My Suiw, Mo you think fc* r:romr will K rem*. With whit* of lily sad fliwh <* roes— With ber worm. Asy* v>< joy sud Jos* 80 long you drssai the* * ill nsver dote ? Will th Urdu, still on ill* ksoding boughs. Bing out Umr h*sns in a mad daligbt, And tli* golden huttertUM, #uu *uff"Hl. Flutter end float from rwtu till night f Do yon think my Kummot will ever clos*. With brow of lilly and cheek of roeo bhall I hold her fast —my Joy, my June And dreaiu that my day will newr rem* ? Will ahe mock the Urvt* on tlie bending bough* For her voice 1* muatc— my heart'* delight— Or be content, tike the bntterttiee. In the auu of my love, front morn till night The Smack In School. A district school not far *?. 'Mid ftsrtshir* hill*, on* winter'* day. Was humming with its wonted noiss Of three-scars mingled girls and bov* ; Some few upon their last* intent, But more on furtive mischief hent; The while the master'* downward look Was fastened on a copy-be >k ; When euddeuly. behind hia hack. Rose sharp and clear a rousing suae a ' Aa Vwwre a battery of bbs* Let off in one tremendous kiss! " What'* thai ?" the startled master cvrts . '• Wath William Willilh, if you pleetW I thaw him kith Thuthannab Peaihe!*- With frown to make a slants thrill. The master thundered. " Hither. Will"' lake wretch o'ertaken in hie track. With stolen chattel* au kit bark. Will hung head with fear and shame. And to the awful presence rams - A greet, green, bashful aimpietoo. The butt of all good-natured fun— With smile suppressed, aud htrvh upraised. The threatai.er faltered--" I'm massed That you. my biggest pupil, should Be guilty of an act so rude Before tbe whot* set eeheol to boot What evil geiuw* put you to"t ?" " Teas she, herself, sir." sobbed the lad. " I didn't mean to be so bad - But when Susannah shook her curls, And whispered I waa fratd of (iris. And durrn't kiss a baby** doll, I couldn't stand it, air. at alt. But up and kissed her on the spot! 1 know—boo boo—l ought to not. But, somehow, from her looks -boo boo— -1 thought ahe kind o' wished me to!" THE WILD HUNTER. It is ten years ago (said Mr. Bel Jen) and at that'tiine the rouutry hack from the Missouri was not mitch settled. The fame of the Big Bine lands had spread far and wide, ami every week scores of farmers from lowa, Illinois, and Missouri came in and settled on the rich bottoms, almost invariably writing back to their friends in the State* that the land was one flowing with milk and honey, and urging them to come and take' np farms. So the settlements prospered aiaazmglv, and Beatrice, Neb., which had only been a town "on paper," became a thriving village in reality. Among the farmers who eame to set tle in this new country was a Mr. Thompson and his family. They had formerly lived in lowaj on the Big Sionx River, six miles from Sioux City; bat, not prospering there, they sought to better their condition by moving to Nebraska, and selected the Big Blue as the place of their future home. Mr. Thompson's familv consisted of his wife, his danghter Mary, a sweet girl of sixteen, and an old mail who had spent the best part of his life in the service of the familv, and, now that he was old, waa retained for the good he had done, and that he might have a home in his declining years. At one time Mr. T. had been well off in the world, but unfor tunate speculations in Western lands had rained him, aad, at the time of which I apeak, he had little left besides a few horses, a wagon or two, aad a dozen head of cattle. Near ta where Mr. Thompson had settled on the Blue lived a wild young man, who had won for himself the' name of "the Wild Trapper of the Blue." He lived all alone on the head-waters of a little creek, and waa rarely seen ex cept when ke came, onoe in every two or three months, to the traders to ex change his furs and skins for floor, to bacco, matches, coffee, and snch other articles as he needed. On these occa sions, after having made his purchases, he would lounge about the traders for several days, drinking bad whiskv, and quarreling with every one he coufd get to quarrel with him. When nnder the inflneDoe of whiskey, ha would mount his horse, and, with*two large navy re volvers in his belt, ride np and down the village, defving every one to come ont and fight Kim. For the slightest offence, either real or imagined, he would fire at a man, and, if he had a grudge against any one, that person's cattle or horses were anre soon after ward to be muting. It was more than hinted that he was the principal or accomplice in many of the thefts, and, if he were so minded, could tell where moat of the valuable horses stolen from time to time on the . Bait Lake stage road had gone. Yet snch was the reputation of this young desperado for courage and wickedness that no one cared to meddle with him, and wherever he went hia society was tolerated rather than preferred. No ten men could have been induced to go to his ranche to search for stolen stock, and so the matter was allowed to rest— every one blaming him with all sorts of crimes, but no one being able to swear the suspicions were correct. One evening, just as Mr. Thompson and his family were sitting down in their hnmble cabin to a supper of corn bread and venison, a' tall young man. mounted on a wiry pony, rode np. He was scarcely nineteen years of age, and wore the inevitable leggings and long frock of the Western hunters, fringed with bnckskin. His face waa brown as a nnt, and, when he raised hia broad brim of his slouch liat, hia countenance betrayed unmistakable signs of dissipa tion. Mr. Thompson politely invited the stranger to dismount and partake of their frugal meal, and, springing from his horse, ke made haste to rater ; bat when he saw Mary he drew back,blash ed, and would have mounted again, had not Mr. Thompson insisted npon bis stopping long enough to eatsomethiug. It was not long before Mr. Thompson discovered from the conversation that bis guest u none other thsn the famous soring desperado of the Bine, and the* disooveiy was attended with considerable anxiety and alarm. The quick eye of the hunter detected in an instant the alarm his presence had created, and, rising from the table be fore he had finished bis supper, he said, with a dignified air : " I am indeed the Wild Trapper of the Blue, and, like eyery one else, yon think me bad ; bnt I am not so bad as they say. "Oh 1" he added, after a moment s pause, "if some one,in the world would only believe me good, I might become like other men." Then, fixing his piercing eyes on Mary, he gazed at her a full minute, and, turning on his heel, he left the cabin withont saving another word. The family, through the open doorway, saw him swing his lithe body across his pony, and gallop swiftly away over the prairie towards his cabin. From this visit Mr. Thompson augnred bad luck; bat, as day after day and week after week passed and they saw no more of him, they began to think they had done the young man an injustice. True, they had often heard of him in the village, where he continued his drinking and fighting; bat, althongh the nearest way would have led him by Mr. Thompson's house, both in going and coming, be always crossed the prairie some miles above, and never wme near the plaoe. Mr. Thompson, who had onoe been a kind husband, an indulgent father, and a man of goed habits, disappointed by repeated failures iu business and vexed by poverty, had, of late years, taken to drink, and now was little bet- TAXIED. lv I RTZ, lOditor uiitl Proprietor. VOL. VI. ter than a common drunkard. Hi, wife and daughter had persuaded luin to move from lowa, hoping whou hia old ssaivistion* w ere nroken up, he would do Indter in Nebraska and make their new homo a happy one. For a time their most aanguiue wishes seem h! about to bo realized. The farm they had taken np was a gviul one, the crop* wore abundant, and all seemed to proraiae a happy fntuie. slr. Thump sou had left off drinking entirely, and was again the kind and affectionate husband and father of f> rmer years. The happiness of this little family waa unbounded, when, in an evil hour, a eloud darkened the bright sunahiue of their rude cottage, and dually burst in a destroying stortu. A man named Cook opened a traveler's ranch, or hotel, near Mr. Thompson's ; and be tween this man and the farmer there soon subsisted the warmest friendship. Sight after night Mr. Thompson would go to Cock's, and ait in the society of lad men until the small hours of the morning. The wife and daughter, alarmed for hia' safety, redoubled their efforts to make hia home attractive, and resorted to every womanly device to keep him with them; but, despite their exertions, he spout more than half hia time at Oook's. For a long time he resisted every temptation to drink ; but at length the evil of keeping bad comuauv became apparent, and oue uight Mr. Thompson came home to his family reeling drunk. His downward course was now rapid; be was drunk every day ; aud to the vioe of drinking he aoon added that of gambling. The land on which be lived was a homestead, and the title could not be perfected for five years, so he could pot gamble it away ; but, oue by one, the horses, cattle, and farming im plements were pnt no and lost, until at last all that was left were two horses, a wagon and harness. Among the persons who visited Cook's was a person culled Long Ned, a flashi ly dressed individual, an ex-stage driver, a drunkard, a gambler, and an unprincipled scoundrel. Ned had won most of Mr. Thompson's stock and money, and was now waiting to finish np his devilish work by takiug the last thing the poor man hail. He had not long to wait, for one evening Thompson, with hia team and wagon, came over to the ranch, and after sundry drinks had been taken Nod proposed to play for the team and wagon. At first Thomp son refused, saying it was all he had left, and he me'ant to keep that; but a drink or two more and the exhibition by Ned of a hundred dollars in money changed his mind, and he sat down st the fatal table ; he was so sure he could win this time, and then Ned said he only wished he would, for he wanted to see Mr. Thompson get back some of bis property. In one boor the last horse was gone, and Mr. Thompson rose from his chair and at*ggei*-d to the wall, whtre he stood with his head hanging upon his breast, pondering his misfortunes, and realizing at last that he and his family were penniless, and he had not even the means of getting home. Ned came up, and, slapping the fanner familiarly on the shoulder, said: " Come, cheer up, old fellow, and let us take a drink." Thompson moved mechanically to the bar, and, filling bis glass to the bnm, drank it oft Again and again he drank, and at each swallow of the vile stuff seemed to grow more desperate. He was now maudlin drunk, and Ned I*l his victim to ons side, and said he Lad long wanted a wife, and as Mary was a fine girl he won'd like to marry her. He really sympathized with Mr. Thomp son in his losses ; and as it was the cus tom in new settlements for men to bny their wives from the Indians, he would pnt np all he had won of Mr. Thompson against Mary. At first the farmer was shocked and" surprised ; but the more he thought of it, the more reasonable Ned's proposition seemed to be, and after another glass he sat down and staked his own daughter on a hand of cards. Ned won, ami the farmer buret into tears. The gambler made light of the matter, and assnred him, if he bad lost a daughter, he had won a son-in law. Again and again they drank, aud, Ned ealung f*r a bottle of whiaky, the two got into the wagon and Btarkal for the fanner's house. On the road, Thompson drank heavily from the bot tle, so that, when they arrived at the farm, the farmer waa so drunk that he bad to be helped out of the wagon. It was verv late, but the wife and daughter were still up waiting for his return, ami Mary was clad in a neat white muslin dress, which made her look charming. Tbev were both mnch surprised to see a stranger with Mr. Thompson, but re ceived him kindly, thinking, no donbt, he had merely come to see Mr. T. safe home. Ned turned out the team—bis team— and then entered the cabin. He was a repulsive-looking fellow at best; but, now that the night wind had puffed and flushed his bloated face, he looked per fectly hideons. Fixing his bleared eyes on Mary, he stared the girl out of coun tenance, and caused her to blush snd turn away. Wherever she went Ned followed her with his ferret eye", until the girl became so nervous and tineaay she went into the room and waked np the old man. When she returned to the onter room, she found her mother had fallen into a swoon, and her father, who had been asleep in the chair, was now sitting np, appareDtlv qnite sober, and talking to NeL Mary ran to her mother, and, raising her in her arms, placed her npon the bed, where she sprinkled water in her face nntil she recovered, and began to sob bitterly. Her father uow called her to hi* side, and said : " Mary, we have lost everything ; this gentleman has. won all, and he wants yon for his wile. I have promised him yonr hand. Go to him." The surprised aud oonfnsed girl ran to her mother ; bat Ned called to her, in a rough voice : " Come here to me, girl ; you're now my little woman, and I want you." Scarcely knowing wlikk she did, with one bonna she reached the door, aud in a moment more WHS ont in the dark night and flying across the prairie to wards the barn. Bhe heard her father call to her to come back, and then hal loo to Ned to run round the house while he went to the barn. Mary had intend ed to take her pony from the barn and ride she knew not whither ; but, hear ing her father's voice close behind her, she slipped out of the stable by a buck door and ran across the prairie. For an honr she ran on, and then sank down completely exhausted. Long and bitterly she wept, lying prone upon the cold, damp ground. Then, startled by the howl of a wolf, she sprang up and tried to think. Where should she go ? What should she do ? It was not far to the river, and she would cast herself in, and beneath its dark waters end her troubles. Arrived upon the bank, she stands like a statue, gazing down at the gargling flood. Her purpose is firm ; one plange, and all will be over. But hark ! what noise is that ? It is the dip of paddlee ; and, as Mary stands on the very brink of the river, in the light of the new risen moon, a conoe, with four Indians in it, round the bend of the stream within a few rods of her. Why do*s the warrior in the bow of the boat rise, and,with a gesture, impose silence on his comrades ? He believes this white and stata>like figure is no hu man being, and even the oars cease to THE CENTRE REPORTER dip while the loat float* silently by and the aavagea pas* on their way to the settlement to steal stock. Mary had SLHMI perfectly still, little eariii;: what became of hot ; but the sight of the Indians had changed her purpose, and no sooner had they passed than she lisstaned from the river. As •he tnmed about, a great grey wolf rose from the grass within a few feet of her, and slunk away with an angiy growl, ' while a night-owl, jure'ied on the limb of a tree over her h ad, flapped hia great wings and uttered dismal cries as he flew affrighted up the river. Mary had beeu thinking for the past few minute* of " the Wild Trapper of the Blue," aud she had now determined to go to him. She knew she was not far from his cabin, aud why should she not go and claim his protection ? Per haps he was not bad ; indeed, she had always believed he was not so wicked as they bad represented him to be. The* night air whs chilly, but she felt not the cold, for her blood was full of fever. The wiud tossed her brown hair around so thst site took her shawl and pnt it over her head, and then ran briskly along the trail. In au huur she neared the fierce hunter's cabin, and her heart beat wildly as she knocked upou'the door. Again aud agtuu she knocked, but still no response, and then ahe went to the little window and peeled into the cabin. She listened but all was dark and silent within. Returning to the door alio wrapped , louder than before, aud a voice whis pered through the key-hole : " Who is it ?" For a moment ahe knew not what to say, then, summoning courage, ahe replied : "It is I—Mary Thompson—who wants von to protect me." Cautiously the door was opened, aud the hnuter looked out and stared at Marv, to whom he said : "1 thought it was Indians or Regula tors ; hut come in, girl, and I beg pnr doa for having kept you out in the cold so long." Then he lit a pine-knot, and, handing Mary a chair, drew out his sharp jack knife and whittled some ahaviugs to ' kindle a fire. There was soon a bright blaze roaring on the hearth, and, wntli all the politeness of a conrtier, he mov ed up Mary's stool and bade tier sit close to the "burning embers. " I heard you," he said, " even be fore you knocked, for my ears have be i oome somewhat practiced to the sound . of approaching footsteps ; but I could 1 not make voti out. When I saw yonr head at tlie window with that shawl 1 over it, I thought it was a squaw's head," he added, laughing, and after a moment's pause, inquired, " Any In diana down yonr way ?" Mary simply said " No," and he pressed her no* further. The kettle was boiling, and he made j a cup of tea aud gave it to ber to drink. | Then be said: " Now, young lady, I know not what brings you here at this time of night, nor do I wish to know ; but something dreadful must have happened to csutse any one to claim protection from the Wild Trapper of the Blue, and, above all others, a yonng girl. There! There !" he added, seeing Marv was about to speak, "don't say a wori, but i just lie down on Ut I**l aud take a good sound sleep, while I go outside and keep watch over the house. Yon can shut the door and bolt it after me, if yon wish." taking his gun, "but you need not be afraid, Mary, for T would not harm a hair of yonr head ; and, as for others harming you while you are under my protection, they must first cross the dead body of the Wild Hun ter. Now, don't fret, girl, but sleep as soundjr as if yon were at home and ; bappy ; and, mind you, don't cry and trouble, or you'll be having a spell of sickness in the morning after tide night trip, and I can tell von I'm* a mighty poor nnrse," he said, closing the door behind him, and laughing heartily out i aide. Was this, indeed, the Wild Hunter of the Bine, about whom such terrible tales were told, and in whom there was nothing bnt wickedness? Mary thought she had never met a more polite or gen ; tlemanly person ; somehow hi r fears j had all disappeared, and she felt singu larly aafe aid happy. Bhe did not lock the door, for she felt not the slightest uneasiness ; bnt she peeped from a ' little window, and saw tlie tall hunter, with his gun across his shoulder, wa'k iug np and down before tbe cabin like a sentinel, and then she laid down on the bed, and soon fell into a deep sleep Next morning when she awoke the snn was shining brightly, and, springing np, for she had not removed any of her clothing, she ran to the little window and looked ont. There was tbe banter Kcing np and down, jnst as he had en doing the night before. " How i polite in him," thought Mary, "not to disturb me ; and how considerate of my comfort and safety ho has been ever since I entered Ids bumble abode." Bhe made haste to open the door, and the hunter bade her good morning, and : hoped she hail rested well. Then he ' made np the fire, and, bringing Mary some water iu a basin, with a ooiub and j brash, said he would cook tlie break fast while she made her toilet. To this Mary objected, saying she would do the cooking herself; and, aa noon as her simple toilet was made, set about tbe ' work. The banter brought the things for her to oook, peeled the potatoes, and showed her where everything he had was kept Every f minutes he wonld burst ont laughing, and say, " How funny to have a woman to cook for met" Mary's heart wss lieavv, and she was constantly thinking of )ier mother at home, and wondering where they thought she was ; bat her position was so novel for a young girl, and her com panion so cheerful, that she could not help blushing, and at times, despite her troubles, her small, steel gray eyes wonld sparkle with mirth. When they sat down to breakfast, the hunter thought he had never seen so charming a crea ture as Mary, and somehow she never seemed to mind the great brown eyre constantly fixed upon her. Strange she should not be afraid, for she was alone with the most desperate man of the West; but, so far from fearing him, she thoroughly believed lie was ber best friend and protector. After breakfast she told the hunter her tale, and again claimed his protec tion. He listened respectfully and at tentively, and, when she had done, ! said : "Bo yon thought you could trust ; me ? " " I did," replied Mary, while the hot blood rushed to her temples. For a moment the muscles in the face of the hunter worked convulsively, and, rising, he went to a small cupboard and took from it two daguerrotypes—the one of a young girl, and ihe other of a middle-aged woman. Opening them and placing them in Mary's lap, while a tear dimmed his eye, he said: " These are the pictures of my dear mother and darling sister, and I swear to you by them I will always be to yon as a brother." Mary held out lier hand, and as he grasped it, two hearts met in that clasp, never to be divided again on earth. The hunter told Mary she must go back at once to her mother, and, now sha had placed herself under bis pro tection, she need not fear Long Ned or any one else. Fleeing her on hie pony, UENTRK HALL. CENTRE CO.. PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1*73. ho walked by her side and led the little brtlto, who, "not being uee 1 to snob a harden, vm disposed to l>e a little vi sions. Carefully and tenderly, aa if she were au iufaut, be guarded her uutil they came to her father'* house, where they had scarcely arrived when that | uioat startling uf all criesuu the border, " Indians!" was heard, aud n man dashed up to aay that the settlement ' below had been attacked and all of Long Ned's stock stolen. Waiting to hear no more, leing Ned, who waa atill at the farm, leaped upon a potty and dash ed away across the prairie. lTscmg Marv in Uiearmsof her moth er, the Wild ifuutor left her to tall her own tale, and rapidly followed Ned. The Indians were driven off and alt the stock recovered, hut Long Ned did aot re ' turn. Some said he was killed by tlie savages; others, that the Wild Hauler shot hitn; bnt, bs that as it may, he was dead, and no oue seemed to care by whose baud he had fallen. Nearly all j the recaptured stock had once belonged j to Mr. Thompson, and Ned being dead, the Wild Hunter took it upon himself to return it to the farmer, sayiug he was Ned's heir; a decision uo one ob jected to. What was most surprising, however, was the fact that the Wild Hiuiter did not drink any more or quar rel with any oue. When pressed for an explanation, he simply replied: " 1 have quit that sort of thing." Little more remains to be told of this true tale of boarder life, and it may be snmrard up in three words. Boon after j tbe Indian raid there waa a wedding at Mr. Thompson's, aud the farmer, influ enced by bis uew son-in-law, stopped drinking and became a prosperous and useful citizen. If ever VoU Visit the Big Blue, just above Mr. Thompson's place, you will find a neat farm bouse, and in it a brown-haired, happy-faced woman, with four little cnrly-neadsd children playing about her knee. The owuer of this farm is a quiet, orderly, well-to-do uitu; aud, if yon will wait until he com— home from the fields, you will recognize m him none other than "The Wiltf Hunter of the Blue."— Ueneral James T. ftristnn. A Beautiful Incident. The intelligent horse, says the Turf, Field ami Farm, very often sympa thises with animal distress. About a year ago, a dog was set npou by a crowd of cruel boys, aud pelted with •ticks and stones. The poor dog had givu no ofiencw, bnt this mattered not. lie tried to twenpe from his tormentor*, and had nearly succeeded w doing so, when a stone, hurled with great vio lence, struck luia ou the fore leg, bruising tho flesh and fracturing the bone. The animal howled piteously. but none of hit pereecutore went to bu relied. II tviug injured htm, they turn ed coldly sway and left him to hi* fate. The dog hmped into tlie stable of Mr. Edward Kirkpolrick. moaning piteous ly. In one of the stalls of the stable was a well bred young 1 orse of more than ordinary intelligence. Tbe dis tress uf tlie Jog seemed to move the heart of the horse to pity. He beut his head, caressed tiie canine, and inspect ed the broken leg. Then with hi* fore feet he pushed some clean strew into one corner of his stall, and made a soft bed ou wbieh the dog was induced to lay himself down. A close and affec tionate inlitnacv was ak ouee establish ed between the bouse and the dog. The herae was being largely fed ou bran tcash, and one day whcu receiving hi* feed, thinking the dog might be hun gry, the equine bowed his head, ennght the canine gentlv by the skin of the utvk, and with His teeth lifted him into lh trough or hex. The dog fell to with a hearty will, whioh showed that his hunger waa great, and that Ids gratitude ass eqn.il In hi* appetite. DSTS and weeks passed, and the dog and the horse continued to be firm friends. The bnui mash fed them both, and the invalid grew strong and fat on the wholesome diet. At night, the two animals thus strangely brought togeth er, sh-pt in the most loving manner. The horae wonld arrange a aoft bed for the dog, and then lay d >wn and tender ly encircle the cauiuu form with one of hia fore legs. It ia seldom that snch a beautiful and authentic incident is brought to onr no tice. The horse showed for the no fortunate more of that feeling which wo term humanity, than did the doaen youths who were presumed to walk in the image of their God. Nay, it took the poor vioiim of man's persecution to its heart and bom*, and tenderly nnrseJ the some back to health and strength. A Struggle with a Bciil Fish. Mr. Charles B. Brainerd, of Boston, in writing ta tho Scientific American about specimeua of the devil fish, re lates this iutcraating incident: The strength which these creatures possess ia almost beyond comprehen sion, as ia evinced by" what took place when my pet (') was captured. He had seized hold of a atib-mariue diver, at work in the wreck of a sunken steamer off the coast of Florida. The man was a powerful Irishman, who claimed to weigh 300 pounds. His size and build frilly verified his statement, and, to use his own language, "the baste landed on top of my shoulders and pinued my arms tight. I felt my armor and my self being cracked into a jelly." It seems that he was jast abont being bronght to the surface, else the monster wonld have killed hfm, for he waa suf fering so from the terrible embrace that lie t mid move no part of bim-olf. When dragged on to the raft from which be had descended, aud finally released, he had fainted. The men on the raft seized the fish by one of its wriggling arms and tried to pull it off, bnt oonld not break the power of a single one of the auokers. The fish was only re moved by lieiug dealt a heavy "blow a 'rose the sack containing the stomach. This sack stood stiffly np abovo the eyes, while the eyes stood ont liko lob sters' eyes snd gleamed like fire. Tbe monster is, all in all, one of tbe most frightful Apparitioua it oonld be the fate of man to meet. It fulfills in everv par ticular the horrible features attributed to it in Victor Hugo's " Toilers of the Sea." Notwithstanding the severity with which the able Frenchman has been criticised for "creating a nonde script with his weird imagination," the truth must be grauted that hia "nonde script" has an aotual existence, as is evidenced by the specimens in Brighton aud Hamburg, as well as iny own. Ostrich Hatching. We learn from a Orshsmstown (Cape Colony) paper that oatrich hatching by artificial means is successfully carried on at Hilton, in the colony. The edi tor says: "We saw the incubator, and in it forty-five eggs, in the prooess of hatching. This operation is now per formed to almost perfection, quite equal to anything tho parent birds can do themselves, even supposing they are unmolested and escape all kinds of ao cidents to which they are exposed. Out of the forty-five eggs we saw, we may safely oonclude forty-two would pro d e live and healthy chicks. The re suits now, of several batches, are four teen 'Ut of fifteen to be hatched; and Mr. Douglass teams pretty sanguine that he shall presently batch all the eggs placed in the incubator." There are one hundred and fifty-five ostriches at Hilton, ef whioh seventy-five are this year's ohiekens. Is the Earth Hollow t A reiH'irter has beeu interviewing a scientific who believes, with C'apt. Hyuiuiea, that the earth was hollow. Here is a portion id the iuterview: " Csptaiu Hymines," sai l the scien tist, " who promulgated the theory, was no foul, lie was s captain iu the war of IHIJ. lid first aunouuoed his idea iu 181H iu a circular. He wrote copioua ; lv for the (wiper* and delivered lectures, j In l&Jti aud 1&17 he s|>oke before tbe faculty aud atudruta of Uuiou College, where lira. Kott and Way land were his j respcelfnl hearers," " What are the outlines of his ays ' tern ?" " He said that the diameter of tlie northern opening must be alaiut 2,000 miles, aud the south larger. The plaues of these opening* are parallel to each other, but foryi au angle uf twelve degrees with the equator. The shell of the earth is about 1,000 miles thick The edges he calls ' verges,' aud makes ihcui 1,500 miles from tlie regular oou vexity without to the regular concavity within." " But on what facts docs he base this astounding statement?" " The esptai u got his facts from Itoas, Howe, i'arrv, McKeusie, aud others, aa I get sojue from CapUaiu llall." "Yet none of these uieu believed tbe earth hollow." "No ; but tbey were astouiibed at certain facts of their experience thst Svwiues saw could only tie explained by the hollow globe theory." " Did you kuow anything aboat Hyaiuie* or hia theory when your atten tion was first attracted to the matter ?" " I had a vague idea of some auch man, but about the winter of 18701 the thought of the globe being hollow be gwn to press itself upon my mind, and I find thst another man began to dwell upon the same subject in that year. The result in hut ca*e waa an interest ing book called 'The iio{Jow Globe.' This volume came into my bauds in May. lleclaitua that the first thought* he had ou the subject came from a •trance medium.' Mr views were not the result of sny snch inspiration. Yet bis method is much like mine, inas much as he works oat the conclusion analogically. We both mainlau the doctrine that the earth must resemble man iu its internal structure," " Aoourdiug to what known laws of physic* do yon consider that your hol low op-u-euded globe wa* formed ?" " It is the reanlt of a balance between the centripetal and centrifugal forces. The matter of the globe must have beeu •>indented from the belt iu ac oordanee with lue m-tmlar hypothras* of Ist place, bcanus* it Would b* tmpos nibUi to reach a dead centre, the law uf centripetal fore*' being more active at tlie centre than the centrifugal." " Well, about By turns* ; let's have more üboot bis facta." "One leading thought with him is that the only sensible explanation of the fact that the climate of tlie eastern coast of North America is much colder than thst uf WesU-ru Europe lies iu the idea that as the * verges ' must be the coldest part* of the earth's surface, be cause being more convex they diverge instead of converging the sun's rays the temperature of any part of the earth's surface depends as well npon its proximity to the verge as to the equator. Bymmes makes ths lower edxre of the northern verge identical with the line of perpetual frozen ground. This line passe* from f<B degs. north and 20 degs. cast from London through Bpitabergen, Southern Green land, Cook • Inlet, Fox Inland, South era Komtrbalks, and thence over tbe month of the White Sea to tlie starting point. As the line comes farthest south slwut Hudson Bay the coldness of oar coast would be a natural result accord ing to his thvViry. Certainly tlie ocean current doctrine will not explain it There is no reason why the Gulf Stream should not moderate the climate of North Amsrioa as wail as that of East ern Europe." Mating and Hating. F.itber a man must be c.-mtent with poverty all his life, or else be willing to deny himself some luxuries, and save, to lay the baas ol independence in the future. But if a man defies future, and spends all that he earns (whether his earnings be one dollar or ten dollars every day) let him lsok for lean and hnngry want some future time—for it will surely eotne, no matter what be thmka. To aave ia absolutely the only way to get a aolid fortune ; tliure ia no other certain mode on earth. Those wboahut their eyeo and ears to these plain facts, will be forever poor; snd for their ob stinate rejection of tlie truth, mayhap will die in rsgs and filth. Let them so die and thank themselves. But no 1 They take a sort of recompense is curs ing fortune. Great waste of breath ! They might as well enrse mountains and eternal Hill*. For I can tell them f.rtune does not give sway her real and substantial good*. Bhe sells them to the highest bidder, to the hardest, wisest worker for the boon. Men never make *• fata! a mistake ss when they think they are mere creature* of fate; 'tis ihe sheerest folly in the world. Everv man may mske or mar hi* life, whichever he m*y choose. Fortune ia for those who by diligence, honesty and frugality, placo themselves in s position to grasp hold of fortune when it appears in view. The best evidence of diligenoe is the sound of the ham mer io yonr shop, at five o'clock in the morning. Tbe best evidenco of fru gality is tbo five hundred dollars or more standing in your usme st the savings bank. The leat evidenoe of honesty are both diligence and fru gality, for these prove stealing illogical. Large Cities. Philadelphia is tbo twelfth city of the world in the number of its inhabitants, and the first in tho number of conven iences, which it offers to all olssaes of working people. The population of London is estimated at 8,202,000 ; of Paris, 1,084,000; of Pakin, 1,648,000 ; of Jeddo, 1,554,000 ; of Canton, 1,236,- 000; of Constantinople, 1,075,000 ; of Calcutta 1,000,000 ; of New York, 942,- 292 ; of Berlin, 828,000 ; of Vienna, 825,000 ; of Bombay. 816,000 ; and of Philadelphia, 074,022. Of the thirty five cities of the world having over 800,000 inhabitants, six are in China, five in the United States, viz., New York, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, ML Louis and Chicago, five iu Great Britain, four in India, three iu Frauce, three iu Japan, and one each in Turkey, Prussia, Austria, Russia, Binm, Brazil, Spain and Egypt. A Scaly Saved. A. ft. Moacham him lioen lecturing in Han Franciaoo on the Mod oca, and in narrating the circumstance* attending the asaaaaination of General Cauby.and his own escape, said, " Boston began to take my scalp with a blunt knife : but Toby interi>ose<! with devices to delay the operation, and when at length he had raised Ave or six inches of skin on the left side of my head, Toby, woman like, accomplished by strategy what could not be doue otherwise. Bhe shouted, ' Soldiers I soldiers !' and Boston left his work unfinished A Minnesota man baa become insane (rem the axoeaaiTa uea of tobaooo. Poor Jack's a sl.augliar.l <>•* frssi M*w Vera, ( ui.i|Kl>> <1 ill T*llar>, UartMra, IkM luAl.ra, Cat poMtors, ••* llressr*. IMa* l.l> Ur|ar< lU* Mast. An inane of the Han Francisco Alta contains the following, which should be immediately investigated by the proper authorities The ahip Ilallir, from New York, arrived in port with a cr*w i landlubbers in the fureceatle aud a grateful captain ou the quarter deck. The Baltic left New York for Man Francisco, with a fair prospect of reaching any point but the place of destination. " iter crew waa composed ef material foreign to the ocean. Home could meuipulste the shears and goose, others the Jack plane, others the awl and lapatuue, other* could package tea and sugar in papers to suit, and others still could exercise tbe diplomacy of distinguished statesmen to effect ths •ale of a yard of calioo. A yard of connter would suit them better than a mile of bowline. The captain of the Baltie bad, among his tars, tinkers, tailors, barbers, brewers, bakers, cob blent, carpenters, brouge makers, clerks aud gree-ugroecra. There i* at preeeut a fierce straggle waged in New York Itetween tbe Hhip- Q Commissioner *ud the sailor laud- L. They are eaeh striving to obtain tbe mastery* The landlords want Jack's tnonev, and Uncle Ham santa to pro tect him in hi* right*. The captains siul oousigneea, or many of them, favor lb* landlords because they profit by it, aud it often liapiietis that a captain is glad to gtt s crew from any source. The captain of the Baltic wss treated to s crew outside the Shipping Com missiener's office, every one of whom was shanghaed. But the captain proved to be an exception to the average of hi* class, 110 i* a humane man, who •aw what he had to deal with and measured his conduct accordingly. He did uot himself ill-treat or abuae his men or permit sny of his officers to do so. He taught them without the appli cation of belaying pins. Whcu Use drowsy creatures awoke from the stupor into which they had beeu thrown by ths drugs administered to them by the landlords their surprise oau be imagi ned. They were at sea ; they were on a new U-rriUuy, of whicJt the captain was king, and from which there was no side door or means of escape. It wee not necessary to tell the captain their story ; he knew and appreciated it When the Baltic entered port the facta about the shipping of the crew tiecamc known, and. like sensible fel lows, tbe shangliacd are now looking aronnd them for damages. They have made complaint to the United Btatra Attorney, and Mr. Morrow has their case no'w in hand. That shangbatng is a crime there can be no doubt, but this is not the question which enters most deeply into the rase. Its de velopments will attract general interest, as it is one of vast importance to com merce. If tbe captain of a ship who takes on board a shangbaad crew in New York can be punished and held for civil damages upon bis arrival here we will have less shanghaed crews and fewer acts of cruelty to record. East Riier Bridge. Both towers of ths East River Bridge are now finished to the roadway—that is, up 119 feet above mean high water mark—but ia the centre of the main there will be a rise of 16 feet, making tlie height 135 feet above high water mark. On the Brooklyn side the three columns standing on tbe tcwer are rompletc up to the point of turning the arches, and several courses of masonry have been laid altove this point These columns ran 48 feet upward. The two corner ones are 24 feet wide ; the centre one is 1& feet 6 inches wide. The two open spaces ou s line with the roadway are each 33 feet 9 inches wide, while the entire width of the bridge is 85 feet The arches now iu progress will measure 35 feet from apex to top of column, and above this will be an ad ditional structure, throueh which the cables are to psas. including an eleva tion of 12 feet to form oornices and balustrades, making tbe total height above higL water 280 feet The excava tions for the Brooklyn approach have been going on for some time. Six courses of masonry are already laid, bringing the work' up to the surface ground. The heavy anchor platea sod one set of bare for attaching the cables are already in position on James street at a point *971 feet from the tower. The New York approach, like the Brookivn one, will lie 100 feet wide. It will liegin near the City Hall and be continued to Franklin square, where one end of the cable is to tie anchored. From, the City Hall to the lower ia 1 MS feet, er three-tenths of a mile. The ascent and descent will be gradual and easy to pedestrians on both sides. It is understood, that when a peraou starts for a trip from New York to Brooklyn, the matter of mounting 119 feet over buildings and above the mast of ships will hardly tie felt, while the descent will bo equally gentle—hardly perceptible. Reporting Extraordinary. Queer things happen in newspaper offices. Recently s brother journalist in a suburban town, with a flourishing weekly on his bauds, was obliged to send a yonng aud inexperienced report er to a gathering where there waa some wine, many pretty women and a songor two. The*reporter had an honr or two in whieh to write up his account, and he asked onr editorial friend what he should aav about the music. "Oh," was the reply, "aay Misa B. sang with tenderness, Alius C. played with bril liancy, Mr. X. sang with fire and some thing of that sort, and make a few com parisons. yon know." That reporter was discharged the very next morning. A portion of his notice read as follows: " Miss B. sang very tenderly, a* tender as young spring lamb with mintsance," tec. " Miss C. played as brilliant as a bunch of flre-eraekera on a dark night, or as brilliant as a meteoric shower," Ac. " Mr. X. sang with so much fire that he burned np three sheetsof music and set tlie parlor curtains all ablaze," —Albany Journal. Pay as You 00. Southern papers in- decanting on tlie ruin rare to follow getting in debt to carry on farming operations. Oue far mer who giving and asking credit, a few years ago, records it as his experienoe that he can now bny more than he ever lamght before, antr sell more. Tlie case is mentioned of the French, who never go in debt, and who, having been Having money sinoe the days of the first Napoleon, rave become the richest nation in the world, which seems proved by the fact that the Ger man indemnity of a thousand millions of dollars which they wore obliged to pay has been all discharged in two years, while we here have been strag "gliug for eight years with twice as much. Perhaps the wealth of the French farmers arises as mnch from the small-farin system and the high cnltivation they give the soil. There is a vast difference between farming in a loose way and having all work dene in the best manner. Terms: #*2.00 a Year, in Advance. A Frightful Plague. Tbe yellow fever has been confined to no particular locality, and rich and poor have suffered alike, says a tetter from Mcmphia. Nor do the ettizena avoid any particular spot except Happy Hollow, where the plague is aaid first to have broken out—a miserable, tum ble-down plans Inhabited by the very poor, and no v looked upon as a verit able Gehenna. Here at tbe very start* ing of the disease there was greet suf fering. for the people were not able or indeed willing to call in medical assist ance. It seems now thst there were some thirty deaths before the sanitary authorities made their formal atuvounoe- nieut that the pestilence was upon us, aud then it lisu obtained a sore foot bold. Tbe diseese begins with a chill and a pain in the head, back, and limbs, which ia often followed by delirium. The stomach will not retain food, ami feels as though it waa on fire. Tbe face iu puff.d and swollen like that of a con firmed drunkard, and the eyes are red and extremely sensitive to light, end gradually the orange or darker hue characteristic of the disease extends to neck, breast, and extremities. The per son attacked, is often remarkably rest- Ires, changes bis position constantly, aud his fsoe assumes s look of intense nervous anxiety or is fierce and threat ening. Then comes an abatement of tbe symptoms, the skin grows moist sod ooet, pain partly van l noes; sad tbe patient is apparently growing well. The third state is one of prostration; tbe pulse becomes more frequent end fee ble, and the skin darker, the tongue ia large and moist, or brown and dry, er smooth, red, fissured, and bleeding. Tbe stomach again becomes irritable, lite vomiting is often incessant, and the matter ejected contains dark flakes which, if the esse gore on, gradually be comes the terrible "black vomit," which looks like s mixture of coffee grounds or soot. Low, mattering delirium su pervenes, and in a few hours the victim (1 tea. In connection with one of the re lief societies it has been my unhappy fort one to witness many encli eases" of suffering aggravated by all the horrors of sonalor and poverty; the black vomit would plash hour after boor mto basins or against the wall near which the suf ferer lay, in some cases deserted by all his family, fur the terror occasioned by the disease readily the form of panic fear and overcomes all sense of moral obligation and natural affection. One of our city officials refused the oth er day to attend the funeral at hia own mother, tor fear of being attacked by the fever. Indeed this is not to be won dered at, although attendance on the *ick is by no means necessarily fatal. No one oomes to the city who can possi bly escape doing so, and there are many noble men and women who have devoted their whole time to the infected. Tbe efforts of tbe Howard Association in this direction are beyond all praiaa. It has supplied 20 nurses, and its daily expen diture is st least $1,400. The Masons, the Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, and the secret societies generally, nave fulfilled their beet mission to the beat of their ability, and now find themselves in desperate need pt money to continue se they have begun. Yes, as I said be fore, money and supplies are coming iu rapidly from all aecttonsof nutry, and now that the plague is abating its fury, there will doubtless be little mora trouble in this respect, though now the need is pressing. Caring for a Passenger. A well-known Fhiladelphiaa went te Pittsburgh, s few days and when he entered the sleeping car the thou|rht struck him thai he might get to walking about during the night while asleep, as he wss something of S somnambulist, and walk off the platform into n better world. Bo be went to the brakemaa and gave him a dollar, with strict instruc tions that if be saw him walking around the cor in his sleep, to seize hia and force him back at all hazards. Then the Fhiladelphian turned in, and soon his reverberating snore echoed the screech of the locomotive. About two o'clock Loomia awoke, aud aa the air of the oar seemed stifling, he determined to go on the platform for a fresh breath or two. Just as be got to the door the brake man saw him. grasped him, and held him down. When the Philadelphian recovered his breath, he indignantly exclaimed, " What do you mean ? Let me up, I toll you; I am as wide awake as you ore." But the brokrman put an other knee on his breast, and insisted thst the man waa asleep, and then he called another brakernan, and after a terrific struggle, during which the un fortunate received bumps and blows innumerable, the railroad man jammed htm into a berth, pnt a trunk and eight carpet-bags on him, and then sot on bim to licud him down nntil morning. The "ret thing ths Phiiadelnhian naked fsr when he arrived in Pittsburgh waaa respectable hospital where their cum! tbe temporarily insane. He thinks bit reason wss partially dethroned by his efforts to comprehend how that brake man oould have the face to ask for an other dollar l>ecanse of the trouble he gave him during the night Old Pupils. A story is told in Arkansas of n peda gogue who once came from Tennessee to establish a school. He secured a small cabin on Crowley's Ridge for a school-room, and after giving dne no tice opened his institution. Presently tlie door opened and there appeared at tbe threshold two tall, ungainly youths, each with a shot gun on his shoulder. After placing their guns in a corner of the room these promising pupils took seats on one of the rear benches. Tbe tscher examined them in regard to their requirements, and found them both ignorant of their alphabet. One of the young men was at onoe token in hand, and the teacher very properly began with an attempt to fix the letter Ain his mind. Tbe frequent repeti tion of the name of this letter attracted the attention of the other pupil, who come forward and asked to be shown A. Hia reasonable request was granted, when, after a moment's examination of the letter he tnmed up his nose con temptuously. saying, "Doggone A 1 If that s all he is, he'll bs no go in Arkan sas," whereupon both the boys shoul dered their gnna and marched off, leav ing the schoolmaster alone in his glory. The pedagogue came to the conclusion that he hod made a mistake in selecting his field of operations. Life, A learned professor intimates that all who die under one hundred years of age are gnilty of suicide ! Tbe prooess of reasoning by which he arrives at this conslusion is something as follows: Duration of life is measured by the time of growth ; the camel is eight years iu growing, and lives five times eight years ; the horse ia five years in growing, and lives twenty-five years ; man, being twenty years in growing, should live five times twenty years. So Providence having intended man to live a century, he would arrive at that age if he did not kill himself by un wholesome modes of living, violent pas sions, snd sxjkosure to accidents. Surely, according to this theory, the human race might well adopt new and more healthful modes of eating, sleep ing, working, and recreating, in the kepeef besoming centenarians. NO. 46. Hints About Breasts. A mingle row of trimming straight down the middle of the front breadth of the skirt is very stylish. For in •tenee, a row of shell pleating, of eat •tool buttons, or eles three or four of the new bows made of long loons of doubled silk,with Hie ends flstshea with an oruammt like the heed of teasels, or Hie fuii jel-mlimped affaire that Suggest the upholsterer** ornaments on cur tain*. Horizontal and diagonal tabliera are newer than those mad* of several per peodieular bends or puff*. Th* eroes- < wis# tabliera era (evened pleats, or atae j earnlsM-looking folds, lacked on each j width, or ale* groups of crescent-*haped , folds with bauds of tet trimming be tween each group. Diagonal t*!>U n. are merely piped bauds of tba materiel of the trimming, or else shirred puflk I Throat knots, aid* knots fastened on ! the left of tb* belt, or else a knot with : long ends for Hie front of the waist, are ornaments found on French dineaiis, They are aomctimes mad* of watered ribbon, especially on black dresses, but are most frequently of doubled silk, two or three lecbes wide when finished. Nee sashes of black vat vet are two long straight pendent streamers, trimm tft with lace and jet, or else fnngvd, while half-way down them a pretty lit tle pocket is simulated. Hashes of wids ribbon are now won directly in the middle of Hie back, and consist of two long end* with the top laid over the flat loops, that avoid giving * bouffant ap pearance. Tortoise-shell buttons, very large and exquisitely carved, are just intro duced for triramiag suite of canal's heir, velvet polonaises, jackets, etc. White silk tabliera, wrought *ll over with "white jet"—frosty looking white beads—era to be used for ball dresses of white and pale-tin tod silks. Demi-trained skirts of dinner drss#t# are without over-akirta, but are trimm ed with three kinds of trimming. The hack breadths are flounced from tb# belt to the edge, the aide Unmltb* are I covered by along ■quere-cosneredwidth of satin or velvet tacked flatly to the skirt, end the front breadth* have a tablier of reversed pleat* or el## #f di agonal bands Sleeveless basque* of light blue or pink atlk, with m*#rtioos of Velencien ue# lee# let in tb# silk, or worn over dinner dry*** of black silk. The long heavy over-ekiit*"now worn are sewed to the belts of the low#* I nkirta, making oolv two pieces in the | t>o*turn#—that fa, toe basque end skirt. In such eases the over-skirt must open behind, just as the lower skirt does. Ladies will find it a good plan to tack the new orer-akirta (in several place* in the seam*) to the lower skirt, SUM* th* simple straight breadth* now used ere easily blown out of place, and th# beau ty of tha costume impaired thereby. In some plain but extravagant dreaae* the lung straight breadths ate mad# of doubled silk. This, however, seem* U*#lCM expense, as a deep facing is quite sufficient Ber* end Bag-Teams. We purchased 18 sledge dogs at Holsteinborg for the use of the Tigress, nays a correspondent with that expedi tion, and left them at Uodhavn in charge of e native, who is to look after them and feed them until tb# arrival of the Tigress, when they will be quar tered on board of that vessel. The "ledge dog* of Greenland are driven ia i teams, each numbering from four to sixteen dogs ; they always go abreast of one another, and frequently become en tangled in their endeavor* to branch off in other directions than the one inten ded by the driver. The harness con sist* of a single trace, made of seal hide, which pease* from the cheat over (he baunchea to the sledge. There are no reias used to guide them in any par ticular direction, but they are directed 1 in Hieir course by a whip with a lash about 20 feet long, while the handle is only M many inches in length. It re quire# a great deal of practice to vne the whip dexterously. At first one ia apt to get the lash" wound about hi# body, or to strike himself. A driver, : though his leading dog is well drilled, must learn to hit any particular dog in th# entire team with this strand of seal bide, or el*# he will have no oontroi over them. The native* make a practice of traveling in couplee, so that they can relieve one another in using the whip, which they find tedious employment, and by tin* meant sue can rest ou his sledge" following along after the for ward one. A * Happy Bride. " Letitia Elizabeth Landon, tb# poetess, was but twenty-flve when I m#t ber," write# Robert Dale Owen. " Her after story WM ■ sad one. At the age of thirty-six she married a Mr. Maclean, who bad been appointed gov ernor of a British settlement on the cueet of Africa. Bulwer (not the* Lord Lytton) gave ber eway. At the wedding breakfast a hug* number of literary oelebritiea were present, and more than one of them took occasion to expreM in flattering terms their high appreciation of the amieble and talent ed lady from whom they were now, alas! about to part, perhaps for long year*. In reply the bridegroom rose "and, in the coolest tone aaid 'he hoped Mrs. Maclean would deserve the*# encomium*!' Years afterwards, Bul wer, relating the circumstances to an intimate friend, added, ' Imagine what a shock it must Lave been to us. The poor bride turned pale a* a sheet, and not a guest at the table but deplored her fate.'" Wearing Flannels. The value of flannel next the skin cannot be overrated, says Dio Lewis. It is invaluable to persons of both MX- M, and all age*, in all oonntriea, in all climates, at every season of the year, for the sick and the well—in brief, I cannot conceive of any circumstaaoes in whili flannel next the akin ia not a com fort and a rouroe of health. It should not be changed from thick to thin be fore the settled hot weatiierof the sum mer, which in the Northern States is not much before the middle of June, and often not before the first of July. And the flannels for the summer must not be three-quarters cotton, but they must be all woolen, if you would heve the beet protection. In the British army and navy they make the wearing of flannel a point of discipline. During the hot season the ship's doctor makes a daily examina tion of the men at unexpected hours to make sure that they have not left oft their flannels. TH* BEST DIARNRZCTSJRR. —Carbolic acid, in some of the various forms in which it is offered to the public, is one of the most popular disinfectants, and deservedly so. For simple disinfection, where the cause has been removed, nothing is superior to the acid itself, either concentrated or in eolation. For disinfecting the air of a sick-room a few drops may be pnt upon a hot shovel or stove-lid, or any article Hist will re tain its heat for some time. It has the advantage that it docs not injure cloth ing or metal artislea with whioh the vapor comes in contact. It should be need with care, however, as the liquid itMlf is a violent peieoit, even in small doses. tart* rna tomtm Tb# ri—l'loiit ni tfce Michigan Sat# Poaoiolfkaa *4#tjy made *IO.OOO hi# An low* tvrrn*r committed wind# because hi* sheep MM to gut the fir#! premium Hi • Hdr. * Bad temper WW* M both end#; it makes o##'# Ml/ nearly •• mhmreM# u it do## OttM (MdfllA. Eighty six honm w# burned is a stable fa Bottom They war# valued * 1800 to *I,OOO —h. - A Chicago pp#r think# that 7 body thatdi#* in Mil waa he# Umot going to a bettor hmdi j Th# Haanuneoto brat-softr factory tbi# ye* will m*ke 8,000 barrel* of - ! gar, veined at 8800,000, An Oabkaah suicide left a noto la forming the world that it waatb# result of marrying too yonng. Joam got treated to* Hud bat, and ba now feels a ronsetouaneM of being in dairt " ©*ar baad and earn." A prudent gentleman, unwilling to Hew a neighbor of lying, *w l naed the trnth with penurious frugal ity. Tha diseaaston of Pari# OW# aa a il*trT*r of cotton catertttars baa brougftl out the fact that ifl' ia aw# death to potato and bad bags. Th* Turkish Miniatar of Polio© baa just ieaocd a ixmitiv# order Interdict log bulla* from going into atoraa tor tb# porpoM of making purcbaee#. Tha grange* of tba States of the Hi*- ! of agriculture! atatorties in every Stat* ■ u> tba Union. A dejected Daobury man announced ; to a oonple of friends that "tha pania , waa playing ba moaafctaf with all j breach*# of business; be M* f°* • j flab yesterday." A gentleman onoa mat a very quiet n.-wfixir selling a#w*p#pere. "la than aay naw* V inquiredtU gentle man. " Lot* o" new*, replied tha boy, " bnt ootbin* to boiler. An undo left ia hi* will eleven tlver •pouna to bis nephew, adding, "If I bare not left hire tba doaen, ba knowa the reason. R The fact waa the nephew had aoaaa time before stolen it A canons fonnatioo, eoneieting of what appears to baa petrified flab about eighteen inches long and four inebaa wide In the centre, waa found in smeos of aaedalone a Imt days ago at Jaehaon, Mich. Hog-akin and cow hide bags bold ten time* a* moah oor aa eantnm bags do, and eoat only about ona-tentb as much to get to market The core should be put into the bag* before lb* duns are taken off the animals. A suit ha* bees commenced against a Mobile earing* bank, to teat the validity of a charter provision that the treats** may require from lb* <•••{*'*• tor a aotioe of wxiJ day* ptwrioti# to the withdrawal of his fond*. In the naval battle off Cartagena be tween the Spanish and insurgent tomes, thirteen men ware killed and forty-erven wounded on th# rebel fleet. Sanor Merer, a member of the Junta, waa • killed on board tba Mnmaneia. Tb# newspaper* throughout tbo Few England State* report an unusual nom ! ber of inatesoea where fruit tree* bar# i pat forth flower# for tb# oaoond time . tbi# man, and in many caae* aaeood crop# of fruit bar* beam gathered. 1 The Swedish eokmy In Maine i# proe pering. This y*r they gather the bar , vest of 1,000 ware# of eropn There are ' about 00 Sweden in Few Sweden, mid 1,100 in the State. There bar# been j 75 births and 25 deaths among them the past year. At Qetkenwell Police Court, in Eag ! land, a few daya sine#, tha manager of I tha Neemaatle OoUiary Company waa convicted of having knowingly told an ; inferior quality of eoahi for a good ooa. He WM fined £l# and eoma, with tha alteccativ* of one month's imprison ment. A Few Bedford man hang bis west on j tba pig-feooe, and in leea 'than four i minute# the hoggish occupant* of the ' enclosure were angrily grunting over the dirinoa of the *l<W in green backs that they found is one of tb* | pocket*. All but fllO, however, we# re f covered.* Letter* from Pekin state that aa ( edict bed appeared. eteting teat j sevea filing#* bed beeo swept awey in the Province of Shanaee by the waters J of the Tung Tino River end its branch es having barm their banks, end that a . great amount of human life had been lost by the floods. A mistake—lecturers end other per former* piecing tfe> prior of ticket* at * what they think their entertainments are worth, uutead of at sums the peo ple are willing to pav. The difference between a dollar ana a half-dollar often decides whether a hall shall baa quar ter or three-quarter# ooeupted. The Society of the Army of the Tennessee at a buaineea meeting re elected General Sherman President for thTeuamag veer : General John A. Lo- pSTVicr-Premdent; Colonel L. ALDaytou, Recording Secretary; Gen eral A. Hiokenlooper. Corresponding Secretary; sad General L. M. Force, Treasurer. Sea Diego, C#L, ia sadly in need of e Bergk. A favorite pastime there at iirrniml i* to nlern e nn<ate and a tar antula in a Wo bottle and let them fight if out. A combat of this descrip tion, tn which the spider, after a severe contest, succumbed to the mouae, is narrated in true prize-ring style by a San Diego paper. At the recent meeting of farmer# in San Francisco for the purpose of devis ing mean* to abate the squirrel nuis ance, statements were made by farmers in Central Cost* county, ilu.un.ig that j as average lose of fll per acre in the , grain fie'da by the ravage* of these lit ' Ue peeta—the losses of nineteen farm er* footing up in the aggregate 89,- 672.88. "O," gasped fat Mrs. Weighty, as \ she seconded the stairs of her new reei ; donee, " I really cannot run up any more stairs." "Of course not," answer ied ber husband; "but if the stairs were made of dressmakers' bills, you could run them up very eaailv." " I ; detest puna," exclaimed Mrs. Weighty, the next day, recounting Hie conversa tion to a friend. Thnee city fanners who were organ ized into a Grange of the Patrons of : Husbandry in Boston seem likely to give the order e good deal of annoyance. They prove to oe made up chiefly of grain speculators, aud the " grangers " ' are suspicious that their interests will > net be identical with those of the pro i dncers, but they have all the signs and pass-words and refuse to disband. For a long time in the South, and j now particularly, railroad tickets have | been and are used as currency. Two i hundred thousand dollars' worth of these are in circulation in Georgia. ' Each one entitle# the holder to so many miles of travel, oris taken in pay ment for a corresponding quantity of freight. These bi Is are received by the roads in liquidation of all their claims. French suicide* continue to present strange features. A young sub-lien tenant of cavalry in Paris recently in vited a young girl whom be casually met on Hie streets to ride with him in the Bois de Boulogne. Returning to the city be ordered a lavish anpper, with wines, of whioh be and bis com panion partook. Then he completed his day's spree by blowing out his brains." Neither the girl nor anyone else knew his name, nor was there a sou in his pocket to pay his restaurant bill. In a recent work on Epidemic or Malignant Cholera it is stated that the poison which causes the disease con sists of certain microscopic fungi which, being received into the system, propa gate their kind. It is believed by some that this fungus takes ito origin en the banks of the Ganges, and that it ia pro duced upon the rice plant. Ther# are many facto in favor of this suppoiitioß, although it has not gained universal ac ceptance with medical men. £atit is certain that epidemic cholera never arose spontaneously in aay country but Hindostaa.
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