To Our Railway " Managers. n Break, brask. break Tear paaaetigers' bone*. for re Care not what 'plaids they attar i Ys'vs got the mouopdy! Ti* I wit for the driver and mate, When the good* train gets in the way ; Tia bad when Uie mail is late. But no one is to blame, ye *ay ! Bo the Joom. d express goes on To destruction tinder the hill; For want of the touch of • poiiiU-maii's hand Or the sound of a whistle that's still. Breaks*, Breaks*, breaks* Must l>e quickly improved, and ye Will And that the trust ya've abused is desd. And uever revived 'twill he ! That liny. Is the house turned topsy turvev f Does it ring fraa street to roof ? Will the racket still continue. Bfuta of all your mild reproof I Are yon often ui a flutter ? Are J on sometime* thrilled with Joy f Thau I have my grave suspicions. That you have at homo - tliat Boy. Are Uie walls aud tables .isaiaierrd f Are vein nerves and ink upset ? Uses two ev o*. so bright and roguish. Made you every care forget ? Have your garvieu-lveds a prowler, Who delight* hut to destroy ? These are well-known indication* That vo have at home—that Boy. Have yon seen him playing circus - With his head npon the mat. And hie heels in mid-air twinkling - For his audience, the cat ? TV> you ever stop to listen. When lua merry pranks annoy— Listen to a voice that whispers, You were core lust like- that Boy ? Have you heard of broken window*, AM with nobody to Uame ? Have you seen a trowwered urchin Quite unconscious of the same ? rv> you love a teasing mixture Of perplexity and Joy ? You have a doaen daughter*. But I ktio'. you've got—that Boy. WITH A cor FOX. No expression of smiling astonish raeut was more often repeated to us at Si. Grundy's than one which intoned as it were the phrase : " Dear me ! so you hsve never been abroad !" The sting of the gibe was in its truth. And it certainly was mortifying that every soul in the St. Grundy hierarchy, from the bishop down to the cathedral beadle, had traveled, or, at least, had made what they called an excursion. Neither papa—the well-known Canon Pcrkcs, whose faint tenor voice once reminded Lady Backwater "of the angela singing m the choir " —nor mam ma, nor my sister Charlotte, had ever gone, I suppose, twenty miles from 8k Grundy's. The fact is that I, who relate this narrative, am the only one with anything Like energy in the family. This is really signified in my name. Augusta, which might seem at the first blush to belong to a person of languid temperament, out which mr quick, sharp ways long ago shortened into the more seivieeable Gus. Charlotte, al ways too dreamy, remained Charlotte ; no one wonld have dreamed of cutting her down into Lotty or Char. Papa and mamma were, indeed, sadly help leas, he being too gentle, always look ing at everybody through his glasses with a wistful benevolence that ia quite provoking. Those glasses I really be lieve to be at the bottom of his timo rous, retiring way, for the frame is so delicate that the glasses seem to float before liia evea without palpable sup port—their balance and structure are so frail, that half his life goes in nervously preserving them in position. Canon Blowman (who take* the bass at St Grundy's, and gives out " The people that walk in darkness " some where down in the bowels of the earth) says that this criticism of mine shows "a nice knowledge of human charac ter." It may be se, but the fact re mains that the three are altogether too nervous and shrinking to get through life, and that I am the only one with a spark of energy. Above all, I wanted to travel. Above all, I was dying to see Curebath. At Sk Grundy's one might as well be buried iu its old crypt for any chance there was of meeting suitable people— or, I have no false modesty in saying it, the suitable person that every young girl of spirit and proper ambition de sires to meet. Ism not one of those persons whose helplessness ia but an other name for selfishness, and who do not scruple being a bunion and a charge on tbeir families. Still I worked on that one idea, trying, as it were, to " educate my party," as they say in politics, but it was hopeless. A sort of terror of traveling weighed on my fami ly like a nightmare—Mr. Perkes, I am sure, fancying that some box, or projec tion, would certainly dash against hia perilously adjusted glasses, which he would never be able to bring success fully across the water. At last I had begun to despair, when an event occurred which removed a chief diffictfty. A maiden aunt shuffled off the mortal coil, though she had been so leisurely in her attempts at extrica tion that it aeemed likely that she wonld remain in a state of permanent entanglcmenk Tia worthy relative left me and Charlotte fiftv Donnda a piece. I resolvod, before the will was proved, that fhould be spent in foreign travel—every stiver of it, as Mr. Blow man was fond of aaying. My plans were received with a sort of alarm, yet I could nee that curiosity and interest had been awakened. I persevered, and had the pleasure of seeing that way was made. But there were appalling difficulties re maining. They shrank from the con flicts of travel," the bargaining, ticket taking, paying of bills, and discussion in foreign tongues, in which we were all, including myself, utterly deficient However, by some interference, this ob stacle was also to be removed in the happiest and most satisfactory way. Mr. Blowman had been in town to see a spinster cousin, who admired hia under-ground voice vastly, and to whom he paid a visit regularly every half year. He always came to ua on his return to relate hia adventures, which were of the most entertaining kind. On this even ing he was more than usually excited. He was going sway for his health. The doctor had ordered Curebath, and the " spinster," as I always called her, hsd behaved in the most liberal style. "Bhe says," continued Mr. Blowman, "that I must take care of my voice, and that She will take care of me. How I wish that we were all going to Curebath !" The feebly organized members of the family looked at each other wistfully. In their hearts they wished they were going to Curebath. But my father thought of the delicate balance of his glasses, and shook his head. "The worry," he murmured, "and the hurry, the paying the bills, and the fuss at the railway offices! I never could get through it." " Exactly my view," said Mr. Blow man, eagerly. " I have never traveled either, and should be like a child among the foreigners. 80 my spinster said. And—" " And was she so very liberal ?" said my mother, faintly. " Was it a hand some present, if I might ask ?" "She did not give me a halfpenny, nothing that I could jingle on a tomb stone, or even—for I have too mnoh respect for my cloth to be seen so en gaged upon some more becoming gaming-table." " Some Bank of England notes would save you from employing your time in such a pastime," said I, a little smartly. " Her benefaction, I suppose, took that shape." " Not got it yet," said he, hnmor oualy. " I mean the solution. No, I'm not to have any caab. Yet she pays all expenses. See here," ha said, pull ing oat two little books. •' Not tracts ?" I said, scornfully. " No," he said, " though I am to give them away piecemeal. They are telia- KRKI3. K 1 KTZ. KtUtoriuitl Proprietor. VOL. VI. man*, or taliauu-n. lu short, tkoy are coupons." "CiinpoM, what are they V Wo all looked at them with a mysterious curi osity, a* though expecting they would change suddenly iuto precious metal or uotca. " Yon know," he continued, " 1 am methodical in my wava, and the moment I heard of the tamoua coupon ayatem 1 | hailed it aa being made for me. Iu fact the whole of kumau life ought to be tmuaaoted iu coupon*. It would save a world of trouble and anxiety." '* But," aaid my father, mildly, "you h*Te not explained. What is a coupon ? What do these thiuga iu your hand mean " See here. London to Dover; no money or ticket, but merely tear out and present coupon. Packet ditto, T. 0. and P., that is tear out and present, | coupon. (I abbreviate.) To Pari*, T. O. and P. coupon. At hotel, break fast ; garwong, lull. Here you are, coupon. So with dinner. So with lied. Coupon here, coupon there. Coujxms ! to the right of them, coupon* to the ! left of them. Fire 'em off in all direc ' tious. And so yon see you cau travel, j board and lodge for a mouth, tie takeu away, kept and brought back, without pnttiug your finger iuto your purse once the whole time." We were enormously interested. Was there not something piquaut and en gaging in this ingenious subversion of all ordinary forms of human arrange ment ? There was, as he said, a beau tiful simplicity in the system ; and it was certainly the first successful at tempt at doing without the root of all evil. The vulgar element was elimiun ted, and one could at last travel with out losing all seuae of romance. Ho*, we wondered, as lie explained how tin director of the system, lived and di rected in town, whence he dispatched every day and every hour, crowds o travelers to the ends of the earth, fur uishiog each with uothiug but bis littl. book of tracts. He then unfolded t aort of broad sheet or programme of ar rangements, in whiah, besides giving information, the fouuder chats agree ably with his patruus—rather was he not their patron?—tells them his pros pects, what he is going to do, and what he has done. " So there is the way it stands," said Mr. Blowman, rising, " and I am to be transported to Curebath by boat and rail, maintained there at the Golden Btork a fortnight, and returned to my friends, without any expense or trouble beyond offering a little slip of paper as I come or go." Tnis revelation made a deep impres sion. The seed was sown, the difficul ties vanished of themselves. The sys tem commended itself as something almost fascinating. Before the next evening all was arranged, and though my father naturally felt some trepida tion as to the fate of his glasses, stilt the danger he felt was reduced almost to s minimum. We were to go with Mr. Blowman. To carry out the principle in its most perfect style, Mr. Blowman declared that " not more than a few shillings iu cash " were to be brought bv the party, just to defray the charges of cabs, por terage, and so forth. We should trust ourselves implicitly to our coupons, and, as we agreed, give the tiling fair play. It should be the coupon, the whole coupon, and nothing but the coupon. In a day or '.wo the die was csst, or rather a post-office order was dispatched to the coupon-founder, who by return of poet promptly returned three stout little pamphlets, and one (or each of a smaller little tract, each having a por trait like an enlarged postage stamp, which was to be in common for the hotels. We set to work, gut on pack ing, and at last started, my father slightly tremulous about his glasses. But Mr. Blowman liberally guaranteed their safety. Everything was delightful and worked admirably. Coupon' here, coupon there; up", down, evervwhere, they were all graciously honored like cheques. It was universally agreed that it was the most charming way of traveling that could be. We—that is, 1 and Mr. Blow man—heartily wished the principle could be introduced into all the trans actions of life. Dover, Osteud, Brus sels, all were strictly cooponized; then on to Cologne aud the Rhine, where coupons were admiuistered largely. The only drawback was that our small cash for cabs, porters, and so on, began to disappear with alarming rapidity, and we discovered with alarm that it would not hold ont to the end of our journey. We were in great spirits, which wo bestowed—that is, I and Mr. Blowman— liberally on a dry, elderly, wiry-haired Briton, one of the true type we all know, who has the air of taking his bank abroad with him. That sort of com mercial superiority is really unendur able, and we noticed tbat he smiled contemptuously as the guard came in and tore out our coupons. " You find all tbat sort of thing an swer, I suppose," he said. Mr. Blowman answered him readily. "It speaks for itself," he said ; "it is the one, the only system, and, depend upon it, we shall all have to come to it, whether we like it or no." "I am fond of the old waya," said Briton, "at least till the new ones are fairiy established." " That was what all the social Tories said when steam came in. We'd never have had a railway if those principles had prevailed." " Perhaps so. I only wished to know how the thing answered. Have yeu found it satisfactory ?" We bad all the ardor of neophytes, and answered. Hail we not gone in f#r the thing thoroughly ? C mid we show a greater proof of our confidence than having embarked so great a stake in the matter ? " Look here, sir," Raid Mr. Blowman, "we are couponed through, over aud over again. See thin and this. Boat, rail, breakfuat, coffee or tea, with egg*, all ooupon ; meat ditto, a separate or supplemental coupon. I>inner, bed, we are all coupon, sir. We deal with our fellow-man in no medium but cou pons, and look here, I suppose the united contents of the purses of the whole party would not amount to the sum of five shillings. What do yon say to that, sir ?" "It cnly seems to me that yon have burned your boats, as the saying i J, and that you are determined to give the system its fullest trial. Such faith ought to move mountains." " There are always skeptics in every age," said Mr. Blowman, with spirit. "This is an age of skepticism." " Not an age for putting all yeur eggs in one basket." On this we all set on this stuck-up Briton, and as Mr. Blowman said, hap pily, "couponed him with a will." I must, however, think he was tolerably good humored under our roasting. " Perhaps I am old-fashioned," he said, "but, at all events, you cannot blame me for waiting. I ought to tell you that Curebath is full to overflowing now. ".We are independent, sir," said Mr. Blowman, "and are provided for." The day passed over. Gradually our •pirita began to flag a little, for we'wera growing tired. Papa and mamma both showed signs of weariness, and, I must say, pettishness ; mamma wishing that "•he was back at St. Grundy's." THE CENTRE REPORTER Toward* ton o'clock, no began to draw near to Cure hath. The iltuvind ltntoii wa> asleep. At laat tUero we were} and the exile* of 8L Gruudy'a, aa Mr. Blowman amusingly called our party, found themselves act down IU C'ure bath. It wa* very bewildering the trange town —the light*—the foreign language —the odd people ; and 1 own, for the first time, 1 felt my heart sink* little, aud wished myself, a* mamma did, again iu St. Grundy *. Mr. Blowman, wiio had been appointed—rather he had appointed himself—director-in-chief and eonpou-bolderof thepartr—*eouicd to exhibit aigu* of despoudeney, and wa* quite helpless aud bewildered. A number of German jHtrter* were clam oring noisily round him, 1 suppose de manding payment for the luggage. He wa* quite cowed, aud came to u* to the cab door. " Give me some money for ther fel lows," he said. " I haven't a halfpeuuy left, not a* much a* 1 could jiugle ou a tombs toue." This poor jest he delivered with a ghastly smile. "You know I have noue, Mr. Bow man," 1 answered, somewhat tartly. " You ahoulil have kept aouie for this occasion." " How could If" he answered, us tartly. What am Ito do with them ?" Pat>a, iu au agitated way, aaid : " Offer them the coupons—they are received everywhere, you know." "Stutfaud uousense," he answered, roughly. " They wouldu't take 'em ; kuow nothing about 'em. What are we to do f" It was embarrassing, and all hia fault. Still it was the only thing to be dour. They might accept them. So he drew out s " breakfast with meat" coupon, aud tendered it. It was received with a chatter and a howl. Mamma sugges ted, what oddly enough proved to lie the only sensible course, that we should bid them accompany us to the hotel, where the host would satisfy them. This was explained to them by signs, and seemed ta be cordially accepted with many a "ja ! ja I" and Mr. Plow man assured them, in the same lan guage, that at the Golden Stork they should be handsomely remunerated. Strange tossy, this was received with a chorus of rude laughter, and a roar of *' Neiu ! ueiu I" It was growing intol erable. In a moment of rage, anil seeing that Blowman was of uo more use than au old woman would be, I bade the coachman drive on quickly, winch he did. with a loud crack of his whip. I felt that we were attended behind by our persecutor*, but it was a release. Inside in the dark interior, Mr. Blow man aud I fairly quarreled. 1 said he ought nut to hsve taken upon himself the directum of the party, if he felt that he could not le equal to such a little difficulty a* that. He said that, if I hsdu't interfered, all would hsve gone well. It was not a pleasant drive. We were now passing through dark streets ; every one seemed to be in bed. I wish ed again that I was back iu my own sung one at Sk Grundy's. We hail stopped in a long, dark street, before a gloomy arch, with closed gate* like a prison. There was a gold stork over the door. " Here we are," said I and Mr. Blow man, uttering an undeniable truism at the same moment. The coachman got down and voiced some unintelligible sound*. " Tell him to ring the bell," I said. Mr. Blowman pointed to that mode of attracting attention, uttering vehe mently the words, " Bell, bt-11!" He did not, or wonld not, understand. "Ring it yourself," I said, impatient lv. He was becoming more aud more stupid every iiotaut, but. he got out, and did so. The man stani|>ed im patiently, and poured out a volley of gutturafs. At the same time the porter persecutors srrived, and, crowding around the window, gesticulated violent ly at the large gate, as if they were threatening tlie golden stork. " They are touts for the other hotels," said Mr. Blowman, in his stupid way, " and infuriated that we did not go with them. What are we to do now " Ring again, of course," I said, thoroughly disgusted with him. Catch me take an underground bass abroad again. Of all the spectacles of effete stupidity ! He tried to ring the bell, but they interposed, and gesticu lated more furiously still. They would not allow him to touch it even. It was growing serious. My mxmma began to cry. Suddenly a g< ntleinan pushed through the crowd. I stood at the win dow. With what joy I recognized him as our traveling companion, the starched Briton I " I saw you were in home difficulty," he said, "so I followed. Cau I assist you ?" " Oh do, kind sir," I said, in despair. " Get rid of these wretches." lie spoke to them in German, and a dozen voices, including that of the cl>- man, answered him. The wretches used their arms to point excitedly at the walls and gate, the coachman fol lowed suit with his whip. "It seems," he says, "that the pro prietor of this hotel "died last week, and it has been shut up. His hebs are not carrying on the business. It is going to be pulled down, an 1 re-opened as the Grand Hotel of the Golden Stork." A cry of despair broke from the inte rior of "the cab." The coupons! He,spoke again to the porters. Again gesticulations. " Not a room to be had in the whole town," he said. "The Crown Prince arrived this evening to open the new bath-house. All the other hotels are full to bursting." " But we have our con pons," said Mr. Blowman, in his idiotie way. " They are money cheques ; they must take ua !" " I fear not," aaid be. What was to be done ? We had coupons, but not a farthing of money ; nothing that "we could jinglo on a tombstone." " Look here," said Mr. Blowman, imbecile to the end, " Here is a break fast ooupon, with or without meat; a dinner ditto, a bed ditto " " I fear they would lie of no use to you," said our rescuer. " The only thing that I can suggest is this. I tele graphed to secure a room at the Eagle, which is quite at the service of the two ladies. The gentlemen must rough it." What gratitude we felt 1 Our rescuer satisfied the porters, aud we drove away from the closed Stork to the Eagle, Mr. Blowman being turned out on the box seat to make room for our noble pre server. We spent a miserably un comfortable night at the Eagle, but were told that we ought to consider ourselves lucky. And, indeed, we were gratefnl. The next day, however, things bright ened a little. The Crown Prince was going away in the evening, and com fortable rooms were given us. And such was the esteem in which the worthy ooupon-issuer—who was not responsible for the accident—was held, that his little drafts were promptly honored by the proprietor of tlie Eagle. We shall never travel, however, with Mr. Blowman again. The number of ahipwrecka on the English coast in 1872 exceeded that of the previous year by 383—the total of the past year being 1,938. - 4 CENTRE IIA EE. CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1873. A Buffalo Fight. Iho clutlleiiger advanced from the herd tv> within some four feet, getting angrier and angrier * he came. Hud dculy there was a crash that had in it something Homeric. One rattling cm sot of that kind leave* one tu no doubt a* to why the short, strong horn* -f the buffaloes have a splintered appeal slice at the apice*. Then there wus a long, steady push, iu which every tendon of the huge bodies of the buffaloes was strained to the utmost. Then there was a strategic easing off, then a sud den gladiatorial thrust, which nressed the huge heads to the groutid in uu even balance of strength. Neither 1 mast dared relax a muscle or retreat an inch, for fear of that fatal charge upon the dank, or that daugcroua twist of the ueck, which means defeat. I A momentary relaxation of the tre mendous strain only resulted iu the shaggy hem!* coming together again with a dull thuuip, aud a renewal of the dogged pushing which might have moved a freight traiu. It was a matter of lungs and endurance, aud the white froth iH'gau to drop iu long, tenacious strings from their lips, and the red eve* to glare dimly through what seemed clots of blood. I could hear the tailored breathing where 1 lay, and see the ton : dons stand out acroas the thighs and alotig the thick necks. But this dead set of strength could not la-t always. Every moment of time wa* telling disastrously upon the shorter wind and decaying strength of the old crusader, who still fought for the loves of his vouth. His foot slip|>ed, slid the intelligence of this slight disaster seemed to reach his antagonist quicker than a fltsh of light. No gladiator ever urged his advantage more sudden ly. There was a hug* lunge, a sound of horns slipping upou each other, a spring forward, and tlio horn of the younger bull had made a rakmg up ward stroke through his antagonist's flank. The flght now became brisk Agsiu aud again the old oue turned aud tried to make the old stand of head to head, aud as of leu his more active an tagonist caught him behiud the shoul der. With tlie red agotiy of defeat iu his eye, and the blood trickling from the long wounds in his flanks, he still refused to 1h conquered. With failing strength and limbs, which refused any . longer to serve him, he finally stood at hay, with opeu mouth and hanging tongue, uuahie to fight aud disdaining to retreat. His antagonist pushed htm, and he yielded doggedly. He made lio attempt to shield his flank, and piti fully endured all that came. The origi nal plan of non-interference was aban doned, and the young lords gathered around him, aud snorted and shook their hemls, and gave him au occasional dig in the ribs byway of expressing their contempt fur him. The cows came and snuffed at htm, and indulged in spiteful feminine butts and walked sway. Their mauuer implied that they had always regarded him as a disagree able old muff, and thev were glad he finally understood their heartfelt senti ments iu regard to him. Through all this the old fellow stood unresisting, whipped, but still obsti nate. Gradually they all left him to himself, and the herd wandered further sway. He did not eve* look around ; he was probably forced at last to accept his sentence of banishment, and go and live as long as he could alone, and fight his last fight with the coyotes and die. A Model Farm. I have already mentioned the farm of Mr. StilUou, aura a Now York Tribune correspondent, writing from Oahkoah, Wis., which I visited the other Jar. Besides other land which he owna and cultivatce, he haa in one piece adjoin ing the city 90) acres of as beautiful prairie land a 1 ever saw. It ]<>|>e* gradually toward Lske Winnebago, which is risible from all parts of it,and, now that he has bliad-ditched the por tions whero then* are depressions, there is not on the whole farm ten square yards of waste land. Mr. Htillaou drove me out into one field of 100 acres, just half a mile square, opposite his house, a part of which bore a crop of liar this year, while the remainder of it had beeu in wheat. It was the finest field I ever saw. Mr. Stillson raises about 110 acres of wheat a year, and has sent to market in the last 23 or 21 years more than 40,000 bushels of that grain alone. I think he said his average crop in 23 yearn lisd l>eeu more than 22 bushels to the acre. He keeps between 1,700 and 1,800 head of sheep, and has now iu his barn 7,700 pounds of flue wool of this year's clip. It is not for sale until the price is bet ter than it is now. He has alxnit 130 head of cattle and horses, and these, with his sheep and pigs, c uisnme all the bay and coarse grain that the farm produces. His herd of short-horned stock is a very promising one, although now ouly a year or two old. His bams are, I think, the largest and best in the entire West, and contain ample room to honse about all tlio grain and hay that he raises, so that very little of it is stacked oat. I urn told that when Mr. Stillson came here lie was not rich, and that his lands, to use a Western phrase, " were plastered ad over " with 24 |>er cent, mortgages. He lias raised him self to his present position as one of the first, if not the very first, farmers in Wisconsin by an intelligent attention to his business, by high cultivation of his land and by not raising, two year* in succession, any crop which did not pay a profit. The Squirrel Pest. To an Eastern reader, says the San Francisco fYif/, it will SOUTH! strange that squirrels nliouhl exist in sufficient numbers to become a pest. They will hardly be able to realize that there are certain localities in the valleys ami on the aide-hills inCulifornia—in the grain fields and adjacent thereto—where there are colonies comprising thousands and tens of thousands of these pests. They have multiplied rather than diminished since the Americans occupied Califor nia. which may l>c attributed to the fact that, as farms are opened up, their sup ply of food ia more certain and abun dant. In sections where they are most numerous it is calculated that they aro capable of destroying from one-third to one-half a rrop. The squirrels burrow in the ground, which renders their ex terminatiou all the more difficult. Their depredations in past years were so seri ously felt that a lu w was passed by the Legislature authorizing the counties most Bfilicted to offer a boui.ty for their acnlps. This plan was tried, and found not only to lie too expensive but to effect very little in getting rid of the evil. Besides, it was complained that those farmers should uot lie subject to a tax whose fields contained no squirrels iu order to exterminate them in sections where they depredated. The necessity of a law of a different character is felt. A number of farmers held u convention in this city on Tucsduy to devise some plan for getting riil of the squirrels more certainly and in a less obnoxious TU'' nner. Another bill is to be drafted ' legislative action. LOT PATRIOTS — Eight Cuban young lads, from lfi to 18 yars of nge, found hidiug places on the steamer Virginias, proposing to help their countrymen to fight the Spaniards out of Cuba. They were discovered and foroed away by their parent* before the steamer eaileu. The English-.%shautoe Quarrel. The quarrel lietwveu the English and tht< Ashanteeu to not a v<- rv intelligible • otu>. The English have long Itnltl a portion of the Gold Coast, other Section* of whit'll were possessed by tint Danes and the Dutch. The latter have now alao been acquired bv the English, whose settlements, defended by Capo Coast t'a it to and other fort* stretch along the ahorea between Liberia and Dahomey. Northward of theae poa ; 'eaaioua are thepeaoefiil and aubtniaaive tribea of the Fautees, Awini, and Ahantaa, which are " protected" by the Itritiah Government; and beyond tlieta, to the north, are the undefined dumiu ioua of Koffee Kalkalli. The immediate catiae of the war wait a aeriea of tierce incursions of King Koffoe agamt the Fauteen, whom he drove to Cape Obaat, and whose villages he burned ; but the remote oauae inalleged to lie the resent ment felt by this potentate at not hav ing access to the sea coast and at being deprived of the aunual ttipeud which used to be granted to him by the Dutch. Whatever the gronuds of the quarre l , it ta certain that the Euglish cabinet has entered upon a determined war. Nor is the struggle likely to 1m a very easy one, nor are the costs of it capable of ea*y reckoning. When Hir Robert N spier set out for Magdala, ll w *" **s tt mated that llie war would cost Eug laud four milhoua sterling for it; she has actually hail to pay uine. The Ashautee war is calculated at two mil lions; it it not unlikely to coat Ave, Koflfee has been making, it is supposed, important alliances with many interior tntiea; that he aud his gwuerula are skilled warriors, they have already be trayed ; the English know uotliing either of the numbers of his army, the mariner of their equipment, or of the topographical features of the country ttiey are about to invade ; they do know that the resisteuce of Asliautee armies is not the only dauger they have to face, but wild beasts also, and a most treacherous climate ; and before they reach I lie promiaed El IVirado of the river Itsrra, aud the capital, Willi its suspected golden stores, they must probably endure s long, weary, and un certain campaign, in which they can scarcely boj>e to do more than to tem porarily pot an end to Ashautee excur aious eoastward. How He Hat Into Business. A watchmaker at Florence, Alabama, once tohl us bow he mauaged to get into business there. He settled in the place a stranger, just after the people had started a new town-clock in the tower of the court bouse, but nobody came to give btm a job. A week or two passed on without improving his j prospects, when in a kind of desjiers tion he determined to make a bold strike for busiueaa. Everybody tworr by the town clock, of course, a fact which onr watchmaker knew, so after nigh*, he made hia way into the tower > and changed the hands a few minutes. Heard nothing of it on the day follow ing, and so changed them the next night. On the morning after the second change had been made, a man called on the watchmaker and spoke of em ploying htm to regulate the town clock; Wut the watchmaker told him he j thought no regulation was necessary, as he hsd noticed that the clock was | running exactly with his time, and ' drawing forth hia watch, he compared 1 it with the clock, and, Mire enough, they were cxactlv together. Next morning the town-clock and the watches of the place were further apart than usual, and the gentleman who had , called at the watch shop the daj before now again presented himself, accom panied by ser r.si friends. To their great surprise they found the watch maker's regulator and watch atill ex- j actly with the clock, and that settled the question. They all left their watch- j es to l>c cleaned, remarking that thev I wonld lather have no watchea at ail than watchea that did not keep time. ! The news spread ; other irregular : watchea came in by the score until, be- | fore the day was over, the watchmaker had the windows hung entirely fall of . work. Mheep as a Renovator. A secesh soldier while fighting under Stonewall Jackson, in Virginia, saw the benefit of sheep-raising to rerire w<>rn ont land. Impoverished in the fight for slavery, he began with only ten ewe sheep* which he put in a small field near his house, that was full of briars and weeds. They soon ate up the briars, weeds, and the grass in fence corners. He gave them daily a little meal or bran, salted them often, and sheltered them in the winter, when they hrnl swamp hay and a few roots. Iu the spring he had thirteen fine lambs, worth more than he gave for the ewes, and he saul the woo] and manure was worth more than the cost of the food. He plowed and planted the field to com, and got over thirty bushels to the acre, while aronud the shed the yield was much larger. He now keeps sheep, and grows, without the aid of gttauo or phosphate, fine crop* of clover, com, wheat, and turnips. How strange that the Southern farmprs so persist ently neglect stock growing, which i# the only means by which they can ob tain continuous crops of cotton. A Yankee who farmed at the South was remonstrated with for neglecting to grow cotton ; he replied that lie sold corn nnd meat enough to buy all the cotton made iu his neighborhood. Tloali's Ark. A scientific writer gives it as his opinion, founded on certain Biblical facts, that the nrk was smaller than the Oreut Eastern. It had three decks,and was divided into numerous compart ment* by longitudinal and transverse I ulkheads, for the safety nnd order of its occupant*. It was built of gopher wood, n sjM>cies of evergreen timtier re sembling the pine in length and strength of trunk, and tho white cedar in light ness. In model, it was all that a great carrier could be, cheat-like, with lines straight nnd angles square, but" the bottom nnd top were elliptical in out line, presenting convexity to the earth and sky. After giving tlie dimensions and the model of construction of the several parts, this authority tella ns, as if he was equally certain on this point, that the ark " is now in a good state of preservation, but lying under an eternal mantle of snorr, hundreds of feet deep, at an altitude of seventeen thousand five hundred feet above the level of the sea. Kver since the flood dried up, the climate of Armenia has been colder, snd suow always covers the top of Ararat, rendering ii impossi ble for any of Noah's descendants to go up and find the ark. PLANTINO WALNTTH.—BIack walnuts or acjrus should be placed in moist sand as soon as gathered, and allowed to freeze during the winter. In the spring they may be planted in rows three or fonr feet apart. The black walnuts may be transplanted, as tliey crowd each other. The acorns, how ever, are transplanted with difficulty. The oak grows much slower than the walnut, aud therefore yon would lose your labor if planted together. There fore plant them separately, by all means. Walnuts should be plauted about three to four inches deep. Acorns one to two inches deep. Plant in exact lines for ease ia cultivation, On the I'lalna. Many queer outfits are seen in (Ireeley, making long journeys over the plsius, or who noma hither from a dis tance to trade. We have first the man and hia family in a two-horse spring wagon, having come through from the Missouri, or trout Moulaua, or Oregon, seeking some new locatiou, or they are simply traveling to ate the country or to visit their friends. They are light loaded and generally there are but few children. There are always bed-clothes, pillows, a truuk and a box for lioldiug provisions, often a couple of chaira aud sometimes a rooking chair. They are worn with travel, dusty, etui-burned and generally dilapidated, and women and out from uuder the wagon curtains with a curious gase. Sometimes a better clasa will come uu der some trees along the river, wash up, and put on their good clothes ; then they will oorne into town with the wsgou curtains up, feeling full as good as suybody. The men wesr nioe clothes, though considerably wrinkled, and the women have black silk dresses, just a trifle out of fashion, or nice caltoo, ironed uudrr a tree. In all their jour neying they have slept in the wagon, have cooked their own provisions and picketed their hone s on grass, though groin is always fed. Some of these out fits belong to invalids, more or less wealthy, who are in for a long trip along the base uf the mountains, ex tending from the Platte to the Rio Grande, or even iuto Old Mexico, which country they mean to reach by wiuter. They have tents which they pitch near towu, aud there they sleep and cook, aud after looking around as long as aiiythmg pleases them, they are up and off. The regular mover's outfit consists of several wagons, well-loaded, with plen ty of dogs behind, and lots of chifdieu withiu. Some sregenuiue Missourians, belonging to what is called the cattish aristocracy. They "don't know about tliis bur errygatiou ; it looks like it was a heap o" trouble. Msy be they'll stay, hut they allow a push on lo the Arkau aaw, w here they can make corn and keep a gang of hog*." Bo they roll out with their dirty wagons and a few hoof creak tug cows. Tin* outfit of the Texas drover is s •cii-utJi) affair. There is seldom s cover to the wagou; it is too much trouble, sud the whole load is exposed to the public gate. There are kegs of molas ses sud jugs of viuegsr, and of some thing else, ltoxes of Iwoun, of (lour, sugar end a variety of other provisions. Home things are strapped to the sides in a helter-skelter, but perfectly secure manner, and sometimes there are bun dles of kindling wood tied to the hind axle. These outfits are seen almost every day of the season standing in front of the stores, while everything needed for a long jonrnev to Utah, Montana, or Idaho is carefully brought together. Meanwhile, their immense droves are wending their way up the divide, south of the town, or around the colony fence on the north, and at last they too take up the loug line of travel across the plains. Then we have the supply teams for some timber cunp or herder'a rauch iu the mountains, coming in by three, four or more days' journey, after flour, ba con, vegetables and groceries. When asked why they do not trade at the towns at the base of the mountain!, the reply is that they cannot get all they want there, and that if thev could, they ran buy everything ennugfi cheaper in Oreeley to pay for makiug the journey. Another reason why many such oume hither is because" they want to see friends; possibly the young men want to see some girls of their acquaintance, and most of them get their letters and papers here. Invalids, all kinds of travelers, explorers, busineas men and tourists look fur letters here. lb-sides the railroad teams that take supplies down the Platte, arc acientiflc parties, who have a wagon and a few riding mules, and here they get their flour, bacon and gmcei ies before they issue into the solitude, to l>e gone for weeks and even mouths. Then wehave our own people, some of whom are all the time on the move, either dovu the Platte or up to the mountains. The Platte character* mean business; they no longer wear broadcloth, but instead the roughest gear. Home of them wear bnckakin pantaloons, with suitable fringe, and they always wear slouched hats. They are haying or herding, or something else, and if not too faraway, tliev come back with loads of bay, on which they gracefully recline. Some times they bring up butter, and in the season, buffalo meat and robes. Those who make the mountain trip are plea sure-bound, but having an idea it is a little rough there, the men wear old clothes, some of the women bloomers, away they go at what they call " bright and early," that is, 10 or 11 o'cloek,and hy hard pushing they camp within the foot hills. The next day they climb and climb; sometimes they get lost, but they go on two or three or more days, according to their streugth and the stock of their provisions, and after a while they have a real pleasure, that is, when they come hick dusty, hungry, feverish with what they have seen, and loaded down with specimens which in a few days they throw out at the back door. A particular friend of ours, a New York city gentleman, came back after a stay of "ten days. He bad *n a shocking pair of pantaloons, held tip by a big leather belt, a sliort-waisted coat, and a flannel shirt. He had lost the skin off his nose, and he was so lame he could scarcely hobble along, but he was enthusiastic about the thingnwhieli lie had seen, sud he saw so many that the telling of them will last him so long ho is not likely to go again soon. The women always go to bed, and it is sev eral davs before their noses resume the natural color.— Greeley (Chi.) Tribune. Protect the Quail. Last winter the heavy snow storms destroyed the qnsil by thousands, and a great part of that destruction and suf fering might have been prevented if peoplo through the oonntry had pro tected *nd fed tnem. The Inst way to do this is to drive stakes in the gmuud about ten feet apart, snd a foot or two in height, then lay poles across and cover tliciu with brush and leaves. This should lie done before winter sets in, and some grain thrown nnder and around, to eutioethem to it; then when a heavy storm occurs they would resort to it as a shelter, as well as a feeding place. A few winters ago nearly every quail was killed tlimnghout the North ern and Middle States, and specyd laws were made for their protection till the conutry was reatocked. "Au ounce of protection ia worth a |iouiid of cure." How THEY DIRI>. — A letter from Havana gives the following accouut of the execution of the Virginins's prison ers at Hautingo da Cuba: The four prisoners were shot at the place made famous by previous executions aud in the nsual manner, kneeling close to the slaughter house wall. All marched to the spot with firmness. Bembetta and Ryan showed marked courage,although the former was slightly affected toward the last The two others quite broke dowu before they were bandaged ; but Ryan kept up to the last, lever flinched n moment, and died without fear or re gret. Bembetta and Ryan were killed at the first discharge. Term*: O£.OO ft Year, in Axlvane©. Then and How. John B. Gongh, in a late lecture, aaid: Fifty years ago we burned the seme ma terials for light aa they did 5,000 yearn ago. The lamps and torches that il luminated Uelshaatar'a feast were as brilliant and were probably of the same materials as those at the earlier recep tions at Wasliiugton. The same might l>e said of looomotion. Nimrod and Noah traveled at about the same rate of speed as our fathers. He reiueinlwred traveling between Albany and Utica, aud making three miles an hour straight through. Now in twenty-seven hours we could pass the Hlstes of Maine, New Hampshire, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, and lUO miles into Virginia. In the old times they lived for love, and for a plain, simple home with all its happiness and comforts. In the thru the marriage re lation with its hallowed influence was the offspring of love ; in the now it was made a matter of barter aud sale, and family life was metamorphosed into a wretched struggle for fashionable dis play. Oue man married to increase hia res|iectal>ility, ene to please hia friends, another brought a wife home to suite his relatives, and another married to procure service without being obliged to pay for it. One girl married because she did not like to work, and wanted to be supported in doing nothing but crochet and Berlin work, with ample time to go out. He sometimes saw these butterflies in the street, with abundance of finery, cheap jewelrr, and head-gear; and, speaking of female head-gear, he might say that no one could break the secmd commandment in worshipping it, because it was unlike auj thing in tbe heavens above or tbe earth beneath. He knew it was the fashion to make old maids and old bachelors subjects of ridieule, but would it not be better to be laughed at tiecause you are not married, than never to laugh at all because you are married f If a girl ass tun k in her manner ; if she was modest in the presence of gen tlemen, iff if abe ia kind to animals, she was cut out for an old maid. Neatness, modesty, thrift, order, aud humanity seemed to be the never-failing charac teristics of that terrible creature, the old maid. But, he asked, were not some of the women whose existence was a blessing to the wwrldof this daaa ? Take, for instance, Florence Nightin gale, Miss Carpenter, Clara Barton, Mias Dix, and a host of others. We were Christiana, and yet we worshipped the meanest of all gods, and bowed the knee to Mammon. The purse-bearing scoundrel was often honored, but the monevlesa scoundrel was always de spise*}. In some of our cities it was scarcely possible to convict a man with money of crime. He did not believe in hanging a man, but be asked did they ever hear of a poor man who bad three trials for murder? (Applause). The question was not one of ngbt or wrong, guilt cr iunoocnce; but of wealth or poverty. Adventures of a burglar. A man tried to burglarise the bouse of Mr. Month, residing in the neighbor hood of the railroad track, but was suc cessfully foiled in the attempt. It seems that the fellow forced an entrance through the back kitchen door hy pry lug off the hasp, about 11 30 o'clock, soon after the ooeupanls of the house had retired. The burglar, after getting into the kitcuen, commenced walking around the room. Mr. Bmitli, who had not yet gone to steep, beard the fellow, but kept quiet In a few mo ments more the burglar entered the hall which leads directly to the sleep ing apartment About this time Smith bad gotten out of bed, and, arming himself with a bootjack and one of his heavy boots, awaited H>e approach of the other. It was as dark as tar. and as soon as the man came within striking distance he let fly at him with his boot jack, hitting him over the head. The fallow beat a hoaty retreat, but not fast enough to escape the heavy boot, which was thrown after him. When he got into the kitchen he didn't know which way to turn, as be bail closed the door when he came in. Before be knew where he waa lie had fallen over the atove, knocking half a doxen tea kettles and Iota off with him. This created such a terrible diu that Smith thought four or five burglars were iu his kitch en, and was afraid to follow. Lncky for the other that he did, for be had become so demoralized by the fall that he waau't worth a cent for fighting. Getting on his feet again, he struck for the door wildly, and this time came in contact with a rocking chair, and he fell head over heels into a tub of water. His splashing and floundering around in the tub of water terrified Smith more than ever, and he began to thiuk his house waa possessed of devils. l*he man at last found the door, and jumped down the steps ; he rnn across the yard like lightning, and thistimernshed intoa small hen coop, which he knocked over, and killed several of the small hens. What happened to him after thia no one knows. Suffice it, he has not shown himself around those parts amoe.— Willi jo ((W.) Independence. Critical Periods of Hunan Life. From the age of forty to that of sixty a man who properly regulates himv If may be considered in the prime of life. His matured strength of constitution renders him alinott impervious to the attacks of disease, nnd all the functions ore in the highest order. Having gone a year or two past sixty, however, he arrives at a critical period of existence ; the river of death flows l>efore him, and he remains at a stand-still. But athwart this river is a viaduct called "The Turn of Life," which, if crossed in safety, leads to the valley of "Old Age," round which the river winds, and then flows beyond without a doubt of causeway to effect its passage. The bridge is, how ever, constructed of fragile materials, and it depends upon how it is trodden whether it bend or break. Oout, apo plexy, and other bad characters, are also* in the vicinity, to waylay the traveler and throat lum from the pass ; but let him gird up his loins, ana pro vide himself with perfect composure. To quote a metaphor, "the turn of life" has a turn either into a prolonged walk or into the grave. The system and power having reached their utmost expansion, now begiu either to close, like flowers of sunset, or break down st once. One injudicious stimulant, a sin gle fatal excitement, may force it be yond its strength, whilst a careful sup ply of props, and the withdrawal of all that tends to force a plant, will sustain it in its beauty and vigor until night haa nearly set in. How TO CCRNT CHILLS.—A lady writer gives what she believes to lie a sure care for cliillf. tihe takes about a pint of new milk, and stirs into it a table spoonful of ground ginger, and then heats the milk as hot as it will do to driuk without burning the patient This is given to tho patient as soon as he feels the symptoms of the chill oocning on, and ue goes to bed and sovers up warmly, and the milk and the ginger throw the patient into a perspira tion, which breaks the chilL After this a pill of bine mass, or some medicine that will operate on the lirer, is given, and the patient is cured, NO. 49. Thoughts for Saturday Sight. Ton hava greatly ventured, bnt all mnit do uo who would greatly via. A distasteful dutv altonld receive oor first and moat careful attention. It it not alone the amount of evil we do. but the good we leave undone, that will be our condemnation. If we waited nntil it waa perfectly convenient, half of the good actions of life would never be accomplished. Life ia a short day ; bat it ia a work jug day. Activity may lead to evil; but it activity cannot be led to good. Proeperitv ia a great teaeber ; adver aity a greater. Possession pampeta Ua mind, privation Uaina and strengthens it. The temperate ere the most truly luxurious. By abstaining from moat things, it ia surprising how many things we enjoy. A pure soul acta in simplicity and without certainty, being persuaded t hat what ia good oomea from Ood, and what ia not good from self. Hkepticiam has never founded em pires, established principalities, or changed the world's heart Tha great doers in history have always been men of faith. An derated purpose is a good and ennobling thing, but we oanuot begin at tbe tup of it. We mast work up to it by tbe often difficult path of daily duty. To be bodily tranquil, to apeak little and digeat without effort, are absolutely neotaaary to grandeur of tbe mind or of presence, or to proper development of geniua. Turn over a new leaf! Ah, tboee new learea ! If half of them were turned over that are talked about what a gigan tie volume would tbey form in tbe life of every one of ua. Work ia tbe only univeraal eurreney which God accept*. A nation's welfare will depend on its ability to master tbe world ; that, on power of work ; that, on its power of tnought. Tbe faithful, patient performance of any duty which is distsMtefai to os ia a great achievement, no matter bow igno minious it may appear, and it aiwaya brings a rich aud unexpected reward. Put that idea of knowing all things in heaven and earth outof your heads. It ia very little that we can ever know, either of the waya of Providence or the laws of existence. But that little is enough, and exactly enough. Words, "those fickle daughters of the earth," are the creation of a being that ia finite, and when aoplied to expiate that which ia infinite, they fail; for that which ia made surpasses not the maker, nor can that which is immeasur able by our thought* be measured by our tongue*. Tbe Captain of the Virginias. Cant Joseph Fry, the commander of the Virginiua, waa born in Norfolk.Ya., and was a well-known steamboat cap tain from tbe port of New Orleans. lie waa about fifty-four years of age. He ••erred in the Oonlederate Navy as a lieutenant, and during tbe war com manded tbe blockade runner Agnes. Afterward he entered the mercantile marine, and commanded the Hubert L Lee. In 1870 he went to Glasgow, Soot land, aud remained there a year or so, leaving hia wife with her relatives in that city. Since then he was engaged in mercantile transaction*, and hi* resi dence of late waa in Albany. Four or five months ago he was engaged by Mr. Patterson, the owner of the Virginias, to take command of that vesaeL This was his first in the Cuban aervioe, hav ing been recommended for that position by General Manuel Queaad*. He was much esteemed by hia personal friends, who considered him a bold and fearless seaman; and the utmost confidence waa confided in him by the Cuban patriots. Rumors derogatory to hia fidelity had been circulated, but they were discred ited. These rumor* were spread on ac count of the report that Capt. Francis Norton, who waa engaged in the Span ish secret service, wsa hia cousin. Captain Norton waa until lately con nected with the Spaniards, although he had onoe held a commission as com mander of tbe Cuban war-ship Pioneer, which he took into Newport, when she waa seixed under complaint of the Spanish Government. Out of one hundred and sixty-three persona on board the Virginiua at the time of her capture one hundred and forty-five have been shot. Of the re maining eighteen fonr or five are to be set at liberty and the rest condemned to the chain-gang. Those saved are en gineers or firemen, who were ignorant of the destination of the expedition, and worn below the deck at the time of the capture. A Mexican Tragedy. A young officer in the Mexican army fell iu love with a lady in Puebla. She promised him her hand incase be would resign his commission. He did set bought a hacienda, and then returned to claim the pledge. She, in the mean time, hail been wooed and won by an other. Upon the first visit of her first lover, she informed him that her heart bad undergone a change. The passion ate lover became frantic, and upon leav ing told her that he would call the next day, and if she persisted, he wonld kill himself in her presence. He called the next day, was persistently refused in the presence of ner mother, whereupon he drew s revolver, and exclaimed that the love which was not for him should not I* enjoyed by another, and fired at her heart, bnt she rose and received tiie ball in her abdomen. He then shot him self. The insane assassin died the same afternoon, and bis victim closed her existence on the third day. A Sew Complaint, This it a nice complaint to break out in a small bat quiet family I A young woman in Lafayette, Ind., sang to the company in the parlor until one o'clock in the morning. Then ahe retired to her bower, and in a little while ahe waa heart! up ntaira moat noiaily and enthu aiasticaily melodious. There aeemed to be no end of there nocturnes, and the members of the family concluded that it was best to go up and see about it. Aooordingly they mounted and edtered the chamber; and there was the young woman fast asleep and singing away more or leas like a nightingale. They shook her, they slapped her, they re sorted to many other rousing expedi ents, but the tuneful virgin slumbered ami aang on. After ahe had exhausted their patience and her reportory, she sank into ailenoe and a natural slumber. II AHDEXISO 8M ALL TOOIJB. —AfOOtd- ingto J Seheussleder, watch makers and engravers harden their tools in sealing' wax. The article ia made white-hot and tbrnst into sealing-wax, allowed to remain a moment, then withdrawn ami thrust into another plaee, and this treatment is continued until the steel is oold, aud will no more enter the wax. The hardness thus attained ia extreme, and comparable to that of the diamond; in fact, steel hardened in this way may be used for boring or engraving steel hardened by other prooessee, the tool being previously moistened with oil of turpentine. OoJ . rimar lha hours SUy Her name ; Hearts ihrebbei te great lha Htle sfianger s Urtb | V. Ail n slurs wove A hrightar sspeet, and sstsesil luand ew Hearth A debar atom. Winter! His fingers baM te Mf grip The was whltt hand ; His obltlv breath paused oar lha reap Hp And the Arm hand * , * That kait these ieviag seals together snappad. , Tie wins to tea The biew Heath Am* when Is Ma robe he wrapped Our darting Heß. 1 • "-re-sBBWnBBi Items of Internal, Another balloon amtdawris reports 1 from Pulaski county, Ind., where n "professor" fell thirty feet from bis balloon, md ia not expected to recover. The editor of the Smith County (Kansas) Pioneer remarks that bis idea of reel, solid enjoyment won Id be to shoot * man caught setting n pnunc on fire. " Boy, ytmft's beeome of the bole I saw in your pants the other day P* Young American, carefully examining his unmentionables—" It's worn out, sir." According te the estimate of the Street Commissioners, the ooet to Boa ton of widening and Improving streeta : n the district swept by the greet fire is *5,070,000. A Missouri fanner was tcld by a ! fortune-teller that there waa a lake of : coal under his farm end he spent nine thousand dollars to Had out that ha had I been fooled. The manner of advertising for a hus band in Java ia by placing aa ewpty flower pot oe the portico roof, which m a* much at to say: Young, lady here— Husband wanted. "Where-ball I put this paper so as | to be sure of finding it to-morrow ? inquired Mary Jan# of her brother Charles. "Oe the looking•g4aaa" waa her brother's reply. A modern writer on social science di vides the human race into three elaaaee: Those who think tt ia so, those who think it iant ecu, nd those who don't care whether it is so or not. The lumber bnaioeaa in Minnesota ia much affected by the depression. Only 913 men go into the woods this winter, against 1,675 men sent lest winter by the same number of firms. A man out West brags that ell the furniture and flooring of his house is made of live oak, but bia wife, who does the hard work of the bonne, asys its nothing but scrub oak. The Chicago wwnld be obliged if publishers and writers would under stand that brevity la not only the soul of wit. but the of wisdom. "A big (took ia a tank, a abort book ia e spring." Potatoes on many farms are stll in the ground. Make en efibrt to get them out at once. Nothing is to be gained by delay. Tbe days ere getting shorter and the weather colder and move un certain. Over four hundred acres of land have Item bought in the town of Brighton, X. Y., for a colony of Dutch peopte ex ited there soon. Tbe land jwtcm hundred thousand dollar*, and will be sold to them by auction. At a meeting held by several of the leading merchant tailor* of Boston, it was resolved to publish in two of the dailv paper* a list giving the names and residence* of such customer* a* are dil atory in paying for tbe goods famished them. The work on the Hoonao tunnel ban been carried so far that the workmen en each face can hear the blow* ot the drills on tbe other aide of the thin in tervening barrier, and in a few day* a passage will be opened through the mountain. A bright-eyed Italian hey stopped with his organ before a dairy window, and, after pleyii f for a winle, examined the rotary chnru which was there in operation. "My churn ia the beat," he said, at last. "It makes bread and batter ; yours only makes butter." A new item in the fashion of ladies' dross waa accidentally introduced in one of the churches Sunday. A lady wear ing an elaborate Elisabeth ruff —black silk, lined with sky-blue satin—wore directly under the ohm a small paper on which waa marked the prioe—sl "25. At Bannavie, the pariah schoolmas ter, out of cariosity, put the qucation hi tbe scholar*, "What ia nothing? A piii>fi ensued, until is arrant* whose proclivities for earning n penny wem well known among his school fellows, got up and replied, '* It's when a man aaka you to hold his home and just say* thank ye." The firm em of Martinleowtr, Minn., denonnee "tin practice of paying county oOmr extravagant salanes to enable tbiß to pat on style and piay croquet at the expeime of the county/* If county officials would confine them - wires to the bannlesa pastime of cro quet, there would be leas need for the extravagant salaries. An English paper relates the follow ing curioua incident: "It is now eleven warn sinee a live bee got into—- the ear of Mr. Reed, the baker of the Woburn work-bonae. A few days since, when his ear was syringed, extraordi oatt to relate, forth own® • in M perfect a atate aa when alive, even to the wings, the wax of the ear having preserved it from decay." A Justice of Guthrie county, lowa, decided in the case of a citaaen who brought suit against his daughter's lover for ejecting him from his own parlor one Sunday night, that courting is a neoeeaitv, and must not be inter rupted, therefore the law. of low. will • hold that a parent baa ho legal right in a room where courting ia afoot; and so the defendant was diacharged and the plaintiff had to pay the costs. The new Trinity College buildings at Hartford are to consist of four quad rangles, and they will oontain within them nearly four acres f ground. The plans contemplate furnishing accommo dation for three hundred students, though at first dormitories for only one hundred and fifty will be erected. The plans have been prepared by a London architect, and the architecture is to be the early English which flourished in the thirteenth century. A gentleman cab driver, Mr. Sack ville Gwvnne. has recently died in Liverpool. He was the son of OoL G wynne, and was connected with an old Carmathenahire family. Owing to family quarrels be voluntarily exuea himself some time since and became a regular cab driver. He was liked by liis associates, but treated strangers with reserve. He died at the age of seventy-three, but almost to the last was to be seen on the cab box. A suit is about to be brought in Indi ana to teat the question whether the statute forbiding persona with a visible mixture of negro Wood to marry white ia or is not in oonfliet with the Civil Rights law and reeent constitutional amendments. The suit e in behalf of Edward Brown of Indianapqlis, con victed last spring of marrying a white woman, and sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. The result will be looked for with interest, as there are several other States in which a similar law exists, and some in which it ia en forced. _____ To Lara Aoaw, —A Naples paper relates the following: A enstom-house guard was taken to the hospital of Oon ocehia, and, as death was supposed soon after to have occurred, he was laid in the mortuary chamber by the aide of others who had dieJ of the cholera. A few hours after he reeovmd, and to bis surprise and dismay, realised his posi tion. He had strength' enough to shout and make himself heard, and, on being properly attended to, recovered so far that be has since presented hin sslf to hie oosuaandfr,
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