A Billy el I>esp: ir. We hal sweet .Ireurns I'm' oilier night. When nil around was still— We dreamed w m* a host of folks Par np tile.i printer's bill. Wr wish the drciia w.tuld com* to pa**. Aud our empty p iHc-t* illi Tar da nnip * is di Idle dr. a, Te tump le 11 lie .Hi. Flattery. 0 '. it ia worse than mockery to list to the flat tever'B tone: To lend a ready kar to thoughts the check mnst hlni.li to own . To hear the red Up alaaparod of. and the flowing cnrl and eye Made constant theme of eulogy extravagant and high ; And the charm of person worshiped in a homage offered not To the perfect charm of virtue, and the majesty of thought. The Home Heart. The tabe that nestled in my arms oooa for me tail in dream* . The pratth r crowned with golden curls lives hut in mctnorv's gieaui* . Whet maivrl. Thee, that loving fear blends With die pride and joy That watches, on his manhood's verge, the bold and tionuy boy The happy smile of infancy sti'l wreathes tie rosy lips, Ihe fearkes light of ch Mhood's ejes knows notl log of echpse . Hut firmer tread and stronger c'asp attest the rcUiog ar. While pruning. daring thought and will awake the woman fears. My sou. a wiser baud than tame will shape the onward way, A greater Power soothe tliy night and guide thee through the dav. So, in a patient impotence, 1 sttivs to stand apart. Only praying, fiw thy father * sake, oh, keep the frank home heart! Keep the pure u: stinted charity, tlse trust tn all things fa r. The hope that mid each earthly cloud still feels the sunshine there ; The faith in good; ess |..ve and truth, that, spite of fault and fa!). Lock* on the bright wor'd God ha* made, and owns His touch on all. So shall the light f.>l spring unharmed a'ong the perilous psth, Sa shall the brave hand clasp and keep the one imm .M.i wreath. By tlie yearning of the lonely life, whosecliief set joy thou art. Oh. darln gof our severed lives, keep atl !l the fresh h.irr.e heart! TUE BASKET OF FLOWERS. 1 wondered what jiecnliar taste could have induct d either the designers or decorator* of the cratt to have d pped such a prei<oetetvu* thing as a flower basket ou the steruof that ship. 1 was seated ou a dock 1 ear Hunter's Point watching the loading of a petroleum Teasel— a queer, old-fashioned bark. Hail the owner or skipper any deal Eroclivitles ? Perhaps soiae practic-l and it) a rbip vard—a master in the art of hacking figure heads of dolphins or cornucopias all out of solid oak— some one who might have been a Thonswalden but for the want of op portunity, had eliminated that flower casket from his inner conscioueuesa. Just as likely it might have been the production, so far a the {loetical con ception of it wont, of some captain through whose oompieition there ran a latent vein of romance. Who oould tell but that in years long g> ue by the woman the captain had loved hod been associated with a bask.,-t of flowers ? 80 he might have goue straight to the ship-yard, all aglow, inspired for the moment, and in a cheery voice said, " Here, carpenter, cut me out a basket of flowers. Do it good. I ain't par ticular about the kind of flowers, so that there is pleuty of them, and that the basket is all right Pat two han dles on the basket " And so to work fifty years ago went the carpenter, who had followed the sea in his younger days, and the artist, with adze and gouge iu hand, had possibly got into a quandary over the job, for quite likely he was more familiar with tangled sea weed than with the primmer gsrden flowers. So in great mental travail he must have solved the que tion bv taking as a pattern his mother's > d faahioned sampler, on which iu cross stitch was depicted a floral offering, and copied it all out in wood and stuck it on the stern of that vessel, and felt satisfied with it, though a stiffer or more impossible flower basket never was made. Undoubtedly once it was colored with hues as bright and varied AS a rainbow, and shown out re splendantly as tb ship's steru, and was reflected in summer seas, and was the envy of other skippers. But when I saw it all its bloom was gone, for it had been painted all over a glaring yellow, and was as nglv as sin. Orna menting the stern of a petroleum ship, odorous with the mo*t villainous of smells, that poor old flower basket seemed horribly out of place. "CaptaiD, sir?" I made bold to say t a man in the dock, who was giving some instructions as to the moorings uf the vessel. " Just so, sir," was the reply of s fine, hearty-looking man. " Hera, Mr. Mathias"—this was to a person evi dently the mate—"have this hawser eased. Take out the double bitch, and don't jam the knot. It's too tight. It would take as much as five minutes to unreeve thst knot; ain't you got aaU enough to know that when you are taking on board this kind of dangerous stuff, alongside of the factory as makes it, the whole place is just as likely as not to be on fire any minute? Tell that hand forard at the fall to watch the capstan and them spiles here, and to loosen the hawser with the tide. She can't chafe much. It ain't a bad plan to have an ax, and a sharp one, always erady, BO that a fellow can cut his lucky and run. Capt. Billy M&gruder saved his brig a year and a half ago, at this very dock, from being burned up, because he had a carpenter's hatch ft handy. You was wanting me, sir ?" said *he captain. " What can Ido for yon?" '• Only this," I replied ; "I am very little nautical, and mv experience does not go beyond yachting ; but I have, I think, a kind of memory for ships. Did I not see this ship at New Bedford; she was then in the whaling business some years ago ?" "Exactly so, sir. You are right Maybe you found her out by the carv ing on her stern. Bho is a qneer old craft, built as they only built 'em fifty years ago. She has been kept up, though, all the time right through, and the oil is so soaked into her timbers that there is no rot in her. For nigh on to thirty years she pitched and tumbled on the Pacific, and many a whale she has had alongside of her, and tried out, and if all the money she has arned was in my pocket or in youni, or only halved between ns, why, I, for one, make bold to say that I wouldn't be here stowing away coal-oil. The petroleum business is a kind of resting place for old-fashioned ships. It used to be the lumber trade, but now lots of the old stagers go into ooal-oiL" " It is, then, a kind of charnel-house for decayed veseela ?" " Well, that's it, pretty much. 1 seed you looking at her stern. It's a real nice bit of work that carving. Them flowers is all buttercups and .oow6lips and sunflowers now from their color. There is a queer yarn about this here ship which I don't mind tell ing. I am fresh in her, that is to Bay, it will be a year this ooming February since I took hold of her. I ain't had much luck, that is for my time of life, and had hoped at my age to be some thing more than captain of an oil-craft; but luck is everything. Now, we sea faring men keep the run somehow of all the ships and the stories about 'em. You see, some ships bring luck and others don't. I've known a ship that ..i tajn ui&d money for her ownere, but always killed her captains. I knowed one bark that mad* every skipper as sailed her take to drink. Yen see, the story about this ship I got from the man as sailed her before me f FU.MD. K 1' irrZ, Kilitornntl 1 Vopriotor. vol, Ml. ami dnring hor wholo life* alio ain't had but live men to haudlo hor, aud four of 'oru, of which 1 am ono, has lieon on hor during tho last ton year*. Aforo that, for nigh on to forty year*, only j ono man sailed hor. Before the kool of this ship was laid, there was a scalar ing man as sailed out of Maine. That man struck salt water airly, and hadn't no education when ho w as young, but lots of pluck. In thorn days, fifty year ago, passengers used to take the regular liner* from lloston or Now York and go to Charleston. Thataailor man was before the mast. He was a i handsome, civil kind of a fellow, and was learning his dutv fast. There came ouoe aboard tho brig ho was on, ! which was a Charleston liuer—one of them big llostou baga—owe of them aristocrats of tho old time —with a sick daughter, his ouly che-ild." My cap tain, I saw hero, was inclined to be melodramatic, as ho insisted on this peculiar, eccentric subdivision of a sin gle syllable. "The v'yagc was a long one, and Jack's dnty it was to go down below ' and hand tiiat vonng miss on deck, and put her like a "frostbitten flower in the sun, for they thought she was dyiug. Now this rich man's eheild didn't care a brass lardeu for Jack, but Jack, who was an ass, cared for her. A\ hen thev got South. Jack put the lady in hor carriage at Charleston, and bid her good bye, and didn't say nothing more. That rich man's cheild came pretty near dying in Charleston, and Jack kept cat bug every day, with tho cap tain's compliments, so ho said, to see how she was getting on ; but they wa&u t the captain's compliments, but his own. She didn't get any better or much worse, but kept backing and Ailing. When it got to be time for Jack's brig to go homo, the girl's father he came in per son on board to thank tho old man for his civility in sending u often to make inquiries about his daughter. Now, this made the captain stare, for the old skipper, after ho had damped the party an tho Charleston wharf, had no more thought about 'em than of an odd cask of nails. So the story got about tho ship, and tho crew tan poor Jack about it, as shipmates will, until Jack got most wild. But they knowed Jack didn't allow much chaffing, so after a regular knock-down or so, they let Jack alone. Jack stayed by that brig all that winter, she going regularly on her trips, and he finding out how the young woman was making out. She stayed South most a year, and then Jack learnt she was coming homo in another vessel. What does he do but leuves his own craft and ships in the other one, and comes homo with tho young woman. Jack had brushed up mighty in the twelvemonth, though he wasn't nothing more than a sailor. The father didn't know him no more than you could tell one link of a chain cable from another, bat his danghter did. I disremember exactlv how the yarn goes on here, Lut as sure as you are born the rich man's daughter and Jack got to love one another unbeknownst to the father. •• Now, fifty years ago a man that commanded a ship wasn't thought no mean shakes of. Xow-a-days he i. mighty low down, and ain't considered as much account as a ht d. waiter iu a dining-saloon. It was agiiitd between 'em that Jack should tight it through and get a ship, and that then, if the old man didu't agree to it, they would look out for themselves. 80 he did, and he went to South America round the H >rc and was gone three years, and c >aie back second mate. Then ke wout to Cbiua, and had 110 end of luck. Hir captain and first mate died 011 board the ship, as did a good many of the crew, and Jack br nght the veaael into Boston most by himself, snd was made captain and had all kinds of favors shown him. You see, sir, I have been third mate more nor once on a long v'yage, but somebo wor other no such luck never oome to me. Well, Jack had brought from Chiua a carious kind of basket for bis true-love, and had made a regular hot-house of his ship with queer kinds of China plants, which wasn't common in them days in the United Stites. So now, as captain, he made bold to give the basket to her, and they both went 10 the old man and tld their stories. ' No, sir, he couldu't think of it. What, give his cheild to one of them no-aeconnt ship captains ? Not if be know'd himself. Well, at last it was fixed np that Captain Jack should make another v'yage, and then, if she would have him, they should be married. That was all the old man woold do, and them hard lines was agreed to. Captain Jack had a new ship a building for him, for the China trade, as you know, was just busting in them dsys, and he wanted his owners to let him oall his ship after his sweet heart's name, but the old mau wouldn't let him. 80 says she to him one day : ' My dear love, in remembrance of me, you'll have that basket of flowers put on your ship, and just while your ship floats I'll never forget yon, nor niu.t ven forget me.' My wife, sir, as is at Bridgeport, has got that part into rhyme, something about 'your heart smoats,' and ' the ship she floats,' but 1 never was good on poetry, and just as likely havn't got the hang of it. The ship was launched, and that there iden tical basket was carved and put on her. It ain't stuck on, sir, but is cut right out of the timber, so as to be everlast ing- "Ob, he come back, sir ; but not at the end of three years, nor in his own ship. In Manila he took the fever, and was left for dead, and she, the rich man's cbeild, wis made to believe that her sailor lover was gone, or didn't care for her, so after awhile she married another fellow. I never heard she was unhappy. My wife says she was ; but, then, women, you know, sir, has such strange ideas on them subjects. Jack took to his ship again, and the old wooden basket of flowers, carved and painted on the stern of his vessel, was all that remained of his true love, and they do say, no matter how rusty bis old craft became, whether out at sen or in port, he used to have them old flowers kept in a regular blaze and bloom of glory. He was a mighty rest less old fellow, aud never Rtaid a day ashore, always lived on ship board, anil a-going all the time. Whaling he took up some time in 1840, and kept it np for a long time, a-living in the ice, maybe a-trying to freeze the love out of him. He died mighty rich, and singularly crusty and cranky, a matter of eight year ago in Maiue, where he was born. The yarn is a true one. be cause I heard tell how in his will he left some of his money to the woman he had loved onoe, becauso times had changed, and she and her family had got poor. Borne do say that the rich man's daughter aud her familv had been supported by that old whaling captain for years. 80, yon see, he didn't bear no malice. This old craft never was exactly unlucky, and that old basket of flowers has hung to her so long that I ain't going to have it taken off while I sail her. Gness them flowers has been a good deal patched up since they was first put on her, as may be my story, though, saving the soft parts, which I can't work in like my wife can, it's pretty muoh as I have been telling it to you. lam going to keep that old flower-basket fresh, mind I toll you, no matter what yellow ochre does oost a pound. No, sir; no ghosts ; not even a rat; petroleum is pison on THE CENTRE REPORTER. rata. We are for Trieste. lUtUw mighty poor 4s. Hd. a barrel. It may lie a matter f w*nly-fi*r day* Moro 1 Rot there. Hhc is steady, air, though aim can't be said to be fast. No ob jections to yotir writing it out. I uught like you U> send tho story to lay folks at Bridgeport, ouly my wife will bo sure to toll uit< 1 iiitvo loft out all tho uioo.st pail*. Wouiou an* so queer, you know, ami spin things out so." the President ami the llorao Dealer. Among the enterprising oitiaeua who contributed to the St. Lotus State fair was Mr. Dillon, who is a dealer in Noruiau horses. Mr. Dillon has re cently imported a uuuiber of these ani mals from Europe, and had a "hix-iu hand " attached to a ponderous vehicle on the fair grounds. Driving around he course, the horse fancier met old Sim Buck master, of Illinois, and in duced him to accept a seat m the cara van. Thev drove several times around the track, aud were the observed of all observers, but finally Mr. Buck master, seciug two gentlemen approaching, said: " There comes the President; I must grt out and una! him," "The President 1" exclaimed Dillon ; "why, that i just the uiau I want to see. I wanted to get hold of a man that is a good judge of horseflesh. Which is the President ?" " The gentleman in dark clothes currving the umbrella," replied Sam. "TFlallo !" cried Dillon to the stranger ; " come here ; I want to see you," The gentleman with the umbrella ap proached smilingly and shook Dillon by the baud, supposing that he was •time acquaintance of other times. " What do you think ol my team ?" said Dillon. " Tboy do very well," said the man in dark clothes. "Jump in and let me show yon their pace. Bring your friends along," shouted Dillon, heartily. " You must excuse u.o. I don't want to be conspicuous," said the stranger. " Conspicuous t" remarked Dillon. " Get in here and let me give you a ride Ixdiiud these horses." " No —no," cried he of the umbrella ; "I must be going." " Why don't you get in ? I won't eat you !" said the burse fancier. At this the stranger and the friend tnrned abruptly away, and were lust in the crowd. " Well," exclaimed Dillon to Back master, who stood by dumbfonuded, "Just to think that the president of a one-hor*e Missouri fair refused to ride behind my team. What a sop he must be." " President of the fair !" Buckmaster shouted in a mare ; "don't you know who that was?" " No," replied Dillon ; " you told me he was the President." "80 he is the President," rejoined Bnckmastcr, *' but not of the fair. Why. surely you knew him?" " I'll t>,' hanged if I did," Dillon said. " I was sure ho was president of this fair." "Oh, this is too much !" cried Bam. "Why, that was the President of the United Btates !" Dillon grew very red in the face, and ►lowly gasped forth : " Was—that— Grant ?" "Certainly, it was Gen. Grant." Dillon canght up his reins, dropped his whip and exclaimed, " Oh?" Him He Started Out. H-ury 1 K.jmond, member of Con* gross, L-eutenaut-G iveruor of the Sut of New York, but better known wr the fi'tmJrr and editor of the New York 7vm the s<>u of a jnxir 'ariner. At tue ago of twenty he gradu itej at the Univtrntr of Vermont, His father wanted him go to work on the farm. But young Raymond had no inolinat-.on for farming. He felt if he could get a start in New Ytrk city, that he had the habits of industry and the brains which would enable him to do well. Moved by his sou's earnestness, the father raised three hundred dollars by mortgaging the farm, and with that sum the future journalist went to the city. There he studied law, taught school, wrote for the Dewspapers, and was the first person, it is said, to write regular letters from New York to the country journals. Horace Greeley, about that time, started the New Y'ork 7 Yibunc, and being acquainted with Raymond, in vited him to do his writing in the office. For some months he wrote at his bor rowed desk, when, receiving a liberal offer to teach school in the South, he determined to accept it. Thanking Mr. Greeley for his many courtesies, he informed him of his in tended departure. " I don't think," said the kind-hearted editor, who, like Raymond, was then struggling for bread and a position, " there's any particular use of your going 'way down there, Henry. Yon ought to do as well here, aud New York's a better place for you. How much are you to get for teaching ?" "Ten dollars a week, and I can't earn as much here." •' O, well, you'd better stay. Write for the Trit'imr,; I'll give yon eight dollars a week." T; e Mare Trade, It in not alone piety which prompt* thousands of Mohammedan merchant* annually to join the pilgrimn marching to Mecca. The charm of a profitable bargain is not unknown to theao appar ently righteous wanderers, and they are by DO means oversernpnlons ns to the manner in which they gain their money. While the more devout shed their tears and say their prayers at the shrino of the Prophet, those who have an eye to business capture sluvcs wherever they can, in the regious of Africa through which they pass, and sell ttiem witlnn the Dominions of the Hultan of Moroo -00, who takes one slave in twenty as his tribnte. This trade, which is car ried on within a few leagues of the French settlements in Algeria, is said to be by far the most lucrative indulged in by the caravans. Three thousand slaves are annually brought down from the Soudan, and not even the powdered gold, the iuoense, the precious stones, the indigo, or the rhinoceros horns, which the caravans sometimes get in Central Africa, are sought for with half the eagerness displayed in slave-hunt ing. A Strange Disaster. Sinking of a steamboat heavily laden with sugar, molasses, and rice, at her landing in New Orleans, four hours after her arrival, is oertainly a curious enough incident, but when wo have to add to this that fonrteen of her passen gers and many of her crew were drowned by the aocident, the occurrence beoomes surprising, and calls loudly for investi gation. The statement of one of the passengers that the bout was overloaded and parted in the middle is, if sad commentary on the rapacity of the owners. Steamboating on the Gulf ooast is surrounded with enough perils ordinarily, without having the addi tional one added to it of danger occa sioned by the indifference of owners to the safety of passengers. We hope that some other explanation than this will be found in the present iastaaee, CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., LA., THURSDAY, DECEMBEK 10, 1874. Til F (\U SK OF SI'K IIIKH. V ►> a Mtelk>~Wfc*l Simula be lluu*. Dr. Allan MoLtni* Hamilton, of Hollo -1 vue Hospital, Now York, ami lecturer oil nervous disease* iu the Long Inland Colli<g Hospital, read liefortt the Auicricau Health Council a pajier upon "Suicide in Large Fttieo, with lteler eitoe to Certain Salutary l\mditums which Tend to Prevent it* Moral ami ■ Physical Causes." The doctor saul that I hi* observations UJHIU the subject had l> en made for the moat part iu New York city. Comparisons have been made between that city and London aud Paris. In all larger cities the uumtier of cases is governed, to a great extent, bv the habits, tastes and moral culture o'f the people, aud back of this the national characteristics. The French people, noted for their indifler : cuoe to life aud exaggerated morbid j sentimentality, are oelehratcd for the propensity to end life with their own : imuds. Varis has been, and always will be, celebrated for the prevalence of this crime. The Parisians pursue it as .ui agreeable mode of securing relief from their trout ilea. It has been as serted that foggy weather induces sui cides, although statistics go to disprove this, especially in New York. The I mouths of April, May, Juue, July and August, the most pleasant months of the year, are thoae in which more per aons take their lives than at any other jin the year. The gravity and ntolidity of the Euglish people rather shows in j their favor, as regards this crime. Iu the city of New York, between lfwV. and 1572, there were 678 suicides, the males predominating. For the three i years, 1870, '7l and '72, there were 359 suicides, 132 being Hermans, As re gards conditions, 171 were married, 118 single, 43 widows and widowers, and j 27 whose condition was not stated. The age of the oldest was 84, and that of the youngest, 10. The cause for the suicide of the latter was remarkable. She was detected iu the theft of fifty cents from her mother, aud seekiug to ! escape from her shame she resorted to ; Paris green. Poison is the mot pop i ular mode of suicide, Uie preference | being by arsenic, Paris green, opium, carbolic acid and other irritants, In sanity causes the largest number of suicides, l>oth men and women ; drunkenness comes next, and disease third. The ages at which suicide seems to be most often resorted to are be tween forty and fifty among men and forty-five aud fifty-five among women. Since the greatest number of deaths in New York is by poiaomug it is im portant to inquire into the causes why it should be so. Wheu we take into consideration the looseness of the present laws regarding the sale of poisons, there appears to be no trouble for per ous who wish these drugs to obtain them. It is needless to say that the opium habit, like alcoholism, leads to self-destruction in a number of instances. A form of suicide, which figures largely iu American statistics, is jumping from an elevation. Tin* is oftentimes the result of a momentary impulse, produced by the surround ings. In York city there wt re of this mode be tween the TOKH lStJfl and 1872. A most impoitant duty in oonneoti u with this subject is the influence of tlie mode of lift of the poorer classes, lie alluded more particularly to the tenement houe system. The vices attending the oolouization of the working classes arc spread by the contact of the vicious with the pare, at; 1 the depression of tlie toue, are powerful inducer* of nut cide. The prevalstice of strikes and trad**' unions, with their dangerous restriction* and foolish oaths of allegi ance, are fruitfnl causes of suicide*. Men are afraid to work in opposition to the threats of their fellow tradesmen, and when poverty stares them in the face they become dt spcratc and commit suicide. A great percentage of the sui cides in large cities are attributable to iiiinatnrftl vices, caused by a state of hypocboudiiasin or monomania by the carefully written advertisements oi the many quacks. The prevalence of se duction in large cities is perhaps greater among the lower classes, tlie large factories living the places where the crime is- mostly committed and where suicide often follows. To di minish the number of suicides the doctor favored regular meals and habits, the abolition of immoral enter tainments, advertising quacks, so called anatomical museums, of obscene and sensational literature. Legislation should strictly regulate the sale of poisonous drugs. The Kxact Truth. Two yonng masons were building a brick wall—the front wall of a high honae. One of them, in placing a brick, discovered that it wa a little thicker on one side than the other. "His companion advised him to throw it out. "It will make yonr wall untrue, Ben," said he. "Pooh I" answered Ben, " what dif ference will snch a trifle us that make ? You're too partienlar." "My mother," replied his compan ion, "taught me that * truth is truth,' ever so little an untrnth is a lie, and a lie is no trifle." "O," said Ben, " that's all very well; bnt I am not lying, and I have no in tention of doing so." "Very true, bnt you make your wall tell a lie ; and I have somewhere read that a lie in one's work, like a lie in liis character, will show itself sooner or later, and bring harm, if not ruin." " I'll risk it in thia case," answered Ben ; and ho worked away, laying more bricks and carrying the wall np higher, till the close of the day, when they qnit work and went home. The next morning they went to re name their work, when behold the lie hail wrought out the result of all lies ! The wall getting a little slant from the untrue brick, had got more and more untrue as it got higher, and at last, in tho night, had toppled over, obliging the masons to do their work over again. Jnst S3 with ever so little an untrnth in your character ; it grows more and more, if yon permit, it to remain, till it brings sorrow and ruin. Tell, act aud live tho exnet truth al ways. How to Pull Teeth, A peculiar dental operation has jnst oome nnder onr observation. A certain citizen had an nppor tooth which was loose and troublosome, so ho resolved to extract it by fastening a string in it; bnt after u trial, finding tlie operation painful, he hadn't the grit to grin and (tear it. He thoaght if the tooth could be extracted by Rome sudden mode tho pain would be bnt transient; and after mature deliberation he hit upon an in genious plan to jerk it out tu a jiffy. Procuring a heavy flat- is ,u he tiod it to the other end of tho cord attached to his tooth, then shutting both eyes he let the iron drop, which descended plump center on his pet corn. After hopping about tho room, wildly, on one foot, groaning for very anguish of spirit, and reoiting choice passages from profane history, he finally calmed down sufficiently to hurl the flat-iron over tho fenoo, and swathe his sore too in camphor and cotton. But he pulled the tooth, and with it a piece of gum, And the man lived- im-FFVKIt A3S| ITH tT'KK. \ I'upr t ll'n I > 111. ll' i.l lirfor# lh I'M Mir I|r 11 It Aisotlslloit of T'tilla tll|ittU. Dr. Beard read a paper tiefore tlie i American Public Health Association of Philadelphia, ou the subject of " Hay- Fever aud its Dure." The doctor be gan his investigations on this subject 1 by preparing a "circular of iuquiry," which lie sent all over the country to persons suffering from the disease, to physicians, to scientific persons, and iu fact to all who could aid him in his re searches upon this subject. From the information thus obtained he arrived at the conclusions embodied in his paper, of which the following ie a | synopsis ' liar fever is a complex and uot a aim j pie disease, us has been generally on- I drrstood. The first element of the dis ease is a uervo bilious temperament, or, at least, a temj>ernnicut in which tlie nervous element predominates. Hay-fever putielits are the elans of pa tients subject to other nervous dis eases. The second factor in this dis i cane is heat following cold. The heat ' of hot climates does not seem to act as a cause, but the heat of temperate Climates following the cold weather. The disease is found only m that belt where there are eitremea of tempera ture. Third—Various exciting causes, over tweuty or more iu number, such an j-erfuine of flowers, dust, in-door and out door, fresh hay, old hay, bright sunlight, gaslight, close oonthied air, smoke, cinders, hulling of corn, Horn an wormwood, sneeze-weed, over-exertion, etc. Iu order to get up s case of hay fever two of these three factors, cer tainly tlie first two, are necessary. The I exciting causes are named under the third head, and have been regarded as the disease, hence the name hay-fever, j>eadi cold, rose-cold, etc. One might as well call a sick-headache a aauaage- L cad ache, because it may be at times caused by eating sausage*. The ma jority of the patients afflicted witlihay fever who are reported to me are of American birth. Dr. Jacobi, of New York, whose axpeneuee and practice among the better class of Hermans are very large, tells me that he has never known a case cf hay-fever among Her mans in tins country. I suspect that among the foreign popu'ution not born iu this country hay fever is compara tively rare ; just as among the same classes nervous disease of all kinds are comparatively rare. Aft-r a person has once lit en at tacked he sceins to be for all his life liable to be again attacked. Now and then one may go over a yeai without the disease, but this is rare. Home- I times the disease increases in severity with years, and sometimes diminishes. A majority of my patients have tried the local application of the solution of quinine, as r. commended by Helmholtx, and they report that it is little or no good. Among the regions which hay fever patients visit with benefit, I may mention the White Mountains and the ocean everywhere, at least iu oold climes ; for those who take sea voyages almost never suffer while st sea, but may tie attacked as soou as tbey land. A trip to Europe, tlie Adirondack rtgion and the inland of Mackinaw are v-ry highly recommended bv some. Dr. Denniaon, of Denver, (Colorado, sends me s pamphlet which reports that some case# of hay-fever have t>een on nil by a residence in Hint locality. Like other nervous diseases, it is powerfully uiub r the influence of tlie iniud. The striking periodicity of the disease coming on a* it does, in a cer tain case, at precisely tlie same day or hour, is probably the result in part of cx|>ecttion of the patient that it will come then. The plan of treatment that I would suggest for bsy-feTcr is as fol lows : First, to prevent the disease. A* early as March or April the patient should tiegiu to take course of nerve tonic treatment. I would recommend it to le arsenic, phosphorus in ltsvari i on# forms, cod liver oil, iodoform and electricity, csjieeially the methods of general galvanization and general fandization. When the disease appears the great dependence must lie on looal treatment, combined with general ton is treatment Mr. friend. Dr. W. F. I Hutchinson, of Providence, had o case this year, which he broke up bv central galvanization. I relieved decidedly one ! case and somewhat relieved another by local galvanization externally. The remedies shoul 1 bo used thoroughly. The great trouble with those who gal vanize themselves is that tliey do not ; completely and thoroughly bring the : remedies io act npon all the sinuous I and tortuous lining membrane of the ! nasal passages. A Lady's Chances of Iteing Married, Tho statistician, aud likewise the average woman all the way from fifteen years of sgo to the point whgb birth day anniversaries erase to be a time of cheer and gratulation, may tako ut least a paamng interest in a table re cently printed in England, to show the relations between matrimony and age. Every woman baa aotno eliancc of Insit g married ; it mny le one chance to fifty against it, or it may bo ten to one that she will marry, lint whatever that is, representing her entiro eliancc at one hundred, her particular chance at cer tain defined points of her progress in time is found to be in the following ratios; When between fifteen ami twenty years she has fourteen ami a half per cent, of her whole probability ; when between twenty and twenty-five sho has fifty-two per cent. ; between twenty-five aiul thirty, eighteen per cent. After thirty years she has lost eighty-four and a hslf per cent, of her chance, but until tbirty-flve she has still six and a half per cent. Between thirty-five and forty it is three aud throe-fourths per cent., and for each succeeding five years is respectively two, one naif, one-eighth, nin! one fonrth per cent. Any time after sixty it is one-tenth of one per cent., or ono thonsandth of her chance of a chance— a pretty slender figure, but figures often are slender at that age. A Cnrious Character. A singular trial has just boon con cluded in Now Haven, Oonn. Tho suit was brought by n farmer against Ins hired man, who claimed an offset to moro than the amonnt of the claim. Tho plaintiff, nemo time ago, having lost his record books, made notes of his business transactions on separate shoots of paper, which ho de |M>sitod as fancy inclined him. Some times they would l>o plarssl beneath the carpet, sometimes behind desks and doors, and wherever their secrecy was supposed to be unquestioned. Nearly all theso papers the plaintiff brought into oonrt to sustain his claim. There wero suoh queer items as tb's : The hired man did something in opposition to tho wish of his employer, the plaintiff, or pushed him hard against a door, in juring his feelings thereby. For some of these episodes the hired man was charged forty cents. For being " liquory " another charge was entered, and for falling down stairs, and thereby shocking tho plaintiff, another amonnt was asked. As the hired man did not pay these charges, and thought he ought to be paid a certain amount for labor he performed, the snit was brought. XiMKKD HI IOLAIIV WOIIM. Ah 1)1* ItH'i llu*rSlß|t si tears Malm l'M* Vtßtlßl Ufl HOBBS aaS U*|(.S. For many year* there has lived in Munioetowu, I'a., su eocentrio old msu named laaac Castor. He is s shoe maker and lives alone in a little honae in an out of the way spot. He is over sixty years old, aud for years has hoard ed lilt earnings, using only enough money to procure the hare necessities of life. His income has never been large, bnt its accumulation for over a quarter of century amounted to a snug little competency. lie always carried several hundred dollars in his pautaloou pockets, which fact waa gen erally known, and it has been the atand iug wonder here for years that he had never been robbed. On n Monday morning it was notioed that the old shoemaker's shop was not opened as usual, and that there was no stir about the house. This was so re markable an occurence that two or three citizens weut to his house and broke open the door. They found Castor bound tightly in a chair, so thst he oonld not use his hands or feet, aud a handkerchief tied tightly over his mouth, lie was hastily released, and as soon us he oould recover sufficiently from his czciti ment and alarm he told substantially the following story : About an hour before daylight he was awakened by a man who stood by the side of his lied. Fast r sprang up, but was stopped by the man, who put a pistol to hn> head and told him to be still or he would blow his brains out Another man, with a lantern, was go ing about the room searching every hole and corner. The old aboeinaker at first thought the men were negroes, bnt afterward discovered that they were white men with blackened (aces. The one man rifled the poekoU of his pan taloons, which contained nearly ssOll, but not being able to find money tliat they evidently believed was sweretrd about the room, the robbers told the old man that he must tell them where he hid his money or they would kill hum Castor assured them that he had no more money ; that his pantaloons pockets contained all be had in the world, and he begged them to leave him some of that, as he was keeping it to pay his funeral expense* when he died. The burglars, failing to force the old man into revealing the whereabout* of the riot of his probable treasure, and daylight being near, mad* their victim get out of bed. They then bonud him to the chair and gagged him, and took their departure. Tiiey hml effected an cut ranee into the house through a back window. Castor aaid that he could not be able to recognize the robbers. He could not distinguish their features, and their voices were strange to him. The general impres sion is that they are partie* living in the neighborhood, as no strangers have been seen about tlie place. There is not the slightest suspicion, however, as to who they may be. Castor says thst the robbers took every dollar he had in the world. Mushroom Poisoning. Au inW l renting case was recently brought before one of the criminal court# of London, the grand jury throwingont a bill of indictment again#t a gardener who wu charged with mar dering a fellew-scrvant by giving her poisoned mushrooms to eat. Although there wan no reason to suppose that the mushroom* were given with any feloni on# intention, yet three pereou# were actually jniisoiied by them, and one died; the fnngi being #o mneh like mnsbrooms that even a akilb-d witno* •aw nothing in them to distinguish them from the genuine article of food. It appearing in evidence that tuush muuii growing under trees are danger out, the presiding judge gave great emphasis to the importance of anch a fact being widely known, and calloi attention to the following description given by Professor Bi-ntly—though not an unerring one- showing the general characters by which the edible and poi*ououa species of fnngi may ln-st be distinguished : The edible mushroom* grow aolitary, in dry, airy plac*a, and •re generally white or brownish ; they have a compact, brittle flesh ; do not change color, when cut, by the action of the air; jnice watery, and odor agreeable ; Uatc not bitter, acrid, aalt, or astringent. The poiaonona ninsh rooma, on the contrary, grow in clus ter#, in wood* and dark, damp places, ■ad are naually of a bright color ; their flesh is tongli, soft, aud watery, and they acquire a brown, green, or bine tint wheu cut and exposed to the air ; the juice is often milky, the odor com monly powerful and disagreeable, and the taste either acrid, sstringent, acid, salt, or hitler. These characteristics are almost invariable. A Sulfide's Confession. At least one man knew tlist he had become a bore, and when convinced of the fact he killed himself. This was a yonng *jundtlirift named Ilntenof, the scapegrace son of a Sun Francisco banker. Before his suicide he wrote a letter in which lie said, " That the public shonld not suspect that tho deed was done in a fit of insanity, 1 state that after a month's reflection I take leave of this world in the full poases sion of all my senses, and that I am calm and collected, but I am driven to this by extreme despair, nervons ex citement, etc. I have gone to the dogs. For yeara I have deported myself cor rectly in this world, but during the ls*-t ten weeks I fonnd that 1 would have to beoome involved in debt and live upon the charity of othera. Even now 1 find that I have overstepped the bounds, and can no longer obtain a cent's worth of favor. For weeks I have offered my services for my board, but they have not !>eon accepted. It wonld take too long for me to regain my former status. I have almost beg ged of those who throngh me made hundreds of dollars, and they turned from me with their dimes in their pockets. Some did help mo at first, but their manner was such that to ap proach them a second time for a favor became impossible. My innermost thanks to [liero follow tho names of a dozen personal who liavo this dav that 1 take poison, refused mo credit. Plants. It is well known that plants sleep at night; bnt their hours of sleeping are a matter of habit, and may be disturbed artificially, just as a oock may bo woke up and crow at untimely hours by the light of a lantern. De Oaudollo sub jected a sensitive plant to an exceed ingly trying course of discipline, by completely changing itH hours ; ex posing it to a bright light all night, so a# to prevent sleep, and putting it in a d..*k room during the day. The plant appeared to be muon puzzled and dis turbod at first; it opencil and closed its leaves irregularly, sometimes nodding in spite of tho artificial sun that shed its beams at midnight, and sometimes waking up from force of habit, to find the chamber dark in spite of the time of day. Such are the trammels of use aud wout. But, after an obvious strug gle. tho plant submitted to the change, nna turned day into night without any apparent ill cfieots. TYrm: 52.00 a Year, in Advance. tiiia inhr.fciis. " Man the inast-heada there I" wm the order from the mate of the States man. on a bright, clear morning in the tropical latitutes of the Paetifio. The order was obeyed by those whose turn it wss to take the first look-outs of the morning. But the youngster whose station waa in the fore to'gallaut cross trees paused in the fort-top, and threw a rapid glance round the horixon. "Bail on the weather bowl" he re ported. " A boat with sail set, coming right at us." The announcement caused s stir at onoe on deck, and brought cot only the captain, bnt all the watch below up. The all-important morning duty of washing off decks was suspended for the time being, to gmxe npou the un wonted spectacle of s whale-boat alone upon the ooean, coming to board us in the morning, like the veritable barber—Neptune, of equatorial noto riety. The boat waa not more than a couple of miles from us when first discovered, approaching swiftly nnder the oombined power of rail and oara. The captain's telescope wss brongbt to bear, and it as boon ascertained that she had at least a fnll crew. We backed the main topsail, and hove to, waiting impa tiently to know more, aud making vari ous shrewd guesses and (q>eculationa as to her history and character. " They've lowered for whales and got lost from their ship," suggested one. " Likely enough," returned an other. " The captain makes out eight men in her," said s coxswain, coming from aft Here was a new phase of the matter, and our theory was blown to tba fonr winds. Nobody would lower in pur suit of whales with any more than six in a boat. " Castaways, of course," was now the unanimous opinion. "Bhip foundered or burnt at sea and some of her boats lost with her." But we were not kept long in sns pause, for the strangers brought their frail craft alongside as rapidly as oars and canvas could do it aud leaped on deck. In a few minutes we were in possession of the whole story—a parody on the old one of Bligh and Fletcher Christian. The boat contained Captain Watson, lua state and tu others, from the bark Newcastle, of Hyduer, who had been act adrift the day before by mu tineer a. The second mate, named Mc- Gregor, was at the bead of the con spiracy, which had been most artfully planned and carried into execution, while be had charge of the deck. It was supposed that McGregor, the new oommauder, intended to carry the bark down among the Marshall Islands and there destroy her, taking tip his residence among the sarages. "Du re were still twenty men on board ; but bow many of them were actively engaged in the plot, or how many were merely cowed into sabmiasien to the new authority, was more than the captain eould tell. " And how far do you suppose your ship to be from us now ?" asked Captain Bent " 1 have steered weat northweat, by compass, as near as I could," said Cap tain Watson ; " and have run, I ahonld judge, about eighty miles. Tho New castle, wheu I lost sight of ber, wan by the wind on the northwest tack, under easy sail, She ought to bear nearly due east from us." " Come below, and let's lay off your course on the chart, I donl'know M 1 can do anything forvou, even if I should fall in with your ahip, but it might be some satisfaction to see hrr." The two captains went into the cabin, and soon the order was passed •long to make all sail on a wind. Nothing was seen during the day, and at night we tacked back again. And the first gray light of morning showed up tlie bark —recognised at once by Captain Wat son and hi a mate M their own vessel— running down serosa our course. "Of course he won't pass nesr us it he oan help it" " No, I suppose he will tToid us; but 1 am going to signalise, at anv rate. Haul the mainnail up," said Captain Bent, to the officer of the deck, " and set the ennign at the gaff." The orders were obeyed ; and much t our surprise, the mutineers altered their course a little, with the evident intent of speaking to us. " Whst can it mean, that he is so ready to apeak to a stranger ?" was the question that passed from one to another of the group. " Now I think of it," said the mate of the Newcastle, " I think I know his object. If he really means to wind up hi* cruise st one of the Marshall Islands, he will want to make a trade for tobacco and fire-arms." " You've hit it," returned the cxp tain. " That must be McGregor's ob ject. There's isn't mnch tobaeco on board and but little powder. He wants to bnv more. Captain Bent, let's yon aud I have another talk by ourselves. - ' he added, seeming to have oonooived some new idea. Their conference was short; bnt, judging from tho expression ou their faces, when thev came on deck and took the mates into their conference, ! it seemed to have been productive of ? omethiug of importance. The bark's boat, in which the wanderers bad been picked np, was placed overhead on the skids, as if she had been one of our own, and a sail thrown over her that she might not le recognized. The erew were instructed to keep themselves ont of sight while the two vessels were communicating. " What bark is that ?" asked Cap tain Ben, innocently, after he hail given his own name. " The Newcastle, of Sidney." " Who commands her I" " Watson," was the reply. " One of our n.eu had his log broken yesterday," hailed our captain, " and I wonld like to get the service of your snrgeon." " Certainly. I'll come aboard, nd bring tho doctor with me. I wish to see ?'ou to trade with yon." And with a arewoll wave of a trumpet, as the vessel passed out of bearirg, he luffed to nnder our loe, and then low ered his boat Now the doctor of the Newcastle was at that moment in onr own cabin, he having been sent adrift in the boat with the captain ; but McGregor wonld, of course, bring some one to personate the character. This would take seven men from her crew ; and it was also certain that he would man his boat with his choice spirits, for if he brought any doubtful or lukewarm ones, they might prattle. We had onr instructions, aud within five minutes after the sevon men steppes! on onr deck, they had all been decoyed below and quietly se cured. The boat was veered astern by the warp, and the maintopaail filled on a wind, just as if we had made arrange ments for a day's " gam," aeoording to the frequent usages of whale-ships on eruising ground. Of oourso our part ner followed our lead, keeping oompany with us all day, without the least sus picion. Tho remainder of our plan to regain possession of the ship could only be e&rrieil out under cover of darkness. MoGregor and his associates in crime were ironed and placed in the run lev safe-keeping. After dark we NO. 45. hove to *0(1 ft a light in the rigging, which vu it once answered by another from the Newcastle, aa aha closed with on and lay under onr lee. Away want a boat from oa in charge of onr mate, with a ]hdud crew ; while a ahort distance aatorn of her followed another, with Captain Wataon and hia whole party. The ruffian who waa in eharge of the bark, calling himaalf mala of her, waa amuaed by the fir.t corners with a atory that hia captain had made a bargain for a quantity of gun powder and tobacco, and that onr mate had been lent for the money in pay ment. Suspecting nothing, he invited hia visitor Helow, to drink and enjoy himaelf awhile. Onr men managed adroitly to engage the attention of tbeae on deck, and the second boat waa silently alongside in the darkness, be fore her approach had been observed by them. The alarm waa given by the cry " Boat ahoy I" bnt too late. Aa the touched the aide, her orew sprang opto assist cars, forming a superior force, with all the advantages of surprise. McGregor's lieutenant waa knocked down by onr mate in the eebin ; the few men who really had any heart in the mutiny were quickly disponed of; and in leas than two annates from the time the beat waa hailed, the quarter deck of the Newcastle waa in poaaca aion of her former officers. Metlregur and the other principal* in the revolt, still ironed, were carried to Sydney (or trial. As oar reaeon wna up, we kept oompsny with Captain Wataou, and made oar port there, where we were liberally by the owners of the recaptured vessel lor our share in the business. A Clean Aprs*. A lady wanted a trusty little maid to come and help her to take charge of a baby. Nobody could recommend one, and she hardly knew where to look for the right kind of a girL One day ah* was passing through a by-laue and saw a little girl with a clean apron holding a bat T in the doorway of a small house. " That is the maid for me," said the lady. Bho stopped and asked for her mother. "Mother has gone out to work," answered the girl. " Father is dead, and now mother haa to do every thing. ' " Should yon not like to oorne and live with me 7" asked the lady. " I should like to help mother some how," said the little maid. The lady, more pleased than ever srith the tidy looks of the little girl, went to eee her mother after she came home, and the end of it was that the lady took the maid to live with her, and ahe found— what, indeed, ahe expected to find— that the neat appearance of her person showed the nest and orderly bent of ber mind. She had no careless habits, ahe was no friend to dirt; but every thing she had to do srith was folded np and put away, and kept carefully. Th< lady finds great comfort in her, and helps her mother, whose lot is not now ao herd as it was. Bhe smiles when she says, "Sally's recommendation was ber clean apron and who will say that it was not a good one ? Labor Now and Year* Ago. A French author, in speaking of the efficiency of labor now and in Homer'a time, says that 20 millers can now pro dace by machinery flour enough for the daily nae of T2.000 men, for each man can grind enough for 8,600 men, or 144 timet aa much an could be ground in the old Homeric hand-mill. A smart woman, working with her knit ting need lea, can make 30 stitches a minute, while a machine is making 4,930. The machine thna represent* 60 workmen. If we compare this show ing of the great inefficiency ef labor in old times with oar own knowledge of the luxury enjoyed by the hordes of aristocratic non producer*, both in Homer'a time and for more than 2,000 year* thereafter, we can form some con ception of the extreme poverty of the laboring people, and perhaps ahall be content to own that much of the splen dor of antiquity ia due to oontrast with a dark setting' of human poverty and ■offering which our own modern art happily lacks. Went ts lfer Death. The other day there waa picked up out of the Seine* a young woman of such surpassing beeuty that crowds flocked to see her body at the Morgue, and photographs of her were scattered broadcast over Paris. The lovely un known proved to have been an Italian, by name Lncretia Balbi, who earned her living as a model. Among the painter* for whom she had sat waa Henry R< gimiit, and for him the poor girl conceived the most ardent passion. "She never told her love," and he never suspected it; but from the day of his death, two years sgo, she began to pine swsy in the deepest melancholy. Her character waa stainless, and her deep sense of religion caused her long to hesitate at suicide; but at length her mind seems to have given way. tihe left a letter addressed to her broth er, who also ia a model. It ia a very sad story. but there are no dark fea tures in the case. What a wonderful tiling love ia, even in these prosaic days! The Work at Ilell Gate, The total number of feet of tnnnel on the 3d of J unc, 1873, was 6,781. The work waa suspended for want of funds about the middle of November, and was not resumed again until July, 1874. The lineal feet of tunnela excavated during 1873 waa 896; the number of cubic yards excavated in Jnly, August, September, October and part of No vember, 4,648; number of feet of holes to each cubic yard removed, 9J ; average number pounds of uitro-gly cerine used to enon oubio yard of rook removed, 1 1-10 lbs. lly the removal of the reef the channel would be in creased from 600 to 1,200 feet, at an average depth of 26 feet, and the most formidable obstruction to navigation which exists in Hell Gate conld be ob literated. The Falling Leaf. The separation from the stem, which precedes the fall of the leaf, is said to be a gradual prooess, beginning early ia summer and produced ly the con tinued growth of the stem after the leaf has attained ita fall growth, which it usually does in a few weeks, the cuticle of the stem healing over the wound thus formed. The growth of the bud of the base of the leaf still further sepa rates it, aud a gust of wind, or the con traction of the leaf stalk by frost cause* it to fall The leaves of white oak and some other treesare notthns separated, but pushed off by the young growth of the next year. ABOCT THB BCTTBB.— After baying a pound of butter of a Detroit grocer, a woman indignantly remarked that thirty-seven cents per pound was sheer robbery, and she couldn't see how but ter was so high. "11l explain,madam," replied the bland grocer. " Yon see theexoeeding parched nee s of vardnre has resulted in a dearth of lacteal foundation for butter, and not until the atmosphere is rendered more hu mid by some astronomical procedure will the supply of oleaginous matter be increased. Bhe pondered a while and went off feeling much better- A Persian Lave Seng. Ab! sad are tbsy who know no love. Hat, far from passim'* leer. and .sal!.* Drift down a moonless tea, beyond The silvery "■*• * hie. And Mtdder they whose feaglng Up. Kim ewpty sir. eivt never touch Tl dear warm mouth of thoee they lote-- WaJUag, waetiag, .offering *. Hut Clear as amber, fine aa muak. Is life to thoee who, pUgr.ni wVw. Move band in band from dawn todaak, Each mornlus nearer Pared!**. Oh, not for Hi em shall angels pray r They stand in ovevuaUag light i They walk In Allah's smile by day. And neeile in hia heart by night. Items ef Interval, The poorest income on which a mar | ried couple sen live ia iacome-patibility. At Salisbury. K. H., Master Cuafaon. aged fifteen, killed Master Couch, aged fifteen, with a oinb. " Where is ' parts unknown V " aaka a correspondent. " Where they don't advertise." What cornea once in A minute, twice in a moment, and ones in • man'a life ? The letter IL A queer man-The baker who kneads much, and vet sella everything he kneadf himself. In preparing copy for the printer make hooka to jour letters, bnt do not hook your ideal Who ia tha lancet man ? The furni ture man ; he keeps chairs and lounges about all the time. The statement ia made that lightning conductors made of straw have been tried with aaooeg|fn France. Germany baa joat launched her seventh first-class iron-clad, and will have another afloat by next April. Canadian justice magnanimously allows a man the choice of going to jau three yeara or supporting hia wife. The youth who cried " Exoalaior " didn't know that he waa naming five out of every six saloons in the eountry. Recent statistics show that the whole number of farmer* in France ia 7,333,- g, of whom 6,875,946 are land pro prietor*. The aale of onion* haa largely in* in eaiiwl in Maine, thoae who would like atoohol If they oonld get it being, according to one theory, the purchasers. In October the affectionate hoaband weeps to aee hia wife akip about the house flourishing a duster, and to bear her ahriek in aoeenla wild, " Kill him 1 There'a another moth miller 1" We ahall hail the day of female suf frage, for then the monotony of seeing a rooster at the head of every victorious newspaper will be relieved by the oo* eaaional inters perm on of a bun. A good meal, it is aatd, is served in a restaurant in the Hue de Trinile, Paris, for nine oenta. The mean eompnaee a plate of meat, a plate of vegetables, dessert, and hail a bottle of wine. A couple of fellows who were pretty thoroughly soaked with bad whisky got into the gutter. After floundering for some time one of them said, " Let a go to another house; this hotel leaks." An inquiring man thrust bis fingers into a horse's mouth to see how many teeth he had. The horse eloeed his mouth to see how many fingers the wn had. The curiosity of eeefa was fully satisfied. Thirty Chinese boys have just arrived in Springfield, Mass,' to be thenee sent to various schools in that State and Connecticut for education. Tbey brought their wardrobes and trinkets in great bamboo chests. The lifting power of plants is well illustrated by an oak tree in South Had ley, Mass. A rook had a seam in it, and a fibrous root from the oak crept into the seam, grew and lifted the rock, weighing over a ton, to a height of one foot A Western man set firs to the prairie for fan, bat after he ran seven miles and climbed a tree, with his pants abeut all burned off, he concluded the sport was a little too violent exercise to be indulged in oftener than once in a lifetime. Good advice. When yon use a postal card, always write the address the first thing. Tons of postal cards without any address are destroyed in the Dead Letter Office, because people write their message first and thea forget to address the card. In Hartford, not long ninoe, where the estate of a bankrupt, upon settle ment, only allowed a diviiitend of one half of one per cent, the highest divi dend was $55 on a debt of SII,OOO to the wife of the bankrupt, and the low est was four oenta. A bashful young man mortally offend ed the bride of his moat intimate friend by stammering, when taken aback by a request for a toast at the wedding en pper: ** Tom, my f-fr- friend, may you have a wedding onoe a year aa long as you live." A pistol to be need by Marietta Ravel in a plav at a Troy theatre waa loaded with a "decidedly realistic bullet. A boy had been rat hunting with the fire arm, and had left in a deadly charge The diaooverv was made jast in time, probably, to save the life of an motor. Excellent paper pillows may be made of old letters—the stiffer the paper the better. Newspapers will not da The paper should be cut into strips and rolled round an ivory knitting needle; it is then almost like sspring, and makes a much better cushion than the torn paper, being more elas tic. Nineteen years ago s Tennessee fatker refused to let his young daugh ter go to s candy-poll, and she disap peared. The other day she returned, lifted eleven children out of the wagou, and entered the house and took off her things aa coolly as if she hadn't been gone over a day. A hint to be taken by the f urplioed and others is given by the New York correspondent of an exchange, where he writes, "A clergyman of my ac quaintance does a very nice thing when he marries s couple. After the eere monv is over, he steps up to the bride and 'presents her with the prayer book ont of which he reads the wedding services. The names of the bride and groom and the date of the wedding are written on a fly leaf of the book." A Rich Charrh. The salaries of twenty-eight prelate* of the Established Ohorcta of England amount to £152,900 a year, or nearly eight hundred thousand dollars ; but to this you must add £IB,OOO for as many deans. The annual patronage attached to these twenty-eight dioceses is valued at £901,165. This patronage includes oauons resident, arohdeacocs, and other olerioal snuggeries. The value of the real estate of the Established Church of England may be estimated from its revenue, which at its lowest rate is £7,000,000, or thirty-five million of dollars annually. The Established Church of Scotland (Presbyterian) ownß 1,250 churches, educates 140,000 scholars, and raises £140,000 annually for home and missionary purposes. Within twenty years 150 parish chap els, costing £500,003, have been en dowed and erected. Undecided. A well-dressed man in Chicago at tracted considerable attention the other day by sitting upon the edge of the sidewalk for some time, with hiß head between his hands, as if in deep medi tation. At last a sympathetic stranger approached him and aaid: "Friend, yon seem to be in trouble ; can I assist Jon in any way f" The man sprang to is feet, and taking off hie hat, parted his hair carefully, and said: "Stran ger, do yon see this cnt f My wife did it this morning with a flat iron, and then sent me down town to bay licr a new bonnet, and I have been sitting here for an hour trying to decile whether I will buy it or Dot, iu>d b aiae rae, rtranger, if I hwyn't ahaon* d eidvd to get ifc"
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