Courage. CVmrsgs. friend. ths worldl wide Life i. all bsfsra tl;ro ; Clou.la ilif 1,1,1 tin J atli at da MI. Ureal in heantv o'er thee. Out of evil comslh K> • JOT la born of sorrow ; Grief* that rend tha liaail t dsv Nothiu HI tha aailli ,? mu> All thit.|:a ara , f la iuti; A wa labor, .<> to Ua Phall Ilia fruit ha given. First tha child. ami than tlia tuan. Life, end than tha story ; Find tha du I ami than ilia light Fatu. ami theii tha glory. "The Widow's Mite.'' A widow ho had only oua ' A puny and doorapit son . But. day and night. Though fralful oft, and waak ami .mail A loving child, ha wa. har a'S Tha widow', tuito. Tha widow", mita ay.'ao au.tainad, She hattlad oi>ward, nor complained. Though friends wore fswer , And while aha to:l'd for daily fara, A little dutch upon the .tatr Wa* mu.ic to bar I aaw har than -aud now I ee That, lliough rr. gti'd and cheerful. *h 11a* sorrow \1 much ; She ha*. Ha gave it tenderly. Much faith . and, carefully laid by, A li'Ue crutch. ALONE WITH A MANIAC. I have been asked by many why I am prematurely gray, ami 1 will relate the thrilling circumstance again, as I liave done a hundred times before. Hair has often turned gray in a night, but mine turned to silver threads in the broad sunlight of noonday, with a thousand upturned faces on the crowd ed street of a city gnatng in wonder and horror at my helpless and fearful situa tion, all paralyzed by the sight, and none thinking or able to help we. Alone I suffered, aud alone 1 triumphed, but added a half century to the locks th.it shaded my brow. I was employes! with ft Lightning Bod Company, and was ordered to re place the old broken rod of St. Paul's church, in the city of , with one of oar new p&teut spirals. That night I told my roommate of my detailed duty for the next day, and I noticed his strange keen eyes light up with some secret pleasure, but I thought nothing of it at the time. What a strange crea ture he was! an Italian landscape ('sinter, • man of middle age, who had seen some deep sorrows tu life, but whose secret 1 never knew. I only guessed it was some family difficulty, the memory of which st times softened his dashing black eyes, into all the dreaminess of a loTer's, and at others filled them with the glance of frenzy, nnder which he would act so strwngtly that I thought at those times his reason was partially dethroned. But the cloud of the past would dispel itself, and in the fanlight of the present he would be as genial as ever. He used to show me all his paintings, and took pleasure in my high praise of them ; but one he guarded with the most jealous care, and once when I came in unexpectedly upon him, and caught a glimpse of it as be was giving some finishing touches to it, he sprang to his feet, threw the curtain over it, aud with a fearful gleam in his eyes.'pushed me from the room. I saw that it was the portrait of a beau tiful woman—with the dark eyes and hair of Itaiy, and the soft tinge of her sunlight and genial clime. He met me in oar room that evening as pleasant as ever, and nothing was said of his strange conduct, and so, with me, it was soon forgotten. Two weeks after, I knocked at the door of his studio, and receiving no an swer, I opened the door, and there, as before a shrine, he was kneeling before the portrait, and seemed to be oblivious of my presence. Never before had I seen such an expression of mingled de votion and agony on the human face as his bore ; but O, the portrait! I stood spellbound and drank in the ravishing beauty of that sweet face, with the voluptuous smile, and the soft light of love beaming from the eyes in all the animation of a living creature. I turn ed to leave, when in an instant he sprang forward and grasped me by the throat and dragged me before the portrait, drew out a poniard and raising it high above me, exclaimed : "Oenovia, Oenovia, accept this sac rifice of blood," when, as if by a mira cle, the curtain fell over the face ; and lowering his hand, he said, sadly, " No. no, basoborn wretch, go ! Your blood would be an unworthy sacrifice to her ; 'twill be Borne other hour your time will come and with a theatrical flour ish he pushed me from him, dropped his poniard, and folded his arms in a melancholy manner. I needed no spar to hasten me away, but got out as quickly as I could, and resolved to change my room at once, which resolve I would have carried into execution, bnt be met me at the sap per-table so genial and kind that I for gave him, and regarded it tint as the strange freaks of his love for some one in the past, and I simply resolved not to go into his studio any more. When the morning arrived for me to go to the church, he requested that he might accompany me, as he wished to study a celebrated painting there, and would remain in the church until I came down. To this I willingly assent ed, and locking the ponderous door on the inside, I left bim below, while I ascended to the topmost window of the spire, and arranged my ropes and pul leys for descending on the ontside. A great crowd gathered in the street be low to watch my movements, and with some pride that I was the center of at traction, I had lowered myself until the old rod was all detached and cast down, and had drawn myßelf np within ten feet of the window, when, upon look ing np, I saw the Italian at the window, looking down at me with the fearful glare of a maniac in his eyes. He hiss ed through his clenched teeth: " Toar hour has come. I have sworn that no man should look upon her face and live. I am goingto cut you down and to my horror, he drew a great carv ing knife, and began slashing at my rope. He could not sever the rope at one blow, and I saw that my only hope of eafety lay in paying out rope so fast, that he could not cut twice at the same place. In this I succeeded, until the cut strands reached the pulley, where, cat -hing for a moment they gave him time for cutting the rope ; it was the end I held in my hands, and with fear ful rapidity the rope rushed through the pulley, until a broken strand again caught so firmly that it would go no farther. I now saw that he would cut the remaining rope, and send me to de struction, two hundred feet below. A cry of horror came np from the crowd in the street, us they now real ized what the strange conduct of the inau above me meant. It was an awful moment of suspense, but in- that mo ment I looked for some chance of es cape, and found that my only hope lay in catching hold of some foot rods that had been placed from the windows be low to the one from which the maniac was again cutting my last rope. [These irons were shaped something like a stirrup, and grasping them I ran my left arm through one, with my foot upon another, just as the rope came ruttling down, almost jerking mo loose with its weight; but I detached it from me, and for a moment breathed free as an encouraging shout came up from the crowd. O, who can realize the horror of my situation, suspended two hundred feet high upon those slender, rust-eaten irons? I felt myself growing faint, and remembering the sailor's warning, " Look aloft," I glanced upward, when, to make my situation more terrible, the maniac screamed out : "I am coming down to cut your tlnoat;" and, suiting the action to the word, he climbed out on the foot rods FIUSD. KritTZ. Ivlitormwl 1 VopriHoi VOL. Ml. and began to descend with tll the u* mrancc that * maniac alone oouKl possess. A moment more. ami taking that grout knife from his tooth, he would lot out wv blood and close my eyes forever in death, banging there, with my arm through the stirrup. Hat 1 thought of ,i stmugo thing, u.l that strange thing saved uir life. I had, hanging upon the hook in mv belt, a coil of small rope with a running noose in one end. Now, when I" was iu Mexico, 1 became very expert in throw ing the lasso, and 1 determined to lasso the maniac if possible ; so, taking the cod, 1 waited until ho was willuii tru feet of me, aud threw it ; fortunately, I ..s successful, and with a desperate jerk I tightened the rope around his neck, aud as quick as lightning sent him crashing headforemost two hun dred feet Mow. 1 heard a sickening thud, and a cry of horror from the crowd, and seemed to remember uo more. How 1 ever got iu at the window I do not remember, mvself ; I only rcmem ler lying ou the tloor in the spire near tlie great bell, with the *<-xtou aud a crowd around mo. They told we my hair wc.a white. I paid the funeral expenses of the poor Italian. The portrait is mine uow, hut I never look ou its beautiful faee without a shudder at the fearful ail venture it cost me. A llepeful View. The New York AnTy Uraphic pub lishes an imaginary . conversation bo twetu a Wall street "llull" and a " Bear," which dearly and happily sets forth, dramatic form, the antagonistic views of their respective class upon the i probable futuie of values and prices iu this country. It may be summed up as follows: The " Bear " argues that the cloud of the pauic still overshadows the land ; that the Western droughts, fires, grasshoppers and chinch-bugs and the Southern floods have tended to dimin ish the crop* and depress commercial activity; that the aught spurt of re vived busiuess activity which followed the adjournment of Congress has al ready died away and a reaction ensued; that the necessities of repayment of the thousand millions of borrowed foreign capital and the interest thereon press heavily upon onr people, who are now poor, restricting them from their ordi nary expenditures in purchases of goods and in travel; that, consequent ly, manufacture* and railroads suffer, and in sympathy with them all values are and must long remain depressed ; that the panic has frightened people from investment in new enterprises, particularly those of a joint-stock char acter, and that it will be long before it will be practicable to so far re-establish public confidence as to give a healtfu! impetus to any form of speculation. The " Bull, " on the other hand, takes a much more hepeful view of the future. He claims that there has beeu direct good resultant from the panic, in di verting individual energies from specu lation to production, iu enforcing a valuable economy, and in clearing the country of goods and thereby creating an increased demand for manufactures; that notwithstanding all the malign in fluences mentioned by Mr. Bear the crops of the present year will be twen ty per cent, greater than in any preced ing year; that t! - increased harvest will give new life 11 or.r railroad and shipping interests, m.u its profits will af ford abundant means for the purchase of manufactures, the stimulation of trade, and investment in uew speculative en terprises ; that the currency question is so settled as to adapt the supply of onr medium of exchange to the de mands of business; finally, that we arc a nation of bulls, hopeful, volatile, not easily depressed for long and quick to turn ourselves so as to wrench success from the jaws of defeat, hence that the country, with the encouraging crop prospect now bef >rr it, is on the eve of a prosperous season of legitimate specu lation and healthful iudation which will very speedily wipe out all the sad traces of the panic. Reviewing these opposing arguments, we are inclined to heartily endorse the jadgment of the " Outsider " to whom they are supposed to lie addressed, that there has never been a better sea son for investment, by those who have money, than the present. Prices are low—lower than they shonld be—and mast inevitably Fpeedily appreciate; and, while we cannot fully coincide with the Bull's eager confidence in an almost immediate commercial millen nium, we are well satisfied that a very short time must elapse before the song of " hard times " is heard no more ami the better time coming at least gives unmistakable signs of its approach. A Horse ('haunter. "A fellow being called as a witness in one of the courts, the Judge de manded : " What is yonr trade ?" " A horse chaunter, my lord." " A what ?—a horse chaunter ? Why what's that ?" " Vy, my lord, ain't you up to that ere trade ?" " I require yon to explain yourself." " Ycl, my lord," said he, " I goes round among the livery stables—they all on 'em knows me—and ven 1 sees a gen'man bargaining for an 'orse, I just steps up like a teetotal stranger and sez 1, 'vel, thats a rare 'un, I'll be bound,' sea I, ' lie's got the beautifulest 'ead and neck as I ever seed,' ses I ; ' only look at 'iz open nostrils—lie's got vind like a no go-motive, I'll be bound ; he'll travel a hundred miles a day and never once think on't; them's the kind of 1< gs vat never fails.' Vel, this tickles the gen'man, and he se to 'imsclf, ' that ere 'onest countryman's a rare judge of a 'orse;' no, please yon, my lord, he buys 'im, and trots off. Vel, then I goes up to the man vat keeps the stable, and I axes 'im, ' vel, vat are you going to stand for that ere chaunt ?' and he gives me a sovereign Vel, that's what I call 'orse chauntiug my lord ; there's rale little 'arm in't there's a good many sorts on us ; some channts canals, ami some chaunts rail roads. " A Story about Crows. A Delaware correspondent writes to a Baltimore paper on the subject of crows as follows : " A novel amuse ment, which is at present indulged in to a great extent in the upper purt of this Htate is crow-shooting as a sub stitute for pigeon-matches. The rules and customs ure the same in either case. The substitute was made out of a sort of humanitarian notion among the people, as well as to benefit, pecu niarily, residents about Reedy Island, in the Delaware, from whence crows are taken. I have been told that this spot is the favorite roosting-ground of these birds, and that toward nightfall they congregate there by thousands. When darkness overspreads the island, the catchers enter among the low trees with bags, and capture any desired number, simply plucking them from the limbs like so much fruit. The birds cannot fly in the darkness, and, even if shaken from their roosts, they cling to the first object that comes within reach. It is said that a man, standing beneath the tree from which the birds are shaken, with outstretched arms, will soon be oovered with them." THE CENTRE REPORTER M M NESS PROSPECTS. Wit Hi In 111 lr Kl|*rt tail, mini W Itatl Is lloprtl In an editorial on " Busin. ss Pros preta,' 1 the Now York TWAunr sava: The condition of England, Prance and Germany in far froui that state of robust honltli which is ueccssary to make thotu good customers and easy credit* ra of the United State*. In England a readjustment of wages and prices his been in progress for nearly a year, and is yet far from being com pleted. The exports of Hutiah manu factures for the tlrst SIX months of this vear are not only less than for the saute mouths in IS7B, hul less thuu for the same mouths in 1572. A trade whose growth has lieen for half a century the wonder of the world has been for two vears either stationary or declining. This ia a sign of bad times which can not tie questioned. The same condition of affairs, though perhaps iu a less de gree, exists iit France and tlermany. It exists ft: ,o iu the United States, but we fail to aey here the energetic strug gle which is making iu England to adopt wages to her changed situation. We arc to have a great crop aud lower prices of food all over the world iu con sequence of the abundant harvests now betug gathered. This will unquestion ably lie of great benefit to Europe, and particularly to Great ttritam, and the ball will in the end rebound back to us Hut probably two or three years will pads, aud other article* of commerce. The ordinary mortal spends all, or very nearly all, he gets. C)nly the few save. Whatever, there fore, curtails the money, which has been erroneously said to " fructify" iu the pockets of the people, checks the consumption of merchandise, and tends to produce dull times, Aud it is not ouly the consumption of merchandise by "farmers, aud those dependent upon the custom of farmers, which is likely to fall below High-water mark. The price of cotton has leeu low for nearly a year, and bids fair to continue de pressed. Moreover, that great indus try, the iron manufacture, still remains prostrate. It see pis to us, that the change imperatively demanded, by the present and prospective low prices of all articles consumed bv laborers, is a reduction of wages. Jlnt wages are not reduced in good times. Ou the oontray, they are advanced in such tunes. If wage# are to be reduced, times must continue to be dull for a while. Considering, therefore, that the whole commercial world is stimulated anil de pressed by slow working influence*, which, like the sunshine and the air, | have no boundaries ; rememlering that the transitions from prostration to ex altation hare hitherto usually been pro vokingly gradual, and liclieving that many obstacles still exist in both hemis pheres to that full working of the in dustrial machinery which requires everr man's labor and supplies every man s rational wants, we cannot join in those cheerful predictions of impernl ing prosperity which, it is said, will overflow the country at or before the I time Congress me. ts. Weeks before the panic, we warned our leaders. It was not a grateful task; but (hose who heeded us have had reason to be grate ful siuce. It wonld IHJ far pleasanter now to prophesy smooth things. But our readers look to us for what is true rather than what is pleasant, and hvve a right to demand that we shall point out the actual situation and prospect* rather than what we and they alike should be glad to have them. Wo ex j pect a revival of business to lngin to manifest itself this fall, but we do not expect to plunge at once into tho full tide of such apparent prosperity as tho country was riding upon in the winter j and spring of 1873. " Slow and sure " > should be the maxim of business men. East River Bridge. On the Brooklyn side, the East river bridge tower has been raised twenty feet since the 11th of June, and it is now altogether 225 feet above bigh tide, the keystones for the arches hav ing been placed in position. The work of placing the keystones, which weigh ed 11 tons each, required the utmost care. Only 17 courses of stone remain to complete the tower, and as the work men are laying stone above the arches at the rate of about a course a week, it is expected to be completed by the mid dle of November. The ordinary blocks of stone employ ed are of about six tons weight, but the top courses and cornices will re quire blocks still more massive, and cannot be constructed so rapidly as the main part of the masonry. When both towers and anchorage are completed, a wire will lie carried nross the river, probably by a tug boat. Having got one wire aeros, tho en gineers will by this easily draw over the cradle ropes, four stont twisted ropes of steel wire, which will servo as supports for the cradles, or moveable frame-works, on which the workmen will staud while employed lietween the two towers. From these ropes will also be suspended a wooden and iron foot bridge, to be built in installments, by which the workmen will be able to go from the shore to the ladders leading up to their perches. An endless wire rope having been stretched across the river, passing around immense drums at each anchor nge, the machinery will be worked by a steam engine to stretch across tlie wires for the bridge cables, by the same prin cipal on which the ropes are workinl in a block and fall. In thia case, of course, the traveling sheave will run on a horizontal instead of a perpendicular line. Each of the four permanent cables will tie sixteen inches in diame ter when completed, and will be com posed of steel wires laid straight like a bundle of rods. A twisted rope would be insecure, as in that it would lie impossible to exert the same tension upon all tho wires, and some would prove weaker than others. A Vindictive ({necn. Henry Carey, cousin of Queen Eliza beth, after having enjoyed her Majes ty's favor for several years, lost it in the following manner : AH ho was walk ing one day, full of thought in the gar den of the palace, under the Queen's window, she perceived him, and said to him in a jocular manner, " What does a man think of when he is thinking of nothing?" "Upon a woman's prom ise," replied Carey. " Well done, cousin," auswered Elizabeth. She re tired, but did not forget the answer. Some .time after he solicited a peerage, and reminded the Queen that she had promised it to him. ''True," she said, " but that was a woman's promise." (-KNTKK HALL. <-KNTKL CO.. PA., TIILHSDAV, SKPTK.M HKH 10, 1871. TIIK FOHN CHOP. I'll* AMBUS! RSIMIMS of lite I . a. lie |) ltuiu( of Ayili tilltur. The \ngu*t returns to the Depart ment of Agriculture from New ring land, show a general improvement in the com crop during July, though it in still backward. Maine average* 92 p,.r cut. of a full crop ; New Hampnhire, ys; Vermont, '.'7 ; Massachusetts, 101 ; KIUHIC l*luud, 100 ; Connecticut, 107. It i verv promising m portions of the Middle States, but in other portions it was injured, wither by drought or eicea sive rain. A decline i* uotnl in New York, where the average is 04, and iu New Jersey, 01. Pennsylvania ami Delaware have both risen to oue per cent, above the average, Of the Hotith Atlantic States, Maryland shows 00 jwr cent., with the crop datnogiwl by drought, especially on stiff soil* ; Vir ginia, 00, also damaged from the same cause and from insect ravages ; North Carolina, 01, a lo* of oue per cent. South Carolina and Georgia have risen to 10 jw-r cent, above the average. Florida, 102, uittiiitaiua her July aver age. Texas declines from lOti to 102. The other Gulf State* show enhanced averag, * us follows : Alabama, I<>7 ; Mississippi, 95 ; loiuisiana, 77. The last named is partially recovering from the fleets of the freshet*. Home in sect injuries are reported. Of the Southern Inland States, Arkansas, H5, and Kentucky, show some improve ment ; while Teuurssee, 70, and West Virginia, 82, indicate the continuance of unfavorable conditions. These low averages are accounted for by BEVI-re and extensive drought. North of the Ohio river, all the States show a de pressed condition from drought and lU *ect injuries. Chinch bug* were active in Illiuots, and grasshopper* ui several couutii sof Wisconsin. The State aver ages are as follows : Ohio, 03 per cent. Michigan, ? s ; Indiana, lOfi ; llliuois, Ni ; Wisconsin, OS. We*t of the Mis sissippi river, the ravages of grasshop per* and chinch bugs have been severe ly fclt iu some conuties, in some cases, sweeping all the summer crops. It is very n uiarkable that in Minnesota, where local injuries have specially oc cupied public attention, the high state of the crop, In counties not affrctcd by the jwsts, have raised the condition to a full average. The other States, how ever, show a decline as follows : lowa, from 104 to 102 ; Missouri, 100 to 74 ; Kansas, 102 to 70 ; Nebraska, 109 t 42. In the last-named Htate, every county reports severe injuries from grasshoppers. On tho Faetfic coast, Calilortna has raised her average fiotn ..• t-> 103 ; Oregon depressed hers Irotn 103 to 100. A Strange I'lant. I>arwin, who is always after some thing singular, tell# ns of a strange plant which feeds on ins-ct*. The pe tiole, or leaf-stalk, is of the shape of a handle of a tea spoon, the only differ ence lietug that its tipper surface it channeled along the middle, instead of beiug flat, By its broad end it is uni ted to the leaf by a narrow isthmus, of about half a line in breadth. Whenever an insect, or inj object, t turbos, however slightly, any of the nix filament* above mentioned, the lole* close sharply upon it, just a* * rat-trap closes on ttie animal caught ; the closure is at first, however, only partial. When the leaf * thus half closed, it is easy to see what is the MR nifieaace of tlie two acta of prong* along ita edges. They are •tiaerved to IH< at t alternately along the border* of the two loins, ao aa to fit into each other aa the teeth of a rat-trap do. The reason why the leaf does not nt onee dose firmly <>n ita prey—at first sight not very apparent—Mr. Darwin haa been able to explain, by observing what hap|>cned when an m eet finds itself caught and attempt* to eseajte. If it IB amall, it easily makes ita way through the grating, formed by the crossing of the teeth ; and in this ease, the 1< .f ex pands again very gradually.and is thou re ml y for another victim. If it is large, all ita efforts to regain ita libertiea are futile, llepelled by ita priaon-bara, it ia driven back upon the sensitive fila ment*, which project into the interior of ita cell, and again irritates them. By doing ao, it occasions a second and more vigorous contraction of the lobes. The result ia that the creature is this time not only captured, btil crushed, to be eventually digested. The leaf, having thus closed, remains for a week or more in the same state. At tlrat, the two lobes are so flatly press* ed against each other, that the insect between them forms a bulging projec tion on either aide. But soon a quan tity of juiee is accreted by the internal surface of the leaf, which, aa it collects, distenda the space occupied by the in sect, which after a time liecomea difflu ent, and is eventually absorbed. This prooeaa of gradual liquefaction and ab sorption, Mr. Darwin has shown by nu merous experiments, to lx> of the same nature as that by which food ia digest ed in the stomneh of higher animals. Chinese Domesticities. A writer on the Chinese in the Tctn pie liar saya: " They have a large screen bffore the doorway, which gives privacy sufficient for their need. The window sashes are closed either by a sort of jalousie or thin matting. They do not snrrotind their domesticities with the same mystery and secret pre cautions with which wo envelope those proceedings in Europe. Human na ture, they argue, hns to sleep, and here is the mat upon which it stretches it s>lf. Why conceal it ? It also wants to eat, and it satisfies its appetite, no mntter how many eye* nre gazing. Tell a Chinese cook you are hnngry, and he will immediately fetch his fire, his cooking ntensils, his provisions, and cook under your very nose. He has no idea of concealing his operations in some far-back region. He squats down auywhere, makes a fire on or in any thing—a basin, dish, pan, or pot there is no limit to IUN invention. He will cook in tlie middle of the street, or in the center of his guests in a restau rs 111. Upon one occasion, when on board a junk, I observed a man cook ing his own and his licighlnir's food to gether in a tab, and an earthern sanoer containing the charcoal. Wonderful creatures they nre, these despised Chinese, with a deftness of finger and ingennity of patienoo unsurpassed by any nation under the sun." The Journal of Chrmittri/ warns the drinkers of the water of wells that are near dwellings to beware of the typhoid poison sure to be found sooner or later in those reservoirs if any of the house drainage can percolate them. The gelatinous matter often found upon the stones of a well is a poison to the hu man system, probably causing, by its spores, a fermentation of the blood, with abnormal heat or fever. Whole some, untainted "water is always Jfree from all color and odor. To test it thoroughly, place half a pint in a clear bottle, with a few grains of lump-sugar and expose it, stoppered, to sunlight in a window. If even after nu exjmsure of eight or ten days, the water becomes turbid, be sure that it has been con taminated by sewage of some kind. If it'remains perfectly clear, it is pure and safe. Fever In Water. •• 1 lie Seducer and ItUjYlrtim " Tli® seducer! I'laying upon the most sacred passions, lie Imtraya inno cence. How ? Ity its touderest facul ties ; by it® trust; by it* unsuspecting faith ; ly its honor. The victim often iiinl often is not the accomplice so much ii the sufferer, betrayed by an exorcism which bewitched her noblest all eel ions, and brotua the suicide of her irtue! The betrayer, for llie most intense selfishness, without one pre tense of honor by lies ; by a ilevilish jugglery of fraud, by blinding the eye, confusing the conscience, misleading the judgment, and instilling the dew of sorcery upon every ttowrr of sweet af fection, deliberately, heartlessly, damns the confiding victim ! Is there one shade of good iuteutiou ; on® glimmer ing trace of light? Not oue. There wns not the most shadowy, tremulous iuteutiou of honor, it was sheer, pre meditated, wholesale ruin, from Iwgiii mug to end. The accursed sorcerer opens the door of the world to push her forth. Hhe looks out all shuddering ; for there is shame, and sharp-toothed hatred, and chattering slander, and ms lignsnt envy, and triumphing jealousy, and murderous revenge ■ these arc seen rising before her ; clouds full of fire, that bum but will uot kill. And there is for her want and poverty and gaunt famine. There is the world spread out. She sees father and tn> tiler heartlessly abandoning her, a brother's shame, a sister's anguish. It is a vision of deso lation, a plundered home; an altar where honor and purity, and virtue and peace have lieen insidiously sacrificed to the foul Moloch. All is ciicerlessuosa to the eye, and her ear catches the sound of sigh'ng and mourning, wails and laments ; and far down, at the hori zon of the vision, the murky cloud for s moment lifts, sud she aces the very bot torn of infamy, the ghastltuess f death, the last spasm of horrible departure, the awful thunder of final doom. All this the trembling, betrayed creature sees through the open door of the fu ture ; sud with u voice that might move the dead, she turns and clasps in* knees in awful agony : "leave me uot 1 Oh ! spare me—save me—-cast me not away 1" l\or thing she is dealing with a de mon! Spare her?—aave her? The polished scoundrel betrayed her to abandon her, and Walk* the street to b> a-t his hellish deed. It becomes him as a reputation I Surely society will crush him ! They will smite the wolf and seek out the bleeding lamb. Oh, my soul, believe it not! What sight is U>at ? The drooping victim is worse used thau the iufi-mal destroyer! He ia fondled, courted, passed from honor to honor, and she is crushed and man gird under the infuriate tramp of pub lic indignation. On her mangled corpse they stand to put the laurels on her murderer's brow! When 1 see such things as theai, 1 thank (h>d that there is a judgment, and that there is a hell! lhnry H'orif licechrr. New Theorj of Comets. The following novel theory of comets has born pro)>ost-d by a contemporary : "Comets arc suj JKSM-VI to consist of thin vapor* of gases, held together by the mutual attraction of their parti cles. Like all bodies so circumstanced, tlicy necessarily assume the spherical form : and therefore the eomuiou no tion, that they ooiiMst of a compara tively small and bright nucleus and an immensely long and illuminated tail, evidently derived from their appearance 111 the heavens, cannot for a moment be entertained. That their spherical form, as shown by the reflected light of the sun, would scarcely be discernible at the distance of our earth, eveu though the comet were as dense as the densest cloud of our atmosphere, would not bo surprising ; tmt if their attcnuatiou, as described by Sir John Ifersehcl, be considered, all wonder ceac*. Kir John liorsebel says 'that the most un substantial clouds, which float in the highest region* of our atmosphere and seem at sunset to l>o drenched in light and to glow throughout their whole depth as if in actual ignition, withont any shadow or dark side, must be looked upon as dense and massive bodie*, compared with the fllmy and all but spiritual texture of a comet.' Owing to this extreme tenuity of matter, the rays of the sun's light, as reflected by it, are absolutely invisible to the in habitants of the eartn ; Out the other rays, jienctrating into the eenter of the comet, are refracted by this powerful lens of twenty millions of leagues diameter into tnefocus which forms the nucleus of the comet, where there is, perhaps, a greater concentration of rays of light than anywhere else, not in the body of the sun. Ilence this large body of concentrated light, streaming in a narrow path through the remaining half of the oomct, m a direction opposite to the siMi, forms that splendid appendage called the tail. The Quaker and the llaekmen. The Boston Ihilletin gives the follow ing ludicrous account of the oxiMoienee of a Quaker with New York baekmeii : A tall, portly, dignified citizen of the Quaker persuasion, well known in Philadelphia, arrived in New York the other day, and, having no baggage bnt a light traveling satchel, was utterly oblivions to the appeals of the hack rnen as he emerged from the railway station. " Fee—thavanoo Hotel 1 Fifth Avc noo—goin' ritnp ! Fifth Avnoo !" Broadbrim stalked right on without a word. Another knight of tho whip charged down upon him. " Say Nicholas Hotel! Hay Nicholas Hotel coach ? This way for the 8' Nicholas 1" No response from the passenger, and not a muscle moved at his appeal. Then there was a rush of half a cloze 11. " Kerridgc, sir, Kcrridge ? Wauter ride np?" " Winsnr House ! Whose going up to the Winsur ?" " Astor House. sir ?" " Brovoort Ilmnc ? Brovoort ?" "Metropolitan Hotel?" " Right down Broadway!" "'Ero you are; kcr ridge, Bir ?" The traveler loomed np like n ten-pin among vinegar cruets, and, with fnee an jilaeid as a pan of milk, wan calmly and silently moving away from the crowd of jarvios, who looked after him with something like amazement, when a sodden thought seemed to strike one, who, running after him, seized hold of oue of the handles of liis trav eling hag— " Deaf and Dumb Asylum, sir I Going right up I" This was too much. Dignity relaxed into n laugh, and the driver got a fare for a down-town hotel." STORREP THEM —Two muscular men in a Pennsylvania village, each of whom entertained the opinion that he was an adept at sparring, had arranged with each other and some friends to repair to a Held one morniug, and light for one hundred dollars. The money was placed in the hnnds of a friend, and by iiitn passed over to his wife for safe keeping. A Catholic priest, however, hearing of the proposed encounter, re solved upon a novel method of peace making. He went to the stakeholder, took the one hundred dollars, and then told the principals to go ahead. It is almost needless to add that they gave up all idea of fighting. Up a Tree, The Arotuiittn says : " From France, that Isml of romance, comes a new ami pathetic story, A young man, in the bloom and health of vigor, was en gagi d to be married to a beauteous maid. This ingenuous youth hail one eye filed on the main chauce, and ar ranged with his future father-in-law that on the day of his luarrtsge certain ' real estate' should lie transferred to him. The memorable morning arrived ; the air was laden with the jwirfume of flowers, the birds sang, and the vil lagers held a festival similar to those which we see in Italian operas. The bridal party reached the cliupol, which lay ensconced among traditionary elma. Tnrottgh the churchyard meandered a streamlet whose silverv riples glistened in the morning sun. Punctual to the time the cure arrived and took a pre liminary pinch of snuff as he surveyed the people lief ore him. K very body set tled into his or her allotted place. The ceremony was about to be commenced when it suddenly struck the bride that the bridegroom was turn rsf. Bbc , clasped her hands to her heart, and, with a piercing shriek, fell aenaelran. ! Clear as a bell over the clamor that en sued was heard the voice of the father calling upon his friends and relations to go in search of the missing one. High and low they hunted, hut the game could not be found. At last tbey - discovered the object of their anarch | comfortably ensconced among the spreading I'ranches of a lofty oak. On h< nig requested to descend he inquired i 'if the>y saw anv green about him,' to which those befow, who hail their eyes on the surrounding#, replied * Plenty.' In the miilst of an interchange of vio lent epithets he gave a characteristic remark somewhat to the following effect —that *be be demed if he Would till that there real estate was trans ferred.' While the bride was thus bowed down in anguish and the bride groom wa buuglied up in the tree, the lather in law tore his hair, and amid solvs and tears urged the unreasonable nature of the request, but to no effect. Finally the document was brought forth, "duly signed, and the recalcitrant bridegroom slid.down the tree. After the imkeasvry repairs had licet, made in his pantaloons, with hia rtntr* secured and his rents sewn up. the bridegroom adjourned with the rest of the party to the chapel. The bride recovered from her faiut, the cure took a fresh pinch of snuff, and the knot was tied." Ihe Ilea* on Why. It is always desirable that facte should le supported bv reason. The editor of Arthur'a j/utne Magazine gives the following questions and an swers, which are |erUnent to thia sea son of the year: Why is fruit most wholesome when eaten on an empty stomach ? Because it contains a large amount of fixed air, which requites great power to disengage and expel it before it be gins to digest. Why is txiiltd or roast fruit more wholesome than raw T Because, in the process of boiling or roasting, fruit parts with ita fixed air, and is thua randervd easier of diges tion. Why should salt be applies! to vege table* intended for pickling, previously to putting them in the vinegar? Because all vegetables abound In watery juice*. which, if mixed with the rin-gsr, would dilute it so much ts to destroy it* preservative property. Salt absorbs a portion of this water, and in directly contributes to the strength of the vinegar. Why is bread made from wheat flonr tu<>rc strengthening than that made from liarley or oata ? Because, as gluten, albumen and caaeine are the only stiliatauees in the bread capable of forming blood, and consequently of sustaining the strength i and vigor of the body, they have been appropriately called the food of nutri tion, as a distinction from thoro which merely support reapirmtion. Wheat j contains eight hundred and twenty-five pacta of starch, three hundred and fif teen of gluten, albumen, and caaeine, sixty of sugar and gum ; while liarley ■ contains twelve hundred of starch, one | hundred and twenty of glntcn, albu i men and oaiw-ine, and one hundred and sixty of sugar and gum ; hence wheat is much richer than barley in the food of nutrition. A Wen that Cit $150,000 to Remove. Young Stevens has gold in abnrd anoe, but what are millions to a man so deformed that dogs bark at him when he goes halting by, and lovely womap, even when the golden luster of nutold wealth glitters about his head, faints at sight of him ? From his birth a peculiar wen, growing larger day by day, ha* made Ins face and neck hide ous. Covered with long hair, it looked like a repulsive wild animal clinging to his head. Stevens hid himself from the general eye ami moped in loneli ness. In early youth bo was betrothed to a beautiful young girl, but as the wen grew groat, bis determination never to intliet his horrible deformity on a fellow-creature was firmly formed. The best surgeons of Europe and America gave him no hope. They wore unanimous in declaring that to remove the wen was to permanently remove the patient. But recently he met a daring practitioner who declared that it was within the skill of the surgeon to lop off the excrescence and restore the af flicted man to a healthy condition. Stevens listened gratefully. "Do it," ssid he, " and your reward shall l>o $150,(100." With electric knifes the ooufldent ontter went to work, and in a very brief time had earned his mam moth fee. The skiu beneath the tnnior was smooth and sound, and Stevens is in excellent health. Victory of the Roaches. A correspondent tells u, says the Louisville Journal, how to get rid of our colony of roaches : "Sprinkle the desk and floor with pulverised borax ; let it remain some days without being brushed off the desk or floor, and, our word for it, brown roaches will be com pletely vanquished, to appear never more. 1 ' Oh, you bo liauged. Didn't we try the borax, and didu't the roaches immediately hold a public meeting and adopt a series of resolutions thanking us for the kindness wo had done them, and didn't all the other roaches in town attend that convention and determine to beoome permanent members of the colony when the meeting adjourned, and aren't they swarming around us this moment "as thick as Tewkesbury mustard ?" Give the scoundrels borax, and they think you are a mother to them. A RKOTLAR llAPlT. —Doddington was very lethargic. Falling asleep one day, after dinner, with Sir Richard Temple, Lord Cobham, and several others, oue of tho party reproached him with his drowsiness. lie denied having been asleep, and to prove he had not, offered to repeat nil Lord Cobham had been saying. Cobham challenged him to do so. Doddington repeated a story, and Cobham owned he had been telling it. "Well," said Doddington, "and yet I did not hear a word of it ; but I went to sleeep because that I knew shout this time of the day yon would tell that story." Termfl: 52.00 a Your, in Advunco. TilE FAMINE IN AH!A .MINOIt, flit *1 liuu.oMit 11f.4 f Star, a ll.a Iu our l)l.lilrl--0l Itwllri l-)ln£ in lU* Mir*.la. Jt< v. Dr. Clark, of tha American Hoard •>( Foreign Miaaione, haa received a letter from /. O. Harrows, of (Wares, in which he gives some thrilling details of the terrible famine now prevailiug in that region. Mr. Harrows writes • " While at Yoxgat, which is eighty or ninety ruilea north of us, 1 witnessed the ravages of the famine, which is very severe, and also toward Angora. Many villages are entirely deserted. In some, one, or two, or three, or tour, or parte of families remain. I a the dis trict of Hutigariu, (which ia beyond Yoxgat, and in which city there is a Protestant church, as many as &,(KJO persons have died of starvation. Hut the horrors of this famine are inde scribable. Many people have subsist ed on grass for weeks, and then died. Heggars have flocked to the cities, and there many of them have died because they could not get a morsel of brand. Oh! men, mothers with babies at their breasts, young ineu that have become children, youug boys and girls, half naked, begging, crying, faintiug, dying —this is famine, fteggara have flocked to our doors ; we have given what we oould, and ore still doing tha same; aome relief has been afforded by con - tnbutious of friends iu Htamboul, and other places, bat it is only s drop in the bucket. Mr. Farnsworth has made a long tour through the famiue-stnokeu people, and given from friends in Slam boul wm $-'jOO, tuid pcrluap by this mruui MO people will l-*kept alive, but multitudes are dying and will jet die. Ttie people of this ooautrj give but little, with rare exceptions," the more wealthy Moslems giving nothing. Keif iabneae reigns. Every mau live# for himself. The Mohammedan religion ia a religion of selfishness. If a man does any good deed, it is that he himself mar be benefited. There ia no pnhlie spirit—no lore to man as such. But what thia famine ia, can be known only bj those who see it. We saj that ao many hare died. These statistics are oold things. Famine ia the going oat in utter darkness, wretchedness, and death of all that goes to make up human life. You find a little, half-naked girl, of eight or ten rears, sitting in some corner of the street crying. What ia the matter ? lie/ father and moilier are dead, or hare abandoned her. Bbe has not a friend, or one to oare for her on earth ; she has nothing to eat. Bbe pleads and reaches out her bony handa to every passer-by ; or perhaps gets enough during the day to bur one piece of bread. Thia kind of hie laste a few weeks, and she ia picked up by those who are ordered to bury the dead that they may find in the strata. •• When in Yozgat I heard a err of children in the crowded street# before me. I looked, and saw three little children. The oldert was perhaps ten or cleTt-n, the second six or seven, and the youngest three or four. The little one waute Jto be carried. The oldest one was too feeble, but fi: sly bending down took the little one on her back. The other child clang to lit r ragged clothes, and ao they went on, all crying together. But such a sight 1 It made au impression that I believe will never be effaced from my mind. There chil dren were so poor tliat the flesh which covered their teeth was s mere skin, and as they cried the expression of their countenances was something more sad and pitiable than I ha 1 conceived possible before. These three were left clinging to each other, dying together, with no one to care for Lni-m. One learns here at snch a time as this that the tender mercies of the wicked are in deed cruel. One ia forced to exclaim. Oh, (t >d, what will the end be? why must there U- such terrible suffering? But (rod ia good and man is sinful. Bodies have lain in the streets one, two, and even three or four days before burial, and the dogs here feasted on them. Many of our Protestant com munities and families have suffered greatly. At Sangnrlu some of the brethren have sold houae, shop, house hold furniture, beds, clothing, every thing, and now must beg or starve And perhaps they will both beg and starve. In one village there was one Protestant family ; the father, mother, and all the children bat two have died of starvation. In the village of Injirh there was a pleasant little Protestant community, several of whom were mem bera of the church, with a preacher re siding with them. But they were poor. Last winter their provisions failed, and there seemed to be nothing but starva tion before them. But thfs preacher went to the city of Yozgat and pur chased flour, becoming responsible for the nay himself, aad so kept alive six families. Bnt now unless the preacher can be repaid his creditor* will taks everything from him. It was a very kind" and generous thing that he did. I feel like appealing to friends in America to help liim ont of this dilemma .The board do not wish ns to make special appeals to onr friends for aid in carrying on onr missionary work, but this is a matter of humanity. It American Christians could only see how some of their fellow-ohristians here are suffering, they would certainly imitate our English Christian friends and others in Btamboul, who have given liberally for this object" A Shocking Death. Two men living in Philadelphia desired to visit Pittsburgh to look at a prize tight, and not having the means to par their fare, determined to steal their way. Embarking at West Philadelphia, they climbed upon the top of the sky light of one of the palace cars attached to the Pacific express train west, and lay dowu, one with his feet pointing to the front, their heads being together. On nearing Mill Creek bridge, one of the men named Vanderalioe, who was lying with his head on Menoaly'a shoul der, rose up a little and in au instant one of the iron bolls in the girder that snataius the roof of the bridge, plowed a furrow through the top of his head, scattering his brains in all directions, killing him instantly. His oompanion held his body in position nntil the cars arrived at Lanes-dor, when he made known the accident to the railroad officials. The body was removed from the top of the car, piaoed in the depot and tho Coroner sent for, who sum moned a jury and held an inqnest on the remains, the evidence being about the same as the foregoing statement. The jtirv returned a verdict of acci dental death, in accordance with the above facta. An Earnest Official. Occasionally you fiud an official who is almost as accommodating as an edi tor. The Boston Globr says that Geo. F. Field, the General Passenger Agent of the Eastern Railroad, is one of those men. and writes the following as an ex ample : A train on his road took a large party to Conway, N. H. It left eight pieces of baggage behind. Mr. Field, kuowing that the baggage wonld be wanted by the travelers for a ball that night, took a locomotive, loaded on the trunks, followed and overtook the train, and made many hearts happy that were before filled with gloom. There shonld be a Geo. F. Field on every railroad, and then traveling wonld oe lightened of many of its vexations. NO. 30. Fall Plowing. Mmi* farmers am now propounding to llitmarlve# very arriou* question* a* to now they ahuuM plow their land* bulb (or wheat ami lor thir neat curn crop. A* wheat initially follow, oat* or barley, and cora i* j'UnUxl u|on a clover aod, there are a variety of rirruiuatattc** which affect these queation. differently. Wheat need* a mellow ►*! t*d, made compact and firm, hot a louae, rough, i toddy attrUos. The ft rat ac cural rapid and vigorous gsnuiiialioii of the seed and an *a cu growth, while the latter se • ure. pn>tea to the young plant, from the Mnrrttt of wittier, and a. tle cloud* crumble down thru ugh the winter or in the early ajwing biaav exposed root* arc covered with soil, and a due meU<> aurface ia made for the gram or clover aacda. To procure thia condiiion of the .oil one plowing ia no* •iifficicnt. The atubblc U covered, too, wiiti "helled grain, every one of which .pruutiug >'* lie Toung wheat ia • weed, and t* a* hurtful to Ue crop a* any other weed could be. Thaw < annul he killed by one plowing. Tb-rr are other reaauna why in the majority of run, especially upon l.astern fntu, two plowing, should be given for the fall wheat crop; but litem two are sufficient in them arlvna. The firat plowing bond* to he ahal low—lour or live unite, ia ample—aa the moat fertile eoil, and that whiaii h amply supplied with manure, need* to be brought to the mrfaoe in thia plowing, and die scattered seed* of the former crop nod to hr ■tarted into gruwth. Then a lew harrow • ing* and one thorough rolling will complete thia preliminary work. The seed bed i. now formed, Hut it ia not aa yet wherw it it needed. A Meouud plow ing two inchee deeper than the first i urn* thia down exactly where it i* needed. The .proutcd oil* or barter and other weed* are buried and dtmmard of, and those are below two iacbm of cloddy suhnul, three or more ia depth of the finest, mellow - cat surface soil well ira-lrmingied with ma nure, if manure Has been applied, a* it ahould hare bees. If the ami u aown with a drill, and three incites derp, it ia deposited in the renter of thia ared boo. If it If sown broadcast, the rougher the upper surface the better chant* then is thai auch grain will find ita way by mean# of proper harrowing into ita place In the mellow auhaoil. Xo roller ahould follow the seed, if the advan tage of the rough surface am to be retain ed. A lir-rtl, amoolfi surfaor is one of the worst condition, under which the wheat crop can go into the winter. Aa to the plowing of clover aod for the corn crop in the fall, it will depend greatly upon lite Htrader of the ami, and the con dition of the aod. If them ia a good burden of aftermath it may be plowed down at any time; If the aftermath i* light, aa long as it will grow it should be left to do *o. A l%bi soil will he injured by fall plowing, and at ihc bet ii can gain nothing. It will he made compact by the rains of winter and spring, and inuet be crom-plowed in the Hiring, by which the half-rotted sod n brought to the .urfacr. wbem it is uselrm and is wasted, llut the clay, when plowed, remains rough and lumpy, until the spring thaw* reduce it to a condition of fincnon add mellowness that no spring plowing or ham. wing could produce. And beneath thia mellow surface the sod remain, a* it was turned down, only as ret partly or slightly dorotn posed. but prepared fur the most rapid decern position a* soon a. the warmth of a May sun reaches it. Baby Farming. The entire abolition of the slave trade has yet to be accomplished in New York, ac cording to the ilernM which says: Al though the days ol slave ship* have long ►incv pamed. the traffic in human (hah flourishes in another and even a more hein ous form. Poor little helpless infants lake the place of the dusky children of Africa, and 1-ruts! nnrw* that of the oveneer, starvation is found to be a more efficient instrument of torture than the lash which roused the nation once to crush the relic of barbarism that existed in the South. Re mit visits to the haunts of the " baby farm ers.' as they are called, reveal a condition of affairs absolutely shocking. The mor tality among the poor children in those vile den. reaches sometimes as high as seventy |ter ivnL each year, and the survivors grn . rallv have a worse fate before them. (Ttild murder ami the sale of infanta at this present da* can only be regarded as a erring dis grace to the'great city. The unfortunate babies who escape the discipline of the in siilution* fare Uttk better when they are handed over to individuals who, for the sake of the few dollars paid them, are trill ing to undertake their charge. ibc usual result is death from starvation. About a Bear. Several hundred persons attended the funeral of a tame bear near Boston a few days ago. An invitation to be pres ent was sent to the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, who responded aa fol lows : " Dear Sir—Many thinks for yonr polite invitation to attend the ob sequits of the lamented plantigrade. I am sorry that it will not be in my power to l>e present upon the melan choly occasion. I have a great respect for bears since those two female onee taught the little children of Bethel and of Belial that they must not be rude to elderly persona." I think a loose bear or two might lie of service in our com munity, and I regret much the loss of an animal who might have done so much as a moral teacher for the voung of this city and its suburb*. Yours truly, 0. W. Holmes. Among Tigers. In a letter to the Morning Star, a missionary at Bhimpore, India, relate* what is a frequent occurrence in some districts of that dangerous land. The frequency, however, make* it no leas horrible. As there ia a good deal of heavy jnngle about here inhabited by wild beast*, the people sometimes run the risk of their lives on their journey to and from the market Only last Tuesday, not three miles from onr house, a tiger was prowling about the edge of the dense jnngle, and just at dnsk, when the people were going home in little parties from the market, he pounced upon one poor fellow, and took him off to bis lair as easily as a cat would a mouse. Of course the rest of the party fled, leaving somebody,s hus and aul father to his fate. Is it a True Alligation I I once owned a pet alligator, about ten or twelve inches long, and had him fixed up nicely, his domioile so arranged that he oould take it wot or dry. just as 41 Garter " preferred. Onmday I caught a mouse, aud concluded to turn it over to my pet, and stood by to watch the result The mouse was put in the wa ter and was swimming around ; the 44 Garter " adranoed to the attack and Raised tho mouse, which instantly act ing upon the defensive, turned npon the alligator, biting it about the eyes and face, causing it to rolinquish its hold and beat a hasty retreat The al ligator conld not again be inducted to oome up to tho scratch. That the alli gator is a natural born ooward, no one can deny. THKY CAN TKLL. —How is it that girls ran always tell a married man from a single one? The fact is indispntable. Blackwood says that " the fact of matri mony or batchelorship is written so legibly in a man's appearance that no iugennity can oonceal it. Everywhere there is some inexplicable instinct that tells us whether an individual (whose name, fortune, and oirenmstanoes are totally unknown) be or be not a mar ried man. Whether it is a oertain sub dued look, snch as that which charac terizes the lions in a menagerie, and distinguishes them from the lords of the desert, we cannot tell; bat the truth is so, we positively affirm." tIMM f Interest. Pre indie* son into when it looks sad lies when it talks, "If I shonM dls, dear, where would yon go f" "Go? 0o after your insur ance money," was tfce reply of s fond wife. The Ban Frauoieoo Chronicle esyt that Mrs. Victoria C. Woodhnll crossed the continual with fra* passe* for ail her party, Masie is the only sensual gratification which men. may indulge in to excess without Injury to their moral or reli gions feci ing*. Dope is a flatterer, but the moet up right of alf parasites ; for it frequents I the poor man's hat, as well as the pal ; see of hie eupetfor. In Newcastle. England, recently, a lady recovered |7fio damages is a breach of promise caae. The original promise | boa been given in the year 1880. Not one of the many balloon ascen sions mode this summer has produced a fact to confirm the notion of a steady easterly current in the upper sir. A bet on s horse race was carried into court in Sen Fraori.eo, the loser refusing to pay. The defendant gain ed the suit, the decision being that no wager is legal. There is a time in the going to sleep of weary men when a noise, continued for fifteen minutes, deprives the would lei sleeper of an entire night's rest. With an unparalleled sagacity, the dog in the next yard tits upon that particu lar time to do ita barring, and only ita thick-headed owner can rest When Ifiss Ells Johnston drove a bars lor from her residence in Wellsvil le, Pa., not long ago, on appreciation of her heroism made her friends give here handsome revolver. Now come* the news that, while firing at a mark with the testimonial weapon, Mi** John ston has accidentally shot and killed a girl companion. What is bull-head lack 1 The Titns nlle Herald answers: "Ia the oil region a man who eked out an existence on scrubby, stony hills ; ate hoe-cake and slap-jacks, run on the river, went barefooted nine months is the year, took his girl riding behind oxen, and then sold on! to some wise if) ape nils tor for tZ, 000,000 oosh, comes near enough to satisfy the ordinary mind." Alfred Gerald of Providenoe asked George It. Whipple, a hatter, to sell him s hat on Bonds/. Whipple, in the way of a favor, complied. W ben a bill war sent to Gerald he refused to pay it, on th* grouod th*4 business transec tions on Bandar ore illegal, and con sequently the dent wis not collectable. The case ha* been tried in court, the decision being that Gerald by suliae l qaenliy acknowledging the debt, had made the chum good. An extraordinary marriage took place at Jevington, England, the other day, the ceremony being performed by the Very Rev. Archdeacon, Poilpott in the presence of a large congregation. The married couple being both f the pariah of Jeviugtoa, but the singular part ia the fact that the bride has so arms, and the ring had to be placed on the third toe of her left fool At the conclusion of the marriage ceremony she signed the register, holding the pen wit her toe*, in a very decent "hand." A Brave Little Girl. A gentleman who was on the ilSfated Pat Rogea states that while he was standing on the forward part of the boat, making ready to spring into the water, he beard one of the officers of the bant tell a lady, who was standing near him with a little girl, that the time had come when ahe must trust herself to the water. The lady, turning to her little daughter, inquired if ahe could summon the courage to jump in to the water, The little girl glanced at the approaching flames, thee, at the water, aad responded ia a firm voice that she would jump if her mother would follow her. The mother ensured her tbt ahe would leap in after her. The officer threw a mattress overboard aad told the httJe girl to jump towards ik Without a mom net's hesitation the heroic child leaped into the dark and swiftly gliding water, the mother in stnnUy followed, both at onee sank to rise no more. There were grown women and even strong men who shrank back from the whirling waters, almost preferring to perish in the flames to trusting themselves to its treacherous embrace. Bet this brave child sew the situation, sad, apprecia ting the only means of escape present ed, bade her mother follow and boldly flung herself into the raging flood. Such heroic resolution ia not often ex hibited, and the world has lost a coura geous woman in this dead child- Cask Instead of Credit. re- ple wbo buy for cash always buy on credit They bay also more closely, and select more carefully. Purchases which are paid for when they are made •re limited more exactly to the pur chaser's wants. There is nothing like having to count the money out when the article ia bought, to make people economical. The amount of indebted ness incurred ia not much considered when the pay-day is far oft Persons wbo do all their business on a car h basis know just where they stand and what they can afford ; consequently they find after occasions for regretting, in a turn of times, that they have indulged in this luxury or that, which they would have forgone had they seen what was coming. Heal wants are few, and can be gratified for cash; at all events they should be limited to whst cam be paid for in eaah. How much of anxiety, how many sleepless hours, how many heart burnings, disappointments ana regrets won I a be avoided if this rule were always strictly adhered to. w Probabilities. When Ton see a man going home at 2 o'clock in the morning and know hia wife waiting for him, it is likely to be stormy. When a man receive* a bill for goods hia wife baa bought unknown to him, look ont for thunder and lightning. When a man goea home and finds no snpper ready, the fire out, and his wife riaiting the* saloons 44 with the rest of the boys," it is likely to be jloudy. When a man promises to take hia wife to a party, and changes his mind after she is dressed, you may expect a shower. When a man saves his cigar money to bay his wife a new bonnet and the chil dren new shoes, it indicates a spell of sunshine. When a man dies and leaves a nice young widow with plenty of money, and you see her walking out with the executor on Sunday afternoon, a change is imminent. t . , Bay Windows. The rage nowaday*, says an ex change, is bay windows. No man of property can consider himself in style, unless a bay window has been added to his house. These windows are not bnilt on the lower floor either, as one would natarally suppose, but uuder the roof, or on top of it, according to the bank aooount of the owner. A bay window on the roof ia the height of fashion, and makes a house look as though it had been in a fight and got a head pnt on it The bay window under the roof, looks somewhat better, and when it is studded with flowers, and a handsome young Jady with heavenly, azure-colored eyes standing within it, looking down watching for her bean, the picture is a very pleasing ane. , Or COCBSK.— A gentleman at Lake George, after waving his handkerchief for half an hour or more at an nnkown lady, whom he discovered at a distant point on the shore, was encouraged by a warm response to bis signals, to ap proach his charmer. Imagine his feel ings, when on drawing nearer, he saw that it was his own dear wife whom he had left at the hotel bnt a short time before. "Why, how remarkable we should have recognized each other at snch a distance," exclaimed both in the same breath ; and then they changed the subject.