Mj Heart's (arrier-IKne. MJr hart'* 4 raitirtek> vo f From oat my breort I art it frer. To wing a owift. nnerriiiß flight. O Svrort, to thee ! I Villi Rim. rare prreciwiee rtii Uiy rtoap. Soma myrtio rtrwun. togrt of love P Hi*e, tender Heart; nor wailing My carrier Jove. Lo! t thy window-oill hi* flight la .tared; h.'a weary, giv* hiui rest; Thoat fcnow'at where lirth by day and night Hia fragrant iiret. Ope the awl'a caoetnent. take htm lioaie With fond rare** and grar-iotn. word; JOT, peace, reran* .Miit.'iit, will come With Uiat faiVbtnl. —Part. Hint. Thou Art Mine. Thou art mine, thou hart giren thy word; Cloee, chiee iu my arm. Thou art cUugiug ; Alone for my ear thou art aingtng A aong which no stranger hath heard; Hut afar front me vet. like a bird. Thy aonl. in some region unstirred. On its myvtical circle ts winging. Thou art mute. I hare made thee mine own ; Henceforth we are mingled fore vet ; But in vain, all iu vaut. 1 etsleavor - Though round thee my garlands are thrown. And thou rieldeat thy tip* and thy aoue— TV matter the gpetl that alone My hold tin thy brtng can sever. Thou art mine, thou hast coca* unto me! But tlty eoul, wheu I autre to be near it— The innertuort fold of thy spun - la as far from uiy graqv is as free. As the stars from the mountain tope tont him, and finally, es.he recognized the place and missed Janet, with whom Wynn and his sister had withdrawn, his fea tures assumed a ludicrons mixture of ' bravado and consternation, visibly heightened as 2 approached him. In- 1 timidution, though, was uot my sole object. I spoke to him in a tone audible 1 to himself only. " You are foiled with your own weap ons, Tufts," said L " There are several of us who know yon ; I hnve no per- ' sonal grudge against you, and if yon • are discreet—this return to yonr aative State scarcely looks like it—yon will not delay to make the distance between ' yourself and the State Prison wider than it is now. You have not exposed i yourself to-night, but you have put it in onr power to expose yon at a mo ment's warning." He scrutinized my features rapidly ; I preraitted it a moment, and then ' walked away. He exchanged a few sentences with Mrs. Leffingweli, and ' then approaching the audience, assured , tliem that it was not his fault if an en- j tertainment different from that laid 1 down in the programme had been offer- 1 ed them this-evening. That he hoped to meet them again to-morrow evening, 1 when he would resume the subject, ' and, he trusted, oouvinoe the most ' skeptical that neither himself nor Mrs. Leffingweli urged claims of any kind wbioh they were unable satisfactorily to establish. I doubted if they would let him go, bat they did, I presume on account of thepreeence of Mrs. Leffiragwell. The next morning the Leffingwells i were gone. Tliey had taken the mid night train down. If they waited they might have had Wynn's company, for he went to Boston in the morning train. As he had arranged previously to go at this time, and as his usual stopping place was the lievere House, the drama of the preceding evening did not probably influence him in these cir cumstances, but it may have furnished THE CENTRE REPORTER. the motive which prompted him to in quire of the clerk if Mr. I'attl Williams were among the guest*, ami the reply being afllrutative, it may have tuditcei) htm to search out that gentleman. The result was the confirmation in ea.-ih particular of the items elicited from Tuft*. Janet Ware waa the daughter of Mr. Williams' only sister, who hail married, and with her husband removed to Illt uoia. Their sole child was Janet, and when she had attained her twelfth year lioth her pareuta fell victims to that terrible scourge, cholera. A neighbor had taken home the child, and written to Mr. Williams a letter which had never reached its destination. A year afterward Mr. and Mr*. Letting well, ou a tour through the Western States, had accidentally euoouutercd Janet, and dis covered in her such a susceptibility to the odic influence, so termed by 'Mr. Leffingweli, as to make her a verv de sirable acquisition. She was tirniti and easily wrought upon, and the myth of kinship, invented on the spur of the moment, had been overpowering. The child had s tolerably hard disci liliue, though it might have been worse, 'or the six mouths and more that she had been wandering about, good care hail been token that she should find no opportunity of escape, and entire seclu sion, except when under the eye of Mr. and Mrs. Leffingweli, secured to her at least a degree of immunity from had iufiueueea. Mra. Williams was induced to accom pany Wynn an his return to Epping ; and when she saw Janet, who bore her mother's nam*, her strong resemblanoe to that mother was convincing proof that her sister's child was before Lim. I have since seen a full length por trait by Sully of Mrs. Ware before her marriage. I should unhesitatiugly have pronounced it an incomparable iikeue*a of Janet, or, as she is now, Mra. Wynn. There were just the same large, shadowy, violet eyes, fringed with lashes of uncommon length and richness ; the some low, pearly brow and profuse brown, waving hair, with golden lights ou it; the same faint tinge on tne cheek, jnst like the inside of s sea shell; the same curve of the bright red lip ; the same poise of the head on the white, slender neck. A lit tle sad, I should say, the face is, bnt Elinor, Wyun's sister, now my wife, affirms that Janet is as cheerful a little sprite us ever gladdened a man's hearth stone. A Chapter on Ojster*. The oyster, when spawning does not cast its egg-i like other flab, but dis solves, as it were, a part of its own body, which jiasscs off in long, slender threads, as fine as a spider's web, njxra which are congregated millions of little eggs, not visible to the naked eye, bnt which, when put under a powerful magnifying glass, astonish the beholder by their number. It is estimated that about seventy per cent, of the spawn is destroyed by fish, and about ten per cent, from otLer causes, leaving twenty ?r cent, to find their way into market, hese little seed cling to whatever they touch, generally old oysters ; and the many little sheila one often sees clinging to large oyster* are bnt the growth of these seeds. When oyster* have sjiawned in a clear space, and free from fish enemies, their growth is very rapid until they attain the size of *s quarter of a dollar, and it is at this period of their existence that the oys torinen take them for transplanting. The shells are very thiu, and the inside meat scarcely larger than a shirt-bnt toti, and having the rest of the shell filled with a milky fluid, which, in time, forma the body of the fish. Oys ter*. after they are transplanted, are, with a few exceptions, not lit to est under three years. It might be sup posed that the oyster, with its hard shell, was free from danger, bnt snch is not the ease. He has two deadly ene mies—the star-fish and the borer. TTie former will fasten an the month of an oyster, and in a short time snck the life oat of him. The other, with hia lit tle saw and gimlet bill, bores throngh hia shell, and, onoe through, the oyster ia soon destroyed. Anecdote of Professor Suell. An Amherst correspondent of the St. Louis Journal tells the following little story : Hjieaking of finanoes reminds me ol a capital storr they tell of Pro fessor Suell. Snell Las been professor of mathematics in Amherst College from time immemorial. He is nearly as old as Methuselah was when he bnilt the ark, and I jiresmno he knows more about arks new than Methuselah did. BnelJ, in common with the other in structors, drew a very small salary— -8800 a year, I believe." After the war the wealth begin to rj!l ia upon Am herst College. This man gave fI.'iO.OOO, that man another $50,000, and so on till the coffers were filled to overflowing. Then the college trustees oouclnded to raise the salaries of the professors, and from SBOO they put it to $2,500 per an num. Hnell was sitting in his study when his wife eome in to announce the good news. He was poring over a well thumbed mathematical treatise. " Eb enezer !" said she, "what do you think? They've done it!" " Done it I" said he, "done what? who?" "Why, the trustees ! They've raised your salary to $2,500 a year !" Hnell's face became radiarft. He threw down his book, jumped up and hugged hia wife. " Thank God, Elmira 1" said he, " now we can have a codfish 1" Present But). Tlio wsy to make easy times is as clear as daylight. Let every man or woman who owes money pav it at once, if it is possible. Be willing to make a sacrifice in order to meet promptly all your engagements. Htop grumbling at the fault* or mis takes of others, and attend faithfully to your own affairs. Deal fairly, leniently, and cheerfully with all per-ona who owo yoti or are in [>ecuniary trouble. If you nre out of debt, thank the Lord ; and then go aronnd among vonr friends, snd enemies too, if you have them, and render them all the assis tance in vour power. Don't Loard yonr money ; bnt loan it or use it to relieve the needy, on the same principle as you would give bread to the needy in a day of famine. Do what you can in every way to ro lievo pecuniary distress, to check the current of financial embarrassments and restore pnblic confidence. If you nre a bank officer or director, don't be cross a minute. Smile, as a Christian duty, from morning till night. Give nn encouraging word, if possible, to all, and by all means strain every nerve to help all who need it. Touched his Heart. One of the things yon read of recent ly occurred in Wilmington, Del. A man was detected harrying away from a batcher's stall with a steak which be had stolen under his coat. A police man followed him to his home, and jieeping through the window, saw him give the steak to his children, who de voured it raw. Upon report of this being made to the butcher, his bosom so glowed with benevolent smypathy, that instead of prosecuting, he sent the starving family a large basket of meat and a little cash to buy wood to oook it. CENTRE HALL. CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1L 1873. Tbe Transits of Venus. th* t'rfluill of luff of timet lot|Mr lauer tr itltfts all) . The history < the transits of Venus is not without its interest. When Kejt ler, in I*VJ7. had completed the " Itu doljiliine Tatdca" t ltudol|*h 11. Iteiug Kuijx-ror of Bohemia), he was iu a bet ter poaitiou to calculate the motions of the jilauets. His first iiuportaut dis covery was that Venus wotfld traverse the suu'a disc ou December ti, Iffll, This, in n little tract, he published to the world in His ealeulatious were that the ingress would take place at sunset, (lassendi, n Preueli astron omer, doubting the accuracy of Kej ler's calculations, hegau hia watch on the 4th, aud continued it to the ?th. Both he ami Kepler were unsuccessful. The calculations were only amiroxi uiately true. It is now kuowu that tiie transit occurred duriug the uight of December 6, lfifil. His calculations ! were, therefore, correct. The next trailsit of Venus (the first actually observed), took place Novem j her 2L ltitU. Kepler had not foreseen it. He had said that after ItKU none would take place till 17tU. But far off iu England, where court and parliament were engaged iu a quarrel that finally led to civil war, tLere was a bov of nineteen who bad got hold of the Ru dolphiae Tables. Jeremiah Horrocks, of lioule, a rural village fifteen miles fiorn Liverpool, discovered, as he thought, an error in Kepler's prt-duv t tivin, and set himself at work to verify his suspicion. The table* indicated that on the apjiroaching 24th of Novem* ' lier the plauet would cross the heavens a little below the sun. By some older table# it was predicted that this would occur above the sun. The thought struck the boy that the mean of the two reeulta would show Veuus actually on the sun. Further calculations con ! firmed his hopes. A transit upon which no human eyes had ever looked, and which the great astronomer of the sge had pustpoued till four generations st least should have passed away, was to occur within ten days. Horrocks had not the means of making his discovery known, save to an amateur astronomer, William Crabtree, a neighbor aud friend. Both the young men prepared to watch for the phenomenon—the one at Hoole, the other at ltrougbton. Hor rocks had watched (23d) to give wide margin for allowance of er ror*. Nothing spj>earod. Stiudav came and he resumed Lis gaze. liut Le was a religious man, and to be nltsent from ehtireL services on tbe Lord's dav, even to make a discovery that would benefit in fntnre time millions of his race, was to him a sin. He therefore left hi* telescope snd screen, and went to church. As soon as he was again at leisure—that is at one-quarter past three in the afternoon—he resumed his labor*. Shortly the planet appeared like a black globe upon the sou a disc and moved across it from cast to west. Here hia owu account of the phenome non; "At this tirno an opening in the clonda, which rendered the sun distinct ly visible, seemed aa if Divine Provi dence, encouraged my aspirations, when O most gratifying spectacle ! the objest of so many earnest wishes, I perceived a new spot of unusual magnitude and of a perfectly round form that kad just wholly entered upon the left limL of the ann, so that the margin of the sun and spot coincided with each other, forming the angle of contact." Owing to the near approach of sunset, Hor rocks was unable to observe the transit longer than half an hour. Bnt enough; be had sf en it, followed it, measured and transcribed it, snd had made hia name immortal. Crabtree, on the contrary, had been watching hia screen in the darkened room daring the whole day. I'pto nearly evening the sun had leen ob scured by thick clonds, without a break since the morning, snd the weary watcher, well-nigh hopeless, was about giving up in despair, when, jnst before sunset, as if a veil had been drawn aside from the heavens, the face of the great luminary, with the planet crawling over it, was jilsinly depicted on the screen. Tbe jonng astronomer was entranced. He lost sight of everything—measure ments, time, drawing and color*—in his extremity •( delight But the vision, though it was only momentary, re mained so clear npon his mind tfiat he was able afterwards to project a correct diagram from the memory. One hundred and twenty-two years brought the world to June 5, 1761, and thousands of eager faces iu mazy parts of Europe and Asia were gazing on ths second recognized transit of Venus across the sun. Hslley had now sug gested that, by accnrate observations at distant places, the solar parallax lx ascertained. For reasons which have ever been unaccountable the whole af fair was a failure. Observations did not coincide nor did observers agree, and it has long been fortunate for man kind that the results derived from an other transit have been approximately reliable. Of the extensive preparations made for observing the last transit jnst al luded to, we have already sjioken. On June 3, 176", there were on the watch better men, and in nse more perfect in struments. Cook, the celebrated eir cnianavigntor, who afterwards lost his life at Otaheite, mode the events of the Sandwich Islands observations known to the world by his published "Voy ages." The rejKirta of the French Acad-, emy of Sciences, the " memoirs" of what waa done by the Italian astron omers, and jiajier* furnished by saratui at Madrid and St. Petersbnrgh, have all lieen before the world lor a oentnry, aud the observations they record were long looked upon aa trustworthy. They were, in fact, discussed by all tbe prin cipal mathematicians in Europe, and Lalando collected and published them as a whole in a treatise on the subject. The results of these observations were, on the whole, accordant. In 1824, Encke, a celebrated German astronomer, published two elaborate treatises, scrutinizing the observations both of 1761 and 1769. Hia definite re sult for the solar jiarallax waa 8" .578. This value was accepted. For nearly half a century it has been taken as the best data for the sun's distance from the earth. Astronomical works and philosophical lectures, pojmlar treatises and school-books, sermons from the pnlpit and parental teachings at the fireside, have all taken the fact as fixed that the sun is distant from the earth ninety-five millions of miles. Let us now return to the necessity of jierfect observations l>eing made on the approaching transits of Vonna in 1874 and 1882. Dr. Hooker, in his address to the British Association four years ago, remarked that " while fnlly ad mitting, and prondly, as every scien tific man ouglit, that astronomy is the most oertain in its methods snd reaults of all sciences, that she lias called forth some of the highest efforts of the intel lect, and that her results far transcend in grandeur those of any other science. I tLink we may hesitate before wo 1 .orefore admit her queenship, her per fect : on, or her sole claims to interpre tation and to prophecy. No science is realiy perfect; certainly not that whioh lately erred two millions of miles in so fundamental a datum as the earth's dis tance from the sun." No doubt similar views aro held by others, and the foot cannot be denied that astronomer* are now generally agreed that the hitherto received value of the MUII'M distance ought to be eon- j siderebly modified. 'Due theories of aalrououiy, however, are leaa in fault than the luoorrectuea* of heavenly ob nervation*, whenever such a mistake ia wade. That errors are almost unavoida ble—even with the utmost care, when the gaze is directed into the star-depths . - will IH> manifest, if the reader will reuieuitier that four uiiliioua of miles of the sun's distance from the earth are represented by the engular measure ment of three-touths of a second of an an-, or tbe apparent breadth of a hu man hair one hundred aud twenty-five feet distant. No solar phenomenon haa ever t>eeu awaited with snch interest as is that which is to oocur December H, 1874. If the observstious which will lie made upon this transit of Venus should he successful; or, iu other words, if the actual distance of the sun from the earth be accurately saoertaiued, it will be the uoblest triumph whieh the hu man mind lias ever achieved in the do main of physical science. Cuba from Ike I'ulpil. Itev. Henry Ward Beeoher, in a ser mon, said of the Yirgiuiua matter : " There is no question of the horrible uature of tbe outrage. Had it been done in tiie heat of battle it would have been horrible, but it was coolly, de liberately infamous. It was a brnte lore for blood. It is as bad a thing as has happened iu my day. If such tilings are to be j>ermitted, then the devil ia stronger on earth than Christ." Mr. Beecber added: "Deeply as I nymjmthize with this cause, ana 1 have had ray heart in it since its inception, still I do not thiuk that our Uovrrniueul should l>e driven into action by the dis organized clamor of the people. It is bonnd to act with resjieet to the rela tions of this country with every other country. It should decree sucli wiae things tkst it shall be ooiMderad a leader among nations. We most not seek th gratification of a moment's anger. Bjiam haa been the victor and the victim of agea. It is a land full of noble influences and of debasing pas sions, This great nation is now herself seeking to rise. If, now, wc can punish the monsters of Cuba in snch away as to strengthen the hands of ths rejmbii cans in Bjiain, let na do it. But if we find thrt onr flog has been insulted in Cubs, and the re*j*>n*ible Spanish Gov ernment cannot or will not pnt a stop to such alximination, then let the hand of justice fall. Let it so fall as to give safety, knowledge, and freedom to the long-suffering island , but let it not In to pasatou, nor in the mad riot of an excited people. Whatever is done, let it be doue with deliberation, and with out cruelty. May it be for America to quench the Area of war, not to kindle them. If Ood has put into Oolumbta'a hand the bitter medicine for the nationa, may it not be administered with wrath, fury, and revenge." Something like Sport* We have just had an exciting chase after three bears, aay* the Kenovo, Pa., UecurtL Rev. Bell first came tu con tact with them on what is called the " Bunk," near Gtaxlman's mill, when he immediately gave the alarm, and the neighboring people—mm. women, and children—with guns and dogs, gava rapid chase. The first and largest bear waa shot while in the act of demolishing several of the dog*. Then followed the most exciting time imaginable. The second bear was surrounded in the creek, nearly apposite the parsonage, and a number of *hoU were fired in quick sucowasi.in, but without effect, when Mr. Goodman, with dob in hand, and one of hia dogs, waded in and met the bear in mid-water, and the battle commenced in earnest Shrieks of ter ror went np from the women and child ren u the bauk; guns were exploded in mid-air ; hardy lumbermen trembled for tbe fate of the man and dog in the water, while the erowrd on the bank with one accord gave directions aa to where to hit the bear next, Ac. A Mr. Campbell then rushed to the reacue, and with one shot from his rifle put an end to the strife, and bruin was dragged to the shore. The two bcara now lay dead npon the bank, and the excited and Urror-strickcn crowd gathered around, each with CIUIM ami stones ready to renew the fight should the dead come to life. The Uiirtl boar ia still at large, bnt ia destined to meet a similar fate. At Olcona, back of Henry Anderson's residence, one Saturday re cently, eight beam emerged from the woods. Chase was made by Mr. Yergrr and another gentleman, who succeeded in killing two of them and mortally wounding a third. The mountains are now alive with excited hunter*, and the chances of the remaining bcara are slim. Opinion of an Old Scz Bog. Admiral Porter has been giving his views on the Cuban question. We quote : " If our flag," said he, " doesn't pro tect the dock it waves over, we hail bet ter haul it iu." " After all," said he, " our guns are more resjieeted than our flag, and if A disposition to use tliem n little more was shown it might lie bet ter for the flag." Spain is now crippled snd weak, ana is therefore to lie pitied," said he, "and it wouldn't be creditable to na to force a war upon her, bnt the princijilo for which, under eireurn stances infinitely more hazardous, we went to war in 181'2 must bo maintain ed. Spain, moreover, is now republi can, and President Castelar is onr friend, from whom wo may cxjiect a vigorous effort toward ample reitera tion." The Admiral furthermore thinks that the Home Government of Spain will be terribly shocked by this news from Cuba, lie exjiressed himself as well satisfied that otir Government will exhaust every measure proper in the case, and felt that a proper degree of diplomatic courtesy should and would be observed in the ease, whatever the ultimnte designs of the Washington au thorities msy lie. " A proper showing of politeness," said he, •• is always com mendable, even as a preliminary to the operation of knocking a man down." New Pavement. A new street pavement has l>een*tried in Han Francisco. It is called " hydro carliolized brick," and is made of bricks of a soft, jKirona nature, which are boiled in coal tar, which renders them tough and nearly as hard as granite. A road-bed ia made by leveling the sand and pocking it with water. A layer of prejiaretl brink is then laid flatwise, each brick being dipped in boiling tar as it is put down. This is overlaid by a second course of prepared brick placed close together edgewise, each brick dipped as before. The intersticeu are then filled with boiling tar, and the whole covered with a thin layer of screened gravel. The oust is abont thirty-six or thirty-seven cents per square foot. WORK DEMAXDKD.—A mass meeting of working men was held at Tammany Hall, New York, to demand work for the unemployed laborers and mechanics on the public works of this city. There were about 800 present, and it was in sisted that work by the city should be given the poor. The haw of Lmrirttf, At the meeting of the American Board Health Association, a paper was read by Dr. Nathan Allen, of Lowell, Mas* , ti|Hn what he denominated the "Law of longevity." In this essay some sew i aud, if true, wry important views were presented. This gentleman has devoted special atU-utiou for many yean to physiology in its bearings upon the the changes and increase of population, ! and is the author of several pamphlets IIJH.II this and kindred subjects, which have attracted much attention. He maintains that nature has natab- ■ luhed a great law of increase, which applies uot only to the human raor, but Kevaila with modified conditions roughont the whole animal and vege ' table kingdom. Thia law is baaed in physiology upon the perfectionism of ! structure auu harmony of funotioii, or, iu other words, that every organ in ths system should be perfect iu ita struc- , turu, and that all should perform fully their respective functions in harmony 1 with cecfi other. I'pon this same basis 1 or foundation Dr. Alieu places the law of longevity, and in the pejer referred to adduced many striking facts aud ar gument* in ita favor, of which we can give only a brief syuopaia. The exist ence of sixth s law is supported by all the well-known truths in Physiology and Pathology. Ewnr change from a normal to an abnormal state, or in the prevention and cure of disease, affords i evidence of suoh a law. The prerequisite* to, or ueccaaary conditions of longevity, Dr. Allen dis cussed under three heads first, sound constitution; second, laws of inheri tance, and third, obedience to the laws of hygiene. In order to secure good health and king life, a sound and well balaueed physical organisation ia found indispensable. But where is onr guide or standard to test this soundness or balance ? We have only approximations towards this standard, aud a great diversity of opinions respecting them, because there is no unt vernal-type or perfect model upon winch to base our judgments. In some rcsjiects the human body, in its normal state, may be compared to a perfect machine mode of many com plicated parte. How different the working or running of snch a machine from that of oor imperfectly construct ed and unequally .halaaoed? The one seldom needs repairs ; the other, fre quently. It is so in reference to the body. Whenever a certain organ or class of organs are relatively too large or too small, or are exercised too much or uot enough, causing a want of har mony iu their action, there must be greater liability to disease. How often it Usppans that some slight derange ment or trifling weakness operates as an entering \ edge to the most serious and dkngcrous diseases ? Hence the imjHirtanca of a souhi and well balanced constitutscm, and tbe nearer the approximation can be made to it the bet tec. This is uidi*pnaable, not only for good health, bnt for long life. But snch a constitution can be secured only from long-lived ancestry. This acciinls with nniversal exj>erteuee, as well as witli all the principle* of physi ology. If we apply the well-known Li* , that " like begrts like," to the healthiest families found, and observe it through several generations, the re sult will be, that we obtain very sonud and healthy constitution*. Longevity ia not dependent so mnch ujHn climate or food or employment aa npou the phTsteal •rgamxation itself. It is true these have a powerful infln coce ujn health, bnt th< y are second ary ageuta. The general law exists in the body, and not outside. The laws of inheritance are a part of it; so are the pnnoiplcs of hygiene. It is not a mere th<-ory or siieculative hypothesis, bnt csn he easily comprehended aud applied. There is one place where it can be made of incalculable value, via., in the matter of life insnrance. It fur nishes the medical examiner a standard of organisation of which tbe constitu tion of all persons Applying for life in surance oan be compared, enabling him to judge very correctly what are the de viations from the normal standard ; then, what are the liabilities to disease, and what are the probabilities of long life? It poiuts out the true sources and means of health and lite, aud that there is no chance or mystery in tliem. It show* that all the changes that oocur in the human system are governed ly law ; that disease of whatever charac ter, or wherever found, ia a violation of law. and all treatment, whether ]ro vided by Nature or not, must lie viewed as an agent to repair the injury. To describe all Uie various ways in which this law of longevity may bo practically applied, would require, said the writer, a volume. The closing paragraph of this patter waa aa follows : It expounds oorn-ctir the great laws of inheritance which furnish the groundwork—the fircroquisite, for good health and long ife. It teaches the absolute necessity in the ontset of poaaeaaing a sound constitution—s well-balanced organiza tion. It shown the relation and im portance which human agency holds in (tropogating a sound and healthy stock, t presents constantly before us for imitation that perfect standard and ira- So in which man was created, together th an emlmdimcnt of those laws and conditions a ith which we mnat comply in order to soenrn the greatest amount of happiness and the longest duration of life. It teaches every Individual more clearly what are the peculiarities and weaknesses of his own constitution, as well as what are his particular dan gers or lisbilities to disease. It ia this exact, this definite and personal knowl edge that may be tnrned to the greatest account in the preservation of health. If every individual could thus be made j thoroughly acquainted with his own Ehysioiogy, together with the laws of ygiene in his own -ease, we should soon see a moat surprising diminution of sickness as well an of earlv mor Ulity. Newspapers. Their vahie is bv no means appre ciated, but the rapidity with which peo ple are waking up to their necessity and usefulness is one of the significant signs of the times. Few families are now content without their news|aj>er. The county newspaj>er is eagerly sought and ita contents a* eagerly devoured. Newsjwpeni are also valuable to ma terial prosperity. Thev advertise the village, oounty, or locality. Tliey spread before the reader a map on which may be traocd character, design and progress. If a stranger calls at a hotel he first inquires for the village newspaper • if a friend oomea from a distance, tlio very next tiling after family greetiug, he inquires for your village or county paj>er, aud you feel discumfltted if yon are unable to find a late copy, and oonfotinded if you are compelled to say you do uot take it Newspapers are just as necessary to fit a man for his true position in life as food or raiment. Show us a ragged, barefooted boy rather than an ignorant one. His head will oover his feet in after life if he is well supplied with newspapers. Show us the child who is eager for newpapern. He will make hia mark in the world if you gratify that desire for knowledge. Other things being equal, it is a rule that never fails. Give your children newspapers. Terms: $2.00 a ITear, in Advance. Ibe Spanish Warfare. Hon. H. H. Cos, in hia address to the Cuban meeting, said: * This question ia one wbioh concerns onr Government and flag, it does uot go to the enfranchisement of Cube. That is incidental aud nonsequential. It has in it none of the -l-ments of 1 symjmthv. What, then, is the repara tion ? Is the loss of the vessel only to - lie made good ? Are tke lives of the butnhsr ilnrriel and kia mob of volun teer* to Im- demauded 7 Will that re store the life of Fry ur of Hyan or the men who were sacred under our flag? Is not tin remedy one which reaches farther? Is our flag nothing ? Nothing to commerce ? Is it wilti dish-rag, or an emblem of power 7 This inquiry ia one that turns u back to the jieculiar rule of Hpain in Cubs. The power of Hpein has been for a oeutury dying on our continent; but aa she has retreated from the hemisphere her skirls have been l>edragged and clogged with gore. The last massacre ia bnt the horrible and damnable iteration of thousands of other butcheries. Since October, IMSB, when the insurrection began, Spain has waged relentless war. In we had tin- record then of 107,000 Hpaniah troops sent out to conquer l,o00.()00 people. There were infantry, cavalry, artillery, engineer*, marine*, and vol unteers, not to *|>eak of fifty vessels of war with over 2UO guns, snd since then probably aa many troops more. In such s warfare, so extensive and prolonged, one might have supposed that tbe law* of moderation aud humanity, aa laid dewn by Vsttel for such case*, would obtain. ' liut it has been a war witnout pity, without remorse. Rapac ity and d*spoUsm, confiscation and butchery, have added daily significance to the flag of Snain, which—red and yellow—is s river of blood between mar gins of gold. There are no prisoners iu thia war. Whether taken on see or land, death—sudden and horrible— death with mutilation, death without even the consolations of religion to tke condemned. These volunteer fiends would not even allow the Bishop sent from Hpain to land at Havana, because he believed in giving to the dying patriot the holy sacrament. Look at this book of blood which 1 bold ia my hand—" Martyrs of Liberty in Cobs !' See the number* of those executed from 1877 Christian 6,425,137 Pixynyttkml 86,069.6'JH Kpincoi*), Protestant 36,514.549 F.vangelical 2.301.650 Friend* 8.939.'•60 Jewirtt 5,155.234 Lutherau..., 14.t17.T4T Methodist 69.854,131 Misrellslisoii* 135,650 Moravian ( I'nilas I'ralrum) 709.100 Monna.i 656.760 Now Jeranalcni (Hwedeuborgian) .. M 69.700 Presbyterian (reenter)....' 47.*28,733 Prealivtcnan (Other). 5.436.524 Reformed Church in America 10,359.256 Reformed Church in United Slate*. 5.775,215 Roman Catholic 60,9*5.566 Second Advent........ . 806,240 Shaker *6.900 Snlritnaltet 100.150 Unitarian 6.2*2,675 Uuited brethren iu Christ 1.819.010 Uuiverralirt 5,692,325 Unknown (Loos! Missions') 697,*00 Unknown (Union) 966,295 TEACHERS' SALARIES.—New York city has fixed the maximum annual salary of the male principals of grammar schools at $3,000, of male vice-principals at $2,500, of male first assistants at $2,000, and of other mole assistants at SI,OOO. it is also provided that the maximum salary of female principals shall be $2,- 000; of female vice-principals, $1,500; of female first assistants (if instructing classes of a particular grade), SI,OOO, und of otlierfemoleassistanta, an amount ranging from SSOO to SBOO. It is proposed to abolish the office of Railroad Commissioner in Vermont, An Exciting Beer Hunt. A Hraffl. Wttb a WwwwOae Swk tei ih< W.I.I— Ta. Hum otrlaa tor tela Cnrlcy Pete Quick, noted a* s bun tot among a family of famons banters, had an exciting adventure with e wounded buck in llig Log Tavern Pood, Peon., He wee on e runway, and an Immense five prong back ran into the potd, near where he stood. Quick jumped into his boat, sad followed the deer, dis charging both barrels of hie rifle at the animal. He aaya he " bit H bad," bat it kept right on. Bedounling hie ef fort*, be sent bis beet alongside the deer. It had got far ont into the pond, which at that spot ia half a mile wide, and very deep. Quick bad dropped his rifle in the bottom of the bcuL without reloading. He thonght the buck waa so bsdlv wonndod that be could dis patch it with bis knife. He Mixed it by one of He boras and tried to bold it, b'nt the deer plunged at the same time, and the buna broke off, throwing the banter backward, and almost capsning the boat. Regaining hie equilibrium, Quick again seized the deer by the bora*. The buck whirlrd suddenly and polled Quick ont of the boat. He landed squarely on the deer's back, still retaining kis hold on its horns. He waa in a perilous po sition, a long way from land, and his boat lying bottom aide up. He kaew from experience the danger of a hand to-band contest with a wounded deer, on land or water. If ha oonld hold his position on the deer's back, he hoped to be carried safely ashore. But the deer, by a sudden docking of his bead, threw the hunter over his bead in front of him, and the next instant struck him with bis fore feet. Quick saw that be must fight for kis life. Drawing his knife be closed with the new frantic an imal. He plunged the knife into the deer's neck twice, and then it slipped from bis band and sank, leaving him defenceless. The deer meantime had not remitted in the least his mode of warfare, end Quick's clothing was almost entirely stripped from him. Finding that he stood no possible chance with the bock, he dove from ita eight, and coming np some distance off, made for the nearest shore. The deer did not follow, bat took the shore at another point and lost no time in leaving Quick and the pood far behind bins. The banter found bun self in a most pitiable plight. He was nearly naked and benumbed with cold. Moreover, be was on the side of the pond opposite bis cabin, and was obliged to walk half way round,throagh the nndcrbrush, before he could reach it. His wounds were painful, but not serious The book was found deed the next day a quarter of a mile away. Many Cakeus Arrested. When the City of New York arrived et Havana, says s correspondent, a por tion of ber passengers were arrested immediately ou landing. Among those thus arrested was a niece of Aidams who was searched for letters supposed I to be concealed on her person. Correal-I poodence implicating a score of the i principal Cuban families in the island . was found. No attempt has apparently ' been made to conceal the plans intend ed to be conveyed in cypher. The names and plans of the conspirators ; were all found. An expressman named 1 Bambslier in Havana, who was in the { confidence of the Cubans, bad gone oa board to obtain similar criminal cor respondence and had also concealed a number of letters in his nnder-gar menta, but on coming np from the bold | to go ashore he sew what had been the fate of the other extemporised posi oarrier and endeavored to throw them overboard. Home lodged,howaver.in the guards, and were thus seen by the po lice. who rescued those that had fallen j in the water, and when Bambslier ap- i peared be was arrested and hurried awsy with the other prisoners to Fort Gaboon, which is a forties* correspond ing to the Mono Castle, at the other end of the town. He waa to have been shot the next morning, and the writer's informant had little donbt, so great was the feeling against the insurrectionists, tbat the order was carried ont. What especially embittered the Spaniards • against Bambslier was that be bad si- | ways been a conspirator, and bed only i I inat been released from the Isle of i Pi nee, where he had been confined the pest eighteen months for offences simi- j lar to tiiis last offence. The arrest of Bam holier and the Cu lts as who arrived on the City of Hew i York wsa the signal for the immediate , arrest of fortv of the principal Cuban citisens in Havana and vicinity who | were implicated by the captured corves pondence. The arrests were going on j up to the last hoar that the writer's in formant was in the city, and universal terror and confusion prevailed among ; the Cubans still left at largo. None: knew bow many names had been men tioned in the letters in the possession of the authorities. Flight was almost impossible, and any attempt wonld be a proof of guilt. Their only resource was to possess their souls in patience and await the fate that seemed certain. Woman as a Student. Mr*. Jui# O. Kwiaahelm takes rather a gloomy view of the 00-educ*tioa of the mk She say* that boy* and girls are now just a* much competitor* in the race for learning aa though they ! were admitted to the aame college halls, aa iu her opinion they ought to be; but the girls are at a tremendous dis advantage, and fall early in the race to till uutimely graves. The main reason of this disadvantage she finds in the fashionable dress of the day. She says: By means of oorset, band, or belt, her liver is divided into an upper and a lower section, the one foroed up to crowd the heart, lungs, and atomaoh ; the other down to find room, aa it can, where there is no room for it. Every vital organ is displaced or cram}>c.l. Blockades are established, by tight shoes, tight gloves, tight garters, tight corsets, or, still more murderous, tight skirt-bands; and there the blood must run by extra foroe of pumping, every time it passes from the ue&rt to the ex tremities or back. * * * To study in such a costume is to burn the candle at both ends, but the spirit of the age is upon her ; the ages to come press on her; study she must, and die she must. Wood in Salt Mines. It is said that in tho salt mines of Hungary and Poland the galleries are supported by wooden pillars, which last unimpaired for ages, in conscquenoe of their naving been impregkated with the salt. Pillars of brick and stone, used for the same purpose, crumble away in a short time by the decay of their mortar. It is also found that wooden piles driv- 1 en into the mud of salt marshes last for 1 an unlimited time, and the praetioe of dockiug timber by immersing it for some time in sea water after it has been seasoned, is geuerallv admitted to make i the timber more durable. External : causes of decay, such as dampness, may be made inoperative by the painting of the wood, but dry rot takes place irre- • spective of the presence of paint, and ■ seems to be due more to heat than to ! dampness. Possibly salt might be so ; used as to preserve wood from dry tofc, : while paint would protsct it from at- < mospheriu causes of decay, (354.483,581 '!. Hum #f interest, A Boton dtr H*Ad* d'lflcr advertises " financial crash tofilt." Tod oamntitk in lows hove sleeted fe male school superintendent*. Half the women who appear on thn streets of NaahvfHe wear mourning. Philadelphia'* red estate assessment 1 tbia year ftossda that of lad year by f, 189.200 drinks of liquor ead beer sold • in that city every twelve hours. J A Louisville gallant eel np with bis ■ girl until three "'clock in the morning, ' I sod the father swore oat a warrant tor trespass and bad him fined S2O. Somebody has found time to count up | the number of churches in Hew York city. There are 850 in all* valued at ; something over $48,000, JUO. A lady having married a Mr. Wheat l in Virginia, itS hoped thst her path , may be floury, and that abe may never , be thnmbefl by her husband. ) A girl si Lawrence, Meet., who loet ! her speech some time ego, has been frightened into the recovery of it by i the aipkMuao of a kfnssinc lamp. ' j Mm. Ltvwnaoce is oar authority for : ' saying that thousands of woman are [ i married to men for whom they don't 1 . cans a cupper, that they may get a 1 ' Michael BafHvant. the greet Illinois farmer, leal 1i),063 acres of corn by frost, end has only half s crop on 15,000 acres. He hs* discharged 150 farm la -1: borers. At Port land, Me., reeentte, a black smith, while paring a bone's hoof pre , paratory to shoeing him. found a cent imbedded in the hoof sad covered by ' the frog. & A ono-srmed man has jut been mar ried to a on vanned woman in Detroit; , J but we trust both will remember that thriee is be armed who bath bis quar rel jut. The Boston Ou Company knows a crick worth two of watering its stock. It charged a ritiun fit for gas con sumed at a time when ha hadn't a hunt er in bis bouse. 1 " James Mania," said a Sanaa* Jus tice, m be closed a cam, " yon have been convicted of hollering 'murder* when there was no murder, sad I fine i yon f." Hie reputation of a man is like bis shadow; it sometimes follows and some times precedes him; it is sometimes longer and sometimes shorter than his natural rise. The Clay county, Ohio, Begirter my that "yesterday the cold wind went whistling np the troasers of many a i loafer, asking what he had been doing all summer. • Mr. Davie, of California, found a box containing #IO,OOO in gold, and be be came so excited over it that he dropped deed. People should beware bow they find *40,000. The Milwauke papers sre talking about an unsuccessful merchant who went from Wisconsin to lUineta. They .my the hut State of that man was worse [1 than the first. 1 The squirrels of Contra Costa county, ij California, destroy, on an average, am i dollar's worth of grain per acta. The loesee of nineteen farmers this year aggregate g9,672. A little boy has been fairly driven from Daulmry school by the disgrace- 1 fa! penwcniML'u of the other scholars, who taunted him with the feet that his father had been a New York jury msfi. Over the shop-door of the batcher of „ so English village is a representing e man In a bl#k coat , brandishing n hatch and underneath ti inscription ; " John Smith kills pigs like bis father." In Indiau and Htinois one rides > hundreds of aaiiea through cornfields which have been bearing fifty buahela to the acre, year after year, without manure, for twenty years in succession. The noil seems inexhaustible. Speaking of hard times the Dayton (Ohio) Journal undertakes to show thst in that city of 89,800 inhabitant*, $2,- ' 300,000 is spent in whisky, malt liquors and tobacco, of which *1,000.000 goes • tor whisky, while only #462,000 is I spent for bread. ! Joseph Famdvand bis friend Charles : Dodge went to a' San Fraaeiso > theatre. Tbey went out to take a drink between the acta, when Podge suddenly became ! ill and died. Fanwdy seems to have j thought he would be seemed of poison ing his friend, and blew his brains out. Malone, of the Jackson G**A Book, has now tried his band at improving off the old couplet, "In Adaaa' fall," Ac. Malone aays : '• If it hadn't been for the rids of Adam We poor croatorc* woaMst a bad >m . Owins to Adam • very sinful manner. All suffer, and thal> what the matter with Hannah 1" The iiming Journal recommends the use of pulverized fuel in the manu facture of iron. It states thst the iron made in this manner will bear mater tensile strain when reheated ana rolled once than that which has been reheated and rolled three times by the ordinary process. Up to the Ist of October the receipts of grriu at Buffalo footed up 49,500,000 bushels, or about 7,(1©0,0 I X) bushels greater than last year at the same date; ' bat sinoe that time tbey have fallen off largely, and many vessels in Chicago, as well as canal boats in Buffalo, are already laying up for the winter for leek of freight at living prices. A horrible cam of murder and mutila tion at Ghaxepoot, India, has occurred. It appears that a woman, having out her step-son in piece*, roasted them, and served them up for her husband's supper. He, however, discovering a finger among the pieces,was so horrified to find it belonging to his infant sou, that on extracting a confession from his wife, he at ouee sent for the police and gave her into custody. It is said tbat in one of the early regimenta that went out in the late war, the father of one of the staff of ficers called upon the Colonel just be fore the regiment left, end requested that his son might be allowed to keep a cow during his term of'service, as he had been accustomed, from his boy hood, to drink a great deal of milk. The bard-hearted Colonel, however, said he wonld undertake to wean the calf. Gen. Ryan was a great ladies' man, and created a sensation while promen ading the avenue in "Washington, with his military cape, large Texan braid hat, long curling hair, Ac. He always carried a heavy cane, and was generally accompanied by an unusually large bloodhound, which was a terror to many pedestrians. He frequently had difficulties in the hotel lobbios, gener ally following up a discussion gf Cuban matters in that wqy. 1 ' In Japan every house mufftbfe decked with flowers on New-Year's day; and, to snpply the great demand, the shops are full of dwarf peach-trees, bearing doable blossoms, and growing in large china yasea and pots. The Japanese garden ers have a peculiar talent f< r raising dwarf plants and trees, and so general is the national fancy for such miniature products of vegetation, tbat the toy and fancy shops abound in very miante and delicate imitations of plants and flowers out out of colored paper. NO. 60.