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.
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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.
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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,