The " Why M of a ltliuh. Two maple* by the cottAgo porch Ore* crimson in the onncot light; \Vt> it thoir loaves' reflected glow Wliioli made hor perfect foe oo bright ? I led hr gently down tho *te|w. And down tho put hour* dickering tdinde, lint Mill o'er tender cheek end brow The same deep radiance tnmly playeJ. "Enough, oh eweet "' 1 whiopered low. "That heart in mine 1 yearned to win; K© aunset fluid), hot love* pure dawn. Breaks from the kiialled ooul witluu 1" Tho Voja#rOe A3irOHLt\ O weary dave and night*. en Milt, ao .till— The useloas isula hang Rapping Miff ami alow. We jane and chafe, and set our helpless will Iu vaiu revolt at w hat to change, to kuow Is not for ti*. We hear the strong wind* blow And fret a* in the cart, the west, wo see Urvat chips and email go sliding fast and free. itairt. 0 fearful day* and night* so dark and The .vrift iw unvk and leap on rv.rv fide ; Ko ruddor pi<x i> ; no ma*t nor *;\ar can hel 1 , We think no ear could hear us if we cried ; We lluuk I Vol would not miss u. if we die 1 . We feel forgotten, helpless. cost away ; We ebut oar eves and do not even piay. CX SUORK O peaceful day*. and i<eaceful night* whoso peace tV'inct be uttered ' O green shares of life Beyond the body ! Shall we ever cease To enule that through such hot anil mil* strife We eanie ? That doubts and fears could grow • w nfe ? That we could tail to see how tlod's good hand Oar anchorman and cur dnftiujpi planned . RLIFINTH*S WEDDINtI. . Rugged, saturnine and cynical as to Appearance; crwblwxl, miserly and rcti cent as to disposition; such was Blifluch & Co.. gvnenil merchandise brokers and provision dealers. Fiir Blitinch was Blitinch, and Company also, the latter attachment of the firm Wing purely fic titious and designed pos&ibly lor eupho ny—perhaps to give distinction to the firm title. lUitinch dwelt in a ratn-sliackle, tum ble-down eld rookery in Pearl street, au t-slaldiahutcnt which had come to him strictly in the way of business, having fallen into his clutches through the fore closure of a mortgage, by which process an estimable but impecunious family were summarily ejected into the street one raw November afternoon, from which period they vanished out of man's cognisance. As t-iere could be found no tenant for th c rookery Blitinch moved into it him self, being enabled thereby to lease his former dwelling place, in a more agreea ble location, to excellent advantage. Blitinch was as universally disliked and contemned as it is possible for a man to be. llis hardness at driving a bargain, his want of charity—either for frailty or misfortune—his atwolute disregard for the customary amenities of life; these peculiarities caused him to be ah a tuied by all who vvere not driven to intercourse with him through business exigencies. Of these* latter, however, there were very many, and his line of trade was so successful in its competi tion with the rent of the business world that Blitinch lunl amassed no inconsid erable amount of property, which was aecurely invested ill the best possible securities at profitable interest. There was, however, in regard to Bli finch on© single redeeming feature ; he had a daughter—Polly Blitinch—whose characteristics were in such marked con trast to those of her father tlint thev shed a halo of reflected brightness and beanty over the latter which made even the surly meanness of Blitinch seem less obnoxious when she was by. Poliy was by this time twenty years old, and as sweetly-pretty a girl as one would will to see. Her charms of dis- C'tion seemed to have given a special liness to her every expression, and her amiability and kindness went far n the estimate of those who knew both t J atone for the rugged and unhandsome protuberances of character which caused Blitinch to be so disliked. Of course Polly had many admirers; for. though she was not permitted to see any company whatever under the inhos pitable roof which covered her gloomy habitation, there were still ways anil means innumerable by which she could form companionships, and through which these could grow into aff-vtionate inter ests. But though many pleasing and wholly unobjectionable young men nought Polly from time to time with a direct view to matrimonial results, these efforts had been invariably unsuccessful until a period about one year prior to the date of the present narrative. At that time Polly had made the ac quaintance of a young sailor, then mat© of a merchant vessel trading with the West Indies, and who was the brother of one of Polly's special frien.la. Constant association with this mariner when be was an shore, anJ as constantly listening to his praises when he was at sea, had at last their natural effects ; and when Sam Collier proponed, just before sailing on on* of his voyages, Polly consented to b© his wife lie fore she hail given ULi fincli's probable reception of th<- matter a single thought. When, after tho first transports of the position hail snbrided, ah© did reflect upon her father's interest in tb© important question, her spirits went down with startling rapidity. In deed, about five minutes of practical consideration of the subject resulted iu her conveying to her lover, with many sobs sml tears, the unqualified certainty that Blifisch would no more 1.-t th<-ro marry than he would present his son-in law presumptive with a new ship. Young Collier was of a sanguine temperament, however, hail a very good opinion of himself, and had never seen old Blifineli; so, of course, he hail no doubt on the subj ct, and insisted on proceeding at once to communicate with the "Cap tain," as he brevetted Polly's father in his reference to him. Polly oonsented finally, as the shortest way of surmounting the difficulty; and that same evening Sam Collier made his appearanr" at the rookery, and, being introduced to Blifinch by his daughter, then and there, and in the most seamau-likc language, proceeded to demand Polly's hand as an accompani ment for her heart, of which ho claimed present possession. Blifineli heard him through quietly, and then, turning to his daughter, said: " Polly, is all this true that this young man has lieen saying ?" "Yes, father." " And you want to marry him, do you ?" "If you please, father." Blifinch meditated for abont two min utes; then, turning to Collier, he said, " You are mate of a ship, you toll me, young man ?" " Yes, sir," replied Collier, patterning his replies after Polly's laconic style. " How would you like to be captain of a ship ?" said Blifineli. " Very much," replied the sailor. "Very well," continued Blifinch, re turning as he spoke to some papers he had been examining when he was inter rupted, " Come to my store to-morrow at no#:i. I will get you the appointment of captain of a ship in which I am inter ested; she sails next week for Callao. If you make a good voyage on her, you can marry my daughter—when yon come back. Goodnight." Polly turned pale and staggered visi bly; Sam Collier's face brightened, and seizing Blifinch by the hand he thanked him effusively and the two left the room together. Saiiorlike, Sam thought nothing of an extra voyage, and was fairly choked up with delight at kis new dignity. Polly, on tit-? contrary, foreboded all sorts of evil ; and when a week later Sam sailed Fill :D. KITUTZ, 1 Alitor and Proprietor. VOL. VIII. as captain of tho Ixtrk Polly l newly chmtcued 1, ah nrraßilMvil herself to tho gloomiest anticipations. 'These would proWbly not have been lcsitentHl luul *lu> heard a remark made by Hhtitteh as the Rtrk left her tntHiring*. He wtu stand uig ou the dock Uwide Polly, and as he waved his hand for the last tune tot'apt. Politer he said— under In* breath: " Yes, you can marry tuy daughter, when you come liack 1' Four months pavscd. Ave, six and the Polly put in uo ap|xwrance ; nor v.is there word of her nor of C.ipt. Saiu ucl Collier, her commander. 'I ho l<ark was an old vessel which had barely e-s caped condemnation after her previous voyage bv a promise on the part of her owners that site should lx thoroughly overhauled and re tilted. She had ivr taiuly been is>bbled up in aw ay and had received a third class rating ; the liad likewise lexni heavily insured with an extra hazardous premium ; and when seven and eight mouths had elapsed and no tidings were heard of her, Blitinch did not seem to see the matter in that light That Polly should grow |ale and care worn, refuse sustenance, and tuojx* her self alunv-t to dfth generally wan uo matter of surprise to tlmsc wh • oKsorvcd the phenomenon ; hot that Blifincli, who WAS supposed to have no mure heart than one of his own firkins of lard, should turn dejected and nervous, haunt the exchange for tidings of his ship, sleep restlessly at night, and Uw* and mutter with had dreams, as Polly averred he did that tlus condition shouhl oppress the hard-headed rn.ui of business was curious indeed. Perhaps had tliose who interested themselves iu Blitinch's coudition of mind seen him one afternoou about a year from the late of the Polly's depart ure from New York, and after the in surance had leen duly jvuvl over, said ("apt. Sam Collier mourned as dead by his many friends, and by the one go* 1 girl who loved him ami was dying for him—hail Biifineh been stvu on this occasion, new light would have beeu thrown upon his untoward Is-havior. For, sitting at his desk, with his head bowed upon his hands, which clutched his tangled gray hair miserably, the old man moaned such phrases as these: " 1 did it! I killed him!—killed both ef them, God forgive me ! I'm ruined now and damned for hereafter ! Poor Polly !" —and here Biifineh broke down aud wept There was a tap at hia door, and a ciork announced a visitor—a seafaring man, he said, and Biifineh cursed him ami told him to show the gentleman up, which he did. That evening Biifineh came to Pnllv, as she sat by a dim fire in the sitting room, brooding over her sorrow, and called her: " Polly." " Yes. father," she said, quietly. " I want yon to come to my wedding to-morrow. ' •• Your wedding, father !" "1 said ao; why should not I have a wedding f Is there to lie no more mar rying or giving in marriage because au infernal, rotten 01. bark goes to the bottom i" " But this is so sudden, father," s-iid Polly, gently. " How do you know it is sudden I" said Biifineh, savagely. " You must do as I tell you and don't make remark* ! I want you to go to my wedding at t i o'clock tomorrow. Gross up in your best and I will take you. It is to I*- at the ehajiol on the dock; do von hear?" " Yes, father," said poor Polly. "I hear, and I will be ready." Biifineh went to bed, and Polly to weeping, as was her nightly custom. But at half-past nine the next n ruing she was ready to accompany her father, and the two walked arm in arm t > the little mission chapel on die dock, n->t far from the house. As they ei:t red the door of the chapel Polly was met by a mau who stood just in.si do and who sud denly clasped her iu his anus, revealing Captain Sam Collier in person. There was displayed weeping, congratulations, smiles and other evidences of feeling of various kinds. There were introduction* to a respect able and amiable looking clergyman, and there was a wedding. , And when Polly, after twing duly mar ried to Gapt. Sam Collier aforesaid, asked her father at*mt "his wedding," Blifincli replitxl: "Isn't this my wed ding? Isn't it my daughter and my son in-law, and aren't they going to have uiv money? My wedding!—l should say so, rather." And so it never came out that Biifineh | had privately hi nil a man to scuttle the bark Polly, sud Hint he had failed to do | it because she sprung a leak oft" Cape Horn and sunk without his assistance. Sam Collier was taken ofT with the rest by an English ship bound to Liverpool; got wrecked again ; was carried half round the world, while his communica tions failed to connect -and all that time Polly was dying of love and dis appointment, and her father of re morse. Blifincli liecame a changed man ever thereafter, and as charitable and lenient as lie had before l>eeii hard-hearted and miserly—alterations which the neighbors always attributed facetiously to that ex traordinary subterfuge known as " Bli finch'a Wedding." A Young Man's Ketengc " Fay," writing of n Brooklyn young person, sr.ys in a letter: One of the girl's acquaintances gave n party to which she invited quite a nnmlier of her companions. A young man who lmd a grudge against the girl called upon each young lady and offered himself as an es cort. To each he said: " Don't tell that I am going to the party with you, for I have a reason, which I will tell yon wlr n I call." The girl# liad new dresses made, and their heads were dressed by hair dressers. Each one waited in vain for her escort, and he did not call for any, so that the party wan minus girls ; and lie actually had the audacity to attend the party, that lie might enjoy the dis comfiture of the young hostess, who perpetually wondered why so many staid away. This sort of revenge was so new and startling that I was anxious for par ticulars as to the nnmlier of thrashings the young villain got, but, to my regret, was told that it was thought both a funny and ingenious way oil giving tit for tat. A Great Farmer. Col. Lee Jordan owns and cultivates 20,000 acres, in Georgia, tlio Atlanta HeraUl says, tlio original cost of which was $450,000. He has 800 lalxirern, but is gradually adopting the tenant system. He raises twice n much corn as he needs. Six overseers superintend the plantations, and raise from 1,400 to 2,000 bale® of cotton. No fertilizers are used, as Col. Jordan believes them to lie pro ductive of caterpillars. Formerly he Xnt $12,000 per annum in guanos and isphates, but now makes liis own ma nure. Dr. H. H. Coleman does the practice of the plantations on the follow ing plan: He assesses each head of a family $3 a year, whether he is rick or not; and thus, by taxing each man lightly, it is made burdensome on none. He is a good physician, and says that it is the healthiest country he ever saw. Only two adults died last year out of over a tnousand souls. The preaching is done on the same plan. There is a col ored preacher on a $3,000 salary, who rides about the country in his two-horse buggy, as happy as a prince. THE CENTRE REPORTER THE WAR IN mil. Tlr oi M I i *• Tl*l to • rrr. T>> gain an idea of t'uKin warfare one uuv follow 10 advantage the bits of uil venture wlnch u vitluntoor ha# to nur rate. Ho enlisted tis a volunteer. One morning they were inIM tii arm* by the sound i>f tiring owning front a dis Unit hill. The uoise was as if a thou sand t]Kirtuuo \*ere out for a battue. Soon crowd* of mouuteii uien appear ou the hill, ttil.t with the aid of tiehl their movements lire watched. Tlietr wear drea-se, f white canvas, mnl hohl iti their hands sporting guns tun! pritm tive K|H'nrs. A Kills of them surround* it thatched hut, over the roof of which a white lianuer, K-armg a strange de vice, a silver star on a a.piare of republi can red, is dilating. The volunteers move toward the hut, hut tlnd it de serted, with the exception of a decrepit, half naked negro, who is made a oris oner of war. The banner is takeu from the roof and borne off in triumph by the iMiniuiuider, Afterward two more pris oners of war are made in the shape of a couple of runaway negroes. Though there li.nl been 110 encounter with the enemy for the last few days, the " losses " of the volunteers were not inconsiderable. Many of them hadKvn attacked by those terrible and invinci ble foes—fever and dysentery. In fact, two thirds of the force was thus put Aon lb- combat. The colonel is in de sjsiir, ami his soldiers utT-ct greut disap lHiiuUneut at the unsuccessful issue. When he orders the retnak some twenty men come to the front and pro pose to search the thickets. Tliey are allowed to go, am! they plunge Wml long into a d nse piece of wivmls. For an hour is heard an incessant tiring, and finally the volunteers emerge from a dis tant jsirt of the thicket. More than half of them are wounded, and the ri • I lead K-tween them no less than time prisoners of war. These are veritable reiiels. Two of them tire whites and are seriously maimed; tlie third is a mulatto youth of not more tliaa sixteen years. I'hey are attired in brown hollaml blouses, white trousers, buff-colored shin-s, and straw hats. The mulatto loy, who is only slightly wounded, is bouud hand and foot with strong cords, and consigned to the care of the soldiers. The otlier two nnfor tuuab-s lie groaning in agonv ou tlie ground, but are brutally seised by some of the volunteers, who maltreat them in a shocking manner, and stab them to death with the points of their Imvouets! When the volunteers reach tlie con fin. s of the town again, tliey are met by the governor, accompanied by a stiff of officers, and a baud of music. An ox curt i < procured, the dead and tlie rebel banner ore placed uj>n it, a procession is formed, and a hymn of victory is played in honor of their trinmjihant re turn. and. as th.-y march througli tlie streets, the iuhnhitonts welcome them fr.-iu their houses, quickly decorated with liauiiera, blankets, and piecsw of dugget, with loud chew and " i iro* ." Next day tho jwjieni give a thrilling d-wcrijiti'm of what might have lie.n achieved, if the enemy had been eu co.int rel in the open field. Among the Mormon*. Tl> ■ approaching trial of le-e, the Mormon prophet, cliargisl with l*<iug engagi-d in the Mountain Meadow ir.an sacru, in I'tah, draws ntar, and u oonv ajH.iui< lit scivin the Mormon* arc pre paring for some startling development*. It i s J question, he any#, that ii<>t only were obnoxious Gentile* put out of t!i 1 way in Salt Like t'ltv without any trial, hut even many of the brethren " were watched when out of doors anil quietly led to a ] lise® convenient for butel- ry, and Uiere'tad there "throats cut f<-r the double purpo-e of keeping th ira from "opv>*ing tl: kingdom" a.. 1 atoning for tin ir ems of unbelief. It i aid "f Lif li..ight, who was the lieutenant colonel of the militia rcgi ineut that ooaiuuttc-1 the massacre at Mountain Mead ws, that he grew HO fa natical and was so far removed from any sujierviaory authority that he did as lie pleased and diH]K:<ed of the live.'of tlio obnoxious with all the frr losn of a dog" of Venice. In th® little town of ('"ilar, the headquarters of his militia, he is said t > liave k-pt two of th- bri th ren— Stewart and MacfarUne for tliat sjHvinl [inrposp, and to aid at odd times in harassing and stealing from the pa*s ing immigrant Gentiles. No fewer than ten men were taken down into the cellar la-Heath Haight's house, and from there they never eame out alive, and the only answer that was ever made to nnv inquiry about n miss ing person in thorn- days was th® ln eonie sentence, " He lias gone to Cali fornia " To listen to the tales that are now told by men and women of the early times of blood one feels carried away in reflection to dark ages and liar baric nations, and it is this history that Brig hata Young has good cause to dread Ix-ing brought to light in the forthcom ing investigation of th® Mountain M<*ulow massacre, and Ido not sec how h can prevent its exposure. The investigation, when once liegun, will be like the letting out of water— the dam, oree pierced, the breech will widen and widen until it all is out, and the revelations of crime will startle the nation. Its ultimate result will be the breaking down of a fearful superstition and despotism and th® deliverance of a people who deserve to bo free. Savings Bunks.. The summary of tlio reports of nil the savings 1 tanks of Now York State, num bering en Jnnttary 1, 1 875, 158, presents some suggestive figures. Tile t 'till ro nonrces on January 1, 1875, an compared with those of tho same ilnto in 1874, show an increase of $20,5184,8-12. The amount deposited in 187-1 was $159,620,- 567; in 1874, $150,900,959. The amount withdrawn in 1873 was $175,375,532; in 1874, $148,741,211. A still more sugges tive statement is that in 1873 the savings hanks allowed $14,158,075 to lie in hanks and trust companion unemployed, and that in 1874 this idle capital had grown to $19,.'100,085 —an increase of $5,142,- 010. Thre in an impression quite widely prevalent that the savings hanks hnvo in their jMissession vast sums of money left with them by do|x>aitorn who t ever have called for it and never will. An in vestigation jint completed hy the Hank deportment shown that the unclaimed dejiosita of the savings hanks of New York State have heen greatly overesti mated. The whole amount of deposits unclaimed for twenty years and upward is only $310,656.60, and the whole amount unelnimed for ten years and less than twenty is only $538,188.12. No! With That. A colored man entered an Alexandria barher shop and demanded a shave. The proprietor seated him in ordinary chair. Ileing seated he was lathered. The barher then, after rummaging in a chest, produced what must have lieen the father of all razors, and commenced stropping it vigorously. The customer, half blinded by the soap, seeing him liandling the small scythe, asked what he was going to do with it, and when told that he was going to shave him with it, said he wouldn't be shaved by any such thing, and hastily rising, seized a towel, wiped his face and left the shop. CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., IA., THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1875. Natural HUtui j lu Our Public School*. Professor Triiuay, of Williaiua Col lego, publish.* mi interesting article on the importance of teaching natural his tory iu public schools. From it we ex tract the following: No language can hardly exaggerate the uu|K>rtaiuvof nstund history studies, and the uu|H>rtaitoc of teaching tho eh meuts of these studies early, even to children in the primary schools, as well a, to those iu the sehools of high.-r grades. Aud 1 have not alluded, by name, to the fact that all the great problems n-lativu to sup plying the world with glass uml all grades of earthenware with c*nd tuid iron with lead iunl tin and cojqier —with gold and silver and precious stones with grain for br*ail witli food tlsh from the streams and the lakes, and even from the ocean itself with the flesh of fowl and of cattle arc connected to day, most intimately, with nutund his tory studies, and will bo more so with every increasing year, with every added million to the population of the earth, and with every rtal or imaginary physi cal want. Nor have 1 alluded to the fact that in every country, our own as well us ofherw, nullum* upon miliions of dollars' worth of grain are destroyed bv insects every year, both ill the fields and in the granary, and that, if this animal de struetiou ever cease*, as it protiably will ts-ase, or ut least lie much übate.l, it will le mainly thr-ugli remedies or proven tires which will ooiue from a more ex tensive knowledge of the insect trita-.s; and the ls>v who is catching and study ing butt, rriiea uii.l other insects to .lay may become the man who through his knowledge of natural history sliall save the farmers of this great nation millions of bushels of gnuu in a single year and |M-rha|is a nation fiorn want, and even from famine itself. What one mau can do who has been trained infclieelemeuts of natural history, au.l thus led to the careful study of nature, is w.-ll illustrute.i by what lias ls-on done by such n nuui us l.inna-us, or such a mau as l'asteur, or such aa many other* who might le named, and who*.- history has already lwsn written, and witii whose valuable l.ils>rs we are already familiar. Many will jverhsp* remember that it i* recorded that when the King of Sweden saw the ship timber in the royal dock yard going to decay and destruction, he consulted Linna-us, hoping through him to learn the cans.- of the destruction, au.l alao a remedy or preventive; and ho was not disapjHiinted as to wliat he would know. Liimnui* traced the tie ntructiou of thetimbersto insect*, learned their instincts and habits; and by >li rooting the king to have the tunlsTA sunk l'U-ftth the water at a certain s-a son of th>* y.-ar, wheu these insects are abroad in the winged state nu.l when they lay their eggs, he enabled him to prevent further waste. And who can t.-ll the millions of dollars tlial have t*s-n saved to maritime nation* by Una simple direction which Litiiiirus gave to the King of Sweden 1 And it waa Lin metis, who lut.i studietl the nature and habits of jlatits, who first taught the nations how t resist the encroachment* of the sea by merely sowing a certain Rpeciesof beach gran* (ururufo arrnaria) which served to cover the sands snd bind them iu their places; and to this day Holland and other nations of the earth have |rofit-d bv his b-a filing. A few years ago, when the nlk culture of France was crippled and apparently in danger of being wholly annihilated, by the disease of the silk worm known a* jKbrtnr, when France lirnl l.ist by this maiatly more than two hundred mil lioiis of dollar*, the French government invoked the aid of Pasteur, a student of nature, hoping thereby to learn both tlie true nature of the disease and a remedy or a jlll vi-uiive; and the aid was not in vokr.i in vain. He *aied, directly and indirectly, millions of dollar* which we can lfard'lv estimate. And all this done, and all this saved, I *ay, by one man. a careful student of nature, and just such a < uc as should be growing up iu every school room iu our country. The Crops of 1871. Mr. 11. Dodge, tho statistician of tho United State* bureau of agriculture, give* tho footings of his forthcoming .tat- nu-nt of the crops of 1871, as fol lows: On tlm i*t of January, 1574, the num ber of swine of all ages in the I'nit d States aggregated nearly 31,000,000, as deduced from returns >f country corru spondents,of which fully 17,000,000 were in the eight State* of ths Ohio and Mis •soiiri valleys. In September last re turns were received snowing the com parative numbers ami condition of fat tening hogs. A decline from the amount of stock fattening iu September of the previous year was reported in every western Slate, amounting to twenty-four per cent, in Kentucky, thirb en in Ohio, eight in Michigan, seventeen in Indiana, fifteen in Illinois, fifteen in lowa, seven teen in Missouri, and twenty in Kansns ; in theao ei'.'ht States the nvurage dirlinr from last year lieing seventeen |>er cent. Their condition a. Mint date was also low, the depreciation below a fair aver age being eleven ]>er cent. Tin- returns were very full, ami these deductions doubtless represent with reasonable ac curacy the status of swine fattening. In September last ft preliminary estimate of crops makes the principal aggregate as follows: Com, 81'2,000,0(1(1 bushels ; wheat, 290,000,00(1 bushels; oats, 270,- 000,000 bushels ; barley, 32,000,000 bushels ; potatoes, 105,000,000 bushels ; hay, 25,000,000. Cooked or I'neooked Food. It has Iwen practically demonstrated that food, when cooked and fed for the purpose of fattening nit animal, will make more flesh than uncooked food, for the rixiaon that it is easier digested ami also is more readily assimilated into the system; but there i-i this difference when the cooked food is fed for some time to animals that are not intended for the shambles, that it does not bring into action in a natural wnv the diges tive powers, and thus it will lie under stood that natural food, when fixl to the animal creation, is lest adapted to keep in plav the bodily functions, and to pro mote health and increase the longevity of animal existence. In stock raising it is vitally important to feed food in its natural state where such stock is intended for breeding purposes, and the continuance in the same line of the same method of feed ing, for the object of securing the best developed animals, ami, therefore, it is an essential principle that should l>e fol lowed, for on this hinges one of the ab solute conditions to the rearing of fine stocks of superiorly formed and consti tuted animals. Ynmber of Person* Employed. By the census of 1870 it was shown that in the United States 11,155,240 jier sons, twenty years of age and upward, were returned according to occupations. Of this niunlier 2,500,189 were engnged in manufactures and mining, being a gain of twenty-eight per cent, since 18(50, or live and one-half per cent, more than the ratio of decennial in crease in population. The number em ployed in agriculture was at the same time returned at 5,151,767, and in trade and transportation at 1,117,928. WOMEN IN KNULISH WOKKHOINIX !!•% itar KutflUfti I he —Umui r ai lite >Ir It baaur I clou. The task of ams-rtainiiig what wouwu do ill workhouses, atiYa tile London ,V 111, ajqa-Ui-S suddeuly WUTUWed Oil entering one of ihe long rooms at' Mary leboiie workliouae, and discovering what class of women it is thut chiefly jMipulate these inetrojNihlan houses of refuge. The room, iu addition to liemg long, is lofty, well lighted, appareutljr well ven tilated, and certainly very wariu. ltun niiig through throe quarters of the length of tho room, ly either wall, are rows of little I nils, forty in all, and up iu the far corner is visible an old lady far advanced in the preliminary prepare tiona for retiring to rest, albeit it is only half past four o'clock. Hut the majonty of tho oceupauta of the room ore seated at tables at the rear end, ou to which tlie doors ojieu, and by which a great fir. is burning iu u bright stove. Not one is under sixty veors of age, many are over seventy, eigiity is by no means a rur age, and there are some who have jui/*.. d four-score y uns and ten. It ia evident that these wrinkled women, with their skinny lunula, bent Iweks, and wheexiug breath, xui do nothing that might come under a record of active life. It seems that death lias forgotU n tlu m, and that they are silting here in the firelight waiting to lie called for, olid are, in the meantime, drinking aa much wurtn t>u as the rrguLtioiis of the Istard of guar dions will jiermit. "1 suppose death comes for them, jHsir Umigs, when he has a sjiare miutiil from attending ou 1 u-tter folks," a young lady philosophic ally remarked in reply Ui a casual olvser vatioii on tho extreme old age of some of the inmates. She was sittiug on ilie curbstone in tho covered cart entrance to the courtyard, iu company with another young la.lv, who confessed to l-iug •• seventy-tlve come Michaelmas." They were both rigorously puffing at short clav pijs-s, arid sat here because it waa ratiier damp in the exercise vor.l. and smoking is not jwriuitU-d on tlie jirem ises. At six o'clock in summer, and at C .45 in the winter, the liell rings, and the old ladiea begin their toilet. At 7:30 break fast is served, consisting of five ounces of bread end a pint and a lutlf of gruel oue week, and four ounces of bread an.! a pint of cocoa the next, and so on in regular alternation. At 12-10 dinner is announced. Ou Sunday tlie bill of fare comprises five ounces of boiled beef au.l half a pound of vegetables, stewed beef being snlmtitutol once a month whence it may tie noted, iwir tntrt tifhr*r, it fol lows tliat in social or lib rary intercourse the workhouse population use the term "dtveil-M day," where the outside w .rid would say "red-letter ilay." Ou Monday they dine off four ounces of broad and a pint and a half of soup; on Tuesday l*-.-f or lIO.MII appear* on tie- Is sir.l. being served out in live ounce portions, with half a imtinJ .if vege table*; ou Wednesday, bread an.l soup again; on Thumiay, HU OUMUI of bri-0.1, two onncea of cheese, and "an onion, lettuce, or otlier vegetable;" on Friday, le f and jKitntor*; and on Hatunlay the bill of fan- l* reduced to the sweot aim plicity of suet pudding, of which every one gets one pound svoinlujiois. On Sundays, Tuesilavs, and Fridavs supjs-r, whteli is ordainisi to be servei'l at ft -W), consists of five ounce* of brea.l and a pint snd s lialf of broth; on the remain ing days of the week an ounce of cheese is served with the bread in jilace of tlie broth. This is tlie regulation faw: but each inmate over sixty years of age, that is to *ay, the larger proportion of the women at Marylelsnte, may have for breakfast an.l *npj**r a j'int of tea, half an ounce of sugar, and lialf an ounce of butter, iu lieu of the gruel, the cheese, or tlie broth. At eight o'clock tlw ls-11 ring* bedtime, but, a* a matter of fart, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas, the master and matron, while maintaining necessary discipline with a tiriu hand, manage to mingle much O'DUI'IMWI with their treat ment of.tlw* <>!> l jicoplfl, ami haw them a considerable latitude in tin* nutki of heir movement*. This specially ioilurM n good deal of eccentricity in the matter of going to bed. From five to ftix wvtiw rather a (tsliioMble hour of retiring for the night, particularly thwe lnrk cll day*. Hut Mine ago,l female* liegin looking out their night rap* t four o'clock in the uftcrmxiD, take their tea in l*xl, and tlien lajise into ft pmfounder state of somnolency than that in which they hare been peering al*>ut th< ir nor row world since they iuul their first tea in the morning. The women who fill the workhouse* may be rotighlv divided into three clause*—those who arc too old to earn their living, nnd hftre no friends able or trilling to keep them; those who are hopelessly handicapped with a family of young children, and single women who enter " the house " to lx> confined. Amongst tlie few really able bodied ma iers 1 *nw on the women's side at Mary lebone was a respectable, hard-working ]tcrnon who was here, and had been here for maiir month, lsxnn.se she luul five young children whom she could not maintain by her own labor outside. The numlxw of girls, chiefly domestic ser vjiida who flee to the workhouse to give birth to illegitimate children, is n seri ous item in the parish lalAiiee-sheot. The average in a vear for thi* single workhouse is three hundred. Another clans of inmates, thaugli their reception is only temporary and they are passed on a* asm as possible to the school at rtotithall, is the foundling. I made the acquaintance of sn odd little woman who toddled into the workhouso sixteen years ng<> led by a friendly policeman who found b*r wandering nlxmt the streets, and briefly summed up her his tory in the formula, "Father dead; de serted by mother." Emilv is now in her nineteenth year, nnd ha* grown to le as tall as four feet nothing. She is a very willing good-natured girl, but is hopelessly nf Hie ted with a blank mem ory. The old women call her ' 4 Whne key Emily," " Whackey " being a word used in Marylelxine circle* to hint that somebody is not endowed with as full a measure of intelligence as the rest of us. Amongst her favorites in the nursery, before its removal to the school, was an other foundling whose history is not without a spire of romance. The little thing, aged three years, was found at ten o'clock on the night of June 2N, 1H72, wandering alxiut Cavendish square, tottering under the weight of a framed and colored photograph alsmt eighteen inches long by one foot broad. The jxr trait represent* a tall, well-dressed gen tleman leaning in an easy nttitude against a library table. All that has ever lx*cn ascertained respecting this little waif is tlint the tnll gentleman is its fnther, who deserted the unmanned mother, and she in her turn deseited the child, endowing it, as sole fortune, with a framed ami colored photograph of it* father. Measured Bit. It is old, but good : In early days, say 1850 and 1851, Lieut. Derby, United States army, familiarily known as " I'hcenix," took passage for San Diego. Derby, advancing to Cnpt. Bob Haley, asked" the price of passage, to which the answer came: "Sixty-five dollars." Derby—"Captain Haley, what is the freight on lumber i" (which was worth 8100 per 1,000 feet.) Captain—" Fifty dollars per thousand." Derby (who was on deck and a small man) —" Well, Captain Haley, as the freight on lumber is less than passage rate measure me, for I am a board." The Last Hold King, The UUtorv of Well lrwt present* uo exact parallel t.i the gold pool which hue f Into controlled the market. There lmve Ih en hundreiU of combinations in ■t.H-kn and gold, BUY* U New York city jni|>er, hut three have generally run on a heavy credit ayateiu, while the gold pool, aa far aa can he ascertained, in engineered ou a purely caali baai*. In the lucking up of gold hitherto the prac tice of the cliques lraa been to make their original purcliaae of cash gold, pledge it aa collateral fur a hour of green hack*, buy more gold, pledge thin ill turn for greenbacks, and ao on iii.b-fm itcly. Hut in thia cane the coiubuiatiou in a hat Wall ntrect men call "aulid." It rnuven but leaven no trail, fluid i* taken from the nlreet by the milliou, and •iinuppeara mysteriously; still tltoae who hope to Bee it turn Up ill the louika ore diap|Mtiiited. It in never hypothecated with the 1 sinks, it duen not find ita way Uick to the ntreet; it in hidden from niiilit. More tlum thia, the operation of withdrawing gold from the market ia slowly ami mysteriously going on every day. The premium in advanced jaunt by |M>int at the will of the pool, and cash gold, llt-edcd for business pur)*uaca, can ie bought or borrowed oulv from iln agents and at iln own rat.*., \V:dl atreet never wan no myatilied. In former poult there wan always something upon which to form an accurate judgment, but in tlna there in nothing calculated to definitely point out the ftrrinit'U of the olique. The street ia full of rumors and gossip, hut when ail inquirer tries to pin hm informer down to aolnl fact he finds that moot of his statements are foumhxl U)K>II conjectures more or lean justified by circumstances. Thin much is conceded, however, on all Bides, that ttie JHXiI in one of the strongest, and by long odds tlie moat shrewdly managed of any iu the history of monetary gambling. It wan formed when gold was aelling between 112 and ll.'l, Iml *o quietly were its movements conducted that it waa many days before the outside operators were svraru of its magnitude. Point by jioiiit it went up. Now and then indications were thrown out by the artful manager* of a tendency to weakness. Then the I tears came iu with a rush, and the result wan junt what the clique wanted—the fonaatiou of a heavy short interest ll.il.iuig nearly all the caah gold, the clique fixed its own rates of interest, aqoeesing the shorts on one occasion to the tune of one-fourth jwr omit, jar diem. Knowing tliat any sudden news of movement on their [art might prompt the interference of tho government, which killed the famous lilack Friday combination, the managers worked slowly, but surely, strengthening their jXNUtion .lay bv day. Tlie scarcity of gold and the condition of the finances and mercantile affairs favored them, and besides this their members wen* men of inunenae resources. 'llie affair was conducted so closely that even Wall street .ld not know who was in it. It only knew that gold aa as it was offered was taken, am) from that moment .liaapiieared from the mar ket. At an early .lay over 815,000,0110 was thus held. X Tough Engagement. The C*rlilo (IVnn.) Herald ww : Mr. lavcrtv, of Kat lVanoboro', living n.*r Booarr's mill, ws lately very much annoyed by rat*. which carried > tf his eggs wild uiadc sad work with hia coru ui U>< % crih mid tln-n mvadsl hin granary and commenced ilMtruriof a bin of wloat. Mr. lavertv, on examination, foutul there was but one place where the rats pot in. He therefore r<-solved to kill the rat* by an artifice well worthy of the cause. He stewed corn meal Ills-rally on the floor of the granary, and alKiut one hour later he muled the hole shut; he then called his dog (a Spanish terrier) ami armed witli a club went forth to battle. Now the door of the granary is fastened by a long wooden latch extending full across the door and ran only Iw ojiened from the outside, and Mr. laverty on enu ring the granary drew the door shnt an.l heard the latch fall. He I hen thought the enemy was his, but this was an error, for the rats were more numerous thou l.ie expected, ami. finding no way of eaca|M>, attacked both Mr. Laverty and his dog with great fury. Mr. laverty laid on his blows liard and fasl, and one blow, aimed at a rat, unfortunately hit the dog on the head and killed him. Mr. Laverty, Inns deprivisl of his faithful ally, would liave fled, but could not. He then cum in. load calling for help; the rats mean while kept skirmishing around liia legs, rnu lip his Issly, bit bis hiuula, and one, bolder than the rest, bit his nose. It is impossible to say wlmt the result of this unequal contest would have been, had not a passing neiglilsir, attracted by the uoiae and m.s, gone to the relief of Mr. larcitr, who presented n shocking spec taclc. his faoi- and hands bloody, and his clothing torn into shreds. Mr. Laverty being washed and rehabilitated, sal down to reflect, when lie luckily hit on a letter plan of warfare. He went and Immured twelve rata, which with his own made fifteen; these lie, in the evening, shut tip in his granary with the rata, and the next morning lie found, on examination, ten dead rata, one blind one, and two with one eye apiece. The remaining two were unhurt, and by actual count he found 119 dead rnts; of the dead dog there was nothing left but the bonea nnd hair, the rata doubtless having eaten him while Mr. Laverty WHS hunting cats. X Contented Editor. The following story will nerve to il lustrate at once the character of Mr. Black (who died in 1855) and the posi tion of the Chrnniclr in its palmy dnv* : Mr. Black TO a (treat favorite with I mrd Melbourne when the latter was Prime Minister. His lordship esteemed him, not only for his groat hsuming, his wonderfnl memory, his apt illustration of every topie of discourse by Ml ap parently inexhaustible fund of anecdote derived from the most recondite sonrce-s, but for liin siuiplieity and ttonhotnie. John Black was a modern l>iogene* in everything but his ill nature. On one oci-asion Lord Melbourne said to him : "Mr. Black, yon are the only |er*on who eomes to see me who forgot* who I am." The editor opened his eyes with as tonishment. " Yon forget tlwt I ain Prime Min ister." Mr. Hlaek was about to npologizr, but the Premier continued, " Everybody elm- bikes esjiooial eare to rememlier it, but I wish tliey would forget it; they onlv rememlH-r it to ask me fsr place ami fnvors. Vow, Mr. Black," added his lordship, "you never ask me for nnything, and I wish you would; for, se riously, 1 should le most happy to do anything to serve you." " I am truly obliged," said Mr. Black, " but I don't want anything. 1 am editor of the Morning Chronicle. 1 like my business, and I live happily on my income." "Then, by heaven," said the peer, " I envv you; aud you're the only man I ever dill." Saiil a mutual frieud to the young wife of nn old gentleman; " You would pity your huslmnd if you saw him tearing his hair. Come, send him ono gentle word by me. What shall I say to him?" "Tell him only to tear out the white ones." TCTJIIW : #2.00 a Year, in Advance. Stagv-Mtrnrk UlrU. Two girls, aged about iiiUi und Tkr was once a boar, aayi Paul eighteen years respectively, were arrest Fort, in St. S'tchola*. who wan vary ad iu the wotcrii wrtiuu of ltolUutro lonely (la Foutsme toll* about bin iu Tlie arrests wore kept a* quiet aa poaai rnir of his fables), and aa he grewsolder bh- by the polios in ouuaoqueuce of the lie began to foal tiiat Ida solitary lot waa desire of the gill*' jareuts, who live iu too much for him to bear. He had uo Philadelphia, to liave their name* with- wife, uo children, no parents. The held. It MWIIUI that a few weeks ago larger animal* generally avoided him, these girls left their hotuea in Philadel and aa for the smaller creatures, such as jihia HI the inoruutg to attend the nor tab bit* and little pig*, they would liave mal school, where they were pupils. Aa uotliing whatever to do with him if tLey they did uot return in the afternoon could help it He hail their parents lioraiue unxioua alout Ho MM to leva woaa to caraaa, them aud made inquiries, which elicited om j grtm the fa*t that they liad uot been present many miles from the mountaiu on at the school sesatou that dv. This w !iich the bear lived was the houae of a waa tlie most remarkable aa they were who waa in very much the itramtr among the most regularly attending and ( . <m<utjon . He had a comfortable borne, furthest advanced scholars. Late in the and shad*-trees, and pillar* evening the father of one of the girls, a Idoovee, with statues of Haturu and prominent clergyman, received a nob- J|t< . r the real of the heathen god*, from hia daughter atatUlg that she and Uk-s on wluch swana glided about, her com | sum HI hail left the city with the i j n y,,, mjlll WM „ T(fr mt mU-iitioti of goiug oil the Stage. Hhe „ff than the b.-ar, who had almost said they had Iw-ooiue tired 1 4 the all; but he waa not ltappy. humdrum moootooy of arhool life and u. too. had no wife, or dul l, or wanted to sr* the world; they ha-1 talent ]MU .,. IIU . H„ {, JT oompsnionsMp and would no doubt be saew—fit! and mmm OIM) into whose ear be coul.l j*mr earn a good living, thereby I icving y, WJlTUfrs ud om. on "If nue from the bunlen of their nupport. w hoac heart he could loiungiy lean, rite father of the other girl, who l* a OtM , wlM>a VUM out w>|w.p be wealthi retired liquor dealer, was in- f*wr. At tin- same instant the formed, and the matter waa plaeivi ui idea struck each of these iudi the lunula of detectives. Jlie girls had vulu als. Eftdl said to himself: for a year or mure shown gn at aptitude •• ]'. rhape I lmve at last met my in fiuguig and declamation, and were friend '' qui to prejvMesng in apjsmnuioe. After a few words of ordinary aaluta r nun ad that can be learned it npjiear* y (>u became quits at their ease, and tliat the giris applied to a well known WM)U U p „ very pleasant acquain l heatrical manager ui lialtim<re for as they walkt-d b <g-ther through subordinate positions in buitoak com- yn. wood, pauy. 1 hey were given but bttls en- bear waa a good honest sort of courageinent, and ibrirstrwgbt dory, aa the man took such a liking well as their appearance, disarmed suspie him UijU wb en they reached hts house ion. rhe manager did not associate them y,,. Inar to *Uy all niglit. with tlie other girls who had tarn - XV all night, aud also the jyrtod as running away from Philsdel ,^ xt anJ two new frieu U got plus. A few day* aftorward*, however, wII together that they made an tin- detectives found that the girls had ;tmui(rW ueiit bv which the bear came to been to ace the manager, and through Ut# wlUl Uja this clue the capture waa effected. At w< , H<h TerT W^U the western fKihce station they were vlth y lia 'Ph,. bad a good given every attontion, awl supper was p, in. plmtv to rat. ami <lc brought from a ne-ghbonng restaurant. | i(rh y ul pronnd. which V might rove The manager referred to runted the liU)|jt lv Injul< who w a verv fond of girls and gave them a lecture on the did not care much for vistoiiarr scheme* they ha.l formed, hunting, or anything of that kind, found Ihe fact of tbeu arrest was telegraphed tb e bear useful in getting sn to Philadelphia and relatives of the dewr or'wild pvg for the family nam** uo and took ih m t* hoMd tliat the warning they liave had " Besides, when warn and tired after will U- a l.ws'tu to them. working in the garden, he waa not afraid to lie down and ga to sleep under the nliade of one of his great trees, if the Itear was near. He knew very well that no wild t wast or wicked man would dare to harm him when that true friend stood guard. Aud thus they lived plcaaantJv during s great part of the summer. They con fided in each other, they never quarreled, and they seemed to suit each other ad mirably. Hut one was a man and the other was a bear. X Miners Needed In Nevada. Tlie Virginia (Nev.) Flrrj>ri*r ad vises jiernoits seeking employment to keep sway from tliat locality. It says; The Kujieruitendeuta of leading mines luive hundreds of applications every day fn.ra men in search of employment. All • i these men insist most strenuously UIMIU lieiug act at work immediately upon something, they do not much care what. They are willing to do anything, underground or UJKID the surface. All of the superintendent! an*, even now, employing more men than they can work to odvaiitagi', and these new ajipLicants for situations, coming a* they do in swarms, almost wornr the officers of the mines to death. Tney not only them selves go to the superintendents, but in some instances thev send their wives *o pleat I for them. Men are flocking here fmm the Atlantic States, who amve witlioat a dollar, and who exjieet to be net to work at from to $5 jwr tlay Uic moment they land. They have no idea of mining or of the kinds of work to lw done in s mining country such as thia. They appear to think that silver ores are shoveled un front the surface of the earth, as gold was gathered in California in the early tiara. Put these men into UH* lower fevela, and nine out of every ten would lie on the sick list in lews than s week. Men of means may do some thing here, but poor men will And it a har.l place in which to get employment. Iu tin* Atlantic states tliey apjwwr not to understand tliat the rich silver mines of the Cotastock are few in number*, and are confined to a belt of country but five or six mile* in length and leas than a mils in width. The greater part of the ground lying within these bounds, even, is mow the home of great expectations than of The Comstock does not cover the whole State, nor does the bon anza extend through the whole Com stock. Wo uow have minersen.mgh snd mow than < uougli to work all of our mines, Initli paying and jm*pcctiro. le-t this le understood abroad, snd let moneyless inrn give the Comstock s wide berth! Hettcr crom the Sierras and seek employment on the sheeji ranches of Southern Californi v, tlian to stop here to starve while walking over the millions tliat lie buried deep iu the rocky boaom of the big bousuxa. A Joke on a Supervisor. Somebody, savn the Hudson Star, played a practical joke on a candidate at the l*te oaucuf at Stockport. After Mr. Van Buren had been nominated, and while the caucus was <l*lil*-rating on the remainder of the ticket, some facetious person passed outside and informed hia opjonent that his fellow-townsmen liad again lionored him by the choice of hi* name to head the ticVct, and suggested that it would be proper for him to ad dress the convention. Fully alive to the requirements of the occasion, and with out stopping to make that preparation which usually characterizes lii* forensic efforts the gentleman presented himself to the caucus, and, in a few well choseu words, express.d his thank* for tlie honor conferred upon him. He liad ad vanced so far as to allude to his continu ous and lalHirioiis efforts in preceding Iwtar.is, and stated that, while his elec tion would entail great personal inconve nience, and that he would much rather IHI left to the quiet retirement of his rural home, he was in the hands of his friends. Having reached this point, and when he was alnmt ready to declare that he would endeavor to honestly represent his constituency, some charitable friend pulled bis coat"and informed hira that lie was laboring nnder a mistake, tliat Mr. Van lluren was tlie nominee. Im agination cannot depict the embarrass ment of the veteran but defeated super visor. Suffice to say he retired as grace fully as any one eoiild under the circum stances, and the caucus proceeded in the regular discharge of its duties. Banishment of Lepers. The banishment of lepers is rigorously carried out in the Sandwich islands. There was a recent official search for |iersons affected with the incurable malady, many having been secreted by their relatives. Hundreds were found and put into a vessel for transportation to the leper village, to bo kept there un til they die. Their families gathered on the liench and expressed their grief in loud lnmentations. A talented lialf hreed, called Bill Itagsdalc, has long held n high place in the regard of Sand wich islanders. He is an orator of great natural power, a loader in the district of Hillo, ami a man of notoriously had morals. He discovered that he was lop rons, although the indications were so slight that he had escaped official netice, and at once gave himself up to the au thorities. A procession of natives, sing ing and c irrying llowers, escorted him to the vessel which was to taka him and the others to their living graves. He made a speech to the assembly, urging submission to the measures for eradica ting leprosy by banishment, and ex i pressing his hatred of missionaries. NO. 15. The Twn Friend#. The I war M T cry strong and good nstured, but be did not know much. Of course be wn not to blame for that; but liia c-ktrame iguorauce did not hare a good effect upon hia companion. It is very seldom that we are benefited by intimate association with ignorant peo pie. One day the man waa asleep under a tree and the boar waa watching him. Then* waa nothing to moleat the ak-eper but flies and punts, and these the bear carefully brushed away ao that bia dear friend might reat at ease. There waa, however, one jwrtmaciona r. who would not be brushed away, huxaed about tlie man's bead and alighted on hia now. He whisked him aelf here, and he whiaked himaelf there; the more the Imar bruahed bun away the more be caine bark again, barring and bumming like a little winged demon. The bear lost all patience. "Mr dear friend mat get a decent nap for that wretched gnat! 11l kill the malicious little insert. It's the only way to do with such stupid creature*." So he took up a i ig atone and hurled it at the gnat, which bad just nettled on U e nose of tin- sleeping man. The bear killed the bothersome gnat, but he afaio crushed the head of his dear friend. Two or throe u*y* afterward the hear was Kitting under a tree in tlie forest thinking abont all thi*. *• The trouble waa," he aaid to hirn arlf, " that the man ought to have been careful to choose a fneml with more sense tluui I've got." Which proves that the I tear waa not altogether an idiot. The <el4 Speculator. If the hearty detestation of all meu en gaged in honorable business could check tlie dosperat# operations of the gold gamblers, the Now York Time* tells na, they would soon be checked. tJnfor tuuately, this cauae Una little influence. The men who are engaged in tlie present combination to control the price of gold are men to whom tlie < pinion of respect able men in legitimate business counts for very little. They do not associate very much with this class of men ; they do not live for the same objects ; they do not feel the same restraints of honor and mutual consideration. They are isolated bv their occupation, much as other gam blers are, aud mow callous in tlie excite ment of their feverish calling to every thing but the hope of profit and tlie in none passion for their peculiar play. A modern essayist, now the writer of the " city" article of the London Hrnr*, wh.."has spent many years in close study of the men on the Stock Exchange, draws a very striking portrait of tlie claas to which those spemiiators belong who are now " fixing " the gold market. Refer ring to the typical member of this class (wo might give him the names of iw well known New York operators if it were worth while), Mr. Crump aavs: He is generally a man of rather singular habits of thought, who thinks it quite legitimate to start a juggernaut and drive it over the crowd, if he can do it profit ably. Perfectly legitimate processes of working a market with him would be considered little better than cheating by the orilinarv run of men. He employs systematically all sorts of devices for getting the lietter of others who are ignorant and leas sharp in foreseeing events than he. He partakes a good deal of the nature of the baadit, who prepares the way for forcing concession to his de mands" by firing a volley into the carriage of a traveler to whom he is going to give the choice of hia money or hia life. * * Such a man must have a concrete hard ness of indifference through which noth ing can jienetrate to hia heart. It ia necessary to the success of his opera tions that ho possesses no more regard for the feelings or pockets of other peo ple thnn a hungry tiger would for him if he were airing himself unconcernedly in a Bengal jungle. A Pretty Experiment, Some of our younger readers mav like to try the experiment of making a hang ing garden of sponge. It ia a pretty novelty. Take a white sponge of large size, and sow it full of rioe, hemp, grass and other soeds ; then place it in a shal low dish, in which a little water is con stantly kept, and as the sponge will ab sorb tlie moisture, the seeds will begin to sprout before many days. When this has fairly taken place, the sponge may be suspended by means of cords in the window where a little sunshine will enter. It will thus become a mass of green foliage, and should be refreshed with water daily so as to be kept moist. Mgk ..Ham r lot mi, H u better to be lto than MW • *•* apposition*, cremation i* itci 1 i ketjfKi prevail. A Baltimore haggar ltas retired frem btudn<NM with a fortune of §26,000. UUMU has only OM iiorjr paper. and that doren't give a cbrotno to aubaeriber*. The United State* already pay* twice u much in iH-iitfioiut m any other tuition in the world. A ilreaamaker** appimtn- spoke of her etnas-eyed lover a* the fellow who'* look* are cut bis*. A minister said 1w never of any UM until T found out that (|od did not 7>-i bm for i |tni rt)|n Diwpite eta of Itarl lament English women and girl* of tender year* continue to lata* in the brick field* like elaree. It i**aid Egypt in tKri home of th fragrant onioa. There I* thia about the onion, you can alway* tctl where it in. Whatever eta* way be doubted, it cer tainly aannot be gainsaid that the oast winter luw been a •' big thing cm W*. Newer in the history of the horse, it i* aaid, baa the market b*m ao dull or the prices ao low at at the peasant time. A baby with twenty-eight Www he* bean bora in Mo. What a character fur ooras he will be. A Coaneticut girl married a Chinaman to apite her mother, but after the third thrashing she returned home to apite the Chinaman. •' There! that <jptai where my dotbea line went to!" ejriWuwdau lowa woman m ahe found her bttabaud hang ing in the atable. It i* more >"*" two hundred year* ainoe the atyle ef address wa* adopted— by a decree of Pope Urban VIII. in 1630 —giving the title of cardinal. The Meat Eastern abng with which to come down on a long-tongued bore far. ••Writ* the reat down on a piece of paper and well read it Sunday. A Cleveland man puta waate paper* into hi* letter*, ao aa to make thera weigh all that will p mm for three c- uta. He dona thia to revenge on Uncle Sam. It hi eatuoated that four out of every MS dollar* waated in this country in cornea from tbuae who de pend upon their daily tail for udadww. We are all living too feet. The man who ia always in a hurry gwienlly baa lua own work to do over again, beside* being liable to trip up and dad himself sprawling in the mud. An Illinois grange ia negotiating for the leaae of §,BOO acre* of land in Monroe county, Miaainhppi, and fifty Illinois families are ready 'to move la and occupy aa iawm aa the negotiationa are com pleted. Mia* I>. aendeeas a poem, aa exchange .**, entitled, "I Cannot Make Him Htnile." We cannot publish it unima ahe give* ua the name of the young m.n All the young men we know ••■mile." Northern lowa amnaemeota—a nam ple, from the Bronx City Journal : That WM a cold joka the girls at the Depot Hotel played on a young man the other night. They filled his piflowakp with anow. An excited Watertrary workman caught up a pail of water to extinguish a fire in a factory the other day, but, perceiving that the water am* hot, he emptied it, filled the pail with oold water, and put out the fire. At Bridge Crrek, Brit Ms Columbia, a bottle of good brandy and a bottle con taining two pounds of mercury were put out aa a teat on the night of the 14th of Fclsruary. la the morning both were found fruxca. A poor, ill-dad wife in Montreal *aid to her husband just before she died : •'I accumulated such a store of love for you daring our courtship that tax years of negleot and eoWnefcon your part hare failed to exhaust it." A Western paper tWia a story of a aulwcriber who rode into town, sixteen miles, through a frightful storm, to pay hia subscription. He waa badly frozen, but oared nothing for that, the editor's heart was ao happy. Wlen a common J ipaneae goes into the preaeuoe of an officeholder be must saw: " tiroat and dc'jaguieh • c: >. i of the sun, deign to pat your loot upon nv neck." There's some plcaaore in hold j-y an office in that country. A negro girt of Oglethorpe county, (ja., was married when eleven years of age and had a child when she was twelve. At theagwof twelve that child was a maher, making the woman a grand mother when ahe was twenty-four years old. We learn with great pleasure from the .VrfenMjir Atwr*em that the manufac tun* of porcelain is carried on iu this rouutrr, and that the ware now pdnwd in the neighborhood of Xew York is in many rcepecfcs equal to the best im ported. Ennv biiuess that k lawful iz bono. - abet, and ao bixneas. simply, ever made csiny one leapeektabei. Buty is a woman's prerogative, but buty in a man ii the next kalamitv to being a fool. The man who kan think kan never get ItMMI Senator Andrew Johnson ridicules the idea that he asrared his election by the payment of *IO,OOO, and aay* that sines the failure of Jay Cooke A Co., b - ' which be loet $70,000, he ha* never tuooey enough to pay for an electron '.4 the usual rates. The pret season, 841,057 barrels f apples were shipped from Wayne r 'or. ty, N. Y. It ia eatiinated that MB.fKfc barrels were used for drying and making cider, and 100,000 barrels were packed g$ for home use, which would make the crop of the county 541,067 barred*. A farmer at Troy, N. Y.. reaently bet $lO with one of the sport it* fraternity that hia hone would weigh mAre after drinking a pail of water than before. The sporting gent was not alow to take a wager made by a msn from the country, and the tost on the horse was made, aud true enough, the animal weighed thirty pounds more after drinking the water than he did before. A mystarloua and painful tragedy M reported from Chateanroux, i 1 France. A newly married couple, yonug, happy, mid in a ruooeaaful way of buaine-w, were found doad in their hedrooflk. They liad dined with their parents the previous day, aud were then in the bast of spirit.*-'. The cause of the sad event is at present a mystery. No traces of suicide have been found, and the o ijsctnre is that their d at lis were the ngxlt erf apoplexy. The statistics of the famine in Persia are truly appalling. In Damglian, a tel.-graphic station east of Teheran, only 290 families remain out of 1,000, and in Teheran itself two hundred persona died weekly of starvation and typhus. The district of Turbet Hadri lout 20,000; the district-of Selzwas, 24,000; olNischapur at least 20,000; Hamiulan lost between 25,000 and 50,000; anfl in Kirmansche alone 50,000 perished of hunger. Nes chid, out of a papulation of 45,000, lost 20,000. HlsJßevenge. Helen Bodius waa the belle of Selnia, Texas, and John Kincaid, a planter, was her unaccepted lover. Two years ago, after again asking her to marry him and again hearing her refusal, he told her that he could no longer bear to live near her. "lam going to Mexico," he said, "and I forbid you to marry anybody elae. If I hear of your disobeying this injunction I will come back and kill yoa." He went away, and Helen thought lightly of hi tlireat After awhile she fell in love with a druggist named Faust, and married him. A month ago they at tended a public ball, and Mslen was as tonished to see her rejected lover there. He wae affable at first, but the night wore on he drank excessively.of brandy, and then disappeared.. Faust took bis wife home, and then started for Houston on busineee. In the morning she waa found stabbed to death in bind, and Kin caid has not been seen in Skips since. Ha MlGHT. —There was a waspish wwt of sincerity in the young woman's answer to the departing bofr's remark that he must be might have gone before if yon bmlnly spoken alxttitlt. t lit
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