A Persian Love Seng. ah ! sad are they who know not lovs. But. far from passion's tsars and smiles, Drift down a moonless sea beyond The silvery coasts of fairy isles. And sadder they whose longing lips Kim empty sir. and never touch The dear warm month of those they love- Waiting, wasting, suffering much. Bat clear as am her, fine a* muk. Is life to those who, pilgrim-alee. Move hand in hand from dawm to d;ih, Each morning nearer raradist. Oh, not for them shall angels pray ; They (-tend iu sverlseiing Eg' t , They walk iu Allah's emtio by day. And tieslle iu hie heart by night. Damurl Dorothy. O Damsel Dorothy ! Dorothy y ' Strange le the gift that t owe to you . Bucli a gift a* never a king Bare to daughter or eon might bring All my tenure of heart and hand. All tuy hlle to hotn-o an.l land ; Mother and meter and child and wife And joy and sorrow and death and life ■ That if a hundred years ego boee cloec-ehut Ujw had t.aw< rev! No, When forth the tremulous .juofUcu came Thai coat the maiden her Norman name And under the fo'd* that look o etiU The bodies ewellcd with the loeiai'i thrill f Should I he I, or would it he One-tenth another, to niue-teuth* or ? Soft ta the breath of a maiden'* \ a* . Kot the light givaamrr atirw with leea ; But never a cable that hold* to fast Though all the battles of way and blast. And never an echo of speech or song That lives hi the babbling air so long'. There were tones m the voice that whispered then You may hear to-day in a hundred men. O lady and lover, how famt and far Tour images hover—and here we ai. BoUd and stirring in lleeh and bene - Edward s and Dorothy's—all their own A goodly record for time to show Of a syllable spoken so long ago! Shall I bless yon. Dorothy, or forgive Tor the tender whisper that bade me Lve A >i'. MM THE SAILOR'S RETURN. A CfIKISTMAS STORT. It was Christmas eve. For an hour or more I had been seated before the chimney-puce giiiug into the fire, in dulging in a retrospection. 1 am a bachelor. But Christmas is not the only day I devote to dreaming ; for 1 am one of those individuals who live much in the past, and often, as twilight deepens into darkness, I sit peering back into the hazy past,in fauey snatch ing again scenes which bring to my vision a sweet, childish face, framed iu a profusion of yellow ringlets, a face that made an impression on my boyish heart, which time can never efface. That awoke within me the first wild thrills of love—true, indulging love. A face too heavenly for this world, so God called it* awav early. When I looked upon it for the last time—before the coffin lid shut it forevet from my view—my young heart chilled within me, and I fervently prayed that I, too. might die. From the moment that I heard the harsh earth thud upon the coffin that contained the form of my child love, I became something of a re olnse. I had come to Cliffrille on baai nesa a few days previous to theopening of my story, intending to return on the following day; bnt-before I had been in town two hours an old acquaintance of mice—the gout—took it upon him self to pay me a visit; I was oblige*! to forego all business and remain in my room in the Cliffville Hotel. Christ mas eve found me much improved. But the prospect of spending the day at a village tavern, where 1 was a total stranger, did not present to me an un pleasant aspect, although a sense of ex treme loneliness stole over me, and the silence and gloom of the room (for it was now quite dark) oppressed me. I put some woo* upon the fast expiring ooals and lighted up my lamp. 1 paced up and down the narrow room to keep warm. By degrees my thoughts drill ed into a strange channel, and sudden ly, and for the first time in my exist ence, I realized what a useless, selfish being 1 was—that 1 had been looking at life through a defective glass. 1 was simply Isaac Alderton, a moody old bachelor, with an intellect in no way snperior to the average, bat possessing a goodly stock of this world's goods, which I had managed and used for the gratification of my own selfish whims and fancies, never for a moment think ing of the want and snffering around me. I would turn over a new leaf and date it Christmas eve, 1855. A few momenta later found me care fully picking my way over the slippery pavement of the main street of the town. In the store-windows, which were illuminated as brightly as a plen tiful array of oil-lamps and metal re flectors would permit, articles of every description were displayed in the most enticing manner. Groups, of men, women, and children were collected be fore the most attractive windows, gazing admiringly at their allnring contents, while others hurried hither and thither laden with numerous packages, contain ing articles destined to make both young aud old hearts bound with pleas ure on the morrow. The jingle of bells, as merry sleighing parties dashed over the crisp snow, the peals of langhter that reached my ear, and the happy smiling faces that met my gaze at every turn, oomblned to almost convince me that care had been vanquished for a time, and mirth and happiness had usurped its place. I had been walking quite briskly for some moments, humming half aloud odd lines from old songs, having quite forgotten my mission, when ttie dis tance between store-window*, and the infrequency of street lamps, notified me that I was approaching the suburbs of the town. Going back away, I bad stopped op posite the show-window of a little eon feotion and toy-store. Before this window, looking with longing eyes at the wonders within, stood a little girl, thinly and poorly clad, and by her side holding her hand in his, an old man with a sorrowful, careworn faco. "Oh! grandpa, ain't they beauti ful 1" exclaimed the child. "Bee that doll with light hair. Jsn't she lovely 1 How I wish she were mine ; but you can't buy her for me, can you ?" " Not to-night," replied the old nun, with a half-suppressed sigh. " But sometime, perhaps, my little Aggie can have a far finer one—when grandpa gets rich." He smiled faintly, then turnod his eyes from the window and gazed away •into the darkness. The light fell upon his face, when I could easily disoern the deep traces of care, disappointment, and age. "Oh I how I wish I had some of those candies, and the doll, and that wagon with red wheels, and—bnt I for r>t. It is wrong to make such wishes. nut Maria has told me that I must not oovet anything—that to do so is rery wicked. Oome, grandpa." And she turned away sadly. " Let ns go home. I don't want to be wicked, but I can't help it when I see so many pretty things." The old man pt rmitted himself to be led from the window by the child, and hand in hand they walked slowly away. For a moment I stood looking after them,'then, acting upon the impulse, I started in pursuit After proceeding a short distance along the main thor oughfare, they tamed off into a narrow street, and, following, I saw them enter a small and rather dilapidated house, whicn stood some little distance back from tho street, with a courtyard before it I noted its appearance carefully. It was built of wopd, two 6tories high, and looked to be considerably older than a century. A picket-feuoe—minus many of the pickets—with a rickety gate, whicfiswuDg backward and for ward is the strong wind, discoursing KURTZ, lijditoraiul I'ropriotor. Vol.. VII. the movt excruciating music imagin able, divided the plot of ground upon which it SUHHI from the street. Satis fied that I e<er keeps as a sort of sanctum. In one corner of it 1 have often noticed a small green chest. I had occasion to pass through the apartment a few tlavs since, when I discovered that tho lid uf the chest hail been left up, aud eurioeity prompted me to take a peep at its contents, which I found to couaist of the remuauta of a doll's cradle, a doll's wagon, with a solitary red wheel, and the head, body and one leg of the doll herself. What to Teach Our Daughter*. Teach them self-reliance. Teach them to make bread. Teach them to make shirts. Teach them to foot up atore bills. Teach them net to wear false hair. Teach them to wear thick, warm shoes. Bring them up in the way they ahould go. Teach them how to wash and iron clothes. Teach them how to make their own dreases. Teach tbem that a dollar is only a hundred oeuta. Teach them to cook a good meal of victuals. Teach them how to darn a bookings and sew on buttons. Teach them every day, dry, hard, practical commou sense. Teach them to say No, and mean it; or Yes, and etick to it. Teach them to wear calico dresses and do it like queens. Give them a good, substantial com mon-school education. Teach them that a good, rosy romp is worth fifty consumptives. Teach them to regard the morals and not the money of their beaux. Teach them all the mysteries of the kitchen, the dining-room, and the par lor. Teach them that the more one lives within his income the more he Jwill save. Tench tbem to have nothing to do with intemperate and disaolnto youug men. Teach them the further one lives be yond his income the ncsrer he gets to the poor-house. Rely upon it that upon your teaching depends m a great measure the weal or woe of their after life, Teach them that a good, steady me chanic is worth a dozen loafers in broadcloth. Teach them tho accomplish ments, musie, painting, drawing, if yon have time and money to do it with. Teach them that God made them in his own image, and uo amount cf tight lacing will improve the model. Earij Days In Tennessee. When a lady went to Dover or Palmyra, oar commercial cities in those days, and bonght a calico dress, says an exchange, speaking of early days in Tennessee, it aronsed and ex oited the whole community moro than the killing of a bear caught in the cow pen, which was a frequent occnrrenoe. When a calico dress was purchased, the news spread like wildfire. It was narrated abroad that such n ono had bongbt a calico dress. In those days we had our sugar-camps, and made our own sugar ; ooffeo was bought at our commercial cities, aud used only on Sundays. Milk, the best and most healthy beverage in the world, was daily nsed, and the rone bloomed and played npon every girl's eheok. There were no calomel-doctors' bills to pay. They are a worthy and useful profes sion of the present day. Wo had meet ing-houses in those days, niado of logs and clapboards. We called it going to meeting. The elegant phrase now is to attend church, and to go in buggies and carriages. We walked from three to five miles in going to meeting, play ing with the girls all the way. I have seen from fifty to ono hnndred ladies walking barefooted to meeting, carry ing their shecs and stockings in their hands, and on arriving, sitting down along the branob, washing their boun tiful feet, and putting on their stock ings and shoos, preparatory to going in. Phys'ral and Menial Disease. A writer in Vhamber*'* Journal speaks of the fAct as decidedly note worthy that the common opinion that excessive mental occupation gravitates toward insanity is not only not verified by facts, but that, on the contrary, one of tho foremost of living physicians doubts whether alienation of mind is ever the result of overstrain ; it is to physical, not to mental derangement, he thinks, that excessive work of the brain generally gives rise. Insanity, he points ont, finds the most suitable material for its development among the cloddish, nnedncated classes, wbilo the worst forms of physical diseases are originated and intensified by the educa ted, overstraining brain-workers, I FX AS BI LL HAITIAN. Iluw lbs lUtlati rinbl ua lbs IMaltia ol tba l.ußir lui tlaia. A eorreiqioudeut among the groat cat tle herds lu Texas wnU at-> Iho Hal- Vrstou .Vi KI .* lit CtUvo of a ItitMß winter, when grass i scant, a jaok of wnlve* single out Some decrepit oltl hull that hs fought his hi t tight atul been des rtod by hia herd long ago, which they follow and worry day aud night until ho is at last pulled down. Like tho buffalo which forinly loamod over this country, these bulls are con stantly fighting tor tho mastery of tho herds, aud tho cowi have a hearty con tempt for tho follow that la not ready at all times to present an un daunted front. With their immense frames ami terrible horns a pair of Texan bulls make a bad fight. Hhort horu Durham bulls have ueeu intro duced by men whs thought to improve tho stock ; but they have no show at all, and olio is occasionally seen feed ing in solitude. In round iug up cattle apoii the prairie, the driver witnesses a great many of these tights. Perhaps half a dosen distinct hctda are brought together, and the "lords" take occa sion to plume themselves, and meander ing around, with deep roars, pay their respects to the gentle sex, and glance defiance at each other. Young aspir ants for honors are equally as demon strative, and outcasts thus brought into contact with victors in former contests aie punished for their seeming temeri ty ; old sores arc revived; hostilities begin, aud soon a d Jtea tights are go ing on in diffe:eut portions of the large herd. The flrtt symptoms of an accepted challenge are telegraphed over the herd by prolonged and shrill roars. Instantly all the bulls m the immediate vicinity, not engaged, rush to the *|xt and caper about the two adversaries in away they wonld seem iucajiable of— sll the while hellowiug, and undoubted ly taking sides, and urging on the two -entralfigure*. About twenty bet apart tliev stand, toßsiug up dirt with hoof anil horu, until suddenly, with lowered head, tbev spring at each other, and their forelicuda meet with a dull thud. They rebound, aud a second and third time rally, when comes the sndden strain- head to head and horn to horn. Every nerve aud muscle is exerted to (he utmost; and no living thiug can long endure such fearful leuiion. Pres ently one will prove the weaker, or slip a foot, aud for the moment be thrown off his guard ; but the slightest advan tage is not lost to those watchful, glar it g eyes ol his antagonist, who throws las lsst energies into a mighty plunge forward, which turns the victim's neck, and the long, rakiug wound in the flank follows. It is not good to be too near them, for horse and rider might be overturned. Nothing will stop a van quished bull iu his headloug flight ; and blind with rage and agony, he runs far away upon the prairie. Manv loee their lives lighting. If not gored in a vita! part, the wounds are flyblown directly, often causing death. A Strange Freak of .Nature. A. II Abbitt litei in tho city of Fort ll<>ward. Wis , aud is surrounded by a large and interesting family. Borne two years ago the mother died, having triplets, and shortly after her death two of the little ones were quietly put to rest by the aide of the departed mother. But, singular to relate, the surviving one, by a freak of nature, was uahei>hl into this world with two upper aud tvro lower freut teeth, while the body was almost covered with soft, silky hair; the hair on its back hciag darker thauon other parts of the body. From the want of a mother's care the little one seemed to slowly sink, and looked as if it would soon "follow thoee wLich had gone before. With a few m nth* careful attention and the as sistance of loving hands the little suf ferer soon showed evidences of gaining health and strength. With increasing age the motherless one showed re markable pre cociousuesa ; its antics and cuuniug wavs were the attractions of the household. St range to relate, how ever, all sweetened food antl dainty dishes usually partaken by the youug were nntonebed by this j>et of the fami ly, mid he seemed to have au nnuaual liking for vegetables, which ultimately were froely given him. The eireum stanoea surrounding the birth—re markable appcarauce, and singular habits of the little one, have to a great extent been kept from the public, prin cipally from the desire that the resi dence of his family should not be daily surrounded by the idle and the curious. The extraordinary facta narrated haTe only come to the ktiowledge of the re porter of the Daily State (fazette from the sudden death of the subject ot thin noiieet. On Friday the little one was as healthy and froelicsome as any day of its life ; but on Saturday morning it was found dead, The spark of life no doubt bad fled daring the night, with cut a murmur or expression of pain from tho now inanimate body. A Forsaken, Friendless Wife. A telegram was sent to a Chicago polioe station stating that the body of a new-born child, supposed to have been mnrdered, had been fonnd and the mother was under arrest The poor girl ia a pretty, petite, black-eyed young female of unusually modest, and even timid, demeanor. She ia nineteen years old, and looks as though the thought of committing a great crimo would amply suffice to scare her to death. A reporter interviewed her at the Chicago avenue station, whero she told her Htory in a straightforward way, and subsequent investigation failed to disprove a singln statement she made. Her maiden name is Mary Korn. About a year ago sho was married to Hpence M arson, in the city of New York, in whose father's family she had been employed as a domestic. Last July the heartless husband deserted his young nnd inexperienced wife, and sho has not since seen him, bnt sup poses ho is somewhere in New Jersey. Without friends in New York, and almost distracted by hor forlorn con dition, sho nought to better her for tunes by seeking anew homo in Chicago. A f'rnel Custom. A prominent Philadelphia physician writes as follows of the prscticeof com pelling shop girls to ttand behind the counter during all their hours of ser vice : "The custom is selfish, cruel and useless. Selfish on the part of the proprietor requiring the women to stand all the time, whether serving customers or not, and this merely that they may appear to be always en the alert to wait ou those who call. To stand from seven or eight o'clock in the morning, to six, eight or ten at night—as is tho custom at certain stores—with a short time at midday for dinner, would weary any mau. Put to exact such service from girls and women 1 Their physical powers are, it is well known, much weaker thsn those of inen ; at any rate, and by their anatomical and physiolo gical jieeuliarities, they are entirely un fit for bearing this especially sever toil, namely—standing all day long. My professional brethern, who practice largely among women, are constantly witnessing the terrible consequences of this most cruel "rule of the establish ment, Adirrtliilnc Philosophy. In business it is he who asks who re ocivea. (iiHxl advertisers find that it pays to keep a full stock. The beat " jxmU-r " is that which ia sent regularly into the family circle. " How can I tell whether my adver tisement will attract or not ?" Try it. llsve you ever heard a business mail say that advertising did not pay him ? The advertiser generally has the ad vantage of securing the first call of pur chasers. " My goods advertise themselves." IVihap* your goods know more than you do. When people learned to read, adver tisements bee true indispensable to a lively business. " What's the use of my advertising ; I have been here for twenty yeara." Tell people o. That it advertising. A wise man will get people into the habit of believing in his advertise ments, by making their offers good. It is a fact worthy of notice, that few who have learned how to advertise their business, ever give up the habit. Your advertisement* are read after your store ia closed, and are often pe rused before it is opened in the morn tug- To do business with the aid of adver tising has the same advantage as to make war with rifled guns ; it hits at long range. Msny people who have not advertised and who say that they "do not bslieve in it," forget how little it cost# to make a trial. We plant and the crop grows ; but we do not harvest it until the end of the season. Most people look too soon for the effects of advertising. "Why is advertising like the religion of a camp-meeting ?" " Because it is good to alt in-tents ; and purposes to make you knowu of all men." Mouth saya he sells all his stock with out sdrcrtising. But why not buy more stock snd advertise it? It is the first step to a great business. A polite invitatiou often reiterated brings callers. As it costs something to keep up the invitations, it is worth while to treat the visitors well. " (food wine needs no bush, snd mv goods need no advertising." Oooil wine needs nc bush, but how are people to know that yours ia " good wiuei." The advertiser has " the bird in band " in his regular trade ; his news paper announcement give him also a fair chance for the " two in the buah." Where would you look to find the names of the most successful men you are acqniintcd with ? In the ucwaps pers ? Ia your own name In-side theirs ? Englishmen are often anrpriaed at the rapidity with which fortunes arc made by Americans. In America advertising is more widely understood. Men cannot lay aaide advertising who have once made a judicious use of it. It becomes s legitimate part of their busiuees, built into its very foun ia tiona. Often "he who run* nay read." but of tent r be ia not able to read while running. Put your advertisement in s newspaper rather than on the fence. " How shall I write the best sort of an advertisement to attract people to mv store ?" Write one similar to those which most attract you toother people's stores. Children In School. "'ls one *ox more liable thin the other to snffer in health from attend ance on school ?"—i* the question pnl by the MuiichnwtU hoard of Health, say* an exchange, and answered by 160 correspondents, of whom 115 were phystciar.s, 19 physician* and members of school committees, 14 experienced teachers, and 6 superintendent* of schools. Many more than 19 of the physicians had served on school com mittees, and several of the physicians bad tanght scho 1 while acqniring their education in colleges and medical schools. The first correspondents of the shove 160 gave as the result of their observations that females were more liable than males ; 31, that both were alike liable ; and one, that males were more liable than females. Some thonght that stndy, with girls, should st times wholly cease (or some dsvs. Irregularity in attendance at school is more frequent with girls than boys. Nine-tenths of the correspondent* an swered that the liability ef the girls to suffer in health from attendance at school increased after the ages of Pi. Up to the 13th year identical 00-eduea tion is hygienically safe with s very cautions nse of emulation. After that age, identical co-education of the sexes is attended with injury to the health of some girls and dauger to the health of all. To the question whether the in jury was most likely to fall on the os seous, respiratory, digestive, or ner vons system, 95 answered that the ner vous system was most liable to suffer, 14 tke nervooa and respiratory, and 15 iho digestive and nervous. Prepara tory stndy ont of school is not favored. 100 are averse to it in the case of all children who have not reached the high achool, 79 oppose it in all eironm stances, and only 20 favor it. The pa per, all throngh, casts serious doubt on the propriety of subjecting young girls to tne restrictions and coarse of stndy which the co-edncation of the sexes in volves, and so far f lly sustains the position ef Dr. Clarke and others. Nermon of an Indian Preacher. At a recent Sunday-school anniver sary meeting in Montreal, one of the speakers, a missionary, descrilxnl the work and proapeota of the Snnday achool society among the Indians, and referring to a gathering of the latter for religious services, gavo the follow ing account of the sermon : One of the Indian preachers, atrip ping his ahonldera to show that ho had thrown off all deceit, stood up and said that ho had had a vision. lie said the Great Spirit made first tho sun, which took him a week. .lie then rested. He went to work again and made the moon, And then as it had nothing to shine on, oar mother—the earth. Then he cre ated the bnffale, the greatest gift te his people. After this came the red men. He pnt them here and said, " Ton stay there." He then created a little island and pnt tho pale faces on it and said, " You stay therebut they had so much fire in their bones they conldn't stay there, and ha I to go everywhere, and crossed tho water and came here. Tho Great Spirit mast have pnt them in a bat! country, or they would have stayed in it. They had no business to cross the big lake at all. bnt they have come here and have got to stay here, and I've got to tell yon we had better let them alone. The Asiatic Famine. It is estimated that the people who have fallen victims to tho famine in Asia Minor nnmber over 150,000. As an instance of the terrible devastation among the cattle and flocks, it is stated that in one village out of more than 1,000 sheep and goats, just one sheep and one goat remain, and of 100 cows, two remain. In another, from a flock of 1,1100 sheep and goats, eight are re ported ; aud from another flock in the same village, numbering 800, of which 700 nro mohair goats, the same number, sight, is reported. Terms: &2.00 aYonr.in Advance. A Frightful Scourge. The reeent reports of the Board of Health of New York nbow alarmlog figures iu regard to diphtheria. Old and young are in denger, but more es pecially children between the age of four and fifteen. The causes of diphtheria are chiefly want of proper nourishment, pare sir, etc. Dr. Trousseau says of the dis ease ; " Whcu I s*w diphtheria pre vailing as an epidemic iu Tours I thought that the position of iLe city, which is situated in the midst of s val ley watered by two rivers, had seme influeuoe upon the development of the disease, and 1 attributed, like almost every body else, the esuse of this formi dable affection to oold, and especially to humidity ; but on glancing over histori cal documents 1 soon became con vinced that these supposed local causes could be considered at most only as accessories, and after I had myself made some statistical and comparative obser vations in four departments where the disease had presented itself iu an epi demic form and was dreadfully destruc tive, 1 became certain that diphtheria did not depend either on seasons or lo calities. Thus, in some towns remark able for their salubrity, diphtheria raged with excessive violence, while some villages situated in the midst of marshes remained exempt from the scourge. It moat be admitted that misery, if not an exclusive condition, was at least rather an ordinary one of the developmeut of diphtheria, for it was evident that the epidemic seised upon tha poor inhabitants in preference to those whs were in easy circum sffiMicea. Contagion performs the principal part in the propapation of diphtheria, and it is nearly sufficient for a patient attacked with diphtheria to coins into a family iu order that the di**ae should develop itself in all its forms." It is evident from the above and the statistics of the Board of Health, that the beat preventive* to this disease are cleanliness, frequent bathing, pure air and good, wholesome food. It is hard ly naceasary to dwell on the danger of diphtheria, bat what rwnder* it especial ly dangerous is the rapidity with which it may attack large surfaces, as well as the mechanical obstacles which it msy offer to one of the moat important func tions of life and tha obstinacy with which it resists the therapeuti ?al re sources which generally medify other inflammations. Thus, although it is generally not very dangers us to the akin, it becomes ao when it attacks the mouth and the nasal foeam, but it is most frequently fatal when it attacks the pharynx, and, anleas it ia immedi ately attended to, it scarcely aver spares the patient when it has once reached the larynx and the bronchial tubes. A Terrible Time of It. They have a new hired girl over at Keyaer's farm, just ouWide oar town, say a Max Adeier, and on Tuesday, be fore starting to spend the dav with a friend, Mrs. Keyser instructed the girl to whitewash the kitchen during her absence. Upon returning, Mrs. Key set found the job completed in a very satisfactory manner. On Wednesdays Mrs. Kevser always churns, and last Wed net-day when she was ready aha went oat, and, finding that Mr. Keyser bad already put the milk into the churn ahe began to torn the handle. Tbia was at eight o'clock in the morn ing, and ahe turned until ten without any signs of butter appearing. Then ahe called ia the hired man and he turned until dinner time, when he knocked off with some very offensive language addressed to that butter which had not yet come. After dinner the hired girl took bold of the crank and I xrned it energetically until two o'clock, when ahe let go with a remark which conveyed the impression that abc be lieved the churn to be hanntcd. Then Mr. Keyser came out and said be want ed to know what waa the matter with that churn, anyhow. It was a good enough churn if people only knew enough to work it. Jur. Keyser then worked the crank until half-past three, when, as the butter had not corns, he surrendered it again to the hired man because be had an engagement in the village. The man ground the machine to an accompauimrnt of frightful im precations ; then the Keyser children each took a turn for half an boar, then Mra Keyser tried her hand, and when she was exhausted she again enlisted the hired girl, who said her prayers while she turned. But the butter didn't come. When Keyser came home ai d found the churn still in action he blasted his eyra and did tome other innooent swearing, and then he seized the handle and said he'd make the but ter come if he kicked up an earthqnake in doing it Mr. Keyser effected about two hundred revolutions of the crank a minute, ruough to have made any ordinary hotter come from the ends of the earth ; and when the perspiration began to stream from him aud still the butter didn't corns, he uttered one wild veil of rage and disappointment and kicked the churn over the fence. When Mrs. Keyser went to pick it up she put her noae down close to the buttermilk and took a sniff. Then she understood how it was. The girl hail mixed the whitewash in the churn and left it there. A good, honest and intelligent servant who knows how to churn can find a situation at Keyaer's. There is a vacancy. Cure for Drunkenness. There ia a enrions prescription in England for the enre of drunkenness, by which thousands are said to have been assisted in recovering themselves. The recipe came into notoriety through the efforts of John Vino Hall, com mander of the steamship Great Eastern. He had fallen into snch habitual drunk enness that his utmost efforts to regain himsel' proved unavailing. At length he sought the advieo of an eminent physician, who gave him a prescription which he followed faithfully for several months, and at the end of that time he had lost all desire for liqnors, although he had for many years been led captive by a most debasing appetite. The re cipe, which he afterwards published, and by wbioh so many have been as sisted to reform, ia as follows : "Sul phate of iron, 5 grains; magnesia, 10 graine; peppermint water, 11 grains; spirit of nutmeg, 1 drachm; to be taken twice a day." This preparation acts as a tonic and stimulant, and so partly supplies the plaoe of the ans lomod liquor, and prevents that ab solute physical and moral prostration that follows a sudden breaking off from the use of stimulating drinks. Sold. A man named Teller purchased a sa loon on Miehigau avenue, Detroit, and tho other day while he was alone, a men entered, looked around and said : " I am n escaped convict from Jack son, and I want to be arrested and sent back. Go and get a policeman, and it will be s.'o in yonr pocket" Telter didn't wait to ask any questions, but as he saw the man sit down ho put on his hat and ran to the nearest station, while the " convict " put two boxes of cigars under bis arm and weut out at the back door. Mr. Telter saw through the little joke when he got back, and he says he can't be fooled sgaiu. NO. 43. THE IUO* HANK. A n>.ir>< • Kplaod. In Wrsssh HUterjr. It vw st the fort upon Ate. Mar guerite Island, from which Baaaine re cently escaped, that the Man of the Iron Mask was imprisoned. This mys terious personage, who has often in spired the imagination of the dramatist and romancer, attll remains au enigma to history. In IGBO an unknown per son from the Oastle Bignerol, where he had been eonfined ainoa the day follow ing Uie death of Masarin in 1062, was taken to Hie. Msrgurile by Bt Marc, •ho had just been appointed Governor of that island. " This nuknown prisoner," save Vol taire, " was above the ordinary height, young and of a most distinguished sp f>earanee." On the way he wore a mask, the ohin-pieee of which had steel spring*, which permitted the prisoner to est with the maak over his faoe. The orders were to kill him if he un masked. He remained on the island until Bt. Mara, who waa made Governor of the Bastile in the year 1020, removed him from Hie. Marguerite to the Bas tile. The Marquis of Lonvoiis vial tod him before hie removal from the island, and oonveraed with him standing, which showed respect The unknown was taken to tiie lias tile, where he was lodged as well as one could be in that fortreca. He was refused nothing that he asked for, his greatest liking being for linen of extraordinary fineness and for lacee. He played the guitar. They provided for him the best of fare, and the Governor seated himself at the ta ble with him. An old physiaian of the Bastile, who had often treated this sin gular man in his illness, said that be had never seen his face, although he bad often examined hia tongue and the rest of hia person. He wsa admirably well formed, and hia akin waa rather dark. He interested the listener by the aound of his voiee alone, never complaint*! of hie condition, nor even intimated who be was. This unknown died in 1703, and was buried st mid night in Bt. Paul's perish. What in creases the misterj is that when he was sent to Bte. Marguerite there disap peared no man of eminence in Europe. This the prisoner was without doubt, for the loUowing is what happened within a few days after his arrival upon the island : The Governor himself placed the food upon the table, and re tired after locking the door of the oelL One day the prisoner wrote with e knife on a silver plate, and threw the plate out of the window toward a boat which was upon the bank almost at the baae of the tower. A fisherman to whom the boat belonged picked up the plate and carried it to the Governor. The latter, amased, asked the fisher man : " Have you toad what ia written upon this plate, and has any one seen it in your hands t" "I do not know how to read,"replied the fisherman ; " I have just found it. No one has seen it." The fisherman was held until the Governor was convinced that he did not know how to reed, and that no other person had seen the plate. " Go," said he; " you are very for tunate in not knowing how to read." Another historian adds the following account: " They songht for a person of the op posite aax to serve the prisoner. A woman of the village of Msngien came to offer herself, in the belief that this would be the means of making the for tune of her children; bnt when she waa told that she must renounce seeing tbem, and even to bold no intercourse with the rest of mankind, she refused to shot herself up with s prisoner whose acquaintance was purchased at such a price. I should say, farther, that at the two extremities of the fortress, on the side toward the aea, were stationed two sentinels, with orders to fire upon any boats which might approach within a certain distance." Ttu BTiterioui person was buried under the name of Paul Marchiall They said that be was only forty-fire years old, while the surgeons who bad seen him affirmed that he was sixty. Who was the prisoner over whom they watched with so jealous a oare, and in whom they had so much interest to conceal his personality 7 Historians hare faithfully en dearer* 1 to solve this enigma. They hare found no lees than a dozen historical characters whom this incident might concern. lly many it ia still Inhered that the Man of the Iron Mask waa a twin brother of Louis XfV., the reigning monarch ; that Anne of Austria gave birth at midday to Louis XIV., and at 8:30 r. v. another child was born. This child, as the son of s great Lord, was carried secretly far from the Court. At twenty years of age a portrait of the King having fallen into his hands, not withstanding the care taken to keep them all from him, be recognised hu brother aimpbr by the resemblance, and entreated his tutor to conduct him to the King. He was locked op and made to wear a velvet mask so tnat no one should recognize him. This opin ion is generally received and is the one adopted by novelists and dramatists. A Japanese Theater. In Japan the theaters are very much patronized. The play oommenoes at siz o'clock in the morning, and termin ates at eight or nine in the evening ; often the same piece ooenpiea two and three days in the representatioc. Gen tlemen are not praticnlar about the question of full dress, bnt the ladies are ; the latter, to cover their awarthy looks, have the face and shoulders whitewashed with almond milk ; a black lead pencil marks the eyebrows, and the lips are coated with gold, which, after a while, take a red hue. The head-dress is a veritable piece of engi neering ; it is a scaffolding that has te be commenced the evening previons ; bnt the beauty reclines dressed till the theater opens, and once there she for gets all fatigne ; the robe appears to be swathed in ribbon sashes, forming an immense knot at the back. The scene changing on the stage ia simply on the plan of the tarn table for looomotives ; at a given signal the table whirls for the space of a half circle, taking away a< tors in the midst of their dialogue, and bringing others on the scene in the act of continuing the conversation, or representing something new. Every sctor has his " shadow," an individual dressed in black, who never quita him, liaudiDg everything he may stand in need of. And when the shades of even ing falls, he holds a candle in one end of a stick nnder the actor's nose, to al low the spectators to judge of the actor's gestures and expression of the passions. SORE THBOAT—TIOHT COLLARS.— An eminent physician who devotes his whole attention to diseases of the throat and lungs asserts that about three-fourths of all throat diseases would get well by wearing very loose collars and neckties. He said that often singers would oome to him for throat dist ase and loss of voice, and be would tear open their cravats and cure them i with no other treatment whatever. " The pressure of the oollar on the ar teries of the neck is very bad for the health," Baid he. He also added : "If you have a disease of the throat let i nature d > the curing and the physician just as lfotle as possible." Ilnu f Interest, To make a Ming speech, a man should tall something. ia recommended for pcraoM engaged in active, nervous pursuit*. A time vein ol laad are ia supposed to have bean atrnok at Newbtiryport, Man. The lateat Paris murderess, aged nineteen, confesses to have committed the orima to bay herself a now dress. This ian't dressing to kill exactly. They say that the oonplo who wera married in Bsrnnm'aballoon in Cinein nati the other day actually married for love, end not for en advertisement. " Hasan, how ia the world did yow ever marry that brute ?" " Oh, 1 don t ' know, Jane, 1 need to pick lint off hie ooat-oollar, end he fell In love with tat." The proprietors of The town dtp ' Pre* offer the premium ol • jeer's subscription to sny one who will bring in "a well-killed burglar caught in tha act." A Belgian has started an egg farm near Marietta, CI a. He bee eight hun dred bens end fifty oocka. The busi ness now yields 27,000 eggs and 2,120 chickens per annum, Colcw Sergeant Charles Hedges, Third Battalion Grenadier Guards, who ia the beet shot in the British eraay for the year IH7S-74, has lieeo awarded the prise of £2O and the silver medal. A dog ordered to lie in a wagon at Taunton, Mass., during the absence of his master, stayed at his post from Fri day until Mondsj without food or water, save a little meet on the first day. Ouin, the actor, being aaked by a lady why there were more women in the world than men, replied, " It ia in con formity with the other arrangements of nature—we always see more of heaven than of earth." In France a farmer found a little gvpey girl of eleven years in the road. She said her stater had deserted her. Oat of pity he took her home—and two weeka later she ran awsy with his baby eight months old. A Philadelphia officer who is very fond of a joke got up a jury of cross eyed men, and it took the judge some time to decide whether to fine him fcr contempt of ooart or to laugh. He oonciaded to laugh. The greet central plain of California fer ei months of the year ia a soorobed and dost swept desert In April it be comes one dower bed, nearly 400 miles long and SO wide, set under a range of snow mountains. One of the advantages of the prevail ing style of fane ie that a joung oouple ean get into a oonur of the room, oon eeal themselves behind one, and no body knows whether the court plaster belonged on his lips or hers. A Mahaska county (lowa i ben had raised three broods of chickens this year, and had deposited ten eggs for a fourth, when the grasshoppers dis covered and devoured them. The old lady quit the business in disgust. There is a man living in Carrol county, N. EL, poor-beciae who spent all his property in a lawsuit in which the sum involved was only He had two opportunities of settling the suit for $5 ; and he knew all the time that be waa wrong. One of the wretched lunatics con fined in the poor-house of Milwaukee is a telegraph operator, and she spends most of her time in tek>frto her husband in Ireland, her fioger being worn down to the bone in her oonstant tappings against the wall, in her imaginary dispatching Funny decision in France on an in surance case.—lf a house is insured for the total value, the value of the land must be included in the sum, and may be deducted by the company from she payment of lose. So that one mnst pay premiums for the insurance of that which cannot be destroyed, though ha cannot have the benefit of tint in surance. "Take the lamp up," said a Port land mother to her daughter the other night, as the young lady set out for ber bed-chamber*with no Illumination hut the light in her bright eyre. " Good gracious, mother," waa the laughing answer, " what kind of a creature it a lamb-ptro?" M A lamb-pup, my child, is ike offspring of a sheep-dog. Good night. Take ths lamp." A man in Fitehbnrg, Mass., developed a fine strategic talent toe other day. He was paying a hack fare, when be dropped three bank bills, and the wind whisked them swiftly sway. After un availing search for an hour, a bright idea struck him. He folded a piece of . paper and dropped it where the bills fell, followed its fl rrht. and where it rested there he found also hie money. Immense Distance of the Stars. The star a Centauri, in the Southern Hemisphere, is found to bavn a paral lax of about one second, bat no other star in the celestial ranit has been found to have n parallax of more than half a second. In quite a number of stars the parallax ranges from two tenths to half a second. Let us see now what these measures give us for the distanoe of the stars. When a star has a parallax of one second, it shows its distanee to be a little more than two hundred thousand times the dis tance of the earth from the sun ; with a parallax of half a second, the dis tance is twice as great; with one of s third of a second three times as great, and so on, the distance being inversely pro portions! to the parallel. As there are only two stare of which the paral lax exceeds half a aeoond. it follows that, with the exception of these, the stars are all mora than four hundred thousand times as far as the 6un. Ho sun being nearly s hundred millions of miles, this distance amounts to about forty millions of millions of miles. Hence the nearest known star is distant twenty millions of millions of miles ; there are about a dozen others of which the distance ranges from two to five times this amount, while all the re maining ones are situated at distances ret farther. Ton sea that bright star, Lvra, now (October 1) a little west of the zenith ? Dr. Brunnow has recently determined the parallax of that star to be almost one-fifth of a second, conse quently, bv the rule we have just !iven, its distanoe is more than a mil on times that of the son,". a, it is iual about one hundred millions of mil lions of miles. Tell the Bees, A common superstition tn England, Franc® Germany is, that, if the master of the house dies, the bees most be immediately informed of it In North Germany they say to the beer, " The master is dead, the master is dead." They believe the bees trill die, fly away, or do no good, nnleaa so in formed ; and in portions ef England, the hives are dressed in mourning for the same reason. In Lithuania, the bees are informed of death in t'ae fam ily by rattling the keys at the entrance. In Bradfleid, England, bees are always invited to the funeral. A worse super stition still, is, that all the Jiivea must be immediately removed to another stand, on the death of 4 laesaber of the family ; and another, . tiuit -at tho moment the corpse is taken 'of the house, the hive must be turned over. They don't have uiasabb frames, or they oould not do it. Cashmere Over hiarment*. More dressy black cashmere gar ments, says a fashion journal, are basques and deep aprons with gros grain sashes and elaborate jet garni ture. Thev cost when imported from $125 to $175. The jet braid is sewed on in vermicelli patterns, or else the beads are sewed on in figures like embroidery, or Titan braid ia tewed in points and beaded on the edge. The newest drap d'ete mantles aro simple round capes, net belted, and reaching just below the waist. They are almost covered with jet embroidery wrought in lines that extend from tbo collar down, and are bordered witli a band of ostrich feathers and jet fringe or elae thread laee.