The Week. LA, Mondsv ta th " vtuhmg day," Al all grd liniifcm" know. Memorable of dinn*** bached And el f* f< ae M anew ; Ai*l Yae-J*y i. the " ironing day," 'lfiJ cxfiiL or fop, or heat : And Wednesday i* the "*win; -lay,' To too the elotlio. aie neat ; And Thursday tea leimir* day. Ami Friday, hroonia l>egi:i To sweep away the h.uweti >ld do!, 'Fore Sunday'a naheml in; And Safnnlay i "baking day." Pies, pnddinga eakee and Irea-l And then, the weary week ! done And are may go to bod ! Hoil it Down. Whatever yon hare to nay, my friend. Whether witty or grave or gay. Condemn) aa mttch a. ever you can, And aay it the readieat army ; And whether yon write of rural affairs Or of matters and things in town. Just take a word of friendly advice - Boil it down. For if you go spluttering over a jw^e Wheu a couple of lines would do. Your buttar ta reread so much, you see. That the bread look* plaiuly through ; 80, when yew have a story to tell And would like a little renown. To make ipute sure of your wish, my fncud. Boil it down. When writing au article for the proas. Whether prose or wne, Just try To nettle your though ta ui the feaert words And let them he crap and dry , And when it is finished aud ytau auppoe It ia done exactly Uo*u. Just look it over again ami then UoU it dow u. For editor* do not like to prtut An article laaily long, And the general reader does not care For a couple of yard* of aotig , So gather your wits in the smallest apace, If you want a httic renewn, Aud amy time yea write, my friend, IVu. it down. HOW 1 BECAME A BILLION AIRE. I WAR sitting iu my office musing at nut the subject id wealth, and the unequal distribution of jmnvrty in litis world. Iu my mcvtitotioßs th a qut->tiii kept forcing itself upon my taunt; "Way is it that a man is sent into this world with out previous consultation or arrange ment, aud at the very beginning of life is informed that he mind get laot'ey, money, money—must root lug or die? I could not answer the question. Yet 1 know that I have been insulted and hu miliated with such a statement many times. Why, 1 also asked myself, is it that I can't enjov all that is beautiful and glorious ia t£iis world without hav amt ney. money, money ? I oonldn't why it it might be owing to an artificial state of tilings; but it was plain to me that 1 couldn't While pond .wing ou these matters, I suddenly resolved that I would have money, since it was ao necessairy, and I said to myself: I am going to have wealth; yes, 1 am de termined to have wealth; ves, I shrieked, 1 will hare vast wealth; i will !>e as rich as Croesus. How shall I att.ua it f Shall I rob a national bank I No. Shall I induce some rich man to rail me a liar, and a thief, and a perjured villain, and sue him for slander and recover a large verdict f No. I will get rich honestly. I will do it in this way, and I fell to *O - in this manner: I have a watch worth Six'. I will trade that watch for a horse. I shall make a good trade. The horse I will exchange for a yoke of oxen. I will fatten the oxen, and get them in very nice order, and soil them for Christmas beef for S4OO. I will invest that sum in mess pork, and it will rise in an unprecedented manner, and I will convert my S4OO into $1,200. With this sum I will proceed to France. I will go into the country about Rouen and bay twelve Norman stallions. In crossing the ocean one of them will die, but I will dispose of the others in a very advantageous manner, and realize SII,OOO on tiiat transaction. I will then go to my neighbor, Mr. Feu ton, and I will say to him: Mr. Fenton, I have been extremely fortunate with my Norman stallions. I have made a large sum of money. I desire to buy your sec tion of laud. 1 will give you SII,OOO. He will say it is a tine piece of land, but I believe { will accept your proposition, and he will immediately make mo a deed. Next day he will come to tao and say he is sick of the sale, and will offer me $25,- 000 for the farm. I will greedily accept his offer, and give him laek his farm. 1 will invest my $55,000 in Cashmere goats, and make an enormous profit on them. Wheu I dispose of my goats I will be worth $50,-000. I will then com mence shaving good not s, aud the com munity will soon be startled with the in telligence that I am worth a hundred thousand. Aliont this time I will be elected president of a liistoriod society. 1 will take this hundred thousand and go to a sparsely settled country, and buy a large amount of land. I will lay out a town ou the land, and call it Nineveh. I will sell a great many town hits, and 1 will judiciously offer the "Pilgrim's Progress " as a prize to any one buying two lots; the town will build np Very rapidly and will become a railroad junc tion ; the railroads will make my land very valuable, and I will sell it in small tracts to poor men, giving them a bond • for a deed, providing for a forfeiture on the slightest failure on their part. I will sell out all my Land aud town lots final ly, sod I will be worth half a million. 1 wiU then be elected to the State Senate, aud will be chairman of the judiciary committee, also of the committees on education and federal relations. About this time I will buy a township of land, and will give employment to 1,000 hands. Of course I will build an elegant and palatial country residence. I will carry on fanning operations for five years very extensively, and. at the end of that time, I will sell my town ship for doable what I gave for it. I will then he a millionaire. The degree of LL. D. will be conferred upon me, and I will be twice chosen to represent my jieople in Congress. I will be chairman of the ways and means com- i mittee, ami the leader of the House. ! When I rise to speak the first time, everybody in the chamber will turn pale, and there will be profound silence. After leaving Congress I will invest my money in railroad stocks, and in five years I will be worth the sum of SSO, - 000,000. I will go ont to California for my health, and will very wisely invest alf my mouey in mining stocks; stocks will rise in such a manner as to intense ly amaze everybody; new and prodigi ous deposits of gold and silver will be found; bonanzas will he discovered, and I will soon find myself the richest man in the world. I will lie the first bil lionaire iu the country. The President will send me an autograph letter con gratulating me, and tendering me the portfolio of the secretary of the treas ury. I will then go to Europe, and visit all the old towns, and ruins, and cathedrals, the Tower of Pisa, the ruins of Hereulaneum and Pompeii, and all the other curiosities. I will visit the Bending Pillars of Stuffa and write a scientific article about them, which will be printed in Scribner's Monthly with illustrations. After re cuperating, I will come home ready for business. I will be chosen as Senator in Congress. My maiden speech will produce a profound sensation. I will npeak as follows : "ME. PRESIDENT AND HONORABLE SENATORS: On this august and sublime oocasion it is but natural [cheers] that I should feel a diffidence —a great diffi dence [nobbing in the gallery] in address- , ing your honorable honors upon the vast subject before us. It in well known to j your honorable honors that I represent a great people—a grand people [sensa tion] —a noble people—a godlike peo ple. ' [lmmense weeping in the gallery, and such tremendous applause tiiat the honorable speaker was unalde to pro- : oeed. ] I will be the most popular, wittiest, •ad wisest man in the country. There ' KHKD.KURTZ, Kditor and Proprietor. VOL. MIL will le n grout uiativ little paragraphs iu the n*W*p*jerß about me. Wheu I visit New \ ork there will le amwtkiug like this in the (tapers: "The Finn, of Illinois, gave a dinner at IK-lmonion's yesterday to a select company, among whom were the veteran Thurlow Weed, Horatio Seymour, White law Rei.l, Wtl ham Culler, llryaut. A. T. Stewart, Theodore Tilton. William 11. Astor, Commodore Yauderbilt and Susan is. Anthony. The dinner w the inoMI ; magmfkvut over given in the city, there being the unprecedented ¨>or of fortv courses; the extraordinay sptwiAclo J ,if ."Wr'a eyes t!.r. To balance ou egg* .$ .50 "My friend," said I, looking at him in a reproachful manner, " I have iust . ( learned of the death of my grandfnt in r. j I cannot transact any business for many , days." He left In five minutes an other man came in with an account of 1 thirty seven and one-half cents for inCr- j 1 chandiae. Said Ito him, in a mournful voice: " I just learned a few minutes ago of the unexpected decease of my ! ! grandmother, aged ninety-six. The . things of this world have no iuter<-st for me," and I bowed mv head n|>ou the ] table and groaned. He hft the reotu I deeply moved, lualsiut five minutes in came a red-beaded man, aud itske,! if I could (>ay him five cents, the Imlauce I ] owed him on herriug. " Sir," said I, in < lugubrious toues, " I but a moment ago j 1 received a telegram imparting the sad 1 intelligence of the suddeu demise of mv < father and mother. They were simnl taneonriy attackeil with apoplexy, and paaatsl away together. I will lo uuable < to transact secular business for many 1 months; excuse my emotion." As I made this remark I clapped niy handker- : | chief to my eyes, and counterfeited in- 1 j tense grief. The man wi-nt away in 1 tears. F'-aring that another creditor ] might come along, I left the office and , I went hom-\ I felt exoecilingly small i after the dissipation of my splendid day \ 1 dream, and I determined ta put au etnl j 1 to my d.*siro for wealth. I got an old | horse-pistol. I 1< uuhwl it heavily. I < went behind the liou*e. 1 (ilaeetl it | against my forehead. I blowed ont my ! brains, and I have felt tx ttcr ever since. ' 1 England and Franre. An exchange, in referring to the war i troubles in Europe, says : It is natural 1 ] tliot England should ask for peace and i insist upon it by the strongest pressure. I There could scarcely bo a war on the ! 1 continent in which England could t- - , 1 main neutral. She is bound by treaty 1 to guarantee the independence of H-j 1 ginm. She is closely allied to Germany 1 by interests of religion and commerce, the family relationship of the reigning houses and a At the same time, during tli" last thirty years , there has grown tip between England ( and France, hereditary enemies in the ] jaßt, the closest relations of commerce ( and friendship. While there does not f exist between the Fr<-nch and English f the same naturiU and binding tie* that J we find lictween Englishmen and Gar- < mans, still in the movement of affairs in t • diplomatic interests they are even more ] strong! v allied. France is the only conn- f try in Europe upon which England can t depend to assist her in maintaining the t route to the Indies. France is the nat- , : ural ally of England in e very question ( which may lead to war, except, per- | haps, the indejiendence of Belgium, j Therefore any war between Germany , and France would necessarily involve • England. If England were to stand by ] and allow the destruction of Franco ( there could be no reason why Russia f would not march to Constantinople. , t A Coincidence. < Col. Anthony's wife was present in 1 the opera house when Embry shot him at Leavenworth. One of the most j noted of Anthonv's street altercations was his shooting 0/ R. C. Satterlee, a Lea venworth editor, some years ago. It is , a queer coincidence that the circum- J stances attending this affray with Matter lee were almost precisely the same as those attending his meeting with Embry, ! except that in the former instance Au- ! thony did the shooting while in the latter he received the fatal shot. Both occur- f renews took place iu a stairway, and in } each case the victim was unarmed. It is also worth noting that Judge Sherry, the I lawyer who defended and secured the ac- 1 : qnittal of Anthony in his trial for tho killing of Hattelce, has lieen retained to defend Embry in liis coming trial for the killing of Anthony. A Burglar's Trick. A family at Mishawaka, Ind., received 1 1 from some unknown source several com- 1 plimentary tickets to a circus which was 1 to exhibit on a recent evening. All the < inmates of the household went, and, f when they retnjned found that their 1 j dwelling had been broken into and rifled 1 ;of everything valuable. It is supposed ' that the burglars sent the tickets in I j order to get their victims safely out of J 1 the way. • < THE CENTRE REPORTER, Story of a Lightning-Hod IVddlcr. tlx drove his team close up t< the fence, got down still rnp|trd nt the dH>r. The widow tiilkeus opened it, when he said: " Mrs. liilkeus, l atu cognisant of the eircuuistwuoca l>y which you mo at present surrounded, left a* vou me to trudge ilowu the journey of lite through a cold uiil heartless wot hi no longer sustained tool encouraged by the uoole one ti whom you gave the treasure of your heart's affectum, utul bowed dowu ity the manifold OUM and rnqsmsibili tie* incidental to the rtsiruig of eight *iii&ll ehihlreu ou forty acre* of KUI> car boniferous limeitoiie land; yet, Mr*, (■liken*, you art* aware tliut the Maiaon in now approaching when dark, dismal, dangerous clouds at frequent intervals HJWUI the rtinopy of heaven; mid win u Klgsag streaks of ehx-trnuty dart pro miscuously hither and thitlu r, rendering this habitation unsafe for yourself and these dear little onee—bnioe, therefore, let me sell you a copper wire, silver tipped and highly magnetic lightning rod." 'Hie woman staggered Iviek a few puce* and yelled: " Nareis! unfasten old CiojrW" Jin another in*taut a lavage bull-dog iwme dartiug round the corner of the house with brtftUe* up, thirsting fur guru. The dog Inid alreudy mangled a machine agent and a putent soap man, and was held in great esteem by the letter dons of citizen* for his courage and *er vioe; but w hen hi* rvo m t the hard, penetrating gaae of Mr. Parsons, his ehop* fell, and ho aliuked otf ami hid in the currant bu*lie*. Thou the man said: " Mv ilear ludv, you *eein to be a little excited. Now if you will allow me la explain the probable inestimable *' — "Item ve, 1 know something that will start said Mr*, (lilkins, as hlie readied under some bed clothing, and brought forth a horse pistol, but, owing to the shattered condition of her nerves, her aim was unsteady, ami tlie charge of buckshot missed save where a few sit tering ones struck his cheek and glanced off. A hard metallic smile spread over his countenance, ns he leaned hi* shotil tier against the dx>r frame, ami again commenced: '* My dear madauiet, sueh ; spasmodic manifestations of your disin clination to make a judicious investment of a few paltry dollars"— " Hi—eo!" shrieked the widow, and i oollapeed into a kind of jerking swoou, and before she liad tMomtsl a highly magnetic lightning rod decorated her ! humble domicile, ami Parsons liatl th>> ! blank note filled out already for het -ig nature. VI it* of the (ira*h"!>per*. Senator Paddock, of Nebraska, think* that, in spite of the giaj-shopjjers, a much larger crop of small grain will be harvested in Nebraska this year tlum ever In-fore. The section* of the West that aro in "longer of devastation by gra**lii>pj>er- ate onlj tho* which arc on the frontier and which do not pro dura a very large percentage of the grain crop. Civilization seeius to be as fatal to the*"' j—l* a* to the In.iuui*. and. it lias been the almost universal eiiHirieucw ui the Wi-st that, after th- laud ho* been generally brought under cultivation, grus-di">pp-r* never come in sufficient minds rs t<> .|<> great ilatnage. The home of tb-> gra.sshopi's-r is ou the plains, nnd when by long prevailing westerly wind* a swarm of them ha* ls-t-n brought into the settled jsirtion* of the country, tliey have rarely js-m trwted the tlrat year be yond the third or fourth tier of counties from the frontier. In th<-se, which ore generally vi- itcd the first year in July and August, they have often dent roved nearly the whole crop; but, while they have caused great Ir raptibly miand the aggregat' of the crops i-f th<- entire country or affix-Usl th" nrira of grata. Th' graashop|r* which come fr> m the plain* the first year d<'|x"*>it tle-ir egg* wu the field* thev visit, and in the following spring thtva l are hatchinl out aViut the time the gr.cw anil winter grain* t-tart. Before their wing* ore sufficiently developed to enable them to fly, thev eat up every tender green thing which come* within their raacli. The com, spring wheat, and later garden vegetables are not likely to lie injured by tin-sound" V" l<>j>ed inaect*. Win it thev N-oome able to fly, they go away, ami may penetrate still further nib" the older settled country; but the life of the second generation is a f-hort oiu-, and they noon die, leaving no egg* to tx> luitclied out the next year. The sections of comitry which were most injured by grasshopjirrs last year w-re eitherthoso which wen- first visiUtl iu 1873, or were attack-d by ui* ets which wer- hatch.-d from -gg* il*|>o*itetl inthatyar; so that, jtnlging from the past experience of tho West, there is reason to look for less damage this year thnn was done last, ami while limited sr.-as may Is- devastated no general de struction need 1 anticipated. These ri-miirks do not, of course, apply to iso latad settlements like thoso in Colonulo, which may be vixited ev<-ry y"-ar. Cnlifurnia Nui-anre*. There are many nuisances encounter ed by the farm<>r in California which do something to countervail the suq>aaaiug loveliness of the climate. Of these, ant* are one. Frequently food can be pre served only by Ix-ing suspended in sacks, or placed hi cupboards with their h-gs stamling in water. The native ('nlifornians scrape all the grass out of their yards and tramp the ground down hard to keep the ants away. Choppers are sometimes driven from a tree by the amazing multitude and the stench of tliem. They collect great quantities of grass seel iuto their boles, leaving the chnff on the snrfaee, ami tin-so chaff heaps become quite a resource for stick in the winter. Tlie fleas have given rise to a fashionable folly known as the " California wriggle," which even young la.lies practice in the presence of their lovers. Iu the high mountain regions, strange to say, and nrnund the salty la goons of the bay, mosquitoes are so in tolerably bad that men often wear mos quito bars on their heads. On the jor tiou of the plains overflowed in tho wet seasons, gnats are so thick that inauv jxiople live for weeks in a smoke, with their hamls and faces lacerated by them selves to n bloody blotch. Jn the coa*t valleys and the interior basin, gronml squirrels swarm iu countless hordes, honey-oojnbing all the surface of the earth, ami devouring every green thing, unless the farmers innkc handed war on them with strychnine jsit, sliot gun, trap, sulphur smoke, water anil all other conceivable devices. Hummer brings n plague of impalpable dust winch pouo trates even into a watch; winter, a plague of fathomless mud and of mir ing down. A Savage Actor. Mrs. Gates th< actress, says of her husband tlint during tho quarrel he leap ed out of bed, dressed, aud ordered a porter to take awny his trunk. He then pulled out his watch. Let his wife finish : It wa* a valuable one, and had been given to hiin by my first husband before his death. He pulled it angrily out of his pocket, and, marching a few steps toward the bed (I was lying in bed), he took deliberate aim at my head, and hurlod it with all his force. The watch struck against the head of the bed and smashed into a thousand atoqy And after that he caned Alison, Mis. Ootea' treasurer. CENTRE II ALL, CENT UK CO., PA., THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1875. A Trait of !mU*u IJfi\ Au oJventurous writer Wis the fol lowing ettraor>buory Morv of an In.bun chief* patear, it was yet evident to all that a mighty and continued effort alone kept it tn r*t"raint. lie a)>pceudcil, a* if no one wn* willing to impose tlie last trial of their hearts upon the bereaved parents. At leugth the father gave a stem Oltler tluit the body hli. uld be dejHMuttsl in the grave ; a nciiniate which was rt liiclauUy otann<\-txl with the rank he occupied, he pr.>occded t-> remind tliem always oddn raung him*'lf hi Mr. D.~of the domestic affliction* he had endured, concluding with tie" recent death of hi* cKlest and moat IWIOWHI on, whose corpse was now la-fore u*. "Now," aiud the old chicl, "the striug of mv bow i* broken, tlie lost ho|>e ul my dvlining duy* tut* forsaken me. tvx-k m>t hi dissuade me from tlie resolution I have a>loph-J, for I have re solved upon following him, and all yoti can urge will l>e in vain ; life ha* no longer any charm for me. I wu once a hunter, hut am now no longer so. 1 was ooee the proud father of two noble sou*; hut, aloe! where are they f 1 LI a warrior, but am no longer so. Where fore shall I continue t*> rttmber this earth with my u*elea* presence 1" The silence that now prevailed wo* *o deep tliat not even a breath ww audible. The old uuut folded hi* blanket around him, cast one farawell look on the fair 1 field* aud the broad rolling river in tie- i vicinity ; and tle n, to the surprise ul all present, descended eompiMkxUy into the pit, and lnid himself UJH>U the corpse of hi* drjartni *u. " Tlirow in tlie earth, fill up the grave, v-r up niy last earthly rt-siih-nra," he . exciainusl. " Nav, do Uot h"— itnte, fir I am resolved to iiic." Scream* of agony arose from the of dieted wife am! daughters; vt-liem ut < xjawtulatioiis wren- n*">rt-,l to by all :iroun J ; but the old chief remained firm. Not the tenderest eutraotit s of tin*-- who w-re dsarest to huu among the liv ing—not Ue eag-r raprenetitatious of his fri-uil, lou-ked by the u-ually influen tial voira if Mr. D., could fur an instant j sliake tho resolve of the self devoted ; victim. "1 will die!" said tlie uld man; "seek no longer to prevent it ; 1 repeat it, I ! will die 1" When it was found that all expostnla (ions and entreaties w-re in vain, the ' friends held a cinuioroti* council among ! themselves, which r-*ultvl m a division tv olvoy the will of the chief. When he i -aw lit* wish would lie coinpliei! with, ! he again si>oke and gore dir<>ctions for the disposal ">f bis i'r>>|M-rty ; his horses w-ra to bo dividd among hi* relation*, ten of tlie fiii' .-A being firat given t<> Mr. D., who was looked upon liy the Indians as nn mloptod father. Mtvuiwlnle 1 hod | iulvan.r i* the mention that '' our friend Sliaw has set out two shade trees in front of the house lie cheated his mother out of." It'* well enough to Im> posted iu or thography. When an editor receive* a letter saying: "Hnr-Btoi>p mi ]>ap{>er, kus* yew !" he doesn't feel half as badly as if th<- wrih r ho-1 put hi* words iti straight English. An old citizen of Vermont observes that when a post-office clerk gets too high-nosed to nek n stamp on to a letter, it i* time tliat tho omuitry lual n change of administration. A man digging a well in New Jersey came across a hoop Rkirt eighteen feet beneath the surface of the ground, and it ilew up and struck him across the nose just as natiirnlly as if he had come across it in an alley. A Michigan 1 --rarr remarked the other day that he had got to Hannibal Hamlin hi* barn. Ho meant that ho had got to raise it. Tin* Toledo Illatfr also uses tho ex proiction "on to-morrow," but there is io law to prevent an American news paper from being printed entirely in "Spanish if the editor so electa. Dr. Kroppcr *ays that we Hhal! have a cool summer iu Amerioo, but such pre dictions are looked upon as humhtig gery by a man who lias his ice contract made. An lown congregation dismissed it* preacher bccanse ho signe-1 his name to a hair-dye testimonial. It was the last hair that broke tho camel's back, and n w lute one at that. Yon oonldn't get one man ont of ten to carry a bath brick along the street unless it were wrapped up in a pnjww, bnt yon may have observed tluit the man who pays six shillings for a box of strawberries takes tln-m on his hand and walks along as proudly as the King of Borneo. When a hon*eholdcr, struggling to fp*t a panel bedstead down stair*, loses ■is grip on the railing aui>en the sitting-room door nnd mildly inquire : " Richard, didn't I hear something fall I" National Debts. The London Time*, in an editorial, presents the contrast lietwcen English aud American efforts to reduce tho national debt. "Wo cannot but feel with regret," Hays the Timrn, " that the United Htat-oe in this respect show* more th - high spirit of a nation conscious of a great destiny ami anxious above all things that no shortcomings of the present generation shall interfere with the teachings their children have received." AN INTFKISTINU \IEIV. Tfce |{lrr MIMfMi at Ibr I iillid hlmlra Mtvwu b IS* -New *1 !•- Annum the most interestmg of the se rte* of smtiHtical map* published by the United Htah-s government is one show ing tlie river systems of the country, and giving the mora im|>ortit!it facts ocm.-eni ing tlie country drained by each of the system*, a* disclosed by the ceiisua of 1870. This map is so arranged that a Mingle glance sliows tlie area occtipi*d bv each liver or group of rivers, while a closer examination reveals the euuu-t ex tent of this area in scjiuoe mih-s, the population, the annual rain fall, and the volume of tlie principal products, to getlier with the amount of steum and water jniwer in actual use in each region. Nothing could mora vividly impress upon the imud the extent, variety, and possible development oi the resources of the United States than a careful study of this map, while even a cursory attention to it* principal features cannot bat lot in teresting. . A* it lie* before the student, it Old m-nt* three great divisions, the valleys on the eastern slope of lh" Alleglianies, running toward the Atlantic; the valleys on tlie wc*t of the ltocky mountains, whose waters find their way to tlie IV cific; and la twia-u these the marvelous sern-s of valley* drained by tlie Mi* mnsippi, embracing three-fourth* of tlie orau uf tlie Union, and yielding every varn ty of |>roiluct known to the coun trv. Th> flrat regiim to which we liave at ltlded he* on the "a*tcru slopie of the Alb-phonic*, and i* dividtxl uaturallv by the hue of the Potomac. North of this dividing line lie* the {Millionof the coun try principally occupied bv what ore most familiar to ifii meter die name of the Eastern and the Middle Stun-*. It* chief rivers are the Connecticut, tlie Hudson, tlie Delaware, mid the Susque hanna. Hera we have the industrial life of tlie country in it* most concentrated form. The area -if the region i* but 135,417 square mile*. Its population is nearly ten million (9,ffK3,412i. The rtv.-rage rain fall fforty-one inchesi and its climate are favorable to ngrtcuitura, and we find tliat it raiso* rather mora thou twenty milium |s>uuds of tobacco, over twt nty one million bush-1* of wiitwt, ami tifty four million bushel* of com. But the x-cret of its prosperity is tlie faid that its stcam-jKiwer and' it* water-power, in actual use, amount to al most a million horse power. Use exact figures laing 986,000. When we re member that Boston, Nw York, I'hUa • lelphia, ami Baltimore are ou the ouast line of till* region, and that tie uouu tuiu laurier which Lnind* it on the w<-*t i* crowed by tin three great trunk lines of railway and by the Erie canal, we *ec how commerce join* with manufacture* to unite in this comer of the continent the portion of it* population at present the moet wealthy and productive. South of tl"- I'otomac lie* tho re mainder of tho first great division. It* area i* slightly gn-at< r than tliat of the northern section, l* ing 1n'.),121 *ju.ir>- miles. Tlie rain-fall is the *am<-. It produces about four fifths as much wheat I 1W,61H,(W0 bushels), ami a little more Com 155,.'522,0tA1 hu*li<-l*>, while itsother agricultural product* ore far in exooaa. Of tobarao, it raiecs C3.62H,0tR) pounds; • ri.*-, si,2oH,sa) j"uriil*; of cutUiu, 575,rtsi bale*. But its steam and water purer are only 144.01X1 horse power. The population is Ins* than half (4,224,041). It i* unnecessary to comment on the cause* winch hv.- r. lat d. -l the jwogrett* of this s-ction. Tlie j-riiue on* among tliem i* happily removed, and with tin jxcwngi- of time, the splendnl natural advantages, which are not inferior to those existing north of the Potomac, must moke Uiis region tin- home of a population as energetic ami prosperous AM ft "is - in the land. The second great division of the Union t which we have invited attention lie* west of the ltockv mountains. It* re source* are jiortly undevcloped, but ore mostly of a kindiiot included in the *t tistic* given on tlie map of tho river system. That thev arc very gnwt, and rapidly and steadily advancing, is well known. Between tlnwe divisions lire the region drained by tin- Mississippi and its tribn torn-*. It is the great valley html of the country. Stretching from the British IMteseasi" >us ou the north to tho gulf ou the south, it is so lutuabsl that a sinking of the continent one thousand feet would join the lakes to tho ocean and divide tho Continent into two enormous inland*. Over the vast plain {Kipulntiou has spread, in uneven lines and at varying rates, luitil more than ixte<-n millions of soul* liavo found their h, which art ami energy have conquered, freni the busv and crowded aea-lnmrU, its eaeb-rn half show* slrcftily a -team and water power in use equal to seventy jx-r cent, of those iu the Eastern and Middle States. It produces a million ami a quarter bales of cotton, one hundred and eighty-three million bushels of wheat, and five hundred ami sixty million bush els of corn. Its tobacco crap reaches 27T>, n sidering also the rapid strides that have Is-en made by manufacturers, a* shown by the nmount of steam and wnter jtower in n*">, there is practically no limit to be placed on the future progress of the Vallev. In this rapid glauee at the more prominent fact* presented by the statis tical map, wc have omitted several minor divisions, which are, nevsrtheleos, of great value. We hope that tlewo mnps may ultimately be printed in sufficient niunlvTs to he placed In every consid erable edncntional estnblislimenl in tin country. They are invaluable as instru ment* for conveying vivid, accurate and permanent general impressions >f the important features of the continent— physical, industrial, social nml political. Tlie one which we have commented on is not more interesting or useful than the remainder of the series. The Codfl-h. The codfish is a noble animal. He is served to yon on ('ape (sod, says a cor respoodent, fresh from his native lair, ami fried in conqmuv of a thin slice of fat salt pork; uml this is the orthodox way of preparing it. A mackerel may l>e boiled or broiled, he may be pickled or smoked; but a ootlfish should IM* first caught, then disemboweled and washed, then gently salted for the space of half a dozen hours, and then, the brine (>eing washed away, fried over a brisk fire with salt {Mirk. If this process ha* l>een per formed by a skilled hand (by a nine year-old Cane boy, for instance), your lish will lat firm, flaky, crisp, juicy, ten der—in short, delicious—and you will send your plate hack for a second jKir tion. N. B.—A codfish which has been tnuuqiortcd to New York in a fishing sinuck, and kept for a week in a fish car at tho end of a sower in the North or East river, ia a different animal. Fat pork will not Have him. I ■■ ■ - ■ Novelties In Fashion. Whit* tiruo roil* are among Iho latest importation*. Then are of a aoft creamy whit* silk tissue, not *•> thin a* gr iiailtno, ami aro ilviwu bulb plain nml ntrijx-4 in narrow Imvu-hre linoo. They tv.nl from 91.60 to 92.50. For Bummer morning dress in tho country there aro neckties of tiootoh gingham, LI tie-Loth light ami dark - gray, pink, or Lrowu, witli whit* em broidery in llw curucra: price 92.25. White muslin neckties am embroidered with Turkey ml, blue, tank, or black, and coat 9ft. Other whit* muni in U>* have Liu* or ft ray hocna attached to tike pointed oinU by hamulitcliuig, and these colored hetua or® embroidered with white. More drawy white neckties are of i creiie lisne or of organdy, with the cud* tucked ami trimmed with squares of anlujue lao*. or of point dttehiwan in leaf, crescent, flower siuqic, or elae there i* ui ova] medallion or a block of line Valencietiiie* act in, These coat fn>ra 82 upward ; $3 will bay a prettv tie with anti<]ue guipure eoruera. China crap* tlea lire delicate ahadtw of lavender, Mae, or blue, with whit* *ilk embroidery representing lac* for trimming. The o)wn Kngiiali needlewurk is done in white Silk on colored tie* tliat oust $2.50 or $4. The moat stylish black neckties are of China crape, cdgml witii fine and wi.lo ecru guipure We. The ecru list bite neckties give a fashionable sir to the simplest black toilette*. Thoec wrought tn Often English design* ou each ntd out 92. <'he riot seta of lingerie are offered for traveling. These are made of the qua hit strijKxi or phud Cheviot* and (izford linen* uot in rogue, and ore usually an Kngiiali collar, uccktie, and ruffs. Price $1.25. There are alao iwinilar ait* of brown undressed linen, bordered with Wnd* of pink or blue Cambric liueu stitched, erviceal>l and appropri ate for long iottnw-v*. Byron collar* of linen, with a sheer lawn necktie to mateli, are trimmed with iiaif inch btart band* laid on a* a hem or lair.ter, and a spray of embroidery of tli same color in th< *wnere. To be worn with the** are daring cuff* simi larly ormuucnUxL The** cuff* ar* not attached to a regular long under-alaeve, hut they lutve a shape piece three or four inches deep to fit on the arm iu*t a* the collarette stl.vhcd to English collar* doe* on the neck; this i* cooler and has clumsy. The set of collar, tie and under-sleeve cost* 94. New linen lawn handkerchiefs lutTe the liejii* scalloped and wrought with Turkey red, navy blue, or aky blue to norreapwml with tlie m-ektiui with which they are worn. Other* bar* the entire beta of a color wrought with white ; or ♦*l*e there are leaves or square** done in scarlet wool, and eomctim.-s in bine and ro*e together. !'n<* from $2.50 to 94- Kbu'Veies* jacket* are made of loug puffs of organdy muaiiu, slujx-d in to follow tin* outline* of the figure, and w|ntd by roa.x of Valenciennes inner laou. oUi< rs have a baud of black velvet U-tween the puffs, and are edged with Mechlin lace. An Editor's Courage. A Kentucky editor wan walking one .lay recently upon the street, enjoying the balmy spring atmosphere, ami wun dcriug win tin r ui the year to come hi* imper would be established on a jwring Uasi*. wbu lit* tiecame * www of a sudden giggling and tittering immediately be hiu.l him. 11* turned and M the source of all the merriment. Two well dressed Wiics, prominent in the town, were in the rear, and laughing heartily. Much to tin* |ioor editor'* surprise their atten tion **emod e*j**cial!y directed to some peculiarity about his own exterior. Then lie difineu, with * tlirill of mortificntion, the cause of their merriment. Much twisting and writhing while grinding out mental production*, seated in a hard bottomed liisir, hat told upon the frail texture of his pantaloon* and the cloth lir.d finally yielded. The editor'* wife, gooil, thrifty woman, lual repaired tlie damage tut Wat alt* could, but, t**rha|<* liecaiiKe new cloth matches hodly with ' the old, the evidences of her Itandiwork were all too plainly visible ! Hence the cruel laughter of the ladies walking be hind the country editor. The poor man fl si to his office in shame. Then hi* manhood asserted itself, ami lie sat down UfM>n tunt faitelt and wrote something for the paper. Ilia next ianne contained this paragraph: "As we walked past a couple of lodira on the stre<-t the other tay, one of them, so we am informed, observe,! a large siz'xl patch on our pants, and made mer ry over the discovery. Well, we do wear old cloth""*, it i* true, but we might af ford to treat ourselves to better ones if the husband of the woman we refer to would oomn to the office and juiy us eighteen dollars which he has lecn owing for n long time for subscription and job work." " Doubt l<*s," said a logical old Eng- Lish clergymen, "tbsl might liave made * better js-ny than tho atniwlvrry, but, doulAles*. tits I never did !" Doubtleea some editor might make a point uiore neatly, but, doubtless, uoue ever did. If this little bill of eighteen dollars was not*settled up within a week after the appearance of hi* paper, then is there no virtue in pungency. And the occur rence was a literal and a recent one. A Huge Nugget of Copper. There came to St. Lcmifl from the Lake Superior regions, say* the /it publi (MM, one of the largest Rj>eoimen* of na tive ,sipja>r ever transported n long di* tauce. The mass is heart shaped, and weiglis 6,000 pounds, almost double the weight of the famous liowlder which was transported many years ago from the same region to the Smitltsouian Insti tnte at n cost to the government of 95.840. The specimen brought hen* exhibits the jmm copper to the eye, and contains ninety-eight per rent, of the metal. It may be seen lying on skids at the sonlli e.ist corner of tho LindeU Hotel, when* it has IHH'I* examined by crowds of JK*O plc. Tin* specimen was taken out from an ancient digging sixteen and n half feet below the surface by a Mr. Davis, who ha* spent twenty-five years in cop per mining. Tlie mass, wlieu found, had evidently been detached from its Iwxl by the ancient miners, A numlver of pieces of copjer besides the mass were found, weighing from an ounoe to MVcuteou |round*, vviiich were evidently clippings Lj the old miners. Stone hummers weighing from ten to thirty pound* have been found in cartloads, several specimen* of whieJi mentioned have bs*u brought to this city. These were the primitive tools with which these ancient minors had to do their work. These tools an* found cither perfect or broken from use, nnd tho fragments ore found -.al. ail through the olonged to ' the ancient mound builders and worked in metals long anterior to the Indian races, as evidences of their occupancy were seen by the early Jesuit explorers, and tho specimens which they clipped from the copper rock* are found scatter- . ed over the whole continent. Tunas : $2.00 a Year, in Advance. A (TltlOl S I'AIII OF JAWtf. Ill" Nail* ml Torfca ar* via Or II apt* tVorlt. Don't you think it must be a rnrion* pair of jaws that con bits off a chunk iff oold iron a* easily as you can bite a stick of candy. You out hardly believe it I Wad till 1 tail you. One of the moat niteaesting places I 1 ever visited w a room filled with tlieae m> •listers with the sharp ataed jawa, called nail umriiiuea. In the find place the noise made by several of these u chin<*■ in one room is something abso lutely fearful. I wanted to stuff my I cars with cotton, but I thought that , would not be very civil to ray guide, and after a little while I got used to it, and f soon found myself au much interested i j that 1 really forgot the noise. Some I machines nip off tlie tack* so fast tlut a , stream of finished tack* runs down a tin tube into a reservoir—thoqaauda in a . minute. 1 jntcii to the ticking of the I clock, and reflect that at tlie least twenty 1j Ue krt are snapped off. But 1 must trll , you how they do it First tlie iron liar, a* it cornea from , • tlie iron work*, i* put between immense - rollers, which flatten it ont as ninety as i a cook can toll a ]e oru*t with a roll } ingpLu. 'The bar of irai is thus made i into a sheet, juet thick ffnough for the | nail* they w ant to moke. It gum next i to tlie slitting machine, which makes no , more fuss about slitting it into projxw ; widths for nods than your awsoom make i about cutting ||**r. Bis cut a little longer than the nail is to be, because r the heatl* are to Is* made- When the t strips of iron are all ready, a man takes I one and slips the cud inio the steal jsw i I told you of. Theas joiw* are worked by tani power, and instantly they bite r off a nail, while a furious little hammer I spring* out suddenly, and, with one . blow on the end of tlie lat of iron, fist ten* it and thus mokes a hood. If yon wont to know what a bhfw it must be, r take a piece of iron and try to pound a i head ou it yourself. The hot ant the - hood is made, the jaws open and the ' nail drops ont, flnisbcl. Of course it . is dons much quicker than I have been telling you. for a machine can make i; brad* (which 1 needn't tell tlie boya are or toll noil* without head*) at the rate - of 3,000 a minute. It it nai I that " fig nres won't lie," nnd I hepe thev won't, i but I must admit that it is harJ to be • j licve that story. After tho tack* cutno out of the tna chine tlicv arc "blued," as it U tailed. . It i* done* by heating them in an oven on *n iron plate. Then they go to the packing-room, where one girl can weigh and put into impera 24)00 jwis-r* of tacks a day. That'a another tough story, but my guide assured mo it wo* true. How many kind* of nails can yon name f You will probab|y be cnn>rwed to hear that two hundred Winds iff nail* *• made in one factory. lieginning with spikes which weigh nearly a ponudeach, and ending with the lining kind of tack*, not a quarter of on ineh long. They didn't always have moriiinea to make nails for them, and, of course, they bad to make them by hand. That was no easy matter, and, in fact, they couldn't male tltem of oold iron, but had to heat every one. In some part* of England th* v are very slow to get machinery, ami the ign listeners, a , new comer in California, one who ltad , • not yet been ininwulated with the at tuoaphere, "my frieud," said he, "if | the trunk* of the trees are so close to- ; getlier, how do these elks get through , tho wooda witli their wide brauehing ). homsl" The Califaruum turns I en the que*- | tioner witli a look of thoroitgh ooutompt, , ■ and raplic nhook another one," Jn*t then the woman who lives in the other 1 part of the house appeared with the query: "Doctor, what in the world ; have you been doing with my carpetf" , It was a true as tliat Job had boils, that he had been shaking his neighbor'* cur- Pk A boy in Willismstown, Mass., became a miui in this way: While hoeing com i one afternoon, he turned to his father, ! who WHS working with him, nnd said : I "AVhat time is it, father f" " Half past i two," replied the senior farmer. Throw ing down his hoe, tho son graduated ! i Srom his farmer life with this remark : i "Twenty-one year*ago, father, at half i j past two in tho afternoon, I was born J j I you con do your own hoeing after this!" I j NO. 24. The Home of the foreigner. Hon. W. I>. KeUey, in an address b®- f ure I lie A merman Milk Association, sfxike un tie toast of " naturalized for signer*." fie hmil. To sjieak of onr country i* to discuss a tfienn- of winch no mint need tire, and in lUsaussing which ho would bo a dullard who would <-ury an uudu-uof, fur it ia a theme of uifituUi fertility and vsriM*. The t .ant you hare drunk says: " nbe naturalizes the foreigner and Ida wis alike." Too, 1 we do, k-t hi* hirthpuat bo in what eountry or in what duno it may. And what m mure, we do ltd only legally uatunduws him; we do not * imply impart to him by force of law the eii-rriae of certain right*, luit if ho be turtauaAe or P> mxtent in cooking the place wo put un in In* own native tome and 141011 i hi* native mod. The condition* of what land are not embraced in our country t I am quite aura that the Airmail flrnl* a comfortable home in our BouUimi Hiatus, and I begin to think—aa my friend Mam Cos my* -be ia my doamwt brother. And, turning from bim to the Mwcde and Norwegian, I nan give them their birthplace over again in the regions of Minm-sote and I>koU, upon lakea and upon mountain rides, such a* they lived ui in tkr childhood and •ported upon in their youth. Being the Hnnliau from hi* rugiii of frmla and drop lum gently from a tfeiluou in South ern California, and lie wfil xwrmr that be ia witidn iw.vrty milea of hi* native home. So wander over tin* brand and UwuUfal Motuitfj <4 oifu Canry with Sou vour knowledge of geography end I lie habit* of men and the industrial purcuiUfbt which they are engaged, and ! an will find what wein* to be the native lomeof each and aIL Hare the Eng lishman, who feel* thirty, if it doean't rain twice a day, tan find his own oon genial clime in Oregon apd Washington. In the courae of hi* remark* Mr. Kelley aaid: Let n* make riatomasiwihip a matter of practical application. The experience of thi* country of our* is a thing of dome value. There have been human experience and national experi enoe, and let u* study them and dadoes from them our rule* of artiou, and let a* •gam invito, a* we did during a late year, 3M.UU), tOd.UbO, *SO, (t foreigner* to coma and dwell in our midst, to culti vate our farm*, to develop our resource*, to improve our art*, to give |mdt to capital invested in our railroads, to stimulate oar ccanmeroe and keep the whole fleet of steamer* many back. Thus the receipt* aresavo.L We want the tide to con*- this way and stay thi* way; and let u* by these prac tical means make our country what your toast propose* —"The land that shall naturalize the foreigner and his arts alike." Struck by Lightning. Mr. D. Pigeon gives, in Xahtrr, the , following interesting account of the effect of lightning upon himself and members •>f his family, daring a recent thunder *fcorw, in which the bouse he was in was struck: I must now attempt to describe the effects on ourselves and the imputations on our sense*. Of the three, my wife only was "struck," and fell to the ground," my son and myself remaining erect, and all three retaining .xtmicioutuww. For more than half an * liotir my wife lost the use of her lower limbs and left bauds, both of which be- { came rigid. From the feet to the knees the was splashed with rose-colored tree like marks, branching B{fwards, while a large tree like mark, with sit principal hmncboa diverging from a common oen- . ter, thirteen inches in it* largest diame ter, and bright rose red, covered the ' body. None of ns are certain of having 10*11 the flash, and B wife is surw she saw nothing. Aa to the noise, my wife heard a " bellowing" sound and a "equito," recalling fireworks; my son also heard a " bellow," while I seemed conscious of a sharp explosion. My wife describes Iwer feeling ns that ®f " dying away gently into darkness," and 1 lieiag roused by a tremendous blow un the body, where the chief mark was af terword* found. My son and myself were conation* of a sudden and terrific i general disturbance, and he affirms that lie received a severe and distinctly elec trical shock in both leg*. My left arm, shoulder, and throat especially sufiwvd violent distort *mee, but 1 did not think it was electrical. A# I turned to lido my wife, who wna on the ground. 1 shouted. as I thought, that 1 was un hurt, and hoped tlieyr were also, but it seems I only uttered inarticulate sounds, and my son, in his first attempt to an swer, .lid the same. This, however, was only momentary; in an instant we both sjxi© plainly. Neither of us referred the occurrence immediately to it* trne cause, but the idea of being flnxl at was present to all onr minds, my wife indeed remained of opinion that she was shot through the body until she heard me speak of light ning. An infinitesimal kpee of time en abled my son and myself to recognise lightning; bnt 1 cannot say whether I did so before or after my first glimpse 0/ , the wreck on the grooud. N either of ns beard or aaw the mast fail, though it descended fifty feet, and fell on hard gravel close to us. My son and myself both experienced a momentary feeliug of intense anger against some "person or person* unknown," further shown t> that we preliminarily referred the shock to some x>nsciows agency. I ought per haps to add that neither of us felt any sensation of fear at the time ; bnt we were all nervous for several days after. I have endeavored to keep to fact I throughout, lmt I venture to add a re mark made by my wife as we raised her , from the ground: "I feel quite sure that death from lightning must be abso lutely painless and I offer it as an un conscious corroboration of views on this subject which our experience seems to strengthen. More Business, N'ot More 4, ll®iiey. w The New York Sun scouts the notion that the country wants more paper! money, and while looking hopefully for a revival of prosperity, thinks any addi tion of our paper currency would only retard instead of advancing it. There is in the country a great dal more money than is required for all the present ope , rations of manufacture, agriculture and trade. It lies idle in every large town, ; waiting to bo used. Give as securities that are known to be good, and we can borrow a hundred millions in Wall street in half an hour at three per cent interest. What we really need is more business, more demand for goods, and more consumption, more enterprise, more confidence, more life. The addi- h tion of a thousand millions of paper money to our present stock would not produce any of these ; but what will produce them in due time is that spirit of rigorous economy and prudent living 1 which now pervades the millions of onr agricultural population, and is felt among every other class of the people. ' We arc saving what we earn, and paying our debt*. The oonntry is getting hi to a sounder condition every day ; and the manufacture of whole stacks of irredeem able paper tokens would only delay and not hasten this process of restoration. Hem* of Interest. •o-sOfc The Kansas grasshopper® are okswl wiAtite nt:aliiv of this rprins a carH :.bbg, , The OneMa community have stoektH I < '! -utiiiitv take in Walungford, C'ontiM with 30,000 salmon trout. A sUjw mail en® run in debt; bnfl naturally enough, the feat is uf toner sgoW New Grenada. Traveler (to landlord)—" Show me ■ room with a good fin in it, for 1 * S vtwy wet; ami send me tankard of for I'm very dry." A Texas woman has learned to u*c lltH iasso a® deftly tlmt the can stand m tbM door and haul Uw hat off the lu-htrfinM rod peddler while he is unfasb-niiif t ■ A bey iss blessing until Ite puts ofl "|ant*." From the period of thef: ■ rent in hi* trowssra dates a feeling ifl the maternal breast that ia not whollM affectionate. The ltoehester Ikmocrai sajs thi>H Mile. Flasb r, a young French actress, iB coming over next season. We all the young bloods will be inclined t court Plaster. At a spelling match in Candia, N. H H a few evening* ago, Deacon Ezekn ■ Lane, eighty three years edd, apellefl down all the young folks and took tbfl firffi prize. A Mwade died at Han Rafael. OaL, few day* ago, who had lived there b 'fl eleven years, and no one knew his nuurfl hi* tongue being paralyzed, aud he nuß able to write. . S*t Haroiihiff' girls always read itH j "weather yimiwinatim" first, to w*H , bow the weather will bo the I fewmday night, Mod tfcen carry in wo-M , anourdtngly. I A oocpßWiondt of tho New YorkH • Tribute think* that if we do not Ixgitiß aoon to treat the Indians mow justly ■ • Almighty Ood wd! amito us sritb aomt ■ I thing woraa thin ioeaata. • Two Philadrlphians had a fight wfl 1 the qmwfane mto bow old Adam *m thing Lurumg, lilw powder;" the other ■ i j answering, with an ironical smile: "Only I ! newTfjapur." Find cousins were married in Ottawa M '' eor.r.lv. Kansas. When the relationship I ws* discovered, the judge and minist* r ■ waited on the parte*, read the law to ■ ■ than,- and informed them that they I I I moat eomriJsr themaeivva unmarried. ! A Kansas scientist is saving, for the I i benefit of future gcsMrafaoua, four mule I •boas, from which the former proprietor I [ j waa eaten clean by the grasshoppers last I season. The hoppers must have been I sick, or they wouldn't have left the I : shoes. 1 ] The people erf Shelby county, Ky., be- I ; lieve that John Cotton has been stricken I dumb for blasphemy. He cursed Uod I i because s frost bad ruined his oops, sod I on the same day was attacked by pamly ' sis, which bereft him of the power of I speech. The figures published, obtained from I the archives of the captain general's I offioe, fbow what a charm* I house Spain I baa made of Ouba. More then 99,000 I troops have been sent there in six years I and the greater part of these are in their I graves. When a young lady goes to an enter tainmcnt, and sees a lady friend acoom pamed by a gentleman whom *le does I not know, she doesn't enjoy the per- H formsnoc worth a cent, as the whole 1 evening is occupied in wondering who I the stranger is. The number of suicides in the German j army amounted in 1874 to 193, which rive* the proportion per 1,000 men of j 0.54 annually. The proportion is, in the |fifl Austrian army, 0.85; in the French army, 0.51; in the Belgian army, 0.45 ; and in the English army, 0.38. In Nevada uapkin are not used at table, but when they have eggs for din ner the mother remarks : "Now, Bill, von an' the rem t just stick to year sleeves, i and let the edge of the tablecloth alone, like yet belonged to decent society, or I'll baste the pelt off your back*." "Oeuttaaeu," cried a conductor ou the Savannah and Montgomery railroad. " please not squirt your nm-ocr in thia kr fftur. It is a dirty practice. If you want to equiri go into toe forward kc-yar • and you kin squirt sa much as you please"—whereupon the squirters with drew. An Englishman at Pussy, in France, wished to experience the sensations of banging, but seems to have gone a little too far, and did noireoover. Apropos of this experiment, a man in Paris sen tenced to the guillotine, shortly offers bis place to any person liaying a curi vieify to experience the feelings of de capitation. A carious case of kidnapping came no for trial in the Washington police court. One Brooks is charged with tying a boy of nineteen, in 1873, taking him to a schooner in Baltimore, and selling him to the He did not have an op portunity to return home till a few days . since. The case was sent up for the ac tion of the grand jury. The Prince of Wales in his tour in India will be dressed like an Eastern potentate, in a' tug turban and baggy trowsers, and his equipage will be asmag nifioent asit can be made. The intention, of course, is to dazzle the natives with a spectacular exhibition of their future ruler. The eost of this royal show will fcte about a million dollars. The savings banks of California owe bers —and* I have only cash ou hand with which to paj them. Should I the depositors make a sfmultaneons de mand for the money doe them, the banks would lack $117,9901900 ofienongh to pay their creditors, awl there is not that amount of money in the S^ate. The next contest for the United States Presidency begins already to throw itself into shape- Von never meet a stranger 1 now that he doesn't ask yon the first , thing : " Well, air, who is going to bo our next candidate fgr the Presidency t" We, of course, know who that candidate ' is going to l>e, but we would see such questioners hanged a don&i times before we would mention his name so for in ad vance. The cows of A'derney, according to a recent visitor to that island, are milked three times a day, and the milk is churn ed without skimming. They are fed ou ! grass and vrsie, the latter being seaweed, and are kept much of the time in the shade. A pound of butter a day is not an uncommon yield for* a good cow. The breed la defended against admix , ture by stringent laws, ami no cattle are allowed to betaken into the island except to be slaughtered. There is a boy in St. Louis who writes to a sergeant of police: Dear Captain: I am sorry to tau you fhat I broke a pane of glass in lamp-poet on Twenty third street, between Gap- and Wash streets, on Sunday, April, 25. I brok it with a ball, and the gkm&m&a ran after me, but he could net tftfch me. Ho I hope that this twsnty-ftvs oento will pay for th* glass, and that yob will forgive me, and I promise that I won't play ball on the street any more.