My Valentino. I folded dainty miasiv* And called it a ralsntin*. And sent it away with ita hidden freight From thia flattering heart of mine " Haete, little valentine, haaten." I cried, " and carry for me Whither my Uioughte already are flow u The ecret I trnet to thee." And eo my |xv>i little maaaege Like a * Uite dove flew away. And 1 watched for ita mate to return to me lure tlie cloee of another day But we grew eo weary and waiting So weary, my heart and I That 1 could not wait for the dav tO |>aee. So wearily crept it by. <• I went mveelf for an anewer. Vnd somebody liade me eea If there were not also a valentine Somewhere awaiting me. 1 eearrhed the old room over, lit every nook and part. But my valentine only wae found at laat Safe hidden in eomehody'a heart. The Moonbeam's Message. Unto mv window lattice A pleasant moonbeam came ; roused we from mv sUimhar. And gently spoke my name. " I fell on yonr lover's pillow In the stillness of the night. And woke him from hi* dreaming. Though my loach was soft and light. " I lighted on his forehead. I touched his golden hair. Till he reached his arm* before him To clasp the empty air. " Then he oped his eye* with wonder. And cried. • 0 silver moon. As thon pit;est lonely mortals. Grant me one tittle boos ' '• " Over the hills and the valley*. IViwii to the southern sea. Take this word to my darting As she sleeps and dreams of me ' " There e a hope that holds all sweetness A waiting with gladness rtfe. A faith all time defying. And a love more strong than life *' • Thi* hope, this faith, this waning. This loving, are all my own; The day* and nights of thy absence Are Ailed with these alone. " ' By the sun-kissed seas that part us. By the weary atreu-h of land*. By our last food kiss of parting. By oar farewell clasp of hands '• • When the heavens fail from o'er us, When the stars grow dun for aye. When the mm withdraws its ahuiutg. And hrings no more the day— " • TV* shall our love but stronger. Purer, and truer be. As hand in hand we enter Oar love's eternity " " CAPTAIN TILLER'S WOOING. Captain Seth Tiller, returning from his weeklv fishing voyage in the good bark Tickler, was surprised to find his domicile shut up and apparently neg lected. Still more surprised was he upon being informed by a sympathizing neighbor, who delivered "to him the door-key, that his sister Nancy, who had been since his mother's death his sole housekeeper, had formed a sudden attachment for a traveling tinman of a neighboring town, and had on the pre vious day walked off, or rather ridden off, with the same in his wagon. Nancy had left her love and a good piece of roast beef ready for her brother, to gether with a message to the effect that she "hoped he would think better of it, and come to see her and Joseph, which nothing wonld please them more." " Durned if I do," said Captain Seth Tiller, wrathfully. "Let her be satis fied with her Joseph, since she was fool enongh to leave a comfortable home for the sake of gettin' married. Jest like women the whole world over. A man's only got to say, ' Will yer ?' and they jump at it like a dog at a bone that > flung to him. Well, let her go, I don't keer. A woman ain't worth much, any how, and I guess I kin get along with out 'er." And then, to show his independence of women. Captain Seth straightway set about preparing his evening meaf, but beiug more of a sailor than steward, he failed, and then went ont and got an expensive, unsatisfactory and liadly cooked supper, at the only public house in the Utile seafaring town wherein he resided. He came home cold and miserable; and, unable to find the matches, groped his wav to bed in dark ness. The morning brought him no ' comfort. There were things to be "set to rights," "chores" to do, pots and pans to be scoured, his clothes to be mended and washed ; and Captain Seth looked around with a sort of despair. For the first time in his life tnere dawned upon his mind a perception of the usefulness of women. For a day or two the Captain led this I miserable mode of existence, and, as the time approached for embarking on his next voyage, lie looked upon that and his prospective return with a species of forlorn horror. "Sombody'U break into the house and rob it," thought he, "or the things'll get musty and moldy, with being shut up without any fire ; and — look at them duds o' mine." He frowned wrathfully at a heap of sailor's clothes lying in the corner of the room, all of which wanted washing, and some of which stood in great neea of repairing; and Nancv had always kept them so neat and whole. "Look 'ere," said Captain Tiller, rising, and with his back to the stove, his legs astride, and his hands in his pockets, apostrophising the furniture in general. " Look 'ere, this state 'o things won't do no longer ; I've had enough of it. A man can't be expected to live a wild Irjon. I'll get married." Captain Tiller os a msu of his word, and who having made up bis mind to a thing, was sure to act promptlj upon it. He sat down, now, on a three-legg< 1 stool before the fire, and leaning his elbows upon his knees, meditated. In three days he wonld sail, wherefore there was a necessity for prompt action. " Let's see," said Captain Tiller, thonghtfnlly ; " It'll be better to take a widder, I guess; widdeis are more steady than t'others, and more used to things, and won't expect SDV courting, and that sort o' nonsense. Not a yoting widder, though. They're apt to be he mused again, and mused within himself that the only one he knew answering to his requisition, was the widow Tyron. Yes ; he'd marry the widow Tyron. And, with a slap on the knee, as of one who had arrived at a final and satisfactory oonclnsion, clap ped his sou'weeter npon his head, but toned up his pea-jacket and betook him self to that lady's abode. " Good mornin', widder I" said Cap tain Seth, as, in answer to his knock at the door, Mrs. Tyron appeared in a tidy cap and apron, and with her bare arms dusted witn flour, while an appetizing odor of cookies issued from the com fortable kitchen. At that smell the visitor's heart en larged, and his nostrils expanded as those of a war-horse who hears from afar the din of the battle. " Why, lawks a-mercy ! is it vou, Cap'in filler f" Hope nothin's hap pened—leastwise senoe Nancy's rur away and got married." " That's jest it, widder," responded the Captain, gloomily shaking his head. " That s jest what is the matter. How Nancy oame to make such a fool of her self, when she'd a good homo, and clothes, and victuals, and the whole house to herself when I'm away—" " Now, that's what I call onreaßona ble of you, Cap'in Seth," interrupted Mrs.. Tyron, seriously taking up the of her sex, as she wiped the flour from her hands, and ont of respect to her visitor sat down to her knitting. " A woman's a woman, and mustn't be Xjted to deny herself everything for o' clothes and victnals. She mnst hev somebody to keer for her more than a brother's likely to do. It's only na ture, after all. What'd become o the world if everybody took to leadin' sin gle lives. I'd like to know ?" " Well, I guess there's some nense in that, widder," quoth the Captain, "H FIiED. Kl Jt TZ, Ktlitor tuid I *ropriot< >r. VOL. VII. scratching hie head under hie sou'- wester, " and I'm rather rej iced to hear ron express thent aentimeula, aeein' a* It'll likelr help na to an agreement on a p'int I've come to propone.' •' Ah !* maid Mta. Tyron. putting bark the border of her rap and pricking up her ears. " You see," resumed he in a business like manner, " a man can't do to hum withont a woman to look aronud and sec artcr thiugn. It's their business, you know. We csn't go rubbin' and scrubbiu' round in the kitchens and bed-room a. Sow, I've heerd troy Nancy that you're a actable ■ap!#r and housekeeper." " Oh, you want me to keep house for yon, mebbe." '• About that," replied the Captain, staring into the fire. •' what oelery t" " Why, I wasn't jest calculatin' upon a salary. I thought we might go luto partnership together, if it's sgreeahle. I m a plain business man. as you know, widder; and all I've got to say is, that if you'll be Mrs. Captain Beth Tiller— "Stay a minute, if you please, Oap 'in !" exclaimed the lady, hastily jump ing up. "I do believe those cookies is burning!" He waited patiently while she busied herself al out the oven. Then she came back, wiping her heated face on her clean apron, and placidly resumed her scat and her knitting. " Well, widder, what the agreement?" inquired the suitor then. " Why, you see, Cap'in Tiller." she answered, alowlv and thoughtfully, " I've been oonsitJerin' of it while tend in' them cookiea, and I about made up my mind that I needn't be in a hurry to marry again. I've hail mv share of a wife's trouble, and I feel like takiu' a litUe rest to myself now, as I go downward into the valley of the ahad der, where we'll all find our ever-lastin' rest." " I might, perhaps, help you on the war, you know," said the Captain, argu ments tively. ** I'm obliged to you," she respond ed, with a sigh, " but I'm pretty strong yet, thanks to goodness ! and can get along well enough without help— leastwise, for a spell longer." " Well," said Captain Tiller, slowlv rising, "if that's your resolution, I needn't waste no more o' your or my valuable time about it, I calculate. Good mornin', widderl" "Stay a minnit, Capt'in 1 Won't yon hare some cookies and a cup o' tea afore you go ?" " No, thank"you, raann. I'm obleeged to you the same. Good mornin'." And the Captain walked home, and sat down on the three-legged stool, and gazed into the fire, as before. The resnlt of this wooing had t>een to him altogether unexpected. Here was a woman who had actually received and rejected a proposal without giving it more than a moment's thonght! " I guess she's too old and worn ont, as she says," he cogitated, " and I must look out for a younger widder, who'd likely not be inclined to think so hart! of the matter. There's Miss Fuller she as was Melissy Brown, if I remem ber rightly. She's 'bont thirty. Rather too young for mv ideas ; but I s'pose I must put up witL it." No sooner thought of than acted upon. Miss Fuller was in her garden plant ing hollyhock roots. She wore a flounced calico drees and a girlish, white apron, elaborately raffled, and looked, as the Captain thought, like a taut-rigged schooner nnder full sail. For an instant his heart misgave him, though he felt reassured by the gTacious smile with which he was received, ss the young widow furtively adjusted her front hair beneath her sun-bonnet, and gave the latter itaelf a coquettish tilt on tier head. " Well, Miss Fuller, you're preparin' for spring betimes, I see. Fancy gar den track—eh ?" "To be sore, Captain ! I like flowers and other pretty things. Don't you ?" answered she with a sidelong glance of her black eyes. " Well, I scarcely know," replied the Captain, doubtfully. "To my mind, there's nothin' prettier than—" "Than what?" urged Miss Fuller, pretending to look unconscious. " Thau a net full o' fine herrin's. You ought to 'a seen my last load, all alive an' kicking, and squirming and sparkling like—like—" The Captain was not remarkable for a lively fancy, so he added, " like nothin' bat fresh herrin's can squirm and sparkle !" The widow stooped down, and grub bed at a marigold root " I hate herrings," said she. "Yes? Well, now, that's rather un fortunate. The woman that takes me must take my herrin's likewise." " Who's goin' to take you ?" " Why, I hope she ain't so very fur off," said the Captain, significantly; "leastwise, not outside this'ere gar den." " You don't mean me ?" " Well, p'raps I do mean you." "Humph!" said the widow, with a toss of ner sun-bonnet and a short laugh. " Well, I must sav this is a queer wav to come a-oourtin !" " Oh," said the suitor, a little crest fallen, " I don't set up to be much in the conrtin' line, like the young sparks hereabouts. Yon and me ain't neither one of us chickens, you know, Miss Fuller; so we can arrange sensible-like without any nonsense of that kind." "Arrange what ?" inquired the lady, flashing her black eyes rather ominous ly npon the captain. "Why, about our marriage, you know." "As if I would have yon 1" she burst i forth, angrily. "A man that walks into my garden suddenly, in his work-day clothes, and, without even sittin' down, or sayin' a word o' courtin', for deoen- j cy's sake, tells me I'm no chicken, and asks me downright to arrange for mar rying him, jest as he'd ask to buy a green goose or a sucking pig for nis Sunday's dinner 1" And without another word, the Widow Fuller flounced into the house, while the disappointed suitor walked rather blankly oat at the gate. "They're a hard set, them widders," he meditated. " 111 give 'em up, I guess, and take a single woman. Bat I won't hev a young, skittish one, to be rampaging about while I'm out o' the way. There's Miss Charity Hobson. She's a good manager, and I guess shell do 'bout aa well as any. He had turned in the direction of Miss Charity's house, when he remem bered Mrs* Fuller's hint abont his clothes. So he went home,pat on a gor geous flowered vest—kept for State oc casions—rubbed a handful of hog's lard into his hair, anointed his boots with the same, and set forth with renewed vigor on his wife-hunting ex pedition. Miss Charity looked up grimly as be entered her neat kitchen, and placing a chair for him, herself took another at the opposite side of the room. "You're lookin' uncommon well, Miss Hobson," said the Captain, plant ing his hands on his knees, and gazing at her with what he meant to be a most amiable smile—mindful, from his late experience, that it might be necessary to do a little in the oourting line before popping the question. "I'm pretty well, I thank you," re sponded the lady dryly. THE CENTRE REPORTER. " And monatrotia snug and comfort able lookin'," resumed the suitor, glancing nmud. " But ain't you a little louesonie at times ?" " Not I ! I've got a dog and two cats - them as YOU see there, and meau to heT a mockin' bird as soon's J abet Long can git one for me. 8o l' got no reas ons to be lonesome." " But cata and dogs ain't human crit ters, Miss Hobson," said Captain Til ler, insinuatingly. ** I rccken I don't aeed to lie told that. Captain. They ain't human oreeters, but somethlu' better, if any thing." " Sot equal to a husband, maylie, Miss Hobeuu— or babby—" "A what !" shrieked Miss Charity, fiercely, glaring over her spectacles. " Oh, nothiu' particular. Only I'd think it would DO a melancholy tiling for a woman to be all aloue with a lot o' cats and dogs, aa she's gettm' on into the dowulull o" life, and"—he rerjeiu bcred Mrs. Tjrron'a expreeaiou—" and the rallev o' the sliad.ier. Cats and dogs can't lick away the - rink lea from her face, nor bring down her gray hairs with—pleasure to the grave." "Capt'n Tiller," said Miss Ilobson, laying down on her lap the stocking she was knitting, sud locking at him, with a fiuah on her aallow cheek— " Capt'n Tiller, I'd like to know, once for all, what you mean ?" He saw at once that she was angry. He didn't know why—but he felt it lU cumbent on him to soothe and please her. So he drew his chair across the fioor. and sat dowu close lieeide her. " Come, now, let's yon and me have s friendly uudersUndtn' together," said he, leering coaxiugly into her face. " I'm sure I've got none but the softest kind o' feelings to'ard you, and I don't see why you shouldn't reeipercate." And, to" add point to his words, he put his left arm across the back of her chair, and with bis right forefinger touched her delicately andjplayfullr in the ribs. Miss Charity Hobson bounced from her seat as if a bomb-shell had exploded beneath it. "Git out o' this house," she shrieked. " I'll let you know how to come round, sassing a lone woman, and in her own house, too ! Here, Blinker tat him ! Ketch him !" and with Blinker at his heels, and Miss Hobson following wrathfullr in h.s wake, the innocent minded Captain Tiller made bis exit from the house which he had entered with such amiable intentions. Very dejectedly he walked home. It wasn't such an easy thing, after all, to get a wife ; and he felt for the present completely discouraged from any far ther attempt in that line. Moodily he sat down on the bottom of a tub—be rarely took a chair unless compelled— and he mused upon his adverse fate. He felt humbled and forlorn. " Pleaae, sir, missis have sent yon some supper," whined a very small voice behind him ; and the Captain, turning, beheld Miss Heater ltittings' small servant, bearing in her arms a very large tea-tray, laden with good things. There was a pitcher of steam ing coffee, a plate of hot, buttered cakes, a nice steak, with onions, and otiier good things, all done to the point of perfection. Poor Captain Tiikr's heart warmed at the sight, even in the midst of his astonishment. " You don't mean to say," he re marked to the very small servant— "you don't mean to say that she—that Miss Hester Bittings sent mo these 'ere flxin's?" "Yes, air, she did, sir," responded the diminutive handmaiden, eagerly, " She said she couldn't qjnde to see even a dog livin' in such away and eat ing sich victuals." The Captain wasn't offended. He felt too much subdued for that now; and, besides, the sight of that supper tray would have overcome any feeling of rising wrath in his bosom. He was even sensible of a glow of gratitude, and, under the influence of this emo tion, he took down from the mantel shelf a stuffed green parrot, glued to a sea-shell, ard thrust it into the hands of the small msiden. "There, my little gal," he BAid, "there's something for your trouble ; and say to your missis, ' I'm highly obleeged for her kindness."" He emptied the contents of the plates and dishes into crockerv of his own, and, without thinking of washing the former, sent them back to their owner, together with the small model of a fishing-smack, wrought bv himself in his boms of leisure while on shore. Miss Hester laughed when she beheld these things. " Poor man," she said, "he hasn't Gt a bad heart, after all; and it would a pity to let him starve." 80. next day, she sent him a daintily cooked dinner. " Mian Heaper," amid Captain Tiller that afternoon, rather shyly, addressing her as she aat at her window sewing, " wonldn't you like to hev your fence palings fixed np a bit ? I see they're broke throngh." " Why, it would be a convenience to have them palings mended," she ad mitted. Whereupon Captain Beth set to work, and, with hammer and nails, manfully repaired the fence. " Jest call on me wbenev r you're in need of sicli jobs," he remarked, amia bly, when it was completed. "And I'll do your cooking for yon while you're ashore, Captain," re sponded the gratified Miss Hitting*. A sudden light flashed upon the mind of Captain Beth. Why had ho never before thought of this ? "Miss Hesper," he said, "yon don't mean to say that you'll forgive Pickle for worrying your Pink ?" " Why, he is a worriting dog," the lady replied, dubiously. " I'll send him away !" said the Cap tain, magnanimously. "La! what an idea. Captain! Oh, no 1 let the critters alone. I dare sav they'll be friends after awhile. It's all our duties to bo friendly to one an other, you know." "To be sure !" acquiesced the Cap tain, heartily. " Wherefore, it follers thet you ana me ought to IKS friends, as well as Pickle and Pink." " I'm sore I've no wish to be other wise with any body," Bai l Mine Dee per, looking down at her knitting. "Then," said the Captain, slowly, and somewhat diffidently, " maybe you would not object to—" " To what, Captain?" " To enter into a kinder partnership, lon see—yon and me together— to be a elp to one another ?" " I'm willin' to do what help I can for yon and my other fellow-creeters, I hope and believe," responded Miss Bittings, piously, " It's my duty. when I see a forlorn body in need of help, to do what I can to make 'em comforta ble.'' After this, very few words were neo essary ; and an hour subsequent. Cap tain Beth Tiller was seen with a beam ing countenance entering the gate of Parson Dempster's yard. And on the following day the twain—that is, Cap tain Beth Tiller and Miss Hesper Bit tings—were made one. That evening, as he sat at a luxurious supper with his wife, to the ad miration of the small handmaiden, and the apparent bewilderment of Pickle and Pink, the following note was left for him s . ~ " Captain Tiller, I've been coniider- VENTRE HAI.L. CENTRE CO., PA.. TIIUKS in' of what yen said, and, aa second thought's wisest, hv come to the con clusion thst it will lie a comfort to liev a hand to help uie down into the valley o' the ahadder. Yours truly, Wnuistt Troon." " Durn the valley o' the shadiler !" exclaimed Captain Tiller, throwing aside the note, and betaking himself anew to his oysters. The templing bivalves were scarcely disposed of, when a hard knock at the door heralded a harsh voice, which in quired .- "Capt'n Tiller to hum J" " Yes'm," responded the small hand maiden, promptly. " Then give him tltis," said the hard voice ; and a bit of ps|>er, folded tri angularly, was thurat into the girl's hand, while lissty steps were heard re treating. " Tlieiiajier contained these mysteri ous words, in pencil: " If Captain Tiller he will step round at Miss C. Hobeon'a—and hope* lie will excuse Blinker, which she knows and believes lua iiitenUons was not to tie rude to her, and a mistake on C. H.'s part— I will be pleased to see him. C. H." " Darned if I ge," muttered Captain Tiller, lightiug his pipe. "Why, what's it all about ?" inquired his bride, glsueiug somewhat suspici ously st the two notes. Bo the captain told her "Humph!" said Mr*. Beth Tiller; and sat thinking, rather moodily. "You aee," suggested her spouse deprecatingly, "1 hadn't an idea then that you'd have me." Mrs. Tiller was a sensible woman, and she accepted the explanation without more ado. " I'lease, sir," said the smalt maid, with very big eyes, " her'a a boy come and bruught another letter." '• Let's see," said Mr*. Hetli, exereis ir.g her matrimouial privilege. Aud she read aloud the following, written on innk-tinted paper, and sealed in an em bossed envelope : " DSAH CAPTSIK TI 1.1.XH. Been ex pecting you round to-day. Hope uo offense ; aa you know when a woman's took by surprise she's obliged to say what she dont always mean. I'm to home this evening from 7 to 10. " Truly your*, ** Mtl.IDiA Fl'LUtB." " Well," said the Captain, running his fiugera through his hair, "if this don't beat all! Rum critters, them women !" " And bold enough, some of 'em,' joined in Mrs. Tiller. "Te be making proposals to a married man !" " Why, you see, they don't know yet that I am married." " Then, beet let 'em know it at onse. Suppose yon accept all their invitations right sway, and t*ke me along byway of explanation, von know." Tlie Captain ounokled with an inward appreciation of his wife's cleverness and wit. He took her advioe, and the pair made the*- round of bridal calls much to their own satisfaction, if not to that of the recipients thereof. Mr*. Tyron signed. Widow Fuller laughed—somewhat hysterically, it must be confessed—and Miss Hobson talked ola suit for breach of promise. Not one of the three ever forgave him. A ( hat About Doctor*. A medical writei says: Nothing helps a doctor like mysteries. A man has a pain iu the head and back. He oalls on the doctor. He explains hia symp toms. Now, suppose the doctor says, " Yes, I see. Pain in the head and back—tired. Yon, air. most rest; go to bed early for a lew evenings : yon must let np—rest! You are exhausted, that's all. ' Now, that won't satisfy von ; thers ia no science ileal that. Von know all that yourself. You went to the doctor to learn something about your case, and if all te can tell you is, "that you are tired and have got the backache, what's the use of the accumu lated medical wisdom of three thousand years ? Any child could tell yon that yon are tireil and have the backache. Bnt snppoee the doctor carefully ex amines the back of your bead, and vonr spine, and asks a down questions about tne precise location of tlie pain, what time in tlie day it appears, etc., all sorts of nice, ingenious questions, and then, after some moments of profound thought, he tella yon that ho is sorry to say that this ia a rare case. It ia clearly one of those remarkable cases of periodical polarisati. n of the cerebro spinal axis ; the ease is exactly like one reported by a distinguished German physiologist. The sufferer was a well known military man. The doctor then proceeds to write a prescription in Latin. There are half a down in gredients, and he informs von that the prescription in an exact duplicate of that which was used for tbe German general, with the exception of a single ingredient, which he adds because of the difference in climate. Now, don't yon know that you rather think that this doctor known what'n what ? And although yon " confound hia big names and Latin nonsense," still it looks as though the accumulated wisdom of the three thousand years wan something after all. At any rate this cerebri) spinal axis doctor is miles ahead of the backache chap. (irlxxly I tears. The other day a Colorado minor from Fairplny came to tho valley for snp plica, lie carried hie right Brm in a aliug ; one eye was twisted ; face scratched, torn and indented with ridges, and head aa gniltlcaa of hair aa a billiard ball, and looked aa if he had been invited by aome of the Indiana to a acalping picnic; but it turned ont that he had received all theae wonnda from the clawa of a grizzly. The griz zly obtaina full growth in fcur yeara. At aix he is in his prime, and able to cope with any animal in exiatence. The lion would stand a very poor show in tho hug of a grizzly. The average weight iH 1,200 pounds, but a number linve been killeu in Colorado who kick ed the beam at 1,800. Old man Oriffln, of Canon, an early settler, and repnted to be a sharp bear hunter, knocked over a grizzly last fall that weighed 1,000 pounds after being dressed. The clawa were long enongli to anchor a good sized sloop, being nine inches in length. He fought to the last, and, with three balls square through the heart, charged upon the enemy, and dropped down stone dead so close to the old man that ho oould touch him with his paw. They tell a story of a foolish young fellow, residing on Current Creek, who made a bet that be would lasso a griz zly and bring him into camp. He made the experiment, and slipped a good noose over Bruin ; but the latter sat down upon his haunches coolly, and oommenoed hauling in on the line. In vaiu the horse straggled—the power at the other end was irresistible; but, fortunataly, the lariat broke and the rash young man escaped. DIBTRKHH IN BOSTON. —The Boston Tranacript says that persons in position to know of the matter, state that the loss of interest and dividends and the shrinkage on railway shares and securi ties of railroads at the South and West, have occasioned mnch more personal distress in Boston than waa caused by Hie great fire in that city, Who'll be Victim f This is s game which may lie played by any number of persons; the more player* the better. The Victim and the Ioae of men at Piedmont to scour the country for the roblier*. It is understood that the Post Office Department and Adams Express Company will take active and vigorous measures to capture them. A Cat's Dream. Hhe was very still, and appeared to be asleep, when suddenly she spraug into the middle of the room, where she fixed her feet on a limited spot ou the floor, to which also ber nose waa ap plied, aa if eloaely grasping something which she held "in her claws. This oontinned for a abort time, when the noac was gently raised, and tlie viaible attention was directed to the feet, which atill continued their grasp : but after a time one of them was gradually removed, and then the other, on whicn puss appeared greatly at a loss to im agine whither the imaginary object could have gone so as to escape her grasp. Hhe looked in various direc tions along the floor with a foolish face of confusion ; and then again her atteu tion was directed to the spot on which her feet were closely pressed, as if to examine closely whether tbe presumed escape had been sinking through the floor ; and when this seemed uc satis factory tlie disappointed animal, now widely awake, retired once more to re examine the plase, as if ahe found it impossible to comprehend how an ob ject she bad so plainly seen and grasped should have stink into nothing. Many minutes elapsed !>efore this cat appeared to be reconciled to the con viction that what had been a dream was not in truth a reality.— Land and Water. Again the Hes-fterpent, The latent sea-serpent story in that of Mr. Jamen M. Jouass, on commnnioated to Mr. Francis Francin, the well-known finh cnltnrist, and published in the I/on don Field for the 15th of November. Thin gentleman is vouched for by Mr. Francin an being a man of ncienoe, and not easily duped. The first appearance of the animal wan altont the middle of Septemlmr, near Lothbeg, in Scotland, when it wan noon by two ladies. The next morning an animal about forty or fifty feet long wan seen by Dr. Son tar rushing along the shore, and occasion ally raining its head to a height of about four feet above the water. The next day at noon, on a calm sea, Mr. Jon ana saw, through a glass, about half a mila out, a floating object which wan cer tainly part of some wild beast, dead or basking. It drifted along with the tide, but at no time did it raise itnelf higher than when tlrnt seen. The oolor wan brown and yellow, the ap parent sire about eight or ten feet The cnt accompanying the communication in the Field shown not a very distant resemblance to some of the sketches heretofore made of the so-called sea serpent _ WH AT Sua WORK.— Ladies, of course, are interested in knowing " what is worn" by the Grand Duchess Maria, the newly made wife of the Duke of Edin burgh. One of a number of rich Paris ian dresses which formed part of her elegant trousseau will serve an a sample, It in of sky-blue terry velvet, covered with a tunic of India muslin draped in antique fashion. The material is so light aud fine that the whole tunic will pans through a ring. The folds of the corsage are held in place by clasps of fine pearls. The newly-made Duchess of Edinburgh is a blonde, fair and young, and the dress must be exquisite ly adapted for her youth and royal state. Probably it is literally "one of a thousand," and it cost—a mere trifle in royal expenditure—the little sum of five thousand dollars in gold ADVERTISING. —A good advertisement in a newspaper is the best of all possi ble salesmen. It is a salesman who never sleeps and is never weary; who goes after business early and late; who accosts the merchant in his shop, the scholar in his study, the lawyer in his office, the lady at Iter breakfast table; who can lie in a thousand places at once, and speak to a million people •very morning, saying to eaoh one the best thing in the best manner. )AV, FEBRUARY 1% 1H74. I'ork i'oUoulDg. AUimlsi t'iina<<|Mfa.ia frttttt Iks lairs- Sscllss orirkhlsw a|alratts lata Iks It Maasaa ttud y. Professor William (Tendeniu, who fills the clisir of anatomy in the Miami Ciuciuuati Medical College, returned from a professional visit to Aurora, In diaua, twenty-six miles below, on the Ohio river. The object of his visit was the investigation of several cases of trichina- spiralis, of recent oecurrenoe in thst place. The first victims are Mrs. Threnart, a Herman widow, and her three children, two boys, aged four teen and seven years, and a girl aged ten years. Dr. Cleudenin was interviewed by a reporter, and furnished the facts which follow; It ap|>ear* thst Mrs. Threnart had two hogs killed for home consumption about four weeks ago, one of which had been sick, after running the streets s mouth or so before killing. The animal had what is called the " droop." It was stiff in the limbs, and lost appetite, but after dosing with sulphnr and sweet milk it recovered and fattened up. A quantity of sail*age was made with the meal, and of this Mrs. Threnart and her childreu partook freely. On Mon day it was prepared and cooked in the usual way. On Tuesday the parties took sick, complained of a withering pain in the bowels, of being very tired and sore all over the surface of the body. Vomiting and diarrlnea set in, and' the family physician was called. He thought the symptoms were those of typhoid fever, and treated accordingly. The illness of Uie moUier and her otiu drvu excited the sympathy of her neigh- Itorw, and they took it in turn te nnrae them. Mrs. Hurler, wife of the Methodist minister, with her two children, the youngest only four year* old, was the tlrst nurse, and devoted herself er.elu aively to the Christian duty. Hhe took IL her abode in the aick house, and, when meal time came, prepared and ate some of the sausage, together with the youngest child. The other child won Id not touch it. On the next day, Thnraday, Mrs. Uuyter aud her child were aetsed in the same manner aa the victims she came to nurse, and still no suspicion waa aroused aa to the cause. The same evening Miss Dsns, aged nineteen, and Miaa Mollenboff, aged twenty, two charming young women, cans tu nurae the sick, and at supper partook of the sausage and some of the fried meat. They were seised with pains in the stomach and liowels in sn boar and were deathly sick. An old woman prescribed hot whisky punch and made them drink freely, which in creased the vomiting, and they are now convalescing. A lad named Krieger, who brought kindling wood to Mrs. Thienart'a house, had supper aud ia also down with the same sickness. Finally a Mr*. Ross came and ate of the meat and soon after took sick in the same manner aa all the others ; bat she at once suspected the meat aa the cause and said so to the physician. He called in Dr. Sntton, of the lliwllh Department, and a scientific analysis of the sausage, cooked and raw,'waa made, upon which the start ling fact waa revealed that the meat was literally alive with the trichina spiralis. Ho tenacious is this little thing of life that it waa seen to survive the pickling process and the cooking of the meat The entire carcass of the hog that had been aick ia infected ; not even the bones being free from the invasion of the entoxoou. Under the microscope it looks like knots and colls of the com mon earth worm, with verv sharp or pointed extremities, and while this ia oeing written a speck of the flesh, not larger than the head of a small pin, is on view, and contains millions of the maggots wriggling and twisting about, although totally invisible to the naked eye. When Dr. Ulendenin left Aurora all the patients, except the two young ladies, were still lying very iIL The symptoms were alike in all. A peculiar paleness of tlie skin, with a livid puffi neaa around the eyes, and the lower ex tremities puffed and swollen. They lie crunched np in bed, with the shoulder* drawn forward and the knees drawn up to the chin. There is a painful weak ness in the limbs. It is painful to pro trude the furred and thickened tongue. The voice is husky and changed in tone. There ia diarrhea, with a ten dency to dysentery, thirst, complete loss of appetite, and a fever which in creaac* towards night. The oldest bov and tbe girl of Mr*. Threnart, and Mrs. Barter, the minis ter's wife, who is a flue, keallhy woman, will undoubtedly die ; but some hopes are entertained that all the other vic tims will survive. The affair hu created the greatest Alarm ami consternation in the con rannity of Aurora, where there is a Urge "German population, which live* on pork and other meat of the hog kind. A crowd of them invaded Dr. Fulton's room at the hotel with pieces of pork, (tannage and ham to have them examined for fear of trichina*, and pub lic oonfidence haa lteen oo mnch ahaken in pork, aa an article of food, that the commodity in tabooed and it in now a drug in the Aurora market. Demonstration at Jcrasalem. The London correspondent of the Jririnh Mrmtcufjrr nays that he is in re ceipt of a private letter from Jerusalem which gives a sad account of things in the Holy City. Beggars are many, laborers* few. II is, indeed, sad to hear those continued descriptions from im partial witnesses, of the miserable beg garly position of the Jews of Jerusalem. A great deal of the present misery of the Jerusalem Jews is directly traced to the misplaced, ill-advised generosity of the European Jews, who think thev are discharging a religions duty, as well an performing s charitable act, by send ing money in the form of CAcfwcAoA to Jerusalem. Old men, middle aged men, and even yonng lads, who can and ought to be mail® to work for their liv ing, centre their whole object in life npon sharing in the funds obtained from the Jews outside of Jerusalem. The worst of it is, that the young chil dren follow, and, in fact, are made to follow the pernicious example of the parents. There must eventually come a time when concerted action will be taken by the Jews of Enrope npon this question. Undoubtedly great good oonld be done with the money now sent to Jerusalem, if a better system of dis tribution were organized. As it is, un der the present system, the mohey does much more harm than good. High Up. A traveler describes tho weather sta tion on Pike'a Peak as s building of stone, walls two feet thiok, thirty feet by fifteen, and nine in height. Three men are spending the winter there, taking observations. They are used to the lightness of the air, and do not ex perience any serious inconvenience. Water boils .it so low a temperature that it takes about three times as long to cook food as the ordinary level. Tne air ia so clear that the eye can sweep a dis tance of t#o hundred miles in every direction. Term*: 52.00 uYsnr, in Advance. Wears ra. Wkisky. Mkla laSlra mm mm Akll-Marraaia Prayer t rarsSr. The crusade of the women of Booth eru Ohio against the liquor saloons, says a CiiiotnnaU letter, nwreeaes in exteut aul importance. At Franklin, Warren county, the ladies are aealously Iwaateging all the saloon keepers with prayer meeting*. One of the Herman saloon keener* has signed their pledge and joined in with the services held in i hie former barroom. The some man had hired a baud a few day* before and tried to give a ball a bile the lad lea were in front singing hymns and praying. Towarda evening tlie dancers went to the dwelling of the manager and told htm they eould not stand this. They abandoned the holding of the ball at bis house and went to the extreme lower end of the town to a hall tht was away from the prayer circle. At Waynesville, Warren eoonty, sev eral saloon keepers hold out, slid it is said that the roughest men find it sometimes impossible to restrain team I as the ladies kneel cm the flags in the oold or storm. A picket of ladies watched the saloons on Baturdsy night and immediately surronnded the doors when any man tried to enter fer a drink. One of the aaloou keepers has sold his stock to sn active promoter of the cru sade, and he will move Week Deputa tions of lad tee visit eseh saloon daily. On Katurday, at Waynesville, the largest temperanoe tuaas meeting that has yet 1 been held assembled. The enthnaiaem was soch that the meeting oon tin tied fur over three hours. At one tune the packed multitude rose m masse to testify that they would never cease their efforts till the laat vestige of tlie whisky traffic is banished from the town. At London, Madison county, the ladies are visiting the saloons, gro ceries, and drug stores. The druggists there have unanimously signed the pledge. The saloon keepers number twenty-five, some of whom are hostile and some non-committal. If ordered oat of a saloon, the ladies immediately organise their prayer meeting on the sidewalk. In a temperance speech the Rev. Mr. Ftnley said, "Yea, we will send the ladies to these places, and if an inault ia oflered to them, if a hand is laid on them, let as see it; let them dare to touch my wife ; we will rise as one man, and enforce the law* of onr oountrv." At klcArthur, Vinton County, the ex citement is the most intense ever known in the village. The ladies are making the rounds of the saloons daily, and at each one they present the pledge to the proprietor* to quit the sale of intoxica ting liquors. One of the dealer* capit ulated, closed his saloon and signed both the persooal and dealers' pledge. The remainder of the dealer* have agreed to quit the bnaineea as soon aa they can dispose of their stock on hand. At New Vienna, Clark County, the incorrigible and combative saloon keep er. J. C. Van Ptlt, defies the crusader*. He publishes a card, eaying " I have not sold out They can't buy me out, uor scare me out, neither will I run ; and I shall attend to the lies that have been published on me aa soon aa I get through with the ao-oalled temperance movement." At WilUamsport, Pickaway County committees have been organised to shut up two drinking aalooua in tbat village. At Middlatun, Butler County, tne women for the last week have been busy creating the raiding sentiment A mas* meeting of tbe mcmi>cr* of the various churches will be held. It is not expected that the forty aalooua j will be crushed bv moral suasion alsne. The sum of #10,050 is to be raised to carry on the legal war. At New Lexington, Perry County, the war ia vigorously prosecuted by about 101) ladies and 150 men. Immense tem perance meeting* are being lie Id. at which one of the speakers is an ex-col onel, who rehearses tlie story of hia downward career aa a drunkard. The praying hand of aislera ia seventy-five *trong. and they go their ronuds every day Tout the majority of the beeieged reject their overture* and oondoct their bnainesa as beat they can. At Hillaboro, Highland Oouutv, of the nine saloons, including three hotel liar*, five have closed, at leaat tempora rily. Of the four druggists two have agreed to sell only on prescription of a regular physician, and the others claim to be regular physicians. A saloon keeper there named Dunn has issued posters warning tbo women of Hilla boro not to obstruct his legitimate busi ness. Addressing the ladies by name, lie aays " Yon are, therefore, hereby I further notified that if such action and trespasses are repealed I shall apply to the laws of the State for redress and | damage for the injuries occasioned by 'reason of tbe practices of which I com plain. All others aiding or encouraging von, by means of money or otherwise, are also notified that I shall hold them responsible for snch advice and encour i agement." The ladies of Hillsboro, however, have eight leaders, each commanding a band of twenty to forty, and divide time regularly. If the saloons will not close uuder a regular agreement they Jul rpose to keep a permanent guard rom this time on until the people get accustomed to do without saloons. Water far Children. It is particularly with those who have been accustomed to water drinking, that it would show its good effects in after life. Daring the first nine mouths the infant is to be nourished by its mother's milk, which serves as food and drink ; it is gradually accustomed to other sustenance daring the period of weaning. After this is accomplished, however, the infant should hare fresh water as well as milk. By water d>inking in childhood and youth, the foundation of a durable stomach ia laid, and thus a healthy body throughout life. The nervous and blood systems are over-excited by spices, beer, wine, chocolate, coffee, etc., and thus a constant artificial state of fever is maintained, and the process is so much accelerated by it, that chil dren fed in this manner do not attain, perhaps, half the age ordained by na ture. Besides this, experience has taught that thev generally become pas sionate and willful, having neither the will nor the power to make themselves or others happy. Wagner and Beethoveu. Wagner is not the only musician whose failure to find sympathy and ap preciation among the multitude has reacted on himself and stimulated in him what seems to a superficial glance, a towering egotism. Beethoven thus expressed himself I despise the world which does not understand that music is a more sublime revelation than all wisdom and all philosophy. ♦ * As for me, lam the Baochus who crashes ont the delicious nectar for mankind; it is Ito whom they owe the frenzy of mind, and when it is over, be hold ! they have fished up a number ol things which they bring back with them to the shore. * * I have no friends, I am alone with myself, bnt I know that God is nearer me in my heart than he is to others." Philsdelphia is tfil, ooo,ooo in debt. The Hen of Peter the Greet. Alexia, the ill-fated sou of Endoeit and Peter the Greet, had long incurred the resentment of hia father. Of a tall and commanding appearance, he was looked up to by a nation among whom colossal stature' was particularly esteemed. Around him he had oolleotad associates who plunged into every sort of vine and lioeuliouaneas; be openly opposed the reforms of bis father, and, fearing bis displeasure, left the country. Peter, discovering his retreat at Naples, ordered him to return to Bt Petersburg, promising forgiven ass if be did so ; on tbe other hand threatening him with the moat dreadful curses if he refused. Alexis, reiving on his promis es, returned, sad had barely arrived be fore he was surrounded and imprisoned; and then began a most painful ordeal, which was carried on for five months. Peter daily visited him, and working on his weak mind, prevailed on him to accuse himself of tbe most dreadful Crimea, and to name all tbe friends who were in any way implicated. He then nominal'y consulted the priest* and no bles what oourse to porn*; they, in sws of bis power, pronounced sentence of death ngainst Alexia, and Peter, in spite of his previous protestations, con firmed it. Bested in s prison *t Mos cow, by s dim light, we see the unfortu nate prince bearing the aeotenea from the lips of hia father, who actually mingled hia tears with bit. The door opens, and a vial is handed to the mon arch. who pours oat the contents and proffer* them to hia son as a soothing draught He then retire*. Alexis raises to his lips tbe poiaooed cup, 101 l ll rinks, convulsions of the moat dread ful nature follow, and before morning be lies a corpse. Peter gave ont that the news that sentence of death had \ been pasaed upon him bad operated . fatally on his feeble constitution. Thus perished the heir to tbe Rnsaian Empire. [ Peter afterward altered the order of succession in favor of his consort Cath erine, who reigned for two years after him. At her death she bequeathed her 1 crown to Peter, the sou of Alexia, who ascended the thrown si the age of twelve, under the title of Peter 11. tirspe TIM Worn. Biz or eight year* ago a Utile crea ture, bearing the imposing name of Phylloxera raMatnx, flrst commenced ita ravage* on the grape-Tina* of France. It was behoved to hare been imported with some plant* from the United State*, and it apread with each amazing rapidity, and poaaaaand a neb destructive propensities, that it created grrat alarm. There seemed to be sev eral varieties of the insect, differing in appearance, and some attacking the leaves of the vines, while others at tacked the root*. The vine-grower* were in a state of consternation at the ravages of this mysterious pest In the middle and south of France there is s large section of country whose popula tion depend for their livelihood upon the suooeaa of the vine cult a re. Con sequently the plague appalled them. The government offered a prize of twenty thousand francs for the discovery oi a remedy, but without avail. De coctions of various kinds, floods of water, and chemical preparations were applied to the vines, bat whatever killed the l assets aerionsly injured the vine*. M. Flan ebon, an ingenious naturalist, bethought him* If of a novel mode of extirpating this plague by setting one insert to war upon another. Planehon ascertained that in oertain American wine-growing districts the Phylloxera wu hunted to death by a tiny foe called the orartM, which utterly destroyed them in whatever form they existed en the vine. Therefore specimens of this American Phylloxera committal were imported, sad were exhibited at a re oent meeting of the Academic S'clmcr*. When this creature is de posited upon the vines ot mmec, and left to wage his good warfare, his pro gress will be watched with intense in terest by millions. Orebro-Splaal Meningitis. It is almost worth while being tick if one can only hare a malady with a fine name. A lady came to me, perhaps a year ago, and gre.vely told me. ** I am suffering from pe larixatton of the cere bro-spinal axis." She was aara this was her malady. A certain doctor who was educated "in Europe had carefully examined her ease and assured her that the maladr was " Polarisation of the cerebrospinal axis." The doctor ad vised a European trip, with the use of iodide of potassium and bromide of po tassium. She wished me to examine her case and tell her what I thought of it. After a few inquiries, I said, "It's the backache. You must take <>iT your corsets, keep your feet warm and go to bed at 9 o'clock." She soon got well, but I think was never altogether satis fied with giving up that grand name for plain backache, or with exchanging iodide of potassium for abandonment of cornet, or bromide of potassium for bed st 9 o'clock. Cerebro-spinal meningitis u not, as many people seem to think, a specific disease like small-pox, but exhaustion accompanied by irritation or inflamma tion of the membranes of the brain and spinal cord. It ia a logical result of our past mode of life. We breathe a bad air, live in the shade, neglect exer cise, keep bad hours, -ad rush things generally. Naturally, our heads and backs become exhausted, and on# now and then takes on a little congestion of those parts and dies. The same disease has prevailed among the exhausted for hundreds of years/but now a new and grand name has been invented for it No one who leads a sensible life will be likely to suffer from an attack of this malady.— THo Lew it. A Little Heroine. Onoe in a while ia told aome story of heroism in a child which ought to help the professional cynic to a little faith in his kind. Not long ago a young girl, lost in the woods with her little brother, protected him from the weather all through a bitter night at the cost of her ownfrosen limbs. Borne day ago three children, a little girl of six, her brother only four, and another little boy six years old, went to a pond in Ken tucky to skate. That day the ioe had been cut from half the pond, and the aix-vear-old boy skated directly into the" deep water and sank. The three small creatures were all alone there. The four-year-old tried to reecue the poor child, but failed ; then the little girl, with a presenoe of mind a woman might be proud to own, walked to the edge of the ice, waited until the boy rose gasping, seized him and draw him out. What a glittering romance might be built upon this true story of a child's courage ! PRESERVING EGOS. —J. G. Higgins, Delhi Mills, Mich., writes; Dip them in boiling hot water, taking out imme diately, thru lay them in fresh salt, separate from each other, small end down. To my certain knowledge, eggs that were packed after this plan last summer were as fresh apparently when nsed in April last as when laid. I know one woman who sold a hundred dozen at one time, during the winter, when they were high, that were put down wering tb# rummer in this way they; dure all good. i 1 terns of latarmU Thn* Aikuto obitfi bin boon hang*! for cowardice. Druggist* sr* not inappropriately termd the "pillsrs" of society. Ndlli Omni acknowledges b#r en gagement, and will bo ma mod early in (bo spring. Hero is the newest floral sentiment: " It yon wish for bout's esse, don't look to ma/i-gold." Biitoon peroons were killed by *n ac cident on the railroad between Edin burgh and Glasgow. The oil wells of Western Pennsyl vania spout out daily to the extent of abont 40,000 barrels." A oouple at Woodvills, Joes, bam been divorced four times, and now eon template a fifth reunion. • A Boston paper thinks that drills*- tion will not be complete nntil some snbotitote it found for buttons. At the great fire In Teddo, Japan, in December, one merchant lost 100,000 bales of silk, valued at $1,500,000. A grand inter state exhibition for Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois will be held at Dubuque in September next NO. 8. The Britiah Government haa received an official dispatch from Zanaibar con firming the report of Uw death of liv ingstone. A malicious person says that cotton sheets and newspaper sheets arc alike in the respect that a great many people lie in them. A dog with two tails was aeea in Gcnnantowu the other day. One be longed to an ox, and was carried in the mouth of the canine. The Ohio Legislature has intodncsd s bill fixing s fine of from $5 to SBO for pointing any kind of firearms st * per son, loaded or M unloaded." An Indianapolis beggar goes about selling hia wife's wedding-ring to buy bread for hia children. He has already sold seventy-five of it The bill providing for oompnlaory education hna peeeed the Illinois Legis lator*, sod n similar measure is now pending in the lows Legislature, Ohio is getting alarmed about its marriage laws since a Springfield paper haa solemnly stated there is not a le gally married man in the State. Five women and a yoke of oxen pro duced seven bales of cotton, sod grain enough for horns eoneumption end to •ell, on n Booth Carol ins plantation last jssr. A Dubuque young lady gave np the man she loved, and took tbsjMgktar. merino dram Old Cnrmndgsoa, who has always hated the small boy. expresses hi* grati fication at the mildness of the winter. He expects much from the thinness of the ise this year. Sunday two vonng man, of Albany, engaged" in a wresting match, daring which one of them, Edward Dolor., wns thrown to the ground with aneh force sa to sustain n fracture of the leg. The whaling baaluaea ta rapidly be coming extinct in this eouatiy. The entire whaling fleet of the counter number* bat 171 vessels, 30 Teasels having been taken off daring the year. According to the offietal account on exports, the value of talegxaphic wirra and apparatus forwarded from the Uni ted Kingdom lset year bad Increased to 2,309,863/. from only 808,313/. in the previous year. The cranberry growers of Sew Jersey have sent Queen Victoria two barrels of cranberries to eat with her turkey and venison, providing her also with s recipe for cooking and serving them in American style. A New Orleans paper beasts that their city can produce to the square yard more young men who part their hair in the middle, wear canes, and daily air themselves in front of bar rooms, than mast cities of its sine. Cod-liver oil has been need with suc cess for fattening poultry by on exten sive owner of feathered stock in one of the citT suburbs. The grain given to the chicken* ia soaked in the oil, end the chickens like it The Director General of the Centen nial Exposition declares that be haa been'naked by eight newspaper eorre spond< nte in Wasimijrton for money for their influence with Congiwaa in In TOT of an appropriation. A gorgeous Georgia girl recently peddled out 800 kisses si 10 cents a smack and than gain the money to tha The"rouag meo of that their individual and collective brgne. that charity is divine. The greatest breadth of the State of Pennsvlvawn is one hundred and aev cnty-six miles, and the gieatoto length two hundred and eighty miles. It eon taint twenty-eight millions three ban dred and sixty-two thousand eight hun dred and eight acres of land. A New Bedford paper tella ask ry about a shopkeeper, who advised a lady customer to buy two mohair switches instead of one, as the article was be coming scarce. He said that the man whom he hired to hunt mocs had only caught twe within a fortnight When it ia desired to nuke skins aa soft aa kid, soak them in a mixture of two quarts of bran and one gallon of water for three days, take them ont and rub them with a handful of salt (if they have bair or wool on, add pow dered alum to the salt), and hang up to dry. Said Lord John Boaeel to Home at a social dinner : " What do you consider the object of legislation?" "The greatest good to the greatest number. ••What do von consider the greatest number f "continued his lordship. •' Number one, my lord," was the com moner's prompt reply. There are many fruits which never turn sweet untill the frost has touched them. There are many nuts that never fall from the bough of the tree till the frost has opened and ripened them. And there are mauy elemenUofUte that never grow sweet and beautiful till sorrow touches them. The series of fourteen "extras'' issued by the New York Ttibwne are undoubtedly the cheapest and beat popular scientific publication in the world. The Tribune will send free to any applioant a circular giving the full contents and details of this remarkable " Library for One Dollar." An old living in the outskirts of Williamburg, Mass., recently left his horse sUnding in t sUblf wkew th© water ran in, till the horse fro** his feet and legs and died. Whereupon the boys of the place took the dead horse out of the stable and hung him up in the yard, with a label indioatin' their opinion of the old man's cruelty Indian antiquity studies show : 1 That the primitive inhabitants of the Mississippi Valley were contemporary with the mammoth and the mastodon. 2. That the earth-mounds of the red race are fully a thousand year* old, and some much oldek. 8. That the Indian occupancy dates back aa far aa tha earliest trace* of man in Western Europe. The Dutch troops in Aoheen have taken the moeque by assault. They were twioe repulsed with a loss of 2k) killed and wounded, including twelve officers. The bombard ment of the Kraton had only produced an insignifi cant effect up to January 12, m the enemy haa good ironclad defens? re works. The Dutch are now appronch ing this position by asp, and will kvrow up a breaching battery. Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where psaise is not due. Reputation is one of the £rixes for whieh men contend. It ia, ® B [r. Burke calls it, " the cheap defence and ornament of nations, and the nqrse of many exertions ;"it produces toore labor and more talent than twice Ale wealth of a country could ever rear up. It is ooin of genius; and it ia the im perious duty of every man to bestow it with tha moat scrupulona justice and the wisest eoonomy.— Sidney Amtth.