Rood Night. flood nigbt 1 I h*ve to say good right To *uch a host of prarlsas tilings flood night unto tl *1 fr* ,le hand AU qnseuly with its no-hi of rings . flood night to fond, uplifted >< *. flood night to chestnut braid* of hair, flood night unto the perfect mouth, And all the swaetnees nestled there The snowy hand detains me, then I'll have to * flood night again. Bat there wit! corn* a time, ray iove. When, if I read our state aright, 1 ah all not linger hv this porch With my adieus, till than, good night' Ton erfaa the time WWW IN ? And I, Ton do net bluah to wish it so ' Ton would hare Mtiehed yourself to death To own #o much a year sgo Whet, both these snoy hands: ah, then I'ii have to say flood night again ' Summer's Bono. Along the wayside and up the hills The golden rod flames'in the aun , The blue-eyed gentian innl* good-by To the ead UtUe brooks that run ; Aud eo summer*! done, said 1, Sum mi r'e done ' In yellowing wo.-da the chestnut drop*. The squirrel gels galore. Though bright-eyed !*d and little maids Rob him of half his store ; And o snnime: '# o'er, said 1, Summer's o'er' The maple in the swamp 1-egins To flaunt in gold and red. And in the eim the lire- bird's uest Swings empty overhead ; And so summer s dead, said I. Summer's doad ' The barberry baugs her jewels out. And guards them *uh a thorn ' The merry farmer boys cut dowu The J*x>r, old dned up corn , And eo summer's gone, said I, Summer's gone ' The swallows and the bobolinks Are gone ihut many a day, Rut in the morning still you hear The scolding swaggering jay 1 And eo summer's away, aaid I, Summer's away ! A wonderful glory ills the air, And lug and bright is the eutl ; A loving hand for the whole brown earth A garment of beauty has spun ; But for all that, summer's done, aaid I, Summer's done ! ALL AN ACCIDENT. A Strange Stor J . If was at the opera. An opera-glass had fallen from utie of the upper boxes on the t cad of a gentleman sitting in the stails. Now I had seen the glass fall; had seen a ronud, white, braoeleted arm and a gloved hand stretched out to arrest, as it seemed to me, its descent. It was all done iu a moment. The gentleman upon whose head the glass had descended had been carried into the lobby. An ugly wound had been inflicted. He was not killed, but gradually re vived, aud tamed his head toward me. I knew him—it was Stericker. Then he moved a tremulous hand in my direction. He knew me, it seemed. He tried to speak ; but it was some time before he could utter any intelli gent sound. At last we discovered his meaning. He bad lost something which he desired us, meaning myself and by standers, to search for. Search was instituted accordingly. After a while, very near to the stall he had occupied, there was picked up—a glass eye! He was gratified at the recovery of his glass eye, but something else was missing and that was soon found—a curious-looking stud ; it was not pearl exactly. It was of an oblong shape, milky white, and semi-transparent, in a handsome setting of brilliants. Stericker expressed great satisfaction, in a rather incoherent way. that the stud had been found. He clearly prized it highly. "It was a nasty shock to a fellow," said Stericker, not long after this, as we talked the matter over. I quite agreed that it must have been a very nasty shock—a most unfortu nate accident. At tnis he laughed . rather wildly. " Whatever you call it, don't call it that," he said. " You mean that it was not an ac cident ?" It appears that he did mean that. " But I saw the glass fall," I said. " You mean that you saw her throw it dowm!" " Saw ? Who ?" I demanded, un consciously adopting the interrogatives of Hamlet. " Arabella!' 1 thought him wandering in his mind. I knew nothing of Arabella. I could not remember that I had ever en countered, out of works of fiction, any woman of that name. And then I came to auk myself what, after all, did I really know of Stericker himself ? In truth, it was very little. "It was Arabella's doing, of course." he continued. " I know that very welL I know the opera-glass, for the "matter of that. I ought to. I gave it to her." Where I had first met Stericker I am by no means clear. lam almost cer tain that I was never formally intro duced to him. But I had seen Mm at various places upon numberless occa sions, until I seemed to have acquired quite a habit of seeing him. So at last—the thing was becoming quite ab surd—there was DO help for it but to recognize him as an acquaintance, at any rate. Finding each other so fre quently face to face in the same place, beneath the same roof, and even at the same table, what could we do, eventu ally, but laugh and nod, and say, " What! you here ?" And then we shook hands. Still I protest that I knew little of him beyond what he told me. And now had occurred this accident at the opera-bouse, confirming as it were my acquaintance with Stericker, and converting it almost into a friend ship. He expressed great gratitude for the assistance I had rendered him, although, in truth, it had been little enough. But again and again he thanked me, and presently, his wounded head having been skillfully dealt with and relieved by the application of strips of plaster, I found myself at his lodg ings in Half-moon street, sitting in an easy chair, smoking a cigar and drink ing a temperance mixture of brandy and water. Until ttien I had never really known where Stericker lived. " And you saw her throw down the opera-glass?" he said, returning to the subject of the accident. I corrected him. I had seen no such thing. But he did not pay much attention to what I said. "And how did she look? Hand ome, of coarse. She was always that; though she certainly is not now nearly so youug as when I first met her—and loved her. For what could I do then but love her? " There can be no mistake about an attack of love any more than about a fit of the gout. I have suffered from both afflictions. In my time I have loved a good deal, and I have, in re turn, been loved very much indeed. I say it without vanity. "I have loved and been loved," he repeated, " aud, I don't mind owning, I have in my time jilted and been jilted." He said this with a morbid Don Giovanni air, that I thought par ticularly objectionable. "Arabellajilted me," he resumed, " and haa nevei for given herself for it, nor me either. Hew fair she was in those days ! She's fair still, for that matter, though she uses more pearl-powder now than she did. Fair, but false. Women are often that, you know. Shall I say always?" I deprecated such an assertion. Ac cording to my experience, it was far toe •weeping. He conceded that I was right, possibly. Tet, it seemed to me that he despised me for my modera tion. " You remarked this stud ?" He pro duced the stud we had searched for at his request, and found in the lobby sf K11K1). KUHTZ, Kditornnd 1 VopriHor. VOL. Ml. the opera-house, "It would lmvo panted me very much if 1 had hwt it, 1 regard it #n a precious rolio. It le - Arabella, ouoc. lu fact why ahould 1 disguise tlu* truth from you—that atud is formed out of one of Arabella's front tooth !" Ilia smile as he aaid this wan not pleasant to contemplate. Ilia eoufea aion had oertamlv startled me. There aus something dreadful about it, aud ho had the air of an Indian brave x --hibitiug a scalp. He gloried in the possession of Arabella'* front tooth! How had he obtained it? 1 ventured to demand. Wa* it a pledge of affoc tion ? Could they possibly have ex changed teeth as ordinary lovers ex change locks of hair ? I hardly huow what 1 was saying, or of what I was thinking. " I was a dentist in those days," he said. What he had been before that, and sinoo ; what profession he followed at the moment of his addressing me, 1 really hail no idea. " And Arabella was one of my patients. But she was no or dinary patient. She was something more, much more than that. She was for awhile my aitiauoed bride. I loved her, and she loved me—at least we thought that we loved each other." " And vou didn't?" " Well, we didn't, a* it happened, love each other mute so much a* we thought we did. lu fact, both were dis appointed, and perhaps a trifle de ceived. She thought 1 hail money ; I hadn't. I had beeu told that she was an heiress. Well, she was nothing of the kind. Still, lam a man of integ rity, though vsu may not think it. I hail promised marriage; I fully pur posed to be as goad as my word. The idea of terminating our engagement did not come from me. But Arabella's temper was imperfect; she waa far from patient; she was ambitious, and, I roust add, avaricious and deceitful. She trifled with me. She still held me enchained, but she encouraged the ad dresses of another and a wealthier suitor. She designed to employ uie merely as a means of irritating his jealousy, and of stimulating him to de clare himself. Tuen 1 was to be flung aside as something worthless, because I had served her purpose aud was done with. In good time I discovered her treachery. I had intercepted her let ters—no matter how—and I knew all. Bat of that she entertained no sort of suspicion. She had always fond smiles for me, and false words and Artificial caresses. It was maddening. Well, she was, as I have said, my patient ; and she suffered much from toothache. She came to me iu order that I might extract a tooth that pained her. It wa* arranged that the operation should be performed under the influence of chlo roform. " He paused. " But surely you didn't- " " Hear me out," he said, and he smiled, I thought, horribly. "It wa* accident, of course, pure accident. I was dreadfully nervous. Was that sur prising? I loved her, aud she was amazingly beautiful. It was accident, as I have said, or cali it, if yon will, an error of judgment, but nothing worse than that, as you value my friendship." (As a matter of fact 1 did not value his friendship in the slightest degree, but I did not say so.) "My conduct, I do assure you, was strictly professional. I did not even kiss her ; but I extracted the wrong tooth." " That was your vengeance," I inter jected. " No. She said so ; but it wasn't true. I extracted, as I believed, the tooth she had pointed out, desiring me to extract it. Was it my fault that it wa* a perfectly sound tooth, and a front one, too ? She said it was ; but women, you know, arc not reasonable in sueh cases. I was a dentist then, with a reputation to lose ; I was a lover then, though a decsirtd one. However,there was no pacifying Arabella. She was persuaded that I had done it on pur pose. She was most violent. She had predetermined upon a quarrel with me, although she had not perhaps fixed upon the precise period for its occur rence. Well, she brought it on then. It was an awfnl scene. How she abused me! What language she permitted herself! How she screamed ! What hysterics she went into ! However, the tooth was out, there was no mistake about that." * Here he smiled again, most malevo lently, as it seemed to me. " iler treachery toward me was punished, although, as I have stated, by pure accident or error of judgment, which you please. But Arabella vowed vengeance against me. In that respect I am bound to say she has beon as good as her word. It's no thanks to her that I am living to speak of these things to-night." " Then yon really believe that she let fall the opera-glass ou purpose ?" "I am quite satisfied of it. She meant my death. She knew I was there. I had noticed her before lean ing out of her box, and taking note of my position. I was jnst thinking of changing it, suspecting what might happen, when I was struck down. Ara bella is a w*inan who knows what sho is about. She was always that kind of woman. I know her. I've good reason to. And it's not the first time she s planned to punish me as savagely as she could. You did not know until to night perhaps that one of my eyes was artificial ? No ! naturally you didn't. Well, that was her doing." " What ? Tlie artificial eye ?" "Don't be so stupid," he aaid, rude ly. No doubt I had been rather ob tuse ; but I had heard of ladies paint ing ou glass and doing pitiehomanie and other strange things in the way of fancy work, and for the moment, alto gether, my mind was in rather a con fused state. "No," Sterieker continued, "but I owe to her the necessity for wearing an artificial eye. It happened at the flower show in the Botanical Gardens. There was a dense crowd. It was in the ten where the pelargoniums are exhibited. Not that I care about such things, but it so happened. A lady advanced with her parasol held in front of her. Sud denly she seemed to thrust it at me, as a lancer.might his lance. Her aim was wonderfully true. The sight of my left eye was gone forever. It was quite a mercy that the spike of her parasol did not penetrate to my brain. That was Arabella's doing, of course. Port of her revenge." " And eke said nothing ?" " She said calmly, ' I beg your par don. It was an accident,' and passed on. She looked very handsome. She was superbly dressed. However, that Bhe always is. Her husband is old, but amazingly rich. He labors to gratify her slightest whim—so I'm told. But her only desire -the sole passion of her life—is to wreak her vengeance upon me. I feel that. She cannot forget, much less forgive, the loss of her front tooth. You see, she's reminded of that happy business every time she looks in the glass, which she does frequently, of course. She was always vain. And she means, sooner or later, to be the death of me, that's quite clear. She's made two very good attempts ; at the Botanical Gardens, and to-night at the opera. The third time perhaps she'll succeed." "But doesn't the thought horrify you f" "I accept my destiny," Stericker said, smiling, and with rather an affect- THE CENTRE REPORTER. Ed air. "It would l>o something to fall by the hand ol such u woman as that ; fliat would be my consolation ; really a flue creature you know, although no longer m the bloom of youth ; indeed, removed some distance uow from the bloom of youth, but still gram! and beautiful, and so resolute 1 If she had loved lu. as she hates me 1" " You love her still, then ?" " Well; n>t HMWD. Bit I admire her, just as 1 auaiire the Bengal tigress m the ZIK. If possible, t should like Arabella to be caged like the tigress ; but as that can't be well, I wear tins stud as a meuieuto of her, and for the r*st I take my chance. Now, what will you take? Another cigar ? No? Some more brandv and water? ' No. 1 would take nothing more. 1 had, in point of fact, already taken more than wa, absolutely necessary for me, 1 left Stericker. 1 was much im pressed by uiy experiences of that night, by what had happened at the opera, sud hi* extraordinary narrative touching the vengeance of Arabella. Was it true ? 1 was really not in a state of mind to determine. Even uow 1 have a difficulty at arriving at any ds* tiuct conclusion ou the subject. But 1 know that Stericker's face wore, to my thinking, a very remarkable expression as 1 quitted him. 11 is smile was simply awful. Aud strauge to say -at least, 1 tbiuk so, though it may not strike others in that light—l uever saw Ster icker again, lie died shortly after ward, as 1 read in the newspapers, the vidua of a street accident. He was knocked down and ran over in Hyde Bark, bv a pony phmton, driven by a lacy, 'there was, of course, an inquest npou his remaius, the jury deciding, however, that he met his death " bv misadventure." Some attempt had been made to hold the lady responsible, and to charge her with furious driving. But nothing of the kind was sustained l>efore the coroner. Various witnesses gave evidence, acquitting her of all blame in the matter. Her conduct in court was said to lie most becoming. Aud it was reported that, attired lu very deep mourning, she had followed Stericker's body to its last resting place in Bromptou cemetery. Now, was this lady the Arabella of Stericker's story ? She may have been. But I have uo cer tain evidence of the fact. Nor, indeed, have I anything further to communi cate touching the life and death of my acquaintance Stericker. Fur Trimmings. Fur borders will be very fashionable this winter, a fashion journal says, for trimming cloaks, sacques, polonaises, and costumes. Imported velvet, mate lasse, and camel's-hair garments have deep fur collars aud much wider bord ers than those used last winter. Furri ers ray that these wide borders will be coufined to furs of close short pile, a* the light long fleece of such fur as the silver-fox loses its fluffy beauty when left in a compact mas*. As this fur is very costly. it is a fortunate thing that it looks prettiest iu it* narrow width*, such as only half an inch of pelt, which will make about three inches of trim ming on it* right side. Silver-fox borders cost from sl2 to sls a yard, and are probably the most stylish of all far trimming-'. Garments bordered with fur usually have a muff to match made of the material of the garment, aud trimmed on each end with a fur border. Chinchilla trimming is also iu great favor, and costs from $5 to sl6 a yard. This is a!so much used for trim ming children's cloaks. Black marten borders cost from $2 to sl, according to their width. Gentlemen will have their long Ulster overcoat* of gray and black Elysian beaver cloth trimmed with a border of gray kritnmer or of black Persiani. The white grelie trim mings so pretty for children's wraps are given a new effect by being cut across the skin so that the brown bars are lengthwise on the white feathery surface. These cost $5 a yard. Fur linings are considered soft, warm, aud luxurious for carriage wraps of black gro* grain or cashmere, and far jackets of silk or velvet An objec tion to them, however, is that they are apt to rub off on wool dresses, ou vel vet of long pile, and, indeed, on smooth silks. The pretty gray squirrel-lock fur with white ground on which gray tabs are sewed in rows is leant apt to rub off, and is most used for linings. Garments lined with fur are seldom trimmed outside, their lining being considered suflicient in the way of orna ment ; and this is fortunate, ns the lining adds greatly to the ex)ene. About $75 is the furrier's charge for lining the large circulars used as car riage wraps, and from $45 to S6O is asked for lining the smaller garments with sleeves. The Waj in Wyoming, A Fort Lar/unie letter t > the Cincin nati Commercial tells ns the following: The shooters were a queer lot. Home arrant cowards, other* not. Home brave under peculiar circumstances, such as a street fight or a promiscuous shooting, and sneaking when " the t'other fellow had the drop," or when tackled by anything out of their parti cular line. I asked Dave Heed " How did you happen to kill ' Heeuan ?' " " Why, I fired a little Derringer I had from my pants pocket." " But what was the cause of it?" "Well, you see, he uiought ho was chief, and I know'd he wasn't; and one day I was drinking at the Star Sample Rooms and he came up to me, and I seed business in his eye. I fooled him. You see I htuj my hand in my pants pocket; I didn't have no six-shooter siting to me. He wanted to know if he couldn't pet awujp with any fellow who hed tow hair ; I've got light hair, yon see ; I allowed he might if he had the drop ; he allowed 1 was a liar ; and I jest shoved my pocket easy agin his belly and turned loose. Home of the boys talked a little rough about it, but thy know'd Hecnan meant to call me that day ; be said so ; the only differ ence was I hed the best hand. The authorities 1" And Mr. Dave's chuckle implied anything but a profound re spect for the powers that wi re of that burgh. "Oh thunder ! Do you sup pose them fellers dare touch me when I hed such a clear case of self-defence ?" Ho it was. Cases like this conld be told by the scores, and worse. There were many in which the coroner was called, if convenient, and the verdict rendered, " Killed by party or parties unknown." As for highway robbery, it was as little thought of as taking a drink. No one thought of going out at night with any amount of money on the person. Toward midnight none but the most venturesome went into the streets alone, and then armed and care fully uvoiding the sidewalks. A BOUNTTFCI, llcsnAND.—How com fortable for a young wife to feel that her husband is a bountiful provider,and that she will never want for the neces saries of life. A newly married man was recently directed by his wife to order some yeast, and not having a very well defined idea of the article, he told the baker to send up three dollars' worth. At nine o'clock next morning three men might have been seen tug ging a cask of yeast up the front steps ol that man's house. CKXTllft HALL, CKNTKL CO., PA.. TIIIUSDAY, NOV KM BEK 5, 1874. Till KM V> 0> FAttniMi. Tfe# lo lit* Unit AgiUullHi*l aiiil Mrrluiili •! Hull. Senator Thurman, of Ohio, delivered nit address at the State Fair lieforc the Maivlaud Agricultural aud Mechanical Association. Mr. Thuruian quoted numerous authorities ou the snbjqet of agriculture, tracing front the r ?oord# of Greece, Home, Egypt, India aud Obiua the gradually increasing interest tu the prisluotioua of the soil down to the nineteenth oeutury.the era of soien title troatflieut of steam plows, respmg machines and fertiliser*. We flint IU our libraries, ho said, work# ou agri eulture, writtin before ttie Christian era, from which inatrnctiou may be de rived by the most enlightened and skill ful farmer of to-day. What should be the size of a farm ; what its propor tions of arable pasture, meadow ami woodland ; what eropaaud manures are l>eat suited to different soils, what ad vantages are derived from open ami un derground drainage ; when should irn gatiou lie practiced and what are its re sults ; what are the benefits derived from land lying fallow, from deep and frequent plowing* ; from a rotation of crops ; from tnrniug under green grasses; from burning the stubble are questions, among many, discussed in these works, and which are subjects of vet more elaborate discussion after a lapse of more tliau two thousand years. Ido not propose to discuss the question *' How minute should bo the subdivision of the land ? ' or iu other words, " What is the beat average size of farms? ' but i wish to say that the evil of farms of too great size iu our country is much lessthau seems to be generally supposed, aud is steadily diminishing from year to year,as is con clusively shown by our census reports. Thus, of the whole number of farms in 1860 nearly 41 per cent, were farms of less than fifty acres each; of the whole number iu 1 *7O nearly 50 per cent, eoutatned less than fifty acre# each. In 1860, 70j| per cent, were un der 100 acres; in 1860, 78 per cent, i let wee u iMlOand 1870' he number of farms of three acres aud under tea was more than doubled ; those of ten acre# and under twenty increased from 162,* 178 to 294,607 ; over 81 per cent. Those of twenty acres and under fifty from 616,558 to 817,614, equal to 07 j per cent, nearly ; those of fiity and under 100 acres from 608,878 to 754,251,24 |>er cent, nearly ; those of 100 nml under 500 from 487,041 to 565,054, equal to 16 percent,; while those of 500 acres aud under 1,000 decreased from 20,216 to 15,833. auil those of 1,01*) acres ami up ward fell from 5,634 to 3,720. It is thus apparant that the small farms multiply much more rapidly than the large one#, and that the smaller they are the greater is the ratio of their increase, while the number of the very largo ones, instead of increasing, is undergoing a rapid diminution. The economist will find in these facts some alleviation of hi* fear that our lau is will be too much engrossed, while the statesman, observing how large a pn>- ixirtion of farms are owned by their cultivators,will see iu thi* happy cir euinstance one of the m<>#t powerful conserrafors of peace, order, freedom and good and stable government. I am neither n optimist nor an en thusiast, but, despite the clouds thst low-r o'er our horizon, I think that 1 can sec a future for our country more pro#j>#rou and happy than lis* yet be fallen any portion of the human race. I think that I can see more bread for the hungry, moro education for the ignorant, more enjoyment forthe wearv, more respect for labor, a more widely diffused intelligence and a greater material and intellectual progress than the world has yet known. It may bo a dream of the fancv, but it is one that 1 cherish and fond I v hope that I may never see dispelled. Should it prove to be reality one of its chief cauve# will be the continued growth of those art# whose promotion in the object of your time-honored assosicatiou. As a grate ful posterity will not fail to honor the memories of the men whose intelligence and energy furthered tlie mighty work, I may safelv predict lor yotir society— already so distinguished and so worthy of vour great State—that title—the noblest of all earthlv distinctions—a benefactor of mankind. blind lidinns. There are quite a number of blind In dians about this city, says a Virginia City paper, both men and women. The oulv blind per-ona we have #ien among the Piutea living in thi# vicinity, are altilts. The eyes of the juvenile# of both sexes are remarkably bright, black, and sparkling. The blind men and worneu among tho Indians seem to be able to go about with more facility than most white persons who have lost their sight. In leading the blind the In dians use a stick—an old broom handle or other stick of about tho same size. The advantages of a stick over a string are numerous and important. In the first place, as both the blind matt and the person leading him firmly group tho stick, the former finds iu it not a little to sternly aud support him ; then all manner of warnings aud signals are given through the stick. When a cor ner is to bo turned, the blind person is mado aware of the fact by a steady pressure in tho proper direction until all is again plain sailing ; when steps in tho sidewalk are to be ascended, the stick signals the fact almost of itself, aud the same is tho caao where there is a sudden descent—the blind person feel* the chango in the angle of his leading stick and knows what ground is being traversed by the person at the other end of the stick. Iu case a string were used iu leading the blind it would afford no support; none of the signals we have mentioned could pas* between the person iu advance and the hliud man, and holding the end of a loose striug he would feel quite lost. Two ludiaus trsveling iu this war will get along so well that one would hardly notice from their gait that oue iu the renr was blind. Iu this stick btißiness it nppears Unit there is a lunt for white leaders of the blind. Hero we gener ally see a man and a woman traveling iu this way ; the man leading his blind wife, or the wile leading her blind hus band. It is Urn to one, too, that tho blind wife is seen with a pnppoose slung upon her back, for being blind does not at all discourage a Piute woman. The eyes of tho Piutes are naturally good, but those living About the lake region# have alkali dust blown into their eyes while sleeping on the ground, aud, in deed, almost at ail times wlieu the wind is blowing hard. This irritates the eyes and they rub them, when they be come watery, aud more readily catch tho flying dust. Thus they go on, never washing their faces or eyes, aud through this filthiness what wn# at first a mere accident, finally becomes a fixed aud incurable disease, and they eventu ally lose their sight. Most of the In dians living about Pyramid lake, Walker lake, and tho sinks of the Cas don and Humboldt, have sore eyes, and it is from these sections that we have the blind ones that are seen going about our Btreets leading oue another at the end of sticks. Do not be ashamed to work for your living. All true men have worked. The " Bull Buorliers " of California. The scene described is iu the red woods of Sonoma county, California : The driver tor Imll-puueher, a* he is technically called) provides himself with a yard or two of hickory stick, tipped with a steel goad ait inch long, aud this pretty instrument is as busy us a drum-stick perpetually. Tho ox, with all hi* acknowledged virtues, i* a most provoking beast. Year* of goad ing give him an exaspi rstiugiy small store of wisdom. Hence, not an hour passes, but some unfortunate, by his stupidity or lazinesii, works the driver into an eoetaoy of rage. Thou, whang ! prod and whit'ig ' Blasphemy, howls, blood and goads ! Oxon are not unfro quoutly killod iu tiiese mail attack . One prod behind tho horns sends the poor beast b> whore log* and punchers are not. The bull-puucher is a man of trial*. Only a strong constitution can stand the excitement of tho trade. Ho must have a born gift for profanity, or ho need never hope to reach high stand ing iu the profession. " Mister," said tho most gifted puncher in tho woods, "don't yer shout when yor hurt? Well, if 1 didn't ouas when the bull is con trary, I'd bust every blood vessel in my body in uo time." For the time being, the bull-punoher yearns for nothing but to tee his ten oxen pull togetlur and sot at the name moment. Even years of practice and perfect familiarity with his cattle, who understand every word and gesture, makes this end not always so easy. "Atand up, Bright! You, llrowu !" shouts the puncher to the loaders, when the chsiu has been hooked to the log. Bright and Brown groan. " Htaud up, Bright ! You, Brown J" comes louder, aud the puncher goes through a com plicated manual of liaruiltss passes with the goad. The oxen kuow jwr fectly well that this is an ornamental preliminary, and take uo uotice accord ingly, unless it be to lock horns and low, as if in dread of the coming war. If after two or three repetitious of this a willingness to get ready is shown, the puncher is calm. If not, be jabs an inuoctut ox near him, and swears at the It idera, who bellow, and strive with tlu-:r horns, each to keep the other from making the torturing start. \ ig oroua thrusting and yelling produce signs of nmmation along the line ; and an extra prod of the steel sets several of tho hinder oxen tugging. That is the moment fur the leader* to start, but in spite of the cries of the puncher they scarcely lower their heads again, and continue their lowing and hooking ; so the opportunity is lost. Now the puncher stands forth alone. Buch a bowling shriek of tajw worm blasphemy never was heard outside of the woods. lie dauoea ami he foam*, and tearing up knot* and billets, rum* them at the refractory leaders, who are beyond the reach of his goad. Perhaps the puncher throws down his hat and stamp* upon thut article of raiment as he screams. Happily, a small log from his raging hand start* the lea-ler*. Now shouting, yelling, cursing, blas pheming aud bellowing, till the sylvan echoes make a frightful uproar, the puncher leans and dances along the line, goading and smiting till the united strength is brought to bear,wheu the log plows slowly over the slimy road till the next stopage, and then the whole soul destroying performance i gone through with again. The puncher, in addition to all his other woe*, must pas* through lifs up to hia ankles in mud. A uian with a couple of mule* drawing a sled on winch a pair of bar rel* are fixed, s|x-ud hi* time in dash iug water over the ground before the log on its way to the rosd of akuls. Thus a gutter of soft, slippery mud i* quickly farmed. The log gliding through this makes a sound oddly similar to a boot cleaving water, and the puncher plods on, curing and pluu#lng. A l!u*y Flace. Aa exchange uu : " Thousand! of JVITMQII MM through the city of Fall lliver, Ma**., with no accurate knowl edge of it* industries, and with very little idea of ita manufacturing and commercial imj>ortancc. The terminus of the Ho# ton and Fall Hirer railway, and the landing place of a potinlar line of New York steamer*, traveler* catch only glimpse# of the city in their naaty transfer from boat to oars or from cars to Iwat, in the dusky morning or when evening shadows have fallen. The re cent destruction by tire of the Grauite Mills, and the sad loss of life in connec tion, have awakened special interest in this important manufacturing center. Fall ltiver was incorporated as a village more than seventy years ago, and as early as 1813 a cotton factory was built. " Qnequeolian" a place of falling water—was the old Indian name of the settlement. The little stream from which the town derives its present name is the outlet of the Watnppe Ponds,and in the last half mile of its oonrse hns a descent of more than 130 feet, forming a remarkable water-power. The chain of ponds, however, is even more valu able than the river, furnishing abund ant water for the generation of steam, which at this day has in a great measure superseded wat r-power. The commo dious harbor of Fall Kiver, at the en trance of Taunton river into Mount Hope bay, greatly conduces to its pros perity aud rapid growth. Cotton man ufacturing is the chief industry of the town, although there are factories of various kinds. Within the last five years Fall Hiver has more than doubled the capital invested in its cotton mills, an tin# with Mi Emms Dennett, • sister of Qlare'a. Furthermore, Casnsl said, "If yon want to hear two people rave in praise of another fellow, too should hear Mian Dennett and Mr/W<*d*tl talk about Tom." Itema f later**!. Nrm attempt to form an opinion of • woman'a weight t> bar sighs. The great end of a good education ia to fortn a reasonable man. The only cbnroh in thia aounlry where sermons are preached in Wan, it ia •aid, ia at Klmira, 111. Tba flowers of apeepb spring from the root of the tongue. Great aenaation in Nerrtatowe. Pa. Elopement I Wealthy eitisan'a daugb tor! Colored coachman ! The Bnpreae Conrt of Georgia baa decided that rsffliog ia a violation of tbe atatnte against gaming. "Baored to tba memory of three twina," ia tha inacripticto ovsr tbe grave ef triplete in New Hampshire. To l>e covetous of applause disoovers a ■louder merit, and self-conceit ia the ordinary attendant of ignorance. Lately a Waatern yonng lady bed oe eaaion to inform a yonng gentleman that " her band waa not a lemon." A Troy workman lilted 600 poonda with hia handa. It la said that ha oan carry 1,000 poonda on hia honldera. Notwithstanding tba great crowd of riaitora and tbe high prioea at Saratoga this anmmer, tbe greet hotel* lost money. Borne miaohierona miaoreant reeenUy spoiled a wail in Bi. Looia bv pouring into it a large quantity of eoal oil. "At I nerer pay my own debts, it isn't likely I shall pay bera." Thia ia the frank way a Taooma man advertises his errant wife. A Pennsylvania child ia aaid to in berit the eyea and noee of its fether, but the cheek of its uncle, who ia an inanrmnoe agent The biggcat hxsomotfve in fbe world ia churned by Urn Penaaylvenie Rail road Co. It has twelve (having wheels, and weight 75 tout. A married gftrl of IS years, seeking a divorce on the ground tluat aheia too young, is one of the latest aociai devel opments of Indianapolis. An apple mid to be tbe largest ever ripened hi tbe United States bee been picked in Nebraska. It weighs twenty - nine and a ball ounces. An artiftoal fly maker in Albany, after a series ef experiments, finds that an imitation of a small white miller is tha best for ahgd fishing with a fly. A California newspaper tell# rather a leathery etory of a striped squirrel which waa eeea leading a blind rattle snake to hia hole in the ground. The people of Omaha complain (with a little shear of justice) that they are mentioned by outsiders as "Omahogs, Omshosaoa, and Omaborablee." In Sedgwick county, Kan., one Frita Baits!f ben led 1,000 bettelc of water to make hia onbb-gos grow ; and the grasshopper* got them after ail I A rejected lover in Switxeriand, to whom life seemed a blank mid further existence a heavy bwdw. tried to com mit suicide by flinging himself into • bear's den. "Put m* In the same room," says an old philosopher, "with a number of young girls, and I will tell yon, when the postman knocks— merely watching the looks of soma and the actions ef others—bow many are in love f" Two geatlemen from Newton, Mar quette county, Wisconsin, got into an argument about the number of grains of buckwheat they could show upon a tingle plant, and the result wss that William Outran produced 1,684 on one, and William Sanders 1,850. Now they are each looking for one with 1,874. The Bute of Maine sold a large lot of its timber lauds at auction the other day. About 140,000 acres were dis posed of at prices ranging from 35 cents to $1.90 per acre, and the right to cut timber and grass upon about 300,- 000 acres mora was sold at from 274 cents to $1 75 per acre. The total amount realised was about $150,000. A lady wbo was urging aome friends to dinner, felt disgusted when her eight-year-old son came in and said, ** Mrs! Jose* ssrs she can't spare no breed, and Mrs. fox ain't to home, so I didn't get any batter." The friends thought they had better dine elsewhere, sod the lady thought so, too, hot she taught that boy that the way of the tranagreasor was hard. The death of a schoolboy at St Mary's School in the Xsylebone district of London was oaaaed the other day by one of the teachers striking him on the bead with his fist The teacher first strnek the boy with a cane, and after some time with his fist, knocking his head against the walL The boy, who was only tea years of age, was soon taken Tery ill, and died on the follow ing day. Decline of Western State Fairs. The Chicago Tribune says : " The State fairs in the West hare been everywhere this year a failure as com pared with the successes of former rears. The same atory cornea from lows, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. The interest of the public in these exhi bitions has very perceptibly fallen sway. The attendance has been, in all instance*, comparatively small. An agricultural fair, as a rule, has come to be but another name for a horse race. The result is that all the State fairs, with the exception, perhaps, of that of lowa, hare Ujts year been money-losing enterprises. But it is not only pecuni arily thai theyhaTe been failure*. They have been failures as exhibitions. There was at no one of them very much worth seeing. About the only good feature of our own State Fair was the show of live stock. In lowa the fair was a success only as an exhibition of hogs. The exhibition of farm products was not anywhere creditable. There were not more than a dozen entries of farm ptoducts on the books at some of the fairs. The amount of competition evinced among producers and manufac turers was at a minimum. One instance will suffice for illustration : In Illinois, where there are about 290 cheese fac tories, but one manufacturer of the article was represented at the State Fair. The fairs were remarkable for the absence of aheep. It is said that the dogs are to blame for this. Per sons who have been engaged in sheep raising on a large scale have been com pelled to send them to Colorado, in order to save them from the ravages made by the dogs among their flock*. One gentleman, with a flock of 10,000 sheep, was compelled to send them to that State, because occasionally the dogs would break into the fold, and, in a single night destroy as many as 50© sheep. The decline of the interest of the public in agricultural fairs is due to various causes. In the first place, the county and district fairs, which have been so successful as a rule, en gross a great deal of the interest of the public. Then the expositions in large cities like Chicago, which are beooming so deservedly popular, tend to supplant the State fairs. Of oonrse the hard times have something to do with the financial failure of these institutions. But this of itself does not aooount for the growing apathy of the country re garding them. Present indications go to show that their usefulness is ended in their present shape. We undeistand that the managers of the Illinois Bute Fair are undecided whether another shall be held—another evidence that the State Fair is to be a thing of the past. H* Kmiw.—A strange man, who wanted to go on the train, bat missed it, walked up and down the depot in a high state of excitement, berating him self and everyone else. " I know just what my wife will aay 1" he exclaimed, as he walked up and down. "When that train gits thar and she don't see me, shell git right np and jump over chairs and smash crockery and swear that I'm off on another drunk I"