Child's Htstwry of England. First William the Norman, Then William his aon • Hasrv. Stephen. and Hem?. Then Riehsril and John. Kelt, Henry the Third. Edward* one, two, and three ; And tMin, aider Richard, Three II om> we see, Two udwanra, third Riehsnt, I* rightly ] pne**. Two Henrye. one Edward, Queen Mary, Queen Hera , Theu Jamie, the Sooto.htnao, Than t'bavlew. whom they elew. Tet received. after Oivtnwall. Another IttaHes. tao Next Jamie tho tit'Comi Aeeended the tinou*. Then coed William and Mary TogMlwr came on ; Ttieu Anno. tieorgea fmr. And nwtrth William all paaaad. And Victoria came tKxl the e the !a*t 1 Sleighing. Under the w artneet of tuiffalo-roSio*, Muffled and tucked in Uie thickest of shag*. Drawn by the fleet eat of In cry nag*. 1 and ray lore w cut *-shag lung Olittera Uje lilue *hy with golden *!*rglot>ew ; (Ream* lira white earth wish ite mantle of SHOW ; Crisply the froety track craunchee telow . I ami my love are a-leighuig. Hnity the bouses and hurry the treea ; Rida we eo fleet and ride we ao fact. Swiftly fly (lie fence* and lane* tie go pst , I and my tore are a-eleighing. I and my love are alone iu the world Htlewce and enow hnry alt from uy night ; t J Utter* ttm ice track atid stream* tlie uwvw s - llstit t I atid my love are a-wloighing. IW the atmosphere faster we whirl. Trembles my darling in keenest of hreejte .' Trtee #t* the reins to.-iu my strong baud* to actse ? 1 and my love are a-wUngUuig Me! aha i* smiting with happiest look. • Frightened, dear* no; yvut can drive, 1 know well. darken how merry there rings the sleigh beUl" I and my love are a-aleighiug. Sudden the long read a shorter curve took ; Plunged tu the www i tuy trustfuleet maiden ; Off a the sleigh with the buffalo lailen : I and tny love went a-lciglung It " --■ - - LEONE'S ROMANCE. " Mark my words, Leone, yonr beau ideal you'll never tiud; your estimute ol men high.* "No, Arthur, it is but a great esti mate, iiKi you hare no right to judge me harshly, boon two 1 would not throw my life awav upon some society man of fcvday. lam young yet, but twenty, you know, and there is time enough yet" " Yes, time enough, Leone; but I agree with Arthur that you have too high a standard of manhood, a roman tic school girl admiration of qualities that few, if any tnen, possess. " Oomplimentarr, very, to your hus band; but I wish for my husband strength either of soul or body, mind far above the average, and determ: la-, tion and purpose sufficient to rise him from the level of thehnman herd ; m irk me, if I never find such a one, I will ever remain Leone Lightfoot, au old maid fond of tea, cats ond gossip; but I see Charles has brought my horse around, so au rcroi'r." The speaker was a woman of twenty, ; queenly in form, and whose face, though possessing character beyond her years stamped utereon, was radiant with love liness. Robed in a dark-blue riding habit, which dung gracefully around her su perb farm, and the face half shaded by the drooping plumes falling from her jaunty cap, Leone Lightfoot was in deed what she appeared—a surpassing lovely woman; one who had visitors by the soore, for she was rich as veil as accomplished and beautiful. Three years before she had been left, by the death of her parents, under the guardianship of her brother, some ten yean her senior, and at his elegant country seat in New York State she had lived, the idol of society and the pet of Arthur Lightfoot and his pretty but i weak little wife. Between the three, Arthur Lightfoot, Leone and Mrs. Lightfoot, was the con versation held that opens this story, and the cause thereof was !the refusal by i Leone of the heart, hand and fortune of a worthy bachelor neighbor. "She is incorrigible ; the old judge would have made her a good husband," said Arthur Lightfoot to his wife, after they had seen Leone mount and dash away at full speed down the grand avenue. i * ** Ysa, she'll never marrv, I fear," sighed Mrs. Lightfoot, wlio always echoed Ibe sentiment of her husband." In the meantime Leo tie rode on at a pace that chimed in with her humor, and an elegant horsewoman, 'she held her steed well in rein, and enjoyed the springing,fleet motion as mile after nule was cast behind. But suddenly her horse shied vio lently and gave a tremendous leap, al most unseating his fair rider, who, re covering heme If quackJy, spoke sooth ingly to the frightened animal, and glanced backward to note the object that had ao startled him. The oolor fled from her face aa her eyes fell upon the form of a man Iving by the roadside, and apparently lifeless; but nerving herself by a hard-drawn sigh, the brave girl sprang to the ground and approached the spot, glancing in tently down into the pale, upturned face. The features were molded with re markable regularity, the partly opened month displayed Uven white teeth, and the dark brown hair and mustache pre sented a marked contrast to the white faoe, from which every tinge of color had faded. Dressed in a light Bummer suit, Leone even then discovered that it was well and stylishly made, while the gauntlet gloves and riding whip proved that the stranger had been on horseback. " He has been thrown, doubtless, but God grant he ia not dead !" exclaimed the maiden as she knelt beside the prostrate form, and drew aside the coat to plac* bar band npon hi* heart With a cry of terror abe sprang to her feet, her hand stained with blood, for from hi* side a small stream welled np slowly. "He is dead, and has been murdered "No." "It was almost a whisper, and the heavy lids raised from the dark eyes— eyes filled With anguish, but yet strange ly dart and fnsinating. "Thank God, there is yet hope ; be quiet, air, I implore yon, and I will aid you all in my power, "exclaimed Leone, (uid drawing her habit around her, she ran rapidly a few paces down the road to where it was crossed by a small stream, and saturatug her handkerchief returned, and without hesitation drew aside the clothing and placed it npon the wound—a small ballet wound in the • left side over the heart. " You mast keep perfectly quiet, and I will soon return," she said softly, hardly knowing whether she was heard or not, and then in an instant Bhe was in her saddle, dashing at her utmost speed towards the nearest farm-house. Dashing like the wind up to the door, and startling quiet Farmer Jes sup and his family nearly ont of their vita. Lease eried : "Mr. Jessnp, let yonr son ride at onoe to Dr. Walls, and tell him a gen tleman lies dangerously hurt on the road near Hillside Spring; tell him to come there at once, and you, Mr. Jes sup, please come on with your carriage, and bring all that you think necessary." Every ana in the country knew and loved Leone Lightfoot, and rapidlv her orders were obeyed ; observing which, she wheeled her ioaming horse, and again sped away on her return to the wounded stranger. There he lay just as she had left him, but groaning slightly, and each instant dampening the blood-stained handker chief ; the girl awaited the coming of tHe surgeon. Would they never come ? she thought; but at length, when ft seemed KKKLX I\ I HTZ, Kditoruiul Proprietor. VOL. Ml. hours instead of minutes, the sound ol wheels broke on her car, and the next j instant tlie surgeon drove up at a rapid pace. " You arc a noble woman, Miss Lightfoot, and if this man live* he owe* it to yon," said the good old physician, as he approached and knelt beside tlie prostrate form. " But will he live, doctor ?" For some minutes no reply was given by the man of science, who carefully probed and examined tlie wouud, but then he said slowly : "It is a serious injury—ha ! here 1 have the Irall; yes, I hope* he will live;" and Dr. Wells took from the wound * small bullet, while he continued ; i " Now he needs the most careful nursing." "He shall have it. Thank God, here comes Mr. Jeaanp," and immediately after the carriage drove up, and telling the doctor to come on with the wound ed stranger to her brother's house, Leoue again mounted her horse and rode on to have all iu readiness for his arrival. It was a week before the stranger was sufficiently recovered to tell his story regarding the wound that had so nearly fi roved fatal to him, and theu by care nl nursing, he informed Leone, who had been untiring iu her devoted care of him, that his name was Clarence Amslie—was an Englishman, who nearly a year before had come to Amer ica, and, "purchasing a few acres of laud in the West, made it his home. He also stated that business had called him to New York, aud that while enjoying a horseback ride he had t>ocu suddenly fired upon, was thrown to the ground, and hail an indistinct remem brance that some one was robbing him, for his watch, pocket-book and all the valuables he had about him were gone. That Clarence Aiuslie was no ordi nary man, Leone Lightfoot knew when she* saw him lying by the roadside, but that he would ever possess the power to control her life she had not believed. But so it was, for each day proved to her that she had met her beau ideal; and yet was he for her? Might he not alreadv have loved ? Might he not al ready liave married ? The thought chilled her very heart. And yet when she saw the dark, fasci nating eyes turned tipou her with admi ration, and rem!—or hoped she did— therein a deeper, holier feeling, Leone felt happy, and begged to be a very slave and become a mere automaton to the caprice of Claren.-e Ainslie. Now Arthur Lightfoot and his pretty wife looked upon the matter in a differ ent light, for, though hospitable in the extreme to the stranger guest, they looked upon him as a pooi English emi grant, a pettv Western farmer, and did not like the idea that he should control the heart of Leone, for they were not blind to her devotion to tha wound ed man. Still they could not but admire the courteous manner of their stranger guest, when alter six weeks he suffi ciently recovered to join them in the parlor and at dinner. That he had been reared a gentleman was evident, and that he had traveled and seen something of the world was also evident, as was also that Mr. and Mrs Lightfoot had never seen a hand somer man, they were ready to admit ; but that Leone, the belle, the heiress, the most lovely woman of the day, should marry an unknown and poor Englishman -bah! the idea, even, was ridiculous ! When the trunk of Clarence Ainslie arrived—for he had sent for it as soon as he was able to speak —Mrs. Light foot paced around it for half an hour in the vain endeavor to find something plebeian about it; but the trunk was a good one, English make, and tiore on it simply the letters, "C. A., Eng land. " With a disappointed look the inquisi tive little woman ordered it sent to the sick man's room, and sought her cham ber. "Arthur, Leone really loves that wounded man, and what will become of it all r "It is Leone's romance, little wife; she will recover from it; a few tears at parting, hard riding for her poor bursa, a few sentimental songs, and all will be over." "But, Arthur, suppose it should not be ; suppose he should love her ; for yon know he's poor and she's rich— what then f" "Well, he cannot have her, that's alt" And Arthur Lightfoot went out for a drive. At length the hour came for Clarence Aiuslie to depart, for no lougcr could he impose upon the kindness of his host and hostess; and determined to leave that evening, he asked to see Leone alone. With pale face bnt quiet manner the young girl entered the room, and step ping forward Clarence Ainslie said, feelingly: " Miss Lightfoot, no longer can 1 im pose upon your kindness, and to-night I leave you. Shall it be forever ?" No ansaer came, and the Englishman continued : "To von I owe my life, and to yon I would dedicate the years that yet re mam. lam unknown to you—a stran ger in a strange land—and you havebut my word for it that I offer yon a love that never was offeted to woman before, a hand and heart that lias never sinned intentionally against a fellow-being. Will you accept what I have to offer?" "IwilL" " You will trust me; take me as I am, and become my wife ?" " I will." No other word was spoken, but their hearts were perfectly happy. Of course, Arthur Light foot and hit wife objected and decidedly refused, but Leone was determined. It was no romanre with her, ami when she flatly told them that she would marry Clar ence witliont their consent, they made a virtue of a necessity and gave it, con soling themselves with the thought that, after all, he being a stranger and a poor man were really the only faults that they could find in him. At the request of the parties most in terested it was a quiet wedding, just six months after the meeting of the lovers, and Dr. Wells and Farmer Jessup's family were only invited, and to this day the good old lady has not ceased to gossip about the magnificent trous seau the bride had, and the qniet hap piness that shone in the eyes of the young couple. It had been decided that the bridal tour should be to Europe, aB Clarence Amelia said that business would call him there soon ; and Mr. and Mrs. Lightfoot had been persnaded to ac company them ; so the day after the wedding the steamer bore a very happy quartette from our shores. Arriving safely in England, a few days were paseed quietly at the hotel, and then, by an invitation from Clar ence Ainslie, the party started out to visit the spot where he passed his boy hood's days. Through meadow lands and lovely country the carriage drove, until sud denly Clarence, who was driving, wheeled into a grand gateway leading to the superb country seat of some man of wealth. A few moments more, and the car riage drew up before the marble steps of an elegant mansion—one of those old rambling structures found in England —and springing lightly to the ground, THE CENTRE REPORTER. the Englishman said, while a merry light twinkled in his eyes: "Leone, I welcome you to vour home. Mr. and Mrs. Lightfoot, Lord t'lsreuee I Aiuslie legs that vou will accept the I hospitality of Aiuslie Castle. Tears tilled the beautiful eyes o( Leone. Arthur Liglitfoot's cheeks col •red, but he was silent, while, after a second's hesitation, his wife exclaimed I " Clarence Aiuslie, yon are n cheat. ! Why, 1 thought you were a Western farmer "That was all the land I owned in America. I purchased it and built a shooting-box thereon, because I was fond of your Western sport, and in America 1 was simply Mr. Aiuslie ; but here 1 am Lord Clarence of Aiuslie Caa i tie. Am 1 forgiven ? " Reader, we all have too much liumau nature uow a days to for a moment sup pose the deception practiced was not pardoned by one and all; m fact, Mrs. Lightfoot says she likes to l>e deceived, ami in this ease Arthur echoes the - opinion of his wife. 1 Letter ot I'arljlcN ou Capital auil Labor. ' The following unpublished letter from Mr. Carlyle to Sir J. Whitworth, regarding the announcement made some months ago of the InUrr's iuten -1 tion to supplement the savings of his work people by a bonus upon them, was read by the Hon. and Rev. W. H. Lytteltou, at a meeting of the Stour bridge School ol Art: " I have heard of your offer on behalf of the thrifty work people of Parley, and of the thankful acceptance of it bv the district authorities of tlie place, i cannot resist the highly unwonted de sire that has risen in me to say that I highly approve aud applaud the ideas vou have ou the subject, and to declare In words that in my opinion uothiug wiser, more beuofieient, or worthy of your distinguished place as a master of workers has comu Iteforc me for many a year. Would to heaven that all or manv of the captains of industry iu England had a soul in them such as yours, and could do as yon have done, or could still further co-operate with you in works and plans to the like effect. The look of England is to me at this momeut abundantly ominous. The question of capital and labor grow ing ever more anarchic, insoluble alto gether by the notions hitherto applied to it, is pretty certain to issue iu petro leum one day, uideas some other gos pel than that of the ' Dismal S deuce' come to illuminate it. Two things are pretty sure to ma. The lirut is, that capital and labor never can or will agr-e together, till they both first of all de cide ou doing their work faithfully throughout, and like men of cuuaeienoo and honor, whose highest aim is to be have like faithful citizens of this mil vers.-, and obey the eternal command ment of the Almighty God, who made them. The second thing is, that a sad der object than either that of the coal strike, or any conceivable strike, is the fact that, loosely speakiug, all England has decided that the prutitabWt way is to do its work ill, slimly, swiftly, and mendaciously. What a contrast le --tween now aud, say, only a hundred years ago ! At that latter date, or still more conspicuously for ages before that, all England awoke to its work with an invocation to the Eternal Maker to bless them iu their day's labor, aud help them to do it well. Now, all Eng land, shopkeepers, workmen, all man ner of competing laborers awaken, as if with an unspoken, but heartfelt prayer to Beelzeoub : " Oh, help un, thou great lord of shoddy, adulteration, and malfeasance, to do our work with a maximum of slimnms, swiftness, profit, and mendacity, for the Devil's sake, Amen !'" The Heart. Prom a recent review of Rev. Dr. Houghton's experiments regarding the muscular force exerted bv tlie humr.n heart we condense as follows : " The heart is composed of innumerable muscular fibres arranged like two balls of twine, each with a cavity in its center, and both completely enveloped in a third ball. These fibres are, how ever, not continuous, as in the ease of twine wound on a ball, bat work inde pendently. By calculating tlie force exerted by these fibres, whin either contracted or extended, and expressing the result iu "foot twis"—that is, tLe force required to lift a ton to the height of ouo foot—it ap]H'ars that the daily work of the left ventricle alone, which lifts at each stroke three ounces of blood through a height of 9,1*23 f—t, is equal to about 39,70b foot-tons. Es timating tho relative power of the right ventricle to that of the left. in the pro portion of five to thirteen, the total daily work of both is eqnal to 124,208 foot-tons. Althongh the average weight of the heart is about 9-30 ounces, the work done bv it in a given time exceeds that accomplished by all other muscles exercised in a boat race during the same period, lltdmholz, the German phy sicist, proved that the heart could raise its own weight 20.2H0 feet in an hour, while the beet locomotive engine could only raise its own weight 2,700 feet in the same time. An active climber, with the full exorcise of all the needed mnseles, could only accomplish 9,000 feet in nine hours, or one-twentieth the work done by the heart. The Philadelphia Female. Mrs. Barn ham, in the ftrpubfican, of Ht. Louis, has tlio following pleasant nut ire on the nnoomfortable cleanliness of the Philadelphia!!*: It makes no difference with the Philadelphia female nl>ont the weather. Hho breaks the ice in her pail und goes cheerfully to work glazing thoae immaculate steps, while the winds houl round hur and the mer cury goes down to unheard-of deptha. Bleu* her I abe slides off the stoop, she skates on her car into the gutter, and in rescued by Home of the occupant* who are not ncrnbbing. Nobody can hold their perpendicular one mutant upon the scene of her exploits, and she looks with pleasure on the downfall of the Yorker. The native in all the while in venting something to circumvent the scrubbers. The latent kink is an article called Creepers, a little horseshoe shaped thing, with sharp, short spikes, that screws on to boot-heels. The Philadelphia man wears the creepers, and the Philadelphia woman is in a ceaseless stew lest he forget to take 'em off tne time. He told of the evils he had wriUiesacd iu tlie saloon busiiieaa, the ruined men he had known, aud the misery it eatnu-d, then gave a comically unphilosophical explanation of " Why the great God put the stimulant into the oorw, if he didn't want men to use it," stating that peaches contained arsenic enough to kill men, ' bnt it is no sound reason why man, because God put brains lUto his head tiiat he could •Io it, should distil this arsenic oot to kill the human nation off the face ot tlie carth.'" In a subsequent speech Van Belt made one astonishing statement : That the liqnor dealers in Cincinnati had offered to supply him with liquors free of cost for one year if he would hold out. A correspondent from Bhelbyville, lud. t says : On Wednesday, at the saloon of George Lepras, while tin large nnmberof women were engaged in prayer aud singing, a noral and ]-• cuhar emotional incident lavcurred. Mr. Deprez had, as has b. en hi* custom up on every occasion except the first visit of his lady friends, pofitelj opened tin door of his establishment and w.-loomed in the crusaders. There woe tho .wis ternary singing of hymtis, succeeded by frequent prayer*. In tho interim between these Oneof the ladies address ed the remark, kindly, te the proprie tor, " Mr. Denrer, yt>u are too intelli gent a man and too much of a gentleman not to acknowledge that selling liquor is a great wrong !" Mr. Deprex made answer by saying, unexpectedly; " Madame, I do not lay much claim to being a gentleman ao long as I am engaged in this business ; and if 1 should be the very first to quit it to oblige the ladies of Shelbyriile, it wouldn't sarpriae me." This was gratefully accepted by the prayerful people a* a great and prom ising ootioeeston on tin- part of Deprex. While these interesting mutters were transpiring in Ib-pre/.'s saloon there were present two deeply attentive sj>ce tatora leaning against the tall bar in the rear of the room. These men, dame* Thomas and one Lacy, were moved by the spectacle of the pleading women to ask for their prayers, ami they were given with deepest pathos and sympa thetic eloquence. Thomas and Lacy knelt during these solemn scenes, and when they were concluded these men were overr-mia with remorse. Jim Thomas catne forward to say, in grief heavy words, " 1 am not suro all of yon know me, though some of you |Ks*ibly mav." I'd this several responded, "We know you, Mr. Thomas, and our sorrow ia all the keener." " Well, than," he went on to say, "you rememlter me when I was a pros perous and well-to-do merchant in your midst, living happily with a dear fam ily in my own pleasant home. And now you look upon the wreck that I am— another warning against intemperance. My family were conqielled to fly from me, and are broken and scattered my children, God knows where ! All my property has gone. lam in poverty, in disgrace, and a confirmed drunkard. Oh, ladies, 1 hope you will all pray for mi-, and close up these gaping tempta tions -those hundreds and thousands of saloons !" Ho wholly had Thomas yielded to his enslaving vice that, when moneyless, this once respectable dry goods mer chant had recently even cleaned the filthy saloon spittoons and swept the floors in order to obtaiu his grog. Fif- U>eii years ago ho was estimated to be worth SIO,OOO to #40,000. The story of Lacy was also detailed, and in its gen eral scope was similar to that of poor •Tim Thomas. When this whisky saloon prayer-meeting concluded and the wo men warriors ngainst King Aloohol withdrew, there were few dry eyes among crusaders or leungers. As EARNEST FARMER. —A philosophi cal clerk, being out of a job, took up with an offer from a farmer. The first night on the farm he slept so soundly that the call before daybreak, with sub sequent rappings on his door, failed to arouse him. About 10 o'clock he came lounging down stairs, when the dis gusted farmer sarcastically inquired: "Won't you have a glass of wine ?" "No, thank you," was the yawning re ply; "I never take anything early in the day." The agriculturist fainted. The Cuba business affords a mark for the Parisian wits. The Charivari has a cartoon in which is represented a Yankee carrying a placard with the le gend : " American Boots—Brother Jon athan." In front of him stands a Span iard, one of whose boots seems to be torturing him. It is marked " Cnba," and as he grasps it, screwing liis face at the same time into a grotesque look of agony, Brothsr Jonathan says : "It pinenes you; shall I draw it off?" " A Perfect Angel." A young man who was lucky enough to cleau up iu Ophir, Consolidated Vir ginia, and other stocks, tho snug little sum of $30,0(10, with which he hasten ed homo to his native Buckeye Htate, writes to a friend in this city to any that fortnue still smiles upon him. He has achieved a handsome young bride, and with her a farm ol 300 acres, not two miles from his own old roof-tree. His bride is the only daughter of a rich old granger n oily mun of the nod, worth bushels of money. As our voung friend went home " well heeled, and, more over, is as fine a lad as ever stepped into shoe leather, there was, of course, no " cruel pnricut" to distract the course of true love m this instance - everything was lovely with the old man. Our child of fortune sends a funny ac count of his interview with the old gent when he cauie to ak the hand of li* daughter ui marriage. When the words were s|Hikeu the affair progressed sa follows: Farmer Hodge—Take'r, my boy— take'r. She'll make you a good wife hut yuti know thaL You'll find that lower meddcr'll cut three and a half Urns to> the acre year with year. The old orchard don't bear aa it used to do, but the new one is in full bearing. The fence* arc att rn good— Young WaaboC -I shall ncvr ceaso to love and ehcriali your datigh Fanner Hodge Fences all iu splen did order all around the farm, and 1 be lieve there is not a more convenient barn in the Young Washoe—And 1 believe she loves me, God bless her ! as she loves her— Farmer Hodge - The ten coww, the eight calves, and the Young Washoe If she is not made the happiest wife in all tlie Stats of— Farmer Hodge-Will all have calves in the spring, and the 150 sheep you will find Young Washoe—Slia is a jwrfeet an gel. Farmer Hodge— Of the b*t breed. Young Washoe —That ever lived. Farmer Itodge—Aud will shear more wool Young Washoe- Hay no more ; ay no more. (And here Farmer Hodges and Votiug Washoe ruaheJ luto each other's arms and embraced for tlie spare of five minutes. Proof* of the Horld'a Age. Kent's Cavern, at Torquay, is said to furnish proof* that this globe u, at it aat, hiW.UOO years old. At any rate, it gtvi-s indications of an immense au liqnity. The upper sLalagmitic floor divides the relics of the lal two or three thousand year* from a d]>oait full of the bones of extinct mammali, many of which indicate au arctic climate. The varying thickneastw of the stalagmitic floor, from lfi inchea to 5 five feet and upward, closely'correspond to the pres ent amount of drip In various parts of the cave, ao that the cave itself, with its various fissures and crevices, does not appear to have been mato-riatlv altered Miice tlie stalagmitic was tlrpusiLed. But names cut into this stalagnntie more than two centuries ago, are still legible, showing that, in a spot where the drip is now very copious,and where the stalagmite is 12 feet thick, not more than about one-eighth of an inch,or say one-hundredth of a foot, has Kv-.u de posited iu that length of time (British Association lt**]*rl, 18*19, p. 136 i. This give* a foot in 28,000 years, or f> feet in !00,000; and there is no reason what ever U consider this to> be too lugh an estimate. Thia older stalagmite is very thick and is much nmrw crystalline than tho uj|er one, so that it was probably formed at a slower rate. Yet below this again, in a solid breccia, very dif ferent from the cave earth, undoubted work* of art have been found. A fair estimate will therefore give us, say, 100,OUO year* for tho upper stalagmite, and about 250,000 f,r the deeper layer of much greater thickness, and of more oryiitalhne texture, ltut between these we have a dejo*it of cave-earth which implies a different set of phyaical con ditions and an alteration in the geogra pby of the surrounding country. We hare no moans of measuring the period during which this continued to be formed, but it was probably very great; and thorc was certainly some great change in physical conditions during the tie posit of the lower stalagmite, be cause the fauna of the county under went a striking change in the interval. If we add ISO, (kkl years for thia period, we arrive at the sum of half a million, oa representing the veani that have probably elapsed since flints of humau workmanship wore buried in the lowest deposits of Kent's Cavern. A Rood Hit. Many of our readers will remember tho exciting controversy wlucli arose, iu IH4S. between the governments of the United States and Great Britain, concerning the boundary line between Oregon and the British territory. The States claimed tip to M deg. *4O mm. north latitude, while England would draw the line nt 42 deg. The cry of the hot-headed ones at Washington was " Fifty-fonr-forty, or tight!" Wise counsels, however, at length prevailed. The British Government, in IK4R, pro posed tho parallel of 49 deg., which was finally accepted. While the controversy was yet warm, the llntish Minister, >tr. Puckcnham, was one day walkiug up to the Capitol, and not fur behind him was Mr. H , a Meiulter of Congress from the West. B——, though a gentleman and a most genial companion, was one of the belli cose members. With him it was "Fifty four-forty, or fight!" ami nothing else. When near the Capitol a drunken man intercepted the Minister, and ac costed him: " Hay, old fellow, yon are that British Packenbani, ain't you? 'Yes 1 know ye lie. Now look here, my old stump, just you bear in mind 'at you don't get one "inch of territory below fifty-four forty. It's fight every time beyond that 1" Mr.B came up, and nodded pleas antly to the Minister. "Yon will excuse that man," ho said, " He is drunk." '* Certainly, returned Mr. Packen hum, also pleasantly nodding. "No sober IUHII would make such a declara tion as that."— Ix dyer. To I hose who Draw Notes. A man drew a nob* promising to pay one hundred dollars. Ho used the printed form ami did not close up the blank devoted to dollars, and after passing it as negotiable paper, Home body inserted "and fifty" after the one hundred and before the printed word dollar. The note, thus altered, got into the linuds of an innocent party, who presented it to the drawer, and the Su premo Court decided that the maker of the note was liable for its face, because through negligence he did not draw a lino between the written word "dol lars." Any testimony that the drawer might offer to establish the fact that he gave the note for one hundred dollars must go for nothing, as "there was nothing on the face of the note to sliow that it had been altered." Evidence of an alteration on the face of the note would liavft changed the case. Let this be a lessoii to all drawers of promissory notes. No one can be too careful in •nob matters,— Baltimore Newt. SDAY, MARCH 12, 1874. The t'hluesr New *ear. idolatry la Matter Slrc.l KaMln and StUttSlHg O|lM•. The nativea of tlie Celestial Empire rosnliug in New York, says a eitv paper, celebrated une of their great festivals ou the eve of their new year. The Chinese temple is situated within five minutes' walk of the City Hall, iu a tumble-down building in Baxter street, a short distance from the Bowery, and serves all the purposes of a dub-room, a place of worship, and a banquet hall ou festive occasions. A glance at Uns establishment suggests the trials of the Chinese in the United Htate*. Tlie wretched life, the poverty and miseiyr to whioh the unhappy Chinaman is doomed in this country could find no more filt.ug abode, in tlie midst of the squalid haunts of uiiaery bordering the Five Points stands the temple, so-call ed, in which the Chinese residents of New York worship the great idol Fo, and the four leaser deities, whose names reduood to plain Kugliah would read, " Light Heaven King, "Grasn Empire Hi-awn King," " Clear-Eyed ibaveu King," and " Kind Heaven King." Tlie New A*ear's festival is celebrated with much religious pomp by the Chinese, sud wherever the Chinaman goes he clmgs with tiugular tenacity to the traditioua aud customs of his race. In this country California has been chiefly the field"of his labors, tlie num ber of Chines** there at the last census being nearly .VI.OOO out of a total of rsS.(IU) ui tlie United States. The num ber at present iu this city has been estimated at almut 400. Of this number over 100 took part iu the eeleliratiou. The celestial temple is situated ou the second floor of No. 12 Baxter street, and consists of two principal rooms with two or three smaller apartments adjoin ing. A reporter visited this establishment, and, alter passing through a dilapidated hallway, was conducted through the rooms br two intelligent young China raeii. They were nvatly dressed, aud had their hair cut like other people, and could speak English so as to be un derstood. Entering the first apartment from the stairway, some half down Chinamen were found eugaged in a game with pieces of wood somewhat re sembling ilominoa. Passing through Una room, another of equal dimensions, or about 12 feet square was reached, m which the worship of the idol Fo ui con ducted. The interior of this apartment in every way corresponded with the ex ternal apjH-aranoc of the building and the general siqicct of the adjoining hov els There was no attempt at adorn ment of any kind. The walls had evi dent lv not been brought recently in ountiwrt wRh the whitewash brush. They were consequently of that murky brown oolor ao characteristic of the apartments of the lower class of tene ment house*. Gn one side of the room waa a table about ten feet long oovered witn a wait© cloth, at the upper end of which a group of elderly Chinamen were deeply engaged in convei sation, and did not stem to take any notice of the visi tors. Close beside the entrance a cheap print was hong on the wall, painted m gaudv eolora, as a represen tation of the .doi Fo, and underneath was. placd a temporary table about four f.-rl in height, to serve as an altar. On this altar two candles were burning. Three or four saucers were range.! around the lighted tapers, on which were apples, nuts, and two or three va rieties ot vgetabla; a couple of small bouquets were placed on the centre of tlie table under the idol. Three were the offerings to the gods. Underneath the table on the ground floor two more lighted candles were placed in cone shaped pieere of wood, raised some ten iuch.-s from the floor. A few nieces of colored pajier were pasted to the walls, on which were written, in Chinese char acter*, pliraeea which one is informed are translated into English as " Majes tic Kings of Darknesa," " Shades of Ancestors and Evil Hpirite do us no harm." " Heaven King Grasp all the Empire," " Pure Running Brook, ' and others cf a similar nature. Another of these papers bore the name of the club, aud specified the terms upon which merolwra were admitted to be ten ceuts a w.-ek. Tit* obeerrenoe of the festival lasted two days. Tit* worshipers prostrate themselves before the idol on lho floor and touch the around with their fore head* three time*. Afterward* they partake of tie banquet. About 1(W took aupper in Utia room, and the entire eipei.so of the bau<{uet reached $75, For two or tliree day# previoualjr prepa ratien* were making for thia supper, and the busiest memWr of the club was an old man who WM charged with the cooking of the fowl* and meata for the lmnquet. The reporter inquired what kind of viands were preparing, and hie guide, smiling, aaid: "Oh, oh! Ton think we Chinamen oat nothing but rioe. We have chicken! Put that down in the paper." A proeeaaion form# part of the religions observances, bnt the apartment in too amalt to carry ont thia feature in the religion# eeremoniea with effect. A few of the worshipers march ed raund the room several time*, then prostrated themselves before the idol. The festival closed with a grand opium atnoke. It most not, liowcrer, lie un deratood that the Chinese are ao attach ed to their idol# an not to 1M influenced by the truths of Christianity. The Chinese Mission School at the Five Pointa House of Industry, close beside, furnishes ample evidence of their wil lingncm to apply themselves to learn the Scripture*. The school was estab lished slxmt three years ago. and is under the care of Mr. A. 11. Kembell and Mi* Goodrich. During the past year 150 Chinese, chiefly young men, were taught in this school, which is oj>en every Sunday evening, and every week day except Saturday. The superintendents and teachers are from the Fourth Aveuue Pres byterian Church, aad they speak in the most favorable manner of those who attend the school. The influence of the teachers has been very eflective, and their pupils quickly loam to con form themselves U> the usages there in stilled. There are no Chinese women in New York. A Pncoxr SCHOOLMISTRESS. --Miss Frauk Pottle, a school teacher in Frye htirg, Me., was brought before a Jus tice of the Peace for whipping one of her scholars. Miss Pottle's weight seemed to be nbout ninety pounds, and her muscles, judging by her delicate hands and slim wrista, were not much developed. The whipped scholar was a strapping, ugly boy, and sixteen years old. Learning that punishment had been well deserved, the Justice ex pressed admiration for Mies Pottle's pluck, and discharged her. An indignant matron winds up a philippic agaiust sleeping oars with the clinching accusation that the system forces young girls to beoome "familiar ized with that unattractive object, a sleepy and unwashed man." The gophers of Los Angeles, Cal., are as expensive to the oouuty treasury as army moths to that of the United States. * Over #IO,OOO is due in bounty for killing the little animals, . '• * ■ - Terms: $2.00 a Year, in Arh-ancf*. Oar Light Houses. In mttty eases the lighthouse* of the United States are built complete at some foundry, and then transported to their propar place. In others men must work amidst the surf under such diffi culties that in laying the foundations of Minot'a Ledgo Light-house, on the Massachusetts coast, one of tlie famous achievmctita in this branch of engineer ing, General Alexander, His distin guiabed sffioer who superintended the construction, was sble to get but thirty hours of work done in the first year, and one hundred and flfty-aeven bourn is in the aeeond year. Formerly the best sperm-oil was used in light-house lamps. Colas or rape eoed oil wan next introduood in Europe, and la aliil used thorn, as it is au excel lent oil. It is, however, difficult iu this country to get a sufficient quantity of the best kind, and our Light bouse Board now uses the best quality of lard-oil, made on purpose fur the estab lishment. Kerosene and other mineral oil* have lieeu used in the British Pro vinces and in Europe to some extent, but there are certain obvious risks at tondiug them which prevent their use with us. The lenses used to enforos, cveen trate, and direct the higher grades of j lights cost various prices, up to eleveu i or twelve thousand dollars. The lamp of a first ordsr sea-coast tight-bonae. has four ©oneentrie wicks, the outer one i being four inches in diameter. The oil la pumped up by clock-work ur *dhr ma- i ehitwry so as'to feed Vheaa wioka eon-1 stoutly to their utmost, that they my give out as much light oa possible. The Fresnel lens now oomes in to save ail the rays of light which have thus care fully been created, and to eouoentrate them and send them forth in that diiwe liou onlv in which lby are required. Briefly described, the invention of Frea nel consists in sarronnding the lamp by a series of prismatic ring* of glass, each different from the other* in its, angles, but all cut mathematically to such angle* that tho ravs which go i above the profwr plane ana thos whioh fall t>elow shall be t>ent by refraction and reflection so as to become parallel with the lateral ray*. Thus all the rays are saved and sent out in one sheet over the ocean. A light-house keeper is required by the government to be over eighteen years old, to be able to read and write, and to be competent for hia duties. "Women and servants must not tou them, aud had she struck the Teasel a little further under, the Kate Williams would probably nerer hare been hwird from after leaving Fayml. As it was, the veasel received a p'retty gd shook, and lost a portion ot her missen channels. The monster had seen the bark about the time the sailor discovered her, for she immedi stely sunk and earneup with gn at force right at the vessel's stern. Capt. Hale thinks her mouth measured at least ilfteen feet, and her under jaw waa felt to scrape the bottom of the vessel as she glided swiftly away from her unex jMjetod enemy. The whale fared as badly as the bark, no doubt, for the qnarter-deek was covered with pieces of the leviathan's outer skin aud the • mnd" that is fonnd between it and the tougher hide. The Kate Williams was sailing rapidly at the time, and in about fifteen minutes the fit h wss out of sight. While the latter oould be seen Hhe appeared swimming about look ing for the vessel, and evidently in a rage." TITR DUTKIIE.NCK. —When the first Continental Congress was is session, Delegate Harrison, of Virginia, desir ing " to take something," went with a friend to a certain place where supplies were furnished Congress, and ordered two glasses of brandy and water. The man in charge hesitated, and replied that liquors were not included in the supplies furnished Congressman, "why," said Harrison, "what is it, then, that I see the New England mem bers oonie here and drink ?" " Molasses and water, which they have charged as stationer t/," was the reply. "Then give me the brandy and water," said Harrison, "and charge it a nfuel The Cincinnati Times says that at the wedding of Victoria's boy and Alex ander's daughter the bride s present! were elegent and reckmhay, NO. 10. A Father's Terrible QrIVH, ; rk.r| with lUmttmg hi* Owklr im I>alh HtnaM Mwd hOlf* P ktr A probable murder, committed to I'ittatowit, V. ha* jaet eome te (fee notice of MM authorities, lite facte of which, so far M we cu learn, *re a* fol low# : A man named Mowbwr, residing j is the northern part of Hfitatown, where HE OWNED considerable property, had a daughter, a slender and not over strong y mtiK irtS. wb aome time ego become , acquainted with a poor hot worthy vouug roan named De Long, residingl near Twmhaimoot. The young p) , deeteed to get married, but for aome j reason the father of the girl oppoaad the match. Be Bong waa duter | mined, however, to have hit bride, . and on tbn -Khh of January went to the revidence of Mr. Mowbar, aa we are in- I ffirmed, for the pnrpone of getting the , girl and going with her to rombaurtock to get married. Mr. Mowbar tew the 11 young man approaching the bona*, end, , (trebablr enrtuimag Ida object, attached , the girl Worda undoubtedly ensued, when the father in a fit of rage knocked hi* daughter down and ouoMwetwd , beating her in a mart cruel and unnatu ral manner. The rootiu. rushed in to save her child, lmt could do untiring against tlie'jower of the inhuman lath or, and a eon who had bean confined to hit bed by illneaa for aererai daya paeaed- I hig jumped up and went to the *MU taooe of hie aantcsr. Theraetilt waa that for a few momenta the weight of the three persona waa upon the ftik She ] finally managed to get away, although no much injured that the could hardly walk. The next morning the girl walked to the residence of tar sinter, a abort dis tance from her father's house, and there met young De Long.' Determined to accomplish her purpose, aba went wtti him t*> Torauauu -.VK. WHERE UMJT www married. Then aha went to the resi dence of hia parents and remained at that plane until bar death. A few days after the marriage aba complained of feeling very UL A physician waa sent for, but a fewer bad ae* in, which eventually terminated her life, tto<- waa buried from Tomhannock, having lived scarcely teu days altar bar mar riage. The attending physician stated ! that death was Indiroctfy maud bv the injuries received at the bands of her , father. Persons wbo saw the body i after death stale that it waa dtsAgwwed in a shock lag manner The neak wan swollen. and appoaraaoaa indiaated that she had been choked. ♦ "1 . 7 ----- Macular Ortmany. *\ A singular ceremony waa lately wit-' neaaed in England m the maarkabfe I obsequies Of Lemontinia South, tit* '•motyramstie" wife of a gvpay mncjb famed in Ita—nay atocta*, aatksf George i l*ovelL Tie ••affairs of Egypt" trans-1 acted no the occasion war* of thf moat, mysteries description. Mora than one hundred Romany chela, representing all the tribes in i.r.gland, attended lbs, funeral Returning to their encamp ment, a gtwnd cerrmooy of cremation tnnk plane. All the wearing apparel, Uinkrta, and domaatia articles belong-. ing to or any wgy need by the dead . woman were solemnly burnt or other wise destroyed, and even the carevan an j which aha had been in the habit of traveling waa, so it is said, committed to the flames. Lemontinia Smith aaems to have taken poison, and Level! ex. 1 pressed his readiness to give £M) lor i the two ha sins in which abs bad mixed the fatal draught, but which bad been retained by the analyst, II the causes I for the performance of these strange , rite* are inquired into, o"thing, we fear,, of an enllghtenuig nature would be e)icited. Even the gypsies aw invntmn larilv reticent, and have nothing to say j as regards thaurerigsn, their language, and their curious manners and customs, or elae they are phenomenally capable of korputf triair own counsel, and are persistent in their determination not to tell modern civilisation who and wbnt thev are. and what they mean by their general behavior. Why cannot they conform T Whv shonlil "the affiaim erf Egypt" be tranHscted at Wolverhamp ton ? Why do they object to fill up the census papers f And why should the impassable gulf have yawned for more than four hundred jeare between the nomads who roamed hither no man knew whence and no man knew why, and the nations M Europe? If the JStngan were Pagans they have vnre.y had tims enough to turn Cbri*tia*M ; if they are of Oriental extraarios, they should surely have become naturalized : but they seem to have been actuated throughout by an aggravated sentiment of the nrm kind, and as they were in the middle ages so do they con tin tic in the vear 1871—a problem to learned and a crux to the county jus tices, the delight of antiquarian*, the bete* wire* of farmens ana the despair i of the rural police. Kanaka Simplicity and He* piUllty. A letter writer in Honolulu say*:— "In traveling abont these islands the observer Is struck with the simplicity awl generosity of the Hawaiian people. It seem* a pitv that aoch a race should perish. A man may journey from one ~QJ of the archipelago to tue other, hi open day or tha midnight darkneas, and he is as secure as if he were in hia own house. A foreigner never thinks of c*irving firearms, for there is no on* te m<4st him. He never goes hungry, for whatever the Hawaiian ha*, whether poi, tarn, or fish, is shared with the stranger. When Ihey were a wealthy and powerful people, when almost every foot of land was cultivated, and theiv were from SOO,OOO to 400,000 inhabi tants, they killed fat hogs for their guests : trot those halcyon daya are nearly passed, because in nine esses out ol ten they are *©w too poor to afford that luxury. But the aloha (tove to you) is as hearty as ever. And hearing this aloha and aeefng the miserable sue ronndings are contrasts indeed. The surroundings, generally speaking, are poverty stricken in the extreme. The majority of those who meet you audi greet you are but the wrecks of * peo pie healthy and powerfnl in their bar baric state, but diseased and helpless in the civilization brought to their doors. But even to this day, like an oasis in the desert, there are BOW and then families to be found whose blood is untainted with the terrible poison which has nearly decimated the Hawaiian people. This is especially true of the chiefs and chiefesses, seme of whom are splendid apeoimens in physique, princely looking men and queenly looking women. IsnxßNTixx. GAsnuiXßs. —Gambling is a self-probating and potent influence in Nevada. The San Francisco Chron icle published vigorous attacks oti the gtimblera of that mining Stele, expos ing their tricks and denouncing them generally. In retaliation the gamblers issued a'circular to the fraternity, in viting co-operation in decreasing the circulation of the Chronicle. In Vir ginia City a committee waited on all the citizens who were subscribers and re quested them to discontinue. So m flubutial are the gamblers in that city that there were two hundred own* pttanoM with their request. help the flavor of tea. There wemfil/'STfiflfl metes of boots floaton daring the year !M7. ■ • The AdutUhNM liCW accepted the terms pwpesadJo thn by Sir Garnet W.-lscley, will pay a round nm,and the f VII Cull* Humility la a gr* that adwna ! and beautifies every other grace; with it, the most splendid natural and no • quired acquisitions lose their ehsnn. The Senate of Ksw Jwrrev Used the number of shares to be taken by the j State in thaeentcnnial oatcbrmtion stock at 10,000, which, at ffO a share will ! amount to fl J