Soul Time 1* Summer Time. "I wandered forth alone." sang she, '• When summer flower* were young. And bird* made merry eong* for me. The summer woods imong ; And gayly, gayly darco.. the rill. And balmy was the air ; lint there was eotnething 'ailed me still. Though all tho land was fair. ( " The blossoms all are dead," she ring*, " That graced the summer time . And summer birds hav* spread tlieir wing*. To seek a softer clime. The wintry sky is dark above ; The silent woods are bare, But thou ait near me, oh. raj love. And all the land is fair." Longing. Near in the forest 1 know a glade; Under the_t ree-tope A secret shade. Tinea are the curtains, lil.wsoms the floor; Voices of water* Sing evermore. There, when the sunset's I juices of gold Pierce, or the moonlight Is silvery cold. Would that an angel Led thee to me - tki out of loneliness Love should he. Never the breezes Should Usp what we say. Never the water* Our were! betthy. Silence and shadow After might reign. But the aid hfe be our* Never again. Btiyoni Thywp. THE IXX AT THE HAP. I was just starting out in tho world, and was twenty-two years old. I had graduated the previous year, an* I had just been trying to get au appoiutiucnt M an army surgeon; but, failing in tins, went westward, to find a place in which to commence and make my reputation. Savannah was my native place, and from there I started to find my way into Ken tueky. I should have gone ont earlier in the season, but I did not get off on my expedition nutil the last of November. In those days there were not even regu lar lines of stages over many traveled routes; but parties would join together and get somebody who had a covered wagon to carry them through from point to point, and divide the expense. It was so on the estxvial time that I pass ed through the Gap. There were six of us altogether; but the only one with whom 1 made any ac quaintance was a soldier on furlough, going into Kentucky on a visit to his relatives. He was a fine-looking, bluff fellow, with an off hand way of telling his camp-life experiences that pleased me very much, and made me regret ex ceedingly mv want of success in getting my applied for surgeonship. I had not gone very far with Sergeant Reach lie fore I confessed that 1 liked him very much, and agreed to go with him to his home, and look around in that neighbor hood for a settlement He, ou the other side, seemed disposed to extend a sort of protection over me, for in those days I was rather a puny specimen, and looked as though I might need some thing of that kind. Before three o'clock on the day of our setting out we had dropped our passen gers, one by one aloug the road, until Sergeant Beach and myself were the only ones left About that time it came on to anow, the wind driving it into the wagon, and making everything very uncomfort able. in spite of the warmth of our clothes. Down it came, faster and fast er, until it turned out as heavy a storm as had ever been seen in that part of the country. The driver wanted to turn back, but we would not permit it, and urged the tired horses on in the hope of reaching a village. At last the effort was of no use ; and while the panting horses •topped to get a little breath we asked * the driver whether there was not any place about there where he could stay for the night. The mail hesitated, and then, being urged, answered : " Yes; there's a tavern just below here in the Gap, if ye like to stay there." " What is the matter with it f" was Sergeant Beach's question. & didn't know. Had never seen anything himself, but had heard a great deal of talk. We might stay there all night if we liked ; but as for him, he'd go hock a mile or two anyway, and get atabling for his horses, and come over for as in the morning. We tried to say something to the man, but it waa of no use ; and so we were obliged to consent to the arrangement, and the horse* were onoe more urged forward, and in a few minute? we found ourselves hallooing in front of a large, tr painted board house, a rarity m this part of the country, with out a, sign of a light, for it waa then after dark, glimmering through it* window* With some trouble we aroused the in mates, and got admittance; and the land lord, a large, sullen looking man, who eyed us and our baggage very strangely, kindled a fire himself ; while his wife, a slatternly woman, went about getting u* some rapper. Very S'>on there wu a smoking dish of nome kind of stew upon the table, smelling rather good, and some hot corn bread. To my astonishment, though the sergeant drew np to the opposite side of the table at the same time as I did, he at once turned to the landlord and asked whether he bad nothing cold in the house. Yea, he had a wild chicken. I declared I would rather have the stew; but a quick kick under the table broke me off before the preference was half expressed, and the landlord left the room to get a chicken, as well as to boil some eggs which Beach had ordered. He liad scarcely time to whisper to me, impressively, to do as I saw him do, and eat nothing but what he eat, when the Landlord returned with the fowl. I did not exactly understand the matter, but I obeyed orders, and eat as I bad been instructed, all the time much an noyed by the slipping in and out of the landlord and his wife, one of them, as it were, continually mounting guard over us. At last, the sergeant, as I thought, simply to remove the silence and re straint, spoke to the landlord. " Anybody stopping here for the night, landlord?" " Nobody but a traveling parson," answered the landlord, sullenly. "He's going into Tennessee to try for blz"- neas." " Wliat's his name ?" was Beach'snext question. " Name—name !" was the landlord's answer, as though thinking. " Let me see ! Guess it's Graham, or suthin' o' that! Yes, it's Graham." " May be Mr. Graham would come in and have a little talk with us." The landlord went out to bring in Graham. In a few minutes they re turned, Graham making an awkward bow as he entered, and saying some thing awkwardly that at onoe struck me as unlike a clergyman ; for however un educated were the traveling preachers of those days, they were all men who knew and practiced the amenities of life, and were at ease in whatever society they were thrown. The sergeant gave him one quick reading glance, as he came in, and then welcomed him to the hositali ties of the supper. The evening soon passed away, with no desire to prolong it, for Graham quickly showed himself an ignorant man, without conversation. The landlord was readied, and a request was made for our rooms. I had scarce got into my room and commenced undressing myself, when my door, which had no fastening, opened, and in walked the sergeant, carrying hi* haversack, and withont his lamp.. I was surprised, and made some expression of it. " Hush! man, if you know what you axe about 1 We're in a den of thieves KRTvD. KURTZ, Editor and Rropriotor. VOL. VIII. aiul murderers ! I shall star here to* uiglit, aiui ait iu that chair I" 1 opened my eyea wide. Th wr geant directly examined the d<>>r, an.l found it without fastening but the latch; ami thou tli other, leadiug iuto a side room, which was iu the name condition. Without addressing another word to me, ho wont, in a bUHines* liko way, to las haversack, ami took from there, first, a jaur of holster pistols; ami secondly, tlio horro'. ami stock of a carbine, sepa ratol for ease of carriage. Tho last ho put together iu a few moment*, ami loaded with a brace of Italia ; the first ho examined carefully, reorimed, ami handed mo one of them. Then taking the lamp, ho act it carefully on a stool, half way between the door ami the chair ou which he projHtaM to ait, and then coming up to me, issued his orders. •• You take up your position ou the bed, ami wutch that door, pointiug to the ouo leading from the side room. Don't fire until I have done so ami missed, and then take the best chance you can get" " Why, you don't think, sergeant, tliat tliose two men will attack us f" 1 asked. depn>catiugly ; for though 1 did uot like the way the landlord acted, 1 had no thought there was any danger. " Those two men!" he whispered, frowning. " Twro! for all we know, there are a dozen in the house. That landlord's wife was uo woman. It was a mau, as certain as I am !" A shudder ran over me at this, for I instantly remembered that the woman had a sharp and masculine look, that added mnch to the unpleasantness of her beiug iu the room below. I kept still some time thinking of this, and within fifteen minutes I distinctly saw the door 1 had beeu bidden to watch open, and the shadow of a head cast upon the wall. The sergeant was within my line of sight, and with the movement of the door 1 could see his carbine rise, and hear the click of the hammer. A moment elapsed, and the door slowly dosed, and once more all was still. I lay perfectly quiet, not daring to speak to the ser geant, and so another hour rolled past. Then, once more, that door opened as before, and once more the shadow ap peared, once more <he carbine roee, and the click was heard, and once more as aileutly the shadow disappeared, and the door was closed. It was a long and weary night that we watched without speaking, ami not withstanding the danger, I could uot sometime* avoid falling iuto a few min ute*' doze, from which, every time tliat I would start up, there sat.the sergeant, immovable as a statue, hi* carbine rest ing on hi* knee, and facing the door. Morning came at last, the first streak of daylight, and we began to stir. The agreement with our driv, r wa that he was to be with us at daylight, whether it continued to snow or not. The drift was deep, but it hail ceased to fall, and punctual to his promise, the mau was before the house with his wugou. I thought he gave a start of surprise as we made our ajqiearanoe at the door. A* on the night before, the sergeant declined the cooked dishes and coffee, and calling up the cold fowl and a few more eggs, we made our breakfast. " Keep your eyes open, and your hand on your pistol all toe time, but under your coat!" was Beach's whis pered injunction to me, when we had finished eating, and were about going to the wagon. No sooner were we seated in the vehi cle than Graham made his appearance, and begged that he might be allowed to go on with us for a few miles to a house where he wa* to stop the rest of the day —a favor that, to my surprise, Beach instantly granted. We were no sooner under way, say a quarter of a mile from the house, than 1 haw the sergeant began to feel rapidly in his pocket*, and about his person, H move that astonished me as much as it did Graham, Then suddenly he burst forth with: " Heaven and earth, doctor, I've left my wallet and all my tnouey under my pillow ! I must go back." For au instant I was staggered, but I saw there must be somethiug in it, and kept silent " Can't your friend go for it f" Graham asked. I made ro response, only wrapping myself closer in the wagon blanket " I'll go, if you want me te>," were Graham's next word*, doubtfully. " I wish you would, dominie," wa* Beach'* rather coaxing riwponse. " You're a younger man than 1 am ; and, you see" —this he said whi-peringly—"l don't like to trust every!*sly." Graham gave a rather pleased spring from the wagon, and went off rapidly towards the house, disapja-aring at a turn in the road. No sooner was he ont of sight than Beach instantly brought his pistol to bear njvm the driver, and addn**ed him : " Sec here, stranger, I don't know anything aixuit you. You may b all right, but I am determined to look out for myself. I want you to drive on just as fast a* the law allows ye, and a litUe faster. Go it now, and if ye slack up, or make any signs, you're a dead man. Lay on the lash." The driver gave one astonished stare at the sergeant, and without a word in reply, gave the horses a cut that as tonished them, aud away we went through the snow at a rate, that threw the light, dry drift all over us. That was the way we went for nearly seveu miies, nntil we reached a village, where we had the good luck to come across a recruiting party, the officer iu command of which was an old comrade of the sergeant. A few words from Beach told the whole story, and the agreement was settled to make a raid upon the house that night, and bring whatever mystery there might be within it to a conclusion. Are you sure you're right, sergeant ?" I said, after the arrangement had l>eeu made. " Hare lam right!" he echoed. "Do I look like a man to make mistakes? Bee here, doctor; I knew that fellow, Graham, in a moment. His real name w Hawkins. He has forgotten me, but I shall remember Jiim to his dying day. He was with us at Plattsburgh, and deserted after committing robtiery and murder, and I was one of the men de tached to pursue him. We overtook the scoundrel, but did not succeed in getting him, though that scar that you saw upon his cheek is my own mark. I knew it the moment I saw it, the very slash of my sal>er." Sergeant Beach wanted mc to stay be hind that night when they went down to visit the inn at the Gap, but that wouldn't suit me, so on i went. We had made all our arrangements in ad vance. Two new men, unknown to the landlady, were to go in citizens' drees, and put up in the inn, and when fairly housed, long enough to draw together those who operated within its bounds, we were to rush in and take the party. The thing was well managed in all re spects but that of being too quick. The two sent in became timid, and gave the alarm too quick, the result of which was we surrounded the house, and, rushing in, took only the landlord, his wife ana the assumed preacher prisoners. A search through the premises at onoe dis closed the dread nature of what had been going on there for years. Clothing and effects of murdered men, blood stains, and papers that would only have been relinqnished with life, bedding, with the fresh blood-drip upon it, and knives that spoke positively of a mur derous use. The soldiers had not been five min utes in the house before they had turned THE CENTRE REPORTER the landlord's wife into a hard featured, muscular, grey eyed rascal, young, but full of villainy; and we had not lteeu tell minute* on our route with the prisoners toward* some place of security I adore the landlord gave iu and made free con fession, charging Graham with Iwiug tho inciting muse and working the whole thing. Graham's mouth twitched fearfully, especially wheu, after an hour's travel and eiamination of the sergeant under the full glare of the sun, his memory came l>ook as to who he was. Theu, perhaps feeling thdt his life was gone anyhow, he made one dash into the swamp skirting the mad, and although he was twice warned to stop, kept on, plunging desiierately through the black mud. A half doaen carbines playing on him at once, ftuished the matter. We saw him fall, and sink in the dark, slimy mud, going gradually all under, and after standing nearly fifteen min utes watching the spot, the conclusion come to was that he never would trouble anybody any more, and ao we weut on. The landlord and lus pseudo wife were carried down to the county town, where the court was then in session; and the result was that a cloud of witucsaca, springing from all directions, made them reapouatble for a score of murders. In less than a mouth from the day of their capture they were swinging upon one gibbet; and' the night of the hangiug some quiet party from somewhere about the country took a walk over to the Gap inn and made a bonfire of it The I'otato. Of all products of the soil there are none, except perhaps a few cereals, whose cultivation ought to be better un derstood than that of the potato. It is the most valuable of our vegetables, and the most generally grown, and it is also the one which fias been most often affected bv serious diAster. It is, how ever, st intervals during the current century that the potato crops have suf fered most. In lkhl much loss was felt by the potatoes rotting almost as soon as they were out of the ground. In 1831 and 1838 the "taint" destroyed the crop*. In 1815 and following years mur rain, or " potato disease, " as it was spe cifically called, led to famine and much suffering. During recent years dry rot, apliid*s, fungi, or some unknown cause, has affeutcd the potatoes, and in many instances destroyed them. Three cen turies nearly have passed since this veg etable was introduced into Europe, and although there are recorded instances where the supply was almost ruined by frosts, it is chiefly withiu the last fifty years only that it has fail<*d from dis ease. Whether the art of cultivating the potato has been lost; whether we have imperceptibly glided into methods of culture that are net suitable; or whether any change lias come over the plant itself, are questions undetermined. But there seems little room for doubt tliat the subject is oue which deserves the most careful attention of practical agriculturists and men of science. It is one which so intimately affects the in terest* of the community generally that it cannot easily receive too much atten tion. While, therefore, we have to re cord the appearance of a new form of the disease in Europe, it is gratifying to know tliat the progress of it is being carefully watched and all the phenomena close]v examined. It ap|xrs tolas very prevalent, and generally spread through out the country. At the same time it i* remarked that English varieties, and American varieties when grown from imported seed, a'e perfectly free. For example, in the gardens of the Horticul tural Stciety at Chiswick is a row of Regents in jx-rfect heulth ; next to them a row of Early Rose from English seed utterly ruined, and next to them again a row of the same kind from imported sued, iu the l>est oondition. Some Valuable Shorthorns. A remarkable oollection of shorthorn cnttle is now attracting atteution iu New York city, where they are awaiting ship ment to England for breeding purposes. They nntnl>er fourteen m all, and have Iveen selected by competent and experi enced buyers from every part of the United State? and Canada at the almost fabuh >u* oust of Sr2n,(X)o. Tney are the proj>erty of Mr. George W. Fox, the foreign jiartner of A. T. Stewart. Of the fourteen valuable animals three are from Kentucky, eight from New York, two from ludiuua, and one from Canada. The two mont valuable are from the celebrated plantation of Mr. A. J. Alex ander, of. Woodlawn Park, Kentucky, and for them Mr. Fox paid the sum of $10,01)0. One is a bull and the other a heifer. For the former 812,000 was juiid, and for the latter 818,000. This very choice detection of our purest and lxv,t pedigree stock cannot fail to raise oar prestige in the old country. They have been chosen for personal merit, and are to join one of the most iinportaut herds across the Atlantic. It is no easy matter to ship this vnhinhle lot of ani mals, and therefore Mr. Fox and his nu merous agent* are p rsonal'y superin tending the preparations mode for their accommodation. Numerous carjienters ire preparing stall* between decks, which will 1M- heavily pad-led, so that no matt r!iw much tho vessel may roll and toss the safety of the animals will not be in danger. The animals will be conveyed from London to th* estate-* of Mr. Fox, located at Litchtted, Stafford shire, and at Winslow, Cheshire, which are among the largest and most cele brated of cattle raising districts. The Lazy Daughter. Among the worst features of a badly minded daughter, wo would first single out indolence, or, to nee the rough and more exprssivo English word, laziness. A lazy, sofa lolling, lie * bed late in the morning young woman ia an affront to her aex, and in her own family more a curse than a blessing to her mother. Hho is a burden, and to her father an ob ject of contempt. Hhe ia also a great promoter of domestic strife, and a shock ing example to her younger sisters. Such a being crawls, instead of walking with tripling alacrity, through life. Hhe dawdles instead of works, her speech is vulgar, and altogether her ways are very bad indeed ; ami to add to her misdeeds, her health suffers through her folly, and thus she wantonly im|Hjaea a grievous tax on the purao and patience of her parents. For a girl to be idle in the flush of her yontii is to invite any and all kinds of calamities to tiefall her with blistering anguish, and, depend upon it, the downward career of most afflicted women may be primarily traced to this early and wicked habit, for it is nothing else, it being as easy for a yonng woman to be industrious as the reverse. French Artists. The Figaro gives the following dia logue of two French artists strolling through the exhibition. One asks of the other : " How are yon getting along ?" " Oh, very well," is the answer. "I ask now twelve thousand francs" (twenty-fonr hundred dollars) " for a head, and twenty thousand " (four thou sand dollars) "for a fall-length por trait." " Those are my prices also." They walk on a little further. " How many orders have yon got at those prices?" " Not one. And yen ?" " Not one either. CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., l'A., THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1875. The Old Story. Miles McSamara lives st or near Guelph, Ontario, lie came to Windsor ou Ihnuiniou day to participate in the annual celebration. He sjieut the dav pleaaautly and retired at midnight a itii the intention of rising early, iu order, as he sold to the clerk of the hotel, "to put ui a dav or two in Detroit " before in* return home. He accordingly arose early Friday morning and took the first ferry l>oat for Detroit On touching American soil he celebrated the event by taking a " drop," which he did at oue of the saloons on the dock. This accom plished lie walked leisurely up the ave uue. He saw many beautiful things in the show windows, and stopping now and then to see them he attracted the eagle eye of a sharper, who walked up to Mr. MoNamara sua touched him lightly ou the shoulder. Miles turned, and be fore he had time to say a word the stronger, grasping laith of his hands in his, gave hini a cordial shake of wel come. Mr. McNaiuara looked him in the face and quietly asked with whom he hod the pleasure of forming an ac quaintance. " Forming an aniuaintance, indeed," indignantly remarked the sharper. "Don't you know me, or are you near sighted t" Miles rhook his head dubiously, and answered tliat be didn't think they had ever met before. " Here is my card," said the sharper, drawing a printed jraiteboard containing hia full address, "lleury Little, M. 1)., Detroit," out of his coat ponkeL "Now do you know who I am I* McNamara said, musingly: "Littlel Little I why 1 never knew a doctor by that name in Guelph." That was precisely what the sharper wanted, and having ascertained where Mile* came from he had but little diffl culty in getting lus name. He knew all about Guelph, of course, mentioned the names of several prominent resi dent* of that town and soon succeeded iu ingratiating himself into McNamara'* confidence. Saturday morning shortly after day break the watchman of a vessel at the foot of Kivard street heard a sudden splosh iu the water, just off the bow of the hpat. Rushing thither he *aw a man Ntruggling in the river. He grasped a pike-pole and hauled the drowning man ashore just before he made his final pluuge. He waa laid out on the dock, rolled over, ami iuroed up side dowu until tlie water had been dunqted out of him. Iu an hour he was able to con verse, when he related his meeting with " Dr. Little," and added the old, old story —whisky, female*, more whiakv, cards, a drive and drugged lemonade. The last thing he could recall was tieing thrown ont of an Atwater street saloon, from whence in his stnjsir he wandered to the river and fell in. Gn searching hia pockets he made the discovery tliat hi* wallet, containing over fifty Julian, and Eugliab lever watch were miswing. The thieves had also stolen hi* wedding ring and a penknife. Sympathising peo ple gave him shelter until his clothes were dry, when they supplied him with a small sum of money and sent him over the river, where some merchants, to whom he told his story, bought a rail road ticket and started him for Guelph. —IMtroU AVer Prr*. A Talk in ir Match. The death of Joshua George, of War ner, says the Ooaoord (N. H.) SUmit'tr, has revived the recollection in tlie mind* of hi* old neighliors of an occurence in which ho took j>art many year* ago. Mr. George was a very great talker. He would talk by the hour, and never seem to grow weary. But he once found his match in Mr. KUery Browu. He, too, was a great talker, as well a* a great de vourer of newspaper*. Thene m n often met and talked and argued. Mr. George was sharp, often witty, and liound alway* to have the lost word. Mr. Brown was deep, and, like the late Horace Greeley, had the current iiitelli gvuee of the paper* at hi* tongue'* end. One warm summer afternoon, toward night, they met in the street near Mr. George'* residence, and engaged in a friendly conversation. Mr. Brown WHS unusually full tliat day, for some politi cal new* of a cheerful* nature had la-en received, and Mr. Brown WM explaining it to Mr George, who did not care any thing about politic*. Well, they talked until the sun went clown. The hour of ten bad come and gone, but they hooded it not. Neigbltors went past them, per haps stopped s fow moment*, and then hurried home, for the hour was getting late. Midnight oame, and these men were there, the full moon looking down upon them. The small hours came, and still they talked. It wo* Greek met Greek. One was determined to stay a* long a* the other. In the morning, a* neighbor* arose and looked out to catch the cool breeze, they saw Messrs. George and Brown still standing where they had left them many hours before. Finally, a* the situ WHS coming up, they parted, each going to hi* home. It is not posi tively known who hail the last word, but the chance* ore in favor of Mr. George. Singular Grass Rotation. Wherever the pastures of western Missouri have been destroyed by the grasshoppers, new varieties of grass have sprung up which the oldest inhabitant never saw before. The princi|>al of these is a green bunch grass of luxuriant growth, which now covers pastures and dooryarda where only blue grass has grown for many a year. Stoek eat it with avidity, and some persons eonteml that it is a tuffalo grass, while others see in it a resemblance to other grasses of the plains aud mountains west of us. A Kansas city paper says: We hope that its development will be studied by some expert in the botany of this continent, for its origin may throw a now and im portant light ujHin the origin or migra tion of the locusts. The s ed was evi dently brought here and deposited by the swarm that laid eggs in this region last fall. If brought here from Kansas or Colorado only, its identity would surely have been determined ere this by old plainsmen who are so numerous hereabout. It has put forth no seed stalk as yet, and pcrlinpa in this climate it may not go to wsal this year. Who will first inform us whence it came and what may tie expected from it! A Sociable Steer. Ahont six months ago Mr. F. A. Wright, while walking down a pleasant line near Osceola, lows, was met and aocosbnl by a restless steer, who sug gested a little promenade. Mr. Wright bad no objection, so he turned around and went back on his track, so BA to go the same way as the steer was going. Then the steer waltzed him down tliat lane, in and ont of the fence oornnra across a forty acre lot, under a bridge, through a stackyard, around a barn three or four times, under a liny wagon and out again, through an orchard over a pair of bars, into a milkhouae, through a blaekltorry patch, and up a shell-bark hiokory, and, while trying to climb the tree after him, the steer fell and broke his nock, and. if the owner of that sociable animal didn't bring suit against Mr. Wright for maliciouß mischief in killing that steer ! Bnt the jury dis charged the murderer withont a strug gle, and piled the oosts on the prosecutor. Origin of the Express Business. Traveler* on the Ijong 1 aland sound of about thirty aeven year* ago might have olioerved on board the steamer then run uiug t let ween Providence and N'ew York an undersized, delicately built, sanguine looking young man who accompanied the vosoel on alternate trijia, anil con ntautiy carried in his hand a nmall carpet bag of half a bushel rapacity, lie was William F. Harnden, and hia bog con tained the ttegiuniiig* of the exproM* for warding bu-inoM* of the United Htute*, which, with the exccptiou of the rail way* and telegraph*, now Murpawte* all other private enterprise* in the world. Born at Reading, Massachusetts, in 1812, he wss employed a* conductor of the first passenger train tliat rau iu New England, and was afterward promoted to the juration of ticket agent CU the Boston and Worcester railway. The sedentary deskwork did uot suit him, however, and in 1837 he came to New York in search of more congenial em ploymenL At the corner of Wall and Pearl *treet stood tlio old Tontine coffee house, a famous resort for the merchant* and shipowner* of those day*, and in connection with it there was an admire ble newsroom, oondtieted by James W. Hale, a local celebrity, who afterward extended his fame by promoting a cheap postal system in opposition to the gov eminent. Mr Hole was a man of varied experience and a genial diapuuition. He waa one of the most active men of his day, and Harnden went to him for ad vice in seckiug employment Hale lie come interested in Kim. and in the course of a few .lay* advised him to es tablish himself ss ail expressman be tween New York and Boston—a business never before transacted and a name never Itofore assumed. As there have lieen other claimants to the honor of haviug originated the en terprise, and as Mr. Hale is still living, 1 will rejMwt a statement which he made to me in July last. There was never a day, he sanl, that inquiries were not made at the newsroom for some peraou going to Boston or Providence. Home wanted to send small jtarcels to their friends, others letters or circulars; but the most frequent applicant* were money brokers who wanted to forward pack age* of Eastern tank notes to Boston for redemption. If. an acquaintance wws found ou the boat he was pounced upon without ceremony and burdened with the i-ockag-'s, which were sometimes worth many thousand dollar*. But if s friend did not ajqx-ar the things were often intrusted to entire stranger*, with the moderate request that they would deliver them immediately after their arrival. Mercluuit* and brokers seeking gratuitous trauMportotion for their letter* contributed largely to the excitcmeut at tending the departure of the steamer, aut many persou* will remember the nights of anxiety they have passed on tho wound when such unexpected wealth lias la-en teui|M>rarily thrust upon them. " When Harnden called upon me for advice," Mr. Hale stated, "I thought of the daily inquiries made at my office, ' Do you know anybody going to Boston this evening I' and I immediately ad vised him to travel between the two cities and do errands fur the business men. 1 also suggested that the new enterprise should be calhd 'The Ex press, * which gave the idea of speed, promptitude and fidelity." Harnden hesitated for several days, doubting whether the ncheme would be profitatile, but eventually bo decided to try it, and bought the historic traveling b-g. which is still preserved in Boston. A small slate for orders wss hung iu the newsroom, and the patron* of that institution were Ilarnden's chief pa trons. The old merchant* had become so accustomed to transportation of smaller articles without cost that thev did not readily olworvr the advantage* " the express " offered, and at th* end of two mouth* Harmleu found all hi* capital absorbed. Hi* receipts were lew* than hi* expenses, and he would have discontinued the serrioe had not sonle friends procured free jrawogeN for him on an opposition stcamlxmt. With the passage money as a subsidy, " the express " prospered, and the business so increased tliat Harnden soon engaged an assistant. Fuunj Care*. Ciesar held that to die quickly was to die happilv; an, too, thought one whose <rase was cited by Montaigne as an in stance >f fortune playing the physician. Jason I'hereus, troubled with an incura ble iiupoHthnmation, resolved to end hia pain by dying in 1 sit tie, and throwing himself in the thickest cf the fight was ran through the body, which caused the imposthumation to break, and his wound healing he found life enjoyable after all. This lucky hero, who oould brave death 1 letter than he could endure pain, owed his cure to a foe. A quinsy afflicted cardinal had to thank a monkey for a like good turn. The physicians had left hitn to die, and as he lay, luqieleasly waiting for the end, the dying cardinal saw his servants carry off everything that was movable, without (wing able even to expostulate with the thieves. At length Lis pet ape came into the room, and, taking the hint from the provident lackeys, looked round for something lie could appropriate. Noth ing was left bnt the cardinal's hat; this the npo donned, and, proud of novel headgear, indulged ill such odd antics that his all but dead mash r burst into a lieartv fit of laughter; the isy broke, and the cardinal recovered, < much to his own astonishment as to the dismay of his plundering servants. A iMint a Monkey. I was ranking a cake one day, pre paring for company, and the monkey followed me into the pantry and wutchod everything I did. Unfortunately dinner wax announced in the mnlnt of my work, and I left it, making him get out, rather againat hia will. I knew him too well to triad him in the pantry alone. After dinner I returned to my cookery. Having carefully locked the door, 1 wan mirpriaod to eee my pot them before me. Ilia attitude wax omuion*; he waa on the top of the barrel two-third* full of flour, and busily occupied. He had got hold of my egg-box, broken two or throe dozen, smashing them in the flour law mi, with all the sugar within mach. These he was vigorously lieating into the flour, ah< 11a and all, stooping now and then to take a taste, with a counte nance OH grave as a judge's. In my dis may and grief I did not scold him. Yet to see my material* so used up, and we living in the country, and guests mining! Ho hail a most satisfied air, as if he meant: "Look! the main operations of the |>antry am now aver." I had forgot ten the broken pane of glass in the window. The Swordflsh. The swordflsh is allied to the mackerel, which it resembles in form, and ia a swift swimmer. The sword is a most formidable blade, consisting of a strong straight l>onn, sharp and flat, projecting horizontally from tne nose, of which it is a prolongation. The swordflsh is found in considerable numbers off the ishuid of Martha's Vineyard, ooast of Massachusetts, at this season of 'he year. Its flesh is considered excellent food by many persons, and the annual catch in ouite large. The ordinary length of tne body of the fish at full growth is fourteen feet, and its sword six feet, or twenty feat in all. POSSIBLY IJfXCM'KST. A Kear thai a IIUe ml Uaarfta wo* l a. JaMlr lUajrl n lb* I'kariag Nwlar. The Atlanta (Go.) tbmmonu talth, publishes some remarkable statements concerning the exectitiun of Lloyd and Holsonbake in tliat State in 1872 for the murder of Judge Fish. Judge Fish waa iu 1871 appointed judge of the district oourt of Macon and two other counties by Bullock, then Governor of Georgia. A short lime sfterwarxls he was awsawsi nateif in Oglethorpe one night while on hia way from the railway depot to hia residence. A reward of sfi,oUo waa of fered by the executive for the arrest and conviction of murderers, and in a short time Lloyd and Holsonbake were or rested a*'the guilty Jiortiee and placed upon trial. The theory of the prosaou tion was that Lloyd, au old man over sixty years of age, hod been an appli cant for the iKsutiou of district judge, and that he hated his successful oppo nent. Making Holouubake la-lie ve that improper relations existed Iwtween Fish and Holsonbake'a wife, be induced him to waylay and murder hia supposed rival. 'llie prisoners were placed in a room where detectives were concealed, and it i* said that their conviction was secured principally by the statements of the deetives of the conversation they had overheard. They were sentenced to death, and au applicative having been made to the supreme court for a new trial that tribunal approved the judgment of the oourt Itelow, and tho execution was ordered to proceed. Tho friends uf Lloyd maintained tliat he was the victim of a conspiracy which had beau prompt ed by the large reward offered by the governor. Young Lloyd, a son of tho condemned man and one of the solicitor generals of tho Htate, made every exer tion to secure executive clemency for his father. But Gov. Smith, guided by the verdict of the superior court, declined to iuterfero. The execution took place a short time afterward. Upon the scaffold Holsonbake ad mitted tliat he ww the guilty party, say ing : "I am the mau who took his (Fish's) life." Lloyd, nuou the con tnrv. solemnly protested liia innocence of the crime witn which he waa charged. He is reported to have spoken m fol lows : " Ho wa in hi* sixty second year; had uiver had a difficulty. never had been arrested ; never paid a fine or costs ; had lived au liouorable and useful life ; had never himself, or in collusion with others, entertained one iota of criminal feeling against any man." He declared that Jones, Farrow, and the detectives bad hatched the matter up. " I swear," said he, " that before you and my God, before whom 1 shall soon appear, 1 am innocent. If I had dreamed of such a thing, I would not have allowed it" He said hi* death was s conspiracy, and VC. C. Jones ww at tho bottom of it; his blood would cry for vengeance ; and con cluded : "I pnt my blood ou him (Jones) for three generations, and call on God to witness it Jones got Htublsi ont and exerted himself to convict me. 1 want all of Mr. Fish's family to know it. I am innocent" The imntntmuxalth Ultimate* that Lloyd's pica of innocence was true, and he was uujustlv done to death by parties who procured liis conviction for the sake of the reward. That paper say* : These protestations of innocence, coming oa they did from the very lip* of death, excited*in the miud* of those who heard and road them many doubt* of the man'* guilt and * uameleos suspicion that a foul conspiracy hod been made to swear away tho life of an innocent man in order iu obtain tlie reward. This suspicion grew in tho munla of nome un til it become so tangible that lliey de termined to ferret tlie thing to the bot tom, and when it became know n that one of the parties, now holding rank in the United Htate* civil service, had been awarded 82.0U0 of the bloody money, the clew was mo direct that they had no further doubt about it, and went to work ilireetly at tlie root of the matter. One of the" detective* was confronted, and, while the dying words of LJoyd was read, he confessed that it was true, and tliat they hail " pot up a job " in order to get the reward. Shortly after this, this detective wna killed, and his Hp* were closed forever. Now his widow lis* been seen, and she reluctantly con fess!* that her husband, while in the agony of remflfce, had confessed to her that he had been a party in swearing awav tlie life of Lloyd, and that it was all done to get the money. The facts of the case have been ingeniously worked up, and tlie testimony in the case lias been forwarded to Washington, to be laid before the Department of Ju*tioe, as it* matter material!v affects the character of one of it* official*. The SCBSAUOH of Suicide. A Paris newspaper gives this extract from the notes of a young fellow who tried to commit suicide and was cat down before suffocation was oomplcte. He was delighted to return to life, and it is noted that would-lie suicides who are rescued from their self sought fate rarely renew their attempts to shuffle off this mortal coil: When I stood on the chair the mirror on the in voluntarily attracted me< and 1 looked at myself as 1 fastened' the slip-knot around my neck. Blood flowed to my head, for mv face was very red; some thing took place at the same time in my optic nerves, for it seemed to me that my face suddenly liogan to make grim acivt. Mr eves aud nose changed places incessant! r, like the pieces of a kaleido scope. 1 kicked the chair from under me and fell with the sensation tliat 1 had lieen struck on the top of my head with a hammer. I did not at first feel the rope around my neck. The only Tory clear impression which followed the blow with the hammer on my sknll was that of great heaviness in the head. It seemed to me tliat mv head was larger and heavier on my sLoulders than the great bell of Notre Dame. At the same time I felt an immense night falling in and around me. Then I felt extremely cold at ray lower extremities, and at the same time an acute, terrible pain in my neck, which was produced by the rojie, which cut my skin and sawed my veius. Then I felt nothing. Evidently this was the moment when my good sunt Cecil entered my room and cut roe down. Sugar in Beetroots. Hem is another chemical jotting, but it is one tliat lis* more connection with the industrial welfare of Ireland than with medicine. Professor Cameron, the well known Dublin chemist, has recently been devoting hi* attention to the sugar yielding power of beetroot grown in Ire laud, and he has shown that the beetroot crops produced in tliat country are supe rior iu tliat respect to those grown on the contiuent. On account of its mild winter and the alisenoe of severe drought in summer, the climate of Ireland has been well adapted for the culture of beet. (ood Irish roots yield from ten to twelve per eent of sugar, the average being that thirteen tons will produce one ton of sugar, worth £24, in addition to £4 worth of molasses, and refuse, pulp, etc., user! for feeding cattle ; and as about twenty tons jier acre may be considered a fair average crop, it will be seen that the speculation onght to be a successful one. A " Bonanza of Health " is what they call a new sulphur spring reached by an artesian boring at Hopkinsville, Ky. Term*: $2.00 a Y ear, in .Advance. ) j A Pennsylvania Funeral Feast. Home time ago, sava a correspondent df the Philadelphia Areas, I was present at the funeral of tlie wife of one of the most i t-Hportable and influential Ger mans. ltespect fur her memory won shown by the ex|>eniie lavished on her funeral. The Germans universally con sider it the greatest mark of respect they can offer to attend Uis funeral, and most pressing business of the farm will be "impended for thai purpose. In this ease, as we approached the house, fur the distance of one- fourth iff a mile carriages were hitched an closely aa thev would stand along the public roadside, fields were thrown open, and the interior fences used for the same purpose. The large double houae, porches, baloouiea, and grounds were pecked with people. It being known that my huabend was to be there in an official character, away t with much difficulty waa made fur us into the interior of the house. Beligi ous seniles were held in German and English, and then the body woe con veyed to its last testing plane on the farm, all wealthy families having private burial grounds. According to a beauti ful custom among the Germane, jut be fore proceeding to the burial, the corpse was removed just outside the threshold, and with the warm sunshine of heaven onoe more resting on the pale face, the loot kiss was given, the Lost farewell taken. Daring the absence st the grave the rooms were cleared and table* est everywhere, one private table always appropriated to tlis immediate family, tney being treated on the occasion as guists. The other tables were filled promiscuously by whoever chose to take a seat. Aa soon as any one had eaten he vacated hi* seel, which was immediately filled by some other pereou. When seen by attendants a change of plate was made, but sometimes the dtbria of the first eater was just shoved to one aide of the plate. It was estimated that 1,000 people ate ou this occasion. The cellar, ex tending under the house, was arelg*i overhead and whitewashed, and its fresh uem and dosnlineaa looked the very per fection of housekeeping. Around it were suspended swinging shelves, and on the floors tables set forming amies; jlim were all filled with provisions as closely aa they could be set In another part were tube containing hundreds of pounds of golden butter prints. In the kitchen and summer kitchen, always an adjunct of a wealthy farmer's establish ment, in .fireplaces hung huge copper caldrons, such as are used for making apple butter, of the capacity of two I sure la, filled with coffee, and as it was used they were replenished by the oof fee makers, A fanner's smoke-hoqge always contain* a great quantity of i choice meat; beside*, in this case a bul lock had been slaughtered and boiled the day before. During eating there was a constant replenishing of the pro visions. The attendants ou three ooce oiona are the wives and daughters of neighboring farmers, and their work is gratuitous. The surplus provisions in this aaae were given to the poor, and for day* they streamed along the road with well filled baskets. ' This might be considered a more than ordinary funeral, but thia is the style uf them. Iu the case of the death of the father oi this family, who haul been a sort of patriarch among his people, I asked the managers of the funeral how much provision they had made for it " Well," they aaid, "if it had not been for the long spell of rain and sleet, mak ing the roads very bad, it would hare been a big funeral, ao they had only made provision for aeven hundred or six hundred;" and at a funeral of a child of a neighbor, whose age was about seven years, the heker, on ray inquiry, told me she " had made seventy loaves of bread, a botch of light cake, and one hundred and fifty pies." When a funeral takes places iu the rammer, and the bouse is not of sufficient capacity to bold tlie table*, the thrashing floor of the barn i* need, or some sheltered out-of door place, such a* an orchard or under the shade of trww. The table furniture for the occasion is either borrowed from neighbors or hired from a store. There are several superstitions con nected with death and funerals in the country which are a strange blending of the ludicrona with the mournful. One is that if the mother of a family ia dying, the vinegar laurel must be shaken at the time to prevent the " mother" in it from dying. Hoid a man once, in sober earnest to me: " I was BO sorry Mr. D. was not in the room when his wife died." " Where wa* he," inquired I. " Oh, in the cellar a*haken' the vinegar barrel; but if he had just told me, I would have done it and let him been in the room to see br take her last breath." We will charitably hope the object of this super stition was to divert the husband from his grief, and not the fear that his next winter's picklea would lack acidity. Another is that the last person that goes ont of the honor at a funeral will be the next one to die, and aa the audience be gins to thin, you may ace people slip very nimbly out of a back or kitchen door to avoid being that " last one." Anecdotes of President Lincoln. Hon. 0. M. I>epew relates that when he visited Washington in ISB4 to look after the army vote, he had occasion fre quently to refer matters directly to Mr. Lincoln, who one day was reminded of a story, which he declared was one of the onlj two anecdotes original with him, notwithstanding his reputation for story tolling. " I only apply the good stories others tell me," the President said. The story which he thereupon proceeded to tell 'Sir. liepow was to the effect that many years before, when practicing in Illinois, he had appeared for the defend I ant iti a case of iui*aalt aud battery, in which the complainant did not seem to bo very much injured, although he had lieen through a long series of brawls. In the course of the plaintiff's examina tion Mr. Lincoln asked; " How much ground did yon fight overt" " About six acres," was the reply. " Don't yon think," asked Mr. Luiooln, "that that was a mighty small crop of fight for so much ground!" At the recent college commencement Speaker Blaine quoted from a letter of President Lincoln to Gen. Hooker after the latter had suffered a defeat. Mr. Lincoln wrote to the general: "I don't know whether you are on the north side of the river or the south side, but don't, for God's sake, get on both sides; for if you do you'll lie like an ox on a rail fence, that can neither gore one side nor kick the other." French Economies. An American traveling in France thus remarks on one of the characteristics of the people—one which would be called " meanness" in this oountry, but of whioh nothing is thought in France : When a Frenchman in a cafe puts two of the little slab* of white sugar in his coffee, and the remaining two in hia pocket, it is not meanness, but eoonomy. The four consecrated to the demitasae are paid for; and the purchaser may carry them home to the canary bird, present them to the children of the concierge as a means of maintaining pleasant relations with tliat person, or keen them for can sucree. Life is not large as in the United States, where there is elasticity in the incomes. Here they are fixed; so much a year, month, and day. The line about the budget of expense is rigid, especially in the case of small rentiers, who abound in France. *r . . - t j NO. 32. The Sortk Polar Kegioe. In ad art!da upon tba occasion of the nailing of tba new British (lurovcry • peditiou to the north pole, the Loudon Pimrt says : At present than lies with in • few woelu of us, sod right between us and inhabited continents, s cade, 1,400 miles acmes, of which we know nut <T-n whether it be land or water, or in what respect it is affected by some oou dittoes wholly different from am own. Is it anything more than a great refrig erator for the production of oold—that is, for the absorption of bcatt If water preponderate there, then the cold need not he so extreme as we imagine; and iust as the equator is not everywhere hotter tha the tropica, juvt as the east ern hemisphere is warmer by ten de grees in north latitude than the western, and the northern hemisphere very much warmer than the southern, ao arm the orotic circle may bare u-* benefit of "Utile genial influences. It tun at least half a year of continuous day. What if it be found sufficiently habitable far the establishment of stations in which the ' production and economy of beat will be the only serious difficulty f Hoenoe is "anguine, but it confesses itself to be hoping against hope as to the matter of its eijiecUUons. An animal or two, seeds that can stand any cold, some of the lowest forms of vegetable life, sad perhaps organisms is the sea, the possi ble revelations of en atmosphere com pletely dear of aqueous disturbance, fig ure prominently in the catalogue of bope. If, as is suspected, there be ingimli enta in the earth's atmosphere too subtle for chemical analysis, the spectroscope may detect them in a region where hu | middy no longer embarrasses the ques tion. Then what is the aurora t Is it <if earth, or of heaven ? Is it meteoric I 1s it cosmic t T>am it reveal s universal medium 1 Is it a—gwatja uhiiwu—miif At about the seventieth degree of lati tude the expedition trill roach the ether side of the magnetic pole, end will have to steer by rales the contrary of our own, and * becoming more end more complex till the needle points finally to the center of the earth. At the pole not only the company lint even the son, moon and stars will cease to be available for the usual purposes of abaervatkm ; that is, if anything should happen to the chronometers, for all will then de pend on the preservation of Usesowiah time. The forlorn hope told off for the pole will have to mark its track very carefully if it would be sure of retracing its outline back again. The geologists, ethnologists, and pelaxdogista feet at thair rxclturion, but they must ad mil their chances would be small indeed. They can wait, at all events. Perhaps the one hope widest felt and deepest is that of something unknown and unoon- < motored. Who would have, go ease l a few years ago that the interior of Afnca was populous and delightful, that the ocean was full of life and undergoing change, or that the elements and fabric of the sua would yield to analysis f The expedition is a lottery, in which we know too well there are blanks, but in which there ere sure to be some prises, perhaps one or two great ones. HM> Lord'* Prmyer. Here is something carious for you. It is the Lord's prayer in the English of former times, and it shows how the huiruage has changed : A. D. 1358. Fader nre in lieune. balMvriik l booth Tlii nenne, eumen Thi knneriehe Thi will* booth idim m heune and m. 11m eoerych dewe briod gil an thilk da wo. And woraif uie d.-tUw aa vi vomfen ure dettoorc*. And lent on* nought into temptation, bot deiyvoro# nvol. Amen. A. D. 1300. Fadir onr in hevene, halewyd Vy Thi name, Thi kingdom come. Thi wulo be done a* in hevene and in ertha. Owe nrche darea brad give na to-day. And forgive ua ooro dettoa, aa we forgive oar dettoorea. And lode na not into temp tation, bote delrverv na of yreL Amen. A. D. 1582. Ovr Father which art in heanen, sanctified by Thy name. Let they king dom come. Thy will be done, aa tn heaven in earth also. (Hoe ti to-day onr an per aubetantial bread. And lead va not into temptation. Bat delhter na from evil. Amen. A. D. 1611. Onr Father which art in hoanen, hal lowed bo Thy name. Thy kingdom come Thy will be done in earth aa it in hoanen. Oiene na thia day onr dnjlf bread. And forgine va onr debta aa we forgine onr debtor*. And lode va not into temptation, but deliaer va from enil. For Thine ia the kingdome, and the power and the glory for oner. Amen. Cornell's Victory. The .VMM MTB that three thing* oon tribntftl mainly to the victory of Cor nell : The mature age of the men, their comparatively light weight, and the ex cellent way in which the respective posi tion* of "the avw in the boat wore graduated by their weights. In the drat place three of the men were twenty-four rears of age, one twenty-seven, one twenty-three, and the youngest twenty - one, while the average age of th* Har vard crew ia not twenty-one, and that of the Columbia not twenty-two. Then again, the average weight of the Cornell men was onlv one hundred and fifty-nine Kuuds ; and their arrangement ia the at innat not be unnoticed—the bow oar, Waterman, one hundred and fifty uotindi, being followed by the others in the regular order of their weights, the stroke, Ostrom, one hundred and sixty six pounds, being the heaviest man. It requires bat little knowledge of boating to see that this arrangement was a very sensible one. The Lead. The steamer Fanny was coming down the upper Mississippi, loaded with pig lead. As she was going over a shoal place the pilot gave the signal to heave the lead. The only man forward was a green Irishman. •' Why don't yon heave the lead t" "Is it the lead, yer honor t Whereto?" "Overboard, yon block head 1" The Irishman snatched up one of the pigs of lead and threw it over board; the mate, in endeavoring to pre vent him, lost his balance and fell into the river. The captain, running to the deck, asked : " Why don't son heave the lewd and sing out how much water there is?" "The lead is heaved, yer honor, and the mate's gone down to see how much water there is." Not a Cow-ardiy Cow, Recently, in a Yorkshire town, a farmer's wife was assaulted by her hus band in a field where was a cow that the woman had greatly petted. On seeing the man beating his wife, tearing her hair and clothes and otherwise maltreat ing her, the oow came charging up the field, and attacked the man with such ferocity that he was glad to retreat sum marily. The oow then took up a defen sive position by the woman's side, and stood perfectly still while the latter straggled to her feet and supported her self by leaning on its flank until she had sufficiently recovered to take refuge from her husband in flight. :>y A wag lent a clergyman a horse that ran away and threw rum, and then plain? - ed credit fw spreading the 9*9* L f I 1 Item* ef Interest. 'sife" - ' A great falling off' 1r reported fa the sates of books sad magatfoea to tourist*. The market price of grasshopper* in M-ekcr county, Minn., is five dollara N bushel. . 4 Mexican millionaire has erected a witstatue of Christopher Oolombut in Paris. Why cannot a temproae man kisa • Jewess t lie has aworn pot to taste jew lips. i * A tell old fiddler, arrested in the streets of Peris, etatmed te be the ghost 'ofFafctelnl. ' • Oeriter ye msi riMts e a*;, Old AIM to SUIU ftyrog ; And the asms tower Mmu nates today, To-morrow any to dyu*. It is not right, but the man with the least mind has the greatest trouble 111 maiding it up. Mr. Omobnndro (Trass Jack) la re ported to have left fifiUO on a green table in Boston. The Bora canal cost •95,000,000. Ite income this year will probably be about f],1130,000. B that doth a base thing in seed for his friend bums the golden thread that tins thair hearts together. lowa has a la* which forbids a man to marry his step daughter, yet allows, him to marry his mother in-law. To Archbishop Wbately is ascribed this paradox : lite larger the income thaebardar it U to live within it Whan a fat man offers to bet yon lite drinks that he weigh* over throe hun dred, you don't fed inclined to take him up, do youf A minstrel manager advertises for a tenor singer " who knows how to work 3 a laugh when the end man is getting a joke." Wfiliam Morris, who bad the good luck to Hve in 1070. bought the ground upon which Long Branch is tuilt few a barrel of feted cider- Your high-toned reporter can't bring down to talk about anything ao oootmuodace as a dinner. It's a " gus tatory affair " with him. What should be the name of a lawyer's wife f Sue. A printer's wife t Em. A druggist's wife I Ann Elisa- A carpet man's wife I Mat-tic. All the inventive genius of the greet and terualljr cute Yankee nation is said to be unequal to making a firecracker. And we are mighty glad of it. It is estimated that there are about 30,000 acres under cultivation in vine yards in California, comprising 15,000,- 000 miarioe or common vibes, and 15,- 000,000 imported vine*. A ChuMM* young iadyia an applicant tor a teacher's place in one of die public schools ol Ban Francisco. She insists that she asa "sostehee smsll boy bal beaded sDaesame ae Mciic&a miss." Kis an open question whether large hotels pay in tba end, mora especially those paid anted on the American plan, wiudk enhni ao muds waste, no matter how careful or eoo!.' mica! their stewards —. L. * auty be. After 41 the street ear capdaMon who Lv. oommitt<-d suicide because their honesty vh doubted, the New York companies now find that tbey have wired crwr a miUton dollar* by the use of the heU pooch. A Lcuisvilto satoowitt has M American teem eookuik," " Remington oobbteni " and "Sharp*' riflTwHyT The Ant will Jail at eight hundred yarda, the am end at nine handled, and the iaat at a A Nsttmlle woman hang bar baby to one ol toe pasta of a panto, and it waa strangled almost to death when dineaver ed and weened. She had witoenwd a public execution a lew day* b-fore, and the spectacle had unsettled her reason. A lady and gentleman paid their lam, including a tranafer, in a Baflalo street car, but on changing am the second conductor waa not notified, and they were expelled. A jury has now gisan them S2OO damages against the oompany. Miatreaa—"led you go to the evening school, Mary f Why, I thought you could readr" "Well, ma'am, I does know my letter* foe-rat* so long'* they keep all" in e row, hot juat as MOD as they geta mixed up into words I'm beat" " How strange 1" said Mis. Bpokin* the other day, " Leandar has only sent me a single line since he left for Long Brdft<to. M " Oufcr a taste line, ma," re nmrked the vonthfu! Mflttadea, who is studying gewattrv; "that anmething without a parallel." During a tonal conference, the fol lowing eoneeraatioii waa heard between two newaboys: " I mgr. Jim, what's the meaning of so many ministers being hew altogetherf" "Why," answered Jim, aeornfnlly, "they ahraya meet 0000 a year to swap sermons." In a recent scandal cam in Smith county, Kansas, a lady witness dedined to answer a question, and the attorney demanded her reason. "Because, it is not fit to toll decent people." "O, well," said the lawyer, "just walk up here wnd whispsr it to toe judge." When it is not eoowttant to take a lock apeit to fits new key.the key blank should be smoked over a candle, in serted in the keyhole, and pressed firm lr against the opposing wards of the lode. The indentations in the imoked portion made by the wards will show where to file. The fourth of July ia an especial holi day to the flosndtaaviana of America. July i, 1835, the first small oolcmy of Sourdiuariaa immigrants set sail for America, where thiir followers and de scendants now farm m element in the population of the United States at onoe numerous and important. • -j When GOT. Lottie and GOT. Harlan, rival candidates far the Kentucky gov ern ship in 1871. were slumping together, thev found at one place only a single bed for" the two. "Wri!," mud Leslie, as they got comfortaMy under its comfort ables, " one thing is certain—the next governor of Kentucky is lying in this bed." The Taunton Gaectte tells of a young man who recently conceived the bril liant idea af popping the question by postal card. Aooordmfy he dispatched one to the idol el his heart, bearing simply hie name and this character •' f His feeling* can be imagine !on receiving by return mail a card inscribed most energetically "!" An eldanj lady named Cannon, of Mas sachusetts, "was standing by an iron sink during ft thunder storm, when she was prostrated by lightning. She was entire ly Hciwteieeß, and waft aocharged and bat tered by the eieotetoiimm* that the gold beads about her nook were melted, but she lives, and ascribes her escape to the silken cap she wore. , ;-p The audience at a French theater are never troubled by tall hats worn by ladiea. The following notioe #as potted up in s conspicuous position, afad proved to be very effective : The manager re quests that all good looking ladies will remove their hate tor the aocctiKiiodntion of the rest of the aadieooe. The aged, the bald, and the plain are not expected to comply with this request Euwoe has five millions of soldiers all ready for fighting, with fifteen thousand cannon, and a mflhcu mid a qnarte r of horses ; its united fiesta eonsirt of 2,039 vessels, manned by 289,000 sailors, and carrying fifteen thousand guns. _ The oott of these immense armaments is five hundred and sixty millions of dpUars an nually, three-fifths of the amount being consecrated to the armies. ' Macaulay used to sky 1 There is little reason, in my opinion, to envy a pur suit in which the most ite devotees can expect is that, by relinquishing liberal studies and social ooanfort, by passing eights without sleep, and summers with out one glimpse ol the beauties of na ture, they may attfio that laborious, that invidious, that closely-watched filaverv which is mocked With the name of power. have weakened her power in Asja.
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