After and Over.
After the shower, the tranquil sun.
Silver stars when day i done.
After the snow the emerald leave*.
After harvest, golden sheaves.
After the clouds, the violet sky.
Quiet winds when the winds go by.
After the tempest, A lull of srsvee.
After the battle, peaceful graves.
After the knell, the wedding hells,
Joyful greetings from sad farewells.
After the bad. the radiant rose.
After our weeping, as eet rei*ose.
After the (light, the downy nest.
Over the shady river—rest.
The Balnty Maiden.
Ilast thou seen the dainty maiden
As site swiftly pasees liy ?
Yea indeed!—her hair is goMcn,
Clearest azure m her ej e.
Flits she swiftly as the swallow
Toward the neet where it doth hide ;
Oolden hair a queeu doth r on her
Ah, I would slie were my hrnlo!
Thou art mine my dainty maid on,
IVlu-ste and mannerly ;
Yet, ah, yet, thou Uckest something
Eyes of blue, w hat van it be ?
IVieate tliou art in kissing
As the swallow water nips ;
Much too delicate and ilaiuty,
kissing with such pottilad lip*.
—From Ike liirtxan of ti'iWlr.
THE STOLE* LETTER.
One ratuy night, about half-past eight
o'clock, the train hfel daahca into Mo
Ribbon's Corners, and the mail had
been delivered at the store and poat
oflW.
John Fairjohn, the postmaster, hfel
opened the Kig and counted the letters.
There were, as he made out, just ten,
and one was larger than the others and
hfel a rev! seal; and then he hfel found
that he hfel left his glares on the uews
}*uor in the iuack room, and without hia
glasses he could iHt read a Hue; and ao,
of course, he had gone after them, re
turning to find two persons in the store
—Farmer Roper and Squire McKibben,
whose ancestors hfel given name to the
place.
" Wet, ain't it f" said Mr. Ftiirjohu,
nodding.
"Wet or not, our folka aiu't going to
do without their groceries, yon see,"
mid tbe squire. "Mad sin, I see. That
Irwin came near running into my truck,
too. Wasn't noticing the fiag, and drove
acrocs just iu time to save myself. Any
letters for mc i"
"I'll see," said Mr. Fairjohn.
He turned to the little pile of envel
opes, and told them over in his baud like
a deck of cards.
" Why there's only uiue," he sauL
" I'm sure I oounted "right. I counted
ten, and I thought one hfel a red aeaL I
might as well give up keeping the office
it I'm going to lose my senses like that.
ITiere wasn't any one iu here while I
was gone, was there, squire t"
"Only lie per and I," said the squire,
"and Roper's son. But he didn't come
in, did he f"
"No," said old Roper. " I don't
think that Job came iu at all. He just
went off somewhere."
" Weil," said the postmaster, after an
other search, "well. I must be mistakeu.
Yea, there is a letter for you—your ,
folks, anyway—and something for you,
Mr. Roper. And yon wouldn't mind
tossing that in at the Smith's as you
pass ?"
" Oh, no," said fanner Roper. "Give
it to me. That's from Smith that's
clerking it in New York, I reckon. Can't
get any of 'em to stay and farm."
" Your son Job did," said the 'squire.
" Oh, my son Job. He'd try the
patience of his namesake," said Farmer '
Roper. "Mv >n Job, bah."
Just at this moment the door of the
store opened, and there entered at it a
Utile woman dressed in a cheap calico,
and wrepped in a thin and failed shawl.
She looked timidly about the store,
still more timidly at the heap of letters,
and then, iu an appealing voice like that
of a frightened child, said:
" Mr. Fairjohn, is there any letter for
me this time ?"
The postmaster, who was a Httle deaf,
had turned liis head away and did not
know that she had entered, and she j
came doner to the counter and the light
upon it before she spoke again. She j
was a ftt'wl little woman, and her face
had signs of gnef written upon it, but
she was neither old nor ugly yet, and
there was something in the damp cnrfS I
clustering under the faded calico hood,
and iu the little round, dimpled chin
absolutely childlike even yet
"Is there a letter for me this time,
Mr. Fairjohn ?" she said again; and this
time fbe postmaster looked up.
"No, there ain't; and yon're a fool
for taking such a walk to ask," said he,
with rough kindness. " Wouldn't I hare
sent it if it had come, Mrs. Lester!"
" Well, von see, I felt in a hurry to ;
get it," said she. "You can't blame me
for being in a hurry, it's so long."
"That's true," said the postmaster.
" Well, better luck next time. But
why don't you wait! Mr. McKibben
will take you over when ho goes. He
passes your corner."
"Yes, wait, Mrs. Lester," cried Mr. •
McKibben, " I'll take ye and welcome."
But she had answered:
" Thank you. I don't mind walking,"
and was gone.
" Keeps it np, don't she ?" naked the '
postmaster.
"It's a sliame," said Mr. McKibben.
" How many years is it now since letter
went off 1"
" Ten," said the postmaster. " I
know, for it was the day I came here.
She was as pretty a woman as you'd
want to see then, wasn't she ?"
" Well, yes," said Mr. McKibben.
"Sailed in theSpbynx," said the post
master. " And we all know that the
Sphynx went down in that voyage, all
hands along with her. The rest of the
women put on widow's weeds, them that
lost husbands—four in this town itself.
They took what the Almighty sent and
didn't rebel. She set up that her hus
band wasn't dead, and would oume back.
She's kept it up ever since; comes for
his letter regular, and he was drowned
along writh all the rest, of course, ten
years ago. She must be thirty. Well,
she's changed a good deal in that time."
"Yes," said the other man; "but
there's my son Job wild over her yet.
He's offered himself twice. He stands
ready Jo offer himself again any day—
ready to be a father to her boy, and a
good husband to her. He's better off
than I be. His mother's father left him
all he had. He's crazy as Job—crazy, I
call it. Plenty of pretty gals, and
healthy, smart widows, and he sees no
one bat that pale, slim little thing that's
just gone out into tho mnd; and she—
why, of course, she's lost her senses, or
she'd have him. Works like a slave "to
keep herself and ohild, lives in a rickety
shanty waiting and waiting for a drowned
man to come back again. Why, every
one knows Charlie Lester was drowned
in the Sphynx. There wasn't a soul
saved, not one. It was in the papers.
Now, the l>ottle was found with a letter
in it, writ by some one before the ship
sunk. And she's waitin' for him yet!
"Crazy on that point," said the post
master. " Well, poor soul, she'd only
been married a week when the Sphynx
sailed; that mokes a difference."
"Oh, yes," said the farmer.
Then their parcels being ready, they
went out to their wagons, and Mr. Fair
john having stared into the rainy night
awhile put an liis shutters and went to
bed. Meanwhile the woman plodded on
through the mud. " Walking off her
disappointment," she said to herself. It
was one she should have been used to,
and now the abeurdity of it Beemed to
strike her for the first time in all these
years.
" They langh at me," she muttered to
herself. "I know they laugh at me.
Perhaps lam mad; but they don't know
what love is. Charlie wouldn't have
left me like that. If he had died he
would have given me some sign; and,
yet—yet, if he were alive, it would be
RIIED. KURTZ, Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. VIII.
I
; stranger still. No, no; they are right—
lam wrong. He must lx< dead."
And as though the news hfel just leen
whiqwred to her, ahe clnapod her hands
to her forehead, gave aery, and oauk
down on her knees in the road.
She knelt there a few momeuts and
then arose. In tins interval the wiud
had blown the clouds from the aky, and
the moonlight lay white upon the |>ath
and lit her on her way to her poor hoiue.
There at the door sat a man, a strong,
determined looking fellow, who ansa* as
sln< Approached and held out his hand.
" Here you come," he said, "tired to
death, worn out, still oil that fruitless
errand. Jennie Lester, can't you give
up this nonsense and think of the liviug
a little. Think of me, Jessie, for just
lialf an hour."
"I do think of you," ahe said. "I
am very sorry yon sfiould be ao good to
me when 1 must seoin so l>ad to you."
Then she sat down ou the porch and
took her little hood off, aud leaned her
head wearily against the wall of the
house; and the man arose and cruased
over aud sat down beside her.
"Give it a softer resting place, Jessie,"
he said, " here ou my heart. "
She looked out into the night, not at
him. as she spoke:
"Job," she said, " 1 begin to think
vou are* right, that he went down iu the
Sohyux with the rest ten years ago. But
what good would Ido you I What do
you want to marry me for I"
The man drew closer still as he an
swered:
i " lb-fore you were married to Charles
Lester I loved you. While you were a
married woman 1 loved you. All these
teu years since that vessel went down
I've loved vou. A mart must have the
woman he loves if he gives his soul for
her."
" Wliat a horrible thought!" said she.
" His soul."
" I should have said his life," said
Job. "I dou't waut to shock you. llut
you don't know wliat it would be to me
to have you. And then I'd do every
thing for your boy."
"Yea," ahe answered, "I know you
| would."
There- was a pause. Tlicn she gave
him her hand.
" Job," site said very softly, " I shall
pretend nothing I don't feel, but I know
I've been crazy all this time, and if yon
want me you may have me. It's very
good of you to love me so."
And thus it seems to have ended, that
ten years' watching and waiting, and
there was triumph in Job's eyes as lie
turned away and left her with his first
kiss upon her brow. But at the end of
the green lane he paused and looked
bock.
" I told her the truth," he said,
j " when I said that when a man loved a
woman as I love her, he must have her,
if the price were his soul itself."
And then he drew from his breast a
. letter with a great red seal upon it,
looked at it for a moment, and hid it
away again.
| Married! Yes, they were to be
married. Every oue at McKibben'
Corners knew that now. Jessie Lester
went no more to the post-office for her
| long-expected letter. Job was furnish
ing his house—hod furnished it, for on
the morrow the wedding was to take
place. Aud it was night again. A
month from that night, when she had
come for tho last time, as every one
thought, through rniu anil mud, to unike
her sadly foolish query, she >va- sensible
!at last—very sensible. She hfel chosen
the substance instead of the shadow.
And now, as we said, it was night, and
a wetter one than the other—later, too,
for Mr. Fairjohn hfel closed the store,
and was compounding himself what he
• called a " night cap " of some fragrant
liquor, warm water, lemons and sugar,
• and was supping it by the stove, wher.
there came upon his door a feeble
knock, and when, being repeated, he
heard it, there staggered in out of the
rain a dripping figure—that of Jessie
Lester, the bride who was to be on the
i morrow.
She was trembling with cold, and as
he led her to the fire she burst into a
j flood of tears.
" I'm frightened." she said. "Some
one followed me all the way. I heard
them."
" You've no business to be out alone
at night," said old Fairjohn, bluntly.
; " And what's the matter f"
She looked up at him piteonsly.
" I thought there would be a letter,"
sxid she. " I dreamt there was one. I
thought Charlie came to mo and said:
'Go to the office once more. I have
written, I have written.' And I thought
I saw a letter with a red seal."
" So did I," muttered old Fairjohn to
. himself.
And he went to the box where the let
ters were kept and brought them to her
iu his hand.
" Look for yourself," he said. " And
now, Mrs. Lester, I'm an old man. Take
my advice. Remember what your duty
will be after to morrow. Remember not
to go crazy.
"Ten years have gone since yonr hns
band left this place. If lie's alive he's
a rascal, aud you are free of him by Jaw;
but we all know that every man on board
the Sphvnx was drowned. So be a good
wife to Job Itoper and forget this folly.
I'll take yon homo again this time.
Don't come ngain."
She made no answer, Imt only tossed
the letters over in her lap, and said:
" I seemed to know it had a red seal."
Aud as she spoke, old Fairjohn, glanc
ing at the door, saw a dark shallow there,
saw it grow darker ; saw it enter, and
starting up on his defense, if need be,
recognized Job Itoper.
He was very pale, and took no notice
of Fairjohn, but crossing the store, stood
beside Jessie Lester.
" Yon love that man best, even now,"
he said. " You'd rather have found a
letter from him than not, though to
morrow is our wedding day."
She looked up into his faoe with a
piteous glance.
"I never lied to yon," said she.
" You know that"
He grew whiter still.
"I told yon a man would lose his sonl
for roeh a lovo as mine," said he.
" Did yon think those were idle words I"
Thence plunged bis hand into his
bosom, and tne next instant a letter, with
a red seal, lay in Jessie's lap.
"I've made you happy, and now I'll
go," ho said. " Fairjohn, I stole that
letter a month ago, off the oonnter
yonder. I knew who wrote it at a
glance;" and then the door closed lie
bind him and ho was gone.
Bnt Jessie had torn open the letter
and looked after him.
And these were the words she read,
old Fairjohn reading over her shoulder:
"ABOARD THE SELVES STAR. —Jessie,
darling, I don't know what makes me
believe that J. shall find yon mine still,
after nil these years, bnt something
does.
"Five of as were cast on a desert
island when the Sphynx went down.
The twe yet alive were taken off it yester
day in skins, with our beards to our
knees. We must go to England first
then home. Jessie, Jessie, if Ido not
find you as I left you I shall go mad.
Your hnsband, CHARLES LESTEU."
And so Jessie's letter had come at last.
And as John Fairjohn looked into her
face he taw how angels looked in Para
dise.
And Job. Job was found drowned
the next morning. Jessie never knew it,
perhaps, for she and her boy were on
THE CENTRE REPORTER
! their wny to Now York to meet the Silver
Star when it mfe.li* port.
After TkMMthh.
A writer ay* : How very often it h*p
ptoi iu cunlMUiun, as liernard Barton
remark* in oue of hi* lotion to Onbbo,
that the thing you might aud would and
should have wutl occur* to you jmit u
litllo too late. Ho draw* on liia own ex
perietica for the record of many A long
wild Animated diHcuwiiou with a friend,
after which ho called to mind some
pithy argument that would have aumah
ed Ilia opponent's iw, ami which,
affirut* the gentle Quaker poet : " 1
ahould have \xx*ti almost an re to have
had at my tlugera' ends had 1 been
quietly arguing the matter on |>a|M<r in
my owu study." Oowpor complains that
wuan ho wrote a letter to any but a fa
miliar frioml, no aooucr lifel he dnqxiLh
ed it than he wiw sure to recollect how
much 1 >etter he could have made it.
Horace Walpole opetut hia epistle with
the remark that mere answers that are
not made to letters immediately are like
good tilings which people recollect they
might have said had they but thought of
them in time; that is, very lusipid, and
the aprti/xt* very probably forgotten.
Little Htinrv Esmond, when pointed
out by Muey iVix to mv lord as "saving
his prayers to mamma,'" could only look
wry sifir. If he invented a half-dofeu
of speeches iu reply, that was mouths
afterward; "as it was, he had never a
word iu answer." Mr. Thackeray's writ
ings offer divers illustrations of the
same kind. There is Mr. Botchelor, for
instance, when impertinently quizzed
to his face by that supercilious Caption
linker. " ' Sir 1* says I; * sir was all
I could say. The fact i*. I could have
replied with something remarkably neat
and cutting, which would luive trauMix
ed the languid little jaekiuiajx-n, % *
but, you see, I only thought of mv re
partee some eight hours afterward, when
1 was lying in bed, and I am sorry to
own that a great uuml>r of my beat
60/ i mot* liavc been nifele iu that way."
I>r. Holmes suggestively records on
the subject of mi-takes and slips iu
writing, that lie never tiud* them out
until they are stereotyped, and then he
thinks they rarely eaca{>e him. Hon they
once assigned as the reusou for his not
reading for the Ixir that he was so easily
discoucerted, that tin l right answer to
an argument never occurred to him im
mediately. •* I always find it at last,
but it conies too kite ; a blockhead who
s]>eaks boldly iiui Isitlle me." A state of
uiind figured in a modern poem ;
Rpasch, only quick to blush Us own JcUr.
Made me fool, when fools had their own
WY.
Aim) awkword-wdeut when conceit was load."
Charlotte B ran to relates haw Mr.
Tbaekery met her at the door, at
the close of one of hi* reading*, and
frankly asked her what oho thought of
it; and how, liking his naivete she wm
entirely tlkpotnl to praise him, having
plenty of praise in her heart, "but,
alas! no word on my lij*. Who has
words at the right moment! 1 stammer
ed out some lame ii|itfiona " —and
doubtless hit ou some neat and pithy
euloginm soon after his back was
turned.
The good >bun<\ in one of Mr*. <aa-
I koil'ri fictions is *p<ukiug for thousands
I when she says of the rector ami hi*
| wife that they both talk no much a* to
i knock one down, like ; and it'a not till
they have gone, and one'a a little at
peace, that one can think there are
thing* one might have said on one's
own aide of the question." And BO
again John Sercolaske, introduced by
I'hilip vnu Artevelde as our " sagacious
friend"—thau whom a letter counselor
need not be, if only he have full awq>e
beforehand to ponder and devise what
to say; but " ask him on the suddeu"
a simple enough question, and -
" Confounded will bo i>Uu;l
TiU livelier tongues from omjaicr brsds have
apoken;
Then on the morrow to a tiU'o know
Whst abould hare boon bw answer.
A Missouri Lore lietter.
The Hamilton (Mo.) Xcut gives tlie
following as a trtie copy of a veritable
frtter written by a maiden in tlud State :
May the 22, , Mo.—Dear love it
tin with Much T>leaser that i take tnv pen
in my hand to Drop you aflew LinA.it in
order to let yon No that i am well and
hope tlint when those fiew bad bends
Coma to hand they will fined you the
Same, well, jon henri, i want to No
what is the resen you luuit ben oup. if
you Dout want to Com all yon liav to
Do is to write and let me No and i wont
write eny More, but i would like to See
yon and telle you my Miude. i lmv
looked for von every anudey, but i Dont
think i will look eny more till i see you
a aiming, and theue i wont. well, jon
benri, if you Dont want to Com, all you
hav to Do is to Hay 80, and thet will
Bee anouft for me. i Dont want to run
after eny wone. well, jon benri, this is
my last if yon Dont write or Com. now
vou can Do just as yon pleao, and i will
bo as i can, bnt i will never forget you
as long as i hav bretb, and i will Dance
arowned your go rave when yon lye cold
in the erth. Now jon henri, you can
jnst Do as yon think Best, not as i Cer.
i would like to See yon—that is if you
want to See me—and if you Dont want
to Se me i will Not take onn abowut it.
the world is wiide. the Bee ia Deep,
my love for you i will always keep.
well, jon henri, i will qnitt writen
Now, and remember that this is my
hist if yon Dont write or Com rite awny.
if you Dont want to Com yon C-an Stay
at home if yon want to, annd if yon
Dont want to yon Can go where yon
plese, but I want yon to ancer this as
soon as yon get this, if yon pleee, and
tell me your mined, derect to Jnrksouu,
Mo.
now yon may rememlier wliat i hav
told you in this letter, for i mean what
i Say, aned if you Dont Beleav it yon
will fined my words true, i must quit
for this time by oaken yon to write
soon. SARAH
to Mr. jon henri ,
good by for this time.
True to fhe Character.
" I say, girls." said a little blue-eyed,
flaxen-haired boy "let me take your
candy ayd we'll all play chicken."
"Is it nioef" inquired half a dozen
six year-olds in chorus.
"Nice! yon l>et it is. Let me show
yon. Now, I'll lay the candy down here
on the step, and you all go down there
and come up when you hear me call like
a rooster."
Tho girls retreated aud gathered in a
group almnt fifteen feet off, while tho
boy got on his knees, with his hem! over
the candy, and t>egau to call and strut
and flap his arms like a rooster's wings.
"Clnck, clnck, rat, tat, rap, clack,"
and all the girls came running up and
bent to pick up the candy, when tho
little fellow opened his mouth and took
it in at one gulp.
" Oh, you moan boy," they cried,
"you have taken all our candy."
" That's 'cause I played rooster," said
the boy; "roosters always call the hens
up when ho finds a grain of corn, and
then picks it up himself.
A reprobate held an old shirt np by
the neck before discarding it forever,
bnt he wasn't monrning for the garment.
He only said ; "I wish I had all the
drinks again that have gone through that
old neok band."
CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., l'A., THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1875.
THE POTATO BEETLE.
ukm lie la Itttlus Is l'rnn**l sslw-.-Wsmc
ihlss sbssl Ibr llrrtlr.
The (Vdorado bi*etlc (or ten-lined
K|H<atuian), aaya a Feuusylvania corre
•iHunleut, has now a foothold in tin*
I.astern States. It lias gradually jour-
I uoyed from tin* West and has " come to
ntay," for, as entomologist* tell UM, we
can uever ex{xH-t to lie wholly rid of him,
although hi* will be likely to do the most
damage during the first Jew years of hi*
sojourn. Home two years ago these in
sis-ts were first mx'ii iu l'eiinsylviuiia.
lzist seanoit they iujureil the tuliera
very much, having matters all their owu
way, the farmer* beiug unacquainted
with tlicir habit* ami ignorant of anv
remeily to use ogaiuNt them. The full
grown !>eetloa hide in the earth all the
winter and appear agiun in tlie Hpring.
and, a they are known to increase with
iucrediblo rapiility—one acieutist esti
mates that from usiugle pair the iiu*rea*o
iu one season will e>|ual the astounding
number of 60,000, (XX)!—it becomes a
matter of im|Mirtanoe to know how great
this multiplication has Ixx-n rmu*e lost
year, to what extent the bug lias injured
the |K>tato plant in their State, and how
the supply of the vegetable will le
affected in the markets of the country.
In fact, the question of tin* success of
the crop all over the country is Uxximing
a very aerious one, and t>si careful cou
siderwtiou oonnot in* given to the neces
sity of finding, if possible, some satis
factory means of exU*nuiuatiug thin
voracious little creature. Nor iit it Ui*
(K-Uto alone that suffers. The reports
show tiiat they destroy the tomato witli
equal voracity.
The aeosoii is unusually Ixu-kward all
through the Htate on account of late
frost* and ilruuth, and the " second
crop " of bugs (and the moat destructive
by far > ha* not yet put in it* apj>e*rauce
in many platxxi, so thai, although the re
|M>rt* which we publish show, utifor
tnuatelv, that there has already Iwen
much destruction of the tender vine*,
later advices will show a still worst' con
dition it is feared. The female insect
reaches it* full growth in about a fort
night aud begin* to de|>oit it* eggs by
the thousand. These ltatch out in a few
days, and the youug immediately Is gin
feeding on the tender leave* of UM vine.
Several generations haU-h out iu a sea
son, and constant effort* at extermination
arc necessary to ktsip them down. There
has beeu a very strong prejudice against
using pari* green on the vine* by many
farmers, and it so nis to Is* an open
question whether this obkctiou is uot
well foiuidi d. Some uuthoriti'-* state
that this preparattou of arsenic is the
Is'.st to kill the bugs, and that no harm to
the vines eon result, (hi tlie other ltaud,
it is aanertcd that there is danger iu
using this poison. Professor William
Paine, of tins city, asserts that it is a
dangerous remedy, and that potatoes
grown from vine* which liaxe Ins-n
sprinkled with this poison ore likely to
Ix- harmful. The bug* do not eat the
paris green, he aaya. They eat only the
leave* of the viue after it* juice lias I wen
poisoned by the arsenic of tlie |>arin
grex'U. As the root is fed from the sap
of the leave*, and as then* is poison
- enough iu the leave* to kill these {wuna
siu-s, he diws not s*o why the tulx*r
should uot also Is- iufcctish
The professor is now fX|wriiueiiting
in the matter, and not <iuit- pre) tared to
give a final opinion; but be strongly iu
eliued to think that the prejudice
against parin green is one that should lie
mpectcil. lie l*uv-d his supposition ou
the Mid tlint the bugs do not die from
••sting the poisau itself, but from the
juices of the leave* ufter they have ab
sorbed the arsenic. Iu this your corre
spondeiit can corrolMirnte the professor,
for in Mia experiment* with the bugs
in their fullv developed condition he
fonud tlint they might be left in the
strongest preparation of jsxris gown or
corrosive sublimate for a day without
anv diminution of their vitality.
it will bo een by tho advices Iwslow
that Very many farmers find that picking
by hand ia the only sure way of ridding
the potato {wtchcn of the beetle. This
ia the method which is generally tension
small plaoea. Another means <il exter
mination is to use henr.ine, but this de
stroy* tln vine as well, oven when care
fully used. Professor Pnine recom
mend* as a certain care, and one cheap
enongh to be always available, a prepa
ration of water, lime and sulphur, in the
proportions of a jsmnd each of lime and
sulphur and four gallons of water. The
bugs drink greedily of this, and die
very soon afterward.
Another important suggestion to
fanners is to acquaint themselves with
and encourage all insects (like the h hia
carciniUn) which prey n|xin and destroy
the eggs of the (tootle. To let the
chickens into the patch if practicable is
an excellent assistance to the market
gardener, as they will rat the insects
greedily.
The iiotato crop this year will un
doubtedly fall far short of last year, and
prices will ooucpicntly be higher.
Sonic Fathfrly Advice.
" Is the father of this offspring here?"
inquired his honor of the Detroit police
court, os n boy named William Barron,
aged seventeen, came out.
No answer.
" Bub, you are charged with loafing,
Wing drunk and disturbing the ponce,"
continued the court.
" Bub " looked up indignantly. He
hail commenced to coax out a mustache,
chewed tobacco, carriml a pistol, and be
had an idea that ho was a full grown
man.
"I have no doubt of your guilt," con
tinue*! his honor, " but 1 shall not send
yon up. They linvc no uursing bottles
up there—no cradles —no one. to get up
in the night and give you catnip ten. I
know you have the idea that you arc n
man, and I presume yonr parents have
lost control of you, but you are only a
child in the eyes of the law. If you
w>re a child of mine I should spank you
and tic yon into a high cliair for an hour
or two, but as you nre not I shall send
yoti Wok. into the corridor ami wait for
your father to come and draw you home
m n baby cart. Follow Bijah, bub, and
if there la a rattlo-Wx or a whistle to lie
found around the building bo will give
you amusement."
The Kiss of Brat Unite.
Speaking of Jefferson Davis's recent
journey a Monthem paper nays : On the
return trip there were two beautiful
young hull en on the train, who, when
they were introduced to the Confederate
chief, kissed ilia hand, and the grand
old man, with princely courtesy, bowed
low anil with lips which have spoken
worda of stern command amid the tire of
Iwittle, which have thrilled nud swayed
acnatea, dictated the policies of States,
and marshalled the hosts of the Confed
eracy to a conflict which startled and
astonished the world, touched tho aoft
white lianda that lay like snowdrops in
hia own, while to tho fair one'a cheeks tho
blush rosea stole and mingled wuli the
lilioa there, 'flio struggle of life in
fierce, ami to those who are leaders of
States and kingdoms too often bitter ;
yet when woman bestows the kiss of
Eatitude and reverence upon the hero's
nd, scarred though ho be by war,
broken by cares of State and increasing
years, calumuiuUul by malice ana
cowardice, in that uallowed moment he
feels the strife, the labor, the sacrifice,
was not without a sweet and holy re
compense.
French Reporter* aud their Way*.
An American journalist writes from
Paris iu regard to the manner of obtain
iug reports of the proceeding* of the
Cirpn LegiaUtif by the city jaqwrn. He
records aa a foot that some deputies,
over timid of iqx*ech, have a triek of
writing out their harangues beforehand,
delivering but a tenth of them, and yet
handing the entire manuscript to the re
iMirters for the latters' convenience. It
is not rare to find iu such manuscripts
that the orator has forestalled the judg
meut of his colleagues, atul appended
with Ids owu hand tilt* modest record of
cheers anil general eutliiniosoi. One of
the royal princes in the Assembly i al
leged to liave goue even further. His
speech being a short oue he hfel learned
it by heart, but liad arranged that at a
certain poiut one of his fnends should
iutegrnpt, so as to furnish him with the
opportunity of making a witty rebut.
Unfortunately, the frieud lost his reck
ouiug. The priuce {tauaed as precon
certed: no interruption came; ue vert he
lees his royal highuMW imperturlstbly
exclaimed: "The honorable gentleman
interrupts me; • • • all I can say
is," etc. And in the manuscript handed
to the reJKirters, tile ejaculation never
uttert-d was found faithfully chronicled
along witli the witticism which was
pronounced.
Newiqaqs r editors art* entitled for a
wodAte yearly jayment to receive
trie reports drawn up by the
offilMr staff (which reports, by the way,
are revised by the Assembly's president,
who lias a right to suppress wliat he
pleases); but most journals liave also a
r-|>rter, whose business it is to sum up
the incidents of tlie debate iu a free aud
CONY style. These summaries d<-ul more
with the j-ersomd j>eculiariti<*s of mem
bers, their infirmities of U-mjier, the
clothes they wear, and. bt-ing generally
interlarde<l with }<artiMUi tvuumeuU. are
at once more attractive and more calcu
lated to mialeoil tliau are the ordinary
reports. Under the empire islitors were
forbidden to print the wsiuteumdm
paratUU *, as they are cul!*l, it tx-ing
well kuowu that the public read them
but too eagerly; and really a study of
the summaries iu |Mpera like the figaro
aud the f{apil—U> take tlie two ex
tremre in opinion—make one doubt
whether it was wise to abrogate the iin
jH-riid law. Is reeixy-t for Uie Legudat lire
much euhouissl by such humorous re
porting as this! "M. X. ofexluh-d Lie*
tribune iu the everlasting pair of gray
trousers In* wore last session. His vuice
was crack<xl as though lie had ajx-ut the
recess in shouting aloise at the tailor who
wished to coax him inbj ordering a new
suit of clothe*." • • "When. M. Z.
arose tin-re was a general murmur of
' Who U that:' for tlie unfortunate man
lias allowed his ls-ard to grow, and there
is no end to the carroty furze which now
bristles over hi* feature*." • •
" When M. A. speaka be always asks for
a glass of water and some sugar not a
glass of sugareil water. Note tlie dif
ference. The fact ui, he let* the wati-r
alone and puts the sugar iu his |Kx*keta."
Absence of Mind.
We heartily concur with the Philadel
phia Ixilyr it) ita axM<rtiou that among
the Imul habits, which are usually claascd
with the minor faults of tuankiud, ia that j
of absence of mind. Say# the writer:
We hare all laughed at the awkward
blunder* of the alwont minded, their ir
relevant remarka, their ludicrous nii- j
hike*, their forgetfulneas of tlx- ordinary
proprietiea of life. Often, however,
serious reettlta euaue through these
neeming!y trivial oversights; property
ia wasted, friend* <-*traugd, loaaes in
enured, health and even life aacriftood.
In time of strong excitement or peril of
any kind, nothing in ao valuable aa
presence of mind. It ia not exactly
courage, or fortitude, or aagacity, or
jinigment, but rather the calm and Well
|H>i*od ability to marshal all theae foroea
into action just where and when they
are met needed. How many liven hare
been aavcil and disasters averted by this
simple endowment! How much <4 the
heroism which we delight to houor may 1
le traced to tliia potent source !
It is precisely Qua attribute of which
the atneut minded man is destitute, i
Whatever be his knowledge, or wisdom,
or skill, however excellent liw motives
and intentions, however great his
power* and capacities, he luis not that
control over them that insures the right
ful action of each in its own time and
place. He is continually off guard, sur
prised, confused, unprepared. His mind
may !>o of tho finest order, but it is not
at its post of command, and his power*
are scattered and lost like soldier* with
out s leader.
Much of this absence of mind might
lie avoided if concentration of thought
upon one subject at a time were made a
prominent part of education. Children
should lie accustomed to think earnestly
for short periods, and then to dismiss
tho subject wholly from their minds.
Weariness, listlesanoss, and half-hearted
attention should always tie prevented.
It is far I letter for a child to play with
liis whole sonl than to play with but a
fragment of it. If lie be thus trained iu
his youth, if work and play and study, I
each in their turn, absorb hini utterly
for the time, there will bo but little
danger of hisgrowiug up to be an absent
mimled man. Those in mature life who
have unfortunately acquired this jierni
cions habit may, by n similar process of
self-culture, gradually overcome it. No
one who indulges in it can make the
most of his powers in any direction or
give out to the world his full value ;
and certainly r.o one in "our present
varied and complex civilization can fulfill
his manifold relations in life unless lie
resolutely bring all tho powers of his
mind to tionr upon Mob one of them in
its own appointed season.
The Wits of the Press.
"Ocn. Sheridan was married in his
spnrs." This was a grave eirnr ou his
part, for now he will go the rounds of
the funny jwragraphists somewhat after
this sort. Tho Itoston Advertiser will
remark tliat it was proper he should
have his spurs at n bridal. The Chicago
Trifniw. will probably contradict the
rumor, asserting that it has uot a bit of
truth. The Detroit Frrr JWM will
bo|>o that the general will curb his tern :
|H<r lietter than when he was a sir single
and not pommel any of his wife's rela
tions. The Rochester Democrat will in
sist that these remarks ore calculated to
inako tho groom feel soddley. Rut the
Boston Poat will exelaim: "What boots
it f Why stirrup such n commotion.
And then then the lesser wits will buckle
into the work and use up the entire liar- j
ness.— Jlartfortl Courant.
Net Afraid.
A man ordered a most elalwrnto din
ner at a restaurant, which he enjoyed
ami praised much—after which lie light
ed a cigar and sauntering up to the land
lord, deolared his inability to pay for it.
"But I don't know you," said Boniface.
"Of course, or you would not have
given me a dinner." The enraged mnn
seized a pistol, collared the offender, and
taking aim at his head, said: "Now,
see if you get away without paying for
that dinner." "What is that in your
hand?" gasped the impecunious cus
tomer, drawing back. "That, sir, is a
pistol." "Oh ! that's a pistol, is it? 1
don't care a fig for a pistol; I thought it
was a stomach pump."
Flo* era.
The country loaka at no time more
rich and beautiful, aaya the New York
I'onrs, than when in spring the trees are
in full leaf, witli all the brilliancy of
their verdure; the crops are fresh and
green with rapid growth; the lands, as a
rule, are clean and well tended, as at
this time of year they of necessity must
lie; and iu the meadow* the grass and
clover are fast hastening to maturity.
Trees and shrubs are in blossom, aud
the whole aspect is oue of life, health,
and luxuriance. Hut you may visit very
uuuiv farmhouses, very many country
resiliences of mty men, without fiuding
a well planned flower garden. Here and
there a former's wife may be found who
ho* a taste for such things. Bhe has a
j few flower I teds which she cherishes on
tho front lawn. Approach them, and
you must walk knee-deep in grass, ouly
to see, perhaps, a lot of drawn-out
}M*tunias, or a group of sickly- ponnie* at
tlie b-ittoui of a grassy well. If she
liave a sou! a little alsive {tansies, s|ie
will apologize for the atak* of the lawn ;
but the grans is growing up for bay, she
tells you, and the flower* meanwhile
liave to get along an best they can.
flower* do not pay, but grass is money,
is the scutimcut which too much pre
vails.
lint ia it true thut flowers <lo not pay I
In tin* flint place, wo deny altogether
the doctrine that nothing jmyti which ia
not convertible into doUant and cent*.
A few dollars will auffloe to provide all
the material for a very excellent flower
garden. A moderate amount of labor
will suffice to get such a garden into
order, and to keep it so. Hull, there
must 1m the ex|M>uditura of a little
money and of aome trouble, and besides
that, there is the loaa of probably a
couple of dollars more in the desirability
of not turning tlie lawn into a hayfleld.
On the other aide of the account, we
confess that no dollars are to be placed ;
but there are profits of another kind.
The custom of measuring everything by
its money value is a mistake. It ia im
pressed uj* 'ii the minds of boy* and
girls from their infancy, and there ia no
U llxug how much evil springs from it.
The farmer who teaches his boys that
the garden lawn must be tinned into
dollar*, would do them an infinitely
greater service if he would devote that
lawn and its flower beds to the culture of
his rhihlrru's msthetic faculties. They
might possibly grow up more honest,
and they would certainly grow up less
nigged and uncouth.
Tlie city merchant who moves into
the country every spring, and takes a
♦ort of city house*on a village lot, may
think tlint he is giving himself and his
family all the enjoyments of country
life. He is to be* there only a few
months, and he argues that to cultivate
(lie little plot of ground around the
hooae would not jwv. Ho he ia content
to let its nakedness be covered with
word*. Hut for the same reason that
be sdorua bis {sudors with works of art,
and cultivated the elegancies of social
life in his city mansion, should he also
All his garden villi flowers. His wife
and children, his friends, and be him
self, too, would reap the reward iu the
influence which snch luxuries, cheap
though tbev be, have upon the mind
Fanners and permanent resident* of the
country have no excuse whatever for not
enjoying and letting their families enjoy
all the advantages which the country
affords. The few dollars they may save
by their present plan are more tlian set
off by the loaa which accrues to their
children in education—for mental train
iug is a* much a part of education a* the
mere acquisition of school learning.
And the sooner a desire to improve every
means for attaining that end ta*oom-s
general, the sooner we shall have at
tained to the llrst step towar*l a higher
standard of mental and moral culture.
Casting off its Ureas.
Speaking of the pine snake of New
Jeraey, a writer toil us how it casta ita
skin aa follows : On looking iu the box
near the close of September the skin
was found to be started from the head,
and the process of denudation was
steadily going on. What surprise*! me
! was tiiat there was not the hast friction
iu the act ; that is, there was no rub
bing against anv exterior object. As
the old skin at this time was very soft
and moist, any awelling of the body
stretches and loosens it So aoon as tlic
exuviation has reached the part of the
body containing the large ribs this
iloflt'ig of the old suit procec*la more
rapidly, and with a singular system. It
,is done just in this way. Exactly at the
place where the akin seems to be mov
ing backward a jiair of riba expand.
Tins action enlarges the laxly, and
looaeus the skin nt that place. In this
movement both ribs in the pair act at
the same time, just as the two blades of
the scissors open big*-Iher. Now comes
in a second movement of this pair o
ribs. One of them— nay tin* one on the
right side—is pushed forward, and made
b> slip out of the constriction, when it
is inimediatnly drawn 1 nick ward ; tlmt
is, against the neck of the old akin.
Now the left rib makes an advance, and
in a like manner presses backward.
Thus the final action of the ribs is not
synchronous, but alternate. This rib
action produced a singular automatic
movement of the serpent on the floor
of its box. ami even across the folds of
ita companion, which kept as atill as if
it were dead. The movement of the j
snake's tasty, as the skill did not follow
it, gave the'ereature the appearance of :
crawling out of a tubular case. The
skin was turned inside out in rolling
back, and the whole operation bxik
thirty-five minutas.
Ijirge Slxed Newspaper*.
The Bt. Isin is Gtnhr and Pramrrat
says of large nowi*}iapcrs : The immense
uewspnjioni known as " blanket sheets "
an- out of date—as antiuuab-d as silver
shoe-buckles and witch burning in New
England. For years past they luul been
falling into disfavor; but just after the
war, when greeiibacka were plenty and
shoddy show was in order, they flour
ished "for a time. Their race was soon
run, however, when the country fairly
settled down bi busineaa. While whole
columns full of startling head lines of
terrible battles and great victories were
eagerly bought ami read by anxious poo
{lo all over the country, the huge hand
lili newspaper wan in demand. But now
live mou cannot afford to waste hours
poring over whole gonlnms of conjec
tures and suppositions anil personal ar
gument* to Ibid an idea or a bit of news i
that might lie condensed inbia few linos. I
It is a loss of time and patience.
Newspapers arc like turnips—the
, smaller tin y are tho more substance
there is in them, as a general tiling, and
tho people have found this out. Hcuoe
those newspapers which give the most
information in the fewest words have
become the most popular and the most
MiKutessful. In the days when the peo
ple of America received by slow-going
stages newspapers a week old, ami ex
pected to receive no more for a week or
a moutli, according to the condition of
tho roads ami the rapidity of staling
ships, they could afford to sit down and
wudo through a blanket sheet, merely
for pastime. Hut that day has gone
by. When you go to a mau font infor
mation you want it at once, without any
prolix preamble or unnecessary addi
tion, and the same is the case with news
papers.
Terms: $2.00 a Year, in Advance.
The DridnirUon of Our Forests.
A gentleman of Ni-ln-aatui writes a
communication deploring UM rapid de
struction of the forests of the country,
in which lie aays tliAt railroads play an
imjMirtant (tart in the d*stnieoun of
tiinler, but the fences of the United
Htates are really the great consumer* of
our trees. This drain is almoat beyond
human computation or belief, and in
every Htate in the East oar farmers are
tiecoiiiiug alarmed as to wliat tliey shall
do for fence timber in the next fifteen or
twenty years. Each one is yearly eouuo
mixing more aud more his utth- store of
tiiul>er, but still ha aaea it melting away
and no new forests at hand to replace it
It is an astonishing fact that the fences
of the United Btatea have coat more than
the land, and they are to-day the moat
valuable class of property iu tlie coun
try except rail reads and real estate in the
critics. Our fences are now valued at
fit,Ht 10,0H0,000, and to keep in repair
costs $9W,000,000 annually. In niinois
it is estimated 92,000,000 is invested in
fences, si fly per cent, of which are
boards, post and rail, and forty pre cent
wire and hedge*. These fences coat
9175,000 annually for repairs, and yet
Illinois is one of our new States.
The effect of treoa upon the rainfall it
no longer a question. I nee meteorolo
gist* aud giologul* do not as to
the connection between tho rainfall of a
country taken in gro* and tho diminu
tion or increase of its forests. A peach
tree gives off eighteen pounds or abont
two gallons of moisture every twelve
hours. Tin- evaporation from the earth
through trees is immonso; tho routs
often draw from springs themselves and
throw off through their branches great
volume* of humid air. Thoae who have
watched the effect of forests on rainfall
say tliat by commencing at the edge of
any dry belt the forests and ooneequent
rainfall may gradually be extended across
the whole of the dry belt.
That we have wantonly and shame
fully destroyed our forests, I think must
now be erident to every ♦ tli riP n ff man.
We cannot undo the pest, rent we cam
still provide for the future if we set
about it in earnest and with sense.
What, then, should be done ? Let every
man remember when he fella s tree
thicker than hia body that he does an
act which he can never undo and de
stroy* that which in his short life he can
never replace. Fanners should plant
more hedges, and avoid aa for a* possible
the cutting of young timber few rails.
I>ivision fences lx*twr*en farm* ought al
ways to lie made of b*dgwo. Strong
herd law* should be passed ui the Htate*,
and slock not allowed to run at large,
thus doing away with the necessity for
so many fi-ucca. A million ut dead
capital in many of the Htate* might thus
be utilized and brought into use for
other purpuaea. States ahould make
appropriations aud foster the replanting
of forest*. Congress should enact strong
law* for the protection of timber on the
public domain, and we ahould have a
cutnmiwiunnr of forestry. Overseer* of
rood* ahould bo made to plant tree*
along the high war* at the public ex
pense, Railway* should be compelled
by law to plant "tree* along the whole of
their line* on either side of the track. _
We cannot in one or even two genera '
tioua undo all the damage that has beeo
done, but by beginning at once we may
null be able*to avert a timber famine in
the United State*.
liOts of Ptne l/Of*.
The Midland (Mich.) Inthpmtdmtt
than lUwcribni a jam in the Tittatia ■ ■ <
river: Can oar it*dera oataiile the
limits of the lumber region raaliae what
it is to ace a river, from twenty to forty
five roda across, filled, rammed, jammed
fail of pine loga for sixty miles I Tea,
if they have a mind to travel up thin way
just now and view the TiUabawaaaee,
filled in just that way, with a heavy
donble and triple jam of noble pine logs,
from Saginaw to above F.denville, a
distance of about sixty miles by the
course the stream pursues. Just en
deavor to imagine the stupendous thing,
and then consider whether or not any
work waa done in the " dim old aisles"
of the lumlter forests daring that cold
winter. Sixty miles of loga 1 Sixty
miles of loga,* and probably, on an aver
age, four million feat of lumber to the
mile, so the lumbermen inform us, or
approximately, '250,000,000 feet of nine
lumber in the whole jam! Can you take
all that in f No, not yet. Well, let n*
figure a little further: Four loga to the
thousand feet is about a fair average;
then in each log would reside two hun
dred and fifty feet of lumber, or to make
250,000,000 feet f lumtier, it would re
quire one million loga! Oau you com
prehend that figure f One million pieces.
Probably sixteen feet is about the aver
age length of those logs—it will not at
bust widely vary from thai—and then
the distance those million pieons would
extend if placed end to end in one con
tinuous line would lie 16,000,000 feet or
a little above 3,000 miles, the distance
across the American continent from New
York t> San Francisco. If sawed so that
all the waste would be worked up, this
would make almost a sufficient amount
of inch lumlter to build a sidewalk two !
feet wide completely around the globe.
All About Consumption.
Consumption is not "a disease of tlie
lungs, bnt of the system, showing itself
in the lungs. If you fully comprehend
this you are ready for the common souse
treatment. A willing all local treatment,
by inhnlatiou, all tha jwuiaoeas, includ
ing whisky and cod-liver oil < fashionable
to day, explode*! to-morrow), employ
those natural method* alxiut wliich wise
doctors have never differed. L Walk
in all kinds of weather, two or three
times a day. If too weak for this, lwgin
with the saddle. 2. Hang by the hands
in rings suspended from the muling, six
ipet above us floor, swing backward and
or ward, sideways anil in a circle. The
effect upon the walls cf the chest is
vcrv remarkable. The writer has known
such swinging to reduce the pulse sensi
bly in a week,. In such exercise con
tinue until slightly fatigued. 3. Wash
the entire skin with tepid water and
good natural soap every morning on re
turning from the first walk, and rub the
skin to redness every night ou going
to bod, with sharp liair gloves. 4. Sleep
much, retiring before nine, adding a
nap iu the middle of the day. Never
forget that good ventilation during the
hours of sleep is vital in every cose of
diaeaaed lungH. 5. Eat for breakfast and
ditiuer oat meal, crackers, wheat, mut
ton, plain bread, potatoes. Use no pas
try or other trash. Eat no supper. 6.
Cultivate jovial people. laughter is the
most precious of oil possible exercises
for chronic affections.
Beet Sugar.
The production of licet root sugar iu
Europe has increased with quiaxiug ra
pidity during the past ten years. It
has now reached sncli a point, and the
flow of the article and trio syrups ex
tracted from it into England has become
so abundant that tho sugar refiners have
protested against the further free intro
duction of those articles into the coun
try. It is stated tliat Frauee, Belgium,
and Holland are manufacturing such im
mense quantities of licet sugar that they
are underselling England in her own
markets. The total increase iu the an
nual sugar product during the last fifteen
years is put at 1,200,000 tons, and of
this increase 775,000 tons are said to
have been supplied by the beet-pro
dncing nations and oountries.
NO. 28.
A Colsui] Hutu*.
The Berlin oorrespomlent of the LOB
don Daily Newt writes to that journal;
Hpeaking of Wmtpbalin, I ought to bo
*tow * U w word* upon so artist, e native
vi that prwviuoe, whuea ttknt and per
wrmuo' barn just completed a wry
remarkable work. Bora* thirty ur forty
year* ago, when the Unity movement
bad barely commenced, Herr Ernst von
llatutel, a Wostphaliau nobleman de
voted to tbe aculptor'aart, conceived the
imtriotn- idea of erecting a gigantic
ntattuj to Hermann, the vanquisher of
Variu in the Teutobunr forest. A grand
national monument, the statue waa to
roach tit* . t tortuous proportions of one
bundml Utat, not to apeak of pedestal
and base; and aa it waa to b placed on
Urn too of a hill, the oil* of victory, the
difficulty of gutting it in poattfot not a
little added to the magnitude of the tin
dertakiag. la apits of ail obrtnrtc*.
what appeared a chimera thirty year*
ago baa now become a reality. Assisted
by wealthy friend* and oooaaional pub
lie subscription*. Herr von Bandel baa
completed the figure, ami in two month*
expert* to witueaa the aoientn inaugura
tion of hie monument by the German
emperor. The atatoe ia of cmbuaaed
copper and baa been wrought by the
band of the man whooe brain created it
Hi* whole life ha* been consumed ia this
one object. When he had done model
ing—no small tank in theoaae at a figure
with hand* five feet long --be took to the
hammer and forge, and literally formed
the immenae surface with hi* own un
aided strength. A good deal of it waa
dune at the foot of the hill whereon it
stands, the ecoiptor having built himself
a forge and a hot clove to the chosen lo
cality. If tire whole ia aa imposing aa
the head, which I aaw tan year* ainoe,
Germany will posses* not only the larg
est, bat alao one of the best statu.* u '
Europe. Tin* eighth wonder of the
world will tower over the famous oak I
wood* mar li.-tniold, the capital of the
principality of Lippe.
A Farm trtwl
A writer in Srribner'i tar July gives
t gives an interesting aooouut of a farm
> school be visited in Frame. The insti
tution ia the property at a Mr. Rodin,
a large agricultural implement manufac
I turer, who thus geta the aravioee of
twenty-four industrious voung men on
I hi* farm. The school, which ts a gov
! ernmeut institution, was intereating,
and, allowing tar the difference of eaa
; tome, may have some good suggestion*
| for our own feeble institutions of a aimi
i IST cfiarartcr. Twelve apprentieaa, who
mart be at least seventeen yean old, are
i received each year; the course is for two
j yean; the object to to train competent
farmer*, f*rm superintendeota, garden
! era, and nurserymen; the apprentice*
! work like farm Ist orent for the benefit
of the proprietor (who to alao the direc
| tor of the school). In addition to the
: director, there are a gardener and
narMeryman, an instructor in mathronat
! tes and farm bookkeeping, a toucher of
{tractical agriculture, and a veterinarian;
the pupils (or apprentice*) are under
; constant Hpervimon, and are allowed to
leave the farm only for a certain time on
Sunday; the hour* are from four to nine
j in summer, and from five to nine in win
ter, which time to almost entirely oocu
< pied by work and study; the regime*) to
very simple, but nourishing and
ch-ut. At the end of the ooorwe, the
graduate* are examined by the commit
tee. The Itert receive from the State
three hundred franc* and a certificate.
Those who an not found worthy of a
ccrtifioato receive, uevrtip>leaa, two
j hundred franca.
A Lorg While on its Travel*.
The Danville (N. Y.) Adrrrttaer says
! that on Mav 28, of this year, Momw
George, of that village, a veteran of the
war of 1812, who haa passed hi* eightieth
year, extracted from hi* groin a bullet,
which wa* buried there by the rafie of an
! Indian at the battle of Cliippeww, am the
sth day of Julv, 1815. The bulls struck
■ the inside of the right leg near the groin
a* the soldier ww* wheeling into line, and
badly shattered the thigh bone. The
bullet weighs a full half ounce and to
concave on one aide, showing the im
prern of the bone which it struck. It to
somewhat blackened, but beneath a thin
i coating the lewd to aa pure and bright a*
it waa over half a century ago. The limb
haa shortened six indie* or more, and
below the thigh and reaching nearly to
the knee to thickly scarred, where pieces
of shattered bone, over fifty in all, from
i time to time, worked out. The bullet
did not return by its original entrance,
but came to the eurfaoeabout four inches
above, and was taken out by the veteran
himself without the aid of instnuneuta.
Notable Igneraace.
The Boston Otobe has a good can-
I ten nml story from its Washington corre
spondent. According to this veracious
; chronicler, a party around the breakfast
; table were talking of George Washing
' ton. Among them sat an Euglidi gwn- i
■ tleman, a recent importation, but. a man
1 uf extensive travel, whose intdligeuce
Znt all urdioocy topic* was uuqneetion
e. tiuddtmly, like a bombshell, there
( fell among us a query from our Britisher:
"Abb! Ak-hl Mr. L.; this Mr.
Warirington" (sha.loof my grandfather); I
I "to he dead f There was a aeoond's
silence, but the evident and unsuspect
ing innocence of the Englishman was
too much for American good manners,
and somebody exploded " Christopher
Oolumlma" Imagine some Atrnvioaa of <
good social position sitting under the
shadow of an English flag and asking if
Queen Bess were dead !
A Fatal Cigar.
If a gentleman must smoke while rid
ing with a lady, he ought be be careful
' not to let sparka from nto cigar fall upon
the lady'w dress. A recent fatal aoci
■ dent iu Winooski to supposed to have
originated in this way. Two young
| ladies were riding with a lrtend, when
one of them remarked that her feet were
; warm, and shortly afterward jumped 1
| from the carriage and ran down the road
i with her clothing on fire. She waa soon t
overtaken by her companions, and the
' tlame* were subdued, but not until both I
| of the ladies had been eo terribly burned
that one of them, Miss Mary Daily, has
since died, and the other one, Miss
Honors Daily, to still confined to her
lied. It to snppoeed that the lady's j
dress was set on fire \>y sparks from a
cigar which the gentleman had been ;
smoking.
The Book Agent Plague.
When he got to Webster City, the
traveler didn't understand at first why
all the doors were locked, the first-story
shutters barred, and no sign of life In
sight, save a few frightened eyes looking j
fearfully through the half turned slat of
the attic blinds, and an oocaatenal dog ;
that peeped cautiously forth from under j
a porch to growl and dive back again
into obscurity ; but when he turned a
comer and "came suddenly upon six j
female hook agents trying to climb up a ,
lightning rod to an open window on the
second story, he took it all in, and with
the speed and silenoe of unmanly terror,
fled for the woods. But they pursued
him with Mdeons howl* and talked him
to death on the run, finishing him np in
just a mile and three-quarters. Tune,
1.37}.
Why to a compositor like a cripple f
Because he can't get on without a sack.
Item, of latent.
What plee of carpentry becomes a
gam aa soon aa ftuiahsd f-A-gate.
1 Albany, N. f., now ha* double the
latum of the State uf Hew fort in
The man who ia too poor to take a
newspaper ia to poor too have a wife and
1 childixm.
There vara 800,009 to 800,000 atran
, ger* in Boston the day of the centennial
oclehrattob.
Jenka says a blacksmith raises a row
. liu the alplmlirt when ha make* a poks
- j r and above L
Japanese law reqniiua that when a per
son cuts down a tree be ahall'at once
plant another,
A pigeon moat haa been discover < A at
>n, Minn., nine tuilaH in length and
three in breadth.
Alum and plarter of Peri*, wall mixed
in water and need ia the liquid state,
' forma a hard cumpooation and is a anfd
cement.
The region around Lake Superior la ™
: i overrun by aspkwiag parties in search of
• j stiver, which said U> abound in large
9 quantities.
t PhiL tjbaridan'a bride ia nearly half a
f bead taller than be. Bat be coaster-
I ; balances this advantage by kee ping bia
, hair cat abort
The Celestial Order of Hi Pi liad a
• wiling match at the Pagoda, Jersey
jjtJity, S. J., at which only Chinese words
r ' were given ant
l itis a pleasant to ana roaea and
lilies glowing Upon a voting lady's c heek,
but a bad sight to aee a man's face break
> out in hlomom*.
1 | •' That beat's all I" aa the man aaid
whan be aat down to bia first dinner In
' the new houaa an moving day and found
the anpply abort.
; Coffee, says the Springfield firpub't-
I eon, should be browned at least twice a
week. Bat how many brownings will it
,! stood beforw it born# up t
i! " Why, Jennie, you look good enough
to eat,*' aaid a loving husband to bia
i wife one morning at breakfast. "Wall,
i > I'm eating aa fast aa I can, ain't I f"
I | It ia said that the wealthiest journalist
in America ia A. 8. Aboil, of the Haiti
>' more whose property to <*timated
■ ] at from seven to ten million doilars.
A man is aaid to be absent-minded
when he thinks be haa left his watch at
home, and takes it out of Ma pocket to
, j aaa if be haa time to run home and get it.
[ j When a reporter atanda three hour*
1 i watching two painters at wart on a acaf
! fold, and waiting for a rope to break, it
i. may, indeed, be called native journalism,
"lam having myself taken in oil,"
aaid a well kuown phmoan, complacent
jjly looking round. "Cod-Uvw, I aap
• pone," gruwkd an experienced patient.
In August, 1887, Mrs. Mary Church'
of Newport, K. L, deposited SBO in a
savings bank. In 1961 she draw S3O,
and a week ago found $866. 01 to bar
credit.
1 An " honest" man, when
1 caught in the act < f diahlling, the other
1 day, explained that he waa jnat making
a little for Ma lick wife, merely twenty
. gallons.
District visitor, blandly- "Wall, dame,
and bow do you find thing* nowf"
Crusty old cottager—"How do I find
things i Why, by looking arter 'em, to
, beanie."
A Newark girl hastened the departure
. of a lingering gentleman caller the other
evening by remarking aa she looked out
of the window: ** I think we shall have a
beautiful vannae.
A Kansas City man has written three
affecting letters announcing hi* suicide,
and is waiting for his father to sand on
some money for funeral iTunaaas, which
will enable him to begin life anew.
A Long Branch beauty una weighed
in bt r promenade costume, and tamed
the scales at one hundred and ninety-five
■ pound*. In her bathing dree* abo
' : weighed one bundled and five pounds.
; I A prosecution haa been begun against
| a Nuremberg paper tor inadvertently in
serting aa advertisement apparently ia
cypher, which when tend backwards,
.. cuustoted of reflections on Prince Bis
marck.
At Yonkem, N. Y., Henry Bates, aged
nineteen, was sentenced to the Albany
penitentiary for one year on his o>mf<*-
won of having broken into 84. John's
church and rued the poor box ot its
contents.
An adveatorong aeronaut in London
has expressed his intention of bring far
a week in a balloon. It will be captive,
but the ropes which confine it are to be
unusually strong, and his serial home ia
to be moored at a good height above
the earth.
Gen. Sherman assured a reporter of
the Chicago Thnet that it was at the
' i " urgent personal aelkstataon of George
Bancroft, combined with that of the his
torian, Dr. John Daper of New York,"
that be allowed his recently-published
memoirs to aee the light.
How sweet is a perfect understanding
between man and wife. He waa to
smoke cigars when he wanted them, but
he was to give bar ten cants every time he
indulged m on*. He kept hia word, and
every tune she got fifty cunts ahead, he'd
borrow it and ray cigars. And so they
were happy.
Among the divers and sundry import
ed articles consumed in ibis country
during the year' 1874 were 1,636,335
jHwnsd* of-arwnic, 789,787 pounds of
onrapber. 116,avt pounds of jalap, 26,-
202 jmanda of ipeoac, and 287,'213
pounds ot nnx vomica. The only won
; |>er m thatauybody is left to tell the tale,
j , A young lady died in New York,
whose death is said to have been caused
by having her hair bleached from black
to a bright golden color, the poisonous
bleaching material, it is rappoeed, affect
ing the brain. The safest way ia to let
nature dye the hair aa she thinks best,
and bleach it in her own way, when the
proper time comes.
A young man appointed to a clerkship
in the Treasury department was con
ducted to his desk and informed what
his duties were. Hie chief of the de
partment discovered him comfortably
reposing in his seat with lna feet charac
teristically resting on the desk.
"Hello," said the chief, "didn't you
expect to do any work t" " Worn !"
exclaimed the astonished youth, " I had
to wort hard enough to get here."
Jay Oooke is credited with this mode
of fishing *t Put-in-Bay, for a description
; of wtooh all l**j fisherman will be thank
ful: He had a'laige glass jar filled with
minnows, in the place which he fre
quented. The big fishes would swarm
i around the jar, seeing their coveted pray,
and hungry for the exported feast, lie
would drop his hook among them, and
haul out the victims of hu novel de
lusion with the utmost ease and readi
ness, until tired of the unsportsmanlike
sport.
| On a street car the ottwr day a boy
i made a sudden grab among the straw,
j caught something, and, as he straight
! ened up, ho inquired : " Who's lost a
fifty cent pieoe! Seven men held out
their hands to him, and four wanted to
but felt afraid. There was a painful
pause, and then the boy nndnsped his
hand and exhibited a panto bntton.
Seven men suddenly sank back to medi
tate, and the other four indulged in
' winks.
The London Laneet, discussing foot
ball as a college sport, says that while
it ia perfectly safe when engaged in by
boys who are sound and healthy, yet
with grown up men the case ia different.
Foot-Mil is essentially a rough-and-tum
ble game, and -a man does not fall a*
lightly or as clever as a boy can. A col-
I limon which simply " knocks the wind
t out" of the latter, may seriously injure
or even rupture some important organ
! in the former.
There are but three persons who are
in possession-of life poSscs on the Hud
son River railroad. One of these per
son* is John B. Jarvis, ol Rome, N. Y.,
who was the first engiae| of the road.
His wife is another who possesses a life
KHis wag issued hs 1856, hero in
The third prison is Governor
Kimball, of W<*t Point. These passes
are composed of solid rilve*. upon which
are engraved the name of the possessor,
date when given, occupation, etc.
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