King Heath.
King IV*th *u rare old fellow!
H© sat where no *nn could shine ;
And he lifted his hand so j allow,
A4 poured out his coal-black wine.
Hurrahfor the coal-black wine'
There came to him many a maiden,
Whose eyes had forgot to shine;
And widows, with grief o'erladen.
For s draught of his sleepy wine.
Hurrah' for the coal-black wine
The Scholar left all his learning ;
The Pool his faecied woe# ;
And the beauty her bloom returning,
lake life to the faded roee.
Hurrah! fot the oeal-black wine!
All came to the roral old fellow,
WII.-1 laughed till hi* ©yea dropped hrine,
And he g*T© them hi* hand so yallow.
And pledged Utero in Heath's' black-win#
Hurrah' Hurrah!
Ilurrah ! for the coal black wine.
A l ullaby.
Rockaby, lullaby, Ives in the clover '
Ovmitig so drowsily, crying so low—
Rockaby. lullaby, dear little rover '
Powti into wonderland
Down to the under-iand
Go, oh go !
Hewn into wonderland go
Rockaby, lullaby, ram on the clover!
Tears on the eyelids that waver and weep ;
Rockaby. lullaby bending it over
Down on the mother-world,
Pown ou the other world !
Sleep, oh sleep !
Pown ou the mother-world sleep f
■R vkaby, lullaby, dew on the clover !
Pew on the eye* that wtU sparkle at dawn
Rockaby, lullaby, dear little rover !
Into the stilly world—
Into th# lily-world
Gone, oh gone !
Into the hly-world, gone '
—J. O. Hcllasd.
THE ADM IK .11.*$ tilth
lilntfraltn* A Singularly Vllirtl I'p Stale
of Affair* at a >a* > \ ard.
A vivacious correspondent of the Cin
cinnati Gazetit tells a story connected
with an attempted reception of Secre
tary Robeson at the Portsmouth (N.
II 1 Navy Yard a year ago, which he
says was current at Rye Beach the past
summer.
The secretary, who has apartments
each seasou in one of the cottages at
Rye, liml sent word to the admiral
commanding the yard that he would
visit Portsmouth on a certain day and
the station. Great preparations
w re taude to receive him. When the
tiiuo for bis arrival drew near, the ad
miral with all his officers in full uni
form, four companies of marines, and
the baud, stood on the wharf ready to
greet the head of all onr marine forces,
vhile tlie crew of a national frigate
sto ni to their guns all ready to utter a
little thunder in the secretary's be
half.
There were two ways for the secretary
to reach the vardfiom Portsmouth. He
could cross the river by boat or drive
around by the bridge. The boat-land
ing at the yard and the entrance from
the carriage-way are upon opposite
sides of the grounds, and quite con
cealed sue from the other.
The admiral, wishing to show all
possible attention to the secretary, sent
over to the Portsmouth side, first his
gig gayly decorated and manned with
eight expert oarsmen, a steam-launch,
in case he should prefer to cross in
that, and, lastly, his carnage and horses
to convey the party around by the
bridge, should they desire to go that
way. A messenger was in waiting to
ascertain which of these modes ot con
veyance the secretary selected, and to
cross m advance and give the admiral
notice, so that if the secretary chose
the carriage, the officers and marines
might be marched over to the gate to
receive him. Of the secretary's party
was Master , who was always
prominent ou occasions of this kind."
When the party arrived at the Ports
mouth wharf an officer explained to the
secretary that several modes of convey
ance awaited his choice. He could be
rowed acroes in the admiral's gig, or
take the steam-lamteb, or drive around
with the carriage. Master listened
intently while the secretary was con
salting the members of the party and
making np his mind.
At leDgth Mr. Robeson inf-.rmed the
officer in waiting that he would go over
in the gig. Master , hearing this,
concluded that be would jump on the
ferry-boat which was just pushing off.
and be tbe first to inform the admiral
of the secretary's intention.
The ferry-boat passed the officers'
boat su the same errand, and arrived at
the dock far in advance of him. Un
fortunate ly. Master is not a great
sailor, and as a landsman he had been
educated to suppose that a gig was
something that went on wheels and was
drawn by horse-power. So the moment
the boat reached the wharf he jumped
ashore, ran up to the admiral, and
said, "The secretary will drive
around." Then there wss hurrying in
hot baste. The marines started at
double-quick for tbe gate on the other
side, quite around and behind the great
■hip buildings, and wholly hidden from
the river. The admiral and ali his
officers followed as fast as possible, and
in three minutes the forces of all kinds
and the crowd of visitors had passed
behind all the building*, and the river
front of the yard was left without a
sign of life, except an officer who hap
pened to be off duty and opportunely
came along a few minntes after the ad
miral and his forces had disappeared.
Meantime the secretary's party,
minns Master , had disposed them
selves in the admiral's gig and were
being rowed rapidly to the deserted
wharf. The stillness of things seemed
nnscoonntable to Mr. Robeson and tbe
visitors ho had brougJiiA-riTirTfTTnrTr
arv of tbe Navy was
J\£££lrrira aia yard where there was a
full force to do him honor. There was
no thunder of cannon, rattle of drams,
or music of bands. And the secretary,
noticing the absence of the expectAl
concourse of souud, cast his eye along
the wharf and arouDd the visible por
tions of the yard, and was thunder
struck at tb general stillness and
desolation. His wonder grew as the
gig pulled up at the wharf, and no
Unman being appeared to greet him, or
even hand him a message. Tbe situa
tion was fast becoming emburusaing.
However, the party all crawled out of
the gig as best they could,and gathered
in a knot on the wharf. Here they at
tracted the attention of the strolliog
officer, and as he came near and recog
nized tbe secretary, the whole situa
tion flashed upon him. He was in
fatigue uniform and not in any sense
ready to "receive" the head of the
navy, but, walking np and saluting the
secretary, he offered to escort him to
the admiral's quarters. At the same
rime he managed to inform the officer
in command of the frigate in the next
slip that the secretary had landed, and
by the time the party had fairly start
ed on its walk, tlie big gnns began to
thunder, and on one side of the yard
the embarrassment of the situation was
considerably relieved.
But what shall be said of the per
plexitv which prevailed at the gate on
the other side ? The carriage in which
it was supposed tbe secretary was
driving around had not appeared when
the first gun fired on the river front.
Real after peal followed and still no
cairiage. At length, just as the ad
miral 1 ai given himself over to abso
lute despair, np came the carriage,
driving furiously, and enveloped in a
c'oud ef dust. It seemed that one
heavy gentleman of the secretary's
party chose to drive aronnd, and, hear
ing the first gnn of the salute, tbe
driver had attempted to reach the
ground BO that the guest might not
miss any part of the reception. It was
natural that all should suppose the
secretary to be in that carriage, and
the appearance of the stoat gentleman
confirmed the belief, so the admiral
and all his officers gave the customary
salutation in splendid style. The fonr
companies of marines presented arms,
and the band went into ecstasies. At
this jnnctnre the strange gentleman
get out, and the admiral" was advanc
ing toward him, when a messenger
cane up and informed him that the
\ Kl3. K I H TZ, Kilitor and 1 Vnpriotor.
VOL, Ml.
secretary had lauded at the wharf, an,l
was there alone. The strange gentle
man was loft to liia fate, and sudor the
swift orders of the admiral the whole
force started on double-quick for the
wharf, the officer in advance, and the
battaliou of marines, with its band,
preceding, followed close after. The
ruaritiea being more accustomed to
double quick step than the admiral and
his officers, gamed oil the latter, and
as the hurrying column pressed on it
was well closet! up. Then came the
crowuiug catastrophe. Turning a
sharp comer iu the road, where it
passed between two high buildings,
sud where the echo was altogether con
fusing, the admiral and his companions
bore directly down upon the still more
sstomahed secretary, and the next in
stant the drum major, with his big fur
cap and baton, projected himself into
the official presence, followed bv drums
and brass horns iu dire confusiou, and
an instant later, the column of marines
telescoped the whole party, after the
manner of a railroad collision.
The situation was at leiqd grave.
Tlio admiral had grasped the secretary's
hand at the first meeting, and was try
ing to eiplaiu, when the player on the
biggest horn arrived, and lefore he
oould halt, had run the instrument
over the Secretary's shoulder, till, seen
from his own party, the illusion of his
having joined the baud was complete.
And t make matters worse, the thun
der of the last guns of the salute was
rwttiiug betweeu the buildings, render
ing explanations on either side almost
impossible. But after some two min
utes, which to the admiral seemed as
many hours, the salute ended, the ma
rines regained their ranks, the baud
got itself together and withdrew to one
side, ami the admiral soon explained
how he had been misled by the mes
sage from Master that the " secre
tary will drive aroiiud."
As the reception had been thus some
what marred when judged by naval
standards, the battahou of mariues was
marched to the parade ground, where
they reviewed by the secretary.
Hero everything passed off with the
strictest regard to tactics, except that
the secretary, instead of standing oppo
site the colors wlieu the line formed for
review, was furnished with a rockiug
chair, which, ou account of his pre
vious fatigue, he occupied while the
column passed twice in review. After
this the secretary and the other mem
bers of his party, all looking as if they
had seen sights enough for oue day,
were escorted to the admiral's quarters
and provided with a luuch, which re
stored the fortunes of the day. Before
it was over. Master had learned
the difference betw. en gigs on wheels
and gigs afioat.
Cruelty to Pigeons.
Two boys named Dan Walls and
George Heaton were charged at Leeds,
England, with cruelty to pigeons, and
Elijah Walls, the first named boy's
father, and John Hunt, were charged
with aiding and abetting in the com
mission of the offense. Mr. George
Buck ton said that on the 22 1 of Sep
tembtr, abont five o'clock iu the after
uocn. while he was in his garden, he
heard the sound of a slight explosion,
and looking into the air he saw a
pigeon flying which had evidently a
lighted cracker attached to its tail.
Going on to the road, he saw the two
boys carrying a basket, and he caused
a police officer to apprehend them. In
the basket were three pigeons, one of
which had au unexploded cracker, con
taining twenty "cracks," tied to its
tail. They toid him that Hnut had
given them the pigeons to send up at
intervals of five minute?. Inspector
Peet states! that in couseqnence of what
the last witness told him he went to
Walls'house and saw the fonr defen
dants. In answer to the ch-rge. Walls
said, "Wo had made a match for a sap
per, and tied crackers to the pigeon's
tails for the purpose of making them
fly fast. We knew it was crnel, but we
will never do such a thing agaiu." The
l>ench discharged the two boys and
fined the men ss. and costs.
Curious Epitaphs.
Some of the tomtistones of England
—and some of the old ones of nearer
home, too—have strange inscriptions.
A correspondent sends us the following
as specimens :
'• Can it be true that I un free.
From that queer old pest, Ann I.arabee ?
I am sure or line, *b once was mine.
But now. O Lord! I her to thee resign,
'• And am TOUT
"Humble and happy Servant,
"Jons LaaasKK."
" It was spotted meaelee that killed our Dairy,
When I think of her death it makes me go crazy,
I don't eee why we shonhl bare no much trouble.
While others go'scott-free, and of money have
double. "
" Go, crnel Death 1 I do not love thee, for thon
wert unkind
To Bird -4rxfl the
™ here behind.
Thou should'st have taken both of ns, if either.
Which would have been a comfort to the
survivor."
" Friends, I've left this world of sin.
And am shut up hero in a small coffin.
May I soon reach Heavon, and stretch my
limbs.
For I long to sing songs with the cherubims."
"The milk of Unman kindness was my own dear
cherub wife,
I'U never And another one as good in all my life;
She bloomed, the blossomed she decayed.
And under this tree her body is laid...
Ills Fee.
Velpean, the French surgeon, bad
successfully performed, on a little
child five years old, a most perilous
operation. The mother came to him
and Baid :
" Monsieur, my son is saved, and I
really know not how to express my
gratitude. Allow me, however, to pre
sent you with this pocketbook, em
oroidered by my own hands."
"Oh, madame," replied Velpean,
sharply, " my art is not merely a ques
tion of feeling. My life has its re
quirements like yours. Dress, even,
which is a inxury to yon, is necessary
for me. Allow me, therefore, to refuse
your charming little present in ex
change for a more snbstantial remune
ration."
" But, monsieur, what remnnoration
do you desire ? Fix tlie fee your
self."
"Five thousand francs, madame."
The lady very quietly opened the
pocketbook, which contained ten thou
sand francs in notes, counted out five,
and after politely handing them over tc
Velpean, retired. Imagine his feelings 1
.Now and Then.
In 1810, the thrifty district known as
Honthern New York was almost unin
habited. In this new country lumber
ing was the only business carried on.
The lumber was made into rafts and
floated down the Delaware to the
Philadelphia market, and the lumber
men were accustomed to walk the en
tire distance home after having dis
posed of their lumber. On this ronte
there was a stretch of what was called
" the wilderness," a distance of thirty
miles, without a house, and only a foot
path through the dense forest that
stood on the banks of the Delaware
river. Many are the narrow escapes
from wild beasts that inhabited this
wilderness that are reoounted by those
who, when boys, listened to tne old
pioneers of this district,
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
Poachers Iu England,
One of the legal consequences of own
ing land iu England is the projiertv
which it brings with it in all the aiu
luated tenants of the forests, meadows,
sud streams. birds, fish, and deer,
pheasants and plover, foxes and hares,
belong as much to the proprietor as the
trees and the fruits of his garden.
Whoever shoots a birJ or traps a rabbit
on one of the immense English estates
is liable to imprisonment like a thief or
a burglar. The game laws authorixe
the owner to defend his warrens and
preserves even by killing the trespasser
who resists his servants uud refuses to
leave his laud, and the property iugame
is enforced by all the powers of the
British constitution. .The right of
tlshiug iu certain streams or hunting
ovsr certain grounds is bought and
sold as commonly as the right to preach
and pray. The fives of the throngs of
hares, foxes, and birds that swarm in
countless numbers over England are
guarded with sedulous care ; and the
unlucky tenant-farmers, who often see
their crops devoured and their gardens
pillaged by the rabbits and the rooks,
have uo resource but submission. They
look with uo kiudly feeling upon the
landlords who nourish the vermiu that
overrun the fields, or who in the au
tumn ride over meadows aud hedges
aud plowed laud in their mat! chase
after a hare or a fox ; and the hungry
laborer, whose family seldom tastes
meat and often suffers for waut of less
costly food, cannot avoid a pang of envy
aud of discontent when he sees the
forest and meadows swarming with use
less and destructive game which he is
forbidden to toucl% but which would
bring back perhaps the failing strength
of a sick wife or a feeble child. 'Temp
tation is ever before hiui. He cannot
always resist.
Poaching is oue ot the commonest
i crimes in England, and is punished
with extreme severity. The country
magistrates, who are always laud-hold
ers, have no pity on the vonug laborer
who is caught shooting his first par
tridge or hare ; and the rigid game-laws
are said to be the cause of a rapid
growth of crime in the rural districts.
The young man who lias been tempted
to poach in the teeming forest or pre
serve, and is delect .1, loses at once
character and hope. He is imprisoned
or fined. He enters npon a new course
'of crime. Iu his madness and want he
i robs, perhaps at last he murders, and
sometimes the gamekeeper who pro
! cured his first conviction has fallen a
| victim to his rage.
At night the gamekeeper and his
men, and sometimes the proprietor
himself, wander over the immense es
tates in search of poachers. They are
well armed and pre;*nred for resistance.
Thev track their victims with the
stealthy tread of the savage. The re
port of a gnn or the trail of men over
the grass guides them to theit enemy,
and the poachers, who arc always ou
the watch for the gamekeepers, and are
alio arrasd, not unfreqnently make a
bold resistance, and a nocturnal skir
mish and combat take place in tne green
glades of the forest. All over England,
in the season of game, this constant
vigilance must be exercised, andun army
of gamekeepers are kept in activity in
order to aeenre this migratory kind of
property. Yet poaching flourishes, and
large quantities of cheap game find
away to the London market that could
never have been sold so low unless it
had been obtained as easily as Robin
Hood's venison. Poaching has natu
rally a strong attraction for all the Idle
and reckless young men of the coun
try. They find in the woods an easy
means of making money for dissipated
pleasures. They at least can see no
wrong in clearing the land of useless
game. They have their haunts in the
depths of the English forest, and live a
nomad life, that is not unlike that of a
Western trap|>er. The Sionx are not
mom hostile to the white hunter who
intrudes upon their hunting grounds
than is often the English land-owner to
his poachers, nor more resolved to ex
tirpate the bold intruders. Between
the poacher and the English squire a
war hts raged since the days ot Puck
and Robin Hood.
Yet the progress of intelligence and
humanity in England promises <>on to
abolish even the game-laws. Already
they have been amended in several of
their harsher provisions. This season
several of the large laud-holders have
thrown open their immense hunting
fields to the people, and have allowed
game to be pursued freely by all who
chose to come. It is scarcely possible
that the English can much longer con
sent to preserve this nursery for dis
content and crime ; and when the pub
lic schools have spread over the coun
try, as they are now rapidly doing, the
game-laws must fall before the light of
knowledge. It is indeed remarkable
that they should have lasted so
- - - Vr.
Pnnkin pi iz the sass ov Nn Eng
land. They are vittleH and drink, tliey
are joy on the haff-sbell, they are glory
ennff for one day, and aro good kold or
warmed np. I would like to be a boy
again, just for sixty minnetts, and eat
myself pliull ov the blessed old mix
tnr, Enny man who dont lnv pnnkin
pi, wants watching olnss, for he means
to do somethin mean the fust good
chance he kan git. Giv me all the
punkin pi i could eat, when i waz a
bov, anil i didn't kare whether Huu
day-skool kept that day or not. And
now that i have grown up to manhood,
and have run for the legislature once,
and only got beat 85fi votes, and am
thoroly marrid, tbare aint nothing i
hanker for wusr, and kan bury quicker,
than two-thirds of a good old-fashioned
pnnkin pi, an inch and a liaff thik,
and well smelt up, with ginger and
nutmeg. Punkin pi iz the oldest Amer
ikan beverage i kno ov, and ought to
go down to posterity with the trade
mark ov onr grandmothers on it; bnt
iam afrade it wont, for it iz tnff even
now to find one that tastes in the mouth
at ali as they did 40 years ago.
About Wooden Toothplrks.
One gets so used to seeing wooden
toothpicks at restaurants that he looks
npon them as things of course. He
never thinks that their maunfacture
forms an important branch of industry,
but, nevertheless, such is the case.
These toothpicks are mado principally
in the New England States and in New
Jersey. They are manufactured by the
same process as are match stems, usu
ally mado in the same factories. The
material nsed in their manufacture is
white maple or poplar, as both of those
woods are tasteless. They are put up
iu boxes of two thousand each, and sell
for fifteen cents a box. Restaurants
use from two to four thousand tooth
picks in a week. Because they are so
cheap and so bountifully supplied peo
ple take them by the handful. Wooden
toothpicks have only been in use for
about ten or twelve years. When they
were first invented,there were only one or
two factories where they were made
and they cost a deal more than they do
now.
An exchange has an acquaintance
who remarks that he has olten heard
the proverb, " A friend in need is a
friend indeed," but he says he can't see
where the laugh comes in. He has a
friend in need who is always borrowing
money of him.
CENTRE IIA EE. CENTRE CO.. PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER l!>, 1874.
The I'olaouiug Prrlod.
If the reign of Louis XIV.of Ermine,
! was celebrated for its literary aud war
like illustrations, it was a period of
terrible Crimea. It was the era of poi
son*. Wives murdered husbands, sons
killed fathers, aud La Hrinvtlliers
flourished. M. Havaissou says : " The
|H>isoners worked awsv, almost 111 broad
daylight. Home passed themselves off
for alchemists, and while preparing
mineral and vegetable pultons in
secret, iu public showed alembic* tilled
with iunooeut distillations. Colbert,
just tlieu, was paying great attention to
! founding glass factories in Erauce, and
many of the |K>isouers went to work iu
the royal glass works, so that they were
absolutely supported by the State,
while they sold their |H>!SOUS at high
; prices. Home of these wretches gave
lessons in preparing poisons, and kept
professional schools, where the whole
business was taught iu a most thorough
manner." Willi this horrid school of
professional poison-makers, there was
ingrafted a belief in sorcery. Fantas
tic legends, more or lea* diabolical,
seised hold of the miuds of the common
people, aud there ia no doubt but that
children were sacrificed during certain
incantations. The crimes jwrpetrated
by the Ereneli at thia period, in the
middle of the seventeenth century, are
so horrible that they had better not be
described.
The poisoners for a long time laugh
ed at justice. Thou, its to-day, the de
tec!ion of this particular crime was a
difficult one. French opinion at this
period was quite indifferent. The
l'orisiau world was even ready to laugh,
when a pretty wife got rid of an old
and ugly husband by means of n few
grains of health powder. There was a
certain Muie. Dreui.the wife of a mem
ber of the Parliament, who, tired of a
married life, was said to have tried a
half doreu times to poison her better
half, and who, in a tit of jealousy, was
known to have |>oieoucd the betrothed
of one of her former lovers. Yet this
estimable lady was well received. M.
De Contangos wrote a number of pleas
ant couplets directed against M.Dirux,
and even the clever Mine. De Sevigue
scribbled amusing letters about the
whole business. It seems, however,
that some people of a timid character
were not exactly comfortable. Believ
ing that glass would show traces of
poison better than goblets of golden,
silver or pewter, nobody drank but out
of glass. Clothes were washed at
home, under the eye of the miatress of
the house ; letters were disinfected for
fear of poisou.aud pretty women would
only receive bouquets of dowers with
the utmost circumspection. Invita
tions to sup were accepted with a cer
tain amount of supicion, and the con
duct of the host was closely watched,
and what he ate or drank was only ac
copied by the guests. After a pleasant
little supper, the least symptoms aris
ing from natural causes, as from an in
digestion, were looked upon with fear
and trembling, and it war the custom,
! immediately on arriving home from a
feast for the guests to take emetics and
drenches,in order to protect themselves
against the chances of any tampering
with the meat or wine.
Captured After Man} Years.
Fraught a< the last mtw'ii years
have been with gran.l events, which
j have changed the destinies of nations,
news to thrill BO many hearts ha, per
haps, never been flashed through the
wires as the brief message that Nana
Sahib, the oneo noted Hindoo chief,
has at last been captured.
Like thunder in a clear skv, the In
dian mutiny of 1H57 shocked while it
astounded the civilised world. The
well at Oawnpore has become a shrine.
The demon hero of that awful deed was
Nana Sahib. Hunted like a wolf iu the
field, his followers slain, his every
effort at resistance cast to the winds by
the fierce and sleepless wrath of the
avengers, the bafiled prince has been a
fugitive all these wearv years. Not for
a second has the search relaxed. Every
man's haad has been armed against
him. Immense rewards have been
offered, aud he has been tracked and
pursued all over Asia. Humors brought
ever and anon by flying CttatidM would
place him at Herat or Varkand, Aleppo
or Bokhara. There, ou the spur, hur
ried bands of tho old allies of Great
Britain in quelling the outburst, eager
to bring him back, dead or alive. He
has t>oeu captured a dozen times, ac
cording to rumor, but the prisoners
have pro Ted to be either other muti
neers or perfectly innocent persons.
This time, however, there seems to
be no doubt about the matter. Arrest
ed in Gwalior, his native place, aj)d of
which ho claimed sovereignty, he
has by his consiii, the
MttifrVfajah Scindi&h, perhaps the most
powerful aud certainly tho wealthiest
of all the nativa monarchs of llindo
stan.
It was from brooding over the al
leged injustice of tho East India Com
pany that Nana Sahib, or rather Nana
Hao, his proper name, lashed himself
to the pitch of ruthless fury which cul
minated in his dreadfni massacres at
Bithoor and Cawnpore. He was a Mali
ratta Brahmin, aud, according to the
peculiar Hindoo law of inheritance, the
adopted son of the Peishwa excluded
nearer relations. When tho Peishwa
died tho British Government refused
to recognize Nana Bao, and placed
Sciudi&h on the mujtnud. The disap
pointed prince, a cultured mnu, braved
the displeasure of his friends, tho very
tenets of his religion, crossed the for
bidden A 'ala Pani, or " Blaek Water,"
and for years pervaded tho precincts of
tho English Court. Ho was unsuccess
ful. Ho returned to India, and to
purge himself of his sius against the
oeremonial law, passed through a gi
gantio golden cow, which WAI after
ward melted up and divided among
5,000 Brahmins. Ho beeamo quite a
society man with tho English officers,
and was remarkably gallant to the
ladies. Arab horses aud cashmere
shawls were frequent tributes from this
unusually affable Hindoo. Milder than
his proverbially mild race, his ferocity,
when it did break out, was as that of
the tiger of his country's jungles. He
brought mourning to a whole nation,
with whom the world sympathized.
MADR INSANE.—A young girl in Paris
named Marguerite Belief,who had been
unfortunate in A love affair, resolved to
commit suicide. Before going to bed
she filled her chamber with tho most
odorous flowers, and having completely
closet! the room, covered up her head
and went to sleep. Hhe was found in
an unconscious state about noon tho
next dav, and although by groat medi
cal skill she was recalled to life, her
reason has fled. Hhe imagines that she
has been transported to the kingdom of
flowers and has become a marigold.
"I remember that I loved a butterfly,"
she murmurs; "but ho has gone away."
" People talk about waking up with
a snap," says Mr. Murray, of Adiron
dack fame. " Why, that is a horrible
way to do it. I met a friend the other
day who said, ' I always wake up with
a snap, and get up with a jump.' Why,
the sweetest experience of life comes to
us leisurely. What would you think of
the sun rising with a snap ? of rones
opening with a snap ? of a man outing
beefsteak with a snap ? of a wife kiss
ing her husband with a snap f"
THE HABITANT.
\ Ur|itile l>rrl|Uon ol l; VraHth
( aiiailUu Bwall l*'rur*
A of llit* ltoftton < 'om
tmmuralth, writing from Hto. Mario-de-
Mauuoir, Province of Quebec, gossips
thus pleasantly about the small farm
era :
Did I ever tell you of the Canadian
par exctllt hoc, the " habitant," or well
to-do farmer ? If not, you aball make
his He t# about fifty
Vears old (the one that 1 known, about
live feet six ill height ; baa blaek hair,
and dark, soft eyes ; wears side whis
kers, a la AnytaUe, and is always
smoking the most villainous tobaoco of
his own raising. Iu summer ho wears
a blue joau shirt, white duck pauts,
moccasins made of one piece of leather
and turned up at the toe ; a broad
brimmed straw hat crowns his head ;
rt "U voila He doesn't like to work,
and if it were not for the richness
of the soil, 1 am afraid he would starve.
He lives iu a little house, whitewashed,
with red shutters, red roof, and a red
d>or ; the windows are casein cut*, and
are curtained with papers. We go up
the stops and go straight into the big
room ; an immeiibe stove, three-stories,
stands iu the center ; there are big
buffets for the dishes and clothes, and
a stand for the buckets of water ; a pic
ture of the Virgin hangs on the wall,
and a crucifix is on the table. There
are two little rooms leading from the
big one, and 1 cau tee the tall ward
robes and high beds—one with pink
sheets and pillow-slips, aud the other
with green. They are so high ) know
they must have little steps to get into
bed. The wife of the " habitant" is
very pleasant, but has no beauty; she
ha* to work too hard, aud has too mauy
children to attend to herself. Hhe it is
who makes her garden aud does her
housework, spius and weaves, and twice
a year looks alter the grand wash by
the river bank. She work# out doors,
and her husband goes to the village
store, drinks with his companions, and
spins long-winded stories for the pleas
ure of the storekee|>er and his griuuiug
clerk*. She, too, wears the moccasins
and the broad-brimmed hat, a skirt of
gray flannel, just reaching to her ankle*,
a calico sack aud apron ; and, behold
her ! she is very dark, and her voice
will be harsh and heavy. .Perhaps, too,
#h* will have au enormous g-ntrr.
These good people are Catholics, and
pay to the church the taxof one twenty
seventh part of their grain, besides giv
ing to every beggar aud nun, and al*o
paying to the lord of their country the
tiliie that has come down siuce the set
tling of Canada. If some one of their
family has died, aud they want masse#
said, they will bring a pig or some
chickens, and after church the beadle
will sell them on the green iu front of
the church. In the winter the
dress of the woman is changed
only by a sack of flannel, and a little,
wooli-u bonnet ; but the mau dona high
soft boots of buff or brown leather,
made like his tm>oca*iui, a flannel shirt,
gray, red or blue, gray flannel pauts ;
and there ha rests, close by the stove,
unless busmen* calls him out. Then
comes from the stablu s pretty, low
sleigh, and a spirited horse. He pulls
a pointed, knit-cap over hi* head, pats
on hi* Capuchin-coat, pulls the pointed
hood with ita scarlet Lssel over hi*
knit cap, ties a scarlet scarf about hia
waist, springs into hia sleigh, and away
he goes down the long, wnite, straight
road ! We watch him out of sight, and
come back to more mundane things.
This is but a specimen. Some arc
richer, some are poorer, but they have
all warm hearts, and touch their hats
with |X)liteueas to the DfmoitfUU
Amrricatrtf, although they belong to
another class and another religion.
These " habitants" are the farmers and
small landed proprietors.
There is still another class, the pea
sants, who are poorer, sud work for the
others ; then, next the " messieurs,"
including the doctors, lawyers, mer
chants, clergy, and the rich 1 I like
the French Canadian, he is slwavs very
good to mo, and, indeed, to ns all.
An Eccentric S'ar.
The most singular fact connected
with the proper motions of the stirs is
that oue or two stars are flying through
space with such enormous rapidity that
the combined attraction of all the stars
risible with the telescopeoonld never
stop them. This seems to be especially
the case with a small star, invisible to
the naked eye, d<>aiguated in astro
nomical literature as " Groombridge,
1830," from the name of the astronomer
who first recorded its position. The
rahl o'. TMAwiof this star is about seven
second* |>er year - .greatest known.
It was hence concluded Viat it must be
very near ua, aud a number -wtrono
mers have sought to determine its p-T
--allax, but hare found it to be on'iy
about n teuth of a second. Its ap
parent motion in a year being seventy
times its parallax, it mores at least
serenty times the distance from the
earth to the snn in a year, or 18,000,-
000 of miles every day, and more than
200 miles every second. From what we
know of tbo distribution, masses, and
number of the stars, it seems probable
that the attraction of all the bodies in
the universe cau never stop this head
long speed, nor briug this star into auy
orbit, nnd that consequently it will pass
through our universe, and leave it en
tirely in its passage through infinite
space. If we had accurate observations
of the star's position 8,000 or -1.000
year* ago, we oould speak with more
certainty of its destiny. We may ex
pect that our posterity of a few ttiou
*and years hence will, by tlic aid of
the observations and tables we shall
transmit to them, be able to come to a
definite oonolnsion respecting the ago
and the structure of the universe.
Little Johnny's Compot Itlon.
CATS.
This is not a essy on tho eat, wich
would be oue, but on eats, wicli is sev
rel, for cats is never by tlieirself only
wen they sleeps, and they don't do that
no different from other nnimels, but
they is alone wen they eetclios a mouse,
except the mouse. We hail a old cat
as cot a mouse and didn't kill it, but
only hurt it inside. Then she laid it
down, and laid down by it, and shut
her eys, and forgot; but wen it had
crold away a bit she romeniberd. Then
father lie said heed be blode, and the
way he kict the cat was eruwii as you
ever see. Then tho baby, wieh wa*
a settiu' on tho (lore, lookt up and said
Agin.
Cats can look in the dark be ter than
day times, tho they isn't so much to
see. That's 'cause their eys is like lan
terns, but dogs looks best with a bras
coler. Hilly he says if dogs haa bran
colors with their oners' names onto it
they don't go mad. Ho says that's law.
Cats wich has kittiua is better than
tho other kind, 'cause it's good fun to
drownd 'em in bags. My sister's young
man says wen you want to drownd kit
tins if you wil apple ey to the Society
for prefentin' crulty to auimels you can
git rose water.
Did you ever here the eats
in the night, and a-spittin'? I have,
lots, and I tel you it makes a feller
afrado if he isn't a-slcepin' with his sis
ter. Hyron says oats is awful yet love
ly in their strength, and they is mon-
Uond by sevrel.
Curious A muvruirut*.
We are enjoying the eieitemcut at
tendant UJHU an English fair, writes a
correspondent. Locking around u we
notice interest# and excitenieut# which,
if known in America, are unfamiliar to
ua. Here ia a group of lada, reminding
ua of the (Ilea that gather to a drop of
treacle. We dud in ita center a table
of common deal, into which are atuck
by the blade aotne titty or sixty pocket
knives. The table and the knivee are
owned by a terw rummy looking man,
of fifty-rive or aixty year*, who ia ex
horting the boya to try their luek. lie
know* they are clever lada. He knowa
it by their*look*. Here are four braaa
rings, if auy boy will throw one of
theae ring* at five feet from the table
■ ) that it falla upon a knife, he ahall
have the knife, or fonrpenoe, as he
pleaaea. Hmart boya, anch aa they are,
can do it with case. The riuga are full
two iuchea 111 diameter, and aure to go
over the knivea if well thrown. He
ahall be obliged to attach one condi
tion, only one, to the throwing of the
riuga. If it should happen that no one
of the four riuga should go over a
kuife, the thrower will kindly pleasu to
pay him, the owner, one penny. We
looked on. The first ring we aaw thrown
went over a knife. We aaw twelve
other lada try their luck, and not an
other ring did we see go over a knife!
This game waa the center of a constant
circle of loaiug lada, and aometimea of
losiug men, all th< afternoon. Not far
off ia Aunt Hallv. Bhe is a atick atuck
into the ground, with skirt* over crino
line, and Buriuouuted by a wooden
band decorated in imitatian of a
squaw's. In her mouth an ordinary to
bacco pipe. To every man paying Lis
penny is given four round sticks, an
inch in diameter and a foot in length.
If, standing at a distance of twenty
feet, he can hit and smash the pipe in
Aunt Bally's mouth, he shall be re
warded with fourjience. If not, lie
lose# bis penny. Aunt Bally is a "good
card," but beside her are other cateli
ju-nuie#, such as op|ortuuiliea to try
your strength, your weight, the power
of your lungs, and the distance you
cau jump. Ily-and-bye cornea a con
test iu step-dancing. Then come* a
donkey race, always a comical affair,
and popular in Kuglaud. It cornea off
amid * storm of ahouta and laughtor,
and the moat uuhkely donkey comes in
ahead simply because the most likely
one stops, doggedly or doukeyly, just
his own length short of the goal. A
hurdle race follows, and it is impossible
to decide which of the two ia the win
ner, and finally a traveling trickster
gives various feats which makt# the na
tma open their eyea and their mouth#
in wonder.
A Terrible Snake htory.
A party of Chicago tourists, who re
turned from a three mouth#' trip
through Park, Summit, and Grande
counties, Colorado, relate a terrible
snake story. They were ene*mpd in
Klk Head Mountains, iu the North
Park, when they met with a misfortune
which cost one of the party his life.
The party arrived in camp late one
night from a day's hunt and ramble
ov r the bills. After a hearty snpper
the party lay down in their blankets
around the fire, which had been built
in the cleft of some large quartz rock#,
and all were soon fast asleep.
Mr. Straley wa* awakened in the
night by a heavy weight npon bia cheat.
At first he supposed it was his brother's
hand, but, ss it did not move, and be
coming nervous and alarmed, he raised
his head, and waa horrified to find a
large mountain rattlesnake coiled upon
hia cheat, with his head nestled down
in the center of the ooiL It was nearly
daylight, but Mr. Straley w* so para
lyzed with fear that be oould not make
a noise, and dared not more. He re
covered hi# presence of mind so far a#
to be able to draw the blankets over
hi# face. This movement started the
reptile, which glided from him to hia
brother, who was sleeping with him.
The snake passed from his breast to
bis brother's f#>e, when, in a fatal
moment, Henry Straley raise*) hia
hand to tear it away. Then' was a
fierce rattle and a loud cry from the
half-awakened boy, and the monster
buried its fangs in his right hand and
a second time in his cheek. There wa#
a loud scream from Henry m the poor
boy jnmped to his feet, while the
snake glided from the blankets to s
large flat took near the embers of the
fire. Mr. Jenkins fired his revolver at
it and the second shot brought it down.
Poor young Btraley was soon suffer
ing the most intense sgony. His
brother, at his request, cut out a large
part o the check in hopes that the
poison bad not penetrated very deep,
and a tight ligature wa* bound around
the wrist of the bitten hand, which was
bathed in cold water. Rut nothing
the horrified young men could do
failed to save "the poor boy. He died
in 'ess than two hour* in the most terri
ble igony. The body changed oolor
within three hours after the accident.
The young meu conveyer! the corpse to
Fort' Btle, whence it was shipped
home to Chicago for interment. The
snske measured four feet in length and
ha<l nine rattle#, which were taken off.
Hound to Do a Foil Day's Work.
Mr. M , of Oxford, don't object
to having a hired man do a full day's
work; at least so we should judge
from the following Htory :
A short time ago. a man went to his
place for work. Mr. M set him to
plowing around a forty-acre field. After
he had plowed faithfully all day, until
the sun was about half au hour high,
he expressed his opinion that it wa*
about time to quit work.
"Oh, no," said Mr. M , "you
can plow around six or eight times
more just a* well as not."
Bo the hired mail plowed around six
or eight times, then went to tho bouse,
took care of his team, milked nine cows,
ate hi# snpper, and found ten o'clock
staring him in the faoo from the old
time piece.
Said tho hired man to Mrs. M ,
" Where is Mr. M ?"
Tho good woman answered, " lie haa
retired ; do you wish to see him ?"
He replied that he did. After being
conducted to the bedroom, ho said,
" Mr. M , where is the au ?"
" Why," said Mr. M , " what do
you want with tho ax f"
"Well," said the hired man, "I
thought yon might like me to split
wood till breakfast is ready."
Cruelty.
John Dwinuolle, in Ban Francisco,
was mounting his horse; a dog barked,
the horse shied, and the man was
thrown. Mr. Dwinnollo got np ex
ceedingly angry, but with the subdued,
teoth-elenohiug manner of a man bent
on vengeance. He lad his horse back
to the stable, and then sought tho dog,
who was drowsily catching flies in a
butcher's shop. Mr. Dwinnelle took
the dog by the nape of ita neck in one
hand, and the handle of a long-bladed
kuife iu tho other, and carried them
into the street. There he tried to carry
out his plan of cutting the other brute's
head off. There was a long and drawn
battle, in which the dog escaped with
enough unsevered neck to live with.
Dwinnelle was proseonted by the Bo
oiety for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Ajiimals, but the jury acquitted him.
Terms: 582.00 a "Y"eir, in Advance.
A Mississippi Hltrr Mate.
The mate of a Mississippi or Missouri
river steamer is a tyrant in hia way.
Hia chief occupation is to stand and
curse and kick hia " roustabouts," or
deck hands, aud the charm of hia keep
ing hia place and being known a* a
" bully mate" depends much upon his
ability to do this. A poetical fellow
after describing s " bully mate" relates
an incident:
Oue day he said to e roustabout who had onto
hte back
A four-huahnl hag of oom—rather heavy, hot
it'e e fact -
11 ow that he thought hia gall wa'n't exactly op
to railroad time.
When they got into a controversy 111 not pot
in rhyme,
hut I'll elate lhar wa'n't no more ourn earned
on that boat that day,
For all the crew waa occupied in eeetn' 'em
have fair play.
l'hey shook things np lively for the Aral three
quarter of an hoar,
An' rimme-1 their head* right into eevaral bar
rels of flour.
An' the corn an' things that woe spilt around
on the lower deck
Made it look aa though the host had struck a
snag an' gone to wrock ;
An' thie ror mate, who hadn t never yit lost a
euigle fight,
Sew thai hi* chance# for kesain' out first heat
iu this here one wee light.
So when he found he eooidtt't git swty with
that lhar roustabout,
lie begun to get cueaey ; then he cueeed and
holiored oat:
" Say, ex you una all gout' to stand round no*
yer hoot an see
This insubordination f 1 say, yer stop this
mutiny !"
An' that is the moral that I've been try in for
to paint:
When them males lick a man it's ail right but
when they don't it ain't.
THE STOLEN CHILD.
We were seated in tbo rector'# coxy
sitting-room one evening, when the
conversation turned upon the disap
pearance of little Charley ltose.
Having had a long acquaintance with
the family, a friend present was de
scribing the sad effect which the terrible
calamity had upon the mother ; how, as
each day came on, ahc watched agoni
zingly for tidings. We listened so in
tently that we did not hear the bell
ring, and were surprised by the en
trance of my oldest brother, who
brought with him Harry Cunningham,
the Loudon business man of their firm.
After introductions were over, and
we were all seated, the talk drifted
over to the old subject, the dear little
child so ruthlessly stolen away from
home-love and oom fort As we went
on, Mr. Cunningham seemed more than
usually interested. One and another
ventured an opinion, commenting upon
varioua surmises, expressing various
doubt* and beliefs, when the stranger
said, with a smile—
" As long as their is no proof of vio
lence or death, it is better to hope for
tbo best. 1 knew of a caae which I
will tell you, where a child waa found
after nearly twenty years of exile."
Of course we were all attention, and
be began on this wise :
" When I was s young man of six
and twenty, and that is nearly as many
years ago," he added, with a smile, "I
was visiting in the south of England.
" The gentleman at whose house I
stayed wa* a large manufacturer and a
Tory wealthy man. Hu family con
sisted of himself and a wife, two sons
and a daughter, Edith, who was one of
the fairest, sweetest maidens I ever
met To make a long story short, I
became very much attached to the
young lady, and wanted to win her for
my wife.
" Mentioning my aspirations to ber
father, Mr. Fontleroy, one day, I was
equally astonished and disappointed to
learn that ahe was already engaged to
be married to a wealthy young barris
ter, then in London, pursuing his pro
fession.
"We sat by a fine old hay-window
covered with" clinging Tinea, and out
side of which glimpses of s garden,
royal with Provence-roees and other
beautiful flowers, oould be seen. The
clean, white paths winding from sight,
the rich, short verdure, the mounds,
statues, fountains and brightly colored
shrubs msde the outlook a paradise to
my beauty-loving eye. Mr. Fontleroy
bad relapsed into a grave thoughtful
nets. For a long time he did not speak,
and then he said impulsively—
" • If only Edith's sister were here !'
" • Edith's sister 1 I understood that
Edith was su only daughter,' I said.
" ' She is, to all intents and pur
poses, he answered, throwing off his
melancholy manner ; ' but somewhere
in this wide world Edith has a sister, a
twin. I cannot make her dead,' he
added. * Always I bear about mo the
impression that she is still alive, and so
does Edith.
" •It seems but yesterday,' he said,
pointing out toward* the lovely view,
•that Edith and ber twin-sister were
playing out there among the shrubs.
I "haii l Mea watching them coming and
going, hadVl myself to hear
their innocent mirth, ana IOC • tew mo
ments bar! gone into a light
When I opened my eyes, not long after,
little Edy stood here st the window
with s white, scared face.
'* • " Papa," ahe said, " papa, wake
np and go after Alice."
" • " Where is Alice ?" I aaked, drow
sily.
" " The red woman took her ; the
red woman ran away, and Alice never
cried ; she was under her cloak."
" 'I sprang to my feet,' continued
Mr. Fontleroy, ' half startled aud half
amused. It "must be some trick of my
wild cousin, who was then staying at
the house, and often teased the chil
dren beyond their patience. Hut alss!
there was no trick ; from that hour to
this I have never seen my child.
" For years wo were on the search.
I have offered rewards times without
number. Children of all sixes and
ages have been brought here. I have
been summoned to London a dozen
times a year, but 1 have never found
any trace of my poor little Alice.'
" * How long ago was that ?' 1 asked.
"' The children were just turned
four; it was seventeen years,' he an
swered.
"The story produced a strong im
pression npon me, but I wondered at
his still sanguine expectation of finding
hia ' little girl,' aa he called her.
"Six months from that day Mr.
Fontleroy acoompanied me back to
America." I never saw a more delighted
traveler. Hia enthnaiaam over our
institutions waa boundless. He was
very anxious to visit Washington, and
we spent nearly a month iu that city.
" On the very day we had fixed to re
turn to New York, a gentleman detain
ed us with the offer of his carriage and
horses to ride out to the suburbs, and
visit a place owned by the banker Cor
coran, since then bnilt np and known
as tho ' Soldiers' Home.'
" He accepted the offer, and together
we drove out over the fine country.
We had nearly reached our destination,
when suddenly in the bend of the road
wo saw a gypsy camp. The expreeeion
that earne into Fontleroy'• face, M he
NO. 42.
reined in his borsea, I shall always re
member.
"' I never see a sight like that with
out a throbbing heart,' be aaid.
" The soene waa utterly new to me,
and I regarded it more with the rye of
an artist. U was indeed s strange and
brilliant piotnre. The tall oaks stood
like sentinel* in the background, their
tieeutiful brown trunks reddened
by broad patches of sunshine. The
green sward sloped to the front, and
waa covered with well-made wagons,
fine horses, tautt, and motley groupsof
wandering men and women.
" At one aide the grass was thickly
strewed with newly washed linen, ana
on lines stretched from the branches,
gay bits of gypsy attire flattered in the
wind. There were jaokets, red, bine
and gray, children's torn dresses, rags
of every color.
" Down in a little hollow, a black
haired woman dipped water from a run
ning spring iuto a heavy iron kettle,
looking at as suspiciously under her
straight, black browa. Beneath a
tree sat a young girl, brown aa aa In
dian. She had bung a small mirror to
the bsxk of a giant forest oak, and waa
dressing her abundant trasses.
" From a forked pole a mighty caul
dron hung suspended, the smell of
which was most appetising : the steam
came up fast and furiously, bat the fire
could hardly be seen in the garish light j
of day.
" ' Hnppoae wa get out,' aaid Mr.
Fontleroy, looking about for some one
to hold his horses.
" We soon found a sturdy boy for
that purpose, and in a few momenta we
were in the midst oP the camp, ex
amining the blooded stock. Meantime
the woman who had been dipping water
had harried into the midst of the camp,
and presented herself, with a pack of
dirty cards, before us.
" She was s most forbidding-looking
h*g. sinister in ooontenanoe ana
stealthy in manner, but Mr. Fontleroy
was ou the point of listening to her,
when suddenly there fell upon our ears
a most piercing shriek.
" The woman dashed her cards down,
the £m*Ji turned from the beautiiul i
horse he bad been praising, people I
sprang from sward and tent, the dogs 1
began to bark, and we were startled <
with the rest
" 'lt is Barb. 1 am aura it's bar
voice,' said tbe woman, wildly looking
round. 'lt is back there in the woods,
lion, quick !'
" None were on the spot mnch sooner
than Mr. Funtleroy and myself. The
cause of the piercing outcry was soon
ascertained. Prone on tbe ground laid
a stalwart, reoklcae-looking fellow, his
hat off, and crouched upon his breast,
its almost human eye* watching the
pirl, whose uplifted hand seemed even
in this moment to be regarded as law
by the brute, an immense blood-bound.
"The handsome face of the gypsy
youth was flecked with blood and foam,
"but my eyea were held by the face of
the girl, ard Mr. Fontleroy held my
arm with a grip like iron. In all but
the color of tbe complexion, browned
by tbe constant exposure to the sun,
she waa English Edith's counterpart—
the height, the expression, the shape of
the brow, the color of the hair, the
▼cry poise of the small, lithe figure—
but not the angry blaze of the brown
eye.
" ' I told him if he teased me any
more, I would act Lep on him, and if I
said the word, as psrhapa I should, the
dog would kill iiim, and serve him
ruriit/ she added. ' Father, call Lep
off; he will come for you.'
" At the word •father,' which waa ad
dressed to the old man with whom we
had been talking horses, Mr. Fontleroy
shivered from head to foot.
"'Ainalie,' said he, under hia
breath, as the bound slunk off at com
mand of his master, and the cowed
Prpsy rose, ' that girl is my daughter ;
know it, I feel it to the very core of
my heart.'
" ' You are right,' waa my answer.
' None bnt Edith's twin sister oould
look so much like her. What are you
going to do 7*
" Mr. Fontleroy was still silent, his
eyes devouring the girl as she sank 1
down, ponting and growing paler, while
several of the men and women gathered
about her.
" Only the old hag remained near
ua, hoping to tell our fortunes. Mr.
Fontleroy turned towards her sud
denly.
" ' Seventeen years ago,' be said,
slowly and distinctly, ' yon stole that
girl from a garden, where she wrss
playing with her sister, in a town
called , in the south of England.'
" His face was stern as hs spoke,
with forefinger pointed towards her.
The woman started, looked about her
fearfully, and seemed gathering up her
courage to reply, whan he prevented
her.
" * Don't yon dare to deny it, or yon
and all your* tn be shall pay more dearly
than von think. 1 am the father of
that girl, goaded to vengeance by
seventeen years of unsuccessful search
ing. I might take her from you and
imprison you all, but I don't want the
trouble and the publicity. Call that
man and go down in the tent, and 1
will make terms with you.'
"He knew it was true then, and
be was right, by the instant submis
sion of the head of the tribe. They
went into the tent at oooe and settled
-vt. V.r. wi"iiinu hi fi s handsome sum
of money.
"Then came the strangest scene of
aIL The girl refused to know her
father, and wept as if her heart would
break over the parting with those gypsy
wanderers. A few months, however,
sufficed to conquer her strange instinots,
and two years later she married a young
Englishman, who is now living in
Washington."
We were, of course, csger to see her,
aud the next day we were favored with
an introduction to Mrs. Ainsley ; and
no one, to look at the graceful woman,
would ever imagine that she was
brought up under the greenwood tree.
She confessed that she had never
Siite oonquered her predilection for
e wild woods, and gave us an insight
into the mode of the gypsy's life, which
was new and interesting.
She herself had known of four chil
dren the gypsies had stolen, though
she had never dreamed that she herself
had been kidnapped. They generally
sold them, she said, capturing hand
some children for that purpose, and
having their agenta in every oountry.
She supposed that becoming at
tached to her, they decided not to part
with her, as she was very lively and
merry, and the life of the camp.
A LUNATIC AT LAIMJK.— The relatives
of an unfortunate lunatic, near Caaea,
in tho island of Crete, instead of send
ing him to a madhouse, led him about
from shrine to shrine in the hope of ob
taining a miraculous cure. Instead,
however, of getting better, the patient
only became more ungovernable, until
at last, in a fit of furv, he fell upon two
shepherds and stabbed them both to
death. Borne villagers, not unnaturally
mistaking the ussaaain for a highway
man, attacked him in turn, and quickly
dispatched him with their knives.
Queries by a medical joker : If the
patient does not reoover his health,
ought the physician to reoover his fees?
If the doctor* orders bark, has not the
patient a right to growl ?
WIM Www® la Ik® Wwt.
Much mmaiai ia aliibited by these
birds is localities where U>®y • fw
fluently disturbed. We have often seen
them, aays a writer, in tba great swamp*
of tba Bureau Vallay, along tba Illi
noia, ooma hj about dark, whan it waa
just too lata to draw a tight, noiaelaaly
♦taaling along ao aa to evade tba ran
dom aliot of tha hnntar returning to
<-amp after a long day's work. Ba at
taobad are they to their old grounds,
and ao liable to ba pnraoad at night by
rack lass adventurers, that altar a faw
warnings they baffle the moat intelli
gent. Simula their line of entry be
discovered to-night aa they eocna aeroas
the marah from the to-morrow
night, if yon watch, yon may bear tha
vibration of their wings aa they paaa
over the timber to tba north, in weir
approach to the old rioe pond or open
water of the big aloogh. Upon all
other occasion*, and aJao when die
tnrtied, they exhibit their usual pro
penaity to indulge in gabble and gooee
talk. The moat prominent among tba
varieties in tba West ia tba Canadian
gooae. The next, and cxiating in great
numbers, ia the white-fronted or laugh
ing gooae, ealled by many " brant" Of
the regular brent-gooae wa bare bat
few. We killed one oat of a flock in
the Illinois river, in 1860, on a sand
bar, and believe it ia the only flock wa
ever aaw in that valley. The brent
gooae is about half the size of the Cana
dian variety, and ia abont two-thirds aa
large aa the white-fronted, mottled, or
laughing-gooae. Bat in the absence of
the regular brent-gooae, the mottled
bird known aa fbe langhmg-gooae car
ries the name of brant, And brant it
ia, so far aa the average shooter ia in
formed ; for few of tbem have ever seen
a brent-gooae—and this is tb only bird
which, to their knowledge, ever bore
the name. These same fellow* call a
partridge a pheasant, and an English
snipe a woodcock. It ia amusing to
waieh a flock of langhing-geea® aa they
approach a favorite feeding-grunad o/
a resting place. Tbey ooma first in the
regular acute-angle line of flight, sud
denly tbey break ranks, and with one
aooord tba whole flock begins a series
of evolutions, tumbling and turning
high in the air, and then descending in
a most comical and irregular manner, to
the amusement of the observer, all the
while indulging in n jabber more re
sembling the merry laughing of
school girls than anything else, from
which peculiarity they reoaive their
name, Aa a table bird it ia highly es
teemed, and ia generally preferred to
the Canada gooae. In point of num
bers it exceeds the latter in this locali
ty, while in other parts the ratio ia
reversed. They visit the Weet in
March and April, oe their ragnlw mi
grations to the lakes and bays of North
ern Minnesota, the British possessions,
sad Labrador, remaining with ns some
times aa late aa May in small detach
ments. Many are killed before they
reach their northern breeding-grounds.
After raising the usual brood, sod re
plenishing their thinned ranks, they
gather for the aatamnal return flight,
and in October we see them wending
their wav to their old and favorite
haunts, until the cold weather driven
them southward to the great marshes
of Arkansas and the Lowet Mississippi.
Aa they pass north in March, per ermly
before a aoutharn gale, which tames
them along with little apparent effort,
their coming is welcomed as a harbin
ger of returning spring. Tbey come,
100, in large numbers, accompanied by
all the usual varieties of water-fowl ia
even greater prolusion.
Allltade at Which Mew Caw Live.
There haa been a great deal of dia
cuaaion as to the altitude at which
bumaa beings can exist, and Mr. Glaia
ber himself can tell us aa much about
it as anybody. In Julr, 1872, he and
Mr. Cox wall ascended in a balloon
to the enormous height of 38,000 feet.
Previous to tbe start, Mr. Glaiaher's
pulse stood at 76 beat* a minute, Oox
well's at 74. At 17,000 feet tbe pulse
of the former was at 84, that of the
latter at 100. At 19,000 feet Glaiaher's
hands and lips were qnite bine, bat
not hia face. At. 21,000 feet he heard
hia heart beating, and his breathing be
came oppressed ; at 29,000 feet he be
came senaelees ; notwithstanding which
the aeronaut, in the interest of science,
went up another 8,000 feet, rill he could
no longer use his hands, and had to
pull the strings of the valve with his
teeth.
Aeronaut* who have to make bo ex
ertionshare,of course, a great advantage
over me in ben of the Alpine Clnb and
those who trust their lews; even at
13,003 feet, these climbers feel vary un
comfortable, more ao in the Alps, it
seema, than ebewher*. At the monas
tery of 8k Bernard, 8,117 feet high, the
monks become asthmatic, and are com
pelled frequently to descend into the
valley of the Bhone for—anything bat
a bieiatb of fresh air; and at the end ef
tea years' aernoe are obliged te give up
their high living, and como down te
their nsnal level At the aame time in
Booth America there are towns, such ae
Potosi, placed as high ss the top of
Mont Blanc, the inhabitants of which
feel no inoanvenienoe. The higheet in
habited spot in the world is, however,
the Bnddhist cloister of Hanle, in
Thibet, where 21 priests live at an atti
tude of 16,000 feet.
The brothers Schlaginsweit, when
tbeT explored the glaciers of the Ibi-
Oamin in the same country, encamped
at 21,000 feet, the highest altitude at
which a European ever passed the
night. Even at the top of Mont Blanc,
Prof. Tyndall's guides found itvery un
plesssnt to do this, though the Prof,
himself did not confess to feeling so
bad as they. The higheet mountain in
the world is Mount Evened (Himalaya),
29,008 feet, and the oondor has been
seen " winging the bine air" 500 feet
higher. The air, by-the-bye, is not
•'blue," or else, as De Saussure point
ed out, " the distant mountains which '
are oovered with snow would appear
blue alsoits apparent eolsr being
doe to the reflection of light. What
light can do and does, is marvelous ;
and not the least is its power of attrac
tion to humanity.
A Bridal l>rvss.
The bridal dress of Miss Honore, the
bnde of OoL Fred Grant, was white
.latin with point lace overokirt made to
owlet) - ftnd beautifully looped with
orange bloeso®k-lUl> q*"*e high in
the neck, has long sleeve*. AlliLi*
oovered with an illusion veil. Ajomr
lace jacket and a set of delicate Valen
ciennes, a coat of black mantilaaee,
mounted with velvet, an all black teilet
of silk velvet and jet, were noted and
deserve more special attention than
there is now time to give them.
There wss also a plain walking skirt of
velvet, with camels' hair polonaise,
mounted with velvet, which was exceed
ingly novel, original and stylish ; the
traveling dress of camels' hair, oolor of
seal skin ; three black silks, one with
the train all profusely trimmed with
beads ; s cloak of matelasse cloth and
a variety of other articles, forming a
very complete and elegant trousseau.
Distribution or the Stars.
Professor B. A. Gould, who has just
returned from the Argentine Confed
eration, where he has established a
well equipped astronomical observa
tory, brings home some observations
which oonld not be made in a less clear
atmosphere. At the late meeting of
the Association for the Advancement of
Science he spoke of the Milky Way, an
seen in Ooraoba, and the belief that
the number of stars of any given mag.
nitude increases toward the Galaxy.
He said that a great circle or zone of
bright stars seems to intersect the
Milky Way at the Southern Croas and
Cassiopeia. The inclination of the
stream ef stars to the Milky Way is
abont 25 deg. Part of this zone has
been previously recognized by Sir John
Herscbel. Dr. Gould thought that two
questions discussed by him, the hy
pothesis of an equable distribut'on of
stars being one, and thia discovery of
a well marked zone of very bright stars
near the Milky Way being tie other,
may assist in determining the position
of our sun in reference to its own clus
ter, as well as other great astronomical
questional