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 t<e.
As the pearl in the depths of the sea
From Utr, portionless ring that would wear it.
MARK TUFTS.
Ton years ago, I wan spending tlsc
summer in Epping—a quiet, pleasant
oountry town m Sew England.
One morning in the middle of July
I waa evolving a plan of action as J
stood by the window in the office of ray
friend Wynn, whose gnest I then was.
While I stood there an iadiYidual en
tered the office, whom in spite of mul-
Ufat "tous disguises, such as deed hair
and whisker*, falee teeth, and an as
sumed name, I at once recognized as
my own fellow-townsman, 'and as arrant
a scoundrel as it had ever been my lot
to encounter. He had an air of much
pretension, wore a large seal ring, a
showy breast-pin, and several crossings
of heavy gold chain, over a bright
patterned rest, all of whieh decorative
trumpery served the purpose of tarnish
to a very ugly picture. Lightening the
distinctness of every bad point. His
errand, to obtain the use of the town
hall for the delivery of a lecture on ani
mal magnetism, being speedily accom
plished, he took his leave.
" Wvnn," said I, as the door closed
upon him, "do yon remember Mark
Tufts, who was convicted of burglary
in Charleston, and who afterward es
caped from the State Prison
"Yes," answered Wynn; "and I
could not think of whom this man re
minds me; ye*, it is of Mark Tufts."
M lt is Tufts himself," I replied. " I
recognized him before he had uttered
three sentences. I came across the
room just now to look for the scar of a
wound on the left cheek, given him by
a companion in a drunken broil. The
mark is there. And I know that the
little finger and the first joint /ram the
one next it are missing irom the hand
which he oarriee in a sling, and which
he avers to have been hurt in a recent
railroad accident."
*' Pierron E. Leffingweli," was elab
orately engraved on the card with
which he had introduced himself. I
looked from the window; the man had
crowed the street and was standing on
the piazza of the Epping House.
Prenentiv he entered, and shorvly after
reappeared, accompanied by a showily
dressed woman and a young girl; in
the appearand ol the latter I remarked
pothing except peahapa extreme fragil
ity-
A programme indicated that at the
eloee of the lecture some interesting
demonstrations would lie exhibited.
Mrs. and Miss Louise Leffingweli, it
was stated, were both mediums, and
the former gifted with remarkable
powers of reading the future.
We decided at once to "assist" at
this prelection. The man's extreme
villainy ami sndacity made him inter
esting. Indeed, so entire bad been the
popnlar eonviction, in the trial to which
I have referred, of the man's deliberate,
vindictive malice, that there had been
felt a very general disappointment that
his sentence was not more severe.
Not a very large audience, of course,
was to be expected in a place like
Epping; but it was a pretty fair turn
out—several hundred*—and ihev were
mostly collected before Mrs. Leffiog
well and the young lady made their
appearance. On a platform at one side
of the ball were placed a table with
lights and several chairs. Mr. Leffing
well came in, arranged these, withdrew
again, and soon returned conducting
his assistants. The woman seated ht r
sctf is a bustling, important Wgv, ar
ranging and rearranging her dress.
The girl took her place quietly, without
raising her eyes, until the fading of a
window, which had not been properly
fastened : then she lifted them a mo
ment, with a startled, expectant look.
I observed the group closely, for I had
begun to grow interested in them.
The lee tare tu a tissue of traabv
plagiarism, through which what the
man wenld be at was not clearly percep
tible. It was evident, however, that he
had himself a sort of grotesque faith
in what he was trying to aay ; a kind of
trembling belief involved in hia diabol
ism. And this suggested to me a plan
for the solution of a query which had
entered my mind; how far, namely, that
slight young gill, sitting there with an
air of suob ntt*r •bstraetion, was a
voluntary eacotnpbVe of Mr. and Mrs.
Leffingweli. That they were well
matched admitted scarcely a doubt.
Not so the girl claimed by the Lef
tingwells as their daughter. She looked
at most fourteen, and might bo a year
or two younger. Her face waa too pale,
but the features were exquisite in out
line ; the brow low, with shadowy chest -
nnt hair ; the eyes, bine, were so large
and with iucli thick, long
lashes, that they seemed to make half
her face. There was an occasional slight
compression of the under lip that
showed her to be ill at ease. She wore
no ornaments.
Of counse l do not pretend in any
way to account for the phenomena I am
abont to describe. No theory that ever
came in my way has seemed to me to
bear adequate credentials. In most in
stances, too, which have been related
to me, I have felt myself compelled to
doubt facts and references. I will give
an unvarnished statement of occur
rences, premising only that I had pre
viously, and precisely when I had found
myself in a mood similar to that which
I Lave described as particularly belong
ing to me on this day, been able to ex
ert the influence to which have been
given the epititeis magnetic, odic and
the like, over some very refractory sub
jects.
At the close of Mr, Leffingwell's
declamatory farrago, he came to the
front of the platform antj proposed, for
the more satisfactory demonstration of
/lis science, to experiment on any one
or several among his auditors who
might solicit proof in their own persons.
A middle-aged man of solid aspect and
a boy of sixteen presented themselves.
Directing them to be seated in chairs
on the right of the staging, ttnd ob
serving that he would begin with the
elder individual, he took hia station
neifly opposite and commenced his
craft. .
I commenced too, and in earnest.
For about tiireo minutes, during winch
I felt my concent rat ive power—i know
no better name for it—growing stronger,
I pbrceived no outward token of suc
cess ; but then, these was perceptible
toning dovrn, u inhiiffeki smoldering of
the audacity of his look, bet me en
deavor to describe ruy own experience
at the time.
It seemed as if I projected a circle of
FUND. Kl'irrx. Ktlitor ntid IVopriotor,
VOL. VI.
influence extruding to att indefinite
distance from tbe man, and inclosing
him ss a centre. The circumference,
irregular at first, and wavering, it was
my effort to integrate, and then with a
steady, tidal pulsation to contract to
ward and aiouud the person I was en
deavoring to control. It was in my
favor that he, intent on his own pur
pose, was unaware of mine. I waa suc
ceeding—nearer and nearer came the
inclosing ware -I saw it become faintly
luminous, wlule points of lambent,
blueiah flame protected from it iuwurd ;
a needle of liglit glided toward his
hand—he rubbed it hastily—the next
• moment the fsuit blue circle, invisible
to all bnl myself, was contracted to a
i hazy, luminous, irregular centre. My
aim was accomplished; his eyelids
Quivered, then drooped, and with s
slow, audible rvopi ration, be sat hack
| in his chair, rigid and white.
I breathed freely then, and I became
aware that two persous were intently
watching me ; one was Wynn, whom 1
had taken into my confidence at the
outset ; with a glance he directed my
attention to my other observer, the
young girl on the platform. Her hands
were firmly clasped, her lips slightlv
apart, and her dilated eyes, fixed full
upon me, expressed an indescribable
blending of pleading and terror.
But my work with Leffingweli was
not done; tin audience hail perceived
the change tu his countenance, but sup
posed it the result of his own efforts.
Now, however, they began to suspect
some counter-plot. * Wynn, well known
to the whole assembly, broke the silence
with a few words.
"It hapjurns that an individual pos
sessing a higher degree of the power to
which Mr. Leftingwcll lavs claim is
paesent this evening, no that the fowler
is apparently eaught iu his owu snare."
Several exclamations of " Good ! Let
the gentleman come forward," were the
response.
I did not, however, leave my place,
but asked to be allowed to interrogate
Mr. Leffingweli; an immediate and
perfect stillness succeeded. The replies
were made by Leffingweli with deliber
ate distinctness.
My first query was, " Were jon, six j
veer* ago, iu Concord, New Hamp
shire?"
Answer—"l was."
"Will yuo allow me to look at your
left hand ?"
He replied by withdrawing it from
the sling which supported it, unwrap
ping from it the enveloping handker
ehief, and held it out The fourth
finger and a part of the third were
wanting.
Is Leffingweli the name by which
yon were known in Concord ?"
"It is not"
" Is tli young woman who accom
panies vow a relative either of yomaeif
or of Mrs. Leffingweli?"
" Of neither."
■' Is she voluntarily associated with
yon ?"
"No."
" What is her real name ?"
" Janet Ware.
"Why is she thns connected with
yon ?"
" She believes herself to be Mrs. Lef
fingwell's nieitei"
She supposes this throngh the agency
. of yourself and Mrs. Leffingweli ?
" Through our agency."
At this juncture Janet Ware, since !
such was the girl's name, who had
listened with intense interest to every
word of our colloquy, made an attempt
to me. Mrs. Leffingweli arrested her
motion, at the satue time addressing to
1 her a whispered'remark.
I spoke to the woman then with a de
gree of confidence for which I felt fall
warrant; "Mra. Leffingweli, let me
assure yon that it will be for yonr in
terest, yonr own and Mr. Leffingwell's,
to remain passive." There was more,
probably, in my tones than in my
words, for the woman cowered and de
sisted.
The girl spoke with a passionate en
ergy which set fear aside; " I am not
witL them of my own will, God knaws !
They said they had a claim to me, that
they were my only relatives, and I
feared it was true. Thank Grid, it ia not
true ! Do not, oh, do not let them take
me away with them !"
I am nnnaed to the melting mood,but
I confess the girl's words and tones ap-1
pealed to ne as no acting ever did.
Indeed, the effect on all present was
electric.
Wynn spoke in a low tone with his
sister, who sat n.xt him, and both arose
and went toward the platform. Miss
Wynn addressed Janet Ware, who gazed
in her face searchingly a moment and
then elnng to her arm.
I resumed my dialogue with Mr. Lef
fingweli.
" Haa Miss Ware relatives ? and, if
any, who are they ?"
"An uncle, her mother's brother,
Paul Williams."
" Where is he now V
"In Boston."
And now, reader mine, if yon doubt
whether all this be very convincing, I
acknowledge the reasonableness of vonr
doubts, but then aud there I diet not
take time to weigh the matter. It was,
however, no part of my plan to estab
lish tiie identity of Leffingweli snd
Mark Tufts, even if such a result had
been possible. I decided to withdraw
tbe influence, which, as all experiment
era in thia luzarre branch of osychology
ae aware, is comparatively an easy pro
cess. The man awoke, much as from
an ordinary aleep, looked al>ont 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 18<S8 to 1871. There are 1.828,
whose name* and residences are given,
and from tbe Hpaniab official record.
Here are 2,660 names whose fate is un
recorded. Sixty-one dedicated in death
to tbe garrotte ! The rest of the bat
are of the condemned and transported.
Bloody annals. How much of terrible
snfß-nng do these victim* represent ? :
Ood know* ! Nearly 6,000 persons not
killed ou the battle-field. Others eon- !
damned who are absent ; among them
both sexes, many of them upon the {
chain-gang. Do yon wonder, then, at
audi atrocities as those the other day at
Santiago ? Wonder no more when you
read the sanguinary orders of the vari
ous Captains General. On March 24,
I*S9, Dulse orders all vessel* "in
Spa tush waters or upon the high eeas
ueax the miand" to be seized and tbe :
meu on board to be treated as pirates,
and, without regard to their number, to
be immediately executed. In April fol
lowing the Tiger of Jiguani.Valniasedo. 1
at Hayamo, issues an order that "every
man above fifteen rear* of age, away
from home and without a justified mo
tive. shall be shot." The habitation*
are lo lie burned and the women to be j
forcibly ejected if found away from
their Lome*, and what not of brutal
despotism. It curdles the blood to
read or ponder over these diabolical
order*, so infernally executed. Was
there so protest made by our Govern
ment ? Yes. In the following August j
Gen. Grant instructed our Minister to
say to Hpain that the time had come
when the struggle should be (tarried on
in a more humane manner. In Oc
tober, l#t¥, Mr. Fish told the Spanish
Minister that on the score of humanity
and neighborhood foreign intervention
waa justifiable. So, too, there was
special protest against seizure on tbe
high seas, emphatic and cogent, on
paper- •
Importance of ( ontinaons Advertising,
The billowing good illustration of
the manner in which advertising pays
lately occurred in our experience. One
of our patrons, who makes paper ma
chinery, had a card in the Journal, the
time of insertion on which had expired.
A bill was sent for the same, with a re
quest to know whether tbe advertise
ment should be continued. After quite
a long delay, a reply in the affirmative
was received, which came almost on the
day of publication, so that the card
barely escaped being left out in the
succeeding number of the paper. A
abort time later one of our large mill
ownera, wishing to buy some machinery
like that made by the "firm in question,
looked through the Journal, and having
hi* attention attracted by their card,
wrote at onee, and gave tliem an order,
adding that if this was filled satisfac
torily lit' would in a short time hugely
increase it Bnt for the fact that re
newal of the advertisement came just at
that time,other parties would doubtless
have obtained these order*, the profits ,
on whieh amounted to far more than '
the cost of the card for a whole year. It I
is not necessary to mention the names i
of the parties concerned, thongb we are i
quite willing to do so, if it is desired, ,
but the incident is one among bun- :
dreds which show the value of continu- ;
oua advertising.—Boston Journal,
Church Property in the Culled States.
The ninth census reports the aggre
gate amount of chorrh property in the
United States in 1870 at $154,483,581,
against $171,397,932 in 1860 and $87,-
328,801 in 1850. The distribution of
this property among the several religi
ons sects in 1870 waa as follows
DsfSist (reintUr) (CK1.23t1.531
Itoilist I other ) 3,31*.'.>77
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,
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'!. 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,<J,000.
The through roviaton of the Enoyolo
: ptedia /infonniea ia estimated to oca*
about £200,000.
A Denver paper aays their " Indian
anmmer" has been postponed on_ ao
. {oonnt of tpe weather.
Hie beet salesmen ere those who aell
their customer* not what they want,but
what they don't want.
Fourteen persons lest their lives by
! I the burning of the steamer Borwin on
Lake Ontario.
The brothers Hammia. implteated in
the Kalsey murder, were refused bail
[ by .Indge Tappan.
This faU about 35,000 sheep end
k lambs will be driven to market from
I Aroostook county, lie.
I Large numbers of wolves have ep
, peered in Michigan, where Ihey have
f not been seen before for years,
r Milwaukee estimates that there eye
> 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.