(IMP Lightly. WiM 8owr ua tales of the jialace in which he lived, of the negro slaves who flew to do his bidding, of the beautiful carriages aanl horses that N>re him from place to place, and of the jewels, the silks, satins and velvets that fortunate woman would purees* who would one day become Elihu'a bride. Other girls had heard those stories also, and the belle of the school at Holmeedane often aaid timt, when she was sixteen, she should "go i travel ing," and find her way "down South," and "set her cap "for Elihu Holmes. That the result would follow for which she looked, no girl among them donbted, for even the master's stern face softened and smiled upon Rosanna Meadows, when ahe shook back her golden curls and lifted her large blue eyes with a blush to his. Poor RosannaSara leaned her cheek on her hand, and looked over the hilltop toward the village gravevard, where the village twenty was now lying, with her blue eyes closed, her golden ringlets smoothed back from her white brow, and her hands clasped in an unearthly quiet on her breast. Elihu had never known how her girlish fancy went out towards him. And now Elihu had come home! As Bora Holme* grew up, and de veloped from the toll, angular girl, into the queenly and self-possessed young woman, the thought would sometimes occur to her, a* she stood before the mirror braiding her dark hair, " If he should come bock, would he think me pretty, now tliat Itosanna i* gone!" Ths broad low brow, tlie oval cheeks aad dimpled chin answered her; the healthful color, the deep dark eye*, tlie bright, bewildering glance said, "Yes." For her* was now a higher beauty tlian Roannna's pink and white loveliness had ever been, and the treasures of lier mind and heart might well have won an older and wiser man to love her, long before Elihu come home. * And now she drew a long breath, and set herself to recall all the incidents of that sadden and startling return. Tea was over—the milk was strained— and they were all sitting on the front piazza, under the shade of the maple* and the locusts, while her lather rood bits from the weekly village paper aloud. Her step-mother was knitting; her sister Grace was lining a hot, and ber brother Ben was whittling ont a toy boat from s bit of wood, while she, Sara, sat beside him and held his tools as he needed them, and lost herself in a reverie about her hero in the Honth. A carriage drove up the will ige road and halted at their gate. The driver descended from his seat and beckoned to her father, who hurried down to the gate to meet him. After talking some time together, a small trunk was lifted down and left beside the gab-. Then the carriage door was opened ami a toll figure descended, and directly after, Ben, who hod followed his father in a fit of boyish curiosity, galloped Isick with distended eves, whispering loudly: "Mother—girls ! Cousin Klihu has come ! And he has lost every rent of his property down South ! I ivard the driver tell father so! And they have sent him off up here, because they thought he was going to be sick; and there he is, yon see, loaning on father and the driver, and he can't but just walk. Isn't it a blamed shame of those "Mercy!" exclaimed Ben'a step mother, rising as they all rose, when the tall, slender figure approached. Sara looked up with her heart in her eyes, to greet her hero—no less a hero to her for the pitiful history of low and ruin tliat she had just heard. She saw a tall, upright, elegant-look ing man, with a fair complexion, large, melancholy blue eyes, a long, straight nose, drooping eyebrows, eyelids and lips, and a firmly rounded chin, that somewhat counteracted and contradicted the listless soilness of the rest of the face. His hair was turning gray, and the heavy, golden mustache had one or two threads of silver, bnt, with that ex ception, he wore no look of age. Elihsi was well but plainly dressed in a traveling suit of gray. He removed his hat a i he drew near the ladies, with a courteous grace; but he looked in vain for the warm welcome frem the second Mrs. Holmes and her daughter Grace that he would hare received from liia own cousin had she been alive. Mrs. Holmes bowed to him coldly, though civilly; and Grace, angry with him and with herself for the sudden collapsing of sundry ambitions hopes which she had never confided to any one except her mother, swept him her latest dancing-school courtesy, and affected not to see the hand he held oat. Eiilm colored slightly and turned to Kara, whose large, dark eyes were fixed with a gaze of tender pity upon his refined and melancholy face. " You have a face that I ought to know," he said to her gently. "You are your mother's child, dear Sara ! I hoped she would be here to meet me when I came home at last." Sara's heart was already full, and this referenoe to her dead mother caused her tears to overflow. " Dear Cousin Elihu," said she, taking PRED. KIJKTZ, Kilitor ami Proprietor. VOL. vii r. Ins hand in Kth here, "my mother re memU'red and loved YOU to the laat day of hor life. Slis would Uavu been glad indeed to wo you hero ottoe more. 1 am glad. too. All my life long I liavo looked forward to your coming. •' But yon did not expect to see mo return a I poor," said F.hhu, Mglung. " Four or noli, it niattora little," re plied Sara, lorrwillj, " You aro hero at homo ouor more, and that ta oneugh to mako tta all rejoice," " Aye," sard Kliliu, lookiug from hor tx-aimng countenance to the cold faces of the rest. " 1 should have Iw-eu glad to bring gold enough U> mako mo vol ivme. But wlvat has happened has hapjiened, and 1 do not wish to complain. Cousin Joshua, for my eouaiu'a sake, and for tlio soke of tlie old turn* when you and 1 were boya together, I supi>o*o rou will lot mo stay at the old homestead for a few days r" "Kk 1 tlh ! To Iw sure ! Stay ami welcome, Cousin Klihu," stammcrtsi the farmer, who fei'ling the eves w>f hi* wife ami his daughter Sara fixed upon him. was like a mau between two fire*. So it was settled, aud Sara flow about like a gv turned into a "piair form," and maile the abid iug place of every shiftless crapture who had wastcvl his snbstonoe in riotous liv ing among " those negrvaw"—only to come, at the last, without a penny in his (Hvket, to Im supported by those who hod tlie misfortuue to bo relatexl to him in a very distant way. Mr. Holme* said, metikly, tliat "it wasn't likely Eliliu would want to stay long. and that as ho had once redeemed the form, which was heavily mortgaged, with his owu money, and given a deed of the place toAis first wife, he didn't very well sec how he could refuse him a slid ter there if he claimed it For a time, at least." he added, nervously, seeing his second wife's black eyebrow* knitting themselves together in away that he had learned to drwsd. Grace upheld hex mother in all her de nunciations; though Sara thought, pri vately, that it would have been mure delicate hod she kept silence, since, as the daughter of Mrs. Holmes by * former marriage, die oould not la- sup|iosed to have any great interest, pecuniary or otherwise, in the di*pi>sitiou of the homestead farm. As for Bon, like mo*t lnw* of thirteen, he was on the aide of right against might, and he did out scruple to say that, for his port, he hoped Cousin Klihu would stay there forever; and that he was sure, as he had redeemed the farm, that he hvl a jierfeot right to do so. His sister Sara could liave kissed him for the answer, but she kept silence. The days went ou. By every art that a mean and jmltrv spirit could invent, Mrs. Holmes the second showed phviulv to Kliliu how unwelcome he was bencatii her roof-tree. As for Urm-e, alio siinplv ignored him. And Mr. Holmes, though he would gladly have been both grateful and kind, was so tamed and wurrii-d by nightly curtain lee'ure.*, hours loug, that he ilaxed not show the ruined man any attention, and only looked at him wistfully now and then, as if wondering when he would be gone. Klihu's plate, knife ind fork were ploeed upon the table at every meal, it is true. He fared as the rest fared, and his room and bed were the best in the house. But this was Sara's doing. To her and to Ben he owed each moment of iuippi in-*.* tliat he enjoyed in the old house. The sister and young brother were always glad to ho with him, but the other in mate* of the house looked over and orsund him, and even when he ate of of thoix bread and drank of their cup, seemed a* if they knew him not. Sara * proud spirit blazed up for his sake at a thousand petty insults ami affronts escli day. She wondered privately to herself, and aloud to Ben, how Cousin Kliliu, with all the memory of hi* pu*t wealth and grandeur still in his mind, conld en dure it! Nor wo* she surprised, when, one pleasant evening, just four week* after his arrival, Kliliu told her that he must go. "I cannot blame yon. They have treated "you no shamefully!" aha said, while her heart sank down, down in her breast, like a stone sinking into tiie depths of the tiny lake ou whose hanks they sat. '' But where will yon go, Cousin Elihu ? What will yon do f Yon were ill when you came here, and, thanks to their onkindness, yon are not well ami strong enough to care for your self. Oh, it is a shame—asliame!'' she broke out ngain. " And if you had come rich, as they expected, every one of them would have been at yonr feet 1" Coasin Elihu smiled the smile that always brightened his melancholy face, till, in her eyes, it was the noblest, hand somest face on earth. "Nevermind them, Sara," said he; " you an 1 Ben have been so good to me that I hare scarcely noticed the rust. Ho good that"— He paused and looked at her. "Sara, when I'm gone, sliall yon miss me?" The tears rose to her eyes. " Oh, how can yon ask ? You know, Elilm. when yon go I shall lie miserable ! I sliall think of you among strangers, poor, perhaps ill, jwrhnps dying"— Hlie hid her faoe in her hands and sob bed aloud. Elihn waited till her grief had ex hausted itself, and then took her hand. " What vou say is all very true, Sara. I am not fit to go out into the world alone. Will yon go with me 1 You have a good home here, I know, but if I have von to work for, I will soon make yon n Iwtter one. Ami by ami bye Ben can come to us, and we will make a man of him. Will you be my wife, Sara ?" She looked at him with all the solemn fervor of n woman's love and devotion shining in her eyes. "If yon will take me, Elihn, and let me care for yon, I shall be the happiest creature on earth. Prom the moment when I saw you come in at the farm gate, from the moment when I knew that your fortuno was gone, ami that you were ill and alone in the world, 1 have prayed that yon might love me. I don't care wher* our home is or what it is, so that we share it together. I can lie happier with you In a log hut than I could be with anyone else in ajadace; for you need me, Elilm, and I—l have thought and dreamed of you, and, I really believe, loved you from the days when my mother first told me atxmt you, when I was a baby at her knee." So they were betrothed, and after a brief storm at the farm house when her decision was first made known, Sara followed the fortunes of her lover.to a distant city where they were married. Ben went with her as her protector and " best man." Her father kissed her and cried over her, as he bid her fare well, and put a pocket-book containing five hundred dollars into her hand as a wedding portion. " I can't go with you to give you away, my dear, and i" can't let you. bo married here," said the poor man; "for I shall never hear the last of it if I do; and I'm getting old now, and 1 want peace and comfort in my own home. But God Ideas you, Sara, and your hus band that is to oe. Poor Elihu 1 Your mother loved him dearly, and I don't | know a fault he has in the world, except i that he is poor." THE CENTRE REPORTER Ho, strengthened by her father'# up proval and bleating, Sara approached tlie altar to comiccrato hor tif* to the hero of her dreams ! The ceremony over, they drove to a first class hotel, and breakfasted ill a style that tnade Sam tremble for tlie future. And after breakfast Klihu laid a jmckage tieforc her, and a casket by the side of her plate. My first present to my wife," aid he. "As for you, Ben " A cry of delight from Ben made lus sister turn rouud to look at him. The Itoy was glorious iu s gold huutiug watch and chain. "Open your casket, love, ' said her husband, smiling. She obeyed, and a river of light seemed suddenly to tlssli upon her from the diamonds within. At the name moment her husband broke the seal of tlie imok sge and showed her a bank boo* iu scribed witli her name. "Ten thousand dollars are deposited there, subject to your order," mud Klihu, carelessly. " Ten thousand dollars! ami the watch! and tlie diamonds!"' gasped Sara, turning pale. " What can it all meaa I" '• I know," broke in Ben, with s joyous laugh. " Cousin Klihu has only l>eeu pretending to lie poor all this time! Nicely sold all those people nt the farm will lie Sam turned to hex husliaud. lie smiled, and drew her closely to his breast. From tliat happy day uot a wish of hers or Ben's has been u tig rati tied. And all the romance of her life l>egnn instead of ending tas she for s time sup posed) when Lllihu came home. The Old Spelling-School. These dictionary men and women of today, says an exchange, presume to com* forward and think they know how a ap< lling school was conducted forty years ago. But it's all a mistake. They were never there and helped to do it— then what can they know aliout it ( They never walked two and three miles through the aiiows and blows of a win tor's night to a spelling schoot. iu a school house away up in the hills, just for the sake of sitting lawude a sweet little bright eyed girl in a struwd calico gown, with a small linen collar, and a white apron. They never knew the pangs of jealousy "from seeing another j bov chosen to sit Inside her ; and they never felt the awful misery of " getting the mitten," and having to walk off, knowing that that other boy was tru.lg lug home in bliss beside that striped calico gown, with the plump little liaud of that bright-eyed gnl resting ootifld ingly in his arm. Nor did they ever feel the stiuging pom of frosted earn, which every boy was willing to hazard getting fur the sake *f seeing the girl he felt so tender about. Th>i*e were happier days. We thought we had our sorrow* then— and weighty ones they were, too—but now wo kuow that we had so much of youth, and lil'e, and hope, and trust, and tenderness, too, for the little bright eyed girl in the striped calico gown either she or another— that we look l*ck to those sjielling school ilsvs of forty rears ago with feelings of infinite long ing ; ami some of us who wear spectacles find that when we go over the scenes of tltoae days, somehow our glasses liecome dim and need wiping. Shall we ever forget Webster's spell ing book and the long words our mother* gave us wliil* we were practicing for tin school f Ah ! many of the old boy* and girls have liecil "s|*'llhl down," never to take tlieir place*, again ; the old school house, too, is gone, aud the *o-,lav is only a very eommou affair compared with our* in old day*. Yet if the revival of this plcnaant old custom will make our l*vs ami girls better sjieller*. or if it will only give them a little of the happiness that we en joyed so much, and wiih h we still re member so vividly, why, bless them, let them sjs'll, and why not t Another Trirk. Since the passage of the law against three-card raontc sliarjis, a new game has boon started iu the West to lleece unsus -1 ax-ting traveler*. It i* played with dice, and is called the " Soldier's (lame." It is well known that the spots on opposite sides of dice always amount to aeven. At a saloon at a station where immigrant trains stop two gambler* ask tlieir in tended victim to take a drink. Standing at tlio tmr A. says to B.: "I'll throw the dice witli yon to see who j>ays." "All right," say* B. "I bet the drinks," say* A., " that, eounting the tops and bottoms, I'll throw thirty five every time." B. bets tliat it cannot l>e done, \nd liua to pay for t'ie drinks. While the party are enjoying the fun, sharper C., apparently a stranger, walks in, and is invited to join in a drink. Sharper A. gives a knowing wink to their victim, and offers to bet C. SIOO that, counting tlie tops and bottoms, lie will throw thirty-five three times in suc cession. " I'll bet yon don't," say* ('. Taking the immigrant a little aside, A. tells him that he has oulv 8- r >H with liiui, and asks whether he wouldn't like to put nji the other fifty, aud divide with him. The victim, sure of winning, assents, and the stake* are put tip in the lunula of B. While this little conference has been going on, sharjior C. hue deftly sutmti tuted for one of the dice another made entirely of sixes. A- throws the dice, of course loses the bet, and C. pocket* the stakes and walks ont. About this time the whistle of the train sounds, and the victim gets on board, minus his money. Among the Pygmies. From accounts it would appear that Col. Long's present expedition into Africa at the head of the Egyptian troops relates to explorations among tlint most interesting people whom Kohwcin fnrth has made known to the world—the Niam Niam, or Pygmies of Equatorial Africa. This singular trilw of men are mentioned as far hark in history as by Ptolemy, and frequent allusions have been made to them by various travelers ever sines. Tliey are the smallest rare of men of good proportions known on earth, und but few specimens have ever lieen seen by scientific eyes. It will lie rememl>ered tliat Sehwoinfurth attempt rd to bring one of these creatures with him down to Lower Egypt, but he perished on his first contact with civiliza tion. Whether his skeleton was pre served for science we are not informed. These little creatures seem as malignant and wicked as they nre abnormal in size. They are reputed to be the most irreclaimable cannibal* in Central Africa, and Bchweinfurth's account of their habits and those of neighboring tritiea in this respect, are the most disgusting tliat have anywhere been give® of any branch of the human race. If the long looked-lor " missing link" ever is to lie discovered between the savage and the animal, anthropologists will certainly look for it among this vicious and pygmy race. No PIUBON. —In the principality of Lichtenstein there is no prison, but they condemned a man to imprisonment for a year. They kept him in the royal palace, and he liked it so well that when they offered to release him if he would quit the country he declined. They finally bought him off by giving him money for his passage to America a-id an indemnity for going into exile. CENTRE LLALL, CENTRE CO., L'A., THURSDAY, MAY 20, 187. R >. THE tiKASSHOPPEK PLUJI'E. A llmi lalrrrMlas >**srr m i*r nr •uu! It* llabll*. Mr. John It. Wolff read the following pajH-r ou the subject of the grasshop|ier which have derastntisl the Western couu try t<> the American Farmer*' Club : lu *ize and ai>pt*irauce the insect cliieely resembles the smallest grasshop per of the Middle ami Northern StaUn, which makes its aiqiearamv iu the fall iu ttii coru fiehls ami meadows, some times seriously injuring the osru leaves ami fall grass, but seldom extending over a large area. It dlffern from the latter a little in sire and color, being lighter ami smaller. This difference is doubt less due to local condition*, as climate and food. It also differ* essentially from the Hocky mountain graaohopper )>ro)er. The latti'r is a permanent m stitutiou, repeating itself from year to year ami age to ago, within tlie mountain range, aud seldom descending to the plains, lu siae, it 1* aland hklf way be tweeu the smaller and larger j>eoiea of the Middle State*. It is much the ilark e*t iu color of any of this class of inserts. When flying it is still ilarker, owing to the dark shade of the under wing* ; it illffera also from all other* in the pe culiar miappiug, sliarji sound inaile by the striking of its wing* when in motion. During the months of July and August the insects are *o numerous tliat this snapping sound lwcomes annoying to traveler*. After they liave fed in the morning, and n*e on wing for tlie day, thev maintain an everlasting din until nightfall. Of the special locality whence come the devouring hosts hut little is knuwu beyond tlie fact that the main body comes from tlie north and travel* *outli. From the U-st informatiou 1 c*n obtain they liave tlieir priuctiial breeding ground* in the spur* and foot hill* of the uortlieru extremities of the l(i>cky mountain range. Here they find a •• sou loug euough, little nun, dry soil, few natural euennos, ami scantv vegcta turn, which latter J termmea tlie inter vals of migration. It t* known that in tlieir regular course they move some times two or three vear* iu succession, and sometimes at Intervals of sercral year*. When the breeding jienoil arrive* (July and September), they addnws themselves at once to tlie work in hand. During the evening and morning they fiwxl i tln-y or* gxssl feeders); aliout 10 o'clock they ri-o, and remain on wing uutil tlie sifteruoiiii; they then descend and i>immeuce depositiug their egg*. The female, with ths extremity of her body, bores into tlie lianiest ground a hole the size of her lsdy and almut three-fonrths of an inch deep. As the dirt i* looseneil it is removed witli tlie hind feet, until it has attained the projH'r depth. Tliey seem to prefer the very hardest ground; tlie road* of clay and sand, trodden until seemingly aa liord a* common brick, are the rh'**< ti s)M>to. Thine holes are so numerous thst the surface of tin- ground lias the ap iwanuux' of an uucappeil honey comb, ltlto each of these IlotcS IS de)MMUtcen* tliat the winds ore of short duration, and in such cases thev have moved as much a* fourteen time* in a single season. The prevailing direc ti >!i of the winds along the eastern slope of tlie Uocky mountain* favor* a south ern, southwestern and southeastern direction. But any change in tho air currents after they ri*e will carry them into Minnesota, town, Kansas or Ne braska, the distance Iwing determined by the continuance and speed of the air currents. Their regulnr direction is Bwuth, with height variations. This is 1111110*1-11 otherwise. After they have left their original grounds, and deposited their egg* in a new region, tlie young from these eggs, a* soon as hatched, move regularly southward, leaping into tlie water by millions. Many are thus consumed by the tlsliia. Angling has no stKirt in grasshopper year*. Those which take the water are washed out on the tmr* apjHirently dead, but the warm sun soon revivifies them, and they renew their march ami work of devastation. They give no warning. The -r first detects n humming sonnd that swell* into volume, without distinctness, as they approach. You stand and look to see whence the nnusiiAl noise; aud all nt once the air ia filled with thetn until the ann is momentarily obscured. Nothing in nature is like it but a snow storm. This occurs when the early crop is well matured, and the late crop is in full growth. Tlioy alight hungry and raven ous, ami itnmoe harvested and saved. Hut if left iu the field they will cut the grain from the heod, and destroy in whole or jmrt even these, so that the only wav to save it is to honse or stack at once, 'ilie new comers are, therefore, not So destructive as tho brood from their eggs, for many reasons which will ap]>ear. The yonng brood exceeds the parents by many hun dreds, jx'rhap* thousands. To form an estimate of the descending cloud is sim ply a* impossible as to calculate the snow-flakes of a snow storm. How, then, shall we estimate this unknown quantity multiplied by thousands ? The wurru snn in the spring vitalizes the egg* first on the highest and dryest deposits, tjien on the less favored places, until the whole are vitalized. As soon as they ap pear on the surface they commence to move south, ooustumng all tender vege tation as tbev progress, and in the case of small grain leaving the ground as I wire as before it was sown. Onions, peppers, and rhuliarb are among their favorites, and even the wild parsnip—poison to other animal life—is stripped to the naked stalk. Heat, birds, fishes, make no impres sion on the quantity. All eat till they are surfeited, and still they are undimin ished. The idea tliat domestic fowls or wild oirds of any or all kinds can in any degree mitigate their ravages is simply preposterous. Th ir time, and in fall and spring it is about the same, is from two to three months. The young have no wings, and depend on their legs for locomotion. They are therefore compelled In remain until matured, and ooutinue to eat until full Hedged, when they quit and riae a* suddenly as their ancestors cattle. No |Mra*ite, a* some have supipoard, prey* Upon them fatally. Occaaiolially a ill-ail 1-arcaan may 1 found ailh a grub, but this is uuwd likely to lie the progeny of the I due fly, but tlieir after death. Of these there are so few SM to niakeolily s rare iM-cupatioii. The immigrant* do not pi-riali until they have de|HiAiU*l their egg*; so tliat the pura*lti-* are of little value. The young brood remain until t*iui|detely grown, and rise and Waive Hildileuly, and no! by degree*, aa would Ih< the case if destroyed by a jiara *iti>. They are all gone ut once. No ilead are left upon the field. From the time of leaving their original breeding grounds until they disappear altogether they nee lit to make but one *top. After Ihtii, or in their second flight, 110-v are lost altogether. The moat plausible aolution w that they are finally *w-pt into the ocean. Tln-y seldom, if ever, slight south of Kaunas or Colorado. And if they do, it i* exceptional. The Man Without a Home. At Fort Madison, lowa, there may lie well going aland the street/ with the ul most frii dom a gray luureil old man, the only feature of whiste *p|>car*uoe ilistinguiahes linu from tlio city fattier* is the uniform dress of the penitentiary. This ixuitumo is iu strange contrast with the P-*t of a not unattractive rxterior, and it brands its wearer as an object of curiosity ta corner idler* and of dread to little children. It is the mark of Cain, indicating tliat the hands which pro trade from it an- stained with human blood; it is tlie badge of a murderer who escajied hanging only through a leclun cahtv of the law. The old man is known by the name of Pleasant Fonts, and lias the douldful distinction of haviagdnv-n the lirwt white man to commit a capital crime within the Imrder* of I'olk county, lowa. \Ylieu lust he cronm-d tlie county line, iu All gust, IKM, he was on immigrant in the prime of life, journeying wmtward with hi* young wife ltuth, in in-arch of * home. They never found one. lu an evil hour jeoloitny thrust ltmdf Iwtwccti them; and the hunliand, in a moment of madmwn, struck a murderous blow of which he ho* never o-amxl to repent. A trial in UIOM-liar* and lalhat *}>ar*e ly M-ttleil region, though feuoxl aU'Ut with aome f-jrmalitiiw, was ixim)ratively rapid and positively decisive. E*out, when brought to the liar, was confronted with on unimjieaehablc witness, who •wore that site saw him stab his wife again and again with a knife, depiU> the deponent'* eutrnatiea to desist; and tliat, sfU-r his victim hod once eornjted from him and taken refuge iu the house of a neighbor, he obtained aoona* to her there by deliberate cunning and deceit. Neittier the deed nor the malice afore thought could lie controverted by the mm-lunatious of couiis>>L E'outs was ouuvicted of murder in the tir-1 die 1 longed. Is-ss than a fortnight lafott tlie ilay ap)K>inted for his execution, however, a reversal <>f judgment was obtained and a new trial ordered, which resulted, iu tlie then cooler stale of poj.ulAr feeling, in hi* condemnation to the jienileutiary for life. For the first ten or twelve year* of his imprisonment he lived like the other convicts; but little by little the warden came to have more omfldi-nce in him and to allow him greater lilierties, uutil now he i* under no nwtnuut whatever, and tnuisoet* much of the official bust ne*s of the institution both inside and outside its gates. Ho really ueeil* no watching, fur he feela no temptation to aliuae his privilege*. With his wife's death the hist link that bound hi* desire* to tlie world wa* severe.L The half score of year* that followed |>ermittcd the rest of mankind to outrun him in the race of Life, lie is, to all intents and purposes, dead to uncial life; tlie hand* of uie century-clock have liecu tunn-1 so fur Isn-k for him that they mil in ti<> insnner regain tln-ir wonted place. Per sons who know him any tlrnt he i* *<• sensible of hi* isolation thst nothing would induce him to forsaks the jn-ni tentiary—not even s full pardon; tln •ni gra j, grim walla, ao repugnant to the sight of men who have never fsrfeiti>d their freedom, encom|>oas the only home he cores for. Brjing I'p of Rlier*. I*rofcßsor Wex, of Vienna, a well known naturalist, has just published an apjs-nl to the various governments of Europe, urging them to pioride means, by legislation, for encouraging forest growth. H point* to the fact tliat in consequence of the cutting down of large arena of timlcred regions, nqt only tlie moisture in tbe soil ha* greatly dt minislied, but the average rainfall has nlso lesiwned, and hence the volume of water in the great rivers has receded, during the last tifty years, in the Kibe and Wener,aixteeu inches; in the Khine, twelve inches, and in the Ihitmlie, over ten inches. The same facts noticed in Europe by Professor Wex, have repeat edly I sen shown to exist in this country. The Ohio river, on an average, contains now less wntcr than it did ton years ago, and stoamlxiats of larger sine, that could conveniently go to Pittsburgh formerly, fltul it impossible now during Rome months in summer, owing to the ahal lownesa of the river. The same condi tion has Ixw-u exjierienoed on the upjer Mississippi, but in a less degree, since the country along the sources of that stream is not yet so thickly settled. This is n serious question, involving the future of the agricultural prosperity of the land, as well as its internal trade, and is entitled to the most can'fill con sideration of statesmen and legislators. Fugitive Real Estate. Col. Waring, in A rrihitrr't for May, tells the following inciilent of the drain age of Haarlem lake : A curious phe nomenon, however, occurred in connec tion with the outer dike of the canal on the cant side of the lake, where it crossed an area of floating soil which Ixirdered wide jwiiuls near the village of Aalsuieor. An area of many acres, detached by the rnnal from the old works of defease against the lake, fonnd itself one fine day driven bv the tempest from the bank of the canal to the other side of the pond. The proprietor implored the aid of the commission. Hi* land had floated to tho opjxiaito shore, widely separated from hia other fields, and resting on water that was not hia own. By the combined effort of the proprietor and of the commiaaion, those fugitive fields were towed back to the borders of the canal and pinned in place by piles and poles, which prevented them from un dertaking another voyage. Conghlng. The best method of easing a cough ia to resist, it with all the fores of will ]os sible, until tho accumulation of phlegm liecomea greater; then there ia something to cough against, and it cornea up very much easier, and with half Hie coughing. A greatdoal of hacking and hemmingand coughing in invalids is purely nervous, or the result of mere habit, as is shown by the frequency with which it occurs while the patient is thinking about it, and its comparative rarity when he is so much engaged that there is no time to think, or when the attention is impelled in another direction. THE NEWhI'AI'EH 111 NINE**. IVhii * Writ Hu* \V r*,n Nlim mm 4 I'Mbllabrt tlu I* N*> Abssl 11. Col. Aiketw, editor of the Milwaukee HIRTTIUY IITSCaper are a coui mumty, and their wants and tastes are broader tluui those of one man, hence tlie acute editor will And his way to tlie nnttofaction of the greatest number, lu tlii* course he will i-rrcunisi'ribe himself only by s for truth, right, and public good He is, however, constantly teinjiteil by the large sale of purely nasty and immoral jaiiiers, to increase his at the expense of decency. But only OU tile ground that the devil is the liest liavinastex asn this course be justified. Idit a ]>a|Ma|K-rh ia the very general belief tliat fabulous fortunes are mode iu pub lishing them. Of course everybody knows tliat not much money con tie made in printing a small |>s|er in a coun try town; but we itpeok id prominent pa jers in great cities. It is a common re mark that We hoar with regard to Chi cago newspajw-r fortunes. There are live princi|>al new*jmi*-rs in Chicago, and we nuderutaiid from must excelleut authority that there lias been uu money mode by UHI for the (suit year. We know the ncw*ii(M-rB of Milwaukee have not J*ud EX|M-n*E* tlie |>ast year. The dlfllculty ha* not been with the |>apera, for they hare boou giMaL It is the loan of adver tising. Business lias been dull and mer chants and manufacturers have uot at templed to expand by oilvertunng. In tlie L'mtcd Stati* ore pnntoil some six thousand publications. We do uot roll to uuiil twenty men w ho have mode fur tnnea in tlie buamesa. Ho wo re) mat, it is not s money-making bttalnw IVrliajai the worst popular fallacy witli regard to newspaper* is thst gener ally enteitained thst new*ii|Mir* ought to "le printed and published in the inter est of the ooinmunity—|iarticularly the iiuligent portion of the community. Churches, poorhouses, asylums aud all sorts of charitable enterprises run to the :icw*)tt)**r* for gratuitirw, ss a child run* to it* mother for help. Politician*, office seeker* and soallawag* generally count on the nnpaid supjmrt tf new*)* per*. Now s newspaper, to be worth auvthing as a btounes* rnlerpriae, should lc pnnled ui the interest of its proprie tor—just as much as a merchant should run hi* buiuetU-r than all tlie editorials or commercial re) vorts tliat cau be written. When tliat index goes up business ia g**!, when it go** down business is dull. A Major on Idlene**. P. T. Baroum was inaugurated ax Mayor of Bridgeport, Conn., and de livered a short address. Concluding he said: It ia painful to the industnoiw ami moral portions of oar people to a> a<> many loungers about the streets, and audi a multitude whom? highest aspirn ti 'tia aoem to tie to waste their time in idleness or at base Ixill, billiards, eto. No jieraou inx-da to lie unemployed who ia not over fastidious alxuit the kind of i "formation. There are too many atift hands (and head") waiting for light work and heavy |*iy. Better work for half a loaf tluui I eg or at eel a whole one. Mother earth ia always near by. and ready to respond to responsible drafts on her never-failing treasury. A patch of potatoes raised "on shares ' is pre ferable to a |M>nltioele. Being an humble descendant of that honorable class, 1 l>eg leave to state for the lienefit of your readers that the term is very aigmficant, and is the legitimate result of one of the rural customs of the first settlers of the United States. Years ago, lxifore mills were established in this country, when the lmckworts of entry, were unable to procure transportation, they adopted a wny by which they cracked corn with huge rocks. The interior people were thus lalieled with tile distinction, eorn crackere—hence the term "cracker," WANTFIJ AN IUKA. —You have heard of the jockey who, seeing a country lad with a Imlky horse upon which he was vainly using the whip, cuught up a hand ful of snow and applied it lustily to the equine nose. The horse immediately started. In response to tho look of sur prise from the lad, the jockey wills out: " Wliippin' ain't allera the tiling; what he wanted was a new idee." Toitm : a*Y"©ar, in Advance. The Cooler! Woman. If all women war* aa pool and matter of fact aa Mr*. Btum ! But she ia una of a' thousand, says the Detroit /■Vra /VCM. She was over at Mr*. Moody's, ou Mm-oiub street, the oilier day, liar iron gray hair oowlwd down flat and her *l*H-tai le adjusted to gossip range, when she suddenly rose and said: " Mr*. Moody, be calm. Wliere do you keep tlie camphor bottle I" " Why f" asked the surprised Mr*. Moody. " Because they ore bringing your has Itaiid through the gate on a board ! I think he'* mashed dead, but be calm aUmt it! 1 'll stay right hern and sett to thing* !" Mr*. Moody threw up h<-r arms and fell down in a dead faint, and Mr*. Btum opened the door as the men laid the body on the porch. " Is lie dead t" she naked in on even tone. "I think so," answered una of the men. " Tlie doctor'll lie here in a minute." The doctor come up, looked at the vic tim, and aaid life ltod flail, adding: " llis book ami four or five ribs are broken." " That's sensible, tliat ia," salil Mrs. Stum, gazing at the doctor in admira tion. "Some physicians would have said that hia verUdtna was mortally wounded, aud would have gone ou to talk about the 'Larynx,' the 'arteries,' the ' optic nerves' and the • diagnosis.' If he's deed it'll tie some satisfaction to know what he died of. Well, lug in the body and send a boy after an under taker. " The men carried the body through to a bedroom, aad Mrs. Stum went back to Mr*. M >ody, who hod revived and was wailing and lamenting. " Don't, Julia—dun\ take on ou," continued Mix Stum. "Of course yon feel badly, and this interferes with Uk ing up carpets ami cleaning bouse, lmt it'a pleasant weat her for a funeral, and I think the eorpar will look w natural as life." " Oh! My pour, poor husband," wail ed Mr*. Moody. " He waa a good httslsind, 111 swear to that," continued Mr*. Btum. " bat he was dreadfully careless to let a house fall on him. He calm, Mr*. Moody ! I've scut for one of the beat undertakers in 1 totrait, and you'U be aarprwed at thr war he'll fix uj> tlie deceased." the undertaker came in Mr*. Htum shook hands and said that death was sure to overtake every hving thing signer or later. She mentioned the kind of coffin she wanted, stated the uuralier of harks, the hour for the funeral, and held the end of the tape-line while he measured the body. Several other neighbors come in and she ordered them around and tooii had everything working smoothly. The widow was sent to her room to weep out her grief, tloore and windows were open ed. and as Mr*. Htum built up a good fixe she said: " Now, then, we wont pie and cake and sauce and raised biscuit and floating islands. Hell have watchers, and the watcher* must have plenty to eat-" When the I Hiking had been flniflbed the coffin and tlie undertaker arrived, and the bodv was placed in its recepta cle. Mr*. Stum agreed with the under tak that the face wore a natural expres sion, aud when be was going away she isud: "Be around on time ! Rou't put in any second-class hocks, sml don't hare any hitch in the proceedings at the grave!" from that hour until two o'clock of the second ilay thereafter she liad full eliorge. Tlie 'widow was provided with a black bonnet, a crape shawl, etc., the watcher* found plenty to eat, a minister was sent for, eighteen chair* were brought from the neighbor's, and every thing moved along like clock-work. " You must Iwiar up," she kept saving to the widow. " lb'use eleaning must be done, that Iwck yard must be raked off, the penstock must be thawed out, and yon haven't time to sit down mud grieve. His life was insured, and we'll go down next week and select some love ly mourning goods." Every! x*ty who attended aaid they never saw a funeral J was off so smoothly, and when the hack hod landed the widow and Mr*. Htnm at her door again, Mrs. Htnui asked: "Now, didn't you really enjoy the ride, after all t" And tlie widow said she wouldn't hsT' lieliewd that she conld have stood it so well. The ( oramon Lot. " Tbsra ta no flock, however watch al and tended. But one dead lamb ia there ' There is no flrwnda. howeoa'ar defended. Ilat haa one vacant chair The hoar of bereavement is the com mon lot of us all; and we come Iwck from the new made grave when we have laid otir love*! ones to sleep, come back to the vacant chair, the desolate room, the empty life -oh, how empty! Yet not for all thia do the oare and dutiea of life irnvia on us with any lesa weight or diminish anght of their demands. Wisely is it thus ordered. To ait down and nurse oar grief, to give full rein to the indulgence of sorrow and tears, ia the worst possible thing for as and for thaw around iw. If grief opens onr hearts to feel the worn of others, inclines us to forgi t self and selfish sorrow in hindiug up other bruised and bleeding hearts, iaAds us to double our diligence, tliat before we too are summoned away, the whole work given us to do shall lie doue and well done; it will lie jxswiblo in some near future for us to aay from the heart: "Itia good for me that I have lieen afflicted." Hitter as is the cup of liereaTement, ■ays the Tribunr, cruel as are the pangs of"separation at the jaws of the acptiloher. lasting as is the sense of lse, yet, from Uiese all good may be evolved, for only those who hsve had this baptism know how to feel for others' woes, to speak words of consola'jon aud to keep silence when no words can be of any avail. 1 tenth runs his plowshare through our household tearing up the sod, cutting off at the rxit roaoa and violets, and the tender blossoms whose fragrance cheered our lives wither aad perish, but-by-and bye a richer liarvest justifies the ways of (iod; and, as little by little, our affeo tious are transferred from thia to another world and the fruits of patieuce and hoixj ami resignation ripen above the sod thus rudely up torn, we begin dimly to perceive tliAt " whom God lovcth He cliasteiieth." Street Improvements. The practice of placing down boards in the mud is revived this spring. It is a good idea. The board always warps downward in the center, leaving the ends sticking up abont six inches above the walk. The hastening pedestrian comes along in the dark and picks up one end of the lx>ard on his instep and shoves it along some six feet, the other leg all the while trying to get a foothold and con trol itself. Then the board swings off and eatches him on the shin of that leg, and after an almost herculean effort to recover himself he goes down with 'dreadful force, striking on his elbow with one arm ard shoving the other in the mini half way to his shoulder. If the owner of the premises should be killed by lightning in the first thunder storm, that man would cheerfully lose a day's work to attend the funeral.— &ai\bury JVftt'B. NO. 20. A FITHKK'N St IIKIF. 11. HMlltw llw I.?n ml HU ItMikirr l.. a WfnelM 4 ItalM lit#,—-Th. H- H#v#ral mouths ago a rich Paris financier, a speculator on the Bourse, learned that his only daughter waa quite ftmd of a wealthy young mau who waa huuaalf not averse to occasional opera tion*. Hh- mad# the confession herself— French girls do not carry on love afflurs clandestinely—but said, at th# sain# time, that alt# was not particnlarly enamored of him. Khn added: "Yon know, papa, that you have given me a worldly edooatiot), and I have profited by it I'm not a bit silly about Monsieur . But be is amiable, cultured, agreeable, domestic, and, most of all, be ha# a handsome property. He would make a good hus band, I think. He likes me, lem sure. I shrewdly surmise he intends to pro pose to you for my Land. If ha does I Khali accept him fur lbs reasons stated, unless you seriously object." Papa, fur some reason or other, did oot relish the prospect of having Mon sieur for a son-in law. Bo be said to hi# daughter: " Ton would not, Claudine, entertain th# idea of becoming th# wife of this gentleman if he were poor, would you 1' " Not for a moment, my dear papa. 1 hold that marriage with poverty ia in supportable. I regard Monsieur 'a fortune fully as favorably as I do him. Indued 1 do not separate them." " You're a scuwhle girl; yon do a credit to my training. I'm proud of yon. There sno cause for haste in this matter. I love you devotedly; I would nut thwart your deairea. Wait a few weeks, and am bow Mouaieor —— de- velops." Three clay* later the young gentleman proposed for her hand, and ahc aakad a little time to consider, to which be read ily consented. Her father, remembering her opinion that money ni uuMapaa- Kabl- to matrimony, determined to rain the snitor. To thia end he pretended to take him into hie confidence, urging him to boy largely of a certain stack, because it was sure to advance. The father be ing s high monetary authority, the young man gladly and gratefully re ceived and acted upon the advice. The result was that he waa ruined, the stock having steadily and rapidly declined from the moment be had pur chased it. He then withdrew his pro posal of marriage, unwilling that the woman he loved should be the wife of a IB*.-. father, rejoiced at the lover's adversity, remarked to his daugh ter: •• You see, my child, how wise it wsa for yon to wait "The young fellow ooOid not raise five thousand francs to-day on all he has left finch affection as you had for him must bs completely cured by his great reverses.'* "So far from it, papa, I flr d I never loved him till now. His misfortunes have touched my heart The noble manner in which "baa acted reveals him to me in a new light I feel that now, more than ever, he needs my sympathy, my comfort, my affection." " Bui you would not marry a bank rupt, a man who can give yon no posi tioti. no material comfort—nothing f" " But 1 should have something, pap*> through your kindness. I should be too happv to share it with him." Then tlie father, flaming up, declared he would not give CUudine a sou if she should marry the miserable beggar. He told ber how he had ruined her suitor, and the purpose he had in doing so. They had high words. She rebuked him for his treachery; he charged her with filial ingratitude. In loss than a week she had eloped with hex lover, and they were mariied and living happily, though houfbly, together in Havre, trying to begin a new life, when the father sought them, asked their pardon for the past, and begged them to return to Paris, to makehis home and fortune their*. Presence of Xiad* Professor Wilder gives these short rales for action in case of son dec t : For dust in the eye, avoid robbing; dash water into them ; remove cin ders, etc.. with the round point of a lead pencil. Remove insects from the ear by tepid water; never put a hard instrument into the ear. If an artery is cut. compress above the wound; if • vein is cut, compress below. If choked, get on all fours, and cough. For light burns, dip the part in cold water; if the skin is destroyed, cow with varnish. Smother s fire with carpets, etc.; water will often spread burning oil, and in crease the danger. Before passing through smoke, take a full breath, and then stop low; but if carbon is suspected, walk ewei. Suck poison wounds, unless your mouth i sore. Enlarge the wound, or, t *tttT, cut out the part affected, or hold the wound as long as can be borne to a hot coal, or end of a cigar. In cane of poisoning, excite vomiting by tickling the throat, or by water or uiustard. For acid poisons, give strong coffee and keep moviug. If in water float on the back, with the nnee and month projecting. For apoplexy, raise the head and body; fainting, lay the person fist. Baytag Cheap. Buying cheap has its disadvantages, an exchange says, and occasionally illus trates the old saying that paramony is not the beat economy. The adulteration of food ami shoddy materials, of which the consumers of Kurope so greatly complain, have been attributed not so much t> the avidity of dealers as to the meanness of pnreliasem. The obstinate Iwrsistenee in the demand for cheap nxnrien has forced, it is said, into thi market those nasty prodncts which in genious roguery is so ready to supply. If people will insist upon drinking cham pagne at a cost hardly more than that of rider, tliev mnv congratulate themselves if they get cider. They certainly cannot hope for anything better, and will prob ably get something a great deal worse, for they have placed themselves by their unreasonable demands in the huuls of the rogues, and must be left to their mercy. The cheap tea and coffee so universally domanded fully account for the plentiful supply in the market of dried willow lcavea,iron filings, chicoory, and bean grits, for which, of course, there is no need of sending to China or Mocha, notwithstanding the assurance of the corner grocer that they are direct importations from those remete regions. A New Coddess. The Shanghai Gazette, alluding to the death of the late emperor of Cliina, con veys the information that shortly before the emperor's death a gigantic image, the goddess of small-pox, was paraded round the city of Pekiu iu solemn procession, and then takeu into the very bedroom of the dving youth, where it was worshiped and honored with many propitiatory offerings. As, however, the goddess continued obdurate, she was subjected to a severe thrashing and other insults, and finally burned. The fatal result of the attack was, we suppose, her revenge for the maltreatment. ftewt of Intrrrel. A } young doctor. How to Bde buna lay—Tie their Hi# young m who did not spoil well had suck spell. N'btb* malt# a wooden big of oak; oak alwayn produces (a)onm. Brooklyn, N T., ha# two hundred •oil thirty-live churches. I'.vjpl# who advertise am those who set tl*ir aaila for trada winds. In the time oI George IV. th# faro bank* of London were Iwpt by wcmeu of fashion. 'l'h# Indian department bids am to ba marked "U. 8. I. D."-"U Html. I Di vide "—cli f Th# lorn of cattle in tit# Walla Walla, valley W. T., during th# oohi weather foot* up 10.000 head. Mm. Haidkina any# bar husband ia a | three-handed man -right hand, loft | liaod and a little behind band. John Mitchell diad in tli# bona# in which ha waa bora, and in th# room in which hi# mother and father died. A little man observed that ha had two negative qualities: be never lay long in bed, ami be never wanted a great ooat. Chicago ia arranging for a spelling match between minMms, the word# to be only name* of Bible character*. Good and evil are always paid off; Runtimes immediately, and samtimea not nntil after they have ran at interest a apelL Lady Bofdett-Covtta ia going to pro tect bumming birds. Boa aaya one Parisian milliner nana 40,000 of thaw little creatures every aaaaon. A Belgian journal states that a quar ter's worth of common Irow, by toans formation into the fine* parte of a watch, reaches a money value of fIO.OOO. Oregon ha# already spoken for a plana for board at the Centennial. She pro poena to sand on a fir plank one hundred (# i long and twelve wide far exhibition Why win a man spend half his time running wound to teO people what be . doee when be aan for a few dollar# tell the whole world through the nswepa Ht Don't locate your grandfather ia " the front rank " in the Concord and Irfuing tun fight. That was th# one that re treated. An Aberdeen gW suppoere that the reason aba ha# never kindled a flame ia any man brert ia because she ia not a good mit-rh A couple of Egyptian mummies have been bring together preorehly far 8,000 years. Jfo mutual fraud* wormed their way between them. A gentleman observing the sign of " Caswell" upon a business establish ment, remarked that it would ba " as well without theC." It bun been derided ia • Fwueb court that the landlord who fails te have hi* guest* awakened to aeteh the tmins they wish to take ia liable ia damages. A man in Missouri has been banged for killing his father-in law. How did he expect to get the sympathies of the jury whan he made uuoh a mistake I Several new German paper* have been started in Indiana. The task Legislature authorised the publiewhoit of legal ad vertisements ia the German language. When two young hearts that beat as one attend divine services in the evening, it is beshfutnees that leads them to select a ace* in the moat obscure pew under the gallery. The Indianapolis bootblacks have just termed a protective union. Any non unionist who dares charge leas than tan cents for a *• thine," is treated to a oold hath under a street pump. A fanner of Manchester went to hia stable and found a valuable home with its throat cut, and it is supposed that the outrage waa committed because the owner had incurred the spite of a neigh bor. A rich officer of revenue the other day ■eked a man of wit what sort of a thing opulence was. "II is a thing," replica the philosopher, "which can give a rascal the advantage over an honest man." At the very hour when Mies Bateman. as Ophelia, was engaged upon the stage of the London Lyceum in declaiming upon the death of Fdouina, her father of the play, her father of the flesh had passed into eternity. A Yankee editor says: If the party who plays the aooordkm in this vicinity at nimito will only change hie tune oooa nionally, or ait where we can scald him when the engine has steam on, be will hear of something to his advantage. A physician in Maine has been in quiring" into the statteriea of infantile israteu with Window's nothing syrup, aiul states that the sale of tins dangerous nostrum annually disseminate* 15,000,- 000 grain* of morphi* among our aurm riea. Indian mw* are great thieves, but m they are saemd birds- the Hindoo* dis like killing them. When they catch them, however, they take their revenge by plucking their feathers, leaving them nothing but their wing* *nd tails to get away with. Mme. the Baroness de Mscedc, widow of a Portuguese admiral and domiciled tn Paris for thirty yeur*. ha* jurtcom rnitted suicide- She bed hewn optuated upon for a cancer, but a second opera tion was neeasuarr and she preferred im mediat* death to the repetition of pain f *l. |M '•*t|N At a child** birthday pgjrter, the little guests were furnished with candy apples, colored very highly, which they ale with a relish. One of the children sickened and died the next day, and two other* are in a most alarming late. The apple* were colored with aniline taid the leave* with arsenic. A word to th* wias is sufficient. " What ia vow name i" asked a census taker. "John Corcoran." "Tour age t" "Twenty-one." "What na tivity r " Well, that's what bother* me. I*ll tell you, and may be you can make it out. My father wa* Irish, but ia now a naturalised American citiaen ; my mother English; and I was born on a Dutch frigate, under the Pran*h flag, in Turkish water*. Now, how is it ?" Mother tk Babe. ••Out oi all the buried ones, aunty, which do you oee plainest t" I questioned. "Little Sally," was the quick reply. "Little Sallvwho never had a name toll we needed one to put on the gravestone owt her. Little Bally who waa four mouths old when she died. Abby mar ried a man I ooald not abide. It wua Henry's wildneee down to Boston gave him "the consumption. Stephen was awnr from home always till be took sick, and'Martou's wife and me waa new good friends, and that took away sour of the nearness. But little Sally never lived to give me a cold look or hard word. When my plans were the brightest, she faded out from under 'em, and toft the JOT of my life broken in pieces. Jept think of a velvet touch laying forty years on a woman's withered breast. Jest think of a little upturned pink face aevcr fading from out a woman's empty arms. That's been my lot and I'm satisfied to go where my baby is awaiting for me." Lead Poisoning. A medical journal published in Bel gium gives an instance of lead poisoning caused by hair preparations. A man about fifty years of age was under medi cal treatment for muscular rheumatism, having loot the use of both anna. The remedies unoil prodnoed great relief. But a mouth afterward the patient s fin gers ware paralysed, and he suffered from severe colics. The physician made many researches, and 4 length discov ered that for fifteen years the man had been in the habit of uting on his hair a preparation of sugar of lead and sul phur. The physician directed him to cease entirely the use this Mipctare, and after a course of medical treatment the man whoHy- recovered. Most of the noted hair restoratives contain lead. BMAUUPOX.—A circular letter from the Archbishop of Quebec, Canada, has been read in all the Boman Catholic Lurches, ordering public preyer for th