Silver ami (."old.
Never a word said yon or I.
Never s thought ivc told :
Purely if speech be silver, love.
Biloi.ee ie pure, pore gold 1
Silent as we could !>o we stood .
Love in our eye- unhidden
Came, i >- each looked in ihc oiliei - face
Thrilling with something hidden
Thrilling with sum Itun rn 'or 1 U evd.
New. and yet Mutinies old :
Bpeoc'i may lc silver ever, love,
If eile .Co like t'us be gtdd '
PrrdiU.
1 dipped my hand in the eea.
Wantonly.
Tlie sun shone rod o'er eaeUe and cave ;
I>roammg 1 rwked on the sleepy wa\e .
1 drew a peal 1 from the sea.
Won daringly.
There in my hand it lay,
W ho could say
How from the depths of the oooan calm
It rose, and slid itself Into mv palm
I smiled at tiiuhug there
Pea:! so fair.
1 kissed the beautiful thing.
Marveling.
Poor lilt now, 1 had grown to be
The wealthiest maiden on lain! or eea
A priceless gem was mine.
Pure, diviue!
1 hid the pear! iu my breast.
Fearful lest
The wind should slea! or the wave repent
Largess made iu mere tuemment.
And snatch 11 hack agaiu
lute the slrvaiu.
ltut careless grown, ah me 1
Wantonly
1 held between two lingers line
A gem also e the ;>ar kliug Ijituo.
Outy to see it gleat
Across the J mm.
I felt the treasuie slide
I'ltder Uie isde;
fluttering upward. fsde away.
Ah. liven civ tears did i! >w,
Long ago 1
1 weep, ami weep, and weep,
luto live deep :
Sad am I that 1 oottld not held
A treasure richer than virgin gold.
That Pate so sweetly gave
Out of the wave.
I dip my hand in the sea.
Longingly;
But never mere will that jewel white
Sin d ou my ss ul its tender hght:
My pear! lies buried deep
Where mermaids s'eep.
TOO LATE.
'• What do yon want ?"
" 1 did want to see my hutband.
But I beg pardon, for I perceive Ac is
not here !**
The question was enrt, rude, rough,
even; the reply impetuous, cuttingly
sarcastic, and with a hot dash of anger
in its tones. Yon would never have
thonght that William Maillard could
have spoken so to his sweet yonug wife,
just as any coarse, fiery man might, in
an imperious mood, to an intrusive ser
vant or an annoying beggar. Nor would
you have thought, either, that lovely
Alice Maillard could have grown so
flashed and distnrbe.l, and vented such
a reply to the husband she loved better
than life itself, and then turned and
walked away with such a queenly step
from his presence.
It certainly was an unpleasant and
unfortunate mood the merchant was in
that evening. The close of the year
was near at hand, and all day long he
had been perplexed by a thousand cares
incidental to his large business ; be
sides he had discovered a gross error in
the books, and had taken them home
with him that evening to endeavor to
trace its source and rectify it
It was in this mood, his brows knitted
with perplexity, that his girl-wife came
upon him in the quiet library, whither
he had retired after dinner ; and, steal
ing softly np behind him, had playfully
blinded his eyes with one of her white
bands, at the same time pnshing away
the thick ledger over the table.
In an instant the quick, rongh ques
tion, that spoke of aunoyance, burst
from his lips ; and, in an instant more,
the white hand was snatched away, the
little, graceful head tossed high, a red
spot leaped to both cheeks, and the
cutting, sarcastic answer was flung
back.
In a few moments more the merchant
was left alone, his handsomely-shaped
head, covered with thick, iron-gray
locks, bent again ever his books, hat
with a compression of his lips and a
glitter in his eve one seldom saw there;
while the girf-wife was sitting in the
qSMaa a statne, bnt with the
t*mc figi: <x*ku and excited mien with
which she had left f he library.
For some minntea .*Hce Maillard sat
thus, perfectly motionless, looking
straight before her; then her mien
softened—a grieved, ' wounded look
crept her eyes ; h*r shut lips re
laxed and quivered with feeling, and
she burst into tears, and Bobbed as
though her verv heart would break.
The sobs swelled tempestuously, and
the tears rolled over the cheeks now
pale with emotion ; bnt altera time she
grew calmer.
" I am sorry I spoke so," she said,
confessing her fault to herself with aa
mnch earnestness as though her hus
band were a listener. "I am sorry.
Jf William was rongb " (here the lips
swelled again;, " I was hasty. I sup
fos.' those tiresome books trdnbled
im. I will go ar.d apologize and,
rising, she left the room, and walked
through the hall to the library. Bnt,
laying her hand on the knob of the
knob of the door, rflie was surprised to
find it fastened. The key was turned.
" Unkind !" she Baid now, the red
spots deepening again on the cheek ;
and, noiselessly as she had oome, she
returned to the parlor.
Two hours crept away; lonesome
enough, felt the solitary Alice, striving
to pass the time with her work, npon
which now and then, a tear dropped
silently. All that time, however, her
thoughts were busy ; and she clnng to
the first resolve not to sleep until she
had made peace with her husband. For
it was a new thing to this lovely young
creature—the pet of ber girlhood home
and the bride of lesa than a year—to
hear a harsh word or utter an unkind
one ; and all that long evening, while
she sat there in tears, seemed an age to
her. Ah! little Alice, can such ex
quisitely keen suffering ever, ever come
again ?
Ten, eleven o'clock struck ; and then
she heard the library door open, and
her husband's footsteps along the hall.
But they did not pause at the parlor,
though the door was partially ajar;
they passed on, aDd he ascended the
staircase to their chamber. This was
too much. Hot tears again swelled in
the large, sensitive eyes ; and womanly
indignation again prompted her to re
main below till she was calm ; and when
she went up to her room, her husband
was, or pretended to be, fast-locked in
sleep.
Next morning, at breakfast, the young
wife was quite prepared to expect the
way might be easier for the establish
ment of peace between them ; but there
was a reserve and iciness iu Mr. Mail
lard's manner which quite frustrated
this intention. He hurried through the
meal, went to the library for the books,
looked into the breakfast-room again
for a courteous " good morning," but
did not unbend to bestow the custom
ary parting kiss.
.Alice felt more than ever grieved,
thus thrown back upon herself. All
day long she was most unhappy, and
c >u Id not settle herself about her usual
employments. The feelings she suf
fered were so new to hor ; it was some
thing she had never thought could hap
pen—to speak a quick, angry word to
one who was all the world to ner ; and,
no matter though she had been be-
VOl.. VII.
trims! into the utterance, alto never
could bo happv again till it had been
. xplained atu\ forgiven. She would
speak t.i herhtrsbattd before sleep again
-ealed her eyelids although very
sound, iuilrrd, hit,! not been the slum
ber that visited hor lust night.
When owning arrive.!, ami Mr. Mail
'an! came homo to dinner, Alice met
him as usual with an affectionate greet
ing, and put tip her lips for the cus
tomary kiss ; hut very icy was the salu
tation. and such a tone of restraint |>er
va,led his manner that she found her
self deterred front uttering a word. At
table Mr. Maillard was politely atten
tive, and led the eonveisation to sub
jects of gen, ral tuterest, keeping it up
so skillfully that not au opening ap
peared for the introduction of any
reference to the particular subject that
engrossed his wife's uiiud ; and when
he rose, he said :
•• 1 have an engagement at the office
to-night, Mrs. Maillard, and it will
probably be late when 1 return," and
went out.
" Why did I not speak? I won't let
it pass so ! He is cold as an iceberg.
I will have an explanation before 1
sleep to-night," said Alice, passion
ately. "He shan't treat me like a
child any longer."
It was late when Mr. Maillard re
turned, and he did cot expect to find
the watcher who sat iu the parlor ; and
a little surprise w.us iu his glance when
he entered, but he made uo comment.
"It is after twelve, 1 know, William
—but 1 sat up for you. The truth is, 1
wanted to speak to you about—about "
—but here she paused.
"Well!"
There TO but little encouragement
in tlic cool monosyllable that Mr.
Mail lard uttered—ami the eyes upon
which his wife's were turned appeal
iugly held no glance of tenderness to
lure heron the step that was new grow
ing painful to her, although he very
well knew what was going on in her
mind. Was this man a hardened
boor ?
He had many excellent traits ; aud
he had not reallv felt comfortably him
self since that affair in the library ; but
he had a strong, passionate nature,
and an iron will that had never been
snbdned ; and, like many of his proud
and imperious tvpe, he would neither
bend to acknowledgments himself nor
seem to encourage, by any tenderness
of manner, his wife's. So he sat, state
ly and frigid, in the seat he had taken
by the register.
Meanwhile, Alice—affectionate and
sensitive, with her whole heart in her
eyes, aud those eyes eagerly lie-seech
ing his—stood near him, where she had
advanced as she spoke. At first, it had
been easy for her to utter those words ;
but that one uninipassion*d monosyl
lable cheeked farther utterance and
froze her lips. But at length she burst
out, passionately:
"I will speak! William, you know
what I want to say. I am very un
happy!" and the hot tears thickened
her voice.
" What makes von unhappv, Mrs
Maillard ?"
Yes, that man actually asked this
question—he, who knew just how that
noble, sensitive, affectionate girl was
suffering. Not an embrace—no open
ing of his arms to draw her to his breast
—no kiss on her quivering month, no
tremor in his own tones ; but, instead,
that impassive question :
"What makes you unhappy, Mrs.
Maillard ?"
For an instant, the ice-flow, driven
into the gulf-stream of feeling, checked
its topic current; then it swept on again,
but not so warm as before.
" I am unhappy because I have suf
fered—am suffering. I wish a recon
ciliation. You know, William—tnose
woids spoken in the library the other
night. I was sorry the very minute
afterwards."
" And 1 was sorry also, Mrs. Mail
lard. Any exhibition of impetnousness
—temper, I might say—disgusts me.
I think any wife ought to know that,
and avoid such occasion. But I forgive
yon."
Mr. Maillsrd said this as loftily as
though he were a judge, pronouncing
sentence —aa though he, himself, were
not the cause of it aIL A chill ran
through poor Alice's veins. She had
read of lover's quarrels and trifling
estrangements between the married
but here was a new phase. She had
expected to be taken to her husband's
heart and restored to happiness again.
She never dreamed cf thus being thrown
off, baffled by the power of that cruel
will—she who was all heart and affec
tion. If he was only downright angry
with her—wonld only scold her roundly
then the n.;; ix-st wonld pass; but
in., ♦here *Ty this lofty assumption
of aum rioritv". She was cast back on
herself, and eotild say nothing.
Chilled, amazed, humiliated, and half
stunned by the turn the matter had
taken, the poor girl-wife turned to her
chamber.
Mr. Maillard sat for perhaps a half
hour ere he left the parlor, buried in a
reverie. The expression of his eyes
interpreted this thought:
" I intended to let her suffer ; and I
intend that she shall suffer more. It
is not a man's place to yield. A wife's
spirit shonld be broken to her hus
band's. When I think she is sufficient
ly punished, I shall take her back to
my heart again."
Ar.d the poor girl above was taking
her first lesson in that bitterest knowl
edge that ever comes to woman's heart
—the realization that she is treated un
fairly and unkindly.
Days, and weeks, and months fol
lowed that first rupture between Wil-!
liam Maillard and his wife; and,
though, U> all outward appearanoes,
they were attentive, and, in society, as
happy as ever, yet Alice felt that the
gulf between them had never hern
bridged. Bhc had, indeed, often essayed
to fling across it the rosy bands of af
fection ; but m that chill, icy air they
had withered speedily ere they reached
him, standing on the other side. And
yet, had any one come to that man,
and said to him : "Yon are to blame,
and are daily adding to vonr sin," he
would indignantly have denied it.
The tiuth was, bis imperious will,
pampered by that first entire submis
sion on the part of his wife, had grown
with what it fed upon until it over
shadowed his whole nature.
Hituated as she was now, Alice grew
daily more unhappy. Week after week,
month after month went by ; and she
hungered after the word of love that
never came. Sometimes, goaded al
most to agony by the slow tortnre, she
grew capricious; but the cool eyes,
the lofty manner, and that steady
negative course of her husband—neither
repellant nor inviting—only added to
her sorrow.
'* Her spirit is not broken yet," Mr.
Maillard said, to himself; and so he
kept up his system of wifely training.
It was at this time that a summons
came from Alice's girlhood home. Her
widowed mother, long an invalid, was
rapidly failing ; and the elder sister—
good, kind, motherly Hester—and her
high-browed, student, twin-brother
Horace, sent an urgent message for her
presence. Hhe departed in haste—so
hastily that the train was reached with
in hour after the receipt of the tele
gram ; and she traveled alone, as Mr.
Mail lard's business engagements were
of that nature to detain him at that
seMon.
THE 1 I:\rnr: REPORTER.
When the merchant, evening after
evening, returned to his handsome
house, deserted save by the servants,
he began to grow more dissatisfied with
its cheerless aspect than lie tin tight
oould be possible, or would have ac
knowledged t another. Once, enter
ing the drawing room, so dreary and
empty-looking, of au evening after he
had visited Ins club, ho paused before
an or pusite'v crayoned |H<rtrsit on the
wall, and said, with more feeling thau
lie had shown for many u mouth:
" llome is lonely without you, Alice!"
All, if he had only be thought himself
to write such a sentence to Ate.'
The days went by ; mid lu her girl
ho.*d home, the trio watched around
the bed of their tiling mother. The
summer vines clambered up against the
walls; the rosea reddeued in the gar
deu ; the dune grass grew tail ami
waved in the warm south wiuds ; while
the hectic deepened on the consump
tive's cheek, and the life-tide ebbed
uiert' faintly through her In art.
At the close of one of those perfect
days, when the last red sunswt arrows
slanted through the windows, the cud
came; the earth-life lapsed iuto the
better; and the meek eyes, closing
here with maternal love lingering last
in their Rare, opened again to look upon
the glories of the beautiful Land where
illness never eoutes, uor Death's dark
pinion dr.nips.
Ou the day following the funeral,
Mr. Maillard l>oro his wife back to
their home agaiu. At the parting. Allow
wept unrestrainedly ujon the IH>S >RA of
her twin-brother, then turned to receive
her sister's farewell kiss.
'* 1 must be' mother to you now,"
said Hester—faithful, devoted woman,
teu years older thau the weeper she
held in her arms ; and then she whis
pered : "In your trial I will come to
you. Keep up a good heart, darling ;
and don't brood too much ou our s ru 'f.
for the sake of vcur own health now."
After the carriage had rolled aw ay,
Horuce stood by the window a long
time, in deep thought ; then he turned
suddenly to his sister, and said, in a
somewhat restrained voice :
•• Hester, do you think William Mail
lard makes Alice happy ?"
"Certainly—why not, Horace ? What
a question ! No one could fail to see
how attentive he is ; ami 1 wonder
such a thought could enter your
mind."
Good Hester's answer was quickly
rendered ; but a line that corrugated
her own brows betrayed what she
wonld not allow her lips to utter, even
to her brother.
" They say that twins have a mag
netic sympathy for tlieir mates. I
soem to feel that Alice is not as light
hearted as when she left us. Nineteen
to-morrow, and she looks five years
older than when she left tis, a year and
a half ago. If Milliard don't make her
happy, I shall hate him !" ami a stern,
bitter expression settled on the youth's
handsome face.
" Why, Horace, how strangely you
do talk !" persisted Hester. "Of
course. Ally wouldn't seem as usual.
Mother's death you know—" ami here
the usually calm, self-oeutcrod woman's
lip quivered.
Horace's own deep hazel eyes filled.
The boy bad a tender, womanly heart.
"It may be my fancy only. I hope
so, Hester!"—but he stool long in
thought.
After their return home, Mr. Mail
lard's mien softened towards his wife,
lie could not see her, going abont in
her mourning, with her pale, sad face,
and quiet ways, without relaxing from
his olden manner. Hut still his pride,
so long dominant, mastered him sutli
eientiv to withhold him from the mani
festation of his returning tenderness,
save by constant watchfulness, and by
surrounding ber with such luxuries as
wealth could procure. Books, pictures,
the latest music, flowers, every dainty
of the season, these came to her. Ah,
if he had only known that n tender
word to a hungry heart is better titan
any gift gold can buy !
Alice accepted all with a sweetness
that never failed her now. Indeed,
Mr. Maillard marveled to see how sub
missive she had become. There was no
rebelling* now : no flaming np of the
old high spirit ; no passionate out
breaks—and, alas ! no passionate yearn
ings for tenderness. Her lips were
never lifted now for a kiss ; her eyes
never sought his with wishful eager
ness for the fond, answering glance :
her slender hand no longer slid < arrss
ingly into bis. That time with her was
past.
One evening, sitting in that same
library where blic bad stolen n|x>n him
once, the windows open in the warm
air of the Augnst night, Mr. Maillard
fell to thinking of this.
" How different Alice is from what
she was last winter ! My conrse was
most judicious. Her disposition has
improved. Bat she has grown so pale
lately."
From that soliloquy Mr. Maillard was
roused by the suduen entrance of the
lady's maid, with a communication of
importance relative to his wife.
An hour later, a baby boy's frail life
fluttered into existence, but for one
moment only, then went out again ;
and the young mother lay dying on her
pillows. No kind, motherly, sustain
ing elder sister was there, to close those
deep violet eyes with a tearful kiss ;
and the twin-brother, who loved her
with stich passionate, enduring tender
ness, only came to look upon her white
face in ber ooflln.
William Maillard stood mnte and
dazed, when they told him his wife's
life-moments were rapidly pouring into
Eternity. There was no time then for
confessions, pleadings, or regrets—no
time to tell her aught, save the few
broken sobs that surged in a thick,
turbid torrent from his heavily-throb
bing heart. Only time to receive the
faint pressure of the little outstretched
hand, the last meek, loving smile, and
to hear the two latest words that flut
tered over the pule lips, as her dying
gaze was lifted upward :
" Mother! Heaven I"
They buried her in the churchyard of
her village home, beside her mother ;
buried her with the dead baby on her
breast. Hester's sad face—aged ere she
hod pasfed into life's full prime—set
tled into deeper lines, lines that would
grow deeper still with the years that
could never restore the loved ones to
the faithful heart of the mourner.
The twin-brother, all aflnsh with
yonth and promise, stunned and nearly
crazed by the terrible blow, felt that
half his own bright, yonng life was laid
away under the earth-sod.
And William Maillard—strong, proud
man, whose imperious will had never
yielded before—wus smitten by the flat
of the Almighty. He was left alone
with remorse and regret. No need now
to open his empty heart; she could
never enter more. Ho must sit down
iu the ashes of his desolation. No need
now to relax his iron rule; Bhe was
beyond his reach.
It was too late.
ANTS. —There is no readier or more ef
fective way to get rid of ants than to
pour boiling water from an ordinary
kettle upon their nests. If these are in
a lawn, a sod should be cut from the
surface over each place, and removed
uutil after the hot water has been ap
plied. This will save the grass from
being killed. The sod is replaced after
wards.
CENTRE 11A I.E. CENTRE CO., PA., TIHIRSDAY, AIMRT Rt, 187-1.
I he Cuban Question.
Jest it.the ('it t >iiit question i* one
if the topic* of the dav, lUtil the papers
are (lincUMsiug the Mil tjcot with much
earned ties*. 'l'he Wa*hiugtou corre
spondent of the Georgetown, H.
I'luntrr taken the following \t< w of the
question:
The holders of Cuban bends here are
making a determined effort to embroil
tin with Spain, t>v inducing Congress to
recognize the independence of Cuba.
These speculator*, Cubans ami Aiueri
osus, chiefly the latter, have the great
advantage over the Spanish Govern
ment that they can lullby, visit news
paper olliees and tell their own story,
call public meetings ami make speeches,
distribute bonds, make large promises,
and influence public opinion by a thou
sand " ways that are dark and tricks
that arc vain " to which a government
cannot resort. The Spanish minister
cannot do any of these things. Then
arc only three American citizens with
whom the government of Spam can
hold legitimate official intern ure on
this important subject of the recogni
tion of Cul-a the President of the
United Stati N, tile Secretary of State,
and the American Minister at Madrid.
Under these circumstances, it is not
strange that Congress, the press, and
the people at large, hiw knowledge
of Cuban affairs is based exclusively on
the oue-snled statements of interested
parties, should misunderstand the
duties and the material interests of the
government ami people of the United
States, m regaid to this proposed recog
nition of Cuba. We have never yet hail
any disinterested evidence that the in
surgents ill Cuba are entitled to our re
speet and our sympathy, because of
their purity of mt tive aud purpose ;
or that ther are so numerous, ami
powerful, aud have so lair a prosjwet
of success, that nations at peace with
Spam would be justified in reoogni/.mg
their iudependeuce.
Duly a few years ago, there were Sev
eral millions of people iu the United
States who wished to dissolve their ecu
nection with the federal government.
Among these were some of the wealth
ieat men, a'd many of the first states
men and best military and naval offi
cers of high rank in the country. There
were among the insurgents, also, many
men of unblemished private character,
some thousands of clergymen of all de
nominations, and some hundreds of
thousands of active roe oilier* of the
various Chr.sUau churches. These
millions of insurgent* were backed,
heart and soul, bv mothers, wives and
daughters ; had old, strung, and stable
Stale governmenti; and organized
themselves into a powerful confed
eracy. They equipped and sent into
the field, against the United Slates, from
from which thev had acceded, immense
armies. They fitted out war vessel*
that all but swept our Comnn roc from
the sea*. For nearly five years they
stood their ground. To subdue them
cost ns half a million of lives, and a
debt of some £"2,000,000,000 which we
shall probably nevi r cancel. Vet, dur
ing all that w;r, we protested against
tb" recognition, by foreign powers, of
the confederacy formed by these re
bellion* States ; and mainly upon the
ground that, without such recognition,
thev I'-nid n>t succeed in achieving
their iudep udenee. and that furtign
nation* had no right to intrrftr• m our
domestic quarrels.
And what more right hare we to in
terferc in Cuba than Spam, and France,
and England had to interfere iu our
civil war? The carnage here was ten
thousand times m ire than it has lvcen
in Cuba. The fact of the matter is that
there never would have been a rebelli- u
in Cuba, if it had not lecn excited by
mercenary men in this country, and it
would collapse in six months, were it
not for expected a d from the United
States. Let ns tak< heed. We ore in
no condition to interfere in the domes
tic affairs of other nations. < nr own
civil war is hardly over. If, o-d iy, a
vote were taken in the States 1. to y in
rebellion, nine-tenths of the native-born
men aud women of wealth and culture
wonld vote for secession—res, aud
would even fight for it again, if they
hail a reasonable show of success.
Should we now recognize the independ
ence of Cuba, because a handful of her
people backed by American speculn
t >rs, have kept the island in turmoil for
a few years, much as-the Indians have
done iiy ns OTcr since the formation of
our government, the tinio may come
when the precedent will bo quoted
against us to ottr disadvantage and to
our sorrow. We have a largo country,
and various interests to caro for —more
than we can well attend to. Let us
look after our flnsno*. our currency,
our Hvstem of transportation, lest dis
satisfaction may cause another rebel
lion iu some miction of the Union, and
foreign nations may combine to disin
tegrate our country by acknowledging
the independence of onr relwls.
A Successful Conundrum.
"John has never given you a ring?"
said Katie's sister to her one day. John
was Katie's lover.
" Sever," said Katie, with a regretful
shake of the head.
" And never will nntil you ask him.
for it," returned the sister.
"Then I fear I shall never get one," j
was the reply.
"Of course you never will. John is 1
too stupid to think of such things ; and
as you can never pluck up courage to
ask him for one, It follows that you will
never get one."
This set Katio to thinking, and to
what purpose we shall see.
That evening her lover came to see ;
htr. He was very proud and very
happy, for the beautiful girl by his
Bide had been for several weeks pledged
to marry him as soon iw the business
could bo properly done, and John was
a grand good fellow, too, notwithstand
ing his obliviousness to certain polite
matters.
" John," snid Katie, at length, look- i
ing tip with an innocent sinile, "do
you know what a oonundram is ?"
" Why, it's a puzzle—ft riddle," an- i
swered John.
" Do you think you could ask me one
I could not gness ?"
" I don't know. I never thought of
such things. Could you nsk me one ?" >
" I could try."
" Well, try, Katie."
" Then answer this : Why is the lot- j
ter D like a ring ?"
John pnzzled his brain over the prob-!
lem for a long time, lint was finally
foreed to give it up.
" I dont know, Katie. Why is it?" 1
" Because," replied the maiden, with
a very soft blush c.rocping up to her
temples, " we cannot bo trrd without
it."
In loss than a week from that dato
Kutio had In-r engagement ring.
Thf. Goat's Manieuvkb. —A corre
spondent in Philadelphia describes a
battle between a dog and goat, iu sub- j
stance as follows : The dog attacked
the goat in the street, the gout using
his skull and horn weapons, which the j
<b g evaded bv artful dodging. This :
continued for half an hour, when the |
goat adopted a new lice of policy. Ho J
gradually retreated till he reached the
sidewalk, when, turning slowly round, ;
lie got the dog between him and the i
building ; lie then made a final charge :
with all his strength, forcing the dog ;
against the wall, nearly breaking bis
ribs, and this decided the battle.
K Vlt OE HACK*.
The Wbllt •• Mia. k .Nasaloya
The Atlanta (tleorgia) f/Wif, tit
itttteh distress of iniuvl, thus prmwita
the situation forced upon an liupoitaut
class of that community
The manager of the Ilri'ithl office,
who from behind the trampiil counter
atiullea the moods of the //rald'n eua
tomers, lias be. n alarmed for som.- .lays
past at nnmistakable signs of disup
proval of either lu eotimc or the course
of the great paper whose finances l.e
manages.
These shrewd, hotheaded young
Arabs have transa -ted their business of
| late in a scornful and forbidding way
that, to his calm eye, foreboded a storm.
They used to come bursting into the
office iu a jolly, harum-scarum way,
their faces bright with the fresh air of
dawu, aud their eyes kindled iii the
moruiug's first riush, aud fiiug down
their shinplasters with some such cheer
ful remark ;
"Skin me out twenty o' your best,
old mau."
Or Borne aticb affectionate iu.jtiiry as:
" How does the old thing wiggle to-
day, boas ?"
Or a tender piece of advice like :
" Colonel, it 'ld be good for yer to
make them locals slap iu a little more
o' the red hot."
For the past week, though, it's all
changed. In a stately and sullen way
thev march up to the eoiiutor. \\ itli
the'air of ragged princes they slap the
money down, and, with condescension
beaming from every feature :
" Gimme ten !"
Ou Sunday the storm burst.
Iu the calm and hush f the Sunday
morning two intrepid little rascals a
committee from a back alley commuue
—walked up to the counter :
" Mr. Smith, you've gut to quit sell
ing paper* to nigger* 1"
The declaration of war war made—an
ultimatum plainly spit out.
" Quit Belling papers to negroes 1
Whv ? '
" Well, we've all settled that we wou't
run with nigger*. The lonstttufion
don't sell to niggers, and their boys
laugh at us when we have to holler the
llrratd Tougznfe o" black feller*. Them
niggers don't know nothin* 'bout the
business. Men kin cheat 'em and scare
'em out, and git their papt rs for nothin'
aim >*t. You never see a nigger boy
hardly ever that kin tell whether he's
made anything or nat when he'a sold
out. A Leap of on a won't buy from
ua ; they wait for nigger boya, 'cause
they know they kin cheat them out and
git the news for nothin'. You must
quit selling to "em."
" Hut will it be right to refuse the
little icllows a chance to make their
living?" said the mellow-hearted man
ager.
"Ohy< *. sir ! You see they rtiu the
-trect carts. They have this job, and
they wou't let a white boy in. Y'ou
never sec a while fellow pushing a street
cart, 'cause the niggers won't let 'em.
One or two white one# ha* tried it, and
they drive 'em out. They break his
cart, and catch him off, and whip him,
and rock htm, and tell lies on him, till
he has to quit. Now our boya'ra had a
talk alniut it, and is determined, as the
niggers keep us out of the street cart
business, that we will keep them out of
the paj>er business. It ain't no use to
whip 'em. They don't mind it, 'less
yon nearly kill 'em, and then the jolioe
will catch you. So we fixed up to o roe
and tell yon voti mustn't let 'em hate
any more paper* when they call for 'em,
null you mustn't. We won't run with
Vm at aIL"
The manager promised to take the
matter under the serious consideration
it merited, anil the advocates of the
Arabs retired.
Varieties In Fashion.
Picturesque luds worn st the water
ing places when visiting, or for after
noon drives in pluetons, are of white
chip or Panama braid, with the brim
curled up all around, a soft white silk
scarf around the crown, and two or
three curled white ostrich plumes laid
over the top.
The Euglish walking list, close and
compact, with both sides turned up
against the crown, is beiug restored to
favor for a dress liat.
The regular croquet hat ia of coarse
straw, in wagon-top shape, covered
with rows of white muslin pleating,
and a cluster of black velvet l>ow, or
else a bunch of field flowers, on top.
There is, however, much playing cro
qu t with flowing hair and an umbrella,
minus a hat, especially after the morn
ing hour for bathing.
Dark bottle green aud Madonna blue
grenadine veil* are again taking the
place of the gray one* woru in the
spring. Square* of this grenadine, or
else of black net, are worn on the piazza
and in the drawiug-rooms of sen-side
hotels lo probvt handsomely arranged
I coiffures from the stiff breeze, and also
'to guard the complexion. They droop
in a point over the face, and are fas
tened behind in a wny that may lie use
ful, but is not as pretty as the Spanish
draped veil would be.
Dace fleims lapped on the bosom are
worn both of black ami white lace with
higli-neckcd afternoon and dinner
dreaaes. *
New frills for the neck and wrists of
dresses to lie worn by ladies in mourn
ing are ploatings of white crepe lisse
with n half-inch bonier of black lisse
on the edge.
Fluted rtiflles of percale—white, with
hair strijies of color -for lingerie and
for trimming dresses of plain ground
jor with small figures, can now bo
bought by the yard.
The prettiest new white trimming is
fine box-pleated muslin ruffles; with
the edge needle worked in scallops,
aiul a spray of embroidery extending
j up each pleat.
The newest chatelaine pockets are
swung very low, and are mnde of bend
mi lace sufficiently transparent to dis
play handsome handkerchiefs.
The fancy for long scarfs of black
lace continues even in tho warmest
weather. For these are imported new
bended net, half a yard wide. The
Spanish blonde lias beads outlining its
largo figures ; guipure lines, stripes,
and roses are heavily beaded ; and plain
| Brussels net has leaves of fine jot sowed
in its meshes.
Pahllkhlng engagements.
German newspapers often publish
notices of Irrtlia and deaths in a man
ner which seems strauge to American
readers. Engagements are also pub
lished. In the second shoot, for in
stance, of every issue of the Cologne
| (iazrtte. these announcements of en
gagements may be found throughout
the whole year. When the engage
! monts are broken off this is also at
times published by one or both of the
parties ooucerued. But it ih very sel
dom that an announcement such as the
followiug is found, which is quoted In
tho Cologne (lazctte, of June 17th from
i the Drrmltntr Journal: " With re
spect to the announcement by which T,
at tho end of last Novemlier, gave no
tice of my being engaged to the Dow
ager Baroness Zoe von Kotzebue, I am
j now obliged to state that tliiH relation
ship has, at her desire, and to my great
regret, been broken off, bocause she did
not find in my deportment that gravity
whloh she had a right to expect,—Count
| Lnokner."
Ml!. VASIIV'S DEDICATION.
A slaii M lilt * Model Mtiflierl-l.Wi
A new addition to the advanced theo
logical literature of the day is shortly
to appear from tlie pen of the popular
clergyman, the Itrv. IVtroleum V, Nas
hy, whose sweet esthetic strain la in
one respect like the voice of the turtle,
is everywhere "heard in the laud."
Our clerical friend is to occupy his
summer pastoral vacation in preparing
for the press a volume entitled " The
Morals of AlioU lieu Adhem " —Uie
same whose tribe increased. This new
book from thin prolific author will deal
profuselv in the sweet charities of life,
as ia evident from the author'a dedica
tion, which is to consist of the follow
ing tribute to his mother-in-law. It is
ulways something in s man's favor to
like his uiollier-ui law, aud it is the
acme of human praise when a man's
mother in lav* likes hint. The liappy
relation between I*. V. N. and his acini
•leuii-parent seems to be mutual,ecstatic
and heavenly. Let the whole earth
hateu aud applaud :
To m*
MOTHEIt-lN LAW,
whoss
!I)IUXTKAIRE!> MCBVICCS
lit esrtug fur
Mi Wire
Purine
Saveu Cnueal Period*,
and like hum fur
Hvru Children
Pitting Teething MI-MIW Muni]*. Scarlatina
and
Other 1 Incident to ('hlldltaud,
Baesivnig therefor only shot be ale
menu not only grai*e hut adora
tion and (haw leatiue nty
huuee - umUr tla and sit- -
alasyeat the prcriee
time when there
km uu more
hard work
to do,
wot
( Vn<^deration Itself
I nstucATW raw vuu at,
An the ieoet thai 1 can do
Acknowledgement;
Sscaiiivg, however never to furget
Her
While catnip 1 looms, >- *.Um.g svrop i mode,
and
kxutox sous IT* owe.
An Outlaws' Paradise.
The singular information has been
received, which ia well authenticated,
that a thieves' aud outlaws' paradise
has just been established at the foot of
the 1 tookj Mountains, ju*t iu the Cana
dian Dominion. It is reported to num
ber five hundred men and a number ol
women and children. The inmates are
outlaws who have escaped from United
States justice. The chief occupation
of the colony is the manufacture of
illicit whiskv, which ia sold to sur
rounding Indians. For the liquor the
Istter barter their most costly furs and
trade off their superfluous women.
And while the noble red man ia in the
midst of his beastly orgies, the fiends
m\nag<- to rob him of his weapons, hie
blankets, and strip ufl an occasional
scalp. Yet the Indian's jtaexion for
whisky overcomes his knowledge of the
inevitable fate he knows awaits him.
The free aud roving life of these out
law* has been made known to the Cana
dian Government, which has sent out s
volunteer force to settle matters sati
factory to the code of civilization. Il
is a mounted command of policemen,
of three hundred men the most lear
le*a and active iu the Dominion, com
manded by a colonel who has seen
active service. Adventurers of high
rank hate been attracted to dare the
dangers of the expedition, even English
and French noblemen. An English
gentleman was wrought np with so
much enthusiasm as to forego the im
mediate pa:.** asiou Ol an estate with a
yearly income of #130,000, that *he
might take part in the expected fray.
Of - >urme, the force will lie kept under
the strictest military discipline. The
pay is *o small that nothiug save the
spirit of adventure could impel men to
undergo the prospective hardships and
the risks of death.
A Shark Story.
Mr. Keatly, of Brooklyn, in company
with two friends, went ont to Coney
Island. The party wandered along the
beach, and when near Bath Mr. Keatly
suggested they ahonld bathe. The
three accordingly went into the water.
Mr. Keatlv, however, wandered out
somewhat further than the others, but
did not go beyond his depth. While
swimming around he felt a soft, oold
substance rub against his leg. He did
not pay any attention to it until the
rubbing was repeated several times.
Becoming alarmed, he glanced down
ward and saw a Urge shark in the act
of turning on ita side. Before he eould
gain the shore the sea monster had
fastened his teeth deep into the fleshy
psrt of his groin, causing him to yell
with pain and terror. Fortnnately,
qowever, he had sufficient presence of
mind to make a grab for the fish, and
succeeded in catching it by the narrow
part of the tail, between the dorsal fins.
He clang to it with desperation, at the
same time making every effort to get
ashore. The shark meanwhile tugged
so fiercely to get away that it terribly
lacerated the flesh of Mr. Keatly. who
finally succeeded in making a landing.
The shark, with great difficulty, was
forced to loosen hi* hold, and was
finally killed by being repeatedly struck
on the head with a large stone. Mr.
Keatly's wounds were then dressed,
and he was removed to his home. The
shark, which measured five feet eight
inches from the tip of its nose to the
end of its tail, is on exhibition in
Brooklyn.
rerfectlj Kcrkless.
There was an old couple at the De
troit depot waiting to go throngh to the
West, and they seemed loving enough
until the old mau went out and re
turned smoking a five-cent cigar and
with his liat slanting over his left ear.
The wife looked at him twice before
she xmld recognize him, and then
opened her month and said: " What'd
I tell ye, Pbiletua Remington, liofore
wo left New Jersey ? Didn't I say you'd
go and make a fool of yourself the first
ehnnoe you got ?" He tried to pacify
her by saying that the cigar ouly cost
five cents, lint she shouted: "Yon
teased and teased till 1 let you git your
boots blacked ; then yon wanted some
soda water ; then yon bought apples on
the train, and here's another five cents
thrown away I It nil counts up, and if
yon don't die in the poor-liouso thou
my name hain't Sary !
A Useful Salre,
The properties and quality of patent
medicines are somewhat various. Here,
for example, we have an occonnt of a
salve which would serve a double use.
An agent with a satchel under his arm
entered a banking-house in Wall street
the other day. and presenting himself
before the bookkeeper, he thus began:
" Pardon me, sir, lot intruding, but
I wish to show you mv world-renowned
salve, which has attrac ted much atten
tion from the crowned heads of Europe
for the marvelous manner in which it
cures corns, warts, sore eyes, boils, nnd
will make the beard grow in forty-eight
hours try a box, sir ?"
Bookkeeper —" No, sir; f have a
beard, aud none of the other oom
plaiuts."
Agent —" But, dear sir, it makes a
fine grease for a carriage."
'lVrniN: ft Vertr,in Advance.
Extraurdluarj Heroism at Hra.
The Loudon <ia:rttr publishes an ac
count of the extraordinary adventures
of part of the crew of the bark Arrooau,
of Greenock, which, while on a voyage
from Shields to Id. >tnbay with a cargo
of coals, took Are from aponUtucotta
combustion of her cargo, and on the
17th of February waa abandoned by
her crew, who then took to their lioata
and endeavored to make for the Mal
divo Islands. The boats kept Oompany
until the 20th, when finding the cur
rents too strong, it waa agreed to
separate, after dividing the provisions.
The muster in command of the long-
Isiat then made for Cochin, the mate in
charge of the gig, and the second mate,
David Welmter, in charge of the pin
usee wilh four of the erew, via., three
men and one boy, made for the Mahlive
Islands. After two days Webster's boat
was injured by a heavy sea, aud eotthl
not keep up with the gig, and lost sight
of her. From this time the pinnace
was kept working to windward until
the fith of March, by which day the
provisions and water had been con
sumed. Shortly afterward the crew
east lota which of them would be first
killed to l>e eaten, and the lot fell upon
the ship's boy Horner; but Webster,
who had lieeu asleep, was woke in time
to save the boy'a life. After dark an
attempt waa made to kill Webster him
self, but the boy Horner awoke him in
time to save himself. On the following
day Webster, having fallen asleep, was
awoke by the struggles of the crew for
the possession of his gun, with which
to shoot him. Two hours later the
crew attempted to take Horner'a life
again, but wire prevented by the de
t* rmiued conduct of Webster, who
threatened to shoot and throw overboard
the first man who laid hands on the
boy. The next day one of the erew at
tempted to sink the boat, bnt Webster
mastered him and prevented farther
mischief. Two days later the same
member of the crew expressed his de
termination to lake the DOT 'a life. For
Una he would haTO been shot by Web
ster had not the cap on the gun missed
fire. Boon after, putting a fresh eap on
his gnu, a bird flew over the tost,
which Webster shot; it was at onee
seized and devoured by the crew, even
to the bonea and feathers. During the
next five days the crew were quieter,
subsisting on barnacles which attached
themselves to the bottom of the boat
and on sea blubber for which they
dived. The following day some of the
men became delirious. One of them
lsy down exhsosted, when another
struck him several blowa on the head
with an iron belsying pin, cutting him
badly. The blood which flowed was
caugnt in a tin and drank by the man
himself and the two other men. After
ward they fought and hit one another,
and only left off when completely ex
hausted, to Yeoommence as soon as they
were sble, the boy Horner, during the
time, keeping watch with Webster. On
the thirty-first dsy in the boat they
were picked np 60U miles from land by
the snip City of Manchester, Ilsrdie,
Master, by whom they wt re very kindly
treated and brought to Calcutta. Web
ster, who by his conduct was the means
of saving the lives of all in the boat,
has had conferred upon him by the
the Albert medal .if the second
class. He ia now living at Droughty
Ferry, Dundee.
What a Blind Man Sees.
Nature struggles hard to make up for
any defect* in the senses, and she gives
to the blind a certain power to see when
the eyea give no help. A bUnd man
says : " Whether within a honae, in
the open air, whether walking or stand
ing still, 1 can tell, thoagh quite blind,
when I am opposite an object, and can
perceive whether it be tali or abort,
ahnder or bulky. 1 can also detect
whether it be • solitary object or a con
tinuous fence, whether it be a close
fence or composed of open rails, and
often whether it be a wooden fence, a
brick or atone wall, or a quick-set
hedge. I cannot usually perceive ob
jects if much lower than my shoulders,
but aomcliniea very low objects can be
detected. This may depend on the na
tute of the objects, or of fome abnor
mal state of the atmosphere. The cur
rents of air can have nothing to do with
this power, as the state of the wind
does not diwctlv affect it; the sense of
hearing has nothing to do with it. ss
when snow lies thick on the ground ob
jects an- more distinct, although the
foot-ball cannot be heard. I seem to
pecvive objects throngh the skin of
my face, and to have the impressions
directly transmitted to the brain. The
only part of my laxly possessing this
power is my face ; this 1 have ascer
tained by suitable experiments. Slop
ping my ears does not interfere with it,
but covering my face with a thick veil
destroys it altogether. None of the
five senses have anything to do with
the existence of this power, and the
circumstances above named iuduce me
to call this unrecognized sense by the
name of * Facial Perception.' "
Why Farmers Keep Poor.
A correspondent says : After long
observation I have come to the conclu
sion that a great majority of the farmers
that are poor.might have made money.
If you inquire into their btisineaa
habits you will find that they alwaya
sold the best and kept the poorest
For instance, if they nave too many
sheep on Laud, they pick ont the best
to be sold. If vou ask them why they
do so they will say. "Because they
bring twice as mneh as the others, anu
lam hard up, just now, fer money. I
know that it is not a good plan, and 1
do not intend to follow it alwaya." I
think the habit of selling the lnwt a
very poor plan for any mau, 1 don't care
what hia circumstances may be. I have
a man in mv mind now, who always
sells bis poorest sheep for more than
twice as much as the average farmer
gets for his best. I have seen farmers
in the fall pick ont their l>cet pigs to
fatten, because they would make a few
more pounds of pork than the other*.
This I call poor economy. Probably
no ten of the beat would make one hun
dred pounds of cork more than would
have been made bad they taken ton of
the poorer. By making this one hun
dred pounds of pork extra they think
that much is gained. They are very
mneh mistaken. By reversing their
rule tliey might make ten time that
amount.
Man's Dependence Upon Woman.
Man relies far more thau ho is awar
for comfort or happiuess on woman's
tact and management. He ia so accuse
tomed to these that he is unconscious
of their worth. They are so delicately
concealed, and yet so ceaselessly exer
cised, that he enjoys their effect as he
enjoys the light nnd atmosphere. He
s< Idem thinks how it would be with him
wore they withdrawn. He fails to ap
preciate what is so freely given. He
may be reminded of them now and
then ; be may complain of intrnsion or
interference ; but the frown is smoothed
away by the gentle hand, the murmur
ing lips are stopped with a caress, aud
tin management goes on.— Exchange,
An effort is now to divide
tbe State of Nebraska into two States,
to be called Njrth Platte and Nebraska,
and which shall have a population of
86,000 and 140,000 respectively.
NO. 32.
Multiplication of fnserls.
Treating of uature's means of limit
ing the !iutntcrs of inseeta. Professor
A. H. Packard, in the Amrrit-an Natu
ralist, gives Bonnet's estimate of the
average reproduction rate of the aoh is,
or plant louse. One virgin plant louse
was found to bring forth about 100
young, and so on for ten genera
tion*. Now add up the unmner of
voting produced by those of say ten
broods, and we have the enormous
number of 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, or
a qninttUiou young. Professor Huxley
i* then quoted to show the real import
of these figure*. " 1 will assume," says
Mr. Huxley, " that an spbis weighs one
one-thousandth of s grain, which is
under the mark. A quintillion will on
this estimate weigh s quadrillion of
grains. He is s very stout man who
weighs 2,000,000 grains ; consequently
the tenth brood alone, if all the mem
bora survive the perils to which they
are exposed, contains more *ut*t*nce
than 900,000,000 stout men —to say the
least, more than the whole population
of China." When we realize that so far
from a quintillion, only a pair or two
of plaut liee survive, and at the end of
the season die, after laying a few eggs,
by whieh the species is represented in
wiuter, we can form some idea of the
struggle for existence among animals,
and of the vicissitudes to which they
are exposed. We can ace how delicate
is the balance of circutnstolMies by
which uature preserves the equilibrium,
seeking, on the one hand, as it were, to
prevent the extinction of the species,
and on the other its undue multiplica
tion.
Drinks for Majtag and Hart est.
Agricultural journals persist in rec
ommending various oonoocUon* for
fanners to drink during the hasting
and exhausting labors of Iha hay field
and the harvest field. We hsve, in oar
day, tried these TUT to us mixtures, bat
we have found nothing equal to pare,
cold well water. Active exercise under
a son that would raise the mercury
above 100 degrees raises the tempers
tare of the body to a high degree, a de
?;ree that would prove fatal were it not
or the constant operation of nature's
infallible cooler perspiration. Per
spiration thickens the blood and other
fluids, earning thirst, frequent and in
tense. What drink ia so well calculated
to reduce the internal heat and this the
fluids as oold water ? Having decided
upon using cold water as the beverage
of the hay and harvevt fields, the next
thing ia to use it jndieiooaly. It can
be so a sod as to be injurious. When
the Is borer comes around to the water
jug, or whatever the vessel may be, hot
and thirsty, and breathing rapidly, if
he seizes the vessel and drinks aatil he
is satisfied, he will cool off too suddenly
and take too much water into his
stomach ; bat if he will take a mouthful
into his mouth, hold it for s moment,
gargle it in hia throat, and then eject
it, aDd afterward drink a swallow at a
time, pausing a moment between swal
lows, be will find that S much ISM
quantity will suffice to allay bis thirst,
and he will cool off more gradually.
A Bad Box.
As a corporal of the Near Orleans po
lice was recently making bis rounds at
a very early hour in the morning his
attention was attracted by a suspicion*
looking bos which had been deposited
on s doorstep. It bore a curious ap
pearance, suggestive of sn infernal
machine which might go off of itself
and scatter destruction around gener
ally. Bo he thought it hi* duty to ex
amine it closely. An investigation re
vealed the fact that the box, though in
tended to do mischief, was not meant
to explode upon being opened, bnt that
its powers of suppoid mischief lay in
various charms which had evidently
l>een prepared by acme practitioner of
Voudoti mysterie*. The box was cov
ered with white elotb, and the white
cloth was covered with leaves fastened
to it by innumerable brass pins. On
the top of the box waa a minute white
coffin, vet it was large enough to afford
place for an inscription containing the
name of a female inmate of the house
where the affair had been left, and like
wise the day upon which the sender had
evideuUy hoped that she would die.
Within the coffin was a figure made of
dough intended to represent the body
of the person already mentioned, its
head being transfixed through and
throngh with pins, the ends of which
bristled oat in every direction. The
whole arrangement was a Yondon
charm, which it waa supposed would
bring dire destruction to uie prison it
was lutended to work against, and who.
being a firm believer in the efficacy of
Yondon spells, went nearly frantic on
seeing the contrivance.
A Family ef Mnrderers.
An interesting little establishment
has jnst been broken np at Trebixond,
under eireninstance* which have created
a sensation in that place. For some
time past Trebixond has been kept in a
state of uneasineaa owing to the pro
ceedings of this household, which eou
stated of a father,six sons,and one daugh
ter. The familv weakness was murder.
In a short time the eight persons
composing the family managed to get
through, according to the Trebixond
correspondent of the Levant Herald,
no fewer than 235 murders. Out of
this number the gentlemen of the fam
ilv were each responsible for 30 mar
decs, while the venng ladv only com
mitted 25. though, but for the prema
ture interference of the authorities, It
is considered probable that she would
have completed an eqnal namber. The
predecessor of the Governor caused
her to be arrested, together with her
amiable parent and four of her brothers.
It is not stated what became of the re
maining brothers, bnt the poor old gen
tleman was hanged abont three months
ago, and two of bis sons met with a
similar melancholy/iecidcnton the 25th
of last month, The other two and the
young lady are still languishing in cap
tivity. __
Salt in Sickness.
Dr. Scudder remarks : "Ism satis
fied that I have seen patients die from
deprivation of eommou salt during a
protracted illness. It is a common im
pression that the food for the sick
should not be seasoned, and whatever
slop may be given, it is almost innocent
of this essential of life. In the milk
diet that I recommend in sickness,
common salt is used freely, the milk
being boiled and given hot. And if
the patient cannot take the usual qnan
tity of his food, I have it given in his
drink. This matter is so important
that it cannot be repeated too often, or
dwelt upon too long. The most marked
example of this want of common salt I
have ever notiocd has been in snrgieal
disease, especially in open wounds.
Withont a supply of salt the tongue
would become broad, pallid, puffy, with
a tenacious, pasty coat, the secretions
arrested, the circulation feeble, the
effusion at the point of injury serious,
with an unpleasant, watery pus, which
at last becomes a mere sanies or ichor.
A few days of a free allowance of Bait
would remove all this, and the patient
get along well."
A Minnesota farmer sowed 1,500 aores
of wheat and will gather twenty bushels
therefrom.
I touts of la tores!.
Franch statistics show that there are
cities of flftoeg thousand inhabitants in
that country aftboat a physician.
IC. L. Sullivan t, of Ford county, Hi,
han asia git field of 20,000 acre* that
will produce orcr 1,009,000 bushels of
corn this year.
Franco allow* iU soldiers to work for
furmers during harvest time. The price
Died upon, thm year, is thirty- cents a
day and hoard.
An " Editorial " exenraion party
whieh lately vlr-itod a watering place, is
said to hare contained jirst twenty live
l*ersona connected with the prena.
The Western paper* are fat! of "The
Man with the Branded Hand," but no
attention is paid to the men with " bran
died" noses, though they are as ten
thousand to one.
Pane—" And pray, air, what do vou
intend to aettic on my daughter ? And
how do you mean to fire ?" " I intend,
sir, to settle mytelf on your daughter
and to live on you/"
Anxious newspaper querists want to
know if the comet has had any hand in
this warm weather. In IMI they were
equally curious to know whether it
caused the cold nights.
John Miller, of Indiana, had both
legs and an arm cut off by a mowing
machine. A homo paper say* that "it
seems to be the opinion of the doctors
that it to a serious case."
In the paper published by the in
mates of the Hartford Insane Asylum,
mention was made of a lady's fan so
large that she could not wave it, but
was foroed to wave her head.
Paris ladies wear around the neck
the medals or crosses won by their hus
bands for the service they have render
•red their country. The gentlemen
wear the ribbons only ; the ladiee wear
the medals.
A Rochester drunkard crawled under
a bush on the verge of Genesee Falls,
and slept there until bis uneasy twist
togs brought hie lag* over the shy**. A
policeman found him just in time to
save his life.
It pay* is France to feed horses for
the butcher. From |36 to S3O to given
for an animal in fair condition, and
about thirty thousand of these animals
■re eatsn annually. Horse meat to
■tost half the price of beef.
The poormastar in Troy was called
upon by a woman who said that ber
husband waa dead and abe was desti
tute. A riait to ber house found the
body is a sixty-dollar casket, and three
carriages in the funeral procession.
An awful animal, ten feet long, with
yellow eyes, switchy tail, creem-eolored
far, and abrieky voice, is what some
railroad laborers tay they saw in the
night on Dresden Mountain, Yt Prob
ably a eombinaUoo of eat and imagina
tion.
The advent of the grasshopper causes
our entire social fabric to tremble.
" Maria," writes a young Minnesota
farmer to his girl down in Maine, "I'm
afraid we can't get married this year ;
the grasshoppers threaten to clean oat
my crop."
On Sundays Montreal is the most or
derly town on earth. The observance
of the day indicates a oonseientioas
piety is the majority of the people.
The charehea of every denomination
are fall of devout worshippers, sad bat
for the rumbling of the street oars no
sound would disturb the quiet. Every
liquor shop and ber is rigorously closed
under a city ordinance, and drinkers
have to provide their drinks before
hand.
A Ballet in the Brain.
The Galveston (Texas) Am says:
" The case of Mr. Lawes, the gentleman
who was shot in the bead, is rather a re
markable one. Although the ball is im-
Ixvlded about two inches in the brain,
Mr. Lawes walks about hia home in the
usual enjoyment of his mental faculties.
The attending physician is of the opin
ion that the bell is incased by this
time, and, with prudence daring the
summer months, no farther danger
need be apprehended. Oases similar
to the one alluded to are recorded, in
which persons have lived with balls
lodged in the brain, while in some in
stances persons have died from slight
wounds of the asms character.™
A moat remarkable case of this kind
is reported in the surgeon's report*
during the late war. A young Norwe
gian belonging the Second Wisconsin
Regiment waa shot in the bead at Ball
Run. He was taken as a prisoner to
Richmond, when it was discovered that
the ballet bad entered the aide of the
temple in a slanting direction and had
lodged in the brain. The surgeons
watched the oaae with much interest,
bnt the boy did not appear to be seri
ously affected and after some months
was' exchanged. He was discharged
and returned to hi* home ia Wisconsin
and went t* work on a farm. Not sat
isfied with this labor be again offered
himself as a recruit, waa accepted, and
again went into the army. In no way
did he appear inconvenienced by the
■hot, save that on damp and rainy
nights while on guard duty he said that
his head felt dull. This feeling waa
not sufficient to interfere with his duty.
After the war he went back to his farm
and now does as hard a day's work aa
EST Hl*",
Hew Ha Prated It.
It ia the custom in Mexico for the
clergy to require a foreigner, wishing
to marry a native, to bring proof that
be is not already a married man. An
American, about to marry a senorita of
verv good family, waa required to for
mal) the proof of his being a bachelor.
Not finding any of his countrymen who
knew him sufficiently well to testify to
this fact, he determined to supply the
deficiency with the oath of a native.
Meeting a Mexican in the street,
whom he had never seen before, oar
oonntiTmin proposed to him that he
should'swear to his being unmarried
for the consideration of _ five dollars.
The senor, after a mement's study, said
to the Yankee :
" Get down on your hands and knees,
and creep about."
Not exactly understanding what he
was st our friend obeyed, much to the
detriment of his unmentionables. The
other party then told him he was all
right; that he would swear that the
American had not been married since
he knew him, and that was since the
time he crawled.
Don't Criticise.
Whatever you do, never set np for a
critic. We don't mean a newspaper one,
but in private life, in the domestic cir
cle, in society. It will not do any one
any good, and it will do you harm—if
vou mind being celled disagreeable,
if you don't like anyone's nose, or object
to any one's chin, don't put your feel
ings into words. If any one's manner
don't please you, remember your own.
People are not all made to suit one
taste, recollect that. Take things as
you find them, unless yon cau alter
them. Even a dinner, after it is swal
lowed, cannot be made any better. Con
tinual fault finding, continual criticism
of tha conduct of this one and the
■peech of that one, the dies of the
other, and the opinions of the t'other,
will make home the onhappiest place
under the sun.
Circumventing the Grasshoppers.
How the farmers of Wright County,
lowa, drove away the grasshoppers is
revealed by the local papers. The
crops in that county were abundant,
and tha anxious husbandmen were in
hopes that these destructive pests
would not appear until after the har
vest At once they came, however, in
clouds that darkened the sun. By a
preconcerted plan, the ' farmers set fire
to piles of dry straw on the borders of
the wheat fields, and smothered the
blaze with green hay. That caused
volumes of smoke to roll over the
fields. The grasshoppers didn't relish
the prooednre at all. They rose with
suoh a multitudinous hum of wiugs as
to deepen into a roar like distant thun
der, and fled the country. In that way
the Wright County farmers have a fair
prospect of saving their crops.