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
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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
pa<s bv before the full effect is pro
duissl. Perhaps two or three good
harvests will lie required to produce
such a state of prosperity as existed
throughout the civilised world iu IS7"J.
Meanwhile the immediate consequences
of a g, od harvest in both Europe aud
America may lie productive of incon
veniences to our Western farmers, and,
conjointly with other circumstauces, to
the general trade of the country.
The United States are great sellers
of grain and provisions iu ordinary
years. A fall of 25 per cent, iu bread
stuffs, 'operates injuriously upon the
producers and carriers. It makes them
less sble to pay their debts, aud com
ix-Is them to restrict their purchases of
manufactured go>ds, 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>te<li<>a 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.