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.