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
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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 <m the steps and go prodding around
on her carpets. Therefore the instant
the windows are properly glozed and
the stoop iced, she sits in the hall to
watch for the creepers—a perfectly
harmless life, but one .destitute of at
traction to an ease-loving, scrub-hating
woman like me.
EIJABTIC VARNISH. —As an excellent
and easy manufactured varnish for
wickerwork, Mr. F. Bbien recommends
the following composition : One part
of good linseed oil boiled down to a
syrup consistency, anil mixed with
twenty parts of oopal. This mass is
then diluted with oil of turpentine to
the proper thickness. The varnish
dries easily, and remains elastic, so as
not to crack by the bending of the
basket.
Avoid contest if possible, if you oan
never be sure where a contest will end.
CENTRE HALL. CENTRE CO.. DA.. THl'l
The HliUky War.
Uiltlffitfi ahil Triumph* of flir Crtitatl#
• II !• oarrlttl on Iu Oltto.
The whisky war iu Ohio continues
with unabated vigor, and frvh move
ment* are being inaugurated through
out the Htate. The Cincinnati fVwu
•nerri(i' relates a description given by
a refugee, who ha* arrived in Ihut city
from MeArthur, Vinton Co., Ohio,
where lie hud a sort of club-room where
h game of card* could be played and *
drink of whisky taken. He was driven
out by the woman's war agaiuat whisky
and i-urd*. He said : "They climbed
up to my place a week ago last Friday
night, fifty-four of thent, young and
old, rich and poor, some in rag* and
some in flue harness. Each of the fifty
four wouieu came up personally and
spoke to me, and hop.nl I'd get a near
soul. Of course i had to treat 'em po
litely. There was only one lamp burn
ing In the room when Uiuy came iu, eo
1 lit another fur them, to make it
lighter. Then they took out their
hymn books and all began to sing te
gather. One or two of 'cm led, and
the rest joined in. After they had
sung fifteen minute* or so they alt got
down on their knees and prayed. There
was one woman there who could pray
loud enough to bo heard all over the
village, which ha* only eight hundred
inhabitant*. A woman would pray find
the rest would join in with an a-a-men
—a long aud loud one. Ouo of the
women that prayed waa seventy year*
old. Hhe prayed so long aud strong
tliat she got herself all of a tremble,
aud had to be lifted to her feet ami
carried down stair*. One time they
•-ailed all got down on the outside, and
ang and pruvod."
Reporter - "You dosed up. finally.
Mr. G. There was nothing rf*e to
do when tlicv were carrying ol: that
wav. They closed everything in tin
village down to an oyster saloon, where
the folk* were iu the habit of plaving a
game of cards to see who'd jray for the
Hteaa, a place where there wasn't a
drop of liquor sold.
Reporter -How do they treat a fellow
iu their prayer* f
Mr. G. —They are very kind in their
prayers at first. They pray for a fel
low s soul, and then stick, a petition
before him. If In- dou't ign to quit,
they pray for lightning to strike hi*
•hop.
A correspondent describes a speech
of Van l'elt, delivered in front of a
-aloon in Morrow, Ohio, lie says
" Van Belt launched into the most un
reportable speech 1 have listened to for
*<>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 t<e em
ployed iu the management of the lights,
except by the special authority of the
department. '
Extraordinary Sorae in a Criminal
(tert.
In a criminal court in London, John
Lakeman, 29, shoemaker,waa convicted
on a charge of receiviog the prooeeda
of a burglary with a guilty knowledge,
upon whioh "evidence waa given that,
l-eaidca having been subjected to short
terms of imprisonment, he had twice
undergone penal servitude—once for
five years- and had only been out of
prison nine days when he committed
the offense of which he waa now con
victed. He waa also at that lime at
lilierty on a ticket of leave.
The Recorder, in fiaasing sentence,
said, as the prisoner see ed deter
mine*! to lead the life of a thief, it was
hia duty to see that he waa restrained
for aot* time. He sentcnoed him to*
ten year*" penal servitude.
On sentence being pronounced a ter
rific acene occurred. The csmvick, a
young, powerful man, declared—his
l yes gleam iug with indescribable rsjge
and bi whole frame being fearfully
agitated—Ui at sooner than endure ten
yean' penal servitude h? would die on
the gallows like a dog. This he re
peated sgain and again, each time with
more vehemence than before, and waa
preparing to spring over the front of
the dock, when he was seized by the
warder* from behind ; bnt for a few
moments he kept them all at bay and
roared and foamed like a wild tiaaeL
The policemen in attendance frem all
part* of tlie court ran to their assist
ance, upon which the prisoner renewed
the struggle with stilt greater deter-1
mi nation than before, if jmssnblo. He
waa at length thrown upon the floor of
the dock and held down there bv main
foroc, the audience meanwhile becom
ing much excited. For a moment or
two it soematl as if he would have mas
tered the policemen, bnt he waa drag
ged from the dock into a cell behind, !
where additional assistance waa ob- j
tamed, and where, in hie now impotent
rage, he waa nUU heard asseverating
that he would rather die on the scaffold
like a dog than undergo ten years'
penal servitude. Gradually hia eric*
became fainter and fainter, and at
length died away altogether, as if he
had succumbed to sup.nor force, and
waa being dragged to hia oelL
A Hark Attacked by a Whale.
The bark Kate William*, Capt. Hale,
nf tin l regular packet line between Boa
ton am! Fayal, which arrived at Hoe ton,
ha.l a remarkableeacape on her passage.
The Boa ton Joumtti thus describes the
incident: "Abont nine o'clock one
morning a seaman aloft cried ont that
there was a whale on the port bow.
Capt. Hale stepped to the port quarter
ana almost immediately could hsve laid
his hands npon the npper jsw of a
sperm whale, which hail paid an unwel
come riait to the Teasel It waa a oow
whale about aixty feet in length, which
had set ui>ou 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 g<x>d 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 <IO,OOO.
i F, Behoaroan, of Milwaukee, worked
hard for four year*, did well, and than
I sent over the seas for hta Katrine,
j Whan she arrived she died from exeeaa-
JmifOj.
A man can send a telegraph message
• IMLUBq. '■ JMW <• si*-
i waU, in triwtlaod. a distance of seven
1; mi Ired miles, t the low eost of one
! cents word.
A pamphlet has been issued in Paris
going k) shew that the son of Louis
Kapoleon, being old oU*h and wise
. enoggh ought to be immediately called
to the throne.
j ih. Tlctw. <* tha Imperial Austrian
i Mining Hchocd, sent out by Baron Reu
! field* near Osevta.
I tb Paris there are iwsnty-thrcc fash
i igq icufikiifi iji4 twauif'lhiw BUmwso
, Catholic n ligiona oaea. There are two
! vußg ladW papera. Germany has
I only five fashion papers,
i lists'-jpbwr thai eveiw jpewon. how
ever low, baa rights ana feeling*. In
* *ll Contention* let pesos be wdher yonr
♦ ebiect then triumph ; value tnumpb
! only as a means of peso®.
In one of the pnbtie schools in Eng
land the teaching of tcirgr.pt. ha* been
i tried with much *eoeae. Instmmente
are lent by the Oovernmeut, and the
children learn very rapidly.
A London phyridan. after a kbonoua
eotleetkmof the atatwtMs of the trade,
i oowelnde* thai the opportunity of eon
siaot tippling ahortena life an average
of three year* and a half.
Here is a eonvewaiion iflastrative ot
, ouuelitv in Part*: "la Mouaienr, the
j vsobiLc within f* Porter-" I cannot
' asy; you e*n go pand try, as w* are
I no loagar on epealuag terms."
, "M. Quad." of tbi Detroit Frtc
Pre**, has a patent kicker which anni
-1 hilatea the man whe "dropa up" to read
j the exrtiangea, paw over the copy, or
bore tbeaditor in any otliar way.
i The Ooveroor-General of Canada baa
, offered a gold medal for the beat gentle
man skater and aailver one for the best
1 kdv skater in the coming tournament.
Ho is atom generous than gallant
f A women at Vasmltxwo, Me., recent
♦ ly returned te her husband after a nine
yeuif* atgy among the Bhaker*. Her
"hnslsmd invited all tha neighbors to
; celebrate the eveat and welcome her
home.
i Any boy can Ueun to chew lobacoo by
being hopeful and peraevmg, tmt nn
-1 ieaahls hi pa at* folly developed ha can
not wear panto without suspenders, and
have his shirt foam jauntily ant over
I the top-
I A housekeeper, writing of poor *-
i vaeU. ears tiist d women would study
. boaeekeeirf ag a* their husbands rtudy
, uw, medicine, and book-keepng. there
1 wouM be much leas complaint of bad
•ervanka.
i wo thousand dottsra is a pretty high
f price to pay few a ngle rooster. That
is what Mr. Davis of Portland has
' given Ira Balehehler for a Mack Spanish
i ceak -ootandeeed the best game bird In
the country.
' The hatred of the Chinrne in San
I Francisco Is thus placarded in a agar
1 store : "Mo Caiaamea aaaployad or
i Chinese goods sold here. Established
' sixteen years on the principle of white
< lstvwofly^
I A propoeed amendment to the Sew
Jersey consUtnUMi ia thai propw of
uo kind shall be exmpt from taxation,
I except that of the State, oonntiea, and
1 mnmcipaMtfea, and burying grounda
i not held by etock oMnpamea.
, The priueeas Marie, wife of the duke
; of Edinburgh, is chief of the rcginwmt
1 of the fourteenth lamoartnf Jam boor*,
i sad her title is ooionei ; bat she will
i hereafter, as heretofore, iaaae bar or
der* merely to the marines.
So country upon the face of the
! habitable glot*, having a railroad sys
tem ia operation, has so carefully
guarded against the posasbiiity of col
lisions as the republic of Oosta Rtoa.
It rejoseea ia a tingle locomotive.
The people near Farmeraville, Liv
ißgatou county, Ma, ww scared near
lv out of their witi, a few daya ago, by
the fall of an immense lerotite. It now
ton imbeded in the ground, and is aaid
to be about twenty-five feeet in diam
eter.
The eerie* of fourteen " extras"
leaned by the New York Tribune are
undoubtedly the cheapest and beet
popular scientific publication ia the
world. The 7Vitam will mud free to
any applicant a circular giving the
full contents and details of litis remark
able " Library for One Dollar."
A correspondent of the Garde* give*
tin* description of a pretty table orna
ment :— ** 1 was much struck lately with
the wonderfully beautiful effect pro
duced bywfmply placing a handful of
heads of wheat in a v**e of water. Each
grain sent out bright green leafleta, and
continued to replenish the fading one*
for weeks together."
Never be above your basinets, no
matter what that calling may be, but
strive to be tha bast in that line. He
who turns up hia note at Ma work quar
rel* with his bread sad butter. He is *
poor smith who quurels with his own
sparks; there ia no shame about an
honest call inf.. Dont be afraid of
soiling your hands; there is plenty of
soap to he had.
Tom Sankey was hanged in Mont
gomery. Alabama, recently. The
AdrrrfUer say*:—" The Bhenff stepped
upon the scaffold and adjusted the noose
around hia neck. While doing *o Tom
said in a tremulous voice, Good-by,
mv friend*.' The cap was then drawn
over his lace, and with hia face-now Md
from view he sang aloud, " Hang me
high and stretch me wide, and let the
world see how I died f "
Very odd excuses are put forward in
courts of justice; but this, from Cham
ber*'* Jou. nal, surpasses all: " A
French Republican, condemned to death
for murdering hia wife and child with
out extenuating circumstances, demur
red to the sentence, because capital
punishment had been abolished ia
France for political offenses; and he
had killed his wife and child for no
other reason bat because they were Lv
gitimista."
In the British medical naval report
just issued, a fatal ease of poisoning
by tobadoo is mentioned. A boy on the
implacable had frequently been re
proved for chewing tobacco, and on
several occasions swallowed pieces to
pfevent detection. On the nigit of hia
death he was heard breathing gtertori
oualy, and efforts to arouse him being
vain, he was taken to the sick bay.
Hi* pupils were insensible to the light,
apd nis pulse beat feebly. He.died in
two or three minutes after. Two small
pieces erf tobacco were touiwF in his
stomach. si
An old Parisian beggar, fampus for
his success, thus explains the business
"rules" to which, he says, helinvari
ably adhertw* " I never ask alms of one
who has dined, as ' rosbif" renders a
man selfish, nor of stout men, as it
bores them to atop, nor of anyone put
ting on his gloves, nor of a lady alone,
but always of any one manifestly going
to dinner, of people walking together,
te their amour-propre make* them
generous, of officers in grand imiforms,
and of people apparently seeking favor
from the government- they think that
Mill wff! bring them hwk> J