Casting i Shadow. A wit stopped at a foundry, where Home men wees easting iron ware. And entering, said. " Ton all appear To be engaged in casting here.' - Yes."' said the foreman, "that • our bi*. " The wit remarked, " I'm glad H ia. For I have sought, and found at laai, A place lo'get a shadow cast. * Hie iron man ai once replied That " Such a feat their skill defied Rut recommended him to paaa To a foundry where they worked u\ biwae. Find lu the Rare. Swift-gliiing o'er tlie icy track. I watch you alyty turning back i Your glowing face With saucy look that tells ma plain, " As usual, here 1 am agaiu First in the race !* And ae npcut'tl a glistening field Your glauoing feet force all to yield. Your skill defies, So, too, you seem to think it right All heartsaliould bow before your bright 8on)-ptermng eyew. Resistance ? Why. the thing '• absurd ! You set the snare and ornch Mis turd From k>\e of fun ! His efforts to be free again Aiw but Lore's labor spet>riu vain. Poor dim ru>g oue! Hut has it never dawned on you That woman yielding, tender, true. Is mote iu (dace t And thoee who wish men's hear:* to away With gentle moves the game should (day A waiting race? But there! what use to argue thus* You know full well, you little puas. You hold me tight! By storm or stege, 'tis all the same. With me you (day a winning game. Hear little sprite'. PIPLEY, THE POLICE* \!t. "It's all very well to report a man, and make minutes about him, and ail that sorter thing," said John Pipley, policeman, as he wont down Great Bulky street, beating his white-gloved hands together, and rolling his eyes about in all directions. " A man * can't le all eyes like a peacock, and looking every where at once. Here, just get out o' that, now, will yer ?" " I ain't in nobody's way, am I f" " l'es, Tim are, so* go ou ! That there hvndcart o' yonm's been getting bigger everv week, and how's carriages to draw up if you're here I" This bit of feucing took plaoe between Pipley and a man with an apple harrow —the fruit vender going off grutnhliug. and Pipley on the lookout for workers of mischief against the laws. He was not a perfect man, John Pipley; he was a good officer, and worked hard for his Ey; but he was uot j*rfect, and he ew it. In early days, before Mrs. Pipley agreed to rest in future upon his manly breast, he had been seen more than once t<> steal up from areas, and close the gat# very carefully after him— of course returning from voyages of in vestigation and examination of locks, bolts and bars. Of course he had on these occasions tried the coal-cellar, and dustbin. But why was a gentle cough heard, and a door closed softly, wh had "cut behind " a coach aud nearly I wen ran over. John even had vrords with a political mag nate's coaclunan, and moved him on, in spite of the crest ilpon the panel and the .lashing bays. For John was under a cloud. Mys terious robberies had been* taking place on his beat, and though he had .lone his best to catch the members of the gnng, tliev had been too much for him, and tlie robberies went an. Now this was very galling to a man who had set his mind upon rising in life. Blue vraa all very well; bnt sergeant was better; but inspector, and then superin tendent—those were the goals that John Pipley wished to reach in the race of life; and now, instead of going forward, his movement was retrograde; be was threatened with reports, and all because of the scoundrels who had been too much for him. " I'll lie down npon th n m, though, one of these .lava," said John. "IU put salt on some of your tails, my pretty jail birds." 8o he went on, up and down, down and up, and had nothing to report at last. And the robberim went on. A carpet Iwg was taken from a coach in motion. Next day. a shawl and a carriage time piece were stolen, as the baronche stood at a fashionable milliner's door. The disturbance about that was hardly over wh"n a boy was hustled, and a valuable pareei wrested from bis hamls. Again, a boy was garret- J, and a pet dog and a mother of pearl opera-glass taken from his encircling arms. John Pipley was in despair. Another day. Great coat and um brella from the front hall of Rubble mede's mansion, in Upper Crook street; two umbrellas from No. 21 in the same street, and a roll of carpet from the big store round the corner. John had a sharp lecture from the captain and he went again upon his beat, horribly wroth. " 111 had "only tieen ly that shop door I could have nailed tliem," said John, angrily; "bnt a man can't be every where at once. I'll have them, though, next time, hang me if I don't, or else I'll leave the force." He was very busy that day, and took up one man on suspicion; but only got snubbed for bis pains. "I shall be too many for them yet," said John, as he swung leisurely down a street. "Every dog has his day, watch dogs as well as mongrels, a running about and doiug mischief; and when 1 do get hold, why then " He paused before an orange woman who [was encroaching upon the pave ment, and, after warning her off, began to ponder on her appearance. Some one most have committed these robberies, and why not she as well as any one else? She was bulky, and bad a habit of sit ting in a sieve packed with her legs un der her, to keep her warm; her bonnet was very much crushed, and her plaid shawl all awnr—all of which proved nothing; but they might be found to be associated in some way with the late rob beries. It was astonishing what great things sometimes grew out of small, as the detectives had often shown. John Pipley could not make the sides of the puzzle fit, so he moved on him self. Ah ! Now that was mine likely. An organ-grinder. Ham! Always loiter ing about and turning that handle, what opportunities for thinking out villainy! But no, it would not do. He couldn't take np Giuseppe on suspicion; so the man ground ont the march from " Faust" like so much musical meal to be blown away upon the wind, the sound buzzing in John Pipley'sears, even when he was out of sight. "I'll have 'em yet—lHhave 'em yet," said John, as he chewed the cud of his FTUOD. KURTZ, Kditor nnd 1 N-opriotor. VOL. MIL disapjxiintnicnL mnl thought of hi* oapUuu's word*, but his business was Killi'k, tile people Wt'JV awfully Well behaved. wul it waa very disappointing. A coach rattled by. laden with lug gage, but no scoundrel nw dislodging * portmanteau; and he -John INpley - oouhl not run after Unit coach all the way to the ili>]mt to see it it arrived there safe. It wn.i uot reasonable, and would lie horribly wauling in dignity. How hia bond workixl ! How ho boot together hi* gloves, in which hi* lingers itohod tii get ot crime, or longed to lay hold of hi* truncheon, nud hit at some thing, luml—Tcrr liaril! Up and down, here and there; but nothing ou tlic wing. Not eveu a row, uot eveu a horac ilown; all wa* JHNUV whan ha wanted war—war to the trun cheou. It wax enough to make any policeman sigh, and he sighed accordingly. Ah ! if siime daring scoundrel would only ilasli a hrick through one of those great pmies of glut*, and seise handful* of the glori ous jewel* therein ! With wluU s feel ing of exquisite delight he could bring down bis truuebeon upon the evil doer's arm, mid make him drop the treasure, which would dv scintillating all over the pavement; anil then, with 'the fellow's cuff tightly held, the jewels gathered aud plrnxxl safely in his -John Ripley's - jxH'ket, how he ixmhl prouillv march the thief off. enter the chiurge, and deposit the culprit, like so orach honey which he hail gathered safely in a cell! Ah, and court next day! Yes. he would shiue there as the active mid in telligent officer. The jeweler would, of course, come down Itandanme, and it would be a step toward promotion. Yea, if such an attempt were only made, and he was at hand to star it. \Vliat a crack at the gang it would be—if it were only uot a castle in the air. Piplev beat his gloves together and sighed tleeply. " I was on* the look-out when the hurt carriage robbery came off, and I'd almost go so far as to swear that I saw that roll of earjwt perfectly safe ten minutes be fore it was stolen. Though it couldn't have been safe, or it wouldn't have been taken. Ah ! I shall have "em yet." " Now then, policeman, give's a lift with this here, there's a good 'on." John Pipley had been slowly approach ing a great grocery, at one end of which stood a light cart, with the tail-ltoard down, and an ordinarr-looking man was trying to lift a large firkin into the cart, its fellow Wing alrendv there. " Heavy I" said Pipley. " Out an' out," said the man. John Piplev was naturally good nature.!. He knew, too, the value of aid in a row; how often the law was glad to appeal to a civilian for help in the can tore of some ugly customer. So, with out a moment's hesitation, he slipped off his gloves, seized one end of the little barrel, and with a swing it was safely de posited in the cart. " A little funder, old nn," said the man; "now, then, both together. There's sum mat elae to come.'' A vigorous pusli sent the tirkiu right forward beside the other. " Now this here," said the man, "and then there's the priceof a pint," aa he step ped np to an egg box lying close under the window. "All right," said John; " but just tell your people as it niut safe to have these things out like they do; there's lieeu a good many robberies about." " Well, I b>ld our foreman as it wasn't safe," said the inau ; " but he called me f fool for my pains. Now, then." John Pipley pocketed the money offered to him, got his lingers under one end of the straw-packed iw, the man got his under the other ; the liox was rested on, the tail of the cart, leisurely thrust in, the t ill-board rattles! up, pins and chains secured, the man ctimbsd into the cut, a mutual uod of guod-fel lovrship was exchanged, the reins were shaken, the horse flicked, and sway it rattled, while Pipley slowly replaced his glovea, looked eagerly round for scoun drels and went on hi* way. "Luck's dead against "me," he said— "dead to dead; but I'll have 'em yet. If some one would only do som-jhing. If I'd any luck at ail, I should have nobbed some one after them lmtter kegs. Heigho! nothing never falls in my way." All through the afternoon, like a law preserving and int -lligwnt officer, did Pipley wanJer alxmt hi s Wat, longing to get a shot at some rascal or another ; but everything was quieter tliau usual, and the time for relief coming, Pipley returned to the station. " Another robbery on your beat this afternoon, Pipley," saiA the captain. "Strang"- thing' Most mysterious! Bat it muM be stopped. We can't go on like this. I must put another man on." " No, Mr, don't, please ; I'm down on 'em first chance," said Pipley; "but what is it this time— another time piece out of a carriage ?" "No; a"— " Not a coot from a hall!" " No; a shop-door robbery." " And I told 'em to be careful about them there rolls of carpet," said Pipely. " I don't wnnttobeluunh/'said the cap tain, " and I suppose you were watched out of the way. A man can't bo every where at once, nor yet be all eye*, as the press see in to think." "Wliat was it this time, sirsaid Pipley. " Oh, a very daring affair—butter firkins and egg chests, just delivered. Two firkins and a chest taken from the grocer's door directly after." "Were tbey outside the shop, sir?" said Pipley, rubbing his gloves softly together. " Yes, outside at Chedderby's. The fellows must have had a cart. I'll put on a couple of plain clothes men, for this sort of thing must Vie stopped. The super, will be furious." "They're sharp uns, and no mistake," said Johu Pipley, with a peculiar look of his eye; and then, being dismissed, be slowly returned to his lodgings, grind ing his teeth, doubling his fist, and biting a bit of straw into the smallest possible fragments. "It won't do to say how I've been sold," he muttered at last, as he sat down to the tea table; "for I have been sold, and no mistake. Looked as inno cent as a lamb, he did; and me not to see as he was the lamb of black sheep. And use, after eight yean in the force, not to have the perception to take a note of the name upon the cart!" John Pipley might have spared him self all trouble about that; for the name had been most carefully removed. What Building Associations Do. The rapid growth of Philadelphia, which, with a smaller population, has nearly twice the" number of separate dwellings within its corporate limits that New York aggregates, is due to three things: First, accessibility and level territory; second, the ground rent sys tem, by which land may be perpetually leased on payment of six per cent, in the form of rent; third, the bnilding associa tion, by which mechanics and others are enabled to become owners of their own dwellings. This system of association has, in spite of dull times, kept the building trade active wherever it exists in any large sense. In the towns abont Boston, largely in Philadelphia, and in all the mid-Pennsylvania towns, such as Beading, Pottaville, Harrisburg, etc., it has kept building active by the demand for separate dwellings it creates among the frugal work people. THE CENTRE REPORTER THE COST OF A WAR. What ike Ult 11*11 Mai la Ike tailed wtnla( nal *tMlUtlcn at ili> l rnur!*rit> •IMH VI ar. The following atateiuetit of the coat of the late civil war in the I'uited State* i* taken fnnu mi eaaay furmahe I to the Colxleu t'luW of England ; The whole cost of the war to the Northern and Southern Statea from Ifltil to 1 Haiti IN eatimaUHl ON follows : Live*, 1,000,000 ; property by destruction, waste, etc., #0,000,1t00,01i0. 'Hie gross etjiendlturea of the United States from June, 1801. to July, 1806, ss,Tyi,is7, 000. Of tins the actual war eipciira were about s.'>,Ht'J,Xt7,ooo. 'Hie exjie>nsxi of Slab a, counties, cities mid town* in the Northern States, uot represented by funded debts, have been estimated at fd00.000,000. Tile increase of State debts ou the war aeeouut was Slid,ooo,ooo. The iticrease of city, town mid oouutr debts ia estimated at #2ttlt,ttoo,otlo. Total war expenses of the loval States mid uatioual government, 86, 165,207,000. The estimated direct expeiulitnrea of the Confederate Htatea ou account of the war were fc1.00M.000.000. Aggregate estimated expenses of the war to the country North and South, 88,- 165,237,000. The total noaipb from all source* dur ing tlie aeeoud Tear of the war were I<•.-** tliau $42,000,000. The expenditures wore $60,01)0,000 jx*r month—at the rate of $700,000,000 a year. An another illustration we have the {peculiar reunite to Framv of the late war with Germany, which is thus summed up by a clever statistician in Paris : War indemnity, 5,000,000,000 fnuira; interest on the same fur two years, 300,- 000,000; the keep of the (lemian troops, '273,637,000 f runes, requisition, 227,- 581,000 francs; value of objects taken without requisitions, 254,172.001) fnuica; war contributions levied on I'arts, 200,- (100,000 franca, and ao on till the accouut forms a total of 6,673,811,000 francs i £266,952,440f. Hut this enormous sum is exclusive of peuaions U> the army, the damage done to material ami the ex I >euses of reorganization, which swell the total to 13,000,000,000 franca (£520, 000,000). The average value of a day's work in France is one franc and a quarter, and thus it would take 1,000,000 of rneu thirty yeara to work it ant. Tweuty Ear* of (orn. A local corresjioiident of the Pittsburgh (Penn.) Cumrnrrdal writes : Autlirwcite coal was discovered in Pennsylvania soou after the wttlemeut of the Wyo ming valley, bnt its tlnrt practical u* was by Obotliah Go* in his blacksmith shop in the year 1768. In 1791 Philip Ginter discovered anthracite on this Lehigh. lu 1802 Robert Morris, of Piiiiadeiphia, formed a company and purchased 6,00 l) acri-a of tlie propeity on which Giuter discovered the coal. The coal company was called " The Lehigh (V*l Mine." This cunqmny opened the mine and found the vein to W tifty foet thick, and of the very Wat quality of coal. The conquuiy tim.lt- every effort to secure a demand for the coal, but without success, and having become thoroughly disgusted with their sjiemtla tion, leased the 6,000 acres of this mam moth cud field to Messrs. White k Hazard, of Philadelphia, for tweuty years, at an annual rental of oue ear of corn. Messrs. White k Hazard tried t> use the coal in the blast furnace iu 1826. but failed; the furtiaebs chilled. In 1831 Ncilson conci-ivel the idea of the hot blast for suviug fuel, and in 1833 David Tliotuas sdo]>t'sl the idesof the hot blast au.l anthracite together. Whit.- A lluz ar.l hid. prvvioull-> this, formed a coui i*ny and bought the property. In 1839 )avid Thomas mail.- tlio use of anthra cite for making pig metal a sucr sis, by wlqch the tweuty ears of corn were trans ferred into $20,000,000. And this is the early history of the great Is-high coal mines of the present ihiv. I remember well the banquet given by Bnrd Patter son and Nicholas Biddle, at Mount Car Wu, in 1840, at which time thev paid William Lyman, proprietor of tlie l*io noer Furnace, SB,OOO, the premium they lial offered for the first successful n* of anthracite cool as fuel in the blast furnace. Bnt David Thomas was tlie lion of the day. It was he who showed them how to do it, anil hale and hearty to-day, as then, he stands a worthy rop rnoeutative of science. Ixnig may he live, and peaceful W his death, and may the memory of his deeds never be for gotten by Pennsylvania. He is a mas ter mechanic, and I should W pleased to see the Chair of Metallurgy iu the Me chanic's High hDbool of Vennsylvania marked Thomas. Babj Styes. Loudon, having harped upon its lathy farms for some time, has now coined a new word—" baby styes." The I'uli .Hull Uazettr tells the story of a tliroo vear old child lately kilhd in one of those ilens. It appears tluit the vouugster had lieen pnt to nurse, and tlie woman to whom it was intrusted was fnsjuently intoxicated, and was in tlte habit of going out and locking the child in her room for hours, without food or tire. One morning at nine o'clock she went out leaving the child in charge of her boy, who himself went out, transferring the child to an old woman living in the next room. The old woman hushed the liaby to alee]>, and lit noon Mrs. Davis, the nurse, returned " slightly intoxi cated." She went into the room where the child was lying, and was next seen by the old woman at six o'clock in the evening in Yauxhnll-wulk. On the next morning the boy, who had lieen to the theater, returned home at lialf-past twelve, and going into the room found the lby dead. latter in the day Mrs. Davis returned home "the warse for liquor." The doctor was called in, and having made a ptmt-morU m examination of the dead child, said that "of all the horrible fever dens he was ever in Mrs. Davia'a room was the worst. It was in a frightful state of negleH and dirt, ami the very place to breed fever. The death of tne child was canned by as phyxia, but how caused he could uot say. The organs of the body were healthy, but there was not a particle of food in the stomach and inteatines." What a sad and pitiful commentary the whole wretched story is upon the boasted civilization of the age. All a Mistake. Marcus J. I'arrott, a well-known American, some years ago, while at the Langhain Hotel, in London, dispatched to the Grand Hotel, in Paris, to reserve apartments (or him. On his arrival thsre great was his astonishment to find that one of the grandest suites of apart ments in the hotel had been reserved for him, while he wan greeted with the greatest display of respect by mine host and his stall". This extraordinary atten tion to a simple American sovereign was caused by a ludicrous misconception of Mr. Parrott's name. The dispatch con veyed to the landlord the impression that the apartments were for the Marqnis de Parrot, a distinguished foreign noble man. WANT FCNDB. —The return rifle match between Ireland and America will take place in June, and the National Associa tion has issued an address to patriotic citizens. Funds are needed to insure the international contest, and, as the amount is comparatively small, it will no doubt be speedily supplied. CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., l'A., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY. 25, 1875. CouimtittUl Societies of the lulled State*. ('has. Nurdbuff ha* been inspecting UM Communist societies of the I'uited States,wuid he Amis tluit then* ars eight societies, or seventy-two communes or dtftmut settlements, in thu country which arc successful. 'l'lm oldest of these liave existed for eighty yea re, the youngest of which he treats, fur twenty two. Titer nunilmr alioul five thousand |IIWIIU O I all (ages, and are scattered through thirteen Htutes, owning nearly one hundred and eighty thousand acres of laud. A thev are sometimes accused of being html monopolists, it ie interest - iug to see that the communists owu only about thirty-aii acres a head. Tlim fact, uieutioued by Mr. Nordhoff, contrails ourioualy with the statistics of Scotland, where the Duke of SiiUierlamt owne 1,3*20,433 acres, the Karl of Bmulalbone TW.TVt aerea, the l>uke of UuccleiU-h 418,615 aerea; where utore than a quarter of the land ie owned by twelve men, and one ludf of it by seventy-live. Our author computed the wealth of the com niuuitiea at twelve millions of dollars. , One of the societies is French iu origin, i two American, and the others Herman. I Mr. NordhofT* detailed accouut of tliw ' life at the various communities, with ! their history, ia extremely intereating. The general im pie anion left u|*n the mind of the render is of moderation in every way—plain una* often nmouutiug to bareuetM, industry, regularity, and piob- ' able monotony. Kefiueuient, high edu- • raiiou, or geucrsl intelleetunl cultivation is uot common. Hut immorality, dis oriler, dissipation, arc seldom found. Mr. XuruhofTa general summary is that while they are uot re lined or rulti vated, while art is unknown among the I communists, ami U anty and grace ars | eveu despised, yet they work but moder ately; they are cleanly, honest, humane, | and charitable. Tliey provide plainly for iM'rsoual comfort, live well, are un usually healthy, temperate, never iu debt, and the most long-lived of our imputation. They keep regular hours, live in the ojwu air, avoid anxietv, are tenderly nursed iu ilhnws, ami in old age are most carefully considered. Kighty yearn is uot au uuusual age for a com muiiitt, and in every society except the French colony of 1 curia Mr. Nordhoff saw or heard of people over ninety and still lude and active. If the communist life seems in theory hi be dull and dreary, yet be found the |M*oule cheerful and quietly merry, ami consider* it in al-1 most every way a higher ami Iwtb r ami plcasanter life than that of the average mecliauic and laborer in tin city or the average farmer in the country. Imbed, when the render thinks of the tenement house in the city or the wasting toil and pinched household of the poor farmer, and then of the life which is described in this book, the author's opinion has grew! presumptive supjH.it, Par it In Tronblr. Due night lately. 4 bo street* and pave luouta of Parr* mw tMfitnd will* a tliiu coaling of 100, which made thom exees ively slippery. It wan with the utmost | difficulty that any vehicle could lias* along the streets, and pedestrian* fell in all directions. A* many parte* and din ner* liad bm given that day, a large I number of permw wore about. Tlie theater* wore all very full, and loud were the lamentation* on tlie turn out at mid night at to the iuipcaaubility of getting home. Sotue alopt in empty owuilmoes ami iwl: many got Its In iu rounnon lodging bouse*, and not a few (mased the nigld in the street*. It waa a carious ' night the next uioniingto see ladie* aliiv ering in their liall dresses making their way to their bunw. One gontleuuui cut up a railway wrapper, and making stock itiga for hia horse, drove home. A man with a 1111:111111 v of lint ahppern made a little fortune, but hit utock was soon ex- . Icinttel. Many JMI .plr people passed the night at the various j vol ice station*. Hrv eral people lost their livi**; a young man fell autl fractured hi* ahull iu the llttede i la Poix; a woman slipped, came down, broke her anu. and tlie child alie was carrying wan killed on the spot; numer- j oua 'fnu'turea of leg* and arum occurred, 1 and ilangerona wound*. Nearly 300 per son* were taken to the hospital*, luring 1 either broken linil*i or severe contusion*. ! Aa omnibus line lost 2t* horse* by acci dent Tbete iaa well known lieggnr who, having loot both leg*, by mcaiu of aharp poiuted stick* propel* hiiuHelf on a go cart. Tin* man clashed up the Bouie vard* at full speed, and, a* a reporter re innrk.i, 44 avenged the humiiutioii of year*." A blind nun who clung to the railing* of the mayoralityof tlie Kleventh Arrondoriemeiit wn* fastened there bv the tij>s of liif* fingers, which liecatue frozen. He UH n>leMHl liy n piquet. A Religious IMfßeiilly. The distubranoea which have taken place in Caraqncttc, New Brunswick, resulting in his* of life, had their iueep tiou in the bitter feeling existing between the Roman Catholics, who are in the minority in that province, aul the Protes tants, upon the subject of taxation for public schools. Tbo Catholics refuse to send th'-ir rhihiren to the non-s(>etariun public schools, ami many of tiiem have carried their resistance to the payment of the school tax to the ]>oint of suffer ing imprisonment rather than comply with the law; while not long ago the Catholic bishop of St. John }>ermilted property belonging to him to be aeized and sold for non-payment of his school tax. The assessment of the school tax is left optional with the local trustee*. In Cumquette, a Kinnll town on the eastern coast of the province, the citizens at their annual meeting voted against the assessment for school purposes by elect ing trustees opposed to it. These trus tees were removed by the government and others appointed in their place who made the assessment, and this led to the attack of the mob upon the residence of Mr. Robert Young, president of the executive council, who strongly favors the school bill, and was believed to have lieen instrumental iu .'orcing the assess ment. Several persons sre reported to have been killed and wounded in tliia affair. It will lie investigated by the oonrts, and the trial of the rioters will doubtless add to the bitterness of the pnhlic feeling. In Ontario and Qneliec, as well as in New Brunswick, religious animosities enter largely into politics. In Cases of Poisoning. If a stomach-pump ia not at hand give the patient ground mustard and salt dis solved in wntor to produce vomiting. We mention thin an throw article* are w mot id way n on hand in every house. Then give the wliito of a few egg*. In regard to special antidotes; For arid potaona give, OH quickly OH poaaible large dranghta of chalk, magneton, or a erenm made of aoap and water; for alkaline poiaonn, such aa soda, potoab, or am monia, give lemon-juice with water and sugar, and if thin cannot be hod, give vinegar; olive oil, nlao, will relieve anrh caeca. For araenio the hydrated aenqui oxid of iron ia the special antidote, in doaea acme thirty timoe larger than the amount of poison token; for baryta give Hulplinto of magneaia or soda; for anti mony or tartar emetic powdered Peru vian bark or the infusion of the aame ia the apeciflc antidote. For corrosive anblimate the hydrated proteaulphuret of iron is the antidote if administered within twenty minutes: if later, give un boiled white of egga, then worm water. For salts of copper (verdigris, bine vit riol, etc.) sugar and the whites of eggs. A Sailor lu CousUulluoplc. The captain mine down and called out that if 1 wanted to go up town to come along; ao 1 jumped ashore with my blue shirt and broad collar and went into the town. All the carrying here ia doue by men or horses, for the aire -la are so usr row there ia uo room for wagons, al though you occasionally sec one. Lsniles going out shopping use a se.hm cliair or go ou foot. The itimer* use a |ole about fifteen feet loug, with knolm on the end, and two little iron pius iu the mil Idle, where the rope] goes around, to kisqi the hunt in phice. 1 luive seen eight men carrying a large lade of hay this WHY, using four poles, ami the bale being .dung diagonally so that the men could each rest one liamt on the other's shoulder. It made it quite exciting when ten or twelve loads were coming at the aatne time, the men all shunting for tlie jvis.ple to get out of the way, and the street lieing so uarrow tliat auch a thing was almost iuqioMHible. Hinall light tilings like trunks are carried by one man, who liaa an affair of pigskin strapped on his luck of auch a aha|M* ! that the articleacarried almost stay tln-re ' without being tied. After we left the i ship cliaiidlcr's we came out into an open place, where 1 was surprised to see horse mrw. These car* were divided into two compartments—one third of the cars be ing for ladies and the other two-thirds fur geuUenien. Next we went up a very hilly street; NO steep that it was all steps. It is lined ou ItoUl sides with liamlaoiue storm of all deauriptiuua, ami is crowded with jsM.ple. 1 saw hds of those eastern lieggatw we read of—aume iu bualiel iMsketa, with nothing to lie aeeu but the head ami one arm, ami a variety of other ; aorta. At a building that was being torn down we saw them carrying away the lricks on donkeys, a big bundle of them < lieing slung ou each other, either one of the Imm iim weighing more than the animal, while the poor littlefellow wonhl try to walk, with Lis leg* beuding under him like rmla of whaleltoue. When we arrived at the American Consul's the captain went up to hia office and I stood !at the door. There are any quantity of peojile going around selling things you never heard of iu the Htates, and lu a mode of selling yon never see. For in stance, there are men selling drinking water; tliey liave a kind of wooden tub strapjied ou their lawk the tub lieing on tirely hidden by leaves and branches of trees, which tower high altove their heads. The water is drawn through a leather pipe, which lias a brass nozzle and cock ou the end, the mouth of the uozxle being also surrounded with green leave*. In front at tlmm thev carry a little brass tray, with two tumblers, and a sponge for washing the runs of the glasses. Tliey also rinse them out when Tim take a drink. The price is one pars, equal to one cent, ami you are entitled to two glasses. The water is good. Then there arc fruit men, selling plums | and grwjjee, and other fellowa tlut lure a regular cold lunch on a trwy before them and a stool slung babiad Uieni, so tlut von ran retire to a quiet corner and feast your ap|x'tlte. How They are Sow (hoses. Presidential electora in the United Stl<-* arc now chosen by general ticket The names of two men oirrv*| winding t<> the number of Senator* to which a State is entitled in (kmgrwsa, together with tlie name* of aa many other* aa there are ltepre*eiitalivi** ~f the Stale iu tlie lower House of < Vmgroas, one to reside in each <'ongnwaiotu! district, are (dared upon I tlie wine ballot, anil every voter votes for the whole nitinlver of Presidential elector* to chosen iu the State, and, , by a law of Congress, the electors are re quired to be chosen iu all the Stab-* on the Maine day, which is the first Tus day after tlie first Monday of November. The elector* so enosen in each State meet in tlieir respective States on the first Wednesday of Deaouhar, and vide i for President and Vice-President, and make and rngn three certificates of all the votea given by them, and seal up tlie j name, due of these certificate* is to !*• seiit, by a per*ou duly appointed by them, to the President of tlie Senate, at the scat of government, liefore the first ■ of January next eusuitig; another i* to I lie forwarded by mail, also directed to the President of the Senate: ami tlie j third is to I** delivered to the Uniteil States judge of the district in which the I judges are avHcrablcd. On the second j Wednesday of Pel unary, the PnriilMt of the Sfnate, in the presence of all the Heuators and KepreacnUtive*, OJM-IU the certificates front all the States, and the vote* are cmnteil. The |ierwon luring a majority of all the electoral votes for President is elected. If no |ieraon lias a majority of the electoral votes, the House of Representatives must choose tlie President from those candiilatea, not execmling three, who hud the highest ' unmlier of the ehetoral vote*. Hut in no doing the raemliera do tint all vote to gether; bat those of sseh State vote by thcmselvea, and tlie candidate who re ceive* the vote* of a majority of tlie Bej>- nwentativea of a State has imt one vote 1 for such majority; from which it appear* that there are ouly as turner Presidential ' votea as there are* State*, the person who receive* the votea of a majority of the State* is elected. The pnr|*>*ed amend ment to the United State* Constitution provides that the people shall vtite di | nsrtly for President and Viss-Pnwi dent. On an Icy Roof. There came near being a fetal accident at Richmond, Va. A yonng gentleman, sou of an Episcopal miuinter, in com pany with a party of young ladies, paid a visit to the capital. Like most parties who visit this place, they went up on the roof of the building for the purpose of viewing the city. While they were on the platform, which is not over four or five feet wide, one of th. party proposed that they should step to the roof, and the gentleman and one of the ladies did so. Scarcely hod they placed their feet there on when they found that the roof, which is on inclined plane, was covered with a thin coating of ice, ami to the horror of their companions, both slid with start ling velocity down, the yonng man in front, Their friends and other ol morvers expected to see them slide over the roof to the ground, but, fortunately, in their descent they came in contact with one of the chimneys on the very edge of the roof, and thence managed to creep hack again. _ It was In Paris. An elegant lady goes out alioppiug. While alio ia engaged, there ia a heavy fall of rain. The streets are flooded, and, to al and said you lud been elected to some high office cluuicellor, I think- sm 1 I, of course" Maxon. who had glanced over the note ami discovered it* complexion, ejacu lated, 44 You gave it to them ? Why, it's s ilialiohcai swindle. Did you give them any money t How much f ' 44 Why, I gave them a SIOO bill, ami thev gave ne 950 in change. Here it is." Mr. Maxon iu a despairing way took the money and carelessly glanced it over at first, then more eagerly, Noanuiug (wellbill carefully. 44 Well, well," *aid he at last, 44 this is a double outrage. Why, all this money i* counterfeit except two $5 note*! Rut wriiere iu the uaiuc of common aenae did yon ever get a sl*lo bill t Yon didn't borrow that of the nciglitiora, did you 1" 44 No," said Mr*. Maxon, who ip JH-ared to her husband to lie strangely undisturlied, 44 1 took tliat a 9100 note you gave iue about a year ago. Don't you remember I You told me to h*k out and not to spend it." 44 Whv, that * * counterfeit!" said the linaliami. " I knew it waa. Did you suppose I didn't see through their stupid game, Mr. Maxon f Your wife isn't a fool if she is a woman. (live me them two good & p > bills, if you please. I just want a new lionnct." A Itrakcman'M Rraiery. Charles Cramiail. a hrakemau on the New York and New Hareu railroad, saved the life of Mary E. Jones, of Port cheater, at the imminent risk of his own. Miss Jones was crossing the track, when she recognized an acquaintance in a lit tle boy and stopped to talk with kiiu. He was not on the rood lied hu' Miss Jones stood on the track, which was trembling with the approach of a Bos ton express- at full speed. A freight train stood on the other throngh track, and the men were bnav switching cars ou a ride track. ('randaft was on a freight car that was moving, and hearing the express shouted to Miss Jones to get out of the way. She seemed not to hear, and continued her conversation. ('ran dull jumped from the uidviug car, and rati toward the woman, who, too late to save hei-self. saw her danger. " I thought all of a sudden that I'd try," said he afterward, in relating tlie story to his friemls, " aud I knew that it must lie au awful quirk try. Site didn't sec me coming, hut just glanced over her shoulder quick like, ami then shrank all together with a sort of shudder, and whispered: ' I'm gornl heard that whis|H.'r. and it seems as though the en gine might have heard it, too. It was nlsuit as near her as 1 was. It was which and lather between me aud the express. The girl put her hands to her face and tottered backward. I just caught her aronud the waist, and lugged her off the track as the whole train scur ried past. I looked down at the little woman, and she was as pale ivs a ghost and hardly breathed. Then I was afraid she would faint, aud I wouldn't have known what to do theu. To pull a woman out of danger is earner for me then to liriug them to when they faint. But she opened her eyee and stared into my face in a wondering way, just as one d>aw on waking from a sleep after being sick and lightheaded. I think the scare itself came near killing her. Hhe found out where she was quick enough, and bounded away. ' Don't yon ever come around this track again,' said I. Then she laughed and started for her home, as she remarked: 'I think I shall remem ber this forever.'" Term*: $2.00 a Year, in Advance. The lightning Rod. Kwaer had lightning rude placed upon his l*ru throu or four yearn ag..; but during last otUWOM the buftittur wa* struck by lightning and burned. WHEN lie got the MOW ham ilotio a man nunc around with a rod wagon and wanb d to soli htm a sot of Holt k Bui nam's (latent lightning rods. " I believe uot," said Keyssr, ** 1 had roils on the I sum at the time of (ho " 1 know," exclaimed the agwut " 1 know you hail, and vary luudy that's the reason you wero struck. Notion's more likely to sMnu-t lightniu' than wort blew* rod*." " How do you know they were worth torn i" '• Why, I was driviu' by yor in the spring, and I seen them rods, and I says to myself that tauruTl bo struck aome tiiuc, but I here's no use in Iryui to ixtuvinoe Mr. Kevwr ; so ( didn't call. 1 kuowod it, because they bad iron tips. A rod with iron tips is no U-tter'u a close prop to ward oil lighttiin'." " The man who sold them to m# said they liail platinum tips," remark*! Koyaar. "Ah ! this ia a wicked world. Mi. l&eyaer. You can't ba t <*utious. Houic of thaws yer agent* lie like a gas meter. It's awful, sir. They are wholly untrustworthy. Thein rods wax the most ridieklu* aliam I over see. A regu lar gouge. They wa'ut worth the labor it took to put 'em up. They vm'ilt, now, Unit's the honest truth." •• What kind do you oilerr" " W*li, air, I vm k>H the oulv genuine lightuiu' rod that'* made It a tun strticted cm scientific principle*. Pro feasor Huxley xava its sure to ran off the electric fluidevery time. Twitted charcoal irvn, gins* insulators, eight point* on each rod, warranted auud platinum.. We give a written guarantee with each rod. Never had a house •track since we began to offer thia rod to the public. Positive feet. lie; ltghlmu'll play all around a house with one of c-in and never touch it. A thnuder Ktortu that'd tear the bowri* out of the American ooutiucnl would leave your houae aa aa its an a icoiar bear in the middle of an i.wberg Hindi I run you one up f" " 1 don't know," aaid Ktywr, mua- ingly. "I'll put you up uur cheap, and tiien you'U have aomethiu'rehakle. Monet bin' there's no diacount on." " You my the old rod waa a fraud t" " The deadliest fraud you ever heard of. It hadu't au ounce of platinum within a mile of it. The man that sold it ought to lie prosecuted, and the fel low that put it up without insulators ahould lw shot. It's too had tlie farm erw ahould 1m guged in this aurt of way." " And Bolt A Buruaai'a rod is not a fraud r" " A fraud f Why, rnally, my dear sir, lust oast your" eye over lVtrfaasor Huxley'a letter and thaae certiflaatea, and remember that wa give a written guarantee—a )NWtive protection, of courae." "Jurt cart your eye over that," saul Keywr, tuuiding him a piece of paper. Well, upon uiv word ! Thu is in eked what —that is to asy it is, as it wore—it looks—it look* s little like one of our own certificate*." " Just so," mid Keyser. "Tbst old rod was iue of Bolt A Barnaul's. You •old it to my aou-in-lsw; you gave this certificate ; you swore the points were pktiuum, aud your nuui put it up." " niSii I ttuppoee w* can't trade !*' " Well, I should think not." said Key *er. Wht rvuiwo the man mounted tits ml wagon aud moved uu The Horrors of the Iqhm. The luilknium will have been brought j nearer to a* by a great uuuiy tiuxusHvi j years when the people who are paid for I the performance of public duties are selected by uo other rtandanl than their own qualifications for |>erforming them faithfully and succesafully. That the selection of the fittest doe* not now pre rail in this department of human economy is a fact that the people erf the Unit-sl States have luul thrust upon their attention with wearisome iteration in the past t nor twelve years. It ha* rarely been thnurf upon the attention of auyliody with more sickening details than iu the two stories of cruel lnccxnpe teuce in the care of the insane. An old man miilc-rgoiug treatutent in tlie King* County Asyltun was murdered in puiv wautotiuor* by s lunatic whom a name allowed to take a plasterer's sdse to amuse himself with. The mufderer of cxmrae is s fitter object for pity than lus victim; but what sliall tie said of the nnrae wlsise indecision of character cr ignorance erf the duties lielonging to hia position it respontible fur this tiaiuftil cvdatirophe ? AU>ve all. what shall be said of the system under which it w*s possible for so incompetent a man to got into a fiorition where the results of ut competence are lisbls at all times to be so Appalling ? The case may be an ex treme cm, Kir there are few duties which require for their performance a more {leculisr fitness tiotn of natural parts and special training than do tlmae connected with the care of the insane. But wbera H|>ccial qualifications are needed tlie precautions against incompetence and unlitnees require to be made all the more stringent; and it is to be hoped that this . saving truth has been doubly impressed upon the guardians of the Kings County Asylum and of similar institutiona rise where bv the deplorable incident which luis followed its neglect. The story which coincH to us from Quriiec is far more iiarrowing in its nccuniulation of painful details. Through lack of propcr preaaution in guarding the arts of a woman of known violent propensities an asvlnm near the Canadian city was art j oii fire, and tlie four hundred and thirty odd demented women who were her fellow prismier* in the bnilding were tin own into a panic which may lie more easily and vividly imagined than de soribed. Three of them perishecJ with the burning building. That no more than throe perished where more than 1 four hundred were rushing in evety direction away from safety rather than towards it, may be accepted as sufficient ' proof that the officers of the institution i did all that lay in human power to do to snatch thrae poor dosed creatures from the jaws of destruction. But a few onuoesof prevention would have been far more efficacious than all them many ]>ounls of attemjrfcd cure. The patients who survive that wild scene will be all the worse for their night of high-strung terror. One act of neglect lias for them undone years of work in intelligent and conscientious treatment —if, indeed, the inmates of tlie destroyed asylum were accustomed to receive intelligent and conscientious treatment at the hands of their faithless guardians. —X. Y. World. Ha* tirateful. A Chinaman was arraigned in a San Francisco court the other day on a charge of murder. The judge asked him whether he had retained couusel. He replied that he Itad not; he was nothing but a Chiuaman, mid might as well beaxecuted now as any time. Tlie judge assured liini that lie liad as many rights iu the court as any other man, whereupon the Chinaman arose from his seat, nia face beaming with gratitude, and bowed his acknowledgment. Counsel was then ap pointed by the bench, and the tt* P>- ' oeeded. NO. 8. THE WAK OP 177A. FFCR Hw.lm. KARATE* ED kf IK* (Caulk* In Ik. WrlNl—wry Vw.WkN Tfcer < mm fiMh.l. iMrraallee MkMefc. All Atlantic ewapoudMit gives w the story of th* tmapn known a* H<* moan. employed in th* Revolutionary > mr ly the Fingtiah, Afte* filing on; thai Ureal Britain bad empkip|H!>t Im her own troops, and moat hire tight her IsUtlre is the colonic, Bit *ey* tiiat *|pli