Old Dobbin.
Ths psstnrs hank* in midday hsat.
The ripening grain grow* near,
Tha' bannered boat the mailing corn
Salutes old Dobbin's ear.
The dragon flies. this mmmor day,
Tilt 'gainst hie patient nose
The buzzing inserts sling his ears.
And spoil his noontide dole,
Old Dobbin's aged limbs are stiff,
The worn old hinges grate- -
For pastures green. Klysian fields.
He'll not hive long to wait.
I hope a Tie*ven for all hia kind.
Beyond litis life swaits.
And that for all good Dobbin's souls,
Suing wide the golden gates.
folccs of tha Dead.
A few snew patches on ths mountain side,
A few white foam-flakes from Ilia ebbing tide.
A few remembered words of malice sjwuit.
The record of eorne do ad tuau'a ill intent -
They cannot hurt us, ail their sling is gone.
Tbetr hour of 00M and bitterness is done ;
Yet deepest snows and tioreeet lashing sea*
Bring not such cold or bitter thoughts as these.
A few soiled lilies dropped by childish bauds.
A few dried arange blooms from distaut lands,
A few rruiemt-ored smile* of some lost frieud.
Few wonts of love some dear dead Augers
penned.
They are not beautiful for love to see.
And Death s pale prv-ujuoe seems In them to
l<;
Yet never living blooms, most fresh aud gsv.
Fills n with UiougUta of love eo sweet as ihey.
OLD DITCH TIWFS.
There was once an English sailor,
named Henry Hudson, who made some
very daring voyages. The European
cations were trying hard to dud a short
passage to India, either by passing
north of Europe, or by finding some
opening through the new eontiueut of
America. Henry Hudson had made
two voyages for" this purpose, in tlie
employment of English companies.
Twice he had sailed among the ice
bergs and through the terrible cold, as
far as Spitsbergen ; and twice he had
turned back because he eonld get no
further. But he was still as resolute
and adventurous as ever ; always ready
for sonietiiig new ; ready to brave the
arctic cold or the tropic heat, if he
could find that passage to ludia, which
so many had sought in vain. At last,
on the fourth of April, 1609, the Dutch
East India Company sent him out once
more to seek a passage to India. The
Dutch at that time were the great com
mercial nation of the world, and Am
sterdam was the center of the com
merce of Europe. Thera was not a
forest of ship-timber in Holland, bat
it owned more ships than all Europe
besides.
Henrv Hudson's vessel was named
"The Half-Moon." He had a crew of
twenty Englishmen and Dutchmen,
and his own son was among them. First
he sailed north, as tie had done before,
trying to reach Spitsbergen and Nova
Zembla ; but he found icebergs every
where, aud his men almost mutinied
because of the cold. Then he resolved
to sail further westward; he passed
near Greenland, then southward to
Newlacd, then to Cape Cod ; then as
far south as Virginia ; then he turned
northward again, observing the shore
moreeloaely, and found himself at the
mount of what seemed to him a broad
strait or river. On the third of Sep
tember, 16CJ, he anchored near Sandy
Hook. There the Indians came out to
trade with him, and after a few day, he
set sail again and penetrated farther
and farther, thinking that he had found
the passage to India at last.
It must have been an exciting thing
to sail with Henry Hudson up that
noble river, where no white man had
ever sailed before. He said in his nar
rative that the lands on both sides were
" pleasant with grass and flowers and
goodly trees." "It is as beautiful a
land as one can tread upon," he de
clared, " and abounds in all kinds of
excellent shiptimber." The Indians
came out to meet him in canoes " made
of single hollowed trees," but he would
not let them come on board at first, lie
cause one of them had killed one of his
sailors with an arrow. After awhile,
the Dutchmen put more confidence in
the Indians, and let them bring grapes
and pumpkins and furs to the vesseL
These were paid for by beads, knives
and hatchets. At last the Indians in
vited the bold sea-captain to visit them
on shore, and made him very welcome,
and one of their chiefs " made an ora
tion, and showed him all the country
round about." Henry Hudson sailed
np as far as where the town of Hudson
now stands, and there, finding it too
shallow for his vessel, sent a boat
farther still—as far as what is now
Albany. Then he turned back, disap
pointed, and sailed oat of the "rieat
river," or " Groot River," as he called
it, and went back to Holland.
He never saw that beautiful river
again. The Dutch East India Company
did not care to explore it, since it did
not lead to India ; and Hudson, on his
next voyage, went to the northern seas,
hoping to And the passage to India
that way. He entered the bay ths
bears his name, and there hiß men
mutinied, tied him, hand and foot, pnt
him on board a boat with hia son and a
few companions among the floating ice,
and sent him adrift. Nothing more
was ever heard of him. But to this
day, some of the descendants of old
Dutch families on the Hudson river
tell legends of the daring navigator who
first explored it, and when the thunder
rolls away over the Highlands, they
say, " There are Henry Hudson and his
crew, playing ninepins among the hills."
In a few years, trading-posts began
to be established on the Hudson river.
King James L of England, had lately
chartered two companies for the pur
pose of oolonizing North America.
One was to take the northern part of
the Atlantic coast, and the other the
southern half; but he required that
their nearest settlements should be a
hundred miles apart, so that there
should be no quarreling between them.
It did not occur to him, that if he left
this wide Bpace open, some other nation
might slip in between, and found col
onies of their own, so that there might
be quarreling after all. Yet this is just
what happened. After Henry Hud
son's disooverics, Holland laid claim to
all the land along the " great river,"
and called the whole territory " New
Netherlands and the Dutch began to
come to that region, and trade with the
Indians. Then in 1614, there came a
bold sailor, named Adrian Block, the
first European who ever sailed through
Hurlgate, and as far as Block Island,
which was named after. He loaded his
ship—the with bear skins, at
the mouth of the Hudson, and was just
ready to sail, when his ship caught
fire, and be had to land on Manhattan
Island, where New York city nqw
stands. There his men spent the win
ter. They put np some log huts and a
fort of logs, and before spring, they
built a new vessel of sixteen tons, call
ed the "Onrust," or "Unrest," a very
good name for the restless navigators
of those days. This was the fLst ves
sel builf on this continent by Euro
peans. This settlement, which was
called "New Amsterdam," was the
foundation of what is now the great
city of New York ; and ten years after
that, the whole of Manhattan Island
was bought from the Indians for
twenty-four pounds sterling.
Settlers at first came slowly to New
Amsterdam ; but the Dutch established
several trading-posts, at different
points, where they might buy the skins
of beavers, bears and otters, which the
Indians had trapped er shot. At first
only poor immigrants came, but after
awhije certain richer and more influen
tial men were sent out with special
privileges from the Datch East India
Company. Each of these had authority
to found a colony of fifty persons, and
to own a tract ol land sixteen miles in
length, bordering on any stream whose
shores were not yet occupied, and run
ning as far back as he pleased into the
interior. He was required to pay the
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VOL. VII.
Itnliiui. for their land, and to establish
his colony within four years. Ho could
exercise authority on his own " manor,"
as it was called, without regard to the
colonial government. Hut he could not
engage in the woolen or cotton mattu
fSv inn, because that was a monopoly
of the Dutch Ess! ludia Company ; and
this company also agreed to supply the
manors with negro slaves, whom they
imported from tluinea. These great
proprietors were called " Da t roans.
This was a very different system front
the simple way n which New England
had been oolouired, where all men were
equal befsre the law, and each man had
a voice in the government. The llutch
and English settlers did not agree very
well, especially when both nations had
Iwguu to explore the Connecticut val
ley, and both wished to secure jioases
siou of it. The Englishmen thought
that the Dutchmen had no business on
the continent at all, and that they cer
tainly had 110 claim to the Connecticut
vallev. On the other hand, the Dutch
men said that they had ascended the
Connecticut river flist, and that their
eastern boundary was the cape now
called Cape Cod. Then the English
men charged the Dutchmen with ex
citing the Indians a ainst them ; and
on the other hand, the Dutchmen said
the English set'.less were apt to get the
Iwttcr of them in unking bargains. 80
the colony of New Netherlands got into
mote and more trouble with these ac
tive and sharp-witted neighbors ; and,
besides that, the Indiana were very
trublesome; and there was also a
standing quarrel with the Swedish set
tlers in Delaware; so that, on the
whole, the Dutchmen had uot so peace
ful a time as they might have desired.
If we could have visited a Puritan
Tillage in Massachusetts, during those
early days, and then c.uild have sailed
in a trading vessel to New Amsterdam,
we should have found ourselves m quite
a different community from that wc had
left behind. The verv look of the
honsea and streets would have seemed
strange. To be sure, the very first set
tlers in both colonies had to build their
cabins somewhat alike ; with walls of
earth or logs, and thatched roofs, and
chimneys made of small sticks of wood,
set crosswise and smeared with clay.
Bnt when they begau to build more
permanent houses, the difference was
very plain. The houses in New Am
sterdam were of wood, with gable-ends
built of small black and yellow bricks, '
brought over from Holland. Each
house had many doors and windows ;
and the date when it was bnilt was
often marked in iron on the j
front. The roof usnally bore a weath
er-cock, and sometimes many. Within,
the floors were covered with white sand,
on which many neat figures were traced
with a broom." The houses were kept
very clean, inside and out; as clean as
they still are in Holland, where you |
may see the neat housekeepers scrub- !
biag their doorsteps, even when the
rain is pouring down upon their beads.
The furniture m these houses was plain
and solid; heavy claw-footed chairs,
polished mahogany tables, and cup
boards full of old silver and china
Clocks and watches were rare, and time
was told by hour-glasses and sun-dials.
Tliey had" great open fireplaces, set
round with fignred tiles of different
colors and patterns, commonly repre
senting Scriptural subjects, the Ark,
the Prodigal Son, and the Children of
Israel passing the Bed Sea. In the
evening they 1 urned pine-knots for
lights, or home-male tallow candles.
Every house had two or more spinnibg- ;
wheels ; and a huge oaken chest held 1
the household linen, all of which had
been spnn upon these wheels by the
women of the family.
Many of the citizens had also conn- j
try-houses, called " boweries," with
porches or 41 stoepe," on which the men
could sit and smoke their pipes. Foi
the Dntc'n colonists did not work sc
hard as those in New England ; they
moved about more slowly, and took
more leisure, and amused themselves
more, in a quiet way. They were not
gay and light-hearted and fond of
dancing, like the French settlers in
Canada ; bnt they liked plenty of good
eating and drinking, and telling stories,
and hearty laughter, and playing at
''bowls" on a smooth grass plot. It
was the Dutch who intro luced various
festivals that have been preserved ever
since in America ; such as " Santa
Clans," or " St. Nicholas,' at Christ
mas time, colored eggs at Easter, and
the i ractice of New Year's evening.
They kept very early honrs, dining '
at eleven or twelve, and often going to
bed at sunset. Yet au early Swedish
traveler describes them as sitting oil
the "stoeps" before their houses, on
moonlight evenings, and greeting the
paasersby, who, in return, were
"obliged to greet everybody," he says,
"•unless they would shock the general
politeness of the town." He also says
that the Dutch people in Albany used
to breakfast on tea, without milk,
sweetened by holding a lamp of stigai
iu the mouth ; and that they dined on
buttermilk and bread, " anil if to that
they added a piece of sugar, it was
called delicious." But the Dutch
housekeepers of New Amsterdam had a
great repntation for cookery, and es
pecially for a great variety of nice
cakes, such as doughnuts, " olykoeks"
and crullers.
The people of New Netherlands were
not quite so fond of church-going as
those who had settled Plymouth and
Salem, but they were steady in the sup
port of pnblio worship, and had a great
respect for their ministers, whom they
called " Dominies." Sometimes the
dominjes had to receive their salaries
in beaver-skins, or wampum, when
money wa3 scarce. Tiie Dominie of
Albany had one hundred and fifty
beaver-skins a year. As for the dress
of these early colonists, the women
nsed to wear close white muslin caps,
beneath which their hair was put back
with pomatum ; and they wore a great
many short and gayly-oolored petti
coats, with tilue, red, or green stock
ings of their own knitting, and high
heeled shoes. The men had broad
skirted coats of linsey-woolsey, with
large buttons of brass or silver ; they
wore several pairs of knee-breeches,
one over another, with long stockings,
and with great buckles at the knees and
on the shoes, and their hair was worn
long and put up in an eelskin quene.
As to their employments, the people of
New Amsterdam used to trade with the
West Indies and with Europe, export
ing timber and staveß, tar, tobacco, and
furs. They nsed to build their own
ships for this commerce, giving them
high-sounding names, such as " Queen
Esther," "King Solomon," and the
"Angel Gabriel."
One of the Dutch governors, named
William Kieft, used to be called "Wil
liam the Testy," from his hot temper,
and he kept ttie colony in a great deal
of trouble, especially through his cru
elty to the Indians, who injured the
settlerß very much in return. Gov
ernor Kieft was very much displeased
at the colonies sent from Massachusetts
into the Connecticut valley, for he
wished to see that region settled from
New Amsterdam only. So he issued
a proclamation against the New Eng
land men. But they, instead ol paying
the least attention to it, attacked the
Dutch fort at Hartford, and drove the
garrison away. They also took pos
session of the eastern part of Doug
Island, threw down the ooat-of-arms of
Holland, which had been set up there,
TUB CENTRE REPORTER.
atnl put a ** fool's head " 111 lis place.
This failure, and the severity of Kieft's
government, made hi 1 very unpopu
lar ; ami the psopip were very glad
when IU DVtT, tiovi ruor Deter Htuyvun
ant was appointed iti Ins stead.
I) vomer Httiy vesaul was a brave
and honest uian, but was so obstinate
that he was often called " llardkoppig
Diet," or " Headstrong Deter. Home
times he was called "Old Stiver leg,"
because he had lost a leg iu war, and
used to stump about on u wooden leg,
ornamented with strip, s of silver.
Cuder his government the colony was
well deteuded, for a time, ugiunst In
dians, Swedes and Englishmen. The
trouble was that he was quite despotic,
and was disposed to let the people have
as little as jsissible to do with the gov
ernment. They did not feel that they
had as much freedom as those who lived
111 the other colonies, and they were
not BO ready to tight for their patrons
arul for the East ludiu Company as
were the English colonist* to tight for
their own homesteads. Then the
English settlers inct< aaed very fast in
wealth and uunili<-r ; and the Dutch
men rather envied tliem, even while
quarreling with them. At last, 111
lotU, au Euglish fleet, with many re
cruits from New England on board, ap
peared before New Amsterdam; aud
very s*>ou the town was surrendered to
the English by the general wish of the
inhabitants, tliough quite agaiust the
will of " Headstrong Deter." He tore
in pieces the letter from the English
command*r requiring the surrender;
but the people made htm put it to
gether again, and accept the terms
offered. From that time forth, except
for one short interval of time, the Eng
lish held possession of Now Nether
lands.
The name of the colony was then
changed to New York, in honor of the
king's brother, the Duke of York, to
whom King Charles 11. gave the prov
ince. That part of the New Nether
lands south of the Hudson was, how
ever, made iuto a separate province,
under the name of New Jersey. The
Duke of York allowed his ptovinee to
hold an assembly, that the people might
make their own iaws ; and in 1653, they
obtained a charter for themselves,rniu'li
like those of the colonies farther east.
When the duke b came king, under the
name of James 11., he tried to take
away this charter, but never succeeded.
New York remained an English prov
ince, and lost some of its Dutch peculi
arities ; bnt some of these traits lin
gered for a good many years, and
Dutch was long the prevailing lan
guage. There were still Dutch schools,
where English was only taught as an
accomplishment ; but there was no
college till King's College—now Col
umbia—was founded, iu 1764. After
the English had tak< a possession, a
great mauy immigrants came to New
York, though not so many as to Phila
delphia ; aud these new-comers repre
sented mauy different nations. But
Holland itself had long been the abtnle
of men from a gre.it many nations,both
tiecause of its commercial prosperity,
and from its offering au asyium to
those persecuted for their religion. So
there had been au unusual variety of
people in New Amsterdam from its
first settlement ; and it is said that
eighteen languages were already
spoken there when it was transferred to
the English. Thus New York seemed
marked out from the very beginning,
for a cosmopolitan city —for the home
of people from all parts of the globe.
T. W. lliooixaoN.
An Ant Cloud In England,
A shower of ants is rporte<l to liore
occurred at Cambridge, England. A
correspondent of the Cambridge
('hroniclr, thus writes of the incident :
" A cloud of ants settled over the
town, (and, as I bare been told, rather
widely in the neighborhood,) about six
o'clock in the evening, shortly aiter a
considerable rise in the temperature
had taken place. These ants covered
the pavement everywh-re, and in some
of the gardens and college conrts they
were thickly strewn, lighting on {er
sons, and in some cases stinging, or
rather biting them, §o as to catise con
siderable auuoyanee. The great ma
jority of these omutless millions were
the small winged male ant, ( formica
fusca, I think.) But there were two
other kinds, one a large one, nearly
half an inch in length, without wings,
another rather smaller, yet much larger
than the least, also winged. lam not
able to say if the intermediate ones arc
the females ; but I believe the largest,
at all events, are the neuter, or work
ing ants, which lia 1 shed their wings.
These workers are said to be the
soldiers and tlio feeders of the com
munity, and to lie of two sizes. The
larger ants part with their wings so
easily that I could not certainly dis
tinguish the small workers from the
females. The largest ones ran abont
with great activity, and looked so vici
ous that I was not much inclined to
meddle with them ; however, I secured
specimens of each kind to examine them
more leisurely. Next morning the
males were mostly dead, but the sur
vivors might be Been huddled, as it
were, in thick masses in holes under
the walls the paving flags.
In Kirby and Hpeuoe's Eutemoiogy
(p. 317, ed. 7) there is an interesting
account of these ant-chmds. Ho gives
instances of similar phenomena in IHI t,
over the sea, off the Nore ; and in 1813
the same thing was seen on one of the
Pyrenees, and also (if the date is cor
rect) in 1013, at Foulness, on the Essex
shore. I myself saw at Cambridge, some
six weeks ago, a vast cloud of insects
flying high, and moving to and fro like
a cloud of Hmoke, between Silver street
bridge and Newnham, and 1 suppose
these were ants; but 1 never in my life
saw anythiug like the aut shower. I
have made many inquiries, and found
the accounts equally wouderful in most
parts of the town ; but the fall was es
pecially dense along Hillsroad. As all
these creatures must have taken wing
out of ground nests it is a curious sub
ject of investigation where there could
be such a simultaneous action among
them, and whether the ant-cloud came
from any d stance.
A Gentle Rebuke.
Mr*. Washington wns a notable
housekeeper, an well as an earnest pa
triot. During the terrible winter when
the army was encamped at Morris town,
she WHS with her husband, sharing
cheerfully all his hardships, and en
couraging both officers and soldiers by
her hopeful words.
A number of prominent ladies in
Morristown sent her word that they
were coming to spend an afternoon
with her. Kuowiug that she was a
high-born Virginian, and of large
wealth, they got themselves np for a
state occasion in silks, and rufllea, and
jewelry. Mrs. Washington received
them with great cordiality, and soon
made them feel perfectly at home. But
they were sorely troubled at their own
finery when they fonnd that their host
ess wore only a simple dress, with a
check apron, and was busy during the
whole visit in knitting stockings for the
General. She took occasion to say,
that ladies onght to emulate their hus
bands and sons in the army, in making
sacrifices for their country, and in work
ing to multiply its resourses. The la
dies leurned a lessen they never forgot.
CENTRE II V I.E. CENTRE CO.. l'V., THURSDAY, OCTOBER I, 1871.
D hut I'rof. Tymtall Ihluk*
The address of Drofessor Tyndall
will create a discussion which will last
for mouth* to come. The words upon
which the issue will bo made are these:
" Abandoning all disguise, the confes
siou that 1 feel lioiuid to make bef< re
you is that 1 prolong the vision back
wards across the boundary of the ex
perimental evidence, and discern in
that Matter, which we, iu our ignor
ance, and notwithstanding our profes
sional reverence for its Creator, have
hitherto covered with opprobrium, the
promise and potency of every form slid
qunhtv of life. flic ' materialism '
here enunciated may be different from
what you suppose, and 1 therefore
crave your gracious patience to the
end. * The question of all external
world,' says Mr. J. S. Mill, 'is the
great battle ground of metaphysics.'
Mr. Mill himself reduces external phe
nomena to possibilities of sensation.
Kant, as we nave seen, made time and
space ' forms' of our own institutions.
Fichte, having first by the inexorable
logic of his uuderatsmliug proved him
self to be a mere link in that chain of
eternal causation which holds so rigid
ly in nature, violently broke the chain
by making nature and all that it in
herits su apparition of Ins own mind.
And it is by no means eSsv to combat
such notions. For when 1 say 1 see
you, and that 1 have not the least doubt
about it, the replv is that what 1 urn
really conscious of is an affection of my
own return. And if 1 urge that 1 can
check my sight of you by touching you,
the retort would be that 1 am equally
trausgressiug the limits of fact ; for
what I am really conscious of is, not
that you are there, hut that the nerves
of my hand have uudergoue a change.
All we hear and see aud touch and taste
and smell are, it would lie urged, mere
variations of our own condition, be
yond which, even to the exteut of a
hair's-breadth, we cannot go. That
anything answering to our impressions
exists outside of ourselves is not a fact
but an inference, to which all validity
would be denied by an idealist like
Berkley, or by a skeptic like Hume.
Mr. Spencer takes another line. With
him, as with the uneducated man, there
is no doubt or question as to the exist
ence of au external world. 15ut he dif
fers from the uneducated, who think -,
that the world really is what conscious
ness represents it to be. Our states of
consciousness are mere symbols of au
outside entity which produce* them and
determines the order of their succes
sion, but the real nature of which we
can never know, iu fact, the whole
process of evolution iB the manifesta
tion of a power absolutely inscrutable
to the intellect of mail. As little in
our day as in the days of Job can man
by searching fiud this power out.
Considered fundamentally, it is by the
operation of an insoluble mystery that
life is evolved, specie* differentiated,
and mind unfolded from their prepo
tent elements in the immeasurable
past. There is. yon will observe, no
very rank materialism here."
How Mike Itervln Naied the Child.
None of your Jim IJludaoea of fic
tion, but a hero of real tlesh and blood
is Mike Derriu, fireman "f Engine No.
72, ou the New Jersey Midland llail
way. Jnst this side of Paterson, be
tween Dundee Lake and llochelle Park,
there is a long, straight stretch of road
traversing a clearing in which, since
the railroad came, have sprung up nu
merous cabins and cottages. As Mike's
engine, drawing the noon way train, w.is
passing this poiut, Engineer Ilealr
sighted an object which he at first took
to be a dog, squatted on the track some
distance ahead. No passenger train
ever stopped for a dog, and 11 eat y kept
on ; but presently lie looked again, and
there—it wasn't a dog—it *n a little
child about three years ol I, playing, all
unconscious of danger, directir iu the
locomotive's path. " Down brakes,"
sounded Healy in an instant. " Down
brakes," again sounded the warning
whistle, and the passengers behind all
wondered what was in the way. Btiil
on, though with a slackened speed,
went the hissiug monster, bearing down
remorselessly upon its helpless prey.
The child, meanwhile, seeing it com
ing, had risen and was innocently tod
dling toward it, eager, apparently, to
throw itself into the very jaws cf death.
Then it was that gallant Mike Dervin
came to the rescue. Quick as thought
ho shot through the window, out along
the sole of the locomotive, down upon
the cowcatcher, and there holding on
firmly with his left hand, stretched out
his right ready to grasp the little one
from its impending fate. That was a
terrible moment of suspense, but the
denouement came quickly. Seizing the
child with a vice-like grip, lie lifted it
from the track and pulled it up on the
pilot. Saved ? Yes. No-—for the
clothing by which he had seized it gave
way ; the little one, in less time than it
takes to tell it, fell from his baud,
struck the cowcatcher, was thrown off
to one side, and rolling down the em
bankment, struck with but little force,
and was picked up a moment after with
nothing more aeriona than n bruised
face to tell of the danger it had passed.
Mike, a# modest as he had been brave,
meanwhile quitely got back into his
place on the engine, and his train went
on. But such chivalry should not go
unacknowledged, and we therefore
give Mike Dervin's name to the world
as that of a hero truly deserving of
fame.
Carrying Japanese Children.
In a communication, Doctor Vidal,
the director of the Hospital Medical
School, at Njigata, Japan, describes
the mode of carrying young children
in Japan, which, ho says, possesses
many advantages for mother and child.
The child, from its birth to the third
or fourth year, is always and every
where carried in a very simply manner
on the back. The national dress con
sists of a long robe, (kinumo ) witli wide
sleeves, which is open in front along
its whole length, being tightcucu
around the waist by a girdle. It is
nearly alike for both sexes; but for
the women, tho girdle is several metres
in length, and from twenty-five to
thirty centimetres in breadth. This is
passed several tim- s around the body,
keeping the two sides of the robe ex
actly crossed. The latter is so fashion
ed that, by slightly separating the
crossed sides in front of the chest, a
space more or less large, is left between
the robe and the back, lieiug in shape
of a funnel, closed below the girdle. In
this space the infaut is placed, having
its limbs quite free, and only its head
appearing above the A/mono. In this
way it is kept warmly in contact with
the mother, while she is also
left at liberty in all her movements,and
bears her burden with the least possi
ble fatigue, ludeod it is quite common
to see children not more lhau six years
old, thus carrying children younger
than themselves, and pursuing all their
games notwithstanding. The infants
i thus carried, do not seem to suffer any
inconvenience, sleeping even when
shaken about, and crying wlu n placed
in arms, until restored to their nest.
Whon a child even live or six years old
falls ill, the first thing he demunds is
to be placed on his nurse's back ; and
ihe children of Europeans are nursed
in this way without inconvenience.
Doctor Vidal states that so rare are de
formities, that in nearly a thousand pa
tients he has not met an instance.
Smelling the Butter.
An athletic individual wus noticed
sliding along Montgomery street, Bau
Francisco, lately, with an anxious eye
peering inquisitively into the window
every eating-house which lie passed.
He was evidently a man whose choice
in gastrouumical mutters was governed
solely by the quantity of meat, vegeta
bles ami liquids given in exchange for
a stipulated sum. Finally, be appeared
to be satisfied with the inducements
held out iu a long bill of fare which,
tacked to a carcass of mutton in front
of a window, fluttered iu the breeze,
and informed the hunger-haunted pass
r by that four dishes could bo had
within for twreuty-tlve cents.
The man went in, ami in a few mo
ments was tackling a slim meal with
vigorous avidity. After finishing his
allotted four plates, with the exception
of a few slices of bread, bis eye fell
UJHU a small plate of butter, which, iu
his hurry, ho had evidently not noticed
In-fore. " lie was about to plunge bis
knife into the butter, when something
iu its appearance caused him to pause,
and while pausing, he took occasion to
reflect Suddenly he reached forward,
and, taking the small butter-plate lie
tweeu his linger aud thumb, ho held it
toward the light and examined its con
tents for nearly a minute. Ho next
held it to his nose and snuffed its savor
three successive times, with a puzzled
expression of countenance.
All this time the restaurant keeper
was standing immediately behind the
butter analyzer, watching him alien
lively, and his fsoe was indicative of
tage and disgust.
"Perhaps you don't like that butter?"
was his first remark, semi-interroga
tively.
The man at the table simply laid
Jowu the butter, anil turned round
with an inquiring expression ou his
visage ; but he said nothing.
"Perhaps you don't like that butter!"
yelled the restaurant man, in a some
what savagely exclamatory tone.
"1 don't know, as yet—the fact is, I
haven't tried it."
"Wall, you looked at it as if yoa
thought something was the matter with
it. Now, if you have got any remarks
to make about that butter, you can
make 'em right here."
"1 was simply examining the pe
culiar aptiearaneo of the oleaginous
compound," replied the man at the
table ; auJ he spoke with exasperating
precision and ooolnoea. "Tltoac blue
streaks imparl to the article a vario
lated appearance which somewhat ex
cite my cariosity. Blue streaks, I
believe, are considered a novelty in
butter ; are they not?"
The restaurant keejier was somewhat
taken aback by the calm reply of the
other, but recovered himself sufficiently
to remark :
"Blue streaks are always in good
butter at this season of the year, lou
must bo one of those np-couuty luna
tics, not to know that."
He paused for a moment aud then
resumed in u threatening manner :
"You must understand that 1 don't
allow no mti to come to this restaurant
and g-> snufliu' around the butter ; no
well-bred man 'ill do it."
1 approximated that butter to my
nose simple to ascertain if those blue
streaks make any particular difference
in the smell, 1 think that the streaks
make no Very remarkable difference in
the smell; i"u fact. lam of the opinion
that if any difference at all is occas
ioned, it is actually for the better. As
far as smelling the butter is concerned,
I hold that, ha ring paid for the article, 1
have a perfect rigid to smell of it, and
should do so again if 1 thought it stall
merMartr ; but 1 do not tliiuk it is. I
.-moiled that greasy sulist-anee in this
instance mcreiv to ascertain if it was
the n w article of commerce called
eleotnargariuc, and haviug thus ar
rived at a satisfactory conclusion in re
gard to the matter, I shall Lave no oc
ean: >n to smell of it again."
Here the frigid customer deposited a
quarter upon the table and turned to
go.
Before he could reach the door, bow
ever, the restaurant keeper, excited to
au uncontrollable pitch of frenzy by the
speaker's last remarks, yelled vocifer
ously :
" It's an infernal lie ! I keep none
of your bull butter IU this house, kou
lie'if you say so, sir ! I can HcJk the
man who savs so, sir ! I can lick him
now and lie smote liia guest upon
the nose.
In another instant the guest, forti
fied, doubtless, by his recent substan
tial meal, launched his right between
the other's eyes and landed him under
the nearest "table, stunned and sense
less. There was a clash of plates, a
rattle of steel forks and a dash of but
ter dishes accompanying the last
manceuvcr, but still the restaurant
keeper lay without apparent life or
motion.
The guest surveyed him for a mo
ment, and then lifting the plate of but
ter for a fourth time to his nose, smelt
it deliberately, laid it down, and de
parted, remarking, as ho we nt out :
"It it oleomargarine, and no mistake!"
Dead Broke.
" Can't find nothing to do bnt loaf
round tho wharves and gallop up and
down tho alleys, eh?" remarked his
Honor of a western court, as a young
man named Miller, charged with va
grancy, was rushed out.
" I mn a stranger in this town—dead
broke and nobody to borrow of," re
plied the prisoner, his hair climbing
up to a perpendicular as Bijah glared
down upon him. During the momentary
pause a boy in the alley was heard
singing:
" Not s shilling in my pocket—
railing tisrvl SKsinst stream."
" I can't help it that you are broke,"
said the Court ; " I'd be glad if every
body owned a silver mine and two
coach dogs. The officer says yon have
been wandering aimlessly around,sleep
ing on bales of liay, taking free lunches
and making no effort to amass n for
tune. Yon don't seem to have any aim
—any ambition."
•♦Yes, I have," replied the prisoner.
" Where is it, sir, where is it ?" ask
ed his Honor, leaning forward. " Did
yon ever hear of Gioero taking free
lunches? Did you over hear that Plato
gamboled through the alleys of Athens?
Tell me, sir, did you ever hoar that
Demosthenes slept under a coal shed or
on a bale of hay ? If you wanted to be
a Plato there would be fire in your eye;
your hair would have nil intellectual cut;
you'd step into a clean shirt and .you'd
hire a mowing machine to pare those
finger nails. Sir, you have got to go
up for four months. '
A HAVAOE BAT.—A lady at Hoven,
near Brightou, iu England, while an in
spection of her house was being made
for tho purpose of extirpating the rats,
was furiously attacked by one of them.
It was found that most of the rats came
from the drain connected with the
house, but among other tilings a
piano was incidentally inspected,
when a large rat and five young
ones wero found secreted in the works.
The old rat, on finding its place of
concealment observed, flew at the lady
who was directing the search. She
was immediately,in consequence, seized
with a fit, and only recovered to find
herself seriously ill.
Heating the Wind.
The Boston Journal has the follow
ing concerning (loldamith Maid's great
scliieveineiit iu her trot for s'2,f>tMl to
best her record of 2:14|, at Mystic
Dark:
The track, being one of the beet iu
the country, if uot the best, was tn good
condition, aud bets were high that the
Maid would win the purse. iJudd
Dohle drove her, aiul iter owner, Mr.
Smith, eagerly watched the tr >t from
the stand. The track was scraped
anew at the conclusion of the second
heat of the lirst race, and as the Maid
made her appearance the applause of
the ajK-ctatorn was most enthusiastic.
Oeorge Avre's mare Jennie, drove by
tiohleu, also spjieared, to tuu with the
Maid.
In the first boat, off they went, the
Moid not breaking once, and apparent
ly making no effort whatever. Bhe
past the half in 1:10 and made the mile
with great ease iu 2:10}. It was found
that the drivers carriuJ eight pounds
over-weight, which was reduced by
lowering the weight of the cushions.
This however, did not in the least dis
courage those who hail prof >uud faith
in her powers aud that she would be
allowed to show them, and about five
o'clock preparations were made for the
second beat, the track being again
scraped.
The interest manifested was intense.
Fvery one who could do so mounted an
elevated position and eagerly watchi J
for the start, which was made shortly,
the Maid passing the wire at wonder
ful sjieed, aud speeding on to the quar
ter, which she passed in 811 j seconds.
There was some suspicion of a break
just before the half, it might have been
u skip, but many thought not, and it
was so slight no one could l>e certain
that it Was one, Bhe passed the half
in I.OCj, and AIM! on with unprecedent
ed speed, closely followed by the run
ner. The third was turned and the
trial moment arrived. The driver want
ed to score the best time ever made,
and the Maid was in sympathy with
him, and he had but to urge her to do
her best, and the noble trotter bravely
made the endeavor, coming down the
homestretch magnificently and shoot
ing the wire in just 2:14. The deafen
ing cheers that filled the air was the
response, and proudly did Budd Doble
alight from the aulky, when the
was led to her stable.
A Sortie and a Suicide.
Writing of the Bohemian# of Pari#,
a correspondent Bays : " Not long ago,
it journalist of aome note and decided
cleverness, announced to hi# friend#
that he had accumulated '2,500 franca.
He #aid he had been trviug for seven or
sight year# to get exactly that #tim, and
that, having actually gotten it, be ex
perienced a aeuse of happiness he had
never before known. Wishing to cele
brate the event, he invited half a dozen
of hia eompau on# to dinner at a neigh
boring restaurant. During ita progress
they drank wine enough to #et them on
what j# called here, un- ItatnborJtr.
The consequence was, tnat in lest than
twenty-four hours, the journalist had
sjwut eviry eon in his possession. In
America this would not be a very ex
travagant debauch, anymore than the
accumulation of SSOO by a jirofe sional
scribe, would appear remarkable. In
Prance, however, finance# are rated
differently. A man who gets rid of 2,-
500 francs, by the indulgence of a lark,
is regarded as a reckless prodigal. Our
people waste mure than that and style
it a bagatelle; but the Parisian moves
to soberer measures. The inky spend
thrift, as it proved, had designed to ap
propriate the amount he had saved, to
discharging a debt owed by his widow
ed mother, en a small farm near Fan
tainebleau. When he was entirely him
self, lie was so overwhelmed with re
morse, and so distrustful of his ability
ever t<> acquire so much again, that he
resolved upon the nstional remedy for
grievous ill*. Ho di#i>os<d of the
worldly goods he had, and with the
proceeds, gave a petit supper to the
same familiars who had diurd with him
the day before. The entertainment was
not marked by atyr excess. The scribe
never apjwared more cheerful or more
brilliant. Alwut midnight he parted
with his friends in the best r.f spirits,
mid the next day at noon, he was fouud
dead in hia nearly naked apartment, a
brazier of charcoal in the corner re
vealing the agency of hi* suicide."
I.klit and Shade st Saratoga.
Olivia writes to the Philadelphia
Pre** from {Saratoga : " Down the hill
cornea a enrioua couple. Nothing
strange about tberu when couaideted
apart, bnt, arm-in-arm, they command
the closest scrutiny. The woman is
yonng—not over twenty. Sh has a
pretty milk-and-water face, and there is
that about it which would lead the lie
holder to infer that it is American born
of Irish parentage. She is neatly
dressed, and if alone would pass unno
ticed bv, scarcely ruffling pnblie atten
tion. But now all eyes are directed to
wards her. The Fifth avenue dowager
is thrown in the shade. The belle in
bine silk and Valenciennes is totally
forgotten. Why? The young girl's
hand rest* confidingly on the arm of a
black man. lie, too, ia young—per
haps twentv-five—his countenance is of
a high intellectual type, straight, class
ic nose, fine, large eyes, and handsome
month, but his akin is of inky dark
ness and his hair such as the Creator
made expressly for this race alone. The
bearing of the girl indioatea weakness ;
the bearing of the man indicate*
strength. Her eyes are oast down in
confusion ; his are upraised and defi
ant, as much as to say, • What are yon
going to do about it ?' After the first
look of astonishment the crowd surveys
the parties with good-uatnred indiffer
ence, except the vonug Irish policeman
who ia 'ou duty % iuside the railing at
the Spring. His passionate nature
shows itself in the scorn and disdain in
hia face."
A Parson's Joke.
We were a good deal amused at an
anecdote we heard the other day, of a
certain preacher, whose calling confined
him within the limits of tld Kentucky.
He had preached in his parish many
years, and of course, rail rather ahort of
the eloquence so innoh needed to keep
parishioners awake and astonished.
Let him preach ever so well, it made no
different*'—they had got used to him,
and used to sleeping, and sleep they
wonld, to his great annoyance. At last
ho hit upon an expedient to bring 'em
all up standing, as the saving is. He
procured a small tin whistle, which he
took with him to the pulpit, and after
taking his text, anil "blazing away"
till his luugs were sore, and his.hearers
all comfortably doziug and nodding ap
proval to oaeh other, he suddenly drew
it forth, and gave a shrill too-a-too. In
an instant the wholo congregation was
awake and upou their feet, staring at
each other and wondering what in the
natno of pickles and human nature, as
Sum Slick says, yas to come next.
" Yon're a set of smart specimens of
humanity, ain't yon ?" said the divine
whistler, as lie slowly gnzed arouud on
the astonished assemblage. " When I
oreach the gospel to yon, yon will go
to sleep ; but the moment I go to play,
you're wide awake, np and coming, like
a rush of hornets with u polo in tlieii
nest 1"
Tfrms: a Year, in Advance.
INSANE < ItIMINAI.H.
Mulcrf l*r ■ imiii Hr|ii In Cenamatnl
In the Hint* Ai|luui.
located iu til* heart of oar city, says
the Auburn (N. Y.) Advertiser, the
Criminal Inaaue Asylum, though tlie
only one in thia Btale, ia 1 it*ln notined,
partially because of ita retired location,
and partly because of the rulna of the
institution, which forbid general ad
mission to the balls, where the doubly
unfortunates are confined. It waa first
intended only for those who were
charged or bad been convicted of a
capital offence, as a place of confine
ment until the (wtieut should liar#
been declared sufficiently improved to
proceed with the trial or the execution
of the law. Afterward the scone of the
institution was enlarged, and it waa
designated by the Htate for the oonflne
tut-nt and treatment of all insane crimi
nals,then or afterwards immured in any
of the State prisons. About three years
since, the plan was again somewhat
modified by the I legislature, so as to
admit the insane of the numerous city
and county penitentiaries throughout
the State, the county from whence they
came defraying their expenses.
Among the persons now confined in
the ayhim, who, from their notoriety,
Lave become objects of general inter
est, Frank Walworth, who was trans
ferred from the prison hospital about a
mouth since, by order of Dr. Ordron
aux, State Commissioner of Lunacy.
Walworth is being treated for epilepsy,
and seems to be improving. He sti'li
preserves his characteristic stubborn
ness and family pride, and is sdveraeto
the society of Lis associates. As if to
make himself appear either superior iu
some way, or at least different from his
fellow convicts, whenever he exercises
in the yard he wears s blanket thrown
about his shoulders. On the first oc
casion of his doing this, his attendant
asked him if he wouldn't have s cost,
to which he rather haughtily answered,
" So, thank you ; I used to wear a
shawl when I was in college, and I pre
fer this now." His friends entertain
hopes of securing a pardon for nim
soon. Last Bund ay his mother and her
coumn, ex-Gov. Bramlstte of Ken tack v,
visited him. While he was evidently
pleased to see them, yet he did not be
tray himself in any violent expression
of joy.
The veiled murderess, Mrs. Ileariet
ta Kobinsou, still retains oil the char
acteristics of her peculiar temperament,
Bhe is averse to questions or to conver
sation of any kind; is very reticent and
says she doesn't want s pardon. Not
withstanding her long confinement—
over twenty years—she holds her age
remarkably' well, not appearing any
older than'she really is. From the lit
tle that she does say, as well as from
the circumstanoes disclosed on her
trial, ll ia evident that previous to tLe
committing of the crime, the penalty of
which she is now suffering, she wax un
doubtedly the mistress of some man
very prominent and influential in
politics.
Kate Stoddard, the alleged murderess
of Charles Goodrich, is manifestly a
lunatic. Though usually very quiet, at
times she letmys a very Tioleut temper
and rt veals a passion strong enough to
induce any one to believe her capable
of committing the crime with which
she is charged, when once it should be
sronsod. When she is iu one of those
passionate moods her very look is suffi
cient to keep s stout-hearted jx rson at
a safe distance. She s ,ys she " cannot
keep her eves off from those gerani
ums," which bloom so luxuriously in
front of the asylum. It is tu be noticed
that she only says this when some one
observes her in Ler customary abstract
ed moods, and attempts to question
her. Hence it is quite probable that
she makes this commonplace observa
tion to conceal her real thoughts. Liz
zie Lloyd King is her read name, al
though she is more generally known as
Kate Stoddard.
Mrs. Dfjrrr, who murdered her three
children and attempted to cat the throat
of her husband, appears the same as
when she executed br triple crime.
She still avows, apparently in (food
faith, that alie had a right to kill them,
and that it was her duty to do so ; for,
she say a. "they were innocent, and if
I had not killed them, they would hare
grown up in ain and wickedness, and
when they died they would have gone
to hell; hut if they died while they
were still innocent, they are sure of
heaven."
Her case, like that cf many other*
similarly confined, i* a trnly pitiable
one, sua no one can fail to feel the
greatest sympathy for her, eren in view
of the awful crime ahe has perpetrated.
There are, however, few persons who
would not, after continual association
with each acenea, become so accus
tomed to them as to lose all sympathy
and to regard them more as sabjects
for cruel than kind treatment. Bnt
Mr. and Mrs. Wilkie belong to that
small class whose kindness seems to in
crease by the diffusion of it. and tbeir
faithful "attention and amiableneaa are
not only appreciated by those over
whom tney watch, but by every ope
familiar with their difficult duties.
Truly they stand almost alone in their
good works, inasmuch as there are so
rery few who are qualified by nature
find disposition to do what they are
doing.
The Christian Chinee.
The first marriage of a Christian
Chinaman and a Christian China
woman in Han Francisco, according to
a local pajier, passed off with great
rr/at. The contracting parties were
Loi Mong and Miss Chung Fa. The
bridegroom was couvertod to Christi
anity in hia native country, and upon
hia arrival here entered upon a mis
sionary work among his countrymen.
Among hia oonverts, which were nu
merous, was the fair moon-eyed lielle,
Chung Fu. The marriage ceremony
was performed at the Chinese Mission
Homo, coruerof Hoc ram eu to and Stock
ton streets, iu the presence of a large
number of invited guests, including
Mongolian and white folks. Rev. Dr.
Doonns officiated in English, and Rev.
Ira M. Ooudit in Chinese. The bride
wore an elegaut white gros grain, skirt
rn (tain, punier, looped tip with sprays
of orange-blossoms and little satin
bows. Her trou**rau won Id have cre
ated envy iu an American girl's breast.
The corsage was worn high, with white
illusion ruche. The hair was elabor
ately dressed and surmounted with a
wreath of orange blossoms. A hand
some poiut-laoe veil fell in graceful
folds over the bride's shoulders. She
wore ornaments of pearls aud gold.
Tho bridegroom was dressed in a
stylish suit of black. After the cere
mony the happy pair and their guests
sat down to a magnificent banquet. The
Chiucse oouple then went into the
country on a wedding tour.
LKSS SCOAR. —In Paris tho dealers in
refreshments bnve had a Congress to
agree upon the important reform of re
ducing from six to five the number of
pieces of sugar served with a enp oi
coffee. Formerly they served six
pieces with each cup; the customer
put three pieces in his ooffec, two in
his pocket, and left one on his sanoer
out o! respect for public opinion. Now
that only five are served, he pnts three
in the coffee, still leaves one out of
sense of public decency—and the other
one puts in his pocket.
NO. M).
Artificial Irrigation.
Colorado uaa grown rapidly In popu
lation and wealth, but just at present it
seems as though the scarcity of water
were about to impose a limit to the
prosperity of the State. Bummer rain
is a rarity in Colorado, and the rivers
are few and frequently nearly dry.
Shut out from access to the sea, from
which water for purposes of irrigation
could be obtained, and covered with
a soil into which the oooasionsl rains of
winter suddenly sink and vanish, the
dearth of water is a serious calamity ta
the Btate, and the problem of artificial
irrigation ia one of -sorptions 1 diffi
culty.
Of course while there are rains, how
ever infrequent, and streams, however
shsllow, irrigation i* not an engineer
ing impossibility. The plan of build
ing vast reservoirs on the mountains,
which will hold water enough to irri
gate the country during the whole of
the dry season, has been proposed.
Hitherto no experiment of the kind has
l>een undertaken on anyth ng like so
imposing a scale. The water wheels
and canals which irrigate Egypt, and
the tanks which tn msny places are
used to store water for manufacturing
and other purposes during dry seasons,
are types of tl.s only familiar methods
of the artificial collection and distribu
tion of water. The bold engineers of
Colorado, knowing that these petty
plans would entirely fail of the pur
pose in so large a' territory aa that
which now needs irrigation, are forced
to either abandon the problem or else
to build reservoirs which will be larger
that many respectable lakes. The task
may be accomplished, but the cost will
necessarily be enormous.
The want of water is the great obsta
cle in the way of the settlement of other
parte of the great West as well aa Col
orado. The planting of trees may per
haps in some slight degree increase the
frequency of rain, but the experiment
is as yet a doubtful one, and ta only
leas costly than irrigation. After all,
in view of the vast extent of onr terri
tory, it may perhaps be wisest to
abandon the sandy and burning regions
of Colorado and Arizona to the Indians
and the mining adventurers. Our
population is aa yet sparse enough in
regions where rains are plentiful and
streams abundant, and these regions
must always possess a vast advantage
over those where artifloisl irrigation ia
a necessary oondition of agriculture
and manufactures.
The Austrian Polar Expedition.
The scientific world will receive with
peculiar gratification the intelligence
not only of the safety of the mem ben
of the Austiian Polar expedition, aent
oat tome two yean ago, bat that the
expedition haa added another valuable
contribution to the map of the Arctic
acaa. At or near the eighty-third de
gree north latitude, the highest point
reached by the expedition, and north
Nora Zembla, a tract of land was dis
covered which may prove to be, from
further explorations, a large island or
one of an eitenaive group of hlanda,
like that at the head of Baffiu's Bay.
If so, then we nay hare the fact es
tablished tbst the'only poeaible prac
ticable route for sailing vessel or
steamer to the North Pole is the ronte
of the Pacific Equatorial current
through Be bring Strait. The fall re
port of this returning Austrian expedi
tion will, no doubt, largely contribute
to the settlement of this important
question. Captain Hall haa shown that
the difficulties ef retching the North
Pole, against the strong outflowing and
ice-packed current of Usffiu'a Bay and
Davis' Strait are |erhapa insurmount
able ; and now, if the route from Nor
way be proved impracticable from a
group of islands with narrow passage*
blocked up with ice. Behring Strait
going in with the Pacific Equatorial
current, may be the proper route for
the next Polar expedition, whether
from Europe or America.
Chinese Servant*.
If a Chinese servant is discharged
and about to leave, in a few well
chosen bat mysterious character*, be
sets forth the canae*. either upon
scraps of paper, or on the wall* of the
room* lie ha* occupied. If there haa
been any difference of opinion abont
wages, any exaction* of senrioea not
agreeable, or other real or fancied griev
anoea, these matter* are *et forth in
these few characters, which can only
be read by the Bnooeeaor* of that par
ticular servant. In one instance, re
lated by a San Francisco paper, a fam
ily had "a sncceeaion of servant*, com
ing and going ail the time. As thev
treated their servants well, the work
being ligLt and the pay liberal, they
oonhl not for a long time divine the
cause. It finally occurred to them that
some months before they had been
obliged to dismiss a refractory servant.
It turned out that this servant had left
his esbalintic sign. He had got even
by showing tip the family to all his
suooeaaorK The Oriental document
was effaced from the wall, and there
has been no further trouble. Wbeu
the wnth of John is kindled and he
write# on the **ll or other place, it is
said he ia neither very delicate nor
truthful in hi* statements.
A Home Maker.
Helen Hnnt writes : " The most per
fect home I ever saw was a little house
into the sweet incense of whose fires
went no costly things. A thousand
dollars served a* s year's living of
father, mother, and three children. But
the mother was the creator of a home ;
her relations with her children were
the most beantiful I have ever seen ;
even the dull and commonplace man
wna lifted up snd enabled to do gaod
work for soul# by the atmosphere which
this woman created ; every inmate of
her house involuntarily looked into her
face for the key-note of the day, and it
always rang clear. From the rosebud
or clover leaf which, in spite of her
hard housework, she always found to
put by our plates at breakfast, down to
the story sba had on hand to be read in
the evening, there was no intermission
of her influence. She haa always been
and always will be my ideal of a mother,
wife and'home maker. If to her quick
brain, loving heart, and exquisite face
had been added the appliance of wealth
and the enlargement of wider culture,
hers woutd have been abaolntely the
ideal home. As it was, it was the beat
1 have ever seen."
Stopping a Mowing-Machine.
Illinois must have some lively hay
fields, if the following is authentic. We
should rather ride than walk through
that grass, and even then we would get
tied up, it seems. Au Illinois paper
says : The farmers down on the river
bottoms are having a good deal of
trouble with snakes. It is said the rep
tiles abound abundantly down that
way. Joseph Bnider, while driving his
mowing-machine through the field the
other day, was surprised to find the
horses stalled, and, upon examining,
discovered the snakes so thick in the
wheels and oogs as to completely clog
the whole running arrangement. One
black suake was fifteen feet seven inch
es in length, and seven inches in diam
eter. There were several other snakes
mixed up in the mowing-machine, but
all the balanoe were of leas calibre.
Item* of Interest.
Rev. O. B. True married the
oth-r day in Connecticut. Hops ho
will.
Elsven members of * jury in a recent
oate iu an English oourt responded to
the name of .lone*.
Important now discoveries of salt
•priDjt" but b*n made in lbs val
ley of the Haginaw.
Chicago ha* a rich young ladywlio baa
a mania for buying dog*. Hhe haa in
vested |7,{tOO in'thorn no far.
An Eastern debating society la trying
to settle which ia tho hardest to keep, a
diary or an umbrella.
Thirty-four vnaaala laden with thia
season's wheat, are reported to be on
their way to England from Han Fran
ciaoo.
An Arizona girl, prettv, and only
lixtoen, own* 10,000 head of csttle,
and aba ia not engaged to bo married
aa yet
When a young fellow begina to talk
of ** the laat little delicate aquiline
curve in a eenaitive nose" of hia girl,
he'a a goner.
There never waa a thoroughly happy
marriage where the hoaband waa master
and the wife hia aervant—And " wiaey
weraey."
Cattle are herded on the aalt marsh,
in Jewell oonnty, Ksnsss, at 15 eenta
per head a month. The people in the
vimnity of the marah gather large quan
tities of the salt cruat for their cattle.
If any carriage upaeta or injures
another carriage in the aire* ta of fit
I'etersbnrg, or if any paaaenger ia
knocked down, the boraea of the offend
ing vehieh. are seized and confiscated
to the oae of the Are brigade.
At a meeting of the Colored Mutual
Aaaociation of Home, Georgia, Mr.
Mooea Bailey advised the eolored peo
ple to be patient industrious and law
abiding, and to allow no indiscretion to
piaoe them in antagonism with the
whites.
The Indiana of the White Earth' Re
servation of Minnesota, whose crops
have been ao badly damaged by the
gT*ftsbopp*n, bi?e oootri bated uetrty
8100 in cash for the relief of the South
west people, who have lost all their
crops. This speaks well f-r poor Lo.
One of the guests at the United fitatea
hotel, Saratoga, ia the widow of a
wealthy citizen of Buffalo, fihe ia sixty
Sears of age. fihe ia accompanied by
er widowed son-in-law, who ia just
half her age. These two persona are
engaged to be married, and will be uni
ted next winter.
Lovers of the weed may be pleased
to know that at a recent meeting of the
British Medical Society, a paper waa
read, showing that disease of the gums
and tongue ia frequently caused try
smoking, and confirming Dr. Jonner a
theory that the habit oaaaca palpita
tion of the heart.
•• Do you believe there are any peo
ple who never heard the 'Old Hun
dred r " asked a musical young lady at
the family table. " Lota of folks never
heard it," interrupted the precocious
young brother. *' Where are they, I
should like to know ?" "In the deaf
and dumb asylums P
Prof. Klob of Vienna recently made
a post-mortem examination of a man
73 rears of age. The body was found
to De infested with thousands of tri
chinas spiralis, many of them still alive.
The invasion of the parasites it was be
lieved had occurred at least fifteen or
twenty years previous to the man's
death of marasmus.
A grand juror in Colfax county,
Miss., violated his oath by telling a
friend of a bill that had been found
against him, and advised him to hide
until the oonrt had adjourned. The
friend took the advice, but his kind in
formant had to pay a fine of 9200 and
go to jail for thirty days.
A pouting bride, on her first sea
voyage, writes home: ''The motion
of s screw steamer is like riding a
gigantic camel that has the heart dis
ease, and von do not miss a single
throb. I know of nothing to compare
with it for boredom, unless it be TOUT
honeymoon when you have married for
money."*
" Your Honor," said a prisoner to a
Paris judge, "my lawyer is not here
and I request s delay of the esse for
eight days. "But," said the judge,
" vou were caught in the set of it, what
can any lawyer say for you V " That
is just what I should like to hear,"said
the prisoner, and the Court laughed,
but sentenced bim to a year.
The Khi van expedition is said to
have brought into notice a rival to the
famous Prussia* erfcmrwrsf, or pea
sausage. The Russian soldiers were
fed ehw fly on biscuits composed one
third of floor of rye, ooe-third of beef
reduced to powder, and one-third of
sauerkraut also reduced to powder.
The soldiers had a great relish for this
food, and their good health daring the
expedition is attributed in great part to
the use of it.
A barkened Life,
In Nashua, X. H., say* an exchange,
resides s young girl whose pitiful lot
excites the deepest sympathy, yet for
whom sympathy can do bat utile in
alleviation of the sad misfortune which
iiu darkened ber life. When a child
she was terribly scalded abont the head
and face, and although she survived
ber injuries, she was thenceforth dis
figured for life, and the rosy face of
childhood was changed to a maak—a
travesty on the human countenance —
absolutely frightful in its hideonsnesa.
In Lowell, Mass., where she once lived,
so great was the horror excited by her
appearance that ahe was forbidden by
the authorities to show herself on the
streets. At Nashua she ventured out
the other day, and several ladies faint
ed at sight* of her, and a cry is now
made npon the authorities of that place
to forbid her appearanoe on the streets.
What a mournful fate is hers! To
live through the terrible physical suffer
ing only to endure henceforward a
keener mental anguish in the knowl
edge that ahe is a tiling of horror, to be
abhorred and shunned by human kind,
with no hope in the future except the
grave, which shall hide her deformities
from the gase of her fellow beings.
Unknown Neighbors.
Neighbors in cities often need to
travel to become acquainted with each
other. A good story ia told of two
Boston neighbors. A gentleman and
lady who occupied the same sent on an
Eastern -bound train of cars in Ohio,
recently, casually falling into conver
sation,"found that theyboth belonged
in Boston and were going home. On
their arrival at the depot in Boston,
they both got into the same hock, and
the hackmsn having inquired of the
man where he wanted to go, he replied,
• jfo. 12 Street." " Yon may leave
me at tile same place," said the lady.
The man was a good deal surprised,
but when they arrived at the house,
they found that they had been living
in adjoining houses, the entrances to
which were not three feet apart, for
several years, and had not known each
other."
DAMAGES.—A young and styliahly
dreused colored woman entered the
Tivoli Gardens, in Chicago, and or
dered a glass of beer, which was denied
her on account of her dusky com
plexion. The next day a bill was filed
in the Circuit Clerk's office, which set
forth in legal parlance that plaintiff
was not. a negro, hut a Mexican, a direct
lineal descendant of the Montezucuas,
and possibly heir to a throne, and that
she was damaged by the refusal of a
glass of beer to the amount of 810,000,
which she claimed at the hands of her
attorney in the AugUßt term of the
Circuit Court.
A SEVERB PUNISHMENT. — When a per
son is found guilty of drunkenness, in
Burmah, he is paraded through the
streets by the" State Ministers, who
read the crime at the street corners,
and lash him with thongs. He is then
taken to the high court and flogged
more severely, and then aent home. If
he is foand guilty a second time he is
treated in the same way, and then ban
ished from the country.