Traveling By MffhL
I ride into a lnd of gio >,
Nor moon nor Ur* uiv * y illume.
The cold wiJfs w'i sil* pant mo.
Thin road I've traveled > " ' ween.
When langH'd the suniiglu gchh-ii shesn,
And breeze* bland earn i d inc.
On by tho garden dark I mo.
The withor'd tree* are 1 nulling there.
The faded leave* fall *1 nlv.
Here oft 1 atrayed. when .>>>* 1 loomed.
And love's sweet hghl all tlun ;* ilhimM,
With her 1 loved so wholly.
Tlie sun has f led from the sky.
The roses pale and withered he.
My love in death i* sleeping.
Into aland of gloom I go.
Where light is none, and cold winds Mow,
My cloak arouud mo keej i g.
Tired.
O for wings, that I might soar,
A little way above the floor
A little way beyoud the rear
A little nearer to the sky !
To the blue lull*, lifted high.
Out of all our misery
Where alone is heard the lark,
Warbling tu tlie infinite are.
From the dawning to the dark.
Where the callow eaglets s ink
On the bare and breezy brink,
And alow pinions rise and sink.
Where the d:ra white breakers t>eat
I'nder cloud-drift* at vuir feet.
Singing, ainguig, low and sweet
Where we see the glimmering ha*
Oraylr melting far away.
On the confines of the day. #
Where the green larch-fringe* sweep
lloeky defiles. *tb! and sleep.
Where the tender lichen* creep.
Where the gentian-Woeeom* blow,
Set in crystal stars of snow:;
Where the downward torrent* So*
To the plains and yellow leas.
Clancing twinkling, through the trees.
I'ura. as from celestial *. as.
Where the face of heaven has smiled.
Aye on frselom, sweet and wild.
Aye. on beauty nudefiied.
Where no eouud of human speech.
And no human passions reach;
Where the angels ait and teach.
Where no troublous foot has trod ;
Where is impressed on the sod
Only Hand and Heart at God!
THE FATE OF THE SPY,
A ominous silence reigned over Se
bastopol. Not a gun or a soret-tchiug
shell disturbed the painful silence,
which, to imaginative minds, produced
a feeling of uneasiness and awe. I,
only a captain, was on outpost dnty,
with a revolver in hand, ready for any
emergency. Cautioning my men to re
port the most trivial stir that might
catch their ears, I ordered them to lie
down under cover of some thorny
abrube.
After some time I was in the act of
rising from my concealed position,
when a muflled footstep caught my ear.
I knew not why, bat the blood rushed
impetuously throngh my veins.
Glancing over my shoulder, the figuie
of a man rose mysteriously before me.
He was mnffleti to the chin ; over his
shoulder was a white something, which,
in my hurried glance, 1 took to be the
skin of some animal. Evidently who
ever this personage was he hat! not dis
covered me. His steps were bent
toward Sebastopol.
" Lord above !" I mentallv gasped,
" what if this wretch should be one of
those systematic spies, which are to be
found in all armies."
My forefinger instinctively sought
the trigger of my revolv-r. One course
I was determined upoD, at a'l hazards,
this mysterious figure should not
escape me. On it came gliding, so to
say, more like the movement of a ser
pent than a man. Snowing as it was,
and with the shadows of uight falling
fast and thick, there wu-. something
which struck me that I had seen this
ghost-like personage before. But
where? That was a question that at
that moment was most difficult to solve.
Gradually I rose from behind a thorny
shrub, and confronted the intruder
with my revolver.
"Who comes there?" said I, ener
getically.
A perceptible stare warned ine that
at last I confronted a spy.
" Move a hair's breadth," said I,
" and yon are a dead man •"
There was a sudden gleam of dull
moonlight, and 1 in my turn started.
The face, though partially concealed,
was familiar.
" Great heavens!" I exclaimed,
" Brown of ours."
Ers I could rightly recover, the fig
ure glided past me. 1 fin d, and called
loudly upon the outposts to shoot him
down.
Crack 1 crack ! went the rifles.
"Escaped as," I mattered, grinding
BT teeth.
" And gone right into Sebastopol,"
growled the sergeant.
" Listen," said I. For a Russian
sentinel that moment demanded a field
cry or password. In vain we stretched
oar ears to catch a reply ; nanght bat
the icy wind mocked as. I returned
to my hiding place fall of thoughts,
fall of suspicious.
" CoaUl it be possible," I asked my
self, "that the figure was Lieutenant
Brown?" They were certainly the
bushy whiskers, the full diabolical
face and the thick figure. Lieutenant
Brown, as I knew well, was no favorite
in ours. He went by the cognomen of
" foreigner," yet he distinctly avowed
that he was English to the back
bone.
I remembered then that Lieutenant
Brown was clever at sketching. I also
had seen him take notes, which I play
fully alluded to at the time, and in re
sponse be informed me—at a dear rela
tives' request—he kept a diary. It was
certainly strange. A multiplicity of
little occurrences rose np before me re
specting our foreigner. ITis absorbing
interest respecting any intended attack.
His studious silence before others re
specting the disasters of the Russians,
and when in my hut, his eager inquirise
as to how, and why, and the wherefore
of every trivial detail which occurred
in the camp.
The commanders of the English and
the French forces never rightly canght
the Russians asleep; in sorties, in open
attacks, they were always seemingly
prepared. This was mortifying. Cer
tainly some of our men hod deserted
to the enemy, but this oon died out,
owing to the cruel treatment which
waited them. That there was a spy,
who could pass the English and French
lines adhbituiu, I did not for an instant
doubt.
" At all events," said I, half load,
"if it be this foreigner lie mast re
tarn," and the bare thought was in
tensely delicious.
'• Xnere," hoarsely shouted one of
the outlying pickets, as he brought
down his rifle to the charge. "Stand!
The password."
This challenge sent the blood gallop
ing madly through me. " Now for the
mystery," thought I, and my finger
pressad determinedly on the trigger of
my revolver, as I crept up from whence
the sound proceeded.
"All's well, General," I heard the
sentry say, who shouldered his rifle
and stood firm. For on outpost duty
all compliments, such as presenting
arms and saluting, are totally ignored.
"Ah, Captain Wood, I believe," said
the General, who was on horseback,
leaning down on his saddle.
" The same, sir," said I.
The enow by this time had abated,
and the heavens grew brighter. Be
fore me was the English commander.
"We attack at daylight. Captain
Wood," he whispered. "If we but
steal a march upon them this time, I
believe we shall carry the great re
doubt, which Prince Menschikoff de
clares would defy all the armies of the
world to capture—he deems it impreg
nable ; be qui vive."
lv I K T/, I'Mitor mill 1 Vopriofor.
VOL. VII.
He wits about to ride off when 1 atop
pod him.
" General," aaid I, " it's my ilnty to
report a man w rapped in white, who in
defiance of the outlying picket, crossed
our position ami safely entered the
enemy's lines."
The General drew up reiti suddenly
at this.
"What, again? I'mpiestionably a
spy. In the name of God who and
w hat was he like ?"
I felt an irresistible impulse to un
bosom my suspicions. Hut, supposing
they should prove unfounded? The
character of an English officer would
be compromised, and I probably cash
iered for so unwarranted a charge, un
worthy of an officer ami a gentleman.
1 merely hinted it might be a Turk,
a Frenchman, or an Englishman.
"Hntnphl" ejaculated the English
oonuuamter, " if one of these he shall
uot escape us."
"Order the outlying pickets to be
doubled. Throw forward a section of
riflemen, under cover of the. gteat re
doubt. Suffer uo one to pass, on pain
of instant death. Order the riflemen
to lie down, ami, should the spy ap>
pear, not to discharge their rides, but
either to seize or knock him down with
the butt ends of their muskets."
This order 1 promptly carried out.
Still the same ominous silence at Se
bast.n 01. I heard naught save an oc
casional chant ami clock striking the
hour, in the doomed town. Silently, 1
could see, with my night-glass, tho
Russians relieving sentry.
" if it be the foreigner, he cannot es
cape ; and should he not return, my
worst fears will be realized."
While I was thinking 1 was dozing
off". Should 1 fall asleep under this
thorny brier, there would be a vacancy
iu ours. Aud, above all, it would fall
to the foreigner. I strove hard to rise,
and to my dismay, my limbs felt stiff
ami rigid. The revolver dropped from
my grasp. I essayed to cry out, but
my tongue refused to more.
Crack, crack, crack, 1 heard, like one
in a nightmare Something Lad hap
pened. Sharp tiring followed. I gave
a faint cry, as if in pain. The tramp
ing probably saved me from an awful
death. It removed the stagnated
blood. 1 sat tip and instinctively
placed my hand over my head aud face
to protect.
Was it a panic, or was I still dream
ing.
*• Curse him ! he's old nick himself,"
I heard voices exclaim ; " but for the
snow storm we would have made mince
meat of him."
And, to my amazement, the rifles in
swarms came running back to take up
position. One fellow tumbled over me,
and the next iustant I was surrounded
by men who poured stiff 4 ' tota of grog"
down my throat. Some chafed my
limbs, while others took me by the
arms in turns and walked me rapidly to
and fro. Iu a short time I was fully
restored. To my unutterable astonish
ment I learned a stoutish man, wrapped
in a white cloAk, appeared suddenly in
the midst of the swarm of human ants.
The snow at that moment was Urrriio,
and driven by a keen wind, it was next
to impossible to barely see your haud
before you. Some say they seized the
stranger by the leg. Others say lie got
some ounce of load. And yet—he es
caped them.
"All through this storm, captain,"
said au old sergeant. "We are afeared
of shooting • eh other."
" I'll be ha: <• .1 if he ain't, or ap
pear! d to go, smack into our lines."
I was seated in my rude bnt a week
after this terrible event, and who should
wa'k in but Lieutenant Brown. He
calmly seated himself, as was his wont,
anil serenely smoked his short pipe.
" Positively a stranger, Brown," I
said.
" A little out of sorts," he answered,
staring me full in the face.
I was ever of the opinion that men of
sinister natures cotila never rightly fix
their eyes upon another man's. I
laughed at this fallacy, and was over
skeptical upon this point afterward.
" Sorry to hear it," I replied. Then
I added, with a searching glaueo,
"Whit do you thinlf of this spy affair?"
" It's right enough. Captain Wood, I
saw the fellow myself, yesterday night,
enter the Russian linetC I could have
swoni the tuscal had stolen my seal
skin jacket."
" Did he ?" said I, with a faint touch
of sarcasm.
He pretended to langh heartily at
this; but there was a gleam in his cruel
eyes, and I saw it instantly cankered in
his bosom. He proposed some grog,
and between us we got slightly elevated.
The subject of oar conversation wns
that if the Russians some fina morning
made a grand attack near tho Ink rman
heights, it was probable the allies
would be swept into the ; this was
discussed, pro and con, in our camp,
and now I meant tohearLient. Brown s
opinion upon it.
" Monstrous V said he. " nave we
not got the finest troops in the world—
our foot guards—located there ?"
" Look here. Brown, I know and BO
do you—in fact, it is transparent to
everybody, except those at headquar
ters—that if the enemy during a snow
storm, or a foggy morning, say, crept
up from Sabastopol and fell upon our
pickets before the alarm could be given,
they could carry everything before
them."
He laughed heartily at this, and vet
I thought it was a serious laugh. We
smoked and drank, and I feigned to
fall asleep as Lieutenant Brown took
out his supposed diary. Ho scribbled
soma words in it upon a loose leaf, then
laid the book down a moment to light
bis pipe, and tho draft between the
boards of the rude hut wafted it upon
the litter at my feet. The Lieutenant
staggered, snatched up tho book with
out noticing that the leaf was gone, and
departed. J hastily picked up the note,
and after much labor I read—
"Attack, followed up, must succeed
if made on Inkerman side ; at least,
that is the opinion of English—suggest
the first foggy morning—Sunday."
" 'TIB as I expected," I gasped, " the
foreigner is a spy."
I kept my own counsel. I knew, on
November fourth and fifth, I should be
on outpost duty, and what should hinder
me from capturing him? I did wrong
in repeating the circumstance to my
superior officer.
The fourth of November came, and,
in the meantime, I had ordered my
servant to keep a strict watch on Lieut.
Brown. He reported that evening that
the foreigner was missing, and on in
qniry, this turned out to be true. I
still kept my own oounsel, but as I
halted near a ravine overlooking ttebas
topel, I promised promotion to any
man who should cupture any person
coming from the enemy's line, for I
felt convinced the foreigner had gone
over and would probably return under
cover of night. At midnight Sebasto
pol was enveloped in a dense fog. But
throughout that live-long night I was
on the alert, encouraging the guards
on my right to keep a sharp eye and
a 'cuter ear on Sabastopol. It was near
the dawn wheu the bells in Babastopol
commenced to ring. The men thought
they were the bells for church. This
continued for some time. I applied
my ear to the ground. Could Ibe mis
taken? The sound of wheels, as if
muffled, caught my ear. Then the in
distinct tramp of numerous bodies of
men.
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
Before I hud time to rise, the report
of musket from the outlying jvota
startled me.
Another and ati fiber followed in
rapid Mteov ssiuu, the outposts fell back
upou the rallying point 1 had iuvlieated,
aud I determined to show u fiont.
Judge tuy surprise, when a Russian
offivr, in dim outline, stood before ine,
and in bia rear were some half doaru
stuff officers feeling their wuv. Some
thing was Mid iu Russian, which I did
not understand ; but the voice, there
was uo disguising that. It was the
foreigner. My first intention was to
shoot him down. In an instant 1
thought better of it. I fell U}K>U him
ami disarmed hitu. Two men bound
him, and in a whisper, 1 gave him in
charge of a corporal and fv>ur men.
" Headquarters," 1 whispered to
them, and they marched ou with their
prisoner. Why sjH-akof what followed?
Is not the story wf the battle of luker
man and its results known to all ?
On the same Sunday afternoon Lieu
tenant Bsown, alias tl. - foreigner, alias
Kirkoff—for it turned out lie was a
Russian by birth -was tried by drum
head court-iuarual.
At first he denied everything, but
afterward made a full confession. 1
recapitulated what is already kuowu,
and reproduced the slip from his uote-
IHKIL. llis haudwriting alone con
demned him. 1 was the chief witness.
And almost instantly he was ordered
then and there to be hanged by the
neck.
He pleaded to lie shot. But the
court scornfully rejected his appeal,
lie was tlung off from a neighboring
tree on the heights of lukermau. And
oil his breast, iu English and Russian,
were written those brief but terrible
words —" The fate of a spy."
A Cut's Tail on a Booster.
If, says l>r. Brown-Bernard, we put
an orgau taken from a living animal in
side of another animal, verv frequently
this orgau will be engrafted there. The
infused serum becomes the object of
chemical changes, the blood is attract
ed and the orgau receives circulation.
1 once engrafted the tail of a cat oil a
cock's comb. A few days after it was
evident bv pricking the tail that bhod
was circulating in it, and it certainly
would have staid there had not thee >ok
had a tight cud lost its tail. Other
cases of grafting leave no doubt in this
respect. It is shown by the fact that
oi i in animals when they are implanted
on a mucous membrane take bold cf
it, blood is attracted there and circula
tion takes place.
The mere division of a nerve is fol
lowed by a gixsl many alterations, often
producing atrophy uot only of the mus
cles but also of the cellular tissue of
the blood vessels, and also of the bones
themselves. All the parts that were ani
mated bv the u< rve are more or less
atrophied after division. Dr. John Heed
made an experiment to ascertain wheth
er it was because the nervous system lias
an influence on the nutrition, which is
essential, or whether it was simply the
lack of action, the perfect rest iu which
the part was thrown, that occasioned
this wasting away or atrophy. Ho al
lowed atrophy to take place, and then
galvanized the limb verv
and found it irapr< ved. llut the prin
cipal experiment consisted in prevent
ing atrophy by galvanization, lie gal
vanized every day, ui: 1 found that the
limb dnl nut become atrophied. I
pushed the experiment further. I wait
ed until atrophy had liecomc C usidera
ble in the limb, and then I applied gal
vanism. I then learned that although
the nerve had lost nerve force alto
gether—as they lose it four days after
dissectiou —yet there was soon a rnani
fi st increase in size, and after a tune
the limb was brought to th< normal
size that it had before the operation.
Even iu man we frequently see cases
of that kind. I once hod a patient who
from rheumatism had been witheut any
exercise iu one of his legs for a long
time and atrophy was considerable iu
the thigh. When the pain bad dimin
ished considerably he liegau to apply
galvanism. I observed day after day a
change for the bet er, and at the end of
a wc?k he had gained ut the upper part
of the thigh n< atly two inches in cir
cumference. This implied a rapid
transformation for the i>elter. It is
evideut, therefore, that in a great meas
ure it is owing to rest or inactivity of a
part that want of nerve action and con
sequently atrophy is due.
His Resolutions
Theodore Parker married, in Apri 1 ,
183(1, MIRK Lydia I). Cabot, only daugh
ter of John Catnit, of Newton, with
whom he had plighted troth five years
previously. The follow tug resolutions
are entered in his journal on his wed
ding-day :
1. Never, except for tho best of
causes, to oppose my wife's will.
4 To discharge all services, for her
sake, fret ly.
3. Never to scold.
4. Never to look cross at her.
5. Never to weary her with com
mands.
C. To promote her piety.
7. To f>car liej burdens.
8. To overlook her foibles.
9. To love, cherish, and ever defend
her.
10. To remember her always most
affectionately in my prayers ; thus God
willing, wo shall be blessed.
Bo Cats Think T
A New Hampshire paper relates the
following story, asserting that it comes
to it " through a reliable source
In a store in Exeter, a short time ago,
a hogshead had been left opened, and
upon going to it a company of rats were
found in the bottom, having been at
tracted thither by its contents, and be
ing unable to get out. The store cat
was brought in and placed in position
to see them, hut after taking a good
look jumped down and ran out at the
door, shortly reappearing with nnother
cat. They now looked over the situa
tion and retired, soon comiug back
with flio third cat. They now scorned
satisfied with their force and made an
attack, jumping into the hogshead.
The cats had, however, miscalculated
tho force of their enemy, and two were
killed, the other being taken out iu sea
son to save its life.
Instinct of a Horse,
Blind instinct led a horse belonging
to Dr. Allen, of Saco, Me., to act as
follows: Standing befora the doctor's
office, he started up the street for his
stable. At tbat time the entrance to
the premises was through a double
gate, fastened on the inside with a
staple. The horse wa seen to approach,
put his head over the gate, and with
his teeth lifted up the hasp, then mov
ing back a few stops, he came forward
and put his shoulder agaiust one side
of the gate, and pushed it open ; again
backing down, he advanced and pushed
open the other gate ; and then backiug
again, ho went through the entrance,
without injury to the carriage. He
seemed to know that it was necessary
for him to draw the carriage squarely
through the centre of the entrance.
Life is an inconceivably beautiful
thing, as soon as we can reach that
poiut whence we can look out upon it
with a cleur conscience and a character
well buffeted by experience.
CENTRE 11A I.E. CENTRE Co.. PA.. Till KSDAY, JI'.VK 11, 1874.
LIIUII I.IRI: IN H .ISIIIMJTO.NI.
Tit* Marriage l lira HrrrUrßl'tOssiili-
Ui at lire hits tlortsr.
The marriage of Mis* Nellie Grant to
Mr. Bartons took place in the Moat
K Him of the Executive Mansion, Rev,
Mr. Tiffany,of the Metropolitan Metho
dist Episcopal Church, officiating.
1 Hiring the morning, and up to the
hour when the guests took their de
parture, the avenues leading to tlie
mansion were closed to all except those
invited to the weddiug, and tin-re were
policemen on the grounds to prevent
intrusion by outside parties, inany of
whom had gathered at the outer gates
to see the guests ride into the iuelos
ure. The doorteliders had received
strict orders to admit uo uue without
an invitation.
The east room, the scene of the wed
ding, was tastefully and elaborately
decorated with plants, flowers and ever
greens ; ou the east hide was a plat
foiru raised a Rout u foot from the ibnir
and covered with a part of the carpet
several years ago presented to the gov
ernment by the Sultan of Turkey, 'ihe
platform was arched with evergreen
and flowers, and from its center hung
a marriage bell of large proportions
composed of the choicest white flowers.
Punctual to the hour :he invited gtirsts
entered the east room and arranged
themselves in full view of the platform.
The toilet* of all the ladies were of the
richest description. The scene was uu
tysually brilliant, tho lurge display of
flowers adding to the beauty of the
scene. The bridal party passing
through the Blue Room entered the
East Room. Their presence immedi
ately hushed the company to silence.
The approach was announced bv music
from the Marine band. First came Mr.
Sartoris and Colonel Frederick I>.
Grant, the only groomsman. Next the
bride-maids, two by two, the President
and Miss Grant, Mrs. Grant aud her
two sous. These were followed by rela
tives of the family.
On reaching the platform the PreM
dent transferred his daughter to Mr.
Hsrtoris, who, with the bride, ascciuh 1
the platform, where the officiating min
ister was in waiting to receive them.
They took position under the floral
wedding bell. The Prvsiih nt and Col
onel Grant, together with Miss Harm *,
one of t e bridesmaids, wt r • the only
other jiersous near the b nial party on
the platform, Mrs. Grant and her two
boys standing iu front and the remain
ing seven bridesmaids on the side of the
structure.
The bride wore a white satin dr<-
elaborately trimmed witu point lace ami
a tulle veil, and her hair was adorned
with orange blosMims. There was noth
ing porticulaily noticalije in the drew
of the groom, which was e>f course in
the latest style with the conventional
white necktie.
The bridesmaids were the Misses
Harues, Drexel, Dent, Porter, C'otik
liug, Sherman and Freliaghuysen.
Ti.ev were severally dressed in white
corded silk,covered with w~lutcillusion,
with soft pufls and plaitiugs caught up
with flower*. Tneir sashes were of the
same material as the dr< ■** *. four of
these ladies were distinguished by pink
rosi s and the other four by pink flow
(i>.
All things being in readiness, the
ltev. Pr. Tiffany pn ."ceded with the
eer meny according to the rrn of the
Methodist Epi- opal Church, livery
one, as usual on such occasions, pre
served a marked silence, and listci.i-d
attentively t<> very word while clo-ely
wu'hing the maimer and countenances
of the bridal pair. The ceremony over,
the minister was tin- first to ki-s the
bride. She immediately turned to her
luttier, who embraced su 1 kissed her.
Then the mother approached and
kissed her daughti r, as did also the
brothers of the bride and uumerous
relatives and female friends.
k Smuggler's Narrative.
" We shall be. my dear madam." said
I to a fellow-passenger in the Picppe
boat, taking out my watch, but keeping
my eye steadily upon her, "we shall be
in lens than ten mutates ut the custom
house." A spasm -a flicki r from the
guilt within—glanced from her couute
na'.ic".
" You look very goovl-naturcd, sir,"
stammered she.
I bowed, and looked considerably
more so to invite her confidence.
" If I was to tell yon a secret, which
I find is too mtieh for me to keep to
myself, O, would you keep it in
violable t"
" I know it, my dear madam—l know
it already," said I, smiling ; " it is lace,
is it not ?"
•Sho uttered a little shriek, and yo,
she had got it there among the crino
line. She thought it had In-en sticking
out, you see, unknown to her.
" Oh, sir," cried she, " it is only ten
pounds' worth ; please to forgive me,
and I'll never do it ugaiu. As it is, I
think I shall expire."
" My dear madam," replied I, sternly
but kindly, " hero is the pier, and the
officer has fixed his eye upon ns. I
must do mv duty."
I rushed np tho ladder like a lamp
lighter ; I pointed out the woman to a
legitimate authority ; I accompanied
n*r upon her way, in custody, to the
searching-house. I did not MOO her
searched, but 1 saw what was found
upon her, and I saw her fined and din
nnssed with ignominy. Then, having
generously given up my emoluments as
informer to tho subordinate officials, I
hurried off in search of the betrayed
woman to lier hotel. I gave her laee
twice tho vnlno of that sho lost, paid
her fine, and explained :
" Yon, madam, hod ton ponnds' worth
of smuggled goods about your person ;
I had nearly fifty times that amount. I
turned informer, madam, lot mo con
vince you, for the sake of both of us.
You have too expressive a countenance,
believe mo, and the officer would have
found you out at all events, even as
I did myself. Are you satisfied, my
dear madaui ? If yon still feel aggrieved
by mo in any way, pray take more lace;
here is lots of it."
When I finished my explanation, tho
lady seemed perfectly satisfied with my
little stroke of diplomacy, though she
would have doubtless preferred a less
prominent part in it.
The Peach Districts,
Within tho lost few weeks a species
of black bug lias appeared in countless
numbers iu the peach orchards near
Denton, Caroline County, Md., and has
douo serious damage iu that locality.
In one nursery the grafted stocks of
Hfi.OOO trees were entirely killed. Tho
insect is evou capable of destroying
large trees, as it thickly covers the
leaves and prevents vegetation. Nono
of the ordinary means of destroying in
sects seem to avail, as this scourge is
very tenacious of life, mid a liquid ap
plication that will kill the tree does not
affect it. It resembles tho rose-bug,
and is regarded by entomologists as a
similar pest to the cherry achid. Thus
fur no serious damage has been done to
fruit-benring orchards, though tho
presence of the bug is reported iu peach
districts about Middletown. Speci
mens of the insect have been sent to
the Department of Agriculture at Wash
ington.
Till: TALK OF OFVIII.
Alter ftir Mill lltwr Thrill
ing I'liluic uf (lie V|
1 have before me, #[i!f a oorrc
niitiiiilciit from the Mill Itiver V ley,
n bird's pj# view uf the
vale uf il -vnstutiuii. At wy in the
liuttuin of.the reservoir itself, black,
ghu#t!y ami uiPimciug. The very
stumps which lift llituiiplvm above the
ilnik mass uf aeditueut seem t<> muck at
the desolation of the valley below and
at those who come to lof>k on the
source of the disaster. There are lulls
all urouutl except where the brook,
which now uieaiulcra quietly through
the black bed to the lake, find# an out
let over the remains of the dike. Here
two miniature mountains nearly touch
each other, and were joined together by
the wall and dirt of the embankment.
At each side there is now a part of the
wall as it originally too<l. At the bot
tom a straight line of masonry even
with the bed show# the base of the wall
from side t > side. Seen from the hill
above it looks very narrow, and actual
measurement shows that in its strongest
part it wus only live feet nine inches
wide. The width gradually diminished,
uinl at the Htuiiuitt it was scarcely wider
thau an ordinary stone fence. Most
prison walla are stronger in every way
than this dam, which held prisoner for
nine years 125 acres of water, llelow the
dam is a narrow gorge, extending from
the reservoir to Williamsburg, and
almost in all instant the dike gave way
and the unchained waters went rushing
in wrutii and fury down this narrow de
tile, heralded ouly by a dying horse
man, who b..re the tidings of impending
destruction and death to the doomed
Villager# below the detiio.
THE ruarrL rut op.
The scene which followed baffles de
scription. It was awful beyond the
power of word# to describe. No im
agination short of Dore's wonderful
conceptions of the terrible could guide
the brush which would put it upou
canvas. The only account of a like
disaster which approaches it in its
awful sublimity is Charles Iteade's
st >ry of the breaking uwayof the liills
boro' durn in " l'ut Yourself in His
Place." Even tliat account, once ao
vivid U> my imagination, is dull and
tame to me now—inane, indeed, after
seeing what 1 wiw in the chain of vil
lages through which 1 sadly and labori
ously struggled to reach this sjiot. Yet
in many respects the two disasters are
wonderfully like. There was the same
parh-y tngover the question whether t:.e
dam would give way, the same playing
with danger till the flood was on its
way. George Cheuev, dashing down
the narrow defile to \ViUiamsborg, has
Ins analogy in Charles Iteade's hero.
Ihe disbelief, the fright, the paralysis
. f terror which met Cheney nl the vil
lage wus the reception that was also
accorded the mce-eUger of death of
Keatie's imagination. 'lhe analogy did
!. '. cease even with this, and Haydena
ville is to-day the counterpart of Pom*
bridge. Never wire two tales so
marveloualy similar. And in the one
cu-e as in* the other the mud water*
were tijHin the ojwrativea before their
dull senle of the awful danger enabled
mariT of them to comprehend the im
pending d ■ ctcr and to escape from it.
Williamsburg had ten minute* to pre
pare, and Williamsburg mourn* stx'y
d id. llaydeusville hsid four minute*,
and it gave forty victims to the flood.
I, • da ha 1 only two minutes, snd fifty
lifeless forms were buried in the debrt-s
dashed against the hillsides, si.d
strewn over the meadows above
Florence.
Tin; sci-ne or DEftonxriov.
On the spt where I stand I can see
the black bed of the reservoir, the
abutments wtiieh remain of the broken
dam. and the wild gorge through which
the waters rushed on their way to the
villages which stretch before me in the
misty distance. Though called by dif
ferent names they are, in fact, ouc town
—a chain of village# stretching all the
way fr m Northampton to Williams
burg, nt the opening of the g'Tgc.
Much of the latter place still reruaius,
the t wn hall being the middle of a
hamlet left untouched by the waters.
Smiling over it in the sunlight I saw
tno village cemetery, its green sward
yawning with opening graves. A little
iartlu r t-> the east, and closely hugging
the eastern hit!#, the work of death and
desolation begun. Here the bed of the
stream i h-st, and for a mile below the
waters percolate in 1,000 rill* through
a* many channel* till they come togeth
er again just above llaydeusville. The
roadbed i* gone, and for two data long
lin- * of vehicles have been slowly find
ing their way through the submerged
meadow# where the mill* and dwelling*
stood. The depot i* a mile ludow, and
all above it is a waste. On Saturday
the" valley vwi impassable above the
depot. There is no highway even now,
and a good road will bo the work of
year#. The sites of the house# and
mills, as well as thu buildings, have
disappeared. Surveys based tijion old
title deeds will bo necessary to deter
mine what is whose, and where the old
landmarks were. Maps nre of no use
to a visitor like me, for where 1 see
houses marked on the page I behold
only desolation iu the valley. Here is
a house toppled over on its side, but
whore it was or whence it came 1 know
not. There is a structure tossed nlxnit
by the flood till it was left with the roof
oil the ground. Hut most of the build
ings murkt d on the map have not only
disappeared, but all traces of them are
gone. Their fragments strew the earth
all the way down the valley, and the
Connecticut bos carried much of the
debris out to the sea.
THE FORCE OP THE WATERS.
And oven the Mirth, the ground, tho
hank* or the conglomerate masses which
pans for these are difficult of roeogni
lion in tho elements which constitute
them. (front rolls of cloth are inter
woven with tho debris and tho aoil.
Buttons nnd instruments of brass and
iron nnd steam boilers nud brick and
stone nnd parts of buildings and rem
nants of household furniture are st rewn
about indiscriminately. Everything is
everywhere and uothing can Im>
found. In coming up to my mount of
vantage my earringe wheels passed over
a beaten and battered " waiter"—it
may have been of silver for all I know.
A little further on they ground into
fragments a triangular piece of marble
from some fine lady's dressing easo.
Ah I stand here I look down upon this
fearful scene of desolation, too marvel
ous in its audden transformation to de
scribe it, too terrible in its inconceiva
ble agony to picture or portray it. As
far as the eye eau reach, the story of
waste, of devastation nnd death is ouly
varied now and then by an incident a
little more terrible than the others or
some mad work of destruction a little
moro conspicuously frightful than the
rest. The face of nature has complete
ly changed in this once happy and smil
ing valley, anil every scene reflects tho
sorrow around it. And the rains which
poured down all day long, have made
this theatre of death even ghastlier
than it was before. With the full un
tight it was ghastly enough without tho
sombre shades of this fretful day. _ I
cannot now attempt to recount tho dis
asters, beginning with the wife and
daughter of Livingstone Burlett, who
were the first to fall victims to tho
fiood, and ending, perhaps, with tho
little boy whose bodv I saw dragged
out from the meadows below Leeds.
IUTDBKBTIUJL
I poinh d a moment ago to Haydens
ville as the I'otua Bridge of (diaries
Reade's story. It la the village iu tha
centre of the valley. Immediately be
low it ts Leeds ; above tt is Williams
burg. It was a beautiful village.
William Skinner's silk mill, which was
just below the Williamsburg depot,
marked the dividing line betwesn it
and its neighbor village. The mill is
goiio to the last brick, and the elegant
mansion of its proprietor is the ahst
tered monument of what this man had
wrought.. Tho ojwratives at tlrat re
garded the stry of the oomiug (loud us
a joke, aud it was not until the mill
and many houses near it were swept
away not until the flood had come and
almost gone that they awoke to the
terrible reality.
Onward swept the waters, and the
mill of llaydeit, Gere A Chi. was also :
swept away, utid with it the savings
baiiL, where some foolhardy |M-ople hiul
ensconced themselves to witness and
watch the flood. At this point the,
river was walled with solid masonry,
but the walls were uprooted and the
huge stones which colnpoaed them Were
tossed about like so uiauy pebbles |
dropfied iuto an eddying current. On
the high ground above is the house of
Joel Hay deli, built by the late Governor
llayden, where the boiler from the mill
now lies on the lawn. Other residences
equally elegant stand iu a line with it,
and though they remain, every tree ill
front of them which was not swept
awav is imbedded in immense masses
of debris where, iw-rhaps, some of the
undiscovered bodies are buried. On
the other side of the river the banks
were uot so high, and nearly everything
went with the tl >od, a line of rubbish
on the billai.h marking the height
which the water# reached. And ao
rolled the flood on through Leeds, oun
tiuuiug ita woik of destruction till its
force was Weakened in the meadows
above Florence. Thus weakened, on
and on it went till the Connecticut '
swallowed it and all that came with it,
calmly vanquishing what a moment be
fore had been a giant. My imagination
has been so inueh impressed by what I
witnessed coming her—the desolated
valley, the ruined buildings, the houses
tilled with the dead, the vehicles bear- ;
iug the disfigured laaliesof the victims,
the possibilities of almost impossible
revelations of disaster and death—that
1 cannot overlook the scene npon which
my < tea have rested without emotions
which come to few men in the couiae
of a long lifetime. This is no ordinary
scent, even to one who liaa seen death
in every shape. It is worse thau a bat
tle field where the carnage has been
terrible, for lu re most of the victim.*
have been women and children, too ;
weak to run from the death that over
took thein. It was an overwhelming
torrent, rushing through a |H*aocful val
ley and allowing itself a messenger of
destruction, which claimed first of all
what was choicest and best. That vol
ley, once noted for its industry, and
now historic from iva calamity, is before
me, atul it* woo# may be seen wherever
the eyes chance to r st_ Williamsburg,
llaydeusville, Leeds are tbe names of
one common misfortune which could
not have hap|M*ued if n few men, con
sidered the safest and best in the com
munity, had guarded as carefully their
own interest# and the lives of their
operative* aa they had shrewdly car Ted
fortune# ont of nothing.
Torcauto nrctDNm
And, again, the disaster was full of
incidents, it con'id uot be otherwise
where the story of every victim *m a
tragedy scarcely less terrible than the
eritiiea'of the French Revolution. The
account of Henry Tilton bearing hi#
mother and his little sen to a place of
safety, but escaping, while both of
those he loved were swept away, i# more
pathetic thau Virgil's legend of .Eneas
(•earing Anchises upon his shoulder*
from ruined Troy—more dramatic than
Henry Initio's struggle with the Hills
bc.ro' flood for tbe safety of Grace Car
den. But in the next breath we are told
that a cow floated down from Williams
burg to Florence, and escaped with
only a broken horn. Poet never wrote
anything finer in conception or troer to
the grand and overpowering impulses
of a toother's he art and a mother s love
than i* contained in the l*ucut of the
p H.r Irish woman who 1 '. her husband
but saved her crippled child only to lose
him also by a subsequent accideut
which befell bitn wlulo they were War
ing him to a phiee of safety. "Oh 1"
cried she, " that I should livo to sec
this night! An" the l>oy cried to me,
' Sure you won't leave me, mother, to
lie carried iu the flood !' an' I rnshed
and snatched him ont of bed, and got
out between the houses, and, a# God
hears me, I couldn't get farther, an' I
stood there, an* the boy in my arm*,
an' the water going over me. And I
was Knocked from hero wid a timber
that hit me on my leg and again in the
breast, but I'm alive and I saved the
Inly, but he'll die the mornin', an' the
man's gone. Edward's gone ! Oh, but
for the rainy morning, he'd been here
at work and' saved ! Ob, my darling,
i my darling. God help ns 1"
Na lieu, save Victor lingo's, flashed
with describing llio horrors of La Ven
dee', can adequately describe this disas
ter. Among calamities it is epic in all
it# phases. I can only survey the field
over which the mad water# rushed in
their fury and think that if I had time
; to collect all my thoughts and oppor
tunity to select the fittest words for
telling all I have heard 1 might unfold
a chapter which other men would read
with feelings akin to my own.
Sluicing llim Down.
A lady had gone to visit a young
conple of the better class of the poor.
The husband being a stoker on a rail
way, they were above the reach of want.
The visitor thought they might go to
church on Sundays, and she said so to
tho young wife.
" Will yon please walk in till I show
yon something ?" was the woman's an
swer, and hlio conducted her visitor to
tho littlo kitchen, where her husband
sat by tho fire. He had just come homo
for half an hour to have his tea. He
was, of course, in his working clothes,
and his face and hands were of a deep,
oily black, after flic maimer of stokers.
" Now, ina'am," mud tbe woman, "you
see that there man. That's my hus
band ; and I'm bound to do a part by
him, ain't 1 ?"
"Surely," said the visitor, anxious to
uphold the duties of matrimony.
" Very well, then. 1 pass my Run
days a-wsahing of he ! Never a blessed
moment hua ho to wash himself through
the week—out early and late, and half
the night, too, and blacker nor any
crow nil tho while. Well, on Sundays
it is fitting and proper that he should
try to leok like a Christian, if he can,
so* ho sets mo to it after we cat our
breakfast, with a bucketful of soapsuds
and a scrubbing-brush, and I rubs at
him ofT and ou all day, till my arms
ache, and he ain't much better than he
wor ; and then after we has onr tea he
says to me—' Come, Sally, have another
try—there's a bravo woman,' and I goes
at him nguin, and sluices him down till
you'd think a born nigger 'ud come out
white, and, if you'd believe me, ma'am,
when I polishes him oflf with a dry
towel afore ho goes to bed, he'B only a
light brown after all 1"
Porms: S'-i.OO a Year, in Advance.
HYDROPHOBIA AT WHOLESALE.
M list a Io Old IM l'kls>(* TWlrtcsu
I'titnui I niter Wtnlrnrs at IZeallt-
Twa of lit• Victims Already Head.
About nine days ago a rabul dog was
killed ou Htar street, after he had
bitten thirteen persons. One of the
victims, named Frank Becker, thirteen
years old, who ramded with his parents
on Orchard str. et, died about two
weeks ago in the moat intense agony.
During the boy'a sickness Herman Van
derbaach, a sewing machine ageut, liv
ing and doing business at No. &81 I.ar
rabee street, who had also been bitten
by tho same dog. Went to See him. lie
took groat interest in the case, and
aaid, upon his return home, after
Becker's death, "That ia tha way I
•hall go shortly." Ho was greatly hor
rified, and, t-ing a Catholic, commen
ced to make his peace with God, and
to prepare for death. ' His fate seemed
to occupy his mind continually to the
exclusion of all other subjects, although
he attended to his business up to about
a week ago, when ho manifested de
cided symptoms of hydrophobia, and
took to his bed. A short time previous
to this Vanderbaaoh had expressed a de
sire to visit St. Hubert, iu Belgium,
where the Catholics have a superstiti
ous belief that the hydrophobia can be
cured by a touch from any of the sur
rouudings ; but he could not raise the
neceaaary amount of money to make
the journey. lie became a prey to the
most morbid imagination, aud at the
lime of taking his bed he was so
wrought up with excitement thst he
could not bear even the indirect men
tiou of water.
When it became necessary for him to
tin oh he would instruct hie family to
bring him a cup of water, and would
turn hia back to them while he t<>nk it
from behind, and then abutting his
eyea, he would swallow the fluid at a
gulp. (Strangulation would immedi
ately follow, and in the retching* he
would apit blood from hi* lunga.
At these times he would caution hia
friends to keep out of his way, and
would uae the utmost care to turn his
head that the saliva might not come in
ooulact with their persons. He
retained his oonaciouaness up to the
day of his death, except when the
paroxysms were upon him, and he would
l-g his people to tie him eo he eould j
not injure them. This was done before
the physicians were sent for.
The "patient was visited by Dr. D. L.
Bcbeppera, who called in council Dr*.
Fierce., Uirieb, Greiger and Miller. On
Friday night the patient grew alarm
ingly worse, and a straight-jacket was
put upon him, confining his limbs and
rendering him harm less. Soothing
medicines were administered, but noth
ing could lie done to slleviate his suf
ferings. On Fridsv afternoon an old
priest called to ace and gave him a
relic from St. Hubert, whicu bo had
brought from there twoyearaago, bear
ing the Hope's seal and certificate,writ
ten in Latin, that the charm was gen
uine, and the poor fellow fondly be
lieved that the magical piece of brass
would oerlaiuly cure him. This bad
the effect of calming him down till
toward night, and he clung to it with
the grasp of despair. Hut imagination
coupled with the poisonous- iufluence
of the saliva inoculated into hia system,
had done it* work beyond all hopes of
[ reparation, and the victim died at half
past one o'clock on Sunday morning in
the must terrible writhing* of agony.
The .'orm of death was verv much ths
same aa that of asphyxia, the disease
appearing to be in hia throat and cheat.
A post-mortem examination of his
heart, lunga, liver and stomach was
made by Dr. Seheppers, with the per
mission of the widow, and the lungs
were lound congested in nearly every
lobe. The heart was found nearly
sound, no clots of blood being diacerni
ble, though a few punctures were visi
ble. The liver was perfectly sound and
the stomach was entirely empty. The
most important part of the subject was
| left unexamined—the brain. Had that
; been exposed, in all probability it
would have been fouud to be in a high
stato of congestion also; but it was only
with persistent urging that the family
of deceased could be induced to give
their consent to the examination of the
lungs, snd the doctor was forced to re
main in ignorance as to the 6tate of the
brain and also of the bowels.
Aa the form of the dead man IST in it#
j coffin it prt sen ted a most horrible spec
tacle. Ihe eyes were staring, as they
1 had I icon before bis death, the pnpila
dilated to the ntmoat capacity, the
hands clinched and the limbs cramped.
1 )eceascd was a Hollander, forty-two
rears of age. and leaves a wife and
four children to mourn his loss. He
was alwars very temperate iu hi* hahita
UH within the'last ten days, when he
took to drinking, as he said, to forget
the great trou< le. There is not the
shadow of a doubt that imagination
waa the chief cause of his death at this
time, though the poison which was in
stilled into his system might have woke
into activity at any other time. ne
had felt no effects of the bite until he
witnessed the sufferings and death of
the boy Becker, and then it wonld seem
he worried himself into the same con
dition, and the excitement brought on
congestion of ths lungs and brain.
There are eleven persons who were
bitten at the time by the same dog,
and it is possible that all mar share a
similar fate with Becker and Vander
baseh, nnlesa they let their good sense
triumph oTer their supetstitious imagi
nation. It has been said that a French
physician of Taris discovered that Rus
sian or vspor baths were almost a sure
cure for this disease, if taken before
congestion is brought on. The poor
victims of the rabid animal will donbt
less leave no rock unturned till they
have found the mad stone which will
heal them of their malady.— Chicago
Paprr.
A Clerical Emetic.
It is not often that a prisoner i
brought to trial npon the charge laid
against Father Bareuins, when be ap
peared before tbe tribunal at Treviglio,
in Lombardy. This worthyecelesiasfio
was accused, says the A til Mall (Ja
zcttr, of putting a strong emetic into
tho wino which some of his brother
priests were about to use in the cele
bration of mass, and his only defense
was that he wanted to play a practical
joke upon two of them who had recent
ly come to Treviglio. They belonged
to an opjiosite school of theology, and
Father Baronius, who seemed surprised
that his application of emetics to reli
gion should have caused so great a
scandal, thought that if he could not
convert them he might at least punish
them. It would have been useless for
him to have denied the main facts of
the accusation, as the dose was so
strong that ono of the victims was ill
for a week, while tho doctors at Tre
viglio, possessing but a very elementary
knowledge of the healing art, thought
that lie had been poisoned, and sub
mitted him to so severe a diet that he
was reduced to a skeleton. The offend
ing priest was charged npon the double
count of misdemeanor and sacrilege,
and was senteuoed to seven months' im
prisonment.
The entire population of Australia
is estimated at '2,000,000. The island
oontinent has an area almost as large as
the whole of Europe.
NO. 23.
Village Libraries.
A correspondent of the N. Y. 7W
hunt gives the plan adopted in a certain
place where she once lived by whioh a
library of Iretween "00 and 800 volumes
was accumulated. Each person inter
ested gave ft a year or more aa he waa
able, aud us the community wits scat
tered over wauy miles the books pur
chased were changed on Mondays when
the member* of tlie association came to
church. Que afternoon during the
week a young lady waa at ths library to
hmd to such as were not members who,
for the trifling sum of six cents a vol
ume, were allowed the privilege of keep
ing a book for one week.
In a town not far from New York
City there ia a library well selected sad
comprising several hundred volumes,
the nucleus of which was procured by
the profits of a very successful fair.
Members pay $1.50 annually and with
the income from this source the library
is kept in fair condition. Within the
la hi ten years, however, the liquor sa
loons in the place alluded to have in
rrested very rapidly, and the library
has lost its power in proportion. It
stands to reason that in a town of 3,000
inhabitants liquors cannot be sold in
70 different places and love of litera
ture remain in the ascendant. In view of
that fact we recommend that in front
of the village library be placed a fount
ain. if possible of ioe water, so that
aoula thirsty in a double sense may
not find the'maelvea divided in inclina
tion between haunts of inspiration and
of degradation. A very flourishing
Western town in Illinois has a charming
and ample library, the result of tlie la
bors of its prominent women. Kvtfry
spring and fall the members present
flowers aud fruit in their season or con
tribute the results of their industry in
paintings, drawing*, articles of needle
work, plain and fancy—all of which arc
sold, and the moneys received go to
swell the library fund. The frequent
ers of this delightful retreat from oare
find on the table all tlie magazines and
new spapers of the day, and on the well
filled shelves whatever their literary
tastes may call for.
Those who are about to move in this
matter will be glad to know that pub
lisher* make liberal disoonnt* from
their regular prices when books sold arc
to be placed in public libraries. The
Harriers deduct 25 per cent, and other
publisher* are probably not less liber
al. The best course of proceeding
would be for a committee of purchase
to procure the catalogues of the promi
nent publishing-houses in oar large
cities, and make out such a list of books
as will meet their wants or consume
their funds, and either order the whole
from some large jobbing house, sa Ap
pleton's of New York or Lippinoott's
of Philadelphia; or if they order di
rectly from the publishers, have all the
different orders expressed from one job
bing house to save expense.
Magazines and newspapers can be
procured at a reduction from the regu
lar prices by arrangements mode with
the publishers thereof. We shall be
glad to lay before our readers any sug
gestions deprived from the observation
and experience of tboee who have had
a part in organizing and conducting
these fountains of intelligence and vir
tue. In the multitude of counselors
there is wisdom.
Wheel Velocities.
The only limit to the number of
revolutions which a wheel maybe made
to make in a given time is the tensile
strength of the material* of which the
wheel is made, and ita consequent
powei to resist the centrifugal force
which tend* to rend it asunder. Savart,
in hia experimenta on the theqnr of
sound, made wheels to revolve from
one thousand to two thousand timet
per miunte: but this baa been sur
passed by Foncait, who invented an
apparatus tor measuring the velocity
of light, to which a small wheel with a
mirror waa attached, which might be
made to revolve <SOO, 800, and even
1,000 timea per second, or 00,000 timet
per miunte. At these velocities the
ordinary amalgam waa completely strip
ped from the glass to which it was At
tached ; and it waa found necessary to
nae mirrors either of glass coated with
pure silver or made entirely of metal.
These are the most rapid reTolotiona
thus far obtained, probably, bnt there
is not the slightest reason why even
this should not be surpassed. It is
evident that for snch great velocities
cog wheels are out of the question.
Only bands or firings can be oaed.
IV'cs for Geese.
The Prairie Farmer permits this to
go into print : " Indispensable as the
pig is, however, in this system of live
stock husbandry, the goose yields a far
greater net profit. Tigs will sometimes
have cholera, and they will occasionally
die before their time, but the goose
never. It is aaid ou good authority
that no adult goose wns ever sick or
ever known to die a natural death.
They have been known to live seventy
or eighty years, and their average term
of life is equal to that of a man. They
may, if confined, be starved to death,
ef course, and while verv young may
lie killed by gross neglect, but once
fairly upon their pins and shown
around the vicinity so aa to become
familiar with its natural resource*, they
will manage somehow to live without
appreciable cost to the ewner, whatever
tliev mav cost somebody else. It is
protable that the above is all true, but
if the geese arc healthy they poison
everything else that they come in con
tact with.
Fating too Xuch.
A retired physician writes: " How
does it happen tiist amid the cry
ngainst drunkenness, we never hear a
word against its sister evil, gluttony ?
I think I can assert with truth that in
a long practice, three have died among
my patients from over eating, where
one has died from drink. Whence
come apoplexy, paralysis, dyspepsia,
and a host of other diseases, but from
too mneh and too rich food taken under
the most imprudent circumstances.
And yet we hear of no society formed
to prevent this growing vioe. A man
eats until he drops down and expires
with apoplexy by the roadside, when
no comes the coroner with a jury of
twelve good men and true, who pro
nounce a verdict, ' Died from intemper
ance.' So ho did. But what kind of
intemperance was it? I have heard
more than one minister in the pulpit
expatiate with great vehemence against
the ain of drunkenness whose very ap
pearance was proof positive that he was
pre-eminently guilty of gluttony."
Don DIET. —During the Prussian
siege of their city many of the starving
Parisians ate their dogs; and canine
flesh was found so palatable that now a
breed of edible Chinese dogs is being
tested by oertaiu philosophical French
epicures. The animals in question are
small, entirely hairless, and fed upon
exclusively vegetable food, and are said
to tasio like rabbit
" What's the plural of pillow?" asked
a teacher, the other day. " A bolster,
sir," replied his rawest pupil, amidst
the suppressed tittering of the whole
class.
I km* of Interest.
Air of importance—One's first breath.
Receipt for a hot breakfast—admiro
yonr landlady's new bonnet.
Death is the roil which those who
lire call life; they sleep, and it ia
lifted.
A Nashville man advertised f.r "a
(lliristisn man who understand* how to
run a l>oiler."
The preaent year m noted abroad for
the large number of public buildings
that hate been destroyed by fire. '
It ia aUted that over 500,000 Cirou
aiana havo emigrated to Turkey ainoo
the conquest of their territory by Uua
aia waa completed.
A large coal merchant in England,
who ia a teetotaller, decline# all order*
from brewera or distillers, for fuel to
be used in their business.
There are said to be about 1,800 mi lea
of narrow gango railroad in tlie United
Htate* and t'anada, and over 1,200 miles
in process of construction.
A Freneb wit aaid of a man who waa
exceedingly fat that nature only made
liim to show bow far the hnman akin
would stretch without breaking.
It ia aaid that the farmer* in the eaat
of England, where a general lock-out of
the laborer* baa taken place, propose to
import farm hands from Belgium.
Pern thinks alie will be able to pay off
all her debts aud have a handsome sur
plus out of the rich guano depoaita
which she ia now known to poeaesa.
Beginning of a Judge's charge in
lowa : "Gentlemen of the Jury, you
must now quit eating peanuts and at
tend to the case,"
If forty rods make one rood, bow
many will make one polite ? If twelve
dozen make a gross, how many will
make a grocer
" Kissing your sweetheart," ssys s
trifling young man, "is like eating
aonp with a fork ; it taken a loag time
to get enough."
Another remedy has been discovered
for rheumatism tn London. It is a hot
sand bath. This makes 7,348 remedies
—ail infallible!
A young lady in IndiAola, lowa, hav
ing contracted a bill of sl2 for chewing
gum, her on reasonable peps refuses to
liquidate the same.
It ia suggested by a merchant who,
we fear has a stock of the article on
hand, that gunny-doth is a very appro
{.riato material for artillery men's uni
orraa.
The only responsibilities which s
weak mu ever accept* are responsibili
ties which can be perpetually pointed
out to him as testing exdnaively on his
own shoulders.
Petroleum has gone down to sl.2s
per barrel in the Pennsylvania oil re
gions, with prospects of going atill
lower. Immense quantities are being
shipped abroad.
Knowledge is a comfortable and
necessary retreat and shelter for us in
on advanced age; and if we do not plant
it while young, it will give us no shade *
when we grow old.
The most trying circumstances under
which a boy can be placed is when an
other boy'in the alley ia winking at
him, and hie father is offering him a
nickel to carry in a pile of wood.
The favorite method in which the
President of a Board of Alderman in s
Hudson River town pate a question, is
m follows : " All ye that are opposed
to the motion will aay aye—it s car
ried."
Wild coffee bushes are plentiful in
Amador and other counties of Califor
nia. The berries are known to the set
tler* as " eat berries," but are ia every
respect similar to the ooffee of com
merce.
A Dublin journal observe* that a
hand bill-announcement of a political
meeting in that city states, with bound
less liberality, that the " ladies, with
out distinction of sex, are cordially in
vited to attend."
" VHir don't yon give us a little
Greek and Latin occasionally ?" asked
a eonntrv deacon to a new minuter.
" Whv, do yon understand those lan
guage's r* "No ; but we pay for the
beet, and we ought to have it. '
A prospective mother-in-law np in
Maine, joined issue with a young man
who declined to fulfill bia marriage en
gagement with her daughter. When
she got through with him, there was no
longer any breeches of promise.
Landlord Keith, of Silica, was ones
notified ly s gentleman to please re
serve him a seat at the table by tipping
np a chair, which he did. When the
train stopped for sapper a rush was
made for tne tabl-, uu soon all were
seated except a good-sized Dutchman,
who was about taking the reserved seat,
when -Mr. Keith told him that it waa
reserved for a gentleman. He replied:
" Mine friend, be lias come."
An Accident Did It.
Mrs. East, the wife of an English
paper maker, is aaid to have been the
first producer of bine tinted writing
paper. Going among the vats while the
workmen were away for their dinner
boor, she let a blue-bag fall into one of
them, and horrified at the mischief she
had done, aaid not a word about the
matter. The spoiled paper was hidden
away in his warehouse by the angry
paper maker for fonr years ; then he
sent it to his London agent to be sold
for what it would fetch. The novelty
was admired, and the agent not only
sold the whole stock f blue paper at a
high price, but asked for more. Then
Mrs. East unbosomed herself, claiming
a new cloak as the reward for her for
tunate earelcsness, and her husband
waa enabled for a while to reap a rich .
harvest, until the demand became so
great that other makers devised means
far the same end, and manufactured
blue paper as a matter of course. Even
those now neoewsnry utilities, envelopes,
originated accidentally. A Brighton
stationer took a fancy for dressing his
window with pilee of writing paper,
rising gradually from the largest to the
smallest aixe in use, and to finish his
pvramids off nioelv, he cut cards to
bring them to a point Taking these
cards for diminutive note paper, lady
customers were continually wanting
some of ** that dear little paper," and
the stationer found it advantageous to
cut some paper to the desired pattern.
But then there was no space for address
ing the notelets when they were folded ;
and after much cogitation, he invented
the envelope, which he cut with the aid
of metal plates made for the purpose.
The sale increased so rapidly that he
waa unable to produce his envelopes
fast enough; so he commissioned a
dozen houses to make them for him,
and thus set going an important branch
of the manufacturing stationery trade.
HiQts on Education,
In Bavaria the law is less intent on
the time spent by boys and girls in
school than in insisting that a certain
amount of the proper results of actual
learning shall be actually attained. It
insists that both at the age of 16 shall
be examined, and if they do not pass
satisfactorily they must Ve sent back
again to school. In Prussia education
is compulsory, the peri oil beginning for
boys at eight years and for girls at sev
en. The N. Y. Legislature has also
passed a like law, wnich the Governor
has approved.
The late Edward Everett condensed
into a Bingle brief paragraph his esti
mation of what constituted a good edu
cation. Here it is: "To read the
English language well, to write with
dispatch a neat, legible hand, and be
master of the first four rules of arith
metic, BO as to dispose of at ouce, with
accuracy, every question of figures
which obmes up in practice—l call this
a good education. And if you add the
ability to write pure grammatical Eng
lish, t regard it as an excellent educa
tion. These are the tools. Yon can do
much with them, but you are hopeless
without them. They are the founda
tion ; and unless you begin with these,
all your fiasby attainments, a little
geology, and all other ologies and oso
phies, are ostentations rubbish." This
description of a well educated man is
like Stanton's sketch of a good soldier:
" It is not the gun, but the muu behind
the gun."