Ooly a Baby Small.
Only bftby small.
Dropt from the ftkiee ;
Only ft laughing f*o
Two sunny err#;
Only two cherry Up*.
One chubby none;
Only two little hands.
Ten little toea
Only ft golden head,
Curly and eoft ;
Only a tongue that wage.
Loudly and oft ;
Only a little brain.
Empty of thought;
Only ft little heart.
Troubled with naught .
Only a tender flower.
Sent ne to rear;
Only a life to lore.
While we are here.
Spring Is Coining.
Willi drifting enow the fields are hid.
The front is on the pane,
The froieu river uioans and groans.
And clanks hie icy chain,
lint a happier time will soon an sc.
For under Uie arch of southern skiee.
Tlie ftprtug is coming again, sad eyes.
The epriug is coming again.
Through leafless boughs the rueful wind
Wails low his drear refrain ;
And from the icy uorth the storm
Comes sweeping down amain.
Bnt skies shall soften, and storms depact.
And beds shall swell and venture start.
And blossom* cover the plain, faint heart.
For spring is coming again.
The spring is coming again, gvxxl sooth.
And store of cheer sl e brings.
For icy gleams. the flash of streams,
And the glint of glancing w ings .
For the wintry day, the merry May ;
Ft* snow wreath*, brings she garlands gay.
With many a rollicking roundelay.
And silvery caroling*.
And if my spring-hope* should fade.
And promise fruit in vain ;
Should wiulry sorrows chill my heart.
And cloud my Ufe with pain,
I will cheerily wait for a brighter day.
And trust that heaven will bring the May
That, brighter and gladder forever and aye,
Shall never fade or wave.
NASBY 0T THE CBF&ABERS.
Tkr Onptrasrc Crwsatle at th* laratn
Pollock 4 ttltitrr ti*l tpa llo
lum'i Jimrmem-—Ttc (imt Kalliurr.
Joe Bigier, the infamus, an J Polloca,
wich is worse, he\ been ai it agiu.
There is an amount nv devilment in the
buarams uv them men wieli biles over
perpetooallv, and wich kin no more be
stopped than kin /ermenfashen in cider.
The Comers trill her to nee in its mite,
and kill them two impious wretches in
self-defence.
The fact that Mrs. Bascom, the saloon
keeper's wife, hex bin gittin a large
assortment of etose in LOWsville,
and that she's the only woman in the
Comers who be* s second dress—and it
wood be almost safe to say the fust one
—he* bin taken advantage nv bv these
feends to perdoose an insoxrekaben in
our otherwise guiet households.
Issaker Oantt's wife, Luciudy, and
Deekin Pogram's wife, and his dawter,
Mirandv, happened to be in Pollock's
store a buTia some pork to bile, when,
ex ill lack wood her it, Mrs. Bascom
passed down the street. She hsd on *
fur sack and a noo bonnet, and hed
gloves on, and a muff, and a gold chain,
and she held her head well up, and hed
a ostridge feather. She wux a gorgeous
site for the Comers.
"See Mrs. Bascom. Mirandv," Bed
Joe Bigler, callin the at*enshun" nv the
wimen to her, ez she went sailin down
the street
They all looked at her, and rage filled
their biuanms.
"I never hed a biuaum pin," sed
Mi randy, indignantly.
"Why, I ain't got no shoes—to say
nothin' uv fur overshoes," shrieked Lu
cindy Gavitt?
" Whv don't Issaker git yoo shoes ?"
asked that villainous disturber, Pol
lock.
" He never hex no money," answered
Lueindv.
" Wtht did he do with the money I
paid bim for his corn, two weeks ego ?"
wnz the innocent question nv Pol
lock.
It wnz a spark nv fire in a magazine.
" Hez he sold his corn ?" she asked,
her voice qoiverin' with emoehen.
"He dkl sell it to me two weeks
ago," sed Pollock.
" The ornery cuss I Why, he prom
ised me n pare uv shoes and the baby
rome cloze when he sold that corn."
" Butj inv deer Mrs. Gavitt, sed this
hypercwitikle sneak, " you know "
Jest then Mrs. Bascomwas return in—
"But you know," ha conknyood,
" he bed to pny Basoom, becoz—by the
way ther goes Mrs. Bascom agin* and
aint she A stunner—becoz G. W. bed
to go to Looisville to get his wife'swin
ter outfit, and he hed to her wut laaaker
owed him." 1 ..
"And the mnnney for the corn, wich
I planted aud hood, and ont, and
shacked, hed to'go to put cloze on Liz
Bascom, did it ? Liz Bascom hex cloze,
hez she ?"
And ibis enraged woman howled with
emoebun, as did Mi randy Pogrom and
her mother.
And Pollock kept addm food to the
flame be had kindled.
"Here,"sed he to Lncindy, "is a
lovfely piece *r velvet wieh wood make
yoo an elegant sack, and, Lord bless
yoo, how this French flannel wood
make np into a and cloak for yoor
baby ! It doe* seem to me aa though
ißsaker and the Desk in mite let yon
wimmin hev enuff money to git yoo
some things. It sen a pity that Mrs.
Bascom ebood lnev every thing I"
Ef there is anything which'U make a
lion ont uv a woman, it's the desire for
dry goods. Pollock knowd this and
he played it onto em. He showd em
dry goods till they became raring
maniacs.
These three misguided wimmen left
that store oroosaders—they wnz so
many Jone nv Arks. Thrp'the mad
they went to Mrs. MePelter's, to Mrs.
Elder Pennibacker's, and to the wife of
every regler resident uv the Corners,
and they determined to mako a move
onto Bafcotn. nod etop his bixni* any
way, so that the money spent at his bar
could be yoosed in gittin cloze for them
and their children. They appointed
Tooaday last ez the day on wich they
wnz to make the raid. They arranged
a perceseion, with banners onto vnch
they wnz to write, " Leas rum—more
cloze," and they wnz to visit Basoom
and set down in his grocery and com
pel their hnsbands not to drink so
more, and Bascom not to sell em any
thing anymore.
There wnz wild forebodins of woe in
Basooms, Q. W., hisseif, and Im&ker
Gavitt, and Deeken Pogram and myself
all sot with pale faces, dreading this
invasion. lam a man nv resource. I
advised that a barl be rolled- ont into
his barn and a bar be extemporized
there, where we oood get our mps, till
this cyclone shood pass over. This. Q.
W. consented to do, and thos fortified
we sot down and awaited the attach
The 6nn ootoe oat smilin, and it wnz
warm enuff to go barefooted, and the
Corners wnz happy. The peroeahen
wnz to march at eleven.
•'We arelost," Bed Bascom, gloomily.
" Oh, that J should live to see this
day," sighed Deekiu -Pogratn.
" Let us comport onifcelves like men,"
sed L " This is a cyclone. It will
only last a few days. Cannot we sub
mit to deprivation for that time ?"
Ten o'clock arrived. The wind set in
from the north. Issaker rushed out
and looked at the sky, and came back
with hope on his countenance.
"Ef this wind holds we are saved 1
Ha !it grows colder 1 There's flakes
nv snow in the air! The preoeshen
can't move. The perceshen ain't got no
shoes."
It did git colder. The wind came
raw'and injicy blasts. We consulted
the only thermometer we hev in the
Comers, wich is a little nigger boy, on
a wet plank, barefoot We determine
the degree nv oold by asoertainin how
FK KI). KVHTZ, 15t.litor mul 1 'roprietoi
VOL. Ml.
long be kilt idand out doors iu tliat
way. 11 ia primitive but nkkerit.
Half-past ton ! It sut blowin a Rale,
j and wux ez cold ez bloo blaze* ! It
| ana impossible for any woman, with
out shoes or uuderelothes.to stand it in
J the open air.
Dei-kin lVgraiu oftme in, hie frosty I
I nose glowin with jov, and he fell on
i Has com'a neck ejackilstin, " Saved !
1 Saved J"
" lloorsy !** shonted Issaker davit!,
! " without shoe* and shawls not a cue
sed one uv em kin git out uv door* to
! *b\v!"
Baseom wept teers uv joy as he asked
; us take sutliiu.
"Yoo see," sed IVekiu Fogram,"how
Providence keers for us, Kf wo lied
i wasted ottr luunnev on close and sich
I the w immin wixhl hed us. Mnnney put
in wimmiu's clozo is wnaa than wasted.
, Ef they hed clove they'd bin hero this
| mi nit, a torment in uv us."
We wus saved this time—will we be
the next? We await a fair day with
j drc.L Pollock and Btgler will her them
wirnmiu out whether or no, just as soon
ez it gits warm enuff.
I'ktrolxi v V. Nxsnv,
(Wich wus Postmaster, i
Treed ly a Bull.
Henry Brumr, of Westchester, pur
chased a bull of a neighboring farmer,
and dispatched two of his workmen,
named Henry Moller and Fritz Stamp/,
to convey the animal to his stable. All
' along tlie route t.> Mr. Banner's premi
ses the bull acted very playfully, fre
quently jerking the ropes by which the
I men held the animal, in anch a manntr
as to send them sprawling iu the mud,
bnt allowances were made for these
! actions by the men, ou account of his
| lordship V>eing so young, etc.
Iu due time the trio reached the ter
minus of their journey. The men now
proceeded to install the animal in his
new quarters in the barn of Mr. Bru- i
tier, but he suddenly took a dislike to
the bam, seemingly ou aecount of its
being painted a reddish color, and in
spite of the earnest endeavors of the
men to get him in they were unsuccess
ful. Assistance was found necessary,
and Stumpf held tha bull while Moller
went into a neighboring held to call
assistance, ou the artival of which one
grand effort was made to get the animal
ia the bam, but at this stage of the
proceedings he broke loose from the
men, and, raising Stumpf ou bis hums, <
sent him heavenward with terrible ve
locity. On the return of the man to
the earth, the animal repeated the per
formance, until Stumpf was uncon j
scions, and left with hardly a stitch of '
clothing ou him. His companions came
to his aid with pitchforks and clubs,
, and goaded the bull until he became
infuriated and turned upon them. Now <
came the funny part of the scene, for '
Moller and a fellow workman had to
run for dear life, closely followed by
the foaming animal, for a tree located
about thirty rods distant The men j
reached the tree first, and Moller sue
, eeedod in getting safely ensconced
among its branches, but his oompanion '
was not so fortunate, for as he arrived >
about midway up the trunk the head of
the ball came in eooAaet with the tree
with such violence as to shake him
down.
The poor fellow was in a truly piti
able plight, but his presence of mind j
did not forsake him, and he jumped up
and ran ar >ni; 1 the trunk of tlie tree,
closely folio wed by the bull, and finally
got up the tree. Bnt the animal kept
the two men up in the tree for nearly
three hours, and the time would have
undoubtedly been much longer had it
not beet that Stumpf recovered con- 1
sciousneSs and proceeded to the resi
dence of Braner and told hut story.
Search was immediately instituted for
his companions, and they were foaml
still up the tree, cloaely guarded by the
bull and nearly frightened to death.
Old New York.
" Harry Astor," was a rough sort of
fellow who lived in the Bowery. He !
renewed in New York the trade which
his father pursued in Waldorf. He I
labored hard and was very economical,
and thus in the course of* years of in
dustry he accumulated s.'*lo,ooo. He
had no children, and hence he be
3ueathed the entire snm to his nephew
ohn J. This man never needed tlie
legacy, which was but a drop oompre<l
with his immense wealth. At the time
of his death Harry Astor was the rich
est man in the Bowery. He had all the
economy of the German emigrant to
add to a retail business which paid
large profits. He was also a bold .
speculator in live stock, and sold in
quantity as well as by the single ont.
He thus acquired his $.300,000, a sum
which has never been equaled by any
butcher in New York city. This snm,
bequeathed more than forty years ago, i
placed at interest, amounted to more 1
than a million. The locality of Harry
Aster's slaughterhouse, once so noted i
in the Bowery, is not easily designated.
It is said that Peter Cooper was a fre
quent viaitor to the spot, where he pur
chased acrapa and wheeled them down
to his glue-kettle near the swamp.
Astor's cattle-yard was near the Astor
library. Next to this institution there !
once stood Yanxhall Gardens, which is
part of the Astor estate. Here Barnnm
in early life displayed his genins as a
showman, and failed. The gardens af- ,
terward became a resort for cook-fights,
and now the spot is occupied by a
large stable. Supposing this to have
been the old cattle-yard, the next re
move of the trade was to the " Bnll'H
Head," a tavern in Third avenue, near
Fortieth atreet, once kept by Daniel
Drew. The growth of tne city drove
the business still farther into the sub
urbs, and now it ia found at Allexton's,
in 100 th streeth, near the Hudson river.
Net bold.
An extremely sharp and intelligent
American gentleman from the West
once walked Into the office of Dr. C. T.
Jackson, the chemist. M Dr. Jackson,
I presume?" said he. "Yes, sir,"
" Are you alone ?" "Yes, sir." "May
I lock the door ?" And he did so ; j
then, having looked behind the sofa,
and satisfied himself that no one else
was in the room, he placed a large ban- j
die, done up in a yellow handkerchief,
pn the table, and opened it. " There,
doctor, look at that 1" " Well," said
the doctor, "I see it." " Whot do you
call that, doctor?" "I call it iron
pyrites." "What!" said the man:
"isn't that stuff gold?" "No," said
the doctor, "it's good foi nothing ; it's
pyrrtefc" And putting some in over the
fire in a shovel, it soon evaporated up
the obimney. " Well," saiil the gen- j
tlemanly man, with a woe-begone look, i
" there's a widow up in oar town has a
whole hill full of that, and I've been
and married her."
HXAJJTFHCI, EXEJUMSE. —Friction of
the body is one of the gentlest and most
useful kinds of exercise, either by the
hand, a piece of flannel, a tolerably
coarse towel, or a flesh-brush. Friction
cleans the skin, promotes perspiration
and increases the warmth and energy of
the body. In rubbing the stomach,
perform the operation in a circular di
rection, as that is most favorable to the
coarse of the intestines and their natur
al action.
Ohio will be 72 years old on Novem
ber, 29, 1874.
TIIE - CENTRE' REPORTER.
A MWl.l, COU'LAU RATION,
llkm lb* tCßcct U "iOilu.nl
Coutliigration* ou the t*ge, *ay
Olive Logau, are easily aiul safely mail
age.l, I have seen uiauy pieces it
i which terrific tiroa were simulated, but
never knew nor heard of any ieoideul
from this cause. In one piece the fire
took place iu a grand hall of a ducal
palace, of severe but rich architecture,
iu imitation of ebony. The oontlagra
turn breakiug out with terrible energy,
smoke poured forth fromdoore and win
dows, the cornice* cracked and fill
j down, the ceihug oaiuo tumbling upot
the stage a burning muss, and every
! object the eye beheld scmed to lw
I slowly consumed. Through ttie ruined
walls which remained standing at tin
back the spectator now saw a second
immense salon, apparently full o|
(tames and smoke. The servants of tin
castle ran wildly about, seeking to es
cape ; the leading actor, carrying hie
wife in hi* arms, slid down a spiral
burning staircase while the flame*
burst through the balustrades. Thosr
who have seen a stage conflagration will
probably tluuk tins statement aome
> what exaggerated, but it is not. At tin
first representation of the piece a largt
number of the audience left the theatre
in great alarm, believing that the place
had really taken Are.
This scene was of course constructed
in a peculiar manner. The frames ol
the flats and set pieces were made of
two layers of wood held lightly together
: by meaus of cords passing through
' holes. At the pre-arranged moment
certain ports of the frame were jerked
down, leaving exposed the other parts
seemingly burniug—an effect produced
j by small gas jets carefully arranged in
rows aruuud tlie edges of the frame.
Behind the heaviest set piece at tlie
back was a transparent curtain, paint*d
with fiercest flames, which, being lit
I np from behind, glowed through the
smoke in a most lurid manner. Drurn
mond-lights and Bengal lire* were
turned on the stage hi profasioti, pro
ducing glaring cross lights. Pots full
; of lycocodium were placed over fur
naces, to which werv attached huge
blacksmith's bellows, worked by assid
uous machinists with such vigor that
the fismes were at frequent intervals
| projected five or six yards high, where
i tliwy caught at nothing. Vast funnels
overhead threw out torrents of black
I smoke mixed with inuocent spark*,
which went out as soon as they took
wing. Several machinists, costumed
according to the epoch represented,
persouaUxl the frightened servants run
ning about and trying to escape, only
they wore actually throwing moreof the
innocent but fiery-looking sparks about
in pre-arranged spots, and thus keeping
tilings as hot as possible in appearance.
Ami finally, helmetod firemen with hose
in hand stood at the book of tlie stage,
re ady to instantly extinguish any spark
of real fire.
The Famine In India.
The reports from India are not hope
ful, says ths New York .fun, ami (be
gloomy prospect can no longer he de
, nicd. Ip to March 1 the sum of #12.-
500,000 had been expended on the
famine, and the expenditure by Out. 1
will amount to $75,000,000. And' yet
for the need of a little extra use of
rnoncv many thousands must die in the
next /ew mouths. The Viceroy has not
Ix-en willing to syendenough to perfect
the means of transportation ; and he
has b< on too hard u task master in ex
acting so rigorous a labor test. Women
and children are forced to shovel earth
I iu rather a purposeless war before any
food will be given them. The men are
paid four and a quarter oents a day fur
this labor, and the women are paid even
less. At tlie present price of rice this
compels them to live on two-thirds the
quantity of rice furnished to convicts.
But after the work is done the food is
not alwsjs on hand, and o the toil mar
be in vain. Of the 300,000 persons now
employed on the relief works, one-half
will perish from disease in the course
of the summer. They are obliged to
camp ont in the open country, where
dysentery, cholera, rheumatism, and
low fevers make sad havoc in tlieir
numbers. During June and July the
suffering in Bengal will be the most
intense,bnt the distress will not be
over until Octolier, as the rice which is
harvested in August cannot be eaten
for fifty days afterward. It is too fresh
and green at first, and causes sickness
and diroane. in a portion of Tirhoot
alone, one of the famine conuties, in
the middle of February there wei
85,000 men, women, and children at raj:
gling on the roads in search of foo.l
and government aid. . Deaths fre..i
starvation had aire . unenoed, aud
as the season advances the mortality
will increase at a terrible rate. The
Governor-General of Bengal, Kir George
Campbell, was qnite right in his appre
hensions. The Viceroy has shown him
self unequal to the emergency.
A Fifteen-Hour*' Walk Tor Life.
A voung man named George Falk, of
Baltimore, swallowed, as ho stated,
three ounces of landannm and five
grains of morphia, in order to end his
life. There was but one way of saving
him, and that was to keep him in mo
tion. After relieving him as far as
possible, his physician ordered that he
be walked nntil he was ont of danger.
At half-past 2 o'clock Sunday nfternoou
he was put upon his tramp for life, and
was forced to walk in the open air as
rapidly as he could. His father kept
byhini for a long time, and b friend or
a policeman assisted. After some hours
the father guve out, ztul finally officers
and friends grew tired. At last officers
hail to be taken from their beats And
made to do duty in saving the life of
the would be suicide. When tlie walk
commenced it was with great difficulty
that he could lie kept going, and so
great was his stupor that at times he
would almost fall like a stick. Fre
quently it was necessary to catch him
and move him on. He reeled at times
like a drunken man, and then again he
would revive considerably. The dreary,
monotonous walk waskeptupwithnutin
tormission until half-past six o'clock the
next moruing, when tlie physician con
sented that he should be allowed to
take rest. The lifo of the young man
was saved, but the struggle ter freedom
from the effects of the drugs was a se
vere one. To have stopped three min
utes would have been fatal.
Carsi. PAPA. —A papa in Greenville,
K.V., has a daughter Kate, and Kate has
a lover distasteful to papn. On the
lover's birthday Kate bought a nice
gilt-edged box of perfumery for a gift,
and put into it: " The contents are as
delicate and innocent as your love."
Paps got hold of the box before it was
Bent, and changed the contents for bot
tles of soothing syrup. Kate is now
heartbroken by the continued and un
explained absence of her lover.
A LIQCOR LAW. —The Legislature of
North Carolina has passed an act en
titled, "for the bettor security of
human life." It provides that any per
son who manufactures, sells or deals in
spirituous liquors as a drink, of any
name or kind, containing foreign prop
erties or ingredients poisonous to the
system, shall be punished with five
years' imprisonment in the peni
tentiary.
CENTRE lIAI.L. CENTRE CO.. PA.. Till RSDAY. AI'KIL 23, 1874.
a coal mint: on fug:.
ft H|iur(cr Trlla t'a hal lie daw Iu I
lluiuiug (aal Nlai
Lata oue evenii g, any* a correspond
i ent, 1 set out to visit the burning I'.ui
j I'ire mine near Witkesbarre. The tnttu
is about ten miles from the city, and u
in a mountain aide from which tin
apnea and housetops cannot be seen
To reach it one tanat climb and descem
several disagreeable stieps, and ufto.
• he ha* proceeded as far as a horse cai
• carry him, he is obliged to wade throngl
j muii, mire, and coal dust, mixed to Uia
stiff consistency which is likely to pul
off a alioe at every stew. After leaving
the earn age and |tusMng through a little
village of miners, despite the mud, om
• soon arrive* at the opening. There h
nothing on the outside, save a mass o
smoking ash-**, to indicate the imuieusi
fire raging within.
, The descent i* not made bv mean* o
a shaft, but bv a broad roadway wlticl
descends gradually underground to th<
depth of nearly 300 feet. At the moutl
| of the cavern there is uu immense fai
which supplies air to those who an
compelled to work iu the sulphuroiii
mid deadly poisonous gases below
Should that fan pause for oue morur-n
in its revolutions alt the miners under
I neath would expire almost instantly
' Once inhale that deadly air, uuiuilet
with the pure sir outside, and hum at
life could do uanglit but succuaib. Ot
tho side of the turnout there is notbiuf
: of interest ; the eye falls ujxin liaugh
but dead vegetation, heaps of unbmkci
coal, and masses of indescribable rub
bish. There is a railway running u|
from the Empire breaker below, but IK
| care are passing uvea it* truck now, am
the breaker itself ia silent.
The still breaker is the first evideßC<
that something about the mine is wrong
Under ordiuary circumstances the tua
chinerv, now motioule**, would be turu
ing into the market hundred* of toni
of coal per day.
I us deeeud themine. Au old mat
: precedes us, carrying a burning lan
tern, lie is rudely attired, iu mug!
| shoo*, coarse breeches, gray shirt, ami
he wears a glistening leather cap. It
i which is fastened a smoking and flam
! ing torch. A few steps, and only a few,
and daylight disappears, there is u
marked changed in the atmosphere,
and the only thing oue secure certain
about is that he re gradually goiug
down. This underground descent, uu
I like a moral decline, has no glittering
' attractions to gently lure oue on. On*
feels constantly like turning back, foj
• he can sec nothing save his guide and
, the lantern, nor can he hear anything
but the faint echo of coal and ditl
i crualung underneath hi* tread. Thr
cavern, however, is very commodious,
and one has no need to crawl. The do
-1 scent is not straight but winding, and
occasionally one can recognize alu>v
ami upon either side of him solid
masse* of black, gliatt niug rock. A a
i the journey proceeds, the air thickena
and seems to become foul, as if th<
immense fan outside was gradually
• Slackening the spent of it* revolutions.
One cannot help feeling an uneomfort-
I able sort of a senaaUou ; for, a* Uo g l *
I on, the atmosphere seems to gr-oa
thicker and thicker, and at the same
time the heat eccms to increase) st every
step.
Hotter and hotter grow* the air, hot
ter and hotter, until it seems that one
is snrrontided by blazing furnaces.
Every strids onward fljqx-ar* to inten
sify the wnmth, and mi man apparel
seeais more than human nature is able
to bear. The perspiration begins to
start trom the pores, and the current of
air constantly pouring in from outside
ap|M-ars to be caught and subdued bv
that dresdfnl and infernal heat which
almost choke* and stifle* you. There
is no let up to it; no relief. Suddenly
there falls spun the aira peculiar noise,
like the muttering* of infernal spirit*,
away down in the deejiest depths of
tbe universe. Htill on, and these mut
teringa increase to a mighty .-oar, until
by and by one can detect certain sounds
above all others. There is a sound a*
if made by falling waters, which gains
and increases on the ear aa to the
traveler vbies the rnsbing of a cataract.
Louder And louder echo the voices, and
intenaer and inteuser booomea the at
mosphere. Humanity ord'narily clad
could bear but a few moments a warmth
a degree or two hotter than this.
The old guidecoutinnes slowly on the
way ; olointe of smoke envelop our
heads, until the cavern, taking a pe
culiar curve, bringa ua under a mighty
arch, the floor and sides of which seem
to be a mass of hissing, crackling
flame.
The distance i* between 'JW and 300
feet underground. Tho firo extends
over this immense area of 1,200 yards,
dread, awful and appalling, but inde
scribably beautiful nevertheless. It
looks like an immense sea of glittering
gold, across the heaving breast of wtuoh
pas and repass fho jt*t and richest
combinations of colors. Blue, green,
purple, crimson, mingling and inter
iigugliog, posHing tuui repassing, dis
appearing here and suddenly flashing
up again there, tortnre the senses, oou
fuse the viaion and leave one doubtful
of the place whereon he atAiuls. Htmli
is tho fire which your correspondent
gazed npon, such the almighty king of
these dreadful subterranean realms. It
hisses, it ronrs, it flashes np, and
smokes, driving back the men and bc
fonlingthe air.
There are persons down there, huniAti
lieitigH like ourselves, who have spent
many months of their piret in fighting
this fire, and who will spend many
months of their lives yet to come. They
nrc terrible looking creatures when thus
engaged in their work, whose besmear
ed faces and rough blackened formr
give them the appearance of devils
rather than of men. They spend hut a
few hours here, for so intense is the
best that new men mnst come very fre
quently to their relief. As it is, scarce
ly a day passes during which some
poor fellow does not yield to theso un
derground elements and is carried out
insensible. It muat l>e an awful life
to lead, and awful, indeed, the circum
stances which compel so many to en
dure it.
From tho outside of tho mine run
down to these dreary depths largo iron
pipes filled with volumes of water.
When thyr jrach a certain point below
they divide into other pipes fif smaller
capacity, to each of which aro connected
largo pieces of hoae. With theso hose
the men attack the fire at tho edges
with the hope that they may extinguish
it inch by inch. It is a slow and pain
ful work, and a process that to the ob
server appears hopeless of any future
success. Contemplate it. A nre larger
than any you have seen, not formed of
timber or of loose combustible mate
rial, bnt of solid rock. It extends over
1,200 yards, and represents millions of
dollars worth of coal. ' The arches
abo Toil,oil, the avenues leading from it,
fraught with poisonous gases, stifling
to the senses and ruinous to the health
—a mighty conflagration, to be fought
with water inch by inch for yeare and
years to oorao ; for, while "its edges
miy be cooled, its roaring centre
is gradually finding downward,
no one knows to what unheard of depth.
To accurately describe the full ex
tent, or to express in detail the dis
astrous effects of this burning coal mine,
one must needs spend many an hour
thus underground, whioh to one who is
not used tv it in impossible. Oue run
ouly hurry down fur a moment, bMiu
even tit nuuiuier h|'|>um 1 ho would bo
I obliged to quickly rot urn to get u
breath of air. Tito following flgiirt-a
represent tho extent of the tiro, tho
number of mon required to tight it, tho
loan to tho company (tho Lehigh and
WilkaUarre Goal and Iron Company),
. and tho amount of coal which, wor
tho mon at work in the mine*, they
could giro to the market.
There arc at present engaged in bat
tling the flames two large companies of
j mou, each of which ia made up of four
j different and distinct gauga. Those
gauge, or shifts, aa the minor* call thorn,
relieve each other at different prrioda
■of the day and night, at leant two
gauga always being at work and ap
proaching each other at varioua poiuta.
Four ahifta comprehend 80 men each,
and four othvra 52 men each ; ao that
in the tirat company there 320 individu
ate, and in the xcooud 208, making in
all a total of 528 persons. These men
are employed upon haluric* which vary
! from two to three dollars per day. Two
dullara and a half is almut the average
rate. Hence to contend with the flame*
it coat* the company 81,320 daily. In
i one week it coat* 80,240 ; in one month,
988,900; while in one year, and from
the preset condition of affairs, 1 am
safe in a—.iiuiuj. that the lire will last
' three time* that long, thcounipany will
have apeiit 8413,520 at the lowest pos
sible estimate. The capital stock of
the oomjiauy i* generally conceded to
be gl0,(100,1100, but it would only re
quire a few years' fighting of the "fire*
in this Empire Mine to totally consume
it. Nor i* tliis all. Were these 528
men, instead of plying the hoae,
engaged in mtniug coal, tkev would
each tarn ont three too* per a*y, or a
total per diem of 1,584 tons.
I understand that every ton of coal is
here valued at $3, so that in contend
ing with their misfortune the company
not only pays 51.320 per day, but also
j leaves 94,750 worth of black diamonds
slumbering in the mine* ; hence in one
week the company, throagh the fire,
■ loses in coal alone, which were it not
for the fire might be exhumed, 933,204 ;
in one mouth, $13*2,956 ; in oue year,
i the immense sum of $1,595,472.
The fire ha* boon raging since Janu
! ary ; therefore, bv the cud of March
the oompsny will have spout in quench
ing the flame* SIIO,BBO, while at the
same time it will have lost 9398,868 in
coal which, had the fire uot broken out,
I tie miners would have taken from the
earth.
Sell the lUcrra.
At the time when the rivalry and
jealousy of the great Whig leaders,
Messrs. Clay and Webster, disturbed
the harmony and menaced the integrity
j of the partv, Mr. Keatou, of the ,Vu
tiunal hil'lliymctr, then Mayor of
Washington, eutertamcd at his hospita
ble mansion a large company of the
moat couapicucua gentlemen in the
city belonging to that organisation.
. Oue object w.re to famish an eligible
! opportunity for those of the same
political creed to ooufer freely at the
social board, with a view to securing
unity of actum in Congress. Mr.
Msaton had great faith in the softening
influence of discreet convivialitr, ami
being a genial host, of t-h gaut address
and winning manners, no man in
Waahiiigton was better filled to manage
lan affair of the kind. He was univer
sally popular, never said or did an un
grnoio** thing, and hit entertainment*
were always a SUCCes*. There was a
genural attendance of the Whigs, iti
| eluding Congressmen and members of
i the cabinet, and SOJIC prominent offi
cer* of the army and navy—(leneral
Scott, whose Presidential aspirations
I had given much uneasiness to several
gentlemen whose eyes were turned in
the same direction, besides Mr. Web
ster and Mr. Clay.
It was a jolly time, high living being
a prevalent weakness of politicians in
Wasnington. The situation had been
■ (Harassed, several prominent gentlemen
having frankly expressed their views.
Obviously there was a lack of harmony
among the leader*. At this stage of
| the consnltatian, Cost Johnson, speak
ing in atone so loud as to arrest the at
tention of the company, begged per
mission to relate an anecdote which he 1
thought applicable to the matter under
consideration. "Go on! go on!" re
sounded from all parts of the room.
" A neighbor of mine in Washington
connty, n wealthy planter, wns much
addicted to hoi so-racing. Tho turf I
was a passion with him. lie had a
stable of fine horses of the purest
blood, and he attended every meeting,
far and near, if the race-course was ac
cessible. His horses ran well, but \
he never won a pnrse. After repeated |
disappointments he fold hi* trainer j
that be had made tip his mind to sell
his racing stud and retire frotn the
field. ' Don't do dat, mass a,' said the
darkey ; ' deni's first-rate hosses, and
run like de wind.' ' lint they never
win a race, and I am determined to sell
them.' 'Fray don't, massa dey's I
good for something—dey oan just beat
one nuodder.'"
There was a loud langh at the story ;
bnt it was observed that Messrs. (Hay,
Webster, and Bcott did not seem to en
joy it as much as the rest of the com
pany.
No llojte for the Fenian Convicts.
In the English House of Commons' i
Mr. Anderson asked how many Fenian •
oenviot* were still undergoing sentence,
where they were imprisoned, and
whether the Government wus or was
not of the opinion tliAt the time had
come for their release.
Mr. Cross, the Home Minister, re
plied that the total number of these
prisoners was sixteen. Two were now j
undergoing sentenco for the Manches
ter murder, bnt none for the Clerken- j
well nntroge. Two others were under '
sentence of imprisonment for fifteen i
years, one for seven vears, and eleven i
—who had been soldiers—were sen- I
tenced for life, having lcen convicted j
of snpplving arms to and otherwise as- J
listing the insurgents. They were dis- ;
tribntcd as follows : Throe were in
England, eight in one part of Australia
and two in another, and three in Ire
land. Mr. Cross oonclnded by declar
ing that the Govcmmcut had no inten
tion of interfering with tho execution j
of their sentence. This annouueement ;
was received by tlio House with cheers.
WII.I, NOT YIELD. —Iu tho New York
debtors' prison there is a mail who has
been confined for four years for con- i
tempt of court. Every few months he
is t.iken into court and given tho privi
lege of apologizing nnd discharge, but
he declares he was right and that he
will not yield. So he lingers on year
after year, " Pickvick and principle,"
aa Weller would aay.
JnrrrEß.—Now that the great planet
Jupiter is so near the moon, the oppor
tunity for a popular acquaintance with
him re worth improving. Through an
ordinary opera-glass two of his (satel
lites can be seen, and a common house
telescope will reveal the remaining two
also.
A man out West was offered a dish of
macaroni soup, but declined it, declar
ing they could not play off any biled
pipe-stems on him.
TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT,
IHr <Mr r ef AW Old H<rll.
The Buffalo (burter gives a brief
history of the temperance revival of
IHIO. The preceding year had brought
uewrs of the magnificent crnaade in
which Father Mathew had for a time
wrewted Ireland from the grasp of King
Alcohol. Iu Baltimore, iu April, IHH),
six lutemperste men who had been in
the hsbit of meeting nightly for con
vivial purposes, were suddenly led to
frame and sigu a pledge of total ah
•tineuce. They formed themselves into
a body,which thev called the Washing
ton Tem|M-rsuce Bociety, and forthwith
began to proselytize. In less than s
year they had gathered into their ranks
over one thousand reformed drunkards.
A prominent member of the parent
society was John H. W. Hawkins, who
early the next year headed a delegation
' to visit, hold meetings, and organize
societies in New York, Boston, and
several of the New England eitiw.
The coutagiou of the enthusiasm gen
' erated at these meetings spread like a
prairie fire. During the summer and
autumn of IMI the whole country was
in a blaze of eiciteinent. In the State
of Ohio 60,000 signed the pledge ; in
Ivcut ucky. 30,000 ; in Pennsylvania, an
equal number. The parent Waahing
toninn society in New York in one year
hail gathered in 4,000 members, and
had twenty-two auxiliaries, with a
membership of 16,000. The St. lamia
societies had 7.500 member*. In Janu
ary, 1842, the Are caught in Washing
ton, aud Tom Marshall, tlie first con
vert, led * movement which swept
through the halls of Congress and car
ried nway several of the city fire com
iuMiioa. The birthday of Washington,
•VbruAry 22, I*l2, was a grand jubilee
of teui|>erance throughout the eountrv.
Three thousand reformed drunkards
marched in procession that day in Bal
timore alone. The following summer
was one of nrodigiou* activity in the
cause. Nearly every distillery in Brook
lyn was closed ; in New York meeting*
were held weekly in fifty-two halls,
and signatures were received for the
pledge at tlie rate of two hundred a
day. The production of liquor in the
country had decreased absolutely oue
lialf, and relatively to the population
was not a third of what it had been ten
years before. Before the close of 18t2,
also, the organization of the " Cold
Water Armies," and lodges of the
" Order of the Sons of Temperance "
hail begun, the latter being devised for
the relief of reformed men in destitute
circumstances. The Yarn Pelt of that
day was Alexander Welsh, of New
York, known as " king of the rum
sellers," who took the stamp as an ad
vocate of total altstinence with great
effect. Five fire companies in New
York and two in Brooklyn surrendered
to tlie prevailing enthusiasm ; the May
or of the former city, and very gener
ally the municipal and State officials of
New York, publicly discountenanced
the use of alcoholic beverages.
The jeriod Of natural reaction vra* to
some extent postponed by the advent of
John B. Go ugh in the field in 1844. In
June of tliat year Mr. (lough and Rev.
Dr. John Marsh, Secretory of tlie
American Temju'rance I'uiou, made a
tour of New York Htste, arousing great
fervor and excitement wherever they
went From 1844, howeTer, tlie decline
of tie revival in the jwpular heart be
gun. It was marked by the initiation
of attempts to carry the movement into
politics, nud secure the enactment of
prohibitory laws.
In 1846 tlie |eoule of New York Toted
on license or 110 license. A tremen
dously energetic campaign was made
by the teiupermnee forces, and a bill
enacting prohibition outside of New
Y'ork city, was passed by an aggregate
majority ol over 45,000. The law, from
tlie day of its passage, was virtually s
dead letter, and alcohol bcg.au to regain
its lost territory. In the meantime,
however, the German brewer had begun
to get n foothold in the land, and the
growing use of his milder beverage
prevented anything like a complete re
lapse into that excessive consumption
of distilled drinks from which the
tcmjM'ranae agitation of IS4O had
roused the country. It ia thns seen that
the great t%iperance movement of the
last generation continued in force at
least four years, and attained dimen
sions which hsve not yet been reached
l>y the revival now in progress.
Stage Representation*.
The thunder of the stage, says OIiTC
Logan, is easily represented. If the
roaring of Jove's artillerr is supposed
to be far sway, a large leaf of sheet-iron
dangling from the flies, shaken gradu
ally with s faster and faster movement,
will give a sufficiently good idea of it
This is the common mode of making
stage thnnder, but it does not always
satisfy the exacting.
A common mode of " raising thun
der," whew the clap is supposed to be
near and terrific, is by a contrivance of
wood, and somewhat resembles a
Venetian blind. It makes a great noise,
giving a series of irregular shocks,
which, combined with the rattling of
sheet-iron, imitAte a frightful thandrr
storm pretty closely.
A snow-storm is represented at the
theatre by small pieces of white paper
showered down from above by men
placid ia the flies. The illusion is not
verv striking, as, like the "supes"
uuiler the sea-cloth, some of the assis
tants arc apt to slur their work, aud
the result is sn absence of the consis
tency of nature. The costs and hats
of actors who are supposed to have
boon out in the snow are generally well
dusted with flour, which, violently con
tradicting natural laws iu its character
of snow—though faithfully obeying
them in its character of flour—does
not melt awsy in the least when tlie
actor comes in by the fireside.
Machines for imitating the roariug of
the wind are numerous, and succeed to
jwrfection. One is a simple structure
of wood, with a broad hand of silk run
ning over a wooden wheel. When the
wheel is turned, the wind is heard to
losr. The noise of arriving carriages
is easily managed by simply running n
pair of wheels behind the scenes. Tlie
cracking of whips is prodnoed by
throwing small torpedoes on the floor.
Animal cries are imitated by various
machines ; but nothing so resembles
the braying of a donkey s the voioe of
n man who has made it liis special
study.
His Kjuras. When the Tiebborae
claimaut entered the oonrt on the morn
ing of his oonviction, he looked nervous
and anxious, and seemed struck by the
api>earauee of three men in plain clothes
who were sitting right in front of him,
and who up to that day had not ap
peared in court. Their services were
shortly to be required. They were
constables in plain clothes, prepared to
retire if the jury should acquit; but
otherwise ready to lay their hands upon
the broad shoulders of the man, who
must have been more than human if
these three strangers—so like the ex
soctant5 octant demons in the old legendary
ramas—had not inspired him with dis
mal forebodings.
Wide bands of black velvet about tl.a
throat are again in fashion, with long
ends hanging down the back below the
waist.
TVrm*: a Year, in Advance.
The Literal Boy In the Hrkool.
Among the scholars, when Lamb and
Coleridge attended, was a poor clergy
man's son, by the name of ounon Jen
nings. On account of his dismal and
gloomy nature, his playmate* had nick
named hiui Pontius Piute. One morn
ing, he went up to the master, Dr.
Boyer, and said, in hia usual whimper
ing manner, " Please, Dr. Boyer, the
boys call tne Pontine Pilate." If there
was one tlung which old boyer hated
more than a false quantity of Greek and
Latin, it was tlie practice of nicknam
ing. Hushing down among the scholars
from his pedestal of state, with cane ia
hand, he cried with his nana! voice of
thunder: "Listen, boys! the next time
1 hear any of yon amy * Pontius Pilate'
I'll cane you aa long' aa this cane will
last. You are to y 'Simon Jennings'
aud not 'Pontius Pilate.' Remember
that, if you value your hides." Having
said this, Jupiter Tonana remounted
Olympus, the clouds still hanging on
his brow. Next dsv, when the same
class were re-citing tire catechism, a boy
of remarkably dull ami literal turn of
mind had to repeat the creed. He had '
got aa far as "suffered under," end was
about popping ont the next word,when
Buyer's prohibitation unluckily flashed
upon hts obtuse mind. After amo
meut'a hesitation, he blurted out,"buf
fered under Simon Jennings, was 1
eroci"— the rest of the word wan never
uttered, for Boyer had already sprung
like a tiger upon him, aud the cane was
descending upon hia unfortunate shoul
ders like a Norwegian hail storm or aa
Alpine avaianehe. When the irate doc
tor had disc barged hia aane storm upon
him, he cried: "WJiat do yon mean,
yon booby, by such blasphemy ?" "I
only did as you told me," replied the
minded Cbristohurchian. "Did
as I told you T* roared old Boyer, now
wound np to something above the boil
ing point. "What do yon mean t" As
he said Uua, he again instinctively
grasped hia cane more furiously. "Yea,
doctor, you said we were always to call
•Pontius Pilate' "Simon J wining*.'
Didn't he, Ram ?* appealed the unfor
tunate culprit to Coleridge, who was
next to him. Sam aaid naught, tret old
Boyer, who aaw what a dunoe he had to
dern with, cried, "Boy, you are a fool!
Where are your brains!" Poor Dr.
Boyer for a second tune was floored;
for the scholar said with an earneateMMa
which proved its truth, bnt to tbs in
tense horror of the lreuned potentate,
"In my stomach, sir." The doctor al
ways respected that boy's stupidity
ever after, as though half afraid that a
stray blow might be unpleasant.
Liquor Laws of ye Olden Time.
Some of the old laws for the regula
tion of taverns are rather curious. The
following, enacted July 11, 1677, bjr the
"Great and Gent nil Court," held at
plymoath, will serve as a specimen :
"It is ordered by the Court and the
authorities thereof that none shall pre
sume to deliver any nine, string
Liquors or Cider to any perron or per
sons whoe they may suspect will abuse
the same; or to aiiy l>oyes | Geries, or
siugle (teraons, tbo' protending to come
in the name of any sick* prison, with
out a note under t he hand of some sober
person in whose name they ooine; on
{tain of five shilling;! for every sueh
transgression. Tlie etie halfe to tire
Country and the other halfe to the ea
lormer."
Drunkenness wa* punished by vari
ous penalties, which will seem amusing
to ns, though doubtless considered 1
otherwise bv those who incurred them.
Here * re s few specimens :
" Sergeant Perkins, ordered to carry ,
forty turfs to the forte, for being
drunk."
" Daniel Clark, found to be an im
moderate drinker, fined forty shil
lings."
" John Wedgewood, for being in the
company of drnukaida, to be set in the j
stocks."
" A man who had often been pnn- 1
ished for being drunk was now ordered
to wear a red D about his neck for n
year."
Such entries may l5 found scattered
through the old Court Records, and oc
casionally reprimands or dismissals for j
drunkenness may be fouud on the church ,
records.
Quite s trade Lad sprung up between
the colonic* and France nud the West (
Indies. The colonies exported fish,
pipe staves, clap-boards, and received i
in return wines, rum and various other ;
articles. Iter. Increase Mather, in a j
sermon preached at Boston In KWfl,
thns deplores the introduction {and use
of rum :
"It is s common thing that later !
years a kind of strong Drink, celled
Rum. has been common amongst us,
which the poorer sort of People, both ;
in Town and Country, eon make them
selves drunk with. Those that are poor
and wicked too, can for a penny or two i
pence make themselves drunk. I wish
to the Lord some Remedy may be
thought of for the prevention to this
evil.
Nearly two hundred years have flown J
by since the worthy Mather uttered
this wish, aud as yet no remedy ha* ap- I
peered.
An Affecting Farewell.
Mr. Thomas Price, of the Swan Hotel,
Cirencester, England, has received,
through Lord Derby, a parcel from the
Foreign Office continuing a watch and
chain and appendages belonging to his
only son, shot at Santiago through his
counectiou as a seaman with the Vir
ginias. The whole was wrapped in a
sheet of note japer, noon which was
written, in a bold hand, the following
letter: "Santiago de Cnba, Nor. <,
1873. My Darling Farenta :I am now
near my last hour. I am to be *hot
this afternoon at tliree o'clock. There
are about thirty of us. My God, it is
a fearful thing to shoot innocent men !
My dear parents, I have always been a
had boy ; bnt I never thongbt to bring
this great sorrow on vonr heads. Give
my love to darling Alice. Tell her I
loved her dearly, aud I hope God will
bless and prosper her. 1 shall try to
get my watch aud chain sent home, and
if yoti receive it, my dear parents, I
would like dear Alice to have the lock'
eta to keep in remembrance of poor
Walter. Kind love to all mv relations
and friends, and tell them I die like an
Englishman should die. And now,
dearest parents, I conclude this heart
breaking letter, hoping we shall meat
in a better land, where there are no
sorrows, troubles, or cares. I remain,
your ever-loving sun, Walter F. Priee.
Muy God have mercy upon my ooul."
ERRORS or THE COMRASS. Oapt
Henry C. Cook, an English navigator
and scientist of repute, made some ro-.
marks before the Polytechnic Branch
of the American Institute, on the errors
of the oompass. He said that however
careful navigators might be, deviations
of the oompass oeuld not be detected
snd corrected without s proper instru
ment. To prevent the deviation was
impossible, as long years of trial baa
taught the British Navy. To correct
them with an instrument, and save lives
and property which might be lost in
shipwrescks caused by such deviations,
if possible.
The finest emeralds come from veins
of clay slate in the valley of New Gren
ada.
NO. in.
I Kifcrts that Border on lb* Miraculous.
Nut only nwmtthi t,. may Ix produced,
but the frMluo msy be very powerfully
effected by tlx Ufluene* of the mini oyer
the body, my* Dr. Mrown-Mequaid. libra
we hod leu uI treat Uapon*niw trulccd
I' lie re arc tuauy Isc'i wtikh show that the
•tscreuua* of ittiifc way baoow poiwmwas
ftir a child from a mere t motion In Ux
mother, and i-p<~rl*l}y from anger. And
it is ware no* the .'iaiv of retry ■* to
•vutd hugft it would certainly be tlx duty
•if * young ia other who ha* to nurse a
child. There are case*. although they a re
not commufl, in whh h death ban rrotutod;
and alteration, of health in children from
this cauae are wy frequoai- A gwat
uuuiy OJOJ WIW hare REACHED an adult uc
owe their Ui health to uth an Influence To
chikkood.
Every one know*, atao, that the seorrtioa
of hue. the secretion of tear*, aad the sneer
two of aahvnar* very much under the in
fluence of the nerroui system The purg
ing of tlx bor?ls, which depend* -m a
weretwn there, or a secretion in the liver,
ia also much depandeni on the iaflwiict* of
the Imagination The Isuperor Nicholas
triad to sec what power there ia la the im
agination lo Ural respect. litead crumb
pflUwerr gir tn to a great many pal tenia
and, a* a result, newt >f ttv-ta were purged,
lo cneexe a student, wH of mudkmre but
of thcuhgy, having the ai- that tin- word
pill nrnuil a purgeJve, looked fur ''pill '*
in the dictionary and the firm kind of
liUb iliat be found there waa one compooud
uia.ui> uf oprnm aad heabaa, both aaUiu
gt-ms, autl ca|athlu at producing groat con
stipation. lie uautaxl to he puiged, and i
took a certain aumtxrr of ibtsc pills, and {
instead of becmntng constipated be war
pureed just a* he wished to ue.
V omnia*; may he produced in the same ,
way. ih Croft, a French physiologist, ■
u-ils of s trial made in a hutpltai by s nurse I
who went axoood and gave to all the pa
tients a very harmless kind at I
aad then u>kl tbein thai aha was amry that
•he had by mistake given thaw, all very '
powerful emetics. Out Of 1(10 patkmu no i
were aflc. Ux! as If they had taken the mom
violent emetic and \< rotted for a long time. !
This we auo cm a very Large scale on sea
hoard every ft'iatmer. 1 have no doubt I
whatever that aes-mckueaa is in a great'
measure due lu that, and if you could go an
board of a steamer with the idea that TOO
would not vomit 1 am well satisfied, from
cxpenuuwiu 1 have mad*, that you would
esuape a great dear of wa-eiCkaeaa, If you
did nut escape it situgt-ihar. One fact 1
recall is very interesting. A pcrsutf had
crossed, on one occasion, a small hay when
it was very rough- There waa a man play
ing the vhdm on the bush The person' 1
rtkr b> waa terribly sea alck and vomited a
great deal, lie had not, of course, made
up his mind that be could not be sick.
However, the point is that alter that he
could tcvcx hear a viulln without vomiting
To pass to su in<-tiling mure serious: Vou
have all hoard of what are called the
Kiymaro —marks representing the wound*
uu lha limbs of ChrtsL Tbuae n ark* have
appeared In pcnutis who have dreamed *
imagined tku liny were crucified and suf
fenng the piuns of Christ, havicg invoked
the poodmw if God to let them have that
auficnsg to pun.ftfa them for their Uuha.
The moat remark abla fact of that kind is
that concerning bt Francis uf Assist
Then- Is no doubt trial he had the mark as
dear as poadb e. If rots cmnpire with thn
I tart one which is related by Lrr Carter yon
I will have the explanation of it. Dr. Car
i aeroaVft that while a mother wax locking at
. her child who waa standing at a window
with the fingers on Use border of the w in-
I <h>w jum tinder the 'filed a*h, six saw the
•ash cams down with grosl hirer and cru-b
i the tluun finger* of the poor child. The
mother remained unable w move, feeling
ImmrdialeJy a pain on the three finger* at j
the very place where the chi d had been in
jurrd Her fingers swelled, an efPatiao of
Mood Uwk pUoc and ulceration followed
and ah* was a long time in being cured.
II in the case of this mother the imagina
tion could produce such result*, you will
see ia the case of the i4gmsla the Tmtgiim
tlun may have been equally powerful
TSda Biver Rnn into the Ground.
It is a well-known peculiarity of j
Washoe rivers that they a!i sink into]
! the earth. Each river empties into j
! what is called its "rink,"' or lake. !
i None of them get ont of the State or
empty into toe sea. This enrious fact t
i was oure curiously accounted for by •
queer old man who made his home in
| the shadow of Mount Davidson. Said
be: "The way it oome about was in
| this wise—The Almighty, at the time
; he wws ereetin' and fashiocin' this 'ere
yearth, got along to this atetien late on
Haturdsy event n'. He had got through
i with all' the great lakes, like Superior.
Michigan, Huron, Erie aod themt hud
made the Ohio. Missouri end Mireia
! sippi rivers, and, as a sort of wiad-tre.
i concluded to make a river that would
teat anything be had yet done hi that
line. Ha starred, an' traced oat Hum
j boUt Itiver, an' Truekee K.ver, an*
: Carson River, an' Walker River, an'
lbeee liivcr, an' all the other riven,
J an' he was leadiu' of 'em along,
calkelatin* to bring 'em all together into
one boss rivrr, an' then lead them off
•a' let it empty into the Golf of Mexico
! or the Gulf of California, as might be
most convenient; but as he was bringin' I
along his brandies—Truekee, Bum- !
t boidt, Carson, Walker an' tbem—all at I
I PUOC it oome on dark, an' not bein' able j
to carry ont his plan, he just tucked
the lower ends of the several streams
inter the ground whar they war, and
' they've stared tbar ever since."
Keep the Children Warm.
Dr. Brown-Bequard. in a lecture at
1 Boston the other nignt, said : " The
application of heat to children is ex
oeedingiv useful to help their develop
ment, If the air toey breathe is cord,
and heat ia applied to their limbs, but
not so in, on to the body, they cer
tainly grow faster. There is no qnes
' tion that iu northern climes, children
who are not well clad, aad are not well
cared for in regard to the heat sur
rounding the body, do not grow eo well
as children whe are submitted to the
influence of heat. There is one thing
which in this country especially is most
hurtful and dangerous, and that is hmt
1 applied to the lungs. It is perfectly
well known that the mortality of chil
-1 drett in this country is enormous In the
rammer months, and that chiefly
through the influence of heat on the
lung* ami on the belly. Digestion and
respiration are disturbed, and death
comes, as you know, too frequently.
More care could easily be obtained iu
that respect"
What Constitutes a Car~Lan4U '
Some one who has been investigating
the subject says that" in general 20,000
pound* is a car load, which might con
sist of 70 barrels of unit, 7(1 of lime, 'JO i
ef flour, 00 of whisky, 200 sacks ef
flour, 6 cords of hard wood, 7 of sort, |
18 to 20 head of cattle, 60 to 60 head of i
hogs, 80 to 100 head of sheep, 6,000
feet of solid boards. 17,000 feet of
siding, 18,000 feet of flooring, 40.000
shingles, one-half less hard lumber, <
one-fourth leas green lumber, one-tenth i
lees of joists, scantling, and all other <
large lnmber, 340 bushels ef wheat, 960
of corn, 680 of oats, 400 of barley. 3® 1
of flax seed, 360 of applee, 480 of Irish i
potatoes, 360 of sweet potatoes, 1,000 <
bushels of brnn. The foregoing figures
may sot be exaotly correct, for the rear
son that rtiiiraada'do not exaotly agree
in their roles and estimates, but it ap- 1
proximate* so closely to the general 1
average that shipper* will find it a great ,
convenience as a matter of reference.
i
Many actions, like the Kb one, have i
two souroes—one pure, the other im- i
pure, i
■ UMP"
, (terns nf Interest.
i Why * a this lilt* Ad*j|srmons
• Beeauan there are twft heads und an ap
plication.
Remove wax fnwlbsfa* ly tepid
water ; newer put ~a hard instrument
iolothenfir. j'f (; { tf ... >
L |i\ lK(h
Haiti more fire depnrtoaaMt,ai>d ia one of
the treat members. . ~
An obuervaat old lady naya that "no
other living thing can go a* stow as a
boy on an errand."
: > A movement in on foot at Hoi yoke,
! Mean., to establish a kriafrirauco life
ia an ranee company. ,
What trees are Iboea which, when fire
. is applied to tbem, aw xartlr *key
" were before? Aabes.
The Eastern oyster refuses to spawn
in the Bay of (ton Pwaetow He grewi
very fat and then dks.
t I. A Gwsnuui profeaeoghnn nadertavao
! the tofik of counting the hairs cm a
* buffalo robe one by *.
1? A bey ret fctoUtfoeL
[ bnk that din t kill hian Us owridnt eat
L . suything, and that did.
L It coat London four liteil *nd
B fonr broken bones *> to honor to the
■ royal bride and groom.
5 i'aaoh growers are already beginning
' to complain <! the elfeote of toe oold
1 1 npdu the coming arop. •
[ Hie railroad aorena the chain of the
! Andes, to South trustors, nut* several
; mils* above the clouds.
The highest spire ia <be "United
11 Metre is that of Trinity eharcb. New
3 { York, which ia IhH feet.
M The total weight to thf window
weights to'the Coited States Hotel,
. Saratoga, ia thirty tons,
• A nervoos editor, whenever he gala
excited, gore into the eompoarng-room
i j -rend beoonma "composed."
;; The flret ltfedtoto wee mvanUdby VL
, Binders, director of the bridges and
causeways in France, in 1777:
Figuratively speaking, the whisky
war in Utrio m damaging the tipde in
Cincinnati about per day.
1 1 The < \p*gregatitmalUt explains what
!it means by Ugbtning-bog (rtoty "~
. i bright while it lasts, but sold and soon
out.
A Wisconsin brute has been pent to
jail for hclding hi* wifk's face and
hands on a hot stove until they were
blistered.
King KoSee keens hie 3,833 wives
i uuderthe same odf with Ms magmxtne
for military mwritimu. They do about
ias be sugra. iy .. b sntmtm > v
An Indiana paper b*ris
i changed hands, the retiring editors
valedictory was simple, "I've quit, and
the salutatory of the new manager was.
j * We've eueumrmted."
Only tone families out of its former
population of 15,000 remain at Pitbola
i City, Pa. When they oeuaed to "strike
< oil"' the "Wreak out."
The nam post tors on the AUanta Oon
tfitmikm pant to charge forpicturre toe
same as reading matter. Tney call it a
tat take, bat toe proprietors eey it's too
Uiin .
There Us minuter ore* Boopville,
Ind.,who has been married three time#
his first two wives being sisters, tad
has third wife atepmothsr to first two
wives.
A boy ten years old pointed a gnu at
his eistcr, aged 18, u Aritdsle, Wu..
lately, not knowing it was loaded, and
•hot her throagh toe neck, killing her
instantly.
"I wish I oouldmind God as my little
dog minds me," mid a little boy, look
ing thoughtfully on his uhnggv friend.
" He always looks so pleasedto mind,
aad I doul"
Cellars lined with fonr or five thick
nesses of newspapers are said to b
frost-preof It is un undoubted fact
tbst some paper* do mebe thingu warm
wbeueret thuy ga
Mnstmb has appropststod §15.000
to be expended in tlx I |MUObHHI of
wkeU fur ia tkm mathwmUrn
oountiw whowe crope were destroyed
teat year by grasshoppers. ,
The story is Udd of a Jeucoc. who,
when at toe boose of a devoted woman
vii MM to dttsv prmv&r s
himeelfbv saving that V was not the
spiritual M the finanetal dreoeu.
New Yorker* having eebmUted the
ton* of shipping bvtilt in Maine this
year at twelve thousand, the Bangor
CbwtmeeeM telle tbem thev are only
a hundred thousand short of the mark.
Three are young men who eannot
hold a ekesn el yarn f thm*
wrilboat wincing, but will bold 135
Gunds of a neighboring fsmily tor toe
at part of a night. With a retienoe
and docilft T that mreoertahdy phenome
nal. ; . 1
Deodorizing night eed, and render
ing it portable by the nse of dry earth
i ia every year growing to be more gen
crmlly adopted among the farmers who
haTe" learned to value thia important
fertiliser in tarn eeonomy as they
ought.
A man in Dabuqne pat his finger in
to the mouth of a nearly empty powder
horn. Beit,,; unable to remove it, he
picked a hole in the side of the born
and applied a match. The reault waa
satisfactory, but the finger was released
minus eonskJerdble cuticle.
A man in a miff Tlumen,CaH tortus,
felt a tug at hi* ooat tail. He kicked
around and saw that it was being drawn
in bv cog wheals. He rfubhed wjpoet
and held en with all ills might while
the ooat wus aiowlv torn from him.
The struggle waa a hsrx one, but the
man won.
Lovers will oe glad to learn tlmt a
big brother has cane to grief in
Albany. A young man that he didu t
; like took his sister to the theatre. He
1 followed, and when they came out he
i tried to take the girl awwy from her
' escort. It waa a very lively fight, and
! the result has been hinted at
Tha London Ilornti gives the follow
ing as one of the effects of the late
royal marriage: " Bookseller-''Will
Shave these volumes bound in
■is or Morocco, sirf" Retired Coal
Dealsr—'Weil, if I canA haTa them
bound in London, read '• to Bnasia.
We must encourage tost Curtr now, yon
know.'"
A Strong Wlfiit.
At midnight, a faw nights siucc, the
Mgoal station on the top of Mount
Washington reported a norto-west galo
blowing at toe fearful rate of 140 mile*
au hour — M shown by the anemometer
—and a temperature 18deg. below sero.
This ia the highest force ever attained
by the wind in New England, so far as
we know. A gale of sixty er seventy
miles an hour will often blare down
tree*. Ia the h niesta'* of the tropics,
a force of 100, even 110 miles m hour
is not onoommon. No human bring
could stand before such a gala The
people in the chained-down hot con
trive to examine ths anemometer with,
owt emerging—elee they would be
swept off bodily and hurled down Tnck
erman's Ravina The roar of such a
mountain gale is terrible beyond woijls.
An employee named Robert Maxwril,
engaged by the Iron Company of Ne
gaunee, Michigan, reoeniiy met with
the following singular accident, it ap
pease that soma men in changing the
Outride of an old -boiler had und ben
tine. As inside repairs were nreesaary
Maxwell was delegated for the ssme.
He went within the boiler, a lighted
candle being passed in to him. No
Hooner had this been placed inside than
ND explosion took plaee and the mtm
waa enveloped in flames. He was very
badly scorched, besides other injuries
caused by his frantic attempts to get
out of the man-hole. ,
: iWtifi
To* BUFFALO. —It ia asserted on goad
authority that at the present rate ef
destruction the American bisoo will
become extinct in the next- ten yesje.
Twelve years ago this animal had a
range of 1,500,000 square miles. Mow
it is confined to an urea of some 500,000
square miles, with the rate of slaughter
apparently ou the increase.