-TIME STORY. The Mriy.mnal the reign of George m. Was the time of those gallant rob ber*, whose line clothe*, high bearing, rook lea* hardihood, and t frequently ) good birth took away from the auperfi cial observer mnch of the darkness of the crime actually surrounding their deeds and lives. On# in partionlar vat notorious enough in his brief dav for most of the qualities I h#T deeeribed.es sometime# attributes of these knights of the road. He wee well connected, too, his ancle e clergyman in e high eharch appointment. ' His person was elegant, his manner courtly, and he was rash in an extraordinary degree. Mingling freely in fashionable society in his real name, his deeds of robbery were the talk of the town nnder his assumed one. His proper designation was Richard Mowbray— that belonging to the load, his sole aoaree of revenue, was Captain de Montmorency—a patronymic high-sounding enough. I do not mean, however, to infer that any suspected the man of fashion and the highwayman to be the same person ; that was never known till the event which I am going to relate took place. Richard Mowbray had spent his own small patrimony, year* before the period at which this narrative com mence#, in the pleasures of the town ; it had been melted in play-honses.faro, horseflesh, and hazard; he had exhaust ad the kindness and forbearance of his relations, from whom he had borrowed and begged till borrowing er begging became impracticable. He had no more extremes of life ; and, moreover, when debts and poverty stared him grimly in the face, he knew not one useful art by which he oonld support existence or pay dividends to his creditors. What was to be done* He eluded a jail as long as he oonld, and one night, riding on horseback, and meditating gloomily on his evil fortunes, he met—covered by the darkness from all discovery—a traveler well monrted plethoric— laden with money-bags, and bearing likewise the burden of excessive fear. It was a sadden thought—acted upon as suddenly. Resistance was not dreamed of. Mowbray made off with bis booty, considerable enough to repair his exhausted finances and to pay his most pressing creditors. It was literally robbing Peter to pay PanL And so by night, nnder shelter of its darkness" did the ruined gentleman be come the highwayman. People who knew his circumstances whispered their surprise when it became known that Rtobsrd Mowbray had paid his debts, and that he himself made more than his customary appearance. Now this fine gentleman was ever clad with the new est braveries of the day; and in his doable character many s conquest did he make, for ke disburdened ladies of their jewels and parses with so fine a manner that the defrauded fair ones forgot their losses in admiration of the charming deepoiler, and Richard, in both his phases, drank deep thoughts to pleasure till he drained the Circean cop of its veriest dregs. Just ae even pleasure became wearisome, when festive and high-bread delights palled npon his sated passions, and the lower extremes of licentiousness and bard drinking, raffling, and fighting, diver rifled by the keen excitement and threats of danger, which distinguished his predatory existence, began to satiate, a new light broke on the feverish atmos phere ef his life. He loved. Yes 1 Richard Mowbray, the ruined patrician. De Montmorency, the gallant highway man, who had hitherto resisted every good or evil influence which love, pure or earth-stained, offers to bis votaries, succumbed to the simple charms of a young, unlearned, unambitious girl, so youtbfni that her tastes and habits, childish as they were, oonld be scarcely more so than suited her years. Plavia Hardcourt had just attUuned her six teenth year—had never been to a board ing school, and loved nething so much —even her birds and her pet rabbite— aa her dear old father, an honest conn try gentleman, and a worthy magistrate. Fiavia had never been even to Lon don, for Mr. Hardcourt resided at Ave ling—a retired village, about twenty miles from the metropolis. Barring fox-hunting and hard-drinking, the old gentleman, on his side, took pleasure only in the pretty, gentle girl, who, from the honr of her birth—which event terminated ber mother's exist ence, had made her his constant play mate and companion. And it waa to this simple wild flower that the gav man of pleasure, haughty, reckless, un principled, improvident, irreligious, and rash, presumed to lift his eyes, to j elevate his heart; and, oh, stranger ■till! to this being, the moral antipodes of her pure self, did Fiavia Hardcourt surrender her yonthfnl, modest, inesti mable love. It mnst have been her very childishness and purity that at tracted the desperate robber—now about to commit liis worst and most in excusable crime. He had accidentally met Mr. Hardcourt at a country hunt; had, with others of his companions, been invited by that honest gentleman to a rustic fete in honor of little Fla vin's natal day —a day, he was wont to observe, to him remarkable for com memorating his greatest misfortune and his in tensest happiness ; and Mien and there the highwayman vowed to win that pure bad of innocent fresh ness and rare fragrance, or to perish in the attempt. Master Richard Mow bray I unscrupulous De Montmorency I I will relate how yon kept your vow. He haunted Aveling Grange till the chaste young heart, the old father's be loved darling, surrendered itself into the highwayman's keeping. Perhaps Mr. Hardcourt was not altogether best pleased at Flaria's choice; bnt then she was his life—his hope—and he trusted, even when he gave her to a hnsband, that her love and doting af fection would still be his own ; besides, Mowbray was well connected—boasted of his wealth ; whereas a very.moderate portion would be hers—was received in modish circles, into which the good old magistrate oonld never pretend to pene trate; and, in short, what with his high bearing, his handsome person, and in sinuating tongue, Mr. Hardsonrt had irrevocably promised to bestow his tree sure into the keeping of the profli gate, who numbered himself almeat FRED. Kl ItTZ, Editor und Proprietor. VOL. VI. years enough to have been the father of the young girl, whom he testified the utmost im|tatirnee to call wtfe. It was during the time that Mr. Mow bray was paying his court at Aveling thai the neighborhood began to be alarmed by a aeries of highway rob beries, whieh men said could have been perjwtjruted but by that celebrated knight of the road—Captain IV Mout mntvncv. No oue oould atir after nightfall without an attack, iu which numbers certainly were not wanting. " Cudgel roe, but we'll have him yet," said old Mr. Hardcourt. " I should glory royaelf in going to Tyburn to are the fellow turned off. Ay, and 1 would take my Flavin to see him go by in the cart, with a parson and a nose gay, eh, my little girl ?" "Oh, uo, lather," aaid Flavia, "I conld not abide it, though he is auch a daring, wicked tuau, whose name makes me shrink with fear and terror whenever I hear it I could never bear to see such a dreadful sight—it would haunt me till my death." The betrothed pair were together to riait Ixmdon. " But 1 shall not ilarc," said the girl, as walking together in the old-fashioned Dutch garden, she leant her young, sinless head on her guilty lover's breast; M 1 shall not dare take such a journey, for fear of the highwayman, Montmo reaev." " Fear not, my sweet Flavia; thia breast shall be pierced through ere De Montmorency shall cause one fear in thine." " Richard, sweetness, why do you leave us so early every evening ? At sunset, I have remarked. These are not London habits. Ah, does any other than poor Flavia attract you? Oh, Richard, I must die if it should be so ! I could not live, and know you were false." " Sweetest and best! my purest love, could any win me from TOU ? Were it a queen/think it not, I—l—the truth is, Flavia, I have a poor, sick friend not far from here ; he ia poor, ill, and— I-I " "Say no more, dearest Oh, how mnch more I love you every day ! How good, how noble, thus to sacrifice !" And the blusuing girl threw herself into her lover's arms. Ah ! how differently beat these two huuiaa heart*. One pregnant with love, goodness, charity, sympsthv ; the other rank with hypocri'sy, dark with un belief. They same to town unmolested, yon may be sure; the stranger, because a few day* previously a terrible affair had occurred. Old Lord St. Hilary, the relic of the btaugatron* ot formerdavs, had been robbed and maltreated. Men were by no means so favored as the beau texe. Above all, a family jewel of im mense value had been taken from his person; and on recovering from his wonnds and fright, he swore vengeance. He took active measures to fulfill his vow. The wedding waa to take place at the old relation's, Mrs. Duchesne's house, and on lagging wings the day at length arrived. The marriage was celebrated, and the happy pair were in the act of being toasted by the father of the bride, when a strange noise was heard below; rude voice# were upraised; oaths mut tered; a rush towards the festive saloon. The company rose. " What ia it ?" asked Mr. Hard court. The door was broken open for answer. The officers of justice filled the room. Two advr,r.ced. *' Come, captain," said they, " the game is np at last It's an awkward time to arrest a gentleman on his wedding day; but duty, my noble captain, duty must be done." Entranced*, frozen beyond resistance or appeal, the bridegroom wav fettered; and the bride! ahe stood there, her hazel ejes dilating till they seemed about to spring from her head. " My Richard ! what is this ?" " Scoundrel * I" said Mr. Hardoourt, " release my son." The men'laughed. One of them was examining the necklace ef Flavia; it contained a diamond in the centre worth a ransom. " Where did you get this, miss ?" he said. Her friends answered, for the terror stricken girl was inarticulate, "Mr. Mowbray s wedding gift" " Oh, oh ! This waa the diamond Lord St. Hilary was so mad about. By vour leave," and the gem was removed from the neck it encircled. Bhe comprehended something terri ble. She found speech : " Whom do you take Mr. Mowbray for ?" said she. "Whom? Why the renowned Cap tain de Montmorency." A shriek—so fierce in its agony as to cause the criminal to rebound—struck on the ears of ad present; insensibility followed, and Flavia was removed. So was her bridegroom—to Newgate. The trial was concluded—justice was appeased—the robber was doomed. And his innocent and unpolluted victim . For days her life bad hung on a thread. But youth and health closed for a short time the gates of death. She recover ed. Reviving as from s dreadful dream, she could scarcely believe in the terrible event which, tornado-like, had swept over her. She desired her father to repeat the circumstances. Weeping, and his venerable gray hairs whiter with sorrow, Mr. Hardcourt complied. She heard the recital in silense. Pres ently clasping her father's hand, " Dear parent," she said, "when—when ?" She could utter no more; nor was it neces sary ; he comprehended her bnt too well. "The day after to-morrow," here plied. " Fatter, I must be there." "My Flavia, lay dearest daughter!" " Father, I must be there! Do yon remember yottr jeat ? Ah, it haeoome to pass in bitter earnest. I most be there!" Nor wonld the be pari fled ; she per sisted. Her physician at length urged them to give her her way. It wonld, he said, be less dangerous than denial. Near Tyburn seats were erected. Windows, balconies to be let ont to hire. One of these last, the most pri vate, was secured; and on the fatal morning Flavia waa taken thither in a dose carriage, accompanied by her parent and her aged cousin. She shed no tears, heaved not a single sigh, and suffered herself to be led to the window with a strange, immovable calmness. Soon shouts and the swelling mnrmur of a dense crowd reached her ears. The procession was arriving. The gallows was not in sight, but the fatal cart would pass close. It came on nearer, nearer—more like a triumph, that dis mal sight, than a human fellow-man hastening to eternity. She clenched her hands, she rose np, straining her fair white throat to catch a glimpse of the criminal. Yes, there he was, dressed gayly, the ominous nosegay flaunting in his breast, doll despair in his heart, reaching from thence to his face. As the train passed Flavia's window, by chance he raised his hot, bleared eyes ; they rested on his pure virgin wife. The wretched man uttered a yell of agony and cast himself down on the boards of the vehicle. She continued gazing, the smile frozen on her face, her eyes glassy, motionless, fixed. They never recovered their natural intelligenee. Fixed and atony, they bere her, stricken lamb, from the dis mal eeene. Her old father watched her fer days by her bedside, eagerly wait- THE CENTRE REPORTER. tug for a ruv of tight, a token of seuae or sound. None eatue. She had been stricken with catalepsy, and it waa a bleating when the enchanted spirit waa released from its frail habitation- when the pure soul was permitted to take its flight to happier regions. Poor Mr. Hardcourt sunk shortly after iuto a state of childish imbecility, and soou father ami daughter slept in oue grave. The Fate of Theodora Burr. A correspondent of the New York AYunyWisf writes to tlist new spaper to j correct a story now going the round and founded tin a traditisui that Mrs. Theodosia Alston, the only dsughter of Aaron Burr, was a victim of Gibbs the pirate. ** It is a pity," said the writer, "to spoil this tragic tensation, but happening to know the truth in part, I give it to the public. The history of Mr. Burr's daughter, I believe, remains a mystorv, as to her fate. She proba bly perished at sea in a storm, which is : well kuown to esnse manv a wreck be tween New York and the Carolina coast. " About the year 1830, while the writer was a studeut in Columbia Col , lege, the pirate Gibbs wis token on the high seas, put in irons, and brought to I New Yotk for trial. The late Commo dore Kearnev, who was for rnauy years | the sernor ofteer in the United States Marine Service, was txmrding at the same house with the writer. As soon as an opportunity presented, the Com modore made known his purpose to in j Testlgate the doarn of Theodosia Burr. " Commodore Kearnev called at the prison, and as Gibbs well kuew nolliiug could save his life, he freely recounted the names of the vessels he had token, and all the incidents of interest, con nected with his dsring career. But he utterly denied having any knowledge whatever of Mr*. Alston, the vessel on which she embarked, or anything re lating to her fate. " Commodore Kearney, on reporting j the result of the interview, gave it as his deliberate judgment that the tradi j lion connecting Theodeaia Burr's name with the pirate Oibba was a myth. And say person familiar with Commodore Kearney aa qualified for the examina tion, will coincide with hia judgment" Chinese Etiquette. In China, a visit of ceremony is eon ducted with great politeuesa. Yonr card mast be sent on before you by a 1 special herald, a " tiug-chai " —(the Chinese are well up in the fashion of cards, which they have long practiced) I —who should be dispatched in good time to allow of proper preparation by those who are to receive you. Your rank being stated on your card, you are received according to it by the gentle man upon whom you call. He cornea j out a certain distance, in proportion to your rank; he bows and yoti bow, while each says " Chin chin," "and you are in vited in; but at every doorway he pauses and politely proposes you should fireccde him, which you decline as po itely, and at last, after many protesta tions, he goes first, with some prettv i apology. When, the room is enter**!, and each is seated, attendants enter with enps of tea and sweetmeats, and the customary compliments are passed, beginning with "Qua siting ?" " What is your honorable name ?" "What is your honorable age ?" and fifty que*- ! tions which to us seem half rnde and : almost insulting; but this curiosity to ward aa honorable acquaintance is not j considered at all so—indeed, it would be, in a Chinese gentleman's eyes, ex ceedingly, rude not to make all these in quiries. The orthodox half hour having passed, and the business (if any) to be transacted being oTer, the guest is con ducted away toward the door with the same ceremony; and if of superior rank to bis host, aa'd he wishes to show him great respect and honor, he sees him to his sedan, and waits as he moves away, bowing profoundly, and exclaiming, " Chin chin P Rights or Colored ClUieus. The right of the colored race to go into theatres of New York has Ween some time before the courts. Two j grand juries have dismissed complaints against Parmer A Jarret and Josh Hart for violating the no-called Civil Rights law of 1873. Four cases lately came up in the Supreme Court, Chambers, be fore Judge Barrett, against Wallack's theatre. Mr. A. Oakey Hall moved for a rule obliging the colored plaintiffs to re ceive unverified answers, and claimed, under a special law of 1854, that in all actions founded npon statutes giving fines and penalties such answers were permitted. lie stated that his clients were advised to take this course to es cape annoyance, as well as receive legal protection. Ex-Judge Culver opposed, and claim ed that thiß statute was repealed by the Code and that tha management must admit or deny on oath whether it ex cluded for color or not. Judge Barrett leaned strongly against biro, bat took the papers. A similar uit in Albany against Manager Rich ardson, of the Opera House, resulted in a disagreement of the jury. New York city managers have, 011 legal ad vice and authority both in England and America, as they say claimed and exer cised the right to view their theatres as private business places, and exclude whom they please by refusing to sell tickets and without reference to either black or white, Heathen Chinees, or Jim Nyes. And .they deny that the Legislature can force them, while man aging a private business, to conduct the latter according to a penal statute. It will now be at least a year before the cases in question come to trial, if they ever do. A Singular Celebration. Chicago is a singular city. It is re markable for its marriages and its di vorces, for ita sensation stories, its bonse raising and its rats. It waa lately engaged in "celebrating," by a holiday, music, flag-dying and gefteral rejoicing, the anniversary of the conflagration from which it suffered so severely two years sgo. A Western'paper tells of a "man who had settled down in a neigh ing village for six or seven years, and was noted for his qniet, sober manners. Bnt it waa observed that on one particu lar day of each year he put off his cus tomary sedateness, put on his best clothes, took a holiday, gave himself no to fun and frolic and generally end ed in retiring to bed in bis boots. An inqniry into the reason of his curious conduct disclosed the fact that the day thus set apart for a private celebration, was the anniversary of his wife's death. That man must have hailed from Chi cago. His Fruit. The Supreme Court of New York has just decided that a man can pick all the fruit from a tree growing on his own land, thongli it hang over on a neigh bor's land. The question is an old and oft-disputed one, aud it may he added of incalculable practical value. Bnt as a landowner's right of property extends down to the centre of the earth, and np ward to the zenith, may not the man whose possessions are overhang by a few dozen of his neighbor's apples lawfully bring an aeeount against him for sky rent, whieh will enable him to appropriate tbe fruit te hie ewa see f CENTRE HALL. CENTRE CO.. PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER , 1873. Ilurlwl Alive. In the year 1400, Ginevra ile Amiera, • Florentine beauty, married, under pa ternal pressure, at man wlni had failed to win her heart, that aha had giveu to Antonio Houdtuelii. Boon afterward the plague broke out iu Florence; Ui nevra fell ill, apparently suoettmbed to the malady, and being proaonuoed dead, was Uie aawe day consigned to the family tomb. Borne one, however, had blundered ; in the matter, for in the middle of the night, the eutombed bride woke out of ' her trance, aud badly aa her living rela tive# had behaved, found her dead one# atill lea* to her liking, uud loat no time in quitting the aileut company upon whose quietude ahe had unwillingly in- J truded. Bpeeiliug through the sleep wrapped streets as awifty aa hereliugiug cerements allowed, (linevra aought the home from which she had so lately been boras. Housed from his slumbers by a knocking at the door, the disconsolate widower of a day cautiously opened an upper window, cud seeing a shrouded figure wailing below, iu whoso upturn <>d face he recognised the lineaments of the dear departed, he cried, "Go in peace, blessed spirit," snd shut the window precipitately. With aiuking heart and slackened step, the repulsed wife made her way to her father's door, to receive the like benisou from her dismayed parent. Then she crawled on to an uncle's, when the door was indeed opened, but only to be slammed in hsr face by the frightened man. who, in his hurry, for got even to bless his ghostly sailer. The 000 l night air penetrating the un dress of the hapless wanderer, made her tremble and shiver, as she thought she had waked to life oulv to die sgaiu in the cruel streets. "Ah ! she sighed, *' Antonio would not have proved so unkind." This thought naturally suggested it was her duty to teat his love aud cour age; it would be time enough to die if he proved like the real. The wsy was long, bat hope renewed her limbs, and soon Ginevra was knocking timidly at Itondinelli'a door. He opened it him self, and although startled by the ghast ly vision, calmly inquired what the spirit wanted with him. Throwing her shroud away from her face, (linevra exclaimed: "I am so spirit, Antonio; I am that (linevra you once loved, who was buried yesterday buried alive!" and fell senseless into the welcome arms of her astonished, de lighted lover, whose cries for help soon brought down bis sympathising family to hear the wondrous story, and bear its heroine to bed, to be tenderly tend ed until she had recovered from the shock, and was as beautiful as ever again. Then came the difficulty. Was Gi nevra to return to the man who had buried her, and shut his doors agamat her, or give herself to the man who bail saved her from a second death ? With such powerful spec al pleaders as love and gratitude on his side, of eonrse, llondineili won the day, and a private marriage made the lovers amends for previous disappointment. They, however, had no intention of keeping in hiding, but the very first Sunday after they became man and wife, appeared in public together at the Cathedra), to the confusion and wonder of Ginevrm's friends. An explanation ensued, which satisfied everybody ex cept the lady's first husband, who in sisted that nothing but her dying in genuine earnest could dissolve the orig inal matrimonial bond. The case was referred to the bishop, who, having no precedent to curb bis decision, roee superior to technicalities, and declared that the first husband bad forfeited all right to Ginevra, and must pay over to Rondineili the dowry he had received with her—a decree at which all true lovers in Florence heartily rejoic ed. The Bank of England. In 1694 William 111, who was then on the throne, was going to war with France, and he greatly needed money. Had it not been that the credit of the English government was so poor, the money might have been raiseu without appeal to what was then considered by many to be a desperate snd revolution ary scheme. There vu fierce opposi tion to the bank on the part of the lords, who considered it a strengthening of the moneyed power at the expense of the landed interests. Bnt the money had to be raised; the need was no ur gent that the aristocracy were compell ed to sacrifice their class scruples and interests. The inventor of the scheme was William Peterson, a Scotchman by birth and a West Indian by residence. In the West Indies his friends said that he had been s missionary, his enemies that he had been s buccaneer. He was an ingenious oud ardent person gifted with great [lowers of persuasion. The scheme, which he hail first proposed in 1691, lie succeeded, three yeap later, in getting the great Montague to take up. The plan waa simply that the govern ment should borrow twelve hundred thousand pounds at eight per cent, which was then n very moderate rate, and which would have been very favorable to th borrowers. In order to induce capi talists to advance, the subscribers were to bo incorporated into a company to be called "The Governor and Company of the Bank of England." There "was much fierce opposition, bnt the dream of the obscure adventurer soon became a solid fact. This WAN the origin of that groat in stitution which is now the greatcNt moneyed power in the world, and which was for many years the bnlkwark of the English government. During those wars in which France was endeavoring to force the Pretender back npon the throne, it was the bank which supplied the government with money. Hod France succeeded, of pourne the new king wonld have refused to pay inter est on money which was spent iu resist ing biro. The bank was therefore great ly interested in upholding the existing government. It was, through some generations, a whig institution. Among the noteworthy incidents of the Ocneral Conference of the Evangeli cal Alliance is the reception of a friend ly letter from the Old Catholic Congress at Constance, " detailing the objects of Old Catholicism, and thanking the Americans for their sympathy. It is signed by Bishop Hemkens, Von Bchnlte, and other leaders. The letter is a replv to a proposition from the Kev. Dr. Scliaff, of the United States, on behalf of the Evangelical Alliance, inviting the Old Catholics to send three delegates to the Conference meeting in New York. The invitation was declined on account of the shortness of the time intervening, and thedifficnlty of finding delegates sufficiently acquainted with ihe English language for the perform ance of such service. VELOCITY or THE WIND. —Light sir, mile ; light breejse, 6 miles ; gentle breeze, 10 miles ; moderate brseze, 15 mi its ; fresh bresze, 20 milss ; strong breeze, 25 milss; modsrste gals, 80 milss; fresh gals, 45 milss; strong gals, 50 milsa; hsavy gale, 70 milss ; storm, 10 milss ; hnrrisane, 100 milss and upward par kenr. Spurt In the Sandwich Islands. llilo ia one of the very few place# on these islands where you can see a truly royal sport the surf boartL It re quires a rough day and a heavy surf, but with a good day it i<? oue of the finest sights Hi the world. The surf board is a tough plank alxmt two feet wide and freui six to twenty feet long, usually made of the bread fruit tree* Armed with these, e jMSity of lull, muscular natives swim out to the first line of breakers, and, watching their chance to duck under this, make their way finally, by the help of their nudertow, iuto the smooth water far off lieyond all the surf. Here they bob np and down on the swell like so many ducks, watching their op|Krtuuity. What they seek is a very high swell, before which they place themselves, ly ing or kueeliug on the surf-board. The great wave dashes onward, but aa its bottom strikes the grouud, the top, uu retarded iu its speed and force, breaks into a huge comber, and directly before this the surf-board swimmer in proprlled with a speed which we timed and found to exceed forty miles per hour. In fact, he goes like lightning, always just ahead of the breaker, ami apparently down hill, propelled by the vehement impulse of the rearing wave behind him, yet seeming to h*Te a speed and motioa of his own. It is a very surprising sight to see three or four meu thus dashed for near lv a mile toward the shore at the speed of an expraaa train, every moment about to lie overwhelmed by a roaring breaker whose white crest was reared high above and just behind them, hut always escaping bis ingulf ment and propelled be/ore iL They look, kneeling or lying on their long surf-boots, more like eouie curious and swift-swimming fish—like dolphin* racing, as it seemed to us—than like men. Oiioe in a while, by some mis chance, the cause of which we could not understand, the swimmer was over whelmed; the great comber overtook him; he was fiuug over and over like a piece of wreck, but instantly dived, and resppearvd beyond the outside of the wave, ready to take advantage of the next As uoceaaful shot launched them quite high and dry ou the beach far be yond where we stood to watch. Occa sionally a man would stand erect upon his surf-board, balancing himself in the Unling water without any apparent difficulty. The surf-board pixy is one of the ancient sports of Hawaii. We were told that few at the younger genera tions are capable of it, and that it is thought to require groat nerve and coolness even among these admirable swimmers, and to be not without danger. Solar Heat as a Tool. Dnnng the recent building of a bridge in Holland, one of the traverse*, 465 feet long, was misplaced on the supports. It was an inch out of line, and the problem was how to move iL Exiieriment proved that the iron ex panded a small fraction of an iuob for every drgreo of beet it received. It was noticed that the night and day temper ature differed about twenty-five de grees, and it was tbought this might be made to move the bridge. In the morn ing the end <> it of place was bolted down securely and the other end left free. In the boat of the son the iron expanded, and towards night the free end was Itolted down, and the opposite end was loom-ned. The contraction then dragged the wbele thing the other way. For tvso days this experiment was repeated, till the desired place was reached. We find no record that the heat of the eon has ever been employed in this way before, but the contraction and exf>au*am of iron bars by fir* heat ha* already been used to move heavy weights over short distance*. Broken walls and strained roofs and arches have been brought into place by simplv heat ing iron ft*)* till they expanded, then taking up tlae alack by screws and nuts, and allowing contraction by cold to pull the wall or roof into place. French Politeness. There are m any instances of French politeness current; the stoir, for exam ple, of the old Due Doudeauville, of the last of the old school which faded away in Charles the Tenth's time with legiti mate royaltj. He wan alowly coming dowa stairs one afternoon from a visit, when he met s youngster of twenty, bounding up, three steps at s time, to the drswi fig-room which he bad inat quitted. Both stopped short. The Duke, by right of age. stood against the wall; the boy, four stairs below him, stood against the banisters. Both bowed low, both were bareheaded, neither would pass the other. This deadlock contiaiucd until the younger man step- Bd up, saying, " I oWy, my lord tike; oliedieuee is the first doty of youth." This story, however, is ro markabfv like one of Lord Btair and Louis XJV. The King signed to the embassador to get into the carriage be fore his Majesty; Lord Btair bowed and obeyed without any loss, whereupon Louis obaerved to his courtiers that a less polite man would have made a cer emony of declining. Female Training. A lady, writing to a Chicago paper on the subject of female training, says: " The education and training sf Ameri can women is altogether defective in its way. Instead of being tanght house work, and thereby becoming conversant with the routine of domeeticoccnpations, they devote their leiaure hours to the reading of novels. Instead of learn ing to fit and make their own dresa es, and their fathers'andbrothers'ahirta, they are allowed tago gaddiug about the streets, and that, too, at honrs that they onght to be at home tinder their moth ers' cyea, darning stockings or prepar ing the next morning's meal. I say that young girls, from eight years and up wards, ought to be made to walk at least five miles s day, in sunshine or rain, even if they oould ride that distance for five cents. This ia the way that 1 pro pose to apply the remedy. In no civil ised country in tho world is the domes tic eduestion and training of woman considered disgraceful or undignified excepting the bnitod Btatos of Ameri ca." Follow the Example. A certain mechanic found, at the age of twenty-one, that he possessed a fancy for books, cigars and liquor—extrava gant tastes all. Well, he thought the matter over, and, knowing that he must ho dependent on his skill for a home and education, he decided to lay out in book* every year the aum which he esti mated it would cost a moderate drinker for liquor. He also calculated what it would cost him for tobacco and cigare, for theatres and Sunday riding, and set apart that money in the same way. The result was, that in a few years be owned a library of several hundred volumes. In this library he has a row of shelves labelled Linuor, Tobacco, Theatres Livery Stables, which are now filled with the books benight with the money ha would otherwise have appropriated for these purposes. Young men, this little story needs ne comment but think of it. Tks Treasury Dspartmsnt ef ths Unitsd States has decided to issue legal tender certificates te National Banks. The Mlory of Ann Hurts. Ann was born of honest parents, and trained up to industry, but aha *b*u dotted bcraelf to vice. She had two husbauda in three yeara, and during that period she besatne veraant in the ways of the London tliievea. She went one day to a mercer, well dresaed, with a pretended footman attending her. Having purchased more than two hun dred pocnada' value of ailk and velvet, which betug a larger sum than ahe had upon her, she requested the mercer to fo home with her, and be wonld receive is money. Putting the goods into n hackney coach, she rode off with him to Dr. Adams, who kept a mad house, and informed the doctor that thia was ths gentleman of whom she spoke in the morning. In e trice, three or four lusty fellows seined the msreer, one by the srras, another by the legs, a third by the centre, and drugged him ia. while the poor mercer cried oat far nis two houdred pounds. '• Ay, sy," quoth the doctor, " the Etor gentleman is very bad, indeed, e's raving mad. Tie him quickly down in that chair, and presently shave his head." All the while hia cry was cither for hia goods, or hia money. The doctor aaid : " Fray, madam, ace how hia lunacy makes him talk at random." Shaking ber head, she replied : " True, air ; but ia there any hope of hia recovery V '• Yon must know, madam, that there are three kinds of freuxie*. according to the throe internal senses—of imagina tion, oogitation, the memory. This geutlemau is affected with the worst of frenxiea, but I hope he will be hotter in a month's time." Meanwhile Nan give the doctor five guinea*. giving him strict charge to take care of ber bus band, and she would grudge no expenses. The distracted mercer exclaimed : *• She's lying. She's none of my wife! My wife ia at heme in Ludgate street. Stop her! atop her! atop her! She has cheated me of my ailk and velvet. I am not mad! 1 am not mad! hut a parcel of rogues hero will make me run out of my senses." Doctor Adams then amid to hia men : " Poor gentleman, he's very bad, in deed. We must bleed him, and give him a groat giyater at night Confine him to a room where tharo's no light at all, and bind him faat down hand and foot in the straw, and for one week give him nothiuglaot water gruel, with htile at no bread in it; but the week after, if his temper decreases, wc may venture to give him a little ptisan Mr tb, boiled with some busked barley." Thv mercer, hearing these directions, cried out; " I'll have none of my blood taken from me! I have had enough taken from me already without paying for it I want no giyater—l tell you that I am in my right sense*. I'll nave nose of year* gruel and broth. _ What! cheat me and starve me too! No, no, I am not a lunatic." Quoth the doctor; ' " Yon shall not be starved, air. What diet 1 prescribe yon now ia to reatore yon to yonr health again." "To health again! I think yon are going to take it from me, aa the base woman has my goods." All hia remonstrance* were to no purpoae. The doctor's directions were followed. Nan, however, sending a letter to the mercer's wifs. informing her where to find her husband, she went, along with some friends, and pro cured hia liberty. A Teat CAN. A. T. Htewart, of New York, recently sued Christopher Martin to recover $154.G6 of the defendant for a bill of drv get*!* aold to hit wife on the 23d of last Mar. Mrs. Mary A. Martin testi -11 rd that the waa the wife of the defen dant, and reaided at No. 158 Jt-rmv avenue, Jersey City ; that on the 16th of lost April her husband abandoned ber, giving her at the time $lO, and that he gave ber no more money until the Court decreed her $lB a week daring tho pendency of the aait for divorce ; that the reoeired thia amount from the 26th of May up to the 26th of August, aince which time abe baa received noth ing from him ; that her husband owned a honae in JeraeyCity worth $9,000,0ne in Harlem worth SB,WO, a Central Park lot, and thirteen kta in Brooklyn, be side* a stand in Washington Market. The articles which she purchased from the plaintiff, she uaid. were neocasary for herself and her child. The defence waa that the articles were not necessary, as the term "neces sary" ia understood in law, for the use of the defendant's wife, it being proved that they lived separately, and that in a ease where good* were sold to the wife without the knowledge or ooaaent of the husband, fte is not liable to pay for them. The Court instructed the jury that a husband is liable for necessary articles furnished to his family if he docs not supply them himself with the necessar ies of life, and in this ease it was purely a question of fact for the jury to deter mine whether the goods were necessary for the wife and child at that time; aud if they fonnd that they were, the plain tiff waa entitled to recover such amount as the jury saw fit to give him, with in terest from the time the goods were sold. .... The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for the full amount claimed. Wedded Lift Only the Beginning. "According to the love-idyl of the period," writes T. 3. Aldrieli, " when Laura and Charles Henry,after unheard of-obstacles, are finally united, all cares and tribulations and responsibilities slip from their sleek backs like Chris tian's burden. The idea ia a pretty one, theoretically, but, like some of those models in the Patent Office at Wash ington, it doesn't work. Charles Henry dors not go on sitting at Laura's feet and reading Timothy Titoomb to her forever; the rent of the cottage by the sea falls due with prosaic regularity; there are bakers and butchers and babies and tax collectors and doctors and undertakers, and sometimes gen tlemen of the jury, to be attended to. Wedded life is not one long amatory poem, with recurrent rhymes of love and diove, and kiss and bliss. Yet when the average sentimental novelist has supplied his hero and heroine with their bridal ontfit and attended to that little matter of the marriage certificate, he nsnally tarns off the gas, pnts up his shatters, and saunters off with bis hands in his pockets, as if the day's business were over. But we, who are honest dealers in real life and dis dain to give short weight, know better. The businea is by no means over—lt is just begun. It is not Christian throw ing off his pack for good and all, but Christian taking np a load heavier and more difficnlt than any he has carried. ** " What is your name f" asked the clerk of a witness about to be sworn before a Justice of the Peace. "Otti well Wood." was the reply. " How do you spell your name ?" then, asked the somewhat puxsled Judge. Mr. Wood replied " 0 double T I double U X double L. Double U double 0 D." The astonished Judge thought that waa one of the moat extraordinary names ks avsr knsw. Torm: &2.00 a Yoar, in .Advance. A Nad Picture. Of all the inhabitants of Memphis, says a correspondent, writing of the yellow fever tilers, perhaps not 10,0(10 sleep within the city limits; ths rest leave in the evening and remain in the country till morning. Many of those who thus have left have been seised on the cm* and perished miserably at the various stations, fur so intense is the fear of the disease that the country people tarn from citisens as from lepers, and will have nothing to do with those who have any apnea raoee of being af fected. Indeed, the hesrtlseaoees and inhumanity which generally accompany such terrible plagues as this have been conspicuous here. The brood of Hatan —thieves, pickpockets, and burglar*— seem to have been abont the only per sons who have thriven daring the peat month. They have corns from other atise to prey upon the deed and dying, aa upon the living, Hingularly enough, the drinking arduous have not found their account in the plague, although during such visitations drunkenness and debauchery generally bold high carnival, the people besoming rookie** and ready to drown their fears in the diversion of alcoholic drinka. Oat of between thirty and forty auch aaloona, which commonly are open from one veer's end to the other, all are closed but one, and this by ns means doca a thriving business. The boldness of the desperadoes is something simply won derful Unhappily, where ail are dying, the dead have often to be left for hours without attention,and in such instances it is often found that, after death, their persona and rooms have been robbed. Several arrests of men and women ac cused of auch dreadful work have bees made, and it in likely to go herd with the aecnlegioua villain*. Borne under takers, in the prase of buaiacaa, have refused to make returns to the Board of Health, and others are aaraaed of hur rying eorpaes off to their shops and keeping them there until Ihey should find tisse for bnriaL There are not, indeed, hearses enough for the work, and aometunea so many as nine corpses are placed in one wagon and driven at fall speed to their last resting-place. The horrible spectacle of the bones of such a wagon running away with their ghastly burden in said to have bean witnessed, the deed being thrown from the tumbril into the road, and eome, caught by their drapery, drugging on after the clattering wheels. Young Mechanics. There ia no class of the community upon whom the future welfare of the country more essentially depends than upon the rising generation of young mechanic*. If they are intelligent, sober, industrious, and consequently independent, able and accustomed to judge lor themselves, and governed in their conduct by an enlightened view of their own beat interests; if they are men of this sort, the mechanics, and es pecially the young mechanic*, will form, in conjunction with the young farmer* of the country, e bulwalk against mo nopolies and corrupt politicians, and save the republic. If, on the other hand, they are ignorant, idle, dissolute, and, conaeqnenur, poor, and depend ent upon those who are willing to trust them—if oar mechanic* should unhap pily become audi a class they would soon be converted into the mere tools of a few rich and artful men, who, hav ing first stripped them of every sense of acu-respect, and every feeding proper to virtuous eititens, would use them as passive instrument* for promoting their own ambitious objects, and for the en actment of laws which are beneficial to nobody but the artful few and base demagogue* with whom they originate. It ia true of the mechanical art* aa of any other profession that "knowledge is power."— Shoe and Ixn/herdwoniclc. A Desperate Struggle. Two rope-walkers, Kolter and Perge ritcb, bad a mortal combat oa their rope daring a late exhibition in Hun gary. The acrobats were to meet mid wsv, and then to pern each other. When the clock struck It the acrobats emerged from their respective windows dressed in tights, end without balanee poles. Pergowitch suddenly uttered an angry exclamation, and dealt Kolter • terrible blow on the head. Kolter stag gered and fell, but in so doing succeed ed in clutching the rope with one hand, while with the other he grasped the left leg of his assailant. Pergowitch now fell likewise, but psseed his right arm around the rope, so that he hung upon it in comparative security. And now began a life-and death struggle. K ter, with his right hand, tried to drsg Pergowitch from the rope, while Pergo witch kicked Kolter with his right foot, and with the left hand endeavored to leoeen his antagonist. The strnggls in mul-sir lasted perhaps a minute, when Kolter suddenly uttered a last ery and lost bis hold. He fell to the ground, striking it violently, and expiring in stantly. While the people gathered round the oorpee of poor Kolter, hie murderer on the right rope managed to get on hie feet again. With a diabolical expression on bis face he uttered a yell of triumph. Brutal Murder of a Bey. Reports of a brutal murder have reached hero from Polk township, one of the back towns of Monroe county, Pa. The locality being so isolated, minute particulars have not been received. It seems that a boy, aged ten years, named James Muffley, was visiting at hia grandmother's, a Mrs. Hawk, in Polk township. Tho old lady, going out in to a field at some distance from the honae to dig potatoes, left the lad in charge of the bourn. When abe re turned toward evening ahe found tho house looked up, and looking through the window saw that the place had evi dently been ransacked. She procured assistance, the door was forced open, and a brief search discovered the body of tho little boy lying in tho cellar in a pool of blood, with the throat out from ear to ear. A further search through the house revealed to Mrs. Hawk that a sum of money, amounting to |4O or SSO was gone from a bureau drawer, and also that s quantity of clothing waa missing. Tbeeontents of the bureau drawers were thrown about the floor, and the whole house had been ransacked. It ia sup posed that the crime waa oommitted by two tramps who bad been about some days. Search has been made for them without success. A Caution to Auctioneer*. We understand, aaya the LAberty (Frederick oouuty, Md.,) Banner, that onr county court last week decided a point that particularly interests the auctioneer, the bidder, and the person making the sale. The case was this; A farm was " knocked down " to a bid der, *ho afterwards refused to comply with the terms because no one bnt the auctioneer bid against him". The ease was taken into court. The auctioneer, who was a witness, testified that the Surohaser's statement was oorrect, and is eourt dsslarsd the sals a fraudulent one and not valid. The substance of this deeisien is, in plain words, that an austionssr has no right to " run up" property on s bidder simply te make a geed sals. NO. 45. A Hpaolftli liril FffftC. We ham tha following partieulen erf th engagement batwean th Hpwoisb Government squadron under Admiral I laibo, and tbe float of the intransigent# wniii: Upon a# appaaraaoa off tha harbor of : tba national squadron, tha Ittrwi - gmto Janta bald' a soUMiltattan and da* tided to flghL although thay had no j bopa of achieving a victory. 'BOOM of ! tha garrison vera in favor of anrtawlav* I tug tha oily, bat tba majority of nan, I especially tba deserters from tba Qov : ornrnaut army, won datai wtnad upon ; resisting to tba Is-t. Oar. Cuntreras I and several tsaobrn of tba Junta want ;on board tba Xanaaoto, All tba mom* I tag waa w niwwil bjr tba insurgent vns ) nala in talcing is coal and provisions. At nocm, everything being to readinaaa. tba fottr vessels weigiud and nailed out of tbe harbor amid load ' cheers from tba populace and tba insur gent troops. After proceeding a abort diataeoa Ad miral Lobe's flint nnasistiUf of tba ViUoria, Almaaaa, Villa do Had rid, ' Carman,and t*o pJdte-hret steamer* ! —were mat and tba eugagtjxietst tostent -1 j begun. Tbe fight!anted two hours, when tba inrranaigimlo feet waa defeated and drivan bank to Cartagena, tbair vwaaab baing badly damaged Th* inenrgaute shewed great spirit. bat bandied their ' abipa badly, the Numancta at find bar ing to bear tba brant iif tba battle atone. Tba firing generally am at too ' bag a range, bat at tba etoee of tba eu gagem*ut, while tba Ytttoria waa an deevoriug to interrupt tba retreat of tba insarreettoaiat frigate Tetwaa, broad tidee wan closely exchanged between I those two weasels. Ceo. Oabailoa baa ordered tbe people living in tbe neigh* t borhood of Cartagena to gait their j hnnass. aa a bom *©f* pffrt- by aaa and ; land will soon be opened. Tbe eomwpondenl of tba Zte% Arm telegraphed from tbe vicinfty of Carta gena that tba naval action waa brought on by aa attempt of the insurgent fleet to oaoape to Ursa, in Algeria. Addi tional partieaiare of tbe fight abow tbst tba rebel abipa failed to support aaeh other. Tbe Xnmoncia Elm! wildly. | Tbe Tetnan behaved with the gr.-ateet ' gallantry, and waa frequently cheated by the spectators on tbe abort, among whom were bnedreda of foreigners. She narrowly aaoapad rapture, owing to bar boldnaaa in coming to etoae quar ters. Aa attempt was mad# by tha Government fleet to eat off bar retreat, bat it failed. Tha National Ceatemniai Aa the grand idea of on national centennial, aaya a Haw Ymk journal, is an* **-"*** Mid nteiitintl fnduetri al expoaiticm it appears to a that tba nslioaa) celebration for tbe Pourtb of July, 1879, at Philadelphia, eoald be made in harmony with this grand idea of a world's fair if it were made what we may oaU ao industrial proeeeaion of tbe States and Territories. In snob a, procession, with each State and Terri ! Tory represented by a delegation of its own people, bearing in front on a large banner the State or Territorial eoat of arms, and with tbe products and pro* ceases, aa far aa practicable, of tin leading and peculiar branches of in dustry borne in tbe line of march, we would have a splendid and instructive spectacle It would be a passing pana -1 rama of tbe States and Tamtorie#, re presenting in bold relief and in actual , life tba people, tba industries, the product*, tba climate and tbe peculiari ties thereof in every Stat# and Territory lof tbe Union. More vividly than any 1 other device would audi a preeewuou represent oar people, oar conn try and ite various sad bountiful resources and boundless capabilities. It requires no great stretch of tba imagination to reach tba impreaaton upon citizen nd stranger, from a procession of s tmn j dred thousand man, women ana chil dren, embracing tbe fishermen of Maine, tba tar kilns of North Carotins, the big . cheeses of New fork, tba eruc<* grove* of Florida, tbe mom stoma grape clusters lof California and New Jersey, the towers of gold and temples of silver ! from Montana, Colorado, Utah and I Nevada, the buffkloea of Nebraska, the elks of Oregon, and tbe thousand forma of tbe iron of Pennsylvania, and anon, lo tba and of tba glorious lino. This procession would appropriately be . led by tbe amy and navy, as represent ing the forces of our national todepatt*, deuce, and It would properly be classed with oar civic societies as completing tbe representation ml a reign of peace. We throw out tbto suggestion as an-. titled to consideration by tha manage ment of this centennial enterprise ; for we think it embodies an idea for the celebration of the aue-hundrrth anni-1 Ternary of our national independence J which, from Its attractive novelties and instructive groupings of American life, and industry, will at our grant world's fair of 1876 be snivMsally acceptable. Preserving Silk. A method few preserving milk is thus described: The milk, fresh drown from tha sow, is placed in cans or brittle*. which are filled as nearly fall id milk ss possible, and immediately corked tightly or her metically sealed. Tba cans or battles am then placed in n bath of water heat ed to tba same temperature aa tbe milk, in such a manner aa to allow a free cir culation of water beneath tuid around, but not over them. The temperature of tbe water Imtb is then slowly raised to hetweea 100 degrees and 170 degrees Fahrenheit's thermometer. Tba water is kept at this temperature for a greater or leas length of tune, according to tbe period daring which it is desired to pre serve the milk. One hour will, it is claimed, preserve the milk four or five weeks. Five boon besting is enough for eight months or a year. The fire is then withdrawn and the bath allowed to cool slowly, after which the cans and bottles ar* withdrawn and the operation is completed. An essential of success in this opera tion is, that the vessels designed to con tain the milk should be perfectly clean and sweet, and that the milk itself should he perfectly pure snd unadul terated. If the temperature be carried higher than that named above, the milk acquires s cooked taste. If the temper ature be not raised so high, snd main tained a suitable length of tunc, tbe milk sours. Sharing a Pig. Men of talent often fail from turning tbeir talents in a wrong direction. Chief Justice Chase, for example, would new er have made a successful barber. He lived ffor a while in hto youth with hto untie. Bishop Chase, who prepared him; for college. One morning he told the budding Salmon to kill and dress a pig. The inoipient st ttesman was not much of a butcher, and, when he oame to the delicate operation of scalding the pig, horror! the hair set But in his ex tremity hi bethought himself of his uncle's racor, and, to due course of time had the porker shaved from tip of snout to tail-end. The bishop, on hto return, complimented his nephew on tb# neatness with whioh he had per formed hto task. When, however, the old gentleman earn* to shave himself, his shertohsd resor was found to a sad plight An investigation followed, and young Salmon reaoered soma vary sari •ns ad via*. fri geter F ww are swrw set— 'Tbhv.k nf to total* fit N MBf J Sullivan, Ind., fttlHW "Sutbartt Confederacy." Para has oeett Med one f tbe turn© ©area in Oewsto by tba Old Catholics. A certain man has s wateb which ha claims bsa gained lima enough to pay tor itoaftf to tit months. Tha IndlM iptißu - -taihima -refuee to let man-who bare "ran" thorn deposit their money again. II Is stated that . pHgrisas hava passed tbreath Paris sine* August m their way to shrine#, ' Padumb, Ky , has ntoa thousand to habitants and seven imwafwgmw,laatmg any other city to the Uontii. { jraldic''naisanaiia, and want© a law maim to pwreat I ham. The U. a Post-OOaa Dapstom©ut ra ti motes its atpeueaa for tbe ff^ lJl P* y eudtog imm 80, 117b to |3o,iS,olMt Xaformation was received from Da* [ale of the loas iff the aohtomaf R T. Warren with oil an baaed, aiftem men. BaUdumdad man tabs • joka mora easily, tocanse they ar© n.4 at tba trouble of getting it threngb their hair. ••tM,. swaat'nis* M and" "short JSffi'lE reapeerirelyayrupff sugar among .soma of the OMMUteaa LMflßsssys among tbeir ftondmoi Umnf rsticato find '"jaattbathtog." . Is-IlsriHu to Cabfovuia tak.es tha I farm of umpoat mmmwga toemploy er* to dismiss tto-ii Chinese a* rvmnto, t oadar pain of direful Jtoumbaimrt It is said to ha a symptom of bog cholera tbto the snimaU run oftoo to drink. Among human kind that tot i symptom of qito snothar diaaasa. 'dbeflleld, tote Pratident of tba Mr chants' Nations! Bank of Dubuqu©, baa made up the amonnt of bis daftocatren f by surreaderiag aB his property, toelc dg his homestead. f A cowntry editor, writing to a dalto i quest aabscribav raqoaatiag him to pay ap his haahdoetk, ouedoded. with ; If f ywu pay p, you will oblige m; if fom , won'Vl'U "Viige you." , Of siity-tbroe norare snd physirisiia s e-nt by the Hawsrd Areoctotxm of Naw Orleans to Hhreveport, not of© took tha I totinE Tpghty-tia nursaa have bean (saotby ihem tii Bfeniphi#,. A family, aontiatlng of a widow tbraa f sows, snd two daagbtcre, mm to! mar ried at ones to Cincinnati recently. I The Justice sold his rriee abasper j wbaa ordered by tbe half damin. It is our basest optoioo, "jsan - change, that 'lb© toufal drtoroetiou (nimtt© caterpfllsr, which -nnnsllyro tsils sucli a heavy loas upon the South, could ha greatly totewiai- i by taking care of tha birds. The discovery is said to hava bean 1 made that it is act ■eninananr to groove anfia liarrei lbs whale tt jto Ctigth, , but tha* a few inches of mocwing imax theoumla wOl givetbanoSatall tha , needful amount of spin. A mouse, to Cleveland, Ohio, obewsd np #3OO to greenbacks, snd waa after wards fouua dead to ite oast surround d by shreds of tbe notes. It to sop < poMd tbe catering on tha notoa did no* j *g** with tba snim-1 At a public gathering lately, one of ! tb gentlaareo present waa ©ailed u pan , far a anaech. sod this is bow hs re- I spooikdl Gentieman mi.l snmi a, I j ain't no speecber. More'n treaty yaara lack I cam® here a poor idiot boy, and now what, are IT 1 The regents of Michigan Univmaiiy refuse to appoint profesnore iff homm palby, rooiAwed by to© Itegtototmre. sad tias Oweuit Ooort grew them unto! I November 7 to abow ©ansa why a man damns compelling thai* obedmuoa should not be issued. 1 At s juvenile party aoa little fellow, rajoiatog to the sp3icl of hto new ! cfatoaa, weai up to snothcr with the trisiiß nli act reosA:" Tounlat dressed tiXlm" ** Well." retorted the other, I can lick you, anyhow." Tbe tote Rev. Dr. Kidd, of Aberdeen, aa aaaoatcto hot popadar preacher, ob ) served one Sunday, in church, a man sleeping whom be knew, and wbcon vifa was sitting heaido him. The ' doctor rolled out to the latter. Go i home, Betty, and bring Johns* night I otp." Tha " wild msn " of Southern Osli foruia, of which so many acrmmte have ! bam pwblUiied, has boon captured, and prows to ha a apantea of .'-•odaaannt very hk© a bear, although it entirely lucks arms and farelega, am! walks up right ike a num. Probably it to a dn , formed bear. i A Berlin dispatch announces that the Hetrotoal of Friuea Alfred and tba i Grand Duchess Msrv of Bnsata will bo celebrated st an early date, at Liredi*. according to the rites of the orthodox -Greek reroivh. Lord Loftna will be j present. Tbn macrtoge to fixed open for January. t -J. It to atoted that to England, among i railway employea, the pott of money ! taker to mnah sought fox, on recount iff toe surprising amount of aasb whieh ' accrues to the money-taking cleA, by > wav of mnqmiaiteo fhs money being j left by pasaengera in their harry to take their place to tbe train. ' The report of a Oaritot victory near ! Otuuqni to officially declared to be false. Gen. Morion©* report* that in the eo gsgement on that day tbo encaay was > defeated and driven back with alow of ; 100 killed and 800 woonded. The easu ; allies of the Republican army ware 1* 1 killed and 110 wounded. An Important sale of Southdown and Sussex (Up ww bold a few days tinea f at Grind© Place—the property of the Speaker of the House of Commons— near Bastbeore* in Kent Many buy ers were preaaat, and the pnoaa realised were high. The rams brought on an average ten guineas each. Young lady—to a beau of whow com pany aha is getting tired—" I hope vou are not nervous, because that elock has a queer effort on people. All my gentle man friends start when it strikes ton, and it's jnst going to atrikej ao if you are nervous, perhaps you had better go home before it begin* " He went The fourth annual exhibition of for eign wine* will be held in London to April next, under the ausptoee of the wine department of the International Exhibition. The growers and win# makers of toe Uaited States have now an opportunity to bring their manufac ture to the attention of foreign markets. Tbe lace makers of Nottiogbsm in England are now on strike, and there arc no signs of settlement of the diffi culty as vet. The men to number are about 1,000, receive now Ss. fid. a day for making alterations. They demand ss. per day. The number of women and children employed in the trade to about 3,000 The high price paid for certain breeds of sheep, a few yeaw ago, when " At wood meriuow" from " over the moun tain," in Vermont, brought anywhere from SIOO to $20,000, are recalled hy some great sales of breeding sheep that recently took place at Edinburg and K*teo. Hcotiand. Black-faced and Che viot abt p sold for about $350 each, and Lord Palwarth dispoecd of some fancy Leicester* st prices ranging from S3OO to SSOO. His best ram brought SI,OOO. THE EXES. —Many tender and beau tiful things have been said of the eyes, vet how inferior to the sweet things ut tered by themselves! A fall eye seems to haw been esteemed the most expres sive. Buch was the eye that unchained the soul of Ferities. The American writer, Haliburton, declares that be would not give a pleee of tobacco for the nose, exoept to tell when a dinner is good ; nor a farthing for to* mouth except as a kennel for the tongue; but the eye—study that and yon will read man's heart as plain as a book. If than to any feature to which genius shows itetif, it is the eye, which hae been aptly called the "index 'iff the seel"
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