1 Want to be a braneor. Western papers hve amusement over the aaiietr of politician* there to learn ways agri ealtnral. Hers is some poetry one .of the p* per* publishes. Uie verses supposed to hare been sang by a Vocal politician : I want to be a granger. Aud with the grangers stand A horny-headed farmer. With a haystack in my hand. 1 toneslh the tall tomato tree I'll awing tl>e glittering hoe And smite the wild potato-bag As he skips o'er the snow. I've bought myself a lhitiham rain And a gray sljwca cow. k lock-stitch Osage orange hedge, And a patent leather plow. The Shoemaker's Sting. The shoemaker eat at his leathern bench. And sang as lie pegged hie shoe; lie worked and sang aud sang and worked. While he drew the war ends through, Perchance his song was not SO weet As the nigliliugalc'a sweetest trill; But he worked as he sang and sang as he worked. And sang and worked with a will. was not of iove and t upid's jwcsr Thai the shoemaker gaily sang; But he worked as he sang and sang a he wMrke.l. While the shop with the echoes rang. Uo did aot sing to Italian strains— Thoss words that none can tell 1 But he beat the tune to his own heart • rhyme With the hammer that rtse aud fell. The words that he sang are known to all. Aad are known the old world through ,- But hule he dreamed of his cowing fame As he sang and pegged his shoe. He had left the door of his shop ajar. For a breath of ooohug hreese. That niurmtiring sighed in the forest wide. Of the gently whispering trees. From the clover red ui ita cnuis.ni bed. The fcrcwas us fragrance bore. And swept it along with the stream of song That flowed from that opea door. And this was the song that the shoemaker sang. As he sang aud pegged his shoe. While a fly lit on the end of his nose As he drew the wax ends through. His han.is were full and he could not stop. So what to do was he ? Than he sang ut the words that echo yet— "Shoo, fly I don't bother me." And be beat the time, in a of ehime. And hts hammer that rose and fell; And the words of his song were borne along Wherever the brceres swell. When now so soon ths sun of June, And summers sultry sky. Shall work em man the curse and ban By hanging back the fly. Then whereso'er the breezes swell. On land or o'er the sea, His sang shall nee in countless cries - " Shoo, fir ! don't bother me." AN UNINVITED GUEST. It was nearly three o'clock on a hot summer's day ; the long polished coun ters of our "bank were crowded with customers ; money was flowing in and running out in the usual business-like manner. From a raised desk in my E'vaie room, I, the manager of the yal Domestic Bank, looked out on the busy scene with a certain pride and Eleasure. The Royal Domestic is net a >ng established institution, and, with out vanity, I may say that much of its prosperity and success is attributable to the zeal and experience of its mana ger. In corroboration of this statement, I might refer to the last printed Report of the directors—laid l>efore the share holders at their annual meeting—in which they are pleased to say But after all, perhaps I might be thought guilty of undue egotism and conceit, if I tepeat the flattering terms in which they speak of me. A elerk puts bis head inside my door. "Mr. Thrapstow, sir, wants to speak to you." " Send him in, Roberts," I said. Charles Thrapstow I had known from boyhood. We had both been reared in the same country town. The fact that his parents were of considerable higher social status than mine, perhaps made our subsequent intimacy all the pleasanter to me, and caused me to set a value upon his good opinion greater than its intrinsic worth. Thrapstow was a stockbroker, a very clever, posh ing fellow, who had the repntation of possessing an excellent judgment and peat good luck. At my request, he had brought his account to our bank. It was a good account; he always kept a fair balance, and the cashier had never to look twice at his checks. Charlie, like everybody else in busi ness, occasionally wanted money. I had let hum have advances at various times, of course amply covered by securities— advances which were always promptly repaid, aud the securities redeemed. At this time he had five thousand pounds of ours, to seenre which we held City of Damascus Water Company's bonds to the nominal valne of ten thousand. My directors rather demurred to these bonds, as being somewhat speculative in nature; but as I represented that the company was highly respectable, and its snares well quoted in the mar ket, and that I had full confidence in our customer, our people sanctioned the advance. I had perhaps a little uneasy feeling myself about those bonds, for they were not everybody's money, and there might have been some little difficulty in finding a cus tomer for them in case of the necessity for a sudden sal a. Thrapstow came in radiant. He was a good-looking fellow, with a fair beard and moustache, bright eyes of bloish gray, a nose tilted upwards, giving him a nancy, reaolute air. He waa always well dressed, the shiniest of boots, tiie most delicate shade of color in his light trousers and gloves, the glossiest of bine frock coats, a neat light dust-coat over it, a bine bird's-eye scarf round his throat, in which was thrust a mas sive pin, containing a fine topaz, full of lustre, and yellow as beaten gold. " Well, I ve got a customer for those Damascus bonds waiting at my office ; sold 'em well, too—to Billing Brothers, who want them for an Arab firm. One premium, and I bought at one dis count. ** " I'm very glad of it, Charlie," I Mid, and I felt real pleased, not only for Thrapstow's sake, but because I should be glad to get rid of the bonds, and the directors' shrugs whenever the bonds were mentioned. " Hand 'em over, old fellow," said Charlie, " and I'll bring yon Billing's check up in five minutes. * You won't have closed by then ; or if you have, I'll come in at the private door." I went to the safe, and put my hand upon the bonds. Chatlie stood there, looking so frank and free, holding out his hands for the bonds, that I hadn't the heart to say to him, as I ought to have done : "Bring your customer here, and let him settle for the bonds, and then I will band them over." I should have said this to anybody else, but somehow I couldn't say it to Charlie. There would only be five minutes' risk, and surely it was no risk at all. The thing was done in a moment; I was carried away by Thrapstow's irre sistible manner. I handed over the bonds, and Charlie went off like a shot. It wanted seven minutes to three, and I sat watching the hands of the clock in a little tremor, despite my full con fidence in Thrapstow ; but then I had a" thorough a knowledge of all the ruleß of banking, that I couldn't help feeling that I had done wrong. A few minutes, however, would set it right. Charlie's white and glittering topaz would soon put in an appearance. Just at a minute to three the cashier brought me three checks, with a little slip of paper attached. They were Thrapstow's checks, for fifteen hundred —twelve hundred and three hundred odd respectively, and his balance was only five hundred odd. FRED. ICI'HTZ, KiUtorand 1 •ropriotor. VOL. VI. I turned white aud mid. "Of course yon must refuse Uiom," 1 said to the cashier. When he went out, 1 sat in my chair quite still for a few moments, bewilder ed at the sudden misfortuue that had hap(HMiors chscd with a elaug. I could endure the sua peuse no longer. Telling the bank porter that if Mr. Thrapstow came, he was to l>e admitted at the private door, and was to be detained in my room till I returned, 1 went out, aud" mads my way to his office, which was only a few hundred yards distant. He wasn't there. The clerk, a youth of fifteen, knew nothing about him. He wa.-, in Oapel Court, perhaps anywhere- he didn't know. Hail lis been in withiu the last half-hour ? Well, uo; the clerk did not think he had. His story, then, of the customer waiting at his office was a lie. With * heavy heart, I went back to the bank. No*; Mr. Thrapstow hadn't been in, the porter said. I took a Han som, and went off to the office of Mr. Gedgemouut, the solicitor to the bank. I asked his advice. " Could I get s warrant against this Thrapstow far stealing the bonds ?" " Upon rnv won.!," said Gedgetnount, " I don't think yon can make a crimi nal matter out of it it isn't larceny, because you abandoned the possession of the bonds Toluntariaiy. No ; I don't see how vou can touch him. You must make a bankrupt of him, and then you can pursue him, as having fraudulently earned off his assets." But that advice was no good to me. I think I was wrong in taking it 1 think I ought to have gone straight off to the police station and put the affair in the hands of the detectives. Digni fied men of law, like Gedgemouut, al ways find a dozen reasons far inaction, except in matters that bring grist to their own mill. I went home completly disheartened. How could I face my directors with such a story as that I had to tell ? The only excuse that I could urge, of pri vate friendship aud confidence in the man who had robbed ns, would make the matter only the worse. Clearly, at the same time that I told the circum stance to the directors, I should be bound to place my resignation in their hands, to be put into force n they thought fit. And there could be little doubt but that they would accept it How damaging, tos, the story would be to me, when 1 tried to obtain another appointment! I had promised to take my wife and children for an excursion down tin river, as soon as the bank closed, and the youngsters eagerly reminded me of my promise. I replied so savagely and sternly, that the children made off in tears ; my wife, coming to see what was the matter, fared little better. 1 must have had a sunstroke or some thing, she told me, and brought ban dages and can de Cologne. I dung them away in a rage, and went out of the house. I must be doing something, I felt, and I hailed a cab and drove to Thrapstow's lodgings. Mr. Thrapstow wasn't coming home ■ that night, liis landlady told me. She j thought he was away for a little jaunt; but she didn't know. He occupied the ground-floor of a small house in Eceles ford street, Pimlioo—two rooms open ing into each other. I told the woman that I would sit down and write a letter. She knew me well enough, as I had frequently visited Thrapstow, and she left me to myself. Then I began -to overhaul everything, to try to find ont some clue to his whereabouts. A few letters were on the chimney-piece ; they were only circulars from trades men. In the fireplace was a consider-1 able quantity of charred tinder. He had evidentfv been burning papers re- ' oently, and a qnuntity of them. I turned the tinder carefully over, spread ing it out npon a newspaper. I found nothing legible except one little scrap of paper, which the fire had not alto gether reduced to powder, on which I saw the name Isabel shining with metallic lustre. Then I went to the bedroom, and searched that. Here, too, were evident preparations for flight; coats and other garments thrown hastly into the cupboards, boxes turned out, an odd glove or two laying up on the dressing-table. I carefally searched all the pockpts for letters or other documents, but I found nothing. The keys were left in all the recepta cles—an instance of Charlie's thonght fulness for others, in the midst of bis rascality. Lying upon the washstand was a card, which was blank unon one side, but on the other had the name of a photographer printed upon it The yard was wet, as if it had been soaked in water; and near the upper end of it was a round irregular out, which did notquie penetrate the card. It had evidently once bad a photograph fastened on it; ac cordingly, the card had been wetted, to facilitate the removal of the photograph, whilst the face of the portrait had evi dently been cut out, in order to be place'it in a locket or aometbing simi- It struck me at once that the photo graph, about which a man on the eve of a flight would take so much trouble, must be a person very dear to him; probably his swhotheart. Although 1 nvl been intimate with Thrapstow, he had always been very reserved as to his own friends and associates, and I had no cine to gpide me to any of them except the photographer's card. Re-entering my cab, I drove off to the photographer's. There was no number or distinguishing mark upon the card, and the chances seemed faint that he would be able to tell me any thing al>out it. Indeed, at first, when the man found that I was not a customer, he seemed little inclined to trouble him self about the matter. The promise of a fee, however, made him more reason able, and he offered to let me see bis books, that I might search for the name I wanted to find. It was unlikely that the photograph had been done for Thrapstow; if it had, there would probably appear in the l>ooks only the useless record of bis address, already known to me. Then the man shook his head. If I didn't know the name, it was no use looking; the card was noth ing, he said ; he sent hundreds out every month. What information could he possibly give mc ? Then I tried to describe the personal appearance of Tlirapstow, but again ho shook his head. If he hadn't taken his likeness, he wouldn't be likely to remember him; hardly even then, so many people passed through his hands. All this time*he had been carelessly holding the card in his fingers, glan cing at it now and then, |na suddenly an idea seemed to strike him. " Stop a bit," he said, and went into his dark chamber, and presently emerged, smelling strongly of chemicals. " Look here," he said, triumphantly. I looked, and MV a very faint ghostly impres- THE CENTRE REPORTER. •ion of a photograph. " lt'i* printed itself through," said the man "they will sometimes aul I've brought it to light. Yes, 1 know the original of that." Agwiu he dived into a closet, aud brought out a negative with a number and lal>ol to it. Then he turn to his ls>ok. and brought out a nega tive with a number and label to it. Then he turued to Ins book, and wrote down an address for me- Mrs. Maid wont. Larkspur road, Netting Hill. Away 1 went to Imrkspur road. Mrs. Maidmont's house was a small com fortable residence, with bright wiu dows, verandahs, gorgeous window lanes, and atri|ed sun-blinds. Mrs. Maidwont was at home, said a very neat, pretty-looking maid; and 1 sent in my card, with a uiesssge: "On most important business." The maid came back to sav that her mistress did not recognise the uame, but would I walk in? I was showu into a prettv drawing room on the first floor. An elderly lauv rose to greet me with old-fashioned courtesy, st the same time with a good deal of uneasy curiosity visible ill her face. This was uot the original of the photograph, who was a young and charming girl. •• Madam," I said rapidly, " I be lieve that my friend, Charles Thrap stow, is well iiuowu to yon; now, it is of the utmost importance that I should ascertain where lie is at this present time." " Stay !" said the old lady. " Y'ou are laboring under a complete mistake. 1 know nothing whatever of the gen tleman whose name you meution—a name I never heard before." Was she deceiving me? I did not thiuk so. " Perhaps Misa Maid snout may know him," I said eagerly. " Miss Maidmout is not likely to have formed any acquaintance without her mother's knowledge," said Mrs. Maidmout with dignity. There seemed to be uo alternative but for me to retreat with apologies. " I am very busy, yon see," went on the old lady,* with a wave of the hand; and indeed the room, now I looked about me, I saw to be strewed with pre parations for some feative event, a ball perhaps, or, from a wreath of orange blossoms that 1 saw peeping out of the milliner's box. more likely a wedding. 1 was about to take my departure reluc tantly, when a young girl, a charming voung girl, bounded into the room, khe was the original of the photo graph. *• Oh, mamma ! she ened, " here s a letter from poor Charlie to say he can't posaiblv come here to-night. Isn't it provoking ? And 1 want to consult him about so many things." " Well, my dear Isabel," said the old lady placidly, "yon'll have enough of his company after to-morrow." From which I judged that my surmise as to the wedding was correct, and that Charlie was the bridegroom elect. " By the wav," alie went on, " here's a gentleman, Isabel, who insists that we know a Mr. Charles—l forget the name now." " Thrapstow," I interjected. " A Mr. Charles Thrapstow. Yon know of no such person, Bella ?" " I know of uo Mr. Charles but Charles Tempest," said Isabel. "It is singular, too. that the initials of our friends should be the same. May I ask if yon have given your por trait, taken by Blubore of Kensington " Upon niy won!," said Mrs. Maid mout, rising, and sounding the bell, " this is rather ton much from a total stranger. We don't know your friend, and we don't know you. fcusan, show this gentleman out." "But a gentleman," I cried, " with blue eyes, and yellow t>eard aud mons taclie, and turned-up nose." "No more I" cried Mrs. Maidmout. "Am I to repeat onee more, we know nothing about him ?" What could I do under these circum stances but take my leave ? In Snsau, however, I found an unexpected ally. She had heard my parting words of de scription, and she tnrued to me as we were descending the stairs, ami said : " Miss Isabel's young man is exactly like that." Ualf-a-crown and a few blandishments, which, under the cir cumstances. I think even my worthy spouse would have condoned, put me into possession of the facta. Miss Maidmout was really going to be married to-morrow morning at St, Spikenard's Church to a Mr. Charles Tempest, a very gaod-looking young man, whom thev had not known long, but who seemed to be very well off. My description of mv friend tallied exactly with Susan's of tlie bridegroom; but the coincidence might be merely accidental. " Had Miss Maidmout a photograph of her lover?" I asked. She had, in her own room, it seemed. Susan couldn't get at it now without suspicion; but she promised to secure it, and bring it with her, if I would meet her at nine o'clock at the corner of the street. I was punctual to my trust; and at nine, Susan made her appearance with a morocco-case containing an excellent likeness of my friend, Charles Thrap stow, massive pin with topaz in it, and all. Now, what was to be done ? Should I go to Mrs. Maidmont, and tell her how she was deceived in her daughter's lover ? That would have been tne way best adapted to spare the feelings of the Maidmonts; but would it bring back the five thousand pounds ? I thought not. " Miss Maidmont," I soliloquised, "will find some way to warn her lover. Even robbing a bank inay not embitter a girl against her sweetheart, and no doubt she's over bead and ear's in love with Charlie." No; I determined on a different plan. I roue early next morning, dressed myself with care, put on a pair of pale primrose gloves, donned my newest beaver, and took a cab to Bt. Spike nard's. The church-bells were iinpling merri ly as I alighted at the church-door ; a small crowd hud already gathered on the pavement, drawn altogether by that keen fort-right of coming excitement characteristic of the human species. "Friend of the bridegroom," I whis pered to the verger, and I was forth with shown into the vestry. The cler gyman was then already, and shock handß with me in a vague kind of way. " Not the bridegroom ?" he said in a mild interrogative manner. I told him that I was only one of his friends, and wo stood looking at each other in a comatose kind of way, till a little con fusion at the vestry-door broke the spell. "Here he comes 1" whispered some one ; and the next moment there appeared in the vestry, looking pale and agitated, bat very handsome, Mr.Charlos Thrapstow. I had caught him bv the arm and led him into a corner, before he recognized who I was. When he saw me, I thought he would have fainted. "Don't betray me," ho whispered. I held out my hand with gesture. " Five thousand," I whispered in his ear. " You shall have it in five minutes." " Your minutes are long ones. Master Charles," I said. With trembling fingers, he took ont a pocketbook, and handed me a roll of notes, CENTRE 11 ALL, CENTRE CO., RA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1873. "I meant it- for you, Tom," ho said, l'erbaps ho ilid, but we know the fsle i of good intentions. It didn't tnke long to count over those notes ; there were exactly five thousand JHlllluls. " Now," said I, " Master Charley, take yourself off!" "You promised," he urged, " not to i betmv inc." " N'o more 1 will, if you go." "She's got ten thousand of her own, he whispered. "He off, or elae " No, I won't," said Charley, making up his mind with a desperate effort, " I'll not. I'll make a clean breast of it." At that moment there was a bit of a stir, aud a gcucrul call for the brid< - groom. The bride had just arrived, people said. Ho pushed his way out to the carriage, and whispered a few words to lsaltel, who fell back in n faint. There was a great Jfuss and bustle, and then some one came aud said that there was an informality in the license, snd that the wedding wouldu't come off that day. t didn't wait to see anything further, but (Misted off to the bank, and got tliere just as the board were assem bling. 1 BupiMJSe some of the directors had got wind of Thrapstow a failure, for the first thing 1 heard when I got into the board-room was old Venables grumbling out: " How about those Damascus bonds, Mr. Manager ? I rode roughshod over old Venablea, and tyrannised considerably over Ute IMUU\I in general that day, but I couldn't help Uiiuking how close a thing it was, aud how very near shipwreck 1 had In-eu. As for Thrapstow, 1 presently heard that, after all, he had arranged with his creditors, and made it up with Miss Maidmout. He had a tongue that would wind mnud anything, if you only gave him Umr, and 1 wasn't much sur prised at hearing that his wedding-day was fixed. He Hasn't sent me au invi tation, and 1 don't suppose he will, and I certainly shall not thrust myself for ward a second time as an uninvited guest. An Auerdote of Harrison. Colonel Chambers, of Kentucky, au intimate personal friend, who bad serv ed ou the staff of General Harrison m one of his campaign* against the In dians, was under an engnguicut of mar riage with the widow of his son. Cham tiers accompanied him to Washington, at his request, and the arrangement was that he should have the sppuiatment of Hegister of the Treasury, and after the marriage he was to reai.fe at the White House, Mrs. Charoliera to be the pre siding lady of the executive mansion. She was an accomplish wl, elegant wo man, greatlr caressed in Washington society. The finished gentlemen by whom she was surrounded at the seat of government contrasted so strikingly with her Kentucky lover, who was a plain man, of brusque manners, that she Anally declined to fulfill Ler en gagement. General Harrison was much concerned at this unfortunate contre temps, and perceiving that Chambers would be uncomfortably placed in Washington, offered him any appoint ment elsewhere that he might select. The unlucky suitor asked for the office of Governor of the Territory of lowa. The place was assured him sa a matter of course. Meantime Mr. Webster hsd promised the office to his friend General Wilson, of New Hampshire. At a cabi net meeting Mr. Webster informed the President that it lugl been decided by the gentlemen of the cabinet that James Wilson should lie Governor of lowa. "Ah ! that is the decision, then, is it ?" said General Harrison. The gentlemen of the cabinet reolied in the affirmative. Without making any further r. mark, the old gentleman wrote a fsw words upon a piece of paper and handed it to Mr. Webster, requesting lilm to read it aloud. The Secretary of State looked a little embarrassed, but there was uo al ternative. and he read, in an audible Toice, "William Henry Harrison, Presi dent of the United States." The gen eral, rising to hi* feet, said, "And Wil liam Henry Harrison, President of the United States, tells you, geutlemen, that John Chamliers shall bo Governor of lowa." Of course that concluded the subject, and Chambar* was ap pointed. A Printer'* D. Colonel Forney, ia his now series of "Anecdotes of Public Men," lots us in to A little of bin |>entonnl history. lie says : " I claim to know a little* nlwut newspapers, for I wm fairly reared in a printing office, having served us ' devil,' apprentice, and journeyman ; as compositor, copy-holder, proof reader, prcssmau, reporter, and finally editor. I have worked with the buck akin balls, and pulled the old wooden Homage ; have made and pushed the glue roller; have worked off large edi tions on the Washington iron press, and have finally owned an eight-cylin der lightning Hoe, which, with* it modem rivals, more than realizes the tiction of the Arabian genii. Harnessed in steam, with lightning couriers, they 'strike the earth breathless* with their thunder, and fill the very heavens with their millions of messengers. I have seen many a small sheet expand into a a great blanket, and fold itaelf, and die; and I have watehed the few firstlings of a penny paper till they camo to tlions ands of households, like so many morn ing intelligences. What a school is a printing office ! What a short space in history is a generation, and vet what revolutions arc crowded into It! The hours I spent at the ease and the press were made delightful by the reading of the times. Wc had comparatively few newspapers, and so wo read "them through. Specie Payment. Mr. Amasa Walker, of Mass., is out in favor of a resumption of specie pay ments. His plan is the issuing by tho Government of conjponnd 6 per cent, notes, convertible after two years into 10-40 bonds, nt 5 per cent, to l> issued at the rate of five millions a month, and paid out for all ordinary expenses of government. These notes being put in circulation, would, he thinks, bo gradually hoarded, and finally funded, and thus the currency would in five or six years bo contracted to itß natural limit, when it would, of necessity, be at par with gold. This scheme post pones the resumption of specie pay ments for five or six years, and it as sumes a " natural limit" for the cur rency of the oountry, which limit is not defined or specified. 1.1 ME AS A PnESERVATIVK OF WOOD.— Certain facts havo been made known which show that lime is a good preser ver of timber. Bhips and barges used tor the transportation of lirao last much longer than others. A small coasting schooner, laden with lime, was cast ashore and sunk. Hho was raised, and set afloat once more, and remained in n ound condition for thirty years. A plu'form of nine planks was used to mix mortur on during three genera tions, then, being no longer required, was neglected, and at length hidden by grass that grew over it. Bixty years afterward, on clearing the ground, it was discovered sound emd well pre served. Au Old flea. It is aliout thirty years ago I think it was iu IM4 that t'lark Hcftou wns indicted and tried for uturder. He had hocti a public character, and had many and lanMßlill friends. Of the fuct Of the killing there could be no doubt ; snd it would bo difficult to set up any thing like due justification. The pub lic was indignant, and it wan evident that if the case eaute to *|M-edy trial conviction would be sure, Ho the friend# tried to slave the trial off till the public feeling should be cool ; but ill this they were foiled. The east was to eoinC on at the very qpxt session of the court. The friends - two of them— went to Philadelphia and consulted Cy. Carpenter,one of the liest criminal law yers of his time, and a boon eouipauiou of H. H. Prentiss. Thev told him if they could gsin time if the trial could be put off three or six months they were confident Hcftou could be cleared. Haid Carpenter,— " Keeli quiet, and leave the case in my hands. Hut don't, on any account, mention mv name. Y'ou know Helfrish McDonald?" "'Yes." "Hire him to defend Hcftou at Uie approaching trial." " lint," cried the friends, in amaze, McDonald is ——" " Never mind," interrupted Carpen ter. "Doas I bid you. Hoc lire Hel frish McDonald for chief coiinael of the accused, and await the result." The friends, trusting Carpenter, though much against their better judg ment, engaged Helfrish Mclhiuald to couduct the defence in behalf of Clark Hcftou, and the attorney entered upon the work with a magnificent flourish. The trial came off, aud Clark Hefton was declared tSmltv. Then Cy. Carpenter came to tlie res cue, and made a motion for a new trial in the case of Clark Hefton, accused of murder, on the ground of thr inutility of hi* coututi .' The insanity of McDuu ah* was proved to the satisfaction of the Court, and a new trial was grautcd. In the next trial the jury disagreed, and in the end Hefton went clear. Another case transpired of like char ter that of Marsh, accused of mur der and convicted, at Newark, New Jersey, about the same time (1K44.) In this case, as m the other, a motion was made for a new trial on the ground of insanity of counsel, and argued before Judge Ilornblower. I forget bow it terminated, though doubtless aomc of our friends in Newsrk will remember. Inconrrnient Loyaltj. The I.r t an/ Time* narrates an extra ordinary adventure of Qu*en Olga of Greece, sister-in-law oi tho l*riureaa of Wales, resulting from the exuberant loyalty of the Hellenic colony at Galatx. Ou pausing that town ou her wsv down the Danube, a deputation of Hellenic resident* came on hoard the royal yacht and begged her Majesty to lamf and show herself to her luring subjects, (iiving her arm to the Grand Duke Nicholas, the queen lahdr.l at the court yard of the Danube Steamship Gumps iiy. Queen Olga had hardly stepped ashore when a sudden rush was made, and she was separated from the Grand Duke and forcibly carried by the surg ing crowd out of the yard into the street. Here their loyalty broke all bounds, ami laying hands on their sov ereign's dress, they began to divide it amongst them as relies. The queen, however, did not loac her presence of miiul, but forced her way into a baJbata shop. As it was, her Majesty escaped with her clothing in the same condition as thst of France at this moment, whose mantle, according to M. Hugo's latest rhapsody, has its skirts torn off. Her Majesty was then escorted on !oard by the geudarmvs, and hail hardly placed henu If in the haml* of her Mistress of the Robes, when theory was raisd that the hops of the llelUnea, Prince Oon statine was missing. A scaeh was made, and his lioyal Highness was soon found hoisted on the shoulders of a stalwart sou of Hellas, who had managed to slip on board, aud who was exhibiting the little Prints' to an admiring crowd of hia countrymen on shore. How It Arose. The disturbances between the whites and negroes in Colorado county, Texas, arose from a very trifling cause. A deputy constable named J. R. Hone ar rested" a frectiruan who was charged with stealing a l>c*f, and the prisoner was rescued by another of hia race. The officer then got hia revolver and arrested the negro again, aud in taking liira into enstody lie struck the freed man who hsd interfered with the pris oner on the head with his pistol, which at the same time went off. That night a party of unknown freedmen tired fif teen shot* into the house of the officer, but fortunately his family, apprehend ing danger, had left. The next night two freedmen. who lived near the scene of the disturbance, were murdered by some unknown persons while on their way to Eagle Lake. This aroused the whole colored population in that re gion, and some four hundred of them armed aud marchndon Eagle Lake with the avowed intention of taking the place. The persuasions of the Sheriff of Colordo county, however, and the knowledge that one hundred armed white men had come to tho assistance of the threatened villagers, led them to renonnc* this intention ; but at the last accounts there was an extremely bitter feeling existing between tho two races, and fears were entertained of serious trouble. • The Death of N'a|wlcon. The following incident from th* pen of the celebrated ecclesiastical histor ian, Abbe Ronlbacber, oontrndicta the irreligious stories that have been circu lated in reference to the death of the great Napoleon : "When near his end, nfter having received the sacrament, he aaid to General Montboln, 'General, I ain happy ; I have fulfilled all my re ligions duties. I wish you at your death the same happiness. 1 had had need of it. I am an Italian—a child of the rank of Corsica. The sound of the bell affects ine ; the sight of the priest gives me pleasure. I wished to make a mys torv of all this, but that would not be right. I ought to, I will, render glory t:> God. I think he will not be pleased to restore me to health... .There is nothing terrible in death ; it has been the companion of my pillow during the pnat three woeka, and now it ia on the point of seizing me forever. I should have been glad to have seen my wife and son again, but the will of God be done.' On the 3d of May he received tho second time the holy viaticum, and after having said adieu to his geuersls, he pronounced these words, ' I am at peace with all mankind.' He then join ed hands, saying, 'My God !' and ex pired on the sthof Muy at aix at night." POISONED.— The widow of Benjamin Bellew of Wilmington, Delaware, haa been poisoned nearly to death with a seidlitz powder purcbaaed at n drug gist's. The physician thinks that there was corrosive sublimate in the powder. The circumstance derives ad ditional interest from the fact that the Rev. Mr. Mann, of Raleigh, N. 0., whose daughters were arrested on a charge of having poisoned him, nnd were honorably discharged, died from corrosive sublimate taken in a seidlitz powder, The llenton Family. Tit* ll#H|hlti* at •' (>M Uulllsw" Itr. ilNittf l !* rrlf--SlugMlsr Mltfvr luue* ol Mr*. ftriKuMl, Mrs. lialtlrau tint Mi*. Juutt. " Aaron ltoilleau, who was aciitenocd to imprisonment by a French Court for his i-oiuieetioo with Ute Memphis aud F1 Paso llailroad affair, is oonfiued in the Conoiegerie. lief ore bis trial M. Hwilleau had abandoned all liiu fortune and that of his wife in fsvor of the stockholders of the Memphis aud 111 Paso llailroad. Mine, lieiiloau f* at Boulogne. Hhe and her six children live through the generosity of their frieuda." To many people of Missouri, says the Ht. liouis this brief paragraph will convey more than a passing inter est# Nine or ten years ago Huron Hoi!- leau was the French Consul st New York city, trusted aud respected by his government aud popular aud accom plished iu his intercourse with the peo ple of America. He married, w hile Consul st New York, Husau, a daughter of Colonel Thomas 1L Benton, having met this lady in Washington city s few mouths previous. The movement was a moat happy one, and between the two there existed only the utmost confidence and perfect H flection. liarun lloUleati waa iifU rwnr.lt. HJ puiuted Minister to Ecuador, South America, ami it waa while performing the function* of hi* office in thia locali ty that he was recalled ai.d disgraced by the French authoritiea. During hi* stay in New York he had become in volvtd in railroad achemca, and had been induced in an eril hour to recom mend, in hi* capacity a* an official agent of the government, the negotiation of the Memphis and El Paao railroad bouda. In thia he violated the plain law of lna country. Rigid in all *uch mattcra, and forcibly in oontraat with the known indifference or colluaion of the Unites! States, the French govern ment carried out the law to it* utmost, and imprisoned him whom it before honored in the Oouciergerie or debUir'a prison, thus mak.ng the example all the more suggestive. It will also tie remem bered that Fremont ia a brother-in-law of the Baron, and that the same Court which tried and found liia ■ connection guilty, also sentenced the General to aerve a term of year* in the same insti tution. He made good hia escape from France, however, and, in the absence of anything like an extradition treaty, will probable keep it good. Time bring* about strange event* There was otic* a period in the affairs of Missouri when Colonel Beutoa was its political autocrat Thirty years ia the Senate gave him something of the intense individual imperialism of the Human, lie tolerated no opposition, compromised with no resistance, and died as he had lived, with the war har ness on. Troubles not s few have come U> those whom he nurtured and loved. Mrs. Fremont ia the wife of a man who has been declared a felon, because of a speculation which has ruined his broth er in-law, bankrupted hi* family and consigned his wife and children to charity. Another daughter, Mr*. Wil liam Gary Jones, now a widow residing in San Francisco, Cal., has felt also al most terribly the misfortune# of life, and. though enduring all the privation* of extreme poverty, is supporting her self and children on the small wage* paid to her as a teacher in the public schools. The many friends in the State of three estimable yet unfortunate ladies will read of their late afflictions with feelings of the most sincere regret A Strange Shipwreck. The new* of the wreck of the steamer Agra off Oolnmbo has already been noted. The details of the disaster are quite exciting. It appears, according to a letter to the London Timt s, that the rsptain, to sare fuel, sought au chorsge outside the port. The pilot let go the anchor too near a well known rock, and the sea, tum bling in aa it knows how to tumble off Gal It- in the southwest monsoon, caused the chain cable to part, and the vessel to surge heavily on the rook. The work of destruction was rapid ; those on board were startled by the metallic sound of the ripping iron sides of the steamer a* her hull wss torn in shreds by the piercing rook. There was no time to l> lost. The vessel was fast filling, and to save paasengers' luggage waa hopeless. They hiul barely time to escape into the boats as the ocas came tumbling over the sides, sweeping everything before them, carrying away one "jtoor invalid sailor, and bursting open the cages and dens of an extensive menagerie on board, going home for the Zoological Gardens. The escape and striking out amid the waves of crowd of tigers, elephants, etc., and their roars and screams, added to the terror of the wretched passengers. One elephant managed to swim ashore. Our Present Duty. Tho way to make easy times is as clear as daylight. Lot every man or woman who owes money pay it at once, if it is possible. Bo willing to make a sacrifice in order to meet promptly all your engagement*. Stop grumbling at the faults or mis takes of others, and attend faithfully to vonr own affairs. Deal fairly, leniently and ebeerfnlly with all persons who ewe you or are in jxvuuiary trouble. If you an* oat of debt, thank the Lord ; and then go mutid among your friends, and enemies, too, if you nave them, and render them all the assistance in vour power. Don't hoard vonr money ; bnt loan it, or use it to relieve the needy, on the same principle that you would give bread to the needy in a day of famine. Do what yon can in every way to re lievo pecuniary distress, to check the current of financial cmbarraasmcuts and restore public confidence. If yon are a bank officer or director, don't l>e cross a minute. Smile, as a Christian duty, from morning till night flive an encouraging word, if poariU*. to all .and by all menus strain every nerve to help all who need it A Mixed Mess. In Han Francisco a Chinese chop house was noted for its unequaled jx>t pies and sausage. Becoming auspicious, the authoritira investigated and found after John had left for parts unknown, that his guoata had been eating a strange mixture. The delectable pork pie and a sausage of incomparable pro |K>rtiuus were found to be compounded of marmot, owl, and aucket, and stuffed in the inside skin of the domesticated rattlesnake. The industry throve rapidly. The outer skins of the snakes were tanned into a sort of shagreen for covering fancy boxes ; marmot fur was made into felt, the skins into imitation chamois, i'acksges of the pies were regular! shipped Eastward, to New York, (Chicago, and Boston. At the time of the exposure the Chinaman had twenty-Beven hands employed, and worked a steam - engine of twelve horse power, so great was the demand for his pies and sausage. It is said that a bar of iron worth five dollars is worth, when manufactured into horse-ahoes, $lO 60 ; table knives, $180; buttons and buckles, $4,035; springs of watches, $300,000. Term*: a Year, in Advance. Bursting of a Bo*. • irauaii< areas of UtrnUlUii la Ira laud. Mr. W. L. Treuch, writing to the Loudon Vim's to appeal to the chari table (or aid (or some uu(oituttate families, give* this account o( the bursting of au Irish Iwg. Ha ays : " I have just returned (rom inapeo i ling one o( tha moat pitiful aoene* of tha sort it haa laan rar (ala to witneaa ; since i aa w the remains of tha village of Visp, in the Rhone Vallay, Hwitxer land, after its destruction by flood some years ago. '• The scene to which I refer ia the result of the bursting of a lg, situated about three miles cast of the town of ; Duumore, in the northern part of Gal way county. Heretofore this t>g waa ' connected with the Duntnore Itiver, at Duumore, by a small stream called the Coml>el River, flowing through a con tinuation of pasture and tillage lands in its course. The level of the upper surface of the bog waa formerly 2flo feet above the sea, and that of the water at Duntnore lUO feet, allowing a fall of 70 feet. Up to a fortnight ago this bog presented the usual appearance of most of our undrained Irish I >og*, i. e., its skirts, adjoining the arable Laud, con sisting of high turf bauka, being ex i oecdingly wet and apongv. "On the first of OeuAmr the farmer occupying a farm on the Corrabal stream, near the bog, was digging his potatoes, when he suddenly observed a brown mass slowly approaching him. He left his spade in the ground and went for the neighbor* ; on bis return the mass (which waa the moving bog) had half covered his potato field, and completely bidden from sight his field of corn, with the exception of a few 1 ' stocks' situated on a knoll; they atill remain au island in the middle of a scene of desolation. This waa bat the commencement; since then the bog haa continued to advance in a rolling mass, continuing its course right down the valley to Duumore, burying on its way tbiec farm houses, and covering at least one hundred and eighty acres of pasture and arable land to a depth, in some places, of six feet The unfortu nate occupiers of the three farms have been turned, by this visitation of Pro vidence, f armless and hotneleas, with their families, on the world. "At Dnnmore a small bridge baa been removed, near the junction of the Corrabel stream with the Dun mo re Kiver, to afford relief to the lands np the valley, and a bog-laden torrent ia being discharged into the latter river. The worst may be said to be over, but the discharging powers of that river will be materially affected by this influx of solid matter. ' The source of thia dis aster presented a wonderful appearance. The aubnidenee at the discharging point cannot be leas than about 35 feet. The cxteut of the bog affected is most clear ly defined by a aeries of black * crevas ses,' where the upper crust of the bog has. by the oubsulenee.beiow, been torn asunder. The whole assumes the form of a crater half a mile in diameter. " With considerable difficulty we piloted our way to the centre, where we found Uic brwwn liquid bog boiling out like a str -am of lava and feeding the moving mass in the valley below. At the noint w here the bog burst, the turf bana* were forced right over and round on cither aide, and assumed somewhat the appearance of ' moraines.' " This and similar disasters to which this country ia liable must be attributed to the ilaeuc* of a complete and good system of arterial drainage. A similar catastrophe occurred a couple of year* ago, occasioned by the backwater of the River Suck, near Castlerea." A Young lrl Dream* the Day aud Hour of her Death. The following remarkable story ia vouched for br ao less s peraon than the venerable Bishop of Gloucester : Hit Charles Lee, by his first wife, had only one daughter, of which she died ia childbirth: and, when she was dead, her sister, the Lady Evorard, desired to have the education of the child, and ahe waa verv well educated till she was marriageable, and a mitA wss con cluded for her with Sir William Perkins, but was prevented in s most extraord inary manner. Upon a Thursday night, she. thinking she saw a light in her chamber after she was in bed, knocked for her maid, who presently came to her, and she arked why a candle was left burning in her chamber. The maid said ahe left none, and there waa none but what she brought with her at that time. Then she said it was the fire ; but that, her maid told her, was quite out, and ahe said she believed it was only a dream, whereupon she said it might lie ao, and composed herself again to sleep. About two o'elock that night she dreamed that a little old woman appeared before her and said that she *a* ber mother, that she was happv, and that by twelve o'clock that day slie should be with her, and then the old woman vanished. The young lady immediately awaken ing, looked at her watch and note*! the time, and then knocked again for her maid, called for her clothea, and when ahe was dressed, went into her closet, and did net come out again till 9 o'clock. Then she brought out a letter which she had written to her father, handed it to her aunt, the Lady Everard, told her what had happened, and desired that as soon as she was deed, it might be sent to him. Bat her aunt thought that she had suddenly lost her reason, and thereupon immediately sent to Chelms ford for s physician and surgeen, who soon after arrived ; bnt she conld not discern even the indication of loss of reason, or of any indisposition of her body. The young lady then desired that the cliai>lain might bo called to read prayers, and when they were over, she took her guitar and sat down and played, and sung so melodiously and exquisitely, that her music master, who was theu "there, marvelled greatly. -At about the stroke of twelve, she arose, and. seating herself in the great arm chair, gave a great gasp or two, and immediately expired, while the bell was yet striking twelve. She grew so sud denly cold, that the physician was at a loss to account for it. She died at Walthaui, in Essex, three miles from Chelmsford, and the letter sent to Sir Charles at his house in Warkwicbshire, contained the full particulars of his daughter's dream, which was so pain fully realized. She was buried at her own request by the side of her mother at Edmmton in the year of IW2. Scorpion In a Ladj's Hair. "A lady in this city," says the Nevada TYanm ript, "a few evenings since, was startled in a most shocking manner on discovering a scorpion on her head dress. It appears that, daring the af ternoon, she had been ont to the grave- Jard, where the bug probably got on ker dress, thence to her head-dress. During the evening, when she was about arranging her hair, she felt some thing singular about it, and oommenced to assertain the cause, and no sooner had she placed her hand on the bug when she received a severe and painful sting ou one of her fingers. Her hus band, who happened to be near by, rushed to her, and, seeing the situation, folded a towel together, and took the bug from her hair, and, while doing so, received a sting through the thickness of oloth to his hand. NO. 48. The Policeman's Bog. In the riots of July, 1868, a patrol man vu oarryiug Sargent Buckley, badly wounded, on a stretcher to tlie ('barlea street police station, A blank French poodle with stumpy !•>! followed the stretcher into the station, and there fore became the pet of the house.— • Jim," as ha was called, was supposed to have belonged to soma colored family which bad fled from tbeoity. The men taught him many tricks. At r >ll call ha invariably headed the platoon and took his position by 'the sergeant. He was taught to distinguish one baton from another, and as be liked to fetch and carry, the officers let him bring their locusts. Beta were once made by the men that'Jim'could not distinguish between a genuine officer and a sham one. Officer Wiaeburn, 'Jim's' warm est friend, changed clotbee with a fire man, who, taking the locust is hand, walked up and down the street. 'Jim ' noticed Lim, darted out of the station, snuffed at the clothes, eat down for s moment, looked straight in the faoe of the disguised fireman, teeming puttied, sprang upon him, caught the club be tween his teeth, growled and nulled, until the fireman allowed himself to be led into the station, where he dropped the elub. 'Jim' carried it to Wiae burn, who was in the firemen's clothes. Jim's good nature won for him the love of all the children in the neighbor hood, and he beeatne their playmate. He knew hit friends, and never failed to resent any injury. There were two butchers in the rear of the station, one a good-hearted Irishman, who kept in the basement, the other a German on the avenue. For some time every morn ing and evening he entered the stores and invited the butchers to feed him. The Irishman never failed to give him e hearty meal. The German rarely gave him a morsel, and ones drove him out of the store. If any ladies knowing him had been accustomed to allow bun to carry their baskets to markhti Jim on reaching the Irishman'* store ran in, compelling his patronesses to follow him thus materially adding to the Irish butcher's trade. Jim's jumping feats were so extraor dinary that the officers took a pride ia showing them off. One day, while he was exhibiting to a crowd of admirers by jumping on a pile uf lumber, one of the Leanest boards tipped over and fell upon him, breaking one of hia legs. With a bowl of pain be hobbled off to Officer Wiaeburn'a port. -What's the matter, JimT* naked Wisoburn. The dog tried to show hia broken leg. Wiaeburn, stooping, saw the nature of Jim's injuries, and teoderly bore him to the station. The police snrgeon pronounced Jtm'a wound fatal, and advised hia being shot. Wise burn would not suffer this, so he bandaged Jim's leg, put him into a bas ket filled with sell hay and warm clothe*, tied him up, and cared for him with a tenderness which seemed to win Jim'a heart. It was many weeks before be was allowed to walk out. Two yean after the accident, on# night aa the officers were preparing to g<< on patrol, they saw Jim in Charles street, hobbling by the aide of a small bulldog which he was supporting. Jim had picked op a dog that had been ran over. On reaching the station he nought Wiaeburn, who picked up the wounded dog and took care of him. The Woman la Black. Begins Pauline Beakle haunt* the Monev Order Department of toe New York iPoet Office. Begins is a thin old woman of about fifty years of age, very poorly bat cleanly clad. Her gray hair ! is carefully smoothed over bar forehead. Mho wears a faded black bonnet and dreaa. There ia nothing in her general appearance that would cause her to be singled out in the crowd that constant ly tumngs the office; in fact, abe had been in the habit of coming and going for some time before abe was noticed by the officials. She fancies that she has a grievance. One day the clerk whose duty it la to issue money order* for Europe observed ' her walking up and down in the apace allotted to the public ia an absent mind ed sort of way, aa thongh looking in vain for something or somebody. He beck oned her to come to hia window. She responded with amazing alacrity, and lie replied in the affirmative to her i " Sprechen *ie Dentch." She told him her storv. She had had a lover in Oer many wto had deserted her; then abe married another man, and immigrated to this oountry. While her husband lived the wolf'was kept from the door, bnt now she ia old. and poverty pinched. She imagines that her Sorer sends her money regularly, and that some scoun drel draws it. On that very day a man had collected money which ahe claimed ln-longed to her. The clerk explained to her minutely the trutdLu* operiumU of the money order system, deviling par ticularly on the safeguard* which were used in'order to render the improper iwvment of an order almost an impossi bility. She listened attentively, and went SWST apparently satisfied. A day or two subsequently ahe again present ed herself. She was sure that money had been from time to time sent her, and that certain parties had collected it, that the swindle had for a long time been going on, and that the guilty i wretches were amassing wealth and oar- i rying on an extensive business at her expense. Every few days ahe return*, her eye* ! sparkling and face aglow, and in vigor ous German denounce* the clerk, the postmaster, and the entire service, aa well as the police of this city, as being banded together to defraud her—a poor, lone, old woman. The Tarantula la Kaunas. While Mr. Samuel Yellier, Chief of the Qoapaw Indiana, living three Bailee south of Baxter, was going about his farm, be was bitten on the toe of one foot by a tarantula. He immediately started* for the house, but a short die- j tanew, and by the time he reached it the pain from the bite was ao severe that be was unable to ait up and he threw himself across the bed. The insect had crawled np hia clothing, and soon after he lay down it gave him the second bite in the regien of the small of the back. This, with the other bite, charged his system with the poison al most as quickly as if by electricity. Medical aid waa immediately summon ed, bnt before it reached him he was too near gone for it to do him any good. In the most intense agony he lingered nntil abont ten o'oloek that night, when death relieved hia sufferings. Cash ou Hani—lts Trine. The value of cash on hand has been very forcibly illustrated daring the re cent period of pecuniary embarrass ment. The richest men have been short of it; many of them have been quite destitute of money that they oould have put their hand on any day. Now we wish to give a word of advice on this subject to all young men. It is this : Lay up ten per cent of your in come—no matter what your inoomo is— and keep it where you can put your hand oa it at any time, for the remain der of your lite. There ia not a day that yon do not see the necessity of having money that yeu can lay your hands on. While you have an oppor (tnnity, save it, § Item #f laMeml. The (uDneWIMWhM been sent to England. We expect to hear from ! tet igtin. v ' let ffy ' A little boy et W*iebsei-, Ya., lately fell heed foremost into apot of boiling molasesa. •-' ■* r < ®*t A number of youuf ladies of Maeoo O*. bvo attended the State Fair elad A i degree* from Calcutta aaya a m Ten. femine is tltfwtewd to the pro viooe of Bengal. A men la Wisconsin recently ruptured bis 1 tinge with e lnng-tetfng machine, and died la e few boom. A Kentnekiaa an* married hie .tap root her, which is said to be e step far ther then the lew allow*. A i'enneylrania farmer be* held en eagle captive tar thirty-dx yeaia, and the bird U es nntamahta (merer. In lffTL two penooe were hilled England ly the sting of e weep, and two mora by the bite of • rat Itiaeaid that e new penal code by which the death penalty laetoUshwi, will be introduced by the Italian Oov in went The Indiana near Omaha ere arid to here contracted a smgabw habit of chewing patty inetead id tobeooo or gam. A carious animal lrne been captured near Tnlara. o*l. It loohe like a bear, hut has a* front lags, and walks upright Uke a man. Etot peraon in Brannerrille, Toon., baa died of yellow fewer, and not a man woman nor eteid n left to perpetuate : the town's existence. 1 It has been definitely aaoertained that aixty-eix lire* wow lout by UM | Milking of the Intraamgaate vessel, • Fernando at CatoUoo. A Trenton (Iff. J.) women dreamed ; of being surrounded by blaring anakea, and ate- struck oat with snob force as to break her arm against the bed poet. There ia a time at wbiah lamb W oomm mottoo; there ia a time at which the mint canoe of flirtation baa to be discarded tor the currant Jelly of aertotia intentions. It ia aaid that the Pfcnnsyteania Rail road Company, baring now a complete through line, willaend pnasi-nt-jare from Sew York to New OrUans la sixty-tour boors, without change of ears. The vexed qneetton whether the Jews in Oermany can beeompeUnd to appear iMifora a magisterial! enmooned to at tend on the Habtoath, bae ooce mora breu brought on the iapfcand decided . in the adlmatim Thera ia nothing plemiantor, wh the destining yearn of We. than to bare the boy who used to catch ell the flah and And an the Wrtoa, come to you for the loea of a half dollar. Time works its revenges. The euHteorion of oreages ia eaet Florida haa hwl the aflwt of enhancing the ralue of real estate on all the nari irftble itmiDft. In bmm unto** laul has gone m from Are dollars to one { hundred dorian per sore. Whi tiler, one of the par rat and swerirat pacta in the Euglh tongue, haa the baieat competency for his bachelorship, and ear where, awe ia Sew England, would he regarded m only round *be corner teem penmy. California farmeru are up in ennf against what they teem tee samrral ninaance, and at a ooowaetion held ra i San Francisco recently, they demanded some legislative cnactmeat that wouid raanit in exterminating the peat When a traveler, seeing a driver fold , an extraordinary comforter round faia neck, remarked that he took very good care of hinmelf. the man replied : I "T® be sure I do, rir; what's all the world to a man when his wife's a widdyr I A Hdishorn', HL, philoeopher, tamed Jeff. Yokum. after listening to ranoua exploits of early days narrated by a party of geutleiacm broke in with : " Well, fellers, I tell you It seems to me that as men get older fun gets skceiser r* An old fanner arid to his eons:— "Boys, donl you ever spekerlate or wait for aomcthing to Sara up. You might just as well go and sit down on s atone in the middle of a madder with a pail "twixt your logs, and wail for a cow to beck up to you to be milked." It ia stated thai partem in London hare offered to pay a premium of 14,500 to the Inventor of the cheapest little iron cook-stove for tmall housekeepers' and laborers' families. by which the fasnily meets may be prwpersil with the smailcri possible ooaeumptioß of ooeL Last spring Mr. Sam Hemphill, of Warsaw, In£, slipped a small potato orar the end of a grapevine which he had trimmed in order to to p it from bleeding. The potato sprouted snd grew all summer, and the ahoota it sent i forth are neither grape nor potato Tinas, I but bare a peculiar look and formation of their own. i Aa a part of the history of the ravages ! of the aoourge in Memphis, the fate of ! the inmates of a boardlng-booae is > given. The landlord ia Joe Sacford. i whose family consisted of a wife and two children. In his house were 18 ' Imarders. Of all titeee there were only Joe riant ord and ana boarder who sur vived; all the rast (SO) died. At au early hour, a aaaa standing on ; a wharf at Cincinnati .observed a dog swimming around in a circle in the river. The ebearvwr mm* to rescue the . dog, sad diaooverad rear him the body j of a man who, aa the Coroner * request proved, bad committed suicide. He bad • been the dog'e owner, and the latter 1 clung to hla master to toe teat 1 A tragic love story comes from San • Francisco. One Bnrque, a policeman, j baa just committed suioida in that city. I He wsa a man of same ability and had a nob sister in Russia—a nobleman's wife —who had sent for him to jo there, but he was in love with aSaa Francisco girl and would not leave her. Her parents refuaed consent to the marriage and he settled the matter by killing himself. "Gentlemen," aaid an anetioneer, who was selling a piece, of land, " this ia the moet delightful land. It ia the easiest land to cultivate, iAia so light, so very light. Mr. Pssker here will corroborate my statement, he owns the next patch, and be will tell you how easy it ia worked." " Yea, gentlemen," said Mr. Parker, "it ia very eeey to work, but it ia a plaguey sight easier to gather the crops. The True Woman. "The true woman," says a late writer, " needs to be sougfit. She does not parade herself as show goods. She is not fashipnahle. Generally she is not rich. If yon gain her lore, your two thousand are a million. She'll not ask you for a carriage or a first-class house. She'll wear simple dresses, and turn them when necessary. She'll keep everything neat and nice in your aky parior, and give you such a welcome when you come home that you'll think your parlor higher than ever. She'll entertain tree friends on a dollar, and astonish you with the new thought, how very little happiness dependaonmoney. Now do not say any more, 14 \ can't af ford to marry. Go, find the true wo man, and you can afford it Throw away that cigar, burn up that switch bo sensible vmuself, and seek your wife in a sensible way-". Step that Hoanttag up of Your Money •"