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
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the movt excruciating music imagin
able, divided the plot of ground upon
which it SUHHI from the street. Satis
fied that I e<<uld tln.l the house ag*m
without difficulty, 1 retraced my slejm.
sud was soon standing before the eoou
tcr of the little store, into whose wiu
down the old man sud child had gased
so wistfully huts few minutes previous.
When 1 stepped out into the street
Again it was with s large brown paper
bundle in my arm, the oouteuts of
which consisted of the coveted doll,
several sugar soldiers sud peasant girls,
a miniature cradle, the wagon with red
wheels, a white woolly dog, with pro
truding glass eyes and a red paper
collar, a cat that mewed when squeeaed,
and uutiiiroua smaller toys, together
with several cornucopias of sweets.
Though the package Was a cumber
some oue, and on several iwsniottn
came near being knocked out of my
arms by some careless or excited
passer-by, ami the tongue of the wagon
would permit iu getting into complica
tions with mv legs, I must ssy 1 never
felt light* r of heart, or better able to
contend with the ordinary annoyances
of mankind, than ou this particular oc
casion .
Back to the littleold-faahioued house
I struggled, tut 1 was not destined to
reach it without tao complete "t<p
npa," from which I snffvml no incon
venience, however, beyond a alight
bruise upon a rather prominent poi
liou of my anatomy, in consequence of
my coming too suddenly and violently
in contact with the pavement, in a sit
ting postnre. I pushed open the vo
ciferous gate, crossed the courtyard,
and knocked at the door of the house.
An aged female, wearing a frilled cap,
answered the mumous.
"Good eveniug," I remarked. "My
3*ll may rtrike vou as somewhat siugu
ar, but this being Christmas eve, I"
have undertaken, for the first time, to
enact the agreeable role of St, Nicholas,
and in that character I have tapped at
your door.'"
She looked rather perplexed, and
considerablv alarm* d.
"Step aside, Xanoy, and let me do
the talking." And pushing her gently
aside, the old man I had followed
stepped forward. " What is it, sir?"
he Baked, eyeing me rather sharply.
" The fact is," I replied, " I saw a
child, to-night, gazing into the window
of a store, and heard her express a de
sire to possess some of its contents, and
here they are," and I extended the ban
die toward the little pale face I saw
peering timidly out from bshind the
old woman's skirts in the background.
One gl*uoe at that countenance, a*
the expression of perplexity aud doubt
gave way to that of extreme joy, as the
child seized the bundle and tore an
aperture in the wrapper, paid me ten
fold for the brmses I had received in
conveying it to her. The old man
looked first at the child and then at me,
as if debating in his mind whether it
was advisable to permit the little one to
retain the package, so mysteriously and
unexpectedly presented ; bnt the female,
regardless of his hesitation, again came
forward, and with a low " God bless
yon," bade me enter.
Accepting the invitation, I found my
self within a good-sized room, upon
the large old-fa-hioned hearth of which
sparkled and blazed a cheerful wood
fire. The furniture, which was antique
in style and much worn, consisted of
several cumbersome maple chairs, a
huge mahogany bureau with dimiuu
tive glass knobs and claw-like feet, and
a tall clock almost resembling a coffin,
which stood in a remote corner solemn
ly telling off the passing seconds, with
its measured "tick, tick." Upon the
walls hong several higbly-oolared
prints of scriptural scenes. There was
no carpet upon the well-scoured floor,
and everything wore an air of tha most
scrupulous cleanliness and respectable
poverty. The occupants of the apart
ment were four in nnmber—the old
man and woman, the child, and a short,
withered-up pieoe of female humanity,
who retired to the utmost extremity of
the room immediately upon my en
trance, and, burying her face in her
hands, gave vent to the most astonish
ing and unaccountable outburst of
feeling, in the form of unintelligible
utterances and hysterical sobs, I ever
beard. The old man motioned me to a
chair, and when the excited female had
somewhat subsided, said : " Sir, you
have brought happiness to one little
heart to-night, and God bless you for
it. Bnt how happened it that one of
our household should be the object of
your generosity ?"
"Because Providence so willed it,"
I answered. "I can assign no other
reason." I related how I chanced to
overhqpr the conversation which
prompted me to assume the role of St.
Nicholas. The child fairly glowed with
joy. If every doll brings to its posses
sor the happiness my gift did to this
little one, doll makers should never be
forgotten in children's prayers. At
last, wearied with play, the child
clambered np into tbe lap of the diminu
tive female, and sank to rest with the
doll pressed to her heart, in a thor
oughly maternal manner. Happening
to glance at the wall, near where I was
seated, I noticed snspended in a rude
frame a family register. The bright
border that surrounded it, together
with the highly-colored and rather
ludicrous pictures—intended, no donbt,
to be suggestive and appropriate-which
headed the respective columns of
births, baptisms, marriages, and
deaths, at first attracted my attention,
bnt 1 was still more interested when
my eye fell upon the following entry,
the last bnt one under the latter head
ing:
"William Hemphill, youngest son of
Aaron and Nancy Hemphill, aged 26
years, sailed from Cliffville, Angust
16th, 1849, in the brig Starlight.
Neither he, the vessel, or any of her
crew were ever heard of afterwards."
" It's a sa<l atory that paper tells,
sir," remarked the old man, as he
noticed me looking intently at the
register. "A story of long waiting,
disappointment, and monrning."
" He was your son ?" I ventured,after
a moment of silence.
" Yes," he replied, with something
of a tremor in his voice. " The only
one left of three. The others died
when they were children. He was a
noble lad, and a good seaman. I was
so proud of him, sir, no prond, and
used to look forward with pleasure to
the time when he wonld command his
own vessel." Tears ran down the old
man's cheeks and his lips twitched con
vulsively.
Alas ! the dream of his old age was
dispelled—his idol lay bnried beneath
the waters of the cold, crnol sea.
" And the little one," I asked, "is
she his child ?"
He did not appear to hear me. He
was gazing abstractedly into the fire
with a peculiar, far-off expression. His
wife answered in his stead, " Yes."
" And her mother ?" I resnmed.
"Died," answered she, " three years
ago. She never was very strong, and
when she realized that all hope was
vain, she Beemed to lose interest in
everything. We did all we oonld for
her, but as the doctor said, there was
no medicine in this world that conld
save her. One night she called us to
her, and told us that she was going to
leave us, and wished to bid us all fare
well ; and when she saw the tears rise
to our eyes—for we loved her as If she
had been our own—she looked up, and
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
smilingly said-—" Father, mother, don't
mourn for me; 1 shall be happy, very
happy, BOOU— for I am going to meet
hiiu, my husbaud, IU a land whore
nothing can ever part us.' We lifted
her child tip to the bedside, She kissed
her tenderly, and with itsfather'a uauie
unfluuhed on her lips passed quietly
awav."
1 was much moved by this recital,
and it was uot without difficulty that I
overcame the chohiug sensation 1 felt
in my tluvst, and suppressed tlie mois
ture that oauie to my eyes. The old
mau having aroused from his reverie,
was g.iting sadly at the sleeping child.
I felt a desire to know more of William
Hemphill than the sad entry upon the
family register told. I listened to the
wind moaniug through ths i aked
branches of the trees outside, and
whistling through every hole and
crevice of the old house, and wonder
ing how they must feel who hear its
demoniac screeches through the rigging
of a doomed ship, far away upon the
ocean beyond the reach of aid. For
some moments.no one spoke—no sound
broke the stillness except the ticking
of the clock, the cracking of the tire
and the heavy breathing of the little
woman in the corner, who, following
the example of the child, had gone to
sleep. 1 was the first to break the
silence.
•'Where was the Starlight bound f"
I ventured, hoping to draw forth the
story.
"To the northern seaa," replied the
old man. "She was a whaler, and as
pretty a craft as ever sailed. Why, sir,
it was considered an honor to be one
of her crew, For four years, William
had been first mute of the liolphiu, a
staunch, slow-sailing brig, that could
stow away a larger cargo than any craft
that tailed from California, yet he had
often expressed a wish to sail on the
Starlight The Dolphin got in on a
Sunday about sundown. We were test
ed around the table in this very room,
that sveniug, a happy party, listening
to William'a description of the strange
and wonderful things he had witnessed
far away in the Arctic seas, when there
came a knock at the door. Maria,
there"—and he pointed to the slum
bering little woman—"opened the door,
and who shonld step in but Nathan
Ross, the captain of the Starlight. He
drew up a chair and joined the partv,
and entered into conversation and told
us many strange and interesting stories.
At last, as he arose to go, he turned
toward William and asked whether it
was true that he had made his last
voyage on the Dolphin. 'Yea,' re
plied unr boy. ' Three vogagea on a
alow tub like her are quite enough for
my temperament." * How would you
like the Starlight?" ic quired the cap
tain. ' There's not a craft that would
snit me better,' he answered. 'I want
a mate," the captain went on to explain.
' Isaac Denton is down with a fever,
and as I know yon to be a good sailor,
I dropped in to-night to know whether
yon will ship with me ?' William's
face lighted up as he answered, 'With
no man sooner than yourself, and on no
craft with more pleasure than the Star
light.'
"The next day everything was ar
ranged, and William was the first mate
of the handsome little brig, whioh sail
ed two days after upon a six months'
voyage. There was a crowd on the pier
when she left, oomposed of fathers,
mothers, sisters, brothers, wives, and
sweethearts, collected there to say
' Good-bye]! God speed, and a safe voy
age !' Days rolled into weeks, and
weeks into months, and, at last, people
began to speak of the return of the
Starlight, and to look toward the hori
zon, expecting each day to sight her
sail, bnt no sail appeared, except that
of some fishing-smack or coasting Tea
sel in the distance. So six, seven,
eight, nine, and ten months rolled
away, and yet no news of the overdue
vessel reached ns, and the people be
gan to display anxiety and to scan the
sea oftener, bnt the trim little vessel
never showed her peaks above the hori
zon. It was not until two years had
sped by, that all nope died. Oh, sir I
sad faces and broken hearts were nu
merous then 1 Our home was no longer
the same ; a heavy cloud hung over It,
casting a gloom where everything had
been bright aud happy before. We saw
the face that had been the brightest of
all, growing each day pale and thinner.
It was a long time before I fairly real
ized that our boy had gone from us for
ever. I have often found myself gaz
ing off on the ocean, with a nervous
feeling at my heart, thinking half
aloud, ' Perhaps she'll heave in sight
to-day,' bnt the remembranco of those
two years of vain waiting and hope
would flash upon my mind—then my
heart would smk, with a dull sinking
pain. After Maria—his wife, sir—
died, the clouds seemed to fall thicker
about üb. I should have lost all heart,
had it not been that the child was left
ns. Each day some new trouble over
took us, and last year I was obliged to
mortgage oar little home here."
The fire was dying down—only a fow
coals smonldered among the ashes.
Tjie wind sang dolefully, and shook
the old house till doors, sashes, and
blinds beat in chorus a loud tattoo. 1
was much affected by the old man's
story. His wan face, so deeply fur
rowed by age and care, and sunken
eyes now moist with tears, were thrown
out in relief by the light of tho oil
lamps on the mantel, making a sad
and almost weird picture. He had
fallen into one of his thoughtful moods
again, his eyea fixed upon the floor be
fore him. llis wife sat rocking back
ward and forward, in a low chair, ner
vously picking at the thread in the hem
of her apron, while the mysterious fe
male and the child slumbered peace
fully. Suddenly a gust, stronger than
any which had preceded it, shook tho
honse from foundation to roof, so that
even the dishes in the pantry added to
the general rattle and clatter of doors,
windows, and blinds. All at once, the
door throngh which I entered the apart
ment dashed open, and tho freezing
wind, bearing with it a quantity of
drifting snow, rushed madly in. The
sudden change of temperature awoke
the small female in the corner with m
start. Pushing tbe child from her lap,
she sprang np and rushed toward the
door. For a moment alio stared fixedly
out into tho darkness, with a look of
terror upon her face, and then uttering
a terrific screech, she sank to the floor.
Hastening forward, I was confronted
by a tall man, with a fnll shaggy beard,
dressed iu a half civilian, half sailor
costnmo. He stepped by me, and
crossing, with extended arms, toward
the old conple, exclaimed—"Father !
mother ! don't yon know me?" At the
sound of his voice they rnshed forward
with a crv of joy, and fell npon hia
breast. He hail returned, aa from the
2rave, the son they hud mourned as
dead, to lie the stay of their declining
years. Bnt the wife he had so tenderly
and truly loved ! Where was she ?
Alas I beneath the frozen sod of tbe
near-by churchyard she lay, wrapped
in that deep sleep that knows no
waking. Sadly, bnt fondly, he olasped
his motherless child to his breast, and
seated there before the umple hearth,
he told his story. The Starlight had
founded in tho Arctic Sea, bnt he
and two others sncceeded in reaching
an icefloe, npon which for three en
tire days they drifted over a trackless
sea, until a Danish bark hove in sight,
and rescued them—his oomrades in a
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dying etatc, ami be almost. Ou hie
arrival at Copenhagen, lie found alt
English veasel about to null for Liver
pool, aud succeeded iu ohtaiuitig pan
sage on her. His great denire was to
reach home ae soon as possible ; but an
he was without iiieaus he liavl u alter
native but to work hie pannage. Reach
ing an F.ugliah seaport, he atouco went
ill quest of a vessel about satliug fur
turns Aiuerioau port. The Virginia
was au Amencau ship. She would ami
iu a few dars for New York, and wanted
a few good aeauieu to Complete her
crew, the captain informed hitu where
he made his application. It was not
uutil the Virginia had been two days
out that he discovered she was a
alaver, bound for the coast of Africa.
After a tedious, stormy voyage the ship
put in at Quilts, a little town ou tho
Atlantic coast of Africa, lie succeeded
iu effecting his escajie to the interior,
where he remained several months
among the natives. Ho recounted the
strange things lie had seen, aud the
danger he had encountered iu the jun
gle. At the expiration of two years he
again found himself upon the coast, at
Old Calabar, where he shipped U|KIU a
Brastlian vessel, and in due course of
time arrived at Rio de Janeiro. Years
of toil, seeking for gold iu the mouulatu
districts, found him a poorer mau than
when he left his home to seek his for
tunes -at home again, a weary wan
derer, with little pleasure in the sound
of the Christinas bells a ringing.
The bal l apace upon my head ha*
euasiderably increased iu circumfer
ence since the Christmas eve 1 heard
Ibat story told in the littlo 01.l house,
and 1 am now a verv old bachelor. Ii
is just tweycaraago laa! New Year since
I retired from active life, leaving my
partner, William Hemphill, to munago
and oondaet the busiuera. The wound
occasioned by bis wife's death Las
never entirely healed over, so be a
widower and 1 a bachelor lire together
in a quiet neighborhood in the suburlia
of the towu. Due would scarcely rec
ognise iu the pretty and handy little
maiden who prosiJes QTer our estab
liahment the pale child for whom 1
made my first purchase of toys that
Christmas eve. Together, once or twioo
a year, William and 1 run down to
Cliffvillo to look after the little home
stead, whieh is now his property, and
visit the little plot, in the picturesque
village churchyard, where his father,
mother and wife are sleeping. There
is a small upper room iu our dwelling,
which our little houaekee|>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 a<x>ns
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.