The Heavenly Country. No clouded ski**. no long, dm V night. No feen or psin. o; vr H i i.ig blight. No death. no notr w there o*ll come; No wanderers there, H re at home; No richne-* there, no fevered brow- No toed of care. the form to txw : No slave re a.th it* gelhug <+ o. No an vino* torttirihg of the brain. No silver idols, to god* of gold. No honor that'* there bought and e<vid; No whispered envy with tongue* of ttaroe. No slander to bring the Mush of *hme, No thieve* Of robbers with stealthy tread. No niurdererr- there, to luiilhplj the dead His gtorioue voice ahall rule the wide domain, And Eden fair, in beauty bloom again. Of Age. Thev tell me I'm a man to-day They say I'm twenty-oaie s That twenty years ago last May. My mother had a mm . They tell me that tuy boyhood * days Have mingled with the past. They speak of "hauteur," " manly wave," Of "dignity " and "easts;* They paint m rarest hues serene An " honored age." and aucli - And load old profligacy in. AsMsted by a crutch. Then farewell. vouth. Thou dear old friend, I'm toll to takes thee here ; ltut let ns in the wmegl*** blend The joy, the hope, the fear. The vision* we alone have kuowu. Our chatefciix-eu-ljipegne. With wisdom's dignity and frown, tSemeniber I'm a man; Remember I must bid adieu To shallow joys and dream* j But most I dread to part with von. • A man '—how strange it seer.:*. But Milk metluuk*. there's some mi- tale ' 1 met a friend just then, Who greeted me with hearty shake, And said, -old boy T And when I asked him it he saw no change. He smiled and asked. "Of shirt I told bun 1 bad come of age . He asked rue if tl hurt. 1 dropped hi* hand aud turued away. And to myself 1 mused •• Shall I assume a role to-day To which 1 am unused 7" No 1 Pome along ' Old time has Ued. And cheated me and you ; Well battle with hfe's changing tide, And coll her pleasures, too. We il laugh okl dignity to sooru. And slap his rigid face. In one to pluck life's pleasures bom. There's little stately grace. And so, vain pomp and juude. away. And some one else allure ; They tell me I'M a man to-day. rrh*i—l a not sure. THE SAFE KEY. In tlie city of Now York there are uiany very large and elegant buildings, whoa* first and second floor# are uaed for offices of insnranoe, banking and other companies. In most instances these offi ces are fitted up in elegant and expensive style. Here clerks work until late in the afternoon, and the rooms are then left in charge of janitors, who come to put the desks and furniture to rights, and dust and sweep, and get everyuiiug ready for another day. In some cases the janitors and their families occupy upper rooms iu these buildings, and 1 live very tvmforhibiv. high up in the air above tlie world. The janitor of the East India Buildings lived iu this way. Besides his wife and two girls, he had one sou, who used to help him in his work. This boy's name was Zacharv, or " Zack," as he was commonly called. At the time we introduce him to the reader, there was nothing jwcnliar atiout Zack, unless perhaps it was his intense love of reading, and, I am sorry to say, his utter carelessness of his personal appearance. Beading books did not make him a g->od Bweej* r or duster, and his father often scolded him sh*rpiy for what he called his shiftlessneea. Zack, however, liad one friend who sympathized with him, not only in his love of muling, but in his boyish dis appointments and difficulties. This friend was a middle-aged bookkeeper, named Farley, a thin, {ale, weak-voiced man, who worked faithfully for his em ployer!*, often staying in the office as lab- as midnight, to make out his ac counts and to finish balancing his 1 looks. Farley delighted iu getting Zack to talk of American history, for tic boy loves! to read about his owucountry, and remembered a great firttf of wh.it he read. Farley had never given much time to sr.eh reading. It was pleasant to See the g-.mnt l*<okk©-p"*- skiing upon his stool at night, eagerly listening, while the shock headed Zack, uiwn an other stool, with a silk dusting-cloth if one hand, stub a feather whisk in the other, related stories of the fights of the Spaniards with the Indians ui Florida, or described the grand ceremonies that attended the journey of Washington through the country after the close of the Revolutionary war. Zack via fnil of interesting facts relating to the great men of old tunes, and Par by often wou dered how it was that so little a fellow came to know so much. In return for these entertain UK-tils, Farley taught Zack many of the email mysteries of account-keeping, showed him how to take care of books, aud various office duties. Zack looked with wonder on the huge ledgers aiul journals, and at the mighty safe, set like a great cup board in the walls, large enough for a ' man to walk inside and stand erect. He grew to have a sort of affection for the broad white pages of Farley's folios, with their beautiful writing and figures. At odd lionrs he learned to do a great deal in the way of adding columns aud filing papers, while poor Farley, with his bent back aud red eyes, was leaning over his desks aud toiling through the long reckonings, making no sound save the scratching of his pen and the laying down of his pencil. This bard work told upon Fancy severely; so much so as even to cause liim to faint at times; and Zack had more than once revived him by bringing ire water and ammonia, and throwing ojen the windows for air. Tims the two became fast friends. Zack took a gn at interest in the hnge locks on the safe, and two or tliree times he had happened in in the morning when Farley was alone, and stood by to see him open the one under his care. He listened with carious wonder to tlu ll envy clink of the failta, and the signi ficant rattle of the odd looking key in the wards, and he kept his eyes open to all the strange mauenvers tliat seemed necessary to perform the work. One particular part of the unlocking was evidently a secret, for Farley never ex- , plained it, or said anything abont it. Af ter inserting the key lie nseil to turn the knob of the door a certain nnmlwr of times, apparently counting or calculat ing as he did so, until the lock seemed to give a muffled signal inside and the door was easily pulled open. The mys tery was in the numlier. Zack was sure that this number was not always the same, and that was all lie could" make out. • The key itself was entirely unlike any variety of the ordinary form of key, and its use would scarcely be suspected by au uninitiated person. It was of the " combination " sort, and vt, of bits of steel, each stamped vr.ui a number, and all fastened t igeuu-i wiui a long slide, which ran through little grooves. The place into which the key fitted was arranged to correspond, anil whenever it was thought that too u>*u. persons in or about the office knew how the key was made up, the one that had charge of the safe had only to take tha key apart, change the positions of the pieces, and make a similar ehange in the lock. Then, so long as he kept secret the combination, no amount of guess-work would enable a burglar or ny dishonest person to'opeujthe door. Tlie closing of tlie door was a more sim ple matter, for when once arranged bv the numbers, the lock would set itself without the aid of a key. Z u-k, seeing that Farley was not dis posed to explain the secret of the key, FUKD. KTJirrZ, 1 Alitor uml I *rpritur. VOL. VIII. of oonm said nothing about it. and con tented himself wiUi Irving to muleratiutd fully what the good clerk wa* dnqawed to explain. Meantime, the hoy liad to sweep and dust the office as over, and on the nights when Parlor staved Isle, which lie did usually at the en<! of each month Zack hastened his l*fa>ra in order to get the sooner into his friend's society. On other nights, w hen Farley left early, Zack wns lonely enough, ami moped through lua task without the siighbv-t enthusiasm, l>ut he always dusted Farley's desk- With the greatest care, and emptied his wast© liasket, and cleaned his jeus, and rilled his ink stands, and arrauged everything with acrtapnlons and affectionate neatnees. It vexed hiui to discover while moving alauit among these desks a great :atuiv things that he did net understand, and that seemed to be constantly used by Farley. For instance, there were the interest tables, and the foreign money rut*-*, and the mercantile agency reports, and, besides those, all sorts of canceling statin**, an.l passKvika, and memoranda, that Sic could not make head or tail of. One thing iu particular puzzled'him excessively. He dropped a large book while he was dusting, and on picking it up, he found these word* written faintly in pencil at the top of one of the leaves : j 44 The landing iif Columbu.* and tlie day* of the year make the key, Nov. 'ill, bsiiy." " WbaH on earth," queried Zack to himself, " can that ttMOi 'tuii ho re pooled il over ami over again. It Ixvetuo fixed iu his memory, bat no solution of it earn*' to hainl. it re maiaesta nnterr. Ooamkmelly it was netUed, wlieu he hapjx-urd to catch I sight of the book that contained it lb did not Jr*:u that these words would liave a hft -and-dvath iinpiWtanee bw-and hye. The writing was the work of Far lev, done to aid his memory, and which be imd intended sometime to erase. As the winter went on, Farley, though ill much of the time, continued to in struct MR young frieml, and Zack, under his tuition, wad initiated into the se crets of double-entry bookkeeping. Iu the course of a month or two he master ed most of them, and was proud of his snoceaa. It seemed, b>o, to have a U-uo ficial eff.-ct upon his j>ersonal habit*, lie took pains to polish his shot*, and to smooth his ha r, and to conduct him self like a gentleman. Though he still discharged nis duties as sweeper, he wore an old eout and an old straw lmt to pro ■toot himself from the dlist, In fact he began to be and feel like a new man, and he attributed it all to parley. Poor Farley ! His tasks seemed to grow more heavy every week, and he bent under thein so perceptibly that Zack's heart aebed. " Can't you go away, sir, for a little while on a vacation 1" asked Zack one day. "No, I'm afraid not, Zack," said Far ley. * I don't think the oils-era would , let me." ••Then they must be brutes, that's all !" cried the boy. "Sh-sh-ah !" whispered Farley, look ing around cautiously. " Dou't say such thing*. Zack 1" and his thin hands trembled from sheer lurvntisma-. " I —l wish," said Zack, hardly able to control his voice, "that I knew h >w to do something for yon, air, you have done so much tor me. But I can't. I d like to give you a thousand dollars—aud let yon go into the country for a Year or two—or Jo all your work for you—or something !" Farley gazed at Mm with Uuuikfnl earnestness in his dim eyes, but made no replv. ltnt Zack had a chance to help Farley iu away ho little dreamed of. It was late in the afternoon of a bitter ly cold day. The snow vn blowing tiero ly without, and strong men shiver ed as they glanced through the windows into the bl< ok and darkening streets. At four o'clock tle occupants of the offices began to lock up their books, and wrap themselves for their homeward walk or ride. Farley was preparing to go home, and the office boy was assisting him to put away his folk* iu the safe, ami secure everything for the night. Busy in the gathering darkness, and supposing that all was ready for the final looking up, tile lwy shut the great safe door and looked about imjiatieiitly, ex pecting Farley to tell him lie might go. Not seeing Farley, he concluded that he had gone to the closet to wash his hands. Afn r waiting a minute, feeling in a hurry, lie went to Look. There was no one in the closet. Perhaps F .rley had gone awny. No, there hung his coat and muffler and old fashioned hat. The*boy bunted through all the other office*, few he was anxious t> go home, and he was never permitted to do so un less Farley gave him permission. Tlio man was missing, no one cuuhl account for him. Two of the officers of the company • which employed Farley, ehh rlv gentle men, were still in the building; and thev now came from their private office amf joined in the search. They began to feel some alarm. AU at once the boy (Tied ont : " Hark !' A muffled noiae.aaof someone pound ing, seemed to come from the wall. The three stared at each other in silence. The noise was repeated, hut more faint iy- The IK-V ran to the safe. The terrible truth flashed upon him that he had shnt the door ujion Farley. The had springs, and the poor clerk lied been locked inside. He cried ont in dismay, and turned pale as a ghost. The two gentlemen were in despair.. Farley undoubtedly had the safe key in his pocket! "Run, run to the nearest machinist, and call some workmen, quick!" cried the oldest partner. And the frightened boy darted from the office. There were, no sonuds now from the interior of the safe. Farley must lie suffocating. I While they waited in an agony of im patience, Zack came into the office, itoth the old gentlemen knew how friend ly to each ether he and the head clerk were, and seizing upon the smalh-st hope in their distress, they et once told him the situation. '• Farley is locked in the safe. We suppose he haH the key in his pocket 1" Zack's heart sank within him. He knew that a person could not live long shut up in that stiffing place. But he did not lose his presence of mind. He thought rapidly, and began U look about him with all his eyes. It was JKW- Bible tliat Farley hail not the key in his pocket. He was sure he had semetimes seen him do that the last thing before he left the office. His desk was still un locked, and that was u faint omen of hope to Zack. The gas had lieeu lit now, and with eager haste, the two officers and their young assistant searched among the pa pers and through the tills. There was no key to be seen. At that instant the panting office boy , returned, bringing two machinists with I drills and sledges. , " How long will it take you to force , the door!" i "Can't telL Several hours." t, There was no cbanoe, then, of getting f Farley out alive ! t ! The partners were just ordering the smiths to begin their work, when a . i joyful "Hold on!" was heard from j Zack, who still bent over the open desk, f He had found the key ! The old gentlemen reached for it with - j trembliug haste. They looked at it aud , ' groaned. They did not know the com- THE CENTRE REPORTER. biuatiou. Farley otaing-st the nuwltera at will, and was not required to com nmnicatc the wocrrt to he* employ > r*. Duly on© officer of the noi|*iity would possibly know it, and lie was gone far up town. In the consternation of the moment /wok's mind was not iille. lie lial seised the hint of the |VUI"I1IH1 word* s,viili)utal Iv thrown under his eye* some tone ago, about "the landing of t'oluinbu* ami th days of the year," and fastta-ughta were bttsv, trying to work it out. The familiar okl date gave him four liguree. the days of the year three more. Zack ts>k the key from the {HCMY- hand of the senior jwrtner and studied it. An arrangement of the figures occurred to him. It might be the right one but he dared not say so. He stepped to the d.sr an.l inserted the key iu the look. Then he stood a moment looking intently at the niys terioiis knob. There was a scale marked around the rim of the revolving guard, where it fitted the door. Noting care fully its exact position, lie Iwgan to turn. Slowly, once, ami again, and again, till he thought he had the necessary num ber*. With a prayer iu Ina heart, he w*t -h.*l the figure (>;; the scale, and llafaned fur the muffled signal. It came! Zack trembled so tliat he could harilly stand. Every bod v iu the room stmsl breath less. His faltering hand pres'd tlie key. It moved softly iu the oiled tumbler* of the luck. The great door yielded, aud swung silently opeu ' There lay poor Farley, a lifeless heap, with his loild hem I presse.l close U tlie door, as if he had hoped to get some air there. But Zack dni not see liirn. He, too, had faiutt-d on the floor. It was nearly an hour before the physi cian, liurneiUy suninnuu'd to the *j>ot, restored the uufortuuatc bookks-|>er to coinu-iouauea*. Then all present stood remly to gres-t him, and Zack among the rest. It was a fearfully narrow eaeape. Two days afU-rwaril Zack sat U-ide Farley in his chamber at home. The old clerk was pale, but a hojvcfui smile brightened his face. " Zack,", said he, "1 think now lam iu your debt. What cau I do for you!" "We won't talk about that," said Zack ; " but 1 waut to know if the firm are going to give you a vacation, or auy fair treatment at all!" " Ye*. I start to-morrow to go South. They pay all my expenses, and my salary go. sou U-sidro." Zack jumpetl up. Ilia eye* lighted with pleiiiiurc. " Aud you," continued Farley, " are coming iuto tlie ortuv as a clerk, at three hundred a year." Zack could not express his surpri-*- and gratitude ; but in honor of this grand turn in the fortune* of both the two friend*, they hml a little private dinner together that -lay, and in the course of it I hey toasted Uie firm iu cup* of eh-as-late. " We "reformed Vm, sir." " No, it was you that did it, Z^ick." " N>, it was you." 44 Wrong, Zack, till wrong. com promise. It was our nerves. Mine gave out, and yours held ou till von made a tirstmte goo** that saved inv life."— Youth'* Companion. Capturing a Train. The story of the capture of a wagon train On wax* to tti* liknik Hill* by tin- I'nited Stat.w troojw fs thns told: Cap tain Fergus Walker, of the First regt uunt -if infantry, sUtpvneil at Fort Randall, I>akota, acting under general order* if General Sheridan, w.w aent oat on the frontier to arret all fsirti--* destined f-r the Black Hills found trav.-! Dg on Indinn reservations. He found a rain of forty seven wagons ami one mulriHl au-l fiftv meu, wbi-h b<>OTlUtt-d o turn laiek. 'i'hirty-vight di.l so, and th-- bahuK*-, one fiundrevl au-l twelv*- men, decided to go Ulto camp at Gor-ion City and await the O|M nuig of tli-- Black Hill* by the goveroiucoi. Cbptun Walker followed the jwrty whih- they encamjvd and then se.nt for reinforce ment*, which arriveif, w!i>n h- onlerevl the miners into line. Then h • drew tin wagons together and fired them, to gether witti all Cutnn ispiij age, the miner* standing iu fine onil witnessing the conflagration. After the destruction the miners were marcheil liack to Fort Han-1011. Tlie miners, many of vrbutu were barefooted, were obliged *to march thirty five miles a day, and snffered sevufely. Many c>f th-i mna li* I their f.x-t no severely cut by tin- eharp prairie grass and liari "tones on the nad tliat track* of blood from tlwir feet could IH tracd along the rood they traveled. Ou the aecond night out, two brother*, u.-imcd Collin*, nimle their cm-sqn- frm Walker'* command on jwmie*, arriving at Creight->n, Nebraska. The citizens t-clo grapht-d tlie facts to Secretary B- ikuap, and a reply law* fas-n received Haying that lie will order an investigation. A Happy Couple. A mail should always Ire a little older, a little braver and a little stronger, a little wi*-r, and a fittl* more, hi love with her than she ia with him. A woman should always Ire a little younger, and a little prettier, and a little more considerate than her hnsfauid. He should fa-stow upon Iter nil hia worldly goods, snd she should take good care of them. He may owe her every care and tenderness that nffeetion can prompt; but pecuniary indebtedness to her will become a burthen. Better live ou a crust that he earns tlian on n fortune that she lias brought him. Neither must fa" jealous, nor give the other cause for jealousy. Neither moat encourage sentimental friendships with the opposite sex. Perfect ooutblence in each other, and retidiioe concerning their mutual affaire, even to members of their own families, in a tirst necessity. A wife should dress herself lrecoming ly whenever abe expects to me>t lu-r liusbaml's eye. The man should not grow slovenly, even at hum-. ' Fault-finding, long arguments, or scoldings, ends the happiness that fa-ginsin kisses and lovemnking. Histora and brothers may quarrel and " make up." Lovers arc lovers no longer after such distnrlsuices occur, and married people who are not lover* are famtul by red-hot chain*. If a man admires his wife most in Htri|>od calico, she is silly not to wear it. Now ! A grain of sand on a botindles plain. A tiny ripple on a measureless ocean. Over the ocean we are sailing ; bnt the only part of it we posses* is that on which our vessels at this moment float. From the stem we look fau-k wards and watch the ship's wake in the waters; but how short a distance it reaches, and how aoofl every trace die appear*. We Ms: al*< some landmarks further off, and then the horizon clones tlie viow; but beyond that the ocean still rolls far, far away. Memory con templates the few year* of otir individual life ; history shows us n dim outline of mountains; science tolls us that still furth-r bock, out of sight, aire tehee the vast mm ; reason assures us tluit, like space, it hath no boundary ; but ail that wo possess of it is represent by tolu small word—now! The | ao*, far action, is ours uo longer. TL n future may never become present; it is not ours until it Joes. The only part of time we can use is this very moment— uow!— Jfrwfon Hall. Watering-place resort— The town 1 pump. CENTRE 11 Abb, CENTRE CO., TV., THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1875. ITupoM-il New Calendar. Justice Bradley, of the Hupreiua Bench, IUM |>i\>|Hn-d a change tit Hie iwh-iidar u account of its many iinia-r faction*. Aos -rding to tlu- plat laid out, tlie year would lr divided into four quarter* of three months each, itoM-tIV oorresjioiidiug with the four natutol ill visions of the yu*r made by Ui* sun'* ar rival at the two equirioxe* ami two sol stives. Thus, beginning at the winter aolstii-e, when the aim is at tlie extreme southerly jariut reached by huu, where he commence* his return to the north, Judge Bradley would place tht new year, or January 1, uu the pr s. at 'Jlst ilny of December. Then (,-nitig to January, February and March each thirty i)aia, the Ist of April, or begin ning of tiie second quarter, will, ill coin moti years, fall on the 21 st of March, anil in leap year* on the 20th of March, or exactly at the vernal *piiuox, when the sun Is oil the equinoctial line and the days and nights are equal.. Then, giving "to the next six month* each thirty one day*, the Ist of July, or be gmuittg of the third quarter, will fail in common years on the present '2'2<l of June, am! iu leap years on the 21*1, which is the summer aolstioe, wheu the sun is at hi* furthest |>uiut north and the day* are longest; aud the Ist of Oc tuber, or Itegiutiing of the fourth qtur ter, will fait in common year* on the iHd of Heptcmla-r, ami iu leap year* on tlie 22d, which is the autumnal equinox, when the *un m-rv*i<* the iiue and the day* ami nights are equal again. Tln-u, giving to th-toiler ami November em*li thirty tUy*. ami to December twenty nine in common year*, anil thirty in lean year*, the Ist of "Jaunary will again fall on tlie present 21*t of December in all case*. This allotment of day* to each mouth is easy to n-iuemls-r, i* as couve mcnt as any, and make* tl*-mixrre*|*>nd to the great natural pheiiiiroeua of the *nu'* annual orbit. It i* a h-a*on iu as tronomy iu itself, and is generally ap pro veil a* the beet plan that lia* been proposed. Tlie placing f the ntten-a lary day of leap yi-er at the end of the year would lie a great advantage ui all astrouomioal ivdcnlatioti* and srraiige nient* of tin- cnleniar. And the eou fonuitv of the entire civil Vt.ir to the natural year wouUl of iirw Is- an tub vantage amply sufficient to com(* ".sute for any U-iuj*irary mcunvctiience arising from the change. No wltcratiou in the recurrence of leap year* from the r rangerneut of the (Irrgorian calendar is nrvtposctl. That is Sttfilclently accurate for many ccnturie* to coin. Tlie law prepared bv Judge Bradley to effect tin (ihipeoi t'iiange, and whu-h was read to the National Academy of Hcteuc-, is ex tremely simple and comprehensive, and would obviate id! inconvenience* of a bn-mesa character tliat couhl pibly ariiw". The Stage Driver's Darling. O. S. fathers is a tage dnv.r in Ckdorado. A bright little girl of MI sivnmcrs lives with him and calls him father. Theold m.ui and little girl have an extraordinary affection furrm-h other. When they are together they are lmppy a* angel*; when o-qmr it-sl thev live in tlie pfoopert of meeting, and wlu n tla-y m-et they fa-have like children of tlie same age. Their mutual idolization ia well known in Denver, where their home i*. About two year* ago mi officer of tlu* law appeared in leover with a requisition fmin the governor of I'enn Hvlvanui for the arrest ntol delivery of old man Caller* ott a cluirge of afaluo- i tion. Cith-r*'fri'-nils were ao well eon vinoed of his hou< *ty that Uicy waru-xl him of the presotioe of the offUv-r, and aid* d m hiding l*th tin- old man and tin- child until the officer IIA! dejwurtod. Then fathers --xtlaiu**l that he was not the girl'* father, but her uncle, and gnre a short family history. It was his dead rftater'a child, whom "he nu lr<Ating aa hi* okrn, and l'tt r, if i**vuble. When hi* sist-r was dying she gave the little girl to him, ami lie pr>-mi**sl t. live for the ehild and guard her as his own. When his -osier's hnahand mart uxi u;aiu the father want d to take the girl away from her uncle, but h>- fi-d with his little treasure to tlie far West. He atopped at Denver and became a stag* driver, and his here for his neiee in crts>M>d tenfoht, when an officer came anm-d with State weapon* to wrest his darling from him, and father* ami his babe trill until Iho danger was past. Lately another officer cauio with a re quisition from iVuii-sylrania ntnl smsl out a warrant for fothers' arrest. The *heriff ref!is-*l t*i nerve it, ami tlie IVnn •vlvanian went h-mie empty Lamle.t. I't-nnsylvauU will have to go without that little girl while there are mountain cave* iu tin! Weat. A Singular Sceue. 'lire Dallas (Tex.) Commrrviai of a recent date givi* the following remark able account of an execution in that State : At the hanging of Frank Smith, colored, which took place re cently in Montague wunty, Texas, n largo crowd galle-rcd at tlm place of ©locution, and uft-r the prisoner had offered up a prayer ho addressed the people in greet jrenitonoe, arl exhortral all to meet him in heaven. Tlie sheriff then adjusted the noose about hia neck, and the guards .crowded up to bid him good-bye. The iheriff ordered them to stand back, bnt they refnsetl to do so, and eoekod their guns, swearing tliat they would bid him KO"h1 bye. Some <-idled out to "Shoot tlu- rotre," 44Lifa-r --ato him," 44 Let him go," etc. The greatest excitement prevailed, and it was evident tliat the sympathy of the entire crowd wn* with the doomed man. The effort to release him would have fared siKx-emful had it not Ireen for the doomed man himself. He was the only man that wan firm and welf-p-resonant. Ho exhorted his friends to desist, 44 let the law take it* eonra-"," said he, '• I am a nuiu, and can die like a man. This i* no time for n row ; let us not disgrace ourselves in this maiuiar." A* he siiiil this hia face wore a smile, and as lie stood upon the platform strong snd powerful, a hend and shonlders afaiv any of tho others, lie crertninly premintod a {lict-uro of no ordinary intor.-st. At n sigiud from the sheriff the preparations were completed, tfa- traj> Hprnng, and he fell ami died without a struggle. The crowd s-kiii diN|M<rm-d, but still mutter ing against his executioners. * An Effort to Ntop (lamhling iu Wheat. The millers of Ht. Ixmia have joined in n petition to the president and faiard of directors of the Merchant*' Kxcluingc asking to have wheat stricken from the list of articles sold at tfa- call uf the hoard on 'change. They nsert that this kind of speculation produces illegiti mate fluctuations, which are ruinous to manufacturers of flour, and will ulti mately destroy the trade, and that the tendencies of such speculation are de moralizing and disreputable. The walnut tree is proverbially long lived, and an extraordinary instance is noted at Bonvilliers, a village at the foot of tho Vaudois Jura. Au ohl walnut tree, whose age is estimated at lretweon three and four hundred years, is there still iu a flourishing condition. Its trunk measures over twenty feet in cir cuinference snd notwithstanding its great age it produced last year over fifty bushels of walnuts. An Indian Hear Ntory. A eurtou* I war utory, illu-tratiog tin j*-i*uhar characteristic* of the Indian mind, wa* tiuit of two Crts wlm, *u-l denlv *tupri-u-d by agriaaly.inoflootmUljr dlsehargtHl their gun* and rushed to climb tlu* lustre*! tr*' for refuge. The tree, as it happened, wa* a high, uak-d pole, witli but one lateral branch atiffl clout ti *tip|M*rt the weight of a man. One Indian wa* able to rest on this branch, but the other wa* obliged to rove bun self from the clutch of the monitor by hugging the bare tree-trunk in the most painful jKieitiou, clinging by Un hand* and b>w. Such a |>oaitnm could not loug b> endured. The poor fallow * strength rapidly gave out, an.l fie burst into tear* and lamentation at the thought of hi* wife ami children, while the ml lotw wretch afaive him, in aafcty, laughed and flouted at hi* agony. At last the fatal moment came, and lie abandoned himself t-i hi* fato with stoicrmuguaii--u. Now, as it charawd, at Uiat very Uuvtai.t Ua- grizzly wa* iu ao exiu-t a line tx-u- ath that our Indian friend, iuafatid of la*h ing upon Uie hard ground, plunged right upou the animal's back, a catwrtro phe which ao ast>ui>died tin- fa-ar tliat i lie ruabeil in a {auric, a* irntil a* hi* legs could carry him. Finding Uiat the cuetny had no uiU-uti-m of returuiug, the sew>ud Indian after a time dcacciided, and, remunuig their guns, tlie two pro ceeded together to the enoanipuient, where they both had tlwir h-uue. A* th-y were on tin- way, the unlucky hun ter, filled with alarm in anticipating tlie ridicule he would meet with were his wiwknea* under proai-eot of death pro claim- d to the tnlie, exerted himself tu the moat tnunUiiwiii otter* to hi* c*>m pauion, in Um hope of j-urchaamg his (vilouiv', aud he did at lengtli sinvwed in extracting a promise of secrecy, but oidv by Uu- sacrifice of evcrytiiiug he |KM sensed iu tin- woild of the slightest luxury or value. Stripped of all but the lavre necessaries of life, the IMSSP fellow could .vet fa- happy— his self reaju-ct was navad. But, as might fat Imngtoed, tlm man who could take so lo*- an a-lvontage of a frieud'a miafortuuo wa* not likely to prove a trust worthy guardian of Hie --oret lie ha-1 wworn U> preserve. Not manv monUi* afterwanl, this w-.rthlns* villain, a* fa- came staggering through the -amp in one of Ilia accustomed tits of ib iinieutwva*, fa-gan family t- pro claim tfa- *lrj uf hts friend s -lingrace, aud hold him up to the luttereia con tempt aud lidkm The outrage.! Indtau went straight iuto hi* ten* and anmxl liimwlf with a loaded gun. then, returning to the place where tfa- kiiave wu uttering In* scan dal*. lie t<Hik aim at him in s-ght of nil tin- |* -pie, and shot him tlirough his heart. Ih-ef Hung I'p to Dry, The dried beef ia a production uf the GriH-ui*. for whidi they are mdefak-d t< their climate. At the alUtodc ol their vallev*. the air i* *•> ilry that few nine montilS out ml the tw- lv- meat hn no tendency t., d<-com}KMittcu. Availing tliems-'lvea of this favoral-le condition th- v kill in the autamu tfa- beef and pork which they will re{<rire in llm en suing rear. It us slightly aaiU-d and hung up to dry. Notliing more t* d-a*e to It MTOept ratiuk it. In three or l-mr moutlia' time it t* not only dried, tnt also cookisl, tliat i* to asy, tfa- air haw given it all the c-mkiug it will 'ever re reive. It has become as dry and aa hard as a Uar-I, and internally uf the effor of an 01.l mahogany table. Kx temaliv there i* nothing to *ngc"t the idea of meat ; it M covered with cib wel-s dust, and mold, and iv indis tinguishable from frognu'tifa of the mummfa of Uie aacri-d bull* fak u from the cnbuv-tnb* of the Serajw-uni at Memphis When your host brings fnm hi* rellar the leg of the mummy of a (triodui < -w, shrunk to the dimen-ri-uv* of tlrn human limb, and tolls you tliat it is to fa" your dinner, you are dis|**--d ti> o-lviso hini to take it to the trustee* of Uie British museum. He is, however, atom! to prepare some for yv>ur repast, and you watch the process with curi osity* It i* a very simple one; Uie material is cut neros* th* grain writh a very sharji knife in slim ing* no tluoker tiiaii writing paper. Were it cut the huigth of the fibre it wood be a* *U) mauagcablo iu Uio uiouUi as a piece of whijH-ord, <ir a thlrihwtriug. Curiosity again, somewhat atimulat'Hl by nece.*.-ity, for the only alternative is the meager cheese, at lad imjw-l* TOO, with many misgiving*, and after much -lehfa-nitiuo, to carry one of the shaving* to your month. After a week or two"* experi ence yen will liegin to thiuk that it is not badly flavorisl, nor luiusmdly re pugnant to the process of digt-st ion. So-called 41 Fatal n Wounds. The fact tlud UoL Anthony, of the lasivcn worth Timm, whi> was sliot through tlio shoulder, i* still alive, not withManding the statouu nts of several prominent .snrgi*n that it wa* im|*>*i ble for liim t-> survive, ha* called forth several similar wc* of men who were declared fatally wounded, one of wfauu was {'apt. John Booth, of a cavalry com pany, who, while making a desperate charge, wa* allot from hi* horse. The ball struck hia ahoulder, the artery was aerfcraaly wounded or cut, and the ntsh ing or whirring of blood was alarmingly perceptible, even to hi* own ear. The physirian* with whom he con*ultod— many very 1.-anusl in Hie profusion—de dared hi" death c-rtnin in a very *h-rt time. The captain i* now living, with the blood still whirring. The ball bus not moved, and he is well. Another {lnrallcl ca*" was that of Joseph Bigby, formerlv of the Seventh Kansas cavalry, wlio was shot, in 18121, in nearly the identical place where t'ol. AnUlony WHS won tided, the fadl making a downward movement through tlie lungs. Dr. MeOormick ntUsi.h d Mr. Bigby. who"*" life was despaired of for some time. His right lung 1-1-1 very fre> iy for nearlv n week. The artery arem-d to. have fa*-ii seveml, and the pulsation in the arm wa* lost for many day". After two months he fa-came convalescent, re gained the use of his arm. slid has leen able to pursue his accustomed avocatiou, which is tliat of a blacksmith. A Startling Statement, 'Hie report made by the superintendent of rates and surveys, presented !o tin fawinl of fire underwriters in New \ork rooentlv, makes the remarkable *tate uieut that <>f thw sixty nine hotolain New- York city, twenty-lour of them have fminc Mansard roofs, thirty-nine have wooden cornices, fifty-five have unsafe gas brackets, twenty five have unsafe steam-pipes, twenty have unsafe flues or fireplace*, forty-nine have unsafe laun dries or drying-rooms, fifty one have un covered lights iu faionniento or wiiq) cellars, txreuty-flvc have repair-shops in the building*, twenty have unprotected Ixrilers, twenty six have open elevators, while, iu all, the stairways are opeu. Tlie report further states tliat thirty throe, or about one half of these hotels, have fonr of these several defects, and not one of the whole nnmber exists with out one or more of these defects. In other words, there is not an entirely safe I hotel iu New York city. There is not a i hotel iu New York city in which the guests wo not exjuwed to death by tire, explosion*, or accident© iu elevators and at stairways. There is an average of 20,000 people exposed to these perils uvery day in New York, TIIE OLD MAY TItAI!US. Tknr Jail* I'M M*a~Aa Ulvrratlaa Uta. I alar rare. In a most in tar ratting artich- on tfa old times May iuutora, or ''trainings " a* they are fa-ttor known, the JriLuiu: aav* : For week* fa-fore the uiuotor the vil lage -rf Tarry town, aud all it* congener*, j wa* in a fever of preparation. Every matron prepared scores of pies, every maid fui m*h<*L her lust Biimmer'a flu<-ry f<ir tfa" entartninmeut of the warlike host. Aud when the day arnveil, with wliat proud liealiug* of fa-art rlid tle women folka watch folln-r ret out to hia , colonel's uniform, with Joe, a* tirat lieu ( tenant, by hi* side ! The gallant colonel on week day* aerveil out sugar and a© lasar-a ai-ros* the counter, but he looked none the fan* K heio for that; and Joe, who bad lareli casting *h—-pl*h, ho|K-l<ma glanet-o at the aquiro'* pretty Jenny for ■ a year, met her undaunted tmw in his glitter of blue and gold, ami bv his mar tial IM-aruig won the day. There wa* sure t< fa- good wcatiM-r all that wo-k; j ar'hoola w ere distnisMad; Tiui atul Bob disapjo-ared at ilawn aud were seen no mure until night, Wo* imt 1 faddy Pol tar'a mcorlow at entail Itald where the rattle of laleni, the tramp of ld tali cms, anil the *ornt of giiigr-rbroad and pop leer null the ilav eucluuited I Wa* nut Darhly Puttor, [aaiwhint of tailor*, there himself a* adjutant, stonily drill- ' ing hi* man all day long I Had not the cavalry ju*t arrived with all the torriflc trampling which forty horse* —mid pro duct-I—the Clap City Guard* in bine and silver, and the ttro-mCounty Bang era in frugged hunting nhtrt* f "Fhia last attire wa* looked upou doubtfully as a daring in novation hardly in accord with the solemn pump of war. but was for given ou account of the line effect pro duced by the gray liar*™ of the Ranger* and their Kotnon helmet*, from each of which streamed a Iwrot'i tail. Kioto ment rose to its height when tlie gen t-rai of division (old John Htokely, the utotvk- ejH-r at FUlfatowui, amtwl with hi* stuff, all galiautiy mounted and in lite t' -ntiuenbd blue and buff. Dr. Brown, who d-mcd tlm whole couutry, rode Itewid© bini in narv Ida© coat and green oa*h as *urgeon of tlie regiment Auy body OMU kti<,w by hi* fa wring thai h< wa* u*ed to cutting off aim* every day under tire, and tool never heard of lkiver'e powder or laiouul mafftiraia On the lad great >Uy. the I tali* * of the Village rqaMre,l to the scene in all their pink and yellow lawn* ami fluttorilig nbfa>u* in l-uggiew, and gig*, and spring wagons, and tie great *ii uu fait tl*- was fought witii the Mug Itoli. Some of tin- maneuvi-ra were masterly, e*firially wlwn Joe'a company deployed lwhiud th" Imni, and toadt them \n the flank. For a rear tdtarwarel the c-uulurt of tin* Iwttlc fonualie.l ilis taMdou* at th- grocery, th- old men as serting that cvrUuti nit*vent were not to nearilMKe w itli military tactics. But the Eugh-h wrere slwwyw whijqM-d —al ways. 'i"he May'musters are over now with other pleasant foilie of ouryooth. Pol ler'* meadow isplnntad in rye, and echoes ua more to martial mu*ie. The women would say, thai forbni that it should. Mines' th- dav the Tarrytown fare* •uarchcd awsv to tfa- Wildermw*. with 01.l Pottor as* oajriain. tfa-v ahu.ldtw at th# sound of a ilruoi and Mr. H< many of the boy* never came back ! The ohl doctor saw tfa m die. and laid hi* gray hairw among tlwm at Ch*nce.lL>r*viHe. T-mi and Bob xrent throngb tfa- war and ajv at Ivnup now. **▼ it tin b *AX hot thil it niiik IIWWII of tlicm. It lirought tliwu and all Americana out of their village bigotries, fscs- to face with the reality of things; taught them an humbler estimate of themselves, a justT one of their own and other oonntoriew. In a comedy uow playing in Paris M. IsifaHssiere is riwjnostiN.l to give some thing to a charitable enterprise. 14 A cry gTKoi." he aav*. 44 put my name down on the list for a 'hundred francs— M. Lafafa. siere. dealer in n ret at*, and member of the general counsel," "But, air, *c luve no fist; we are collcctingthe money in a Iwt" "No list! and in s hat ! Here i* five franc* for you." And he put* the bank note back into hi* pocket (took. Sad Family Meeting. It wa* the old, old story, and explained the origin of fioodlunnsui more satis fa-torily than hundred eloquent and philosophical diacourrea. A drunken mother and a father, with hit narrow |vrreptimi and sensibilities contracto.l and mtinted by incessant toil and un ccoeiug stniggi- against poverty. Much wn-n- the parnuta of the younger girl, who under more favorable awapseea might have grown nj an hoaorabie and resjiecbHl member of society. Tliat sire pneftensed many storting oualitiea wn proved by the testimony of both {orti<-*. 44 Ah. "your honor," said the father, a ix>or old man whose thin liand trembled witli emotion a* lie stretched it out iu supplication to the juilge. '' Hire smy ,adv comfort, and don't, don t commit her thai time. O. jrowr hanor, what will Ido if she goes ? Who will take care of mv four little chihlren f" 44 Where ia their mother? askiHl the • 4 Ah,"' said the ohl man, sailly, shak ing his hrawl a* Ire turned toward a ronrse-tooking women at hi* elbow, who wn* irijiing her eves with the coruor of a dirty shawl, " *lre" here, but you know what "he ia." ••Yes, indeed," stud tire judge; only too well. I haven't seen her here lately. 44 Oh, tus your ' honor," said th<- woman bright-ning U{. " I promised vou the fast time you rent me to tire county jail 1 Wouldn't g t drunk agaiu, and" I luivcu't got drunk for n long time." 44 How loug *aid lire juilge, cunons " 44 0h, quite n time— well --H inouth, anyhow. But yon won't convict her, vour honor. Oit, don t, she wail.nl, hibiting 'genuine sytuptons of grief. 44 What would my children do wiUiont In t . and 1 may get drunk again. Gad knows, 1 don't wish it your honor, but I can't help myself. -• Well," said his honor, aud hi* brow* contract**] as Ire s|ioke. for constant con tact with the dark side of human nature had not rendered hi* heart altogether in sensible to pity. 41 I-l like to let the giil go, lint oh© was here a wi-ck since on a similar cluirge, and I really I relieve it's for her gvanl to send her to the in dustrinl school." And he turned to hi* warrant*, while the parents filed sorrow fully out of court. -oSan Franci<f> Pout. P r !?* •"?- - fand. • i All the witty writers are looking abont for something on which to display their brilliancy, and material is getting scarce; but the Norwich Hull ft in man has struck a 41 big bonanza" in the size of Rhode Island, ire witness: They hail a good deal of trouble wi'h Barnum's ele ! pliant in Rhode Island, recently. It ap pears that they were feeding one end of him iu Massachusetts anil the other end i got into a farmyard in Connecticut. The t' neighbors eame nut and attacked the i Connecticut end with pitchfork*, and the Massachusetts cud got mad. There I ( was a good deal of excitement for a r time, and the majority of the inhabitant* i stepped over into the adjoining Htatoa 1 (ill it wn* over. 'l'orniH: HH'J.OO a Year, in Advance. * " 4>raul|>a.** He cam* along from tl> K#*t with hie mm MKI hie sou WIFE HD three ehU til en, Mill they Were willing at the Michigan Southern depot In* • train. One of the rhihllMi, i boy of thirteen, •eeuunl rlilUilwxl (till of UgliilMM. HI" father wee lip towu Mul hie mfltiw • word bad no rfftd upon hire. Ho would pound on the window*, run out doom, make f*M* et people end uee impudent language when HJHIIMMI to. CIFMTDP*, •I—l .if eighty or thereabout*, with iMiowr heir end e crooked voior, watchd tlie loy 'e entiiw for eome time, end finally eeid : "fie* here, Helen. do yoti ww how thet boy ie acting up f" " You, but 1 ui t do anything with huu," h<- replied. The old man lmbbled arroea the room, took the boy by the ear, drew Una to a arwt and aaid J "Hit down there, Milton. l>o you weut to ilmgiso- uaall! l>ou't you amm the folk* alookin* at ye! If you don't 1 quit euttin' up I We to duet ycr jacket V i Tim boy Milked away until the old man left hi* eret to get a dnak of w ter, and then Milton ahpped out door*. 4 inuidpa hobbled out into the freight house, caught him by the hair, and ae lie led hint lurk he remarked : • 1 know what alley*. Ye are aching fur a good training. Kverylxidv out Weut here is alooktn' at ye, and yer father'* family i* to Ix disgraced through ▼et conduct! ••I gnetw I want to ae thing*," growled the boy. "Oh I if 1 waa onjy thirty year* younger !** exolaimcd grandj*, ua the iatl tried to lilt* ht* hand. He hung to the boy, aat him down, aad the mother ud : " I guww Milton doeau't feel welL" " I gueea he want a regular old Ver mout thrashing—that's what 1 gin-**!" rftortol grandpa. "You know I dout beiimru in nuuiliii' ▼oungaMwu, hut if he don't behawc luaaeif he'll oatch it." The buy edged around, dug at the plastering, Mid finally rrowlcd away again Mid kicked hi* brother for chuck- Uug <'*er hi* mtuation. " Tlierc goes that young man again 1" einhumed Urn old man. Jumping up. " tome Isurw, air " *• I shan't!" bluntly replied the boy. " Now then, Helen, tell me that that bor nm't aching for a thrashing, will you?" continued grandpa, turning to the mother. "Oh, well, I guwaa he'll be good," ■die replienh " Helen," aaid the old man a be but toned hit oust, " Solomon waa right, and it * my duty to duet that boy's inckrt: We are in a Wal of stronger*. and atran gem will judge ua by the way our chil dren art. We aiu't o a farm now, Helen; we're rigid where folk* uaii see ua Oo*M here, air ♦" The !kj refused to more, and grand pa cornered hiru. necuml a firm bold on hi* collar Mill pulled him to a seat. •• Xow then," he con tin tied ae he eel down, "lay over my knee, Mid if ye bite or kiek it'll !>e the wore- for ye, and the louder v# holler the harder 111 atrike"* Me heut Mil ton oyer hi* left knee, threw hi* rigid leg oyer to hold th* boy'* fort Uowu, am! then and there proceeded to administer an old fashioned spank, ing -one tliat made every woman'* month water. The boy howled until a •core of isMMMiger* gathered, but grand- I -a want right along with hie work aa if entirely alone. When hi* elbow ached he let up, twiated the Iwy into a seat and remarked: " Thar. I'll bet a thousand dollar*you fwl Is*lter I" And d itruck all the other passenger* jiwt that way .—Detroit /Vt* /Vca*. Jeff. Dart* to the Texas*. Jefferson lfcm gave the Tflpau vote ran* tome good advice in hi* speech at Houston. He **id : Tench your *on* and their IWOI, and let the precept de •oeud again from them, that jedriothau is their next highest concern after their God and their umittra, and that, wheth er aa a Texan or an American, the voice of duty oali* him. be should be a* prompt to rwjund a* hi* fathers were rn the olden time, when the voice* of Au*tin. Fannin, Bowie, and Hou*ton called to arms. You arc a great people to day— you hud greet progenitor*, and your hi* lory i* one of which to be proud. At no time, not even in late* conflict* and under late* iwmnrtuwg have Texan# ever failed to add luster k their fwar. I shall alwav* remember tbern with gratitude and honor them with the hich <rt respect of mv nature. Alul parting with you. th* father* of two uotde gen eration* of son*, I do it with a feeling of pride that you are my friends iuid my countrymen, and with the hope that Texan* may always continue to add to tlxnr gcaUieea, and achieve a* much fame in giving the boneet loyalty to the Mara and stripes of their country to-d*y aa you did in the dark day* of ltihi, wln n you were both **a!ous and brave in defense of the ftrrt flag— the "lone Mar " of Tex**—which ww* the bewcon to rally the Texan* to the defense of tlieir homes, their liberties, and their right*, and which wa followed as a pil lar of cloud by day and a pillar of lire by night, guiding yon to this flowery, amine land of promise. A Remarkable fa*e. One of the moat remarkable owe.-* of the jweeervmtion of life tinder coutiuual disaster is that of George Pepper, of Boston, who waa lately killed in a family quarrel He ww* a sailor on th* Oou grese when the Merrimac made her raid at Hampton Bonds, and he waa laid away for dead, but re<v>veml, liaring had sknll, nose and jaw broken, teeth knoek sl out, thumb carried away, arm and leg wounded, an eye destroyed, and other damage done. Then he weut borne and married. A tire next door so anussl his wife that she end her infant died, and he was alone again. He went to work in aoue tnlw uiula aud fell and broke n leg. lksHjyering, lie was handling lumber, when a pile fell ou him and three rilw were broken. These he knitted together again and returned to work, and indeed, *o to sjioak, took another rib. for he fonud a seooud wife. Back in the tube work* he had a circular *aw take off the four flngcr* that liia thumb left at Hamp ton; and when he bad got well of this little injury, what was left of him was killed bv a earring knife in his wife * hands. " He eeolded her for not knowing how to carve and knocked her down for her ignorance. In the scuffle he fell upon her, and landed ou the knife. Ho closed hi* strange career, and his wife is on "trial for murder. Meeting of Red Skius la New York. While the Sioux Indian*, guest* of the government, were in New York city, a number of Warm Spring Indiana, who had aided our soldier* in lighting the Modoes, went to visit them, aad the 1 pipe of pence was circulated among them amidst many grunt*. White Swan, of tiie Sioux, addressed the Warm Springs in these words: "lam happy to meet these people among the white people, and if I had met them iu war 1 would have been glad. 1 love to tight my ene mies, ami also to meet them like tins. I am a big warrior, and urn glad to tight ij my enemie like a warrior. We are i enemies, and it can't be helped, but I shake hands with yon all now." NO. 2(5. 9 Grasshopper ttowp. I Ttjn Wasienslmig (Mo.) A'fw# tell* * 1 tin* atory. Messrs. Riley A Mlmgbt i determined to M tto e*k*l locust question in nm to its *<l*ptabiHty as food f>r tto human nbnuadt. Getting i wind of the late affair, and botng always \i in haste to indulge in free feeding, we i matte bulii to nil rutin oorwlf ou our artoiitifh- frteuda. We found toiunteows tattle *|tread, surrounded by the grade i men nametl, aeooinpaiitad by Mm ijHt might and Mwa Maitby. Without I uiuoh waste of twfwm mjr thai* were five | j pemsta M ated, nod we were helped to soup vhith plainly showed its kwrtri f origin, and tasted like chicken a*np~ and it was gotot; after asaaomng w , ' added, ra ootid disltutfuiab a delicate biwahruuta flavor—and it wan bettor. , Then ounc batter oaJuw, through which i locusts were well mixed. The aonp had banished ailly prejudice and sharpened i our appetite for this next kwwa, and i batter cakes quickly tlMapptwred al". t Halted locust* were thru tried (plain r bop)* ik. without grease or condiment), and either with or without aoeuwpaai |' nu-nte. It wan protiowsowd an eaonli< ol ■ dish. The mml waa duaed with dmawrt a la John the Baptist -baked locust and t honey -and, if we kuw anything, we i nan testify that the dirtiugaiitod Bcrip lure character must haw thrived on lua f I rude diet m the wddernwMof Judea. t j We beii-ve liiia ia the first attempt at r putting this insect to it* best use, and , the re*alt b not only highly satisfactory to those brave enough to make the at -1.*!,.j ; t, but l>oitkl this insect make t>e j visit of tenor and mum greater do-true i tion, future generations will bnil its %' presence with Joy. It will he jubito • year—like minis tn thw tfltew, or quail* MI the durart lawd villrnt motiey and without prion. Now, danr nadir, you lusr ahrug your shoulders and stnOe, but WiceforUi we wbnll *• ' teem pmhoppm an • luxury to be classed with ovaten, traffics, uttah . rooms, etc. As aoou an arrangement* iwu be made an •i—iftmurit of kicNWla i will be sent to St. Louis for trial by the F scientific researchers of that city, , TV iMffiraity te tew Hampshire. The superior court of New Hampshire, ' in a omnmutuoittou signed byill the judge*, have kwtined to pass any , <>puiton ou the qnaatirm submitted to I them by the House, a decision which , will increaee the resume* felt for that tribunal by all minda which , hare had ocrnskm to ofifcwve its charac ter. The constitution of tfce State has ordained a tribunal for .U u running the . right of members of the Legislature to , sewta, but that tritmnal is nm any at the ordinary courts of judicature. In that ' . Stele, aa in all the States, each branch of the legislator* ia the supreme and final , judge of the election and qualifications of its own members, add no judicial court has any shadow at jurasdtetion orer such oases. W# do not nnxM that the member* who submitted this difficulty to the superior court imagined that the court had any legal autii.srily to . decide it. It waa, of course, referred to , them merely as art litratara, but the State jconstitotiou dona nut mnpovrer the Legislature to refer to arbitration the queatireis which it requires the two House* to decide. The court has wisely abstained float prononnciug a derision by which nobody would be bound. It ,ia a fundamental urinctpk of good government that the "legislative, judicial and executive departments be kept dis tinct, and that each be held to its separate rrapouritotlilv, tWxmt intru sion into the domain of th ottos*. An intelligent public opinion will approve of the reaped which the highest court of New Hampshire baa paid to this impor tant principle, and butane its refusal to make a decision which it haa no authority to enforce, and which would be aa void in law as if pronounced by any other three dawns of the State. TV refusal of the court to interfere leaves! things aa they were. TV Senate having admitted . the two democratic Sena toesto seats when a quorum was present, it* derision will stand, and there ia no authority to '' reverse it instinct and Reason. Hays an English writer : Tim exig ence of an essential difference between instinct and reason , and the unerring certainty of the former as compared to the prowess* of the latter, were till ] lately takvti tor granted. In the ' cut day, Ixnrevcr. a oonviction semi to be dawning on the minds of uiany that it is well not to stake too muck on the i certain operation of instinct of any sort. Aa impetus will perhaps be given to , this tendency toward oaattoti by the action of a rat—not indeed a aeoeder . from the opposite camp, but a M* rat—who has .lecHned to fellow the course assigned to him by the best , zoologist*. This rat was destined the otlicr day m Un-akfaat for * serpent in ; the Jardiu den Plantes at Paris, and waa . with this purpose introduced into the cnge of the reptile. It was niapnwiion sbry the rat s duty on being bnwight , face to face with the serpent to have t*e oonie fascinated, and to have obeyed the instinct aluoh is suppoi>d to deliver ,' " such small deer " an unresisting prey tattle destroyer. Far from fultfimg the duty traditionally iacambant inon him, this daring innovator flew at tlie throat of the nV and Wt it SO severely m to 1 produce uiatent death and a loss to the garxicna cd alxmt tsro tliousanil francs' worth of serpent. This unexpected re sult baa, however, bad tbe good effect of dcteriniuing the managers of t|ie Jarain r ! des Plantes to feed their o pfitea upon . dead an minis only, the " funeuiatiou theory " having proved an utUu failure. I ! IV Tramp. I Aa exchange, in referring to the an noyance* to which farmers are •übjected frem tramps, says: Every village and t everv individnnl farmer has the remedy I uthand. Tramp* pursue Uieir preaent 1 calling simply Isvause they tiial tliat it * |iays. So long as that is their extierieuce, ( tliey will eontmtae it. Witliiold as sintencc from them, aud thev must tnrn . to something else. If the fr.rn cm and ' jicooie generally throughout th* country f would, by unanimous consent, refuse to , accede to even tbe smallest of their de- mauds, the nuisance would vary speed!- ' ly be removed. There is u* ciianty in * helping these people. It is not a qurs - tion of charity at all. Within the bud ' two weeks n woman called at a country ' house, and told a long tale of distress, * the burden of which waa ahont a sick f child dying for want of food and r , warmth.' She was supplied with fuel I and food, and before she had gone a > hnndred yards from the house she had s thrown both away into a ditch. She wanted money, to tqiend in all proba biliiy in whisky, but it was evident Hint . she did not want a meal. flomes of Preiddentn. j Of the eighteen presidents of the s United States nine hare been furnished a by the Southern States, vi*.; Wuahing i ton, Jefferson, Madison and Monroe t (all from Virginia), Jackson (Tcmieaaee), s Tyler (Virgina), Tolk (Tennessee), Tay t lor (Louisiana), and Johnson (Tanrev , see). Of the other nine three hi vj I I hailed from New England, the two - Adamses (Masaa- liusetts) and Pierce I 1 (New Hampshire); three from the Mid t die Stab*, Van Buren and Fillmore e | (New York), and Buchanan (Peimsylva- I i nia), and tliree from the West, Harrison ' (Ohio), Liucolu and Grant (Illiupii). , T . llept 9t literwl. When the "police want to mvrat ia dtoioe OPT ffihSfiwlwlwiof the lfi*t : It I* aaiil tlit acttfe natures are rarely • mehiiicholy. Tlte isilowa who have but little life are those <*ho do not want to live. ; Tliere is winie Ulk of a anrnmci hotel up in the Black Hills, with lied Cloud aa tlw chief of tlie hair dresmng ♦te|*rt inent It is retimatctl that at least I.oo° 1 sheep and bunlw have been killed in ' uorthwcsKwu Wiaremfia this araaon by wolves. ilm jsm f *. I In Euroiie it is an*teipetc<l that this "'will let grm year forvrimred gator. The dry weather has given the birds s good start. A Frenchman. inteieUng to oompli inent a young lady \t calling her a gentle lamb, arid " Him hi one mutton * aa is small." 1 T. W, park of Rennmßtofi. XI., ia 1 aaid to he one ft the wcritheri mm in 1 the ouuntry, Bbt property hi valued at f 117.000,00*; i | An lowa comri baa derided that it ia not legal fur a farmer to bitch his wife ~ up with .a mule, no matter how anxteua V is to ptow. " One milUou Jrilani* wprth of coral t was firin-d up 'mt of the depths of the . ' Mediterranean by tha eoral gatherers of , Naples task year. t Tits mere stoutly a man protests hell • 1 die a beobriar, .the more mrtata you may be of an inviuUun to his wr.Jd.iog within f |a twelv. aant.:!h. •. , Tha j ••* <M<xm aw complaining of the | greri numlMU o f boxre of grsashoppers flut Western anfferert ire Mteiing east 1 thrimirb tb* iniito. a VMM A urietsfce of the types in a coutem- I i penury tressed *a announreineat to reed) ; '* Thirteen I.iUmis xailreads are in the ; hands of itecri vetu F* fe . A Muntpelter cat eataWished liereelf t as a heroine % n-s.-ning her kittens I from a buruing stable. d having liar . bflfr nearly B finged off tn the exploit. • ' * An innocent man, Orivin H. Watson, i has been perdooed out fa Maesachn . aette priaun after serving half of a two Ljuare sentence for the supposed theft of I a horse. r > When an Esquimau remtteman eate * ■ half a durem tritow csmfies for lunch, aid washes them down vtt a pint of | lamp <4l. ran he be raid to have a : light repaffit ' ft WW Jdbvrtio wished thri hia adver -1 aary hsri written a booh, if he bad been r, a Job printer the desire would have i had more the appearance of buriaere •, than malice, ►i The prwlnctiun of poultry in the 'United TEStels about t§O.UOO,OOO ! pounds antroally, worth 911,000,000, the 1 product of egg* yielding a like amount ' of asobvy. The nuanher of pemrew killed on the railways of Great Ikitew test year wre L 435, and the namher injured, 6,060. ( * There wre* one hundred and thirty col , lirions i<t treias. r Lord North deriered of the generals > sent out'to Arhy'tha HnreeOiiaida i of Ida day: ♦* I don't know what the t enemy W think of there; but I know i they make me tremble." The Lrgialatuw of Gaiitortii* haa preaed a law forbidding any dteorimiiia 1 tion against the female teacher ia the I matter of jwv. In future it mast be ' equal eatery tor equal grade. ' TYtehhn* havo lately beau found for [* lire firm time in the firek of a wild boar. killed in the Harts mounteina, Germany. \ Hitherto this parasite has been suppowHl to be coufiuM to the domerttaetoa azu- I I nasi. i A visitor to a jail inridentelly men l tioned that this was a backwred spring. . •• I Itekl say it waa," praeteimed a dis > eonragad iwianeax. "Hat*it is the 30th s of May, nod we hain't bed green peas >7 It waa uot poetical, but it rame from 1 the heart when an old lady, steading beside Stunner's grave the other day, remarked: " Wefl, the poor man won t ' J bare to help pot down any carpets Otis year." By the aid of petooteura ii the Cana dian liglit houses and lightships are ', maintained at a cheaper rate than any country ia the world. Ninety thousand gritaus of ofi Were required tor the aer . l vine last ysaac. Jay Oooke'a eoontiy aato, f Ogonte, " , near rhdmMpliia, wre offered at. auction rwredb by the trustees. .It" cost more than 91,000,000, but the upset price, 9830,000, wus not tod, and it waa with drawn for privaia aala. The lost issue of Mm Gerumu official historv ofdha war may correct the habit that is totxuding common of regarding the battle at Sedan as a mora massacre ■of the French. It reports toe German tore in that fight at 900 officer* and 8.500 mtk. a! < Old radian are a fruitful aomroe of dia naee. The drains should be looked to and put in cutler, old barrels removed or flreaneed, every mroutiog tutor token a war, and a coat of whitewash, to which a qii:utity ef coppersa in solution haa been added, be htosullf spread upon toe whole. i There ia * hardy fellow at Caen, in Normandy, who haa twice saved the Uvea of men in the water at the peril of lua owm So notice was token of there event*. But recently he saved the lite of a half dtownad rat and the "Society i for toe Preteeteon," ate, haa given him , a silver medal A toy recently dimtoniged a catepult at a train, in one saloon of which toe Princess of Wales and her children were seated. The latitat went through one of ♦ the large ptete-glare window* witoout hurting any one, though itatertled the princess and tor rinldrea. and tell into ilw tmloon, causing eonsidemble tUmage, How would jou like to have yonr sugar whiten * ! with the bone* of men who died for their emiatry They are I nrawren% having ittohtvmyin France. Th-v hare, foamed' a factory for the , i mannfactnre of auimri obarcoal at Metx, which is supplied with tomes from the battle fields ever there. This product is used in refining ug. 1! "Yes, vmt mav come again next Sun t < dav evening, Harare, dear, but "-and i toe hernia led, "What is it, darling I .1 Have I given you any jrttol" be saked, as she stall remained silent. "Ton did not mean to. Vm rare," she responded, "but next time ptaese wear one of ' those collars with pomte tuxtiing ont wasd; they aeralrh au." , The bride-rieet Of Urtwrtd iberitkn is , dexcrilsul aa a very pretty, rather jolly looking girl of uineteeu i>r thereabouts. ' She is "to aeoond daughter of General D. H. Mucker, has tort t aeqoainted for veers m a sctoolghtt, #nd later as a so . i oictv vounglady, with (itetopd-Shendan. [ and the match w coua-kred by mutual ~ friends as eminently snitebta. . The earthquakes iu Aria Minor, which ■' are reported to have caused Hie loss of • 2,000 lives, do not appear to have de i stroved anv towns of note, and probably . occurred at some distenee from the cities I of the seaccnri. Large aa the loss of r ; life is, it does not compare with that caused I) v the great Calabnan earthquake, ; 1 by which 80,000 people were killed, or II even with the slaughter caused by the I earthquake of Lisbon. * The Cumberland (Md.) Xnc* states II that an adopted son of a brother of Miller, the Millerite preacher, has, ever since the failure of the Millerite predio t lions, been partly insane, and a few days ago was seixed with a brain fever thri terminated in hi# . darih. The physicians state that the diaease was di rectly traceable to the terrible mental 1 excitement under which the unfortunate . 1 youth labored for many dwya. I The most hideous women ia the world , are said to live in Mm valley of Bpiti. u which is a moontein-bound, almost m v aooesaibie place, 12,000 feet above the j aea, among the Himalaya. Their featmes 3 are large and coarse, toe expression of e 1 their faces ia usually a natural grimace, ! and they hang huge ring* in their now* a j They drees in thick trite* and trousers r and their heavy bpute, coming above U ' the knees, ofteh fined around their legs with flour for w-armtV
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